Quid Pro Joe
Gaslit Nation
Gaslit Nation
4.7 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 September 2021
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Remember back in April when we described Joe Manchin as a "an enigma wrapped in a riddle wrapped in a lot of money"? Well, the Dem's most annoying kleptocrat obstructionist isn't so mysterious anymore! We discuss who's funding him and why, the illicit and evil business activity in which his daughter is engaged, the attempt to buy off his wife with a government position, and his cavalier attitude toward the destruction of US democracy, infrastructure, and voting rights.
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| 0:00.0 | He will not have my vote on 3.5, and Chuck knows that. |
| 0:03.0 | And we've talked about this. |
| 0:04.0 | What's the urgency? What's the urgency that we have? |
| 0:07.0 | It's not the same urgency we have at the American Rescue Plan. |
| 0:10.0 | So I've spent the last week touring the damage of Hurricane Ida in my district. |
| 0:18.0 | We lost at least five lives right here in my district, 50 lives in the region. |
| 0:25.8 | People's businesses, small businesses have been completely destroyed, |
| 0:30.4 | basements completely destroyed, houses of worship completely destroyed, homes completely destroyed. |
| 0:37.5 | There were two Iona college professors, both in their late 70s, |
| 0:43.0 | driving in what they thought was a rainstorm that immediately became a flash flood. |
| 0:50.1 | Their cars started to float. |
| 0:52.1 | They couldn't get out. |
| 0:53.5 | They both passed away. |
| 0:55.0 | So when we talk about a sense of urgency, |
| 0:59.0 | people are losing their lives and their livelihoods right now |
| 1:04.0 | because our infrastructure is 100 years old and climate change is here to stay. |
| 1:10.0 | So it's important for Senator Manchin and others to understand people are dying every day |
| 1:16.5 | in my district and across the country. |
| 1:19.8 | And we have to go big right now in this moment. |
| 1:23.7 | It's now and never when it comes to infrastructure and climate change. |
| 1:27.0 | And Hurricane Ida prove that to be true. |
| 1:37.0 | I'm Sarah Kensier, the author of the best-selling books, |
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