Joy Reid RAGES Over ‘Maserati Joe’ Manchin Opposing BBB Since He Hates ‘The Poors’

MSNBC’s ReidOutJoy Reid, the host, looked in good form after returning from a day of rest. argued Fox News hosts want their “fans” to “die,” she spent two segments decrying Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) as “Maserati Joe”Please see the following: “showing open contempt for”His constituents were based upon the fact that he “killed”The Build Back Better Agenda “the most transformative legislation of the 21st century.”

Reid teased Manchin twice, claiming that he was her choice for The Absolute Worst. “bad faith” causing “bad outcomes for the people you’re supported to represent.” Manchin’s vote for Republican is, therefore, a betrayal of fellow West Virginians.

 

 

She started the first of two screeds by touting a video lampooning Manchin’s life and wealth as an episode of The lifestyles of celebrities and the rich He can be dubbed “Maserati Manchin,” who’s also “a multimillionaire coal baron” and “would fit right in” with the real show.

“He’s been on the side of special interests the entire time, and made it clear yesterday that he was always negotiating in bad faith and never planned to vote for Build Back Better,” Elle added.

After hearing soundbites from a local radio interview Manchin did on Monday, Reid said he went “full J.D. Vance, showing open contempt for the people he’s supposedly doing such a bang-up job representing” and that he dared to suggest the child tax credit could be abused.

Reid used that possibility to scoff at Manchin as having behaved like the late Ronald Reagan purposefully starving poor people and showing zero desire to improve the Mountaineer State’s bottom-tier ranking in areas like education and health care (click “expand”):

Geez Mr. Manchin, you can call your constituent welfare queens, much like Ronald Reagan. And then get on with the job. There’s actually data, by the way, that shows that nine in 10 Americans use their child tax credit on necessities, like food and shelter and education. Manchin raised concern about people using paid leave to go hunting, and this is on top of everything else. This is somebody who has claimed that D.C. doesn’t understand West Virginians, but here he is reducing them to a stereotype. But what’s really sad is how much Build Back Better would have helped West Virginia, a state that, despite Manchin’s leadership and all that power, is not exactly in the best shape. West Virginia ranks 50th and 50th respectively in infrastructure, 48th and 47th in the health care system, 45th and 45th in education. West Virginia was the state with the highest drug overdose death rate in the nation as of 2019. 

The Associated Press reports that one-fifth of West Virginia children are living in poverty. 93 percent qualify for tax credits payments. White House points out that this bill would have allowed access to child care to 94,000 children and expanded rental assistance to 83,000 West Virginia renters who are renting-burdened. It would also expand West Virginia’s health insurance coverage to over 30,000 West Virginians, as well as climate change provisions to create new jobs. But the coal lobbyists didn’t want that. 

Two-part tease segment “how Maserati Manchin misrepresents his state,”Reid presented Reid with her Absolute WORST due to “his bad faith, fake negotiating and obstruction of a bill that would truly help his constituents.”

Continuing to do the White House’s bidding to bully Manchin that could result in him switching parties, Reid ruled the senator doesn’t want kids To be “lift[ed]…out of poverty,” “polluted communities” to be “clean[ed] up,”Help parents “tak[ing] care of their kids.”

Speaking to panelist Molly Jong-Fast, Reid suggested Manchin doesn’t know what’s best for West Virginians (and arguably vice versa since they elect him), lamenting he’s “a coal baron, whose family’s in the coal biz, whose daughter was in the expensive EpiPen biz, who’s rich and has a yacht and a Maserati, basically saying, the poors are lazy.”

She also took the chance to reup the Reagan analogy, claiming he doesn’t believe poor West Virginians should have “help”Or “money” even if it’s for a fund dedicated to those suffering from black lung since more government assistance would “make them lazier.”

Further flashing her amateur mind-reading abilities, Reid said Manchin “bad faith lied” to the White House that “he was negotiating” and argued that the senior senator is the person responsible for improving the state’s well-being (click “expand”):

REID: Molly! This is the challenge that I’m up to. I’m going to put the stats back up. The state’s infrastructure ranks last. It is 48th in economy, 47th in health care, and 45th overall. You know whose job it is to turn that stuff around and to explain to people, here’s how I’m going to do it, how I’m going to make your life better? Well, that would be Joe Manchin, Joe Manchin, who claimed, oh, I’m for this. He said that he would put his name on it. OMG, it’s $1.6 trillion. He wasn’t. It’s his job with his power to turn these statistics around. He seems determined to not do so. What are your thoughts?

JONG-FAST: Yeah, I don’t think he cares too much about the people of West Virginia.

REID: Clearly.

JONG-FAST: But I also don’t — right? And I don’t think — and, again, the coal stuff, the portfolio, he makes money on, I mean, who even — I don’t think that senators and congresspeople should own stocks, period. Like, they’re making the law. They shouldn’t also be able to profit off it. It’s insane. But I also think he hasn’t been — we — Democrats have not been good enough at messaging to people, what’s in this bill can change your life. 

Having said Manchin doesn’t care about his voters, Jong-Fast added that he’s “taking away things from his people that they desperately need,”This is “so upsetting to me, as a person just to see all this poverty and the thing is that government can help these people.”

Reid declared the Mountaineer State as the bee’s end. “an oligarchy” Seit dem des all All Des Get get every them alles him Deal Weihnachts dar deal darin “[i]t’s a state with one billionaire” In Governor Jim Justice (R), Manchin “everybody else is either poor or…struggling.”

Though it’s unclear whether she knew Manchin had already been the state’s governor, Reid predicted its next officeholder would be Manchin on his way to become the state’s other billionaire.

Reid’s venom against Manchin was made possible thanks to the endorsement of advertisers such as AT&T, Gold Bond, Liberty Mutual, and Lincoln. Follow the links to see their contact information at the MRC’s Conservatives Fight Back page.

Click here to see the MSNBC transcript for December 21.

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