āI donāt give a sāt, you understand? I just donāt give a shit,ā Manchin told the Charleston Gazette-Mail, the paper reported Sunday. āDonāt care if I get elected, donāt care if I get defeated, how about that. If they think because Iām up for election, that I can be wrangled into voting for shit that I donāt like and canāt explain, theyāre all crazy.ā
Let the record show that the Charleston Gazette-Mail censored the word all three times it appears in the paragraph.
Their readers are such snowflakes.
Mr Attorney General? FYI - thatās Senator Schumer to you.
The snowflakes would stroke out if they every read a British paper. They call a munt a munt.
That is going to be an interesting race. I wouldnāt bet against Manchin. He knows his voters very, very well. They also know and like him.
Manchin Challenger: āIf you donāt care whether you win or lose, then maybe we need someone who will fight harder for us in the Senate. I will fight & win for WV.ā
āI will fight to require coal be served in ALL school lunch programs for our woefully carbon-deficient children!ā
#EatMoreCoal
Well, you know they donāt have shit in West Virginia, just brown coalā¦
Spoken to a Republican with language Republicans understand.
I can agree with the rest of his response but I hope this is just an in-artful statement. While I know that the following is not always true, I would hope that everyone running for an election (or re-election) care whether they win, because they take their congressional jobs seriously and they believe that they can serve public better than their opponent.
We must not forget all the wondrous heavy metals the drinking water can supply the metal deficient children with.
And thatās how they talk in Coal Country. Yāgot that?
Btw, thatās also how we talk at TPM. Got it, peeps?
Fuck all that comity.
Iām not his biggest fan, but Manchin knows exactly who heās speaking toā¦thatās all that matters here.
Iām reminded of something I read about Bess Truman. Hosting a reception at the White House one afternoon, Bess was approached by the wife of a Senator, who told Bess, "You have to do something about the President. He called my husbandās bill a āpile of horse manure.ā " Bess didnāt miss a beat and replied, āHoney, you donāt know how many years it took me to get him to use the word manure.ā
Manchin is Flaking Out.
(Despite the ātough guyā pose, heās pretty much a DINO).
Except when he voted in lockstep with the Democrats to save health care for tens of millions.
There was that one thing.
But yeah heās totally basically a Republican, we ought to kick him out and replace him with another Mitch McTurtle!
What WV voters need to understand is that their "I didnāt come here to hurt people if I have to be that one person to kill the bill I will be itā blah blah GOP Senator Capito turned out to be a vote to kill them instead. Meanwhile, their āRepub Riteā Senator voted to save them.
And this Morrisay guy if sitting in the āRepub Riteā seat would have been another vote to kill them.
Thatās what they they need to understand.
But I wonāt hold my breath.
Why do they love Trump in West Virginia? Because he tells it like it is.
What is Manchin doing here? Telling it like it is.
Further proof of the Trumpification of America, as low as you think they can go, they always surprise you.
And here I was hoping to read a story about Joe being primaried from the left. Ah wellā¦
I agree with you and @ronbyers - Manchin knows his voters and they know, and trust, him. Even if Tramp wades into this race and attempts to trash Manchin (count on it and very, very, bigly soon) it wonāt affect more that a few loose screws.
I know little about West Virginia and her citizens and care about that state even less but I trust Manchin, Blue Dog that he is, to do what is right for his constituents.
In using the term āFlakeā, shall we read it in the common usage sense or the Senatorial sense? Just wonderingā¦
ā the Pun Police
Why do they love Trump in WV?
2010 Demographics:
White: 93.9%
Black: 3.4%
Asian: 0.7%
Native: 0.2%
Other: 0.3%
2 or more races: 1.5%