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Topic Title: Manchin.
Topic Summary: Not your average millionaire.
Created On: 10/19/2021 06:22 AM
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 10/19/2021 06:22 AM
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johnnyboy

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>>As The Guardian reported in partnership with the Center for Media and Democracy in July, Manchin himself founded a private coal brokerage in 1998 called "Enersystems." Though currently run by his son, Manchin still owns as much as a $5 million stake in the company, raking in $500,000 of income from it in 2020 alone. As of late 2019, Manchin was by far the most invested of any senator in "dirty energy."

Manchin serves as chair of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, which oversees the coal industry as well as "global climate change." As Sludge reported in early July, Manchin told the 2021 annual conference of the Edison Electric Institute in June that "coal-fired plants are being unfairly targeted by environmentalists."<<

Meanwhile, he has an open door policy on his yacht for the carbon industry donor class, who views him as their reliable advocate despite the bad press about their industry's pollution. I guess you can't drain the swamp if the guy is in his yacht watching the oil and coal companies making it rain.

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 10/19/2021 06:53 AM
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With Democrats like Manchin, who needs Republicans.

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 10/19/2021 08:03 AM
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But Pelosi and Schumer are your average millionaires. They think the right way - like idiots - and their riches are, therefore, merited. I wish you guys would spare us this tripe.

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 10/19/2021 08:08 AM
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That's fair.

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 10/19/2021 08:13 AM
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Tsuqblo supports a dirty misogynist shit for brains. Russki a socialist representing 650k people.

 10/19/2021 09:53 AM
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RustyTruck

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Originally posted by: tpapablo

But Pelosi and Schumer are your average millionaires. They think the right way - like idiots - and their riches are, therefore, merited. I wish you guys would spare us this tripe.


There's a place against the wall for all of them.

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 10/19/2021 10:08 AM
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johnnyboy

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But lets not concern ourselves too much in how our public servants become millionaires while in office, How do you see a senator voting on an industry that he currently holds millions of dollars in. Is this a conflict of interest?

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 10/19/2021 10:25 AM
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Greensleeves

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Coal getting expensive too! Check the cnn article on his constituent's winter heating bills...
 10/19/2021 10:32 AM
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tpapablo

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Originally posted by: johnnyboy But lets not concern ourselves too much in how our public servants become millionaires while in office, How do you see a senator voting on an industry that he currently holds millions of dollars in. Is this a conflict of interest?
Many of them go in poor and come out rich.What do you do? I'd start by applying all of their legislation to them. That would be a good start.

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 10/19/2021 10:44 AM
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RustyTruck

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Time for a re-write of the Constitution. Times have changed. It should be a crime to profit from public office, and a crime to be a lobbyist. Equal time and no dark money.

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 10/19/2021 11:19 AM
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tpapablo

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Manchin is not the bad guy here. In fact, if you are a dem, he is a good guy. The dems will be slaughtered in 2022. It would be worse, however, if the dems passed everything they wanted. In that case, 2022 would be a widespread revolt.

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 10/19/2021 11:55 AM
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Manchin is no democrat. Keeping him on the a Democrat ticket is pointless. He is enjoying his status as a deal breaker, but he never enjoyed his designation as a Democrat.

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 10/19/2021 01:05 PM
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RustyTruck

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Manchin should be thrown down the deepest shaft in his mine.

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 10/19/2021 07:15 PM
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His interests are conflicted. He's transactional. He's not a democrat or a republican.

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 10/20/2021 03:10 PM
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What about Sinema? And how did pelosi and her husband be on the right side of every stock trade and investment?

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 10/20/2021 03:47 PM
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Congressional insider trading. A time honored tradition favored by both parties.

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