Joe Manchin- The worst hypocrite in the Senate
The DINO will be off tilting at windmills...and perhaps a third-party run for President in 2024
Evil is a point of view. We are immortal. And what we have before us are the rich feasts that conscience cannot appreciate and mortal men cannot know without regret. God kills, and so shall we; indiscriminately He takes the richest and the poorest, and so shall we; for no creatures under God are as we are, none so like Him as ourselves, dark angels not confined to the stinking limits of hell but wandering His earth and all its kingdoms.
Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire
West Virginia Democratic Senator Joseph Manchin III, the guy who lives on a yacht and believes that poor people aren’t suffering enough, has announced that he will not seek reelection in 2024.
good riddance.
fuck Joe Manchin. fuck him all the way to hell.
It would be overly simplistic to call Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) an evil, self-serving son of a bitch. It’s also an insult to Democrats to refer to Manchin as one of their own. The soon-to-be-ex-Senator is a DINO (Democrat in name only). He’s every bit as greed-centric, heartless, and compassion-free as any Republican in the Senate.
Typically, one would expect a Democratic Senator to vote with a Democratic President most of the time. Not so with Joe Manchin, who’s been a pain in the ass to President Joe Biden since Day One:
Sen. Manchin has voted against a majority of Senate Democrats 60 times (19.9%) in the 118th Congress (2023-24). He ranks 5th among all senators in voting against his party. The average Senate Democrat votes against his or her party 1.7% of the time.
And then there’s this:
Unsurprisingly, Republicans have tried getting Sen. Manchin to switch parties for years. While he still has a “D” behind his name, he’s all but become a Republican, except for the paperwork.
And why wouldn’t he become a Republican in sheep’s clothing? Sen. Manchin lives on a yacht and despises poor people. He tramples any legislation that promises to make the lives of those on the bottom rungs of the economic ladder easier. Judging by his words and votes, he clearly believes people experiencing poverty don’t suffer enough and have only themselves to blame for their circumstances.
Sen. Manchin, arrogant enough to presume that anyone cares, announced on YouTube that he won’t be running for re-election. He said many words, most of them meaningless, and some were about traveling the country and trying to unite the middle. Of course, he never specified the middle of what he was referring to, but that’s Joe Manchin, always assuming he’s far more essential and valuable than he is.
He probably would’ve been better served to make his announcement on PornHub. At least he could’ve had Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) provide the requisite under-the-desk handjob.
At least Sen. Manchin would’ve finished with a smile, no?
CLEAN UP!! AISLE FIVE!!
Sporting a fresh haircut, which is the best way to tell when a politician is about to bow out and/or confess to lurid sexual indiscretions, Sen. Manchin looked like Calvin on school picture day.
In an attempt to make it sound as if he was leaving the Senate to take on loftier challenges, Manchin
announced yesterday he will not run for reelection in 2024 because he believes he’s accomplished everything he’s set out to do, which is the sort of thing you say when you look at the poll numbers and realize that either of the two Republicans currently seeking the nomination would probably beat you.
[In Manchin’s announcement,] in which he pines for a better America that never existed, and vaguely hints that his future plans involve “traveling the country and speaking out to see if there is an interest in creating a movement to mobilize the middle and bring Americans together,” or at least finding out what’s really going on at the old haunted amusement park.
In political-speak, this is Joe Manchin’s way of saying that he’s looking to run for President as a third-party candidate, but he doesn’t have the balls to come out and say it just yet.
Manchin is widely believed to be flirting with a presidential run with the “No Labels” party, in the pretense that there are so many “moderates” out there that America would come together and reject all the sad polarization in Our Politics Today, which translates to financial support from tons of Republicans who simply don’t like Donald Trump, but in a general election could threaten to siphon off enough Democrats that Trump would win the electoral college again with a minority of the popular vote. Or maybe we’ll be smart enough not to let that happen again, please.
Or maybe it will be like 2000, when Ralph Nader siphoned enough votes from Vice President Al Gore to…well, we all know what happened in that election, right? No sense ripping open that old wound.
Of course, “No Labels” is to “moderates” what Ted Bundy was to healthy male-female relationships. I firmly believe that “No Labels” will ultimately be exposed as another AstroTurf group working to hand the 2024 Presidential election to The Former Guy.
But back to Joe Manchin and why he can go back to West Virginia and kiss some furry White backsides….
Joe Manchin fucking hates poor people. it literally ruins Manchin’s day if someone in need gets help.
Joe Manchin killed the child tax credit program.
WASHINGTON — Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., had privately raised concerns in recent months that parents would use their child tax credit payments — a key part of the Build Back Better legislation — to buy drugs, three sources familiar with the comments said.
ugh. this fucking guy. we’re talking about a tax credit here. this is not welfare. this is not a handout. it’s money that the government gives back to tax-paying working people — and Joe Manchin was so fucking concerned that someone somewhere was going to buy drugs that he killed the whole thing. lovely, simply lovely.
but wait — it gets better:
Manchin also raised private concerns with congressional colleagues that Americans, specifically West Virginians, would abuse paid leave time and use it to go hunting during deer season, two sources familiar with his comments said.
ah, the scourge of America: drug users and deer hunters.
Or, even worse, drug-using deer hunters…deer hunting drug users??
And now, mainly because of Joe Manchin’s hatred of poor people, more than twice as many American children live below the poverty line.
Just a year ago, child poverty hit a historic low of 5.2%. The latest figures put it at 12.4%, the same as the overall poverty rate. The surge happened as record inflation was rising and a lot of pandemic relief was running out, but Census officials and other experts say a key was the child tax credit.
And I wonder who voted against the child tax credit?
Wait, wait…don’t tell me….
If you guessed Joe Manchin, you’re every bit as cynical as I am. Congratulations! That doesn’t win you any prizes, but you should probably seek professional help…and soon.
Oh…and part of the reason that Manchin’s able to live on a yacht is that he’s so deeply in the pockets of Big Coal that he needs a ladder and a Sherpa to find his way out.
Many Democrats wanted a clean energy standard that would pay electric utilities to replace coal- and gas-fired power plants with renewable power and that would penalize those that didn't. But Mr. Manchin opposed the measure, so it was scrapped.
Of course, he opposed the measure; how else would he afford the payments and maintenance on his yacht?
And would it shock you to learn that Sen. Manchin was the only Democrat to vote for Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court?
It shouldn’t.
At the time, Republicans held a 51-49 majority in the Senate, but Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) would ultimately refuse to back Kavanaugh. That left Manchin and moderate Republican Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) as the crucial votes.
Within a few hours, both backed Trump’s pick. Manchin was the only Democrat to do so.
Sen. Manchin also loves the filibuster because, with a closely divided Senate, it puts him in a position of supreme power, and he LOVES being the center of attention, don’tchaknow?
Even though the filibuster IS anti-democratic, Sen. Manchin has consistently argued for retaining it.
He can be and has been a one-person wrecking crew on bills of grave importance. Killing the filibuster would remove his power, and he’d be just one of 100 Senators. With the filibuster, he can hold the Senate hostage to his whims.
Progressives argue that the filibuster is anti-democratic by its nature; and that the case for carving out exceptions should carry the day as the nation grapples with grave issues ranging from a rising tide of authoritarianism to the rescinding of the constitutional right to abortion.
Manchin’s answer has always been, “No.”
So now we’re left with the inevitable speculation- nay, the virtual certainty- that Joe Manchin will run for President as a third-party candidate. Manchin won’t be able to resist the pull on his ego, and the thought that he might be able to pull off an upset will undoubtedly prove to be too delicious to pass on.
He’s been able to frame his decision not to run in 2024 as a search for new challenges. If he were to run for re-election, he’d almost certainly lose. Two Republican candidates stand an excellent chance of defeating him. If Manchin were to switch parties and become a Republican, he’d have a better chance at re-election, but it would be an uphill battle.
Now, he can assuage his not-insignificant ego, not feel like a loser, and camouflage it all as looking for a new challenge in “uniting the middle.”
If Joe Manchin wants to act like a Republican, he can do that without impacting the Biden Administration. Unfortunately, that may not be true for long because if there’s one thing Joe Manchin has proven to be adept at, it’s being a pain in the ass to Joe Biden.
Joe Manchin can go to Hell. Go directly to Hell. Do not pass “GO.” Do not collect $200.
May he go directly to Hell.
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A number of folks have observed that, were Manchin to run, he'd more likely siphon votes from the Republican side of the ticket than from the Democratic candidate.