Wow! Fetterman doesn't hold back *

[Oopsie Daisy]

* with his assessment and expressing his opinion on this matter.

Link to tweet

[lindysalsagal]

1. That's his reputation. He cares about regular people, not corporations.

[Oopsie Daisy]

2. Yes, he has no time for performative politicians and empty virtue signaling *

* for fundraising purposes or to intentionally undermine the Biden agenda.

[Tickle]

13. He makes me want to move to PA

I really like him

[sop]

3. How individual members voted on H.R. 8034 (Israel), H.R. 8035 (Ukraine), H.R. 8036 (Indo-Pacific):

https://clerk.house.gov/Votes

[Oopsie Daisy]

4. Good info. Thanks!

[DJ Synikus Makisimus]

5. I worry about Fetterman becoming the new Manchin.

Bashing the Democrats' centrist progressives and center-left DSA seems to be his new schtick. Not voting for credits redeemable by Israel at approved U.S. weapons manufacturers, owned by U.S. oligarchs, isn't voting against the people of Israel. Israel is a wealthy industrialized nation with a sophisticated weapons manufacturing sector ("defense" industry) of its own. Its government is currently despicable. The folks calling for a no vote are worried about Israel causing more CIVILIAN casualties, which passed 32,000 in Gaza today according to several sources.

Just to be clear, I don't take sides in blood feuds, especially not those that have been ongoing for 2000-3000 years. There are no political actors in this war that I'd wish to be associated with - on either side. The leadership elite of both political entities see hostility toward the other as a major key to their keeping power. They sound like MAGA GOPs magnified exponentially. I see no resolution, none of the people with power interested in peace, and only more bloodshed now and in the future. Therefore there's no one to support. People suffer when their leaders make them war. I DO, however, support food deliveries and reconstruction, which the Biden Administration got a boost in today, as the World Food Organization is going to return to Gaza. Most (all?) NGOs (including the WFO) stopped performing in this function when Israel hit the World Central Kitchen (Chef José Andrés' group) convoy, if you recall.

One article about the WFO returning to Gaza is at:
https://www.voanews.com/a/7577943.html

[lindysalsagal]

7. Fetterman is not an ego case. No need to worry. He's the 1

Politician who can't be bought by power and money.

[Beastly Boy]

11. What is a "centrist progressive"?

An oxymoron?

[paleotn]

26. Yep. That it is.

[Cha]

16. That's Ridiculous. TY Sen Fetterman!!

[Cha]

17. Leaders who actually Get Things Done to Help Americans!!

[mcar]

22. "Centrist progressives?" "Center-left DSA?"

[Oopsie Daisy]

24. I know, right? 🤣😂

>> "Center-left DSA?"
That one had me howling! 🤣😂

[mcar]

25. Just absurd

[Irish_Dem]

6. I'm a liberal democrat and I don't support Hamas.

I support Israel.

[Think. Again.]

8. I'm a liberal Democrat and I don't support...

...either side killing or maiming or disrupting the peaceful lives of innocent civilians.

[Irish_Dem]

9. War is hell

[Think. Again.]

10. War is avoidable.

[Bucky]

12. War is inevitable, but rational actors should be held to the laws of war

I agree with the premise that Hamas fighters should be killed on sight. I just don't think it's okay to bomb your way through thousands of innocent Palestinians to get there. Starvation and indiscriminate bombing of civilian targets are war crimes and people who direct these policies should be prosecuted.

[paleotn]

28. Well said.

[paleotn]

27. Just ask Vlad Putin, Adolf Hitler, .....

The list goes on and on and on and on and on and on........

[Silent3]

21. The hellishness can and should be minimized

Israel should do better than, "At least we're not as evil as Hamas, and besides, they started it!"

[JI7]

14. He is helping keep Pennsylvania blue

[LexVegas]

15. I agree with him. nt

[Cha]

18. Yep .. Look at the Votes.

TY & Sen Fetterman!

[question everything]

19. How lucky we are to have John Fetterman in our midst

A giant - literally and figuratively - who stands by his convictions.

[Martin Eden]

20. If there was a stand alone bill for military aid Israel, I'd want it defeated

But paired with military aid desperately needed in Ukraine, the only choice is to pass it.

[BannonsLiver]

23. "Lunatic fringe"

He sums that up nicely there, I think.

[returnee]

29. Fetterman doing the "both sides" thing now.

There is no “lunatic fringe” of the Democratic Party as far as I can see. Full-fledged Socialists and people opposed to war crimes in Gaza are not “lunatic fringe.” This is highly concerning talk. (Disclosure: I contributed to his campaign. He is showing somewhat different colors now.)

[BannonsLiver]

30. I liked that he recognizes the folks who think Gaza is the worlds biggest problem are out of touch.

I wholeheartedly agree with that sentiment. I think alleged progressives who shout “Genocide Joe” are lunatic fringe.

[betsuni]

33. +1

[DFW]

35. I'm not thrilled to have to say this

But I agree completely.

[Oopsie Daisy]

31. It doesn't concern me at all. It's good to see Fetterman telling-it-like-it-is *

>> This is highly concerning talk.
* and holding up a mirror and calling-out certain behaviors with blunt and honest truth.

[muriel_volestrangler]

32. Fetterman's "lunatic fringe" is sticking with what Pelosi suggested 3 weeks ago

More than three dozen congressional Democrats – including representative Nancy Pelosi, the former House speaker and a key Joe Biden ally – signed a letter to the president and the secretary of state Antony Blinken, urging a halt to weapons transfers to Israel.

“In light of the recent strike against aid workers and the ever-worsening humanitarian crisis, we believe it is unjustifiable to approve these weapons transfers,” the letter said. It was signed by Pelosi and 36 other Democrats including Representatives Barbara Lee, Rashida Tlaib and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Friday’s letter also calls on the US to withhold future arms transfers pending a US investigation into the airstrike on the World Central Kitchen humanitarian workers or if Israel “fails to sufficiently mitigate harm to innocent civilians in Gaza”. A spokesperson for Pelosi later said the congresswoman was encouraged at early steps Biden’s administration had taken to investigate the strike on the WCK staffers “and respects his judgment on how to proceed”.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/05/biden-israel-gaza-aid

Pelosi may have decided that aid has improved enough, or the Iran attack is enough, to reverse her position, but it's hardly "lunatic" to say Israel has not yet done enough.

[betsuni]

34. K&R