Fuck Joe Manchin, Redux

I Hate To Be Repetitive Again...

August 18, 2021

Though he has not been plastered all over our tv screens in recent days, West Virginia senator Joe Manchin remains a critically important vote in the Democrats’ plans to build back better after the devastating Turmp administration’s attempts to Make America Dead Again. While Manchin has slipped into the shadows for the moment, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a body of scientists convened by the United Nations, has released the newest, most devastating climate report yet. The report is being touted as “terrifying” and “code red for humanity.”

Manchin, speaking to no one in particular, prefers coal to people

According to the NY Times, “We can expect a significant jump in extreme weather over the next 20 or 30 years. Things are unfortunately likely to get worse than they are today.” The Times continued, “Not all is lost, however, and humanity can still prevent the planet from getting even hotter. Doing so would require a coordinated effort among countries to stop adding carbon dioxide to the atmosphere by around 2050, which would entail a rapid shift away from fossil fuels starting immediately, as well as potentially removing vast amounts of carbon from the air.” In other words, it is fucking hopeless. A large swath of Americans won’t even wear a fucking mask to tamp down a rapidly spreading virus. And fucking Joe Manchin won’t let go of coal. Fuck Joe Manchin.

Climate? He’d Rather Burn It.

Sen. Joe Manchin, who is no less important to Joe Biden and the Democrats’ climate agenda, is on record as being opposed to renewable energy and the move away from the deadly menace of fossil fuel consumption. Not only do 97% of today’s climate scientists agree that man-made climate destruction is a threat to most life on Earth, particularly humans (which is only fair, after all) but back in the 1980s, research by other teams of scientists determined that human activity, specifically the wanton extraction and subsequent unbridled burning of the buried remains prehistoric flora and fauna, were not, shall we say, adding to the health of the planet or its unruly inhabitants.

Studies conducted for and by petroleum-pilfering profiteers Exxon and Shell’s own scientists showed that fossil fuel consumption was catastrophically dangerous. These two giants of environmental devastation determined that the best way to handle this chilling and critical research, was to bury it below the crude oil they were hell-bent on poisoning the planet with.

It’s The Capitalism, Stupid

Manchin, who allegedly works for the people of West Virginia and some would say, by extension, the United States of America, and some might even say he has some responsibility to the human race, made nearly $500,000 from one of the most polluting coal power plants in West Virginia last year alone. The Grant Town Power Plant “is still the dirtiest plant operating in West Virginia today.” The decrease in air pollution could potentially prevent 18 deaths, eight heart attacks, and 169 asthma attacks each year, if the plant were shut down. Ladies and gentlemen, Joe Manchin – the senator from Grant Town Power Plant.

Johnny Cash – 16 Tons

Manchin's daughter Heather Bresch, a pharmaceutical CEO, got a $31 million payout when her company, Mylan merged to form Viatris Pharmaceuticals, which then turned around and shut down their plant in Morgantown, West Virginia. Bresch drew outrage during her time as Mylan’s CEO when the company raised the price of its life-saving EpiPen, used by millions to reverse fatal allergic reactions, when they raised the price by 400%. Now, more than 1,400 workers in West Virginia have already been sent packing as their jobs are being relocated (without them of course) overseas to India and Australia.

Joe Manchin: Lifelong Friend Of The Filibuster

Manchin continues his (probably fake) fantasy that he can work with his fellow corporate whores across the aisle. The West Virginia coal addict continues to lie that the filibuster is what forces the two parties to work together. One teensy, weensy little problem – Ratpublicans have no interest in working together, especially when it comes to voting rights. Ratpublicans do not believe in the concept of voting rights, unless it pertains to white, male, landowners; this is the only issue on which Ratpublicans truly are originalists when it comes to the Constitution. They damn sure are working overtime to bring back the 3/5 of a person doctrine in their own, much less overt way, as red state after red state passes law after law designed to minimize the ability of black voters in particular to access the ballot box.

Working “together” with Ratpublicans on voting rights is like having someone with a knife just barely touching your chest, just slightly to the left of center, and in order to work with them, you push yourself, with hopeful vigor, toward the knife’s haft.

So, whatever else might be going on in that petty little head of his, Joe Manchin is just another of the many self-serving bastards “serving” in Congress. Don’t let his calm demeanor and feigned concern fool you. And don’t turn your back on him. And don’t even get me started on Manchin and voting rights.

Thank you…I mean fuck you, Joe Manchin.

I. Mangrey repeating. Again.