Lumpy Jack: The Loving and Tolerant Left Is Wishing Death Upon Me and Praying For a Lethal Stroke

John Fetterman and his life-partner Lumpy Jack recently spoke with the Free Press about the severe depression he suffered after his stroke and, let's face it, serious damage to his brain. And probably a change in personality. This change in personality resulted in him becoming more reasonable and less Trust Fund Communist.

Fox excerpted the interview.

Fetterman now admits that we were right -- he should have quit the Senate race when he suffered a serious stroke during the campaign:

Fetterman's condition improved, "but in hindsight I should have quit."

He says he was so depressed his wife told him to leave and go live with his parents (seems like old times...), because she didn't want his depression weighing down on the children.

And, he says, he contemplated suicide, at least once that he admits to.

He was constantly mentioned on Fox, or under attack by Dr. Mehmet Oz and his allies: "Uncle Festerman [in an] oversize gym-rat costume," "unfit to run," "the guy can't talk," a "wax dummy," "where does the man end and the machine." And on social media "Vegetable. Moron. Retard."

Yeah those last three were me. My bad.

This got in his head: "a defining quality of depression, the building blocks of which I had probably struggled with ever since I was a kid. My parents were 19 when I was conceived, and I have always felt it was because of me that my parents were unable to follow their own dreams. When your self-image is negative, as mine was growing up, you gravitate toward shame. You gravitate toward feeling unwanted."

"This inclination persisted even as an adult..."

"Is this my life now?"

Then came the debate against Oz. He was awful.

"This was a make-or-break moment that would determine the outcome of the election, and I had wilted. I'd choked."

"For the entire three-and-a-half-hour ride back from the debate, I read reactions on X, shooting myself up with the shame that is too often the sustenance of the depressive..."

"For months, I was suicidal. Paranoid. Not eating. Not sleeping. Not speaking. Not functioning. Resigned. Ashamed. Despairing. Despairing everywhere I was. Up was down, and down was up." He won anyway by 5 points.

"Once, as I lay in bed," Fetterman said, "I asked myself, What would you do if there were a pill on the nightstand you could take and not wake up? I would have taken it."

Gisele told him "I could not come home until I was back to being myself: The impact on our kids was just too great." So the senator moved in with his parents.

"By February, I wasn't eating, and I wouldn't talk to anybody..."

"I began to feel more alive and animated than I had in months. I was present. I felt energy."

"There were still enormous challenges, though. I was terrified to see my family."

"A young therapist-in-training came in to talk to me one day. 'Gisele and the kids are thinking about coming to visit,' she said."

"I don't think that's a good idea." The next day: "The kids are better off without me."

"At that point, she stepped out of her professional mode and said the most important thing that has ever been said to me in my life:"

"Children need their daddy."

The visit at a Wendy's went well. Everyone was relaxed. He needed their love.

I don't want to be Joe Maudlin Manipulator, but here's the depressed stroke victim that the left is currently wishing death on.

Dana Bash pretended to be surprised to hear that her fellow leftists were "praying for [Fetterman's] next stroke." CNN, of course, refused to cover the thousands of angry Democrats celebrating Charlie Kirk's death.

Maybe if she actually covered the news she wouldn't always be surprised by it.

The "In This House, We Believe LOVE IS LOVE" left is now routinely booing John Fetterman, and even worse, booing Lumpy Jack.

LUMPY JACK DID NOTHING WRONG

This happened on what ABC maintains is a "legitimate news program" -- which means they don't have to offer equal time to Republicans -- The View:

"We can talk to him about this tomorrow... Senator John Fetterman will be here tomorrow," Goldberg said, drawing a loud "boo" from an audience member.

Goldberg appeared to shoot a brief glare in the heckler's direction before continuing, "So we're going to ask him [Fetterman], 'What the hell?'"

This was a "Republican Shutdown," but Democrats are shrieking about a Democrat who wants to open the government. Check. Got it.

Fetterman and Lumpy Jack were already hate objects on the left before he began stating, correctly, that Democrats "need to own" the "Republican shutdown." And then that hate reached levels that... well, levels that previously resulted in the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

As you know, the House voted to end the shutdown, and Trump signed the CR into law.

It's Thursday! I've had a good feeling about Thursday since college, because most classes were M-W or T-Th which meant that Thursday was the unofficial end of the week.

And I try to get four Friday posts on Thursday so that Friday is a half-day.

What do you have going on this penultimate day of the work week?

posted by Ace at 12:12 PM

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