Posted on 05/11/2022 8:29:37 AM PDT by bitt
At first, President Joe Biden tried to play off rising inflation as something merely transitory. But the inflation kept rising until it wasn't transitory anymore, so he needed a better excuse. Biden then tried to scapegoat the meat industry for raising prices arbitrarily. Remember that? Nobody believed it. But when President Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine, that gave Biden an off-ramp from such an implausible explanation, so he chose to blame Russia. The problem this time was that inflation had been running wild for so many months before Russia invaded Ukraine in late February.
Now, judging by his speech on May 10, Biden has a new plan: Mumble the newly coined phrase "ultra-MAGA" at every appearance for the next six months, over and over again, until someone leads him to the nearest comfy chair.
In a Tuesday speech, which was designed to preempt whatever new and horrible inflation number comes out in Wednesday's report, Biden fumbled about for someone new to blame. He first repeated a debunked conspiracy theory about oil companies irrationally sitting on thousands of drilling permits. He then revealed his big plan for dealing with inflation: Ask companies not to raise prices.
He then turned to the all-purpose villain as his new inflation scapegoat: Republicans, of course!
Biden launched into a straw man version of various Republican proposals, many of which have nothing to do with inflation at all. In the process, he confused two different Republican senators for each other (in fairness, Rick Scott and Ron Johnson both have white hair, so he might think they are the same person). When asked specifically whether his own policies might have caused the problem, Biden played dumb and said his policies were helping, not hurting. He
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While simultaneously sending another 50 billion overseas....
The bus driver who drove off the cliff is blaming all the passengers for their predicament.
Biden added ‘ultra maga’ to his excuses yesterday. I listened to Biden reading from his teleprompter yesterday and he mentioned ‘maga’ or ‘ultra maga’ at least ten times.
It appears ‘maga’ now occupies 75% of Biden’s demented brain.
I’m waiting for price controls. That’s generally what you get after blaming everybody and everything except what caused the problem in the first place.
There are at least five causes of the current inflation:
- sanctions on Russia disrupting supply of oil, gas, fertilizer and other commodities,
- free spending fiscal policy, including the US government,
- loose money supply by central banks, including the Fed,
- disruption to supply chains due to Covid, especially China,
- environmentalist restrictions on energy and other supply developments.
The bottom four had started the inflation bonfire. Belated attempts to control the fire had started.
Then Biden, by choosing to impose sanctions on Russia, poured a big bucket of gasoline on the fire, completely obviating all preliminary attempts to control inflation.
Focusing on the Fed is short sighted because the economy is global. And the Biden administration, rather than trying to disconnect the US from global problems and making America great again, is intent on involving the US more deeply in them and dragging the country down.
I hope Trump is having "ULTRA MAGA" hats printed up for 2024.
UltraMAGA would look good on a hat.
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No president in my lifetime has spent more time blaming and less time taking responsibility than this vegetable.
He already blamed it on the upcoming cancellation of Roe v Wade.
I don’t know about excuses but it seems he has settled on a solution for inflation - open the borders and let illegal immigration rip. That’ll put a dent in inflation in his little mind.
We have great new terms.
Ultra-Maga proud.
Let’s go Brandon!
FOOL
Ahem....Obama.
Joe Bile-ation
Senator Rick Scott has NO hair.
Jimmy Carter blamed the selfish American people who consume too much—and need to conserve, tighten their belts.
Bidet is gonna go there....
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