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Recession ‘word churn’ from Democrats
is not working, warns Washington Post columnist

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Posted By: Moritz55, 7/30/2022 2:31:10 PM

Washington Post columnist Megan McArdle dismissed the semantics debate over whether the U.S. was officially in a recession and warned Democrats that such "word churn" about the state of the economy was not an effective political strategy. In her Friday piece, titled, "Enough with the ‘is this a recession?’ blather," McArdle began by asking, "Are we in a recession? Does it even matter?" She noted "that a preliminary Bureau of Economic Analysis report released Thursday shows that the economy contracted at an annualized pace of 0.9 percent in the second quarter, following a decrease of 1.6 percent in the first quarter."

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Now even some on the Left are calling Biden’s bluff.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Quigley 7/30/2022 3:23:33 PM (No. 1233022)
Here’s another analysis. Pappy poopy pants is not exactly known for his exacting language and great care in the scrupulous accuracy of what he says. Sure, two consecutive negative quarters is a rule of thumb and the legalistic definition is more nuanced. But pappy slops words around like a hog farmer throws slop. But now he wants to be really scrupulous and stick to formal definitions. Meanwhile his racist Supreme Court selection can’t scrupulously define a woman even though for 10,000 years the term has meant a human born with a womb. No, now the bidenites say a woman is someone who likes to wear high heels; or a dress; or pretty panties. It’s fluid. So pappy just looks sloppier and sloppier and more and more disingenuous and reveals his “nothing there but politics” core.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: jeffkinnh 7/30/2022 4:57:03 PM (No. 1233094)
Boy, the WaaPoo tears apart Brandon's story and then schools him in reality, something he doesn't do well with. "You can’t message people out of thinking their economic circumstances have gotten worse" "it’s emblematic of a dangerous tendency on the left to believe they can control reality by controlling the words we use to describe it." ""It is the left that has put us on a never-ending euphemism treadmill, transforming ‘illegal alien’ into ‘illegal immigrant’ and therefrom to ‘undocumented worker’ and so on, ... this doesn’t work: The negative associations are attached to the underlying concept, not the vocabulary." "Meanwhile, the constant word churn alienates people who find the neologisms alien and off-putting, especially less-educated voters that Democrats are now hemorrhaging." "Democrats especially — would be better off if the left spent less time looking for better phrasing and more time finding solutions." WOW. I wonder if McArdle recognizes the irony in her words. She suggests the administration needs to get down to productive work. However, one thing that most people (~70%) recognize is that the Brandon administration is incompetent and DOES NOT KNOW HOW to accomplish successful policy. They use "word churn", even when it makes them sound stupid, because they don't have anything else. YES, everything McArdle says is true. The Left tries to define the language we can use and the acceptable responses to it. The big one is of course, "racism". By dragging out that label, it is the intent of the Left that their target will be utterly defeated. For a while it worked. Now it's Ho Hum because everyone knows it is grossly overused and the meaning is dangerously distorted. The media started this game and now McArdle complains it is overused and poorly used by an moronic WH. Look in a mirror Megan.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Faithfully 7/30/2022 6:42:30 PM (No. 1233184)
Our "representatives" in government positions will never experience recession nor hard times. Learned this from my Grandfather who lived through the "Dirty Thirties".
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Reply 4 - Posted by: MDConservative 7/30/2022 6:55:53 PM (No. 1233199)
That $5/gallon gas was too big a tip off to be ignored by the boobwazie.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: mifla 7/31/2022 5:43:22 AM (No. 1233421)
Word games will not cause high food and gas prices to come down.
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