WATCH: Coal profiteer Joe Manchin drove his Maserati into climate protesters

[WhiskeyGrinder]

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[CurtEastPoint]

1. that WT redneck has a GD Maserati? F him.

[KentuckyWoman]

2. If he is even in that car

His security team should be fired.

[Haggard Celine]

3. Lol!

I wonder what kind of gas mileage that thing gets. You know he probably looked for something that’s a gas hog. Too bad there isn’t one that burns coal.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

5. 14/20 lmaoooooo

[madville]

28. 18/25 Mpg

Not terrible mpg, coal line was pretty good lol.

[Disaffected]

4. ".... drove his Maserati into climate protesters"

"Tried to run us over".

You wouldn't know that from this video.

[EX500rider]

7. yeah I didn't see any attempt to run anybody over either. nt

[Disaffected]

16. Too much click bait.

Unfortunately there is a lot of that here.

[TwilightZone]

24. Agreed.

It got tiresome a long, long time ago. The video/media groups are loaded with it.

[Yorkie Mom]

13. Agreed.

[Disaffected]

17. Yeah, Manchin may be a dick but,

I doubt he is that stupid.

[Nixie]

19. +1, the driver was very polite considering the

potential threat.

[onethatcares]

6. in Floriduh

he could have spun his tires, run over them, and did it in reverse. deathsentence desantis signed a bill that allows that.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

8. Security guards push protestors from front of car, car drives away...boring truth.

[CrackityJones75]

9. Really?

No he didn’t try to run anyone over. Look I am not a Manchin apologist by any stretch. But that isn’t what happened.

[Jedi Guy]

10. My goodness, they were fortunate to escape with their lives. He's a monster.

[awesomerwb1]

11. Don't see anything remotely close to "drove into" on that video

Unless there are other videos "drove his Maserati into climate protesters" is a ridiculous exaggeration.

[Catherine Vincent]

12. They shouldn't be getting in the way of anyone's car

That's how you get hurt.

[George II]

21. Especially in a private garage.

[George II]

14. From that video, the "protesters" were obstructing the driver of the car on private property....

If anything, those "protesters" jumped in front of his car and the security guard removed them. He drove away without further incident.

[lapucelle]

15. It looks and sounds like one of those karen videos. N/T

[Raftergirl]

18. He should have stopped the car and gotten out and talked to them.

That is what a smart politicians would do.

[Nixie]

20. Yea, you first

[Raftergirl]

22. If I was in that situation I probably would. They are people protesting for

Climate change - not Trumplican insurrections.

Maybe he would have learned something.

[Lunabell]

23. Is he still a Democrat?

Asking for a friend...

[Raftergirl]

29. He has never been a Democrat. He is a corporatist.

[Lunabell]

30. Unfortunately, this party is not the party of FDR anymore.

I'm sure one of the corporatist Democrats will alert these posts and they'll be hidden. C'est la vie. Won't be my first.

[Igel]

25. Looks to me like they unlawfully detained him.

And possibly placed him in a situation in which he felt threatened by possible violence.

Yet he acted well. Perhaps because they were filming him and wanted to make sure that they could plead victimization. Perhaps not. Can't know (which is rather different from "don't know&quot .

As it is, they can still plead guilty of victimization.

Sad, too sad.

[NowISeetheLight]

26. Maserati Ghibli... Not impressed.

Maserati has name recognition… but a Ghibli is an entry level car (about $90k) that depreciates like a rock. You can buy a few year old model for Camry money. Not the most reliable car in the world either!

[WarGamer]

27. Someone needs to educate the protestors.

No amount of US legislation will affect Climate Change.

We're truly fucked.

With China and India building new coal fired power plants on a weekly basis and having the "permission" to do so until 2030... until they extend it to 2040...

We're on track for 1000ppm CO2 by 2100 which means palm trees in the Arctic Circle.

To actually stop and reverse Climate Change, 50% of all human life would need to disappear and the rest would need to produce the same daily CO2 as one did in the 17th Century

And that might not work.

[Polybius]

31. The bad guys weren't the ones in the car

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Protests like this make people go to the other side.

[Lancero]

32. Classier than a bus, I guess.

He usually throws his constituents under the bus, nice to see that he's starting to treat them better.

[Raine]

33. Looks like the protesters were at fault and looks like they were not even close to being run over.

Also they jumped in front of his car, he didn't drive into them.

[JanMichael]

34. Kind of tacky at the very least. And an Italian car?

Would have thought he'd have a Corvette.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

35. I kind of love how this video is, as are so many things in politics, like a Rorschach test.