Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: moviePig Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: Let's go Brandon! Date: Thu, 16 May 2024 17:53:44 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 34 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: nobody@nowhere.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Thu, 16 May 2024 23:53:45 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="eed93f72e8475f76aea54204cc8ba37e"; logging-data="1877640"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+tr8MoVfLfag647vgg/zOVLKHXJ8PMics=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:qpneWnrkb1btKwj5JAF6UYG620c= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 2544 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." - https://www.investopedia.com/terms/l/laggingindicator.asp