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The Pennsylvania senator dismissed the demand for further investigation as “moot.”

Senator John Fetterman appeared not to understand why Democrats want to investigate the deadly strike that killed dozens of Iranian children.

During an interview with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins Wednesday night, Fetterman was asked to explain why he hadn’t signed onto a letter from Senate Democrats that questioned Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on the February 28 strike on Shajarah Tayyebeh, a girls’ primary school miles from Tehran. The strike killed 175 people, many of them young girls.

“Well, because we all agree that it’s a tragedy having the school hit, and we all agree now for an investigation,” Fetterman said. “What I don’t agree with the rest of my colleagues in the House is that it’s a war of choice, or it’s dumb, or all the things my colleagues have described, you know, this operation. I think it’s a good thing, and I support that.”

Fetterman was referring to a line in the letter describing Donald Trump’s military campaign as “a war of choice without Congressional authorization.” The letter did not describe the war as “dumb.”

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[-] Uranus_Hz@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 hours ago

Brain damaged fool says what?

[-] Doomsider@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

It must be true, he read it on Facebook guys!

[-] MercuryGenisus@lemmy.world 11 points 13 hours ago

"dozens" is a really weird way of spelling "over a hundred".

[-] thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 hours ago

It is, indeed.

FFS, even saying a “dozen dozens“ would be underselling the actual death toll of that particular war crime.

The world honestly would be a (slightly) better place if that stroke was just a smidge more fatal…

[-] The_Almighty_Walrus@lemmy.world 22 points 16 hours ago

John Fetterman had medically confirmed brain damage.

[-] TronBronson@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago

Dat boy out to lunch.

[-] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 28 points 21 hours ago

Does anyone on any side think this brain-damaged flip-flopper has anything important to say?

[-] BeardededSquidward 7 points 20 hours ago

The right seems to like a lot what he says, probably consider him one of the "good ones" until it's time to pair down on who to shoot next.

[-] GuyIncognito@lemmy.ca 16 points 21 hours ago

John Fetterman lives under a bridge and eats any traveller who can't answer his riddles

[-] Formfiller@lemmy.world 7 points 18 hours ago

This dude is definitely a pedofile

[-] Heikki2@lemmy.world 5 points 17 hours ago

I dont know if he is a pedo. I do know he turned conservative after the stroke. Really make you think about the effects of a traumatic brain injury and conservatism

[-] Formfiller@lemmy.world 4 points 11 hours ago

Must be a coincidence that he takes so much money from the child trafficking state of Israel

[-] bblkargonaut@lemmy.world 7 points 19 hours ago

I wish I could go back in time and vote against him in the primary, but he was cool back then flying the weed flag at the state capital. He also ran against Dr Oz, who is worse but I had high hopes for him. Now I just feel betrayed everytime he makes the news. I never felt so ashamed to have given anyone my vote as him.

[-] Kirk@startrek.website 153 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

The headline is misquoting him, the full quote is:

“Well, because we all agree that it’s a tragedy having the school hit, and we all agree now for an investigation,” Fetterman said. “What I don’t agree with the rest of my colleagues in the House is that it’s a war of choice, or it’s dumb, or all the things my colleagues have described, you know, this operation. I think it’s a good thing, and I support that.”

Still glaringly stupid, but the headline makes it seem like he's in denial it happened. He didn't say the words ~~"leftist" or~~ "craze"

Edited for accuracy!

[-] prole 10 points 22 hours ago

He says that, but then votes against the investigation. Fuck this guy.

[-] Glide@lemmy.ca 39 points 1 day ago

Appreciate this.

Trump's political supporters say and do enough batshit, immoral things that we don't need to be lying just to make our points.

[-] ianhclark510 21 points 1 day ago

bad vibes to John Fetterman but also bad vibes to the journalist who misquoted the title

[-] margaret_erine@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 day ago

What game are they trying to play here 🤔?

[-] prole 3 points 22 hours ago

There is no game, THE GUY VOTED AGAINST HAVING AN INVESTIGATION.

It doesn't matter that he said that when he votes the opposite

[-] Kirk@startrek.website 14 points 1 day ago

New Republic is definitely left leaning but they are typically factual (citation). This is not their typical fare.

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[-] mthomson@forum.macaque.social 38 points 1 day ago

Can the Democrats sanction and eject this senator? He seems to be a Trumper in disguise.

[-] Soup@lemmy.world 6 points 20 hours ago

That would involve actually doing something, and 90% of them are utterly useless.

[-] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago

~~in disguise~~

[-] bold_atlas@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

No, he's just an honest Democrat.

[-] NutWrench@lemmy.ml 5 points 22 hours ago

Senator Sling Blade has been an Israeli tool for years.

[-] heiligerbimbam@lemmy.wtf 28 points 1 day ago

I say John Fetterman is an amoralic peice of shit and will go to hell.

[-] Buffalox@lemmy.world 6 points 22 hours ago

Meaning everybody who is not a "leftie" is a psychopath.

[-] NihilsineNefas@slrpnk.net 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

WHICH ONE OF THE SIX SCHOOL BOMBING STRIKES IN IRAN, FETTERMAN? WHICH FUCKING ONE DOESN'T DESERVE INVESTIGATION?

[-] Theprogressivist@lemmy.world 46 points 1 day ago

Motherfucker should have just been a Trumper. He's as stupid as everyone else in the administration and would fit right in.

[-] akilou@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 day ago

Looking back, it's like what the fuck, it was this guy or Dr Oz? Like did Pennsylvania even actually have a choice?

[-] foodandart@lemmy.zip 18 points 1 day ago

He was a lot less insufferable before the stroke.

Brain injuries absolutely DO change people.

[-] NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Unfortunately he wasn't. He was a dick before the stroke he just had an incredible campaign/PR team that managed to successfully spin him as a progressive. I learned about him summarized in this video

23 minutes in i get Ahmaud Arbery vibes when he pulled a gun on a complete stranger.

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[-] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 13 points 1 day ago

They blame the stroke he had just before the 2024 primary for his personality change, but there were clues that this was really him all along. Another excuse I've seen which I find slightly more believable (but only because the groundwork for it was already there) is that he became highly dependent upon social media - and thereby more radicalized - after his stroke prevented him from communicating normally.

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[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago

When it comes to Fetterman, I wonder how many people get brain damage and suddenly become more progressive instead of regressive?

I know some people say this is who they suspect he always was, but....

[-] GuyIncognito@lemmy.ca 2 points 21 hours ago

I once had an idea that it would be funny if Trump got hit on the head and turned woke: We're gonna add so many genders your head's gonna spin. You'll say, "Donald, there's too many genders, we can't keep track of them all!" Too bad, we just added 10 more genders

[-] NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

He had a helluva PR campaign to reform his image. I believed it at first until i finally found a video of someone giving a rundown of his background and his actions began making a lot more sense. Suffice to say i've found him to be an extreme disappointment but because i wasn't in his district and therefore voting for him I never dug into his history or background.

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[-] 1orangecat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 day ago

This man is among the worst.

[-] cmbabul@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

Shame that stroke didn’t finish the job

[-] Damage@feddit.it 3 points 1 day ago

All of this is a theatre... If you go to war these things happen, investigating how is, in fact, moot. You can't start a war and keep your hands clean

[-] prole 12 points 22 hours ago

Oh fuck off. It wasn't even one whole day before the US blew up ~150 elementary school children.

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[-] NutWrench@lemmy.ml 7 points 22 hours ago

These things happen a lot more frequently when you let "AI" pick your targets for you, based on 10-year old data.

[-] prole 4 points 22 hours ago
[-] NutWrench@lemmy.ml 4 points 21 hours ago

It's wasn't meant to be an "excuse." It shows that the Trump regime is incompetent. Life or death consequences must never be decided by "AI" and he went and did it anyway.

[-] prole 2 points 21 hours ago

It's 100% meant to be an excuse (not by you, by the administration). They can now do horrifying things, and blame AI. it's the perfect scapegoat.

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