Republican Senator Joe Manchin and no, that was not a slip of the tongue,
decided over the weekend to publish an op-ed in the West Virginia Gazette, where he came out
and defended, essentially, the Republican attack on voting rights across the country,
by saying that he is not going to vote with the Democrats and support the for the people act,
which is a massive voting rights expansion here in the United States, designed to counter a lot of
the Republican bills at the state level curtailing voting rights. This is what Manchin had to say.
Again, this is his own words in his op-ed. Unfortunately, we now are witnessing that
the fundamental right to vote has itself become over, overtly politicized. Today's
debate about how to best protect our right to vote and to hold elections, however,
is not about finding common ground, but seeking partisan advantage. Whether it is state laws that
seek to needlessly restrict voting or politicians who ignore the need to secure our elections,
partisan policy-making won't instill confidence in our democracy. It will destroy it.
As such congressional action on federal voting rights legislation must be the result of both
Democrats and Republicans coming together to find a pathway forward, or we risk further
dividing and destroying the Republic we swore to protect and defend as elected officials.
You do realize a majority of Republican voters support this thing, right?
A majority of Republicans in this country support the for the people act. So it is bi-partisan you
dip. It just doesn't have Republican lawmaker support. But if you were to go outside your
little DC bubble for a little bit, Joe, you would see that, hey, oh my God, people actually
like this thing, including the Republicans. But how can you claim that this is a partisan
piece of legislation that you can't support because there's no Republican support for it.
And then let all these Republicans at the state level, just do whatever the hell they want. That's
partisan you idiot. He continues,
this more than 800 page bill has garnered zero Republican support. Why? Are the very Republican
senators who voted to impeach Trump because of actions that led to an attack on our democracy
unwilling to support actions to strengthen our democracy? Are these same senators who
many in my party applauded for their courage now threats to the very democracy we seek to protect?
Yeah. Yeah, they are, you idiot. See, this was the problem and this is what me off during the time
when, when Democrats were praising all those Republicans like Liz Cheney and Mitt Romney,
and I would do videos and I would say, hey, don't forget, they're still horrible people. And people
would get mad at me for saying those things. Like, oh, you got to give them credit. Yeah,
I did give them credit, but they're still horrible people. But now Joe Manchin is taking the praise
from those very Democrats and using it against the Democrats saying, obviously these are good people
and now suddenly they're not. No, they never were. They did one decent thing in their lives
to save their own political behinds and now he's using it against them.
God bless it. It's on of those situations where I told you so just doesn't quite
cut it. This is one of those situations where I didn't want to be proven right.
But I was. Joe Manchin's a slime ball. Joe Manchin should be out of the Democratic party. Joe Manchin
should have any and all support and funding from the DNC cut from him. Democrats in the Senate
need to strip him of all of his leadership levels, kick him off all the committees
and say, you're not with our party. You are clearly against us as your op-ed states.
We're done with you. We're cutting you off. You go do whatever the hell you want now.
And if it means that he joins Republicans and Democrats lose the majority in the Senate,
oh frigging well, because as long as he remains a Democrat who votes with Republicans,
you don't have a majority anyway. And that's what we're dealing with today.
Joe Manchin needs to be kicked out of the party because his action right here
likely just handed the midterm election to the Republicans on a silver platter.