You could have just said that instead of repeating a meme of the right.
Just because he chose not to have many public events and not travel doesn’t mean his campaign had it easier. I doubt that watching video- live or not - is as persuasive as talking in person. And if I remember right the Biden campaign also switched back to in person canvasing in October 2020.
Perhaps this article from November 2020 can help refresh your memory of what Biden actually did.
Boo fucking hoo. These people would strongly oppose oxygen if that were a Democratic plank. I’m sick of pandering to rank stupidity.
Biden: “Ask what you can do for your country.”
Trump: “Ask what you can do for me!”
Look at all the unity.
Unting with someone who’s so braindead that he wants libertarian policies put in place is a terrible idea for the same reason that sex with a cactus is.
I was about to retort that “unity” with the congenitally stupid is a losing proposition, but @Babale put it better than I could.
And given the last forty years of “unifying” behavior from the Republicans, you have the unmitigated gall to say that. (And I don’t give a rat’s ass if you’re Canadian or Swahili.)
Jesus how stupid do you have to be to rag on a guy for taking covid seriously and not having massive rallies during a campaign? Meanwhile, his opponent held superspreader events, killing Herman Cain along with many others. What a fucking infantile jab at Biden.
All right. What action would you propose and support?
Half the country would strongly oppose anything that any Democratic president would do. Does that mean that we should have no Democratic presidents? Or if we did, should he only do what Republicans want?
yeah yeah yeah another futile-as-fuck hail mary…
Just fuck-off again, you democracy-smothering piece of shit.
Posting this one simply for the satisfying take-down:
The counter-argument that if it weren’t for Manchin there’d be a McConnell-led house is - while obviously correct - losing more and more credibilty in light of the very simple fact that, really, it should be incumbent on the fucking asshole to, oh, I dunno, maybe finally get in line with the party’s perfectly reasonble policy, here, and especially, as Rush suggested, to listen to the folks back home, like, um…miners?
Manchin’s excuses for protecting the anti-democracy forces are getting more and more ridiculous.
But of course it wouldn’t matter if he just responded to questions with lists of unrelated words; no one can hold him to account for making no sense.
A link to an interesting article about Manchin’s obstructionism and climate change (hint: it’s not positive).
That link didn’t work for me (if it works for someone else I’ll be gaaaaaah.)
Was coming by to post this, anyway:
Go home to this?
(posted this link before, but bears repeating)
https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/21/business/coal-miners-joe-manchin/index.html
From second (most-likely-paywalled) link:
Devastating.
Manchin’s “man of the people” charade is, increasingly, falling into tatters.
As to whether that guarantees a Republican challenger a win in 2024 (when Manchin next faces the voters)–tough to say. Surely no Republican is going to be able to convince WV voters that he or she supports child tax credits, etc…?
(my bolding in the quote)
opinion piece
Pillocking, now…perhaps not the hugest consolation, ultimately, but what left is there?
Meh, I sometimes wonder if his own plarty has ever had the upper hand with him.
Fool me over and over and over…
Final, final end-zone hail mary?
Oh, you guys are all friends, then. Swell.
Do the friendly thing, Joe.
Biden is heading to Georgia in a few days to deliver a speech on the necessity of passing Voting Rights. I’m not sure how that changes Manchin’s mind. I don’t personally believe in the bully pulpit idea because it seems quite patronizing to think a congressman will change his mind on the basis of one speech. The ultimate bully Trump didn’t exactly have much legislative success despite all his threats. But I doubt Schumer sets a deadline without coordinating with the White House on this.
It’s not so much the speech itself as what the speech-giver hopes will be a groundswell of support–aka public pressure on Manchin (and Sinema).
That’s going to be complicated by the fact that Georgia Democrats, or some parts of their official apparatus, are vocally criticizing Biden for coming at all:
No doubt Manchin is enjoying the in-fighting–public-relations-wise, anyway, it puts the focus of being The Problem on Biden.
eta: kind of annoying US News coding that doesn’t give you (the way most sites do) the first sentence of their story…
And maybe he could do that, if it wasn’t for Manchin.