Joe Biden’s Super Bowl Video About Shrinkflation Mirrored Elizabeth Warren’s From Last Week
“As an ice cream lover, what makes me the most angry is that ice cream cartons have actually shrunk in size but not in price. I’ve had enough of what they call Shrinkflation.”
If you thought Joe Biden’s Super Bowl video sounded familiar, it’s because it is. Less than a week ago, Senator Elizabeth Warren posted a video in which she made the exact same argument about shrinkflation. Biden even chose the same targets, singling out Oreos and Doritos.
Critics have panned the video for various reasons, but few have pointed out that it wasn’t even an original idea.
FOX News reported:
Biden’s Super Bowl ‘Shrinkflation’ video stuns social media: ‘Is this a joke?’
President Biden celebrated Super Bowl Sunday in what many saw as a bizarre and ironic video attacking snack companies for inflation.
Though the president skipped out on the traditional pre-game interview, the White House’s X account posted a pre-recorded video of Biden talking about “Shrinkflation.”
“While you were Super Bowl shopping, did you notice smaller-than-usual products where the price stays the same? Folks are calling it Shrinkflation and it means companies are giving you less for every dollar you spend. I’m calling on the big consumer brands to put a stop to it,” the post read.
In the video, Biden said, “It’s Super Bowl Sunday, and if you’re anything like me, you like to be surrounded by a snack or two while watching the big game. You know, when buying snacks for the game, you might have noticed one thing: sports drinks bottles are smaller, [a] bag of chips has fewer chips, but they’re still charging just as much.”
He continued, “As an ice cream lover, what makes me the most angry is that ice cream cartons have actually shrunk in size but not in price. I’ve had enough of what they call Shrinkflation. It’s a rip off. Some companies are trying to pull a fast one by shrinking the products little by little and hoping you won’t notice. Give me a break. The American public is tired of being played for suckers. I’m calling on companies to put a stop to this. Let’s make sure businesses do the right thing now.”
Watch Biden’s video:
While you were Super Bowl shopping, did you notice smaller-than-usual products where the price stays the same?
Folks are calling it Shrinkflation and it means companies are giving you less for every dollar you spend.
I’m calling on the big consumer brands to put a stop to it. pic.twitter.com/wL1NsEh78F
— President Biden (@POTUS) February 11, 2024
Now watch Warren’s video:
From Doritos to Oreos to toilet paper, giant corporations are shrinking how much they give but charging the same price or more. We're not fooled.
Corporations are boosting their profits with these tricks.
It's time to crack down on shrinkflation and corporate greed. pic.twitter.com/AefmKWAvZu— Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) February 4, 2024
As I pointed out with Warren’s video, shrinkflation is not a conspiracy hatched by greedy corporations. It is a market reaction to economic conditions created by the Biden administration. He is complaining about something he has caused.
People on Twitter/X slammed Biden’s video:
Imagine how little respect you must have for voters to try this. https://t.co/puX9uyjAAW
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) February 11, 2024
I did not predict leaning into the aging issue with an Andy-Rooney-on-quaaludes rant about how chip bags used to be fuller. https://t.co/XnHhLLFZoD
— Mary Katharine Ham (@mkhammer) February 11, 2024
Nobody believes this. https://t.co/uKZAeMhqXG
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) February 11, 2024
Yesterday on The Five, Dana Perino made an excellent point about this. The Biden campaign turned down an offer to do an interview during the Super Bowl, which would have been free, and instead spent millions of dollars airing this video during the game.
This video is cued to start at the 4:41 mark, so just press play:
Featured image via YouTube.
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I much preferred Hunter’s video complaining about only getting a nickel’s worth out of a dime bag.
Open borders biden, now giving illegal aliens free health care at Veterans Hospitals across the nation, while american vets are forced to wait at the back of the line behind illegal aliens?
No surprise biden doesn’t want to do real interview where he could be asked questions he doesn’t want to answer.
At CBS? Do you really think they’d ask anything more challenging than what his favorite flavor of ice cream is?
“Blue. No, yellow! Auuuggggggggh!”
See? BS!
While “shrinkflation” is real, naturally Warren and Biden would like to confuse the voters as to the cause of it. They would like us to believe that it isn’t connected to inflation but rather just a case of “corporate greed”. They are either ignorant of basic economics or perhaps hope we are.
Kinda funny, isn’t it, that corporations only became “greedy” when Biden became President?
You know what else is funny? The purchasing value of the dollar.
It’s dropped by roughly 97% since 1913.
That’s some serious shrinkflation.
And yeah it’s greed that caused it – government greed.
Not just the govt. There is a smaller but powerful segment in the private sector who benefited from devaluation and near zero borrowing costs.
Yeah… and who sets the borrowing costs?
Interesting question. Do you mean directly or indirectly and over the shorter term or the longer term?
The cost of capital is set by the marketplace. Central banks, politicians and grifting players can manipulate the cost in the short term. Ultimately the power of the marketplace will show up and reassert itself despite the departure of recent decades. Perhaps b/c of that departure would be more accurate.
IMO, the artificial very low interest rate environment created over the last several decades has fueled a bubble. Sooner or later this bubble will burst, just like all those prior bubbles.
I am 72.
My benchmark for inflation is the nickel candy bar, which now costs between $1 and $1.50,
Of course, the nickel candy bar has shrunk over the years.
My aunt, if she were still alive and would be 105, remembered when it was only three cents, (but much larger.) Also, there use to be three bars with the Three Musketeer Bar.
And, that the ingredients have changed for the worse over the years, affecting taste and texture.
I can remember FAR better-quality chocolate used in the mainstream brands of candy bars, especially M&M/Mars products, which are mostly rubbish now.
Not only taste and exture.
READ the microscopic ingredient list. then get out a chemistry book and identify the half of the list you’ve no idea what it is OR what harm it causes your body. High fructose corn syrup is almost universally used as a sweetener…. by far one of the most harmful chemicals in anyone’s food. So dangerous most of the rest of the world outlaw its use for human consumption. Processed seed oils are just as common, and at least as harmful. Cancer, diabetes, gall bladder and heart issues.. all stem directly from these harmful ingredients. I avoid them like the plague they are. Yes, I’ve not had one Mars or Snickers or any big brand ice cream for decades now. No gummy bears, no soda (ubness it is the Mexican Jarritos… sweetened with CANE sugar because Mexico are smart enough o outlaw HFCS in products for humans.) And I don’t miss any of it.
In fact I’d bet a bunch Dopey Joey’s current mental lack-of-state arises from issues related to his diet and lack of exercise.
I am in my late 70’s, still put in a hard day’s work, can ride a road bike a hundred miles in a day,and wear the same size clothes I did the day I graduated high school.. the year O rode ten thousand miles on my road bike.
With Dems, “cause” and “effect” never find each other.
Prez “Werkend at Bernie’s” BiDUNG has the senile excuse for his economic ignorance (and is now a DOJ-Certified brain-dead moron). Warren is just a liar, who understands why companies might take this action, but she assumes the peasants are stupid and will fall for her lies. Every time a Democrat blurts some propaganda it’s a thumb in the insult to normal Americans’ intelligence.
Ironically, when the Biden administration declined the Super Bowl interview they said the reason was:
“ . . .because they wanted to give the already fatigued public a break from politics during the big game.”
We are certainly fatigued from his policies.
What happened to his face? His eyebrows are higher and his skin looks like it is ready to crack open, it’s so tight.
Jim Carrey lent him his CPAP Mask.
“What happened to his face? His eyebrows are higher and his skin looks like it is ready to crack open, it’s so tight.”
Sharing Botox needles with Nancy.
He was probably too busy, spending time with Hunter and watching reruns of the Lingerie Bowl.
I think that fatigue is more from having to work extra hours just to keep up with his inflation.
The bug-eyed stunt double was sick this week,
“Ice Cream Scoops Shrinking. White House in Crisis!”
Traitor Joe and Elizabeth Warren, two Marxist pigs in a pod.
Joe is such an accomplished plagiarist, are we sure he isn’t a Harvard man?
It’s now impossible to buy coffee in real cans – and mylar foil vacuum seals on plastic containers sometimes fail while still shelved at the grocery store. Plus, the container weights now vary; 31.5 oz to 28 oz to 24.5 oz. Mylar bag vacuum seals fail, too
Were metal cans really such a environmentally terrible way to package coffee only to be replaced by inferior petroleum-based plastic containers?
It’s a b* to find anything you can soak a paintbrush in to clean it anymore.
Or store your lifelong collection of misc leftover nuts & bolts in.
I use the tins that Danish sugar cookies come in for nuts, bolts and miscellaneous small parts that I no longer remember what they’re for. Not so good for paint cleanup though.
Sewing kit is another popular use.
I have my extensive second-hand small hardware collection in a couple dozen plastic instant coffee jars. Holds up great to steel, but not worth a damn to paint thinner.
You’re not supposed to do that. You should just color things with the juices of berries you find in the nearby woods.
Let’s really do it right: bring back the vacuum packed cans with the little key and the metal band to twirl off, and cut your fingers on.
hmmmm….
1 bag of common livestock feed in 2021 was $7.99 for 50 pounds, today it is $13.99 – cost to the small farmer (bigger guys can get it a little better but not much)
1 gallon of diesel to operate farm vehicles has jumped from $1.89 to $4 which is the base the rest of your hard costs are built on…..
But when it’s all run on batteries, it’ll be better, right? Right? Assuming they haven’t rounded up those Kulaks, err farmers by then.
Dana Perino also noted that she could see the video was edited many times – the real reason he could not do the free Super Bowl one. Also, Mr. President, Talenti makes delicious gelato that comes in full pints – Double Dark Chocolate is my favorite. I believe even extremely liberal Ben & Jerry’s still sells ice cream in pints.
They do, but glyphosate makes your skin tight.
Also if you get the Talenti at Walmart, it’s a little cheaper.
He didn’t do the free interview because he can’t. Looking at the editing cuts he made in the commercial, it took 14 “cuts” to make this 30 second spot. While some may have been made because of editorial choice, to make the commercial more engaging, most of those appear to have been made somewhat randomly, indicating Joe couldn’t say his lines, so they had to do a retake.
He didn’t do the free interview because he can’t. Looking at the editing cuts he made in the commercial, it took 14 “cuts” to make this 30 second spot. Aome may have been made because of editorial choice, to make the commercial more engaging. However most of these cuts appear to have been made somewhat randomly, indicating Joe couldn’t say his lines, so they had to do a retake.
On another note, the CPI has increased 18% since Biden entered the Oval Office. That might have something to do with the smaller bags of chips. https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/cpi-prints-hotter-expected-january-food-utilities-jumped
CPI has increased 18%….that means 18% of one’s time earning savings is wiped out. For your labor… 18% of the time you put into earning the money is gone. Work 40 years… have over 7 years wasted and no way to catch up.
“indicating Joe couldn’t say his lines, so they had to do a retake.”
At least they were fortunate to be filming Joe, and not Alec Baldwin.
Well, then they’d have just gotten shot, not yelled at by a senile old pedophile.
Liz Warren and Dementia Joe whining about Shrinkflation? That’s a good one….makes as much sense as a chicken whinging about being roasted and stuffed when it wanted to be cut up and fried!
Are we not told that chips, soda pop, ice cream, etc. are all “junk food” and we should NOT be eating them? So why are Diaper Joey and Fauxcanhontas complaining that serving sizes are decreasing and prices increasing when they advocated slapping huge taxes on them as deterrences to them in the very recent past?
Democrats chose a good symbol in a braying jackass—they just keep reinforcing their party symbol over and over and over again…
My jackass doesn’t bray unless he wants to be fed.
On second thought, never mind.
Dem playbook: Pay no attention to what we are doing….they are the greedy ones.
Underestimating the intelligence of their voting base rarely had consequences for Democrats.
What makes you think that they are underestimating the intelligence of their voting base? Given how their base votes, I think that they have realistically estimated the intelligence of their base. Look at Chicago for example.
Shrinkflation is just another manifestation of inflation. Brandon and Warren are idiots when they refuse to recognize that fact. Hersheys is famous for shrinking and increasing its chocolate bars as the price of coco went up and down. So, no one should be surprised that food processing and packaging companies are doing the same thing as labor, capital, energy and material costs increase in price as a result of inflation. As usual, Brandon blames everyone else for his own screw ups. What a pathetic, demented human being.
The fact is, this sort of retail pricing inflation has been going on for many years. Remember when a Mrs. Olson started pushing the new 13 ounce “pound” of Folgers ground coffee, claiming that its flaked nature allowed it to produce as much coffee as a 16 ounce pound?
Manufacturers often do this because they hope to maintain a price per selling unit, even though the actual price per measure unit becomes higher.
The problem becomes much worse during periods of high inflation, such as the recent one caused by Traitor Joe and his regulations and anti-energy policies.
In an ideal, properly functioning economy, inflation should occur at the rate of about 2% per year.
The shrinkflation I am most worried about is the shrinkflation occurring inside Biden’s cranium.
It was long before Brandon became president that the five pound packages of sugar and flour became four pound bags. And that a half-gallon carton of ice cream became a 48 oz (one and a half quarts) carton.
This is the greed of corporate America, not the Dems.
It is not necessarily “greed” at work. Costs go up, and market conditions often have manufacturers hoping to avoid raising selling unit prices. In such cases, they are forced to reduce selling unit sizes.
Like it or not, increased labor, energy, tax, and materials costs cannot simply be absorbed by manufacturers. They have to be passed along to their customers by some means. Unfortunately, consumers ultimately pay for such increases.
Since a few things happened – the Fed, the Income Tax and the 17th. But Joey is just the most recent steward of the whole shitshow.
We’re having a cold snap — shrinkage is normal.