Biden's Lies

[Mik]

I looked into that too. He believes Beau developed his glioblastoma from being near the burn pits in Iraq. It's not an unreasonable belief.

[George K]

@Mik

https://rockymountainbrainandspineinstitute.com/burn-pits-and-brain-cancer/

However in comparing military either exposed (predominately after 2001) to “burn pits” to those not exposed, there seems to be equal rates of brain tumors. No data suggests Iraq veterans developed brain cancer at any higher rate than those in earlier wars. Brain cancer prevalence was ~ 0.04% for Vietnam veterans and 0.03% for Gulf War veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan.

But the guy who wrote this is a brain surgeon. Who you gonna trust, a neurosurgeon or POTUS?

FactCheck

Biden’s other main claim was his suggestion that burn pits are the reason why some veterans are developing brain cancer. There is little evidence to indicate that’s true, although scientists have not ruled out a connection.

Burn pits are open areas in which trash from a military base is burned, typically because of a lack of other waste infrastructure, including incinerators. Although the U.S. military has significantly reduced the use of burn pits, they once were common throughout war zones in the Middle East and Central Asia.

A 2010 Government Accountability Office report explains that before 2004, burn pits were the only method of waste management that the military used in Iraq and Afghanistan. In November 2009, the report adds, U.S. Central Command reported 50 active burn pits in Afghanistan and 67 in Iraq; by April 2010, this had changed to 184 and 52, respectively, and in August 2010, to 251 and 22.

Although future studies may eventually come out to change scientific opinion, there is no direct evidence that burn pits cause brain cancer, and no indication that Iraq War veterans are especially affected by brain cancer, as Biden claimed.

[Mik]

I'm not saying he's right. But it is not what its being made out to be. I am plenty critical of the man, but this is, and he admits he can't prove it, his belief. He gets a pass on this one.

[George K]

@Mik said in Biden's Lies:

his belief. He gets a pass on this one.

Nope.

Party of science, you know.

[George K]

Student loan debt relief passed by a vote or two.

[George K]

His grandfather was an "All-American football player"

http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/football_records/2018/awards.pdf

[Horace]

Simple slip of the tongue. Biden accidentally said “all American football player” when he meant to say “horrible virulent racist”. It’s not technically a lie, because his grandfather was a horrible virulent racist.

[George K]

[Horace]

I read here that as long as it’s plausible that Biden was told the falsehood by his echo chamber handlers, and believes it, it’s not technically a lie.

[Jolly]

The biggest lie of all is how the media is covering up for Biden and slanting the news to promote a White House approved image.

[Copper]

The guy's brain is dead, give him a break.

But, lock up the enablers.

[George K]

[Copper]

Iraq, Maryland, close

[George K]

Joe Biden Says U.S. Has "Lowest Inflation Rate Of Almost Any Major Country."

https://tradingeconomics.com/country-list/inflation-rate

[George K]

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.

[Mik]

I got a raise last year too.

[George K]

@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.”

[kluurs]

Humility and politics - what a crazy pair...

[George K]

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.

[George K]

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.