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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

He wasn't, that's the narrative after the fact. That thing fucking changed him fundamentally.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

Didn't vandalize local business and chase after joggers with a shotgun after the stroke.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

Ignore the reality all you want. The change is real, pronounced and the people around him are sounding the alarm

"In May 2024, Fetterman chief of staff Adam Jentleson wrote Walter Reed Hospital director David Williamson a letter expressing concern over Fetterman's mental health and alleged erratic behavior. Jentleson said that Fetterman engaged in "conspiratorial thinking", "megalomania", rambling monologues, reckless driving, and obvious lies, and was avoiding regular checkups with doctors and pushing away people responsible for helping him with his recovery plan."

Dude was planting community gardens, dedicating his life to children's programs and telling trump to go fuck himself at every turn in calm clear and cohesive speech and now he's erratic, laughing about Palestinian children being systemically killed in genocide and is often performatively the only Democratic senate vote on trump core issues.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Also, his family bankrolled him the entire time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Bankrolled what? Community gardens? Art centers? What are you specifically claiming and why is it relevant to this man's obvious public decline?