Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent appears on Meet the Press to debate Kirsten Welker’s formatted corporate media talking points. The source of most American division is found in the behavior of the media.
Video and Transcript Below:
[TRANSCRIPT] – KRISTEN WELKER: And joining me now is Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. Secretary Bessent, welcome back to Meet the Press.
SEC. SCOTT BESSENT: Kristen, good to be with you today.
KRISTEN WELKER: It’s great to have you here in person. Thank you for being here. I want to start right there on the discussion of affordability. You just heard Vice President JD Vance ask people to have, quote, “a little bit of patience” with the administration. Let me ask you, Mr. Secretary, how long do Americans need to be patient? How long do they have to wait for the cost of living to come down?
SEC. SCOTT BESSENT: Well, Kristen, in March of 2024, I – I wrote a piece, and I talked about the three I’s that were killing Americans: immigration, interest rates and inflation. The president’s closed the border, and the mass immigration is gone. And that was putting – a lot of the immigration was putting upward pressure on housing, downward pressure on wages. Interest rates are down. And now we are starting to see the affordability – we – the prices get better. We had a very big October for home sales. Energy prices, gas – gasoline is down. We saw – we believe health care is going to come down. We will see an announcement this coming week on that. And so across the board, prices are starting to come down. We’re having Thanksgiving week. This will be the lowest cost for a Thanksgiving dinner in four years. Turkey prices are down 16%.
KRISTEN WELKER:
And yet some prices are going up of course. We have seen prices increasing on staples like coffee, bananas, bacon. Inflation has gone up. It’s at 3% now up from 2% in April when the tariffs were imposed.
SEC. SCOTT BESSENT:
No, no, no, no, no. They weren’t. So inflation hasn’t gone up. And Kristen, the one thing that we’re not going to do is do what the Biden administration did and tell the American people they don’t know how they feel. They are traumatized and – over the Biden inflation. We have slowed inflation. And we are working very hard to bring it down. Kristen, I can tell you that the Council of Economic Advisers has a study. You know the best way to bring your inflation rate down? Move from a blue state to a red state. Blue state inflation is half a percent higher. And that is because they don’t deregulate. They keep prices up. Energy is higher.
KRISTEN WELKER:
Just according to the consumer prices, inflation was at 2.3% back in April, in September 3%. But let me ask you about tariffs. Because there’s this big announcement on tariffs. Since you were last on this program, the administration announced it was rolling back tariffs on more than 200 food products. You have said recently that you think tariffs help consumers. If tariffs help consumers, why is the administration rolling them back?
SEC. SCOTT BESSENT:
Well, first – first of all, Kristen, if you look at the data, that imported goods, the inflation has actually been flat. Inflation is up because of the service economy and services. So that has nothing to do with tariffs. And many of the food items where the inflation is coming down, the US – USTR has been working very hard on trade deals. And the trade deals that have been in the works for six or eight months coincide with many Latin American, Central American countries, where the foodstuffs you just named come from.
KRISTEN WELKER:
Well, and banana prices are up almost 7%, coffee prices up nearly 19%. Isn’t the fact that you’re rolling back tariffs an admission that ultimately they do drive up prices for consumers?
SEC. SCOTT BESSENT:
Kristen, how much does your arm weigh?
KRISTEN WELKER:
That I do not know.
SEC. SCOTT BESSENT:
Exactly. But you know how much you weigh, and you get on the scale every morning. Inflation is a composite number. And we look at everything. So we are trying – we try to push down the things we can control. And as I said that we are working on – the energy prices are down. And everything flows from that. And I think we’re going to see these other prices come down. And again, many of these goods were part of trade deals with countries that have been in the works for months.
KRISTEN WELKER:
Very quickly, come down in a matter of weeks, months?
SEC. SCOTT BESSENT:
Sorry?
KRISTEN WELKER:
Weeks or months? You said prices will come in weeks or months?
SEC. SCOTT BESSENT:
Some are going to come down in weeks. Some are going to come down in months. We just had – in terms of affordability, we just had the best month in the housing market due to affordability, due to increased supply in October, best October in three years, best month since February.
KRISTEN WELKER:
Let me ask you big picture, Mr. Secretary. You said earlier this month, I’m going to quote you, quote, “I think there are sectors of the economy that are in a recession.” Kevin Hassett, director of the National Economic Council, said, quote, “We’re starting to see pockets of the economy that look like they might be in a recession.” Which parts of the economy do you believe have dipped into a recession?
SEC. SCOTT BESSENT:
Well, clearly, housing has been struggling. And the – so interest rate sensitive sectors have been in a recession. And, you know, the other thing that was not helpful, Kristen, was the longest government shutdown in history. It was 1.5% hit to the GDP, 9,500 flights cancelled. And, you know, the Democrats didn’t care that they hurt the American economy and anything to stop Donald Trump.
KRISTEN WELKER:
Well, big picture, is the country at risk – the entire country at risk of being in a recession?
SEC. SCOTT BESSENT:
No. I am very confident about 2026. Because what we are going to see is the – the president’s done peace deals, tax deals, and trade deals, the One Big Beautiful Bill. And, you know, to go back to affordability, affordability has two components. So it’s price of goods and real incomes. So under the One Big Beautiful Bill, especially for working Americans, no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax on Social Security. Auto deductibility – auto deductibility on loans for American cars, that’s all kicking in. Americans have not changed their withholdings. So we are going to see substantial – substantial refunds to working families in the first quarter of 2026. Americans will change their withholding. And they will get an increase in real income. The trade deals that we’ve done, I was just at home town, Charleston, South Carolina. Boeing is expanding their Dreamliner plant, 1,000 new jobs. And I think we’re going to see these plant openings every week. I am very, very optimistic on 2026. We have set the table for a very strong non-inflationary growth economy.
KRISTEN WELKER: Okay. Let me ask you about the big news on the world stage. You just talked about the president’s peace deals. Let’s talk about Ukraine. U.S. lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, Ukrainian officials who I’ve spoken to say the peace plan for Russia and Ukraine, as written, only benefits Russia. Let me ask you simply, Mr. Secretary. Was this 28-point plan written by Russia?
SEC. SCOTT BESSENT: I – I have no information on that, Kristen. But I can tell you, I am the highest ranking U.S. official to have visited Ukraine. I went last February. And when I went last February, I went with an economic cooperation agreement between the U.S. and Ukraine. President Zelenskyy pushed back against it. The same people you’re just talking about, they pushed against it. Mainstream media pushed back against it. You know what? We did it three months later, and now it is the centerpiece for the Ukrainian economy. That this agreement is even funding military plants for the very innovative military sector in Ukraine. So, you know, I would be very careful on conventional wisdom. And to go back to your question, it is a peace negotiation.
KRISTEN WELKER:
Well, okay, to that point, Republican Senator Mike Rounds, who was briefed by Secretary Rubio, came out and he said this. Quote, “It’s not our peace plan. It looked more like it was written in Russian to begin with.” Secretary Rubio says the U.S. did write the plan. But regardless of who wrote it, U.S. lawmakers are concerned that it benefits Russia over Ukraine. Is the administration – is President Trump planning to pressure Ukraine to accept this deal?
SEC. SCOTT BESSENT: Look, at the end of the day it’s going to be a decision with the Ukrainians. President Trump is a president of peace. This war would not have started – there was no Ukrainian territory taken any time that he’s been in office. Everything else, Crimea and this move have been when President Trump wasn’t there. President Trump has put more pressure on the Russian federation with economic sanctions. The – the real – the laggards here are the Europeans. The Europeans tell me, “Oh, we are doing our 19th sanctions package.” In my mind, Kristen, if you’re gonna do something 19 times, you failed. Instead, President Trump moved forward with a bold initiative that the Europeans would not follow us on. He put a – a 25% tariff on India because they were buying Russian oil. The – the Russian oil going into the Indian refineries, guess who was buying that? The Europeans. They are funding the war on themselves. President Trump two weeks ago sanctioned Rosneft and Lukoil, the two biggest Russian oil companies. And the price of Russian oil has collapsed.
KRISTEN WELKER:
Very quickly. Is the Thanksgiving deadline set by President Trump a firm deadline?
SEC. SCOTT BESSENT:
I – I haven’t spoken to him about it. But I am – I am confident that the peace process is moving forward.
KRISTEN WELKER:
Okay. Let me ask you about another topic this week that got a lot of attention. Six congressional Democrats released a video with a message to service members and intelligence officials. Take a look.
[BEGIN TAPE]
REP. CHRIS DELUZIO:
Threats to our constitution aren’t just coming from abroad.
REP. JASON CROW:
But from right here at home.
SEN. MARK KELLY:
Our laws are clear. You can refuse illegal orders.
SEN. ELISSA SLOTKIN:
You can refuse illegal orders.
REP. CHRIS DELUZIO:
You must refuse illegal orders.
[END TAPE]
KRISTEN WELKER:
President Trump accused these lawmakers of, quote, “seditious behavior punishable by death.” Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said that every order President Trump gives is lawful. Are you confident that every order that President Trump gives is lawful, Mr. Secretary?
SEC. SCOTT BESSENT:
What – Kristen, what I am confident of is that this was a display of gross, gross negligence here. There are 2.1 million service members. And you’re probably going to ask – going to say, “Oh, the, like, off-the-rail representatives have gotten death threats.” Well, what about the 2.1 million service members? They – they have put their lives at risk. There is one commander-in-chief. And when you step outside of the chain of command and try to create the noise and chaos, that only helps our enemies.
KRISTEN WELKER:
Are you confident, though, Mr. Secretary, that every order that President Trump gives is in fact lawful as Karoline Leavitt has said?
SEC. SCOTT BESSENT:
I – I am confident of that. And I am also confident that this was a complete mistake. They should retract it.
KRISTEN WELKER:
Okay before I let you go, I have to ask you about your op-ed in The Washington Post this morning. A lot of folks are going to wake up to that. You call for an end to the filibuster. In the past, Leader Thune has said that it’s just not happening. There aren’t the votes. Mr. Secretary, do you believe that you have enough votes, that the president has enough votes to get rid of the filibuster?
SEC. SCOTT BESSENT:
Well, we – we will see come January 30th. Because that’s the point of my editorial is to put the Senate on notice that the Democrats kept the government shut down. And Ezra Klein in The New York Times took the mask off. He said this wasn’t about health care. This was about stopping totalitarianism. The Democrats haven’t been able to stop President Trump in the courts. They haven’t been able to stop him in the media. So they had to harm the American people, 1.5% hit to GDP, $11 billion permanent hit. They don’t care. So I believe that Senate Democrats – if Senate Democrats close the government again, that Senate Republicans should immediately abrogate the filibuster. You should – you should ask Senator Klobuchar whether she will adhere to the filibuster and whether she will close the government again.
KRISTEN WELKER:
Just yes or no, though. Do you acknowledge at this point you don’t have the votes right now to do that?
SEC. SCOTT BESSENT:
We will see. Can have them on January 3rd when we see this bad Democratic behavior.
KRISTEN WELKER:
All right. Secretary Bessent, thank you so much for being here and for the robust conversation. We really appreciate it.
SEC. SCOTT BESSENT:
Good to see you.
[END TRANSCRIPT]
The Dissolution of The Treasonous AutoPen Empire continues unabated and apace.
“Kristen, how mich does your arm weigh?”
😂 😂 😂
more than her empty head, for sure.
Here’s a question for Ms Welcher: “How patient do we have to be with the bigots and morons within the media, and how long it be before they quit telling lies, slandering people, and make stupid comments”??? Mr. Bessent deserves so much credit for schooling the media about economics.
Why do these guys even go on her show? Those harpies are awful
All of them
Builds character
🤣
To show the enemedia that MAGA does not fear them, or their blatant attempts to create fake news talking points.
to humiliate them.
“To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women!”
— Conan the Barbarian on what is best in life
I have been impressed by the people in this administration that go on these shows because they are very good at rejecting the premise of slanted questions and then telling the American people what is really happening.
I thought his answers on Ukraine were telling. Those facts are not what the American people are ever told by the media.
Scott Bessent did a good job, I thought.
Loved the analogy of ‘Kristen, what does your arm weigh?’
Asking “ what does your brain weigh” would have had me wetting my pants.
Lolololol.
Now imagine the response and follow-up…
Kristen, “Mr. Secretary, what are you trying to say!?”
Scott, “Relax, it’s just an analogy. You see, when you weigh yourself it doesn’t matter if your brain weight had increased by 3% or decreased by 3%, it’s such a minuscule fraction of your total weight that you wouldn’t even notice the difference. Total inflation to individual item inflation is like that. In this case your brain is a raisin in the shopping cart of your body.”
Secretary Bessent did a terrific job. I think most of the people who were selected by President Trump for upfront positions are outstanding, period!! Too many of the good people in America just don’t think things through; They see something in the media and they believe that fits with their ideology, so they don’t study it out in their minds about whether it believable or rational. I think that’s true regardless of what people’s political beliefs are!. Also, who is this guy, Hakeem. I know he’s from New York, but he could win a liars contest in Texas, and we’ve got some good ones down here!!! Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. Remember the real reason we celebrate it!!
Read the YouTube comments… MSM messaging is working and the masses are consuming what they are selling.
I know one of the great no nos of speaking like this is hand gestures. But that’s an elitist effete thing, not a way to show the vast majority of people. That dude on CNN does it with charts to great effect. I’m not saying that drastic, but something.
So, what could Bessent do. A quick elementary course on inflation. Inflation is increase in prices year over year. That’s the 2-3% number. Say, the prior administration had year over year of 9-10% or more. Prices stay at that level as new baseline. Getting inflation to 2-3% does not get us back to levels before the 9-10%. It just slows the increase back to “normal” inflation (use freakin’ air quotes). Say, getting prices back to what they were before the 9-10% is called deflation. And that’s some of what happened in the Great Depression.
Interviews like this need the first intro paragraph as inflation 101 tutorial. A vast majority of the people don’t know basic stuff like that. And Bull Sh!t News (BSN) knows this and plays it to their advantage.
A basic 1 paragraph intro on any topic that would be covered would do wonders………what could it hurt?
Exactly. That’s the missing link in the messaging.
Try this explanation:
Your car has a speedometer that tells you how FAST you’re traveling. The inflation rate tells you how FAST costs are rising
Your car has an odometer that tells you how FAR you’ve traveled. Prices tell you how FAR costs have gone up.
Just because you drop from 70 to 40 mph doesn’t mean the odometer rolls back. It merely adds more miles at a slower rate. When the inflation rate drops, costs are still going up–just slower.
We’re still paying for all the cost increases under Biden.
Perfect example of, we create the problem, you provide reaction, we provide the solution. Solution best for us, not you. Crap news banks on this.
Do you believe the FBI? Would you like to buy a bridge? I have one for sale.
Pro-Communist YouTube comments could easily be robots.
You never know what you can trust these days.
This goes to show you that a gey ex Soros man can leave the Antichrist’s grasp and switch up.
I should’ve just clicked on the video because her voice sounded the same in my head, snark and all.
I appreciate Sundance posting the transcript. I read it rather than listening.
STOP DOING HER SHOW. I CANNOT STOMACH HER
LIES AND DECEIT TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
A little bit of history is useful here. Remember the Carter inflation years (late 1970s) when interest rates zoomed from a nominal 3% to nearly 20% plus?
Those were the years when the Federal Reserve first determined that higher interest rates would slow consumer demand on the theory that less buying would allow the supply chain to restock shelves faster. In turn producers and merchants would lower prices to spur sales.
It was crackpot theory then and it is crackpot theory now since the Fed has only the power to regulate money, not production.
Many factors cause prices to rise and fall other than lots of dollars chasing too few goods. Crop failures or crop over supply, goofy restrictions on natural resource development (oil, gas, minerals, lumber, etc.), politicians picking winners and losers in the marketplace. The list is long.
Egg prices too high? Chicken flu wiped out millions of laying hens. Beef prices too high? Federal policies that stunted the production of fertilizer to grow the feed that cattle need, farmers pulling back production because diesel fuel pricing for tractors, combines, hay balers, transportation to market, etc. meant losses.
Abundance brings stable prices and product improvement in the scramble to win over consumers. Scarcity raises prices and stifles improvement because who cares–consumers will take the last one on the shelf because that is all there is.
Just get government out of the way of daily decisions.
I remember interest rates in the Carter years. First mortgage 12.5%.
Now as a senior couple on fixed income who have saved for this chapter of our lives, who are not willing to swim in the choppy, unpredictable waters of the stock market, we earned nothing on our seed corn since 2008 while inflation attacked us from the other end.
The rise in interest rates over the past two or so years afforded us an opportunity, not to reclaim all which we never had a chance to build upon without risking losing our hard won modest sum. But rather to keep us from falling further. We watch every penny, knowing that the “high” interest rate of 4% is now going in a direction which will be disadvantageous to savers. All while we continue to be hit broadside by the costs of food, energy, insurance, and everything else.
My sole point is that if I hear one more time that the interest rate is “high”, I will scream…or laugh maniacally.
Depending on whether I am caffeinated to a sufficient degree ☕
Saving used to be a true virtue.
Four percent” High”??
People have absolutely no idea.
Good Morning Betsy,
Around 1981 rates here in Canada hit 21% Folks with cash in the bank could get 19% on a product that was similar to a one year term deposit ( guaranteed)
It was a time I will never forget, but have put the memories to good use over the years.
A good friend is obsessed with the “ financial goings ons.
The information he processes and has displayed on his electronic devices is astounding.
It is interesting to be sure, but my pragmatic side is alarmed at the manipulations of “ money”
My instincts suggest that the U.SA. is on the correct path.
Anecdotal to be sure, but we know several fellow Canadians that are moving some of their financial assets south and into the U.S.A.
We have all had many years of financial mismanagement by our governments ( and criminality)
It is only been a year, so for me it is a time to be prudent, and grateful for the “ Trump effect”
Cheers! 🏴🏴🏴💪
Morning dear friend ☕
I agree with your assessment. There are always winners and those like us who sort of win…if inflation and the costs of goods etc drops. The problem is that, as you note, the manipulation of money doesn’t always deliver that combination. Keynesian economics has a lot to answer for historically, with the added ingredient of politics which in combination action is volatile.
I remember vividly in the UK when the government was trying to withdraw from the European Exchange RateMechanism (See below). Then Chancellor Norman Lamont vs George Soros, when rates were jacked up to an eye watering 15% in one day, and later higher for a brief moment before Britain capitulated in humiliating fashion.
We had a mortgage then, the payments of which rose in tandem. We were terrified.
Just one example of the contribution of politics working against sound money. Milton Friedman understood, and he may have been the last to do so.
I think your friends are wise and foresighted. Canada is a mess, and I grieve for you, Dan Dale, and other Treeper brothers and sisters who are having to endure the reprehensible evil and corruption. Those who are at the mercy of madness, the only way I can describe what I watch on all fronts in abject horror.
As you are a canny Scotsman first and foremost, I say good on you for letting your instincts guide you…those and the good Lord above.
Patience is needed now as President Trump’s methods, long planned, deliver results. Barring any unexpected events, we, too, pull in and wait. It is to be fervently hoped that whatever manna will be delivered from them won’t recognize borders. And will flow unimpeded your way and elsewhere.
Of the many things and situations I pray for, I add this to my lengthy list for everyone who struggles to keep from drowning.
Blessings always, Dekester, to you, your beautiful family, and all your mates and theirs. I wish you all a Happy and companionable American Thanksgiving. There is always something to be grateful for…🙏🏻
Forgot the add the link..
‘Tis Monday…
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/458469.stm
So true. Our first house had a 13% mortgage interest rate.
Ditto, here. And, it was a variable rate loan that could only go to 18%! (Uses to be the definition of usury was interest above 18%! Credit cards, student loans above 18%.
They were up to 18% in the fall of 1980. It took Reagan 3 years to bring inflation down and interest rates dropped to 11% in 1985 the year I got my RE License. We did a lot of buy down loand. I bought in a “target area” of PA with a special rate of 7% in 1992..I worked 3 jobs and cleaned up my credit..Just sold that house last Jan for 167000..that was low..I cried..
Sure, and I remember the Nixon inflation largely a result of Johnson’s funding the war through debt. So Nixon imposed wage and price controls which didn’t work. Then Ford came in with “Whip inflation now” which didn’t work either. Carter appointed Paul Volcker to the Fed, and Reagan supported Volcker to use monetary policy to fix the inflation problem.
I do remember Ford’s stupid WIN buttons. Good times.
All factual, Phil. But one other point that most forget ( or don’t know) is that it took upwards of two years for ‘Reaganomics” to take hold of Carter’s malaise economy. The resulting ten straight years of prosperity did not become evident the day Reagan took office.
I moved back to Pittsburgh fall of 1980 to attend grad school..unemployment was 16% after the fall of the steel industry.. My dad was a steel executive and pulled money from his pension to buy a house in the mountains..18% interest. 45 years later, a fire and rebuild, the loss of my entire family and Bidenomics killed the affordability of our mountain house..it must be sold..the last thing left of my family.
“Remember the Carter inflation years (late 1970s) when interest rates zoomed from a nominal 3% to nearly 20% plus?“
🤣🤣🤣
Holy Moly! Yes I do! The gas lines were atrocious!
My nephew says Carter ruined his childhood.
After the Carter debacle of interest rates hovering around 20% … I took a day off from work and stood in line for hours to snag a 10.95% interest rate on a new home for $80,000.
15 years later Clinton destroyed the economy (at least in Texas, Oklahoma & Louisiana) … oil & gas collapsed, jobs lost, houses repossessed, builders left the area or declared bankruptcy … then … the banks started failing as deposits dried up PLUS they were holding repossessed houses, no one could afford to buy.
“Luckily” we managed to sell ours for $85,000 !!! After 15yrs a $5,000 “profit” in a changing area.
Democrats. Only. Destroy. !!!
I moved to Georgia in 1984. The unemployment rate in Dayton had been in the low teens a
year or so prior. The start of the factories closing. All the license plates I saw around Atlanta were
from Ohio and Indiana, because the factory closings hugged the border of the two states.
When the oil economy collapsed a few years later ( it actually began some under Reagan, but
splitting straws), all the license plates were from Texas.
Atlanta had its own housing crisis back then (87). Eastern Airlines, one of Atlanta’s two
major carriers shut down. Thank you, Wall Street. It affected the middle to upper income
housing market for decades. Peachtree City, East Cobb County, Redan section of Stone Mountain.
All were awash in 2500 + square feet homes, sitting vacant, going up for rent. Had a few friends
that were actually paying two mortgages, because they’d moved into a newer home, and their
sales contract had been cancelled on their prior home.
I remember Texas O&G furious with the “windfall profits tax”. No one helped Texans when price per barrell dropped to $10 in 1986.
Oh my, we bought investment property in 2004, 2006, 2017, 2019 and 2021 and built in 2016..every house appreciated..
In Alabama all of the cut and sew companies moved south to Mexico, vanity fair, etc. I believe it was nafta. Have to look that up. Disgraceful for the people wo worked there. The ladies were paid by piece and had gotten very fast and were making good money. Damm bill Clinton.
I love how Scott Bessent continuously corrects her Democrat talking points.
All of the IQ in that interview was on one side of the table.
I notice that Welker asks few if any follow up questions to clarify her positions. This demonstrates the depth of her knowledge in any given area is basically zero.
All the interviewer brings to the table here are snippets of gotcha accusations that fall flat. Anyone could do that. And of course her signature snark.
Boring. Communist forums just aren’t designed for a healthy debate of ideas.
I think it would be just bitchin’ if Scott had been able to bring a device to jam the
device that was feeding the questions into her ear.
Scott is wonderful!
The best way to manage inflation is with a balanced federal budget and by consistently lowering the federal deficit.
The best way to manage inflation is to stop trying to manage it.
Unleash the abundant cheap energy we are awash in, remove nonsensical regulatory barriers to entry for new businesses, lower taxes on both income and business. Continue with the President’s agenda to have parallel banking options for Main St.
Those alone will render the Fed’s globalist machinations with rates, moot upon the economy.
Didn’t listen but just read his replies. Prefer to know the truth and forego the lies. Sounds like they got a plan and when President Trump has a plan it works.
Six months or so ago, the biggest talking point was RECESSION. The “heads I win tails you lose argument” is you either have zero inflation and a recession, or you have 2-3% inflation and a solid economy.
If demand is up and supply down you have price increases, conversely if you have demand down and supply up you have price decreases.
Having 12 million additional consumers, plus 42 million on SNAP, plus schools feeding in some cases 2 to 3 meals per day you are certainly increasing the demand for food. 12 million need places to live thus raising rental pricing.
Obese people are not healthy people that eventually become unable to work and raise the need for medical care and government assistance. When is the last time you’ve heard that on MSM. Everything is someone else’s fault, not your poor decision making.
Good points. Democraps want to keep us fat, dumb and unhealthy. Or, as Hellary famously allowed via Wikileaks, Americans are to remain “unaware and compliant.”
Then the bastards unleashed Covid and we were treated to lockdowns and dancing nurses brandishing poison death shots.
For the most part their base will buy into any demonrat premise they are spoon fed by these “experts.”
There has always been concern about so-called “stag-flation”, where inflation continues even with relatively steady or declining output.
I remember this bitter buffoon when she was in Philly.
A real angry box of rocks even then.
The ugliest scum tends to float to the top, in the media cesspool.
Didn’t used to be that way.
Treasury Secretary Bessent is a gem! He is always cool, calm and collected and whenever he speaks to the DNC media he confirms their ignorance and their bias.
When inflation went up 20%+ during Bidens term, you didn’t hear affordability from the Ds/MSM.
They have to keep hysterically screaming recession recession recession until they can make it come true. Trump’s approval ratings are increasing, and they can’t have that – fake economic numbers are much more important than who suffers as a result.
Not one word was spoken from them when the Biden inflation was through the roof. now it is PDJT fault. These people are disgusting.
Talk to your avg. democrat they typically act as if Biden didn’t double food prices, car prices, etc…. in less than 4 years.
They are truly insane….
thune says no to filibuster end. wait till the democrats shut us down again. get rid of it.
I agree – I hope the Democrats pull the same play and try to shut down the Government. It will apply even more pressure on Republicans to can the filibuster. President Trump’s agenda can then flow smoothly and quickly.
Joe Biden’s rule was a pandemic of America. Not necessarily one of disease of the body but a disease of the economy. He spent money like a drunken sailor while filling our shores with leeches. Surely it can’t be expected that such deep rooted parasites can be easily erased especially since their tenacles are very much active yet. Be thankful for every upward thrust for it will deliver.
“Be thankful.” Motto for the week! 🎯🥰
And Slow Joe didn’t even win the election; he lost in a landslide. If you want the truth, look up Jay Valentine and Omega 4, and people living in Walmarts, and college dorms for 20 years, and who were born in the 1800s and still vote. If we keep trying to monitor elections by putting observers in the counting rooms, the elections will always be lost. We must compare elections rolls to property tax rolls to invalidate tons of mail in ballots that the NGOs, in compliance with lazy or unscrupulous Secretaries of State, will not repair. And they are in every state. If they are not corrected, do not be surprised by another election of someone like Bozo Biden!
You cannot hate the insufferable propaganda nozzle media enough.
Welker is out of her league. Bessent knocked her out of the park.
It’s the confidence of ignorance!
Brilliant man, in command of all facts and figures. Made this female newsreader like a kewpie doll. Good job.
President Trump is surrounded by the best Cabinet, ever!
The message on the Auto-Pen induced inflation should be much more aggressive in order to set the stage for the magnitude of work still required to get “consumer prices at the REGISTER” down.
Nobody gives a rat’s ass about the indices spouted of 10-25% under Biden. It’s cost at point of service or purchase.
Case in point … within 4-6 weeks of Biden’s Auto-Pen being installed in the White House …. my normal grocery bill jumped 30% and hit a 75% jump by year end. The start point for dropping prices is having MY GROCERY BILL drop from the UP 75% point, which it has but the drop is admittedly slow but it’s there.
Then there is the resistance by Financial Puppet Masters, that is never mentioned … especially in 4-major areas of food supply, fuel, energy and finance. The puppet masters are supported by a Congress that refuses to legislate in support of the President and a Court System allowing itself to be used as a lawfare tool.
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Followed closely by the increase in wages …. which is the driver of service industry increases … that Bissett does mention.
An opinion might look something like this: Blah blah blah. All the same problems, all the same causes, while most of the right solutions are discarded because such interfere with the rate of wealth accumulation for the plutocratic monied interests that control these sock-puppets. They could all use a brain transplant, as well as a new soul to replace the worn out filthy burdens they now carry. Why do voters continue to trust these people? Ignorance, plain and simple. Ignorance is the currency of their trust. That might be one opinion.
“The source of most American division is found in the behavior of the media.”
And is there a certain group of people that owns the media??
THIS: “The source of most American division is found in the behavior of the media.”
I know we all know this, just to see it so plainly written in b&w really caught my attention.
The headline tells it all, now I don’t need to watch the video.
Want to lower the cost of housing?
All illegal live somewhere.
Apartment, condo, house, etc.
The illegals live somewhere.
If they were gone that housing unit would open up for someone who actually is a citizen and lives here legally.
Maybe this solves part of the housing issue.
Why not give it a try?
SEC. SCOTT BESSENT:
I – I am confident of that. And I am also confident that this was a complete mistake. They should retract it.
WHY IS HE DOWNPLAYING THIS???? not a fan of Bessent