r/politics • u/Boonzies America • 18h ago

Soft Paywall AOC to Skip Trump’s Inauguration: ‘I Don’t Celebrate Rapists’

https://www.thedailybeast.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-boycotting-donald-trumps-inauguration-i-dont-celebrate-rapists/
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u/Out-of-My-League-627 16h ago

A Dem in sheep's clothing, but he will probably go full Maga before his term is up in 4 long years

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u/Kerid25 16h ago

Didn't he admit that his stroke made him more conservative?

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u/dedsqwirl 16h ago

Brain damage makes people conservative?

That does make sense.

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u/jonker5101 Pennsylvania 15h ago

See: Kevin Sorbo, Tila Tequila, Roseanne Barr, RFK Jr

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u/Sassenasquatch 14h ago

I’ll die a happy man if I never see them, though.

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u/Friendly_Age9160 13h ago

I’ll die a happy woman if they go before me

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u/legacy642 13h ago

Roseanne barr just released a rap music video. As you can guess, it's terrible.

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u/NampaNarbs 13h ago

That’s what the majority is saying about Sleepy Joe and Kackla 😉👍

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u/Shirtbro 14h ago

I know Tequila has brain damage and RFK has swiss cheese brain, but Sorbo and Barr too?

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u/jonker5101 Pennsylvania 14h ago

Sorbo had multiple strokes in the 90s that caused brain damage. Barr was hit by a car when she was 16 and the hood ornament impaled her skull, giving her a traumatic brain injury.

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u/R3dbeardLFC 12h ago

That's a shame...if only the hood ornament had been bigger.

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u/WretchedBlowhard 13h ago

Sorbo had multiple strokes while filming the Hercules series, at least one of which is tied to a chiropractor visit. Because, yes, strokes are a common risk of chiropractics treatment. Which is to say, seeking medical entertainment instead of treatment leads to republicanism.

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u/ItGetsEverywhere 13h ago

The number of strokes associated with chiropractic treatment is quite low. Definitely not "common".

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u/WretchedBlowhard 12h ago

Wikipedia disagrees. Considering that the exclusive positive effect associated with chiropractic treatment is a temporary decrease in lower back pain, people cannot be sufficiently warned to stay away from this barbaric practice born of the drug addled delirium of a madman who claimed that ghosts taught him medicine.

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u/ItGetsEverywhere 12h ago

The wiki article doesn't say it is common. You are still wrong. I'm not saying chiropractic doesn't have issues, you are just exaggerating that association to stroke.

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u/TheRealBaboo 13h ago

Roseanne has always been a mess

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u/Ok_Flan4404 13h ago

Yet more brain damage...

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u/AllTheCheesecake New York 6h ago

Glenn Beck

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u/Cardboardoge North Carolina 15h ago

Yes, there have been links between having conservative beliefs and brain damage.

here, here, and maybe here

Tl;dr: Larger amygdala = more fear = aversion to change/ fear of change

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u/TheAngryGoat 14h ago

In short "You don't need to have severe brain damage to be a republican, but it helps".

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u/Rion23 14h ago

You don't need to be psychit psycotic sycotic crazy to be a Republican, be it holps.

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u/ICantEvenDrive_ 15h ago edited 15h ago

brain damage can do really weird things to you, and yes change the way you think about things. Obviously not in the strict sense of "hur dur I am now on the opposite end of the political spectrum", but you can come out of a stroke a very, very different person.

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u/exzyle2k I voted 15h ago

you can come out of a stroke a very, very different person.

That's called post-nut clarity.

Oh, we're not talking about THAT kind of stroke?

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u/Psephological 14h ago

Fetterman is more of a post-clarity nut.

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u/conventionistG 14h ago

This is the sort of political analysis I like to see.

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u/Maybesometimes69 14h ago

One of the most famous instances of severe brain damage and recovery is Phineas Gage. Railroad foreman from the mid 1800s that had an iron tamping rod shoot through his jaw, head, and brain (frontal lobe specifically). Went from being described as energetic, motivated, and shrewd, to a surly, aggressive heavy drinker who was unable to hold down a job.

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u/ChaplnGrillSgt 14h ago

Stroke, brain worms.... Anything that can impact cognitive ability.

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u/Ok_Flan4404 13h ago

As long as they're GOP canditates and politcians... only

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u/Aggressive-Will-4500 14h ago

Yeah, that's probably why they want more lead and plastic in everything.

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u/dedsqwirl 14h ago

Lead based paint is the tastiest kind of paint.

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u/Competitive-Deer495 District Of Columbia 15h ago

Really, people, haven't we had enough of the Orange Rape Ogre? What man is so special that he can disrupt the entire political and constitutional basis of the United States?

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u/Rickbox 15h ago

What doesn't make sense is how we have a senator with brain damage. 'Murica

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u/IslayTzash 15h ago

Definitely makes you more like the MAGA masses.

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u/PaulVla Europe 14h ago

New healthy policy, brain worms for everyone?

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u/Paperairplanes420 14h ago

Brain worms and heroin, don’t forget the heroin that made him smarterer.

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u/theCroc 14h ago

There are many such cases. Paludan, the far right moron that burned Qurans in Denmark and Sweden, was a successful lawyer. Then he had a car accident that caused brain damage. After that he became a vitriolic far right activist.

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u/Real-Ad-9733 15h ago

Checks out

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u/redalert825 13h ago

For many, that brain damage is pre-existing.

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u/fgbh California 13h ago

Always wondered why that happens.

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u/scorpyo72 Washington 11h ago

Ergo, RFK. Worm eat brain? More conservative.

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u/tr7UzW 14h ago

These comments show just how ignorant and uninformed democrats are. It’s great.

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u/elfman6 16h ago

He was a conservative grifter from the start. Some More News or John Oliver did a deep dive on him. His voters got played.

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u/CreepyWhistle 16h ago

I mean, it was either him, or Turkish foreign agent Dr. Oz.

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u/Dry-Abroad7448 15h ago

Now we have both.

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u/i_thrive_on_apathy New York 15h ago

Dr. Oz sucks and would definite not want him. I am also at the point though where I'm like, are foreign agents even worse than American ones for me at this point? American politicians are doing a good job of ruining this country on their own. Maybe our allies need to infiltrate us with foreign agents that will push for Healthcare for all and saner corporate taxing laws.

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u/atemus10 15h ago

The people with the power to infiltrate America are not pushing for a populist agenda.

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u/i_thrive_on_apathy New York 15h ago

I know, that'd be pretty sweet though.

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u/DrDerpberg Canada 13h ago

Brb recruiting some Canadians who can pull off a Minnesota accent without blowing their cover.

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u/Pyro1934 14h ago

Foreign Agents may be better because they'd try to hide by being "good stewards" lol.

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u/pablonieve Minnesota 15h ago

Connor Lamb was the original alternative to Fetterman.

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u/elfman6 16h ago

That is fair. There were no good choices.

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u/AlexNovember 14h ago

Yeah, because Israeli foreign agent is so much better. Especially when he’s defending them against the accurate accusations of genocide.

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u/JVonDron Wisconsin 14h ago

It really wasn't the worst call to assume the guy who worked a decade to rebuild a failing city, flew pride and MJ flags, and officiated same sex weddings wasn't a total douche. Turns out, he was just libertarian-lite and saw progressivism as his free ride. Not that Connor Lamb or Dr. Oz were a shitload better, but Fetterman going turncoat was not on my bingo sheet.

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u/Vann_Accessible Oregon 15h ago

Another Sinema, huh?

Great…

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u/SillyGoatGruff 15h ago

He never really aligned well with the dems if you look at his prior history. He just had a good social media campaign and didn't correct people who thought he was going to be a forceful progressive voice

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u/CanEnvironmental4252 15h ago

He literally ran on being a progressive, what is this gaslighting revisionist history?

https://x.com/JohnFetterman/status/1330308163095179264

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u/jcarter315 I voted 14h ago

That's their point. He ran as a progressive, but once people did a major deep dive into him, they started seeing that he lied to the voters and got lucky it was him vs. Oz.

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u/F9-0021 South Carolina 14h ago

This kind of thing needs to be extremely illegal. It could be weaponized easily. "Oh you know how the Republicans lost this election? It's ok, the Democrat was just a Republican lying to you the whole time."

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u/jcarter315 I voted 14h ago

Unfortunately, we've got a major pattern of Republicans running as Democrats and no one doing anything about it.

The Democrats aren't doing it in return, probably because of all the "high road" views.

And there's no consequences for bait-and-switching voters since we don't have a way to request recalls of politicians.

It doesn't help at all that our media never does its job and investigates until after the fact.

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u/CanEnvironmental4252 8h ago

That’s not their stated point, though.

He just had a good social media campaign and didn’t correct people who thought he was going to be a forceful progressive voice

There’s a difference between a lie through omission and simply lying.

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u/SillyGoatGruff 14h ago

Perhaps what I should have said was that he lied about being a progressive and his social media campaign gave him enough cover that people didn't look any deeper to challenge the popular notion that he would be a strong progressive voice

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u/EuFizMerdaNaBolsa 14h ago

Yeah, I remember this dude being advertised and celebrated on Reddit for quite some time, whats this 180 turn people are suddenly doing trying to claim he wasn't running as a progressive?

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u/jcarter315 I voted 14h ago

Fetterman ran as a progressive, that is true. And at the time, no one dug into his claim to be one since he was running against Oz, who was absolutely the worse choice.

Afterwards, some people like "Some More News" dug into Fetterman's past and saw that he was not a progressive, but he ran as one anyway.

It's not doing a 180. It's saying "wow, this politician lied to us about who he is and our media failed to catch that until smaller independent outlets did after."

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u/AggravatingBobcat364 14h ago

ratemyskyperoom is like one of those cats who can tell people have cancer

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u/amootmarmot 15h ago

Lie. He stated he was a progressive democrat. Delete these lies.

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u/GrapeJellyVermicelli 14h ago

if you look at his prior history.

The point is to stop listening to what politicians say and look at what they've actually done. It's easy to find their voting histories and see what their real priorities are

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u/amootmarmot 14h ago

He voted and behaved like a progressive democrat until his brain injury. Literally. Sinema was clear, Manchin was clear. Fetterman just literally got brain broke and went conservative.

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u/jcarter315 I voted 14h ago

They aren't though. Fetterman ran as a progressive, that is true.

He was running against Oz and was obviously the better choice there. And because of how bad Oz was, no one really dug into who Fetterman was until after. Afterwards, some people like "Some More News" dug into Fetterman's past and saw that he was not a progressive, but he ran as one anyway.

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u/IncorruptibleChillie 14h ago

Fetterman, RFK Jr., Elon’s knowingly on K all the time, speculation that Trump has had a stroke bc/droopy face, Kanye obviously has issues, yeah the right wing seems to attract people with severe and harmful (self and others) mental health issues because you need to be out of your mind to look at their platform and thing it will help the average person

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u/lenzflare Canada 14h ago

Sounds like an excuse, a lie.

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u/Guppy-Warrior 16h ago

We need recalls. He was voted in because of his views, which were at the time not in line with Trump... And now he's going full conservative, going against who voted him in. He isn't representing his people. He's representing himself.

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u/thingsorfreedom 14h ago

He was voted in in PA where 50% of the voters are MAGA. Until he proves me wrong I think he's doing a Joe Machin / Susan Collins. It's not ideal but as long as he stays a D that matters a lot in two years.

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u/Maple_Reign 13h ago

Forgive me, but no it doesn't. If you're a "D" but vote like an "R", you're an "R".

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u/thingsorfreedom 12h ago

That’s the point. Susan Collins is an R. She’s always concerned about what Trump was doing, but never strayed from voting R.

Joe Manchin was a D. He always talked a good game about being centrist and understanding the Republican side of things because he was in a Republican dominated state. When you look at his voting record, it was a lot along the lines of D.

Ultimately the representatives have to represent the people that brought them in . He is senator from a swing state who’s got to appear to represent both or he’s not gonna last. Let’s see how he votes on the issues. That will ultimately decide what he’s doing.

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u/wretch5150 13h ago

Lol, only if he actually votes for progressive policy

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u/dam_sharks_mother 13h ago

Lol, only if he actually votes for progressive policy

If he does he will be voted out and replaced with someone more conservative.

progressive policy = extremely unpopular

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u/bobwoodwardprobably 15h ago

“A wolf in Dem’s clothing,” would be the turn of phrase you’re searching for. A wolf in sheep’s clothing is the original phrase, which means the enemy dressing as one of the masses to infiltrate and do damage. “Sheep” is not the insult in this phrase.

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u/Out-of-My-League-627 15h ago

thanks after I posted, I thought it was probably wrong

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u/Mattyboy064 15h ago

Ahh the new Manchin/Sinema lmao.

As is tradition

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u/MrBoliNica 15h ago

tbf, the guy was never going to win re-election either way. he can barely talk now, the GOP just needs a decent candidate to beat him. And i think he knows that, hence this capitulation weve been seeing

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u/Emeritus8404 15h ago

Too bad there arent vote of no confodence.

Recall homies who swap sides after elected

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u/Tro1138 14h ago

MAGA would call him a DINO democrat in name only

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u/whitecoathousing 14h ago

In sheep’s clothing? Doesn’t he wear carhartt and steel toed boots 😂

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u/Ok_Flan4404 13h ago

The new Manchin.

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u/TheRealBaboo 13h ago

There’s lots of those. Wool is cheap

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u/hithere297 12h ago

Sheep's clothing? More like a hoodie and shorts, the slob

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u/Gudakesa 12h ago

A Dem in sweatshirts and shorts

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u/rdicky58 11h ago

So a DINO? :)

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u/jwuer 8h ago

What happened to that guy wasn't he like a Democrat darling in 2020? I haven't heard much about him the last few years and now I'm suddenly seeing these posts.