Joe Manchin has always sucked. But he never once cast a deciding vote against the Democrats in his career, until the media (MSNBC in particular) spent all of January goading him into it. The media manufactured this drama for ratings – and that should outrage you beyond words.
The minute the democrats won the special election and it became clear they’d have a 50 seat majority, the media began pushing the notion that Manchin would be a power broker because he’d go against his own party. Manchin took the bait. Now he’s in over his head and despised.
Sinema, the asshole, also decided to take the bait and try to see what she could get from her party by holding it hostage. Now she’s also way in over her head and her career is likely over.
Manchin and Sinema are full grown adults and are responsible for their own actions. But the media manufactured this entire thing because it wanted the drama (ratings) of Manchin vs the Democrats. MSNBC started manufacturing this from the day of the senate special election onward.
You should be outraged out of your gourd at the media for having manufactured this situation. The media intentionally sabotaged Biden’s entire agenda just because it wanted the ratings that come from infighting. Don’t you dare give MSNBC etc a free pass on this.
Fox News has literally killed its own audience members by manufacturing phony vaccine controversy.

MSNBC has likely killed members of its own audience by creating the Manchin monster and thus delaying the passage of BBB by a year.

It’s really no different. Murder for ratings.

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No and no. Trump doesn't control the military or law enforcement anymore, so he can't clear a path for his idiot goons to carry out a successful attack.
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At the risk of stating the obvious, the words "shouldn't be allowed" don't appear anywhere in the Constitution or the law. You can't just magically stop a guy from holding a press conference because you think he might say bad things.
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Have the DOJ and the committee been coordinating this all along?
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