Things are pretty terrible right now, economically speaking. And when things get terrible, people tend to want to retreat to a place in time when things weren’t so terrible.
So let’s travel back to November 2020, before Joe Biden was sworn in as President of the United States. Things weren’t so terrible then, and as the Washington Post was careful to point out, things would never actually get terrible:
The average price of gas when this "expert" analysis was published was $2.12 https://t.co/nDFKCqp0h9 pic.twitter.com/FqAzw0Qjsj
— Jon Levine (@LevineJonathan) June 13, 2022
Take a look:
And here, of course, is where we’re at today, not quite 18 months into Joe Biden’s presidency:
Gotta love the Experts™.
"Experts"
— Nati Bohvfefe (@Chaz_Covfefe) June 13, 2022
No, seriously. You’ve gotta love this:
"Dubious" — perhaps only because these memes were too optimistic! pic.twitter.com/WpbtqRa4u9
— Jon Levine (@LevineJonathan) June 13, 2022
Sounds like the Experts™ got it wrong. Again.
Biden: I'm going to stop drilling on Federal lands, stop offshore oil production, and halt pipeline construction.
Conservatives and libertarians: Uh, that's going to raise the price of oil by a substantial amount.
Leftist "experts": No, that's not going to happen.
Cs & Ls pic.twitter.com/vvcm34McM6
— Zach in Wisco, 5x Grilled Cheese Champ (@Maytag_Zach) June 13, 2022
What I love about how the media (and big tech) operate now is that they frame stories like this so that the opposite of "conservative" is "expert." No accident. And laughable.
— Cult of the Offensive (@OffensiveCult) June 13, 2022
It is pretty hilarious. High gas prices and a crap economy aren’t hilarious, of course, but we have to take our amusement where we can get it. And seeing the Experts™ faceplant is amusing as hell.
Oh no, the experts strike again!
— 10 78 (@NrZ9ng) June 13, 2022
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