West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin held a press conference moments ago to say he’s done with the insufferable chicanery within the legislative social spending bill, also called the “human infrastructure bill” or Biden’s “build back better” bill, or the “reconciliation bill”.
Nancy Pelosi has been sitting on the previously passed $1.5 trillion infrastructure bill that was passed by the House and Senate {Go Deep} but has refused to allow a vote until a bigger social spending bill -constructed using the reconciliation process to radically change the U.S. by the AOC radical communists in congress- can be attached. For months the debate over how far the communists can push the social spending package has been argued and debated, today Joe Manchin tapped out.
Manchin has done today what he was always likely to do, and two issues triggered today as his moment. The cherry in his construct is Biden’s current location. WATCH:
Now, let’s get to the politics of why Manchin is making his move….
It is not coincidental that Manchin makes this statement today, as the NBC poll showing massive drops in support for Joe Biden is being discussed widely. Manchin knows he is sitting in a spotlight of an inflection point; Manchin is politically astute and cunning to the ways of politics. Manchin comes across as meek and mild-tempered, a man of reasonable disposition… but that doesn’t accurately portray his cunning. This is his chance to make a big move.
Senator Joe Manchin also knows that Democrats are going to implode as the Obama allied communist puppet masters behind Biden have a one term agenda to exploit their control over the dementia patient currently occupying the White House. Manchin knows the collapse of the Democrat Party is his opportunity; he also knows THE REALITY behind the released Marist Poll [data here] showing a majority of non-communist Democrats want nothing to do with the senile occupant of the White House.
Manchin is making a BIG club move by positioning himself as reasonable right now.
Manchin is testing his strength against the strength of Nancy Pelosi.
Manchin will likely be the #1 contender in 2024, he knows it.
Manchin is cunning.
Manchin is not only reaching out to ‘moderate’ registered Democrats….
Manchin is reaching the minds of registered Republicans
Manchin is a very worthy adversary…
At 1:00am on August 25th, Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats came to an agreement on a massive spending proposal. The Senate previously passed a $1.5 trillion “infrastructure” bill, and a group of 9 House moderates -led by Josh Gottheimer- wanted to see it pass. However, the far-left progressive caucus wanted their $3.5 trillion spending package which includes Green New Deal spending passed as part of the total budget agenda.
Representative Gottheimer’s group did not concur with the House $3.5 trillion spending proposal and saw no way for it to pass the Senate.
An internal deal was struck amid the Democrats for Gottheimer’s coalition to agree to advance a rules change with two conditions on that August 25th late night discussion {GO DEEP}:
(1) Pelosi would have to promise to bring the $1.5 infrastructure bill to a vote on September 27th; and (2) Any larger GND/”Human Infrastructure” bill ($3.5 spending package) would need to be structured to pass the Senate.
Again, back on August 25th, the ‘moderate’ Marxists (for lack of a better term) could see that AOC’s progressive caucus spending bill was unlikely to pass the Senate in its current form. To get the Gottheimer group on board, House Speaker Pelosi agreed to the two conditions, as negotiated. To appease the AOC nuts, everyone agreed to tie both the $1.5 trillion infrastructure and the $3.5 trillion spending boondoggle together.
Fast forward through the next eight weeks. The Senate struggled to come to any agreement, as Senator Manchin (WV) and Senator Sinema (AZ), along with others, balked at the insufferable nature of the $3.5 trillion radical change blueprint that would remake the entire U.S. economy and end up with a massive $5+ trillion deficit.
Because the second point in Gottheimer’s deal (House bill must be able to pass the Senate) was not met, the entire process came unraveled. Pelosi reneged on the promise to bring the $1.5 trillion infrastructure bill to a vote on September 27th. As the deadline passed, Pelosi tried to save face -en process- by saying the vote would be likely on Friday October 1st, that never happened. Deadlines came and went without progress.
With public support for the office of the President collapsing at an astounding rate, Joe Biden attempted to insert himself and his weak-sauce leverage at the last minute. It didn’t help. The $3.5 trillion spending priority quickly turned into a dead fish, rotting in blueprint outline form without ever making it to ‘reconciliation’ legislative language.
Today, Joe Manchin moved to put Nancy Pelosi and the communists in check.
Manchin has the support of the House Democrats and House Republicans but not the communists or AOC.
Knight took queen off the board….
Like a fox…
How naive people are, even after everything they’ve seen the last 18 months. The Democrats are not imploding; they are running the country by impenetrable election fraud that cares not about public perception. We can all have a good laugh at PoopyPantsBiden, but there he still in the White House, with 1/6 prisoners still in prison. His poopy pants aren’t moving any meaningful needles. As for Manchin, a white man from West Virginia will absolutely not be allowed to run for president in 2024.
Manchin is hardballing for more pension money in West Virginia. That’s all this is. As soon as he gets that, he’ll vote for the bill.
If Manchin changes his tune because he cut a deal to get more money for his constituents his name would be worse than mud. He says he is standing up for America and basing everything on principles and he is correct in saying that spending money you don’t have on new social programs is insane when your current social programs are due to have significant shortages in the near future. And he hates the green new deal guaranteed like most people.
Ah, so he’s making an appeal for a larger national constituency?
I agree.
And I do not trust him.
We saw this with Bart Stupak during Obamacare. Conservatives naively celebrated a “principled” Democrat who “actually had a conscience” who put a wrench in the gears during that bill’s passing. People said he couldn’t back down or his name would be mud, after making such a big stand for it. Then he negotiated an irrelevant executive order to “address his concerns” and then he voted for Obamacare. Stupak is no longer in Congress, but he was awarded handsomely for his hardball, and now he has a cushy job representing health insurance corporations as a lobbyist in DC.
The only lasting effect Bart Stupak (representing NW Michigan & the Upper Peninsula) can point to is that since he lost re-election (or retired, I can’t recall) in 2010, his seat has gone GOP every 2 years.
Amen to that. Manchin is as corrupt as anyone in DC. The man is without a doubt a bigger thief than his late uncle A J. He is never gonna be President and he knows it. Just holding out for the $$$$$
Congrats to Joe. He held his ground as I predicted (when even Sundance said he would fold) and did NOT yield.
Y’all can make up whatever crazy reason you like that he didn’t cave (or hasn’t caved yet) but the FACT is he didn’t, and he won’t.
Because if he were to now he would be done.
Give the man his due.
Joe ain’t no commie.
Joe is a bigger thief than is uncle A J. He’ll Joe is a bigger thief than Shelly MO Capito’s dad. Joe is open for business.
Still didn’t cave.
Not sure why you seem to have a problem with that.
He won’t cave unless the caving narrative is whispered in his earpiece. He really doesn’t understand what is happening except the “clean guy” got him in the White House and he’s got to follow orders if he wants to stay! Okay
Because I know him. He is simply grabbing as much cash as he can. Pay attention to his wife Gale. See what new position or appointment he’s gets in the next few weeks months. If cap and trade joe is awake, he is reaching out for more cash.
We can agree to just leave his description as a criminal. If anything happens to his left ear, he’ll be in real trouble. Then again, he’s been in trouble before and O bails him out. Wonder when that stops?
No, Joe is a Machiavellian political chameleon, which is exactly how the Clintons started out.
What pension money?? State pensions don’t use money from the feds. I don’t get it.
Should the Democrats push him further, Manchin will resign his committee position(s) as a nod toward leaving the party.
This is his last power move, but it will work because the Dems can’t have him going full rogue, even though he would likely caucus with them. It would give him too much power on paper.
Plus, as Sundance notes, Manchin needs to stay a Democrat in order to be seen as one in 2024.
If I were him, I would be very concerned about receiving the Wellstone treatment – just sayin’. Today, we say thank God for Manchin, but that doesn’t mean we need to say that tomorrow, next month, or next year.
Thought the same
His house boat might sink.
Maybe someone will accuse him of having a ‘wide stance’ in the men’s room……..
Notice the purple tie.
You are so right. It is political maneuvering. He said nothing substantive. Just wordy dancing around. He should have said “we haven’t passed a budget in eons. We need a balanced budget with a solid method to reduce the debt.” Ain’t gonna happen.
I expect a visit from the FBI in Joe’s future…
The commies always support a commie. Doesn’t matter who.
There is no one viable on the far left side in 2024. If the 2022 elections are not stolen, a bloodbath of commie D’s will neuter the far left wing nuts and they will be a cult.
We may see the commie dems move to the center in 2024. They are going to get all their destruction of America done by the end of Biden/Kamala term. It will be dang near impossible to undo because the commie pubs. will not help. So, all Manchin has to do is warm a seat in the WH if he is elected and let the destruction put in place by Biden run its course. The best we can hope for is a temporary slowing down of the box cars if Manchin is elected.
2 years in politics is like a lifetime. The landscape can completely change depending on what deals take place and what happens to individual pols.
nah, he’s not running for POTUS
Yet.
This is the correct analysis.
Satan is in charge of this country. Joe Manchin or Mike Pence or Kristi Noem or Horizontal Harris have neither the means nor the will to stop the box cars from moving. The last chance to turn the ship around was 2016-2020. The satancrats and GOPe did not want to turn the ship around and they were more cunning than the few decent people left in this country.
The Raspberry necktie signals that Joe Manchin is voting like a reddish Democrat, much like Susan Collins votes as a bluish Republican.
There is no benefit to West Virginia from an “infrastructure bill” because the entire state already has miles and miles of Roads to Nowhere built through the largess of Robert Byrd.
It is sad that you think Joe Manchin ever considered how his actions would effect the people of West Virginia. He cares only about himself.
ha ha … a POTUS move by Manchin ???? with BOTH the Clinton and Obama machines ready to grind him into dust … he won’t be able to raise 2 cents …
Both machines would have to find a way to pay him off to drop out. Could be rather lucrative.
“Could be rather lucrative.” Or deadly…….democrats play for keeps.
Sly old Fox Manchin still has the Democrat mange and should be handled with thick gloves, the man should never be trusted on any subject, he is a game player??
Wasn’t it his daughter that made a fortune off EpiPen?
http://www.capoliticalreview.com/capoliticalnewsandviews/daughter-of-democrat-senator-joe-manchin-indicted-for-epi-pen-fraud/
ONE OUTSTANDING SCREED OF EXPLAINING what the DEVIL Mancin was doing!!!!! WOWZA!!!
Time for my 2nd glass of wine (red that is)!!!
Pfffft! Anything a Demonic Pedo Democrat says I dont believe. Not ever. Come to think about it- I dont believe anything the “Republicans” say either.
Yeah, Mike. Satan has his feet firmly planted in congress. Can’t believe anything any of them say.
Yup, democrats will need a candidate in 2024.
Mike Pence and Kristy Noem versus Joe Manchin and Tulsi Gabbard.
A lot of good people will become nauseous just by reading that.
Just threw up in my mouth.
Pence is finished.
Democrats running the country? More like ruining it and paying the price. Manchin can see they are becoming a toxic brand and unless he moves now and confronts the loonies, the moderate Democrats will never vote for a D again. Same thing happened in the UK, political pundits telling us it would be a close election, but knowing it was a lie. Media ignoring hundreds of anecdotal stories and feeding us happy lefty stories. Result, the Red Wall, seats made up of traditional Labour supporters voted Tory and few will return, if the polls are to be believed.
As for ‘cares not about public perception’ regarding fraud, if that were the case then their tech helpers would not have banned any use of the term fraud and the media would not have embargoed the whole subject. They care deeply about public perception, hence the media meltdown over LGB. They are terrified of the publics perception and they know their control is slipping, hence the savage responses to any opposition. The ones doing the real damage now are the corporations pushing ESG benchmarks to further leftist quasi-governmental control but they too are facing a reckoning as conservative consumers become more canny in their purchases.
Leftism is dying and like any behemoth, that has a tiny brain, it takes a while for it to realise what the hunters already know. Annoyingly, in it’s death throws it can still inflict pain and suffering, and even after succumbing to the inevitable the carcass rots and pollutes the ground. That is until real conservatives clean the mess up, which is after all why we have conservatives.
Oh so that explains why Dominion machines have been removed from Arizona.
This reply is what’s known as a non sequitur.
So, that means that Obama and his Commie handlers are not part of the Big Club after all.
For sure, the Far Left loons in the House are NOT part of the Big Club either.
So, Manchin is pretty much on the same side as McConnell. They both see the danger to their Big Club of The Far Left and Trump’s MAGA.
Perhaps this is why Pelosi is retiring. She has no way to govern.
Interesting…
Manchin is making a move to replace pelosi in kingship.
The bill can pass with Susan Collins, Romney, murkowski, etc…
Think of Randolph and Mortimer Duke.
They quibble and argue, but are part of the same club.
I don’t get why people are concerned about 2024 when we are in deep doo-doo right now! We need definitive action long before 2024 to even have a functioning republic by then.
Because it’s easier to long-distantly metaphorically rape people in the current moment if you have them looking into the future to get even with them.
2022 can defang the commies. Then slide till 2024.
If Adam Kinzinger had an ounce of brains he’d have done the same thing, but alas TDS ate him to the core, and all he gets now is a gig licking toilet seats at CNN.
How fitting.
If Adam wasn’t gay or ashamed of it, he could of made many more moves of his own.
Why not go for Durbin’s job in 2026.
Wisdom and intelligence are not the same thing.
Poor Adam, possess neither.
…and sitting on his rubber fist.
As with Lindsey: Once a snake, always a snake!
I’m guessing he’s holding out for more $$$$ for his pet projects!
You think, at this stage, they haven’t already offered him the moon and stars?
It’s a No Joe.
Time to give the man some small credit for saving the entire country from the commies.
Still a republic (just barely). Now see if you can keep it.
Sorta off topic but Faux is set to call VA for McCauliff at 12:01 am.
Youngkin will have a lead with 70% of the results in. Then it drop to 60% of the results in. With Youngkin still in the lead, Fox will call it for McAuliffe around midnight, explaining that final results won’t be available until Nov 10th.
Sad, but true.
AP does all the calling.
President Trump should have dumped Pence and replaced him with Manchin!
Here’s my take on this:
Manchin: “I’ll force the American people to eat only 10 loads of dog pooh instead of 15.”
And all the people seem to be saying, “Oh, isn’t this WONDERFUL? Isn’t this GREAT? Manchin’s such a hero!”
P.S. If they had wanted to pass a bill that actually helped rebuild the infrastructure, they would have passed Trump’s.
I can not stress this enough. Joe Manchin is a conniving unrepentant amoral politician. The man stole from his own brother. I have known Joe Manchin for 35 years. He has never done anything that did not benefit himself.
Hear Hear
A Typical Politician, in for himself.
I’ve always wondered if Typical Politicians are what we need the most.. and that Dogmatic Politicians are dangerous.
Pragmatic Politicians are best but they have issues with the Deep State. They are Populists.
Dogmatic Politicians give us communists and socialists.
Pragma gave us Reagan and Trump.
Bill Clinton was likely the last Typical Politician we had.
I don’t like Joe Manchin. Or Sinema, or Tulsi Gabbard, or Jim Jordan, or [insert generic D or R here].
They are ALL opportunistic pieces of s*** who are just taking advantage of me to gain power and wealth.
Oh how I wish more people understood this.
AGREE Wvhillbillly, AGREE!!!
What about Jeb?
!Jeb
Do I TRUST Joe Manchin?
NO.
No matter what he did here, he’s STILL A DEMOCRAT.
But it’s certainly fun to watch him kick Pelosi, Schumer, AOC et al in their collective shins.
At least for now, I’m marking THIS ONE in the “W” column.
You rarely determine victory by the metric of personal preference, however justified, you do it by recognising and exploiting any defeats you have inflicted on your opponent. Leftism is dying simply because it is unsustainable, it can only last for a lifespan measured in decades when it is instituted AFTER the Communists have gained total control. Trying to introduce it when there are so many platforms of resistance is an exercise in futility.
Well said Constant peg. Your recipe for victory has the ring of Truth to it.
Communism, like Islamic fundamentalism is based on the spoils system and can only destroy, steal, and reward its cadre with booty. It creates nothing. Saint Sofia in Constantinople was an Orthodox basilica for centuries before capture and remodel by the Ottomans.
None of the architecture that Premier Putin was proudly showing off parading around was built by the system that he paid homage to as head of the KGB. People in Russian cities sleep in rows upon rows of boxy buildings that look like soda cracker packages built under communism. It’s what they will do to us if given the chance. Communism is truly a boot stomping on a face forever.
All of the beautiful Russian architecture was built before the Bolsheviks seized power. The Cathedral of Christ the Saviour was commissioned after Napoleon’s defeat at Moscow and finally finished in 2000.
http://www.moscow.info/images/orthodox-moscow/Cathedral-Christ-Saviour.jpg
St. Basil’s Cathedral, The Kazan Cathedral, Cathedral of the Annunciation, Cathedral of the Assumption, Cathedrals of the Archangel and the Twelve Apostles are joyous expressions of creativity in and around The Kremlin fortress and Red Square and date back to between the 14th and 17th centuries.
For a communist attempt at creativity look at the Lubyanka and Dzerzhinsky Square.
Or……when Biden is removed and a new VP is needed for Kamala, Manchin will be offered the position in exchange for his support of the boondoggle bill (which seems to be designed to make a lot of Congress Critters and family members very wealthy).
A new VP must be nominated and approved by the Senate I believe. If Harris has been promoted to president there will be no one to break the 50-50 tie unless some wimp Republican caves. Therefore, no VP for 2 years. It’ll be very quiet except for the squad squeaking.
But that would mean that the Republican governor of West Virginia could pick his replacement to fulfill his term. I don’t think the Democrats don’t risk that.
Are you sure Kameltoe will ever take the throne?
Cackle cackle cackle
Kamal T Harris
All I see in that Marist poll is Democrats and Republicans divided as bad as ever. I don’t see them abandoning Biden. I do see that only 39% think he’s the right candidate for 2024, but he has never been the candidate they wanted. He was pushed on them by the club to keep Sanders from being the nominee.
The Democrats will lock in that “infrastructure” bill and the Republicans will make excuses if they win the House/Senate next year about why they can’t do anything to change it.
You absolutely nailed it. I just wish more people could see it. The people who are profiting from the corruption are never going to stop the corruption. Mr. Jefferson was right.
The Manchin/Sinema play is no different than the Murkowski/Collins (or McCain) play when the GOP was confronted with full control of the Congress/Presidency in 2017. They did not want to repeal/replace Obamacare (those 72 Obama vetoes were all for show). So they set up a conflict so as to prevent having to do what they had promised.
You can bet that the Communists who got on board with Biden on the pretense they had to beat Trump to get their insanity enacted into law are well aware of what is being done to them.
If the Trump were in office with a slim GOP majority in the House and Senate, we would all be getting treated to the Murkowski/Collins play preventing the repeal/replace of Obamacare, tax cuts, or anything else Trump might want to do.
Don’t forget the so called “Freedom Caucus” in the house blocking repeal /replace 2017-2018.
Knight took queen off the board…
But is it Senator Schumer and his paymasters making the moves?
AOC still looking to primary Schumer? What a shame if Dominion voting machines deliver 70% of the vote for Schumer and AOC’s political career. What’s she going to do, claim election fraud?
Manchin is playing a role. The Government Party doesn’t want Communism. They know they’ll be the first to hang and the Corporation Wing of the Government Party doesn’t want Communism either.
After some more brinksmanship, they’ll eventually pass the original 1.5T infrastructure disaster, and then everybody goes on TV to scream and bang the table about how dysfunctional DC is. Lindsey Graham spends most of this time on TV playing this particular role.
That sound like an accurate description of what is taking place. It’s all just theater.
You may be right, but thank God he played that role.
And I doubt he was given or agreed to play a “role”. It just happened naturally, as these things sometimes do.
Maybe (gasp) he actually meant what he said. Shocking to think that, I know.
It almost seems that many folk here wish that he had caved.
Oh, sh#t. I forgot to book Lindsey Graham for tomorrow night.
Signed,
Tick tock Hannity
I live next door to West Virginia in Kentucky. Most people outside of the beltway do not understand Democrats in otherwise red states. In Kentucky, we have a Democrat governor but almost every other office in the state is controlled by Republicans. West Virginia is similar. There is still a significant number of Democrats in both states that are for the most part conservative in their thinking but have deep roots as Democrats. There are enough of them that an electoral majority can be secured for a Democrat that does not come off as politically insane. That is the balancing act that Manchin must secure. It is the one that our governor Beshear used before Covid stupidity wrecked whatever vestiges of blue dog Democrat might have been sticking to him.
From the state side perspective, Manchin is securing his West Virginia future by showing himself opposed to the insane wing of the Democrat party. He is aligning with the old school West Virginia Democrat party that elected him and will continue to elect him as long as his loyalty is to West Virginia and not DC.
Yes, it is an act. He is as Democrat as any other, but he plays a different part for the folks back home and he plays it very well.
He has found his patrotic muscle. But I am SURE peiere delecto will step to the plate! And susan collins, murcowski, roy blunthead and about 15 more treasonist vermin. And dont forget about Ms. lyndsey, you have guns use them to the sargent at arms. Jan. 6 2021.
No he found his bank account getting a bit low.
Sorry, but just gotta observe that Biden prolly shit his pants when he heard this.
Manchin can’t run for POTUS. He will never get the Democrat vote. Look at the polls showing Biden has 50% support of the country. That means there are a lot of morons out there. Those morons who support Bidens insane policies would never accept Manchins. They are too far gone.
We are seeing the Democrats being taken over by the Marxists. Marxists will only go further left because it’s not about policy. It’s about destroying the country so they can implement a brand new system with an old name, Communism. With them in charge of all the money of course.
Look how they stampeded over each other last primary to out left each other.
Doesn’t matter who the people support. The vote-counters run elections. Manchin is an ideal Uniparty candidate.
IDK, I just can’t see Manchin having any DNC support for a run in ’24. As if the Democrats are going to somehow punt their diversity-first agenda, much less Obama and Hillary, justling back and forth behind the scenes to run things. Nah. Manchin has a future, but it’s in switching parties and becoming a leader in the GOP Senate. He’s unelectable to either party for the White House.
One word: MYLAN. Manchin is not as popular in WV as he and many others may think. As far as president in 2024 Mylan will be his albatross (be it his daughter’s cushy job or the loss of all those good-paying jobs when the place shut down).
Maybe if the dem power brokers have some serious splitter strategy & he’s the last man standing (or election cheating isn’t resolved) he MIGHT have a miniscule chance, otherwise no way!
He is about as popular around here anymore as any other democrat and they are few and far between anymore. The whole mylan thing and the Upper Big Branch fiasco are going to follow open for business joe everywhere he goes.
Old GOPe RINO/Democrat Hoppy Kerchival, WV Metro News Statewide “Talkline” blowhard will keep spreading and praising the Manchin message. That’s where Manchin runs to get his BS out.
Most likely, but a Manchin Presidency wouldn’t be much different than a Mitch McConnell Presidency.
Do I care who caused the collapse of the boondoggle? Not on your life! In fact, I am hoping they will destroy each other and do it quickly. I’d like to get the mess they’ve made of the federal government cleaned up, but that can’t be done until the trash has been taken out.
Manchin is only conservative in his campaign ads to get reelected. He is a democrat every day of the week.
NOTE: Good show Joe. Wonder when the rest of America is going to wake up?
RAPE, PILLAGE, PLUNDER; AMERICA YOU’VE BEEN HAD!
NOTE: First, my thanks to President Trump for his role in exposing the entire military/industrial/political/deep state complex and the swamp they employ. Last, my thanks to Little Joe, Crying Chuck, Loony Nancy, and so many others in the swamp. Special thanks to each of you for reinforcing my lessons learned throughout your years in politics. Little Joe do you remember the time we listed you, Billy Clinton, and a whole gaggle of politicians as subjects in that international drug trade investigation? Hint, it was during your first term in the Senate. Why don’t you impress the folks by explaining the term, ‘Green Lining?’ Little Joe you also have my congratulations in that you are one of the three subjects who have gone on to be President of the United States of America!
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This article reinforces the confession/lessons learned first presented in 1989 (most presented in 1989, rest added during President Obama’s last two years in office) to the citizens of this old soldier/cop/mercenary’s community while serving as their police chief.
Soldier/Cop/Mercenary, Retired
A Soldier/Cop/Mercenary’s Confession/Lessons Learned
* Soldiers (ground combat soldiers, that is) do not fight first and foremost for their country, the flag, motherhood, girls back home, or apple pie! Before all else, soldiers engaged in ground combat fight for their fellow soldiers and their unit. Why? Because in every war/police action/whatever including WWII the strategies and tactics adopted by mostly incompetent/corrupt military and civilian managers (notice I said managers not leaders) were/are designed to maximize the profits of the military/industrial/political complex with little regard for the those personnel charged with employing the same. In short, the American soldier has been/is nothing more than a “mercenary” since 1969 with the creation of the “All Volunteer Army (VOLAR)”.
* The Seven C’s of Leadership according to a survey of 1646 Vietnam era ground combat veterans listed of the order of their importance (according to the vets) are; Candor, Competence, Consistency, Commitment, Courage, Compassion, and Courtesy. The reason the soldiers in the survey chose the word “candor” is because to them candor encompasses both omission and co-mission. To a combat soldier lack of absolute candor, be it co-mission or omission, are equal sins! In short, soldiers expect/demand absolute candor from their leaders before all else. Note: The democrats have proven they are masters of co-mission, while republicans have proven they are masters of omission!
* The American people are the most effectively lied to people in modern times thanks primarily to politicians, bureaucrats, academicians, and the media.
* Arrogance plus ignorance equals stupidity (A + I = S).
* The greatest threats to the American people are the corrupt and/or incompetent politicians/bureaucrats/academicians found at every level of government/academia, and the majority of the American so-called media.
* The American Profession of Arms and our brothers/sisters in the Blue have failed to protect the American people from all of their enemies, both foreign and ‘most especially’ domestic.
* There are only two primary requirements to be a career soldier and/or cop in America. One must be smart enough to do the work and dumb enough to take the job.
* American soldiers and police officers must in addition to mastering all of their professionally mandated tasks learn to accomplish the same with at least one arm tied behind their backs and their vision impaired 50% or more.
* Far too many of the politicians, bureaucrats, academicians, and media types I have encountered during my years as a soldier/cop/mercenary I most kindly refer to as; self-serving, witless, cowards. Note: I originally referred to the aforementioned folks as; “Self-serving, witless, cowardly, pissants!” After retiring to the deep woods I dropped pissants once becoming acquainted with the little guys; in that I learned pissants are not self-serving nor witless, and certainly not cowards!
* After carefully watching the whole of the political class since May of 1960, I can say without reservation that most of the group will sell their souls and our bodies just to remain in power.
* Want to see what the United States of America will look like if the left takes control of the government? Take your pick: New York City, Baltimore, Chicago, Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, or the complete packages; California, New York, Illinois, etc, etc, etc…..
* If the so-called Progressive movement continues unchecked a number of able veterans are going to be presented with a challenge/decision. Are the American people worth another drop of our sweat and/or our blood?
* The end goal of the elites and their minions is not (nor ever has been) socialism, communism, or capitalism. The elites of the world have used all manner of ideologies, religions, terrorism, brute force, etc. to drive the masses/peasants/serfs/whatever in one direction. That direction leads to one of the oldest forms of human control ever employed in the history of mankind. That form of human control is Feudalism!
Soldier/Cop/Mercenary, Retired
PS All of the lessons learned above (save the last three, which were added during Obama’s last two years in office) and the four mentioned below were written for the prelude of a book titled: “Rape, Pillage, Plunder; America You’ve Been Had!” (After Obama was elected to his second term I added; “And It’s Your Own Damn Fault!”). The book has not been published in that the Department of Defense has denied four requests to publish the same due to classified information they claim is in the book. That so-called classified information primarily deals with the number of politicians and bureaucrats sitting at the federal, state, county, and city levels of government during the Carter years who made the list of subjects in an investigation of the international drug trade and money laundering. Three of those politicians went on to be President of the United States of America. Four of the original lessons learned will remain unpublished in that I do not believe most of the Americans alive today can handle the level of anxiety that might be generated from their exposure. Few Americans can imagine the lengths so many have gone to destroy this nation just since President Eisenhower’s last year in office. I say that because that was the year I joined the army and have stood witness to the destructive policies first initiated by the Kennedy administration with folks like his brother Robert and Robert McNamara (Mac the Knife- soldier’s nickname for the #$%) laying the ground work for administrations that followed! Thus the reason for the two part prayer I said immediately upon learning that President Kennedy had been shot. First I prayed that God would spare him and second that the shooter was not a soldier from my unit nor any other military unit!
Thank you…….one of few times in my life I have been rendered speechless. May I copy this and use it?
The biggest [Let’s Go Brandon] moment of Biden’s overseas trip.
Biden is a pawn, not the king, and very expendable.
If Manchin runs for (and wins) the ‘crats’ nomination in ’24, the progs will opt for the third party gambit. I smell burnt toast.
Manchin may outfox himself, but at this point in the infamous words of Hillary,…”what does it matter?” I thank God, he along with Sinema are using some common sense. Maybe deep down somewhere inside these people, they understand the marxist regime is destroying America. Or, maybe they don’t want to be one of the 50 names that fasttracked our nation to socialism. Either way, his motive is hopium to those of us who still believe there is some good left.
Joe Manchin has no chance in a Democrat primary. Joe Lieberman was the polling frontrunner for a year, and the media just didn’t report this.
He could win the general against a weak opponent, but I don’t think he can win the democrat primary. All the “moderates” in 2020 crapped out, after all.
No matter what readers on this site think of Manchin, he has the balls to stand up along with Sinema to the Dem mob and he has done it for months. Yes, Biden is way down in the polls, but Manchin obviously is calling out Pelosi, Rice, Obama, and all their supporters in the media. It’s a Trumpian move.
So Manchin is only half as bad as the far Left Marxists. Gee that makes me feel so much better contemplating a President Manchin. Barf.
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Manchin can’t win a Dem primary unless he is in a boat of total unacceptable opponents (as was Biden 2020).
However, Biden was supported by the party elites, Manchin won’t be.
I think Manchin is mostly a blue dog at heart, but wimps out to political strengths of the day (finger in the wind). He is not a fighter nor does he stand strong on convictions. He could only ever be a Dino or a Rino.
He would be better off switching to independent (since he will never switch to GOP) and caucusing with the Republicans (if he is to represent WV). His state is just not a deep blue progressive state. They are maga/af.
For all his crucial “just say, no” expostulations, Manchin’s Ratski-RINO claque is the sound of one hand clapping. Should a Trump-DeSantis, perhaps DeSantis-Abbott, ticket materialize in 2024 (a political lifetime), this calculating character will face a reality not of his or media’s mere words.
In context, 2024 represents late Boomers’ final fling (58 years old, born 1966), supplanted thereafter by popcult yokel Gen-Xers born 1970 – ’93 all the way through 2050. By then –trust us– geopolitical, technological, and certain other coincident changes will have rendered dumbed down Millennials with their idiotic wokery a “sparsity quintile” laughing stock.
Si monumentum videre, circumspice.
“Manchin will likely be the #1 contender in 2024, he knows it.” Bingo! McConnell and establishment Republicans want Manchin in 2024. They are helping him. Don’t forget the $1.5T ‘infrastructure bill’ is stuffed full of pork for McConnells and the Chamber of Commerce key corporate donors.
Hope Manchin not pulling our legs, but really has conviction of his words.
Realistically, this is the big “IF” to overcome for any Democrat who may truly be seeing the light.