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There’s always just the bare minimum needed. Illusion of opposition
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I strongly believe that Fetterman is a plant. He's 100% not colluding with the Democrats either as opposition, or for any nefarious means as you're suggesting.
No fucking clue where the other guy got the balls to do this very stupid fucking thing.
They're both gone soon, regardless.
He's not just a plant, he's one bad sneeze away from being a vegetable.
If only he skipped straight to the vegetable part.
I strongly believe that Fetterman is a plant.
He's a human with brain damage who pulled a bait-and-switch on Pennsylvanians (although the alternative wasn't much better...), not a green, sun-loving plant! Leave the poor plants out of this!
Brain damage will do that to you.
Bought by aipac
54-45 is a pretty big gap for the Senate. Not even close to needing a tie breaker from the vp
Two more traitors to the constitution, to pick loyalist over qualified people. I hate this era of government.
Always enough 'republicans for a day' to make our lives worse. The only counter to a rotating villains strategy is to hold the whole group responsible.
Lol. It's just funny now.
Definitely now working together guys. The midterms will save you dw! /s
I foresee this being a short tenure. Dude is obviously unqualified, but he is also shockingly stupid, and insecure as all hell.
Talking single digit Scaramuccis, here. He's gonna fuck this up so bad. We are entering storm season here in the US.
Rotating Villain once again?
Not really. The vote was passing without the Democratic votes. It's just regular shitty centrism.
At that point they're villains for the love of the game
Seriously. Fetterman has brain damage and loves ICE, but what does the NM guy gain? He's simultaneously voting against funding ICE unchanged and thinks it's a great idea to put a violent thug at its head?
"The United States is also a one-party state but, with typical American extravagance, they have two of them.
Also, the rotating villain theory is real, yall
Vote BLUE no Matter WHO!*
*Unless they WOULDNT help Republicans!