Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia has thrown a wrench into the rest of President Biden’s “Build Back Better” spend-a-palooza dreams, as he won’t back a bill with trillions in new spending, ostensibly in the name of addressing climate change. Manchin not going along means the media is helping others on the Left to try and convince as many people as possible that he’s condemned the world to a fiery demise.
A New York Times “climate reporter” took a big swing for the “we’re doomed” fences:
Can't get past the first phrase:
"As millions on three continents baked in heat waves supercharged by climate change…"
Heat waves = Weather. Nothing to do w/CO2.
Hot here, cold there. Today's global temp is a mere 0.3C over the 1979-2000 average.https://t.co/v7uPYp9ZGI
— Steve Milloy (@JunkScience) July 16, 2022
There’s reporting, and then there’s whatever this is:
As millions of people on three continents baked in heat waves supercharged by climate change this week, one American politician, an ardent champion of the fossil fuel industry, doused any hopes of immediate climate action in Washington.
That politician is Senator Joe Manchin III of West Virginia, a state of 1.8 million people. As my colleagues Emily Cochrane and Lisa Friedman reported late Thursday evening from Washington, Manchin said he would not support his fellow Democrats’ proposals to fund climate or energy programs. Party leaders had been negotiating with Manchin for the better part of 18 months. They had steadily whittled down their climate ambitions in order to win his support. He still didn’t agree.
It follows a Supreme Court decision that curbed the federal government’s authority to tackle emissions from power plants.
Not to be outdone, NBC News passed along quotes from Democrats saying “we’re all going to die!”
New —> Democrats vent their fury as Joe Manchin shelves action on climate change
"We’re all going to die."
"I don’t want to spend one more minute thinking about what Joe Manchin will or won’t do."
"…he doesn’t know how to close a deal…"https://t.co/ncb9pbkTwX
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) July 15, 2022
Nice try, but we’ve already died a few times:
This is the one that’s gonna take out everyone not killed by Net Neutrality expiration. https://t.co/MwekJYx2CQ
— Mary Katharine Ham (@mkhammer) July 15, 2022
We already died
— Reaganette (@Ezinger44) July 15, 2022
Well according to you alarmists we were going to die:
70’s ice age
80’s holes in the Ozone
Also 80’s Acid Rain
90’s we were to die due to Global Warming by 20005/2010/2015
Now Global Climte change (AKA Weather)Please make up your mins already, you guys are exhausting
— Space Woman Spiff 👩🏻🚀 (@BellaPelosi) July 16, 2022
The “do what Democrats leadership wants or everybody’s going to die” card has been played to… well, death.
More proof their #GreenNewDeal is Communist garbage. https://t.co/LwhA4HBz5Z
— $200,000 Dark Ultra MAGA David Morgan (@StarCoreOne02) July 16, 2022
Democrats angry that Joe Manchin refuses to submit & obey their authoritarian, ideological cult & rejects it’s religious beliefs.
Fixed it for you. https://t.co/k0hGjhI6ag— Alex 1984 vs 1776 🇺🇸 (@Sinnersaint39) July 16, 2022
That’s definitely a better alternate headline.
Another New York Times story quoted former Obama adviser John Podesta in the third paragraph of a lengthy story about “how one senator doomed the Democrats’ climate plan” (it’s actually 51 senators doing that):
Imagine being a grown-ass man and throwing a tantrum like this? "Joe Manchin killed me and now I'm doooooomed!!" Calm down. pic.twitter.com/UaLXg05piz
— Christopher Bedford (@CBedfordDC) July 16, 2022
This is something else:
“It seems odd that Manchin would choose as his legacy to be the one man who single-handedly doomed humanity,” said John Podesta, a former senior counselor to President Barack Obama and founder of the Center for American Progress, a left-leaning think tank.
“Single-handedly doomed humanity”? Please. In spite of all the climate change agenda failure, we’re guessing Podesta’s former boss won’t be selling his oceanside Martha’s Vineyard home any time soon.
