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Biden spox lets us know upcoming inflation numbers will seem 'highly elevated' (but the economy's great and the WH doesn't pay attention to polls)

Today brought with it another press conference headed up by Biden press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and her Big Book of Talking Points.

We’ll kick things off with KJP’s heads-up about what June’s inflation numbers will show:

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In other words…

Pretty much. Also, weren’t we told inflation would be “transitory” a while back? We’d swear that’s what they promised.

But otherwise, the economy is humming along nicely on all cylinders, according to Jean-Pierre:

How strong is the economy? So strong that the White House doesn’t even need to look at polls to know how popular this administration’s policies have been:

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Perhaps not paying attention to polls (does anybody actually believe that?) is what allows the Biden White House to do a record-setting amount of gaslighting with straight faces.

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