John Fetterman’s clap back game continues to be strong.
The Pennsylvania senator, who’s drawn Republicans’ ire for wearing casual clothing around the Capitol, keeps trolling the GOP’s most loathsome members on social media. On Thursday, the Democrat set his sights on Marjorie Taylor Greene, who’s one of multiple House Republicans clamoring for the silly prospect of Donald Trump becoming Speaker.
Like a true Gen Xer, Fetterman used a meme featuring Ross from Friends to hammer home his point.
I love you
— Yasmine Mary, ARNP-FNP-C (@yazzy1967) October 5, 2023
Holy shit this is amazing
— QSSL 🍁🌹🍊🚵♂️ (@QuinSSL) October 5, 2023
Love to the big man!
— Skye (@Skye3411) October 5, 2023
Simp, for the unaware, is a slang term describing somebody who shows excessive admiration for another person who typically doesn’t return the favor.
That would certainly describe House Republicans’ relationships with Trump. Kevin McCarthy learned that the hard way, when the one-term, twice-impeached, quadruple-indicted ex-president didn’t raise a single fat finger to help him remain Speaker.
McCarthy became the first House Speaker to ever be ousted this week, when far-right Republicans voted against him. All of those Republicans, including their ringleader, Matt Gaetz, who apparently boasts about crushing E.D. meds and energy drinks on the House Floor so he can “go all night,” are beholden to Trump.
But yet, the disgraced ex-president didn’t publicly support McCarthy, even though the California Republican groveled for him at Mar-a-Lago in the wake of Jan. 6. Trump is busy attending his $250 million civil fraud trial in New York, where he could be forced to auction off his prized properties.
That includes Trump Tower, for those wondering…
Anyway, with the House Speakership open, Trump’s biggest sycophants are campaigning for him to take the job (the Speaker of the House doesn’t have to be a member of Congress).
The only problem with that is, the GOP has a rule stating “no one indicted for a felony punishable by more than two years in prison can serve in leadership.”
That’s bad news for Trump, who’s facing four indictments and 91 criminal charges.
While Trump said he would be open to becoming Speaker (so selfless), he endorsed Jim Jordan Thursday night, the frenetic Ohio Republican who six former Ohio State wrestlers say ignored sexual abuse while he was on the coaching staff.
Again: Trump never extended that favor to McCarthy.
What a simp indeed! Where’s Ross when you need him?
Moving on, Fetterman also checked in on Ron “Don’t Say DeSantis,” who’s now trailing Nikki Haley in New Hampshire.
Tehehe…
This isn’t the first time Fetterman has owned the Florida governor. When DeSantis joined the whiny chorus complaining about Fetterman’s attire, he came up with the perfect response. (By the way, Fetterman now says he’ll wear a suit on the Senate floor, which complies with the old dress code. But Susan Collins can still wear her bikini, if she wishes…)
The differences between Fetterman and DeSantis are vast. The latter inflicts cruelty on his constitutions to boost his futile presidential run, while the latter joins striking autoworkers.
Amazingly, it seems like attire doesn’t correlate with good representation.
With that in mind, Fetterman knows good public service when he sees it. That’s why he sent the Chairman of the House Oversight Committee, Rep. James Comer (R-KY), a case of Bud Lights last week.
Comer is currently presiding over a baseless impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden. You know, the people’s work!
Unlike the GOP meme-kings, Fetterman shows it’s possible to troll and govern. Shoutout to his really gay staff!
What a team they make.
abfab
Regarding dress codes on the House Floor, women’s rights and in remeberence of the late and Honorable Sen. Dianne Fienstien.
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A small sorority worked to penetrate the good ol’ boys club (and not be mistaken for staff). “With so many new women and minorities, everyone’s constrained to be politically correct,” Charles Wilson, the colorful Texas representative, told me that year. He deadpanned that he tried to irritate his colleague Patricia Schroeder of Colorado “by calling her Babycakes, but that’s about it.”
Despite stereotypes — “The word was women could not get along,” the former California senator Barbara Boxer recalled Friday to Katy Tur of MSNBC — women worked together to buck rules about how they couldn’t wear pants on the Senate floor and lobbied for a women’s restroom off the House floor so they wouldn’t have to trek to the women’s reading room. (That wouldn’t happen until 2011.)
Representative Louise Slaughter of New York told Hillary Clinton, the new first lady, of trying to include women’s health issues in the budget, noting: “It’s almost certainly the first time that these guys on the budget committee heard words like ‘cervix,’ ‘ovaries’ and ‘breasts’ spoken out loud.”
-Maureen Dowd
dbmcvey
So many of these “rules” and “codes” are just about keeping people in line. Keeping elitists safe.
abfab
db…I left off the best part! Continued here:
Hillary drolly riposted, “At least in that context.”
Nancy Pelosi told us at a lunch for women journalists last December that she never made it into a Democratic speaker’s office until she became the Democratic speaker.
dbmcvey
Yeah, it’s all the people in power telling others to “know your place.”
abfab
And many who are not in power (as we see displayed here by several right wing conservative commenters).
abfab
MTG remains pathetic and is the perfect example (mascot) of the Republican Party.
frapachino
No she isn’t. Just as AOC the radical Marxists is not representative of the entire Dem party thank god! Stop with the hyperbolic, overblown, blanket statements, it gets us nowhere. And no I do not like MTG nor do I like AOC, both are attention seeking morons.
abfab
Radical Marxists. Go to college and take a Comparitive Government class. 3 Credits, they all offer them. Start at 101. Learn something. Start with the basics frappo.
dbmcvey
Frap doesn’t know what words mean.
Den
“And no I do not like MTG nor do I like AOC, both are attention seeking morons.”
If you actually had access to any real news sources (and were familiar with how your central nervous system works) you would be aware that AOC has sponsored bipartisan legislation and works hard to represent the need of her constituents. By contrast MTG is a self serving twit who has done nothing to help her constituents. She is, in reality, the only attention seeking moron. Though given your posts, you may be as well, in a tin, tiny way.
Kangol2
Queerty, you wrote: “The latter inflicts cruelty on his constitutions to boost his futile presidential run, while the latter joins striking autoworkers.”
Shouldn’t the second “latter” be “former,” referring to Fetterman, who did join striking autoworkers?
BTW, Fetterman’s clapbacks to DeSantis eat and leave no crumbs!
abfab
U.S. Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) has introduced legislation, along with Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Peter Welch (D-Vt.) that would cancel school lunch debt nationwide. The bill would apply to all “debt,” incurred under the National School Lunch Program, which operates at public and nonprofit private schools.
“‘School lunch debt’ is a term so absurd that it shouldn’t even exist. That’s why I’m proud to introduce this bill to cancel the nation’s student meal debt and stop humiliating kids and penalizing hunger,” Fetterman said in a statement. “It’s time to come together and stop playing political games with Americans’ access to food. September is Hunger Action Month and I’m proud to be introducing this bill to help working families now, while we work to move our other priorities to combat food insecurity in our nation.”
Under the National School Lunch Program and School Breakfast Program, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) subsidizes school meals for low-income students; some children receive free meals, some receive reduced-price meals. Schools are reimbursed for the meals, provided they meet federal nutrition standards, and incorporate foods grown in the U.S. The programs served some 30 million lunches and 16 million breakfasts to students in 2019.
penncapital-star . com
Kangol2
Good, necessary legislation. Fetterman’s doing a good job under the circumstances.
abfab
He cares and he keeps working. Inspirational.
Den
This is the sort of legislation that horrifies Republicans. How DARE the Marxist/Socialist/Fascist/Radical/Liberal/Progressive/Antifa Dems feed poor children so they can focus on their education!! If Jesus has wanted them to be educated they would have been born into affluent families!
Baron Wiseman
Democrats had a banner week for the politicians they send to Congress. One was forced to wear pants, one dies of old age 24 hours after a vote and another claims to not know how fire alarms work.
But hey, let’s all snicker at a bad “clap back” that a staffer for the brain damaged Fetterman sent out. Our democracy is strong.
LegionKeign
At least they’re not treasonous putin lackey’s trying to destroy democracy.
Kangol2
And the GOP has a pathologically-lying psychopath still in the House (oh, right, which pathologically lying psychopath?) whose campaign treasurer just agreed to plead guilty, a minority leader in the Senate who barely appears lucid these days, an abuse-enabling former wrestling coach who’s vying for the Speakership against a self-described White supremacist (“David Duke without the baggage”), another member who committed a horrific act against a patient, and on and on. Do you really want to go down this path, Baron Wiseman?
abfab
Hello Baron von Shaver Wiseman, countess of GOPTROLLS. Nice new gig ya got there.
dbmcvey
As opposed to the Republicans who just imploded.
Den
Thankfully Fetterman is not as brain damaged as you appear to be. Using the name “Wiseman” is pretty effing amusing, since you are clearly an idiot. It is also most often a Jewish surname, and I’m willing to bet if you had been aware of that, you’d rather have died than use it as your pseudonym.
frapachino
Will the radical leftists start calling Biden a right wing troll for green lighting the wall in Texas?
Baron Wiseman
“There will not be another foot of wall constructed by my administration.” – Joe Biden 2020
Somehow it was “r@cist” when Trump wanted to build the wall. Apparently, now that Democratic mayors and governors of sanctuary cities are complaining, it is now perfectly logical to now build a wall. Convenient.
Kangol2
It’s a terrible plan. He is responding to right-wing hysteria, so you should be cheering!
abfab
They should be BESIDE THEMSELFVES WITH HAPPIENESS AND GLEE!!!!! Instead, right winger frappo adds little by asking the radical leftists what they will do now. Deep.
abfab
It’s so convienent isn’t it, Baron. So convientent, yes. Exactly. What ever you say, yes!
dbmcvey
I think it’s time for us to just realize that frapper is an idiot.
Den
He is probably doing it because otherwise the sub humans in Texas will continue to try and find ways to kill those seeking asylum. Better a wall than barbed wire in the river to drown mothers and children (though you probably love the drowning idea, as that is the kind of folks you wing-nuts are).
Flamingo Falls
@Frapachino: I agree that MTG is an “attention-seeking moron,” but AOC is not; she graduated cum laude (that means “with honors”) from Boston University in 2011 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in both international relations and economics.
abfab
AOC is a zillion times brighter than that whore from Georgia.
dbmcvey
She also does her job and does it well, as opposed to the self-serving women of the GOP.
abfab
And!
LGBTQ equality
Ocasio-Cortez is a proponent of LGBTQ rights and LGBTQ equality. She has said she supports the LGBTQ community and thanked its members for their role in her campaign.[321][218] She publicized and later appeared on a video game live stream to help raise money for Mermaids, a UK-based charity for trans children.[322] At the January 2019 New York City Women’s March in Manhattan, Ocasio-Cortez gave a detailed speech in support of measures needed to ensure LGBTQ equality in the workplace and elsewhere.[323] She has also spoken in support of transgender rights, specifically saying, “Trans rights are civil rights are human rights.”[324]
At the House Committee on Oversight and Reform on February 27, 2020, Ocasio-Cortez argued for LGBTQ equality in the context of her religious background. Referencing a Catholic hospital that refused a hysterectomy for a transgender man,[325] she argued, “[t]here is nothing holy about rejecting medical care of people, no matter who they are, on the grounds of what their identity is. There is nothing holy about turning someone away from a hospital.”[326][327]
wiki
Now. What can be said of the lovely and lovable MTG?
mildredspierce
So MTG wants her working life to be like a Trump rally. One insecure, fragile, bloodthirsty, revenge bent, vapid f*ck pissing and moaning – all day. That’s what she wants. It boggles a sane mind!
ScottOnEarth
John Fetterman’s twitter smackdowns area a huge part of his appeal. He is SO DAMN funny and always keeps it real. MTG, trump, McCarthy, Jordan and the rest of that MAGA/GOP cesspool of soulless traitors are the dregs of American politics and ridiculous excuses for human beings. They seek only to destroy and harm others and this country. How the f**k did people like that get voted into public office?
whereshouldistart
I’d love to answer that question ScottOnEarth, but reminding myself of the fact that we have that many voters with IQs under 40 tends to make me depressed.
abfab
Really! WHERE SHOULD WE START! LOL