WH tweet about saving sixteen cents on July 4th cookout food turns controversial

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07/02/2021 11:43

Subject: WH tweet about saving sixteen cents on July 4th cookout food turns controversial

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Anonymous wrote:Why on Earth are people offended by this? Besides Republicans feigning offense like they did with Obama's tan suit, I mean.

Lots of Biden voters in comments explain their reason for offense to this tweet.

Complaining about student loans in response to the price of food essentially remaining stable since last year does not indicate that offense was taken.

Have you visited Twitter before? It's very common for people to tweet complaints to politicians that have nothing to do with the original tweet.

Did you put the tweet together? And expect it to placate the masses?

Prices That We've Never Seen Before': Rising Food Costs Hitting Restaurants Hard
Author: Christina Hager
June 21, 2021 at 5:25 pm

https://www.google.com/amp/s/boston.cbslocal.com/2021/06/21/food-costs-rising-boston-restaurants-demand-transportation/%3famp

“BOSTON (CBS) – Have you noticed how much it costs to fill your fridge these days? Some grocery store customers are feeling sticker-shock. “The cost of produce the cost of meat, deli, things that are prepared have gotten more expensive now,” said Melanie Kinsley of Franklin.

“They haven’t gone up. They’ve almost doubled,” said Nick Rando, who owns Ziti Trattoria in Natick.

It’s not just meat. According to the National Bureau of Labor Statistics, cereal and bakery items are up 5%. Fruit and vegetables are up 1%, and dairy products are up .6%.

We have seen prices that we’ve never seen before,” said Jim Tselikis, who runs Cousins Maine Lobster, a national chain of lobster roll trucks, along with his sister. “

Food prices haven’t remained “stable.”

Ah, so not only are you an Obama's-tan-suit-pearl-clutcher, you're also a reality-denier. The cost of food prepared at home is up 2.2% since the absolute trough of the pandemic recession. Yawn. What's that thing you guys always say? Nothingburger?

You know who cared about Obama’s tan suit? The media and DC insiders. You know who still thinks about Obama’s tan suit and talks about it? The media and DC insiders.

Meanwhile, the regular people who don’t care about anybody’s suit have to pay a lot more for food, and gas, and everything else. That’s what is happening in real life.

I'm flattered to hear you think that I'm a media and/or DC insider, but the Obama tan suit reference is an illustration that people like you will stop at nothing to contrive fault where there is none. Kudos to you for turning a pun-filled tweet about the stability of food prices since the single largest disruption of the labor market and supply chain into your daily Two Minutes Hate. Hope it was cathartic, at least.

Ok, then if you are not a DC insider or media professional, you are just mired in meaningless outrage and can’t move on to things that really matter, and generalize that things you care about, everyone else cares about. We all eat food and use our money to live. We don’t all carry the vestiges of a non-scandal close to our chest and whine about it years and years later. I don’t know where “hate” comes into this discussion, it’s about economics. Weird.

If only you had an ounce of self-awareness...

The WH thinks sixteen cents is something to crow about; that’s awful. And pretending outrage about it is manufactured outrage shows how awful you are.

+1. You don’t have to feign outrage to be disgusted by the fact that the WH thinks we should thank Biden for sixteen cents when there are thousands of us who have lost our jobs in the past year only to see prices skyrocket in the meantime. The Onion can’t even come up with this s***.

Holy smokes, you're unhinged. Since when is tweeting a fact a sign that the White House thinks we should praise the president?

Of course there are people who have lost their jobs as a result of the pandemic and the botched response to it, and that's tragic. But that has nothing to do with the tweet and doesn't change the fact that food prices haven't skyrocketed.