It was clearly not the holiday season
everyone was hoping for to close out 2020, Part II, aka 2021. Thanks to the
continuing threat of COVID-20: The Omicron Variation, The Fear, rather than The
Force was strong in many of us. The masks, the boosters, the boneheads.
Nonetheless, it was a holiday season; less
work, more partying, albeit mostly with cohabitating loved ones, and we got to
move on, at least calendar-wise to a fresh set of pages full of days that have
the potential to be less horrific than the ones we just tossed into the
recycling bin.
With all the merriment, such as it was, you
may have forgotten one critical element, one that appears impossible to ignore
despite our desire to move on, nurture hope, and fight for the best in human
nature to prevail. And I know that I sound like a broken record (is that even a
phrase anymore?), and I know that I feel like a broken wreck, and though I was
hoping to chill out a little bit longer to see how the new year took its first steps
into the future, I simply cannot rest on this bed of nails, and must say one
thing. That one thing: Joe Mansion is a huge, lying, greedy, hateful, fucking, coal-based
life form.
He acts like he cares. He acts like he is oh-so-thoughtful.
He acts like he is simply fighting for bipartisanship. He acts like he forgot
that Ratpublicans spit on his super-bipartisan “voting rights” plan. He insists
that he will not do anything without Ratpublican unicorns…I mean, support. And he
acts like he really believes that the full-o-shit filibuster is etched in
stone, immutable, and protective of democracy. Before this year even gets off
the ground, Mansion responded to Chuck Schumer’s insistence that the filibuster
must either disappear or be modified for the sake of voting rights and democracy,
mustering his best Susan-Collins-esque concern face, saying any change in the
racist filibuster would be a “heavy lift”, adding, “The reason I say it's a
heavy lift is once you change a rule or you have a carve out, I've always said
this -- Anytime there's a carve out, you eat the whole turkey. There's nothing
left because it comes back and forth.” Wow, that is some serious, authentic
frontier gibberish.
Mansion also told reporters, “I'm talking.
I'm not agreeing to any of this to the extent, I want to talk and see all the
options we have open. That's what we're looking at.” And that my friends, is some
serious, authentic frontier bullshit. I’m currently taking large bets on whether
Manchin will ultimately join with the rest of his party (with the likely
exception of phony/phuckwit Kyrsten Sinema) and do the right thing.
Dear Sen. Mansion:
Hey asshole, you know what is protective of
democracy? Voting. One person, one vote. Including persons of color. Sure, there
are almost an equal number of wooly mammoths and people of color in your home
state. Sure, you are much more beholden to those who bought you and your
election victories that you are to those who actually voted for you.
In Closing…
So, as much as I hate to rain on this new
year, and as much as I hate to reach back into the old-trope bag, this mantra
remains as unfortunately pertinent as ever:
FUCK JOE MANSION
Mansion will not
compromise his principles. He will continue to do the will of the well-to-do. He
will not work in good faith with members of his party who will not give in any
further to woo him away from appointed rounds. Progressives, who got Joe Biden
elected, got him to understand the moment in history, and attempted to
implement the agenda that Biden ran on and got elected to enact by the largest
number of voters in the history of voting, offered compromise upon compromise
in order to get the job done. Joe Mansion whined and lied and strung everyone
along, finally going on Fux News to announce that he was a flaming douchebag
who would, as a surprise to no one, scuttle America. He refused to turn his
back on his plan to fuck the poor, fuck the black folks, fuck the liberals and
progressives, fuck the other conservative Dems who were willing to compromise
in a time of national and global health, economic and environmental
catastrophe.
I rest my case.
I. Mangrey reminding.
Don’t take any guff from that swine.
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