In our ongoing coverage of the Biden administration and Democrats and mainstream media gaslighting the American people about the state of our economy, we somehow managed to miss this moment from MSNBC's Chris Hayes. I apologize for that, because it's certainly egregious enough to merit its own post.
Anyway, here it is:
WATCH: @chrislhayes on the three main reasons for the mismatch between the strength of the economy and how people feel about it. pic.twitter.com/P0aD7OxoTt
— All In with Chris Hayes (@allinwithchris) July 13, 2023
"Mismatch between the strength of the economy and how people feel about it"? Where's the mismatch, Chris? A lower rate of inflation is still inflation. Prices are still higher than they were a year ago and are still increasing and not coming down. If people don't feel good about the economy right now, they're entitled to feel that way. If people don't feel good about their real wages and the buying power those wages translate to, they're entitled to feel that way.
Actually, people aren't just entitled to feel that way; they're right to feel that way. And Chris Hayes is wrong to tell them that they're not really hurting in this economy and that they only think they're hurting because Fox News says so. People don't need Fox News to tell them that groceries and household staples are becoming more difficult to afford; they feel it every time they go shopping. Unlike so many of the people informing us that we're upset over nothing, most of us don't have people who can do our shopping and prepare our food and clothe our kids and make our car and house payments and keep us in the dark about what all of it costs. I sure as hell don't.
We didn’t feel broke Mr. Hayes; we were/are broke. I don’t care what the economic indicators say, the folks in retail that I work with aren’t “feeling” anything positive. Many can’t afford the products they sell. I’m sure we’re not alone. Psychological explanations are nonsense.
— MercutioWasRight (@SofiasDad814) July 13, 2023
And this particular bit at the end of Chris' rant — "As of now, the trajectory we're on, it really appears that Joe Biden's America is on the right path to pull off one of the greatest macroeconomic policy tricks of all time — is particularly galling. I — and I'm sure you — would love it if Joe Biden's America were actually on that kind of trajectory, but it's not. And the only macroeconomic policy trick that's on the table right now is the trick that the Biden administration and their media lapdogs are trying to play on us, whom they genuinely believe are too stupid to understand what's actually going on.
One never Gaslighted so hard. Bringing “State Media” to the US, and doing it Hard AF.
— Le Morte d’Abby (アビーは死んだ) (@LeMortedAbby) July 14, 2023
"Stop whining about your hungry children, peasants" https://t.co/lfh7aeXp0v
— jimtreacher.substack.com (@jtLOL) July 14, 2023
That's exactly the message that Hayes et al. have been trying to force-feed us. Don't believe your lying eyes and ears! Stop complaining! You'll hurt and you'll like it!
The Biden administration and Democratic politicians are bad enough messengers on the economy. But when you've got members of the media, whose job is supposed to be bringing truth to the masses, going out of their way to regurgitate Democrats' propaganda, it really drives home just how little respect these elitist tools of the government have for us.
I'm not a political consultant but it seems an unwise strategy to me for Democrats to send out their party-loyal pundits with multi-million-dollar Comcast contracts -- like Chris Hayes and Joe Scarborough -- to tell Americans the economy is much better than they perceive it: https://t.co/FxRhZkFKd5
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) July 14, 2023
It's more than just an unwise strategy; it's a sickening strategy. And despite how dumb they think we are, we're onto it.
Average income is up greater than the rate of inflation?
— Zero G Badillion (@ZeroGBadillion) July 14, 2023
Now do median and minimum wage incomes...
Pro-tip: When people are comfortable and secure in their circumstances they don't have to be beaten about the head to convince them of it. #Bidenomics
It was 9.1% in June 2022
— Churros⚡️ (@gigachurros) July 14, 2023
If you gained 9.1% of fat in June 2022, then 3% in 2023. How much weight did you lose?
Someone desperately needs to trim the fat in the American mainstream media. And then dishonest hacks like Chris Hayes can get to experience the economy as it really is, not as they're trying to sell it to us.
It's simple, your lies don't match reality.
— Country Girl (@3DogFriends) July 14, 2023
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