The White House, Bernstein suggests, is objective, calm, nuanced, and on top of the game. They don’t know what they are talking about. “What we’re trying to do is explain things in a much more nuanced way than most people are getting from the daily news flow.” In other words, Americans struggling to keep up with inflation are irrational. “I don’t think any of us are trying to convince anyone that their feelings about the economy are wrong,” adviser Jared Bernstein told Politico. The problem is that Jean-Pierre is a little fuzzy on how long the “transition” will take. The National Economic Council’s Brian Deese said, “We’re certainly in a transition.” To what, exactly? According to White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, “what we’re seeing is a transition into stable and steady growth.” Sounds great. Some of Biden’s aides avoided the “r” word altogether. My takeaway: Economists determine the economy is in a recession only when Republicans are in power. Pointing to jobs and investment growth, Biden said, “That doesn’t sound like a recession to me.” Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told Meet the Press, “This is not an economy that’s in recession.” The White House published a blog post asking, “How Do Economists Determine Whether the Economy Is in a Recession?” It offered a long, technical, and confusing answer. Think the economy is bad? My poor dear, you must be crazy. Not if you listen to the Gregory Antons in the West Wing. economy had shrunk for two quarters in a row-a piece of data that is widely understood to mark the onset of a recession. On July 28, the Bureau of Economic Analysis announced that the U.S. On July 27, the Federal Reserve hiked interest rates for the second straight quarter. On July 13, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that inflation had reached a four-decade high. The gaslight shone brightly from the White House this summer. If that is “success,” what does failure look like? residents stranded in hostile territory, and al-Qaeda living large in Kabul. The “extraordinary success” of America’s retreat from Afghanistan left 13 servicemen dead, 39 million Afghans ruled by the Taliban, U.S. The “seasonal” illegal immigration across the southern border is now in its second year. Since the spring of 2021, the president and his spokesmen have made statements so at odds with experience that they beggar belief. For the Biden administration, it’s a way of life. For most people, gaslighting is a form of abuse. “Or is it I who am mad?”Īmericans must be asking that question a lot lately. “Have you gone mad, my husband?” asks Bergman. Accordingly, “gaslighting” means withholding information from-or presenting falsehoods to-another person in such a way that the victim begins to question reality itself. In the film, Charles Boyer portrays the murderer Gregory Anton, who tricks his newlywed bride, played by Ingrid Bergman, into thinking that she is slowly going insane.
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The word of the month is “gaslighting.” It’s a piece of Internet slang that pays homage to the 1944 George Cukor movie Gaslight.
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