Rumor has it that mindless Joe Biden’s State of the Union speech will include a new deflection from his complicity in the shitshow that is the American economy. The guy who swore to end fossil fuels (no matter what…it would do to the economy) appears ready to blame greed for what ails us.
And I must admit, I agree, but not in the intended context of Joe’s handlers.
No one has taken advantage of their position to spend other people’s money like Joe Biden. Since he took office, the Government has pig-piled trillions in new debt onto the backs of children and grandchildren who didn’t have a vote and have yet to earn a dime. Add in the debt service on that profligate spending, and the notion that Joe can come up with a better example of corporate malfeasance than what he and his Government have done seems unlikely.
Taking advantage of your position to misuse trillions of other people’s dollars to pursue your self-interests is about as greedy a thing as I can imagine.
Only the Government can abuse people that way and get away with it. The Bidenistas also think they can get political traction with another trial balloon phrase – shrink-inflation.
On Friday, Politico reported that Team Biden is strongly considering making snack-food shrinkflation — “fewer chips in the bag,” as Joe said — the magnificent centerpiece of Joe Biden’s belated State of The Union speech on March 7th. I realize that idea sounds more like an SNL sketch than a real plan. It’s literally unbelievable that the leader of the free world would target smaller processed food packages as America’s primary problem.
The problem with this approach is not that the bag has fewer chips, but why? Government debt-driven spending sprees incorrectly counted as GDP make this record-setting act of generational theft look good on paper while devaluing every dollar, making everything exponentially more expensive. If the chip makers want to make any money to stay in business in this environment, they either take a few chips out of the bag or start charging a lot more.
Maybe Joe could talk about the academic shrinkflation of public schools. The schools themselves swell with staff and bloating budgets, but there is less education than ever. And it’s not just schools; every aspect of Government takes more, costs more, makes things cost more, costs even more thanks to inflation, and gives less.
Shrinkflation is what you did to the dollar, Joe. You shrank its value. We’re lucky there are chips or a bag to put them in.
And Joe’s Democrat replacement will be able to pretend whatever Joe did was none of their doing, but Joe is still operating on the assumption he is running for re-election. That is not true, though I doubt anyone has told him. His name is on the Democrat primary ballot, but it is little more than a placeholder, much like those signs progressive protesters had with a blank space to write the name of whoever Trump nominated to the Supreme Court. Gorsuch? How do you spell that – Hey, hand me the Sharipe. Until they break the news about Joe 2.0, why not keep using Joe as a trial balloon alongside whatever bit of progressive wordsmithing the DC Dungeoun narrative mills can concoct? Something might stick. After all, they want to keep the election in November close enough so that when they steal it, it doesn’t look as obvious as it did in 2020.
Sure, they got away with that one, and yes – they’d love a full-blown civil war, curfews, and a reason to roll out all those BearCats Obama sold to your local PD when he was President, but it would be easier if they could steal it to protect their political greed.
Greed is precisely the problem, and Joe blaming it on anyone but himself and the Government is more of a Democrat projection.