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Face it my fellow lefties, we got played by 2 deep cover republican agents, her and the jackass from Pennsylvania, fetterman, totally republican plants, wake up.
I'm not sure how any leftist looked at Spanberger and thought she was anything but a corporate centrist. Still better than the alternative but that doesn't say much.
All you needed to know was "Ex-CIA". No such thing.
The executioner with empathy, a well honed blade, a strong arm, and excellent aim is better than a cross-eyed executioner who enjoys inflicting pain with a dull axe.
Fetterman has brain damage. That should have been the clue.
That's not an excuse, everyone from his state is saying he was an asshole beforehand
The opposite actually. His first year-and-a-half, maybe two years as a senator, his voting record was fine. He wasn't super radical, but if you look up voting record scores he was one of the more left-leaning senators until the end of his 2nd year.
The stroke happened before he took office. Aa fun as it is to joke about conservatism being caused by brain damage, it just doesn't line uo with the facts for Fetterman.
There is definite line with Fetterman before and after his stroke. There is no doubt in my mind that that is what happened to him.