Rolling Stone: Manchin's Coal Corruption Is So Much Worse Than You Knew

christiefan915 said:
If she wants to board the QOP ship of fools, take her.
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christiefan915 said:
He voted against Build Back Better and that ended monthly tax credit payments for poor WV kids. Let's see how that works for him when he's up for reelection. He's a p.o.s.

"Ninety-three per cent of West Virginia children – about 346,000 in all – qualified for the credit payments. That extra $250 to $300 per child a month lifted about 50,000 of those children above the poverty line, according to the West Virginia Center for Budget and Policy (WVCBP).

Now that the credits have vanished, so will those advancements."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/12/west-virginians-child-tax-credits-manchin
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Joe's been in coal and other fossil fuel investments for years, it's open source, easy to find

he even hosted an ad hoc press conference standing high up on the deck of his yacht, literally talking down to reporters.......meanwhile he's bought and sold, taking the cash in broad daylight for what seems like centuries

..interesting to note how fast the MAGA's jumped into the thread to stick up for ole Joe, love the guy

says it all and more
 
do you honestly expect us to believe that coal producers in WV contribute to the campaigns of WV politicians.......how outlandish......
 
reagansghost said:
Joe's been in coal and other fossil fuel investments for years, it's open source, easy to find he even hosted an ad hoc press conference standing high up on the deck of his yacht, literally talking down to reporters.......meanwhile he's bought and sold, taking the cash in broad daylight for what seems like centuries ..interesting to note how fast the MAGA's jumped into the thread to stick up for ole Joe, love the guy says it all and more
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It never seemed to bother you before, did it? Says it all, and more.
 
PostmodernProphet said:
do you honestly expect us to believe that coal producers in WV contribute to the campaigns of WV politicians.......how outlandish......
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goes a hell of a lot deeper than mere campaign donations, since Citizens United the money flood gates have been wide open, for example Adelson sent various GOP PACS over $40M the day after the law passed in 2010. Manchin's on the take for the big bucks...being the GOP's escape hatch to protect their benefactors......but being a MAGA this shit's completely over your head
 
christiefan915 said:
He voted against Build Back Better and that ended monthly tax credit payments for poor WV kids. Let's see how that works for him when he's up for reelection. He's a p.o.s.

"Ninety-three per cent of West Virginia children – about 346,000 in all – qualified for the credit payments. That extra $250 to $300 per child a month lifted about 50,000 of those children above the poverty line, according to the West Virginia Center for Budget and Policy (WVCBP).

Now that the credits have vanished, so will those advancements."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/12/west-virginians-child-tax-credits-manchin
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I am curious to know why a bill that's ostensibly about infrastructure was involved in handing out tax credits anyway? Why can't the Dems do that in a separate bill?
 
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MANCHIN REPRESENTS WEST VIRGINIANS, WHO STILL NEED COAL, AND MORE IMPORTANTLY, NATURAL GAS TO LIVE.
 
reagansghost said:
goes a hell of a lot deeper than mere campaign donations, since Citizens United the money flood gates have been wide open, for example Adelson sent various GOP PACS over $40M the day after the law passed in 2010. Manchin's on the take for the big bucks...being the GOP's escape hatch to protect their benefactors......but being a MAGA this shit's completely over your head
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if you guys wouldn't try to bankrupt the oil industry like you did coal you would probably get some love too.....
 
reagansghost said:
The senator from West Virginia is bought and paid for by Big Coal. With his help the dying industry is pulling one final heist — and the entire planet may pay the price

One of the hardest things to grasp about the climate crisis is the connectedness of all things. One recent drizzly afternoon, I drove from Charleston, West Virginia, to the John Amos coal-fired power plant on the banks of the Kanawha River, near the town of Nitro. In the rain, the plant looked like one of the dark satanic mills that poet William Blake wrote about, with three enormous cooling towers that steamed like giant witches’ cauldrons. Across the river from the plant, mobile homes cluttered the bank of the Kanawha, streaked black with pollution that rained down on them 24/7.

I had visited the plant 20 years ago, on my first reporting trip to West Virginia. Back then, the plant seemed like an indomitable monument to the power of Big Coal. The facility, owned by Ohio-based utility giant American Electric Power, is capable of generating 3,000 megawatts of electricity, enough to power 2 million homes. It is also one of the biggest carbon polluters on the planet, emitting 13 million tons of CO2 each year, which is equal to the annual emissions of about 3 million cars.

When I look at John Amos today, I see fire and rising seas, disease and hunger. I see a rusting industrial contraption that takes CO2 captured by trees 300 million years ago and rereleases it into the sky, bringing the heat of the past to our future. Coal plants are one of the primary reasons why shopping malls were burning in Colorado this winter and reservoirs in the West are dry. They are why Antarctica is cracking up, threatening the future of virtually every low-lying city in the world, from Boston to Bangkok. They are why infectious-disease patterns are changing in Nepal and crops are failing in Kenya and roads are washing out in Appalachia.

At this point in human evolution, burning coal for power is one of the stupidest things humans do. Coal plants are engines of destruction, not progress. Thanks to the rapid evolution of clean energy, there are many better, cheaper, cleaner ways to power our lives. The only reason anyone still burns coal today is because of the enormous political power and inertia that the industry has acquired since the 19th century. In America, that power and inertia is embodied in the cruel and cartoonish character of West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, who, paradoxically, may have more control over the trajectory of the climate crisis than any other person on the planet right now. Kidus Girma, a 26-year-old Sunrise Movement activist who helped organize protests against Manchin this past fall, calls him “the final villain.”


https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/joe-manchin-big-coal-west-virginia-1280922/

the DNC needs to kick this greedy fuck out of the party, get him an uber to RNC HQ

what would they have to lose, he votes straight GOP on ALL critical legislation and purposely sabotages Biden at every opportunity

it's no wonder W.Va is poverty stricken backwater - he's either been governor or a US senator for decades (it seems anyway)
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Oh! Dat eeeebul West Virginia industry that keeps the lights on coast to coast.

Damn them coal miners, amirite?

Tell you what. Lead the way. Go out and cut your service wire with bolt cutters or ask to be disconnected from the electric grid, k?

Call the electric company and tell them you need a rollback or go out there with a pair of bolt-cutters and disconnect yourself. ;)

Really don't do the latter, you could die.
 
Primavera said:
Here's JPPs number 1 emotional bedwetter, right on cue. How come you never say anything about China or India, shit for brains?

Here are the top 10 largest emitters of Carbon Dioxide (CO2) in the world. The US has reduced CO2 emissions back to pre-1991 levels why can't you ever acknowledge that?

China — 11.68 billion tonnes
United States — 4.54 billion tonnes
India — 2.41 billion tonnes
Russia — 1.67 billion tonnes
Japan — 1.06 billion tonnes
Iran — 690.24 million tonnes
Germany — 636.88 million tonnes
South Korea — 621.47 million tonnes
Saudi Arabia — 588.81 million tonnes
Indonesia — 568.27 million tonnes
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reagansghost said:
Joe's been in coal and other fossil fuel investments for years, it's open source, easy to find

he even hosted an ad hoc press conference standing high up on the deck of his yacht, literally talking down to reporters.......meanwhile he's bought and sold, taking the cash in broad daylight for what seems like centuries

..interesting to note how fast the MAGA's jumped into the thread to stick up for ole Joe, love the guy

says it all and more
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Did you ever castigate Al Gore for becoming a multi-millionaire off the back of climate alarmism?
 
Primavera said:
I am curious to know why a bill that's ostensibly about infrastructure was involved in handing out tax credits anyway? Why can't the Dems do that in a separate bill?
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That is an element in the corruption.

You want a?
You have to pay for b-t also.
It is called pork.

Everyone hates it.
Presidents have tried to eliminate it through line item veto but Congress Critters will not let go of their pork.
 
Rune said:
That is an element in the corruption.

You want a?
You have to pay for b-t also.
It is called pork.

Everyone hates it.
Presidents have tried to eliminate it through line item veto but Congress Critters will not let go of their pork.
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Indeed, it's truly shameful that bridges to nowhere are built to get the pork.
 
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