by Susan Duclos, All News Pipeline:
While I know I am preaching to the choir here, I have to say “The media sucks.”
Oh wait, I guess this happens so often I should be a little more specific about what they are sucking at now: Their jobs, which is to report the news, supposedly. What their job descriptions truly say, in the very, very small fine print (sarcasm), is protect Democrats, especially an old, senile, stumbling and bumbling Joe Biden, at all costs.
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To that end, while I could highlight so much the media is gaslighting Americans about. Including why it is so critical for the U.S. to spend billions upon billions on Ukraine, while we have homeless veterans living on sidewalks, cardboard containers or tents. Or how the media is having a cow that a referendum on abortion in Ohio will be using the term “unborn child” instead of fetus, which right there gives away their con.
I could spend entire articles on those topics, but this one, what the media is gaslighting us about now, in coordination with each other, is the economy, and particularly why Joe Biden is not getting credit for a “great” economy.
Yes, you read that right. The economy is wonderful, stop believing your lying eyes and start listening to them!
THE BIDEN REGIME MEDIA SAYS…….
Let us begin with New York Times columnist, David Brooks, who also happened to write one of the pieces we will discuss below, about why Biden isn’t getting the credit he deserves.
Yesterday, David was at the Newark airport, having a burger, small salad and fries, along with what looked like a glass of whiskey in the image he put on social media. He claims the meal cost $78 and that was the reason Americans “think” the economy is terrible.
Readers can click over to Twitchy to see the reactions to his claim, and spoiler alert, they pulled no punches in pushing back against his ridiculous claim.
I started with Mr. David “Elitist” Brooks because on June 29, 2023, he published a piece in the NYT titled “Why Biden Isn’t Getting the Credit He Deserves,” which was intended to gaslight those still dependent on the MSM to tell them what they want to hear, otherwise known as liberals.
Biden should be cruising to an easy re-election victory. And that misery index number doesn’t even begin to capture the strength of the American economy at the moment. There are a zillion positive indicators right now, as the folks in the administration will be quick to tell you. The economy has created 13 million jobs since Biden’s Inauguration Day. According to the Conference Board, a business research firm, Americans’ job satisfaction is at its highest level in 36 years. Household net worth is surging.
Emphasis mine since those are the points I will be debunking.
Just because of the irony, I am going to use CNN to debunk Brooks’ false claims, from January 2023, when the number was 12 million new jobs.
Biden became president less than a year after the economy shed nearly 22 million jobs over two months, March and April 2020, because of the Covid-19 pandemic. The jobs recovery then began immediately after that, under then-President Donald Trump, but there was still an unprecedented hole to fill when Biden took office.
Biden is free to argue that his stimulus legislation and other policies have helped the country gain jobs faster than it otherwise would have. (As always, it’s debatable precisely how much credit the president deserves for job-creation.) Nonetheless, it is clear that there could only be such an extraordinary number of jobs added in 2021 and 2022 because there was such an extraordinary number of jobs lost in early 2020.
So the jobs weren’t “new,” nor Biden created, they were jobs lost during the Covid shutdowns coming back.
Now that we are in campaign season, it is doubtful CNN will be so quick to go against the coordinated effort by the MSM to convince Americans the economy is great.
Next up is Brooks’ claim that “Household net worth is surging.” Since 2023 isn’t over yet, the last annual numbers are from 2022, and census.gov published the official numbers on September 12, 2023.
“Median Household Income After Taxes Fell 8.8% in 2022”
Real median household income after taxes fell 8.8% to $64,240 from 2021 to 2022 and the poverty rate after taxes as measured by the Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM) increased 59% to 12.4%.
You can read the government’s take on the whys and wherefores of household income declining, but the bottom line here, is they did decline, and Brooks was either wrong, or lied. Take your pick.
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