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Archduke Frantz Fanon
Sep 7, 2004

are there any good non chud pa centric political news? itd be nice to have some sources on whats going on in the state other than John fettermans twitter

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ArmedZombie
Jun 6, 2004

Dr. VooDoo
May 4, 2006


If Fetterman goes to the senate I demand a law be passed that allows senators to give other senators swirlys and throwing them into lockers

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Dr. VooDoo posted:

If Fetterman goes to the senate I demand a law be passed that allows senators to give other senators swirlys and throwing them into lockers

Make this real:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPGit3Hu47I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUYro9ZOSno

Plinkey
Aug 4, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

Archduke Frantz Fanon posted:

are there any good non chud pa centric political news? itd be nice to have some sources on whats going on in the state other than John fettermans twitter

WITF and maybe penn live

uber_stoat
Jan 21, 2001



Pillbug
https://twitter.com/macrotargeting/status/1346535983970471937?s=20

DarkEuphoria
Nov 7, 2012


Archduke Frantz Fanon posted:

shut the gently caress up zegermans

The Saucer Hovers
May 16, 2005

vote

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

video of fetterman dealing with the GOP lil' Ben Shapiro clones:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxpuR2v_png

Beached Whale
Jun 27, 2009

The world as will and idea
Holy fuckin' poo poo it's happening

https://twitter.com/johnfetterman/status/1347532294060441600?s=21

The Nastier Nate
May 22, 2005

All aboard the corona bus!

HONK! HONK!


Yams Fan

just send me my ballot today

ArmedZombie
Jun 6, 2004


when he's right he's right :shrug:

PERPETUAL IDIOT
Sep 12, 2003

This seems like pretty standard dem stuff. Is this guy a democratic socialist or just like a left of center dem?

GonadTheBallbarian
Jul 23, 2007


PERPETUAL IDIOT posted:

This seems like pretty standard dem stuff. Is this guy a democratic socialist or just like a left of center dem?

He walks the walk.

indigi
Jul 20, 2004

how can we not talk about family
when family's all that we got?

GonadTheBallbarian posted:

He walks the walk.

doesn’t really answer the question though

triple sulk
Sep 17, 2014



my big strong future senator

logikv9
Mar 5, 2009


Ham Wrangler
body slam chuds 2024

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

triple sulk posted:

my big strong future senator

when you post points into both strength + charisma...

biceps crimes
Apr 12, 2008


a very large man with a very good attitude. wow. nothing but respect for my president

vyelkin
Jan 2, 2011
hello future readers of the President Fetterman 2028 thread

Slanderer
May 6, 2007
remember when john fetterman chased down a black jogger and held a shotgun to his head because he thought he heard gunshots

edit: lmao did none of you even bother googling him??

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cZ4x12Mb40

indigi
Jul 20, 2004

how can we not talk about family
when family's all that we got?

Slanderer posted:

remember when john fetterman chased down a black jogger and held a shotgun to his head because he thought he heard gunshots

edit: lmao did none of you even bother googling him??

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cZ4x12Mb40

ah, this is what “he walks the walk” means

The Saucer Hovers
May 16, 2005

VOTE

biceps crimes
Apr 12, 2008


votpe

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Lawman 0
Aug 17, 2010

my body is ready

dead gay comedy forums
Oct 21, 2011


indigi posted:

doesn’t really answer the question though

our pennsylvannia comrades regard him highly

donoteat made high praises of the man in his podcast, which is pretty much the 2020s version of receiving the endorsement of the International

The Nastier Nate
May 22, 2005

All aboard the corona bus!

HONK! HONK!


Yams Fan

PERPETUAL IDIOT posted:

This seems like pretty standard dem stuff. Is this guy a democratic socialist or just like a left of center dem?

Pennsylvania is a state full of mediocre and uninspiring democrats. Our house delegation is made up of like 5 interchangeable old, rich white ladies. Fetterman may not be perfect but he’s the best this state is gonna see for a while

GonadTheBallbarian
Jul 23, 2007


indigi posted:

doesn’t really answer the question though

This guy has been consistently left of berno in both action and rhetoric from the early days. He's the real deal.

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018

Slanderer posted:

remember when john fetterman chased down a black jogger and held a shotgun to his head because he thought he heard gunshots

edit: lmao did none of you even bother googling him??

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cZ4x12Mb40

lol

Archduke Frantz Fanon
Sep 7, 2004


look we mean it when we call him a goon

Nothus
Feb 22, 2001

Buglord
I'm formerly of Baltimore living in Philly, so too bad he's from Pittsburgh. I'd vote for him though

Nothus has issued a correction as of 02:25 on Jan 9, 2021

Plinkey
Aug 4, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

Nothus posted:

I'm formerly of Baltimore living in Philly, so too bad he's from Pittsburgh. I'd vote for him though

He's was born in Reading, grew up in York

achillesforever6
Apr 23, 2012

psst you wanna do a communism?

dead gay comedy forums posted:

our pennsylvannia comrades regard him highly

donoteat made high praises of the man in his podcast, which is pretty much the 2020s version of receiving the endorsement of the International
As someone who was at his Pittsburgh DSA endorsement hearing for Lt Governor in 2017 you will find the opposite to be the case (the hearing was recorded, but it's one of those OPSEC things that I would have to work on editing it to protect comrades identities) Anyway it was pretty much a shitshow because Fetterman for all his good social media presence is a very style over substance politician.

The big things are that as Mayor of Braddock he tried to gentrify it and profit from it by using his wife's non-profit as a way to attract businesses to set up shop in buildings the non-profit owned with promises that these businesses would offer training to like teens living in Braddock.

Said he was opposed to fracking, but did nothing as US Steel tried putting a fracking pad on the site of the Edgar Thompson Steel Building which was like 2 miles away from Braddock (thankfully the company they hired was so incompetent that in 2020 the plans finally fell through)

At our endorsement meeting he called abortion rights an “in the weeds” issue (When asked why he support/doesn't disavow anti-choice candidates)

In his campaign for lt. gov he used a petition to shutdown berks as a petition/listbuilding tactic, and now he is lt. gov and has neither gotten wolf to do this nor stirred poo poo about it.

There's this:
https://archive.triblive.com/news/braddock-mayor-says-hes-justified-in-pulling-shotgun-after-hearing-noise-like-gunshots/

He wrote an op-ed in the Post Gazette against trying to tax UPMC (the hellish "non-profit" Healthcare that owns 14% of Alleghany County) when they were closing Braddock Hospital. Supported Bernie in 2016 to help build his clout but wouldn't endorse him in 2020. Endorsed Paul Costa over Summer Lee (who we endorsed at that endorsement meeting).

Also he came from a well off family and basically built this working class look to build a persona that would get him elected and media; obviously it worked.

Finally, when we didn't endorse him (he tanked really bad at the hearing and did poo poo like when the other person asking for Lt Gov spoke to us he decided to stand directly behind her the entire time and this woman was like 5 5) shortly afterwards our free food pantry door was smashed and we were told we couldn't host it at this free store in Braddock we had it at; well that free store was owned by Fetterman's wife's Non-profit. Then we found that nowhere in Braddock would host it :thunk: (It's now near our HQ where the only vandalism that happened to it was from dipshit Maoists)

Anyway this is a really long post saying if you think Fetterman is the PA Bernie there are plenty of comrades in Pittsburgh that will point out a lot of bad flags with him. His only real selling point is he is better than Toomey (which isn't hard) and he wants legal weed. I think he's a jagoff, but he will probably win because people don't give a poo poo because he's good with social media in saying the right things that appeal to progressives and a lot of the bad stuff is fairly local to Pittsburgh.

Gunshow Poophole
Sep 14, 2008

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Clapping Larry

achillesforever6 posted:

As someone who was at his Pittsburgh DSA endorsement hearing for Lt Governor in 2017 you will find the opposite to be the case (the hearing was recorded, but it's one of those OPSEC things that I would have to work on editing it to protect comrades identities) Anyway it was pretty much a shitshow because Fetterman for all his good social media presence is a very style over substance politician.

The big things are that as Mayor of Braddock he tried to gentrify it and profit from it by using his wife's non-profit as a way to attract businesses to set up shop in buildings the non-profit owned with promises that these businesses would offer training to like teens living in Braddock.

Said he was opposed to fracking, but did nothing as US Steel tried putting a fracking pad on the site of the Edgar Thompson Steel Building which was like 2 miles away from Braddock (thankfully the company they hired was so incompetent that in 2020 the plans finally fell through)

At our endorsement meeting he called abortion rights an “in the weeds” issue (When asked why he support/doesn't disavow anti-choice candidates)

In his campaign for lt. gov he used a petition to shutdown berks as a petition/listbuilding tactic, and now he is lt. gov and has neither gotten wolf to do this nor stirred poo poo about it.

There's this:
https://archive.triblive.com/news/braddock-mayor-says-hes-justified-in-pulling-shotgun-after-hearing-noise-like-gunshots/

He wrote an op-ed in the Post Gazette against trying to tax UPMC (the hellish "non-profit" Healthcare that owns 14% of Alleghany County) when they were closing Braddock Hospital. Supported Bernie in 2016 to help build his clout but wouldn't endorse him in 2020. Endorsed Paul Costa over Summer Lee (who we endorsed at that endorsement meeting).

Also he came from a well off family and basically built this working class look to build a persona that would get him elected and media; obviously it worked.

Finally, when we didn't endorse him (he tanked really bad at the hearing and did poo poo like when the other person asking for Lt Gov spoke to us he decided to stand directly behind her the entire time and this woman was like 5 5) shortly afterwards our free food pantry door was smashed and we were told we couldn't host it at this free store in Braddock we had it at; well that free store was owned by Fetterman's wife's Non-profit. Then we found that nowhere in Braddock would host it :thunk: (It's now near our HQ where the only vandalism that happened to it was from dipshit Maoists)

Anyway this is a really long post saying if you think Fetterman is the PA Bernie there are plenty of comrades in Pittsburgh that will point out a lot of bad flags with him. His only real selling point is he is better than Toomey (which isn't hard) and he wants legal weed. I think he's a jagoff, but he will probably win because people don't give a poo poo because he's good with social media in saying the right things that appeal to progressives and a lot of the bad stuff is fairly local to Pittsburgh.

drat

thanks for posting

imagine doing electoralism these days just lol

Lawman 0
Aug 17, 2010


Thanks for this post bud, really informative stuff

Plinkey
Aug 4, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
ok, i guess i'll just vote for the other bernie 2.0 candidate in PA

triple sulk
Sep 17, 2014



the dream is dead before it even began

achillesforever6
Apr 23, 2012

psst you wanna do a communism?

Plinkey posted:

ok, i guess i'll just vote for the other bernie 2.0 candidate in PA
Like again he's better than Pat Toomey and if push comes to shove I'll vote for him over the Rep ghoul that runs for it, but just don't want folks to think he's a leftier Bernie (what was funny in that endorsement hearing is he claimed he was calling himself a democratic socialist before Bernie)

Mr. Pizza
Oct 5, 2009



FOR WHOM

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B-Rock452
Jan 6, 2005
:justflu:
Don Jr I guess since he is the one rumored to be going for Toomey's seat

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