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Pictured are John Fetterman, Kirsten Sinema, and Joe Manchin applauding a war criminal.

https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=0wSttkKdkYg

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[–] LocalOaf@hexbear.net 64 points 3 months ago
[–] Blockocheese@hexbear.net 48 points 3 months ago
[–] john_browns_beard@hexbear.net 37 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I'm actually surprised he owns one, I figured he was like my BIL who breaks out his fanciest polo and pair of jeans for formal occassions.

[–] utopologist@hexbear.net 35 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Figured he might be one of these guys

[–] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 20 points 3 months ago

He is NOT one of ours

[–] BoxedFenders@hexbear.net 9 points 3 months ago

Gotta look your best when pandering for that sweet sweet AIPAC money.

[–] nothx@hexbear.net 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)
[–] robinnn@hexbear.net 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Do NOT diss the jeans and polo fit.

[–] nothx@hexbear.net 3 points 3 months ago

Hey, I rock that shit at work all the time. Throw in a good pair of running shoes and you’ve got the corporate casual special.

No hate on the fit, just gotta be the right place and time.

[–] john_browns_beard@hexbear.net 4 points 3 months ago

Emotionally, yes.

[–] sawne128@hexbear.net 32 points 3 months ago

At inauguration __________ At war criminal speech

[–] FnordPrefect@hexbear.net 26 points 3 months ago

"Well yeah, when it's a cause you actually care about and a person you actually want to demonstrate respect to, sure"

[–] DesertComrade@hexbear.net 26 points 3 months ago

Our grandkids will repost pictures like this decades later like we repost the giant Hitler rallys And the cycle will be repeated with another minority and another and another

[–] AernaLingus@hexbear.net 21 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Her dress looking like a combination of Palestinian and trans flags is really odd given the context

[–] dead@hexbear.net 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Besides being known as a spoiler of progressive action in the Senate, notably for voting down $15 minimum wage, Kyrsten Sinema was declared to be the first bisexual congress member.

The colors looks like this flag to me. I'm not sure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_fluidity

[–] AernaLingus@hexbear.net 5 points 3 months ago

Yeesh...not all representation is good representation, I guess.

Also I'm not seeing that flag, personally. And in fact, looking at the dress more closely I see there are five colors (black, white, light pink, dark pink, teal) but no repeating pattern. Okay, well technically there's a repeating pattern, but it's quite long (D=dark pink, L=light pink):

W T L B
D T L W
B T L W 
D B T L

In a crop of this photo from Getty

you can see it repeat the first nine colors again, and it just happens that the photo really does capture the last stripe of the dress (confirmed with another Getty photo).

We can also see the colors in a lot higher fidelity compared to the C-SPAN stream which shows that any similarity to palestine-heart was just an artifact of video compression. I'll admit my eye for color isn't the best, but the light pink and blue seem to unambiguously be the shades from flag-trans-pride. The deep pink looks like the color used in flag-bi-pride to me, but it's missing the shades of purple and blue and that doesn't explain the black stripes at all.

idk why I got so fixated on this...just neurodivergent stuff, I guess

[–] buh@hexbear.net 17 points 3 months ago

The new squad

[–] MineDayOff@hexbear.net 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Thumbs down for minimum wage clap for war criminal

[–] VILenin@hexbear.net 16 points 3 months ago

What a terrible tragedy that depression lost its battle with John Fetterman

[–] Prole_Strongman@hexbear.net 13 points 3 months ago

He looks absolutely fucking gormless

[–] MayoPete@hexbear.net 12 points 3 months ago

Suit Up For Slaughter sadness

[–] AnarchoSnowPlow@midwest.social 11 points 3 months ago

At least he has the excuse of brain damage. What about the others?

[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Look at all the fascists clapping in the Senate. It is a deliberate choice to stand next to Sinema and Manchin. If kamala-coconut-tree wins, look forward to Fetterman being the spoiler.

Everything is absolutely deliberate when it comes to optics.

[–] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 6 points 3 months ago

Ah fuck, to keep things PG I suddenly remember Templates in old editions of 40k.

[–] ComradePlatypus@hexbear.net 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Wonder what the menswear guy has to say. Probably trousers are too low, making tie too short while the knot should be bigger, jacket should be looser around the chest and buttoned (probably why it's unbuttoned aide from going from sitting), jacket sleeves too baggy . Maybe improved by shoulder pads and double breasted suit to make him look more imposing than out of shape.