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Late Night Open Thread: Joe Manchin Has A New Grift

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*Not* West Virginia’s finest export… just saying. Although Manchin and the ‘Live Free (on Other States’ Taxes)’ state make a pretty good match…

‘No Ethics Labels’ has been a rich grift for Mark Penn and Nancy Jacobson. Guess Manchin looked at their haul, and figured there was room for another ‘just asking questions’ tour. Per The Hill, “Manchin launches new political organization, listening tour”:

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) is set to kick off his new organization’s listening tour next month, with a speaking engagement at the New England Council and the New Hampshire Institute of Politics event on Jan. 12.

The two groups announced on Thursday that Manchin would participate in the “Politics & Eggs” series – typically reserved for candidates running for public office.

The announcement also referenced Americans Together, the nonprofit that Manchin was reportedly preparing to launch several months ago. The group, according to the announcement, will launch its listening tour in New Hampshire in January…

Manchin earlier this month said that he planned on launching a two-month winter tour to determine whether there is a national “movement” for a third-party ticket.

Manchin announced last month he would not seek reelection for his U.S. Senate seat in West Virginia. He has not ruled out a third-party presidential bid, but he said he would not run if he would be a spoiler. He said he was focused on the national tour and declined to speculate on his future.

“And the reason I won’t make a prediction, what I can tell you is: There might be a movement, there might not. That depends. I really don’t know,” Manchin said earlier this month. “I would not be a spoiler. I’ve never been a spoiler in anything. I get into something, I get into win.”

Ev’erbody lookit ME!!!!

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  2. 2.

    Baud

    “I would not be a spoiler. I’ve never been a spoiler in anything. I get into something, I get into win.”

    Being a spoiler is an effect, not a purpose.

  4. 4.

    John Revolta

    Joe Manchin is a chronic attention whore. He loves to talk for the cameras, but no way he’s gonna make a run for POTUS.

    (And you can take that to the bank. After all, I’m the guy that said in 2016 No Way was Donald Trump ever gonna be elected President!)

  7. 7.

    satby

    4 am on a holiday weekend is the perfect time to discover the furnace blower is out, isn’t it?  I’m blaming Manchin, because he’s been shitting on every nice thing Biden’s tried to do for three years. Seems fair to blame him for this too.*

    *Don’t worry everyone, we’re going into a week of unusually warm temps, so it can wait til next week. And I have space heaters if I need them.

  12. 12.

    mrmoshpotato

    Joe Manchin to NH on 1/12 for Politics & Eggs – a tradition normally reserved for Presidential Candidates

    Eggs?  Throwing rotten eggs at him?

  15. 15.

    Mai Naem mobile

    I was driving down a residential street today in Phoenix and saw a Bobby Kennedy yard sign. I deserve a gold star for resisting the urge to deface this sign. It’s the first Bobby Kennedy yard  sign I’ve seen. I saw the ‘Kennedy,’part of the sign first and thought it was Sandra Kennedy, an AZ Dem politician who lost a reelection bid in 2022.

  18. 18.

    The Kropenhagen Interpretation

    @Dangerman: I sense movements for a 3rd Party ticket alright (sorry for the TMI).

    They appear to originate from wealthy bowels.

  19. 19.

    The Thin Black Duke

    I remember when Manchin killed the child tax credit because he knew the recipients “would spend the money on drugs.” When the hypocritical motherfucker exits this mortal coil, I can’t wait until Mephistopheles shoves a pineapple up Manchin’s poop chute.

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    Mai Naem mobile

    @mrmoshpotato: more originalist thinking?

    A Dem superpac needs to follow Joe Manchin around at these events with a blow up Maserati and yacht.  It’s not like Biden’s going to  get a whole lot of important stuff done in 2024 where he would need Manchin’s help.

  21. 21.

    LiminalOwl

    We were driving around NH last weekend and saw Niki Haley signs for the first time. Quite a few, though still outnumbered I think by TFG signs. And the latter tended to be yuge ones.

  23. 23.

    Betty Cracker

    The silver-ish lining here is that Machin’s political career ends next year, one way or another. Even though he’ll be replaced by an actual Republican, I look forward to not hearing about Manchin in the years to come.

  24. 24.

    Geminid

    Manchin has no substantial public following. He leads a faction of two Senators, just 4% of his caucus. He can’t win reelection as an incumbent, and neither can his partner, Kyrsten Sinema.

    Manchin can complain all he wants about a Democratic party that’s gone too far left, but the fact is he voted for every major piece of Democratic legislation in the last Congress, and for almost all of Joe Biden’s nominees.

    Manchin might have some appeal to more conservative Demopcrats, but I don’t see them acting on it. A few Independents might vote for him, and that group typically comprises around 30% of a given state’s voters. But Independents generally do not vote for Independent candidates when they are available. They came out for Ross Perot but that was 30 years ago.

    On a state level I guess Angus King is an exception to this rule, but Maine is a singular state politically. Arizona is more typical, and Sinema polls in the teens even though Arozona has more registered Non-affiliated  than Democrats.

    Manchin’s only real constituencies are journalists and lobbyists. So if he’s all No Labels has, they ain’t got much.

  25. 25.

    Derelict

    It’s just spot-on that Manchin’s “listening tour” will consist of him giving speeches. What better way to hear what the people think than to speak at them and not have to listen?

  28. 28.

    SFAW

    I find that I am becoming much more intolerant of this bullshit, to the point where I am far-too-often wishing that these America-hating mofos would just die. Not a particularly good “look,” but I am just so tired of them trying to destroy the country.

    And Manchin is smart enough to know that being a candidate for prez is an attempt to destroy America via helping Cheetolini win.

  29. 29.

    Gvg

    I predict he isn’t going to get much attention. Like Kennedy he is just going to die out of the news. The stories now are just in case, or whatever happened to that guy prequels. There are thing s Manchin could have done to have had a better post political life, a profitable lobbying or something, and he didn’t do them and pissed people off that he shouldn’t have for that. So I would say he did what he really thought was right, and that is revealing of him. Good bye. You were better than a Republican, but those people are crazy or traitors or killers so I give you faint praise.

  30. 30.

    Ohio Mom

    I don’t pay much attention to Manchin but in that photo, he looks like a person who has recently lost weight. His suit jacket is too big. I take this to mean he is serious about this fool’s errand.

    File this under, the universe is giving him all the rope he needs to hang himself.

  32. 32.

    Mai Naem mobile

    @Baud: if Manchin can call a child tax credit welfare, I can call his dammed houseboat a yacht.

     

    @The Thin Black Duke: what exactly did the poor pineapple do to you that you pick it as the fruit to be shoved up Manchin’s poop chute?

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