{"id":980895,"date":"2021-11-07T12:58:45","date_gmt":"2021-11-07T17:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=980895"},"modified":"2021-11-07T12:58:48","modified_gmt":"2021-11-07T17:58:48","slug":"joe-biden-appears-to-sneer-at-americans-intelligence-questions-collective-ability-to-understand-supply-chain-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-biden-appears-to-sneer-at-americans-intelligence-questions-collective-ability-to-understand-supply-chain-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Biden Appears to Sneer at Americans&#039; Intelligence: Questions Collective Ability to &#039;Understand&#039; Supply Chain Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjoe-biden-appears-to-sneer-at-americans-intelligence-questions-collective-ability-to-understand-supply-chain-issues%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=980895&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">The collective ability of Americans to fully appreciate global supply chain issues was called into question Saturday by President Joe Biden, who asked if&nbsp; \u201cthey\u2019d understand\u201d the topic and cut through to the main issues in the same way he does.<\/p>\n<p>The presidential observation came&nbsp;at a news conference as he answered a question from a reporter on&nbsp;criticism&nbsp;he drew from Rep. Abigail Spanberger ( D-Va).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Spanberger said: \u201cNobody elected him to be FDR, they elected him to be normal and stop the chaos,\u201d as Breitbart News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/clips\/2021\/11\/03\/dem-rep-bourdeaux-biden-wasnt-elected-to-be-fdr\/\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t intend to be anybody but Joe Biden, that\u2019s who I am,\u201d Biden affirmed. \u201cWhat I\u2019m trying to do is, do the things I ran on to do, and look, people out there are ordinary, hard-working Americans [who have been] put through the ringer the last couple of years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He viewed the problem through the prism of the price of agricultural goods to amplify his point.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cPeople are worried,\u201d Biden added, questioning if people understand why \u201cthe price of agricultural products\u201d has increased.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18640826\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"36\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1236386246.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-18640826\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1236386246-1024x681-1.jpg\" alt width=\"990\" height=\"658\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>U.S. President Joe Biden reacts as he delivers remarks on the passage of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal and the rule that will allow the passage of the Build Back Better Act in the State Dining Room at the White House in Washington, DC on November 6, 2021. (ROBERTO SCHMIDT\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cIf we were all going out and having lunch together and I said, \u2018Let\u2019s ask whoever\u2019s in the next table, no matter what restaurant we\u2019re in, have them explain the supply chain to us.\u2019 Do you think they\u2019d understand what we\u2019re talking about?\u201d Biden asked, clearly animated by the topic at hand.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re smart people,\u201d the president offered, but he concluded the current crisis was a part of a \u201ccomplicated world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve never faced anything like this,\u201d Biden added, saying how easy it is to understand why people are upset.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWhether you have a PhD or you\u2019re working in a restaurant, it\u2019s confusing and so people are understandably worried.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden promised to try and \u201cexplain to the American people\u201d what supply chain issues America faces, telling the attending press representatives who \u201cwrite for a living\u201d he is yet to witness a reporter \u201cexplain supply chain very well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a confusing time,\u201d Biden stated.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Watch below:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"President Biden Takes Questions After Passage of Infrastructure Bill in House\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VeGX1mubl0s?start=563&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg affirmed earlier this week the country would have to further tackle the coronavirus pandemic in order for supply-chain issues to subside.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook, there are so many things that are still happening in our economy \u2013 distortions, disruptions, things in our supply chain that are affecting prices that are clearly a direct consequence of the pandemic,\u201d he told \u201cFox News Sunday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhich is why the best thing we can do for our economy in the short term, and to deal with these transitory issues, is to put the pandemic behind us.\u201d<\/p>\n<h5><em><span>Follow Simon Kent on Twitter:<\/span> <a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SunSimonKent\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @SunSimonKent<\/a> <span>or e-mail to: skent@breitbart.com<\/span><br \/><\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The collective ability of Americans to fully appreciate global supply chain issues was called into question Saturday by President Joe Biden, who asked if\u00a0 \u201cthey\u2019d understand\u201d the topic and cut &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":82,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-980895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/82"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=980895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=980895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=980895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=980895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}