Comments by "wily wascal" (@wilywascal2024) on "This was the absolute worst case scenario for Democrats" video.

  1. Whenever the media runs video of Manchin and Sinema, they need to superimpose a flashing chyron on their foreheads: "FOR SALE...FOR SALE...FOR SALE..."
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  2. Manchin and Sinema are not negotiating in good faith. They have had months to state their positions, and still have yet to do so. Instead, they spent that time lining their pockets with corporate special interest money. Man-Sin are corrupt lapdogs to their plutocratic masters, more interested in helping themselves than serving their constituents.
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  3. Manchin, Sinema and Republicans are hurting the American economy and the American people to enrich themselves further. Question is, why are the people who keep voting for them and against their own best interests so stupid?
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  4. Get big money out of politics, and get corrupt politicians like Manchin and Sinema sucking up to the corporate trough voted out. • A summer sting operation by Greenpeace had an Exxon Mobil lobbyist reveal that he met with Manchin weekly to try to persuade him to weaken Biden’s climate agenda (and he’s not the only rich guy who gets Manchin regularly on the line). Manchin has received more donations than any other Senator from oil, gas, and coal industry. • An August piece in Harper’s noted that the West Virginia Democratic Party, which the senator played no small role in gutting, remains entirely under Manchin’s influence and control. It also mentions how Manchin leveraged his influence within the Senate to get plush government appointments for people close to him, including his wife. • A September report from Type Investigations and the Intercept revealed that Manchin is currently invested in multiple coal companies that are run by his son, and that, even though the elder Manchin’s investments are in a blind trust, he has personally made $4.5 million from them during the time he has spent in the Senate (11 years to date). • This is likely the Manch’s last term. In this remaining time, he seems to be simply looking out for his sources of wealth, including the ones that come from his son’s coal incinerators. It wouldn’t be the first time a Manchin family member used conflicts of interest to their advantage. Joe’s wife, Gayle, previously served as head of the West Virginia Board of Education and used her position to try to require the state’s schools to purchase EpiPens. EpiPens are manufactured by the Big Pharma juggernaut Mylan, whose former CEO was Heather Bresch—Manchin’s daughter, who stepped down after it was revealed she helped fix the prices of EpiPens in collusion with Pfizer. Family helping family: It’s a highly lucrative graft. • While Manchin and Sinema worked to delay and reduce the Democrats’ budget bill, they were raising campaign money from wealthy Republican donors, according to a Sludge review of campaign finance data from Code for Democracy. For many of these donors, their contributions to Manchin or Sinema this year have been only their first or second donations to any Democrats in recent election cycles. • Twenty years ago, when Kyrsten Sinema was a Green Party activist running for the Phoenix City Council, she likened the practice of raising campaign cash to “bribery.” Now that she's a U.S. senator, she no longer seems to have such qualms. So far this year, she's raised nearly $750,000 in donations from the pharmaceutical and medical sector (plus more from the financial sector) at a time when the Arizona Democrat was using her power in a narrowly divided Senate to force President Joe Biden to scale down his spending agenda. Her actions are closely aligned with the priorities of donors who have much at stake in how Biden's initiatives turn out.
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  5. If Manchin and Sinema don't get on board with Biden, Schumer, Pelosi and all the rest of the Democrats, they will not only sink the Democratic Party and themselves, but they will be responsible for sinking democracy and America, too.
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