Fetterman Staff Quit Amid Frustration Over “Just Working on Israel All the Time”
The exodus of staff from the office of Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., continued Thursday with two new departures.
The exits of the longtime staffers reflects a deep disillusionment in Fetterman’s office with his disavowal of progressive politics and turn toward the right in both his openness to working with President Donald Trump and his embrace of strident pro-Israel positions.
The office’s “major staff turnover,” as one team Fetterman veteran put it, comes amid a tough hiring environment for Democratic staffers in Washington.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 77 | May 5, 2025 9:07 PM
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He's voting with the Republicans too. I think we will see him change sides soon.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | February 19, 2025 11:54 PM
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I had such high hopes for him. I think his stroke really affected (or affected) his brain. He should just be a repug. what an asshole.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | February 19, 2025 11:54 PM
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Pro Israel 👍. Pro Trump 👎.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | February 19, 2025 11:57 PM
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Fetterman appeared on The View recently and said he will not switch to become a Repig.
He's still a moron.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | February 19, 2025 11:58 PM
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He’s desperate to hold on to his job for the next election. He saw PA turn right and he wants to stay relevant
by Anonymous | reply 7 | February 20, 2025 12:00 AM
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Proof that you need to have brain damage to vote Republican.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | February 20, 2025 12:01 AM
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I have brain damage and I hate Trump more than ever!
by Anonymous | reply 9 | February 20, 2025 12:02 AM
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So R2, were you one of tbose mentsl midgets chastising those of us on DL who were voting for Conor Lamb in the 2022 PA primary?
by Anonymous | reply 10 | February 20, 2025 12:06 AM
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The "cult" believes that the end of days is coming - that's why they focus on Israel and believe Dumpster Shit Fire is the fulfillment of a prophecy - he's here to clean up America and ready us for the end. I remember a fight I had with my evangelical sister and BIL years ago - I said you're so obsessed with death why don't you do us all a favor and have your church join hands and jump off a bridge - win win!
by Anonymous | reply 11 | February 20, 2025 12:07 AM
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Wear a jacket and tie you piece of shit, Fetterman.
Oh yeah, slacks and shoes too.
by Anonymous | reply 12 | February 20, 2025 12:22 AM
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Good. Serves the slovenly shithead right.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | February 20, 2025 12:23 AM
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Does Fetterman throw staplers and eat salads with a comb?
by Anonymous | reply 14 | February 20, 2025 12:23 AM
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I don't pay attention to him. Brain damage.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | February 20, 2025 12:27 AM
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What exactly does he have to do with Israel? Working to keep shoveling it money?
by Anonymous | reply 16 | February 20, 2025 12:30 AM
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The moment he became dead to me: when he voted to confirm Bondi.
by Anonymous | reply 17 | February 20, 2025 12:35 AM
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It really doesn't take much to outclass Mehmet 0z.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | February 20, 2025 12:44 AM
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HE WILL STAY A DEM 2 SPY ON THE PARTY LIKE SEMINA DID. NOTHING NEW 2 C HERE.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | February 20, 2025 1:07 AM
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He dresses like white trash.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | February 20, 2025 1:13 AM
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It makes you wonder who hires the staff. I assume these staffers who don't even agree with the senator's views weren't just placed there by someone at random. Fetterman needs to do better at hiring staff that will work with him and not against him.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | February 20, 2025 1:20 AM
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I honestly think the GOP threatened his wife and mother-in-law with deportation back to Brazil. Gisele has been open about their immigration status -- they arrived in the U.S. illegally (like George Santos did). I don't know if the MiL obtained citizenship or if she's on a green card. I don't think any parent wants to explain to their three kids why/how grandma and possibly mom were sent away.
I suspect the MAGAts don't know about this yet as they do not read, but it would only take a little call to NewsMax or Fox to change that. It would only be a matter of time before some crazy with a firearm.
He needs to be be sent home by PA voters.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | February 20, 2025 1:33 AM
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R4 or anybody else who saw The View.....How did he come off? Was he rational? Attentive? Did he have intelligent things to say? Or did he come off like a recent stroke victim who's complete personality had changed? (I'm remember critic Gene Siskel, after his brain surgery, months before he died).
And how did Joy react to him? Did they call him out??
by Anonymous | reply 23 | February 20, 2025 1:34 AM
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Wearing shorts in the snow tells you everything you need to know about him.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | February 20, 2025 2:07 AM
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R16 Shovel away. I despise Netanyahu, but I fully support funding Israel.
by Anonymous | reply 25 | February 20, 2025 2:31 AM
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Ugh, more “journalism” from The Putincept.
How’s Reality Winner doing?
by Anonymous | reply 26 | February 20, 2025 2:53 AM
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My hot UPS driver wears shorts in the winter and can get away with it. Fetterman can't.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | February 20, 2025 10:13 AM
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He’s reading the room. Progressive politics are dead.
by Anonymous | reply 28 | February 20, 2025 10:19 AM
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Fetterman is a perfect representative for his red MAGA state that got Donald Trump elected in 2024.
He and Pennsylvania are just "Making America Great Again."
I fucking HATE Pennsylvania, with the heat of 10,000 suns.
Fucking assholes.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 29 | February 20, 2025 10:33 AM
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Fuck Fetterman
DL would rather lose the seat to a GOP.
by Anonymous | reply 30 | February 20, 2025 11:30 AM
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[Quote] My hot UPS driver wears shorts in the winter and can get away with it. Fetterman can't
UPS shorts go to the thigh. Fetterman’s flop below his knees
by Anonymous | reply 31 | February 20, 2025 12:00 PM
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Fuck this asshole. He’s voting for trump’s budget. What a fucking god damned asshole!!
by Anonymous | reply 32 | March 13, 2025 7:33 PM
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I’d rather not have the government shut down. When Democrats have a House majority, they can create their own budget.
by Anonymous | reply 33 | March 13, 2025 7:44 PM
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The AFGE, government employees union, is urging for Dems to vote NO. THEY know the bill SUCKS and will hurt and damage the most vulnerable people.
by Anonymous | reply 34 | March 13, 2025 11:07 PM
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He's mentally defective. He should be removed from office.
by Anonymous | reply 36 | March 13, 2025 11:15 PM
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This piece of shit is now arguing with AOC.
by Anonymous | reply 37 | March 14, 2025 10:18 PM
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Didn't we almost have it all?
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 38 | March 14, 2025 10:42 PM
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He's a sloth in an ill fitting track suit - what a disgrace to the Senate along with the Repigs.
by Anonymous | reply 39 | March 14, 2025 10:54 PM
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Interestingly, he voted for cloture but not the CR.
by Anonymous | reply 40 | March 14, 2025 10:56 PM
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Fetterman is great. He’s my Senator and I’ll vote for him again.
by Anonymous | reply 41 | March 14, 2025 11:11 PM
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[quote] This piece of shit is now arguing with AOC.
They are both assholes, but I think their careers won't be long. I see Fetterman having another stroke or health issue and resigning or not running for re-election in the future and I suspect AOC will be brought down by a scandal.
by Anonymous | reply 43 | March 15, 2025 12:17 AM
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Hard to imagine what a "scandal" is these days. Trump of course is a walking scandal that has never done anything remotely honest in his whole life. The people around him are all cranks and fools and grifters and criminals and foreign agents and barely try to pretend otherwise. What exactly even is a scandal these days?
by Anonymous | reply 44 | March 15, 2025 12:32 AM
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Fetterman is spending so much time sucking Trump’s cock that it’s hard to imagine him having time for anything else
by Anonymous | reply 45 | March 15, 2025 12:33 AM
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Two facts about Fetterman:
1. His parents raised him in an affluent neighborhood and helped support him financially into his 40s.
2. His parents are both Republicans.
He played the role of progressive outsider pretty well but he's playing more to his actual type these days.
by Anonymous | reply 46 | March 15, 2025 12:42 AM
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Fetterman's conduct, rhetoric and recent voting record indicate that he's made a calculation that his political future is benefited by his witless statements about Dump and Dump policies.
Every time I see him now all I think is "PRIMARY THIS FUCKER"
by Anonymous | reply 47 | March 15, 2025 1:05 AM
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At this point, it would be more honest to replace him with a MAGAt who's not coy about being MAGA.
by Anonymous | reply 48 | March 15, 2025 1:07 AM
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Collaborator cunt. I hope he has another stroke.
by Anonymous | reply 49 | March 15, 2025 1:11 AM
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R44 Exactly, short of like public beastiality there are no scandals anymore.
by Anonymous | reply 50 | March 15, 2025 2:12 AM
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This dude looks like he's the one eating the dogs and the cats.
by Anonymous | reply 51 | March 15, 2025 2:13 AM
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Bulwark. End of yesterday's podcast - Tim Miller shared that he was kind of concerned if maybe he's not quite yet recovered and seemed to genuinely struggle if he got away from talking points. I think he then referenced Democrats recent pattern of hiding decline. This kinda broke my dream that he had bigger potential. But I still like him and thus far have understood the so-called nuance thing it looks like he's trying for.
by Anonymous | reply 52 | March 15, 2025 2:30 AM
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LOL. FOH with the Marxist ratfuckers at the Putincept.
by Anonymous | reply 53 | March 15, 2025 3:37 AM
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I don't think he's healthy.
Which, tbh, I'm fine with...he's a yutz.
Replace him.
by Anonymous | reply 55 | March 15, 2025 8:53 AM
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I'd bet dollars to donuts the Republicans have threatened him with the deportation of his wife and mother-in-law. They came to the U.S. undocumented from Brazil.
by Anonymous | reply 57 | March 15, 2025 12:06 PM
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New York Magazine comes after Fetterman:
Many of the staffers I spoke with are angry. They are troubled. And they are sad. These were some of Fetterman’s truest believers, and they now question his fitness to be a senator. They worry he may present a risk to the Democratic Party and maybe even to himself.
In May 2024, Feetterman's then chief-of-staff Adam Jentleson wrote an urgent letter to David Williamson, the medical director of the traumatic-brain-injury and neuropsychiatry unit at Walter Reed, who had overseen Fetterman’s care at the hospital. “I think John is on a bad trajectory and I’m really worried about him,” the email began. If things didn’t change, Jentleson continued, he was concerned Fetterman “won’t be with us for much longer.”
His 1,600-word email came with the subject line “concerns,” and it contained a list of them, from the seemingly mundane (“He eats fast food multiple times a day”) to the scary (“We do not know if he is taking his meds and his behavior frequently suggests he is not”). “We often see the kind of warning signs we discussed,” Jentleson wrote. “Conspiratorial thinking; megalomania (for example, he claims to be the most knowledgeable source on Israel and Gaza around but his sources are just what he reads in the news — he declines most briefings and never reads memos); high highs and low lows; long, rambling, repetitive and self centered monologues; lying in ways that are painfully, awkwardly obvious to everyone in the room.”
Many of the staffers I spoke with are angry. They are troubled. And they are sad. These were some of Fetterman’s truest believers, and they now question his fitness to be a senator. They worry he may present a risk to the Democratic Party and maybe even to himself.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 58 | May 2, 2025 11:26 AM
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[quote]This piece of shit is now arguing with AOC.
Good.
by Anonymous | reply 59 | May 2, 2025 11:47 AM
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He seems very unhealthy. He had the stroke in the first place because he has A-fib and wasn’t taking his prescribed blood-thinners. It’s highly unlikely he’s compliant with all his current meds. And his diet is probably poor.
by Anonymous | reply 60 | May 2, 2025 11:49 AM
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[quote] “Conspiratorial thinking; megalomania (for example, he claims to be the most knowledgeable source on Israel and Gaza around but his sources are just what he reads in the news — he declines most briefings and never reads memos); high highs and low lows; long, rambling, repetitive and self centered monologues; lying in ways that are painfully, awkwardly obvious to everyone in the room.”
Jesus, it sounds like he turned into Trump.
by Anonymous | reply 61 | May 2, 2025 11:54 AM
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He wrote that he was on Ozempic or some similiar drug. That should help his health somewhat. Not sure what’s going on mentally.
by Anonymous | reply 62 | May 2, 2025 11:55 AM
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I don't think he will run again .
by Anonymous | reply 63 | May 2, 2025 11:58 AM
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He’s a chump. Ie MUST be primaried. Hogg, get to work
by Anonymous | reply 64 | May 2, 2025 12:33 PM
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[quote] and helped support him financially into his 40s.
Lame.
by Anonymous | reply 65 | May 2, 2025 12:38 PM
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Fetterman isn’t old so Hogg can take a pass. What happened to the cute moderate Dem who ran against Fetterman and lost to the progressive (Fetterman!) He can run.
by Anonymous | reply 66 | May 2, 2025 12:45 PM
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[quote]What happened to the cute moderate Dem who ran against Fetterman and lost to the progressive (Fetterman!) He can run.
He’s at R38.
by Anonymous | reply 67 | May 2, 2025 12:47 PM
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The details at R58 are rough. Yikes.
by Anonymous | reply 68 | May 2, 2025 12:51 PM
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What a bizarre and disappointing train wreck he's turned out to be. He's clearly mentally ill, he should not be representing one of the most populous states, ffs. And I say that as someone who also has mental problems and is in no way fit to be an MOC.
by Anonymous | reply 70 | May 2, 2025 4:55 PM
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He has personality changes and self-awareness issues since the stroke.
by Anonymous | reply 71 | May 2, 2025 5:24 PM
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It's been Friday since the Intercept article hit. The Democrats have had the weekend to formulate a response.
by Anonymous | reply 72 | May 5, 2025 10:31 AM
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Fuck Fetterman
DL would rather lose the House and the Senate this time next time and 5 times after rather than support a possible maga asshole like this.
Although since I read that he was allegedly supported by his parents well into his 4Os I am sure that a lot of DL posters identify with him on a more personal level..
Stay Strong Stay Pure
by Anonymous | reply 73 | May 5, 2025 10:44 AM
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It’s not like he needed a personal stylist!
by Anonymous | reply 74 | May 5, 2025 10:45 AM
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R73 I agree with you. Fuck Fetterman.
by Anonymous | reply 75 | May 5, 2025 3:36 PM
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Never liked this tarded fuck.
by Anonymous | reply 77 | May 5, 2025 9:07 PM
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