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Desert_Leslie

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31. What is it ?!?

Mon Dec 20, 2021, 10:18 AM

Dec 2021

What is it with Republicans ... and I am lumping Senator Manchin in with their lot ... and their obsession with low-income people "blowing" their "free government money"? I've heard it many times from Republicans I know.

It's as though they think anyone near or below the poverty line is a selfish, drug-addicted, shiftless lay-a-bed. And I can just picture the same conversations being held in 1840, say, directed at the enslaved people they "owned." "We have to get every penny's worth of hard work from these people!!"

It's the same old "THOSE PEOPLE" are "DIFFERENT FROM US."

So to prevent a vanishingly small minority of people from using that money frivolously, the vast, vast majority of potential recipients simply have to go without.

Wow, and the GOP talks about Democrats being elitist, racist ... when they themselves wrote the book.

I for one am sick, sick, sick of it!

How about Democrats/Biden admin talking about just how various recipients actually use that money to make their kids' lives better? Joy in West Virginia and Patti in Texas?

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Joe Manchin Privately Told Colleagues Parents Use Child Tax Credit Money On Drugs [View all] demmiblue Dec 2021 OP

Fuck this fucking guy. WhiskeyGrinder Dec 2021 #1

+1000000000000000000000000000000000000!! 2naSalit Dec 2021 #6

+ infinity! Scottie Mom Dec 2021 #22

Joe Manchin is a dick. The very worst kind of dick vlyons Dec 2021 #39

Definitely racist and classist, too. geardaddy Dec 2021 #60

+1000 Crowman2009 Dec 2021 #81

No more millionaire lawmakers. CrackityJones75 Dec 2021 #93

This👆 I_UndergroundPanther Dec 2021 #109

Conservatives are always telling us that the Americans can spend the money more wisely then the gove Walleye Dec 2021 #2

Those are the RICH people they're talking about. ShazzieB Dec 2021 #95

manchin is a fucking idiot and playing his constituents like rubes. spanone Dec 2021 #3

Many of his coinstituents are rubes vlyons Dec 2021 #79

Let them eat cake he says berni_mccoy Dec 2021 #4

Let them eat shit is more like it. Nt Fiendish Thingy Dec 2021 #54

I foresee ads featuring struggling constituents telling Manchin how wrong he is femmedem Dec 2021 #5

So how did the senators respond? WhiskeyGrinder Dec 2021 #7

They should Rebl2 Dec 2021 #57

Meh. Why take the bait? WhiskeyGrinder Dec 2021 #59

Maybe in WV . .. . Lovie777 Dec 2021 #8

This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music Dec 2021 #50

You beat me to it. Volaris Dec 2021 #89

Can you say "projection", boys and girls? nt Atticus Dec 2021 #9

My thought exactly Rebl2 Dec 2021 #55

Channeling Reagan SallyHemmings Dec 2021 #10

We knew where Manchin was coming from when he said "entitlement society" Walleye Dec 2021 #24

A very Conservative sentiment. Caliman73 Dec 2021 #91

That is an accurate and well written breakdown of the whole thing Walleye Dec 2021 #92

Your using a strawman argument. Mosby Dec 2021 #94

At least they wouldn't use it to build penis shaped rocket ships maxrandb Dec 2021 #11

Oh that's good!👌 Tribetime Dec 2021 #43

this sentence shows just how out of touch this idiot is CatWoman Dec 2021 #12

That's what he would do. AverageOldGuy Dec 2021 #16

West Virginia. Apparently he doesn't think much of his constituents. SharonAnn Dec 2021 #70

If true, it's a pretty low opinion of his constituents Raven123 Dec 2021 #13

I hear this argument a lot when I talk to republicans. tavernier Dec 2021 #14

I heard they spend it on yachts. gab13by13 Dec 2021 #15

and Maseratis Celerity Dec 2021 #29

Step 3: ??? Jedi Guy Dec 2021 #87

lol, true Celerity Dec 2021 #111

If true, White Fucking Privileged in the Senate. Tommymac Dec 2021 #17

Wealthy Fucking MALE Privilege in the Senate.. whathehell Dec 2021 #62

Not just privilege, but privilege that doesn't know it's privilege. ShazzieB Dec 2021 #97

There were 2 welfare queens in the Reagan era bucolic_frolic Dec 2021 #18

My WV m-i-l Marthe48 Dec 2021 #19

Manchin apparently thinks he is superior to the people he represents PatSeg Dec 2021 #33

+1 n/t area51 Dec 2021 #74

The wealthy own all Republicans and select democrats. johnthewoodworker Dec 2021 #20

If anyone had any doubt he was racist and ignorant, there's your proof. LonePirate Dec 2021 #21

Racist, ignorant, AND a classist snob. ShazzieB Dec 2021 #98

So is he going to go back to WV and accuse TNNurse Dec 2021 #23

wtf Celerity Dec 2021 #25

So Senator LittleGirl Dec 2021 #26

+ Truth. He'll do nothing, just denigrate them to try appalachiablue Dec 2021 #44

Has anyone asked Manchin if he has any evidence to support his prejudices? dlk Dec 2021 #27

He doesn't "trust low-income people to spend government money wisely"? PatSeg Dec 2021 #28

You gotta play hard ball with this scumbag WestIndianArchie Dec 2021 #30

What is it ?!? Desert_Leslie Dec 2021 #31

They Project and at heart are Social Darwinists. MarcA Dec 2021 #85

"Some of their rubes still hold to the I-don't-want-any-charity attitude." Jedi Guy Dec 2021 #88

Manchin has screwed the Democratic Party. Lonestarblue Dec 2021 #32

Manchin has plenty of money. Does he spend it on drugs? Midnight Writer Dec 2021 #34

On a yacht and a Masereti. Justice matters. Dec 2021 #78

WV voters need to be reminded repeatedly between now and 2024... DeeNice Dec 2021 #35

but before doing that, let's make sure there is another dem that can win senate seat in WV AlexSFCA Dec 2021 #86

I spent mine on a new Lexus Farmer-Rick Dec 2021 #36

Maybe they'll spend the money on ultra luxury cars, appalachiablue Dec 2021 #37

Something Donald Trump would say dalton99a Dec 2021 #38

Fuck This Asshole, Ma'am The Magistrate Dec 2021 #40

And he knows this . . . how? hatrack Dec 2021 #41

Bring that mut#erf@cker in front of Congress. fwvinson Dec 2021 #42

exactly llashram Dec 2021 #45

Sad for our nation - we are headed back to 1950. walkingman Dec 2021 #46

I know some people who think the same way. Collimator Dec 2021 #47

Maybe it's true in West Virginia but not most other places JI7 Dec 2021 #48

Jerk Joe Manchin... BlueJac Dec 2021 #49

Sounds racist to me. Racism is at the core of most of our problems. yardwork Dec 2021 #51

It is certainly bigoted against the poor. Johonny Dec 2021 #69

I'm from rural Ohio. I know exactly what he thinks. yardwork Dec 2021 #103

Nah..West Virginia is overwhelmingly White -- about 93% whathehell Dec 2021 #100

He's not talking about West Virginians. yardwork Dec 2021 #102

I don't agree with you whathehell Dec 2021 #106

Manchin is all about himself... Uben Dec 2021 #52

Surely this fine upstanding Democrat must have had a good reason for this opinion Fiendish Thingy Dec 2021 #53

Of course durablend Dec 2021 #56

So, he does not trust 'those people'. OldBaldy1701E Dec 2021 #58

Drugs eh? You mean like the life saving EpiPen which your daughter obscenely gouged people for??? benfranklin1776 Dec 2021 #61

Arrogant fucker XanaDUer2 Dec 2021 #63

That is a true repug thought and statement, text book selfishness. nt Hotler Dec 2021 #64

What drugs does he spend money on? LiberalFighter Dec 2021 #65

It is obvious tiredtoo Dec 2021 #66

I always knew Manchin was an asshole... world wide wally Dec 2021 #67

What a sad, stupid man..shame on him for this, mountain grammy Dec 2021 #68

Aww- You people just got it wrong-He's like your parents who do it for your own good packman Dec 2021 #71

Reagan's welfare queen meme lives on. jaxexpat Dec 2021 #72

This attitude is not only conservative . . . peggysue2 Dec 2021 #73

Manchin must know his constituents. keithbvadu2 Dec 2021 #75

When was th last time he ever met with any of them. .the ones he denigrates? niyad Dec 2021 #76

His constituents keithbvadu2 Dec 2021 #80

As I've noted before, his constituents heckles65 Dec 2021 #83

Wondering what his constituents think of him after he said that . . Emile Dec 2021 #112

The baby and the bath water. hay rick Dec 2021 #77

From my experience living in Martinsburg, WV happybird Dec 2021 #82

Lived there too - in Logan, of all places. heckles65 Dec 2021 #84

Of all places. Duncan Grant Dec 2021 #96

Hi Duncan. yardwork Dec 2021 #104

My post on December 4th was removed when I made negative remarks about Manchin. Ziggysmom Dec 2021 #90

I got one hidden for writing this: demmiblue Dec 2021 #105

I suppose he calls himself a Christian too. Heartstrings Dec 2021 #99

Oh FFS Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Dec 2021 #101

Somebody clue me in Mad_Machine76 Dec 2021 #107

Yep I_UndergroundPanther Dec 2021 #108

May his yacht become infested with bedbugs alittlelark Dec 2021 #110

Does he mean drugs like insulin and beta-blockers? Wasn't it Reagan that said..... KY_EnviroGuy Dec 2021 #113