good fucking riddance to Joe Fucking Manchin

it literally ruins Joe Manchin’s day if someone in need gets help

West Virginia Democratic Senator Joseph Manchin III, the guy who lives on a yacht and believes that poor people aren’t suffering enough, has announced that he will not seek reelection in 2024.

good riddance.

fuck Joe Manchin. fuck him all the way to hell.

Joe Manchin has been a thorn in the side of the Biden Administration since day one.

Sen. Manchin has voted against a majority of Senate Democrats 60 times (19.9%) in the 118th Congress (2023-24). He ranks 5th among all senators in voting against his party. The average Senate Democrat votes against his or her party 1.7% of the time.

Joe Manchin doesn’t just vote with Republicans, he sits with them during the State of the Union address.

Joe Manchin fucking hates poor people. it literally ruins Manchin’s day if someone in need gets help.

Joe Manchin killed the child tax credit program.

WASHINGTON — Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., had privately raised concerns in recent months that parents would use their child tax credit payments — a key part of the Build Back Better legislation — to buy drugs, three sources familiar with the comments said.

ugh. this fucking guy. we’re talking about a tax credit here. this is not welfare. this is not a handout. it’s money that the government gives back to tax-paying working people — and Joe Manchin was so fucking concerned that someone somewhere was going to buy drugs that he killed the whole thing. lovely, simply lovely.

but wait — it gets better:

Manchin also raised private concerns with congressional colleagues that Americans, specifically West Virginians, would abuse paid leave time and use it to go hunting during deer season, two sources familiar with his comments said.

ah, the scourge of America: drug users and deer hunters.

hey Joe — what the fuck are you smoking?

and now, because of Joe Manchin, twice as many children are living below the poverty line.

Just a year ago, child poverty hit a historic low of 5.2%. The latest figures put it at 12.4%, the same as the overall poverty rate. The surge happened as record inflation was rising and a lot of pandemic relief was running out, but Census officials and other experts say a key was the child tax credit.

ace job, Joe. pat yourself on your yacht-living back.

but Manchin isn’t just a guy who likes to watch poor people struggle. he’s also snugly in the pocket of the coal industry.

Many Democrats wanted a clean energy standard that would pay electric utilities to replace coal- and gas-fired power plants with renewable power and that would penalize those that didn't. But Mr. Manchin opposed the measure, so it was scrapped.

oh, and then there was the time that Manchin was the deciding vote for the confirmation of Blackout Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.

At the time, Republicans held a 51-49 majority in the Senate, but Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) would ultimately refuse to back Kavanaugh. That left Manchin and moderate Republican Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) as the crucial votes.

Within a few hours, both backed Trump’s pick. Manchin was the only Democrat to do so. 

it will shock nobody to learn that Manchin loves the shit out of the filibuster.

Progressives argue that the filibuster is anti-democratic by its nature; and that the case for carving out exceptions should carry the day as the nation grapples with grave issues ranging from a rising tide of authoritarianism to the rescinding of the constitutional right to abortion.

Manchin’s answer has always been, “No.”

so, what’s Joe Manchin going to do with his time?

In a clip shared to social media on Thursday, Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., announced that he will not be seeking reelection in 2024, opting to spend his time “traveling the country and speaking out to see if there is an interest in creating a movement to mobilize the middle and bring Americans together.”

mobilize the middle — oh, that’s fucking awesome.

the mythical middle. the press is going to eat this shit up. they fucking love the imaginary “centrist moderate middle.”

and now there’s the inevitable speculation that Manchin will seek a third-party presidential run.

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) announced Thursday he will not seek reelection, throwing a wrench in Democrats’ control of the Senate and refueling speculation the centrist Democrat could be seeking a third-party presidential run, a potential move that both Democrats and Republicans have seen as a threat to their parties’ hopes in 2024.

Republicans will no doubt flip Manchin’s senate seat in extremely red West Virginia — and having one fewer senator creates a problem for Democrats.

Manchin running for president on the No Labels ticket creates a problem for Democrats.

but that’s what Joe Manchin has always done: create problems for Democrats.

good fucking riddance to Joe Fucking Manchin.