On Mon, 13 May 2024 01:30:51 -0700, Ubiquitous wrote:
The White House rarely allows President Biden to sit down for
interviews, and Wednesday's chat with CNN's Erin Burnett shows why.
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In a brief 17 minutes, Biden told 15 lies -- nearly a lie a minute.
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From whoppers about the economy to prevarications on Israel, Biden spun
a fantasyland of a presidency that voters know is false.
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Here's a rundown:
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LIE 1: "I've created over 15 million jobs since I've been president."
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Biden's favorite falsehood, told over and over and over again no matter
how many fact-checks call him out.
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He took office at the tail end of a pandemic that blew a hole in the
economy, when lockdown policies wholeheartedly endorsed by Democrats
took people out of the office and onto COVID stimulus checks.
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He "created" nothing -- after the introduction of the vaccine, people
returned to the workforce.
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If anything, Biden's policies slowed the recovery -- it took until July
2022 for the US economy to regain all the jobs lost due to the
pandemic.
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LIE 2: "Other than Herbert Hoover, [Donald Trump] is the only president
who has lost more jobs than he created."
The corollary lie.
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Trump didn't "lose" jobs; he was president during a global pandemic.
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And liberals were thrilled to put people on government checks and shut
down the world during COVID.
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They cannot argue that the job market would have been any different in
2020 under a Democrat.
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LIE 3: "Look at what he says he's going to do if he gets elected. Says
he's going to do away with what I've done on Medicare, reducing the
price of Medicare."
There's no basis for this, as Trump has said he "will never do anything
that will hurt or jeopardize Social Security or Medicare."
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Further, Trump pursued the exact same executive orders to lower
prescription drug prices as did Biden.
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LIE 4: "You know we have 1,000 billionaires in America. Know what their
average federal tax is? 8.3%."
Factcheck.org notes, "The top 0.1% of earners, with more than $4.4
million in expanded cash income, pay an average rate of 25.1% in
federal income and payroll taxes."
I assume the initial statement as well as
the rebuttal is false.
The lie that "capital gains" and other
"unearned income" is not income is a lie.
The "fact checker" says that only salaries and
wages are income, so makes the "rebuttal" a lie.
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LIE 5: "We've already turned it around [on the economy]."
Burnett quoted some tough figures on the economy, noting that the cost
of buying a home had doubled, and "Real income when you account for
inflation is actually down since you took office."
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Biden's response?
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Denial.
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LIE 6: "The polling data has been wrong all along."
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https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/trump-holds-
edge-biden-seven-80948582.jpg
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Trump leads Biden in all seven swing states, according to an Emerson
College poll released Tuesday.
Emerson College Polling
Every survey that says people are upset about the economy?
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Every poll that puts Biden's approval rating at historic lows?
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They are all of them, from dozens of different sources, wrong?
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LIE 7: "There's corporate greed going out there. And it's got to be
dealt with."
Labor costs increased 4.2% between 2023 and 2024.
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They increased 5.1% from 2021 to 2022.
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The costs of everything, from supplies to shipping, rent and taxes,
have gone up.
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Why?
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Because of the huge amount of government money injected into the
system, minimum-wage increases by California and other states, and
pent-up demand by consumers.
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How is Biden going to "deal with it"?
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Tell companies they can't raise prices to avoid losing money?
There is such a thing as corporate greed, re:
Google, Facebook, Amazon, the illegally monopolizing
corporations, which are Biden's chief supporters. There's not
even a suggestion that Biden will address or deal with it
other than to make it worse. The left's idea of progress
is to transfer domestic ownership to transnational
corporations, as alienating people from business
is considered a desirable historical development.
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LIE 8: "[Inflation] was 9% when I came to office."
This is the lie of the night.
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Biden continues to pretend that the US was in terrible shape when he
took office, when it was already on the rebound -- thanks to Trump's
Warp Speed project that vaccinated people quickly against COVID.
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Inflation was a measly 1.4% in January 2021.
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Then Biden went on a first-year drunken-sailor spending spree, and
inflation skyrocketed.
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LIE 9: "They have the money to spend. It angers them and angers me that
they have to spend more."
They have the money to spend?
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According to Bankrate, 76% of adults making less than $50,000 a year
are living from paycheck to paycheck, an increase from 71% the year
before that.
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Biden need only watch the nightly news to see people cutting back on
groceries, gas -- even trips to McDonald's -- because their spending
power has decreased.
The fact checker says the daily news is a fount
of veracity?
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LIE 10: "Civilians have been killed in Gaza as a consequence of those
bombs, and other ways in which they go after population centers."
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It's libel to suggest that Israel is deliberating targeting population
centers.
It is a lie to claim that "un-targeted civilians"
were not killed by the bombing.
I'm reminded of similarly minded "fact checkers" claimed
that President Trump was boldly lying when he said that
thousands of people have been killed by illegal
immigrants. "Fact checkers" said it was a lie because
an even greater of people were killed by people who
aren't illegal immigrants; I forget whether that fact
check was by the Washington Post or the Associated Press.
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Hamas embeds itself among the civilian population, creating bases
inside hospitals and digging tunnels under residential apartments.
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Israel has been warning the people of Rafah for more than a week to
move to a safe zone outside the city.
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They do not "go after" population centers, they work hard to minimize
deaths while stopping the terrorists who kidnapped, raped and murdered
Israeli civilians.
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LIE 11: "We're not walking away from Israel's security. We're walking
away from Israel's ability to wage war in those areas."
But defeating Hamas is integral to Israel's security.
That is a lie. Every civilian is lumped
into the same pit with the "Death To Hamas" slogan.
If Israel succeeds in exterminating Palestinians
and/or mass deportations to the West, worldwide
hatred of Israel will be greatly increased.
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How does Biden suggest Israel win the war if it leaves the last
stronghold of the terrorist group untouched?
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LIE 12: "It made no sense in my view to engage in thinking in Iraq they
have a nuclear weapon."
Biden brought this up, saying he warned Israeli President Benjamin
Netanyahu not to "make the mistakes" we made in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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Except Biden voted in favor of invading Iraq.
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So Biden may regret that decision today, but it made sense to him back
them.
The lying fact checker here has made no rebuttal,
only the rhetorical assertion that disbelief in a
nuclear Iraq and being in favor of invading Iraq
are mutually exclusive propositions.
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LIE 13: "You can't only love your country when you win."
Someone had better tell all the celebrities and elites in the
Democratic Party who claim they are going to move if Trump is re-
elected, or say they "don't know their country anymore," or who burn
American flags as they rally for Hamas.
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Biden's chiding of Trump with this line would carry more weight if he
said it to his own voters.
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LIE 14: "I travel around the world, other world leaders, know what they
all say, 80% of them, 'You gotta win. My democracy is at stake.' "
Maybe we can't say this is absolutely a lie, but it sure sounds like
one of those statements for which the press loves to go after Trump.
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Are other world leaders really pulling Biden aside after his nap and
saying "democracy is at stake" if he loses? Give us a break.
The News Media says that what Biden says is true,
so how can be otherwise to the fact checker, as
no rebuttal is offered other than saying "give us a
break".
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LIE 15: "Then [Trump] is going to put in a 10% tax that's going to
increase average Americans' cost $1,500 a year."
Trump has proposed no such tax. Perhaps Biden means Trump's plan for a
10% tariff on imported goods, which may or may not cost Americans more
money.
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You know who else is considering imposing tariffs? Biden. Just this
week, under the headline "Biden Looks to Thwart Surge of Chinese
Imports," the New York Times notes that China is using unfair business
practices and Biden wants to counter it.
No rebuttal, just affirmation that import restrictions
are proposed by more than one candidate.
Now, just for my opinion, tariffs are a far better
system than quotas, as I assume the quota system
is completely corrupt, as I've noticed that
the Free Trade Lobby has long demanded replacing
tariffs with quotas, with the goal of preventing
raising revenue by tariffs.
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