CNBC Wrecks Stephanie Ruhle’s Gaslighting that Americans Can Afford Rising Inflation

NewsBusters ^ | 12/9/2021 | Joseph Vazquez

[JV3MRC]

Remember when NBC News senior business correspondent Stephanie Ruhle tried to claim Americans could afford inflation and were just bellyaching? Well, her company’s sister network doesn’t appear to agree.

Ruhle claimed during the Nov. 14 edition of NBC’s Sunday Today that “the dirty little secret here, Willie [Geist], while nobody likes to pay more, on average we have the money to do so.” That's easy for her to say, since her net worth currently sits at $6 million, according to Market Realist. Her condescending comments came just after the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that inflation hit a 30-year high at 6.2 percent. Fast-forward a little under a month later, on Dec. 8, CNBC released a crushing headline, which completely obliterated Ruhle’s gaslighting: “‘6% inflation is devastating’ to everyday Americans, rising prices need to be curbed, expert says.’” Perhaps NBC and CNBC forgot to coordinate their talking points.

[rlmorel]

"...Ruhle claimed during the Nov. 14 edition of NBC’s Sunday Today that “the dirty little secret here, Willie [Geist], while nobody likes to pay more, on average we have the money to do so..."

Bottom line, it is not your decision how much money you need or what you do with it, it is the government elites that decides, and you obey.

[cymbeline]

I get gaslighting mixed up with tea bagging. Let’s check the dictionary:

Gaslight: to cause (a person) to doubt his or her sanity through the use of psychological manipulation

Tea bag (verb): A certain bag is dipped repeatedly in someone’s mouth

I didn’t like Ruhle from the moment I saw her on TV.

[Bob434]

Th3 dirty little secret is that many many kids go hungry because their parent doesn’t have the money to feed them properly, or they just don’t care. Rising prices Will Make it much tougher on these kids, as they get less and less because their parent’s paychecks do not go up. This is the actual dirty little secret that people like ruhle ignore.

[SunkenCiv]

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[cuban leaf]

A key to my retirement planning was to reduce my cost of living AND my taxable income. I retired four months ago - comfortably at age 67. If I still lived in Seattle, I’d have to wait until my 80’s - assuming I was still alive by then.

And if things remain the same, I’ve sent my last income tax dollar to the IRS.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Another bimbo in over her head.

[Boogieman]

And “6%” is based on the manipulated benchmarks that are designed specifically to minimize measured inflation. Real inflation is probably closer to 20%.

[Chode]

6.2% raise in inflation, 5.9% raise in SS...

[rlmorel]

Yeah. For them, everything is “for the children” except when it interferes with their plans, such as vaccinations and real deprivation due to their economic policies.

Grrr.

[rlmorel]

"...And if things remain the same, I’ve sent my last income tax dollar to the IRS..."

That's great, to be able to say that with a straight face! I commend you.

My wife and I did all we could to reduce our costs of living from early in our marriage, so in the event one of us became sick, we would be able to make things work on one income. We got rid of all our debt, paid off the house, buy cars with cash, that kind of thing.

I very much would like to follow your model.

[rlmorel]

Funny. Years ago (good gosh, maybe 20 years) I was playing an online game back when I had time to do those kinds of things, and I kept seeing other characters running over an opponent they had just defeated and they would pause, and squat-straighten-squat-straighten-squat-straighten, and then move on.

I thought it was weird, and didn’t understand, so I asked.

Well.

Now I know. That was “Tea-bagging” as a form of disrespect to a defeated opponent. Very juvenile.

I am not surprised that Leftists (who are almost universally emotionally stunted no matter what age they reach) use that as a derogatory term towards conservatives.

They do not mean it as a “defeating opponent” kind of disrespect, they mean it in a derogatory sexual sense, which is interesting, because they are the ones preaching acceptance of all kinds of homosexual acts, yet...like to use them as insults.

Very revealing.

[griswold3]

Jim Grant “the fed that is doubling its balance sheet in 18 months , the treasury that is issuing trillions of dollars in debt the proceeds of which are paying people not to work, the breakdown in supply chains, the constellation of these episodes in phenomenon… what did you expect? “
Inflation is a moral problem is something for nothing. A form of theft. A form of unlegislated tax.