Do The Loco Manchin With Me

Enough With The Phony Bipartisanshit Manchin Mantra
             or
Fuck The Filibuster

June 14, 2021

Dream all you want, no filibuster in here

F is for the foolishness you’re flogging,
 I is for the incoherent angst,
  L is for the ludicrous loser you are,
   I is for the insane, irritating idiocy.
    B is for the bipartisan bullshit you believe in,
     U is for un-loyal, useless opposition,
      S is for that shithead Mitch you’re serenading,
       T is for the terrible trash-heap of a Senate,
        E is for the errors in your thinking,
         R is for ridiculous, ruinous Ratpublicans…

Put them all together, they spell Manchin.
A word that means the world is toast.

Getting rid of this bullshit, made-up Senate rule may be the only way to make any serious progress in this country that has been held hostage by tax-cuts-for-the-rich, vote-cuts-for-the-poor Ratpublicans, in their quest for permanent (white) power. The Ratpublican plan to eliminate poverty is to accelerate the elimination of poor people…and I don’t mean by giving them the wherewithal to survive.

Those (Senators) Who Don’t Learn From History Should STFU

In 1957 uber-racist Strom Thurman used the filibuster, croaking for over 24 hours in an attempt to derail the Voting Rights Act.  In 1964 group of Southern Senators, along with a few Democrats staged a 60-day filibuster in opposition to the 1964 Civil Rights Act. In 1983 another uber-racist Jesse Helms filibustered to prevent Martin Luther King’s birthday from becoming a national holiday. This then is the history and essence of the filibuster that Joe Manchin has sworn to protect and defend. And here I thought he was sworn to protect and defend the Constitution, which as you surely know by now, appears exactly zero times in our founding document or any of its amendments. And of course, the most recent application of what passes for a filibuster today was just a week or so ago as Republicans blocked the creation of a bipartisan commission to investigate the January 6, 2021 Turmp-inspired terrorist assault on the Capitol, the intended hanging of Mike Pence, and the attempted coup.

Cloudy With A Chance Of Morons

The main obstacles to protecting the filibuster from democracy are Democrats Kyrsten Sinema from Arizona and Joe Manchin from West Virginia, both of whom have repeatedly vowed to protect and defend the filibuster against all enemies foreign and domestic.

Sinema is a newly elected senator, and appears to be the Dems’ (admittedly less psycho) version of Sarah Palin – a not-too-swift political hack who will be gone with the wind in short order. Manchin is a long-time “public servant” who, though likely the only Dem who could get elected in West Virginia, remains a corporate subsidiary/apologist

Now Joe, I know you claim to be a West Virginia First kind of guy, but there are 49 other states. And these are supposed to be “united” states, not you scratch my back, I fuck you. Speaking of your homeland, recent polling of likely voters in West Virginia shows that 81% of the state’s Democrats are in favor of the “For The People Act” (which supports easier, safer voting and more secure elections), as are 79% of Independents and 76% of Republicans. In West Virginia. Joe Manchin’s home state. That is bipartisanship, not the bipartisanshit Manchin keeps dreaming aloud about.

The same poll also found that by a 33% to 12% margin, likely voters in West Virginia would be more likely to vote for Manchin if he supported such legislation. All of this begs the question: which constituency is Manchin looking out for?

So, what, you might ask, is Joe Manchin’s fucking problem? His idiotic intransigence might have almost made sense if his beloved Wild, White, West Virginia disapproved of the proposed legislation. But, why is Manchin standing up for anti-voting, anti-democracy, pro-insurgency, pro-coup still-wholly-owned-by-Turmp Republicans and thumbing his nose at his own constituents? Tune in somewhere else at some other time for answers to these and many more, possibly even dumber questions.

I’m as dumb as hell and I’m not going to fake this anymore*

Finally, to paraphrase the recently departed Ned Beatty from his iconic, Oscar-nominated role as Arthur Jensen in Network, “You have meddled with the primal forces of nature Mr. Manchin, and we won’t have it. Is that clear?”

R.I.P. Ned Beatty

*Joe Manchin is probably not dumb, which makes his behavior that much worse.

I. Mangrey holding certain truths to be self-evident. I've about had my fill, buster.