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2 additional progressives and we could have told Manchin and Sinema to pound sand.

Please. We elected an additional progressive in '22 and wound up with two fewer Democrats and the progressive we picked up turned out to be a centrist.

It doesn’t matter how big a majority we give Democrats. There are always just enough Manchins.

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So long as we perpetuate this system of legalized bribery, aka “campaign finance donations,” there will always be just enough Manchins.

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Don’t forget the magic Senate parliamentarian

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That’s absolutely not true. That one time you fickle fuckers gave us enough Democrats for like 4 months, we got Obamacare. Imagine what we could get with 4 years or so.

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We gave Democrats a supermajority. They killed the public option with it. They made damned sure to bail out their owners in the banking industry and make sure the only one of them who saw any consequences was the guy who scammed rich people. And had no interest whatsoever in codifying Roe.

And just like Biden’s first two years, they could have ended the filibuster forever with a simple majority, so your “four months” argument is just another pro-failure excuse.

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