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Here is the president of the United States just one year ago declaring that everything was hunky-dory was all going well.

We also know that as our economy has come roaring back, we've seen some price increases.

Some folks have raised worries that this could be a sign of persistent inflation.

But that's not our view.

Our experts believe, and the data shows that most of the price increases we've seen were expected and expected to be temporary.

Reality is you can't flip the global economic light back on and not expect this to happen.

Decrepit, bloated, stupid is no way to go through life. And yet that is precisely what this

administration is. And herein lies a major problem for the United States. It's not just Joe Biden.

We have an entire elite class in the United States that has been bloated by years of being

able to live off the fat of the land. We have an entire population in the United States that basically has never been asked to sacrifice anything on behalf of the country or even to get up off their butts such that they work for a living. And this is a major, major problem. The predictable result, of course, is that we blame the president. But Joe Biden has always just been a reflection of whatever is around him. Joe Biden is an avatar for the center of the Democratic Party and for large swaths of American life. He has no independent being. Joe Biden is not some sort of independent thinker who has emerged from the soup of the United States as a leader. He's a person who has bobbed about the eddies of the United States political system for literally all his life. He is just a cork. And so if that cork is moving in a particular direction, what we ought to be looking at is not the cork. We ought to be looking at the tides. However, the media are finally beginning to realize that Joe Biden is really bad at his job. You know things have gotten bad for old Joe when members of the comedic establishment decide

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