Joe Manchin REFUSES To Say He Wants Democrats To Win In 2022 And 2024

Corporatist Senator Joe Manchin appeared on Meet The Press on Sunday where he REFUSED to say that he wants Democrats to win this year's midterms, as well as the Presidential election of 2024. Instead, he said that's up to the voters and he'll work with whoever they send to Washington. The Democratic Party should be outraged by Manchin's refusal to endorse his own Party, and even though he did one good thing last week, he still should be put on notice. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins discusses this.

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You know, at the end of last week, after it was revealed that Joe mansion and Chuck Schumer had indeed come to a deal that would, uh, basically provide some money for lowering cost of prescription drugs, it would provide some money for renewable energy. Uh, it certainly wasn't what we needed it to be, but sure. It was a good first start. Right? Finally, at least we get a couple steps forward cuz Joe mansion finally came to his census. And when that happen, of course you had some of those more centrist, liberal types out there attacking people. Who'd been attacking Joe mansion, wanting him kicked out of the caucus saying, ha you guys were wrong. Right? Well, fast forward two days because on Sunday, Joe mansion appeared on NBC's meet the press where he was asked if he wants Democrats to win in 2022 and 2024. And Joe mansion, wouldn't say yes, democratic Senator Joe mansion was asked if he wants Democrats to win the next two elections. And he couldn't even commit to saying yes to that.

Here is instead what he said, I've always taken the approach, whoever you send me, that's your representative. And I respect him and I respect the state for the people they send. And I give it my best to work with them and do my best for the country. Hey, whoever you send me, I'm gonna work with 'em. So what do I care? Vote red vote blue vote for libertarians, vote for a green party. I don't care. I'll work with whoever you send me to obstruct, whatever everybody else wants me to do. Basically again, I cannot stress this enough. There were these centrist liberals attacking more progressive members of the democratic party for wanting mansion punished. And then haha, look, he made a deal. So you were clearly wrong. You idiot buffoon. Nope, they were right. They were a hundred percent, right?

These are the same people by the way, who love to complain that Bernie's not a Democrat. Bernie's already committed to supporting Joe Biden in 2024. Joe mansion refused to do that this past weekend. So who's more of a Democrat. I ask you that Joe mansion or Bernie Sanders, you wanna still continue to and moan and wine and about Bernie Sanders. It's a waste of time. You wanna put your effort and energy into something that might actually matter. How about you continue to call for Joe mansion to be held accountable for obstructing the majority of president Biden's agenda, just because he did one thing doesn't mean he is off the hook. The democratic party still needs to put the pressure on him. The pressure clearly worked and we need to apply even more. Now the people that were calling out Joe mansion, demanding that he be punished. Those were the people that were correct on this issue. Their tactic worked

Sitting and twiddling your thumbs and thinking, oh, we can't do anything cuz of mansion. Oh no, but we can't punish him because we need him. Those were the people that were wrong. You cowardly, scum grow a frigging backbone. Stand up for what you believe in. Instead of sitting there on Twitter all day, attacking progressives because they were smarter than you. That's what this is about. And anybody who spent any time recently online knows exactly who I'm talking about and what I'm talking about. I don't even have to mention their names, but these are cowards. These are people who don't understand how things work.