Fetterman: "ICE agents are just doing their job"

[RandySF]

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Sen. Fetterman: "ICE agents are just doing their job, and I fully support that... People in my party might... treat them as criminals... That's inappropriate and outrageous."

We had a good choice in Conner Lamb but we followed bad advice. Lesson learned: Do your own vetting.

[31st Street Bridge]

52. He's a total fraud. Always was.

The scion of a central Pa fortune who moved to western Pa, cross-dressed as a blue-collar bumpkin and fooled everyone, costing a good Democrat Conor Lamb the seat he richly deserved. Fetterman will never win another election here.

[VMA131Marine]

67. He's not the same person since the stroke.

I pity him more than anything.

[cyndensco]

77. Well, he did hold that black boy at gunpoint in his neighborhood

before his stroke. I think he has been suspect for a while.

[Klarkashton]

2. He sort of looks like an ice agent

[allegorical oracle]

46. Hate to judge anyone by appearance, but confess that when I first saw him running

for office, I thought, "He looks thuggish...not like your normal politician." But he proved me wrong, initially. He was engaging and seemed pretty sharp. Of course, he had that physical/mental breakdown, which was terrible.

Still, now I'm wondering if he was an "infiltrator" all along.

[Blues Heron]

3. Strokes are so cruel, they rob your brain of entire regions of thought.

[Botany]

15. From a man who along with his wife devoted his life to being good to this?

You are right the stroke has robbed him of himself. Remember you are no longer talking to
John Fetterman but to the disease.

[Bluetus]

55. Strokes have many bad consequences, but that is no excuse here

I don't believe a stroke can cause a philosophical change of 180 degrees. What a stroke CAN do is kill parts of the brain that were required to maintain a false persona. What we are seeing now is probably the real Fetterman. And I'll admit he had me fooled.

It is such a shame that, no matter what we do, we seem to have a few people like Manchin, Sinema, Cuellar, Menendez in the party.

[mr715]

71. Our entire cognitive selves are the products of perception and memory

A stroke disables physical parts of the brain. In the same way that a dream can be 'wired' to feel as though you've had it before, brain injury can change the person there.

I don't think this is the person Fetterman is, personally. I think circuits in his brain have rewired through structures involved in processing authority and emotion.

There is scholarship that liberals have higher activity in their frontal lobes and conservatives have higher activity in their amygdala (the ancient structure responsible for rage, fear, terror, and passion)

[LuvLoogie]

4. He'll vote with the GOPs.

He'll switch parties if he gets reelected and it means keeping the GOPs in control.

[Blue Owl]

5. Hey Fetterman... GO FUCK YOURSELF

[Trueblue1968]

13. I agree with what you posred

[Cha]

17. Yeah, and while he's at it...

quit Slinging Nazi Wing Bullshit up there on your Pompous ass pedestal... 'cause you ain't fooling no one.

" ICE doing their job'" what kind of Idiot says that?:gr:

[GoCubsGo]

32. The kind who thinks the leopard won't eat his face.

He'd better hope they don't find out how his wife got into this country...

[JokeHer]

40. It would be a shame

If he crossed paths with a leopard

[sop]

33. I agree with your post.

[Initech]

68. Time to fire his ass!

NO democrat should be going on Fox News or defending ICE for ANY REASON.

[flvegan]

6. Someone check his recent securities trades and his latest net worth. n/t

[RockRaven]

7. 3 more years before PA voters can do something about this fount of bilious nonsense.

Sigh.....

[Joinfortmill]

8. Fuck Fetterman. Never liked him. Never

[SunImp]

9. What about these moderate dem switches?

Senator Maria Alvarado Gil California state senator
Hillary Cassel Florida house rep
Susan Valdez Florida house rep
Mike McDonalle Nebraska state senator
Trisha Cotham North Carolina state rep

Bad advice too I guess

[aeromanKC]

10. Fetterman will be a one termer, but just hope he stays in the Dem caucus.

The gavel might depend on it. He'll be bigly courted to flip after November and Dems take the Senate.

[Solly Mack]

11. OK. Ice agents are just doing their job which is kidnapping and terrorizing and murdering people.

[vanessa_ca]

12. Ah, there's that big tent -eom

[Cha]

14. Hey Fetterman... ICE's "job is to Kill & Main American

citizens? Are you Fucking with us right now

AOC was saying good things about Conor Lamb, too.. and this was awhile ago.

[RazorbackExpat]

16. Meanwhile, Philly is telling ICE

"Don't fuck with us!"

[C_U_L8R]

18. Immigration agents don't need guns

Disarm and defund.

[Mister Ed]

19. Fetterman presents quite a problem for us DU'ers.

It's hard to quote him without violating the DU rule against posting right-wing talking points, yet also hard to say what we think of his words and actions without breaking the DU rule against bashing Democrats.

[RandySF]

27. He's basically Zell Miller at this point.

[sop]

34. It becomes a real dilemma whenever he says something about Israel.

[MichMan]

59. There are a handful of elected Democrats that are fair game

Jury nullification

[mr715]

72. Heckuva point there, MichMan

Cheers. To nullification.

[Cirsium]

81. It's OK

Right wing talking points are OK if they come from Democrats, I guess.

[pnwmom]

20. That quote seems to have come from last July. I'd like to know what he's saying now. nt

[muriel_volestrangler]

24. From Monday: As calls to 'abolish ICE' grow, Fetterman urges Democrats to avoid the idea

He said in a social media post last week that Democrats have to avoid “destructive tendencies” like the “extreme” idea of eliminating ICE.

Some members of the party are divided on abolishing ICE, which has encountered protests over an agent killing a Minnesota woman on Jan. 7, and restricting the agency’s activities. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, for example, opposes eliminating the agency, an action some of his constituents support.

“Even Mayor Frey of Minneapolis doesn’t support abolishing ICE. The party must resist the destructive tendencies to push extreme positions,” Fetterman wrote on X. “Secure the border. Deport all the criminals. Stop targeting the hardworking migrants in our nation.”

Rep. Shri Thanedar, D-Mich., introduced legislation last week to eliminate the agency. He said ICE has always prioritized aggressive enforcement over due process.

https://www.baltimoresun.com/2026/01/19/as-calls-to-abolish-ice-grow-fetterman-urges-democrats-to-avoid-the-idea/

[Xipe Totec]

21. DINO, nt

[muriel_volestrangler]

22. To think that a "Democrat" is coming out with the "they are only obeying orders" defence for murder

is truly appalling. They are performing crimes, and so it's vital they are treated as criminals. He wants them to be above the law.

[Vinca]

23. Well, maybe it will be one of Fetterman's loved ones caught in the ICE crosshairs next time.

WTF is wrong with this guy? Suddenly he's a knee pad wearing, Trump ass kisser.

[sop]

35. Gisele Fetterman, Fetterman's wife, is an immigrant from Brazil who came to the U.S. as an undocumented child.

Maybe when ICE comes for her?

[fujiyamasan]

80. Maybe he cut a deal with Trump when they met after the election

[mvd]

25. So I guess murder is part of their job, Fetterman?

I wish the primary was sooner - big disappointment!

[Mike Nelson]

26. Mr. Fetterman sounds like...

... the opposition, most of the time, now. I try to see his points, but it's difficult. I think this statement may be correct. If the directive against protestors is, as Crooked Donald commands, "Just Shoot Them," they are following orders.

[Doodley]

28. Did he actually watch the videos? Yes or No? If yes, then fuck him! He sanctions cold-blooded murder.

[hlthe2b]

29. Elected Democrat or not, the best thing I can say about him

is to give continued (undeserved) benefit-of-the doubt and assume brain damage from his stroke. Otherwise, my conclusion is he is a deviant SOB and the sooner he is gone from the Senate the better. Who (Dem) is running against him? (2028 cannot come soon enough on his score)

[Layzeebeaver]

30. The "don't bash democrats" rule doesn't apply to feckerman

In my personal opinion

If he needs to be treated as a democrat, then he should demonstrate the qualities and principles of the democratic consensus

I’m not bashing him here, but I would like to.

[GoCubsGo]

31. Better hope they don't find out about your wife, Mr. Fetterman.

Giselle came into this country as an undocumented immigrant from Brazil. ICE won't care that she's "legal" now. Will they just be "doing their jobs" when they use YOUR kids as bait to deport her?

[GoneOffShore]

36. Flood Fetterman's email box, voicemail, and social media accounts.

As a Pennsylvanian, and former Philly resident, who still votes from abroad, that's what I'll be doing.
Apart from X though, his social media accounts aren't very active.
However, you can phone him at Phone: [phone]
The only way to email him is via the website, https://www.fetterman.senate.gov/contact/

[Scrivener7]

37. That man is damaged.

[Celerity]

38. Post-stroke true colours once again on parade

That pic with Fetty and the Trump POS Lara is real, btw, not AI:

https://www.instagram.com/p/DQcpL0PEt8t

[fujiyamasan]

43. wtf?

[Polybius]

49. That grin makes me think he wants to do her

I've never seen him smile that much.

[Celerity]

66. perhaps he has a thing for man-legs, fake tits, and trashy dresses

[fujiyamasan]

78. Wow what is it with the women in the Trump circle

Do they try to out trash each other?

Not sure who’s worse, her or Kim?

Nasty

[Rhiagel]

39. Detaining American Citizens is not part of their job description.

Much less murdering them in cold blood.

[Munu]

41. Just doing their job ...

... just following orders??

Well, yeah but ...

[everyonematters]

42. I am really starting to wonder about his mental stability.

[dalton99a]

44. I don't give a fuck what happened to this fraud. He should shut the fuck up.

[kentuck]

45. We just have to do our job...

...and send Mr Fetterman home.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

47. Far be it from me to defend Fetterman, but for what it's worth, this clip is from last July, NOT in response to the

recent murders.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/democrat-john-fetterman-declares-support-ice-condemning-any-calls-abolition-outrageous

"ICE agents are just doing their job," he told Fox News' Tyler Olson, adding, "I fully support that." Regarding any Democrats who want to abolish ICE or "treat them as criminals," Fetterman decried that as "inappropriate" as well as "outrageous."

[ProfessorGAC]

70. Seems An Important Point

Because saying after the 2 killings would be colossally tone deaf.
I wonder what he thinks in retrospect.

[oasis]

48. Huh?

[ColoringFool]

50. I Voted For Him. Now It's "Fool Me Twice......" 👎

[mucifer]

51. mr fetterman, how much did they pay you to say that???

[JBTaurus83]

53. We better hope

We don’t come down to a one seat senate majority. Right back to Sinema/Manchin again where the party would be paralyzed.

[Quiet Em]

54. All this man does is defend the con artist and his horrendous actions

How can anyone possibly defend the actions of ICE at this point. Awful.

[Bluepinky]

56. He has the same "worms in the brain" disease that RFK Jr has.

[yardwork]

57. That's it for me. Fetterman needs to go.

Enough.

[GiqueCee]

60. Your defense...

... of lawless, homicidal monsters is inappropriate, and outrageous. It is also unforgivable. Just resign and go home, if they'll have you. You have obviously gone over to the Dark Side, and totally betrayed your Oath of Office, the Democratic Party, and your constituents. Get help, and try dressing like a grown-up.
If there has ever been a time that called for steadfast Democratic unity, commitment, and courage, this is it. No Republican initiative is intended to help anyone but themselves, and the oligarchs that bought and paid for them, so don't ever side with them. Not EVER.

[bluestarone]

61. Do we need this fuckers vote to stop this BULLSHIT?

I'm hoping not, because he's worthless!!

[MayReasonRule]

62. FFS

[Initech]

63. Sorry, Fetterman but I don't support ICE, and you are wrong.

Also quit going on Fox News.

[Borogove]

64. Fetterman is both morally and intellectually bankrupt.

[Norrrm]

65. It's really awkward that Fetterman was a 'better' choice over Oz.

[kacekwl]

69. Pretty sure this guy has

lost his mind.

[ismnotwasm]

73. Too many incompetents in ICE for this to be true.

Ice fucks up all the time, fucks up in policy, in procedure, in humanity. Ice left a handgun in a hospital bathroom in Tacoma I think it was. That should NEVER happen. Never made the news, but the nurses know —it was handled internally apparently and I don’t know the whole story. I just know it happened.

[peggysue2]

74. You're done, John

Anyone who supports a rogue band of paramilitary lunatics on American streets with no accountability is unfit to serve in any capacity as a public servant, let alone the United States Senate.

I'll send you a fork, Big Guy!

[Sogo]

75. Primary Fetterman!

nt.

[Deep State Witch]

76. I'm Old Enough To Remember

When people here thought that Big John was awesome, and that Conor Lamb was a "corporate Dem." Boy, we were wrong!

[Dawson Leery]

79. Charlatan.

He smeared Connor Lamb out of a Senate seat.