Emma is joined by funnyman and birthday boy Matt Lieb. Together they take in some of the sad and consequential aspects of John Fetterman’s mental health that have been reported on in a new piece by New York Magazine.

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    54 minutes ago

    He understood her and used avoidance techniques. He doesn’t seem dumb, I think everyone was hoodwinked from the original recipe.

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      As someone who had a friend who changed drastically after a TBI: it’s very much a real thing. My buddy went from “a bit of an asshole, but we definitely see eye-to-eye on political shit” to full maga idiocy in the space of a couple years after a bad biking accident.

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        That might be true in your case, but there are no guarantees that this is the case here. He has a problematic past.