Date: Fri, 17 May 2024 03:50:25 -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: 62 Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!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 08:50:26 +0000 X-Received-Bytes: 3537 Organization: NewsDemon - www.newsdemon.com X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsdemon.com Message-Id: <17d03a8b0d126eae$306$299813$50d51a61@news.newsdemon.com> Bytes: 3915 On 5/16/24 10:24 PM, BTR1701 wrote: > In article , > moviePig wrote: > >> On 5/16/2024 7:26 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? >> >> You're complaining about the inflation rate "when Biden took office". > > No, I didn't complain about what the rate was when Bide took office at > all. I pointed out that Biden is LYING about the inflation rate when he > took office. It was really only 1.4% but he's saying it was 9% so it > doesn't look like he let things get out of control during his term. Sure, and what you didn't say is your man Trump is a far bigger LIAR than Biden is. You aren't able to discuss the situation like a rational human being--SAY THAT.