President Joe Biden, as we all know, has taken to calling today’s high prices at the pump “Putin’s price hike.” At a Thursday news conference in Madrid, a reporter asked him, “How long is it fair to expect American drivers and drivers around the world to pay that premium for this war?”
According to a White House transcript of the event, Biden replied: “As long as it takes so Russia cannot, in fact, defeat Ukraine and move beyond Ukraine.”
During an interview with CNN later in the day, National Economic Council Director Brian Deese was asked a similar question: “What do you say to those families that say, ‘listen, we can’t afford to pay $4.85 a gallon for months, if not years?’”
So it’s Biden’s price hike, not Putin’s as claimed by Biden, same to continue for as long as it takes so Russia cannot defeat Ukraine and move beyond Ukraine, confirmed by Biden’s economist, Brian Deese, that what you heard from Biden was a clear articulation of the stakes, the future of the Liberal World Order, and we have to stand firm.
Joe Biden is right up there with Shinola. It was popular during the first half of the 20th century and entered the American lexicon in the phrase, “You don’t know shit from Shinola,” meaning to be ignorant. The brand name was acquired by the retail company Shinola in 2011, according to Google.