• randon31415@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    18
    ·
    3 hours ago

    Just once I would like to have a Republican senator running on an ultra-conservative platform get elected and the reveal they are secretly an ultra-progressive.

  • Ghosthacked@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    20
    ·
    4 hours ago

    Why is it always these types of guys that are DINOs? The allure of the racist redneck lifestyle is too enticing?

    • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      15
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      3 hours ago

      Fetterman is an interesting case. He was pretty strongly Democratic until his stroke, then he seems to have made a pretty sharp turn to what we have now.

    • AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      2 hours ago

      There’s always room for a Manchin. I’m guessing the one guy who grabs that ring has it made for life from then on, and in the entire Democratic legislature, the odds of there being no willing takers are essentially zero.

    • coyootje@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      10
      ·
      3 hours ago

      I really don’t understand what’s happened to him, he seemed like a decent guy when Biden got elected and now he’s insanely MAGA all of a sudden? I thought he had morals and decency, guess I thought wrong. Almost no politician has those.

      • Thebular@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        11
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        2 hours ago

        I really think it’s the stroke, it was pretty immediately after that when he went full MAGAt