Defiant John Fetterman Waves Israeli Flag From Rooftop In Face Of Pro-Hamas Protesters at His Home
“John Fetterman spent the night standing on a rooftop waving an Israeli flag at protestors in Pennsylvania. Just an unbelievable sight to see.”
To the irritation of many in his party, Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) has been a vocal voice of support for Israel in the aftermath of the Hamas-instigated war they’ve been fighting since October 7th.
Instead of responding like some Democrats who have shamefully pretended pro-Hamas radicals are acting in good faith, Fetterman’s way of addressing them has been to mock them, as he did in November by waving an Israeli flag in front of them as they were being arrested at the Capitol building.
For those who missed that clip, watch:
John Fetterman waves Israeli flag at anti-Israel protesters getting arrested after occupying Kirsten Gillibrand's congressional office. pic.twitter.com/ZEZkv4zJpp
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) November 10, 2023
Further, Fetterman has kept posters of Israelis taken hostage by Hamas terrorists posted on the walls of his front office, vowing not to take them down until every one of them has been released:
In my front office I have displayed the posters of the innocent Israelis kidnapped by Hamas.
They will stay up until every single person is safely returned home. pic.twitter.com/qxCmvC97uY— Senator John Fetterman (@SenFettermanPA) November 7, 2023
On Friday night, anti-Israel demonstrators descended on the Pennsylvania home of Fetterman and his family – which includes three young children, and proceeded to yell and scream at the first-term Senator to let him know his support for Israel was not appreciated.
In response, Fetterman went to the rooftop of his home and began waving the Israeli flag, enraging the protesters who were chanting “Fetterman, Fetterman, you can’t hide, you’re supporting genocide” – even though it was clear he wasn’t hiding at all:
John Fetterman spent the night standing on a rooftop waving an Israeli flag at protestors in Pennsylvania. Just an unbelievable sight to see. pic.twitter.com/5sJHMTLMht
— James Ray 🔻 (@GoodVibePolitik) January 27, 2024
Between Fetterman’s staunch backing of Israel, his belief that Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) should either resign or be expelled, and his conservative-leaning stance on illegal immigration and Joe Biden’s border crisis, it’s had some people wondering what happened to the man who prior to getting elected to the Senate would not hesitate to proudly call himself a progressive?
Fetterman literally went to a mental hospital and now he's no longer a progressive. Whatever therapy he went through should be studied and replicated across the country and world. https://t.co/ZNZxhS94TR
— Heidi (@HeidiBriones) January 7, 2024
In December, Fetterman sent Democrats over the edge after declaring during an NBC News interview that that he was “not a progressive.”
More recently, Fetterman told the New York Post in so many words that he didn’t leave progressives, they left him:
Now he doesn’t recognize them anymore.
“It’s not so much that I left the title, the title left me,” said Fetterman, 54, who edged out Dr. Mehmet Oz in 2022 to help keep the U.S. Senate blue, and once vowed that “Progressive values” were the heart of his political identity.
“Increasingly, [progressives] moved and migrated into some positions that I don’t agree with and I really just feel much more comfortable just being a Democrat,” the controversial Pennsylvania lawmaker told The Post this week during an exclusive sitdown in his D.C. office.
To reiterate a point I made in December, though Fetterman might not be a woke leftist, he’s still a Democrat. He’s pro-abortion – as shown on his Twitter feed last week when he called for codifying Roe v. Wade. He’s also pro-Big Labor, pro-“tax the rich,” and pro gun rights restrictions.
That said, though Republicans and Fetterman disagree on most things, that he’s an unapologetic defender of Israel is a welcome sight to see amongst a sea of feckless Democrats who keep trying to straddle the line on the Israel-Hamas war instead of taking a firm stance in support of Israel’s right to defend itself and eradicate an enemy that has promised many more October 7ths if allowed to gain the upper hand.
— Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym “Sister Toldjah” and can be reached via Twitter. —
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We’ve come down to this
Actually wondering if brain damage “cured” his left progressive thoughts
It’s not as out there as it sounds, though using the word “cure” is a stretch.
Any Traumatic Brain Injury, (but mostly moderate and severe) can change a persons personality and thereby their world view. I worked in Psych/Neuro Rehab for TBI and I can’t tell you how many times we had to have “The Talk” with families after they point out that the person had majorly changed. The person may recover physically, but the personality change usually stays. It’s not really understood yet, but last research I read (which was several years ago), it was thought that it had to do with the brain rewriting neural pathways trying to heal and also from the destruction of pathways from the injury itself.
So Fetterman could literally no longer believe what he used to believe, because he had a stroke.
I was speaking more to the right grasping of straws
Long brain-bump (sic) speaking from inside TBI life here…
I’ve found limited information on the process and experience of the non-acute parts of recovery post-TBI. All honor to you, engaging with that as things are. It’s long, hard, confusing, frustrating, inconsistent… and then there’s the bad parts. People could use someone walking with them.
Feel free to use any of this if it helps; it’s helped folks I’ve informally coached as they go through the long path of surviving TBI — hard, strange, unknown, and consequential all at once. (One calls me “her cheerleader.” And I can tell when she’s having a hard time — she finds an excuse to talk.) Whatever I can’t do, near a decade after surviving breaking my brain I’m a resource, and boon companion for some people in similar experience. They tell me, unsolicited. Never saw that coming.
You look Ok, and mostly ‘the same”, so people cue as if you are. It’s worse with people who knew you before — they see the old you; worse with people who care — they want it to be OK. The only way through is being completely empirical. Nothing is how you want it, necessarily; only how it is.
Because you look so OK, and “the same”, and that includes with drooping face, and barely moving gait, people miss how different it is.
— The anatomy took a hit. Nothing works the same. Obvious function loss is obvious, BUT *nothing works the same.* Any operation is more like a whole-brain concerto with the anatomy where it “is” out front. In “normal” function we don’t notice the reconfiguration, except weakly in things like loss of flow states, or loss of information with context switches. Some functions got hit hard; everything else just works less well.
The whole thing gets disrupted more easily, and fatigues. None of your intuitions track either. “Hey I’m feeling about this good — that thing should take half an hour.” You find out how much we calibrate intuitively like that, because none of it tracks. Even what you can do, you have to re calibrate: how hard, what error rate, how much do I have to focus.
Living there, now is going to bleed into “personality”; at least how it gets expressed.
— The trauma has its own impacts. See any of the psychology material on dealing with trauma, from whatever source. You’ve had an experience, ongoing in this case, that changes the world you think you live in.
Trauma can change your world view. The main hack I’ve found is from a cut scene from the original Firefly pilot. (Yep. Still bitter. — ed.) “When you’ve been in Serenity, you never leave. You just find a way to live there.”
Living that one has given some words for people with other traumas; particularly the loss of a parent or child. Three things.
1) The people who get screwed up either get trapped in the grief, or refuse to deal with it, so it operates under the hood, only getting stronger. You have to deal with it — feel the feelings, be kinda lost n overwhelmed for a while.
2) It sucks, and you’ll be OK. Not the same. You don’t “get over it”, you get over the shock. You find a way to live in the new world, where you took this hit, and they’re not here any more.
3) You don’t get over it; it’s never the same. A different you, who lost them, lives in a different world without them. Do that well. You’re still here; you have the opportunity to do that, they do not.
With a stroke or TBI, the person you lost is you, and you have to do all that other stuff with TBI brain. If you manage it, you’re a different person — how not?
— The experience. Crucible experiences change people. A TBI is one of those. Spend a few days in literally mind-splitting pain, paying attention to taking that next breath, not knowing if you’ll get a shot at the one after that, even if you get this one right. It changes a lad.
That last part doesn’t stop. Lying down the first night after discharge, I wondered out loud: “Well, I wonder if I’m going to wake up.” On larger time scale, things like wondering whether you’ll ever be able to do this or that; take care of yourself even a little, reengage with the world. You don’t “recover”, you “reacquire”, “retrain”, and “relearn.” The experience doesn’t end.
…
That’s how it is. Those are the words I’ve found trying to understand for myself, and illuminate for others. FWIW, I was a snarky, sardonic, cynic before I broke my brain. Having been mostly dead for a while of a few different sizes, depending on what counts, I care a lot less about fictions and friction with silliness. More than most people around me, or most of my life, any given day may be my last. Whatever little I can do, or acquire so I can do later, maybe, is a lot more earnest.
Thanks for sharing that.
Most welcome. You do what you can, especially when you can’t do much.
I’ve found that quite a few people of sincere intention could use some help navigating this strange territory. Massive impact, with just a few, small hints. Who saw that coming? I figured it out the hard way; might as well share what I found.
Best intervention I’ve seen once you’re past the acute not dying right now part is some contact with people who are in contact with the same. TBI and TBI-adjacent people are remarkably isolated.
Amazing impact having just someone to confirm:
“You’re not nuts; you’re damaged.”
“Oh, what a relief — wait, is that better?”
Thank you for sharing your insight. Prayers and Healing vibes for your continued recovery.
Gremlin
Confirms my belief that Commie Liftits need a good knock on the head.
Pehaps the experience will change their personality, even.
I would certainly agree that many woke progressives could benefit from time in a mental institution or at least treatment for confusing their deluded fantasies with facts.
Fetterman is still a lefty, just not a radical lefty.
He’s probably having fun doing this.
Respectfully, there are 100 issues out there that are important. The fact that Fetterman is on the right side of 1 issue tells us little.
I’m not sold on Fetterman but it’s more than 1.
He also is pro-border security and a few other things are a bit more based coming out of his mouth these days.
If the Dems ran Fetterman for POTUS I’d be worried about Trump’s chances. Thankfully Dems are complete idiots.
Well one of the problems with choosing a nonconformist rebel is you might get a nonconformist rebel.
Fetterman had a stroke. That affects the brain. In this case, it’s turning him into a Trump supporter. 😉
I definitely would t go that far
I’ll take the win, without reservation, on this one.
One comment I would like to make is non-political.
During the election campaign, (now) Sen. Fetterman showed serious signs of the problems arising from his stroke. He seemed to have difficulty communicating and seemed incoherent.
These days, when we hear him speak, he is much better. He is coherent and, whether or not you agree with him, he makes his points.
I am happy to see this. Leaving everything else aside, he is a guy with a family…a wife and kids…and I have no doubt that it was hard for everyone to deal with the stroke. I am glad they have their husband and dad back and on the mend, and believe we should thank God for that.
And then debate with him on the issues we disagree with.
Amen and I hope he continues to recover.
This certainly shows medical progress. He was spending too much time with the baby rattle.
Remember: Fetterman is just the name of the doctor who created him… 🙂
What does Mrs Fetterman say about all of this? She is the real radical here.
Best quote here: “Fetterman literally went to a mental hospital and now he’s no longer a progressive. Whatever therapy he went through should be studied and replicated across the country and world.”
Fetterman proves that Progressives are insane and can be cured. Send them all to the asylum for the cure.
Fetterman deserves much kudos for walking away from the woke world view on its support of Hamas and anti Semitism even though he remains a Democrat
One day someone will ask to compare BRAIN SCANS before and AFTER his stroke to try to isolate that part of the brain that causes the insanity of the left! I see a NOBEL PRIZE in someone’s future!
Russians! Nancy Pelosi Declares Protesters at her Home Are Possible Putin Plants
https://jonathanturley.org/2024/01/29/russians-nancy-pelosi-accuses-protesters-at-her-home-of-being-connected-to-putin/
The Russians are back just in time for another election. Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi declared on Sunday that pro-Palestinian protesters were “connected to Russia” and pushing “Mr. Putin’s message.” She called for . . . you guessed it . . . a new Russian investigation.
Protesters have targeted Pelosi’s home, usually an aggressive tactic reserved for Republicans. Indeed, when protesters were toppling statues, Pelosi saw no international conspiracy or influence. Instead, she dismissed the violent riots and said “people will do what they do.”
“On Friday night, anti-Israel demonstrators descended on the Pennsylvania home of Fetterman and his family – which includes three young children, and proceeded to yell and scream at the first-term Senator to let him know his support for Israel was not appreciated.”
If these people had the brainpower to think twice, they might do well to, before harassing a fellow who once chased a person he considered a “suspect” with a loaded shotgun.