Joe Manchin: Politically Genderless Backstabber from Backward W. Virginia

He's a Republican because his backward state still runs on coal, so he ran as a pseudo-Democrat because his people are poor and illiterate. As he sat on the fence for years, putting sticks in the Democrat agenda and often voting with Republicans, the can't-make-up-his-mind political hermaphrodite is finally set on being an "independent".

He's not an independent like Bernie Sanders because of hard convictions. No, no. Manchin is an independent because he's a coward who could never lead with proactive courage; he trails both teams hoping for some crumbs for the next election.

GOOD RIDDANCE. Joe Manchin is finally leaving Congress after nearly 15 years and hurling insults around as a disgruntled useless unsuccessful politician, along tunes that only primitive MAGA imbeciles sing. For him, Democrats are too extreme because they care for the average working class American, but Republicans too are extreme because they reject gun control. Now the tightrope-walker fence-sitter quickly clarifies that he is all for owning guns, but with the fine touch of "with responsibility", showing clearly that he is a diehard Homo neanderthalis American dressed up to look like a Homo sapiens.

Evolution has skipped states like west Virginia because there is no natural selection there: For one thing, the Appalachian bible-crazies have banned natural selection from their state, and two, the inbreeding has all the accoutrements of artifical selection. By the same token, even artificial intelligence will have a hard time in West Virginia, because you have to have some intelligence to begin with.

Listen to his scintillating meanderings trying to explain his political androgyny to CNN's Manu Raju: “The people in America voted ... They had that opportunity, you know, to vote with Kamala Harris and with Donald Trump. Donald Trump, there’s not much [that] hasn’t been said. You know exactly what you’re getting. He hasn’t made any bones about it ... You might say, ‘That’s too far right.’ OK. If that’s the case, then why did they go too far right when Kamala was trying to come back to the middle a little bit?”

And then the final nail in the coffin of explaining Harris's defeat: “If you try to be somebody you’re not, it’s hard,” the West Virginia Einstein said, subliminally defining himself in the process. Never take a clean-cut position on anything and people will think you're balanced. But people can tell a coward who wants to be everything for everyone. Now that Trump has won, it is easy for cowards to take a stance, so Manchin revealed that he licked Trump's behind during the Army-Navy football game last weekend, when he told the president-elect, “I want to help any way I can.” I can imagine Trump's thoughts at the sight of this grey-colored political dwarf.

What a statesman! He also wants to start a new party called the “American Party” for "moderate Democrats and Republicans", i.e. for intellectual cowards like him, insisting - as the prime coward that he is - he would not be its leader. Leadership requires a person to take a firm stance on issues and lead by example, something Manchin obviously lacks, so he wants to start a new party but not be its leader. He prefers the nauseating no-stance positioning he adopted throughout his career. Good riddance.