The media is covering inflation wall-to-wall.

[kairos12]

While this same media is, simultaneously, back paging an overt threat to the Republic so brash it's on a Powerpoint Slidedeck.

Hmmmm. Let me think, blasting inflation fears and downplaying threats to Democracy.

Where have I seen that playbook before?

Denke I must.

[PortTack]

1. Change the narrative..TURN IT OFF!

[JohnSJ]

2. +++

[rgbecker]

3. Increase in Inflation rate is world wide, but Biden caused it all!

Closer look at the numbers here:

[link:https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/11/24/inflation-has-risen-around-the-world-but-the-u-s-has-seen-one-of-the-biggest-increases/|

From the article:

At least one thing is clear: A resurgent inflation rate is by no means solely a U.S. concern. A Pew Research Center analysis of data from 46 nations finds that the third-quarter 2021 inflation rate was higher in most of them (39) than in the pre-pandemic third quarter of 2019. In 16 of these countries, including the U.S., the inflation rate was more than 2 percentage points higher last quarter than in the same period of 2019. (For this analysis, we used data from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a group of mostly highly developed, democratic countries. The data covers the 38 OECD member nations, plus eight other economically significant countries.)

At 5.3%, the U.S. had the eighth-highest annual inflation rate in the third quarter of 2021 among the 46 countries examined, narrowly edging out Poland. The increase in the U.S. inflation rate – 3.58 percentage points between the third quarter of 2019 and the third quarter of 2021 – was the third highest in the study group, behind only Brazil and Turkey, both of which have substantially higher inflation rates in general than the U.S. does.

Regardless of the absolute level of inflation in each country, many show variations on the same pattern: relatively low inflation before the COVID-19 pandemic struck in the first quarter of 2020; flat or falling inflation for the rest of that year and into 2021, as many governments sharply curtailed most economic activity; and rising inflation in the second and third quarters of this year, as the world struggled to get back to something approaching normal.

[DURHAM D]

4. I keep hearing that inflation is all that we are talking about out here

in the country.

No one is talking about it out here in the country. Period

So, now when I have a conversation with a family member or friend as we are finishing up I say - "Oh, we are supposed to be talking about nothing but inflation and how it is all Biden's fault. The media told us so"

It always gets a laugh and a comment like "I don't know what I paid for anything last year and don't pay any attention to what it costs now".