The Official What Would Change Manchin's Mind Thread 🧵.

[Funtatlaguy]

There’s an old saying that “everybody has their price”.
So, what would it take for Manchin to change his mind and vote to end the filibuster?

Fill in the blank..

Schumer and the DNC and wealthy Democratic donors should offer him ____________________.

[Elessar Zappa]

1. The only thing that might work

is grassroots pressure at home.

[elleng]

2. Considering it's West Virginia,

I doubt much of that's likely.

[Elessar Zappa]

14. Well, that's all I got.

[DURHAM D]

3. Well, didn't he bond with Lady Gaga at Biden's Inauguration?

She could give him a lifetime pass to all of her concerts or perhaps just stop by his office and sit on his lap.

[Funtatlaguy]

15. Better yet. She gives his family a private concert

[Irish_Dem]

26. So we give him Lady Gaga? What do we have to give her?

[DURHAM D]

27. Nothing. She is very political and a good Democrat. nt

[Funtatlaguy]

34. Bradley Cooper?

[Irish_Dem]

35. Oh good, that is perfect. We don't have to give Bradley Cooper anything else.

He and Lady Gaga are each other's reward.

[Funtatlaguy]

36. I know that was very "SHALLOW" of me. 😳🤪🤗

In the shallow, sha..how, how, low….lalala…I can’t sing 🎶.

[Irish_Dem]

38. OK but there are a "Million Reasons" for why you are right.

[Pobeka]

4. A staggering campaign warchest.

If he's worried about re-election, give him the means to alleviate that worry.

I'd donate to that particular cause.

[PghTiny]

5. I suggest dangle his committee chairmanships/memberships for some developmental aid

Maybe focus on deploying broadband internet, water, electricity, telephone, television, and other utilities to underserved communities in WV. If that fails… threaten to take away his seniority in committees. If he squawks about that, take away his committee memberships.

[dflprincess]

6. Digging up enough dirt on his daughter and her role with jacking up the price on epi-pens

that he either cooperates or she meets the same fate as Pharma-Bro?

[MerryHolidays]

10. Good one. I call the good Senator "Papa EpiPen"

Ask him to explain the sins of his kid in jacking up the price of EpiPens to an unconscionable level. Did Papa EpiPen have any involvement?

The Rs would do no less.

[Funtatlaguy]

17. So you advocate the stick over the carrot.

Sometimes fear of something bad happening to you does work better than offering a reward.

[dflprincess]

19. As a rule I believe more progress is made with a carrot but when that falis a stick may be needed

Schumer and Biden have been playing nice with him, clearly that is not working the time has come to get nasty.

[FBaggins]

23. His stick is bigger

Schumer and Biden have been “playing nice” because he holds all the cards

[dflprincess]

24. There has to be something they can find to persuade him.

Biden & Schumer need to start playing dirty with him.

[roamer65]

22. THIS.

[Blue_true]

7. Get rid of same day voter registration.

That is a Left dream that sticks in the throats of even some Left people. There should be a reasonable amount of time to check the eligibility of a person before that person gets a ballot.

We can strip away all the republican voter suppression attempts without insisting on items like Election Day voter registration and Election Day as a holiday.

[dflprincess]

13. We have had same day registration in Minnesota for years and it works well.

The voter has to turn up with ID (or if their ID does not have the current address year, they can use ID & and a utility bill that confirms the address) or a voter currently registered in the precinct that can vouch for them.

There are heavy penalties for both the new voter and the voter who vouched for them if the registration is fraudulent. There have been very few problems and we would have heard about them because the 'Cons have been looking for them ever since the state started same day registration.

Currently, same day registration votes are not considered "provisional", though the Republicans in the State Senate have slipped a clause into an Ominbus bill that would make them provisional.

Like Republicans everywhere, Minnesota Republicans are concerned about too many of the "wrong kind" of people voting. Fortunately, the DFL controls the state House and Governorship.

[ShazamIam]

8. He isn't going to change his mind. He thinks he is on the path to the Presidency,

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Apparently he believes the MSM lies that the U.S. is a center right nation. one of the biggest whoppers ever, but a distant second to the much older and more damaging lie, the MSM is liberal.


Edit: Presidency

[Yavin4]

21. Presidency?! Of what country? This one?

If he believes that he can become president, he's dumber and more narcissistic than Trump.

[MerryHolidays]

9. Nothing.

[NewHendoLib]

11. follow the money and expose the inevitable double dealing bullshit.

[dalton99a]

16. +1. It's the entire Manchin family

[Champion Jack]

25. Yup, a long history of scum baggery...

[Dan]

12. To work against his re-election.

[Murphyb849]

18. Nothing because...

He believes he is our President without being elected and is a megalomaniac.

[pwb]

20. Realize he is not in the good old boys club.

Pukes are not your friend No Joe.

[Stargleamer]

28. a brain and heart transplant n/t

[GoodRaisin]

29. I don't think Schumer or the DNC have anything compelling to offer him.

Perhaps the pressure needs to come from the states he's trying to take away democracy from. Maybe they have something they can withhold from West Virginia if they don't want to be disenfranchised in Federal elections because of West Virginia's out of control Senator.

[Thunderbeast]

30. Give him a submarine base!

West Virginia is perfectly suited for the Navy. Safe from enemy ships...

[notpolltested]

31. Nothing. Take him at his word and move on and focus on finding the best candidates who can

leave it all on the field in 2022 with the best campaign operation's in US political history, which is what this will take, and also commit to actually reforming the Senate.

[SheltieLover]

32. Double what moscow mitch / putin are paying

[peggysue2]

33. I would love to know . . .

what the Republicans are dangling over Manchin after that comment Grassley made to one of his constituents (caught on a hot mic) about the fate of the filibuster. The constituent was worried the Dems would eliminate the ruling but Grassley assured the individual that they (Republican leadership) were confident they had "Manchin nailed down."

Nailed down to what? I'd like to know.

What bug have they implanted in his brain? Or what have they offered/promised the man? Because none of Manchin's reasoning makes any sense in today's reality.

If he's truly concerned about maintaining the integrity of the Senate, then reforming the filibuster is a means to that end. Doing nothing means we get more of the same--the minority jamming the majority at every turn. Even going so far as refusing a bipartisan committee to investigate January 6th, a day on which their own lives were threatened. How much more evidence would Manchin need to admit McConnell and his crew's primary objective is to block the Biden agenda? All of it.

Does. Not. Make. Sense.

[Bettie]

37. Honestly, probably nothing

he just likes to be the stick in the wheel of the bicycle because he loves to see others get hurt.

[Funtatlaguy]

39. I say we should damn him with feint praise.

Something like this from Pres Biden:
“I’d like to commend Senator Manchin and a few others in the Democratic caucus. They have bent over backwards, forwards, and sideways to work with many of their Republican colleagues on a number of important subjects facing our nation.
But because of the strict intimidation of the current Republican leadership, those reasonable Republican Senators voices have been silenced.
Subsequently, I plan to meet with Senator Manchin and others to discuss what a new path forward may look like. Inaction is not acceptable “.