The Biden White House is hard at work writing the president’s new book “How to Lose Friends and Infuriate People” as mean-girl Jen Psaki publicly slaps down Sen. Joe Machin for his opposition to the Build Back Better boondoggle.
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31 replies on “Burning Bridges: Biden Slaps Down Sen. Manchin Over Build Back Better Boondoggle”
I have to disagree with Scott on one point: Biden has been monumentally successful at bringing people from both sides of the aisle together on a common idea. Unfortunately for Joe, that idea is they want somebody else (But not HER!) to be President.
Senator Manchin held his ground because he’s from a primarily red state. he knows what side his bread is buttered on. That said, he is a democrat, so we shouldn’t be celebrating this move as a ‘republican’ one. He’s just more of a centrist than the extreme side of his party is.
Another instance of Schumer’s total gracelessness and lack of any kind of class, if you remember, after months or years of trying to get Obamacare through and it was only achieved by McCains petty betrayal. Schumer appeared about an hour later to say ‘That’s just step one’. Stomping on a human face forever, indeed.
Yes, the left hates ANYONE who will not bow down and lick up the dust of their feet.
I’ve never heard Bolshevik pronounced that way, but it does evoch the true meaning of the word.
Bette Midler? I didn’t know she was still alive.
h/t Elon Musk v. Bernie Sanders
Reliving Steve’s acquisition of his AR-15 brings a tear to my eye as it forces my recollection of his tragic loss of the fine boom boom stick in the boating accident.
I know. We really need a movement to teach our guns to swim. :_(
My AR-7 knew how to float, so I had to fill it with rocks.
“Build Back Bolshie” is much better than “Build Back Broke,” heretofore my favorite version. Bill is right that we need to stop thinking in terms of parties and more in terms of elites vs. everyone else. These people are Marxists and Communists, Globalists and Totalitarians. Uniparty, Elite, Party of Davos, it’s all about control. And we’re the ones who have to stand up and say No.
As much as it’s a tragic disappointing shame that we as Americans need to stand up to tyranny rather than our elected representatives who should have done their JOB on January 6th and demanded that the election be investigated, I feel a strong sense of pride in serving beside my fellow Americans to expose and root out every single last Marxist including the enablers in both parties who stood by and did nothing. It will be refreshing to have real Americans back in Washington, so maybe it’s for the best.
Might as well kill two birds with one stone. I agree with what you said in your other reply. I think your estimates were 100 MB2Aers at the federal level and 1,000 state and local. We might just take the whole enchilada. Most of the country doesn’t even know that the Steal Was Real, the FBI instigated J6 to distract and the Democrat-led establishment are globalist Marxists. The information is still percolating, but by Memorial Day, it’ll all be out in the open.
Those numbers are JUST for elected legislators. We need tens of thousands to replace/destroy the bureaucracy.
I have come around to the belief that much of this is Providential. Without the steal, without the Jan 6th fiasco, we wouldn’t know about all this Democrat-CCP corruption. Every day more is revealed. Every day, people are starting to understand how they have been lied to and manipulated. If President Trump were still in the White House today, it would all be just the same-old-same-old.
A lot of people don’t seem to realize that the Democrat Party is much more politically agile than the Republican Party. This is a natural result of the conflicting ideologies between the two. The Democrats are able to react much faster to emerging political trends. A changing political landscape always works in favor of the Democrats because they can take advantage of it quicker than can Republicans.
However, the Democrats as much as they try are not infallible at reading the portents of political change and seizing the opportunities presented thereby. For example …
Social Media is a relatively new phenomena. Up until a relatively short while ago those two words were never strung together in that order. There was media and there was society. They were different animals. Then social media burst on the scene and the game changed.
The Democrats seized on this change and made the mistake of giving a few very loud and persistent voices excessive weight. They created a positive feedback loop between themselves and social media where those voices said something and the Democrats gave them significance, which caused those few voices to become even louder and more persistent, which the Democrats believing they were paving a path to power gave into even more, etc.
The legacy media, always more in favor of the Democrat Party and veering steadily towards Leftism themselves, amplified this effect.
All of which reinforced that positive feedback loop.
In believing those few loud and persistent voices to be the Voice of the People, the Democrat Party congealed around them like a blood clot on a knife cut. The Democrat Party didn’t lean Left, it didn’t step Left, it leaped Left. The Democrat Party, already bending to the Left and thus subject to massive confirmation bias, abandoned its traditional base and because the Democrats are more politically agile was able to slough off traditional support in exchange for what it perceived as a new, stronger base.
Not realizing that new base was not nearly so strong as it believed it to be. Likewise not realizing that in embracing that new base there would be losses incurred to the older, more traditional Democrat Party base. Because to the Democrat Party political agility carries it’s own liability. That being a lack of long term perception. To the Democrats every political victory is permanent while every setback is temporary.
The Democrat Party had gotten the idea that a sufficient majority of minority voters and all the non-minority voters on the Democrat side were a permanent fixture. They lost sight of the fact that those voters are capable of changing Party. Like Ronald Reagan said so well — “It’s not that I left the Democrat Party, it’s that the Democrat Party left me.”
One of the groups the Democrat Party left in the dust was the coal mining industry in West Virginia. Not only the miners and their families who voted a solid blue Democrat Bloc, but all the support and logistics industries involved also. From mining equipment manufacturers to the car dealers and grocery stores that supplied those minors with the necessities of work and life.
This trend also applies outside West Virginia. Democrat policies on green energy, the labor market, manufacturing and logistics, transportation and many, many other issues hurt the poorer people in America much, much worse than they do the socialist social elite now in control of the Democrat Party.
It takes time for these things to manifest in the political realm. Just as insects can develop insecticide resistant strains from the survivors bug poisons failed to kill, it takes election cycles to manifest a generational reaction to political change. Elections at best only occur every two years and the large national election that brings a President into office takes four years to cycle and react.
Whether it’s bugs or politicians, but perhaps I repeat myself, neither is immune from natural selection.
The cracks are now appearing in the Democrat shell. That they thought that shell impenetrable works against not for them. New York City elects a black Democrat version of Rudy Giuliani while the New York State governor falls to political ruin, a Colorado Democrat Governor declares the COVID pandemic ended, a West Virginia Democrat Senator refuses to rubber stamp his party’s planned conversion of his constituents into socialist thralls, the Blue State of Virginia throws off the Democrat Party en masse and elects a Republican Governor and a Republican majority in the House of Delegates and stands to lose the Democrat majority in the State Senate in the 2023 election, parents discover that their kids are being taught racist doctrines in the disguise of racial tolerance, etc., etc., etc. …
The lesson Democrats should be learning is not to listen to a few very loud and persistent voices, but it’s doubtful that they will.
The lesson we should be learning is that due to the political agility of the Democrat Party they can ruin this nation in just a few election cycles.
The Democrat Party needs to be pulled, kicking and screaming if need be, back towards the center. The sooner the Democrats learn to tamp down and stifle their destructive activists the better for us all of either Party. The Right already knows how to do this with those statistically insignificant fanatics, nuts and far Right idiots on our side.
As Jordan Peterson has pointed out so well, unlike the Right the Left has never learned where to draw the line between real politics and real extremism. There is hope that this is now in progress.
They actually had a chance to not be in this position. Recall very early on in the rise of the squad, Nancy tried to put them back in line. The squawking on social media, which resonated as you say, was one of the reasons she backed down. She thought they had much more support than they did. Had she stuck to her guns and kept the rookies in line, they probably still have the WH, but it may be Hil sitting there instead of Joe.
They would be passing some ginormous boondoggle, but it wouldn’t be the GND.
They do tend to fool themselves by believing their own press. I’m not sure that Hillary would have been elected anyway, she was a terrible candidate and the Democrats, believing their own press, didn’t work as hard as they should have to get her elected. So there were other factors involved in the defeat of Her Majesty Frau Kankles The Terrible.
That said, the reason they were believing their own press with Hillary is that they were caught hoisted on the petards of their own echo chamber.
It takes a while for the American People to wake up. Not get woke, wake up. I think we’re seeing that now as various Democrats, like Joe Manchin and the Governor of Colorado, et. al., move towards more centrist policies. They’re not doing that because it’s the right thing to do or because it’s good for the nation. They’re doing that to preserve life long efforts expended on political success. They’re reading the wind and adjusting their sails accordingly purely for self preservation. That’s not always a bad thing, it is a great motivator that what’s good for a given politician is also the right thing to do.
If I’m right about this over the next two Presidential elections we’re going to see a sharp move back towards center on the part of the Democrat Party. This may or may not result in a permanent split though if it does they asked for and deserve it. But …
It wasn’t those very few loud but persistent voices that put Joe Biden in office. It was the DNC reading the writing on the wall that said if they didn’t do something quick and dirty they were going to end up with Bernie Sanders as their unwinnable candidate for POTUS. Where my theory about loud and persistent social media voices gets a little threadbare is the fact that those voices were not the ones that were steaming full speed ahead towards running Bernie. That was a result of the selection of Democrat delegates from the party’s root.
So as usual, everything isn’t quite as simple as it might seem to be. Still, I think that Democrats are going to have to move back towards center if they want to remain relevant to American politics. If their party splits that would be great and serve them right, if not we still get a more reasonable Democrat Party. It’s just a question of how much damage they will do between now and when that happens.
The one good feeling I have about people voting for Joe is that he didn’t look bad to the low information voters. That his whole campaign was a lie does matter, and with the ZuckBucks getting so many ballots out in places where LIV Dem voters were think on the ground, people that do not vote much (and pay attention to politics a little less) found it quite easy to vote for a guy they thought was just like a grandfather and all they knew about the other guy was he’d been impeached for doing something terrible with Russia. (That a record number of people also voted for Trump is where I get part of this idea).
So, it ended up being a turnout election and I don’t think facts matter as much in those, as people are usually just energized to vote for their side. Obama was a bit of a special case, in that people turned out to vote for him instead of the party, and that meant he had short coattails. All of the media lies and pillows on faces helped some, but I don’t think it would have mattered to a lot of people because they don’t pay attention anyway. We either need to ratchet the voting rules back to 2019 or crank out our own Zuckbucks and get all of the ballots sent out.
Good points. Add a turn-out vote to massive cheating and voila! A Potato gets the Oval Office …
Now that Build Back Bolshevik has been defeated, or at least tabled pending defeat, the Dems are free to pursue election corruption with full gusto again.
The Crooked Politicians Act was defeated a few months ago in the Senate so I’m thinking they’ll start up their “everyone gets a vote” engine right after the new year.
Like everything else in the Democrat Party, the concept of “everyone gets a vote” is both lofty sounding and a lie. To them, “everyone” includes dead people, pets, criminals, fictitious characters and all the illegal immigrants they can sneak under the wire. Of course they don’t care that every illegitimate vote nullifies one legitimate vote. That’s a feature not a bug as long as the wrongful votes are for their side.
Corruption of the election system is the one thing I worry about most. I’m of the opinion it was cumulatively just sufficient to tip the scales on the last election.
Zuck the Suck dropped a bundle on swaying the last election, his influence was far beyond his one vote. That’s only one example of “legal cheating” that needs to be addressed in codified law.
Virginia, strangely enough while it was still a solid Blue State, implemented some positive election reforms. A big one was requiring all mail in and absentee ballots to be tallied first with a firm cutoff date/time, and live voting booth polling tallied last. This prevents “just enough to win” ballots from being “discovered” in a closet or the trunk of some vehicle.
The good news is that the Democrats are screwing up so badly that we’ll probably get Congress back next year. I hope that Conservatives in our government have a plan of action drawn up and ready to implement the instant they regain power.
But I’m not holding my breath on that either.
Between now and then, the smart Republican in Congress, be it House or Senate, should be doing his best to ward off disaster while still giving the Democrats every inch of rope to hang themselves that’s possible.
Most disturbing is that when Joe Manchin is the last line fo defense against total destruction of our country we have some serious problems
Maybe this had something to do with it. .https://youtu.be/3RV57sFsojA?t=3729. Shredding truck right outside the Georgia recount……….Fun fact. Absentee balloting required NO ID in Georgia in 2020. That’s one of the reasons the lying, cheating, thieving Democrats are now calling voter ID in Georgia “Jim Crow 2.0.” They can’t cheat like they did before, at least not as easily. Strange how they focused on the ID law in Georgia first, isn’t it?
Another fun fact: Georgia provides an ID free of charge to anyone who needs one. Not sure if that was a change with the new law or pre-existing.
It would be naive of us to believe the globalist Democrats didn’t realize the importance of winning the two Georgia Senate seats and cheated accordingly.
Head over to Rumble and Patrick Byrne’s channel for more info on the steal. If you want to share it with people, it’s impossible to refute. So is the Absolute Proof series on Lindell’s website http://www.frankspeech.com. So are the interviews of Sidney Powell on Rumble. I know we won’t get a reversal, but it removes all doubt should anyone challenge our oversight of 2022. Virginia was a good sign. Had something like 92% coverage.
I noticed that Bill had a Joe-Bidenism at about the 7:30 mark: “And Elon Musk had a one-word reply for that – ‘Message received’.”
It’s comforting to know that Bill is, in fact, a mortal like the rest of us! 🙂
I caught that too! Reminds me of that great line of DeNiro’s from Midnight Run, “I have two words for you…”
I have never known Bill to stay within the specified word count.
As Steve Green said at the end, there appears to be no place for Manchin in the Democratic Party. While the GOP would welcome him, adherence to a party’s basic principles and beliefs is key and if one’s beliefs are in opposition to those prevailing in a party, either party, it is best to seek the necessary support for (re)-election elsewhere, risky as that is. The GOP has dismissed Cheney for similar transgressions and any road she wishes to take will be difficult without party support. I hope Manchin will be successful as long as his main agenda remains focused on the principles he has expressed, but some of those do lean further left than I would like. I do not expect agreement with my representative in all matters, but the essential ones, those especially which are expressed in taking the oath of office, are most important in my selection. One of those is “due process”.
Recently I heard that he might go Independent, like the Bern-ster
When this all started, lo these many months ago, I thought perhaps Joe was angling to run for POTUS himself. At 74, that doesn’t seem that likely. It is entirely possible that he had a crisis of conscience and realized that his job is to represent the state of WVa, and this BILL is bad for his state. (It’s bad for everyone’s state, but particularly bad for the economy of WVa)
For whatever reason, good on ya’, Senator Manchin.
Montana Democratic Senator Jon Tester also voted with Manchin recently (opposing mandatory vax). I, a Republican, wrote Tester a thank you email for his vote. We will see if Tester will start opposing Bild Back Bolshie, among the plethora of bad, nay evil, legislation the Dirty Dems are pushing. I’m happy to vote for people who support freedom, whatever their party.
I do wonder is some up for reelection will now go on public record as saying Manchin is correct to vote no on this. Did he give them permission, a la that video Bill showed a while back with the psych experiment with the line lengths. If someone else gave the right answer, it was easier to say what you saw.
The only Dem to stand on principle for any other reason than to crush it.
Just remember: For most elected democrats, principles are the people in charge of grade schools, morals are paintings on walls, and scruples are the currency used in Russia.