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Is this an accurate representation of the situation? https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M1SL

Its not because there is a series break when M1 was redefined in May 2020. See No.5: https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h6/h6_technical_qa.h...

Fed printed crazy amounts of dollars since 2008 and didn't drive inflation

High oil prices, restricted supply chians from covid do drive inflation

Absent supply constraints (putting aside the fact that's another way of saying demand exceeds supply), do you believe there is any point at which printing money drives inflation? If yes, at what point would you say it would? See the M1 graphic linked above.

Everybody is trying to explain this away with Russia, Covid... I'm not even following the excuses anymore. It'll be climate change soon. But that's ridiculous.

Literally the only way to have inflation is if the Fed chooses to cause inflation, or not to resist inflation, of which it has done both in the last few years.