Republicans can endorse Harris all day long and I’m here for it.
Manchin endorsing Harris would have actually done her a disservice.
That is an endorsement in of itself.
he is a DINO
Not even. He officially left the Dems and registered as independent earlier this year.
I for one am very happy to rid the party of these scumbags: Manchin, Gabbard, Sinema.
Depressingly, also Fetterman.
Fetterman is bad on Israel-Palestine but I thought he was otherwise ok re: democracy, women’s rights, etc? Am I wrong? He’s not my rep so I’m actually asking.
Gabbard and Sinema are people that can be replaced with other democrats, but let’s not fool ourselves into thinking a more progressive person would likely get elected for Manchin’s West Virginia seat.
Manchin may suck, but he caucuses with the dems and puts the dems 2 seats over the majority line. Which means his existence currently allows the Chuck Schumer to replace Mitch McConnell, which means the dems control what comes to the floor in the senate.
On the one hand, this matters because it allows the Senate to actually approve qualified judges to the federal bench, instead of the insane ideologues the GOP puts there.
On the other hand, all the federal judges in the world mean very little when SCOTUS is as thoroughly corrupt and extreme-right as it is, and has no issue overturning whatever cases they want to achieve the decision they’ve already arrived at.
On the other other hand, Manchin got to obstruct otherwise-popular legislation from either passing, or even being brought up for a vote merely by threatening to vote against it.
On the whole we’re definitely better than we were before Biden took office, but I wouldn’t put too much emphasis on Manchin. The successes of the Biden administration are despite Manchin, not because of him.
They just can’t pass anything. But yeah, it is still better than what the other side would bring to the floor.
An independent now. Not even a DINO.
Remember RINO was a term before the party switch. It was used for people deemed not progressive enough.
The fact that Biden called for this exact same thing and Manchin was ok endorsing him but has to make a big scene when a non-white woman calls for doing the same thing basically tells you everything you need to know about Manchin
I think there are more differences between Kamala and Joe besides melanin levels and genitalia structure but okay I guess
Edit: Oh, I guess Kamala really is Biden in an Indian-African-American woman’s body after all, nvm
According to Ron Desantis, you can’t discuss genitals. His Wehrmacht is en route to your location now.
SS or Gestapo would be more accurate, not saying the Wehrmacht was clean just that the SS and Gestapo were the direct enforcers.
But they are busy knocking on the doors of the residents who voted wrong.
Yeah, Joe has dementia.
Why not just make the filibuster what it used to be and require the people who want to wield it to hold the floor for hours upon hours with no break? Some of it was silly. Some of it heroic. Either way, it required someone to truly be willing to stand behind their beliefs and, thus, was used much less often.
This seems like such a fair way to add some discomfort to filibustering and making it a bit less appealing.
it required someone to truly be willing to stand behind their beliefs
Conservatives don’t typically have these, and the ones that do know how unpopular they are. That’s why they fight against any attempt to reign it in.
Manchin was not going to endorse her anyway.
It’s 42 days to the election, people are voting, if he was going to endorse her it would have been at the convention.
True
Oh no! Anyways…
I’d seen the quote, but not the withholding of endorsement. Well, I guess he’s going to join the ‘both sides bad’ crowd.
Still. What does his opinion matter? He’s leaving the Senate next year so his proper alt-Right replacement can take over…
It’s going to be a Democrat. 18 year olds who are voting for the first time are going to hand Harris a super majority.
Lol
I love their optimism.
The very popular republican governor is running for his seat. Its gone at this point.
18 year olds in WV aren’t voting dem, as they’re the ones that couldn’t get into college and are stuck in WV.
Who could have seen that coming?
Oh literally everyone nvm
Manchin LOL. What a piece of work.
“I’m Kamala Harris, and I approve this message!”
Manchin not endorsing IS an endorsement. Harris should run commercials.
Fuck Joe “This is the best we can hope for” Manchin.
And fuck the system that makes him the best we can hope for.
West Virginia used to be cool.
The last time WV was cool was the 1300s
The Buck Garden people did make some pretty fly pottery
Holy Grail? An item given no special meaning in the Bible, and was blown out of proportion in importance by fiction writers a thousand years later? I guess Manchin doesn’t really think the filibuster is too important then.
No special meaning and not in the Constitution.
@realcaseyrollins he’s gunna endorse trump and could end up sec of energy
Oh boy…that would be something…
Who gives a single fuck what Joe “I’m really a Republican” Manchin says?
