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\nThe problem, in an age of political polarization, is that about 40% of the population will automatically believe anything a Democrat tells them, even if it contradicts the most basic principles of economics, and there is a vast media establishment which won\u2019t even question Biden\u2019s bizarre counterfactual claims about inflation, energy policy, etc. All that matters to them is the cynical question, \u201cCui bono?\u201d Who benefits from a particular belief \u2014 Democrats or Republicans?……..<\/p>\n
Thus does \u201ctruth\u201d become a partisan prize, over which one party claims a monopoly. By selling their souls to advance this belief system, the media destroy their own credibility. Then they wonder why we don\u2019t trust them.<\/p>\n
\u2018Simply Not True.<\/a><\/p>\n Joe Biden believes he is honest, and that anyone who disagrees with him is lying, or is ignorant, or has been deceived by liars.<\/p>\n So deeply convinced is Joe Biden of his own honesty that\u00a0he thinks his very name is synonymous with truth-telling<\/a>:<\/p>\n \u201cI give you my word as a Biden: I will never stoop to President Trump\u2019s level.\u201d \u201cI give you my word as a Biden: If I am elected president I will do everything in my power to protect our children from gun violence.\u201d \u201cI give you my word as a Biden: When I\u2019m president, I will lead with science, listen to the experts and heed their advice, and always tell you the truth.\u201d When I first noticed him using this \u201cmy word as a Biden\u201d phrase during the 2020 campaign, I was puzzled. Has the Biden family been so prominently associated with honesty that when Joe says this, most Americans say, \u201cWell, that settles it\u201d? Of course not. In fact, Biden\u2019s first presidential campaign, in 1988, collapsed in disgrace specifically because of Joe\u2019s dishonesty, when\u00a0he was caught plagiarizing others<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 most notably British Labour leader Ne0l Kinnock \u2014 in his speeches:<\/strong><\/p>\n Democratic presidential candidate Joseph R. Biden Jr., a U.S. senator from Delaware, was driven from the nomination battle after delivering, without attribution, passages from a speech by British Labor party leader Neil Kinnock. A barrage of subsidiary revelations by the press also contributed to Biden\u2019s withdrawal: a serious plagiarism incident involving Biden during his law school years; the senator\u2019s boastful exaggerations of his academic record at a New Hampshire campaign event; and the discovery of other quotations in Biden\u2019s speeches pilfered from past Democratic politicians.<\/p>\n Joe Biden lies about a lot of things, including his own biography. It is fair to say he is\u00a0notoriously<\/em>\u00a0dishonest, and yet he seems to believe that nobody knows this, and that he enjoys a reputation as a truth-teller.<\/strong><\/p>\n [Well, that ‘he seems to believe’<\/em> goes along with the delusions of senile dementia and SloJoe believing his own propaganda. Sucks for us to have a Commander In Chief who for the time, is no more than a meat puppet, It makes you wonder what might happen if one day Joe decides that his handlers are wrong and he’s going to do something other than what they want him to, and Jill – and the secret service – decide to back him up.]<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Twice in the past week, Biden has used the phrase \u201csimply not true\u201d to dismiss criticisms of his administration\u2019s policy. On Tuesday, after accusing \u201coil and gas companies and . . . the finance firms that back them\u201d of being engaged in \u201cpadding profits . . . profiteering . . . price gouging,\u201d Biden said: \u201cFirst, it\u2019s simply not true that my administration or policies are holding back domestic energy production. It\u2019s simply not true.\u201d He then offered various statistics which he seemed to think disproved criticism of his policies. But\u00a0let\u2019s go to Marc Thiessen<\/a>:<\/p>\n Biden blames Russia for a 75-cent rise in gas prices. But\u00a0the price has risen $1.85 since he took office<\/strong>. The week before Biden\u2019s inauguration, the price of a gallon of regular gas in the United States was $2.46; at this writing it is $4.32. Before the war in Ukraine, Biden presided over\u00a0the largest year-over-year price rise in at least 30 years<\/strong>. But this is \u201csimply not true,\u201d Biden tells us, and expects us to believe him because his \u201cword as a Biden\u201d is so trustworthy. And the same with\u00a0his remarks Friday at the congressional Democrats\u2019 retreat in Philadelphia<\/a>:<\/p>\n “So, I\u2019m sick of this stuff. We have to talk about it because the American people think the reason for inflation is the government is spending more money. Simply not true<\/strong>. I don\u2019t think we need any lectures from our friends on the other side about fiscal responsibility, for God\u2019s sake. Look, we have an ambitious agenda. So let\u2019s go get it done.”<\/p>\n Notice the clever pivot there. After denying that increased government spending causes inflation \u2014 which, in fact, is provably true \u2014 Biden then takes a shot at Republicans as unfit to speak about \u201cfiscal responsibility,\u201d thus returning to a Democratic talking point from the 1980s. Democrats claimed then that federal deficits were caused by Reagan\u2019s tax cuts, even though it was easily demonstrated that federal revenue\u00a0increased<\/em>\u00a0after the tax cuts were enacted. (Thus the proof of the so-called\u00a0\u201cLaffer Curve,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0with lower marginal rates causing economic growth that actually produces more tax revenue.) Because Democrats were so committed to a \u201ctax the rich\u201d policy, and also committed to continuing expansion of the Welfare State, they refused to acknowledge the basic economic truth involved and, instead of doing anything to reign in government entitlement spending, blamed \u201cReaganomics\u201d for the deficit.<\/p>\n We may grant that Republicans in recent years have not approached a Barry Goldwater ideal of fiscal restraint, to put it mildly, without endorsing Biden\u2019s belief that pouring trillions of new federal spending into the economy has nothing to do with record-breaking inflation. Yet in his mind, any criticism of his \u201cambitious agenda\u201d is \u201csimply not true\u201d \u2014 no one can\u00a0honestly<\/em>\u00a0oppose or criticize Joe Biden.<\/p>\n The problem, in an age of political polarization, is that about 40% of the population will automatically believe anything a Democrat tells them, even if it contradicts the most basic principles of economics, and there is a vast media establishment which won\u2019t even question Biden\u2019s bizarre counterfactual claims about inflation, energy policy, etc. All that matters to them is the cynical question, \u201cCui bono?<\/em>\u201d Who benefits from a particular belief \u2014 Democrats or Republicans? If a certain belief is favorable to Republicans, then this belief will be attacked as a \u201cmyth,\u201d and will endlessly be undermined by media \u201cfact-checkers.\u201d Whereas if a belief benefits Democrats \u2014 e.g., increased government spending does not cause inflation \u2014 the media will advocate and defend that belief.<\/p>\n Thus does \u201ctruth\u201d become a partisan prize, over which one party claims a monopoly. By selling their souls to advance this belief system, the media destroy their own credibility. 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\n\u2014 Nov. 20, 2019<\/p>\n
\n\u2014 March 10, 2020<\/p>\n
\n\u2014 March 18, 2020<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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\nWhat drove those record price spikes? We can start with Biden\u2019s war on fossil fuels. Upon taking office, Biden implemented a policy of energy disarmament. He rejoined the Paris climate agreement, canceled the Keystone XL pipeline,\u00a0suspended all oil and gas leases in Alaska\u2019s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge<\/strong>\u00a0and began working on his pledge to ban all \u201cnew oil and gas permitting on public lands and waters.\u201d He came into office having\u00a0promised that his administration would \u201cend fossil fuel.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0When you announce your intention to tax and regulate the fossil fuel industry out of existence, investors and workers listen. The results are less production \u2014 and higher prices.<\/p>\n