Joe Manchin blockaded in his car by climate protesters who claim he tried to run them over
Source: Fox News
A group of climate change protesters boasted about blockading Democratic West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin's car on Thursday, accusing the moderate lawmaker of trying to run them over in his attempt to drive through a parking garage.
"We blockaded Joe Manchin's car and he tried to run us over," a TikTok video posted by @hungry4climatejustice showing the confrontation states.
The clip shows a group of protesters standing in front of and behind a luxury vehicle in a parking garage, holding a banner while at least one person leaned on the vehicle's hood. Others
filmed themselves while yelling at the driver. The constant sound of a car horn can be heard throughout but it was not clear if it was Manchin honking.
"This is Joe Manchin's car slowly pressing into our peaceful protesters," a person says. "We want to live! We want to live!" That phrase, along with "F--k Joe Manchin," was the rallying cry of the demonstration aimed at convincing Manchin to support President Biden's multitrillion-dollar Build Back Better spending package.
Read more: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/manchin-blockaded-in-his-car-by-climate-protestors-who-claim-he-tried-to-run-them-over
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Yeah, I know it's Fox, but the story is newsworthy and no other news media has reported this yet.
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)... nor is it a way to change the minds of politicians. What a ridiculous stunt. (It reminds me of that one time when one of Cenk Uygur's groups staged a sit-in at Nancy Pelosi's office... an actual ally and supporter of their cause.) Silly.
JustAnotherGen
(31,937 posts)That was poor form on their part.
Magoo48
(4,721 posts)What we need is this type of sustained behavior on a massive scale until all of them have to move off their greed driven, do nothing stance.
This fucker is harassing millions of people, and youre condemning a few people for a minor direct action. WTF
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)... as most parents of toddlers who have temper tantrums in public will tell you, they needed to be spanked or ignored.
Were they planning on holding him hostage indefinitely? Were they expecting him to roll down his window and invite them to sit in his car and have a discussion with him? Were they expecting the skies to open up and give him a revelation from heaven beyond?
This is the type of behavior that one expects from the idiots at the Peta. Harassing people on the streets or in parking lots as they go about their lives, throwing paint on people because they wear fur coats, it may get headlines but it certainly does not win friends or sympathy for someone's cause. It just makes it easier for people to dismiss them.
That type of behavior just reinforces the widespread notion that they are fringe and kooky. They're not doing themselves any favors, nor are they helping the more rational and reasonable and mature climate change activists.
Sapient Donkey
(1,568 posts)Let's say a bunch of MAGA-types did this to AOC or Bernie Sanders? I don't know if the "but's it okay in this situation because we're right" is going to work, because they would use the exact same line of thinking.
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)LittleGirl
(8,292 posts)azureblue
(2,153 posts)We have tried everything. We tried reason. We tried talking. We tried peaceful protest. We tried sending letters. We get attacked, beaten run over by the GOP side and no one says squat. Maserati Manchin only understands hings when it directly affects him. Here his constituents are, struggling to make ends meet and he is driving his effin' Maserati to his yacht club. He is lucky that getting blocked was the only thing that happened. If the roles were reversed you know the Goopers would have beaten on the car, put dents in it and more. But a Democrat does not drive a high end sports car to a yacht club and block help for desperate people.
LittleGirl
(8,292 posts)Can cause someone to get injured and I think its abusive.
Just like Dr Faucis daughters and families getting death threats. This is not the way.
Sorry, but I dont want to see this.
Magoo48
(4,721 posts)BeyondGeography
(39,386 posts)Its a peaceful protest; nobody got hurt. So they got in his face a little
I think thats what makes us a democracy. What the hell does Maserati Manchin expect when he makes himself face of resistance to climate change legislation? Hes a big boy and he can handle it. If it bothers you that much you can always read up on how climate change and the sense that governments are (at best) dragging their feet is starting to impact the mental health of people who will be around long after the Manchins of the world have drawn their last breath:
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jimfields33
(16,012 posts)He was driving through them. That was clearly a lie. He was not trying to run them over. Otherwise a minor incident.
FBaggins
(26,775 posts)Likely making them blind to the fact that their behavior runs counter to their goals
BeyondGeography
(39,386 posts)Manchin has stretched a lot of peoples patience to their limit. If you want more tidy politics, you should be coming down on him.
FBaggins
(26,775 posts)If they aren't satisfied with his positions then they should elect someone else.
If they can't do that, it's because people who disagree with them significantly outnumber them in the state.
They need to "get used to" the reality that they can only try to persuade him or persuade the people who elect him - and their behavior runs counter to both of those goals.
BeyondGeography
(39,386 posts)Which you wont do by sneering at younger voters when they air frustrations that are increasingly deeply felt.
FBaggins
(26,775 posts)Yeah... I think I'd rather focus on adult voters that don't respond well to people acting like (insert deprecatory adjective here) children
BeyondGeography
(39,386 posts)Btw, Biden won the 18-29 vote by 25 points last year, seven points better than HRC. Do you really want to see what happens to us in 2024 if those numbers recede?
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,664 posts)That's a two-way street.
Bayard
(22,181 posts)You are seen as the face of blocking legislation that would make life better for most Americans. And killing kids' futures.
Is that a Lexus? Can't tell.
2naSalit
(86,837 posts)Not for this high flyer, it's a Maseratti. So this coal magnate is trashing the serfs while he flips them off ans wisks away in either his yacht, personal plane or his Maseratti.
Nice guy, wonder why he thinks he can be like that with no negative feedback... oh yeah, affluenza.
XanaDUer2
(10,772 posts)Very bad look for a Democrat to drive, especially one blocking legislation that will help his own people.
Sickening
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)The protestors' actions were not legal.
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Mike Nelson
(9,973 posts)... I agree more with the protestors on this issue, but I don't find this helpful. In fact, I think it's not going to win any votes... I doubt Sen. Manchin was trying to kill them - but, if he did, Leader Schumer should call for his arrest.
PBC_Democrat
(401 posts)Stunts like this have ZERO chances of changing anyone's mind.
They certainly have the right to protest, scream, shout, write letters, and round-up support.
They don't have the right to block him trying to leave and stage a 'getting run over' stunt.
Think about it ... how would you react to a mob blocking your exit from a confined space?
Evolve Dammit
(16,781 posts)doesn't give a shit about climate or Build Back Better.
FoxNewsSucks
(10,435 posts)They probably didn't really delay him very long.
Shouldn't have lied about him trying to run them over, but otherwise - good for them.
Evolve Dammit
(16,781 posts)I'm so tired of these privileged corrupted assholes. Lot of coal miners worked their ass off to allow him to buy that. Think they will ever vote his ass out?
FoxNewsSucks
(10,435 posts)or knew he had it.
Too bad they didn't show the plate, I'd like to know what state it's registered in. He probably never takes it out of the DC area.
Evolve Dammit
(16,781 posts)JohnnyRingo
(18,665 posts)Most owners of the ultra-lux SUV would bristle at the term car when they paid for an upscale bespoke automobile. I've never even seen one and I bet no one else here has.
I see too when Regular Joe, the coal miner's friend, shows up on his yacht, it becomes a humble houseboat.
2naSalit
(86,837 posts)He's too good for we common serfs. But he's got a doublespeak way of looking humble when he thinks it works for him. So this Senator from a state with a severely depressed economy, afflicted with affluenza is finding it harder to avoid the serfs? Awww.
I'm so sick of that guy.
El Mimbreno
(777 posts)I know a DINO when I see one.
homegirl
(1,435 posts)He has to run again for his Senate seat next year. Time to make dollar contributions to any Democrat who runs against him in the primaries in West Virginia. Think I'll write a letter to the W. Va Democratic Central Committee pushing them to support anyone but Joe Manchin!
KentuckyWoman
(6,697 posts)I keep my skepticism thank you.
I've seen multiple videos of this and no where do we actually see Manchin.
I maintain that if he really is driving the car then his entire security team should be fired.
Anything posted by someone who starts their name with "Libs" is probably full of it.
We don't know if that's him or even Elvis back from the dead. We don't even know if this was really an event or if it was staged for the video. I have no idea how any of this is "news" when there seem to be no actual facts.
greenjar_01
(6,477 posts)So transparent.