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From: moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com>
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Subject: Re: Let's go Brandon!
Date: Fri, 17 May 2024 22:15:39 -0400
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On 5/17/2024 9:10 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
> moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
>> On 5/16/2024 11:24 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>> In article <v26gg3$2039m$1@dont-email.me>,
>>> moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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".
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> Well, CNN seems more or less to agree with you:
>>
>>
>> https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/14/politics/fact-check-biden-inflation-when-he-became-president/index.html
>>
> 
> It’s scary how blatantly Biden is lying when CNN calls him out on it.

Actually, I partly believe that he partly believes he speaks truth.