Dude, he didnt become a republican because of the stroke.

He's always been one. and a piece of shit asshole too

his locals have been saying that from the damn start.

He definitely said it accidentally. That doesn't make it untrue.

I'm convinced that it's his stroke causing a personality change and possibly cognitive decline.

His brain was so deprived of oxygen. Just five more seconds and he'd be a brain dead vegetable. Instead he's got just enough brain function to be a Republican.

Should be illegal to run as Democrat get elected then switch to other party. If you want to switch Should have to run as that party. If I lived in that state I be PISSED! ASSHOLE should be recalled. The fact that voters in Pennsylvania aren't protesting at the capital demanding just that.

I don't get why the Democrats don't just boot him out of the party?

Now that part we need to normalize. Ties are useless, annoying, uncomfortable, and I'm done cases potentially dangerous. I think they're ugly af personally, but I think women think they look good? Or maybe they're more attached to the status that sometimes comes with them.

I could go on a whole rant, but I understand that in certain circumstances a uniform might be useful, it helpful. But I'm so other circumstances, wearing something formal should never ever be expected or demanded.

Leave it as an option for the sickos who convince themselves they really want to and it's not a phase, but I have a feeling that once getting rid of suits and ties becomes the default, no one will ever want to outside of actors playing characters dated sometime between their invention and riddance), and maybe for some weird sex stuff.

People look better when they're comfortable. Let them be comfortable, even at work.

I've already told my younger siblings that when I'm dead (not that I've decided exactly what should happen at all yet), that under absolutely no circumstances do I want a stuffy formal funeral, or even burial. Humans made a mistake creating the funeral industry.

One of my brothers is a little annoyed at that, as I do have a funeral director as a brother. But he's known me longer than he's worked there, so he'll get over it. Not like I would ever sit a funeral anyway. But that's not why I don't want one.

This is where the rant would really start, but I could go for a while on this subject (and the tangential ones that would come up, like getting to funerals from ties).

Just republican things. You wouldn't understand.

Except, the stroke happened before the election. The stroke happened before the primary.

The people of Pennsylvania elected him to office knowing that he'd had a serious stroke.

Practically everyone in office is getting paid to deliver something.

For example, Biden was paid to stop minimum wage.

Trump was paid to invade Iraq.

You can tell what they were paid for by watching what they do. Viola! That's what was paid for.

Dollars are free speech and corporations are people.

I think this one has been teased for a while.

You are correct about this. The key problem for him specifically is actions are not reflecting what the majority of his voters wanted. But this does also address another problem (not so much for senators but for representatives in the House), the number of people they represent.

We need an expansion of the House and redistricting so that each seat only represents a limit of people, so they can actually talk to those people and know what their interests are. Too large a chuck of population and that becomes muddled, and so party lines is far simpler to manage, assuming the votes still stand. But for local issues, which are often what bills are about, how can party line always be the best option, or even matter? Some things are politically bounded, they're what's best for the people in that region, and if the rep doesn't even really know who that is or what they want...

Granted, they have a staff to do a lot of this, but the population number per is still too high.

Oh, and Fetterman is damaged goods, they need a new senator. Of course, look at Kentucky, they didn't even have one of the senators for 90+ days (and I still have doubts).

Please dont disparage Uncle Fester. He is loyal to his family and always has been.