Biden's Lies
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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.
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@George-K Ha! I hadn't checked this thread in a while. The gun video earlier made me chuckle... even if he was right about an AR-15 being 5x faster, how does that change the ability for a victim to dodge the bullet? LOL
Anyway, regarding his statement above, I guess Biden is technically right. Since July the "real earnings" chart (aka the wage growth compared to price growth) does show that wages have slightly outpaced inflation. See below. If you view the full clip, he says it's "over the last few months", but I know why it was edited out for clicks (including mine, LOL).
That being said, wage growth isn't always a good thing. Those operational costs will be passed onto to the consumer.
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Remarks by President Biden at a Delaware Veterans Summit
You know, I — my dad, when I got elected Vice President, he said, “Joey, Uncle Frank fought in the Battle of the Bulge.” He was not feeling very well now — not because of the Battle of the Bulge. But he said, “And he won the Purple Heart. And he never received it. He never — he never got it. Do you think you could help him get it? We’ll surprise him.”
So we got him the Purple Heart. He had won it in the Battle of the Bulge. And I remember he came over to the house, and I came out, and he said, “Present it to him, okay?” We had the family there.
I said, “Uncle Frank, you won this. And I want to…” He said, “I don’t want the damn thing.” (Laughter.) No, I’m serious. He said, “I don’t want it.” I said, “What’s the matter, Uncle Frank? You earned it.” He said, “Yeah, but the others died. The others died. I lived. I don’t want it.”
Just like a generation — this generation in Vietnam — excuse me, in — in Iraq.
Biden became Vice President in 2009.
His uncle Frank died in 1999.
His father died in 2002.
Frank Biden’s tombstone does not identify him as a Purple Heart honoree, nor does his obituary. A partial registry of known Purple Heart recipients also doesn’t note anyone by that name receiving the award, though that database is not comprehensive.
The Post’s librarians could not locate prior references to Frank Biden receiving the Purple Heart, which recognizes wounded and killed soldiers, in the Nexis archive and the Factba.se repository of Joe Biden’s public statements also doesn’t contain prior references.
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I'd stop voting for the motherfuckers if I were you.
I know, you only had two choices, and they were both lying scumbags, so you were kind of stuck.
Maybe you could ask the British to take over again? We're not particularly honest, but we sound a lot more sophisticated than your leaders. Boris can lie in ancient Greek.
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Washington Post (!)
Fact-checking President Biden’s 2023 State of the Union address
"That’s misleading. "
"Left unsaid"
"being a bit slippery"
"telling half of the story"
"comparing apples and oranges"
"Biden misleadingly claims to have lowered the deficit"
"technically accurate but lacks context"
"These claim are the subject of dispute"
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In a nutshell....
Proud supporter of Plan 2525. Everything you think, do and say will be in the pill you took today.
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@Doctor-Phibes so, in other words, you’re saying she’s right!
"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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@George-K said in Biden's Lies:
@Doctor-Phibes so, in other words, you’re saying she’s right!
Alt right.
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Sometimes, The Resident doesn't even have to open his mouth to lie...
Listening to Bongino a bit today and he was talking about Biden's visit to Ukraine. For those that don't know, Bongino was a NYC cop and later a Secret Service agent (Presidential Protection Detail, Bush 43 and early Obama).
While he said Biden's visit was a gutsy move, he still thought it ill-advised from a security standpoint.
But what he did think was pure political theater was the reaction from Biden and his security staff when the air raid siren sounded. Biden's detail took no action. That means one of two things:
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The detail did not know that was an air raid siren. That's simply ludicrous. They know. It ain't the movies, they wouldn't have manhandled the president, but they would have placed him quickly into a secure location.
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The detail did know, because it was a set-up. Just a little bit of added theater to lend some drama and spice to the tv shot. That's why they didn't take any immediate action.
The number 2 possibility is what they call a lead pipe cinch.
Always remember, Operation Valkyrie was an act of sedition.
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@Jolly said in Biden's Lies:
Sometimes, The Resident doesn't even have to open his mouth to lie...
Listening to Bongino a bit today and he was talking about Biden's visit to Ukraine. For those that don't know, Bongino was a NYC cop and later a Secret Service agent (Presidential Protection Detail, Bush 43 and early Obama).
While he said Biden's visit was a gutsy move, he still thought it ill-advised from a security standpoint.
But what he did think was pure political theater was the reaction from Biden and his security staff when the air raid siren sounded. Biden's detail took no action. That means one of two things:
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The detail did not know that was an air raid siren. That's simply ludicrous. They know. It ain't the movies, they wouldn't have manhandled the president, but they would have placed him quickly into a secure location.
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The detail did know, because it was a set-up. Just a little bit of added theater to lend some drama and spice to the tv shot. That's why they didn't take any immediate action.
The number 2 possibility is what they call a lead pipe cinch.
Whomever’s idea it was, will probably still get a raise.
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