After Trump’s Iran attack, most Democrats rallied behind Tim Kaine’s war powers resolution in the Senate — but not John Fetterman.

In a Friday evening vote, the U.S. Senate rejected a war powers resolution that would have blocked President Donald Trump from making further attacks on Iran, despite widespread disapproval of last week’s strikes.

Senators voted 47-53, largely along party lines, on a measure offered by Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., that would have prohibited Trump from offensive measures while preserving his ability to defend U.S. forces.

Kaine’s resolution drew near-unanimous support from Democrats, including Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.

  • themeatbridge@lemmy.world
    351·
    3 months ago

    I feel like Fetterman knows his health is failing and he won’t run again, so he’s just selling out entirely. His initial support of Israel made sense with the demographics of Pennsylvania, but he’s gone too far to avoid losing in the next primary for anything statewide.

    • BassTurd@lemmy.world
      17·
      3 months ago

      His health can’t fail fast enough. The stroke unfortunately failed. I’m not saying that it didn’t change his views as there is precedent with Phineas Gage, but if I suffer a stroke and survive only to be a dog shit human, I’d prefer if I didn’t survive in the first first place. For the betterment of humanity, the stroke should have finished the job, but instead we’re stuck with a Nazi in denial.

  • mister_flibble@sh.itjust.works
    23·
    3 months ago

    It’s well past time to take Grandpa’s car keys away. Bro’s down to one last functioning brain cell bouncing around his skull like the DVD logo.

    • Raltoid@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      3 months ago

      New blood needs to primary this guy

      “The DNC wants to know your location!”

      (Because that sort of talk is enough for them to want to arrest you on terrorist charges.)

  • Ulvain@sh.itjust.works
    7·
    3 months ago

    So what’s the leading theory on this guy? He was always horrible but we didn’t know? His brain turned to mush and Uber conservatism after the accident? Russia or whomever now have shit on him? He just turned super self interested and saw there’s more money in being a Trump lackey?

    • qarbone@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      Edit: for the life of me, I can’t figure out how I’d relocate the video, so take this with as much salt aa you deem necessary

      I’m sorry I can’t recall but there was a pretty in-depth Youtube video I watched that went into Fetterman’s career. Posited he’s always just wanted the democratic clout but he’s a nepo-baby with conservative leanings deep-down.

  • UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world
    2·
    3 months ago

    Fetterman is Jewish or maybe his stroke changed his personality and he likes the extra money he gets since he became a senator.

    In 2024, a number of commentators said that Fetterman’s views on Israel had shifted to the right and were more in line with those of Republicans.[162][163] By 2025, Fetterman had made a number of moves that were characterized as becoming closer to Trump while he has repeatedly criticized Democrats.[164][138][139][145][165][166] The New York Times reported that he had grown “more conservative, mostly on Israel, but also on a range of other issues.”[167]

    Wikipedia