Biden's Lies
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"My pronouns are FA/FO." - Mik, 2024
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His grandfather was an "All-American football player"
http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/football_records/2018/awards.pdf
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Joe Biden Says U.S. Has "Lowest Inflation Rate Of Almost Any Major Country."
https://tradingeconomics.com/country-list/inflation-rate
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The New York Times makes a discovery:
Biden Spins His Economic Record
As President Biden has told it in recent months, America has the fastest-growing economy in the world, his student debt forgiveness program passed Congress by a vote or two, and Social Security benefits became more generous thanks to his leadership.
None of that was accurate.
The president, who has long been seen as embellishing the truth, has recently overstated his influence on the economy, or omitted key facts. This week, Mr. Biden praised himself for giving retirees a raise during a speech in Florida.
“On my watch, for the first time in 10 years, seniors are getting an increase in their Social Security checks,” he declared. The problem: That increase was the result of an automatic cost-of-living increase prompted by the most rapid inflation in 40 years. Mr. Biden had not done anything to make retirees’ checks bigger — it was just a byproduct of the soaring inflation that the president has vowed to combat.
In stops across the country in recent weeks, Mr. Biden has also credited himself with bringing down the federal budget deficit — the gap between what America owes and what it earns.
“This year the deficit, under our leadership, is falling by $1.4 trillion,” he said last week in Syracuse, N.Y. “Ladies and gentlemen, the largest ever one-year cut in American history on the deficit.”
Left unsaid was the fact that the deficit was so high in the first place because of pandemic relief spending, including a $1.9 trillion economic aid package the president pushed through Congress in 2021 and which was not renewed. Mr. Biden was in effect claiming credit for not passing another round of emergency assistance.But TRUMP!!
Mr. Biden’s economic exaggerations generally pale in comparison to the tales spun by his predecessor, President Donald J. Trump. The former president, whose lies included insisting that he did not lose the 2020 election and that the Capitol was not attacked by his supporters on Jan. 6, 2021, regularly boasted of “the greatest economy in the history of the world” — a statement not based on any facts. Mr. Trump also said his giant tax cut package paid for itself when it did not, and he relied on outlandish economic growth projections to make his budgets balance.
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@kluurs said in Biden's Lies:
He was the Benjamin Franklin Presidential Practice Professor at the University of Pennsylvania.
He repeated it.
Biden slipped in the comment while touting the amount of time he has spent with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
“I spent more time with Xi Jinping of China than any world leader has. When I was vice president and when I was out of the office for four years and I was a professor, and now president,” Biden said.
After leaving the White House, Biden was given the title Benjamin Franklin Presidential Practice Professor at the University of Pennsylvania.
President Biden gave a speech about Republicans and former President Donald Trump's "Big Lie" at Union Station in Washington, DC on November 2, 2022.
Biden’s ‘Big Lie’ on democracy
Biden’s claim to have been a professor has been looked into previously, with Snopes determining in April 2022 that “this role was honorary.” While Biden held the honorary post, he made about $900,000. He gave roughly a dozen lectures and talks but never taught a full semester’s course. Nor did he conduct any research or have any administrative responsibilities.At the same time Biden held the honorary Franklin post, Penn also named him Senior Fellow at the Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy.
After launching his presidential campaign in April 2019, the university released a statement saying he would be taking an “unpaid leave of absence from his work at the Penn Biden Center.”
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While pardoning the birds:
"“We have more chickens than anybody in the nation in Delaware, but we don’t have turkeys.” "
Er, no.
Delaware's chicken population does not crack the top 10 of states in the nation, according to Statistica. And its poultry industry, which is worth an estimated $1.7 billion and provides 3,500 jobs, is not even in the top five in the U.S., according to the National Chicken Council.
I can't really imagine many things that are less important than how many chickens are raised in Delaware. Obviously, however, POTUS finds it significant enough to confabulate about it.
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"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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Again, I wonder, is he deliberately lying?
Is he confabulating?
Is he ignorant of the facts?
Is he saying what his handlers tell him to say?
I suppose a Venn diagram of these possibilities could be constructed.
Like DJT, I think he says what he thinks will sound good. May be true. May be untrue. May not even make sense. Like the word "myth" - it isn't whether the myth is true. It matters if it is effective or ineffective. In the world of the internet, it only matters whether it was clicked or not.
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@kluurs said in Biden's Lies:
Like DJT, I think he says what he thinks will sound good. May be true. May be untrue. May not even make sense.
THat's absolutely correct.
I just keep posting these here to get @89th 's goat. He pilloried DJT over and over about his "lies."
By the way, and any major news outlet kept a scorecard of these yet? I'm sure that by the end of year 2, Trump had quite a list.
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
