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Subject: Re: Let's go Brandon!
Date: Thu, 16 May 2024 22:47:33 -0400
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On 5/16/2024 7:26 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> In article <v25v99$1p9k8$2@dont-email.me>,
>   moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 5/16/2024 4:18 PM, BTR1701 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.
> 
>> "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 that's almost a half decade out of date?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".  I 
merely provided a reminder of that supposedly indicates.  E.g., if 
inflation started rising that day, you'd have to credit Trump, afaics. 
But, of course, I'd defer to your unbiased economic expertise...