2nd May 2021, 8:50 AM
Joe Manchin has to go.
He's poison right to the core, a Republican effectively, and while Biden's plans aren't going as far as I would like, especially the more recent ones are actually pretty good, yet this one man stands in the way for NO good political reason. Most of his own state are in support of these measures. Most republican VOTERS are. It's his DONARS that are against them, and that's why he's voting against it. He is literally no better than a republican if he's going to vote with their party every time. I've come to the conclusion that unless the democracts can actively whip this guy back into line, what we have isn't a 50/50 with a tie breaker, but a 49/51 with a traitor. The D next to his name is meaningless.
Anyway, Biden gave a decent speech. You know how I feel about fluff and feel good stuff, but when he got to the actual plans, well, that was some good stuff. I will criticize one thing. When he said that "democracts and republicans" voted for the stimulus to pass, that was literally untrue. ONLY dems voted for it. Every single republican, every last one, voted against it. Stop pretending that bipartisanship still exists Biden! It doesn't. State it outright. Say it proud. "The democracts came together and voted on this". Leave the republicans out of your praise, because they don't deserve any. That'll send the message to voters, republican ones, that hey, that money in their account came from democrats and democrats alone. It is IMPORTANT for voters to know who's actually doing things for them. Pretending they did things is actually going to hurt you in the mid terms, so stop doing it!
He's poison right to the core, a Republican effectively, and while Biden's plans aren't going as far as I would like, especially the more recent ones are actually pretty good, yet this one man stands in the way for NO good political reason. Most of his own state are in support of these measures. Most republican VOTERS are. It's his DONARS that are against them, and that's why he's voting against it. He is literally no better than a republican if he's going to vote with their party every time. I've come to the conclusion that unless the democracts can actively whip this guy back into line, what we have isn't a 50/50 with a tie breaker, but a 49/51 with a traitor. The D next to his name is meaningless.
Anyway, Biden gave a decent speech. You know how I feel about fluff and feel good stuff, but when he got to the actual plans, well, that was some good stuff. I will criticize one thing. When he said that "democracts and republicans" voted for the stimulus to pass, that was literally untrue. ONLY dems voted for it. Every single republican, every last one, voted against it. Stop pretending that bipartisanship still exists Biden! It doesn't. State it outright. Say it proud. "The democracts came together and voted on this". Leave the republicans out of your praise, because they don't deserve any. That'll send the message to voters, republican ones, that hey, that money in their account came from democrats and democrats alone. It is IMPORTANT for voters to know who's actually doing things for them. Pretending they did things is actually going to hurt you in the mid terms, so stop doing it!
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)