Democratic Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania continued the Democrats’ piling on against Palestinians this past Sunday.

Fetterman asserted to CNN’s Manu Raju: “There’s no ethnic cleansing. It’s not a genocide. This is a just war.”

Asked by Raju if Israel was using “starvation as a weapon,” he claimed: “No. Absolutely not. Absolutely not. Israel is not deliberately starving people, absolutely.”

He added: “Those conditions are miserable there. And it is hell on earth. Why? Some people blame Israel for that? I blame Hamas and Iran for that thing.”

This continues most Democrats’ failure to recognize the Gaza genocide, even walking back the genocide assertion in the recent case of Congresswoman Katherine Clark, a top leader in the House of Representatives.

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    Wtf happened to this guy? I’ll admit I didn’t follow him closely but wasn’t he vaguely progressive and had common sense? I know he had a stroke but does stroking out make you start acting like a total asshole?

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    Fetterment is just a nihilistic piece of shit. Although he actually seemed to take pleasure in trolling the people against Israel’s abuse of palestinians. Hurting people that can’t fight back is fun apparently. People like fetterman is how we get Republicans no one is going to turn out and vote for him again

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    Can we stop lumping Mr Fetterman in with Democrats? The only thing marking him as a Democrat is a sign on his door, and it’s only blue because he’d already eaten the red Crayola.

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      That and being in complete lock step on Israel. Good god, Senator wyden just voted to send more assault rifles to Israel to be handed out to settlers in the West Bank. And he is one of the better ones.

      If you want a an issue too differentiate between fetterman and the rest of the democrats, this is not it.

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      Well why not? Have the democrats kicked him out of their party? If not then this behaviour is literally condoned by democrats.

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        He was a piece of shit before the stroke. Don’t blame the stroke for his piece of shitism, he was playing his voters, still is playing them the old spiteful other guy is worse so you have to vote for me play that has brought us to this place with Republicans controlling every branch of Congress.

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      Let’s not stigmatize stroke victims. Fetterman just sucks and has always sucked, according to locals I’ve heard from. He wore a mask just long enough to get elected to national office.

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        He denied the harmful effects of fracking from the get-go. Just ignoring all the people whose Water and Air got permanently poisoned by companies that came in and fracked and then left them poisoned. I knew fetterman was a piece of shit right from the start because of that. There’s no way he could not be.

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    Israel has no future, this previously lucrative and geopolitically relevant tool of the West is losing steam and the narratives surrounding it are changing rapidly all across Europe already, and some of the US too. It’s distancing and handwashing time, deny any previous allegiance and “we were always against the genocide in Palestine!” time. That makes this Fetterman guy not only amoral and uncaring but also very stupid if he wants to stay in politics.

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    Dude! Just because you’re Jewish doesn’t mean you have to follow blindly. Fucking people and their tribalism. Look a Bernie, Jon Stewart etc they have eyes. Fuck Jerry Seinfeld.