Quote:Following the release of the latest inflation numbers, which showed June CPI at a whopping 9.1 percent, Sen. Joe Manchin quickly changed his tune on the renewed negotiations over Joe Biden’s “Build Back Better” agenda. While Democrats were hoping for a slightly watered-down reconciliation bill that still included gobs of money for “climate” provisions, Manchin let it be known that he wouldn’t support a dime on such nonsense in the middle of an inflationary boom.

That sent the left into orbit, with activists and Democrat politicians alike accusing Manchin of ending humanity and making the planet unlivable.

Joe Manchin’s decision to kill off sweeping US climate legislation has been called “nothing short of a death sentence” for younger people and a livable climate on Earth, amid an outpouring of anger and despair from activists, scientists and even many of the US Senator’s Democratic colleagues…

…“Given the US’s role as the leading all-time carbon polluter, it is difficult to see global action on climate without US leadership,” said Michael Mann, a climate scientist at Penn State University, who called Manchin “a modern-day villain, who drives a Maserati, lives on a yacht, courtesy of the coal industry, and is willing to see the world burn as long as it benefits his near-term investment portfolio”…

…Even some of Manchin’s party colleagues weighed in. Jared Huffman, a Democratic member of the House of Representatives, called Manchin a “wrecking ball” and a “very corrupted, compromised man”.

Before we get to Manchin’s response, it’s worth pausing for a moment to understand how delusional and deranged these climate hysterics are. Climate change is a religion for these people. It’s a faceless, soulless god that they pledge absolute obedience to no matter how harmful or nonsensical their actions in service to it may be.

More people die every year of exposure to the cold than the heat. Even if one believes that human beings have total control over the climate and can lower global temperatures by moving to the impossible standard of “net-zero” carbon emissions, not doing so does not equate to the actual end of humanity and a livable planet. That’s hyperbolic nonsense. The earth is not going to spontaneously combust (at least not for a few more billion years), and human beings are incredibly good at adapting to changing climate conditions.

Ask yourself what’s more possible if the goal is to save lives? Getting all of humanity, including dictators and despots, to agree to cut carbon emissions to net-zero, somehow lowering global temperatures? Or buying more air conditioners in France for old people? Again, even if you are all in on the climate change stuff being completely influenced by man, talking about adaptation with a smart, managed transition to things like nuclear fusion makes far more sense than pushing useless, ineffective green boondoggles meant to make the world’s elites richer.

Moving back to Manchin, he fired back at his critics, accusing them of not caring about the struggles American families are going through due to the current inflation.

Here’s what Manchin gets that other Democrats don’t. Hyperbolic proclamations of the end of the world are not an actual argument for objectively bad policy. Forcing green energy, whatever that even means these days, down the throats of Americans while inflation is bankrupting people is not going to change the temperature of the planet. It’s only going to make global elites who own private jets and yachts feel better about themselves, and frankly, that’s not Manchin’s job. This idolatrous idea that human beings can just pass a piece of legislation and literally control the climate is completely absurd.

Manchin’s willingness to push back at this level, including accusing his own Democrat colleagues of not caring about people, portends more clashes in the future. Does that sound like a guy who is going to remain a Democrat after November’s election? I’m not making any predictions, but Manchin seems closer to leaving his party than he ever has been. After all, how much longer can he abide by his supposed friends trashing him as the destroyer of humanity?

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it’s worth pausing for a moment to understand how delusional and deranged these climate hysterics are. Climate change is a religion for these people. It’s a faceless, soulless god that they pledge absolute obedience to no matter how harmful or nonsensical their actions in service to it may be.

I think this statement sums up those who believe in the Democratic Party on any agenda.

Apparently Manchin can actually think for himself and doesn’t fall in line when the orders come from up the chain of command. That makes him a bad guy according to loons on the far left.

The problem is Manchin is 74 and probably in his last term. He is due to run again in 2024 but he will be 76 and could simply retire.

The next problem is.....who might become the next "Manchin" and bring an aura of common sense decision making and grit to the Senate? This man has saved the Republicans' collective @sses during the Biden* Administration.

There's so much disinformation in that to be unpacked one hardly knows where to start. First of all we are NOT the largest polluter on the planet. That honor would go to China or India so anything we do to ourselves, which will be injurious to our way of life, will mean little in the overall scheme of things.

(07-21-2022 08:01 PM)boss man Wrote:  The problem is Manchin is 74 and probably in his last term. He is due to run again in 2024 but he will be 76 and could simply retire.

The next problem is.....who might become the next "Manchin" and bring an aura of common sense decision making and grit to the Senate? This man has saved the Republicans' collective @sses during the Biden* Administration.

I wouldn’t worry about West Virginians electing some leftist loon to represent them. West Virginians are deeply conservative much like their neighbors here in Kentucky. Democrats in WV are more conservative than Republicans in some states.

I certainly don’t mean to detract from the obvious political courage of Joe Manchin, and secondarily of Krystan Sinema and a handful of other lesser Democrats. But a related question is how it came to pass that an entire political party became so disconnected from the basic interests of its own main constituency?

Every party has its crazies - - and they will garner the most immediate attention. But what causes an entire group of people who, for the most part are not themselves crazy, to go along with the vocal crazies?

If our nation manages to survive this progressive hysteria, it will make for a very interesting study in irrational human behavior.

So according to that AOC countdown clock, how much time left before WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!! ???

(07-22-2022 04:51 AM)CardinalJim Wrote:  

(07-21-2022 08:01 PM)boss man Wrote:  The problem is Manchin is 74 and probably in his last term. He is due to run again in 2024 but he will be 76 and could simply retire.

The next problem is.....who might become the next "Manchin" and bring an aura of common sense decision making and grit to the Senate? This man has saved the Republicans' collective @sses during the Biden* Administration.

I wouldn’t worry about West Virginians electing some leftist loon to represent them. West Virginians are deeply conservative much like their neighbors here in Kentucky. Democrats in WV are more conservative than Republicans in some states.

Correct. I think Manchin will be the last Democrat Senator from WV in the foreseeable future, after he retires.