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Posted on 10/16/2025 9:43:13 AM PDT by Red Badger
Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman is once again making headlines as he delivered a heartfelt message from the stage of the Kennedy Center during a NewsNation town hall on Wednesday evening.
VIDEO AT LINK......................
Fetterman’s words could not have come at a better time. Just over a month ago, the world watched in horror as Charlie Kirk was brutally murdered in broad daylight. Just a year earlier, then-presidential candidate Donald Trump had two assassination attempts on his life.
And so, as rising political tensions increasingly spill into violence, Fetterman did something few in Washington have even attempted — he tried to turn the temperature down.
Fetterman shared how he grew up in a family of Republican voters, giving him a unique perspective that prompted this much-needed message: “I know and I love people who voted for President Trump. They are NOT fascists, they’re NOT Nazis, they’re NOT trying to destroy the Constitution.”
“I REFUSE to call people Nazis or fascists. I would never compare anybody — anybody to Hitler,” Fetterman continued.
He then offered a plea for empathy over partisanship: “Like Charlie Kirk, all I could say is let people grieve — give people the space. I’m not going to use that terrible thing and that assassination to make my argument and try to put out my views.”
“It’s like, my God, he’s a father that had his neck blown out by a bullet. And now people have forgotten: President Trump was in my state — was shot in the head. Could you imagine where our nation would be if he were hit in the same way as Kirk? We really got to turn the temperature down,” Fetterman pleaded.
To close out his message, Fetterman reflected on how the parties are so divided that they can’t even agree to keep the government open, saying he “just can’t take it.”
Popular X account @mazemoore responded to Fetterman’s words, saying, “Good for him. And thank you. The only sane Democrat.”
Ellie A said: “God bless him for being willing to tell the truth. He’s spot on here.”
Paul A. Szypula reacted with pessimism: “Democrat lawmakers won’t listen to a word he says. They’re a lost cause.”
Moments later, Fetterman had another party-defying moment — exposing an uncomfortable truth about his own party’s role in the shutdown crisis.
“I would love to have a conversation about extending the tax credits for health care. Absolutely. But I would remind everybody, too, this was DESIGNED by the Democratic Party to expire at the end of the year. This is NOT something taken by the Republicans. They were designed to expire,” Fetterman said.
The senator was referring to the expiration of pandemic-era health care subsidies originally included in the 2021 American Rescue Plan. Many Democrats had blamed Republicans for the lapse, but Fetterman reminded them that the end date was written by their own hand.
Fetterman continues to prove he’s a rare kind of Democrat — one that, in his own words, puts country over party, and speaks uncomfortable truths.
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AXIOS: Democrats in Pennsylvania are maneuvering to run against Sen. John Fetterman in a 2028 primary
He’ll be Primaried next time he runs. The current Dem party won’t stand for this type of roaming off the reservation.
I will put on my Carnac hat (and flameproof suit) to say that:
After Trump has saved the Republican Party - he will then save America’s Democrat Party.
What Fetterman said, whether you believe it or not, should be the norm and not an outlier.
America is at its best with 2 national parties vying for the center.
Fetterman should change parties, like Tulsi and Kennedy. Then he wouldn’t be fettered.
FUNNY HOW “IT WAS DESIGNED TO END BY THE END OF THIS YEAR”HASN’T BEEN CLEARLY EXPLAINED PRIOR TO FETTERMAN’S WORDS.
IN ALL THE BS BANDIED AROUND-—THAT WAS NEVER MADE CLEAR——
He not a Republican, he’s what Democrats used to be.
Fetterman is an honest man. I really respect this in him.
Those in his party who hate him for this are not.
He needs to stay a Democrat and fight to at least bring some sanity back to the party.
Problem is that the mainline demonRAT is bat-outhouse insane. They’ve lost all decency, morality and ethics. They hate themselves. Because of that, they hate all else.
“”He’ll be Primaried next time he runs. The current Dem party won’t stand for this type of roaming off the reservation.””
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The very fact that he is pro-Israel (gasp! the horror!!!) will make him persona non grata within the rat party. He will be canceled and will probably come on over to the GOP.
My post on the duplicate thread, now locked:
I’m starting to like this “new and improved” version of a Fetterman. Respect is growing and that’s saying a lot... since up til now, I haven’t seen one damn Democrat since Kennedy and Lieberman that I’d consider was worth two spits. Now there seems to be “one”.
There used to be a bunch of them.
Then the Communists took control..............
“”Problem is that the mainline demonRAT is bat-outhouse insane. They’ve lost all decency, morality and ethics. They hate themselves. Because of that, they hate all else.””
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Yes. They hate God, which means they hate all humanity, God’s creation, including themselves. Most of them are, I suspect, demon-infested. And the others are just gutless cowards and will never stand up and speak out against the evil within their party.
“”Then the Communists took control..............””
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And as we have observed and witnessed... anyone not towing that commie party line is, at best, purged from the party. Some have been completely destroyed for philosophically leaving the plantation. Can’t have that. Might be contageous... so it has to be nipped in the bud.
And then these lying ‘you know whats’ have the gaul to call the GOP “fascists” and worse.
JF has been a pleasant surprise. He is a Democrat reading the room.
If more Democrats were like Fetterman, they would win elections without having to cheat.
JF has been a pleasant surprise.
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I will be the first to admit I was wrong about him (JF). He is far and away the most honorable of the donks. He is the opposite of Bush 43. I learned and lived to regret supporting that turd (43) and now, with Fetterman, I kind of like him.
If the Dims succeed in voting Fetterman off the Democratic ticket in a primary, I have no doubt he will run as an Independent and beat the Dim and GOP candidates in the general election. His independence is winning over many GOP moderates in PA, and at least half the PA Dims and half the Independents still support him.
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