6 terms Biden has redefined to further agenda, stigmatize opponents

As inflation continues to eat away at household budgets and fears of a major economic downturn continue to mount, the Biden administration is attempting to redefine the term "recession" in an apparent public relations push to mitigate backlash for the current state of the economy.

This effort to obscure what has long been a simple, specific, and uncontroversial definition is part of an ongoing pattern of President Biden and his team redefining and weaponizing specific terms to further their political agenda and stigmatize forms of dissent they deem threatening.

Here are six terms the administration has sought to redefine:

1. Recession

For decades, experts have defined a recession as two straight quarters of negative economic growth, meaning a decline in gross domestic product.

This definition has become especially relevant with the latest GDP numbers for the second quarter of this year due to be released on Thursday, following the release of official figures in April showing the economy shrank 1.6% in the first quarter.

If Thursday's numbers show the economy contracted in the second quarter, confirming a decline in economic activity over a six-month period, January through June, the U.S. would, according to the generally accepted definition, be in a recession.

In recent days, however, several Biden administration officials have attempted to obscure the definition of a recession to argue the U.S. isn't facing a recession, regardless of what the second quarter figures show, by.

Jared Bernstein, a member of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, for example, said on CNN it's up to the National Bureau of Economic Research — a nonprofit group of economists — to determine whether the U.S. is in a recession, adding the bureau does so "in hindsight because data comes in with a bit of a lag."

Such a process could take up to a year, according to observers.

Bernstein pointed to a blog post on the White House website claiming that "official determinations of recessions and economists' assessment of economic activity are based on a holistic look at the data" factoring in a wide array of variables beyond negative growth rates.

However, the Republican National Committee flagged a clip of Bernstein in 2019 defining a recession as GDP simply "crossing zero."…







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The Biden regime knows no boundaries when it comes to propaganda and newspeak. It something is going badly they simply try to redefine the terms. See the rest of #1 and the other 5 things described that they are trying to redefine to benefit them or harm their opposition.

 

The Biden regime truly is utterly shameless in its use of propaganda and manipulation to try to reframe debate they are losing

 

I knew that the progressives would not defend their puppet servant Biden and his actions. They have no defense of his manipulations so they either ignore or say something like “but Trump”