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(AOL)   Joe Manchin sees himself as a "shuttle diplomat" although most people on both sides wish he'd be more of a Challenger   (aol.com) divider line
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511 clicks; posted to Politics » on 30 Jan 2023 at 3:20 PM (8 weeks ago)   |   Favorite    |   share:  Share on Twitter share via Email Share on Facebook



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blacknite [TotalFark]
2023-01-30 1:50:13 PM  
i was thinking more a buran, but ok.
 
AirForceVet [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-30 1:58:00 PM  
I would have gone with Columbia as that was more a crash and burn, though not in that specific order.
 
null [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-30 1:59:45 PM  

blacknite: i was thinking more a buran, but ok.


No, that's reserved for the GQP.  Russian-owned trash that performed only once.
 
AdmirableSnackbar [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-30 1:59:56 PM  
He's more like Apollo 1.
 
Farkonaut
2023-01-30 2:03:35 PM  
I'm quite sure there are a lot of people that would like to give Joe 5% more throttle.
 
NewportBarGuy [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-30 2:05:00 PM  
The rare funny Challenger joke. Well played, subby.
 
Farkonaut
2023-01-30 2:06:11 PM  

AirForceVet: I would have gone with Columbia as that was more a crash and burn, though not in that specific order.


... it's all the Gen-X'ers on site that this headline will hit like a loose piece of foam causing them to tumble and burn up during thread-entry. Don't worry.
 
blacknite [TotalFark]
2023-01-30 2:27:33 PM  

null: blacknite: i was thinking more a buran, but ok.

No, that's reserved for the GQP.  Russian-owned trash that performed only once.


i get manchin and the GQP confused easily.
 
SpectroBoy [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-30 3:00:48 PM  
I think most Democrats see him more as Bozo the Clown
 
Private_Citizen [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-30 3:11:44 PM  
Without my glasses I can't see anything, but I don't need my glasses to recognize Manchin is an asshole.
 
SirGunslinger
2023-01-30 3:22:08 PM  
"Shuttle Diplomat" that is a really fancy term for a bottom.
 
fuhfuhfuh
2023-01-30 3:22:19 PM  
Change the "u" to an "i" in shuttle and you get closer to what Manchin actually is.
 
Mr. carrot
2023-01-30 3:23:40 PM  
I've seen that shuttle. It's yellow and about half the length of the normal ones.
 
meat0918 [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-30 3:24:56 PM  
Yeah not really.

No one trusts Manchurian
 
brantgoose [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-30 3:25:40 PM  
Oooo! Aaaaa! Kablouey!

(Too soon?)
 
edmo [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-30 3:26:13 PM  
Whichever, he does blow stuff up real good.
 
brantgoose [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-30 3:27:25 PM  
Boy, I remember that day. How they yapped on! The media had no new information after the first 5 minutes but the managed to fill several continuous hours untiol the late night newsl

It was the miracle of Blarnay!
 
Palined Parenthood [TotalFark]
2023-01-30 3:27:58 PM  
Not funny, guys. The Challenger disaster was like one and three quarter Benghazis
 
brantgoose [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-30 3:28:50 PM  
I slept late on 911. I even bought a newspaper when I got up, the most pointless thing I ever did. I realized that there would be nothing in it almost as fast as it came out of the box.
 
TommyDeuce [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-30 3:29:48 PM  
So, he wants to be the coked up guy in Die Hard that wants to negotiate a deal with the guy who plans to blow up the building and kill the hostages no matter what?
 
Fart_Machine
2023-01-30 3:30:14 PM  
"Shuttle Diplomat" is a weird way to describe fluffer.
 
OtherLittleGuy [BareFark]
2023-01-30 3:30:31 PM  

brantgoose: Oooo! Aaaaa! Kablouey!

(Too soon?)


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Describe a theoretical bedroom encounter with Subby and Anne Hathaway.
 
ParallelUniverseParking [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-30 3:31:01 PM  
Nice one, subby
+1
 
Tarl3k
2023-01-30 3:32:48 PM  
FOADIAF coalfinger.  You're only useful as a vote to confirm judges, outside of that you're a cancer on America and West Virginia.  The world will be a better place when you're not longer in it.
 
LarryDan43
2023-01-30 3:33:59 PM  
Bad on both sides.
 
NINEv2
2023-01-30 3:35:05 PM  
They found his head and shoulders on the beach?

/dandruff!
//I know, shouldn't joke
///the body recovery story is awful
 
guestguy
2023-01-30 3:37:34 PM  
Manchin now envisions himself as a shuttle diplomat working to bridge the partisan divide between Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), whom Manchin describes as a friend.

"We're both huge fans of badminton...I'm the shuttle, and Kevin's the cock."
 
rudemix [OhFark]
2023-01-30 3:38:57 PM  
Fortunately we have Manchin who only appears to be an R in D clothing and lining up more with the GQP than with the Dems, instead of a regular R who lines up with the GQp and not the Dems.
 
Soup4Bonnie
2023-01-30 3:39:16 PM  
Schumer plots debt ceiling course against McCarthy: 'We'll win'

Schumer, contra McConnell, is not encouraging Biden to get in a room with McCarthy. Instead, he said that if McCarthy wants to cut spending as a condition for raising the debt ceiling, Democrats need to see their plan to do so first - echoing the combative tone that House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries has long taken toward McCarthy.

"When you hear from Biden, they agree with us. [Republicans] have to show us their proposal. They have to show us their plan. Plain and simple. Hakeem Jeffries talked about it today. I believe the president will," Schumer said. "Democrats are united: Show us the plan. That's the first step."

Well, Democrats are mostly united, at least. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) called it "unreasonable" to not negotiate and said he's not going to tell the House what to do.

"Kevin McCarthy and I know each other. We're trying to build relationships, because we have responsibility," said Manchin, who met privately with McCarthy last week.

But Manchin has always done his own thing - and at times of crisis, the Senate Democratic caucus is often nearly lockstep behind Schumer.

I guess Kevin's big play is that he's going to kick in Joe's door and demand Joe find some cuts until Kevin is satisfied and I find that rather hilarious.
 
PirateKing [OhFark]
2023-01-30 3:40:23 PM  
Not a shuttle.

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/Just a cock.
 
AdmirableSnackbar [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-30 3:40:30 PM  

rudemix: Fortunately we have Manchin who only appears to be an R in D clothing and lining up more with the GQP than with the Dems, instead of a regular R who lines up with the GQp and not the Dems.


And there's more than just Manchin in that R-leaning Dem department. It's way too much of the party.
 
austerity101
2023-01-30 3:40:42 PM  
Go f*ck yourself to death, Manchin.
 
Shaggy_C
2023-01-30 3:41:12 PM  
A shame he couldn't play this role bridging the divide between members of his own party, instead being the one who create the divide in the first place.
 
Karma Chameleon
2023-01-30 3:43:08 PM  
First they came for the centrists
And no one spoke up because they should go away
 
ElwoodCuse
2023-01-30 3:43:20 PM  

guestguy: Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), whom Manchin describes as a friend.


it's all a game to these people. a show. a work.

it's a big club, and you ain't in it
 
Zerochance
2023-01-30 3:46:15 PM  
This asshole is going to run for POTUS isn't he?
 
Snarcoleptic_Hoosier
2023-01-30 3:46:47 PM  

Karma Chameleon: First they came for the centrists
And no one spoke up because they should go away


First they came for the centrists, and I was like "Hey, y'all need some money for gas? Those trucks are big and you might have to make more than one trip!"
 
moulderx1 [OhFark]
2023-01-30 3:48:46 PM  

Karma Chameleon: First they came for the centrists
And no one spoke up because they should go away


Lol'ed and scared the cat.
 
UltimaCS
2023-01-30 3:49:31 PM  

Soup4Bonnie: I guess Kevin's big play is that he's going to kick in Joe's door and demand Joe find some cuts until Kevin is satisfied and I find that rather hilarious.


This is what we get when our society falls from grace and stops offering blood sacrifices. It's been over a year since Manchin was able to starve thousands of children, and now he must feast!
 
Ixnay on the ottenray
2023-01-30 3:52:06 PM  

brantgoose: Boy, I remember that day. How they yapped on! The media had no new information after the first 5 minutes but the managed to fill several continuous hours untiol the late night newsl

It was the miracle of Blarnay!


I remember that day - I was at work, and within 15 min, someone was at my desk with a joke:
Know what NASA stands for?
Needs Another Seven Astronauts

/Got to use it twice when Columbia disintegrated upon entry
 
Kris_Romm
2023-01-30 3:54:22 PM  
@sshole.
 
Skarekrough
2023-01-30 3:54:50 PM  
Joe Manchin won't be the first one up against the wall when the revolution happens but it'll definitely be one of the most satisfying.
 
farkitallletitend
2023-01-30 3:59:49 PM  
Anything Joe Manchin does that underscores his independence from the national party, I think speaks to voters back in West Virginia who are outside of the traditional Democratic base and who identify more with Republicans," he said. "I know they admire Joe's independence."

So the old KKK Democrats.
 
tekmo
2023-01-30 4:19:00 PM  
Both sides are not the same.

Democrats have a designated conceder, Republicans don't.
 
whidbey
2023-01-30 4:20:24 PM  

farkitallletitend: Anything Joe Manchin does that underscores his independence from the national party, I think speaks to voters back in West Virginia who are outside of the traditional Democratic base and who identify more with Republicans," he said. "I know they admire Joe's independence."

So the old KKK Democrats.


But they get mad if you ask something like "Why doesn't/can't/didn't Schumer send him to the cleaners for torpedoing the agenda?"
 
acouvis
2023-01-30 4:22:11 PM  

SpectroBoy: I think most Democrats see him more as Bozo the Clown


Hey, Bozo gave kids bikes. Manchin did his best to take them by killing the expanded child tax credit.
 
Bith Set Me Up
2023-01-30 4:27:00 PM  

rudemix: Fortunately we have Manchin who only appears to be an R in D clothing and lining up more with the GQP than with the Dems, instead of a regular R who lines up with the GQp and not the Dems.


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https://truthout.org/articles/joe-manchin-impoverished-4-million-children-when-he-killed-child-tax-credit/
 
austerity101
2023-01-30 4:41:15 PM  

Bith Set Me Up: rudemix: Fortunately we have Manchin who only appears to be an R in D clothing and lining up more with the GQP than with the Dems, instead of a regular R who lines up with the GQp and not the Dems.

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https://truthout.org/articles/joe-manchin-impoverished-4-million-children-when-he-killed-child-tax-credit/


Those ungrateful kids. Someone really should sit them down and explain to them just how many Democrat-appointed judges Manchin voted for. Stop demanding ponies, kids!
 
Nicholas D. Wolfwood [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-30 4:55:53 PM  

blacknite: i was thinking more a buran, but ok.


Buran actually landed, successfully and intact.
 
Weatherkiss [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-30 4:59:26 PM  

austerity101: Bith Set Me Up: rudemix: Fortunately we have Manchin who only appears to be an R in D clothing and lining up more with the GQP than with the Dems, instead of a regular R who lines up with the GQp and not the Dems.

[Fark user image image 850x860]

https://truthout.org/articles/joe-manchin-impoverished-4-million-children-when-he-killed-child-tax-credit/

Those ungrateful kids. Someone really should sit them down and explain to them just how many Democrat-appointed judges Manchin voted for. Stop demanding ponies, kids!


If those kids wanted their parents to get more money back from their tax refunds, then they should stop complaining and go run for office themselves instead of blaming the infallible treasure of West Virginia gifted to the Democratic Party.
 
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