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Vote.
Ignore the noise.
Vote to save democracy.
- The Karens in the Republican House and Senate.
- Gun violence and Congress not doing anything to stop it.
- Inflation.
- Two Democratic senators and one independent senator who is a democratic socialist.
- The members of The Squad and Progressive Caucus.
- The junk food media and their never ending dramatizing of world events.
- Anti-Vaxxers.
- Lawmakers and activists who protest the CDC guidelines during the pandemic.
- The endless culture wars that Republicans find outrage in.
- Washed Up 45 and his minions on Fox, Newsmax, OANN and the internet.
- Facebook and TikTok and the idiots who run it and the idiots who post on it.
- Fox, The Daily Mail, Newsmax and OANN's relentless talk about conspiracies, Hunter Biden, Ashley Biden and the president's mental capacity and health.
- The endless racism towards Biden's allies Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Barack Obama.
- The relentless talk about spending despite the former president's reckless things.
- The lack of civility towards fellow Americans.
Vote to make Joe Manchin, Kyrsten Sinema, Bernie Sanders and the noise of the far left irrelevant. Vote to stop the far right fascists from winning the majority. Republicans offer nothing but unprecedented noise and deflections from reality.
It is time to stop being on the defensive. The Democrats need to stop being the party of facts and become the party of unprecedented noise. Maybe the Dems should become more invested in marketing disinformation like the Republicans.
The Republicans are easily manipulated by misinformation.
Call out the racism and extremism within the Republican Party.
If the Democrats hold the Senate, strip Manchin and Sinema of their committees.
Strip Sanders of his committee.
Sanders is not a Democrat. He is an independent who is a democratic socialist. His policies are not lockstep with the centrists who make up 51% of the Democratic Party
Manchin and Sinema are fucking up the game. For two years, they literally delayed or stalled the Biden agenda. Now one or both of them are clapping their fucking mouths days before the Midterms.
Coal.
Opioid addiction and poverty at record highs.
Education is seriously lacking.
A dying populate state.
Democrat in a state with 80% of the vote going Washed Up 45.
Refusal to accept that coal is the cause of global warming and leading to deadly cancers.
That's Manchin for you.
A millionaire who has ties to the natural gas and coal industry. He is a lobbyist's best friend. He and Sinema are whispering in Tim Ryan, John Fetterman and Mark Kelly's ear.
My statement on comments President Biden made about shutting down coal plants: pic.twitter.com/LEeqrGdwqm
— Senator Joe Manchin (@Sen_JoeManchin) November 5, 2022
They are telling them to stay away from Biden.
Fetterman is not listening.
Manchin got livid over Biden saying that the U.S. will phase out coal. On Saturday, the senator slammed President Joe Biden after he called for coal plants across the US to be shuttered, saying Biden’s remarks are “outrageous and divorced from reality” and suggesting it’s “time he learn a lesson.”
Biden, while speaking at a stop in Carlsbad, California, on Friday about the CHIPS and Science Act, said, “We’re going to be shutting these plants down all across America and having wind and solar also providing tax credit to help families buy energy-efficient appliances.”
Manchin, a West Virginia Democrat who has longtime ties to the coal industry, seized on the comments in a statement on Saturday, calling them “not only outrageous and divorced from reality, they ignore the severe economic pain the American people are feeling because of rising energy costs.”
“Comments like these are the reason the American people are losing trust in President Biden and instead believes he does not understand the need to have an all in energy policy that would keep our nation totally energy independent and secure. It seems his positions change depending on the audience and the politics of the day. Politicizing our nation’s energy policies would only bring higher prices and more pain for the American people,” Manchin continued.
It’s not unusual for Manchin, a moderate Democrat who has refused to say whether he thinks Biden deserves a second term in office, to criticize Biden’s agenda, and his reluctance at times to support Democratic initiatives has prevented the President from achieving some legislative goals. But Saturday’s statement is an extraordinary rebuke by a sitting US senator of his party’s leader, and serves to illustrate the ongoing tension between the centrist and more progressive wings of the Democratic Party.
Manchin, a senator from a deep-red state who is up for reelection in 2024, further sought to distance himself from Biden in his statement when he said, “Let me be clear, this is something the President has never said to me.”
“Being cavalier about the loss of coal jobs for men and women in West Virginia and across the country who literally put their lives on the line to help build and power this country is offensive and disgusting. The President owes these incredible workers an immediate and public apology and it is time he learn a lesson that his words matter and have consequences,” Manchin concluded.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre responded in a statement Saturday saying Biden’s words have been “twisted.”
He came to the White House to end years of big words but little action to help the coal-producing parts of our country.
— Karine Jean-Pierre (@PressSec) November 5, 2022
The unemployment rate in West Virginia was 6.2% the last month before Joe Biden took office; now it is down to 4%.
— Karine Jean-Pierre (@PressSec) November 5, 2022
In fact, through the Working Group on Coal and Power Plant Communities, President Biden has already delivered more than $23 billion to energy communities across the country.
— Karine Jean-Pierre (@PressSec) November 5, 2022
The President was commenting on a fact of economics and technology: as it has been from its earliest days as an energy superpower, America is once again in the midst of an energy transition.
— Karine Jean-Pierre (@PressSec) November 5, 2022
Under President Biden, oil and natural gas production has increased, and we are on track to hit the highest production in our country’s history next year.
— Karine Jean-Pierre (@PressSec) November 5, 2022
He is determined to make sure that this transition helps all Americans in all parts of the country, with more jobs and better opportunities; it’s a commitment he has advanced since Day One. No one will be left behind.
— Karine Jean-Pierre (@PressSec) November 5, 2022
“The President’s remarks yesterday have been twisted to suggest a meaning that was not intended; he regrets it if anyone hearing these remarks took offense. The President was commenting on a fact of economics and technology: as it has been from its earliest days as an energy superpower, America is once again in the midst of an energy transition,” Jean-Pierre said.
Jean-Pierre’s statement only mentioned Manchin directly once, saying he is a “tireless advocate for his state and the hard-working men and women who live there.”
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