Yesterday, Joe Biden declared that all coal-fired electricity plants in the U.S would be shut down, saying, “we’re going to be shutting these plants down all across America and having wind and solar.”
Today, West Virginia Democrat Joe Manchin, the senator who gave Joe Biden the vote he needed for the ‘inflation reduction act’ also known as the climate change investment act that will eliminate all oil, coal and natural gas development, pretends to act surprised that Joe Biden will destroy the West Virginia coal mining industry.
Joe Manchin – “Today, U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) released the following statement on comments President Biden made about shutting down coal plants.
“President Biden’s comments are not only outrageous and divorced from reality, they ignore the severe economic pain the American people are feeling because of rising energy costs. Comments like these are the reason the American people are losing trust in President Biden and instead believes he does not understand the need to have an all in energy policy that would keep our nation totally energy independent and secure. It seems his positions change depending on the audience and the politics of the day. Politicizing our nation’s energy policies would only bring higher prices and more pain for the American people.
“Let me be clear, this is something the President has never said to me. Being cavalier about the loss of coal jobs for men and women in West Virginia and across the country who literally put their lives on the line to help build and power this country is offensive and disgusting. The President owes these incredible workers an immediate and public apology and it is time he learn a lesson that his words matter and have consequences.” (read more)
Unbelievable. We are expected to believe that Manchin had no clue that his own party’s platform is to eliminate coal and nuclear energy. History for Dems starts this morning. Total JackA$$ mentality that Dem voters do not see through.
He has to pretend not to know that his party wants to eliminate his state’s #1 employer, Mining for coal. And with that mining comes burning it for electricity production, where WV accounts for 15% of the nation’s fossil fuel generation. WV has had a big target on its back ever since Biden took the office.
Joe Manchin wasn’t smart enough to have the saving of the coal industry put into the “Inflation Redaction Act” (surely in exchange for his vote he asked for something for his constituents instead of just Schumer’s promise). Nope, there had to be a financial addition to his “kitty” to get him to sell out not only West Virginians but all Americans. Now he wants to act surprised? I’m not sure he has a lot more intelligence than Dementia Joe.
One suggestion, Manchin, when you get voted out of the Senate, take the boat and head EAST. You won’t be welcome in West Virginia. Try Massy-chew-sets!
You certainly hit it on the head.
What does it say about Manchin being snookered by the feeble POTATUS.
No way Manchin was snookered. He made an informed and calculated decision that the citizens of West Virginia could be snookered by the “goolly, gee whiiz, did ah do that?’ when the time came for his his partner in crime, Joe Biden, to deal the final blow to the coal industry. Don’t be surprised if the payoff to Manchin for this betrayal of his constituents was a promise that he’ll be the DNC’s preferred presidential candidate in 2024.
Maybe he is planning on being selected by Dominion via China?
Who says he was snookered? Manchin is an actor, and not a very good one at that.
Not saying he was, but him trying the “surprised” act suggests he wants people to believe exactly that.
What an out in out fraud Manchin is. Look up the word “fraud” in the dictionary, you’ll find his picture. The PEOPLE of west virginia deserve this real piece of work!
Didn’t you hear? Manchin and two others have formed a committee to “explore the possibility of offering a bi-partisan ticket in 2024.”
Mr. Manchin’s has plans to run for POTUS.
At this point, with Biden’s uncovering of Manchin’s hypocrisy for all to see I doubt Manchin could be elected Dog Catcher in West Virginia or anywhere else.
Let’s act surprised! Better yet, audit his and his family’s offshore bank accounts for how much he was paid for his vote that sold out his state and the rest of the nation.
Not only an audit of the fraud Manchin but every UNIPARTY member in DC along with their immediate families.
Give him Coal Amnesty.
Please don’t send him here!!!!!!
Liberal are liars as usual,
IMHO, this was a ‘reverse’ of a commonly used Uniparty Congressional leadership tactic.
The Dem base was demanding the Dem leadership repeal the fillibuster rule, much as the Rep base had been demanding the R leadership repeal Obummercare.
The Dem leadership DID NOT want to repeal the fillibuster, because the fillibuster rule is what the Rep leadership uses, to disguise its true nature.
Remember, again the votes on repealing Obummercare.
With the so called “squishy” R’s (Murkowsky, Collins, Romney, etc.) McConnell, when in leadership can put up legislation to appease the base he doesn’t want to pass, without the fillibuster rule his duplicity would be exposed.
So, back to the Dems; they put up a bill, to repeal the fillibuster, and along side that, a $700 billion bill that draws everybodies attention.
Manchin and Sinema play the role usually played by Collins and Murkowsky, torpedoing BOTH bills, with everybody focusing on their voting no on the SECOND bill.
They wait a couple of months, for people to forget, then reintroduce a “trimmed down” $600 billion bill, with Manchin supposedly getting assurances, and voting for.
Notice, NOBODY is talking about, much less advancing legislation to repeal the FILLIBUSTER.
Mission accomplished, everybody is STILL focused on this supposed betrayal with Machin.
Repealing the Fillibuster rule, only put in place in the 1960’s, would NOT “spell the end” of the Senate, it would spell the end of the Uniparty.
McConnell would have no excuse, no mechanism to avoid doing all the things his base (actually mostly MAGA) want; and the Dems depend on McConnell to forward the joint Conmunist takeover, while going thru the motions of opposing it.
Along with phoney hearings that “investigate to exhonerate”, this is the Kabuki theater that is Congress.
The fake debate over the Fillibuster rule (look back, PDJT openly pleaded with McConnell, in tweets, to repeal it) has been deflected by McConnell using the argument that he had Dem leadership “commitments” to not do it.
This legislation, advanced by Dems, destroys that argument. Once R’s take the majority, MAGA Senators ought to try to advance legislation to repeal the fillibuster.
It won’t pass, but they can USE the effort to further expose McConnell’s duplicity.
Not so sure the R’s are gonna make any difference when or if they do take them both. They owned them before and did nothing they should have, why should we think it would be different if they retake both of them again?
not sure where you get your history but the modern rule for cloture has been in effect since 1917 under Wilson…..originally requiring 2/3 of the Senators present to close debate it was reduced by RULE in 1975 to 60%……..under Senate Majority Leader Reid Judicial nominees were reduced to needing only a bare majority to close debate followed soon after by the Turtle expanding that to ALL judicial nominees including SCOTUS……..the talk about eliminating the filibusters would remove the requirement for non-budget and judicial matters lowering the requirement to end debate to a majority
Dutch, good analysis. I think the Uniparty is also teeing up a “battle of the moderates” in 2024. They know the whole country is pissed off and ready for moderation.
Uniparty Right will try to use DeSantis to wrestle the base away from Trump. They may run with DeSantis, or may screw him out of the nomination (a la Bernie) with their version of a “moderate” like Haley or Youngkin.
Uniparty Left will try to win back moderate dems, blue dog dems and independents with “Moderate Manchin, why he’s so moderate, he even votes with Republicans sometime, but when we the world needed him to sacrifice politically to save the planet, he came through”.
Heads, the Uniparty gets an executive they control. Tails, the Uniparty gets an electorate that spends less time fantasizing and vocalizing about firing squads and Nuremberg Trials.
Your seat at the head of the class may well become permanent. Right on.
I’m just an old lady, but even I have seen that old joe is only supid when he wants to look stupid. I thought he was stupid myself, but he isn’t really. Notice some days or times when he almost appears quite “normal” and others he is dementia appearing? It is all a put up deal, he is not really quite as bad as the media makes him appear; at least not all the time.
My father in law has dementia and he behaves a lot like Biden. Some days, his speech is so garbled, we can’t make out a single word. Other days, he speaks clearly.
The White House is saying that President Biden’s remarks stating he will be “shutting down coal plants all across America” were “twisted to suggest a meaning that was not intended.”
Oh OK, thanks for clarifying !
Sorry Joe, you had your chance. Might want to think about sailing away in your house-boat.
There is no honor among thieves.
… “I am shocked!”
Hey Mopy, I think I’m picking up on your sarcasm there. Thanks for the laugh.
Next move by Manchin. Tells WV citizens that he misunderstood Biden’s words and that they should learn to code.
This administration plays the pretend game very well. From the imbecile in the white house, pretending to be president, to all in the administration, pretending to be that which they are unqualified to be.
The pretending is used as cover for the lying.
Manchin keeps seeing his Presidential aspirations circling down the toilet.
they better be careful. They might make him flip parties.
Why would any “party” consider ever voting for Manchin? He is just like Slow Joe and lies when it suits him.
Why? Because the GOP welcomes Murkowski, and Collins, and Cheney. Case closed.
Don’t forget McConnell.
Chris Rose was interviewed at the Trump Rally today.
He’s running against Manchin in ’24.
He’s always been a pretender. When will people wake up and get tired of being sucker punched?!
Hopefully in ’24.
Chris Rose sounds like a MAGA Candidate.
Manchin…Turncoat …POS.
I’m sure he was paid off for his vote on the “Inflation Reduction Act…
WV needs to get rid of him.
Notice how Manchin says “he” never said this to “me”. Joe, of course, must discount and ignore the bleating, screaming, and indoctrinating of children that has been going on for about 30 IPCC reports or something about the dangerous threat posed by our own breathing to planet earth by a consensus of scientists and every communist under the sun. Joe could have been warning and trying to educate instead of managing a carefully orchestrated escape hatch under some ridiculous technicality like children might do on the playground. Very unbecoming of a U.S. Senator but, par for the course nowadays.
Manchin was very happy to vote for the IRA and he has NEVER addressed the FEDERAL TAX tax that his vote imposed on the Coal Mines..
The Bi Partisan Inflation Reduction Act includes includes COAL TAX HIKE in the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022
Section 13901 increases the tax per ton on underground mines from 50 cents to $1.10 and on surface mines from 25 cents to 55 cents.
What a tool.
Just goes to show that “we the people’ are really he ‘tool’. to believe anyone in the political arena.
Pffft. It’s Manchin. He has a D after his name.
Screwing Americans is their pasttime.
These jackals are so deluded, they think they can just continue to gaslight us. They must believe we are morons.
The majority must be! They keep electing this fraud.
Manchin has proved himself to be an idiot. I feel sorry for the citizens of WV. Hope they learned their lesson and get nothing but MAGA in the future.
Mancin is “dead man walking” till 2024. Nobody in WV will vote for a guy this stupid…
Wouldn’t be a bit surprised if he changes parties.
Manchin is a lying liar.
I think manchin owes the entire country an apology, and it’s time he learns a lesson that his traitorous vote on the climate scam act has disastrous consequences for the American people.
LOL……Manchin has a D after his name….that means screwing over Americans is in his DNA
Just so you know I took the last line of manchin’s quote to biden and flipped it. Manchin has no integrity or shame, so no there will be no apology. There will only be more lying and working against the interests of the American people, which actually describes most of the senate.
Manchin got his cut of the loot. He should just shutup!
Maybe his constituents will bring out the tar and feathers.
Manchin will be remembered for being snookered by a perverted imbecile.
ya those solar panels are going to keep your asssss toasty warm when it’s 20 degrees
No one in DC or close to DC will ever suffer atiny bit.
The rat was smelly then … and he’s smelly now. The “Green New Deal” is Treasonous, as it’s goal is to weaken America.
Sunshine up your butt, followed by a big blast of clean wind power. BOHICA, Mister Manchin: You’re about to get Schumer’ed again.
Manchin thinks the American citizenry are just that stupid and will not hold him accountable. We owe “Sleepy Joe” a debt of gratitude for giving conservatives a means to unseat Manchin which so far has been elusive.
So Manchin is a) really really stupid or b) really really rich. I’ll take b Alex.
Joe is all about Joe. Always has been, always will be. He’ll lend “credence” to MSNBC in two years.
F Joe Munchkin
But I have a feeling even if they don’t vote for him for re election, Dominion will keep him in office.
Kabuki Theater.
Senator Forked Tongue.
Dear Joe Manchin,
You did this.
You were the last vote needed.
West Virginia,
Remember this man when it comes time to vote him OUT!
“Why, I’m shocked, Rick, SHOCKED!”
DC meets Casablanca….
They really, really think we are all stupid. What incredible arrogance!
At this point, it’s on the people of West Virginia to stop falling for this guy’s form of narcissism.
Everyone forgets that this is the long game, and it was started by Barack Obama. Remember when he said that you could have your coal powered plant but it would bankrupt you to operate it? That was a long, long time ago.
Biden is simply the goon putting into action the deeply entrenched policies of Barack Obama.
😏 Biden didn’t mean what he said:
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knows that the men and women of coal country built this nation: they powered its steel mills and factories, kept its homes and schools and offices warm. They made this the most productive and powerful nation on Earth.
He came to the White House to end years of big words but little action to help the coal-producing parts of our country.
Working closely with Senator Manchin, a tireless advocate for his state and the hard-working men and women who live there, President Biden has helped get this part of the country back to work:
The unemployment rate in West Virginia was 6.2% the last month before Joe Biden took office; now it is down to 4%.
The President’s plans are already bringing new energy and manufacturing jobs to the region, and in the years ahead, will continue to create new jobs with projects like hydrogen energy generation.
In fact, through the Working Group on Coal and Power Plant Communities, President Biden has already delivered more than $23 billion to energy communities across the country.
The President’s remarks yesterday have been twisted to suggest a meaning that was not intended; he regrets it if anyone hearing these remarks took offense.
The President was commenting on a fact of economics and technology: as it has been from its earliest days as an energy superpower, America is once again in the midst of an energy transition.
Our goal as a nation is to combat climate change and increase our energy security by producing clean and efficient American energy.
Under President Biden, oil and natural gas production has increased, and we are on track to hit the highest production in our country’s history next year.
He is determined to make sure that this transition helps all Americans in all parts of the country, with more jobs and better opportunities; it’s a commitment he has advanced since Day One. No one will be left behind.”
Damage control from his handlers.
“Carry on
peasantsAmericans, you must have misheard the GreatDividerUnifier.”When I read the entire statement by her……
She just dug the hole deeper!
Hand her another shovel please.
“You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.”
~ Ayn Rand
I’d like to see how they’ll justify this to the Gretas!! 😅
“Under President Biden, oil and natural gas production has increased, and we are on track to hit the highest production in our country’s history next year.”
FU, PERVERT PIERRE. GO HANG YOURSELF.
CO2 is 410 parts per million. That means that CO2 is 1 out of every 2,500 molecules in the atmosphere. Does anyone honestly think that vibrating 1 out of every 2,500 molecules can materially impact the kinetic energy of the other 2,499? Especially if that vibration is consistent with something of temperature -80C. The only reason this CO2-driven climate change has any traction at all is that the Democrats know their base failed common sense and science 101.
To add to your thoughts, Jonathon Mosely has a list of questions for leftist alarmists.
https://www.wnd.com/2022/09/climate-cult-guide-cowardly-republicans/
CO2 is logarithmic not LINEAR. As CO2 concentration increases, the quantity of radiation available to be absorbed by the next increment of CO2 decreases logarithmically. Any warming is in 0 to 150 PPM levels. Water vaper is more abundant at 96% of Greenhouse Gase and CO2 overlaps in the same frequency. CO2 is a greenhouse gas. The presence of CO2 in the atmosphere traps a part of the infrared radiation that the Earth’s surface emits into space. The total greenhouse effect of the Earth’s atmosphere is about 30 °C, without this effect, the temperature would be -15 °C instead of +15 °C, the actual current average temperature.
Water vapor is the most important greenhouse gas. CO2 provides 3 °C of heating, that is, 10% of the total effect.
Time to get down to the nitty gritty and look at some basic facts on this renewables BS.
“Economist Jeff Currie of Goldman Sachs (Global Head of Commodities Research in the Global Investment Research Division): “Here’s a stat for you, as of January of this year. At the end of last year, overall, fossil fuels represented 81 percent of overall energy consumption. Ten years ago, they were at 82. So though, all of that investment in renewables, you’re talking about 3.8 trillion, let me repeat that $3.8 trillion of investment in renewables moved fossil fuel consumption from 82 to 81 percent, of the overall energy consumption. But you know, given the recent events and what’s happened with the loss of gas and replacing it with coal, that number is likely above 82.” … The net of it is clearly we haven’t made any progress.”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/10/25/goldman-sachs-jeff-currie-3-8-trillion-of-investment-in-renewables-moved-fossil-fuels-from-82-to-81-of-overall-energy-consumption-in-10
What a lying ba$tard
Sorry, Joe, you sold out coal miners, West VA and yourself. Nobody cares what you have to say now.
He’s not stupid. He’s dishonest.
Here’s hoping the good people of WV wake up and see what they really have in Joe Manchin and kick his sorry behind to the shaft of a coal mine!
We are mostly be led by imbeciles (see story below). Its quite humorous that Ida owns jack shit but seems to have her very own bike. This is how these people think. Above them pulling the strings are those “chosen” elites. They are doing this not to help the earth (silly) but to consolidate their grip on absolute power and control.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/worldeconomicforum/2016/11/10/shopping-i-cant-really-remember-what-that-is-or-how-differently-well-live-in-2030/?sh=2d27a3dd1735
The one word that comes to mind when I think of Joe Manchin is “Sucker.”
A breakdown of what Joe gave away. Time to check Joe’s off shore bank accounts. The IRA is the Green New Deal only mislabled to get it passed. Joe is a liar and a crook, always has been.
The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (HR 5376) (randoland.us)
A Pathological Liar! Whole life has been lying, cheating & stealing, among other things; none of them good.
His legacy is that of the worst “occupant” in this nation’s history.
The Joe I was refering to was Manchin. I should have been more clear. Manchin is always the last hold out. He gets what he wants in the end, its all an act to provide him cover in WV.
Exactly. He knew what he was voting for. What a schmuck.
I just spread that information.
America is a sinking ship. 🔥🙏✝️🔥
What a load of crap. They seriously went after cow farts… hardly the worst thing on the list, either. Thanks for posting.
$8.5 billion in additional funding for Environmental Quality Incentives ProgramUnder this program, the Department of Agriculture will pay farmers and ranchers to implement “climate-friendly” practices.
$50 million of the funding must prioritize projects that aim to reduce livestock flatulence.
Joe Manchin should get a Climate Hoax amnesty.
Thanks Chase:
After reading the article fandango posted I needed a giggle.
Another lying traitor. Time to bring back proscription and the guillotine.