Journalist Walker Bragman has a plan to get Sen. Joe Manchin to “play ball” with Dems who want to eliminate the filibuster: Extortion.
Really. That’s what he says:
Take Manchin into a back room, tell him federal investigators are going to look into his daughter’s price-fixing; tell him the military bases are moving out of West Virginia; tell him he’s off his committees…
Or he can play ball.
— Walker Bragman (@WalkerBragman) January 16, 2022
Unbelievable:
tell manchin to do a freaking socialism or else https://t.co/KZikrwZHK9
— Joe Gabriel Simonson (@SaysSimonson) January 16, 2022
“Strike hard, but fair blows against him,” he tells Dems:
Strike hard, but fair blows against him.
— Walker Bragman (@WalkerBragman) January 16, 2022
Come on, Chuck and Joe — FIGHT!:
Problem is Biden and Schumer have no fight in them
— Walker Bragman (@WalkerBragman) January 16, 2022
First up, he going to have a tough time with some of the items on his extortion list:
Leaving aside the universal conceit that we can't have nice things because They Won't Fight, the company Manchin's daughter *used to* lead no longer exists, there are no military bases in WV and if there were SASC/Approps run through him (to say nothing of the majority itself.)
— Liam Donovan (@LPDonovan) January 16, 2022
And even if he was able to threaten the Manchin family that way, what could go wrong?
Frame a U.S. Senator’s daughter with corrupt federal law enforcement to “save democracy” is quite the galaxy-brain take. https://t.co/VQgy76d6up
— IT Guy (@ITGuy1959) January 16, 2022
Maybe he wants Cocaine Mitch in charge:
This is a simple and easy plan to instantly make Mitch McConnell majority leader, yes https://t.co/iM7Ngp8zGU
— Logan Dobson (@LoganDobson) January 16, 2022
So, you’re saying he has no idea how the Senate works?
There should be a requirement that anyone who pontificates about how the Senate works should, at the very least, had to have tasted Senate Bean Soup https://t.co/kQlSbq01GA
— Ben Jacobs (@Bencjacobs) January 16, 2022
But, overall, it’s a really bad take:
YES. Do all this.
Give Joe Manchin a reason to go GOP. That's how you flip him.
GREAT tactics and strategy. https://t.co/bbCiI0zfca
— Christopher Suprun (@TheChrisSuprun) January 17, 2022
Journalist urges Biden to extort a U.S. Senator in order to pass BBB and federalized ballot harvesting.
Should Biden draw on his experience “negotiating” with the president of Ukraine about firing a prosecutor? https://t.co/VFpN9mhoEU
— Christina Pushaw 🐊 (@ChristinaPushaw) January 16, 2022
This "journalist" is explicitly calling for coercion to get his political preference… and blocking replies.
Imagine having such a pathetic political philosophy that you admit you have to coerce others into it. https://t.co/q1ft1lEtG0
— Andrew Follett (@AndrewCFollett) January 16, 2022
Ah yes, tell me now how Trump is the authoritarian. https://t.co/MWrVQ3JbWh
— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) January 16, 2022
These people are overt fascists https://t.co/hVnBFAIYFF
— Tim Pool (@Timcast) January 17, 2022
Fighting fascism by threatening to send a senator's kid to prison if they don't vote the way you tell them to. https://t.co/jjETlYBkzw
— Noam Blum (@neontaster) January 16, 2022
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