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Open thread 5/11/2026 — 3 Comments

  1. @Barry Meislin:Calls Socialism Moronic

    His website doesn’t seem to have got the memo, it says the following:

    ..we will make sure Wall Street, hedge fund managers, and mega-millionaires pay their fair share by enacting a financial transaction tax on trades of stocks, bonds, and derivatives. The savings could then be used to cut taxes for working families and reinvest in the American people.

    I’ll fight for a tax code that ensures the wealthiest Americans and corporations like Amazon and don’t get away with scamming the system, and finally pay their fair share like the rest of us….

    It’s time we crack down on the big corporations who are making record profits while jacking up prices for all of us. We need to prosecute the executives of huge corporations, including the big oil companies and meatpacking companies who are artificially driving up prices, gouging consumers at the pump and at the grocery store.

    Big oil companies like Chevron, Exxon, and Shell have seen their profits increase 200% since last year, but they’re still charging us sky-high prices for gas. Companies like Tyson posted over a billion dollars in profits last quarter, while raising prices on meat products our families depend on.

    It’s gross, and deeply unpatriotic, for the big corporations to be rolling around in cash while charging us record high prices for gas and groceries.

    Instead of raising costs at the pump or in the grocery store, these companies should be working to help drive prices down, even if it means their CEOs make a little bit less. It’s time to take on the big corporations and special interests, and bring down prices for the American people….

    He wants punitive taxes and jail time because prices are “too high”. We can disagree about whether that’s truly “socialism”, but it is indeed moronic.

    And he’s still all in on abortion and LGBTQ issues.

  2. Hmm. Let’s call him “conflicted”. Inconsistent? Hypocritical?
    Certainly, his support for trans athletes, more specifically, males competing in women’s sports, is bizarre…

    (Hey, maybe he DOES need to wear a bollocks pouch…)

    Oh well. While we’re trying to figure out who (or where) the real Fetterman is, we might try to—somehow—enjoy the following, awesome, theological grand tour down through the ages…which, the author offers to try to get the country, and its citizens, out of the current miasma…

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