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Not only is the media onboard with the inflationINFLATIONinflation meme, we are constantly being told of the Red wave coming in 2022, even after Republican nut jobs like Boebert, Gosar, Gaetz, Greene and Cawthorn are shown doing their standup routines on the House floor. What they all have in common with Trump is the fact that they have no idea what government does or is supposed to do, and they are all astoundingly unfit to serve. But the media tells us America wants MORE of these clowns. The media, like the Republican party, has sued reality for a divorce.

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I know from personal experience that financial advisors know the truth as well. Mine, staunch Republicans, not the lunatic type that have invaded Washington, agree that inflation is temporary while demand is high and production is getting back on its feet. The problem is that the GOP continue to claim the sky is falling while the MSM does nothing to counter the lies. Lots of people who do not read Press Run or tune into Freespeech.tv and other progressive outlets that work without a filter will buy into the idea that the only way to fix things is to vote in more Republicans in the midterms. I'm tired of hearing that the Democrats don't tout their successes enough. They do, every day. But what can they do when the media doesn't convey their message? Even MSNBC, the so called liberal counterpart to Fox News often does the GOPs work with pieces on Biden's poll numbers and Republicans are likely to take the House in '22 and perhaps the Senate too. It's so frustrating to see all the real progress being made and for the press to treat Biden like he's some ineffectual old fool.

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It worries me because it's pushing Biden's poll numbers down and could end up putting the GOP back in power. And I think it shows how the news media is dumbing down America - people will believe literally anything the press spews, and the reporting on the economy, like the terribly inaccurate and overblown stories about the withdrawal from Afghanistan, is not being sufficiently rebutted by the Biden administration.

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Saw this tweet today: It's odd that CNN is reporting that Americans aren't feeling relief from a bill Biden signed just a few days ago while ignoring the fact that Americans are not feeling the benefits of trickle down economics from decades ago.

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This is tip of the iceberg failure in economic reporting. The big story has been ignored since it started: The state-empowered upward transfer of wealth and impoverishment of workers since the 70s of 80s and the related shift into an extractive economy.

As for the increase in wages, it seems to be happening at the bottom where many jobs are still not paying living wages and where workers supplement their wages with public assistance, easy credit nd/or additional employment. Too, what's happening further up the chain wages-is is pretty much unknown and/or not reported even beyond the mainstream. I do know there's been a little reporting of wage cuts for professionals in connection with work from home.

As for the job numbers, allegedly the problem stems from the department involved still being headed by a Trump appointee.

All that kvetching, agreed the mainstream's failing on the reporting of the true state of the economy. But in addition to that persistent, ongoing failure, there's the end to bash Biden at every opportunity.

As for inflation, the problem is *persistent* out of control inflation such as in the 60s and 70s. That resulted from labor having the power to demand raises with helped create an out of control wage/price spiral. You have nothing like this now. What you do have is the fall out from the pandemic and it's already resolving in the normal course. Of course, an unreported contributor to inflation is corporations jacking up prices because they can -- no other reason. Problem is that inflation as in a pressure to raise rates is bad for our elite and pretty much no one else (but see above; the people crying the most about inflation don't care about the corporate greed component).

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Along that line, see what I found in my inbox this morning? https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/11/biden-approval-rating/620751/

This is probably the least self-aware piece of writing I've ever seen from The Atlantic:

"The biggest mystery in American politics right now—and perhaps the most consequential one—is how Joe Biden became so unpopular."

You think it's a mystery, David Graham? Really? Nobody with half a clue *hasn't* solved that mystery.

Spiro Agnew has to be smiling smugly in his grave because the "nattering nabobs of negativity" have come into full flower.

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I just saw this insane, deeply stupid CNN headline about the passage of the infrastructure bill from Nov. 18th — “Americans not feeling relief from President Biden’s Big Washington Victory”

This was 3 whole days after the bill was signed into law. It is a blatantly deliberate effort by CNN to frame the passage of the largest infrastructure bill in US history in a negative light.

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Ah yes. Let's take a peep at the Post and see what the Spinochios and Spinderellas are reciting from the Republican talking points.

Ah!

Kyrsten Sinema praises infrastructure while questioning spending and inflation

McCarthy’s fiery, lengthy rebuttal

Progressives have a Republican soulmate in the Senate. His name is Josh Hawley.

And on and on with the Republican lies...

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House just passed BBB. Chryon under Steny Hoyer reads "Hoyer: This bill will speak for itself to millions and millions of Americans.

Omg man, Democrats need to be shouting from the damn rooftops about what this bill does! Too many Americans are simply unwilling or incapable of understanding. You need to tell them! Have you learned nothing???

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CNN is bemoaning this week that Americans aren’t feeling the effects of a bill signed on Monday. There is no reason for anyone to still consider any cable news program, except Rachel Maddow, as a source of unbiased information. Trumpism has corrupted it all. I even read that the under reporting of job growth may have been the work of a trump holdover. Until we seriously clean house I’m not watching any of them.

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The (so-called) "Economy", always has winners and losers, no matter what is going on in the real world. I'm 67 years old, so I was around when Reagan came into office in 1981. That was the point where government policy started to officially shift from trying to reward financially responsible citizens and trying to punish corrupt corporate criminals to the exact opposite. To paraphrase Ross Perot, "that giant sucking sound you are {still) hearing" after all these decades is the on-going massive transfer of wealth from the bottom 90% to the top 10%, willingly enabled by the bought-and-paid-for corporate lap-dog lackeys in politics and government. Like Eric said, Big Corporate Media benefits from Republican tax breaks, too, so you can forget about their help. Eventually there will be the inevitable reckoning, just like 2008, but by then the USA is likely to be mired in an authoritarian, quasi-theocratic autocracy and there won't be a hell of a lot that ordinary citizens will be able to do about it because they will have given away all the safeguards that protect their right to have any chance voting for a real Democracy.

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Someone recently said it best, imo: ‘Folks, this ain’t normal’…

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The Liberally Biased Mainstream Media™ doesn't want to report the truth. They're just hired assassins ready to gun down the truth so that they can put Republicans back in power in order to create chaos so that people will click and doomscroll them and profit off of it!

Democracy Dies In Clickbaits!

Of course if you believe in ignorant lowlifes like Bill Maher, Democrats lose because they're "too woke", or whatever, because they won't allow a useless shock comedian like Maher to say highly offensive stuff!

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1.7% growth vs a “heart of the lockdown” number from last year is not a surge. The surge is coming, but October weren’t it.

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I'm reminded of the story told by the late Benjamin Crowninshield Bradlee (I always try to use his full name, because I love it so) about the first White House briefing, as related to him by Eddie Folliard, who covered the White House for The Washington Post roughly from when it opened in 1800. FDR's administration announced it was taking the US off the gold standard. The reporters sat down, and they all wrote a variation on the same lede: "In a move that shook the world, today the US went off the gold standard." Then they stopped, stared at one another, went to FDR's press secretary, and said, uh, what does it mean? So someone from Treasury came over and explained it.

Nearly 90 years later, the difference is that those reporters at least tried to cover the news. No one who covers politics for any major media outlet--and I do mean no one--does so now. And from last night's eight-hour act of treason by #KremlinKevin, the Bakersfield Benedict Arnold and well-known Lev Parnas agent, to Kyle Rittenhouse being acquitted today, the political media bear responsibility.

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