What do you want to do?

Yeah, thanks Joe for voting twice to convict President Trump of impeachment charges, and for being such a gutless wonder, when you claim Biden’s staff did “inexcusable things” to you, but won’t say what they are. You’re a real maverick Joe...just like Juan McLame. How many copies of the Russian dossier did you pass around Joe?

I think he’s fine right where he is. He might inspire more Democrats to grow a spine and vote no.

“I don’t care if you change parties, just continue to vote against BBB.”

Manchin changes parties, everything changes. Schumer is gone.

West Virginia, not Virginia. Big difference.

Kudos to the work that Sen. Manchin is doing.

It remains that the states have never expressly constitutionally given the unconstitutionally big federal government the specific powers to appropriate taxes for probably most of the unaccountable, unconstitutional spending authorized by the unreadable, Democratic Party-limited discussion BBB.

"10th Amendment: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
From the congressional record, clarification by Rep. John Bingham, the main author of the 14th Amendment:
”Simply this, that the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Constitution, is in the States and not in the federal government [emphases added]. I have sought to effect no change in that respect in the Constitution of the country.” —John Bingham, Congressional. Globe. 1866, page 1292 (see top half of third column)
"From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added]." —United States v. Butler, 1936.

So what Senator Manchin needs to do, in addition to continuing to not support BBB, is this imo. He needs to lead the Senate to pass a resolution to amend the Constitution, let's call it the Manchin amendment, that repeals the 16th and ill-conceived 17th Amendments (16&17A).

Regarding Manchin and political parties, after the proposed repeal amendment for 16&17A is ratified, arguably no discussion for that amendment needed imo, patriots then need to demand another constitutional amendment to prohibit political party support of federal offices by corrupt, constitutionally undefined, anti-constitutional republic political parties.

Noting that social Darwinism trumps 10th Amendment-protected state sovereignty imo, the states will still remain free to implode under the boots of Constitution-ignoring political parties, depending on the threshold of pain of a given state's taxpayers.

Insights welcome.

You are not wrong. They will negotiate with Manchin and pass it after the start of the new year. NEVER trust a politician, particularly a Democrat.