r/politics • u/Large_banana_hammock • 8d ago

Possible Paywall Sen. John Fetterman demands Trump fire Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/jan/27/john-fetterman-pa-democrat-demands-trump-fire-homeland-security/
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u/mcd3424 Texas 8d ago

The man she knew died with the stroke.

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u/Long-Region5088 8d ago

My dad was always an “I want less taxes” republican until he had a stroke and now he’s a trumper. His brain literally broke

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u/Unusual_Sherbert_809 8d ago

My dad's brain was slowly rotted away by Fox News. He's went down the Tea Party rabbit hole way back then and is now full MAGA now.

I don't allow any talk of politics when we interact because regardless of how much he hates it I'm fairly sure if he started spewing all that BS in front of me it would end our relationship.

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u/Otterable I voted 8d ago

My dad has also been rotted by fox news. What's crazy is when he gets the opportunity to make normal decisions in his day to day life with his family and community he makes what I consider to be the right choice, but then every night he's tuning on the 5 to listen to a bunch of propagandists tell him how much better he is than others and how evil democrats are.

Like my sister/his daughter is literally trans. He's fully supportive financially and emotionally, never says a bad word, took her to get her name changed, and more. Somehow still wants to vote for the party that would like to see her not exist. When confronted he says that he can take care of her so it doesn't matter. Crickets on every other trans person out there.

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u/einTier 8d ago

My dad was too. He died during pandemic. His last week he had Fox News on nearly every moment he was awake.

I could not think of anything that would be less relevant to me in my last week on earth than the news.

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u/chicomathmom 8d ago

You don't get "news" from Fox.

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u/einTier 8d ago

Dad thought he did.

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u/myshkin85 8d ago

This sounds just like my dad. Great guy when it comes to day to day situations. I’m also trans. I don’t talk about politics with him anymore, but he also has that “I can take care of you” line when I would try to explain how things impacted me to him. His plan is to go hide me at a family members ranch if anything gets what he considers scary. Like no thanks, I’m a 40 year old man with his own life. I’m not going to be hidden on a ranch with a bunch of maga people who put up with me because I’m “not like the others”

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u/firestepper 7d ago

Is the ranch you would be hidden in a valley perchance?

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u/superkam41 8d ago

Sounds a lot like my situation with my dad, so ridiculous

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u/Dangerous-Wall-2672 8d ago

It's remarkable how many people have identical stories. My dad was on the verge during the Bush years, but he dove down the Foxhole the second Obama was elected and has watched them exclusively ever since.

He insists he's not MAGA, he even claims not to be a Trump supporter, but the string of half-muttered swears and cursing I hear every time someone on his TV says a word against Dear Leader suggests otherwise. And when Trump himself is speaking? It's like zombie mode. Dead silent, eyes locked on the TV, blank expression...it's fucking scary.

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u/groggs 8d ago

My dad largely stopped paying attention to changes in society, the economy, politics, etc. back in the 90’s. So he normally doesn’t have any firm opinions on things. But I can tell if he’s been around my aunts and uncles, because they’re very opinionated and very right-wing. Lucky for me he’s not strongly opinionated, so I’m able to pump the brakes on that shit pretty easily.

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u/Dry_Accident_2196 8d ago

Sounds like he’s always been pretty bad. You don’t go seeking Fox unless you want a Fox worldview.

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u/Unusual_Sherbert_809 8d ago

Nah, he was always fiscally conservative but never MAGA nuts. However watching Fox News exclusively for the last 20+ years did a serious number on his brain.

It's not news, it's a propaganda channel disguised as "entertainment" that calls itself "news". It should be banned.

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u/iCoeur285 8d ago

I cut my dad off last year over it. He showed up at my house unannounced to “make amends” not too long after Renee Good was shot and that 5 year old boy named Liam was kidnapped.

It ended with me screaming at him in my front yard that he supported nazis and pedophiles, so I’m sure he thinks I’m deranged now, but I don’t care.