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onecaliberal

(36,594 posts)
Fri Jul 16, 2021, 02:15 PM Jul 2021

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underpants

(195,585 posts)
1. Have you ever been to West Virginia?
Fri Jul 16, 2021, 02:18 PM
Jul 2021
 

onecaliberal

(36,594 posts)
2. Yes. Do you know that more than 70% of the country supports voting rights?
Fri Jul 16, 2021, 02:20 PM
Jul 2021
 

Budi

(15,325 posts)
3. He's not the only DINO in the room, either
Fri Jul 16, 2021, 02:22 PM
Jul 2021

Tank the whole thing rather than pass a starting point to build from.

They all make me sick.

TheBlackAdder

(29,981 posts)
8. But he's the DINO that's flexing.
Fri Jul 16, 2021, 02:58 PM
Jul 2021

wyn borkins

(1,372 posts)
4. Picnic In The Country
Fri Jul 16, 2021, 02:29 PM
Jul 2021

Perhaps, those fine Secret Service agents who were going to drive Mike Pence to safety (rite!!!), can instead, take Joe Manchin for a nice ride in the country...

Crunchy Frog

(28,220 posts)
6. That wouldn't help anyone. The Rs are happy with him were he is, but the Dems
Fri Jul 16, 2021, 02:36 PM
Jul 2021

would be worse off without him than with him.

He'll enable to fascists to get everything they want, while putting a nice "bipartisan" face on it. What's not for them to like?

Crunchy Frog

(28,220 posts)
5. Yeah, we pretty much all know who his real constituents are.
Fri Jul 16, 2021, 02:33 PM
Jul 2021

And they're not the impoverished rubes living in WV.

keithbvadu2

(40,915 posts)
7. People have worried about Manchin changing parties but that's not going to happen.
Fri Jul 16, 2021, 02:50 PM
Jul 2021

People have worried about Manchin changing parties but that's not going to happen. He would then be just another Republican. Now he has both parties kissing his ass.

BootinUp

(51,035 posts)
9. I can't read his mind, but I do have a rudimentary
Fri Jul 16, 2021, 03:01 PM
Jul 2021

Understanding of politics. Don’t they usually vote based on how they believe it will affect the next election?

 

onecaliberal

(36,594 posts)
10. Unfortunately, it seems as though they vote how ever their corporate master directs them to.
Fri Jul 16, 2021, 03:13 PM
Jul 2021

BootinUp

(51,035 posts)
11. If only politics could be reduced to simple
Fri Jul 16, 2021, 04:01 PM
Jul 2021

Equations.

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