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Fetterman thinks he could be a V.P. Pick in 2028. (Original Post) Dunc May 25 OP
For which party? Ocelot II May 25 #1
I'm sorry we in PA voted for him, including me mvd May 25 #2
I voted for this asshole as well. Dunc May 25 #5
He beat Oz. We needed that... lame54 May 25 #6
Oh yes. He had to beat Oz mvd May 25 #11
oz might be less dangerous as a senator rampartd May 25 #13
I get it. His power as a Senator is 1/100 Dave says May 25 #16
He's useless to the Rs also, after his term ends. He can't Ars Longa May 25 #21
Likud Celerity May 25 #22
Mind reader surfered May 25 #34
Beat me to it MustLoveBeagles May 25 #38
Read it and weep. Or laugh. Whatever works for you. ShazzieB May 26 #44
Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha! Oh wait, you're serious! Let me laugh even harder! Initech May 25 #3
What kind of drug makes you this totally high and detached from reality? Irish_Dem May 25 #4
Certain brain injuries can do that sakabatou May 25 #9
There is more to it than that. Irish_Dem May 25 #10
Encouraging him with $. wnylib May 25 #23
Yep. Irish_Dem May 25 #31
Fettermans wife duckworth969 May 25 #39
Yes she fits into this situation somehow. Irish_Dem May 26 #42
"Are you out of your fucking mind? You don't do your job, you can't raise any money, and your entire party hates you" muriel_volestrangler May 25 #7
He's not concerned about Dems hating him. wnylib May 25 #24
Why would any Dem want a Trump bootlicker as their VP? sakabatou May 25 #8
Maybe he'll run as Trump's VP? sop May 25 #12
I don't know, he fails the height test. Prof. Toru Tanaka May 25 #14
I should have voted to Lamb in the primary. Damn it. debm55 May 25 #15
He thinks so? Dear Johnny, think into one hand and shit in the other. 11 Bravo May 25 #17
My dog has been saying the same thing. milestogo May 25 #18
We would vote for your dog. Dunc May 25 #20
For who? JD Vance? choie May 25 #19
That would be my guess bucolic_frolic May 25 #26
Thus guy is awful. I never want to see or hear Johonny May 25 #25
Stick a fork in it. He's done. NM Grins May 25 #27
Centrist VP, no thanks! Emile May 25 #28
Everyone wants their VPs in the "death is nigh" stage mr715 May 25 #29
VP????? Is this news from The Onion? vapor2 May 25 #30
I don't think he could stand the riggers of a nationwide campaign underpants May 25 #32
Vacuous Putz? Villainous Pinhead? Virtual Prat? flvegan May 25 #33
He could be a VP to Krysten Sinema... Gore1FL May 25 #35
Maybe for the Republican Party. Nt helpisontheway May 25 #36
Maybe the Green Party JustABozoOnThisBus May 25 #37
I can see him being a very peculiar pick. nt ImNotGod May 25 #40
Oh yeah, the hoodie and shorts for VP. I'd rather Ilsa May 26 #41
The pick of WHOM, specifically? DFW May 26 #43

mvd

(65,968 posts)
2. I'm sorry we in PA voted for him, including me
Mon May 25, 2026, 03:54 PM
May 25

I had no idea what he would become. Too bad his primary is a ways away.

Dave says

(5,484 posts)
16. I get it. His power as a Senator is 1/100
Mon May 25, 2026, 05:07 PM
May 25

His power presiding over Medicare/Medicaid is 1/1, much more focused albeit narrow scoped.

Personally Oz is the last person I’d want to see in the Senate. Very destructive grifter, in my opinion.

Ars Longa

(604 posts)
21. He's useless to the Rs also, after his term ends. He can't
Mon May 25, 2026, 05:45 PM
May 25

get elected dogcatcher anywhere now........

Celerity

(55,091 posts)
22. Likud
Mon May 25, 2026, 05:48 PM
May 25








http://www.worldlikud.org.il/en/about-us

The Likud story began in 1925 when Russian-born Jewish leader, author and soldier, Ze’ev Jabotinsky, advocated for a revision of Zionism. Jabotinsky and Joseph Trumpeldor felt that there was widespread and extensive appeasement of the Zionist Executive of the time towards the British Government and its mandate over Israel. His Revisionist Zionism advocated a new look at Theodor Herzl’s popular Political Zionism.

Jabotinsky and his movement firmly supported the Jewish right to sovereignty over the whole of the land of Israel as had been initially agreed at the 1920 San Remo Conference, as well as the free immigration of all Jews to their homeland.

Likud’s core ideology is to this day inspired by the Revisionist Zionism advocated by Ze'ev Jabotinsky and Joseph Trumpeldor. It was later on reinforced by Menachem Begin when he led the Herut party and subsequently, post a merger by the right wing Knesset factions, by Likud, meaning “Consolidation”, as it represented the consolidation of the right-wing in Israel.

The World Likud grew out of this enlarged Likud party when it was decided to develop an international wing of the homegrown Israeli party. This new initiative transformed into a worldwide bridge between the Revisionists Zionists from the Jewish Diaspora and its supporters within Israel.


Netanyahu Gives John Fetterman Silver-Plated Pager as Ghoulish Gift

The Israeli prime minister previously gave Donald Trump one too.

https://gizmodo.com/netanyahu-gives-john-fetterman-silver-plated-pager-as-ghoulish-gift-2000578432



Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Sen. John Fetterman on Wednesday. And Bibi’s gift to the senator from Pennsylvania is likely to raise more than a few eyebrows. Fetterman was presented with a silver-plated pager, apparently in reference to the terror attack orchestrated by Israel that targeted thousands of Hezbollah members in Lebanon late last year using pagers rigged with explosives. “This is a silver-plated beeper. The real beeper is like one-tenth the weight. But it changes history,” Netanyahu told Fetterman.


Fetterman’s response to Netanyahu while holding the ghoulish memento was one of tremendous thanks. “When that story broke, I was like, ‘Oh, I love it. I love it.’ And now it’s like, thank you for this,” Fetterman said.

Israel’s terror attack killed at least 42 people, including an 8-year-old and an 11-year-old, and injured about 3,250 more, including 200 critically. Israel built the pagers themselves in a major operation, producing the devices through a manufacturer in Taiwan and selling them to Hezbollah without any indication they were behind the deal. The attack was denounced by experts at the UN as a violation of international law.

“These attacks violate the human right to life, absent any indication that the victims posed an imminent lethal threat to anyone else at the time,” the group of experts said in a statement at the time. “Such attacks require prompt, independent investigation to establish the truth and enable accountability for the crime of murder.”

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ShazzieB

(22,960 posts)
44. Read it and weep. Or laugh. Whatever works for you.
Tue May 26, 2026, 01:34 PM
May 26

From the article linked in the op:

Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) told his staff he thought he could be the vice presidential nominee on the Democratic ticket in 2028, prompting disbelief, New York Magazine’s Intelligencer reported Thursday.


Dude really sounds out of touch with reality. Alarmingly so. How can he be that oblivious to how Democrats feel about him? Has he not heard that plans are already being made to primary him in 2028? The only possible use he could be to any Democratic presidential candidate would be as a boat anchor!

If he is really this clueless, he must have some kind of glitch in his brain that would make him unfit to hold any public office.

Initech

(109,391 posts)
3. Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha! Oh wait, you're serious! Let me laugh even harder!
Mon May 25, 2026, 03:57 PM
May 25

AH HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!

Irish_Dem

(82,731 posts)
31. Yep.
Mon May 25, 2026, 06:40 PM
May 25

People don't usually betray their own group, and stick their neck out like this without
some strong financial incentives.

muriel_volestrangler

(106,686 posts)
7. "Are you out of your fucking mind? You don't do your job, you can't raise any money, and your entire party hates you"
Mon May 25, 2026, 04:04 PM
May 25

was the reaction of "a person who was in the room" when he said this to his staff. At least they have a passing acquaintance with reality.

wnylib

(26,606 posts)
24. He's not concerned about Dems hating him.
Mon May 25, 2026, 05:57 PM
May 25

He thinks he could run as VP with Vance at the head of the ticket. His chances of that are slightly better than in his own current nominal party. After all, the fascist party likes its politicians to be unthinking sycophants. They could try selling him with the same image that he projected to Dems, a down-to-earth everyday person. One who became "enlightened" enough to become a MAGA.

Prof. Toru Tanaka

(2,966 posts)
14. I don't know, he fails the height test.
Mon May 25, 2026, 04:53 PM
May 25

A quick search informed me that Fetterman is 6’8” tall. And we all know how vain Trump is about height.

11 Bravo

(24,341 posts)
17. He thinks so? Dear Johnny, think into one hand and shit in the other.
Mon May 25, 2026, 05:28 PM
May 25

Get back to us on which hand fills up first.

Johonny

(26,720 posts)
25. Thus guy is awful. I never want to see or hear
Mon May 25, 2026, 06:08 PM
May 25

From him after he is done with his wasted senate seat. Flush him in the toilet of history.

vapor2

(5,001 posts)
30. VP????? Is this news from The Onion?
Mon May 25, 2026, 06:34 PM
May 25

This video is awesome but Fetterman is effn clueless

underpants

(197,394 posts)
32. I don't think he could stand the riggers of a nationwide campaign
Mon May 25, 2026, 06:49 PM
May 25

Unless his health has improved and I hadn’t heard about it, I just find that unlikely. You are on the go for money hours a day as well as constant phone calls to raise money.

Ilsa

(64,633 posts)
41. Oh yeah, the hoodie and shorts for VP. I'd rather
Tue May 26, 2026, 01:34 AM
May 26

I'd rather see Jeff Spicoli and his remedial Ridgemont High School education take the oath.

DFW

(60,534 posts)
43. The pick of WHOM, specifically?
Tue May 26, 2026, 06:21 AM
May 26

Which ticket? Jill Stein-Fetterman? Nina Turner-Fetterman? D. Trump, Jr.-Fetterman?
Running on the ticket of the Bureaucratic Vocalist Party, no doubt.

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