tldr; Fetterman is considering flipping to Republican because his only friend is a fellow 6'8 GOP Senator
I'm trying not to be ableist but i keep drawing a brain damage -> republican link in my head.
if nothing else, the man is a sandwich board of proof as to how close democrats and republicans are.
i think the only thing the stroke did was make him completely unable to hide his ogre nature, i think he always was like this at heart (see: him pulling a shotgun on a black man out on an evening jog + faking being working class when he was born with silver spoon in mouth)
What goes without saying is he's definitely some sort of unfinished prototype that has proven too ogrish for mass production. They're going to try to reign in the costs overruns from the RnD department by just using him as a sort of gollum. Where that goes at the end of the day is anyone's guess.
This is why you can't trust tall people
Their grasp is equal to their reach!
this is what babel is truly about
The movie or the tower?
approves
Doesn't take much, you could probably convince him of anything as long as you hand him some shiny rocks or some bones.
He's going Nixon mode I'm afraid
He's the only one he can see eye-to-eye with.
But he's already hexbear's dog :( how did we let this happen
like biden adopted rtx bernie
all but
you're going so far out of your way to misread this, it's just a way to say they're friends
He just reappropriated Randy Johnson's nickname?
I guess him being lazy on top of all his other bullshit shouldn’t be surprising.
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