The incoherent Biden presidency

 NY Post:

President Biden brushed off $7-a-gallon gas in California — saying “that’s always been the case” and confusingly linking it to housing — while getting takeout Thursday at a Los Angeles taco shop.

Biden said without elaboration that “housing” was “the most important thing” for gas prices, which in California actually surged 39% over the past 12 months for an average of $6.20 per gallon, according to AAA.

“The inflation report is out. Have you seen gas prices around here in LA? It’s 7 bucks a gallon almost,” a reporter said after Biden paid for tacos and two quesadillas.

“Well, that’s always been the case here,” Biden replied.

“You know, it’s not — what — nationwide, they came down about $1.35, and they’re still down over a dollar. But we’re going to work on — housing is the big — is the most important thing we have to do in terms of that.”

It’s unclear if Biden, who turns 80 next month, intended to draw a closer link between the two subjects before his reply was cut off by a different reporter’s question, but his answer attracted attention after a series of recent gaffes.

James Gallagher, the Republican minority leader in the California Assembly, tweeted, “Bidenism at its finest in LA today. High gas prices is a housing problem?”

“Biden on his ‘Where’s Jackie?’ Tour. He needs to retire,” wrote another Twitter user, referring to Biden’s gaffe this month in which he searched for the late Rep. Jackie Walorski (R-Ind.) at an event, despite publicly mourning her death eight weeks prior and even calling her family to offer condolences.

Gas prices historically are higher in California than other states because of relatively few local refineries and the highest state taxes and fees in the country for gasoline, at about 67 cents per gallon, according to the Tax Foundation.

The past-year hike in California gas prices was much steeper than the national rate, which increased less than 19% as of Thursday to $3.91 per gallon — falling from a politically bruising all-time high of over $5 per gallon in June, but inching higher recently as OPEC+ cuts production.

The president has made a series of confounding remarks recently — heightening scrutiny given to his comment about California gas prices.

Before his taco stop, the president said in a speech that he agrees with “whatever” the notoriously hotheaded Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) says.

On Wednesday, he incorrectly said his late son Beau “lost his life in Iraq,” and that he visited the Rio Grande to see the need for land preservation, possibly confusing it with the Grand Canyon.

Biden claimed Tuesday that firefighters nearly died extinguishing a 2004 fire at his Wilmington, Del., house — after saying last year that he “had a house burn down with my wife in it.” The local fire department said Friday that “for the fire service, this could be considered an insignificant fire,” confirming the local fire chief’s remark at the time that it was doused within 20 minutes.

Last week, Biden said at a Democratic fundraiser that the Russia-Ukraine war could lead to nuclear “Armageddon” in a remark he later dialed back. One day earlier, he said into a hot mic “no one f–ks with a Biden” and two days before that, he dubiously claimed that “I was sort of raised in the Puerto Rican community at home, politically.”
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Biden is as wacky as Maxine Waters and probably more incoherent.  It is surprising that a majority of Democrats still support the goofball president.  It tells you something about their own issues.