Well, here's some terrible news for everybody.
It seems that Democrats in the Senate, even though a lot of them would like to punish
Joe mansion for tanking president Biden's agenda, they just, according to a recent article
from the hill have no appetite to do so.
And part of the reason for that of course is because they say, well, we still need Joe
mansion.
If we don't have Joe mansion, we don't have 50 Democrats.
And therefore the Republicans basically win, which is a very stupid argument because you
already don't have Joe mansion.
So Republicans are already winning.
So I don't exactly follow your logic there because Joe mansion is already basically a
Republican, but they say we need 'em in the immediate future, right?
Because we're working on this Le uh, reconciliation bill that would allow for Medicare to negotiate
drug prices on some drugs, not all drugs, just some of them, right.
A, a pre-selected list of drugs and insulin by the way is not even on there.
So it's good that you can bring down the price of some of the drugs, but it's not good enough,
but at the same time, yeah, you cannot pass that at all.
If you do not have Joe mansion, they also worry about Joe mansion being up for reelection
in 2024.
And what if that seat goes to a Republican, oh, dear owe me.
And to that, I say it wouldn't change a thing.
See, this is the problem with the democratic party.
You know, we have too many people there who are like, oh, I, I I'd love to do something
to you.
I'd love to just sock you right in the mouth.
But you know, I still want to go to dinner with you later.
So I'm not gonna do it.
If you want Joe mansion to get in line.
If you want Joe mansion to start at least taking it seriously, you have to threaten
him and you threaten him by saying, listen, Joe, I get it right.
You wanna be more moderate because you think that's what your constituents need.
And sure.
You're the fifth most popular Senator in the United States, in your home, uh, uh, state.
And that's something I think the, uh, more progressive folks need to understand.
We hate Joe mansion.
His voters do not.
They like him again.
He has the fifth highest approval rating in their home state for a sitting us Senator,
but who has the highest?
Oh, that's right.
Bernie Sanders.
Yeah.
Progressive democratic socialist.
Bernie Sanders is far more popular than anyone else in the Senate could ever hope to be.
And that's why we need to pressure Joe mansion, to be more like Bernie and less like McConnell.
But you do that by going up to him and saying again, listen, I get it.
I get it.
Your voters, like you, you're probably not in any real danger, but let me tell you something.
You know how you like your leadership positions here in the
Senate?
What if those disappeared tomorrow?
Because I can make that happen.
Not me personally.
I'm, you know, Chuck Schumer, we can, we can strip you of everything.
We can actually just straight up, remove you from committees.
You have no power at all.
How are your voters gonna react to that?
So you can either fall in line, help us pass this agenda.
Or you can go back to being a, nobody from Nowheresville that nobody cares about and
lose your election in 2024, it's not gonna hurt us because you're already siding with
the Republicans on everything.
Anyway, the choice is yours, Joe.
So make sure you make it right.
That is what the Democrats need to do.
Stop being afraid that, oh, but he may not vote with us on this thing.
He hasn't voted with you on crap.
Most of the year.
What makes you think he is gonna vote on this reconciliation package anyway?
Right?
He shot down all of your requests earlier this year, he's shot down the negotiations.
Like you made the adjustments to legislation that he specifically asked for.
You gave him everything he wanted, and then he still voted it down.
Put the pressure on this sob.
That's what you have to do.
Stop pretending that he's gonna eventually do the right thing because he's not take your
support away from him.
Start putting it into these other races where Democrats could actually pick up seats.
And then Joe mansion becomes completely irrelevant.
And then it doesn't matter if he wins or loses in 2024, if Democrats were smart.
And if they had the backbones, that's what they'd be doing right now.