What AOC said.

[marmar]

Link to tweet

?s=20

[notinkansas]

1. This is already tiresome.

Is there anything he doesn't object to?

[NewHendoLib]

2. his power

[Ferrets are Cool]

4. His sex

ISM

[Lonestarblue]

3. Manchin seems to have white privilege to believe that women can't be competent.

I’m sure Manchin is enjoying his position of power as the Senate spoiler.

[Oldem]

5. Yes, and I'm waiting for him to throw his weight around in such a way

as to make such an ass of himself that his assery can't be ignored. Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.

[SergeStorms]

14. He hasn't already?

I thought he already had. He certainly has the attention of every Democrat, and sometimes that's not a good thing.

[calimary]

13. Good Grief but he's a problem!

And Sinema too. I contributed to her campaign to get a “D” in that seat instead of an “R”. And we got that far, but she has been disappointing, too. M
I want REAL “D’s” in those seats, NOT wobbly ones or “alleged D’s”. Those do us no good when it’s time to take a stand.

I keep going back to “is you IS or is you AIN’T?”

[Grokenstein]

6. As noted in replies to the tweet, West Virginia is insanely red.

Manchin is about as progressive as one can be and still hope to hold office in that state.

Plus, he knows Dems need every single seat, so he's going to milk that. "What's in it for me? What you got to offer?"

Even in times of everything's-on-fire crisis, there's always some asshole looking to exploit.

[speak easy]

8. Robert Byrd would have done the same.

Milked his vote for everything he could get.

[TygrBright]

15. Actually, it's not quite so insanely red anymore.

Commuter rail lines extended to West Virginia have meant an influx of people working in DC, Montgomery County, and even Northern VA, have been moving there over the past 2 decades to find less-expensive housing.

Slowly, slowly, WVA is being dragged into the 20th Century.

If Manchin starts hearing from constituents with WVA area codes and ZIP codes, he WILL pay attention.

Dems need to organize on the ground in Martinsburg, Morgantown, Wheeling, Charleston, Parkersburg, Huntington, etc., and make the case for how the Biden Administration agenda will assist economic recovery in those cities, provide jobs and opportunity, bring health care, debt relief, increased educational quality and better infrastructure.

Then get them calling Manchin's office to urge him to be on board with the Biden Administration and stop obstructing them.

It's simple, it can work.

The organizing principles Stacey Abrams uses so successfully for election success have more than one potential superpower.

informatively,
Bright

[rurallib]

7. Let me add that Joe Manchin would be nothing if there were one fucking Republican

ONE FUCKING REPUBLICAN that had even a molecule of backbone, but there are none - NONE

And they are all still scared shitless of the orange blob. What a bunch of fucking spineless cowards.

[Lucinda]

9. ...

[OMGWTF]

10. Someone needs to take Manchin out back and have a "Come to Jesus" meeting with him.

We can't let this one fking DINO ruin our chance to fix everything.

[not fooled]

11. I guess Manchin and Sinema are OK with

going down in history as the key senators who sat back and did nothing to stop the GQPee from turning the US into an overtly fascist nation.

[PufPuf23]

12. Hat tip to AOC for stating the obvious.