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  1. What is this horseshit? I get leaving the Democratic party and registering as independent but fucking praising Trump all of a sudden? Manchin was a guy that wasn't great but didn't always do the wrong thing but damn he's lost his mind.

    thetimes.com/us/american-polit

    #USPol #Manchin #WestVirginia

  2. What is this horseshit? I get leaving the Democratic party and registering as independent but fucking praising Trump all of a sudden? Manchin was a guy that wasn't great but didn't always do the wrong thing but damn he's lost his mind.

    thetimes.com/us/american-polit

  3. #Biden waited and waited and waited some more for #Manchin and #Sinema clown car to quickly do things that had to be done.

    #Trump rammed 48 appointees in one fell swoop using the nuclear option that #Democrats refused to use.

    nbcnews.com/politics/congress/

  4. The largest swing towards Republicans, among the races listed here, was in West Virginia, where Republicans performed 44.3% better than they did in 2018.

    Incumbent Joe Manchin, who was elected in 2018 as a Democrat, chose not to run for reelection.

    Republican Jim Justice ran for the West Virginia Senate seat in 2024, while he was the state's sitting governor.

    Justice won by a margin of 41%, in a landslide victory.

    16/x

    #WestVirginia #Manchin

  5. The largest swing towards Republicans, among the races listed here, was in West Virginia, where Republicans performed 44.3% better than they did in 2018.

    Incumbent Joe Manchin, who was elected in 2018 as a Democrat, chose not to run for reelection.

    Republican Jim Justice ran for the West Virginia Senate seat in 2024, while he was the state's sitting governor.

    Justice won by a margin of 41%, in a landslide victory.

    16/x

    #WestVirginia #Manchin

  6. I wonder what #DonaldTrump offered #JoeManchin & #KyrstenSinema to screw the #Democrats over in the Senate‽

    This is an under reported but major victory for #Republicans.

    👉🏾 #Manchin, #Sinema block Democratic control of #NLRB thehill.com/homenews/senate/50 🔛 @TheHill (discovered via Perfect Union on #Threads)

    Unions may suffer once #Trump & #GOP gain power in January.

  7. I wonder what #DonaldTrump offered #JoeManchin & #KyrstenSinema to screw the #Democrats over in the Senate‽

    This is an under reported but major victory for #Republicans.

    👉🏾 #Manchin, #Sinema block Democratic control of #NLRB thehill.com/homenews/senate/50 🔛 @TheHill (discovered via Perfect Union on #Threads)

    Unions may suffer once #Trump & #GOP gain power in January.

  8. #Senator #Manchin together with #Sinema
    are the most successful and greatest support
    for #Trump and the #MAGAs.

  9. That sick son of West Virginia. May he be gagged and replaced swiftly.

    Sen.Joe #Manchin, I-W.V., has announced he won’t be #endorsing Vice President Kamala #Harris for president. Unfortunately, he’s refraining from backing her for a truly unfortunate reason.
    Manchin seemed to hint that he’d consider endorsing Harris, he said on Tuesday that he had decided against it because of her call for ending the #filibuster to pass federal legislation protecting #abortion rights.
    msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinio

  10. That sick son of West Virginia. May he be gagged and replaced swiftly.

    Sen.Joe #Manchin, I-W.V., has announced he won’t be #endorsing Vice President Kamala #Harris for president. Unfortunately, he’s refraining from backing her for a truly unfortunate reason.
    Manchin seemed to hint that he’d consider endorsing Harris, he said on Tuesday that he had decided against it because of her call for ending the #filibuster to pass federal legislation protecting #abortion rights.
    msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinio

  11. ⬆️ @darwinwoodka

    >> please do, there has to be someone else at my level

    I'd say, choose any of the following #British superlatives with a score under 2.0 as an additional qualifier to whatever other designation is currently trending to describe #Manchin, e.g., "Afwul Asshole" — There's room to go lower 😉

    @petep44 @GottaLaff

    Chart via @infobeautiful

  12. Hmmm - and yet we have well proven technologies to get us away from burning carbon and generating GHGs - but I guess investors are hoping to score big (and the #Manchin contingent fighting to protect their investments)

    theguardian.com/business/artic

    Too many #FalseSolutions to the #ClimatecCrisis

  13. Hmmm - and yet we have well proven technologies to get us away from burning carbon and generating GHGs - but I guess investors are hoping to score big (and the #Manchin contingent fighting to protect their investments)

    theguardian.com/business/artic

    Too many #FalseSolutions to the #ClimatecCrisis

  14. #Trump can't make any porous border issue stick against Democrats because of all the Democrats who voted in favor of deporting Dreamers. But this is also a reminder to the #VoteBlueNoMatterWho crowd that Who remains nonetheless important, even after #Manchin 's exit. Surprised that Dems muzzled their pro-Palestine constituency? You also need a reminder about the still-powerful AIPAC Wasserman-Schultz faction.

    In short, you guys need to get real for a change.
    #Democrats

  15. #Trump can't make any porous border issue stick against Democrats because of all the Democrats who voted in favor of deporting Dreamers. But this is also a reminder to the #VoteBlueNoMatterWho crowd that Who remains nonetheless important, even after #Manchin 's exit. Surprised that Dems muzzled their pro-Palestine constituency? You also need a reminder about the still-powerful AIPAC Wasserman-Schultz faction.

    In short, you guys need to get real for a change.
    #Democrats

  16. The 8 races and 3 long shots that could determine Senate control
    
Republicans are all but guaranteed to pick up at least one seat,
    putting even more pressure on Democrats to win seven other highly competitive races,
    including two in red states.

Senate Democrats face a grueling and narrow path to maintain their slim 51-49 majority this fall,
    as they prepare to defend 23 seats across the United States,
    many of them in purple and red states

    With Sen. Joe #Manchin III (I-W.Va.) retiring,
    Republicans are all but guaranteed to pick up at least one seat in that ruby red state,
    putting even more pressure on Sens. Sherrod #Brown (D-Ohio) and Jon #Tester (D-Mont.) to defy political gravity once again in their red states and win reelection.
    
Only 11 Republican-held seats are up for election in November. If Republicans win those races as expected and flip just one state, the Senate will be tied 50-50 with deciding votes made by the new vice president.

    If they flip two seats, Republicans will win back Senate control no matter who is in the White House.

    washingtonpost.com/elections/2

  17. The 8 races and 3 long shots that could determine Senate control
    
Republicans are all but guaranteed to pick up at least one seat,
    putting even more pressure on Democrats to win seven other highly competitive races,
    including two in red states.

Senate Democrats face a grueling and narrow path to maintain their slim 51-49 majority this fall,
    as they prepare to defend 23 seats across the United States,
    many of them in purple and red states

    With Sen. Joe #Manchin III (I-W.Va.) retiring,
    Republicans are all but guaranteed to pick up at least one seat in that ruby red state,
    putting even more pressure on Sens. Sherrod #Brown (D-Ohio) and Jon #Tester (D-Mont.) to defy political gravity once again in their red states and win reelection.
    
Only 11 Republican-held seats are up for election in November. If Republicans win those races as expected and flip just one state, the Senate will be tied 50-50 with deciding votes made by the new vice president.

    If they flip two seats, Republicans will win back Senate control no matter who is in the White House.

    washingtonpost.com/elections/2

  18. "If enacted... the #LNG portion of the #Manchin bill... would 'lock in new #greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to 165 #coal fired power plants or more' and 'erase the #climate benefits of building 50 major renewable #electricity transmission lines.' It is exactly, to the letter, what #Project2025 has called for."

    portside.org/2024-07-28/manchi

    #climatechange #fossilfuels #energy

  19. "If enacted... the #LNG portion of the #Manchin bill... would 'lock in new #greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to 165 #coal fired power plants or more' and 'erase the #climate benefits of building 50 major renewable #electricity transmission lines.' It is exactly, to the letter, what #Project2025 has called for."

    portside.org/2024-07-28/manchi

    #climatechange #fossilfuels #energy

  20. ⬆️ @pmonks @benroyce @mmalc @mloxton @genewitch @Remittancegirl @JuliusGoat @zenkat

    >> If the fascist ticket wins, we WILL see a change in our lifetime, our existing Constitution be damned. It will be suspended and replaced wholesale.

    Filibuster will not matter because despite #Manchin and #Sinema grandstanding, the #GOP will get rid of it at the first opportunity.

    These 2 senators betrayed us when we had a chance. Now we are in a #prisonersDilemma

    ⬇️

  21. #ResistBot #jessicaCraven #Chopwoodcarrywater #manchin

    I am writing to ask you to oppose opposition S. 4753, the so-called "Energy Permitting Reform Act of 2024" which has been called Manchin's latest dirty deal by activists and climate hawks.

    This dangerous and short-sighted legislation would enact pieces of the harmful agenda of Project 2025, hurt American consumers, wreck President Biden's climate legacy, and only benefit fossil fuel companies.

  22. «These [provisions] are nearly identical policies to what's proposed in Project 2025's Mandate for Leadership,…which was spearheaded by the Heritage Foundation, [and] calls for "unleashing all of America's energy resources," including…rolling back environmental permitting restrictions for new oil, gas, and coal projects, including power plants.»
    #FossilFuels #manchin #EnergyPermittingReformAct2024
    commondreams.org/news/permitti

  23. «These [provisions] are nearly identical policies to what's proposed in Project 2025's Mandate for Leadership,…which was spearheaded by the Heritage Foundation, [and] calls for "unleashing all of America's energy resources," including…rolling back environmental permitting restrictions for new oil, gas, and coal projects, including power plants.»
    #FossilFuels #manchin #EnergyPermittingReformAct2024
    commondreams.org/news/permitti

  24. Had to explain this to someone, #democrats only were "in power in name only thanks to the #filibuster and even then, for only 2 years.
    "In power" is a loose terms. To make any change the democrats must have A)a majority in the house of representatives B) the white house C)60 seats in the senate or enough loyal democrats to break the filibuster rule.
    the dems lost A in the 2022 election. No one changed their vote, there was just a lot of gerrymandering during the once a decade redistricting from the new census data. Many were deemed unfair at the state supreme court levels and we should retake the house by a tight margin this year.
    The dems never had C. #Manchin and #Sinema refused to end the filibuster so nothing could get done and the GOP refused to give on anything. There was a budget loophole Biden was able to exploit in the first 2 years that gave the environment a life raft but otherwise they were more a placeholder government til we could get a more favorable senate. The GOP gets what it wants when in power because all it has to do is break the government more or do nothing. It requires a lot more power and all the pieces in place to fix the government that to break and give more power to rich people. So dems being "in power" is misleading. Unlike in a parliament, there will be no punishments for voting against the leader of the house so its much more like herding cats. Its a very stupid system which is why literally no one else uses it.
    The filibuster is an arbitrary rule created to extend debate if there was enough opposition, purely by the senate and back in the day it required to to constantly talk to keep it going, in the 70s i believe when norther dems and southern republicans were liberals and vice versa they changed it to just saying anonymously that you wanted to filibuster and they can't even hold a vote without 60 votes. It used to be 66 but that was change. Because of this, no one sees what each party would do if they were not in power, they only see that nothing ever gets done and both parties get the blame. Exactly how the GOP likes it. IF we can retake a simple majority of the senate AND no one defects, we can kill the filibuster or severely change this terms of it, and the dems can actually start being "in power" in more than name only.
  25. Had to explain this to someone, #democrats only were "in power in name only thanks to the #filibuster and even then, for only 2 years.
    "In power" is a loose terms. To make any change the democrats must have A)a majority in the house of representatives B) the white house C)60 seats in the senate or enough loyal democrats to break the filibuster rule.
    the dems lost A in the 2022 election. No one changed their vote, there was just a lot of gerrymandering during the once a decade redistricting from the new census data. Many were deemed unfair at the state supreme court levels and we should retake the house by a tight margin this year.
    The dems never had C. #Manchin and #Sinema refused to end the filibuster so nothing could get done and the GOP refused to give on anything. There was a budget loophole Biden was able to exploit in the first 2 years that gave the environment a life raft but otherwise they were more a placeholder government til we could get a more favorable senate. The GOP gets what it wants when in power because all it has to do is break the government more or do nothing. It requires a lot more power and all the pieces in place to fix the government that to break and give more power to rich people. So dems being "in power" is misleading. Unlike in a parliament, there will be no punishments for voting against the leader of the house so its much more like herding cats. Its a very stupid system which is why literally no one else uses it.
    The filibuster is an arbitrary rule created to extend debate if there was enough opposition, purely by the senate and back in the day it required to to constantly talk to keep it going, in the 70s i believe when norther dems and southern republicans were liberals and vice versa they changed it to just saying anonymously that you wanted to filibuster and they can't even hold a vote without 60 votes. It used to be 66 but that was change. Because of this, no one sees what each party would do if they were not in power, they only see that nothing ever gets done and both parties get the blame. Exactly how the GOP likes it. IF we can retake a simple majority of the senate AND no one defects, we can kill the filibuster or severely change this terms of it, and the dems can actually start being "in power" in more than name only.
  26. I'm surprised that The #NWord hasn't come out of #Manchin's mouth yet.

  27. ⬆️ @AP

    Joe #Manchin, the coal heir and Beltway pundit, the turncoat from #WestVirginia, denied himself the odium of peeing in the #Democratic pool by ending his brief flirtation with presidential bid in #Election2024 and helpfully volunteered that he is not seeking a VP role either.

    "If a tree falls in the forest, and no one in the forest liked it and most thought it had fallen years before, does it make a sound?"

    via @RealJournalism
    dailykos.com/stories/2024/7/22

  28. @mcnado He's made/received enough money from coal and has a track record promoting #coal as the answer to almost any problem. Want an electric car? #Manchin knows you can power it with coal! Can't afford a house, try building with coal! Schools, try coal! Need a doctor? First try some activated charcoal! Got hungry kids, try more coal!

    He deviates only when the answer is guns. Think you have enough guns? Wrong! More guns for you and some bonus coal, you know, for the kids.

  29. @AP has a very positive story about #KamalaHarris

    But it is not all roses and sunshine — as Joe #Manchin, the turncoat from #WestVirgina, threatens to pee in the #DemocraticParty pool once again.

    "there were early signs that [ #Harris ] may not be alone in the #Democratic race. Manchin, who left the party earlier this year to become an independent, is considering re-registering as a Democrat to vie for nomination against the vice president"

    DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT 😡

    apnews.com/article/kamala-harr

  30. @Nonilex #Manchin is in the bag for the #fossilfuel industry. He left the Dems after sowing division. We don't need him and certainly don't want him. #Harris for the win!

  31. @Nonilex #Manchin is in the bag for the #fossilfuel industry. He left the Dems after sowing division. We don't need him and certainly don't want him. #Harris for the win!

  32. @andymoose A certain circle of anti-winning Dems have invited Joe #Manchin back into the party for the purpose of challenging Harris, so yeah--some Dems hate winning.