Once a fading reminiscence within the United States, inflation is now uncontrolled within the disaster that’s Dementia Joe Biden’s America.
But let’s look on the brilliant facet of Brandon’s double-digit inflation – it’s getting simpler and simpler to drop a few pounds. As the Democrats try to show the U.S. into Venezuela, think about what occurred there when Hugo Chavez and Nicolas Maduro received an opportunity to work their socialist magic.
In 2018, it was reported that the common Venezuelan had misplaced 24 kilos within the earlier 12 months, due to meals shortages introduced on by runaway Biden-esque inflation.
That was the excellent news. The unhealthy information was that animals within the nationwide zoo in Caracas had been slaughtered by ravenous Biden supporters, er, Maduro and Chavez voters.
I recalled this underreported upside of Biden’s south-of-the-border dry run once I noticed a quote from somebody on state-run CNN following the discharge of Biden’s newest Consumer Price Index (CPI) catastrophe:
“Inflation is eating his presidency alive at this point.”
Good to see that somebody, or one thing, continues to be getting three squares a day.
For the file, the CPI final month rose 9.1 %, and the Producer Price Index (PPI) shot up 11.3 %. But who believes the numbers are that low? An internet site known as Shadowstats computes the true inflation fee, the best way the feds used to earlier than…Democrats.
According to the actual calculations, inflation beneath Biden final month was the truth is 17.3 %, up from 16.8 % in May.
Jimmy Carter is wanting higher by the day, isn’t he?
I wish to test in with my listeners weekly on what they’re seeing in what stays of the sturdy financial system Brandon inherited 18 months in the past. It looks as if a very long time in the past — inflation was 1.4 % and the worth of gasoline in a lot of the nation was nonetheless beneath $2 a gallon.
Inflation, shrinkflation, shortages, shutdowns – I name this phase of my present “Let’s Go Brandon!”
Let’s go straight to the texts and the cellphone calls:
From the 978 space code: “The dollar ice cream at McDonald’s is now $2.27, and that’s when the machine is working!”
From 617: “I’ve been paying $150 a month for fuel to level out my cost for the year. It was a great plan. Got a letter last week saying my monthly payment is now $290 a month. Holy crap! What’s going on here?”
From 508: “You can’t get a 10-inch bar pizza on the South Shore for under $10 anymore. We used to pay $21.99 for 3 pizzas, large salad and 2-liter soda. Now it’s $32.99.”
Mike from North Carolina: “You know how you order chicken wings – 6, 8, or a dozen. Now instead of a price on the menu, it says, ‘MP.’ Market price. They’re pricing chicken wings like lobsters!”
From 781: “Kingsford charcoal 20-lb. bag now 18 lbs. Same price.”
People have slowly began returning to film theaters. Let’s get some on-the-scene stories:
Mark: “My brother-in-law took his three young daughters and a friend to see ‘The Minions’ on Friday night. It cost him $93 at the concession stand for four little girls!”
A man named Jack instructed me he went together with his girlfriend to see the brand new Top Gun film. He ordered a big popcorn with butter and the child behind the counter instructed him they had been out of butter. Out of butter! For popcorn! I requested Jack why he didn’t simply purchase some sweet as a substitute.
“I would have,” he mentioned. “But they were out of candy too. All they had left was Sno-Caps.”
You know, that could possibly be listed as one of many counts in Biden’s impeachment subsequent 12 months after the GOP takes management of the House of Representatives. Only Sno-Caps on the multiplex is both a excessive crime or a misdemeanor, most likely the previous.
Some of the continued calamities will be defined away, kind of. A man texted to complain {that a} bottle of Sol beer had shrunk to 11.2 ounces. Apparently that’s a metric-sized container used exterior the U.S.
It’s simply that whenever you’re flush and never struggling via a dumpster fireplace of a brutally incompetent regime, you won’t even discover that breweries are downsizing the product.
Back to the calls and texts.
From 207: “Saved a ton on food this Fourth. No one could afford to drive to my house.”
From 508: “Whatever happened to flounder?”
Chris: “I have gout. There’s been a quantum leap in what I pay for my prescription medicine. It’s gone from $2.75 a month to $15.”
From 607: “A bag of Utz chips was 9 oz., now it’s 7.25 oz. And the price is $4.19 a bag.”
From 339: “I went to a clam shack in Kennebunk. Four lobster rolls and a hot dog $140. Not including gas to get there.”
From 508: “Two sandwiches for $5 at Burger King is now $6.”
From 978: “My German spitz’ favorite dog food used to be $12.99. Now $17.99.”
From 207: “Tires on my Zero Turn lawn mower that I neglected to buy last year on Amazon went from $150 to $300.”
David: “Propane tanks have gone from $10 to $15. And no balloons at the Dollar Store – out of helium.”
Jeff: “Gatorade used to be a buck for 32 ounces. Now it’s $1.69 for 28 ounces. When you can find it, that is.”
From 606: “A 10-ft. length of 3/4-inch copper pipe last Oct. was $25. Two days ago, $42. Thanks Brandon.”
From 860: “Twizzlers were $1.50, now $2.99.”
From 978: “A gallon of hydraulic fluid for construction equipment – the cheap stuff – was $14.99. Now over $20.”
From 508: “Do you read the supermarket fliers anymore? I don’t, because there don’t seem to be any real ‘bargains’ in them anymore.”
Let’s go Brandon! The sooner, the higher.
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