Manchin Staff Shove Protesters!

Protester confronts the bully. The bully is Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia.

Winners and losers of 2024.

Status Quo Politics is the reason why President Joe Biden is down in the polls. Biden and former president Donald J. Trump are both stuck on this. They failed at listening to the public on changing direction. We are tired of individuals making billions while workers are getting laid off. We are tired of paying a paycheck to eat, vacation or buy a simple device. We are tired of taxpayer money funding wars in Europe and Asia. Some are tired of immigrants getting more benefits than the homeless. We are tired of politicians ignoring the concerns of Americans.

The outgoing West Virginia senator almost squared up with a protester after he was called a  "sick fuck" for his climate change record as well as stalling Biden's agenda. This senator along with the independent senator from Arizona (elected as a Democrat) have caused so much frustration in the Democratic Party. 

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK), Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ), Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA), Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE), Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO), Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AK), Sen. Chuck Schumer (Majority Leader, D-NY), Sen. Mitch McConnell (Minority Leader, R-KY), Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) and Sen. John N. Kennedy (R-LA) are the most insufferable members of the Senate.

They have faced protesters and acted like Karens.

I am sick and tired of theatrics. I am tired of our elected members of the House, Senate and state governments always playing fucking games. Government shouldn't be messy.

I mean we are living a moment where politicians are worse than roaches.

Roaches are at least unified animals. Politicians are reactionary animals. Working to make our lives better or worse.

Those mentioned are often the ones who make the Senate suck. 

Gov. Jim Justice, the Republican (elected as a Democrat) annoucned a run for the seat once Manchin announced his retirement. He is favored if the Republican does win his primary. The governor is rich. He makes over $30 million despite the state's average wages is $29,000. The state is Trump country.

Trump carried the state with 78% of the vote. 

Manchin makes over $34 million thanks to his ties to lobbyists, his book deal and his private investments. Also backings from the NRA, AIPAC, the oil and coal industries have made Manchin one of the richest. 

Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT), Sen. Pete Ricketts (R-NE), Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), McConnell, Rick Scott, Schumer, Vance and Manchin are the richest members of the Senate.

Manchin who was at the Harvard Kennedy School discussing topics when six protesters interrupted him. The incident came just minutes after the protesters from Climate Defiance — a climate advocacy group — interrupted a talk Manchin was delivering at the Harvard Kennedy School. The protesters criticized Manchin’s support of the Mountain Valley Pipeline, a controversial 300-mile natural gas pipeline in West Virginia that has been condemned by environmentalists.

“You sold our futures and got rich doing it, you sick fuck,” one person shouted, prompting Manchin to stand up from his chair to face the protester.

Manchin’s aide quickly jumped between the two of them, before pushing the protester out a door and shoving them to the ground. It was not immediately clear if the protester was injured following the confrontation.

In a video of the protest published on Climate Defiance’s X account, Manchin asked the protesters “to sit down somewhere so we can talk,” but the protesters turned down the offer.

“I’m not going to sit down,” a second protester said. “You’ve received more funding from fossil fuels than any other senator.”

A Kennedy School spokesperson confirmed that the event featuring Manchin was disrupted by protesters and said that the Harvard University Police Department and the Kennedy School are investigating the incident.

“A Harvard University police officer ordered the protesters to leave the Kennedy School campus, and the protesters complied,” the spokesperson said.

Manchin’s office did not respond to multiple requests for comment. Summer A.L. Tan ’26 and Eamon “Cormac” C. OCearuil ’25, co-chairs of the IOP’s Fellows and Study Groups Program, declined to comment.

The altercation came a few minutes after Manchin began speaking, according to a person at the event.

“They kind of barged into the room, half dozen of them,” they said.

Manchin’s daughter — business executive Heather Bresch — was also in attendance and allegedly spoke out when the protesters disrupted the talk, a person at the event said.

“What I heard was: ‘Doesn’t anybody monitor the doors here?’” the person recalled Bresch saying.

Manchin was invited to speak at HKS by IOP Resident Fellow Allison King as part of King’s IOP study group to discuss his decision to not seek reelection in the upcoming 2024 elections.

After HUPD escorted the protesters out of the Kennedy School, the talk resumed, according to the Kennedy School spokesperson.