Great news. The media is uncovering old tweets by Kamala's new Communications Director, Jamal Simmons. Great judgement here, the guy is starting the job by apologizing. At least the Crimson Attack appears to not have much of a past.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/...er-proposal-n2601595

West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin (D) has reportedly pulled his $1.8 trillion counteroffer to President Joe Biden's Build Back Better social spending package, likely the final blow to Democrats' hopes of passing the legislation.

The moderate Democrat's decision to withdraw his proposal was first reported Saturday by The Washington Post, citing three anonymous sources with knowledge of the move. It comes just days after he told reporters that there were no negotiations about the bill.

"I’m really not going to talk about Build Back Better anymore because I think I’ve been very clear on that," Manchin said Tuesday on Capitol Hill, adding that there are "no negotiations going on at this time."

Manchin's compromise included drastic changes to the $1.75 trillion Build Back Better Act that the House of Representatives passed in November. The Congressional Budget Office warned that the bill could add $367 billion to the national debt. Manchin has consistently opposed the legislation over concerns that it would add to the nation's deficit and lead to a rise in inflation.

The West Virginia Democrat's proposal included funding for universal pre-K and a billionaire tax. However, it excluded the expanded child tax credit, an item progressives demanded be in the bill.

Build back dumber.

The funniest part about this whole BBB thing is that Manchin signed a letter with Schumer back in what, June? July? detailing what he would agree too.

Manchin seems to be big on tradition and "gentleman's agreements". When he negotiates he expects the other side to be faithful. Schumer tossed that out the window. I think Manchin is pissed. I expect him to talk like he is willing to negotiate but I think he is done. Schumer is so worried about his future he lost any chance he ever had with Manchin.

Schumer literally memory holed that and lied his ass off for months. Never mentioned it when they got the house to pass it, knowing it would be chopped in the senate necessitating a return to the house for consensus. Which would have driven the progressives nuts. He pretty much made the house dems walk the plank knowing the senate could not deliver.

From a pure political standpoint Schumer sucks at the game.

I seriously think he is driving left to avoid a primary challenge. Just like Nadler did in the house.

I'm not a huge Mitch McConnell fan but dam he can play the game WAAAY better than Schumer.

Here is a report I read earlier. If Manchin is talking to Kudlow that would be astonishing. Kudlow is a smart man. That conversation would be amazing.

Manchin Slams Door on Biden Again While There's Tantalizing Word He's Talking With Fmr. Trump Adviser

If that wasn’t enough, there’s now the tantalizing word that Manchin has also been meeting with Republicans including Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) and Trump advisor Larry Kudlow. While meeting with Romney leaves me cold, meeting with Kudlow is intriguing. It means – to me – that Manchin is looking and open for truth. Kudlow basically confirmed that he’d been in contact with Manchin this week. “Joe Manchin [has] been heroic,” Kudlow said in the New York Sun on Wednesday. “I fully expect him in the next couple days to tell us all that he intends to save America and kill the bill.”

https://redstate.com/nick-aram...rump-adviser-n503776

Manchin continues to do what politicians are supposed to actually do- give a shit about the country at large, not pander to those that will keep him in power. He has been a pleasant surprise since the potato took office.

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West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin (D) has reportedly pulled his $1.8 trillion counteroffer to President Joe Biden's Build Back Better social spending package,...

It's all about radical climate change legislation. Joe Manchin represents a coal producing state.

Brilliant, Neil Oliver Goes There

Neil Oliver goes there, directly to the epicenter of “build back better.” In this monologue not only does Oliver highlight the connective tissue and motives of the elite, but he also references their words to point out the bigger leftist agenda at work. WATCH:



Point One – The “Build Back Better” agenda (in every nation) was never about anything except radical climate change legislation. Once you accept that baseline, things start to become much clearer.

Point Two – The “Build Back Better” phrase came from the World Economic Forum and was promoted by a multitude of international leaders and left-wing organizations. That reality then brings up the most important point. To get to “building back better”, you first need to destroy something. That thing they needed to destroy was the global economic dependency on carbon-based fuel supplies (oil, gas, coal, etc.).

Point Three – In order to destroy the ‘something of that scale’, the energy program for the entire world, something massive is needed to fundamentally change the entire world approach toward energy production. Something is needed to create the crisis that provides the origin for the process to initiate.

Point Four – That triggering mechanism was/is SARS-CoV-2, or what we now call COVID-19 and all variants therein.

There you have it. That’s the summary soup to nuts explanation of why a virus was created, and the subsequent panic pushing to create social structures that would facilitate the global acceptance of an entire new economic system that would be designed around saving the planet.

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https://theconservativetreehou...s-there/#more-224681

Why would COVID necessarily cause the demise of oil and coal and the rise of wind and solar?

I understand the idea that a big upheaval can create an environment where dramatic change is possible, but that tends to operate on a broader scale in terms of issues and outcomes. What is it about COVID that "they" thought would specifically lead to the end of carbon-based fuels?

Just wanted to rant and get this off my chest...

Due to the situation in which I've been placed at work, I had to seek healthcare coverage on the open market. Due to my 2019 surgery, I am IMMEDIATELY disqualified from purchasing a "normal" healthcare package, like a BCBS EPO plan. Consequently, I had to purchase an HMO through Healthcare.org, which is of course, ACA or as it's more commonly called, Onumb-nutz care.

I just have to rant...the motherf---er said, "If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor". That useless sunuvabitch is a LIE! F--- HIM!!! My doctor, whom I LOVE and "wanted to keep", will not take ANY HMO plan. So guess who gets F---ED??? Yup! They F--- YOU IN THE DRIVE-THRU!! THEY F--- YOU IN THE DRIVE-THRU!!!

Just F--- that sunuvabitch cocksucker and the horse he rode in on!!!!!!!

I heard him blaming "meat conglomerates" for the increases in the price of meat. Did he mean the ones that aren't Chinese-owned? Smithfield has been for several years and I'm sure there are others.

Has anyone else seen their local supermarkets this weekend?

Something is definitely up, my wife was at our local Giant supermarket Sunday and she said she never saw anything like it; meat aisle: BARE. Produce: BARE. Whole sections of the store absolutely BARE

A friend was at our local Wegmans supermarket and saw the same exact thing; the entire produce department (which at Wegmans is huge) was absolutely EMPTY.

WTAF?

Saw this tweet tonight:

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Benny
@bennyjohnson
#BareShelvesBiden is Trending

Link

Anyone else seeing this or is this a local issue?

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Originally posted by egregore:
I heard him blaming "meat conglomerates" for the increases in the price of meat. Did he mean the ones that aren't Chinese-owned? Smithfield has been for several years and I'm sure there are others.

Didn’t Hugo Chavez blame the private industry for shortages too?

I was at Sam’s Club, Walmart and a local grocery today. All full up.

I hope this “trending” doesn’t start people hoarding toilet paper again.

Shortages are our friends. Embrace the absence.

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Originally posted by PASig:
Has anyone else seen their local supermarkets this weekend?

Something is definitely up, my wife was at our local Giant supermarket Sunday and she said she never saw anything like it; meat aisle: BARE. Produce: BARE. Whole sections of the store absolutely BARE

A friend was at our local Wegmans supermarket and saw the same exact thing; the entire produce department (which at Wegmans is huge) was absolutely EMPTY.

WTAF?

Saw this tweet tonight:

quote:

Benny
@bennyjohnson
#BareShelvesBiden is Trending

Link

Anyone else seeing this or is this a local issue?

Yep, my Wegman's shelves were picked clean yesterday and today.

Very few dairy products to speak of, produce was close to gone, chips, etc. were gone (like NO crackers...of any sort), frozen pasta type stuff also gone. Some stuff was well stocked, but a lot of more staple stuff was bare. There was a good stock of meats, though.

Cold medicines were entirely picked over cause of the 'cron, of course.

It's not quite as bad as during the depths of the Wu-flu, but way, way worse than it's been in months. Shortages started last weekend.

You want shortages to become substantially worse as we move towards the Fall of this year. I cannot overemphasize this. When you go to the store and see empty shelves, smile. You wiped your ass with an old sock for months in 2020 and you survived it.

You should hope that this gets much worse, and come November, we're going to wreck the Dems.

Here's a taste of what's coming:

And we all know the reason why he's being hidden away from the press (who incidentally are starting to get pissed off about this, so watch for them to turn on him soon), even his 9 phony, prescripted "press conferences" were nothing like any of his predecessors actual press conferences:

https://www.politico.com/news/...sanders-msnbc-526824

Vice President Kamala Harris’ former top spokesperson has only been off the job for less than two weeks, but already she’s got her next major gig lined up.

MSNBC announced on Monday that former press secretary Symone Sanders is joining the network as the host of both a weekend program and a show airing on MSNBC's The Choice on Peacock.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by parabellum:
You want shortages to become substantially worse as we move towards the Fall of this year. I cannot overemphasize this. When you go to the store and see empty shelves, smile. You wiped your ass with an old sock for months in 2020 and you survived it.

You should hope that this gets much worse, and come November, we're going to wreck the Dems.

Para in your area of the country absolutely, but here in the bluest of blue, we will get to government assigned food rations, vaccine papers to buy food and goods, with an increase in taxes to fund the agency dictating the mandates and the enlightened progressive Democrat intellectuals here will vote for somebody who makes the Potatus look like Ronald Regan, over a moderate Republican or a middle of the road Democrat, if such an anomaly exists. Massachusetts will not have a Republican of any power in our Federal or State elected in the foreseeable feature, and probably won’t see a white, heterosexual, conservative Christian male for the rest of this century. Not being defeatist just going by the numbers and how they vote here, for some us the financial hardships, losses of business and worth are too hard or too much to leave.

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...for some us the financial hardships, losses of business and worth are too hard or too much to leave.

Excluding certain 'Blue States', the cost of living is lower pretty much everywhere else. I fail to understand the financial hardship/loss of worth you're concerned with.

Staying in Mass is a choice....Leaving is also a choice, and probably a good one!

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Originally posted by sdy:
https://www.politico.com/news/...sanders-msnbc-526824

Vice President Kamala Harris’ former top spokesperson has only been off the job for less than two weeks, but already she’s got her next major gig lined up.

MSNBC announced on Monday that former press secretary Symone Sanders is joining the network as the host of both a weekend program and a show airing on MSNBC's The Choice on Peacock.

What a shock.