Karine Jean-Pierre Turns up the Gaslighting on Prices but Accidentally Lets out a Damaging Truth – Opinion

I don’t know who came up with the excuse for Joe Biden and his team that they should blame the high gas prices and inflation on Vladimir Putin, calling it “Putin’s Price Hike.” Because nobody believes it. When you do so, you’re not only being dishonest and deflecting from your own responsibility for the situation, you look incredibly weak and like Putin can push you around, if it were true. So, Joe Biden is saying that Putin is controlling the U.S. and he can’t do anything about it. This is so weak! This is a poor look for Joe Biden, who already appears so weak.

However, the Biden team hasn’t gotten that message yet, so they’re still pushing the talking points. But White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre has made it even worse now, by referring to it as “Putin’s tax hike.”

KJP points fingers at “Putin’s tax rise” as the reason for high gas prices. pic.twitter.com/hML1Etp0ts

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Now Putin can also tax us to the poor. Joe Biden has given Putin a large portion of our government. An individual might mistakenly believe that we are a Putin puppet, considering how many times Biden speaks of him.

John Kirby (new coordinator of Strategic Communications for the National Security Council) visited the White House on Tuesday. The briefing was also attended by John Kirby, the new National Security Council coordinator for Strategic Communications. He claimed that Putin was “weaponizing food.”

Pentagon Press Sec. John Kirby: “President Putin is—no kidding—weaponizing food. Let’s call it as it is. He is using food to his advantage.” pic.twitter.com/47yD0Aldcq

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Now, that’s more than a little troubling. Prepare for them to continue blaming Putin, when even more shelves go bare; that comment is the announcement that it’s coming. We need America to be as independent as we can, and not only in energy but also all other areas.

When Joe Biden spoke about the high prices from his beach vacation over the weekend, he made it clear the pain at the pump was the purpose; he said what an “opportunity” it was to meet their radical climate goals. Jean-Pierre may have thought along these lines. She had a Freudian slip, but she soon corrected it.

KJP: “The president has been very clear in making sure that he does everything that he can to elevate—to alleviate the pain that American families are feeling when it comes to gas prices.” pic.twitter.com/97eXtpCMWV

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“The president has been very clear in making sure that he does everything that he can to elevate—to alleviate the pain that American families are feeling when it comes to gas prices,” Jean-Pierre said.

Both she and Biden let the quiet part they aren’t supposed to talk about out. Biden did it. Elevated prices.

I believe her first word because Biden hasn’t been doing anything that would alleviate it. The first thought should be encouraging domestic production, knowing that’s an important thing to support. But he’s never done that. He’s attacked the industry since his campaign, and has done everything in his power to hurt energy. Even now, the things he has done haven’t dropped the prices. Threatening the oil companies on the one hand to produce more, while on the other hand saying that you’re going to phase them out only makes the situation more unstable.

Jean-Pierre also tried to gaslight on a final point — the recession. Jean Pierre claimed, “We don’t see a recession right now.”

Karine Jean-Pierre: “We don’t see a recession” happening soon.

The same was true for inflation. pic.twitter.com/ISTc9HR1ZS

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That’s trying to parse words. Mark the video for future reference. It is exactly the same as when they failed to recognize or prepare for inflation. Even far into it last year, when the inflation was obvious, they kept claiming it was “transitory.” Now once again, you have Jean-Pierre using that “transition” language. Biden claimed most experts weren’t predicting that, and he snapped at a reporter for bringing it up on Monday. But he’d admitted that he had just spoken to former Clinton Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, who is one of the experts who does believe it is likely.

All this doesn’t inspire much confidence in these characters–that they’re going to do anything but continue to try to buffalo us.