Oh look! America is finally a few steps away from doing something to help its people, give voters a reason to turn out for Democrats, generally improve everyone's quality of life, and
here comes Joe Fucking Manchin to fuck it all up. Again.
This guy. This fucking guy, with his yacht and his coal money and all his selfish bullshit. This fucking guy I swear to god.
He sucks. We all know he sucks. But he isn’t just hurting the people who voted for him. He isn’t just hurting the entire party. He isn’t just pissing us off all the time. He’s helping this dishonest and destructive narrative take hold that will have terrible consequences tomorrow in Virginia, and nationwide in 2022 and 2024.
A thing that infuriates me about Manchin, one of the many things that makes him the most destructive force he can be, is how he gives media and other politicians cover to claim "The Democrats" are fucked up and aren't able to keep their promises.
He and Sinema are enthusiastically ensuring low-information voters sincerely believe The Democrats -- all of them, including President Biden -- can't do anything, or won't do anything, to help them. He and Sinema are ensuring that, if anything happens to roll back the deliberate Republican destruction of American lives and livelihoods, it will be as minimal as possible. It's almost like they *want* not just the policies, but the entire party, to fail.
With their help, this narrative has emerged that, somehow, the shit the entire Republican party and these two assholes are putting the country through is "The Democrats'" fault. Voters should, therefore, punish "The Democrats" whenever they see them on a ballot. Voters should believe that "The Democrats" can't get anything done.
Be honest and be accurate, please. This is not "The Democrats". It's 100% of Republicans plus two despicable pieces of shit who were elected by fewer people, total, than live within two hours of my front door. That is broken fucking government, folks. It's not "The Democrats" who are responsible for all of this suffering and inaction. And it's CERTAINLY not President Biden's fault. It’s all the Republicans, Citizen’s United, voter suppression, gerrymandering, and these two fucking assholes.
I expect political operatives to lie and mislead in service of their goals. But journalists know better. Journalists, please stop blaming "The Democrats" for the venal and destructive behavior of every Senate Republican, a nominal Democrat, and whatever the fuck Sinema is.
And to my fellow Democrats, we have to work extra hard to get Fetterman into the Senate, and increase the Senate Democratic majority to render pieces of shit like Manchin and Sinema powerless. I know it's petty, but I'm going to enjoy watching them plummet from this perch they can occupy due to circumstance, to the bottom of a portable toilet where they belong