I & I Editorial BoardAfter President Donald Trump was elected, we published a semi-whimsical list of what would be “out” and “in” after his victory as the left instantly switched gears (“What’s In And What’s Out After Trump’s Stunning Victory”). On that list:
- Out: The economy is doing great!
- In: Why hasn’t Trump fixed the economy yet??
Over the weekend, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries proved us right.
“Donald Trump and Republicans consistently promised that they were going to lower the high cost of living, and they’ve done the exact opposite,” Jeffries said. “They’ve shown no interest in lowering costs in the United States of America, which are too high.”
He said the Trump administration has broken its promise and accused it of having “no interest in improving the quality of life of hard-working American taxpayers.”
For Jeffries of all people to attack Trump for not lowering “the high cost of living” or “improving the quality of life” for Americans shows just how detached he and his fellow Democrats are from reality.
It was Jeffries himself who, just a few months ago, was endlessly bragging about how great the economy was under Joe Biden, and how hard-working Americans were benefitting.
“Wages are up and inflation is down. President Biden continues to build a healthy economy from the middle out and the bottom up,” he posted on X last March.
“The Biden economy has created more than 15 million jobs in under four years. That’s more than the last three Republican Presidents. Combined,” he posted in April
Like most Democrats, Jeffries said the problem was just one of messaging. “We have to do a better job of laying out the facts,” he said in May. “That the economy has dramatically improved under the leadership of President Joe Biden.”
None of it was remotely true.
Now, he’s complaining that Trump, in his first month in office, hasn’t solved all the problems he inherited from Biden.
Jeffries is hardly the lone Democrat speaking with a forked tongue these days. The corporate media are also demanding Trump end the inflationary problem they spent four years denying was a problem.
And, inflation is hardly the only issue where Democrats have attempted to perform similar feats of linguistic legerdemain. After four years of celebrating every time Joe Biden defied the Supreme Court, they are now screaming “Constitutional Crisis!” because of what they think Trump will do should the courts rule against him.
And Democrats wonder why they can’t connect with voters these days. Who can understand what they’re saying?
Here’s an idea: Try using words that are even remotely connected with the truth.
— Written by the I&I Editorial Board
Democrats have based their entire existence on their ability to control the narrative. Now that a lot of federal funding going to the press is going away, Democrats are in a frenzy over their proper “messaging”. There has been no learning from their loss and they intend to change nothing about the way they do business. They will stick with “need better messaging” all the way to the final exit door. It is all they know.
Democrats’ “uniform and consistent messaging” reminds me of the old joke about Chinese restaurants in our big cities: all around the city block there are many different restaurants with their own entry doors.
But, in the middle of the block they get their food from the same kitchen hidden in the back away from public view.
Up until just a few days ago the uniform and consistent message from their kitchen was “a threat to democracy.” They all said it over and over like body snatched zombies!
Now the uniform and consistent message from the hidden kitchen is,
“A constitutional crisis.” Again, mouthed like centrally controlled zombies.
(Did any of them mouth “constitutional crisis” when Pelosi was creating her own several real crisis of our constitution, initiated all by her very vicious self?)
Is any Democrat independently minded, vaguely intelligent and even, dare one ask, has a single thought not originated in their central kitchen for zombies?
Jeffries misrepresents employment statistics to deceive Americans. He neglected to mention the massive job loss and subsequent re-employment due to Anthony Fauci’s and Deborah Birx’s COVID-19 destructive policy recommendations. Well, let’s play that game. 25 million jobs were lost in April–May 2020, while Trump was President, thanks to the Fauci/Birx recommendations. From June to December, 2020, while Trump was President, almost 17 million jobs were (re)gained in just 7 months, as people were rehired; the greatest surge in employment in, well, forever. It far exceeded the 12 million jobs (not 15 million) gained over the entire 4 years of the Biden administration.
The Democrats and the truth are mutually exclusive terms.
If Democrats-even remotely- tell the truth, I believe, they would be afraid of getting a severe rash.
Democrats-at least since Obama became President- are more entranced with con-man talk then with truth telling. It’s as if the truth will burn them-rather than set them free.
The Biden Administration even messed up the accuracy of our Government Econ Data; nearly every month in Biden’s last year the data was revised-and coincidentally it was always revised in a way that showed unemployment and prices were rising.
Jeffries is the representative from NY, so he’s probably well conditioned to playing with the truth. I’m not saying every New Yorker prefers to lie, but Jeffries had to get elected-and I imagine the only way he could do that and still run as a Democrat was to play with words and become more intimate with lying.
It’s a shame that Republicans can’t take advantage of the Democrats lies. Those lies (and those who told them) are all on the record! You would think the Republicans would now make them chocke on their lies.
But Republicans are like a bad running back-they can never take advantage of an opening.
It appears that Republicans (at least under Trump) are only good at running the country; Democrats, meanwhile, are only good at bamboozling the public and getting elected.
If democrats aren’t crying about something they are not happy, they are the biggest hypocrites there are.