The Pennsylvania senator dismissed the demand for further investigation as “moot.”
Senator John Fetterman appeared not to understand why Democrats want to investigate the deadly strike that killed dozens of Iranian children.
During an interview with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins Wednesday night, Fetterman was asked to explain why he hadn’t signed onto a letter from Senate Democrats that questioned Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on the February 28 strike on Shajarah Tayyebeh, a girls’ primary school miles from Tehran. The strike killed 175 people, many of them young girls.
“Well, because we all agree that it’s a tragedy having the school hit, and we all agree now for an investigation,” Fetterman said. “What I don’t agree with the rest of my colleagues in the House is that it’s a war of choice, or it’s dumb, or all the things my colleagues have described, you know, this operation. I think it’s a good thing, and I support that.”
Fetterman was referring to a line in the letter describing Donald Trump’s military campaign as “a war of choice without Congressional authorization.” The letter did not describe the war as “dumb.”
The headline is misquoting him, the full quote is:
“Well, because we all agree that it’s a tragedy having the school hit, and we all agree now for an investigation,” Fetterman said. “What I don’t agree with the rest of my colleagues in the House is that it’s a war of choice, or it’s dumb, or all the things my colleagues have described, you know, this operation. I think it’s a good thing, and I support that.”
Still glaringly stupid, but the headline makes it seem like he’s in denial it happened. He didn’t say the words
“leftist” or“craze”Edited for accuracy!
Appreciate this.
Trump’s political supporters say and do enough batshit, immoral things that we don’t need to be lying just to make our points.
bad vibes to John Fetterman but also bad vibes to the journalist who misquoted the title
He did say the word “leftist”. He doesn’t say crazed, but he does say:
“The Leftist media seem more angry and talking about the deaths of these dead school girls than they were about Iran killing tens of thousands of their own young people a couple of weeks ago”
The clip is here: https://x.com/Acyn/status/2031906677365358825
All I did was search the rest of the article for the term “leftist” notice it was used, then goto the link the New Republic provided. The question the interviewer is posing is why did all the Senate Democrats signed a letter condemning the US action in Iran except for John Fetterman.
"We only murdered a little over a hundred school-children in this one attack when their regime murdered over 10,000. I think it’s a good thing, and I support that.”
Thanks for catching that I edited my comment
He says that, but then votes against the investigation. Fuck this guy.
What game are they trying to play here 🤔?
New Republic is definitely left leaning but they are typically factual (citation). This is not their typical fare.
Hmmmmm 🤔?
Hmmmm 🤔?
This is 100% a click-bait post.
Here’s the full interview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zE4v--qcPs
Skip the comments, though, unless you enjoy reading bots and spam.
There is no game, THE GUY VOTED AGAINST HAVING AN INVESTIGATION.
It doesn’t matter that he said that when he votes the opposite
They don’t want to give the full quote where he does use the term “leftist” (but not craze) - PROBABLY because they don’t want to platform Fetterman’s idea that the media should be doing criticism of other countries actions as much as the American governments actions.
…a point that doesn’t really make sense, because the fourth estate in democractic countries are supposed to cover criticism of their own governments more than others.
Motherfucker should have just been a Trumper. He’s as stupid as everyone else in the administration and would fit right in.
Looking back, it’s like what the fuck, it was this guy or Dr Oz? Like did Pennsylvania even actually have a choice?
He was a lot less insufferable before the stroke.
Brain injuries absolutely DO change people.
Unfortunately he wasn’t. He was a dick before the stroke he just had an incredible campaign/PR team that managed to successfully spin him as a progressive. I learned about him summarized in this video
23 minutes in i get Ahmaud Arbery vibes when he pulled a gun on a complete stranger.
There’s a fan theory about the show King of the Hill.
I think it was season 2 that Peggy Hill went sky diving. The parachute doesn’t open, and she seeminly falls to her death. Except then you find out that she survived, and is now in a full body cast.
Fans noticed that before those events she wasn’t very aggressive, or stuborn, or stupid. But after the fall, those are the traits that would define her character going forward.
The theory is, the brain damage from the fall changed her. And thats a good in show way of saying “the writers hadn’t found her personality yet”.
They blame the stroke he had just before the 2024 primary for his personality change, but there were clues that this was really him all along. Another excuse I’ve seen which I find slightly more believable (but only because the groundwork for it was already there) is that he became highly dependent upon social media - and thereby more radicalized - after his stroke prevented him from communicating normally.
His “brain injury” was indeed caused by a stroke. It was the stroke of a pen, signing off on that big, fat check that someone gave him in exchange for his vote.
Can the Democrats sanction and eject this senator? He seems to be a Trumper in disguise.
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That would involve actually doing something, and 90% of them are utterly useless.
No, he’s just an honest Democrat.
Senator Sling Blade has been an Israeli tool for years.
Does anyone on any side think this brain-damaged flip-flopper has anything important to say?
The right seems to like a lot what he says, probably consider him one of the “good ones” until it’s time to pair down on who to shoot next.
I say John Fetterman is an amoralic peice of shit and will go to hell.
John Fetterman had medically confirmed brain damage.
Go jump into the Potomac you brain damaged traitor.
John Fetterman lives under a bridge and eats any traveller who can’t answer his riddles
“dozens” is a really weird way of spelling “over a hundred”.
It is, indeed.
FFS, even saying a “dozen dozens“ would be underselling the actual death toll of that particular war crime.
The world honestly would be a (slightly) better place if that stroke was just a smidge more fatal…
When it comes to Fetterman, I wonder how many people get brain damage and suddenly become more progressive instead of regressive?
I know some people say this is who they suspect he always was, but…
He had a helluva PR campaign to reform his image. I believed it at first until i finally found a video of someone giving a rundown of his background and his actions began making a lot more sense. Suffice to say i’ve found him to be an extreme disappointment but because i wasn’t in his district and therefore voting for him I never dug into his history or background.
That same video is what revealed what a shithead he is.
I should keep it saved to share.
I once had an idea that it would be funny if Trump got hit on the head and turned woke: We’re gonna add so many genders your head’s gonna spin. You’ll say, “Donald, there’s too many genders, we can’t keep track of them all!” Too bad, we just added 10 more genders
I sometimes wonder if that happened to me. I had a little head trauma and some interesting liberating experiences in the following months.
I also read a lot of hopeful transhumanist scifi around that time, changed my antidepressants and went through a great personal loss.
So I can’t confirm it, but I do wonder how much smashing my head on a door frame contributed.
WHICH ONE OF THE SIX SCHOOL BOMBING STRIKES IN IRAN, FETTERMAN? WHICH FUCKING ONE DOESN’T DESERVE INVESTIGATION?
Shame that stroke didn’t finish the job
Looking like Mike Myers in a cross between Dr. Evil and Fat Bastard there
Lol 🤣😅🤣🤣
This man is among the worst.
Why does the headline claim he said something that he didn’t in fact say?
Yeah what he actually said is worse
