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Why Manchin Pushed Back
November 3, 2021 at 9:13 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 121 Comments
https://politicalwire.com/2021/11/03/why-manchin-pushed-back/
"SNIP.....
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) was bombarded with text messages from House progressives over the weekend and that led to the moderate senator pushing back in a public statement on Monday, Politico reports.
Said one Democratic senator: He was mad because members kept asking him for more shit.
Politico: If youve been paying attention this year, progressives yelling at Manchin has only further entrenched him in most cases.
.....SNIP"
Wounded Bear
(64,446 posts)Me.
(35,454 posts)applegrove
(132,619 posts)applegrove
(132,619 posts)Wounded Bear
(64,446 posts)applegrove
(132,619 posts)TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)largely because we are seen as the whiney class. We may not be, but that is how we are seen.
Like it or not, Republicans are seen as they who get things done. That's not true, but it's not entirely their fault that the voters see it that way.
qazplm135
(7,654 posts)And emotional.
You get some texts so instead of engaging or, I don't know, ignoring, you have a press conference the day before a major election you use as a public venting session?
awesomerwb1
(5,116 posts)but bombarding him with texts is childish. What a joke if true.
F-ing childish and stupid from both ends.
qazplm135
(7,654 posts)it's called communication.
If he doesn't like it, then TELL THEM.
bigtree
(94,442 posts)...likely bullshit.
We know why Manchin opposes these bills. It's not because of his feels.
FoxNewsSucks
(11,809 posts)got pissed off because people trying to get something done were asking him what were things that he WOULD agree to?
What a ***** snowflake.
berni_mccoy
(23,018 posts)And in the future he should be clear about his intentions.
wellst0nev0ter
(7,509 posts)Tell him to take it or leave it, and the Democratic Party.
I'm done with his dramatic posturing.
Budi
(15,325 posts)The delay, while standing on the words that "Nothing is better than something" indeed gave us the intended outcome.
And here we are today. We Still Have NOTHING.
Bravo to the grandstanders !!!! THANKS FOR NOTHING.
wellst0nev0ter
(7,509 posts)Budi
(15,325 posts)They don't get to hide their own contribution by shouting the names of the 2 designated go-to targets
They all got their media time. Their 15 min to raise their profile. Their spin sucks equally , all of them, for this waiting country.
Gtf to work.
maxrandb
(17,462 posts)padah513
(2,710 posts)Budi
(15,325 posts)Been sayin it all along.
There are more to question as to motive than just the selected Media targets.
Cuz if everyone's looking at them, no one's paying attention to the elephant in the room.
Billionare Corporate Media messaging:
"We have ways of making you think"
quote by Joseph Goebbels
Goebbles: Master of Propaganda: We Have Ways Of Making You Think.
A chilling portrait of Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi master of propaganda who fathered the "big lie", disseminated the Fuhrer myth, and leavened his mass persuasion with mass entertainment.
Makes one wonder why, right around years 2012-2015, we watched a steady stream of US politicians & assorted characters making a pilgrimage to Russia.
Media messaging, bots, trolls launched from foreign nations pushing an agenda built on propaganda, & MSM.
The tell was when Voter Data was stolen, sold, traded on the foreign dark market like the hottest commodity it was, and the same coded list of talking points, intended to degrade an opponant into the ground, were repeated throughout Media as well as on the campaign trails of the pols who all had made that pre-2016 pilgrimage to Russia.
There is a center point to the madness & it sits quietly, obscured by the madness it created, in Vadimer Putin's Russia, the home of the largest criminal organization in the world.
Like a magic show, Media is the magician performing the sleight-of-hand, controlling the gaze of the audience as it draws their eyes up, down, back & forth in amazment, more rapidly so as to disquise the fact that the trick is as old & practiced as time itself.
Goebbles: Master of Propaganda: We Have Ways Of Making You Think.
Billionare Owned Global Corporate Media are the Masters of Propaganda. And Russia's International Criminal Organization sees that the props are all iin place.
Who was all on that list of those who suddenly made a pilgrimage to Russa back in 2012-2015? Oddly, they all returned with a direction to seat Donald Trump in in 2016.
And here we are today. ~
Rand Paul
Rick Perry & his entourage
Zack Exley
____
____
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"MONEY & MEDIA"
Do Not Ever Forget Where This Took Root & Why, & How It Became Such a Global Threat.
Ask, Who Wants America & Why?
SNIP
Reich Propaganda Leader of the Nazi Party, 1929-1945
Hitler was so impressed with Goebbels mastery of modern propaganda techniques that he appointed him Reich leader of propaganda for the Nazi Party in 1929. He relied on Goebbels in the critical Reichstag and presidential elections in 1932.
Goebbels pioneered the use of radio and film for propaganda purposes. He produced films of Nazi rallies, speeches, and other events to show at meetings to further inspire and activate core supporters. Goebbels organized Hitlers campaign for election to the German presidency in 1932. With the banner Hitler over Germany, Goebbels depicted Hitler as an energetic campaigner using the most modern modes of transportation to meet constituents all over Germany. Hitler was portrayed flying in a small plane to multiple venues held the same day across the country.
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/joseph-goebbels-1
We Have Ways Of Making You Think.
~
fishwax
(29,346 posts)Manchin pushed back because he wasn't yet on board to begin with. That doesn't mean he won't get there eventually, but this notion that he backed off because of text messages is pretty flimsy, imo.
applegrove
(132,619 posts)places.