In America

9) I love when politicians say they’re going home to “talk to my constituents.” Really? Has anyone ever seen these people just wandering around, getting thoughts from the people that voted them into office?  “...yeah, so at Arby’s our Senator walked in and we had a long talk....” Yet they talk on tv as if they’re going home and literally setting up a box at an intersection and talking to “the folks.” The last politician to ride in a car without a roof and genuinely tried to make eye contact with “the folks” had his brains sprayed all over Jackie Kennedy’s lap - XMASTIME

1) Few truisms are more true in Americana than if you're from West Virginia you have to genuflect on your knees at coal miners as being the "real" Americans, and your entire raison d'etre is to fight for them

2) Joe Manchin is a Senator from West Virginia who claims to doggedly fight for his beloved West Virginians every day

3) He rejects Joe Bidens' Build Back Better plan

4) The official coal miner's union comes out and asks him not to reject the plan

5) Manchin ignores them

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