Fetterman is nothing if not amusing.

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    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.

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    Can I just note, at the risk of venturing slightly off topic, that Fetterman is rocking that stash?

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    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.

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      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.

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        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.

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          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

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            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.

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    To be fair, Krusty the Clown and Homer Simpson are body doubles. Maybe there’s a cynical clown version of John Fetterman somewhere.

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      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.

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    By this time next year we should 8 Fettermans Fettermen. And they, too, will be Senators. Then 16, 32, 64, 128 et celery et celery.

    Soon … no more Senators. Only Settermen.

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    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

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    He involved Guy Incognito, who is different than Homer Simpson. Gee, I hope somebody got fired for that blunder.

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      I like the theory that “guy incognito” was homer in a shit disguise and the “homer” looking dude is someone else entirely

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    Fetterman should leverage that with a few more Fetterman clones that wear suits.

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        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

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          I heard it’s more of a Master-Blaster arrangement from Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome.