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Joe Mansion Is Full Of Fossil Fuel Shit…Again

July 16, 2022

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Obviously, there are many pressing issues taking up our neurological bandwidth: Russia’s brutal scorched-earth/war-crime-spree in Ukraine, intolerable gas prices and inflation in large part driven by corporate greed and the shamelessly, if not purposefully, incompetent reign of Donald Turmp, the ongoing, ever-worsening climate crisis, the riveting public hearings of the January 6 Committee, and as if that weren’t enough to curdle your colon, the looming midterm elections. Just because he was able to hide from the headlines behind this curtain of disasters, we must not forget all the damage that continues to plague America at the hands of long festering sore Sen. Joe Manchin (“D”- Coal). While Mansion was hiding, he did manage to record a campaign ad for a Ratpublican candidate in West Virginia.

At least someone is enjoying themselves as our environment and democracy crumble.
Oh wait, they are the ones ensuring these things happen.

Just the other day, Mansion came out of his hole, saw a shadow, cursed the Sun, and kicked his party and the American people in the crotch again. He has once more insisted that he will not entertain any funding for fighting the climate crisis he has worked so hard to accelerate. Nor will he support raising taxes on the rich, one of whom he has worked so hard destroying the environment in order to become. Mansion hammered in what appears to be the final nail in the Build Back Better coffin. He simply refuses to allow any talk of taxing those who owe much more than they pay, or of averting environmental disaster.

Mansion insists/pretends that “My main goal is what’s good for my country. I’m not worried about what’s good for the Democrat or Republican party. They’re going to do just fine.” Except for two things, Joe. First, asshole, it’s the Democratic Party, referring to them as the “Democrat” party is what Ratpublicans do out of disrespect. Second, Ratpublicans have shown beyond any doubt that they do not and will not do what’s good for your country – they put Donald Turmp as their choice for president, let him escape conviction on two impeachments, both of which made Bill Clinton’s blow job look like…well, a blow job, and made Watergate look like a third-rate burglary, and then after claiming that Turmp was personally and morally responsible for the January 6 insurrection, quickly returned to their regularly scheduled, unrelenting kissing of his ass. Lastly, having beaten his “colleagues” into submission on the ambitious, vastly popular and critically needed BBB, bullying them into a package he could live with, Mansion finally got his way, and then said, “Psych!”

So once again, Joe Manchin is full of fossil fuel shit. Well, it’s not so much again as still. No other senator rakes in more campaign cash from the fossil fuel industry than Old King Coal Manchin. We are still finding out more gory details of his greed and duplicity. And, dare I say…murder?

Everyone, including Joe Mansion, knows that coal kills. It kills those with no choice but to work to extract it. It kills those who happen to breathe air. It does not kill Joe Masion while he lets others do the very, very dirty work. There is no such thing as “clean coal.” There is no such thing as clean Joe Mansion.

Thankfully, folks in Manchin’s “home” state, you know, the one he is personally committed to killing with his coal profits, are preparing to make their presence felt. Maybe they can make his political future resemble the lungs of those West Virginians who are unfortunate enough to need to work in coal mines, as well as many of us who are forced to breathe the rotten fruits of their labors.

Meanwhile, Mansion’s fellow foulers in the greedy oil companies are not satisfied taking our tax dollars as insanely unnecessary subsidies. Not only are they not paying anything forward by, oh I don’t know, taking a break from making obscene profits off of anyone who needs oil to heat their homes or drive their cars, they are adding price-gouging profits to the subsidies which we involuntarily lavish upon them.

Just For The Record (High Gas Prices)

You might have noticed that when the price of oil rises, so does what we pay at the pump. But when the price of oil drops, the price at the pump is not so quick to change correspondingly. And don’t blame your local gas station, their profit margin is minimal. Oil companies on the other hand do a bit better. 

In 2021, while most Americans were sitting on financial pins and needles, ExxonMobil raked in $23B in profits, Shell amassed $19.3B, Chevron $15.6B and BP $12.9B. This of course, is in addition to the massive government subsidies these petroleum plunderers take out of our pockets. Poor little Joe Mansion’s coal interests put $500,000/year into his ever-widening toxic pockets.

It is long past time to take power away from the Ratpublicans’ favorite Democrat.

Gil Scott-Heron – Winter In America

I. Mangrey freaking out.