Joe Manchin
Former U.S. Senator, United States Senate. On 2 shows, 2 appearances, plus 3 compilation re-airs not counted. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Joe Manchin served as Governor of West Virginia and as a U.S. Senator, operating as a critical centrist swing vote on landmark federal legislation. After leaving Congress, he co-launched the Independent Leadership Council and published the memoir Dead Center: In Defense of Common Sense.
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22statements
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141said about them ↓ Everything Joe Manchin said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Biden threatened to never speak to Manchin if he killed rescue plan
“That's when he got pretty vulgar and just told me, I'm gonna, you're gonna, you know, if you kill my effing bill, I'll never talk to you again.”
Manchin opposed Build Back Better for shifting American mindset toward entitlement
“If we pass this piece of legislation you're asking me to vote for, the BBB, you're changing the psychic to the nation of how much more can my country do for me. I wasn't born that way, I wasn't raised that way, I don't believe that way, and I can't do it. You …”
Manchin reveals he and Mitt Romney discussed running on a third-party ticket
“Mitt Romney and I were talking about running. I said, Mitt, he said, Joe, let's, we have to start a new party.”
Manchin: I Cannot Vote to Continue with Build Back Better
“If I can't go home and explain it to the people of West Virginia, I can't vote for it. And I cannot vote to continue with this piece of legislation. I just can't. I've tried everything humanly possible. I can't get there.”
Joe Manchin calls the Senate filibuster the holy grail of American democracy
“That's the holy grail to democracy as we know it, because without it, we wouldn't be the country we are now.”
Manchin claims climate protesters at his houseboat were organized and paid
“Oh, no, that was organized. They were paid, Shamath, because a lot of my friends who live on the, down at the river, on the Potomac River with me, on the boat, They played like, how can I get a job with you? How can I do this if I want to protest? They said, I…”
Manchin: Trump's strongman style works in the Middle East, not Western diplomacy
“He is the perfect president for the Middle East. Strong man, strong arm. He, I say what I mean what I say, and boom, boom, boom, using my military mic. That doesn't work in the western part of the world where we have diplomacy.”
Manchin claims he never promised to vote for Build Back Better
“I never promised to vote for BBB. I says, I'll get on it and let you work the bill. I'm never going to be for this bill.”
Manchin: Child tax credits should target incomes between $25k and $75k
“First of all, you have child tax credits up to 400,000 dollars of income. You really want to know who needs the child tax credits? People right above the poverty guideline, mostly single females, above 25,000 a year, up to about 75. They need it, ok?”
Manchin admits he was wrong to oppose repealing Don't Ask, Don't Tell
“So I was against it. I said, don't get rid of it. No. No. That means if you were, you know, if you were known to be gay, then you could not serve. I was totally wrong on that because it, they went ahead and passed it, thank goodness, and then I found out That …”
Manchin proposes term limits for Congress, SCOTUS, and the presidency
“If we had two six-year terms for a senator, six two-year terms from a House member, one eighteen-year term for the United States Supreme Court, and one six-year term for the president, maybe we could all do a better job by not worrying about the next election.”
Manchin: Harry Reid told Obama never to send Joe Biden to negotiate again
“Harry Reid says, I told President Obama, don't ever send that damn Joe Biden back to make a deal. We don't want him here at all making a deal for Democrats.”
Joe Manchin: Democratic Party has been taken over by extremes
“The Democratic Party has been basically taken over by the extremes.”
Manchin claims Democrats lost 100,000 registered voters to progressive crusades
“They lost registration of over a hundred thousand people who've left the Democratic Party since they've started that crusade.”
Manchin says he begged Democratic Party to host a 30-day mini-primary
“I begged the Democratic Party to have a mini primary, thirty-day primary when Joe Biden”
Joe Manchin: Bill Clinton and Donald Trump were the most engaging presidents
“If you tell me people that are engaging with you and talk, Bill and President Trump.”
Manchin names Murkowski, Collins, and Romney among the best Senate Republicans
“Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins were always my go-to people on the Republican side, and Mitt Romney. Two, three of the best of the best. You could always work with them, because they were always looking to do the right thing. They didn't care about politics.”
Manchin: 2013 Senate immigration bill would have passed House if Boehner called vote
“We had that bill and couldn't get it because they were afraid that he would lose the right. He lost them anyway. The far right wasn't going, Tea Party at that time wasn't going to go, but John could have put it on the floor, and it would have passed, and I thi…”
Joe Manchin: A court challenge could eliminate closed primary elections
“I think there definitely is a court procedure that could remedy this and basically stop these closed primaries.”
Manchin: Republicans are the only ones pledging to preserve the Senate filibuster
“My Republican friends are the only ones that are saying, we will not get rid of the filibuster in the United States Senate.”
The other half of the tape: Joe Manchin's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 125 times in 47 episodes across the shows. 16 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →
Who brings them up most David Sacks 43Jason Calacanis 23Chamath Palihapitiya 23John Hickenlooper 10Katherine Hamilton 8Stephen Lacey 7Emily Domenech 3Jeff St. John 2
Statements about Joe Manchin, by other people (16)
Chamath: Joe Manchin prevented US inflation from reaching 15% to 16%
“The fact that Manchin prevented six trillion more dollars of being pumped into the economy in the last two years is probably the single thing that prevented inflation instead of being peaking at nine. From peaking at 15 or 16.”
Chamath: Joe Manchin will be remembered as this generation's Paul Volcker
“I think that he will probably Be looked back on in time as our generations, Paul Volcker.”
David Sacks predicts killing Build Back Better triggers massive 2022 market rally.
“Manchin would do Biden the biggest favor by just putting a bullet in this Build Back Better plan, because I actually think there'd be a massive relief rally And the economy would take off like a rocket next year.”
Hickenlooper: Manchin secretly remained in IRA talks despite public walkout
“He told the press he was out, he was done. I saw him the next morning, had a nice, 15 minute happy chat, and I said, well, you're not really Over, you're not quitting, right? And he goes, no, but I'm going to let him think it for a while. Just I need space. Yo…”
Domenech: IRA risks Republican targeting unless Chinese subsidy access is fixed
“When you have somebody like on the left, Senator Joe Manchin, who made the IRA possible, pushing back aggressively against the Biden administration in terms of how they've implemented the law, concerns about
You know, foreign companies, Chinese companies that …”
Hamilton: Schumer Agreed to Manchin's $1.5 Trillion Spending Framework
“And Joe Manchin said, I'm happy to do it at one and a half trillion dollars, and here are all the things I'm willing to support. Here are the things I would not support. And Chuck Schumer agreed to all of those.”
Sachs: Joe Manchin warned the Biden administration about inflation in May and was right
“He warned them in May that he was very worried about inflation and they were saying it was transitory and then he turned out to be right.”
Sacks: Proposed capital gains tax rate increase will not pass
“Now, that's not going to pass, thankfully, because we got Joe Manchin, but that's about it.”
Sacks: West Virginia Senate seat will go Republican when Manchin retires
“When Joe Manchin retires, that seat is going Republican.”
Fifty U.S. senators completely oppose passing climate legislation, notes Hamilton
“It's not just Joe Manchin, it's 50 members of the U.S. Senate do not want to pass climate legislation, ok? That's half of our Senate, half of the people that are elected to run our highest body legislatively do not want climate action”
Hamilton: Expecting Manchin to Back a $4T Bill Was Unrealistic
“And he's moved a little bit on them, but he was not going to move a lot, and so when a close to four trillion dollar bill was introduced with the hopes that Joe Manchin would come along, it was not very realistic.”
Lacey: Joe Manchin received more fossil fuel money than any senator
“He's received more oil, coal, and gas money than any other senator this election cycle, a sign of the power he holds right now.”
Gerstner says All-In hosts held political dinners for Khanna, Manchin, and DeSantis
“The truth of the matter is this group has hosted dinners for Ro Khanna, for Senator Manchin, We've hosted dinners for DeSantis, right?”
Palihapitiya reveals he hosted Senator Joe Manchin for dinner
“We had a phenomenal dinner at my house last week.”
Manchin and Schumer signed $1.5T Build Back Better framework in 2021
“July of twenty-twenty-one, Senators Manchin and Schumer signed an agreement where Manchin said, here are all the things I'm willing to put, 1.5 trillion dollars worth of things into this Build Back Better package. Chuck Schumer signed off on it, and at that po…”
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All-In 92
the Green Blueprint 33
2026 1 mention in 1 episode
2025 21 mentions in 8 episodes 3 per episode
- John Hickenlooper’s optimism in the face of opposition
- Does OpenAI Need a Bailout? Mamdani Wins, Socialism Rising, Filibuster Nuclear Option
- Pete Buttigieg: The Left's Identity Crisis, Wealth Tax, 2024 Mistakes, Plans for 2028
- Inside the White House Tech Dinner, Weak Jobs Report, Tariffs Court Challenge, Google Wins Antitrust
- Trump vs Powell, Solving the Debt Crisis, The $10T AGI Prize, GENIUS Act Becomes Law
- Grok 4 Wows, The Bitter Lesson, Third Party, AI Browsers, SCOTUS backs POTUS on RIFs
- Bond crisis looming? GOP abandons DOGE, Google disrupts Search with AI, OpenAI buys Jony Ive's IO
- The Great Tariff Debate with David Sacks, Larry Summers, and Ezra Klein
- every mention in 2025, scene by scene →
2024 16 mentions in 7 episodes 2 per episode
- Political Climate: Is the IRA under political threat?
- Senator Kyrsten Sinema | All-In Summit 2024
- Meta's scorched earth approach to AI, Tesla's future, TikTok bill, FTC bans noncompetes, wealth tax
- Trump wins! How it happened and what's next
- Hot Swap growing, donors revolt, President Kamala? SCOTUS breakdown: Immunity, Chevron, Censorship
- E170: Tech's Vibe Shift, TikTok ban debate, Vertical AI boom, Florida bans lab-grown meat & more
- US power demand is set to boom. How will we meet it?
- every mention in 2024, scene by scene →
2023 26 mentions in 10 episodes 3 per episode
- How to triple renewables by 2030
- E131: 2024 Fantasy President picks, debt ceiling agreement, Dollar dominance & more
- LNG exports: America’s hidden ‘climate bomb’
- America’s historic climate law, one year on
- E159: The Bestie Awards! Recapping the best and worst of 2023
- What’s the next big trend in clean energy?
- A groundbreaking battery nears industrial scale
- E134: Ukraine counteroffensive, China tensions, COVID Patient Zero, RFK Jr reaction & more
- 2 more episodes that year, every mention in 2023 →
2022 31 mentions in 11 episodes 3 per episode
- E107: The Twitter Files Parts 1-2: shadow banning, story suppression, interference & more
- E89: GDP growth negative in Q2, $SHOP layoffs, Alzheimer's fraud, Ginkgo acquires Zymergen & more
- E105: Tech culture wars: Elon vs. SBF, Sabotaging Republicans with Trump
- E74: Market update, inverted yield curve, immigration, new SPAC rules, $FB smears TikTok and more
- E83: Market slide continues, and how to address Uvalde
- E109: 2022 Bestie Awards Live from Twitter HQ
- E93: Twitter whistleblower, cloud security vulnerabilities, student debt forgiveness & more
- A heat limit ‘no meteorologist thought we would cross’
- 3 more episodes that year, every mention in 2022 →
2021 30 mentions in 10 episodes 3 per episode
- E60: The 2021 Bestie Awards PLUS Jack Dorsey starts the Web3 Wars
- E51: Supply Chain Shortages, Inflation, DeSantis, Ted Sarandos Netflix Memo, Cancel Culture, Fan Q&A
- E59: Twitter's content warning algo, equity audits, politicians trading stocks, Fed's next move
- E58: November's CPI, preparing for a downturn, macro outlook, Better.com's botched layoffs & more
- E55: Valuing crypto projects, Rivian worth $100B+, inflation: causes and corrections and more
- E54: Spread trading big tech, capital allocation, Zillow's misfire, Progressives suffer losses
- E52: Trump's SPAC, peak venture liquidity, tech as an economic ladder, Dems overplaying their hand
- E46: False Ivermectin narratives, regulatory grift, wartime mentality in solving issues & more
- 2 more episodes that year, every mention in 2021 →
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Joe's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
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| ALL-INLEDGER | Former U.S. Senator, United States Senate | 1 | 21 | 0% 0/3 | full record on All-In → |
| GREEN BLUEPRINTLEDGER | Former U.S. Senator, United States Senate | 1 +3 | 1 | — | full record on the Green Blueprint → |