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https://www.abc27.com/pennsylvania-politics/fetterman-says-democrats-governed-by-trump-derangement-syndrome/Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.), who has been known to buck his party in recent years, said in a Wednesday podcast episode that the Democrats are governed by Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS).
Who do you think leads the Democratic Party today? The All-in podcasts David Friedberg asked Fetterman in an interview posted Wednesday.
Oh, we dont, we dont have one. I think, I think the TDS that I think thats the leader right now. You know, right now our party, is, is governed by the TDS, and now its made it virtually impossible, without being punished, as a Democrat, to agree somethings good, or I agree with the other side, and I would define that by [Operation] Epic Fury, Fetterman responded.
I am literally the only Democrat in America, in Congress, that Ive come across thats saying, I think its a great thing to break and destroy the Iranian regime, he added. (continues)
He's a goddamn idiot and an embarrassment to the commonwealth of PA. Fuck him.
wnylib
(25,888 posts)Well, yes, we ARE bothered by Trump's derangement. Anybody who is sane would be bothered by Trump's very obvious derangement.
Guess that leaves Fetterman out of the sane category.
LiberalLovinLug
(14,674 posts)They have become literally deranged in their worship of this sex offender felon. Where they can blithely support politicians who ignore facts, civil rights, and lawful orders.
peppertree
(23,306 posts)That one also suffers from AIPAC-itis.
SouthBayDem
(33,271 posts)B.See
(8,368 posts)CERTAINLY the words any liberal would utter in criticism of other liberals.
(sarcasm thingy goes here)
UTUSN
(77,672 posts)Dunc
(266 posts)Fetterman knifed all us who voted for him in our back.
ananda
(35,067 posts)What a lesson.
Dunc
(266 posts)spooky3
(38,585 posts)Have damaged his judgment.
mercuryblues
(16,382 posts)Blue Full Moon
(3,441 posts)MustLoveBeagles
(16,190 posts)awesomerwb1
(5,091 posts)t.rump worshipping syndrome
What a POS this guy has turned out to be
BannonsLiver
(20,542 posts)Celerity
(54,317 posts)GiqueCee
(4,145 posts)... it's time for you to shut the fuck up!
lame54
(39,692 posts)Cha
(318,767 posts)pat_k
(13,325 posts)... of the felon, his co-conspirator Vance, and cheerleader Fetterman.
leftstreet
(40,434 posts)So sad
Celerity
(54,317 posts)thebigidea
(13,576 posts)Bernie endorsed him, progressives called his opponent "corporate" even though they didn't know a damn thing about him. The end.
Fiendish Thingy
(23,071 posts)aocommunalpunch
(4,579 posts)Shouldnt a leader be doing that? Parent this dipshit.
yaesu
(9,287 posts)Fiendish Thingy
(23,071 posts)Its not like the house, the rules are different.
But Schumer better kick him to the curb in January, especially if we have 52 or more seats (odds are improving daily)
ybbor
(1,746 posts)Take his power away, he may flip, but hasnt already?
FullySupportDems
(442 posts)And if they didn't have double standards, they wouldn't have any standards at all.
Kid Berwyn
(24,262 posts)Democrats I know are smart in noticing that the guy's a psychotic pedophile as well as an imbecile, warmonger and most of all that matters to Democrats I know, a traitor.
Omnipresent
(7,428 posts)He clearly doesnt understand that none of us appreciate his remarks, and that maybe if he doesnt have anything nice to say about the Democratic Party, he can just shut the fuck up!!
PJMcK
(25,045 posts)ETA: He's one of my senators. I voted for him.
Autumn
(48,949 posts)Jack Valentino
(4,946 posts)Too bad he didn't post that on DU--- it would be 'hide-worthy'!!!
bluestarone
(22,096 posts)There is no oxygen where his nose is.
Blue Owl
(58,986 posts)Get the fuck out of the Democratic Party you fucking traitor
IcyPeas
(25,415 posts)Was wondering about her.
Barreto Fetterman, who formerly lived undocumented in the U.S. for more than a decade after emigrating from Brazil, posted about the emotional toll caused by President Donald Trumps immigration crackdown in Minneapolis and other cities.
Every day carried the same uncertainty and fear lived in my body a tight chest, shallow breaths, racing heart, she said in a post on X in late January, the day after a Border Patrol agent fatally shot civilian Alex Pretti. In the same month, an ICE agent fatally shot civilian Renee Good and the agency detained 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos.
What I thought was my private, chronic dread has now become a shared national wound,"she added. This now-daily violence is not law and order. It is terror inflicted on people who contribute, love, and build their lives here. Its devastatingly cruel and unAmerican.
https://www.pennlive.com/politics/2026/03/gisele-fettermans-x-and-instagram-profiles-taken-down-weeks-after-she-spoke-against-ice.html
City Lights
(25,779 posts)The cultists are the ones suffering from TDS.
Stop insulting us, John.
hatrack
(64,821 posts). . . and it we don't, it's going to become terminal.
And you're not helping, you contemptible turncoat piece of shit.
There are days I wonder if having Dr. Oz in the Senate and Fetterman nowhere wouldn't have been a better outcome.
LetMyPeopleVote
(179,305 posts)
Captain Zero
(8,881 posts)Donating to that bald man whore.
Can we get him switched to the
Capitol Restrooms Committee?
POS.
MyOwnPeace
(17,539 posts)and had his sign in my front yard, a 'red' neighborhood.
I knew it had gone bad when my neighbor, a 'tRumper', said "Hey, this Fetterman may not be so bad after all....."
debm55
(60,233 posts)Frasier Balzov
(5,048 posts)sop
(18,504 posts)QueerDuck
(1,659 posts)sinkingfeeling
(57,773 posts)Cha
(318,767 posts)Fetterman projects like the Traitor.. he's the one tht has a bad Case of Traitor Derangement Syndrome.
Oneironaut
(6,288 posts)He has no Democratic beliefs and is indistinguishable from MAGA extremists in every way. There are literally no left wing beliefs he has anymore. Can the media please stop acting like hes a scorned Democrat?
durablend
(9,243 posts)"Democrats in Disarray" makes click$$$
BlueTsunami2018
(4,977 posts)Its traitorous.
That term is used by scumbags to dismiss out of hand any and all accountability for very real crimes and fascistic behavior by this President.
Im so disgusted by this person, so disappointed and embarrassed that I fell for his Progressive act in the campaign that Im beside myself with anger. Seething with rage really.
Hes actually worse than any of the MAGAts because I never expected any better from them.
I despise fascists above anything except for those who enable them.
Captain Zero
(8,881 posts)Nt
kentuck
(115,391 posts)It's time to send him home before he switches Parties.
D_Master81
(2,542 posts)For the love of God just go be a republican already.
LudwigPastorius
(14,669 posts)Too bad you didn't enlist out of college, you'd still be eligible to get shipped overseas and do some fighting.
maxsolomon
(38,635 posts)our loathing of MFer is based in cold, stark reality.
no Dem in the Senate has TDS or any love for the Iranian Regime.
mountain grammy
(29,003 posts)lame54
(39,692 posts)Paying attention
SallyHemmings
(1,964 posts)cab67
(3,736 posts)I don't know if he was hiding his true self or if something happened to him, but voting for him was a rational decision at the time.
lame54
(39,692 posts)You kept OZ out of the senate
The rest is on him
cab67
(3,736 posts)Cha
(318,767 posts)I like your words... TY!
MustLoveBeagles
(16,190 posts)He seriously needs to shut up 😡🤐
3catwoman3
(29,327 posts)Or TES - Trump Exhaustion Syndrome
Or one that came to me this morning - TISFSOHS - Trump I'm So Fucking Sick Of HIm Syndrome
usonian
(25,064 posts)"buck his party"
Your autocorrect made a mistake.
Cirsium
(3,906 posts)Definitions are all the rage lately at DU.
Fetter: a shackle or chain that is attached to someone's ankles. To fetter someone is to restrict their movement, either literally or metaphorically.
OMGWTF
(5,118 posts)johnp3907
(4,296 posts)A DUer once complained about me calling him that. Hope theyre reading this!
Escape
(454 posts)people who fear and hate CANCER have CDS...
thebigidea
(13,576 posts)As if he'd say such fucking idiocy.
Maru Kitteh
(31,709 posts)Is he really sure he wants to go there?
Gary 50
(489 posts)Yeah, it would be a great thing if that was what happened. It didn't. The odds that the people are going to rise up against the regime as the result of our attack are one in a million. We have probably strengthened the regime because there is nothing like being bombed by outsiders to unify those being bombed.
DFW
(60,128 posts)Nice goal. What, did he think all he had to do was press a button, and it would happen?
Half (or more!) of Iran would like to break and destroy the Iranian regime. too. But they don't want it at the price of seeing their country turned into Iraq, junior. But, of course, they are only the future of Iran, itself. Why would the Trumpanzees do something so obvious as to ask them?
angrychair
(12,239 posts)A Democratically elected senator from Pennsylvania. It's a big tent and we should be listening to him and the key demographics of Democrats that support Trump because we will need them to defeat Trump.
D_Master81
(2,542 posts)I understand what youre saying but this dude literally goes out of his way to shit on the Democratic Party all the time. When has he ever criticized Trump or the GOP like this? tDS is literally the cult that 100% supports everything he says or does. Where is he to criticize the American first no more war people that are cool with us now sending hundreds of billions to the Middle East to fight?
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niyad
(132,110 posts)marble falls
(71,835 posts)niyad
(132,110 posts)marble falls
(71,835 posts)... effort to attack the bash rule. If he'd just come out and said that, I'd think he was 'interfering with forum moderation'.
I'm not going to criticize Federman, but I certainly will criticize his pro-TACO utterances. His constituency will have an opportunity fix their problems with him in two years.
And who knows? How much of this is residual to his medical problems and will begin to heal up by then.
niyad
(132,110 posts)who know him, say he has always been this way, the progressive persona was a front. And, I don't see evidence of healing, rather, I see deterioration.
mvd
(65,908 posts)Like his progressive lean wasnt what he wanted to do.
niyad
(132,110 posts)marble falls
(71,835 posts)... stroke. Liberating is a strange word to use.
marble falls
(71,835 posts)Old joke: What lies between Pittsburgh and Philadelphia? Alabama.
Running as a Democrat against a Trump supported Republican shows that a Democrat has a competitive chance. The question is: how many of his supporters will go GOP if he's been primaried out of the race?
niyad
(132,110 posts)marble falls
(71,835 posts)niyad
(132,110 posts)marble falls
(71,835 posts)niyad
(132,110 posts)nini
(16,827 posts)His voting record doesn't back it up. So fuck him. We need him to fight back on the slide into fascism and he fails far too often.
He cannot be trusted at all IMHO.
angrychair
(12,239 posts)That is all that matters. I automatically accept anything an elected Democrat says as fact and always support them.
All elected Democrats are always right and we must support all Democrats no matter what.
mvd
(65,908 posts)If not, we should support Fetterman even if he wanted to drop nuclear bombs all over the world? Yes I do what I can to support what Democrats do, but there are limits.
angrychair
(12,239 posts)If an elected Democrat says we need to drop nuclear bombs all over the world then who are we to question or criticize an elected Democrat?
MustLoveBeagles
(16,190 posts)Initech
(108,648 posts)Must be pretty damning.
Aepps22
(381 posts)Unlike Manchin, this guy was labeled as a progressive to get the seat and now he has changed for the worst but given the fact that he held a Black runner at gun point Im not surprised. If this were Connor Lamb doing this, I wouldnt care because he ran on being a centrist. Fetterman didnt and now look at him.
SunImp
(2,698 posts)mahina
(20,626 posts)Useless sack of garbage.
Skittles
(171,535 posts)no indeed
lostincalifornia
(5,320 posts)government on January 6th, is a rapist, con man, pathological liar, etc. It is Fetterman who is deranged.
He wont be reelected if he runs for a second term. I am surprised he hasnt switched parties.
Initech
(108,648 posts)He wants to kiss Trump's worthless ass on Fox News every night? He can go fuck all of the way off.
Traildogbob
(13,002 posts)Have a stroke a few years back. When she was able to come back to work she literally spoke with a real heavy Irish accent. No Irish in her family tree.
They told her it happened more often than you would think.
I did not know you could come out of strike and speak and think Natzeeeeee. With an asshole demeanor.
In It to Win It
(12,642 posts)Blue_Roses
(13,865 posts)he just go on to the other side? Why is he a part of the democratic party ?
He's a pain in the ass and does nothing to help
Melon
(1,498 posts)Klarkashton
(5,264 posts)And now about this goddamn war. He's one to talk about derangement.
Warren_Pointe
(345 posts)doesn't mean they are not out to get you.
Jack Valentino
(4,946 posts)Jack Valentino
(4,946 posts)although I knew of no clues at the time which suggested he could become
ANOTHER Joe Manchin.... I just thought he was the best candidate to win the seat,
which he did...
So Pennsylvania Democrats or others 'in the know'---
Who might be in the running to PRIMARY this guy,
if he should run for re-election in 2028 ???
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bigtree
(94,167 posts)...'I told you so.'
I backed off of criticizing this guy when he first rose to popularity because the buzz from the kids was that he was a progressive reformer, and Connor Lamb was the 'establishment' candidate, whatever that means.
The Democratic establishment is decidedly progressive and anti-Trump, and this guy is stepping over Democrats to defend the convicted felon who is grifting off of the American people daily.
Besides just making a point about this weirdness, the point should be made that this is the same kind of choice many of the same people pushing off of Democrats and our leaders today, claiming they want some kind of 'new' Democratic party; want to get rid of established Democrats who regularly produce historic progressive legislative change for the American people when they hold the majority.
Our Democratic 'establishment' is the only political force focused on the American people right now; and have been the only party for decades that works for the people. 'TDS" is the new American patriotism and defense of our democracy and people against a fascist president and his toady party.
LetMyPeopleVote
(179,305 posts)Fetterman will probably not run in 2028. If he does, Fetterman will be primaried
CNN's Harry Enten zeroed in on a Democratic senator who will "no doubt" face a primary challenge, and history suggests he will likely lose.
— Raw Story (@rawstory.com) 2026-03-20T18:00:13Z
https://www.rawstory.com/stringr/john-fetterman-democrat
Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) has seen a stunning reversal in his support from his own party's voters since he was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 2023, and Enten told "CNN News Central" that he has never seen an elected official lose backing so dramatically.
"I would just say that John Fetterman is doing as well with Pennsylvania Democrats as the New York Giants are as liked in the state of Pennsylvania, the commonwealth of Pennsylvania," Enten said. "I mean, just look at this: Among Pennsylvania Democrats and that approval of Fetterman, back in 2023, he was a Democrat, liberal darling. He was at plus-68 points. Look at how low he has fallen, down to minus-40 points. He's down there with the Titanic among Democrats in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and, you know, put a comparison point on it."
"You know, we always talk about how [Senate Minority Leader] Chuck Schumer is not well liked by the Democratic base nationwide," Enten added. "Chuck Schumer has a net popularity rating of about minus-two points. He is 38 points more popular than John Fetterman is with Pennsylvania Democrats, and I was also looking at Kyrsten Sinema, who, of course, ended up leaving the Democratic Party in Arizona. She was considerably more popular just before she shifted over than John Fetterman is, at minus-40 points."
Anchor John Berman marveled at Fetterman's drop. "This is 108-point swing," he said, and asked Enten what bearing that might have on his fortunes when he faces re-election in two years.