#Anti-Manchin

[kyliaquilor]

Words cannot express how much Joe Manchin needs to get punched in the face. 

“we shouldn’t be dividing the country more by voting on things!”

#Jesus christ I hate this man so m #uch #Anti-Manchin

[kyliafanfiction]

Seriously, if the Democrats lose in November, it’ll be Joe Manchin’s fault.

#Manchpocalypse 2022 #Democracy will die because this idiot can't communicate his desires and beliefs to anyone #Anti-Manchin

[nando161mando]

Heather Manchin, while CEO of Mylan, ran up the price of epinephrine autoinjectors (EpiPens) around 600%. Her actions have, without a doubt, left families without life-saving epinephrine when a child or other family member suffered anaphylaxis. She is the epitome of evil.

#heather manchin #mylan #joe manchin #fuck ceos #female ceos #ceos #tesla ceo #ceolife #ceo!harry #ceo #humanrights #health #evil #corrupt ceo #corruption #corruptcongress #fbi corruption #democrats are corrupt #capitalism #anti capitalist #capitalist hell #capitalist dystopia #capitalist bullshit #class war #classwar #fuck the gop #fuck the police #fuck the supreme court #fuck the patriarchy #ausgov

[lady-griffin]

It’s just so much fun to see Joe Manchin’s spokeperson say that Manchin “believes it’s time for leaders to put aside political agendas...”

Bitch, you first!

Everything you do is an agenda or some kind of dramatic moment; please just go away. The amount of power this greasy sewer slug has is so frustrating. 

I understand the whole concept of choosing the lesser evil and yeah a republican instead of Manchin would be worst blah blah blah; but at times like this I 100% agree with all the people who are frustrated with the “just vote blue” idea.

Because it is frustrating when you have people like Manchin in power. He truly makes it all feel completely pointless and a waste of time - like if republicans really want to lower voting rates, they should find a way to utilize Manchin and his whole thing? Aura? Presence? Face? Political Agenda?

I just....

How has no one punched him in his stupid face yet?

#Joe Manchin #Anti Joe Manchin #Poltics #democrats #poltical wank

[calicojack1718]

MAGA: The OPPOSITE of Follow-the-Leader Politics

Everything is backassward in MAGA land. Instead of MAGA blindly following their leaders over a cliff, Republican politicians are gleefully tossing the entire country over the cliff to appease MAGA and get re-elected.

The Coming GOP Dystopia A funny thing happened on the way creating the GQP’s Dystopian Paradise, they passed state laws and constitutional amendments to pwn the libs and to stop the evil socialists from socialistizing all of the god-fearing right-good red-blooded Amer’cans! Apparently, it is a thing now that Repube politicians who actually hold elected office enact laws, policies, and state…

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#COVID19 #GOPDystopia #Abortion #ACA #American National Election Studies #Anti-Vaxxers #Follow the Leader Theory #Gabriel Lenz #GOP Dystopia #Joe Manchin #MAGA #Missouri #Obamacare #Pandemic #United Fucking States of Fucking Stupid

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Working class Dems who campaign on economics beat Trumpists in elections

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The Democratic Party Pizzaburger Theory of Electioneering is: half the electorate wants a pizza, the other half wants a burger, so we'll give them all a pizzaburger and make them all equally dissatisfied, thus winning the election:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/06/16/that-boy-aint-right/#dinos-rinos-and-dunnos

But no one wants a pizzaburger. The Biden administration's approach of letting the Warren/Sanders wing pick the antitrust enforcers while keeping judicial appointments in the Manchin-Synematic universe is a catastrophe in which progressive Dem regulators (who serve one term) are thwarted by corporatist Dem judges (who serve for life):

https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/14/making-good-trouble/#the-peoples-champion

The Democrats – like all parties in two-party systems – are a coalition; in this case, a "progressive" liberal-left coalition with liberals serving as senior partners, steering the party and setting its policies. These corporate dems like to color themselves as "neutral" technocrats with "realistic, apolitical" policies that represent what's best for the country:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/05/not-that-naomi/#if-the-naomi-be-klein-youre-doing-just-fine

This sets up the left wing of the party as the starry-eyed, unrealistic radicals whose policies are unpopular and will lose elections. But for a decade, grassroots-funded primary challenges have made it possible to test this theory, by putting leftist politicians on the ballot in front of voters, especially in tight races with far-right Republicans (that is, exactly the kinds of races that the corporate wing of the party says we can't afford to take chances on).

The 2022 midterms included enough races to start testing these theories – and, unlike traditional midterms, these races enjoyed high voter turnout, thanks to the unpopularity of GOP positions like abortion bans, book bans and anti-trans laws. Jacobin teamed up with the Center for Working-Class Politics, Yougov and the Center for Work and Democracy at ASU and analyzed those races:

https://images.jacobinmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/11134429/CWCP-Report-2024.pdf

Their conclusion: candidates from working-class backgrounds who campaigned on economic policies like high-quality jobs, higher minimum wages, a jobs guarantee, ending offshoring and outsourcing, building infrastructure and bringing manufacturing back to the US won with a 50% share of the vote in rural and working-class districts. Dems who didn't lost with a 35% share of the vote:

https://prospect.org/politics/2024-03-18-how-actually-existing-democrats-run-for-office/

In other words, in the kinds of districts where Trumpist politicians are beating Democrats, running on "left populist" policies beats Trumpist politicians.

That's the good news: if Dems recruit leftist, working class politicians and put them up for office on policies that address the material reality of voters' lives, they can beat fascist GOP candidates.

Now for the bad news: the Democratic establishment has no interest in getting these candidates onto the ballot. Working-class candidates, by definition, lack the networks of deep-pocketed cronies who can fund their primary campaigns. Only 2.3% of Dem candidates come from blue-collar backgrounds (if you include "pink-collar" professions like nursing and teaching, the number goes up to 5.9%):

https://jacobin.com/2024/03/left-populists-working-class-voters

All of this confirms the findings of Trump's Kryoptonite, an earlier Jacobin/CWCP research project that polled working-class voters on preferences for hypothetical candidates, finding that working-class candidates with economically progressive policies handily beat out Republicans, including MAGA Republicans:

https://images.jacobinmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/08125102/TrumpsKryptonite_Final_June2023.pdf

Since the Clinton-Blair years, "progressives" have abandoned economic populism ("It's not a burning ambition for me to make sure that David Beckham earns less money" -T. Blair) and pursued a "third way" that seeks to replace half the world's of supply white, male oligarchs with diverse oligarchs from a variety of backgrounds and genders. We were told that this was done in the name of winning elections with "modern" policies that replaced old-fashioned ideas about decent pay, decent jobs, and worker power.

These policies have delivered a genocide-riven world on the brink of several kinds of existential catastrophe. They're a failure. The pizzaburger party didn't deliver safety, nor prosperity – and it also can't deliver elections.

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/20/actual-material-conditions/#bread-and-butter

#pluralistic #elections #political science #democrats #democrats in disarray #class #class war #us politics #pizzaburger

[nodynasty4us]

The press likes having Trump to kick around, obviously, but journalists don't want him to win again. That doesn't mean the press prefers Biden. The press largely shares the viewpoint of mainstream plutocrats: that the ideal outcome this year would be a victory by Nikki Haley or whoever tops the No Labels ticket. But since Haley will drop out after losing the South Carolina primary and the No Labels ticket will likely be topped by Joe Manchin or someone even less inclined to attack Trump, Biden has a clear field as the only genuinely anti-Trump candidate in the race. So he probably should pound Trump as often as possible. He can win a lot of news cycles that way.

No More Mister Nice Blog: WILL BIDEN ONLY GET GOOD MEDIA COVERAGE WHEN HE TALKS ABOUT TRUMP AND DEMOCRACY?

#media #joe biden #donald trump #democracy #featured

[eightyonekilograms]

My sense is that no one is having fun. Out in MAGA land people are frothing at the prospect of getting their retribution on the rest of the country. But they’re not having “fun” the way they did in 2016, when they felt like they had discovered what was either the new punk rock or the greatest reality show of all time. Anti-anti-Trump conservatives are mad that no Republican has emerged to save them from Trump. Inside Conservatism Inc. and #TeamNormal GOP politics, they now realize that they’re going to have to publicly defend Trump for another year while privately praying for him to go away—either via health event, jury verdict, or electoral defeat. That’s why they’re so cranky. Low-information independent voters are sour because they’ve signaled—over and over—that they don’t want a Trump-Biden rematch. Now they’re starting to understand that they’re going to get a rematch, good and hard. The progressive left is angry at Joe Biden because he didn’t deliver the big, progressive policies they wanted and also because he has been a strong and reliable ally for Israel. The mainstream of the Democratic party is pissed that they have to beat Donald Trump, and a bunch of radical malcontents looking to play spoiler, and a bunch of rich centrist moderates who simultaneously believe that (1) Biden and Trump are indistinguishable and (2) there is a vast chasm of difference between Biden and Joe Manchin / Larry Hogan. And finally there are people like me, who belong to the smallest subset of them all: Those who have been pleasantly surprised by Biden’s first term and view it as successful by nearly every objective measure. Those of us holding this view are regarded as lunatics by 70 percent of the country.

[qqueenofhades]

I'm seeing a lot of leftists complain about Biden not being able to do anything and how Republican presidents were able to write executive orders for seemingly whatever they wanted, and I got confused. So i wanted to ask: why does it seem like Republicans can pass whatever they want whenever they want but Democrats can't?

Welp. This is, yet again, another Online Leftist "argument" that isn't correct, doesn't give an accurate view of the situation, and doesn't propose any helpful alternatives. I know that the Republicans can often feel like an overwhelming and unstoppable evil machine, but the truth is that despite the chaos and damage of Trump's four years to American democratic society and sociopolitical norms, he didn't actually pass much legislation -- even with a compliant Republican-controlled Congress from 2016-18. The Republicans didn't even succeed in legislatively repealing the ACA, despite trying zillions of times to do it, and mostly just passed tax cuts for rich people and other bad economic policy, since they could do it with budget reconciliation (the same process that Democrats used to pass the American Rescue Plan with only 50 votes in the Senate and no Republican support). Because budget/financial legislation isn't subject to the filibuster, the Republicans could pass it with the same simple-majority vote. But they didn't really succeed in doing much else.

Next, Trump's most onerous and infamous executive orders -- withdrawing from WHO and the Paris Agreement, the "Muslim Ban," etc etc -- were all in the list of things that Biden reversed on his first day in office. This is why, as myself and others have said, policy based solely on executive orders is never a long-lasting or ideal way to do something, since it's subject to instant repeal if an administration with different ideological priorities happens to succeed you. Besides, this whole "Biden should just executive order everything!!!" demand basically means that he should just... be Trump and try to exercise the presidency like a king? Online Leftists have no patience for or interest in the American democratic legislative process any more than the fascist wingnuts, and while I get the desire for a quick solution, that's still not going to be a magical panacea that fixes everything. It's not an excuse or an escape from having to put in the work.

Right now, Democratic control of Congress is slender and very contingent on whether Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema feel like supporting something in the Senate, and as long as they won't budge on reforming the filibuster, that means Democrats are likewise limited in what they can do from a legislative perspective. It's unfortunate that people deliberately don't understand that there's a huge difference between 60 Democratic senators and 50 Democratic senators, but there is, and since the Obama-era 59/60 Democratic Senate included seats in red states that a Democrat will never win again in the post-Trump era, it's always going to be a matter of very thin margins and major wrangling. None of this is to say that the Democrats shouldn't be doing more; obviously, they should, and I was sharply critical of Biden's initial response to the Roe overturn. Everything I have seen since has confirmed my opinion that the administration wasn't prepared, might not have thought it would really happen even after the draft leaked, and were wary of taking too "drastic" steps or openly trying to overrule the Supreme Court. This results from, as I have said before, Biden's over-reliance on his outdated belief that American democratic institutions will function more or less properly, even if they're currently staffed and controlled by terrible anti-democrat fascist evangelical nutcases. And that is... just not true, unfortunately.

That said, Biden has picked up the pace in recent days: he issued an executive order to maintain abortion access insofar as possible, the Department of Health and Human Services issued guidance that any federally funded hospital must provide a life-saving abortion regardless of state laws, Democrats in the Senate are trying to pass legislation preserving the right to travel out of state for care, and there is talk of Biden declaring a federal public health emergency, which would likewise preserve access at least in the life-threatening cases. None of this happened in the first weeks after the overturn, and I'm glad to see it happening now, even if there are still more steps to be taken. But as I have explained many, many times, an executive order does not magically work everything out and fix it immediately. It directs the relevant federal departments to come up with and implement a solution, and that still takes time and effort. And as I said, it is the least durable and most easily overturned form of policymaking, and should not be the option of first resort for any number of reasons.

The current leftist demand just seems to be "issue an executive order that instantly fixes everything and makes SCOTUS irrelevant so we don't have to feel any guilt about not voting for Clinton and laughing off everyone who warned us that this was going to happen." And that, likewise, is totally unrealistic. Biden can take concrete steps with his executive authority to ameliorate the situation to some degree; he has done some already, and hopefully will be pushed into more. But there is no way to simply remove SCOTUS as a major political piece, or make its decisions irrelevant, or wave our hand and pretend it doesn't exist. There are still obviously far more barriers to abortion care and access than there were while Roe was the law of the land, and that was the direct and intended result of them overturning it. That is not going to disappear.

Anyway. The claim that "Republicans can always do whatever they want and Democrats can't because they just don't try" is not true. As noted, the Republicans didn't actually do that much during Trump's time in office, and all their major victories now are coming as a result of the Republican-hijacked SCOTUS handing down decisions that are not easy to reverse, challenge, or otherwise get around. This is exactly why the Republicans played the long game with the direct goal being to capture the judiciary, especially the Supreme Court, and why Democrats need to expand or significantly reform it if any of us plan on having any civil rights again in our lifetimes. But to do that, we need to get an actual working majority in the Senate, hold the House, and then keep the pressure up for the promised filibuster reform and subsequent legislation to actually get done. I know that pointing out that things take time and have concrete steps that need to be accomplished in a certain order isn't as satisfying or pithy as "just do it all now and stop making excuses!!!", but it is, alas, still the case.

#anonymous #ask #politics for ts

[schraubd]

What Politics Has Done Politics Can Undo

What Politics Has Done, Politics Can Undo "The majority has overruled Roe and Casey for one and only one reason: because it has always despised them, and now it has the votes to discard them." That's from the joint dissent in Dobbs. It's true. Nothing about the Constitution changed from the start of this week to the end of this week, or indeed (in relevant part) from 1973 to today. What changed was politics. The conservative right spent fifty years in a slow, grinding war of political attrition -- gaining power, entrenching itself in key institutions, pushing forward -- and Dobbs was the payoff. That's a political accomplishment, not a legal one. It is difficult to tell my students that no legal argument that they will learn in my Con Law class will make the slightest difference in terms of potentially seeing Dobbs overturned, just as no legal argument actually played any role in seeing Roe overturned. Nonetheless, it is true. But that just means the relevant arena for fighting is different. What politics did, politics can undo. There is a bruising fight coming. There is no weird trick by which Democrats can win it in a one-punch knockout tomorrow. It will likely take years. Overturning Roe took Republicans nearly fifty years. God willing, reviving Roe will not take that long. Indeed, my fondest dream is that the reversals happen while at least some of the current GOP justices are on the Court. I want them to be there as their work crumbles to dust, I want them to mewl helplessly as their precedents (and I don't just mean Dobbs here) are brushed aside as aberrant malignancies on the constitutional body politic. But it will take a sustained, disciplined political campaign, at all levels of government, that matches or even exceeds what anti-abortion advocates threw at the issue for the past fifty years. And while no, "just vote" is not a sufficient part of that strategy, yes, voting is a necessary and indeed critical and central part of that strategy, and anybody is who is indulging in mocking voting or undermining voting or depressing voting is functionally abetting the anti-abortion cause no matter what else they claim to be doing on the issue. All the other components of fighting for abortions rights in 2022 -- from protests to strikes to mutual aid programs to deleting your period tracking apps -- are at most rear-guard actions without more Democrats in power. It doesn't matter who the Democrat is. Yes, even the supposed "pro-life" Democrats. Why? Because when Democrats, as a party, are in a stronger position, the gravitational pull of politics moves all Democrats in a pro-choice direction. It's no accident that Joe Manchin, who long has presented himself as "pro-life", is now talking about codifying Roe. It's also no accident that Susan Collins, who long has identified as "pro-choice", was a key player in ensuring that the anti-Roe majority was present on the Supreme Court. Republican power alters the center of gravity of politics in an anti-abortion direction even if individual Republicans claim to be pro-choice; Democratic power does the oppose even if individual Democrats claim to be pro-life. It's obviously better to have pro-choice Dems than pro-life Dems, but it's better to have any Dems than any Republicans in office. If nothing else, Susan Collins is testament to the strategy that if keep control of the dice long enough, eventually the party apparatus will win out. I won't claim to be especially impressed with the manner in which the Democratic leadership has responded to Roe's demise -- but then, crushing defeats are rarely pretty for the defeated party. Nonetheless, unless more Democrats are elected, there is no hope of reviving Roe. It's that simple. There's no substitute for having power. via Blogger https://ift.tt/ZvUrDYk June 25, 2022 at 03:39PM

#abortion #Democrats #GOP #reproductive rights #Republicans #Roe v. Wade

[kyliaquilor]

Joe Manchin should just switch to being a Republican already. Jesus Christ bastard, this is not the fight you need to be picking every single time.

Yes, you need to worry about your republican state, but trust me, your voters aren’t going to pay attention to every single vote, so don’t torpedo every, single, thing.

All Joe is doing is making republicans have an easier time in 2022, and that won’t be better for you or your state. Republicans don’t actually help poor, rural americans, you know this, Manchin.

So either just admit you’re a Republican, or fucking resign you pathetic little shit.

#Anti-Manchin #Christ on a bike this asshole

[odinsblog]

It’s nothing less than BIG government, forced birthing. This is evil and draconian. People argue that America is already a late stage capitalist oligarchy, but if SCOTUS repeals Roe, it will be remembered as the turning point when America actually turned the corner and really became a fully Christofascist state—because conservatives won’t stop at overturning Roe v. Wade. The leak included references to to the landmark Loving and Obergefell cases.

“According to Alito's reasoning, Roe was "remarkably loose in its treatment of the constitutional text." Alito notes that Roe rests not on any single constitutional provision, but on five: the First, Fourth, Fifth, Ninth, and 14th Amendments.”

Please recognize this for what it is. A complete grab for control by an illegitimate rightwing court.

SN: Please, do not add any #VBNMW fuckery to this post—that kind of blind sycophancy is exactly how we ended up with misogynistic anti-abortionists like Clarence Thomas, Joe Manchin, Henry Cuellar, Dan Lipinski, and too many others.

#politics #amy coney barrett #the handmaids tale #republicans #roe v wade #abortion #forced birth #reproductive rights #reproductive justice #healthcare #womens rights #womens health #womanism #feminism

[callmearcturus]

cw politics and the abortion thing

so i listen to a lot of news podcasts bc i hate myself in a very specific way that i don't suggest for anyone else

and what i am loooooving about the fucking SCOTUS draft is that

okay to understand this, you need to know the main argument is "well abortion is not mentioned in the constitution so we shouldn't have an opinion on it, we should give this back to the states to decide"

which if you are a person with two braincells to rub together you might go "sooooo hey what about all those other rights the constitution doesn't mention? what about gay marriage? what about privacy? what about, oh idk, the right to not be persecuted for your identity in any number of ways? what about those that aren't explicit"

and the fucking draft ruling LITERALLY says "lmao so don't worry about those, abortion is Special"

?????? bitch why

what precisely keeps people from going "well actually i don't think the court should have an opinion on same sex marriage, that should be left to the states too" like what actual mechanism is in place to prevent rolling back of more decisions. how about sodomy laws, which are essential the outlawing of being queer, how will this dovetail into the GOP's attack on trans people, come the fuck on

what I surmise from listening to a lot of SCOTUS experts talk about this is this is the first time the SCOTUS has taken away rights it had previously conferred, and what the fuck mechanism would stop it there

Sotomayor i think was the one to ask if the SCOTUS would survive the stench of this decision, if it as an institution would be seen as anything but a partisan body if this goes through, and girl same.

anyway. that's not even getting into the fact that joe fucking manchin apparently is anti abortion too so yanno, burn down the fucking SCOTUS, for legal reasons this is a joke, etc etc

#us politics #scotus

[mariacallous]

*sigh* so I'm sick of stories that give Republicans credit for not supporting Trump while not being willing to do anything to stop him.

For example NBC News ran a piece on how they could only find 4 former Trump cabinet members who endorsed/supported him. I think Bill Barr sums up my issue with this type of story best, he said “I have made clear that I strongly oppose Trump for the nomination and will not endorse Trump,” but when asked how he might vote in a Trump V Biden general election: "I’ll jump off that bridge when I get to it.”

Lisa Murkowski declared “If it’s a match-up between Biden and Trump, I know exactly where I’d go. I would go with Joe Manchin,” of course Manchin is not running....

just... I know 90% of these "anti-Trump" Republicans will vote for him in the general, some will say bullshit about "well I voted for him but I didn't endorse him" as if there's somehow a difference. The other 10% will do some virtue signaling bullshit and write in a dead Republican like Reagan, McCain, Colin Powell. Literally no Republican Senator, Congressman, former cabinet member, Governor, no one, will step up and be like "I'm a Republican for Joe" or whatever

and like I've thought about it, if we fell into the mirror universe and it was President Mitt Romney or still alive John McCain vs RFK Jr or mirror universe Democrat Donald Trump, like you bet your ass I'd find something to like about Mitt or McCain "well at least NATO will still be a thing and we won't subordinate our foreign policy to Russia" like come on the fact that Trump is running on "yes I want to turn America into a dictatorship" and the other option is their old friend Joe and they can't pull it together... just gross.

I mean, this is where we’re at as a country. There are people who go “well on the right they’re fascists and bullies and on the left they’re focused on pronouns and tampons everywhere, so both sides are extreme and weird!”

[brandyschillace]

"We figured out how to support the most vulnerable people in America during the pandemic, and every statistical measure shows that it was a rousing success. Then policymakers, primarily Joe Manchin and congressional Republicans, decided to just not do it anymore."

#poverty #pandemic #fuck the gop #social justice #fair pay #living wage #support #disability

[dynamoe]

If you're a US Citizen over 18, remember to VOTE in the midterms. Irritate everyone you know into voting. Even if the candidates are blah. Even if you're burnt out. Let's get this the fuck over with!

*Feel free to use any of my graphics on your social media. Please do.

As bad as things are, a Republican congress is going to make it a million times worse.

If the GOP gain control of #Congress, in addition to stopping the investigation into January 6 and gumming up the process of getting bills that HELP PEOPLE passed in favor of performative "anti-woke" "anti-CRT" and anti-Biden measures, they promise to pursue a NATIONAL ABORTION BAN.

No ban will end abortion. It will end legal, safe abortion. The rich will get them anyway from private doctors who lie for them. The poor and desperate will do it to themselves and die in the process.

The American Health Care system is already terrible when just money is corrupting it. Adding in confusing "only if the life of the mother is in danger" rulings make it even worse. Women will die… Have died. You are punishing not just people seeking to terminate a pregnancy but couples getting fertility treatments, incest/rape victims, and ovary-havers facing an unexpected medical crisis. You are in favor of unnecessary, pointless death.

If you personally believe abortion is amoral, don't get one. Work to prevent the need for abortion with comprehensive sex ed and contraception. Crusade for maternity leave and make American society more welcoming to mothers.

If you want abortion banned to "punish sluts" who get an abortion the day before their due date on a whim, get in a trash can. You're not pro-life, you're pro-forced birth.

Democrats must keep the House and Senate and hopefully increase their numbers to make Manchin/ Sinema irrelevant as they should be.

#abortion #midterms #illustration #illustrator #lettering #US politics #US election #senate #congress