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From: shawn <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com>
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Subject: Re: Let's go Brandon!
Date: Thu, 16 May 2024 16:46:02 -0400
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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. They
can help influence it but other than doing something drastic like
entering a world war it's not under their control.