Democrats want people to stop complaining about Biden incomptence

 Stephen Green:

Recession? You’ll hardly even notice! Inflation? What a great chance to help a neighbor.

You might think I’m kidding, but I caught two stories this morning showing just how comically desperate lefties have become, trying to defend the flailing Biden administration from its malicious economic mismanagement.

If your memory is even just slightly better than a flatworm’s you’ll remember this time last year, when inflation was “transitory” and gasoline was about $3.15.

In those olden days of yore, you could buy baby formula and tampons without trouble, too.

But the real problem isn’t inflation or supply chain disruptions: It’s you.

Washington Post finance columnist Michelle Singletary told Americans to “stop complaining” about the economy on MSNBC Thursday.

“You got to stop complaining when there’s so many people who literally the inflation rate means they may only have two meals instead of three,” Michelle Singletary, a personal finance columnist for the Post, said during Chris Jansing Reports. “There are Americans who did extremely well in the last two years in the market.”

Um… has she seen the markets lately? NASDAQ and the DOW are about the only things not inflating on Presidentish Joe Biden’s watch.

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Meanwhile, at the Los Angeles Times, they’re desperately pre-spinning the recession that we might already be in: Yes, a recession looks inevitable. But it may not be that bad. Here’s why.

“Of course we’re slowing down, but let’s remember how fast we had been growing,” said Carl Tannenbaum, chief economist at Northern Trust in Chicago.

But that’s nonsense. The economy hasn’t been growing, it’s been recovering — needlessly slowly — from the 2020 recession caused by the completely unnecessary shutdowns. We’re still about one million jobs short of where we were before the pandemic.

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I think taking advice from liberals is what got us in this predicament, to begin with, so I am not looking for advice from them at this point. I am certainly not going to listen to their advice on complaining.

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