John Fetterman Invokes Homer Simpson To Respond To Latest Round Of Conspiracy Theories
Fetterman is nothing if not amusing.
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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?
fixed it
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.
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
The others are too old and stiff.
Like eat him... to shreds.. you say???
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.
Edit: I was corrected, she did not exactly state what her problem was with Obama, but it's clear that it was bigotry.
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.
Nah, that shit was already bubbling over during the Revolutionary War. Remember the Three Fifths Compromise? Pepperidge Farm remembers.
People forget or never learned how much this country was arguing before it even began, and has been arguing since then. People who idealize the past and think there's a period of peace where everything was superb (like those that point to the 50s) are showing privilege and ignorance of various affected groups that suffered and fought our entire history. We've never had a moment where we all got along.
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
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.
As someone who came of age during Reagan's presidency, y'all just ain't been around long enough.
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.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BrainDead
Good show just the right amount of Tony Shalhoub ;-)
That show was great, was pretty disappointed to see it got cancelled.
Well, Harambe died
Dicks out.
Never went away.
Started to gain major traction around the Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck days. The Tea Party was the beginning of the end
That evergreen college insanity clued me in
I had to understand wtf was wrong with those people, now it’s like everyone is an evergreen state college student.
This world fucking sucks
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.
It really probably was all the lead.
I wish we had more of him. The OG can stay in PA and make a clone to be senator for every other state. I know I'd vote for him.
Why the fuck can't we get more elected Democrats like him? He's personable. He's down to earth, and he's willing to make fun of the right wing wackos instead of cowering in fear. A good 3/4 of all the other elected Dems are a bunch of pussies who have the wit of a goddamn potato.
We could at the very least split him and have two normally sized fettermen.
Why does Fetterman, the largest Senator, simply not eat the other 99?
Actually I think the plural is Fettersman. Like Attorneys General
No no no, it's like postman or fireman. A fetterman is a man that works with fetters. Fetterman is a working man.
Because at the heart of it most of them are still spineless corporate shills. Fetterman, AOC, Russ Feingold etc are outliers who snuck past the checks
Because the whole damn system is designed to weed out anyone like that before they can even sniff at a senate seat.
And yet here we are with him in Congress. So it actually is possible.
Because Democratic primary voters are gigantic cowards who think swing voters are only won over by inoffensive white corporate suits.
He could just hire Michael Keaton to go to the senate and pretend that he's Fetterman.
Because the venn diagram of people with those traits, and people who desire to be in an elected position is essentially two separate circles.
And can you blame them? You get attacked from all sides if you enter the politics as a Democrat. You'll obviously get attacked by Republicans, but you also get attacked by people on the Left as well. On the other hand, elected Republicans, to a large degree, don't get attacked by their own people, and lord knows that Democrats rarely go on the offensive, so they'll rarely attack their Republican opponents.
Anyone making season 6 Simpson references should be immediately put in charge of everything.
Come one over to /c/thesimpsons where we constantly play differing difficulties of "Guess The Episode" based on screen shots.
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.
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Ah, of course.
Can I just note, at the risk of venturing slightly off topic, that Fetterman is rocking that stash?
Joe rocked the same stash and killed 100 million.
Yes. Anyone with a mustache is obviously a mass-murderer.
Uncle Joe, yes of course. John is just Lurch in a Joe Stalin costume.
What people look like is definitely a statement on their character. You can always judge a book by its cover, as they say.
absolutely, you only have one chance at a first impression.
You're seriously saying you can judge a book by its cover?
Of course. As I said, you only have one chance for a first impression.
Bruh, how many mustaches do you want to shun?
Any with more than a 7 figure murder count attached to it.
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.
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.
that would be horrible.
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
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...
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?
Crews has standards, and morals, and body image standards.
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.
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
Fetterman should leverage that with a few more Fetterman clones that wear suits.
You guys need more Fettermen!
Got it. Intitite a meme to get people to post pictures of fetterman. In a year they have a trove of fetterman pictures to meme to discredit anything he does.
He is anti-conspiracy. He's such a dysfunctional child that all conspiracy's seem reasonable when compared to reality that he's a brain damaged moron who can't dress himself.
Who hurt you?
^conspiracy's^conspiracies
What is the deal with this guy? He plays the every man but he's a wealthy silver spoon baby. He runs for office and immediately goes on leave, which makes me wonder if he's cut out for this. He seems like he's all talk but doesn't actually get anything done
The man had a stroke. Maybe he needed a little bit of leave time.
The American hero, Mitch McConnell, can have a stroke live on air and still make it to donor and lobby events!
those boostraps AGAIN!
Healthcare worker here who has taken care of many stroke patients, you absolutely do need the fucking break after having one
... said Dr Oz, sobbing into his crudite tray
Imagine making this fucking comment after having that assclown for an adversary. Tell me you ain't from Philly without telling me you ain't from Philly
I'm from England.
Lol this fuckin guy
Lolololol you are soooo butthurt. Cope harder
American Democrats have this disease, when you criticize a democrat they immediately call you a Russian or a republican. In truth I'm not American and your Democrats are nothing but conservatives in disguise. To me, Democrats are conservatives and your country has no idea what a real liberal is. I'm so far left of you that you think I'm a Russian, that's crazy.
Not "when you criticize a democrat", more like "when you sound exactly the same as a conspiracy theory nutjob in your critique". OMG, a guy who recently had a stroke took time off! What could be the deep state mystery behind this insidious behavior?!
You don't wanna get called a shill stop saying the same stupid shit they all do.
Your country is such a disaster you guys can't even tell who is who. You're such tribalists that anyone who criticizes you is an enemy. You can't even be a democrat and criticize a democrat, or you get called a shill. What a clown show your country turned you guys into.
Reading comprehension isn't your strong suit, eh?
Lol you're calling a Canadian, socialist/person of color a Russian cause I think your country is fucked and too conservative. Way to go America, even your liberals are diseased with political tribalism and nationalism now. You've sunk to the level of the people you claimed to oppose.
Miss me with the identity politics and I'm with you brother; I don't care about your skin, only your politics.
Only people who don't suffer because of their race don't care about race
Plainly not true.