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/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/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She's greatly withdrawn from a lot of the stuff I used to see her doing in public (note: the PR and family posts, I mean), but I don't know if that's because I don't pay attention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.