The Pennsylvania senator dismissed the demand for further investigation as “moot.”

Senator John Fetterman appeared not to understand why Democrats want to investigate the deadly strike that killed dozens of Iranian children.

During an interview with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins Wednesday night, Fetterman was asked to explain why he hadn’t signed onto a letter from Senate Democrats that questioned Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on the February 28 strike on Shajarah Tayyebeh, a girls’ primary school miles from Tehran. The strike killed 175 people, many of them young girls.

“Well, because we all agree that it’s a tragedy having the school hit, and we all agree now for an investigation,” Fetterman said. “What I don’t agree with the rest of my colleagues in the House is that it’s a war of choice, or it’s dumb, or all the things my colleagues have described, you know, this operation. I think it’s a good thing, and I support that.”

Fetterman was referring to a line in the letter describing Donald Trump’s military campaign as “a war of choice without Congressional authorization.” The letter did not describe the war as “dumb.”

  • dotCody@lemmy.world
    6·
    3 days ago

    What a fuckin 180 this douche canoe did. Must have been that cameo in the Christian bale movie.

    • archonet@lemy.lolEnglish
      9·
      3 days ago

      I choose to blame the stroke.

      Actual, factual brain damage is no joke, and there was a reason he won the election he was in. He was genuinely not insane/traitorous before his stroke.

      The more cynical option is that he was always like this and merely wanted to screw over the leftists of Pennsylvania by running under a D ticket, but frankly I think brain damage from stroke leading to sudden onset fascist sympathies is both more likely (brain damage can have really fucking weird effects) and way funnier in a certain context

      • bus_factor@lemmy.world
        91·
        3 days ago

        I’ve seen comments claiming to be from his local area saying he was always a bit like this. I don’t think he ran a particularly leftist campaign, though, he just looked leftist compared to Dr. Oz.

        I don’t think Fetterman was a full bait and switch like that snake Kyrsten Sinema.

        • archonet@lemy.lolEnglish
          1·
          2 days ago

          I am so goddamn tired of having to vote for the least awful choice instead of even a decent choice. Compared to the literal snake oil sales king of TV, almost anyone else looks good – but we can see how that’s worked out.

          • bus_factor@lemmy.world
            1·
            2 days ago

            The way the Republicans got to the position they are today was to focus on local races and the judiciary. Leftists have until recently thought that as long as they win the presidency everything is a-ok, but that is clearly not the case.

            Pay attention to the local races, especially the primaries so the good candidates make it to the general election, and if possible run yourself, and there is a chance to turn it around. But it will take a decade or two of hard work to turn it around, assuming we get to keep having elections

            As soon as actually progressive candidates have enough people in the legislature to have a Tea Party-like pull, you’ll start seeing some improvement. The hard part is getting there.

      • DaMummy@hilariouschaos.comEnglish
        4·
        3 days ago

        Pure accident that he changed to a Israel flag waving douche after getting his golden pager after a hospital visit.