WTF.
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@lovelylovely@masto.ai Not Manchin, please, say it ain't so.
@lovelylovely@masto.ai a little backyard is in order here. My family is from WV. I don't love Manchin, but he is a Dem, and from a state for which I hold great hope. Sorry to see him sell out, if that is what is happening
@Wolleysegap Where have you've been, he's been sealing the Democrat out for years Voting rights Childcare filibuster reform. he's blocked them all.
@lovelylovely@masto.ai Ok you got me. A traitor by any other name, I am connected to the state, not any particular person. It's projection, but in reverse.
@lovelylovely@masto.ai I know plenty of decent people in WV . How they backed Manchin is beyond me.
@Wolleysegap @lovelylovely WV was one of the bluest states until Clinton did NAFTA.
@Wolleysegap @lovelylovely Clinton’s point man on NAFTA was Robert Reich, the guy who constantly posts on universeodon about how stupid West Virginians are. They’re not stupid. They just remember when Clinton and Reich fucked them over.
@psychictides @Wolleysegap So you're saying West Virginia is still holding a grudge? 30 years later....
@lovelylovely@masto.ai @psychictides@jorts.horse About that I can't say, what I was saying is that Manchin is at least in name a Democrat, from a state that is in my.fondest memory a Dem state. Ok, he is at this point a thorn in our side. Get rid of him. Took me a while to see good sense.
@Wolleysegap @lovelylovely @psychictides Problem is he will surely be replaced by a flaming right winger. Not that it makes much difference at this point.
@psychictides @shuttersparks @Wolleysegap
You are wrong.
@lovelylovely @shuttersparks @Wolleysegap If I’m wrong, why doesn’t WV vote for your party then?
@lovelylovely @shuttersparks @Wolleysegap I’m from that area. I remember WVians excited to vote for Dukakis and Mondale and Clinton, literally singing union songs.
Once Clinton did NAFTA it was over for Democrats in WV.
@psychictides @shuttersparks @Wolleysegap
30 years ago that was a different world it's a Republican State now with little to no Democrat,
@psychictides @Wolleysegap @lovelylovely West Virginians ignore the fact that every other school, highway, and bridge is named after a Democrat that brought the funds here to build it. We're too busy gulping down the feel-good medicine sold by Fox Entertainment. If you can give a West Virginian someone to look down on, you've got 'em. That's how we roll here.
@shuttersparks @Wolleysegap @lovelylovely He wouldn’t be if Democrats gave them a reason to trust them, but Democrats constantly talk about the stupid hicks from West Virginia, and more importantly, Clinton personally ruined their lives. I’m sorry but WV has no reason to trust Democrats because they’re not giving them one.