Biden says gas in California has always cost $7 a gallon
“The inflation report is out. Have you seen gas prices around here in LA? It’s 7 bucks a gallon almost,” a reporter asked Biden as he paid for food at a Los Angeles-based taco shop.
“Well, that’s always been the case here,” Biden replied. “You know, it’s not — what — nationwide, [gas prices] came down about $1.35, and they’re still down over a dollar. But we’re going to work on, housing is the big, is the most important thing we have to do in terms of that.”
The explanation?
(1) Biden lives in the moment; past and future don’t exist.
(2) Biden’s been rereading Nineteen Eighty-Four, and since “Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia” worked for Ingsoc, he figures it’ll work for him.
(3) Math is hard.
(4) The last time Biden bought gas in California was never.
(5) Newsom told him so.
Actually, though, I think I know what Biden might have been trying (and totally failing) to convey. It would go something like this: ‘It’s always been the case that gas is more expensive in California than in other states. You know, it’s not as high elsewhere right now as in California — nationwide, gas prices came down about $1.35 from their recent high, and they’re still down over a dollar from that. But in terms of inflation, what we’re going to work on, housing is the most important thing we have to do in terms of that.’
You can still find enormous fault with the message, but at least it would be intelligible. What Biden said was not.
Biden has never been a particularly intelligent man, nor has he been a good communicator. Now his thoughts are more confused than ever, and his communications are more fragmented. You shouldn’t need a translator to understand a president’s meaning when he speaks – although you can’t go wrong if you always assume that Biden is intending to excuse himself and blame others, or bend the truth to his own advantage. In that, he’s not much different than many politicians; just more so, and also so cognitively challenged that it’s hard to tell what the thought is behind the words.
Some would say there isn’t a thought behind the words. But I’ve long differed on that. I think that despite his cognitive decline, Biden retains the ability to understand the basics, to connive and to lie, to be corrupt and nasty, and to play to his leftist base. He’s just nowhere near as good at it as he’d like to be, and not even as good at it as he used to be.
I totally agree with your last paragraph.
The illegitimate usurper at 1600 (albeit spending most of his time in Delaware, with occasional travels in order to sample ice cream) has also claimed that his son died in Iraq and that he has two important words to share: “Made in America”. His cognitive impairment (not to mention the utterly destructive policies of this worst of all possible administrations) notwithstanding, perhaps half the citizenry of our moribund republic, whose brains have been conditioned and programmed into utter hysteria and irrationality, would choose him once again over the evil Kremlin-installed Orange-man.
“Doctor” Jill is doing her best to micromanage Brandon’s public appearances: First lady Jill Biden tore into White House staffers after they failed to cut off President Biden’s second solo press conference in January — when her husband kept taking questions even as then-press secretary Jen Psaki signaled to the president to wrap it up, according to a report. . . . Following the presser, which went on for about two hours, Jill Biden popped into a meeting of top White House officials who were rehashing the president’s performance, the New York Times reported.? . . . The Times report, describing how the first lady has become a favored surrogate for the president ahead of the midterm elections, noted that she has been protective of her husband and even took part in hiring White House staffers and press aides, including vetting Psaki alongside the president.
https://nypost.com/2022/10/17/jill-biden-ripped-wh-staffers-for-not-stopping-joes-solo-presser/
$7 a gallon ain’t nuthin’ t’ fret about…
…the American economy is “BOOMING”…
…and “Biden” ‘s mischievous—audacious?—pals in Teheran are…”at it” again.
“Iran Sending More Missiles & Drones To Russia Despite West’s Sanctions Threat”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/iran-sending-more-missiles-drones-russia-despite-wests-sanctions-threat
Just another “Biden”-Putin nexus, I guess….
(Make that “Biden”-Mullah-Putin nexus…)
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Meanwhile in the criminal fantasy world that the USA has become…
“Danchenko trial: Jury finds Steele dossier source not guilty on all counts”—
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/danchenko-found-jury
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https://www.zerohedge.com/political/edva-jury-igor-danchenko-not-guilty-all-counts
“A mans got to know his limitations.”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uki4lrLzRaU
Profound on many levels and apropos today.
Yet, still viscerally satisfying that was. Real life is rarely that way.
What’s DOT you say?
“nationwide, gas prices came down about $1.35 from their recent high, and they’re still down over a dollar from that”
Lets see, so according to Biden the $4.65 gal gas came down to $3.30 then another $1 from that to $2.30. I would love gas at $2.30 instead of the $3.50 in my part of CO.
Biden is the Walter Mitty of politics. He conjures up fantasies where he is always the hero. He did it in 1987, long before he was senile. That was the end of his 1988 campaign.
I remember when gas in California was under $1 a gallon. And I remember that last place I saw gas for under $1 a gallon – an Arco station off I-680 somewhere between Benicia and Fairfield.
Not sure what the price was elsewhere in the country back then (early 90s).
Of course, gas in the PRK is more expensive because of Dem policies – policies that they would replicate elsewhere if they could.
The silver lining that is the dark cloud with pResident Bidet is that, as long as the democRats continue to double down on their planned fundamental transformation of America into the most immoral of nations… he is an albatross around their party’s neck. Bidet just spent two days in Portland trying to shore up the Democrat’s candidate for governor. Who is behind in the polls. It’s to be celebrated that the democrats refuse to consider that the source of their weakness with voters is the results of policies divorced from fundamental realities.
Dave L.:
I remember when gas in NJ was 35 cents. Actually, I think when I was really little it was something like 19 cents, but I wasn’t noticing so I’m not sure.
As a Caltech grad student in 1971, I’d buy gas at 25 cents/gallon. According to the inflation calculator I like best … https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/ … that’s equivalent to $1.83/gallon today.
Gas have been cut from $6/gallon to 3$/quart. And chocolate rations have been raised from 25g/month to 20g/month.
I’ll add 6): it is a means of preparing the battlespace and trying to ease people in to the “new normal”, especially those in left-dominated states that the Left needs to maintain at least some level of control over.
Yes, Biden has always been able “to connive and to lie, to be corrupt and nasty, and to play to his leftist base.” He’s a smooth operator in his mind. Slyly sniffing women’s hair, copping a feel, nuzzling strange women and thinking, “Hah, I’m so smooth. No one complains.” To him his office has primarily been a place to enrich himself and his family. In his mind, only “suckers” don’t put their hand in the till when the opportunity arises. He’s declining mentally, but the crooked, snake oil salesman instincts are still intact.
All in all, a loathsome person. That he and Kamal Harris are POTUS and VPOTUS shows, unfortunately, that “anyone” can become president of the United States.
According to a tweet from Bill Jacobson, “Fixed: Biden admin to release another 10-15 million oil barrels from nation’s emergency stockpile in bid to minimize midterm election losses.”
https://legalinsurrection.com/2022/10/biden-planning-to-release-more-barrels-of-oil-from-strategic-reserve-just-in-time-for-midtersm/
@ PA Cat > According to a tweet from Bill Jacobson, “Fixed: Biden admin to release another 10-15 million oil barrels from nation’s emergency stockpile in bid to minimize midterm election losses.”
This is like farmers feeding their seed-corn to the cattle.
See this chart from Steve Hayward at Powerline, at the end of the post.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/10/the-daily-chart-long-expensive-cold-winter-ahead.php
It’s a textbook case of “taking a nose dive.”
Just in my own bookmarks, starting in 2021, I have more than a dozen posts noting the ill-considered, probably dangerous, and also corrupt embezzlement from the SPR to boost his polls.
He ought to have to pay for every replacement barrel from his cache of foreign bribes.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/11/something_very_peculiar_is_happening_with_our_strategic_petroleum_reserve.html
“It turns out that Biden is already tapping into the SPR; he’s just not doing it to help Americans. A report in investment circles is finally trickling down into the mainstream news: Biden is selling massive amounts of SPR oil…to Asia!”
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2021/11/24/oil-reserves-released-by-biden-will-go-primarily-to-benefit-india-and-china-n1536144
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/07/08/why_us_petroleum_reserve_oil_went_overseas_147862.html
“They were less eager to shoulder any responsibility for some of that supply heading overseas. A spokesperson for the Department of Energy told RCP that energy markets are international in nature and they couldn’t dictate the moves the oil and gas industry makes.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/biden-sold-1-million-barrels-strategic-petroleum-reserve-chinese-firm-hunter-invested
“In today’s edition of ‘everything they accused the Trumps of being,’ the Washington Free Beacon reports that the Biden administration sold roughly 1 million barrels from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to a Chinese state-controlled gas giant which Hunter Biden had a stake in as recently as 2015.”
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2022/09/16/remember-when-democrats-blocked-trump-from-filling-the-strategic-oil-reserve-while-gas-was-cheap-n1630055
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2022/09/27/bidens-depletion-of-the-strategic-petroleum-reserve-could-be-catastrophic-soon-n1632699
The results were not as bad as Margolis feared, fortunately.
https://www.hartenergy.com/exclusives/9-oil-6-gas-production-shut-hurricane-ian-slams-florida-202273
I’m presuming that’s all back in production by now, but it could have been much worse.
I totally agree with your last paragraph. I also wonder if the majority of the population of his state, which elected him to the post of US Senator for decades, is not as rotten as Biden is.
I’ve begun calling them the “Marie Antoinette Administration”–I’m hard pressed to remember any administration so detached from reality on so many subjects–it’s breathtaking really. And I suspect it’s deliberate.