Bernie and the Haunted Manchin
July 21, 2022
As mentioned previously here and just about everywhere else,
Sen. Joe Mansion (D/R-Coal) and his coal-powered pecker just bellowed a lusty
and heartless-felt FUCK YOU to the world. He has been stringing us along for
months. Moving the coalposts, pretending to negotiate. Bernie Sanders laid it
on the line in spelling out Mansion’s Joe Job after the media broke the news of
Mansion’s abrupt change of heartless:
“He didn’t abruptly do anything – he has sabotaged the
president’s agenda No, look, if you check the record, six months ago, I made it
clear that you have people like Manchin, [Arizona Sen. Kyrsten] Sinema to a
lesser degree, who are intentionally sabotaging the President's agenda, what
the American people want, what a majority of us in the Democratic caucus want.
Nothing new about this. And the problem was that we continue to talk to Manchin
like he was serious. He was not. This is a guy who is [a] major recipient of
fossil fuel money, a guy who has received campaign contributions from 25
Republican billionaires. ... In my humble opinion, Manchin represents the very
wealthiest people in this country, not working families in West Virginia or
America.”
The White House issued a sternly worded comment. Well, sort
of. A White House official, who requested anonymity (how brave) said in a
statement, “The president made clear that if the Senate doesn’t act to tackle
the climate crisis and strengthen our domestic clean energy industry, he will. We
are considering all options and no decision has been made.” Wow, some anonymous
putz took time from his or her busy schedule of not doing anything to let us
know in no uncertain terms that “no decision has been made.” Whew. Now that’s
what I call courage in the face of global disaster. Why make a decision when
you can make no decision?
Are you fucking kidding me? Are you seriously fucking
kidding me? Or just fucking me? And everyone else. The president made it clear
that if the Senate doesn’t act then he will? What the fuck. Wasn’t the cut-off
date like 20 years ago?* Did the president miss the part where Joe Mansion just
flipped off Democrats and the Earth? The fucking Senate already did not act.
That was in the past. It has already happened. The fact that it is continuing
to happen does not negate the fact that the Senate already didn’t act. Not only
have they already not acted, but there is zero chance, at best, that they will
act in the future. So, Mr. President – fucking do something already. Like, now.
We’re waiting. And dying.
The record-breaking Great Heat Wave of 2022 has already killed more than a thousand worldwide as many hover around 100°F across the globe, with 100,000,000 Americans spending almost a week under an extreme heat advisory. Shit's on fire everywhere. According to scientists, the level of climate catastrophe we are currently experiencing will not be the new normal. Good news, you say? Well guess again. In a few years we will be looking back on today’s horrific climate-crisis-influenced mess with great fondness.
[If we do nothing sufficient now to mitigate the climate
crisis], “we will see an increase in these types of events. They become more
frequent, more severe, and we see events that we’ve never seen before. You
know, there’s a tendency to talk about this kind of heat and say, well it’s the
new normal. Unfortunately it’s not the new normal. It’s what we’ll be nostalgic
for in a few years if we continue the way that we are moving the world’s
climate right now.”
Benjamin Zaitchik, Professor of
Earth and Planetary Sciences, Johns Hopkins U
Mansion claims he is only interested in what’s best for West
Virginia and all Americans, and he is just worried sick about inflation. Some
people, including this reporter, would be inclined to describe this as
bullshit. Now, it might be bullshit because he is too old to care if the
climate crisis will fuck the planet beyond what humans can tolerate. Or, it
might be bullshit because Mansion doesn’t understand how fighting climate
crisis is also good for West Virginians, all Americans and the economy. But my
money is on it being bullshit because Joe Mansion is full of shit. He does not
give a shit about West Virginians, Americans or any other people, or the
economy/inflation. He is a greedy, arrogant rich bastard in nice guy’s
clothing…well, expensive clothing.
To
Quote VP Joe Biden: “This Is A Big Fucking Deal.”
Why
won't President Biden declare a climate emergency? What exactly would an emergency look
like? Would we be able to see it, or would our eyes have already burned up in
our heads?
Meanwhile…
Why
isn’t the Secret Service under arrest for destroying government records…and for
not letting Donald Turmp get shot – not killed mind you, just shot…say in the
middle of Fifth Avenue, or something like that.
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*It was probably much
longer ago than that, but why quibble over the habitability of our planet.
I.
Mangrey
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