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Tommymac's JournalRobert Reich: Why Manchin and Sinema Came out Against Voting Rights
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/robert-reich/100049/psst-you-really-want-to-know-why-manchin-and-sinema-came-out-against-voting-rightsby Robert Reich | January 21, 2022 - 7:40am
I’ve suggested that the answer to all these questions could be found in the giant wads of corporate cash flowing into their campaign coffers. But as I’ve watched the two senators closely and spoken about them with members of Congress as well as Hill staff, I’ve come to the conclusion this isn’t it – or at least not all of it.
The corporate money explanation leaves out the single biggest factor affecting almost all national politicians I’ve dealt with: Big egos. Manchin’s and Sinema’s are now among the biggest.
Before February of last year, almost no one outside West Virginia had ever heard of Joe Manchin, and almost no one outside of Arizona (and probably few within the state) had ever heard of Kyrsten Sinema. Now, they’re notorious. They’re Washington celebrities. Their photos grace every major news outlet in America.
This sort of attention is addictive. Once it seeps into the bloodstream, it becomes an all-consuming force. I’ve known politicians who have become permanently and irrevocably intoxicated by it.
I’m not talking simply about power, although that’s certainly part of it. I’m talking about narcissism – the primal force driving so much of modern America, but whose essence is concentrated in certain places such as Wall Street, Hollywood, and the United States Senate.
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They are willing to let Democracy Die to satisfy their precious EGOS. Sound like something TFG would do.
Do The Math. Putin Equals Fox News
https://twitter.com/DeanObeidallah/status/1484501347563151362Let's see this one on the Standardized Tests.
VP Kamala Harris FTW: 'It's only just the beginning.' 💖
https://twitter.com/KamalaHarris/status/1484340622995513351
GOTV 2022
The Queen of Both-Siderism, Andrea Mitchell: Who's on First?
https://twitter.com/chrislongview/status/1484212831973171200The Queen of Both-Siderism for sure.
US Presidential Children in the 21st Century: A Pictorial Study
And then there is them...because children say the darndest things
Finally, getting ready to take to the mattresses?
Ricky Davila Tells The Truth. @Media, can we have the honor of a reply?
https://twitter.com/TheRickyDavila/status/1482831788103725057
1/6 Hearings: Laughter is the Best Medicine. Hell, it's what We Dems have left to fight back with.
'Laughter and Shame' may be one of the best tactics we have going for us now.
Prerequisites have been met:
1) We have proven the Big Lie to most of The American People.
2) TFG/DFP has been made a laughing stock among Dems and Suburban voters. Especially Women and minorities.
3) His cronies and compatriots have proven (to most sane peeps) that they are not the brightest bulbs in the bunch.
4) The 1-6 Committee is going to hold TELEVISED hearings starting soon that will go on for MONTHS.
5) Narcissists and sociopaths HATE to be Laughed at.
6) The Serious stuff is being put together right now by our Heroes on the 1/6 Committee.
There is going to be a lot of serious matters up for discussion during the hearings. I am not making light of that fact...
but damn if it ain't gonna be SHOWTIME when one looks at the Insurrectionists.
Bring it on Comedy Central. Have at it Late Night Talking Heads. Crush it SNL.
Sharpen your pencils and wit Mr. Ferret and Mr. Rude Pundit.
SHOCK and AWE baby.
Narcissists and sociopaths HATE to be Laughed at. They HATE to be scorned and SHAMED. They make mistakes and act even more foolishly when this happens, they make it even worse.
And Jane and Joe Sixpack will be glued to their TV's and blogs and twitter accounts laughing their asses off.
Fellow Dems, I submit it is the hand we have been dealt. If You Can't beat them at their game, then show the world how stupid and idiotic and foolish and funny they really are.
We will win in November 2022 hands down.
Laughter is the Best Medicine.
This.
It's all we have left after the 2 Demasshats and 50 rethugdestructors have blocked both BBB and Voting Rights.
The ONLY recourse we have is to SHAME them and LAUGH at them on National TV for days and weeks and months.
Prove them guilty and complicit, then let Saturday Night Live, The Late Night Talk Shows, Comedy Central make ratings history LAUGHING and poking fun at their stupidity.
Aaron Rupar Tweet: Laugh of the Day (Hey, Proud Boy Enrique Tarrio - who let the dogs out?)
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1482143709697355779Hey Enrique, Who let the dogs out?
The BEST way to fight these narcissistic sociopaths is with laughter, shame, and more laughter. They can't handle it.
GOTV 2022
Frank Figliuzzi FTW: Hey Ted "A picture says a thousand words"
https://twitter.com/FrankFigliuzzi1/status/1481719343943536641Stupid is as Stupid does.
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