In the aftermath of the White House demanding that media pundits put a positive spin on economic news, the National Economic Council Chairman, Brian Deese, appears at the Brady Room podium today [Full Video Here] to put the finishing touches on their Potemkin village of economics.
The statistics cited by Deese were jaw dropping in the level of spin used to create them. First, the economic council cite their own national employment forecasts for economic recovery (under their ‘American Rescue Plan’), then celebrate they are ahead of schedule for a timeline they created.
When asked about inflation, Deese then proclaims he is not going to get into the business of economic predictions; which the media just accept without reminding him that his economic policies are entirely based on his own predictions… which he just cited in the prior moment of self-congratulation. Additionally, according to Deese (without any citation to demonstrate validity for his claim), the NEC Chairman says “real household income” is at its pre-pandemic level; which seems highly unlikely given the scale of inflation.
When asked if inflation will continue into next year, Deese refused to answer the question. Keep in mind, the discussion of inflation is a percentage of change from a previous price 12 months earlier. If an item doubles in price this year (from $2 to $4), and then goes up to $4.50 in the following year, you can claim that inflation is dramatically decreasing. However, that does not mean prices will ever return to the prior level, or that the next year price is any more affordable. WATCH:
The fact remains that White House energy, regulatory, fiscal and monetary policies are devastating for Main Street. All of those policies impact the domestic economy with increased costs from field to fork.
Cumulatively, all of the White House economic policies are increasing housing costs, transportation costs, medical costs, food costs, retail costs and service costs. At the same time, wages are only modestly rising to keep up with those massive cost increases. No amount of spin is going to stop the reality of the inflation storm from hitting U.S. consumers.
As we shared during the Obama-era baseline budget spending and deficit mess: “Half of something you just quadrupled is not less than you started with.”
Here’s the full press conference:
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Bottom line: The inflation number due tomorrow is again likely to show the aggregate level of compounded inflation in the supply chain. This is what the White House is trying to distract from.
Must be looking that bad, that even lying would be too obvious.
There is a section in LA where affordable housing units are built without parking spaces. This is the build back better. No cars, so what is all the fuss over gas prices? Bus and a skate board and you are ready to face the world. Cars get very expensive when your windows are constantly broken.
Exactly. Folks say “they can’t electric charge all the cars! “Yup. That’s the point. No car for you bucko
Well, the proponents of of affordable housing say that it is parking spaces that make housing unaffordable. They would therefore be opposed to electric charging stations which would have to be added to the BBB plan.
In LA or another big blue city, they will probably loot the charging station for the copper value.
LMFAO!!
Copper prices have near doubled on the LME since Biden took office and are at decade high. In the past when copper prices get high, construction sites and anything not locked down become targets for copper snatchers. Electric cars, charging stations and infrastructure will naturally push up copper prices.
When palladium prices got high, people were sawing off catalytic converters for scrap in the middle of the night.
I remember years ago in Boston during a time of very high copper prices, everyday you could drive the streets of inner city Boston and see people on roof tops ripping the copper flashing off the edges. Two weeks later these same buildings (almost all low income housing, so no security) were gutted right through side to side; no windows, inside walls ripped apart for the copper piping, no real roofing left ….. just wasted away!
No wonder it’s a disaster, that guy looks Stoned.
“Deese Nuts”
We really don’t know that he isn’t. He certainly reasons like he’s cognitively impaired. If he got jabbed then he very well might be suffering from quackcinia….
Deesy 😁
Hunter is visiting !
With luck, he’ll OD on Parmesan cheese.
“No amount of spin is going to stop the reality of the inflation storm from hitting U.S. consumers….”
Real people, who have to put gas in their cars and food on their table, are NOT interested in White House spin or media manipulations…everything costs MORE money than it did under President Trump and more and more people are waking up to that fact!
You got that. But oh my Lord, Trump was so mean and hurt my feeling. He was right and all you never trumpers, you were so wrong!!! Get a life people.
This is all Trump’s fault. If HRC would have gotten elected, we could have kept
barack insane obama’s inflation rate because Trump couldn’t have driven it down so these current rates wouldn’t look so bad.
You’ve got it.
People become animated when they are forcefully moved from comfortable/safe to struggling/precarious.
The propaganda and commie splaining will become more grating by the day.
It amazes me that any of these people are able to sleep at night.
Tad: Everybody knows that vampires don’t sleep at night.
Tequila and valium is my bet!
Correct Bob. They high. Wouldn’t know their butt from a hole in the ground. Old southern saying. I like it!
Not enough of both…they need to throw in a bottle of sleeping pills at the same time.
And seconal, placidyl (the big green ones), a few Dilaudid 4mg tabs….that’ll do it. He’ll at least go out “happy.”
Goodnight Joe!
So long.
Sociopaths can’t feel guilt.
They love it. If they can’t sleep, it’s cause they are so excited for the next day of f-ing people’s lives. Like Christmas morning.
When they have exhausted every opportunity to serve evil ends, they sleep well.
For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall. Proverbs 4:16
They are well compensated so their policies don’t affect them.
This criminal regime has no moral compass. It’s incapable of feeling empathy for those who suffer from their actions, or remorse for their crimes.
BHO’s sociopathic narcissism on display once again.
As long as the subject is shopping, I thought many of you would find this link interesting although it didn’t surprise me a bit.
https://walmart.org/diversity-equity-and-inclusion/center-for-racial-equity
Commie word salad 🙄
What do we expect from a dude who looks like he’s about 30 and probably grew up getting a baseball trophy for just being present.
He didn’t play baseball, he was in ballet.
They must be hiring lots of Winston Smiths over the Ministry of Truth.
They’ll start cooking the published numbers. There’ll be a disconnect with what people see but that won’t stop them.
Because they know we don’t have time or energy of influence in DC…the books are cooked…and you me we…are on the menu
Reminds me of the Twilight Zone episode, “To Serve Man.”
It is not just cooking which does happen like when they simply kept pushing the labor force numbers downward during the Obama years to hide unemployment, it is also simply interpretation. None of these numbers are exact or ever were exact numbers, they simply represent best guesses or probable numbers based on statistical analysis of other numbers or surveys about peoples’ feelings etc. Besides all the inherent problems in calculating such a thing as national income and its many variations thereof which are discussed at length in the economic literature, there is the fundamental human desire to hide income for many reasons but, avoiding the taxman is usually the biggest followed by hiding from family or business partners etc. Some numbers represent aggregate flows of money or products and services intended to represent a big picture of activity or economic growth but fail to distinguish any variation in subsets of the total. Many of the numbers are essentially meaningless by themselves and only take on meaning when applied to specific questions or when compared to something else. Can country A for example with a GDP of $1 trillion and a population of 1 billion be said to be richer than country B with a GDP of $100 Billlion and a population of 1 million? Since it takes another number to make any number have meaning, there is the opportunity in either the numerator or the denominator for mischief if one wants to make the result more palatable. Like the unemployment example. Since it represents the number of people not employed divided by the total number of people allegedly in the labor force, the unemployment rate can go down even while more people are losing jobs than getting hired simply by reducing the number in the labor force. They can rightly claim that people no longer looking for work are therefore not in the labor force. They cannot interview them all, of course. Being in the labor force is a very subjective thing, entirely different than simply being alive and healthy and between certain ages.
“Bottom line: The inflation number due tomorrow is again likely to show the aggregate level of compounded inflation in the supply chain. “
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Unexpectedly.
“Unexpectedly”
Have a drink every time you see this word…it won’t change anything but you will be less stressed about it – LOL!
But the amount will probably cook your liver 🙂
That’s why I take milk thistle every day…
Don’t forget lecithin.
Choline.
Best liver food you can give it.
I take the triple strength from Swanson’s.
Better their livers than mine. 😉
Reminds me of a drinking game we used to play, called “Hi Bob.” The old Bob Newhart show, the one with Suzanne Pleshette, not the one with the hotel. Everytime one of the characters would greet Bob – “Hi Bob” – all drink!
Usually took only one episode to get us right.
Aside: The new Bob Newhart show, the one with the hotel, not the one with Suzanne Pleshette. I think it has to be at the top of the mountain as the greatest ending to a series in the history of sitcom TV. “Darling, I just had the strangest dream.”
Bob Newhart was a comedic genius! That era was amazing all the way around, TBH…Carroll O’Connor in All in the Family, Harvey Korman and Tim Conway on the Carol Burnett Show, Don Rickles on the Dean Martin Roasts (talk about politically incorrect!) Robin Williams, Richard Pryor/ Gene Wilder in Blazing Saddles, Dudley Moore in Arthur, the original Second City Players from SNL (back in the 70s), et al…when people knew how to laugh and nothing was off limits!!
Bob Newhart on the phone, the best comedy ever….
Johnny Carson, Jackie Gleason and George Carlin, I would love to hear them rip whats going on..!
Enjoy an old BN memory.
Too funny!
And, ya know, I’m so conflicted. We all know by now that Bill Cosby is/was a pervert creep. But by golly, Cosby and the Kids were a big part of my life when I was growing up, kind of a comedic Norman Rockwell. Bill Cosby, when I was younger and ignorant, was to me a slice of Americana.
Same for me – I had Bill Cosby’s albums back in the early 70s and would listen to them over and over…especially Noah! “God, what’s a cubit?” Ah, those were the days…
The Shemnge’s, Guy Cabalaro, Johnny Loraine some names from 2nd City
Borrowed (actually stolen)
“I’m giving up drinking until Christmas.
Sorry, wrong punctuation.
I’m giving up. Drinking until Christmas.”
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Thought you’d like. 😉
I tutored someone for her papers while going to college to be an x-ray tech.
She knew I was good at grammar and punctuation.
A comma left out or wrongly inserted can change the whole subject from one thing to another.
Your funny comment remind me of that.
I had to correct her placement or lack of commas.
But it was fun!
How are you on the Oxford comma? For or against?
Being a pedant, I’m for.
Oxford comma is a requirement; no ifs, ands, or buts about it.
A quote from poet/author Henry Lawson,
” Drink makes you think how you should think when you don’t drink ” !
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I have some news on my medical attack, I got em on the run big-time.
Waiting for appropriate place to post.
Looking forward to the update, mate.
How much truth is there in that? Very nice. 😊
LOL!
While visiting Ireland I learned the following,
“A Guinness a day keeps the doctor away, five Guinness a day keep everybody away”.
Is that you pop ?
😂
Ha! I came across a similar one just a couple of weeks ago.
“No more tequila.”
“No, more tequila.”
Knowing my grammar and punctuation…
Dang! What one comma can do to change the subject! 🤣
I love the English language, being somewhat biased. The hodgepodge of the various root tongues make it so much fun to play with, and the possibilities of expression are almost limitless. Heck, if I can’t come up with the right word, I can just invent one and claim derivation from one of the roots. 🙂
Awesome. 😊
LOL! Betsy, up until a few years ago my step-dad when asked at the dr’s office if he drank would answer emphatically, NO! After a few seconds he would add, I quit yesterday.
😁😁😁!!
Stop it!
They won’t because they can’t tell the truth about the real deal without major blowback!
They know they would be slaughtered by the opinions and anger of a large majority of American people, even average Dem Americans suffering under this regime!
They know it.
JoeBama poops in his depends. Deese let’s it fly out of his lying mouth like the red head Psaki. Compassionate liars .
People who have to put gas in their cars and buy groceries won’t listen to these morons … we are all too painfully aware of how much more everything costs without hearing lies from the talking heads about how grand everything is.
Hiding their plans for total economic destruction.
Its funny tho’ the more the beast squeezes America, the worse chinas woes become. Evergrande and one other real estate mega demon failed today. China has been underwater and flooded for a year. And their own internal supply chain has been completely flushed down the toilet.
A war would pump up aggregate demand and serve as a dandy distraction. Pray for peace
The law of unintended consequences.
“Hiding their plans for total economic destruction“… in plain sight.
It’s the old “emperor has no clothes” scam…..again.
This entire “presidency” is fake.
The pain however is real!
“Ladies and Gentlemen this is Captain Joe …I have good news and bad news. We will be landing at a nearly vertical glide path. The bad news is this is not a vertical takeoff and landing aircraft. Thank you for flying Biden Economy Airlines.”
Buh-bye!
… and those were the last words recorded in the Black Box.
I’m dobbing, Rascism is not tolerated here 😜 !
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….it ain’t biden …it’s.his.ADMINISTRATION…call them out by name and title, each and every one…we can’t defeat the enemy until we know who they are…we must know their names…joebama is just a sockpuppet…call out his appointmets…
Fools on a Merry-go-Round as the county is raped, plundered and burned.
The media suffer consequences. They’re the tool these despots charlatans and marxists rely on. That’s why the brandon administration needed to get them on script.
Typo must suffer.
Hover over your post and the edit cog will appear. Then click it.
You have something like ten minutes to edit a post.
The edit feature means never having to say you’re sorry.
And another limitation–once someone has responded to your comment, no editing can be done….
Thank you for the info.
As still kind of new here, I didn’t know that.
But you aren’t new here. At all.
Well that explains my quandary at times.🤔🤔🤔
Thanks, Always learn something here.
Sundance, AdMins, Moderators, etal. with the rest of the Treeper community.
I only get about 2 mins.
God is probably punishing you for your lies.
Good to know. Thank you.
I am so sick and tired of this lying, cheating, stealing, grafting administration I could just puke! I honestly have never been so disgusted with a group of people. The federal government is our enemy and they will do or say anything to keep people deaf, dumb and blind to what is really happening. They all need to be tried for crimes against the citizens.
Joe just said yesterday he was gonna fund Govt’ and Connected union jobs with the tax money he steals from the rest of us LMAO. All they are a F*cking CROOKS….. FJB and his team of Communist scum.
In the end will these commies predict their own last breath?
I don’t think I need to remind anyone here that FJB is the author/originator of NONE of these ideas and policies. Having said that, I think it’s also important to keep in mind that ALL of this is intentional. The democrat party, now completely owned by the radical Marxists, have as their end goal the elimination of America. Remember the words of David Plouffe: “It’s not enough to beat him. He must be thoroughly destroyed, so that his kind will never rise again.”
They want us dead.
(the feeling is mutual)
Proceed accordingly.
Jeff:
Spot on! 👍
2022 is going to be a wild ride.
The dominoes will begin falling between April and July.
That’s when the cumulative effects of “full on stupid” will be unstoppable.
Get small, avoid debt, stock up, get safe, get ready to get smaller. This is going to get ugly.
Just remember: The shelf life of social stability is about 3 days after the truckers stop delivering or the supply chain can’t deliver, or the customers can’t afford, food, booze, smokes, gasoline, etc. and/or electric power drops out.
Big cities will see it first. Get a plan together. You’ll be glad you did.
The trucks will deliver, but nobody will be able to afford anything at the going rate. When you see sale prices that are higher than the old normal price,
(with a new extremely high price marked out) you know we are F*CKED.
Don’t worry though Joe and his Govt’ cronies are still gonna tax the piss out of you, me and everything else that is moving.
Newsome and the California legislature stands alone to blame for supply disruptions…they banned owner-operators and nonunion drivers and banned trucks over four years old from fetching containers out of two ports…the crisis was artificially created via regulation…even so called conservative journalists seem to be ignoring those facts…but there it is and anyone pretending otherwise is ignorant or a liar.
Crisis my ass…it is a manufactured supply disruption….
Something very odd has happened at the local Walmart.
The extra wide walking aisles are completely gone and jammed with children’s clothing, etc…things completely unrelated to the departments already there.
Gives me a sense that they are trying to look like, “See…we have lots of inventory.” Makes no sense as a marketing tactic.
This just happened a couple of days ago.
I like your style.
When nicotine is not delivered, violence will be off the charts.
There was a time in this country when people had common sense and knew how to deal with demons like Deese . Shackle thire hands and feet and toss them into a pond. If they sank to the bottom they were a witch. If they floated they were innocent and God was with them. Lets bring back that practice.
They’re all on borrowed time
Everyone i Talk to is severely pissed at em what these criminals have done
Go back even further to the time of pouring molten lead down their throats, or even impaling the SOBs.
Now you’re talking!
Wait…according to Monty Python if they float, they are a Witch…so which witch is which?
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If they do it by the ocean they are sand witches.
Didn’t the media just get a $50,000 bonus per person in the latest budget bribe? No bad press from the American Pravda.
Brian Deese is a lying sumbitch…they’re driving inflation on purpose…pushing ‘green’ energy to corrupt our nation behind lying experts taking government bribes to villify hydrocarbon energy which has elevated mankind far above the experience of the vast majority of our ancestors…they seek to destroy…get that one single fact down….the left seeks only to destroy….
Some insane folks in the media think the economy is doing pretty darned great!
https://therightscoop.com/sudden-new-media-narrative-the-economy-is-doing-great/
Oops…look down two posts….
BREAKING NEWS – Verdict reached in Jussie Smollett trial | GUILTY!
https://commoncts.blogspot.com/2021/12/breaking-news-verdict-reached-in-jussie.html
Look down one post…
Ya bald headed heathen!
(SE Tx…)
So let’s test this.
Compared to the lowest black unemployment under PDJT, what is it under Biden?
Whatever you do don’t go to Drudge Report! The top left was filled with economic great news from NBC outlets predominantly. Word has gone out! Talk up the economy, election riggers!
It’s fun watching them in a sorta sick way.
Shade War: Biden Refuses to Acknowledge Kamala Harris as He Walks Past Her in US Capitol – Then Asks Jill to Switch Seats So He Won’t be Next to Harris (VIDEO)
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/12/shade-war-biden-refuses-acknowledge-kamala-harris-walks-past-us-capitol-asks-jill-switch-seats-wont-next-harris-video/
It appears that initially, Jill ignored his request and then gave in when he spoke to her again…it must be like dealing with a restless 3 year old. Hoping he won’t start screaming.
My Dad had alzhiemers…it ain’t fun and it ain’t pretty…can be frightening at times…
Just another distraction. Who cares. This isn’t the Enquirer.
I have a prediction for you…
JUSTICE IS COMING …
Spoken like a patriot and Marine.
Yes, one way or the other, it is!
SF!
It’s really not your prediction, it’s been around for a couple of thousand years.
Price increases will surely moderate as the economy grinds to a halt.
Tonight the local news announcer of the ABC affiliate in Fort Myers joyfully proclaimed the suppy chain crisis is moderating!
Yes he did!
Must be some pretty strong stuff that he’s been smoking. Maybe he should share. That way we might be able to see whatever that he is able to see.
Deese says “16 million Americans transitioned from collecting unemployment benefits..”
My question is, where they “transitioned” to? Are they now employed? Are they new business owners?
Biden Harris presents a new category, The TransEmployed.
Deese nutz! ah-ha… Got ‘im!
Ayatollah Khamenei is looking at Joe’s spin team as replacements for the uranium gas centrifuges that Mossad destroyed last week….
They may be too high powered and everything would be racked to pieces.
a couple things mentioned got me wondering.with the chinese evergrande defaulting and their economy going to crap,doesn’t the container ship backlog add to that.if the containers are just sitting there our orders for “stuff”should be on hold further impacting their economy so that backlog could be a good thing to push for more american made products.what are we something like 60% of the chinese market?
and another thing.when the prices for food etc start going thru the roof,those truckers better have armed security or they are gonna get robbed in route.why rob a grocery store,rob the truck,have a convenient blm mob block the road and clean em out.
Obama’s people regularly cooked the unemployment numbers. Then would restate them 3 months later.
Expect Biden administration to start doing the same with inflation numbers. You can believe anything put out by the government anymore.
That’s can’t believe.
So we haul the wood stuff that makes paper and fiber products in the NW.
We are jacking up our rates by 10% effective 1/1.
We already did more normal freight rate increases 6 to 8 months ago.
It’s going to our drivers, mechs and parts cost.
Happy to contribute /s
One if my clients is a commercial baked goods producer in a niche market. They are growing fast. But I’ve watched first hand how covid restrictions had an affect in production. And now I’m seeing first hand what the new supply chain issue is doing.
I’m seeing all this in real time. They tired to order 6 months worth of raw materials because all the suppliers are saying Q2 of 2022 is when they will be flush again. The issue I have is they can never tell us why it’s going to be Q2 and how do they even know that. I’ve heard the same thing from my buddies who are in IT sales. Their raw materials have the exact same delay. How are the are two totally different industries having the exact same supply delay?
This whole thing is clearly intentionally created. And certain information (most likely fake) is being disseminated to the heads of these large import/export companies.
When the Boss got to where he is thru “plausible deniability”, his underlings understand their duties.
Even when their sole purpose is to provide certain info, they will not when the info is not good.
I have some copper I’d like to share with all those people.
Yes… I’m a generous guy.
He’s a BlackRock environmental turd on assignment. He was hired for his ideology and to promote policies that benefit his benefactors. High school students are brighter.
Talk to the Hand Progs: The JoeBama Mis-administration is chock full of these primping, full-of-themselves hacks. None of them have the common sense nor the street smarts of a garden snail.
If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.
And some people say Jussie Smollete has a wild imagination. He’s got nothing on this guy.
I heard him say family income is going up due to the increase in the child care credit taking the lower incomes out of poverty. He even said incomes were rising faster than pre-pandemic. It could sound very rosy to those living off the government printing press.
My next door neighbor hasn’t worked in almost years…Hispanic with five kids…old lady is in prison for idontknowwhat….his mom blows the horn on her beat up crown Vicky every morning 7.30 sharp….speaks English but not his first language….
This fella doesn’t even look like he has graduated from his upper level College programs yet…let alone to have any experience in real world economics.
Here’s Ron Klane explaining the inexplicable.
(Example) Biden didn’t “create” 6 million jobs, those are people returning to work.
https://mobile.twitter.com/WhiteHouse/status/1468982806432960512?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1468984981049516041%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es3_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitchy.com%2Fdougp-3137%2F2021%2F12%2F09%2Fwh-has-video-featuring-ron-klain-explaining-how-great-the-economy-is-under-biden-and-they-think-youre-stupid%2F
Ron Klaine….now we’re getting somewhere….
I couldn’t stand the lies for over 45 seconds….he may be the ringleader but he isn’t the ring….more to get rid of besides Ron….
…the entire joebama administration must be removed…they seek to destroy our economy, our culture, our military, our very way of life…there is no middle ground….the leftists must be removed….
…and never ever forget this : https://nypost.com/2016/03/08/tech-billionaires-plot-with-gop-leaders-to-stop-trump-at-exclusive-island-resort/
Sea Island traitors
That dude literally looks like the walking dead. My God, what an unhealthy looking dolt.
What a non-answer. These people have a gift for using a lot of words to say nothing and/or a bunch of lies.
First, after getting the WH marching orders to spin the bad economy into a good one, NBC’s Jim Cramer says it is the strongest evonomy ever….
And now an op-ed on The Hill…
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Biden is delivering the fastest economic recovery in history. Why hasn’t anyone noticed?
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/584905-biden-is-delivering-the-fastest-economic-recovery-in-history-why-hasnt
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They think we are stupid.
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