{"id":45287,"date":"2026-07-25T19:41:01","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T00:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=45287"},"modified":"2026-07-25T19:41:01","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T00:41:01","slug":"just-a-bit-more-to-add","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2026\/07\/25\/just-a-bit-more-to-add\/","title":{"rendered":"Just A Bit More To Add"},"content":{"rendered":"

Energy Secretary Chris Wright strips off some context from an argument, which Steve Benen restores but<\/a> …<\/p>\n

Over the weekend, Energy Secretary Chris Wright appeared on ABC News\u2019 \u201cThis Week\u201d and was asked about the latest developments. \u201cGasoline prices today are more than $1 a gallon cheaper than they were four years ago under the Biden administration,\u201d\u00a0he argued<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Cabinet secretary\u2019s reference to \u201cfour years ago\u201d gave away the game: Joe Biden\u2019s presidency wrapped up a year and a half ago, but there was\u00a0a price spike in 2022<\/a>\u00a0when Russia invaded Ukraine. Wright apparently wants people to compare Biden-era data to Trump-era data, though he\u2019s playing a tiresome shell game that\u2019s intended to obscure a basic fact: Americans are paying more at the pump now than when Biden exited the White House.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>… doesn’t really dig out the details. Specifically, President Biden or his people took a situation, Putin’s War<\/em>, that was no fault of their own, so far as I could see, and worked that inflation down through opposition to Putin’s War<\/em> by financing Ukraine and Ukraine’s President Zelenskyy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Trump and those who advise him and\/or direct him, on the other hand, are responsible<\/strong> for Trump’s War<\/em>, and thus responsible for its consequences, such as devastation of the world economy, destruction of the American position as lone superpower and the advantages that came with a dollar-based international financial system, and, of course, the gas prices and general inflation.<\/p>\n

The fact that Trump cannot remedy the problem, for whatever reason, renders Secretary Wright’s defense specious at best, fraudulent at worst. For all that Biden’s people were caught lying, a decision that cost the Democrats the White House, the Republicans elected a leader who is deeply incompetent, arrogant, lies ceaselessly, pardons criminals in order to win their allegiance, and permits his need for ego-inflation to direct his actions.<\/p>\n

And that’s why the Republican Party should be dissolved and replaced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Energy Secretary Chris Wright strips off some context from an argument, which Steve Benen restores but … Over the weekend, Energy Secretary Chris Wright appeared on ABC News\u2019 \u201cThis Week\u201d and was asked about the latest developments. \u201cGasoline prices today are more than $1 a gallon cheaper than they were \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45287"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45290,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45287\/revisions\/45290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}