So much of what you read or hear from public figures is disingenuous pap, designed to mollify or confuse rather than accurately portray the individuals’ thoughts.
Should you doubt this, just think of all the hot mic moments throughout the years, when people thinking they were speaking privately revealed their true thoughts, in direct opposition to what they just had said for public consumption.
For example, we had Barack Obama caught talking to a Russian leader (not Putin) and pleading for more time regarding missiles because “after my election I have more flexibility.” This despite Obama talking tough publicly on the topic.
That was March 2012. A mere six months earlier, Obama again had been caught bad-mouthing the Israeli prime minister, supposedly an ally, to the French president. Clueless Joe Biden had a similar hot mic moment regarding Netanyahu following Biden’s State of the Union address.
This is a bipartisan issue. Many Republicans are just as hypocritical in the gap between their public and private thoughts.
It occurs to me that we need translators of sorts, to give us the straight story regarding events, in a what they said, what they meant format.
WHAT THEY SAID: Clueless Joe’s energy department said Wednesday it was halting attempts to refill the strategic petroleum reserve due to “keeping the taxpayers’ interest at the forefront.”
WHAT THEY MEANT: We blew it, failing to move to refill when crude oil prices were low. We drained the reserve to help Joe’s popularity and now can’t replace the oil because that would add demand to an oil market whose prices already are up substantially. Just pray we don’t really need this reserve to help us through, say, a time of war.
WHAT THEY SAID: Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell, head of the so-called Open Markets Committee (Open Mouth Committee considering the penchant for attempts to jawbone markets) was pledging yet again that he and his cohorts will not be eager to cut interest rates any time soon lest they send inflation raging higher.
WHAT THEY MEANT: Look, we blew it with overly loose monetary policy designed to help ease the Great Financial Crisis in 2008 or the COVID debacle of 2020. Now we’ve had to raise interest rates to try to tamp down inflation and trust me, we feel your pain. We lost a record $114.3 billion in 2023 due to those higher interest rates that we set costing us more, too, in terms of money paid to banks or losses we took on our bond portfolio. In a word, we’re stuck and don’t know how to get out of this mess we created.
WHAT THEY SAID: U.S. spokesmen announced that Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and his delegation had to motorcade to Brussels after their airplane had a “mechanical” issue while at an airport in Paris. This is the second time in three months a Blinken government-issued Boeing plane has failed him while on foreign soil.
WHAT THEY MEANT: Aren’t you a bit nostalgic for the time when such aircraft were designed, built and maintained by the best available people, not DEI types who fill quotas and look good in company promotional ads?
WHAT THEY SAID: Donald Trump proclaimed Nov. 5 (election day) will be Christian Visibility Day.
WHAT THEY MEANT: With Trump, you don’t need a translator. He referred to the Clueless Joe Regime cleverly proclaiming Easter Sunday this year as Transgender Day of Visibility. Trump thinks that might hurt the Clueless One, who denied having anything to do with the proclamation that was released under his name. I hope Trump is correct.
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