John Fetterman Tells Democrats To 'Chill Out' About Trump's Return To Office

Asked for his thoughts on if the president-elect has the potential to be successful in his second term, the senator said that he thinks “rooting against” Trump would be the wrong thing for any leader to do.

“If you’re rooting against the president, you are rooting against the nation,” he said. “I’m not ever going to be where I want a president to fail.”

He is a complete disappointment.

Yes, I want Trump to fail because for one, he's a criminal and a rapist and should be in prison.

Second, I want Trump to fail because I disagree with his policies like giving billionaires a further tax cut, appointing unqualified assholes to his cabinet and following Project 2025 which threatens to cut Social Security an Medicare.

Well we should all listen to him because he’s so stable

Fetterman said he is open to supporting Hegseth and Patel.

Asshole.

He was asked a question and gave a smart response when you consider that Trump is the most popular politician in the country right now. “If you’re rooting against the president, you are rooting against the nation,“ How is that false. The problem is a fucking megalomaniac fascist won the presidency because of white privilege and an incompetent AG. But most of the country does not see Trump a megalomaniac fascist.

Fetterman is the all new Joe Manchin in a hoodie.

This man literally ran on a Bernie Sanders style progressive platform and called himself such during the campaign and now he’s doing this shit. He’s worse than Manchin and Sinema. A grifter through and through.

The thing about Trump is that he will fail whether you want him to, or not. He's destined to be a failure as president.

He!s smart and offers a model for Dems in red or purple states.

This is who Fetterman supports...

Trump signing hats yesterday while Musk handles budget negotiations with the House...

You can't spell F-E-L-O-N without E-L-O-N.

Trump looks like he’s in a nursing home where he belongs. President Musk is doing all the work.

R10 Fuck off with that shit already. It was retarded to believe for a second the Dems could beat Trump by adopting the same rightwing policy they'd be attacking him for for years before the election. It's even more retarded now because only retards can eat shit at the same spot over and over again and never learn a damn thing.

R7 His voting record doesn’t say so. Oh well. Identity politics and Trumpism 2.0 will be the fall of America.

I can’t tell if r10 is being sarcastic or not.

R14 Thought Harris would win a landslide on a campaign of joy and calling Trump fascist.

Bernie Sanders style progressivism didn’t paint white people as villains. Yes human beings are emotional and most Americans dumb as rocks.

R10 here… not kidding at all Someone independent like Fetterman could win in Florida or Texas.

No R17 Because joyful work makes one feel joy.

[quote] “If you’re rooting against the president, you are rooting against the nation,” he said. “I’m not ever going to be where I want a president to fail.”

Trump ran on hatred and racism. He must fail or else that will be considered acceptable for a president

Ironically, Trump won on a progressive message about bringing down the price of groceries, housing, childcare.

And the stupid Dems got out of that: We need to be more moderate and kick out the progressives.

Fetterman won because he ran against Dr Oz and Dems were desperate to hold on to the Senate.

In any other normal election, he stoke would have cancelled him out

[quote]Ironically, Trump won on a progressive message about bringing down the price of groceries, housing, childcare.

*blinks several times, laughs hysterically for 45 minutes* MAGA and crack cocaine do not mix.

[quote]And the stupid Dems got out of that: We need to be more moderate and kick out the progressives.

That was Kamala's platform for 5 months here on planet Earth.

Why bother trying to counter talking points that clearly come from the business end of a crack pipe?

God damn he’s gone off the deep end

Sorry my bad. The same idiot troll wrote these three statements. Smooth brain, easy to ignore.

[quote]Trump ran on hatred and racism. He must fail or else that will be considered acceptable for a president

[quote]Ironically, Trump won on a progressive message about bringing down the price of groceries, housing, childcare.

[quote]And the stupid Dems got out of that: We need to be more moderate and kick out the progressives.

Senator Gym Shorts, I’ve never seen so much integrity from you before!

He’s pretty weird looking.

R26, and not a single statement contradicts the others.

[quote] That was Kamala's platform for 5 months here on planet Earth.

Kamala's "I'm a moderate schtick" was why she lost.

She never addressed the price of groceries (except to blame it all on "greedy" corporations. Never addressed childcare, education, housing). The price of stuff is what people actually care about, not some hypothetical that Trump will be a dictator

[quote] *blinks several times, laughs hysterically for 45 minutes* MAGA and crack cocaine do not mix.

Yes Trump won on a progressive message. He told people exactly what they wanted to hear about prices. I know he's not doing shit about any of it

[quote] R26 Smooth brain

You mean you? The fact you think those statements are somehow contradictory means you've never been exposed to anything that isn't spoon fed to you by cable news.

Sorry to deal another crack to your skull, but yes, you can absolutely be fascist and push for (or claim to) progressive econonic policy simulaneously. It's a thing that happens all the time. In fact it's a key reason why the far right have been beating the shit out of liberals electorally worldwide, who still refuse to wake up from the pipe dream that neoliberalism will somehow save the day and save their heads and the peasants will remain blissfully content with the ever diminishing scraps of capitalism while being told they're stupid and bigoted and don't know what's good.

Young Satan.

Why the hell would we ever think he was on our side?

Look forward to that fuck dropping dead.

Evolution of a piece of shit.

Yes, because Republicans are known for being super chill when there's a Democrat in the White House and they go out of their way to root for their success.

You could choose randomly from among the contestants of a county fair belching contest and do better than this buffoon.

Fetterman is not stupid. He knows how to read the room in Pennsylvania.

R15 is right. Check the voting record.

But it’s not the only thing that matters. What he’s putting out into the world will ultimately prove harmful for Democrats.

I don't read or watch the news anymore. There is no point in getting caught up in the drama. He is going to do exactly what he wants and no one has ever been able to control him. If you want to be pissed about it, blame the democrats. Weak, disorganized, fractured and impotent. I've checked out.

translation: "I am trying to stay viable as an elected official in PA, a state where the (slim but significant) majority of very stupid, very misguided voters have been manipulated into voting against their own best interests time and time again. For this reason, I have to throw bones, mirror their thinking and create an appeasement strategy that will keep me in office.

And bottom Line, I lack the nuance and mental acuity to hold onto power in a more honest way that would serve the people of PA. My brand is all about honesty and being "one of them", so all to say: The hoodie stays and the values go.

Thank you for your continued support J. Fetterman Shop the Fetterman Hoodie and accessory store! link in the bio

What should he do? Declare himself the leader of the resistance and vow to destroy Trump with his last breath. So next cycle we can have two Republican Senators from Pennsylvania. No thanks.

He needs to bait and switch. He needs to find ways ,using any means necessary, to redirect the free floating rage and desire for retribution that animates most of these low information tantrum voters toward the people that really caused it: Republicans.

He doesn't need to mention Dump by name at firs. He can effectively start this campaign by cultivating memes that portray the voters as victims. They really like being victims.and with a combination of images, memes, fact and fiction make them WANT to punish Republicans. Once that gains traction, you start mentioning Trump.

This is how Republicans achieved electoral victory.

This is more intricate and difficult work than just appeasement.

He could say nothing

Fetterman is an electable, popular Democrat. He got there by being common sense on immigration, pro-Zionist, policy led, and less histrionic about politics.

There’s a lesson in there for my fellow Democrats further to my left, if only they’d stop pearl clutching and hyperventilating long enough to think it through.

Peter Boyle in Young Frankenstein says what?

[Quote] when you consider that Trump is the most popular politician in the country right now.

🤡

Unfavorable: 48.1%

Favorable: 46.9%

The only President-elect in modern history with a net unfavorable before taking office.

R9 points out so well that trump would be a disaster as potus and would not remain popular and would not win a fucking re-election,

Trump popularity s 53% ( Marquette U poll last week)

R46 "The only way to beat MAGA is to become MAGA!"

R50 “If you are not a committed revolutionary socialist, you’re MAGA!”

I don't agree with everything Fetterman says, but I agree that panicking and being scared solves nothing. My philosophy for the next 4 years is to give the people what they voted for and let them see how that works out for them.

And to all you Biden voters who stayed at home this time, I hope Trump comes for you all first.

Oh Fetterman- what other delusions do you discuss with your Psychiatrist?

I agree. I won’t root for our nation to fail.

[Quote] Trump popularity s 53% ( Marquette U poll last week)

Cherry-picking. The poll of polls has him at 46% as of today.

Too late r54. “Our nation” already did.

Progressives shoved this guy down our throats and now we’re all paying for it.

[quote] Trump popularity s 53% ( Marquette U poll last week)

Not surprised. The likes of AOC are working overtime to help him by running their retarded scold mouths.

Popularity makes no difference in this new political world we live in. I just don't think people understand that this is not going to be like any other administration in the history of our country. Change is going to come and fast and drastic. So fast the media won't be able to keep up and neither will people. He is going to do everything he said he was going to do and more. If his popularity is low, it doesn't matter. Brand new ball game.

We all heard that last time, and it wasn’t that true.

His primary change was getting Roe overturned, but that was 50% Democrats’ fault — for not enshrining abortion rights into statute.

Roe (and LGBT equality) was used as a protection racket by Dems, who kept our rights weak and vulnerable to stay in power. It’s no accident that Trump was able to so easily overturn them after decades of Dems refusing to enshrine them — and LGBT voters got our rights protected from a similar fate with the Respect for Marriage Act.

Dems need to return to a common sense agenda for everyday Americans. Trump and MAGA are easily defeated if we focus on the practical concerns of everyday Americans and stop wasting all of the party’s resources on promoting deeply unpopular causes like hating Jews/Israel, allowing full grown men who “identify as women” into sports and ladies’ showers, etc.

Nature abhors a vacuum. With Manchin and Sinema going out, Fetterman has decided to fill the contrarian niche. It’s just like in every other workplace, when the pain in the ass finally quits or gets canned, someone steps into the role. They always do.

What is contrarian about saying 'chill out'?

Are you a bot r60? Or worse, a panelist on a Sunday morning talk show?

Those cliches you are spouting are absolutely worthless. The Democrats constantly advance practical answers to working class problems. The Republicans constantly tell them to fuck off and work for shit wages and shut the hell up about it, cause Elon wants a tax cut. And many of them turn around and vote Republican for it. There is no magical "working class" issue that will win over those fuckers.

And while the whole trans thing does indeed hurt us, it's almost entirely an invented issue. Very few people really give a fuck one way or another because very few people actually have a real world grievance with actual trans people. But it's a very effective tool to work into a huge issue by the trained spokeswhores of the Right. Our problem is deeper. A lot of people just believe stupid shit, and they love believing stupid shit, and I don't know if we have an easy answer to that.

> The Democrats constantly advance practical answers to working class problems.<

Democrats like Fetterman and Ritchie Torres, sure. Wealthy far lefties, not so much.

Most “progressive” Democrats cannot even display basic working class knowledge like how an apprenticeship works, union wage tiers, how long trade school is, or how union tradesmen get paid. But of course, actually listening to working people rather than lecturing them about their “best interests” from a position of ignorance, is unpopular for the know-it-alls who use our party as a personal debate society rather than a way to advance common-sense policies for everyday people.

They sure can explain about how “gender is not a binary,” or start condemning everyday working people for not being “class conscious.” That’s why we keep losing with working people, and the insistence by progressives that we need to move even further left continues to cost us election after election.

No, actually, real Democrats in real elected offices constantly come up with policies for health care, for education, for helping the poor and the working class get an easier life, for housing, for infrastructure, for pretty much everything that affects people's lives in a practical way.

It's Republicans who spend far, far more time talking about trans, about gays, about this or that fucked up religious bullshit, or any other distraction they can come up with while delivering tax cuts for rich fucks (their only actual accomplishment ever). Will this entirely Republican government we will have in about a month even pass a minimum wage increase? No, of course not, why would they bother? Why would they even pretend to give a fuck when morons will vote for them anyway?

[quote]> The Democrats constantly advance practical answers to working class problems.<

Our Transportation Secretary was working on the important issue of America's racist highways.

[quote]She never addressed the price of groceries (except to blame it all on "greedy" corporations. Never addressed childcare, education, housing).

If only there was some way to check your weapon's-grade stupidity.

[quote]Affordable housing is a cornerstone of the “opportunity economy” that Vice President Kamala Harris sketched out last week. Harris’ economic policy pitch included proposals to lower the costs of owning and renting a home in the U.S.

“We should be making everything to make it more affordable to buy a home, not less,” Harris said during her speech in Raleigh, North Carolina.

The Democratic presidential nominee called for the construction of 3 million new housing units, both for rent and for sale, over the next four years — an initiative housing experts say would help improve affordability.

That’s “the most exciting part of her plans to me,” said Daryl Fairweather, chief economist at Redfin, an online real estate brokerage.

[quote]Never addressed childcare, education, housing).

If only there was a way to prove the mind-bending stupidity of that statement.

Truly it's a mystery.

[quote]Ban corporate price gouging on food and groceries

[quote]Will not raise taxes for those earning less than $400,000 a year

[quote]Expand the child tax credit to $6,000 for families with newborns

[quote]Provide first-time homebuyers with up to $25,000 for down payments, plus more generous support for first-generation homeowners

[quote]Build 3 million more rental units and affordable homes

[quote]Raise the minimum wage

[quote]Establish paid family and medical leave

[quote]Expand the startup expense tax deduction for new businesses from $5,000 to $50,000

But other than that she didn't say a damn thing about the economy, right?

You can't argue with the willfully ignorant, r68.

You're right r69, but I still think things are worth discussing for the rest of us. And r66 does exactly what Trump Whores do, pretending that a practical answer to a practical problem is somehow a bunch of silly liberals caring about nonexistent racism, which we all know evaporated completely in 1970.

What Pete Buttiegieg was doing was solving a problem. A highway specifically designed by racists to fuck over a black neighborhood is still fucking over that neighborhood. Pete was acknowledging the racist bullshit behind the original construction and saying that it's time to get rid of this stupid fucking thing, and giving money to do so. And of course it was part of a much larger fund of money to repair and rebuild all sorts of other things. Yes that means spending money that could go to billionaires instead in the form of tax cuts, but I think we can all deal with the trauma of that, or at least nonTrump Cult members can.

Who’s payroll did he fall onto.

[quote] R64 Democrats like Fetterman and Ritchie Torres, sure. Wealthy far lefties, not so much.

YOU ARE FUCKING JOKING, RIGHT?

Ritchie Torres? The man who represents the poorest district in the entire country and yet spends literally 99% of his time, either advocating for Israel’s interest, or picking fights on Twitter to defend Israel’s honor?

What practical solutions to working class problems has he brought forward in between choking on Netanyahu’s cock, exactly? Please, enlighten us R64.

Either you are an AIPAC troll or you are Ritchie Torres himself. Either way you need to die in a grease fire.

He’s a goalpost mover and chameleon