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From: shawn <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com>
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Subject: Re: Let's go Brandon!
Date: Fri, 17 May 2024 00:26:35 -0400
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On Thu, 16 May 2024 20:27:53 -0700, BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:

>In article <3l7d4j1pn880q57tq0qjj6dj2bqv1taoc4@4ax.com>,
> shawn <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 16 May 2024 14:28:21 -0700, BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
>> 
>> >In article <s1sc4jtgc7r2mbvapnvln2283rqmb8aqq3@4ax.com>,
>> > shawn <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> On Thu, 16 May 2024 13:18:27 -0700, BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
>> >> 
>> >> >In article <v25mp9$1nota$1@dont-email.me>,
>> >> > Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> 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.