John Fetterman Invokes Homer Simpson To Respond To Latest Round Of Conspiracy Theories
John Fetterman Invokes Homer Simpson To Respond To Latest Round Of Conspiracy Theories
Fetterman is nothing if not amusing.
I sometimes wonder if I live in an alternate reality where a significant subsection of the population has gone absolutely insane. The insanity all seemed to take off around 2016.
I blame social media. Mainlining outrage and confirmation bias through your smart phone is one hell of a way to get high
Social media is a turbocharger to the misinformation engine that is corporate media (especially Fox 'News' and shit like Limbaugh, Beck, Infowars, Rogan, et al) post-Fairness Doctrine.
The idea that the FCC shouldn't A) reinstate the doctrine, and B) have its regulatory boundaries extend to ubiquitous cable and streaming services is fucking nutballs. Thanks, Reagan!
Some day we’ll look back at rage bait (and social media, in general) the way history looks back at opium. The tech and connectedness have remarkably advanced humanity - but unchecked, the algos and constant need for engagement have been ruinous and criminally detrimental to society.
There's a town hall video with John McCain around 2008 where an elderly woman tries to suggest to him she's worried about Obama because he's not white. John McCain shot her down and defended Obama and stressed we should only focus on the political differences of opinion, and his own supporters booed him. This all had been coming for so long.
Edit: I was corrected, she did not exactly state what her problem was with Obama, but it's clear that it was bigotry.
It actually started really ramping up in 2008-2009. Tea Party, birthers, so on. It's amazing what happens when someone who wasn't white was elected president.
It actually started with Newt and his bullshit back in '96....well, actually it started with fucking Reagan and his trickle down bullshit back in '80...then again, maybe it started when
Nah, Reagan proved how far racism could destroy things long before that.
We can go back further, but that's where I put my finger on the map.
Fox News was a conservative news outlet until then. Overnight they went batshit crazy.
Between them and social media, we spiraled down into where we're at now.
I think it was even earlier... 9/11 really broke the safety of America (and even the "western" world) and pushed so many people down the conspiracy rabbit hole. Social media amplified this fear and brought them together giving them power.
My head canon is that the fixed point event in earth history is that humanity should have ended in nuclear war with the cuba crisis and the timeline has been unravelling ever since.
Sometimes I think the end of the world actually did happen in 2012, it's just that the fallout is happening over a longer time scale than anyone anticipated.
Rapture bombing wasn’t a prank, 99.99999999999999% of us just didn’t make it :-)
That's what I keep saying. That the world ended, but to save humanity some brave but misguided hero somehow ported us all into this slightly different but really fucked up reality. This is my explanation for the Mandela effect, that we remember our old timeline but when we look things up the research shows what happened in the new timeline so it's all wonky lol
The most soul crushing part is when you realize it’s not an alternate reality; this is where you’ve been all along and you feel betrayed by everyone you’ve ever known for hiding it from you, even about their own stupidity.
Confirmed. The worst possible timeline.
As someone who came of age during Reagan's presidency, y'all just ain't been around long enough.
In a weird coincidence a show came out in 2016 before the election called BrainDead and the plot was that alien bugs are eating parts of our brains and causing hyper partisanship.
That show was great, was pretty disappointed to see it got cancelled.
Good show just the right amount of Tony Shalhoub ;-)
Started to gain major traction around the Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck days. The Tea Party was the beginning of the end
I think it started the moment Obama was elected, or at least the moment the ACA was able to pass. It just took a time for the 'batshit crazy' to scale up to mass adoption among conservatives.
For me, it started right after 9/11. Republicans were quick to use the general fear and anger from the attacks to justify wars, spying on citizens, eroding personal freedom, etc. They've been using this same playbook ever since, just with a different boogyman, e.g. Antifa, BLM, trans people.
That evergreen college insanity clued me in
I had to understand wtf was wrong with those people, now it’s like everyone is an evergreen state college student.
This world fucking sucks
It really probably was all the lead.
I wish we had more of him. The OG can stay in PA and make a clone to be senator for every other state. I know I'd vote for him.
Why the fuck can't we get more elected Democrats like him? He's personable. He's down to earth, and he's willing to make fun of the right wing wackos instead of cowering in fear. A good 3/4 of all the other elected Dems are a bunch of pussies who have the wit of a goddamn potato.
Because at the heart of it most of them are still spineless corporate shills. Fetterman, AOC, Russ Feingold etc are outliers who snuck past the checks
Because the whole damn system is designed to weed out anyone like that before they can even sniff at a senate seat.
And yet here we are with him in Congress. So it actually is possible.
Because Democratic primary voters are gigantic cowards who think swing voters are only won over by inoffensive white corporate suits.
Because the venn diagram of people with those traits, and people who desire to be in an elected position is essentially two separate circles.
And can you blame them? You get attacked from all sides if you enter the politics as a Democrat. You'll obviously get attacked by Republicans, but you also get attacked by people on the Left as well. On the other hand, elected Republicans, to a large degree, don't get attacked by their own people, and lord knows that Democrats rarely go on the offensive, so they'll rarely attack their Republican opponents.
He could just hire Michael Keaton to go to the senate and pretend that he's Fetterman.
Anyone making season 6 Simpson references should be immediately put in charge of everything.
Come one over to /c/thesimpsons where we constantly play differing difficulties of "Guess The Episode" based on screen shots.
Oh yeah, I'm sure there are plenty of body doubles available out there for 6' 8" dudes with incredibly distinct facial features and skull geometry that would keep a 19th century phrenologist in business for years.
By this time next year we should 8 Fettermans Fettermen. And they, too, will be Senators. Then 16, 32, 64, 128 et celery et celery.
Soon ... no more Senators. Only Settermen.
Fetterman and his wife continue to impress me with how good at social media they are.
Crazy how gop found so many people with the shame part of their brain disabled
Imagine not understanding the difference between inner forearms and outer forearms...
I hate it when my tattoos disappear
These people can't be THAT stupid, right? Right?!
Ugh. I want off this ride.
How has he not had Terry Crews be his body double yet?
Crews has standards, and morals, and body image standards.
So he’d be perfect!
To be fair, Krusty the Clown and Homer Simpson are body doubles. Maybe there's a cynical clown version of John Fetterman somewhere.
I'm seeing double here! Four Fettermans!
I honestly thought he was a former WWE performer for a decent amount of time, and by decent I mean I only recently found out that he wasn't a former WWE performer. It was a wild assumption, but at the same time I can also picture him jumping off the ring to give the peoples elbow.
Maybe it is too obvious, I am not sure: You all know that his name originates from the German expression "fetter Mann", which translates to "fat man"? I can vividly imagine his ancestors arriving at Ellis island and getting their new surname. :D
He involved Guy Incognito, who is different than Homer Simpson. Gee, I hope somebody got fired for that blunder.
I like the theory that "guy incognito" was homer in a shit disguise and the "homer" looking dude is someone else entirely
Fetterman should leverage that with a few more Fetterman clones that wear suits.
You guys need more Fettermen!
Got it. Intitite a meme to get people to post pictures of fetterman. In a year they have a trove of fetterman pictures to meme to discredit anything he does.
He is anti-conspiracy. He's such a dysfunctional child that all conspiracy's seem reasonable when compared to reality that he's a brain damaged moron who can't dress himself.
Who hurt you?
conspiracy'sconspiracies
What is the deal with this guy? He plays the every man but he's a wealthy silver spoon baby. He runs for office and immediately goes on leave, which makes me wonder if he's cut out for this. He seems like he's all talk but doesn't actually get anything done
... said Dr Oz, sobbing into his crudite tray
Imagine making this fucking comment after having that assclown for an adversary. Tell me you ain't from Philly without telling me you ain't from Philly
I'm from England.
Lol this fuckin guy
Lolololol you are soooo butthurt. Cope harder
American Democrats have this disease, when you criticize a democrat they immediately call you a Russian or a republican. In truth I'm not American and your Democrats are nothing but conservatives in disguise. To me, Democrats are conservatives and your country has no idea what a real liberal is. I'm so far left of you that you think I'm a Russian, that's crazy.
Why does Fetterman, the largest senator, not simply eat the other senators?
That's awesome, as is everything I know about fetterman.
It is very strange how much life has changed since even this extremely dated reference was made.
My kid just started kindergarten. The principal and some of his teachers have visible tattoos.
My kindergarten teacher was an ex nun who refused to let me write with my left hand.
One of my wife's coworkers used to be in a death metal
skaband and has the piercings to prove it.Though he is considerably less badass in a 9-5 office, but it does make you wonder what he has playing on his headphones all day.
I heard your senator went into the senate and ate everything in the senate and they had to close the senate!
Am I out of touch?
No! the constituents are wrong!
I yield the rest of my thyme.
They must be saving that for Sweeps Week.
He already started, this is why he is the size of two mortal men. He hasn’t reached his final form
The others are too old and stiff.
Like eat him... to shreds.. you say???