lol...

It's a legitimate question considering the timeline Biden put out

@JoeBiden WHERE TF IS MY STIMMY NIGGA

Stock market bubble
Stagnant wages
House prices rising
Middle class shrinking

No Stimmy in sight. If you’ve studied history, you know what comes next right lol....

S*** is about to get colossal

K that answers absolutely nothing. Where is the stimulus.

Stay on topic

Ehhh..President Biden said highest priority

Highest day one priority to be exact

He’s pumping executive orders out by the day..

Shirt answer : I have no f***ing clue

become president and give everyone a million dollars

Sure

Good. no more arming of the yemen genocide

👀

what they need to do everytime they ask another one of these stupid ass questions

Imagine blaming Biden for Manchin being the absolute scum of the earth

The reality is that the senate is basically 51-49 (GOP in control) because of Manchin

So when can we start protesting against Biden? It's been a good week or so

Manchin is not scum of the earth or even close.

Poor take thats gets easily thrown around but lacks nuanced understanding.

No it isnt.

Hawley is more in favor of progressive policies (stimulus checks) than him. This guy is pure pseudo GOP trash. Can you name one progressive policy that you can see Manchin agreeing to?

He has been a long time proponent of Planned Parenthood and has fought against defunding it.

Manchin definitely sucks, but you have to look at the big picture. He’s a democrat in a state where it’s pretty much impossible to elect Dems. The alternative is a ghoulish, far-right monster like McConnell.

He's a representative for West Virginia... why are you talking about progressive policies.

The only Democrat in that whole state's government. Second most red state. He barely won re-election in 2018. Capito just won the other WV Senate seat with 70%. Its literally either Manchin or McConnell as majority leader.

And if we actually look at his record he has never voted against party in a key vote. Voted against repealing ACA, voted against Republican tax plan, and, as @BA pointed out, the vote against defunding Planned Parenthood. Yeah he has sided with Republicans but only when its already a guarantee they're gonna win. Just as Collins gets to do and Murkowski.

Vocally he speaks out yeah, its the smart thing to do, but when it matters he always rallies. Before reelection in '18 he voted some 60% with Republicans, down to about 30% since. He's acutely aware of what it takes to win that state. And there is absolutely no chance of any Democrat besides him winning that seat.

I mean obviously I’d prefer him to a true GOP member

But economically he’s clearly conservative af

Ok I suppose I was a bit harsh with my words against him, and I get that he’s in a tough situation electorally

But let’s not pretend he’s a good guy here. His people in West Virginia are poor and dumb as flying f***, they’re the people that could truly use progressive policies the most, and yet he votes against their interests more often than not.

What I’m saying is that I’m not trying to compare him to the alternative in West Virginia, I’m trying to show how he’s trash and therefore the rest of the senate Dems and Biden should not be blamed when he is who holds their policies in his hands. To blame them for his faults (as a lot of people are doing) is unfair. People need to understand this before they lump Dems and Biden in with him (aka the 50th necessary vote to get good things done).

Manchin is hot trash

i just want my stimmy bruh.

The people in WV don't understand that progressive policies are in their interest and some, no matter how well it is explained, will never be able to overlook partisanship and get behind those policies. We can hardly blame Manchin for anti-intellectualism. Nor is the solution to force Manchin into taking up unfavorable kamikaze positions in votes and then inevitably losing the only ground we're ever likely to hold in WV, only to see those policies undone when things flip.

I wouldn't fall into the trap of arguing policies rest in his hands. He panders to the crowd, plays up the media, but when push comes to shove and he's needed, he has always come through. Yeah he's not a great guy but he's the best we're gonna get. I am interested to see what he does these next couple years. He's expressed doubts over running again, and even if he did he would quite likely lose, so I wouldn't be surprised if he does away somewhat with his more middle ground stance.

It's also not like there is a decisive majority in the senate. It's 50/50 after all. And Manchin isn't the only one in a tough situation electorally. Sinema and Kelly both have to thread a fine line and to not do that is a guaranteed loss in Arizona. Tester has a similar issue in Montana. All these will sometimes likely have to feign distaste towards certain policies but lets see what happens in the actual votes.

There's other senators who deserve far more flack and who will be interesting to keep an eye on. Maine is a blue state after all so I hope there'll be a lot more pressure piled on Collins to vote far more with Dems than she did the past few years. The same goes for Pat Toomey now with PA flipped. Ron Johnson has a s*** record of voting with Dems despite Wisconsin being a swing state. Now he's the only R in that state lets see how he fares. This is where pressure should be being put. And these are the f***ers that need to get ousted and are truly harming interests going forward, not people like Manchin who are holding key ground the only way they possibly can.

Lmao such a s***head way of looking at politics. Tf is the point of dems having the senate if they cant do anything because of s***heads like Manchin lmfao. All this f***ing elitist paternalism about ppl in west Virginia too lmfao prime liberal brain rot. Guess what, help pass policies that meaningfully and directly improve ppls lives, you wont need to worry about barely winning reelection