Ian Hanchett – 6 Jan 2026 – Breitbart

My cmnt: Sen. John Fetterman (D) Pa. is like a man reborn. He has a major stroke, gets elected by democrats who will indict a ham sandwich and elect a cadaver (O’Biden), only to recover completely and now thinks like a normal (i.e., Republican) person. God works in mysterious ways.

My cmnt: Fetterman’s humor here is referencing New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s phrase “We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism”.

Venezuelans living in Chile celebrate in Santiago on January 3, 2026, after U.S. forces captured Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro. (photo The Atlantic)

On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) commented on the ouster of Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela and noted the celebration of Venezuelans in the United States in reaction to Maduro’s removal by saying that, “we all recognize that kind of warm collectivism, socialism in Venezuela, no one really liked to live under that, and they had to flee that.”

Fetterman stated, “I turn to a lot of the Venezuelans in our nation, and they’re all celebrating these things. And we all recognize that kind of warm collectivism, socialism in Venezuela, no one really liked to live under that, and they had to flee that. And now, here, we have a way forward, and now there’s a trial, a public trial…here. So, that’s the way it works.”

Fetterman also said, “Our nation was forced to absorb over 500,000 [Venezuelans]. So, … that’s the [kind] of chaos” Maduro caused and said that “8 million [Venezuelans] were displaced in mass chaos.”

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