On Saturday, I reported on yet another ridiculous effort by Joe Biden to shift the blame for gas prices to someone other than himself. We need to keep a running list of all the other people he’s blamed for the skyrocketing prices including Vladimir Putin, oil companies price gouging, and now, people who run gas stations.
To the gas station operators and pump price-setting companies, my message is clear: This is the time of global war.
Bring down the price you are charging at the pump to reflect the cost you’re paying for the product. Do it immediately.
— President Biden (@POTUS) July 2, 2022
“My message to the companies running gas stations and setting prices at the pump is simple: this is a time of war and global peril,” Biden falsely claimed. No, Joe, we’re not at war, no matter how much you might want to throw all out money at Ukraine. “Bring down the price you are charging at the pump to reflect the cost you’re paying for the product. And do it now,” Biden demanded of the station owners.
As we reported, that didn’t go over well with most Americans, including Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.
Ouch. This is too serious a problem to continue making such statements by the White House. It’s either straight ahead misdirection or a deep misunderstanding of basic market dynamics. https://t.co/XgKfEICZpk
— Jeff Bezos (@JeffBezos) July 3, 2022
“Ouch. Inflation is far too important a problem for the White House to keep making statements like this.” Bezos said. “It’s either straight ahead misdirection or a deep misunderstanding of basic market dynamics.” Exactly right, it isn’t the gas station owners who are responsible for the high prices. They are barely making pennies off the gas but Biden appears in denial because the reality is it’s his bad policies that have led us to this point. This wasn’t the first time that Bezos called out Biden for lying about inflation, he also blasted him on Twitter in May, as I reported.
We’re not a Communist country and Joe Biden isn’t our Dear Leader or a king. He doesn’t get to tell private businesses what to do, because he says so. We have a rule of law and a Constitution, even if Joe doesn’t like that. We were in a “war” in Afghanistan under prior Presidents for the past twenty years. But we didn’t see the alleged “gouging” that Biden is now trying to blame on oil companies and the gas stations, under President Donald Trump. So no, Joe, everyone knows it’s on you and your blame-shifting isn’t flying.
But guess who else responded to Biden’s rant? Chen Weihua is the China Daily EU Bureau chief. China Daily is state-affiliated media, and Chen constantly promotes anti-American propaganda. Biden provided Biden with an opportunity by sending him a ridiculous tweet. Chen used Biden’s tweet to attack the American system and call it exploitative.
America’s President has finally come to realize that capitalism is all about exploiting others. He didn’t believe this before.
— Chen Weihua （陈卫华） (@chenweihua) July 2, 2022
When Biden is giving ammunition to the Chinese, you know how bad it’s getting. But that’s where we are with Joe Biden. He thinks he can operate like his Chinese buddies and he doesn’t care about how his lies and attacks on America help serve the Chinese propaganda.
Whatever the reason, #Biden’s deeply misguided statements, he is giving ammunition to #China’s propagandists. The President shouldn’t be supporting the #CCP attack our country. https://t.co/ZU7UevQWNA
— Gordon G. Chang (@GordonGChang) July 3, 2022
The Chinese attack elicited great reactions from the Americans.
It’s a cool story. Don’t you have some death camps to oversee?
— Jeremy Knauff (@jeremyknauff) July 2, 2022
But Joe Biden wasn’t done quite yet with the blame-shifting. He was also blaming Republicans on Sunday.
Under my plan for the economy, we’ve made extraordinary progress. We’ve put America in a position to tackle the worldwide problem of inflation from a place of strength. But the problem is that Republicans in Congress do everything possible to stop me from lowering costs.
— President Biden (@POTUS) July 3, 2022
Republicans are not in power. But Democrats control the House. Republicans aren’t stopping any great “plans” that Joe Biden has. The only “plan” that Biden has seemed to put into play has been to blame-shift. It’s easy to believe that everyone doesn’t get it when you keep doing it.
The Republican National Committee skewered Biden’s blame-shifting with a graph that showed it had nothing to do with Putin, gas station owners, or Republicans — it was all on Biden.
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) July 3, 2022
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