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I'd like to chime in with my $0.02 on why.

Since the Afghanistan pull out the coverage on Biden has been brutal and non-stop. When was the last positive new cycle for Biden that had any staying power?

Gas prices move up and you have weeks and weeks of stories about how Americans can't afford to get to their massage appointments and it's Biden's fault (even though gas prices are up globally).

Those same gas prices have been falling for about a month now. They're down about $0.60/gal where I am. Haven't seen a word of that breathed on the front pages of the WaPo or NYT.

Now you have stories about the DCCC "boosting" MAGA idiots when all they're doing is run negative ads and it's the biggest political scandal since Teapot. Nevermind that Republicans did it with Bernie in 2016 they did with funding Green Party candidates and they did it by recruiting ghost candidates in Florida with similar sounding names to the Democratic candidate. You hear nothing about that like you are hearing about these ads.

But the media is liberal and in the pocket of the DNC. Give me a break.

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Hey, nice to see you here! Your analysis of all this is certainly spot on. Even in California, gas prices are down about 50-60 cents a gallon from where they were (still $1/gal more than elsewhere, so what else is new?).

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Just stretching my legs and checking out the neighborhood. ;)

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Welcome to TC’s sizzlin griddle. Looks like a good road stop for a liberal cynic!

Agree with your comment today.

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Thank you Christine!

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American media sucks big time at offering any global perspective whatsoever. We are a very self-obsessed people in a self-obsessed country and our only other obsession beside ourselves is money. It is frustrating as all get out.

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As Churchill once observed, Americans go to war to learn geography.

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Agreed.

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The media is no more liberal than the deep pockets that run it. Thanks for your $0.02...it is always appreciated. And how many people in this country actually know the gas prices are not dictated by the government? I guess not enough, as usual.

If you buy at high prices (take the real estate market for instance), the prices will then go even higher until people finally stop spending their money. Then prices go back down. Why pay $500k for a house that is maybe worth $300K? Because you can...or you think you can. Go ahead and keep your collective heads in the sand. And when it all crashes AGAIN...it will be history repeating itself...AGAIN. Sorry, I'm on a tear this morning.

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It's a good tear.

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