Does Joe Biden Believe the Lies Heโs Telling?
10 Aug 2022
CLAY: So, 8.5% inflation. Thatโs the month of July number that came out this morning, down from 9.1% in June. Yay. You feel so much richer? Do you feel like, man, my trip to the grocery store, I couldnโt believe how much money I was saving?
BUCK: Iโm just walking around slapping my butler with hundred-dollar bills dressed like the Monopoly man. Itโs amazing.
CLAY: I gotta tell you, even the New York Times yesterday, they had an article about how expensive pizza was getting in New York City, and I thought, โUh-oh. Pretty soon that scooterโs getting stolen from Buck again, these high-inflationary times.โ I donโt know what might happen. So, inflation at 8.5%. Iโm gonna play you a clip of Joe Biden saying itโs 0% because they continue to try to redefine what words are.
What is a woman, what is recession, what is a raid, what is inflation? They lie, they lie, and they lie, and along the way, some of you are looking around like, man. Theyโre literally changing the definition in the dictionary of words to suit their political aims, not to mention the continued fallout over the raid on Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago. And first, Buck, I want to playโฆjust because itโs 8.5% inflation, I felt like we should let people know what the Biden administration is trying to spin out there.
And then weโre going to talk about the continued fallout which I think has rallied people around Donald Trump the likes of which we have not seen in years. Years. But first, they trotted out old Joe, put it in the teleprompter for him to read, and he said, โToday, we received news our economy had 0% inflation in the month of July, 0%.โ This is real. This is the talking point that the White House is trying to sell. Listen.
The Biden Democrat election strategy has become change the definition of words, lie about the numbers, see if anybody notices
pic.twitter.com/hRgGc6ZJFwโ Buck Sexton (@BuckSexton) August 10, 2022
BUCK: Can I ask you a question, Clay? Is he so dumb that he actually thinks this is true, or is he so shameless that heโs saying something that is obviously untrue to people because thatโs who he is, heโs lied about plenty of things and he thinks he has no choice? Which one? I feel like you could make a case for either. Which one do you think it is?
CLAY: It is a really interesting question. And, sadly, I think Joe Bidenโs ability to even understand what heโs doing and saying from one moment to the next is tenuous. So, I think, unfortunately, as many people who are dementia laden or in the stages of dementia, some moments you can have a conversation with them and you can think, โOh, theyโre pretty sharp. Oh, they seem to be following it.โ
And then you just get a sentence where youโre like, โMan, they really donโt know whatโs going on here,โ and itโs sad. I know virtually every person out there listening to us right now has had a loved one, a friend that they have seen go through this. And so, Buck, I mean, I was watching the clip of Joe Biden. Iโm sure you saw it, and Iโm sure a lot of our audience did, of him landing in the helicopter and coming back from Kentucky. I guess it was Tuesday.
And he couldnโt put on his suit coat getting off of the helicopter. And then yesterday โ I guess it was Monday coming back in the suit coat โ yesterday, Tuesday, he had the press conference with Senator Schumer. And, Buck, did you see him shake Schumerโs hand and then Schumer went down the line and shook everybodyโs hand probably five, six seconds, and he came back in the direction of Joe Biden, and it was as if Joe Biden didnโt realize he had already shaken his hand because he put his hand out again?
Joe Biden shakes hands with Chuck Schumer and then immediately forgets he did it and tries again. pic.twitter.com/QN0Mv4TeKk
โ Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) August 9, 2022
So to your point, I really think theyโre drugging this guy up, popping him up with whatever they need. Remember the video that they put out where his eyes were bugging out of his head and then they put him in shades after that potentially because they knew that it looked so ridiculous? I think they put it in the prompter and he reads it. And so, I donโt even think heโs conscious of the arguments, very often, that heโs making now.
BUCK: I do believe if you put that the Inflation Reduction Act is gonna cut $11 billion โ
CLAY: He would read it.
BUCK: I think heโd read eleventy billion dollars off the prompter and probably not think twice about it.
CLAY: Yeah.
BUCK: They are shameless about all of this because I also think that if you had Democrats in a moment of honesty and it was, โIs a clearly not of sound mind, too old for the job Biden still better than any Republican alternative?โ And Iโm not even just Trump. Any Republican alternative, theyโll say yes, because itโs about a figurehead, itโs about power, itโs about the individual. Whatโs up?
CLAY: Liz Cheney โ
BUCK: Liz Cheney would say yes. Well, former, soon to be former, congressperson Liz Cheney. Sheโs gonna see lose I think in, what is it, about a week? Democrats view it as the presidency is really just about a baton of power now. And as long as their team has it, theyโre happy. The actual president himself, theyโve given up on this. They got used to it being really a lot of about the president in the Obama era because they were so excited about him, and they thought he was the most brilliant, amazing, wonderful politician in the history of the planet.
Now itโs just as long as our team is in charge and you have Democrats in the various agencies at the top and appointees and thatโs all that really matters to them. So, I donโt even think that thereโs โthereโs not even a sense of shame that they have about what youโre talking about, which is does Biden even know whatโs going on? And itโs fascinating as well, I mean, 8.5% inflation, theyโre celebrating this, just so everyoneโs clear, the real number is inflationโs at 8.5%. It did not go up in the month of July. It went down a little bit. So, this is a little bit like saying, you know, if youโre a hundred thousand dollars in credit card debt and now you only are $90,000 in debt, yeah, out of the woods. Not really.
CLAY: Yeah. And would you have ever believed weโd be at a position where 8.5% inflation is a victory lap for Joe Biden and Democrats? Itโs 8.5% increase off last year, and theyโre trying to argue itโs zero percent month to month. But thatโs not even accurate because all of you who are going out are paying prices predicated on what you paid last year. Right? So, when youโre going out โ and the numbers โ I think I screenshotted one of the data points from the July inflation numbers.
Itโs pretty wild how much some of these prices are up. And so, the fact that they didnโt go up a little bit more doesnโt feel like a victory. To your point, Buck, when youโre a hundred thousand dollars in debt, if the next month youโre still a hundred thousand dollars in debt, that ainโt a great feeling, you know? I mean, you still got the debt. And I donโt know, when we factor in the nearly $800,000 billion in expenditures, I donโt know how weโre not gonna have massive inflationary pressure moving through the rest of the fall and in the next year.
BUCK: Thereโs a brazenness with the way this administration operates. Theyโve really gotten used to it, Clay. Theyโll call it the Inflationโฆ Now, I know thatโs Congress, but Bidenโs gonna have to sign it. Heโs obviously involved in the discussion about the naming of it, the Inflation Reduction Act is not going to reduce inflation.
CLAY: It actually increases it, according to most economic experts.
BUCK: And so, the primary promise of this is false. And they just donโt care. It does not matter to them. You know, are we in an economy downturn? We had two quarters of negative GDP. Weโre not in a recession. Well, thatโs always what we thought a recession was before. Well, welcome to Biden world. The recession has changed, folks. The recession will not be televised.
So, here we are with people who change words, change definitions because the case they would make the American people I think if they had to do it on the merits, is very weak. I mean, comparatively, people shouldnโt think about what is Biden saying this month versus last month. It should be what was the promise that he made, what was the Biden campaign based on and what have we actually seen?
CLAY: Well, and thereโs a great story out from political. I know weโve discussed a lot the challenges that weโre seeing in some of these Senate races as we come down, I think itโs fair to say, the proverbial home stretch here, certainly post-Labor Day when everybodyโs summer vacations are over and all the kids are back in school. Footballโs back. I mean, weโll officially be in campaign season.
But there are some numbers, I was reading from Politico this morning, I think Laura Ingraham shared it early this morning, there are Biden districts that he won by 14 and 15 points in Oregon, for instance, where there are Republicans that are up right now. So, we know what happened with Mayra Flores down on the border with how much she swung a district that had voted for Joe Biden. Weโre talking about some of these very blue states in Oregon.
There are 20-point swings that exist right now in the polling out there. And the discussion in the Politico article that I thought was intriguing was how many different places that theoretically are safe districts, Buck, where Democrats are acknowledging that theyโre gonna have to spend fairly substantial dollars. And did you see, we got so close to Ilhan Omar almost lost her Democrat primary last night in Minnesota. I mean, I think she won about like 2,000 votes.
BUCK: The ideology of The Squad, the progressive Democrats in the House, is a political liability now that weโve seen enough of what that actually put into practice, whether itโs defund police, a whole range of issues but specifically on that one, it is a political liability for the Democrats now. They understand that now.
So, sure, you know, AOC will continue to get reelected in a overwhelmingly Democrat district in Queens, New York. But for anybody whoโs in a tough race, theyโre pretending now, โOh, thatโs not the Democrat Party that I belong to. I belong to a Democrat Party about theโฆโ Youโre gonna hear a lot of โworking, folks,โ youโre gonna see Democrats marching around going duck hunting for the first time in places like, you know, Missouri and states where thereโsโฆ
In Michigan, all of a sudden, theyโre gonna be wearing camo, Clay, these Democrats who are holding a gun like itโs a laser from out of space that theyโve never seen before because, you know, theyโre gun-toting Democrats. This is what always happens. They have to pretend to be less Democrat in order to actually get elected.
CLAY: Yeah. And the person who almost beat Ilhan Omar, 500 Twitter followers. She has three million. I justโฆ It would have beenโฆ I was watching that. Those election results come in last night, and I think it ended up 51-49, something like that. And the guy who was running against her was in favor of funding the police. Heโs a Democrat, obviously.
But a sane one: In favor of funding police, a believer in business, a believer in capitalism. And in that district, she almost lost. And it makes me wonder, I kinda wish Republicans had gotten involved in that race like weโve seen all the Democrats get involved in other races โcause this guy had virtually no money. Imagine if somebody had spent $500,000 on his behalf, I think Ilhan Omar may well have lost.
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