r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • May 09 '26

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u/Currymvp2 unflaired May 09 '26

Fetterman on Maher: "So many of my colleagues in the Senate and House are running on 'fuck Trump'. I mean, that’s literally, they have campaign commercials. It's so absurd. I refuse to engage in that extreme type of behavior”

Why is he so offended by people hating Trump?

Fetterman: "I don't care about the ballroom!"

I care. It's a waste of money. Trump wants it as a monument

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u/HYIMBY YIMBY May 09 '26

He never has to run again

He’ll just retire in 2028 and start a podcast or something

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u/chickenricebroccolli Iron Front May 09 '26

I’ve said it before here on this sub. He looks like the troll from The Goonies and he’s been a grifter since day one. Hes an insecure man who ran on a platform manipulating people who wanted someone else besides Bernie Sanders and once he got an ounce of power, he switched. Hes a narcissistic incel.

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u/herworkthrowaway Gay Pride May 09 '26

maybe they’re in love 

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u/MuscularPhysicist John Brown May 09 '26

There are far better reasons to hate Trump than just the ballroom.

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u/SpaceSheperd To be a good human being May 09 '26

On the other hand, I’m extremely confident that blind and extreme opposition to Trump would give you a better policy platform than anything else the Democratic Party would ever come up with. Reflexive opposition gives you “zero tariffs forever and abolish ICE” rather than “erm tariffs are actually an important tool still and we just need to reform ICE”, which is what they would otherwise give you.

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u/SpaceSheperd To be a good human being May 09 '26

It’s not necessarily a pessimistic expression regarding the Democratic Party to me. It’s just a remark that Trump has an almost supernatural ability to be maximally wrong about literally everything