‘I would say they’re too expensive because we inherited a disastrous Biden economy, and we’re making progress,’ the Vice President told Fox News

JD Vance admits the prices of groceries and housing are “too expensive” but once again has laid blame at the feet of the "disastrous Biden economy,” despite the Trump administration having taken the reins more than eight months ago.

“Housing is too expensive, groceries are too expensive. Now, I would say they’re too expensive because we inherited a disastrous Biden economy, and we’re making progress,” Vance said, speaking to Fox News’ The Ingraham Angle.

The vice president made the remarks Friday when discussing the struggling U.S. economy and its potential link to a surge in popularity for Democratic New York mayoral hopeful Zohran Mamdani.

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    This stuff boils my piss. The same thing happens in the UK. I get that you need to show restraint to maintain access but there shouldn’t be anything wrong with posing their argument as a negative!

    “So you’re saying this administration is failing to get a grip on the economy?” Even if he responds, he’ll be angry, angry people make mistakes. Or even then just say, “Perfect, youre responding with feeling instead of thought: how does it feel knowing your boss is in the epstine files?”

    How the hell can no one get a grip on this narrative.

    Just turn to the camera and ignore them! “You heard it here first! The VPJD has no confidence in the administration!”

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    They will kill you and your family with the military if you disagree because disagreement is terrorism

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      "No, you are wrong, it was a knock on from bidens economy…ok, you are not wrong but slightly incorrect. And by that I mean yes you are completely correct that it wasn’t biden at all, and completely the tangerine imbeciles fault but I was also say that I’m waffling on and being distracting. However by this point tRUMPs base of complete idiots will have totally tuned out and will only remember the first words about it being bidens fault.

      Also, don’t mention the Epstein list, or how the orange fucktard raped children. We are distracting people from all that as well"

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    Fuckhead knows jack about economic cause and effect. All he knows is how to emulate his orange daddy’s lying ways

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    These assholes came in and fucked everything up and then have the fucking balls to blame Biden for their obvious failures.

    No way in fucking hell they’d be able to get away with this level of propaganda if it weren’t for the Republican Noise Machine, but a whole lot of dumbfucks believe that the economy under Biden was terrible and that Taco is working to fix it.

    Biden’s economy was described as the envy of the world, a Goldilocks economy, etc. And these chucklefucks will stand there with a shit-eating grin and use phrases like “we inherited a disastrous Biden economy”. Get the fuck outta here with that bullshit.

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      If you think the economy of 2021-2024 was ‘goldilocks’ I think you’re conflating massive AI investment with a “good economy”

      Unless your job was developing and implementing AI solutions, you were probably getting fucked. The majority of big companies implemented RTO for softlayoffs, and then warn notices were a record outside of the pandemic year for 2023 reaching nearly 350k roles.

      Signs right now point to AI literally holding the company up as greedy CEOs and Boards shoot for infinite money machines that will never materialize with current AI/ML techniques and methodologies. When that slumps the stupid valuation of companies like nvidia are going to bomb so hard the great depression of the 21st century will be underway.

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        I don’t know why this post got down voted but Cory Doctorow agrees with you.

        Only upside is whenever this bubble pops it’s going to be on Trump’s watch. ( How confident is the maga regime in their ability to fix the next two elections…? )

        Maybe they are fine with a crash of the stock market and then the whole dollar-based economy because they are going all in on crypto.

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        Not to mention the fallout of the PPP grift, a massive transfer of wealth that we’re still paying for in inflation. The best you can say about that is that it was a bipartisan $1t ratfucking of the working class.

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          Pretty much. The ownership fuck us and for some stupid reason the ignorant middle class on either side thinks that somehow it could be good for them, depending on if it’s their guy in office or not.

          I’m a true leftist liberal. I’m 100% pro labor. That means I am neither democrat nor republican. The closest thing in the democrat party that’s aligned with my beliefs is Bernie, and they shit on him when he almost got traction.

          Never forget that term limits were established for FDR because he was similarly pro-labor and got elected to four fucking terms because of all the good he did for the many. Ever since him all the politicians have done is chip away at what was built. Obamacare was a token effort by comparison to what he accomplished.

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    In my lifetime I’ve never seen Conservatives take personal accountability for any of the consequences of their actions. They are so used to being entitled little babies that they always have to cry victim and find a scapegoat to blame. They refuse to even have productive national conversations on the results of their failed policies. On the flip side I have seen democrats take personal responsibility and try to fix mistakes as flawed as their party is. Conservatives on the other hand capitalize on the democrats taking personal accountability and just double down on their denial while escalating their bad behavior.

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      Because their playbook is literally “blame the outgroup”.

      The guy was literally standing in front of eggs clearly priced at $2.99 and blamed Harris for being priced $4.

      When caught on camera for lying, the guy says “I was told there wouldn’t be fact checking”, which was in it of itself a lie.

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    ‘I would say they’re too expensive because we inherited a disastrous Biden economy, and we’re making progress,’ the Vice President told Fox News

    Nah, prices have continuously gone up since you idiots took over. Your fucking trade war BS isn’t helping.

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    No, it was/is supply shock. Two giant global events, pandemic and Russian invasion, disrupted global trade and screwed up supply chains. Things were normalizing until Dumbass took the reins and decided to fuck up the supply chain on purpose with shitty trade policy.

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      The housing market problems go back to the housing market crash in the 2000s. It allowed the rich to completely lock up existing supply while at the same time freezing new construction. So now there is no path to home ownership for the vast majority of North Americans. This is unfortunately not a US only problem, it’s a capitalism problem.

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      How do you mean? You don’t think tarrifs are helping Americans? You don’t think hiring idiots and incompetent assholes will ruin us all?

      Apshh. Okay.

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      Right. It is bizarre, but certainly not surprising or unusual. Just the same deranged playbook where everything bad is the previous administration’s fault.

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    Crazy how grocery prices and housing prices are both low and high at the same time. Republicans are really having a Schrodinger’s economy right now.