Path: ...!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-2.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 17 May 2024 03:15:01 +0000 From: BTR1701 Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: Let's go Brandon! References: User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) Date: Thu, 16 May 2024 20:24:38 -0700 Message-ID: Lines: 56 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-juSYTZK8p4YbSzHzu4uSGEtZGvlwrdXwk/He1++z2r5BRt3ylm0cw2N+Agmeb9jhaFkS5j/HYPOW7YJ!F0RJ8zh7oyJTRCm+ngXFFg3c60/HEbfWRNI/QlojgiViv14zfC51LuORZGQZi7664yLbMltTkDed!sZw= X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 3680 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.