he s actually done. so there s never any upside in letting joe biden speak injo public. d but unfortunately for the white house, sometimes you don t have a choice. disasters happenn ha. and when they do, the public expect somebody to pretend to be president. the american economy a is currently a disaster. therefore, joe biden had to h talk. so his aides dutifully let him out to the podium today to say something edifying about it. what happened next has got to be one of the weirdest presidential briefings ever conducted. new economic numbers show has declined for two quarters in a row. that s the definition of a recession. we re in a recession. that s why joe biden had tofi hold the briefingng. and yet biden never once mentioned those numbers, not a single time other than that, mrs. lincoln, how was the play? it was completely bizarre. instead, biden simply announced that there is no recession in the united states no matter what you may have noticed aboutt your own country. i
. well, it s easy for americans to find food, sayso brian watcht .at the united states is in a stronger position to actually train our focus on tackling inflation than virtually any other country. for example, you know, with respect to food, we re a net exporter of of agricultural commodities. ig and obviously the high prices are hitting americans veryh hard in a way that is different from some places that are facing famine, for example. oh,r lower your expectations of america. that sound you re hearing. the goalpost movinggri. so f we went very quickly now from build back better to hey, at least you re not starving to death, at least a famine. well well, hold on a second,d, paul . this is america like w a year and a half ago where the planes took off on time and people were getting killed every day in the subway and there wasn t filth and graffiti and drug addicts on the streetswa addug and people weren t worried about having enough to eat. those wereh our first world expectations. el