Weak political ads and wild insulin claims

with a side of "revenge".

I recently learned that if you binge-watch a show on Hulu, you’re going to see localized political ads. Or rather, one particular ad. Over and over and over. I must have seen this damned thing 100 times now.

I’ve searched the interwebs high and low but I can’t find a copy of this ad. No worries, I can almost reproduce the thing word for word at this point. I hope I wasn’t just hallucinating it.

In the ad, sleepy Joe says (slurringly) that “Donald Trump is just out for revenge” but that he (Joe) along with Nevada’s own Democrat Congress-critter Suzie Lee have been getting stuff done, like lowering American’s monthly insulin costs from “over $400 a month” to just $35 a month.

He’s made that claim a bunch in this campaign cycle.

Gross ad. And a weak one too, I think. It only makes two points. One of them misleading, and the other spookily revealing.

He’s referring to the Inflation Reduction Act. After he (and Trump) injected a staggering $6 trillion in counterfeit money into the system in 2020 and 2021, Congress passed this boondoggle with a nice-sounding name, that of course, doesn’t actually do anything about inflation.

How could it? Inflation is a monetary phenomenon. We all used to understand that before we got brainwashed into muddying up the definition.

Even famously left-leaning Politifact rates Biden’s insulin claim as “half true”. The newly passed law shuffles around some of the deck chairs on the Titanic and does indeed cap the monthly price for insulin of people on Medicare at $35.

But of course, the lie is that very few people were ever paying over $400 a month for their insulin. Politifact says that on average it’s more like $452 a year (so, $38 a month). Even completely uninsured Americans only paid $996 a year ($83 a month).

It should also be pointed out that insulin prices were already on the way down after an unusual spike. It’s normal for politicians to notice a trend happening and then rush out in front of it to take credit.

But of course, there are always negative unintended consequences we should expect from legislation like this. Expect higher prices overall once these effects shake out.

So, Joe’s (and Suzie’s) ad only made two points, and we haven’t even talked about the creepy one yet. As I said, Joe leads off with, “Donald Trump is only out for revenge.”

It’s kinda weird to frame a politician re-seeking office as “revenge”. Revenge is what a person seeks when they’ve been wronged.

Biden (and his handlers) choosing that word sounds to me like an admission of what, of course, we all know perfectly well. The great orange narcissist doofus was too popular, too populist, not quite war-like enough, and won an election he wasn’t supposed to. The war hawks and those who profit off them didn’t like that one bit.

So, those who rule over us done him dirty. And now he’s out for revenge.

I won’t go into all the details. I could fill pages and pages. Either you see it or you don’t. What has been done by the regime to Trump and his supporters is unprecedented — and should concern you.

When the weaponization and politicization of state power becomes “normal”, don’t be shocked when it gets used against you. As I said in a previous article, how is the Patriot Act treating Republicans these days?

And please don’t take this as an endorsement for Trump. I’m a libertarian and I’ll be voting as such come November. I won’t support the neocon leftist nightmare that is the Biden Administration. Nor will I support the impulsive, know-nothing, protectionist doofus that is Trump.

The government is way too big. It is a monster masquerading as a savior. It ruins our lives in a million ways.

Oh, and if it were smaller, I bet I would get fewer gross political ads on Hulu in election years. Bonus.

Naturally,

Adam