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QueerDuck

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13. Better to have an "unreliable" Joe Manchin who never votes with-the-Dems...
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 04:12 PM
Nov 12

Last edited Wed Nov 12, 2025, 04:50 PM - Edit history (1)

and gives us an extra seat toward having (keeping?) the majority than to have a Republican who (also) never votes with-the-Dems... but who gives a majority advantage to the Republicans.

We always knew exactly how he was going to vote. So NOBODY should have been surprised or disappointed. Nobody should have felt betrayed. Nobody should have spend their time harassing and "primarying" him when an equal (or less) amount of effort could have been more effectively spent trying to defeat a vulnerable Republican and FLIP a seat.

People need to learn to appreciate what they have rather than being on a constant Quixotic quest for the "perfect" and the "pure" (that will never materialize) while neglecting, rather than nurturing and caring for something that already provides an important advantage.

We were damned lucky to have Joe Manchin (as awful as he was). Jim Justice is worse.

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