December 29, 2020, 1:54 pm
Lieutenant Governor John Fetterman of Pennsylvania has gained a reputation for being the plain-speaking everyman that many apparently thought Donald Trump would be, and he lived up to it in a recent MSNBC interview. Upon being asked about any evidence of voter fraud in his state, Fetterman joked that “President Trump received 100% of the dead mother vote.”
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After Pennsylvania became one of the centers of the 2020 election as a hotly-contested swing state, Fetterman was soon in the news for his dunks on Trump and his supporters for their unsupported election fraud claims. In November, he dismissed Trump as “no different than any other random internet troll” and, following the many failed lawsuits on the subject, said that “the president can sue a ham sandwich.”
This latest interview is full of moment of gold like this. In addition to the crack about the dead mother vote, he accused Republicans of “simping” for Trump, which is a newly-popular and derogatory internet term that basically means “sucking up” but with an even more sexual connotation.
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“One of the things I’ve learned from the GOP is that simping for the President and golfing waters the tree of liberty in this country,” Fetterman said.
In the same interview, Fetterman called out Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick for his promise to give $1 million to anyone who presented him with solid evidence of voter fraud. So far, however, there have been no reports of Patrick following through on this promise even after Fetterman presented him with a total of three cases of such fraud in Pennsylvania.
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“So we have three cases of voter fraud,” he told Ali Velshi. “Three cases. Despite what the president tweeted out earlier today, the only documented cases of voter fraud in Pennsylvania were these three cases, and my dude in Texas owes Pennsylvania big bank!”
“If you’re going to smear my state, then you need to pay up, because we delivered what you asked for.”
These slams have turned a relatively minor political figure into a left-wing hero as people praise him for “saying what we’re all thinking” without nearly destroying an entire democratic system.
“All I can say is, I know the PA Lt. Gov’s name but not the PA Gov’s name,” commented Stephanie Lucianovic.
*First Published: December 29, 2020, 1:54 pm
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