Fetterman is nothing if not amusing.
Why does Fetterman, the largest senator, not simply eat the other senators?
That’s awesome, as is everything I know about fetterman.
It is very strange how much life has changed since even this extremely dated reference was made.
My kid just started kindergarten. The principal and some of his teachers have visible tattoos.
My kindergarten teacher was an ex nun who refused to let me write with my left hand.
One of my wife’s coworkers used to be in a death metal
skaband and has the piercings to prove it.Though he is considerably less badass in a 9-5 office, but it does make you wonder what he has playing on his headphones all day.
Is death metal ska band a contradiction in terms?
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Aw man, I wanted to hear a death metal ska band
It’s really upbeat music with brass instruments and the lyrics are about murdering babies with chainsaws.
I heard your senator went into the senate and ate everything in the senate and they had to close the senate!
Am I out of touch?
No! the constituents are wrong!
I yield the rest of my thyme.
They must be saving that for Sweeps Week.
He already started, this is why he is the size of two mortal men. He hasn’t reached his final form
Like eat him… to shreds… you say???
The others are too old and stiff.
I sometimes wonder if I live in an alternate reality where a significant subsection of the population has gone absolutely insane. The insanity all seemed to take off around 2016.
I blame social media. Mainlining outrage and confirmation bias through your smart phone is one hell of a way to get high
Social media is a turbocharger to the misinformation engine that is corporate media (especially Fox ‘News’ and shit like Limbaugh, Beck, Infowars, Rogan, et al) post-Fairness Doctrine.
The idea that the FCC shouldn’t A) reinstate the doctrine, and B) have its regulatory boundaries extend to ubiquitous cable and streaming services is fucking nutballs. Thanks, Reagan!
Some day we’ll look back at rage bait (and social media, in general) the way history looks back at opium. The tech and connectedness have remarkably advanced humanity - but unchecked, the algos and constant need for engagement have been ruinous and criminally detrimental to society.
As far as I’m concerned, tech companies are no better than Phillip Morris peddling tobacco to children. Checking your “likes” is the new age version of smoking.
I’m gonna have to disagree. No one has died because they didn’t get likes.
Not counting the suicides, cyber bullying and countless psychological disorders amplified by social media…sure, nobody has died because they didn’t get “likes” lol
That’s not the same thing
There’s a town hall video with John McCain around 2008 where an elderly woman tries to suggest to him she’s worried about Obama because he’s not white. John McCain shot her down and defended Obama and stressed we should only focus on the political differences of opinion, and his own supporters booed him. This all had been coming for so long.
If we’re thinking of the same clip, you’re slightly misremembering it. The woman was insisting Obama was a Muslim, and that’s what McCain was shutting down. But yes, the crowd booed him for clarifying that.
You are correct. I was poorly trying to say it was bigotry.
February 4th, 2004, was when the slow boil started.
It was from at least Reagan. But it was when we elected a black man that got things sped up pretty quick, and then when we elected a fuckind Cheeto that’s when things really got super charged and turbocharged and all the other charging until what we have today
You could go back to Nixon and the Southern Strategy.
Feb 4, 2004, was the beginning of Facebook and the beginning of foreign powers using the platform to undermine democracy.
It actually started really ramping up in 2008-2009. Tea Party, birthers, so on. It’s amazing what happens when someone who wasn’t white was elected president.
It actually started with Newt and his bullshit back in '96…well, actually it started with fucking Reagan and his trickle down bullshit back in '80…then again, maybe it started when
This is the correct answer. It’s just that the crazies, racists, and terrorists in the Republican party stopped being scared to come out in public around 2008 and even more in 2016.
Nah, Reagan proved how far racism could destroy things long before that.
From an outsiders perspective if you really want a catalyst point I always look to the failure of the Union to subject the slaver capitalists of the Confederacy to Nuremberg style trials for sedition and treason.
Instead there was compromise and appeasement. The problem was swept under the rug.
There’s a lot of truth in this. The elites at the top of the South weren’t rooted out after their civil war and all of the bullshit going on in US politics today is a direct consequences of that failure.
It would have existed regardless of who you got rid of. An argument can be made that fierce retribution by the North would have only further sowed anger in the South and a divide.
There’s also the possibility that the chance at a productive reconstruction era likely died right at the start the minute Johnson became president.
We can go back further, but that’s where I put my finger on the map.
Fox News was a conservative news outlet until then. Overnight they went batshit crazy.
Between them and social media, we spiraled down into where we’re at now.
I think it was even earlier… 9/11 really broke the safety of America (and even the “western” world) and pushed so many people down the conspiracy rabbit hole. Social media amplified this fear and brought them together giving them power.
My head canon is that the fixed point event in earth history is that humanity should have ended in nuclear war with the cuba crisis and the timeline has been unravelling ever since.
Sometimes I think the end of the world actually did happen in 2012, it’s just that the fallout is happening over a longer time scale than anyone anticipated.
Rapture bombing wasn’t a prank, 99.99999999999999% of us just didn’t make it :-)
That’s what I keep saying. That the world ended, but to save humanity some brave but misguided hero somehow ported us all into this slightly different but really fucked up reality. This is my explanation for the Mandela effect, that we remember our old timeline but when we look things up the research shows what happened in the new timeline so it’s all wonky lol
As someone who came of age during Reagan’s presidency, y’all just ain’t been around long enough.
The most soul crushing part is when you realize it’s not an alternate reality; this is where you’ve been all along and you feel betrayed by everyone you’ve ever known for hiding it from you, even about their own stupidity.
Confirmed. The worst possible timeline.
In a weird coincidence a show came out in 2016 before the election called BrainDead and the plot was that alien bugs are eating parts of our brains and causing hyper partisanship.
That show was great, was pretty disappointed to see it got cancelled.
Good show just the right amount of Tony Shalhoub ;-)
Well, Harambe died
Dicks out.
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I think it started the moment Obama was elected, or at least the moment the ACA was able to pass. It just took a time for the ‘batshit crazy’ to scale up to mass adoption among conservatives.
For me, it started right after 9/11. Republicans were quick to use the general fear and anger from the attacks to justify wars, spying on citizens, eroding personal freedom, etc. They’ve been using this same playbook ever since, just with a different boogyman, e.g. Antifa, BLM, trans people.
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It really probably was all the lead.
Anyone making season 6 Simpson references should be immediately put in charge of everything.
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Love that shit. I rarely have even the faintest idea what the answer is but I still have fun thinking about it. Haven’t seen the Simpsons since it initially aired so the mind’s a bit fuzzy.
Hey, I think you forgot to mention the instance of the community there.
Ah, of course.
Can I just note, at the risk of venturing slightly off topic, that Fetterman is rocking that stash?
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Yes. Anyone with a mustache is obviously a mass-murderer.
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What people look like is definitely a statement on their character. You can always judge a book by its cover, as they say.
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You’re seriously saying you can judge a book by its cover?
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Bruh, how many mustaches do you want to shun?
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To be fair, the Hitler stache is pretty well ruined.
Oh yeah, I’m sure there are plenty of body doubles available out there for 6’ 8" dudes with incredibly distinct facial features and skull geometry that would keep a 19th century phrenologist in business for years.
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By this time next year we should 8
FettermansFettermen. And they, too, will be Senators. Then 16, 32, 64, 128 et celery et celery.Soon … no more Senators. Only Settermen.
I’m pretty sure the plural is Johns Fetterman. It’s like Attorneys General.
As opposed to the possessive plural Attorneys’ Genitals.
Cheers Genitals
I also possess attorney’s genitals (plural)
Your theory explains the name Johns Hopkins!
Objection! And the token Setterwoman, hmm?
Yes, the Setterwomen and the Setterchildren too.
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Fetterman and his wife continue to impress me with how good at social media they are.
Gisele Fetterman is a secret weapon and almost as funny as the Senator
Didn’t you hear, she’s actually the one in charge, and he’s just a puppet who can’t think? That’s why she posts photos that have his face out of frame, not because it’s funny. /s
I heard it’s more of a Master-Blaster arrangement from Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome.
Fetterman for VP.
Him and Biden together would be comedy gold.
VP? Fetterman for Pres! Biden can be his VP. you know. to help mentor and guide him.
Fetterman for VP, then he can eat Biden to gain his strength and wisdom
… he can do that? well. if he can do that. Fetterman for Pres, Biden gets eaten… and we have Bernie for VP
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Crazy how gop found so many people with the shame part of their brain disabled
Imagine not understanding the difference between inner forearms and outer forearms…
I hate it when my tattoos disappear
These people can’t be THAT stupid, right? Right?!
Ugh. I want off this ride.
How has he not had Terry Crews be his body double yet?
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So he’d be perfect!
To be fair, Krusty the Clown and Homer Simpson are body doubles. Maybe there’s a cynical clown version of John Fetterman somewhere.
I’m seeing double here! Four Fettermans!
I honestly thought he was a former WWE performer for a decent amount of time, and by decent I mean I only recently found out that he wasn’t a former WWE performer. It was a wild assumption, but at the same time I can also picture him jumping off the ring to give the peoples elbow.
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Maybe it is too obvious, I am not sure: You all know that his name originates from the German expression “fetter Mann”, which translates to “fat man”? I can vividly imagine his ancestors arriving at Ellis island and getting their new surname. :D
He involved Guy Incognito, who is different than Homer Simpson. Gee, I hope somebody got fired for that blunder.
I like the theory that “guy incognito” was homer in a shit disguise and the “homer” looking dude is someone else entirely
