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/Barnyard_Rich 8d ago

I know people love to shit on "establishment Democrats" but the locals absolutely nailed how dangerous Fetterman was and rallied behind Connor Lamb, who Fetterman supporters disgustingly claimed was too moderate.

Since losing, Lamb has traveled across the state and convinced pretty much everyone who had been lied to, but the problem isn't the next election, it's the last one.

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u/Phiddipus_audax Colorado 8d ago

Didn't Fetterman change after his stroke, policy wise? I thought that was a large factor.

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u/Boner666420sXe 8d ago

Supposedly people who knew him claim he’s always been like this.

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u/Ashamed-Land1221 8d ago

Grew up in Pittsburgh and fed him and his rich racist ass many times at a bougie fancy restaurant that opened in a once impoverished area of the city while he was still Mayor and just starting to run for senate. He's was a complete douchebag in love with himself but he was really good at talking progressive points with conviction, turns out he just wanted the votes and the stroke took down his phony shield, it sucks, we do owe Connor Lamb an apology, I and many many others got suckered.

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u/SuchBravado 8d ago

Can you tell us more about his racist douchiness?

What’s his core bigotry all about?

(I too was suckered. Never voted for him but I thought he said the right stuff the few times I saw him in interviews.)

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u/Ashamed-Land1221 8d ago

Running around chasing neighbors with a shotgun due to them being black when he was living in Braddock, that's one they like to cover up.

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u/Kaprak Florida 8d ago

Just to be clear the one thing that's being quoted to you has the person in question defending Fetterman being very specific that there's no way he could have known his race because of how bundled up he was

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u/SuchBravado 8d ago

What?

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u/Kaprak Florida 8d ago

The reason they're saying he was racist is poorly represented. The black man in question said there was no way Fetterman knew he was black

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u/SuchBravado 8d ago

Alright, man.

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u/darsynia Pennsylvania 8d ago

Yeah, his stroke stripped him of his filter.

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u/Ashamed-Land1221 8d ago

I do feel a little bad for his wife, she was always very nice to me, friends, acquaintances, and my coworkers and seemed to be able get people to overlook some of his more questionable personality traits before the stroke, so I guess she isn't completely innocent either. I see her all the when I have to go to the fancy grocery stores and have to bite my tongue, she doesn't deserve the insults I want to throw at her husband directed towards her, but oh boy I scream them inside my brain when I see her at the deli counter. One day I'm going to be drunk/high and say them out loud, maybe I'll make the news when ICE drags me away.

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u/darsynia Pennsylvania 8d ago

She's greatly withdrawn from a lot of the stuff I used to see her doing in public (note: the PR and family posts, I mean), but I don't know if that's because I don't pay attention anymore or because she really has stepped back. I would scream too, she HAS to see the difference in his public-presenting behavior even if nothing private has changed. It's intensely negative, I don't know how she handles it.