President Joe Biden has officially signed the so
called Inflation Reduction Act into law.
This is the legislation that of course included the massive handouts to fossil
fuel companies and provided some funding to respond to the climate emergency.
Everyone's been celebrate because it's the most funding congress has ever allocated
to respond to climate change.
But I do want to remind you that that's an incredibly low bar since this country has
been pretty abysmal in regard to responding to climate change
appropriately.
Now what really stood out about this signing ceremony was Biden doing
a kind gesture for the very person who derailed his entire agenda.
Let's watch.
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So for those of you who might be listening to the audio version of the program,
Biden gave the sign that he used to sign the inflation reduction act
to conservative Democratic Senator Joe Manchin.
Who made sure that there are all these little goodies in the bill for fossil fuel
companies, while also simultaneously stripping the bill of most social spending
programs that would actually materially benefit ordinary people's lives.
He got a kind gesture in response to that and he was asked about that kind gesture.
Let's see what he had to say.
>> What is your response to President Biden He signed the building.
>> It was a nice gesture.
A very nice gesture.
>> I hate all these people.
That's really the only takeaway here.
And it's not just out of nowhere.
It's because of what mansion succeeded in which is basically
doing away with the possibility of paid family leave doing away with
the possibility of universal pre k doing away with assistance.
So parents can afford childcare, especially women who wanna go back to
work, took that away did away with the child tax credit, which Biden alleged
to want to make permanent did away with free community and public colleges.
I mean, but you know, it's a kind gesture.
And look, I think Biden Jenkins doing exactly what he wants to do.
He's thinking mansion, because mansion did exactly what Biden wanted him to do.
>> 100% right, so a bunch of things out of that short little video, first of all,
that's a nice murderer's row of corporate Democrats,
the people that have been destroying this country for a long time and
enabling the right wing to rise up as they have.
So Clyburn's among the worst Schumer is a total fraud.
Mentioning Biden and and as right throughout their careers mentioning
Biden have almost never disagreed.
So this has all been Kabuki theater from the get go.
So when we told you that Joe Biden was going to do almost none of his agenda.
We got a wall of disbelief and hate from Washington,
both in terms of the political figures, but also the media.
How dare you?
He's gonna be FDR2.0 now fast forward to today and
he's done almost 5% of it and he didn't do 95%.
Actually it's worse than we imagined.
We thought he would pass voting rights or at least half of voting rights.
I thought that there was a fighter's chance that we fought super hard on $15
minimum wage, but nobody fought on that And it turns out we didn't get that.
So a lot of the bare minimum we didn't get at all.
And so now when we turn around and say we were right,
all of Washington has now moved to a new alternate reality.
The alternate reality is Biden delivered, Biden delivered his entire,
almost his entire agenda.
>> No.
>> Well, that's just a lie.
It's, there's, it's totally unsupported by the facts.
Look, and I already gave you a lot of examples,
things that were total and other layups like paid family leave,
which is like 84% popularity in the country, including 74% of Republicans.
I mean, layups, layups, the only people who
oppose it are don't class to Joe Biden, Joe Manchin and the Republican Party.
So now, but I'm gonna just pick one example out of the lot,
lowering drug prices massively popular.
The most popular thing in the bill, everybody wants to lower drug prices.
>> No but they got there right.
>> Right yeah and now, in the entirety of the Washington media and
every Democrat in Washington is lying through their teeth telling you that they
got some portion of that.
You should be happy with what they got.
No, it's a one that portion is 100% trick.
It's lowering drug prices on 10 drugs out of thousands and thousands and thousands.
10 drugs wait in the year 2026.
>> Yes beginning in 2026. >> Beginning in 2026.
>> Yeah. >> You know what that is?
That is saying we're gonna lock in,
not lowering drug prices until 2026 then went to lock in another 10 years.
We're really lower drug prices on 10 freaking drugs.
It's a goddamn joke.
It's meant to do receive you into thinking that they took
action when they did the exact opposite.
They locked in high drug prices for decades.
That's the kinda game that Joe Biden plays all the time and
corporate media covers for.
So I don't care about the people who are just as deluded as mega.
Those are the Democratic establishment.
Ask kissers.
So those guys are in a completely different world detached from reality
where Joe Biden delivered, You guys aren't happy,
nothing's ever gonna make you happy.
What do you mean we're gonna lower drug
prices in five years on 10 drugs maybe kind of you guys are a joke.
Go kiss his ass.
Go kiss mansions ass.
I don't care there was crumbs that biden passed like in in terms of solar energy
and and renewable energy in that bill.
There's crumbs that were passed in a couple of different bills but
on almost all of them were wrapped in a giant lard of corporate pork.
>> Yes.
>> You handed over to the solar energy companies but then you also have to hand
it off to the fossil fuel energy companies lard, lard, lard and a little kernel for
you and then you send the alternate reality zombies out there to go.
It is historic.
It is the best thing we could have ever gotten.
Joe Biden did his agenda.
And then you see that feeble man now for that Penta mansion,
which was almost out of planet of the apes.
>> Listen, if Biden fought like hell like fought like hell for
his own agenda and we saw that fight and
he just couldn't get mansion to play ball.
My commentary would be different in that I wouldn't be as critical towards Biden but
Biden handing mansion the pen the way he did is just another example
of how he refused to apply any pressure to mansion or cinema,
nothing but carrots, nothing but complimentary commentary
during his press interviews and his public appearances.
That's, I mean there was never any hardball by the president
to ensure that more of his agenda actually came to pass and
that's the reason why I'm frustrated because one can't help but
think that Biden didn't really want these things.
That Biden loved the fact that there were convenient excuses both
baked into the system and also within the Democratic party to
essentially put a stop to what he purported to be in favor of.
Because I've seen and I have read about previous presidents fighting for
their and succeeding despite all odds, including LBJ, getting a civil
rights act passed even when members of his own party were against it.
He did everything he could because he actually wanted to pass it.
And guess what he succeeded.
We didn't see that fight from Biden.
And look, I've talked about this a billion times because the only good thing
that we've seen in this inflation reduction act,
which is honestly just the name by itself is laughable.
This is not inflation reduction, [CROSSTALK] But nonetheless, okay,
the part that even some progressives have been celebrating is the money that will
be allocated to responding to climate change.
Except there's a massive catch.
We've talked about that catch and it has to do with allowing for
fossil fuel companies to rake in more money to do more drilling.
And here's the example, here's the Ceo of Valero, a fossil fuel company.
Okay.
The legislation whose scope and ambitions were dictated by fossil fuel industry ally
Senator Joe Manchin includes components quote that are helpful to our business.
Rich Walsh of Valero said during the fossil fuel giants earnings call on
Thursday.
This is an older quote but yeah, so that's what he said in response to it.
And the bill if passed and it did pass, it just got signed today would tie wind and
solar development to oil and gas lease sales.
That language is expected to undermine the Biden administration's plans to
expand renewable energy on federal lands and
waters as well as greatly complicate plans to draw down oil and
gas production that contributes directly to climate change and the climate crisis.
And I mean, the list goes on and on.
Okay. So the proposed legislation would block
the Interior Department from issuing any wind and
solar development rights of way unless it first holds oil and gas lease sales.
Onshore, the department would have to offer two million acres of federal
land for lease annually or half of all the land nominated for leasing and
hold a lease sale within 120 days of issuing any renewables right of way.
Come on guys.
>> Yeah later, later when, they write an article a couple of years from now saying,
well, it's weird, they couldn't do any of the solar energy and
the renewable energy stuff in there because it turns out in the bill,
you have to actually release federal land for fossil fuels first and
they'll pretend like no one could have seen it coming.
>> No one could have seen it coming.
>> And and the house parts of the world and democratic as kissers like nobody,
nobody knew..
That is an unexpected twist.
So instead of getting 5% we got 0%.
What an incorporations instead of getting 99% got 112%.
What an unexpected twist in Washington.
So, look, guys, I mentioned planet of the apes and if you've seen it or
if you just watch normal documentaries, you see apes do this.
They hand out there, they put out their hand like this to an alpha ape and
humans are in the ape family and that was Biden like to mention
if someone took 95% of my agenda and flushed it down the toilet,
I wouldn't be going into them, I would brush up against them at
the signing ceremony if I allowed them there in the first place.
Okay.
But instead biden is thrilled to get that 5% because he
was never gonna fight for it.
He never believed in it.
I don't care what alternate reality you live in.
There are facts about the legislation.
There are facts about the policies by never one any of it.
And so he's thrilled with the corporate pork garbage that
he has passed in his term and that's just evidence of it.
Finally, last word goes to one of our members.
We love doing the show with you guys.
Travel nurse Dragon made a good point man.
You might as well keep the pen says he was the only one to get the right the watered
down bill.
That is a fair point.
It's mansions pen.
It's mansions presidency and
you see the beta male handing it to him right in front of your eyes