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| Suprak the Stud 01/25/21 8:14:07 PM #105: | StealThisSheen posted... Yeah I'd like to know who "keeps defending" Manchin because I haven't seen it He might be talking about me? But my argument has never been "Manchin is good!" but "Manchin is important because he is a democratic senator from the second reddest state in the country". He's not a good senator by metrics, but his Trump score was the second lowest outside of Sherrod Brown who is just magic and you aren't getting a better senator from WV because it is a garbage state. Our goal needs to be where Manchin isn't the 50th senator because we all know what he is. Although Manchin gets us chair of the senate budget committee Bernie Sanders and is honestly worth it for that alone, imo. So like...I'm not defending Manchin in a vacuum. But running him out of office gets us nothing. Ire needs to directed at people like Feinstein who is as useless as Manchin on a lot of issues but from fucking California. Pretty sure Feinstein is against blowing up the filibuster too. As is Sinema, who is also from a bluer state. There was like a list of seven I saw earlier today and Manchin was the least of my concerns from them. --- Moops? "I thought you were making up diseases? That's spontaneous dental hydroplosion." ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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