From: johnny@invalid.net   
      
   By Tucker Carlson   
   Published May 18, 2022   
      
   Believe it or not, in 1980, which wasn't that long ago, Venezuela was   
   the richest country in Latin America. It had the highest wages. It had   
   the best health care and education. It also had, by the standards of   
   the region anyway, a famously stable democracy. Then came an energy   
   crisis, and Venezuela wound up with inflation. At times, it reached   
   100% a year. Inflation makes people poor. So, in a very short time, the   
   poverty rate in Venezuela doubled.   
      
   By 1995, 66% of all Venezuelans were impoverished. Getting poorer tends   
   to make voters radical. So inevitably, Venezuela got radical politics.   
   You know what happened next. Venezuela is now rated one of the most   
   miserable places on planet Earth. A few years ago, citizens in Caracas   
   were reduced to eating zoo animals. There was no food and for that   
   matter, there was no electricity. So, in just half a lifetime, an   
   advanced society had reverted to the Stone Age.   
      
   Once you get inflation, there's no pretending you've done a good job.   
   You have not done a good job and everybody knows it.   
      
   So, you can see why the Biden administration is very worried about   
   this. Joe Biden has historically low approval ratings. Voters say   
   inflation is their top concern. Those two facts are directly related.   
   Biden's most pressing task right now is reassuring Americans that he   
   understands they're suffering under inflation and under a rapidly   
   worsening economy, and he's got a plan to fix it. If he can't convince   
   Americans of that, it may be a long time before we have another   
   Democratic president.   
      
   Thankfully, Joe Biden has a plan, or at least a new publicist, a   
   silver-tongued wordsmith/policy guru called Karine Jean-Pierre. It is   
   Karine Jean-Pierre's job to take this message of economic hope to the   
   American people and save the Biden administration. She started Monday.   
   Here were her first words from the podium.   
      
   KARINE JEAN-PIERRE: I am obviously acutely aware that my presence at   
   this podium represents a few firsts. I am a Black, gay, immigrant   
   woman, the first of all three of those to hold this position.   
      
   So, that was a little confusing. It wasn't actually about America. It   
   was about her...   
      
   https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tucker-anyone-questions-biden-ec   
   nomic-policy-racist   
      
   Why did she have to tell the American people that is a black gay   
   immigrant?  Why didn't she just come out and do her job?   
      
   This would have never happened under Trump.  He hired people based on   
   their qualifications for the job, not because of their race, sexuality   
   or immigration status.   
      
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