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I appreciate Fetterman for always illustrating the brain damaged point of view.
The brain damage hasn't helped, but Fetterman has always been a conservative cosplaying as a working class union guy. His father is the CEO of an insurance agency, a big Republican donor, and he bankrolled Fettermans political career.
If you actually look into his history in government his behavior has been very consistent throughout his career. Pretty much anyone who works with him will always report that he's an erasable contrarian and is very lazy. Even as Lt gov he barely showed up to preside over the state Senate which was mandatory, and his official schedule was empty 1/3 of the time. Even when he did decide to work, he averaged a 4-5 hour day.
I keep trying to tell people that while brain damage can alter a personality, it usually does so by removing prior inhibitions or damaging memory, reasoning, and emotional regulation. The core personality traits rarely change this drastically.
He was always this evil. He just has a harder time hiding it now.
I can't figure out what "erasable" means in this context.
...Maybe it was supposed to be "irascible," and got autocorrected?
I pronounce them basically the same, could be speech to text.
I knew he was a piece of shit from the start when he supported fracking and denied the harms of it, in PA no less.
It was always weird to me that people online were acting like the fact that he couldn't be bothered to dress like an adult was somehow a really awesome demonstration of how great a politician they were going to be.