The Biden administration tapped teenage TikTok influencers last week to coordinate messaging on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and blame Vladimir Putin for rising gas prices, according to a recording of a call between White House officials and the social media stars.
Days later, Ellie Zeiler, and 18-year-old with more than 10 million followers on TikTok, posted a video in which she aimed to answer the question, "Why is gas so expensive?" "Why is gas so expensive, and why is the United States inflation rate at a four-time decade high?" she begins the video. "I had the opportunity to ask the White House why gas down the street is $7 and here’s what they said."
Gen-Z for Change, an organization of influencers involved in the meeting, tweeted Friday that the discussion focused on the U.S. government’s "strategic goals in Ukraine so we’re better able to debunk misinformation."
Zeiler had asked the officials specifically about inflation and what it means for the future of the country and for young people. Psaki fielded the question, attributing the inflation to several factors – supply chain issues, the pandemic and the rising cost of energy, which she initially conceded had begun its climb before Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. But when it came to gas prices, she singled out Putin specifically.
So who is dumb enough to fall for this?
- Are the liberal here dumb enough to fall for this?
- Are liberals as a whole dumb enough to fall for this?
- Is it just the Gen-Z crowd that is dumb enough to fall for this?
Basic logic 101 suggest that there is a cause and THEN an effect. Since gas prices started climbing BEFORE Putin invaded Ukraine it cannot logically be the cause of rising gas prices. At least not without some form of time altering or just plain and simple magic. So do we believe in the ability to alter time? Do we believe in magic? What is really the argument here?
Besides the basic lack of common sense involved in this giant smoking pile of nonsensical rhetoric, you have to appreciate the fact that they are already trying to claim any sound, thinking man's explanation for inflation and gas prices that does not cast blame unto Putin is "disinformation". I mean how stupid are tic-toc followers anyways? Does all it take is someone calling something "disinformation" and they run like a puppy to a treat, tongues hanging out, panting excessively, with their hips wiggling all excited for that milk bone?
This is what the Biden Administration has fallen to. No actual plan to solve the problem with inflation or gas prices. But rather they are looking for new and stupider ways to try to pass the buck and demand that it's not their fault. My car had a flat tire, didn't have cab fare, suit did not come back from the cleaner, an old friend came in from out of town, someone stole my car, earthquake, terrible flood, locusts? That my friends, is our President.
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Drafting numbskull leftists to brag on a Chinese app.
Fucking perfect.
So who is dumb enough to fall for this?
Are the liberal here dumb enough to fall for this?
Are liberals as a whole dumb enough to fall for this?
Is it just the Gen-Z crowd that is dumb enough to fall for this?
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
Yeah but Trump blah blah blah
The backdrop of global and domestic inflation in the United States was already worrying. Now, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the global reaction to it stand to make the situation worse — including sending gas prices soaring.
The conflict has roiled global markets, causing stock market turmoil, sending oil prices higher, and injecting even more uncertainty into an already off-balance worldwide economy. It’s also sparked concerns that inflation, already running hot, could run even hotter.
In the United States, the Consumer Price Index, which measures the average change in prices consumers pay for goods and services, was up by 7.5 percent over the past year in January. That’s a 40-year high. The hope was that inflation would soon start to come down, and that factors driving it, such as high gas prices and supply chain woes, would finally pass. Now, it appears that the situation could be quite the opposite.
“What we’re observing is essentially an energy price shock and a financial markets shock that comes on the back of this already concerning inflation environment, an environment in which global supply chains are already stressed and in which there is already some degree of uncertainty as to the outlook,” said Gregory Daco, chief economist at EY-Parthenon. “It’s not just a shock in isolation, it’s a shock in that context.”
Russia is one of the biggest oil and gas producers in the world, and any disruptions stand to have a major impact on prices — disruptions we’re already seeing. On Tuesday, President Joe Biden announced that the US would ban imports of Russian oil, natural gas, and coal. The United Kingdom has said it will scrap Russian oil imports as well. These maneuvers prompted a spike in oil prices, which have already been on the rise, and the situation is sure to have ripple effects across the global economy.
In early February, JPMorgan analysts projected that disruptions to oil flows from Russia could push oil prices to $120 per barrel, which, indeed, it already has. (For context, oil was priced in the $60 per barrel range a year ago, and started 2020 in the $70s and $80s.) Some analysts have warned that worst-case scenario oil prices could hit $200, and Russia has warned that $300 oil prices could be on the horizon, depending on what Europe, which is much more reliant on Russian oil and gas than the US, does.
In the US, Russian oil made up about 3 percent of shipments in 2021, according to Bloomberg, and when you include other petroleum products, that rises to 8 percent. That’s not a ton, but it’s not nothing, either. Major oil companies, such as Shell and BP, have said they’ll stop buying oil and gas from Russia and curb business with the country, which is causing volatility and prices changes as well. Europe is starting to move away from its dependence on Russia, too.
Americans — already dealing with high gas prices and annoyed at the rising costs of heating their homes — are in for a bumpy ride. Gas prices matter not just for people filling up the tanks of their cars but also because of shipping and transportation. The conflict could also translate to high diesel prices and jet fuel for airplanes. “The inflation machine is just not going to slow down,” said Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis at GasBuddy.
According to AAA, the average price of gas nationally is $4.17 a gallon, up significantly from $2.66 a year ago. That number now stands to climb even higher, especially as the summer months approach, which will put more people on the road. As the New York Times points out, the last time gas prices were so high was during the 2008 financial crisis, when — adjusted for inflation — a gallon was priced at about $5.37.
Joe Brusuelas, chief economist at accounting and consulting firm RSM, told CNN in February that the Russia-Ukraine conflict could push inflation to 10 percent year over year, driven in part by gas. By his calculation, an increase in oil prices to $110 could increase consumer prices by 2.8 percent over the course of a year. Alan Detmeister, an economist at UBS, told the New York Times that oil at $120 per barrel could mean inflation at 9 percent in the coming months.
“It becomes a question of: How long do oil prices, natural gas wholesale prices stay elevated?” he told the Times. “That’s anybody’s guess.”
In remarks at the White House on Tuesday, President Biden acknowledged that the Russia-Ukraine conflict and measures the US and Europe have taken to push back against Russia will be felt domestically. “This decision today is not without cost here at home,” he said, referring to the Russian oil ban.
The Biden administration has promised to try to protect Americans from a spike in gas prices. Over the weekend, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken told CNN that the US is “talking to our European partners and allies to look in a coordinated way that prospect of banning the import of Russian oil while making sure that there’s still an appropriate supply of oil on world markets.”
Still, the options on oil supply are limited, at least in the immediate term. “The president has insinuated that he’s got it, he’s going to do everything he can,” said De Haan in February, but it’s not clear what other strings Biden can pull on. Striking a new nuclear deal with oil producer Iran could help, but it’s no silver bullet, nor is it clear it’s very likely to happen. “It’s no Russia, in terms of oil supply,” De Haan said. The US has also begun weighing whether it could look to Venezuela.
Higher oil prices could dampen on economic growth. People and companies having to spend more on oil and gas could reduce spending in other areas, and that could cut into GDP. By one estimate, a long-term increase in gas prices could cost the typical household in the US $2,000 per year.
FIXING BLAME?
SOLVING PROBLEMS?
SEEMS JOE'S DOING BETTER AND BETTER!
Americans Warm to Biden’s Approach on Ukraine War
March 15, 2022 at 10:26 am EDT By Taegan Goddard
A new Yahoo News/YouGov poll
finds President Biden’s approval rating for his handling of Russia and Ukraine has risen 5 percentage points since the start of the war in Eastern Europe more than two weeks ago — including a 12-point gain among self-described independent voters.
Putin Killed Trump’s ‘America First’ Movement
10:00 am EDT
Matt Lewis:
“Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, there’s no going back to ‘America First’ as it was.
That’s not to say the public is clamoring for a war with Russia.
But the Trumpian worldview that embraced Vladimir Putin and threatened to abandon NATO has, for now, been repudiated.
Republicans with their ears closest to the ground already know this.”
BETTER GET YOUR EARS CLOSER
TO THE GROUND, GUYS!
Biden administration still more about passing blame than fixing problems
White House drafts TikTok stars to blame Putin for rising gas prices
A BIGGER PILE OF SHIT FROM FOX THAT LIL SCHITTY FALLS FOR.......BWAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! Posting fox propaganda like the good little deranged trump GOP slurper he is!!!!!!! He must be feeling the pressure as polls turn in a direction his bias cannot accept!!!!!!!
Pressure Grows on Biden to Do More for Ukraine
9:03 am EDT
“Nearly three weeks into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Biden administration is still assessing the most effective way to get military aid into the country without triggering a wider war,” CNN reports.
“While administration officials say the effort to provide Ukrainian forces with American-made weapons such as Javelin anti-tank and Stinger anti-aircraft missiles has been largely successful, the White House is under intense pressure to do more.”
GO AHEAD AND DO MORE JOE. IT'S DANGEROUS, BUT PUTIN WILL CAVE.
The Hill: Zelensky virtual address raises pressure on Biden.
Ten States Hit Record-Low Unemployment Rates
11:49
“Two years after the onset of the coronavirus pandemic caused a round of mass layoffs not seen since the Great Depression, ten states have now set new record low unemployment rates as businesses scramble to hire new workers,” The Hill reports.
A new poll released Tuesday from the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) found minority voters have been hit hardest by inflation, with some saying they will vote Republican in the midterms as their pockets are squeezed.
The poll found overall 58% of participants feel inflation is causing them major financial stress. When broken down among demographics, 35% of black, Hispanic, Asian-American and other minority voters expressed feeling the pain of inflation, compared to 28% of white voters. Among those polled, 44% of black women and Hispanic men reported the highest proportion of major strain among demographic and gender combinations.
The poll was conducted between March 2-7 among 1,500 registered voters with a +/- 2.5 percentage points margin of error.
...
Seventy-eight percent of Hispanic voters said the economy is headed in the wrong direction. When asked who’d they back for a congressional candidate, 46% of Hispanic voters said they would probably or definitely choose a Republican, compared to 37% who said they would choose a Democrat.
While black voters still chose Democratic candidates over Republican candidates, the margins are shrinking. A November poll found 56% of those polled favored a Democrat candidate compared to 35% now, according to the WSJ.
TOOT TOOT, for democrats the "light at the end of the tunnel" is an on rushing train.
(not from Goddard's blog)
What the pedo conveniently left out of The Hill
A new report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) shows Nebraska and Utah sported the lowest unemployment rates in the nation in January, at just 2.2 percent each. In Indiana, the unemployment rate stands at 2.4 percent; in Kansas, it is at 2.6 percent.
Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi, Montana, Oklahoma and West Virginia all set new records for the lowest unemployment rates since the BLS started keeping state-by-state track in 1976.
Ima thinking they are all red states that opened up
I was going to not list my source but unlike the POS "pastor" I decided I would since that is ethical and so am I, unlike him
https://dailycaller.com/2022/03/15/minority-voters-hit-hardest-inflation-vote-republican-midterms/
Indy was right because since then you have been showing symptoms to IED, indicated by your irrational and emotional and angry diatribes, just like the fifth Beatle Mark Shipper. Unfortunately it is not treatable. Eventually you may be confined into a assisted facility or even a nursing home...
Seriously you should seek help.
Caliphate4vr said...
What the pedo conveniently left out of The Hill
That was Goddard's extraction and dishonesty, the POS "pastor" just plagiarized it as always.
Ten States Hit Record-Low Unemployment Rates
March 15, 2022 at 11:49 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 46 Comments
“Two years after the onset of the coronavirus pandemic caused a round of mass layoffs not seen since the Great Depression, ten states have now set new record low unemployment rates as businesses scramble to hire new workers,” The Hill reports.
https://politicalwire.com/2022/03/15/ten-states-hit-record-low-unemployment-rates/
Ima thinking they are all red states that opened up
And all under the Biden Administration's recovery!!!!!!!!
Tik tok???
Since Biden took office, the right wing’s steady assault has led to 91 percent of Republicans disapproving of his performance as president, according to Quinnipiac.
A similar but slightly smaller percentage of Republicans, 76 percent, disapprove of how he is handling the war. The strong negativity among Republicans results in a split decision in overall public opinion of Biden’s war leadership, with 42 percent approval and 45 percent disapproval.
What happened in Afghanistan stands as a painful reminder for Democrats.
An overwhelming majority of Americans over more than a decade told polls they wanted an end to the longest war in U.S. history.
Biden got it done. He even managed to evacuate a record number of people. But the GOP trashed the long overdue withdrawal because 13 Americans in uniform tragically died in a terror attack at the airport in Kabul.
Now, Biden is succeeding in rallying international support for Ukraine against Russia’s aggression. Again, the GOP wants him to pay a political price.
In my lifetime, I have seen presidents pay a price for war.
After the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, American initially supported a war on terror led by a Republican, President George W. Bush. When that effort went astray in Iraq, voters gave control of Congress to the Democrats at the 2006 midterms.
In 2008, then-Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) won the presidency by drawing a stark contrast by pointing out that then-Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) and then-Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) — Obama’s main opponents in the Democratic primary and the general election, respectively — had cast Senate votes in support of the Iraq war.
Now as commander-in-chief, Biden is understandably hesitant to call out Republicans for playing politics with foreign policy as the nation faces the possibility of World War III with a nuclear Russia.
But some Democrats worry that voters' memories are short-lived. That is especially true of partisan GOP voters who do not want to be reminded of Trump’s obsequiousness to Putin, which emboldened the Russian dictator.
No president should ever play politics with America’s foreign policy. But Democrats would be foolish to ignore the potential for a political storm at home over this crisis.
Biden got it done. He even managed to evacuate a record number of people. But the GOP trashed the long overdue withdrawal because 13 Americans in uniform tragically died in a terror attack at the airport in Kabul.
Don’t forget the Iraqi families we drone zapped, with you claiming they were hiding a car bomb
Indy was right because since then you have been showing symptoms to IED, indicated by your irrational and emotional and angry diatribes, just like the fifth Beatle Mark Shipper. Unfortunately it is not treatable. Eventually you may be confined into a assisted facility or even a nursing home...
Seriously you should seek help.
Hey Roger...
Talking to yourself is one of those symptoms.
But you are ultimately correct about it. You should seek help and we all (except probably Rat who doesn't care) would support that.
Biden got it done. He even managed to evacuate a record number of people.
Ironically the idea that Biden got it done sort of clashes with the reality that private citizens from the U.S. became largely responsible for getting hundreds of Americans out of Afghanistan. In some cases, the Administration made it difficult for these private parties, but they made it happen anyways.
Sad when you have to take credit for something someone else did, because you were not competent enough to do it yourself.
You source
'How is our White House any better than Russia?' Fox News host attacks Biden for briefing TikTok stars
David Edwards
March 15, 2022
A Fox News segment on Tuesday suggested that President Joe Biden's government is not "any better" than Russia because White House staff met with TikTok stars for a briefing about Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
After playing a clip of TikTok influencer Ellie Zeiler explaining how the invasion has impacted gas prices, Fox News host Rachel Campos-Duffy compared the U.S. to Russia.
"So, Brian, how is our White House any better than Russia in spewing out this kind of propaganda?" Campos-Duffy asked. "I mean, using basically useful idiots essentially to just spew out lies."
"Well, the president is a Democrat," co-host Brian Kilmeade opined, "and he's trying to save the midterms so what he wants to do is get the whole 18 to 24s or maybe he will get those 16-year-olds to vote, which I think was an aspiration of the west coast."
"Sooner or later the TikTok-ers will realize they are being used by the White House," he said. "But it's a savvy move."
Campos-Duffy added: "The American people aren't as dumb as they think they are and the polls show that. The American people are not buying Putin as the blame."
Faux news robotics pjmedia and Redstate etc
Get help
I already did!
A Pulitzer Prize winner says that you are fucking stupid troll squad asshole like kputz since you lost your mind Scott.
Paul Krugman schools Kevin McCarthy for 'transparently dishonest' comments about the Biden economy
Tom Boggioni
March 15, 2022
In his column for the New York Times, Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman called out House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) for using the price of gas to attack President Joe Biden saying it is yet one more example of the Republican leader's "dishonesty."
Pointing out that McCarthy tweeted, "These are not Putin gas prices. They are President Biden gas prices,” the economist wrote, "Kevin McCarthy, the Republican House minority leader, said something cynical and transparently dishonest the other day," and then added, "... you could have said the same thing about him just about any week over the past few years. But this particular statement seemed important, because it involved a lie that has a direct bearing on how America will respond to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine."
Labeling McCarthy's assertion as "false" Krugman proceeded to explain that the blame for surging gas prices can be attributed to Putin's unprovoked war on Ukraine.
Writing, "Aside from the crassness of McCarthy’s attempt to blame Biden for something that really, truly isn’t his fault," the economist continued, "a surge in the prices of oil and other commodities as a consequence both of Russian aggression and of the West’s retaliation with economic sanctions."
Using that as a springboard, Krugman made the case that the Fed should not "overreact" and raise interest rates.
"Rising oil prices will lead to some big inflation numbers over the next few months, and there will be a lot of pressure on the Fed to overreact. Some of this pressure will be coming from people like McCarthy, who insist in the teeth of the facts that high gasoline prices are being caused by domestic policy choices. Some of it will be coming from permahawks, in whose minds we’re always about to see a reboot of that ’70s show," he wrote.
"Current inflation is high, as are expectations of inflation over the next year, but medium-term expectations of inflation haven’t gone up much and are nowhere near their levels circa 1980. This suggests that inflation isn’t getting entrenched in the economy. If the economy cools off a bit and the inflationary shock from oil prices is, as I expect it to be, a one-off affair, we’ll do OK if the Fed just keeps calm and carries on," he suggested.
Ironically the idea that Biden got it done sort of clashes with the reality that private citizens from the U.S. became largely responsible for getting hundreds of Americans out of Afghanistan. In some cases, the Administration made it difficult for these private parties, but they made it happen anyways.
Glenn Beck is directly responsible for evacuating more Americans from Afghanistan than Sloppy Joe ever did.
Fact Check: TRUE.
The same P-U-litzer prize winner that told us the markets would never recover after Trump's election.
Dunning-Kruger alky is on a ROLL today, folks.
And Dunning-Kruger alky - Krugman won a No-Bell, not a P-U-litzer.
Paul Krugman schools Kevin McCarthy for 'transparently dishonest' comments about the Biden economy
Tom Boggioni
"RAW STORY!!!11!" plagiarism from Dunning-Kruger alky.
After playing a clip of TikTok influencer Ellie Zeiler explaining how the invasion has impacted gas prices, Fox News host Rachel Campos-Duffy compared the U.S. to Russia.
What is your point Roger?
Are you denying that the White House is recruiting Tic Toc influencers to push their political propaganda on the American public? Or are you just being stupid?
Paul Krugman...
Isn't it ironic that the economist who has been flat out wrong more than any economist in the history of the United States won a Nobel Prize for predicting the decay of suburban U.S. and where everyone with any money would flock to the urban areas because of "mass transit" and such? That our country would end up with pods of industry (such as Detroit with cars) - which resembled really the concept of Hunger Games and the districts.
Turns out he was "wrong" about the collapse of the Suburban areas (where most people with money still live) and that people with money and families were not attracted to the subway system of DT NY city.
I mean seriously.... the fact that Roger still believes anything this guy writes is laughable. What is the last thing he wrote about that he got right? His average resembles the batting average of the utility infielder who comes in late innings for defense, but gets pulled for a pinch hitter when he has to face a pitcher.
I mean seriously.... the fact that Roger still believes anything this guy writes is laughable.
And it's probably a contributing factor as to why the Dunning-Kruger alky's beloved Indy Voter called him a FUCKING MORON right here on this very blog.
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