This week in whoppers: WaPo writer’s inflation deflation, Biden vs. Powell and more

Diary of disturbing disinformation and harmful delusions

This comment

“Cease complaining [about inflation] . . . General, many People will not be struggling as a lot as they suppose they're.”

—Washington Put up columnist Michelle Singletary, Wednesday

We are saying: What a ridiculous view! Singletary says we must always solely fear concerning the poor paying extra, however everybody, together with the center class, has a proper to be livid with runaway costs. Inflation means individuals can’t purchase as a lot. It erodes financial savings. It weakens the nation. Each American has a proper to be offended — and complain.


This declare

“My Republican mates declare . . . I’m limiting manufacturing. Fairly frankly, that’s nonsense.”

— President Biden, Wednesday

We are saying: Uh, sorry, Mr. President — you are limiting manufacturing. You suspended drilling within the Arctic Nationwide Wildlife Refuge. Killed the Keystone pipeline. Halted oil- and gas-lease gross sales. Discouraged funding. . . You’re preserving your promise to “finish fossil gasoline.” Positive, you deny it now, as a result of People, it seems, don’t very similar to paying $5 a gallon for gasoline. However what did you suppose would occur if we in the reduction of on fossil gasoline?


This tweet

We are saying: For Donald Trump-haters like columnist Max Boot, every part’s Trump’s fault. However the 2015 Obama-Biden nuclear deal truly paved the best way for Iran to get nukes. That’s why, partly, Trump properly pulled out of it and sought to strain Iran with robust sanctions. President Biden, in the meantime, has signaled that he desires to revive the deal and appears prepared to grant much more concessions to take action — all whereas doing little to cease Tehran’s nuclear progress.


Spot the distinction

“Inflation was excessive earlier than . . . definitely earlier than the battle in Ukraine”

— Fed boss Jerome Powell, Wednesday

“Putin’s value hike hit onerous.”

— President Biden, Wednesday

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell admitted that inflation was high before Russia invaded Ukraine — despite President Biden blaming "Putin's price hike."
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell admitted that inflation was excessive earlier than Russia invaded Ukraine — regardless of President Biden blaming “Putin’s value hike.”
Picture by Drew Angerer/Getty Pictures; REUTERS/Mary F. Calvert

We are saying: President Biden desires you to suppose inflation, now the very best in 40 years, is all Vladimir Putin’s fault. But even Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, whom Biden himself reappointed, admits costs have been surging nicely earlier than Putin’s forces invaded Ukraine in February — a growth, by the best way, that the president himself predicted whilst he pushed inflationary insurance policies nonetheless.


This snark

“I didn’t know [oil- and gas-industry leaders would] get their emotions damage that rapidly.”

— President Biden, Tuesday, after Chevron’s CEO criticized him for vilifying the industry and never working to spice up provide 

We are saying: President Biden can joke about oil-industry leaders’ gripes, however they occur to be proper — his portrayal of them as evil price-gougers and profiteers who refuse to supply extra oil is just not solely wildly distorted (in the course of the pandemic, sellers have been virtually paying individuals to take oil off their palms) but additionally not prone to foster cooperation wanted to spice up provides.

Compiled by The Put up Editorial Board

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