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The Senate chucks its unwritten dress code. Bring on the gym shorts!​

Breaking news relevant to only 100 Americans: The U.S. Senate will no longer enforce its dress code for members.

Is this yet another sign of constitutional decadence, or is it a step into modernity for the fusty, antiquated chamber? Either way, it’s the best news ever for Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.), who would prefer to do business while looking like he’s on a Saturday-morning jog.

Not everyone is happy.

“The Senate chamber isn’t your home, a gym, or an outdoor park,” wrote former congressman Justin Amash (I-Mich.) in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter. “If you can’t dress professionally for work on the floor of the Senate of the United States, then do us all a favor and get a different job.”

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Not my idea but one I agree with and most everyone has heard before. All members of congress should wear patches like nascar drivers showing the corporations that really own each member via donations.
 
They should also be under oath 24/7 from the moment they are sworn into office, until they are out of office so that any/all public statements relative to their job that they make have to be truthful.
Ie: no lying for them without penalty of perjury.
 
If they're going to legislate like a bunch of clowns, it is appropriate for them to look like a bunch of clowns.
 

Fetterman, amid dress code controversy, agrees to wear suit to 'save democracy,' avoid shutdown​

Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., in a crude statement, agreed to wear a suit on the Senate floor to "save democracy" amid bipartisan displeasure over Majority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer's decision to relax the Senate dress code.

But Fetterman's offer comes with conditions. He said House Republicans must pass a government funding bill and support Ukraine in order for him to suit up.

"If those jagoffs in the House stop trying to shut our government down, and fully support Ukraine, then I will save democracy by wearing a suit on the Senate floor next week," Fetterman said Wednesday in a post on X.

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The Post tried eating at NYC’s finest restaurants dressed like Sen. John Fetterman — see how it went​

Sen. John Fetterman may be allowed to dress like a slob in the halls of power — but it’s still a capital offense in New York City’s finest restaurants.

Intrepid Post reporter Jon Levine learned that hard truth this week when he crisscrossed the Big Apple’s culinary landmarks wearing Fetterman’s trademark hoodie, gym shorts and sneakers and tried to gain entry — only to face scorn and mockery from maître d’s with more common sense than Congress.

“He would not be permitted here,” sniffed a maître d at Daniel on the Upper East Side, where a seven-course tasting menu runs $275.

She admitted she didn’t know who Fetterman was.

“We have turned away guests for being improperly dressed regardless of their occupation,” she continued.

At famed Le Bernardin, a suited maître d named Julien served up an amuse bouche of stink-eye when The Post arrived.

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Is John Fetterman changing or were progressives mistaken about him? Yes.​

Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., has been making enemies on the left in recent months. After Israel retaliated against Hamas after its Oct. 7 attacks, he staked out a position as a staunch pro-Israel partisan and taunted pro-Palestinian activists pushing for a cease-fire. More recently, he angered progressive activists with his willingness to compromise with the GOP on restrictive immigration policies. Then on Friday, in what was a bombshell declaration, he told NBC News, “I’m not a progressive.”

Fetterman’s recent statements and positions have confused some progressives and delighted some Republicans. It’s striking to see Fetterman butt heads with groups who saw him as an ally, given that he’s a politician who has frequently described himself as a progressive, campaigned for Sen. Bernie Sanders and received plaudits from America’s foremost socialist magazine for providing a compelling model of populism.

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Senator John Fetterman blasts US Steel sale to Japanese company Nippon Steel​

Dec 18, 2023

US Senator John Fetterman blasted US Steel after the company announced it may be bought by Japanese company Nippon Steel.
Mr Fetterman is from the Rust Belt, a region of the US that suffered economic devastation when the steel industry shifted outside the US.
 

John Fetterman Is Now Based, Progressives COPE and SEETHE: Robby Soave​

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I don't know exactly what to think of Fetterman.
Recently, he has come out and said some things I agree with and when something like happens it always makes me take a step back and re-examine my beliefs.
I hate to say it, but I've got to wonder, with John's health history, if what he's saying our his own thoughts, or something that someone else is telling him to say.
But when I think that through much more thoroughly, it doesn't seem likely because you'd imagine if he were going to be coerced or directed to say something that his handlers would push him to support ideas from the left and not the right.
Maybe he's actually doing some independent thinking.
If so, I'll give him credit where credit's due.
Good for him. Hopefully he can persuade others to follow suit.
 
A stand-in or a deep fake.

We saw Fetterman. Hopelessly brain-damaged. That doesn't just suddenly heal.

IIRC, he wasn't all that lucid even before his stroke.

So the Deep State found someone to play him. Or an AI hologram.
 
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A stand-in or a deep fake.

We saw Fetterman. Hopelessly brain-damaged. That doesn't just suddenly heal.

IIRC, he wasn't all that lucid even before his stroke.

So the Deep State found someone to play him. Or an AI hologram.
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I was thinking the same thing. Could be the first AI generated politician if you notice how he has that look of somebody who has yet to discover fire? They are probably kicking themselves that Ginsburg didn't last a couple more years on the SCOTUS.
 

Dem. Senator John Fetterman breaking with his party AGAIN says migration crisis threatens to destroy the American dream as another 300,000 people approach southern border in hopes of crossing into US​


Democrat Sen. John Fetterman broke with his party, stating that the border crisis is threatening to destroy the American dream as another 300,000 people approached the southern border in hopes of crossing into the U.S.

Fetterman voiced his concerns about the ongoing migration crisis and demanded a 'secure border' as he spoke to CNN's The Lead anchor Jake Tapper on Friday.

The Democratic senator, 54, from Pennsylvania said, 'I honestly don't understand why it's controversial to say we need a secure border.'

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The Democratic senator, 54, from Pennsylvania said, 'I honestly don't understand why it's controversial to say we need a secure border.'
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It 's only controversial to the rest of the dems, due to the fact Trump also wanted a secure border.

Anything Trump was for, they think they have to be against, no matter how much it damages the nation.

I gotta say that since Fetterman makes more sense now than he did pre-stroke, perhaps more dems need to have a stroke.
 
Fetterman was planted to keep the theatre going. This time he is the democrat equivalent of a RINO.

If the 49ers beat the Ravens in the Super Bowl it will be confirmed everything is rigged.
 
Too brain-damaged to understand that his power, isn't his.

That he's a party puppet, and to keep THAT job, he has to start acting like one.
 
From the link:

There was a time when John Fetterman, the rough-and-ready Pennsylvania senator, was a budding star of the left.

Endorsed by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in his 2022 Democratic race, Fetterman had supported the democratic socialist Bernie Sanders for president in 2016. On the campaign trail, Fetterman said he would fight for an increased minimum wage, while he had previously suggested he wanted to see the implementation of universal healthcare.

But in recent months, Fetterman has come under attack from the left for his enthusiastic support for Israel and continued US funding to its war in Gaza. The criticism has come alongside praise from Republicans for Fetterman’s chiding of some Democrats over what he has called a “crisis at our border”.

The growing distance between Fetterman and the left of his party came to a head in December.

John Fetterman: progressive senator perhaps not that progressive after all

The Pennsylvania Democrat’s support for Israel and for migrant restrictions at the border has irritated many on the left
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John Fetterman Turns Heads at Netanyahu Speech Amid Democrat Snub​

Senator John Fetterman had a noticeably different look for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's congressional address on Wednesday.

Fetterman, who has unapologetically ditched the typical business attire since joining the Senate in 2022, was spotted wearing a suit and tie on the House floor as Netanyahu delivered his first speech to U.S. lawmakers since Hamas launched a surprise terrorist attack on Israel. It is his fourth address to Congress.

Fetterman signaled that he would wear a suit if the Sergeant-at-Arms began enforcing the Senate's dress code, but he continued to wear shorts and hoodies to work after Congress ditched the code in September.

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