Biden Emphatically Declares, “No More Drilling. There Is No More Drilling.”

With just 2 days left before the midterms, Biden once again goes off script and says something that the White House will surely try to walk back. The other day while visiting deep blue California, Biden stated that he would be closing coal plants across America, which the White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre tried to walk back by claiming that his remarks were “twisted,” even though that’s exactly what he said. And now, while visiting deep blue New York, Biden emphatically declared to the crowd, “No more drilling. There is no more drilling. I haven’t formed any new, new drilling.” As someone in the crowd speaks back to him, presumably some kind of climate activist, Biden explains, “That was before I was president, we’re trying to work on that, get that done.”

I’m sure the White House will try to insist that we’re twisting his words and that him saying “No more drilling” and “There is no more drilling” doesn’t actually mean no more drilling or that there is no more drilling, but rather that he is a champion of all the hardworking blue-collar fossil fuel industry Americans who power the country, which he plans to very carefully and responsibly transition away from fossil fuels. Riiiight. I hope people believe them when they say the quiet part out loud.