Don't worry, there's plenty of ire to go around.

So yes, obviously everyone's sick of Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema single handedly--ok, two handedly? Four-handedly? Or are they each using one? Metaphorically? Doesn't matter, we're all super over them. They're both of them moderate Democrats which is code for basically Republicans and they're holding up everything. 

Above: Sinema (center) and Manchin (second from the right),
seen here holding the rest of the country hostage.
Not pictured: a functional democracy.

"No, it's alright, I really did steal
those seats. And I'd do it again."

-McConnell (actual quote)

Like, everything. And that's fine. Cool. I think we can all agree that democracy sucks but it's better than the alternatives. But what I don't get is why Republicans are getting a pass here. "If we could only get these two, self-important, conservative Democrats to come over to our side, we could pass President Biden's spending plan, eliminate the filibuster, and even add some seats to the Supreme Court to balance out the ones Mitch McConnell straight up stole." Cool but--Huh? Yes he did, he absolutely did, but my point is what about the Republicans in the Senate? 

Please, this doofus didn't navigate the
halls of the Capitol without help.

Everyone's all: "Sinema and Manchin are the actual worst!" And they are, but the actual actual worst are people who let a former reality TV hijack their party and then when he tried to do a coup, like d'état, they just stood by and waited to see how it turned out. I mean, like, shouldn't they be in prison for that? Even worse are the ones in the House who saw the armed mob coming and pointed the way to Nancy Pelosi's office. Seriously, is our problem a couple of right-of-center Democrats drunk on their momentary relevance or is it the Republican Party as a whole?

Yeah, it's probably both, but yes, Senators Sinema and Manchin absolutely, one hundred percent deserve all the scorn and outrage you want to level at them for leveraging their feet dragging to appease whoever's buying their yachts and funding thier selections campaigns. But let's all bear in mind that the only reason they have that leverage is that the other half of the Senate is made of people who are cool with fascism. 

What? Joe Manchin's got a yacht and he represents one of our poorest states.
I guess he doesn't understand optics, like, as a thing to be concerned about.