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FUCK this FUCKING POS Joe Manchin. Fucking POS is only thinking about himself and getting money from his rich friends so he can be richer. Must be nice to fuck over the people who voted for him and get away with it. Now how fucking stupid are those voters?

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It's not really a yacht though, is it?I heard it was a houseboat, also known as 'party barge'.

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I am inclined to think, after watching his entire performance this year, that he never intended to vote for it at all.

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very good points.But the point is also to get out enough votes to flip the areas with reps like Joey M.

On the other hand, I used to live in a bizarrely rampaging red area east of San Diego. I was happy to region shame it all the time.

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I moved there from the metro area - just doing my part to try to cast a red region a little more blue ;)

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A Christmas message from conservatism.

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He's not up next year

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Schumer has already said, in writing no less, that he intends to do that, with BBB and with voting rights also.

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The thing is, would he really gain much by flipping? He'd cement a reputation as being an absolute traitor to his party and his constituents, and would ever after be the most untrustworthy negotiator in the Senate. And would Mitch McConnell let him get away with the shit that he does? Because Biden and the Democrats in the House would probably refuse to sign off on anything that benefits West Virginia.

I think the most likely scenario would be him declaring himself an independent who caucuses with the Republicans. "I tried to foster bipartisanship, but the Democratic party has been taken over by loony hippies. I shall therefore act as the bridge between both sides. Perhaps split government will make this president see the wisdom of my ways."

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It's a male dominance dick-waving thing. It's all they know.

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Whenever then

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I'm 70+, these clowns will not grow up in my life time. F em.

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Yay! I finished my Graham poem, in honor of SER.

Political Remora Lindsey GrahamBy InDogsWeTrustInspired by Stephen Robinson

Political Remora Lindsey GrahamIs a blood-sucking honey-glazed Christmas ham.Senate’s worst log jam? Cool. “Send Manchin a candy gram!”Correlation between bright colors and unpalatability?Parasite Tentaculatum, surely Graham’s taxonomy.

Soulless Joe Manchin’s a-headin’ to Hell.Where he’ll roast over coal. Goddamn smoky smell.Slow cooked with tarragon, maple basted.Demons are hungry. “More hawt mustid!”

He’ll be tastier than BBQ Spam.Third course: mint-jelly Lindsey Leg of Lamb.

Let’s check in with Fox Entertainer Laura Ingraham.Her Jan. 6 texts were difficult to squareWith her presentations on Foxy air.Is she Racist? Let’s check in with Occam,Whose razor-sharp wit cuts to the problem.“Destroying a legacy.” That’s the road you’re headin’ down?“Tar me as a liar.” Sure, with feathers, Xenophobic clown.

McConnell says to Manchin, “We’d love to have you, Joe.”Be a Republican! Join our sapsucking parasite show!Priapulida is a good choice. Wormy shape, plus extensible spinyIntrovert proboscis (like a swollen dick). Big and shiny!Chordate also is a choice of parasite. Yowza! Post-anal tail.Lots of action at roadkill cookoffs on the Allegheny Trail

Myself, I think Manchin is Chaetognatha, surely.‘Bristle-jaws’ are a predatory worm livin’ asea.Fourteen hooked, grasping spines on each side of the head,Flanking a hollow vestibule, with gaping mouth, oozing words to dread.Sounds about right.

*fin*

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My father (RIP) was born in the poorest county in WV (McDowell) and went into the Air Force in the '40s to avoid the coal mines. I remember visiting the hollow as a child; it was always dark in my memory as it was a row of houses between two big ass mountains. I haven't been back there since the '60s, but it sounds as if the state hasn't changed at all since then.

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