Rolling Stone: Manchin's Coal Corruption Is So Much Worse Than You Knew

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19. Without seeing exactly what you said, I hope you at least appealed

If any and all legitimate (and this certainly is legitimate) criticism of Manchin and/or Sinema was banned, I would not be long for the board. I do not play robotic 'toe the party's most rightward line possible, be it right or wrong' games. Many here do not, thank dog. That goose-step mentality is for the Rethugs to manifest, as they only seek to destroy and then rule the resultant wasteland.

Conversely, a small, overly vocal group here desperately wants that further rightward lurch to become the party's principal modus operandi, ie move as rightward as possible, purge as much of the left as is possible. They adore punching left, and abhor pushback against the furthest right of the party. Proggy punch-ups and kickabouts, all good, yet even fairly mild dissent towards and exposure of a Manchin or Sinema type, always bad.

Notice the main yips and yaps from certain quarters about tax policy in the 2 infrastructure bills were not about the fact that the majority of the hideous Trump tax cuts for the rich have been left intact, no no no. The main whingeing was about ensuring that the massively regressive, far too high SALT Cap increase was allowed in. A cap raise, as it stands, that goes (hundreds of billions in tax cuts) 96% to the richest 20 per cent, and 56 per cent straight to the richest ONE per cent (it takes a minimum of around $12 million in net worth to qualify as a 1%er) of Americans. The bottom 80% of Americans will see little (a few near the top of that 80%) to fuckall (almost the entire group) in tax breaks.