Off the deep end, and swimming for the bottom.
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This fucking asshole…
Joe Manchin tells Fox News he’s a ‘no’ on Build Back Better in huge blow for Biden
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Just heard that on the radio. Reportedly, the part he “couldn’t go back and defend to his constituents,” was about extension of the child tax credit. I didn’t realize West Virginians wanted raising children to be more expensive. Who knew?
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Unfortunately, DINOs have yet to become extinct. Maybe because the Democratic party is full of wimps.
Joe Manchin is to the fossil fuel industry what Strom Thurmond was to the KKK–a one-man filibuster, who is beyond shame in his defense of the indefensible. The difference is that Thurmond was in the opposition party and acted out of perverse ideological beliefs. By contrast, Manchin is a cancerous lump within the Democrat’s own party, that grows fatter and fatter on the money he’s making by blocking his own party’s core agenda. When confronted by this kind of systemic blockage, most parties would seek a political lumpectomy, but the Democrats merely cower at his malignant bluster, as their party wastes away day by day.
Source:
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In the footage at the link, no shooting is depicted, thank goodness.
But.
WTAF
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Time for a slew of executive orders targeting the coal industry.
Are you listening, Joe?
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I honestly can’t fathom how she can keep doing her job in the face of the constant belittling from her own side in addition to the incredible hate from the other side.
Naïve, eh?
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The simple answer is that she actually gives a shit about people.
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Um… that’s just being a woman in the modern world. It doesn’t matter how right she is, how competent, how… whatever… there is always going to be some man (and sometimes a woman who is trying to be cut throat and get ahead by shitting all over every other woman in sight) who is going to belittle whatever you have to contribute. You can give in, or you can keep doing what you believe in. I’m glad she refuses to back down, despite getting it far worse than the rest of us on a daily basis.
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But, but, Joe’s family coal brokerage!
Actually if one follows the donor money Joe is getting more from oil, gas and natural gas entities.
Coal workers may not have the sway that they think they do but Joe’s assets are indeed tied to all that bituminous rock in W. Va., he owns between $1-5 million in Enersystems stock, a coal brokerage firm he founded.
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Sadly, his opposition has nothing to do with anything as icky as working people (oh, yuck, gross) It is all about his personal and family financial interests in fossil fuels and gouging pharma bills. As such, I fully expect this to have no impact at all. Nor will the polling that Bernie suggested of the Mountain State on the issues of BBB. Because people do not matter to him one tiny little bit. Money and power matter. Period, and in that order.
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Sounds like it’s time to have the SEC put a lockdown on Enersystems; one that can only be unlocked through legislation….
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This will go over well back home, I am sure:
What an asshole.
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Just like his family, I guess.
Someone should ask him.
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“Sen. Joe Manchin suggests Child Tax Credit payments would be used to buy drugs.”
Maybe he’s just worried that they will buy the wrong drugs.
Wrong being drugs not from his pharma buddies.
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ProPublica turns their lens onto a different type of chemical company and the cancer it causes in the community:
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Entirely true. But he is probably smart enough to know that he can’t get re-elected without the coal miners. Money is great, but it means nothing if you piss off the voters because you don’t support one of the key things that they want. That Black Lung fund might save something of the BBB after all.
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