A Pennsylvanian's Bold Letter to Senator Fetterman

[NJCher]

Letter in full below; link at end.

A Pennsylvanian pens a raw and candid letter to Senator Fetterman, sharing their unfiltered thoughts.
Johnny Palmadessa
Feb 11, 2025

I’m writing with an urgent, seething sense of betrayal. As a Pennsylvanian who supported you, I’ve got to say it—f*ck you.

Yes, I mean it. F*ck you, Senator Fetterman. You’ve taken political cowardice to a whole new level. The bar for what defines a weak, spineless politician has been driven even deeper into the ground by your actions.

Confirming members of Donald Trump’s extremist cabinet? Check.

Meeting with the wannabe-fascist himself at Mar-a-Lago, trying to buddy up to the living embodiment of tyranny? Check.

Your actions speak louder than any words ever could, and they scream abandonment.

You’ve turned your back on everything you claimed to stand for. You’ve completely disregarded those who fought for you, those who voted for you. You’ve abandoned the working people of Pennsylvania. You’ve abandoned the Democrats.

When asked if Democrats can "win back white men," you responded, "I’m not sure if that’s possible, to be honest." Well, let me tell you something—I’m a white man from Pennsylvania, and I’m telling you that your priorities are lost. Completely misplaced. Your compass is broken.

Worry about the people—all the people who believed in you. Worry about the workers and the families who trusted you to fight for them.

Worry about the migrants you’ve thrown under the bus with your disgraceful vote to confirm Kristi Noel as Secretary of Homeland Security.

Worry about the women you’ve betrayed, as you helped confirm anti-choice extremists like Pam Bondi for Attorney General—the only Democrat to do so. You didn’t just ignore them; you threw them to the wolves.

And let’s not forget the Constitution—the one you’re supposed to protect. You’re cavorting with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago while our rights, our democracy, and our values are on the chopping block. That is what you’re allowing to happen.

You claim you represent all of Pennsylvania, but let’s get one thing clear—you do not represent me. You do not represent the people who put their faith in you. You represent your own ambitions, and your actions make it crystal clear that those votes were nothing more than stepping stones for you to grab power.

Well, we won’t be fooled again. We cannot afford another coward like you who’s willing to kneel at Trump’s feet just to stay in his good graces. You said you would be the opposite of Joe Manchin, but in the end, you’ve become exactly the same.

We will find someone another Democrat. A Democrat who actually fights for us. Someone who stands for us, not for their own political survival.

And I urge every Democrat reading this to join me in demanding that we elect Democrats who actually represent us.

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[Marie Marie]

1. Excellent. K & R.

[Daleuhlmann]

2. Fetterman Is a DINO ("Democrat in Name Only")!

I've felt this way about Fetterman ever since he'd advised his fellow Democrats to stop "freaking out" about Trump. Who'd asked him in the first place, anyway? You are right: he is no different from Joe Mancin. PA Democrats should start primarying him now!

[lastlib]

3. I hope he doesn't become another Tulsi Gabbard.....

...but he has taken steps in that direction. I'm totally disappointed in him, and am hoping he gets a primary opponent when he's up for re-election.

[Butterflylady]

38. Well, he did state that he isn't happy being in the senate......

You can tell by his dressing down. Also he said to a local TV station, either WGAL or WHT, I forget that he is going to talk to F47 about LGBTQ rights. Good luck with that because the GOP won't hear any of that.

I love your letter and I think he should resign.

[Greybnk48]

49. Fetterman is a Libertarian (whatever the fuck that means this week) who's gone MAGAt

His career is essntially over.

[johnnyfins]

4. Why is it that

Posts/threads like these can flourish, yet when I have called him out I get my DU posting rights threatened? Just curious.

[XanaDUer2]

33. It just works like that sometimes

I got deleted for hinting that it wouldn't break my heart if orange shitstain passed, and now there's a popular post is he dead yet?

[3auld6phart]

41. I

Can see being deleted from the likes of Facebook, I have been am a couple










been gaoled a couple times. I have seen some rants on DU that would stir the interest of The Secret Servive, at least the MAGA gestapo.I check “ is he dead yet “ everyday looking forward too seeing snail Shit’s demise. Someday soon.

[whathehell]

45. Yeah, and sometimes

bias and unfairness acts like that too. Just sayin'.

[XanaDUer2]

46. Yup nt

[whathehell]

47. Yep..

It's disappointing, and very obvious at times.

[Polybius]

52. That poster never says who the "he" is

There's a fine line I guess.

[PhylliPretzel]

5. Johnny Palmadessa

speaks this Pennsylvanian's mind. Hopefully we can find a true Democrat to primary the traitor.

[BComplex]

15. We need to get into the REPUBLICAN primaries and wreak havoc!

Run some stealth dems on the republican tickets. Clean out Washington for real.

[Voltaire2]

27. Or just primary our own idiots and have good candidates instead.

[sheshe2]

6. Kick and Recommend.

[Cha]

9. Wow... did Fetterman Deserve every word from Johnny Palmadessa

Patriot!

[sheshe2]

14. He certainly did deserve every dayum word.

Sad, because he could have made a difference, yet he chose to choose unwisely.

[orleans]

7. (noem. kristi noem.) great letter -- hope it gives fetterman at least several moments of regret for what he's doing nt

[Cha]

8. I love this guy, Johnny Palmadessa! I hopoe Many people,

Fetterman, and Dem Leaders See this in PA and , all over the Country.

Fetterman Deserves every fucking word.

TY

[Orrex]

10. Perhaps one of the scolds will wag their finger at Palmadessa...

as they've done when others have expressed the same sentiments here.

k/r

[Greybnk48]

10. I supported his campaign financially and I live in Wisconsin. NEVER AGAIN!

I will definitely send money to whomever runs against that lying prick Fetterman.

[Beartracks]

12. Reaching across to their "friends" across the aisle... Pfft.

The desire to be "bipartisan" and making promises to "work with Republicans to find common-sense solutions" -- has this kind of posturing campaign promise ever really won even a single vote for the Democrat who makes it? It is NOT the motivating factor they think it is! Even for independent voters, that is simply not the way to win support anymore. This kind of kumbaya promise may have meant something back in the days when Republicans had honor. But that day is long, long gone, and Fetterman and other Democrats need to know that, now more than ever, people vote for Democrats NOT to work with Republicans, but to STOP them.

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[calimary]

21. When have Republicans "reached across the aisle" to work with our Dems?

Please remind me.

Thank you.

[Beartracks]

24. Never - But they'll stomp their feet and bitch to the media if Democrats don't do it.

And, frankly ALL Dems should stop doing that nonsense. Republicans claim to have a mandate, Let them prove it by doing everything all on their own.

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[dchill]

50. Hear, hear!

[UTUSN]

13. Wow.

[benfranklin1776]

17. Hear Hear! 👏🏼👏🏼

I agree wholly. Fetterman is well on his way to achieving Manchin status, i.e., oblivious and scorned obscurity, because he has consciously made the decision to appease Mango Mussolini by rolling over for him like a whipped cur in some notably odious ways: embracing and sponsoring the due process denying “deport any immigrant accused of a crime but not convicted” act; voting for Kegsbreath to allow him to run the military into the ground and “make the traitorous confederacy great again”in the process; voting for Election Denying Psychotic Bondi, knowing she was going to be a banana Republican tool of using the Justice Department for political retribution; pretending to be a champion of labor and working people while uttering nary a peep about Mango Mussolini’s illegal and unconstitutional firing of members of the NLRB which paralyzes it, and this most recent “gem” where he tells all of us who see this blatant Trumpian dictatorial power grab as what it is: a repudiation of the constitution itself, which so many people have sacrificed and died to preserve over the centuries, to don’t worry and just “chill out” because “it’s not a crisis”?!? 🤬🤬😡

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-john-fetterman-crisis_n_67ad036ae4b02322707893e9

Mr. Palmadessa is a true patriot who has observed and been infuriated by these desecrations, as many other Pennsylvanian’s have, since they reasonably expected Fetterman to be true to his professed values that he campaigned on. Mr. Palmadessa has rightfully and forcefully called him out for his betrayal of those values by his gratuitous bootlicking of this maladministration’s fascist jackboots ✊🏼

Fetterman, to paraphrase Brutus in Julius Caesar, appears to be the type of person who manipulatively views “lowliness
[as] young ambition’s ladder,
Whereto the climber upward turns his face.
But when he once attains the upmost round,
He then unto the ladder turns his back,
Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend.”

So if he continues to scorn the voters who believed him and elected him, who were NOT MAGATS, then he will be primaried, presuming democracy survives, as his willful abandonment of us in service to the would be fuhrer will not be forgotten. ✊🏼

[CTyankee]

18. Excellent! I love "Kegsbreath." That's genius!

[benfranklin1776]

19. Thank you 😊

However, I must give authorial credit where it is due as Keith Olbermann originally used that very apt description “Kegsbreath” so I thought I would help him cement it in the public vernacular by reusing it 😎

[electric_blue68]

20. I had to wear protective fire gear for that! It was great! You go, Johnny!

[Mr. Mustard 2023]

22. Great letter Johnny - Thanks!

[dugog55]

23. I burn old newspapers to start my woodburner in the morning

Today's issue happened to be from early 2022 and there was an article on Fetterman. It mentioned that it may be a tough campaign for him since he is so "Progressive". Hah, reading that now, the reporter must have been making a joke. He has been a major disappointment.

[Paladin]

25. Outstanding letter! Great job, Mr. Palmadessa.

Here's hoping Johnny Palmadessa and his fellow Pennsylvanians turn Fetterman out of office and into well-deserved obscurity, just as soon as possible.

[Qutzupalotl]

26. Can't bind a Fetterman...

He was a better choice than Dr. Fucking Oz in 2022, but not by much. I had high hopes for his future, but he needs to resign or at least not run again. We will primary him if necessary. We'll hang his votes for Trump's nominees around his neck, and he'll lose.

[Irish_Dem]

28. I love a good righteous rant! Kudos.

[in2herbs]

29. He wrote: "And I urge every Democrat reading this to join me in demanding that we elect Democrats

who actually represent us."

If a D can't be found, voters can always vote for an Independent Party candidate.

[Aepps22]

30. Glad Others Finally See It

Fetterman is a shameless opportunist very much in the mold of a former Senator from Arizona. He put on a false facade to get elected and now his true colors are revealed. He is at best a coward but a worst a con artist and a fraud. I keep mentioning it but he spent more time fighting to wear athletic attire to the Senate than he ever has fought for us. He spends most of his time attacking our side than Republicans. He probably loves the attention they give him.

[usonian]

31. We learned about appeasement of dictators long ago. And forgot.

[Duncanpup]

32. Excellent

[mdbl]

34. I guess he's resigned himself to a life of ass-kissing

because once you start kissing republican ass there's no turning back. You're doomed to a life of spinelessness and disrespect.

[NBachers]

35. What a shame. What a damn shame. He was my chosen candidate when he started running, and I gave a lot of support to him.

[DENVERPOPS]

44. No Kidding

Just another one who has sold his soul, like the ever increasing number of other ones........

He no longer has a moral or ethical compass........Whores on the street have more morals than he and the rest of the Republicans possess. At least the whores have things they won't do for ANY amount of money...........not true of Republican Voters and Republican Politicians........

[aeromanKC]

36. Just get re-elected!!

Dems need every D they can get in the Senate. Didn't agree with all 60 we had to get ACA passed, but every D in the caucus mattered.
Missing just one, NO ACA. Dems need the gavel back!!

[et tu]

37. sometimes people who

have heart attacks have a personality change- usually
for the better. but for fman,' i pity the fool'.

[spanone]

39. K&R

[republianmushroom]

40. The man nails it. IMO

[malthaussen]

42. The only thing he didn't do was call Mr Fetterman a "jagoff."

By which I conclude he doesn't come from the Western part of Pennsylvania.

-- Mal

[Linda ladeewolf]

43. Timing is everything.

Fetterman portrays himself as a maverick. Most of us fall for mavericks. We’ve got to remember that people can act one way and be another. We need bold tough statesman right now, not pretenders. We need to look at any candidates past actions and try to think if it’s real or fake. A big job with the other side faking so much.

[FuzzyDicePHL]

48. Johnny's saying

what I'm feeling.

[Hotler]

51. kicking nt