John Fetterman says the Left is much crueler than the Right:
"The Right would say really rough things and names ... but on the Left, it was like they want me to die or that 'we're cheering for your next stroke.'"
He's being 100% honest and I respect it.
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Happy Birthday, @USMC! 🇺🇸
The reason top tech companies often hire foreign-born & first-generation engineers over “native” Americans isn’t because of an innate American IQ deficit (a lazy & wrong explanation). A key part of it comes down to the c-word: culture. Tough questions demand tough answers & if we’re really serious about fixing the problem, we have to confront the TRUTH:
Our American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long (at least since the 90s and likely longer). That doesn’t start in college, it starts YOUNG.
A culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math olympiad champ, or the jock over the valedictorian, will not produce the best engineers.
A culture that venerates Cory from “Boy Meets World,” or Zach & Slater over Screech in “Saved by the Bell,” or ‘Stefan’ over Steve Urkel in “Family Matters,” will not produce the best engineers.
(Fact: I know *multiple* sets of immigrant parents in the 90s who actively limited how much their kids could watch those TV shows precisely because they promoted mediocrity…and their kids went on to become wildly successful STEM graduates).
More movies like Whiplash, fewer reruns of “Friends.” More math tutoring, fewer sleepovers. More weekend science competitions, fewer Saturday morning cartoons. More books, less TV. More creating, less “chillin.” More extracurriculars, less “hanging out at the mall.”
Most normal American parents look skeptically at “those kinds of parents.” More normal American kids view such “those kinds of kids” with scorn. If you grow up aspiring to normalcy, normalcy is what you will achieve.
Now close your eyes & visualize which families you knew in the 90s (or even now) who raise their kids according to one model versus the other. Be brutally honest.
“Normalcy” doesn’t cut it in a hyper-competitive global market for technical talent. And if we pretend like it does, we’ll have our asses handed to us by China.
This can be our Sputnik moment. We’ve awaken from slumber before & we can do it again. Trump’s election hopefully marks the beginning of a new golden era in America, but only if our culture fully wakes up. A culture that once again prioritizes achievement over normalcy; excellence over mediocrity; nerdiness over conformity; hard work over laziness.
That’s the work we have cut out for us, rather than wallowing in victimhood & just wishing (or legislating) alternative hiring practices into existence. I’m confident we can do it. 🇺🇸 🇺🇸
🚨 BREAKING: Sen. John Fetterman (D) FIRES BACK at the Democrats for accusing him of "bending the knee" when he went to dinner with President Trump
"It's not about BENDING a knee, it's about having a conversation with the president! [...] We HAVE to work together."
"It was a great conversation. Why WOULDN'T the senator of the state that carried him in the election? [...] He invited. Absolutely."
"I'm not sure why anyone would find that controversial."
@SenFettermanPA (2) and if the left is wanting to gain support from centrists and even people on the right… almost every republican i know thinks that this man is the most reasonable democrats out there and actually thinks highly of him despite not agreeing with his policies. Just saying.
@SenFettermanPA (1)If democrats are trying to win support for future elections… as a person that is pretty much in the middle/centrist but has historically voted republican most of my life… i would cross party lines to vote this man in as president if he ran against a republican i didn’t like.
Shut our government down and America loses.
2 MILLION Pennsylvanians depend on SNAP to feed their families.
For me, it’s hungry Americans over party.
Paying our military over party.
Paying Capitol Police and federal workers over party.
I choose country over party.
@Twitch Shut it down. Your staff didn’t even check on her are you absolutely kidding me?!? Fuck you @djclancy999 and your whole fucking staff. Pos platform.
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