Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: shawn Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: Let's go Brandon! Date: Fri, 17 May 2024 00:26:35 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 63 Message-ID: References: <3l7d4j1pn880q57tq0qjj6dj2bqv1taoc4@4ax.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Fri, 17 May 2024 06:26:37 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="dd2c0208502c57f2c2c81e65e0870278"; logging-data="2132278"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX184uNDgd/4O26xISEbNlDpRP19COgadx3o=" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:sgCJnBJ/yYY75GG8GJGkQbaqZNo= Bytes: 3930 On Thu, 16 May 2024 20:27:53 -0700, BTR1701 wrote: >In article <3l7d4j1pn880q57tq0qjj6dj2bqv1taoc4@4ax.com>, > shawn wrote: > >> On Thu, 16 May 2024 14:28:21 -0700, BTR1701 wrote: >> >> >In article , >> > shawn wrote: >> > >> >> On Thu, 16 May 2024 13:18:27 -0700, 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. >> >> >> >> It's also something the President doesn't have real control over. >> > >> >Well, much like the gas prices, the Biden people need to figure out if >> >he has control over it or not. >> > >> >When gas prices go up, they plead "the president has no control over >> >gas prices". >> > >> >When gas prices go down, that empty can Jean-Pierre is up on the podium >> >before the press boasting about how Biden "lowered gas prices for >> >hard-working Americans". >> > >> >Which is it? Because if you're gonna take the credit for prices >> >dropping, you can't then duck the blame when they rise. >> >> Of course you can. > >I should have said "you can't then LEGITIMATELY duck the blame when they >rise". Of course they're going to lie, which was my whole point from the >beginning. But you didn't need to say all that. It was enough to say they are politicians. The rest follows automatically.