‘I would say they're too expensive because we inherited a disastrous Biden economy, and we're making progress,’ the Vice President told Fox News

JD Vance admits the prices of groceries and housing are “too expensive” but once again has laid blame at the feet of the "disastrous Biden economy,” despite the Trump administration having taken the reins more than eight months ago.

“Housing is too expensive, groceries are too expensive. Now, I would say they're too expensive because we inherited a disastrous Biden economy, and we're making progress,” Vance said, speaking to Fox News’ The Ingraham Angle.

The vice president made the remarks Friday when discussing the struggling U.S. economy and its potential link to a surge in popularity for Democratic New York mayoral hopeful Zohran Mamdani.

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[–] 169 points 1 year ago* (5 children)

Is this "Biden" in the White House with you right now?

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  • [–] 81 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Bizarrely? Republicans deliberately taking no responsibility at all is as normal as the sun rising and setting.

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  • [–] 76 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    In my lifetime I’ve never seen Conservatives take personal accountability for any of the consequences of their actions. They are so used to being entitled little babies that they always have to cry victim and find a scapegoat to blame. They refuse to even have productive national conversations on the results of their failed policies. On the flip side I have seen democrats take personal responsibility and try to fix mistakes as flawed as their party is. Conservatives on the other hand capitalize on the democrats taking personal accountability and just double down on their denial while escalating their bad behavior.

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  • [–] 50 points 1 year ago

    Because their playbook is literally "blame the outgroup".

    The guy was literally standing in front of eggs clearly priced at $2.99 and blamed Harris for being priced $4.

    When caught on camera for lying, the guy says "I was told there wouldn't be fact checking", which was in it of itself a lie.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    That's what shattered the illusion of Christianity for me as a younger person. Horrible individuals hiding behind an institutional veil of morals.

    The past ten years have been even more illuminating. As all of these sorts of issues have been brought to the forefront. One of the common themes I've noticed is that the Venn diagram of these types of Christians / conservatives is the overlap is nearly a perfect circle with abusers.

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  • [–] 62 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

    These assholes came in and fucked everything up and then have the fucking balls to blame Biden for their obvious failures.

    No way in fucking hell they'd be able to get away with this level of propaganda if it weren't for the Republican Noise Machine, but a whole lot of dumbfucks believe that the economy under Biden was terrible and that Taco is working to fix it.

    Biden's economy was described as the envy of the world, a Goldilocks economy, etc. And these chucklefucks will stand there with a shit-eating grin and use phrases like "we inherited a disastrous Biden economy". Get the fuck outta here with that bullshit.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    If you think the economy of 2021-2024 was 'goldilocks' I think you're conflating massive AI investment with a "good economy"

    Unless your job was developing and implementing AI solutions, you were probably getting fucked. The majority of big companies implemented RTO for softlayoffs, and then warn notices were a record outside of the pandemic year for 2023 reaching nearly 350k roles.

    Signs right now point to AI literally holding the company up as greedy CEOs and Boards shoot for infinite money machines that will never materialize with current AI/ML techniques and methodologies. When that slumps the stupid valuation of companies like nvidia are going to bomb so hard the great depression of the 21st century will be underway.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Not to mention the fallout of the PPP grift, a massive transfer of wealth that we're still paying for in inflation. The best you can say about that is that it was a bipartisan $1t ratfucking of the working class.

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  • Pretty much. The ownership fuck us and for some stupid reason the ignorant middle class on either side thinks that somehow it could be good for them, depending on if it's their guy in office or not.

    I'm a true leftist liberal. I'm 100% pro labor. That means I am neither democrat nor republican. The closest thing in the democrat party that's aligned with my beliefs is Bernie, and they shit on him when he almost got traction.

    Never forget that term limits were established for FDR because he was similarly pro-labor and got elected to four fucking terms because of all the good he did for the many. Ever since him all the politicians have done is chip away at what was built. Obamacare was a token effort by comparison to what he accomplished.

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  • [–] 58 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Trump literally put tariffs on food you fucktard.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    "No, you are wrong, it was a knock on from bidens economy...ok, you are not wrong but slightly incorrect. And by that I mean yes you are completely correct that it wasn't biden at all, and completely the tangerine imbeciles fault but I was also say that I'm waffling on and being distracting. However by this point tRUMPs base of complete idiots will have totally tuned out and will only remember the first words about it being bidens fault.

    Also, don't mention the Epstein list, or how the orange fucktard raped children. We are distracting people from all that as well"

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  • [–] 36 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Crazy how grocery prices and housing prices are both low and high at the same time. Republicans are really having a Schrodinger's economy right now.

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  • [–] 33 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    They will kill you and your family with the military if you disagree because disagreement is terrorism

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    They'll be blaming Biden in 2028. Trump will run for a third term and still pretend he's running against Biden. Joe Biden might literally die by then and Trump will still be taking jabs at him and calling him "too old".

    "Don't you want a president who's only half decomposed?", he will say. And the crowds will cheer.

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  • [–] 101 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    No, it was/is supply shock. Two giant global events, pandemic and Russian invasion, disrupted global trade and screwed up supply chains. Things were normalizing until Dumbass took the reins and decided to fuck up the supply chain on purpose with shitty trade policy.

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  • [–] 66 points 1 year ago

    The housing market problems go back to the housing market crash in the 2000s. It allowed the rich to completely lock up existing supply while at the same time freezing new construction. So now there is no path to home ownership for the vast majority of North Americans. This is unfortunately not a US only problem, it’s a capitalism problem.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Maybe if they cut my bosses taxes a few more times I'll start to prosper???

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    ‘I would say they’re too expensive because we inherited a disastrous Biden economy, and we’re making progress,’ the Vice President told Fox News

    Nah, prices have continuously gone up since you idiots took over. Your fucking trade war BS isn't helping.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago

    Oops looks like we elected people who cant fix "the damage biden did." Impeachment anyone?

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Classic Republican playbook. Same shit over and over again for decades now… everything bad is a Democrat’s fault and everything good is to their credit. And their chumps enthusiastically believe that, literally. It’s much like a narcissistic personality disorder person in a relationship. Can’t admit fault, weakness, apologize, very hypocritical, so on

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    This mimics religion for me; what I've heard and/or interpreted. (Not my personal belief.) Everything good is god's doing, while everything bad is a person's failing. It's such a load of crock to live by, yet it seemingly thrives in people's minds.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Sure, must have nothing at all to do with massive tariffs on food and construction supplies and arresting a lot of the food and construction workers.

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    The first year of the Biden presidency (2021) saw strong growth in real GDP, wages, employment, stock market returns, and household net worth, coupled with an increase in inflation, as the economy recovered from the pandemic recession of 2020.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_policy_of_the_Biden_administration

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Basically, the Biden administration economy was just along for the wild ride of post pandemic and Russian war nonsense, both the ups and downs.

    Generally speaking I don't believe in the usual "the economy is whatever the president makes if it", though Trump's policies are unusually terrible economically, so I guess he's convinced me that presidents can be mostly responsible for economy, at least a bad one.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    This Nazi government is going to spend a lot of money killing unarmed people in Venezuela, but The working people in america are homeless and starving. The average workers will be in jail if they forget to pay taxes spent in bombs and munition while the millionaire oligarchs Kissing trump's ass get billions in tax breaks.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    Well, he sure can't blame the ultra-wealthy oligarchy that groomed him to wield power on their behalf.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    How is this "bizarre"? It's totally on brand.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    What about La-Z-boy

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    This stuff boils my piss. The same thing happens in the UK. I get that you need to show restraint to maintain access but there shouldn't be anything wrong with posing their argument as a negative!

    "So you're saying this administration is failing to get a grip on the economy?" Even if he responds, he'll be angry, angry people make mistakes. Or even then just say, "Perfect, youre responding with feeling instead of thought: how does it feel knowing your boss is in the epstine files?"

    How the hell can no one get a grip on this narrative.

    Just turn to the camera and ignore them! "You heard it here first! The VPJD has no confidence in the administration!"

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    The worst part is, as soon as the other side is in charge, it's suddenly on them now and not the previous administration like it was before.

    And people fucking buy it

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    It is also infuriating because Biden spent his term dealing with the fallout of Covid.

    Americans got totally fucked during the pandemic. The government handed out a one time payment to some of the population that wouldn’t be enough to cover a months rent on a single bedroom apartment.

    They then did the paycheck protection program where they handed out gobs of money to business owners. These “loans” were forgiven and plenty of wealthy business owners just ended up pocketing piles of money.

    So you have an incompetent trump government failing to do public health policy, then only helping the owner class, causing massive inflation.

    The republicans always do this. They take over a healthy economy, pass policies that supercharge it in the short term but are completely unsustainable in the long term.

    The economy crashes, the voters put a democrat in office, the democrat spends their term cleaning up the mess, and then gets shit for having a crappy economy.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    To an outsider, yes that can be seen as bizarre. To someone who lives here, that is simply what they do.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Are you the current administration?

    Yes: Blame the previous administration.

    No: Blame the current administration.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Everything good is the fault of the most recent president from your party, everything bad is the fault of the most recent president from the opposing party

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    They know that their base is gullible enough to lap this up. Give them slop and they will eat slop.

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  • The only response to this bullshit is pointing out to the Davenport Diddler that they promised a fix day one. They said it would be easy.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I can see that perspective, but for the more sophisticed we can describe the tariffs and labor issues.

    It's also fair game because he kept saying "day one" he was totally going to fix things. If he's stupid enough to make those claims, he deserves to be evaluated against those claims, no matter how impossible they would be in the best of times.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Fuckhead knows jack about economic cause and effect. All he knows is how to emulate his orange daddy's lying ways

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  • They’d blame Biden for gravity existing.

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  • Before that it was Obama

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    He can hardly blame the real reason, or he'd be out of his job in a minute.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Biden? Not Obama?

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