{"id":13003,"date":"2022-05-10T12:28:42","date_gmt":"2022-05-10T16:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mydailyfreedom.com\/?p=13003"},"modified":"2024-01-31T10:42:08","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T14:42:08","slug":"biden-blunders-inflation-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/biden-blunders-inflation-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden blunders another speech: &#8216;The number one threat is the strength, and that strength that we&#8217;ve built is inflation&#8217; (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden has blundered another speech by saying the following: &#8220;<span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">The number one threat is the strength, and that strength that we&#8217;ve built is inflation.<\/span>&#8221;<br \/>\nWATCH him say it:<br \/>\n<div style=\"width: 720px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-13003-1\" width=\"720\" height=\"650\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Biden-blunders-another-speech-calls-inflation-a-strength.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Biden-blunders-another-speech-calls-inflation-a-strength.mp4\">https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Biden-blunders-another-speech-calls-inflation-a-strength.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/speeches-remarks\/2022\/05\/10\/remarks-by-president-biden-at-a-democratic-national-committee-fundraiser-4\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Here&#8217;s the<\/a> Remarks by President<span class=\"dewidow\">\u00a0<\/span>Biden at a Democratic National Committee<span class=\"dewidow\">\u00a0<\/span>Fundraiser:<br \/>\n7:01 P.M. EDT<br \/>\nTHE PRESIDENT: Hey, thank you very much. (Applause.) Thank you, thank you, thank you. (Applause.)<br \/>\nWell, I think now is the time I should probably leave. (Laughter.) You\u2019re all very gracious. Thank you. Thank you very much.<br \/>\nYou know, I was \u2014 I came in and I saw two really important people I shook hands with. Because everybody knows I like kids better than people. (Laughter.) Thank you guys for being here.<br \/>\nMom and Dad owe you a big prize for having to put up with this. (Laughter.)<br \/>\nCHILD: Yes, sir.<br \/>\nTHE PRESIDENT: Folks \u2014 (laughter) \u2014 folks, you know, one of the things that I think is important is that we kind of remember who in God\u2019s name we are.<br \/>\nYou know, you get to the point \u2014 I\u2019ve been around the Senate for a while \u2014 a year or two \u2014 and the Vice President for a while, and now President of the United States.<br \/>\nAnd, you know, I want to thank Dave and June for hosting this. You know, he \u2014 his biggest operation, he tells me, is up in Claymont, Delaware, where I went to \u2014 I went to school in Claymont, Delaware. It\u2019s a \u2014 it\u2019s a \u2014 it used to be a steel town and a working-class town.<br \/>\nAnd I went to \u2014 there was a place called Archmere Academy, and across the street an old John Jakob Raskob estate turned into a school. And \u2014 the little school called Holy Rosary.<br \/>\nAnd up in Claymont, it\u2019s real simple: They know \u2014 they know that \u2014 when you say something, whether you mean it or not. And it\u2019s pretty important that I think the Democrats communicate what we mean, as we\u2019ve been doing here toni- \u2014 as they\u2019ve been doing here tonight.<br \/>\nYou know, the fact is that, you know \u2014 you know, Anthony is going to be a hell of an attorney general. Where are you, Anthony? (Applause.)<br \/>\nBy the way, he won his House in spite of the fact that I campaigned for him. (Laughter.)<br \/>\nAnd Dutch \u2014 where are you, Dutch? There you go, Dutch. I can\u2019t \u2014 good to see you, pal. (Applause.) Dutch is my kind of guy.<br \/>\nAnd Ben \u2014 Ben Cardin has been a good friend for a long, long time now. (Applause.)<br \/>\nI \u2014 you know, the fact is that I\u2019m proud of the progress we\u2019ve made because of the folks I just named, including my host.<br \/>\nYou know, we went from having 2 million people with shots when we came into office \u2014 for COVID shots \u2014 to 220 million people being fully vaccinated. We moved from \u2014 (applause) \u2014<br \/>\nThe jobs report: We had 428,000 new jobs this month, and 8.2 million since we came to office, more than \u2014 more than any time \u2014 in 15 months.<br \/>\nThe deficit is down $350 billion last year. (Applause.) Republicans talked about it, but we actually brought the deficit down $350 billion. And we\u2019re on target to reduce the deficit by the end of this fiscal year by 1 trillion 500 billion dollars. (Applause.) And that\u2019s a fact.<br \/>\nAnd we\u2019ve made historic investments in solar and wind and battery storage \u2014 a whole range of things.<br \/>\nAnd we appointed the first African American woman to the Supreme Court. (Applause.) But equally important, we\u2019ve appointed more African American Circuit Court judges than any time than all other Presidents combined. (Applause.)<br \/>\nHere\u2019s the point: I made a commitment when I ran. I said, \u201cI want my administration to look like America.\u201d And it is. It\u2019s looking like America, across the board, from every \u2014 you cannot look at any part of our administration \u2014 from the appointees, to those requiring Senate confirmation, to members of my Cabinet \u2014 you can\u2019t look anywhere and not see America. Because that\u2019s who we are. That\u2019s our strength. We talked about that strength. (Applause.)<br \/>\nAnd, folks, you know, the fact is that we \u2014 we rallied the world as well \u2014 and I wish we hadn\u2019t had to do it \u2014 to keep Putin in place.<br \/>\nThe fact is, what I\u2019ve spent most of my time doing \u2014 and I\u2019ve spent now well over 150 hours trying to keep the other heads of state on the same page and keep us together, constantly making sure we\u2019re on the same page.<br \/>\nBecause I\u2019m confident Putin believed \u2014 (applause) \u2014 I\u2019m confident Putin believed that he could break up NATO. I\u2019m confident he believed he could break up the European Union, that we couldn\u2019t hold it together. But we\u2019re doing it. It\u2019s not easy, and a lot of other countries have to make greater or lesser sacrifices than we. But it\u2019s not easy.<br \/>\nBut it\u2019s critically important because Putin is a \u2014 I\u2019ve known him for a while. I\u2019ve spent time with him. He is a very, very, very calculating man. And the problem I worry about now is that he doesn\u2019t have a way out right now, and I\u2019m trying to figure out what we do about that. But that\u2019s a different story.<br \/>\nBut here\u2019s the deal: In the meantime, you sometimes \u2014 you know, we \u2014 we generated greater economic growth than any President has in their first 14 months, 15 months, but we also ran into some international crises, and they\u2019re consequential and they\u2019re really consequential.<br \/>\nInflation. You know, we \u2014 the fact is that we stopped investing in ourselves about 20 years ago in any big way. We used to invest in the United States of America. We used to invest 2 percent \u2014 our government \u2014 2 percent of our GDP was in research and development. It\u2019s less than 1 percent now. And it\u2019s been that way for a long time.<br \/>\nWe used to be number one in the world; now we\u2019re number eight. China used to be number eight; now they\u2019re number two.<br \/>\nThe generic point is we have to invest in ourselves, invest in our people, so that we can, in fact, continue to lead the world on all the things that are so \u2014 there are so many incredible opportunities for not only us but for the rest of the world.<br \/>\nAnd so what we\u2019re doing here is we find ourselves in inflation being a incredibly difficult problem.<br \/>\nFor example, last year, because we lacked the ability to find the computer chips to build automobiles, we \u2014 we invented the computer chip here in America, we refined it here in America, and we stopped making it here in America, as my colleagues can tell you. We\u2019re now changing that.<br \/>\nBut the point is that the reason 30 percent of all the inflation was because of the cost of automobiles last year. This year, it\u2019s \u2014 well, it\u2019s \u2014 this year, we have a similar problem, but it\u2019s because of energy because of Putin\u2019s gas tax, the gas tax of him causing such a disruption in oil markets around the world.<br \/>\nAnd so we got a lot to do. But here\u2019s the point: I think that the fact is that I think we can, in fact \u2014 we can, in fact, grab hold of this issue and once again reassert ourselves as the lead country in the world across the board. And \u2014 (applause) \u2014 no, I \u2014 it\u2019s not hyperbole.<br \/>\nBut what I don\u2019t want to do is go too long here. But, you know, look, if you take a look at, you know, the Supreme Court, when the \u2014 remember, I\u2019m the guy that led the fight to keep Robert Bork off the Court. Because Robert Bork refused to acknowledge that there was anything remotely approaching a right to privacy and\/or the Ninth Amendment. I don\u2019t want to get into a constitutional \u2014 my problem was I taught constitutional law for 18 years.<br \/>\nBut here\u2019s the deal: The fact of the matter is it\u2019s not just about choice that\u2019s at stake here. So much more is at stake \u2014 everything from contraception. There used to be a law on the books in Connecticut \u2014 Griswold vs. Connecticut \u2014 that said a married couple could not \u2014 it was a crime to purchase contraceptives using the privacy of their own bedroom.<br \/>\nThere are a whole range of other issues that are susceptible if the reasoning of the Court opinion that was leaked ends up being what the Court opinion is. And it\u2019s not certain of that yet.<br \/>\nThere\u2019s a lot at stake. A whole lot at stake.<br \/>\nAnd, folks, you know, we\u2019re also coming \u2014 coming for the \u2014 you know, they\u2019re coming for the right to vote. I\u2019ve never seen \u2014 I got involved in politics because my state of Delaware, not unlike Maryland, has the eighth-largest Black population in America as a percent of population. That\u2019s what got me involved as a kid in civil rights and as public defender.<br \/>\nAnd the fact is that I\u2019ve never seen such an onslaught. I was chairman of the Judiciary Committee for years in the Senate as well as Foreign Relations Committee. And I was \u2014 thought I really had made it when I was able to extend the Voting Rights Act for 24 years and got Strom Thurmond to vote for it. Not a joke. (Applause.) I thought we \u2014 thought we\u2019d lose.<br \/>\nLook, for some people, it never changes. They\u2019ve never, ever given up.<br \/>\nAnd, you know, if you take a look at what\u2019s at stake \u2014 I\u2019m going to cut to the chase so I can get some questions here. But here\u2019s the deal: If you take a look at where these guys are, this is not your father\u2019s Republican Party. Did you ever think in the year that we\u2019re in at this moment, 2022, there\u2019d be governors and others banning books \u2014 banning books in schools?<br \/>\nDid you ever think you\u2019d be in a situation where we found that \u2014 you were in a position where they talk about how we should make Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid up for grabs every fo- \u2014 five years? Because that\u2019s what they\u2019re doing. This is not your father\u2019s Republican Party. This is a MAGA party. This is the MAGA party.<br \/>\nAnd the head of their Republican campaign committee, Senator Rick Scott \u2014 the Ultra-MAGA Agenda he put forward, he raises taxes on 70 million people who make less than \u2014 well less than $100,000.<br \/>\nAUDIENCE MEMBER: No!<br \/>\nTHE PRESIDENT: No, it\u2019s a fact. Not a joke. And that\u2019s 98 percent of the families earning less than $1,000 [$100,000], because he says everybody should pay taxes.<br \/>\nSecondly, he requires Congress, every five years, to vote to whether or not to keep Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.<br \/>\nAUDIENCE MEMBER: No.<br \/>\nTHE PRESIDENT: Every \u2014 that\u2019s their platform. I\u2019m not joking. We got to start talking more about what these guys are about. That\u2019s literally their platform.<br \/>\nAnd so, folks, we need to control the House and Senate, which I wa- \u2014 listening to others people speak, you know the whole deal there. And we can do it.<br \/>\nRight now, when you have a 50-50 Senate and your president \u2014 and, fortunately, we have a Democratic Vice President. Every time she votes, we win.<br \/>\nBut the point is this: You got 51 presidents. Any one member can be \u2014 and 48 percent \u2014 48 Democrats vote with me on \u2014 literally 95 percent of the time; two change their mind. It just takes one to change their mind and you can\u2019t get the 50 votes needed.<br \/>\nAnd so there\u2019s a lot at stake here \u2014 a whole bunch at stake. And I think there are at least four seats that are up for grabs that we could pick up in the Senate \u2014 two with almost certainty if we do the right thing.<br \/>\nAnd we\u2019re going to keep the House. Because if we don\u2019t, just let me remind you: Just look at \u2014 what I always ask people when the press ask me, I say, \u201cCan you tell me what the Republican Party stands for today? What are they for?\u201d Not a joke. Tell me anything they are for, as a party. There\u2019s good Republicans.<br \/>\nI had a reputation, when I was a senator, of being able to walk across the \u2014 work across the aisle as well as anybody. I passed significant amounts of bipartisan legislation in those 36 years.<br \/>\nBut today, if you look at the leaders of the Republican Party, what is their agenda? It\u2019s not a conservative agenda. It\u2019s not an agenda. They have no agenda; to stop what we\u2019re doing.<br \/>\nAnd, folks, so there\u2019s a whole bunch at stake here. And that\u2019s why I want to say thank you, thank you, thank you, not only for helping me, but so many of you helped other members of the party who are seeking office and will be seeking office this off year. Because if we win, we have an opportunity to do such great things for this country on the environment, on matters relating to healthcare, on matters relating to mental health, on matters relating to the criminal justice system \u2014 a whole range of things that are within our reach to do.<br \/>\nWe have the votes to do it if we pick up these \u2014 at least two seats here. And I think we can do it.<br \/>\nWith that, why don\u2019t I, as my mother \u2014 if she were here, she\u2019d say, \u201cJoey, hush up and take the questions.\u201d (Laughter.)<br \/>\nSo, thank you for listening, and I\u2019m prepared to \u2014 (applause) \u2014<br \/>\n(Press departs.)<br \/>\n7:15 P.M. EDT<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden has blundered another speech by saying the following: &#8220;The number one threat is the strength, and that strength that we&#8217;ve built is inflation.&#8221; WATCH him say it: Here&#8217;s the Remarks by President\u00a0Biden at a Democratic National Committee\u00a0Fundraiser: 7:01 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Hey, thank you very much. (Applause.) 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