Marie Antoinette was the last Queen of France before the French revolution. Legend has it that, when told that the people were so destitute they could not afford to buy bread, she said “Let them eat cake”.
History shows it is a virtual certainty that Marie Antoinette did not say this. But history will not be as kind to President Joe Biden and his equally insensitive comment regarding the difficulty people have in buying food for their families.
This exchange came during Wednesday’s sit-down interview between Biden and CNN Anchor Erin Burnett – who, to her great credit (and, I have no doubt, Biden’s surprise and disgust), asked him several hard questions on issues that the public has made it clear they want answers to:
Burnett: There’s real pain. I mean, grocery prices are up 30%, more than 30% since the beginning of the pandemic and people are spending more on food and groceries than at any time, really, in the past 30 years. I mean that’s a real day to day pain that people…
Biden (breaking in): “No, no, i.i.i.i.i.i.it really is. And it’s real. But the fact is that if you take a look at what people have they have the money to spend. It angers them and it angers me that they have to spend more…”
Huh? Wha? That’s Biden’s answer? That they’re angered because “they have the money to spend…(but) they have to spend more”????
Holy excrement.
No, Joe, they DON’T have the money to spend. Why? BECAUSE they have to spend more.
And the reason they have to spend more is INFLATION. Ever hear of it?
Let me help you out Joe; I’ll give you a definition by example.
Inflation is when you take office while inflation is at 1.4%, and your policies – especially (but not limited to) your energy policies – cause it to soar to 9.1%…
…and then, when it “drops” to the current 3.5%, results in current inflation that is 2 1/2 times where it was when you took office.
Every poll without exception shows that the economy is voters’ single most important issue. And in poll after poll, a huge majority show that they view Joe Biden’s handling of the economy negatively.
So what is Biden’s reaction to this – beyond his astonishingly insensitive, tone-deaf toss-off comment that “they have the money to spend”?
If you go to the link I’ve provided above and read his “explanation” what really makes the public angry, he cites “shrinkflation” – the term his puppeteers came up with to deflect from how disastrous his performance has been.
FYI: “shrinkflation” is when, instead of raising the price of a package of food, the price remains the same but there is less in the package.
Maybe I’m missing something, but it seems to me that those two options (i.e. either raising prices for the same amount or charging the same price for a lesser amount) are two ways of doing exactly the same thing: raising the price of food.
And why would that happen? How about the fact that when energy costs – in no small part due to Biden’s war on fossil fuels – rise, so do the costs of production of food and its transportation to market. So OF COURSE the price of food is going to rise.
Not even a nice try, Joe.
I wonder if Biden and his people will ever forgive Erin Burnett for doing what any serious reporter should do – asking serious questions on tough issues…
…just as I wonder when they’ll stop laughing at – not with, but at – Howard Stern for his kiss-ass “interview” with Biden last week.
Oh, one other thing: during the interview with Burnett, Biden informed us that “inflation was at 9% when I took office”.
Another of the countless lies that he tells relentlessly. Inflation was at 1.4% when he took office in January, 2021 and – under his “leadership” – rose to 9.1% in June of 2022 – a year and a half into his presidency.
Why did he say that? Is it because Biden intentionally lies? That he is so cognitively impaired he doesn’t realize this happened under his watch? Or both?
Tell me which choice is the good one.
