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AmBlue

(3,444 posts)
Sun Dec 19, 2021, 11:29 PM Dec 2021

Any chance?

Any chance Manchin's "this is a no" stunt blowing up BBB is a Trumpian distraction to change the conversation away from the treasonous bastards in Congress and on Faux News?

I couldn't help but notice he announced it on Faux... as if it was his personal gift of fealty to the dark side. Something stinks to high heaven...

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LowerManhattanite

(2,433 posts)
3. I think this is a HUGE part of it.
Sun Dec 19, 2021, 11:34 PM
Dec 2021

They’re gonna get mauled with the televised, extended hearings where the GQP leadership is gonna get savaged for their complicity.

THIS MOVE is a bone to the GQP faithful. A feelgood action. A sop so they feel they have a “win” in their pocket so the coming bad won’t feel as much so.

GoodRaisin

(9,603 posts)
7. Don't think so. There's still plenty of treasonous bastards talk on MSM.
Sun Dec 19, 2021, 11:40 PM
Dec 2021

It just gives Fox News treasonous bastards something to crow about to help fill up their propaganda talking points.

 

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
8. He voted for impeachment. Don't really think he's trying to distract.
Sun Dec 19, 2021, 11:44 PM
Dec 2021

I do think he might be ticked. There is an article in Rolling Stone today, that I can’t read. The title is:

How the White House Tried to Twist Manchin’s Arm — and Failed
““They overcooked the milk on BBB. I think they pushed him too hard and pissed him off,” one activist says”
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Makes a much sense as most conjecture.

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