Date: Fri, 17 May 2024 03:48:46 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: Let's go Brandon! Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv References: Content-Language: en-US From: trotsky In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 51 Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!panix!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!diablo1.usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder.usenetexpress.com!tr2.iad1.usenetexpress.com!news.newsdemon.com!not-for-mail Nntp-Posting-Date: Fri, 17 May 2024 08:48:47 +0000 X-Received-Bytes: 2803 Organization: NewsDemon - www.newsdemon.com X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsdemon.com Message-Id: <17d03a73fe28a8a1$305$299813$50d51a61@news.newsdemon.com> Bytes: 3187 On 5/16/24 6:26 PM, BTR1701 wrote: > In article , > moviePig wrote: > >> On 5/16/2024 4:18 PM, BTR1701 wrote: >>> In article , >>> Ubiquitous wrote: >>> >>>> For the second time in a week, President Joe Biden made a false claim >>>> about inflation-- and he did not get away with it as journalists and >>>> political rivals called him out on it. >>>> >>>> Biden told Yahoo Finance in an interview on Tuesday that inflation was >>>> at 9% when he became president back in January 2021. >>>> >>>> However, as fact-checkers pointed out when Biden made the same assertion >>>> during a CNN town hall last week, inflation actually was at 1.4% when he >>>> took office. >>> >>> But Trump is the one who lies all the time. We should vote for Biden >>> because he doesn't lie, they say. >>> >>>> The latest gaffe by the president >>> >>> It's not a gaffe. A gaffe is an unintentional mistake. This is an >>> intentional bald-faced lie. And so is the media downplaying it as a mere >>> gaffe. Biden is lying and the media is lying about his lies. >>> >>> Biden's team knows what the inflation rate was when Biden took office >>> and they're intentionally lying about it because they know that the >>> grocery bill is something that Mr. & Mrs. Middle America are going to >>> vote on. > >> "Inflation is a lagging economic indicator. It is reported after prices >> have already risen, which means the data it uses is historical." > > What are you saying? That Biden is such a sly and clever fox that he's > somehow figured out that the 9% we're currently experiencing was really > the actual rate on the day of his inauguration THREE AND A HALF YEARS > AGO? > > That when they say "lagging economic indicator", they mean something > that's almost a half decade out of date? > > This is what you have to resort to in order to apologize for Biden's > outright lies? Oh no, you sound very butthurt again. Maybe you can sit on some dry ice or something to see if that helps?