Biden Takes a Swipe at Joe Manchin and Twists the Truth Into a Pretzel – Opinion

Joe Biden’s Build Back Better bill went down in flames months ago, but he was still trying to push it during his State of the Union address, just with a slightly new name “Building America Better” (as though Americans couldn’t tell it was the same warmed-over stuff that went down in defeat).

The main reason it failed was it was a spend-arama that Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) couldn’t go along with. You can’t put lipstick on a pig and make it look better but that’s exactly what Joe Biden is trying to do.

He was quite hilarious when he explained to Heather Cox Richardson why people should follow him. In the course of this, he took aim at Joe Manchin.

Daily Mail

‘The Build Back Better piece. What people don’t realize, mainly because one senator from West Virginia talks about how it’s all social spending – well, you know, all the money in Build Back Better provisions, there is about $500 billion of it is for the environment,’ he said in the Substack interview.

‘Five hundred billion is for the environment. But the other parts are for the best way to deal with people who have been getting the short end of the stick, as they say, for a long time,’ Biden told the Boston College historian.

Imagine telling people who are being crushed by Bideninflation that hey, we’re spending a lot of it on the environment. Biden is so clueless, he doesn’t get that doesn’t help, it just makes things worse. Plus, if he thinks that continuing to take swipes at Manchin and singling him out is going to help convince him, he’s already found out that didn’t work and it ticked Manchin off. He might be curious as to why Manchin sat with Republicans in the SOTU. Biden doesn’t care about inflation, Manchin does. Biden just wants to keep spending more, not seeming to care or understand that’s the primary cause of inflation.

It was a fast and confusing interview. Biden said he couldn’t quite understand how we had gotten to the place where Vladimir Putin was invading…Russia.

BIDEN: “How do we get to the place where Putin decides he’s going to invade RUSSIA…” pic.twitter.com/dZFUAbHVWa

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This is at least the third time where he can’t seem to keep the players in the drama straight, including where he called the Ukrainians “Iranians” during his State of the Union and you could see Kamala Harris behind him silently mouthing “Ukrainians.”
Maybe we’ve gotten to this place with Putin because once again we had a weak Democrat in the White House who Putin knew would be reticent to do anything to hold him back. Biden must reflect and face reality in order to see that.

Biden exaggerated other aspects of his personal life, as he does often during interviews. He talked about his “involvement in the civil rights movement” yet again.

Biden says he “got involved” in the civil rights movement “as change was taking place.”

This statement is totally false. pic.twitter.com/XgfNTov586

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This stretch of reality has been called out by him in the past.

Biden in 1987: “I was not an activist…I was not out marching. Selma wasn’t my place. I was not anywhere else.”pic.twitter.com/ijty46nY83

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He keeps repeating it.

Biden further told Richardson, who is a real professor, “You make me miss being a professor at Penn. I was able to experience many different things after I left the Vice Presidential. However, I accepted a position at Penn to teach presidential history and political science. So I envy you.” Biden further said, “I really enjoyed teaching and writing.”

This claims tickles me, as I was the daughter of two professors. “Professor” is a title you have to earn, through teaching, writing, and scholarship. He did not teach regular classes. This is what his “teaching” comprised — for which he got about $900,000:

The Daily Pennsylvanian student newspaper tallied his appearances in public over the two-year period. These included panel discussions and Q&As with Penn President Amy Gutmann and panels on immigration and health. He also gave a lecture to Wharton students and had public talks with Felipe Calderon (ex-Mexico President) and Nick Clegg (ex-United Kingdom Deputy Prime Minster). Those events, of course, don’t include more private work Biden may have done on the school’s behalf.

Hardly a “professor” of the type he seemed to be trying to convey. But at least he didn’t claim that he drove an 18-wheeler. He did this again.