5 Times The Biden Administration Laughed At Your Pain

“We don’t have an anger problem in American politics,” said then-President of AEI Arthur Brooks in a viral video clip from 2017. “We have a contempt problem in American politics.” Unfortunately, much of that contempt is presently directed by political elites to those whom they have promised to serve.

“I will now be an American president. I will work as hard for those who didn’t vote for me as those who did,” President-elect Joe Biden pledged the day the media proclaimed that he had won the 2020 election. Yet in the ensuing months, the president and major figures within his administration have laughed, chuckled, and sarcastically minimized the suffering of American citizens — suffering often caused by the foreseeable consequences of their policies.

.@AEI president @ArthurBrooks says political polarization is rooted in contempt, and we should look to the Dalai Lama for the solution pic.twitter.com/YbTlT2CwKm

— Harvard Kennedy School (@Kennedy_School) April 26, 2017

Here are a few examples:

1. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm literally belly-laughed at high gas prices

Last week, Energy Secretary and former governor of Michigan Jennifer Granholm literally laughed out loud when asked to solve America’s high gas prices, during an interview with Bloomberg. “In Sturgis, Michigan, [gas] is $2.89 a gallon. I guess that’s better than in California,” where gasoline prices currently average $4.65 a gallon and have topped $7 a gallon in the city of Gorda. “What is the Granholm plan to increase oil production in America?” the host asked.

Madam Secretary laughed heartily. “That is hilarious!” she said. “Would that I had the magic wand on this. As you know, of course, oil is a global market. It is controlled by a cartel. That cartel is called OPEC. And they made a decision yesterday that they were not going to increase beyond what they were already planning.”

Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm laughs when asked about Biden’s plans to bring gas prices down.

“Ha ha ha. That is hilarious!” pic.twitter.com/0V0XCsVqDc

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) November 5, 2021

Contrary to her assertion, energy prices come from supply and demand, and the Trump administration’s energy policies so encouraged the exploration and expansion of U.S. energy resources that the nation briefly became a net exporter of petroleum products. President Biden has canceled the Keystone XL Pipeline and attempted to suspend drilling permits on federal land.

Granholm did not laugh in ignorance. On Sunday, when Dana Bash of CNN’s “State of the Union” asked if Americans should “expect to pay higher

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