Joe Manchin is once again making
American politics all
about himself.
This time,
he's got his sights set on unions.
He's not happy with a tax credit
designed to benefit union car
companies.
And so there's this legislation in
the house that would provide
customers with a tax credit
of $7500 for new electric vehicles.
It's, in years past, there's been
versions of this tax credit.
What they want to do though was do
an additional $4500 credit.
If the vehicles made in
the United States by union workers,
it's the sort of thing that they
all pretend they want until
money actually enters the picture.
Joe Manchin objected to this
particular tax credit.
And for once he actually went on
the record, talking about what he's
intending to do.
He said when I heard about this,
what they were putting in the bill,
I went right to the sponsor,
Senator Debbie Stabenow.
And so I said, this is wrong. This
can't happen.
It's not who we are as a country,
it's not how we built this country
and the products should speak for
itself.
We shouldn't use everyone's tax
dollars to pick winners and losers.
If you're a capitalist economy that
we're in a society, then you let
your product speaks for itself and
hopefully we'll get that,
that will be corrected.
Bear in mind, he is fresh off of
manipulating the entire
reconciliation process to make sure
that none of the legislation in any
way negatively impacts his,
investment in the coal industry.
But again, politicians shouldn't be
picking winners or
losers except presumably there
are the potential loser.
So in theory, this would not only,
give people who aren't as wealthy,
the ability to buy electric
cars that have generally only
been available to people with more
means.
But it would also incentivize those
being made by union companies.
And in fact, if you provide this
tax credit, then maybe some of
these companies won't be as
terrified about the prospect of
their workforces unionizing.
If they know that it's going to
produce years of more demand for
their product by the American
population.
But Joe Manchin is basically
president.
So maybe this thing is
already dead.
>> So, he gave the speech at
Toyota, which does not unionize its
workers.
So gee, I wonder if he collected
checks from them afterwards.
Probably not wink, dark money,
super PACs, chamber of commerce,
all working with Toyota.
Golly gee, no,
if there's one thing we know about
Joe Manchin, he does not want
to pick winners and losers.
[LAUGH] >> He doesn't
want the government doing that.
So, let me show you some examples
of whether we
actually do that or not.
Let's go to graphic for here,
conservative estimates put
us direct subsidies to
the fossil fuel industry at
roughly $20 billion per year with
20% currently allocated to coal.
Which Joe Manchin is invested in
and 80% to natural gas and
crude oil.
So that is,
subsidies are the government saying
here have this money, that's
taxpayer money, $20 billion goes to
the industry strangling the planet.
And Manchin has the nerve
to say because he thinks there's
no press in America.
He thinks the press is not actual
journalists, there is lapdogs and
he's generally correct.
So he says brace and things we
don't want to pick winners and
losers full well known, he's spent
sending $20 billion to his friends
in the fossil fuel industry,
which includes himself.
In fact,
let's show you a sample a year.
Here's go to a chart of the year
2016, look at that
renewable energy is cute.
That's in the green.
That is the subsidy is being sent
to them because it's a new industry
you want to support in
the beginning so
that he can get his legs under it.
And that's why you give them
a little bit of subsidies.
And that makes sense. And that
used to happen for the oil industry
about 100 years ago,
look, it still does.
And at a much higher number to this
day, even though the people that
are getting that tan.
And black bars the much higher bar
of, of money,
they're among the most profitable
companies in the world.
Why are we sending them extra
subsidies to do a thing that is
already intensely profitable,
let alone destroying
the environment and the planet.
And well I asked why.
So I'm going to answer the question
for you guys, which leads me to
graphics here number nine.
Let's go to eight actually,
here's a report by TYT investigates
Manchin Coal Haul Tops $5 million
over the last ten years.
He has made more than $5 million
dollars from his own coal company,
which he sent subsidies to while
giving speeches about how we don't
want to pick winners and losers
here at the government, right?
He literally pays himself,
he picks himself as the winner.
The corruption of these politicians
knows no bounds, but we continue.
The senator earned $491,949
in dividends just last
year as journalist,
Alex Kotch reported this summer.
So that's TYT and Daily Poster,
confirming the same number.
That's half a million dollars he
makes every single year from coal.
And then of course there
are the donations over his career,
Joe Manchin,
this is not even the dark money.
There's just stuff that we
know about oil and
gas has given him $1,072,857.
And mining has given them $853,998.
So about $2 million gee wonder why
they send 20 billion the fossil
fuel industry.
And subsidies because he just got
bribed $2 million for
his campaign that's why is very
simple is bribery is corruption but
he Joe Manchin from the energy and
natural resources sector.
That's even higher at $2.8 million.
So there you have it.
That's how bribery works in
America.
And the politicians,,
gleefully lie to you thinking
mainstream media is on our side.
They're never going to tell
you the truth.
So I can lie to you all day long.
Neither.
>> And adding to that.
That is an example of picking and
choosing winners.
All the things that Mansion said
that we don't do as the country and
that's not how we made.
No, that's exactly how it's done in
the United States of America
picking and choosing and
Mansion has been picking and
choosing for a very long time.
He decided that the b to the third
power was not the way to go.
That the beef was the way to go.
He picked and
chose along with some other folks.
That particular bill over the bill
that would have the most impact on
the people who had the greatest
needs he wants means testing for
programs that should not be means
tested.
That's picking and choosing and
you know what this man is playing a
dangerous game and they're allowing
him to continue to do that.
That 50/50 split in the Senate is
real and the filibuster is real.
They must get rid of
the filibuster.
Because Joe Manchin is going to
continue to be the shadow president
all the way through the end
of this thing on things that
we need the most.
Because he's going to have these
kind of temper tantrums all
the way through the process
straight through 2024.
Yeah.
>> Isn't it amazing like a couple
of million dollars?
Think about that as an investment.
Well how much would they have
to put into like discovering new
sources of oil to make $20 billion
dollars in one year?
But instead they buy something
cheap like Joe Manchin or whatever.
It's an amazing that we let them do
it and that for most politicians,
it's that form of corruption.
And then it's also they're planning
for after when they finally leave
office, assuming they're not one of
those who sticks around until
they're 95 or whatever.
they'll do speeches or they sit on
a board or they become a lobbyist
themselves or whatever. But
joe Manchin, he hasn't even content
to just do those two totally
accepted forms of corruption. He's
also directly benefiting himself
financially every single year.
And if you're lucky,
as you pointed out,
a couple of journalist,
we'll talk about it, but
it's not really a big story.
The media talks constantly
about joe mansions influence on
this process,
they almost never acknowledge it.
If they talk about him owning
the coal company, that's the story,
it's never mentioned in relation to
what he's doing.
His motivations are never
questioned.
Axios had a story about inflation
seems like it's a buttressing
mansions point that, okay, so
that's what he said, I get it.
There's no other potential
motivations.
You can't read anything about
the actions he's made financially
to tie into that.
And it's just disappointing that
the American people care so little
in the journalist talking about it.
>> So little to yes,
the last two things on that
speaking of picking winners and
losers, the media picks winners and
losers, so they take man should
they call him a moderate and
that sounds amazing, right?
That sounds great. What a
reasonable person, he's a moderate.
They say he's listening to the will
of his voters and
there's nothing he can do.
The polling indicates that that
statement is a flat out lie.
Every poll from west Virginia shows
that build back better is intensely
popular. And the provision that
Mansion is against are the most
popular in west Virginia. Yet
the mainstream media picks a winner
joe Manchin because they agree
with his corporate agenda. And
they say he is the moderate, he is
the one that represents the voters
now Progress is on the other hand,
say no, no, no. The voters actually
really want paid family leave,
they really want lower drug prices.
It pulls up nearly 90% and
we're going to fight really hard so
the voters can get more.
And right after the vote, the media
comes out and says the progressives
were trying to deny voters.
But do you have any idea how much,
how many calls they got in their
districts? I know this for
a fact because the voters listen to
the media and the media told them,
the progressive screwed you and
they voted no the help.
You desperately need their the most
right wing. Come on, Jesus Christ.
They don't say the most right wing,
but they imply it as if being
against the the incredibly weak
package. The corporate package put
together by democratic leadership
means you're right wing, not left
wing that you wanted less for
the voters instead of more.
So our media is a giant problem in
this country. May be the single
biggest problem in this country.
It's corporate media for
only corporate interests.
And then finally, let's not, let's
also note that joe Manchin who his
whole career has been lying,
that his number one concern is jobs
in west Virginia. And how my God,
he's looking out for the workers of
West Virginia, not for
his corrupt Colbert friends, which
includes himself. No, the workers.
Now he says unionized. No, I don't
want that's not the American way
than they would have higher wages.
No, we don't want that. You crush
the workers. So your donors win or
your owner donors win. Right?
And so understand who these
corrupt corporate democrats are.
>> That's right.
And back to the media Jake.
I mean the working class lens is
totally missing.
So unless it's independent media
like us at T Y T.
And some others or
they invite one of us or
you are hard pressed to see or
hear the narrative of anything
political, especially through
the eyes of working class people.
Yeah, narrative that frame matters
but we don't get that frame.
And the other point that you
continue to make and everybody
should just come on with us.
Say this with us.
The progressives I E.
In this particular situation,
the squad was fighting for more for
the American people not left.
>> Yeah.
Don't let mainstream media lie
to you.
They have they have a very obvious
corporate agenda.
>> My final point.
One more person who picks
winners and losers.
So Nancy Pelosi has
said before they did that vote well
we can't we can't force
a vote on reconciliation yet.
Because what if the moderates vote
against it?
But we'll do the one on
the bipartisan one even though
the squad is saying they'll vote
against that.
So she chose which one could be
pitched as voting against the
entire process. She could've put up
the reconciliation when we had
an agreement that you do both
simultaneously. And then cinema and
mansion presumably either would
have actually gone along with it in
the end or would have to be
the ones stopping the process for
moving forward. But she chose who
gets to be portrayed as being
a roadblock to to this aid.
>> Another example of picking
winners and losers exactly at
the bidding of your owner donors.
>> And,, if you're a progressive in
Congress and you think Nancy Pelosi
is your friend right after she
threw you under the bus,
just like we told you she would,
you should rethink that.