The article I saw had a tiny but relevant error. The headline read, ‘Inflation eases more than expected, hits nearly five-year low.’ But the error was in the first line, which read, “The Bureau of Labor Statistics yesterday reported the consumer price index rose 2.4% year-over-year in January—down 0.3% from December and the lowest since May.” See the error? It should say, ‘The Trump Bureau of Labor Statistics…” That small adjustment explains the rest of the numbers.

If they had wanted to be really accurate, the article would have read, ‘A trump toady at the Bureau of Labor Statistics provided numbers intended to make the pedophile fraudster happy.’ I mean, really, do prices feel like they’re rising at slower rates these days? And then there’s this: if inflation is rising at a nearly textbook rate, doesn’t that mean Jerome Powell is doing a good job and his policies are working perfectly? Doesn’t that call trump’s claims of incompetence into question?

I mean, not to MAGA, obviously, but to everybody NOT locked in thrall to 47? Either Powell’s policies are working well to curb inflation, making trump wrong about Powell, or the numbers are fudged making trump wrong about the numbers. Either way, trump is wrong…

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MAGA has been dutifully defending the actions of the ICEholes just as they’re told to. They repeat the tales they’re told as though the tales have some validity, like they’re straight out of the gospel. It’s pretty clear to thinking Americans that the stories don’t hold up. When we have side by side comparisons of the evidence versus the comments from ICE, we can see for ourselves the ICEholes are lying.

I confess, being caught in lies over and over about the public events kind of scares me for the people we’ve heard stories about who have suffered abuse and even died in ICE custody behind closed doors. Now the federal government has opened a criminal probe into statements made by two immigration officers about the nonfatal shooting in Minneapolis last month of a Venezuelan national named Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis.

To be clear, THIS government, this corrupt, evil government working overtime to inflict as much pain and cruelty as possible into people’s lives opened a criminal probe into a shooting. Apparently, the shooting was caught on camera and proved the story the agents told was false. But it has to be worse than that, right? Pretti and Good were both murdered in broad daylight, both caught on camera. Agents lied about what happened in those cases, too, and video proved it. THOSE agents aren’t facing any legal action, so why these guys? I’m thinking it must have been pretty bad. Thanks, MAGA…

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Speaking of shootings, yesterday was the anniversary of the 2018 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in which 17 people were killed and 17 more injured. THAT shooting, according to MAGA, was impossible to stop and should have resulted in every human being everywhere carrying as much fire power as they could manage every time they stepped out the door. I mean, obvs.

It was totally unlike that completely provoked Alex Pretti killing in which Pretti dared to have a gun he never even drew, let alone used. See how that works? I pay attention to what MAGA says about one shooting, then I listen to what they say about the next shooting. It becomes pretty clear MAGA positions shift quickly, as needed. It’s no wonder nobody believes anything they say…

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During Pam Bondi’s tantrum on Capitol Hill the other day, she was asked at one point to acknowledge the Trump/Epstein survivors sitting in the room. She had been asked if her corrupt DOJ had interviewed any of the survivors. They haven’t. They don’t wanna. The survivors were asked to stand and raise their hands if they had reached out to the DOJ to provide information, but were rebuffed. This was Bondi’s response.

That’s some pretty aggressive, intentional “not-noticing” going on, there. I like how the survivors are looking at her. They don’t seem to feel the same shame Bondi is pretending not to feel. But that look, or non-look as the case may be, speaks volumes to me.

We now know Bondi is a co-conspirator. I mean, even if she wasn’t before, she certainly has embraced the cover-up wholeheartedly. At a minimum, she’s aiding and abetting after the fact. This photo makes it clear that Bondi has no intention of prosecuting anybody who engaged in the sex trafficking ring. None of the perpetrators, none of the clients.

There’s nothing about the Trump/Epstein files that doesn’t appear to be a cover-up, and one doesn’t cover-up honest, decent behavior. Thanks, MAGA…

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It remains true, as conservative doctrine has taken hold of the world, every aspect of life has taken a serious downturn, or is about to. In this case, I’m referring to Measles making a spectacular comeback all over the world. The UK just lost it’s “Measles free” status because the illness is so widespread there now. All of it – ALL of it – is unnecessary. This is just what the world looks like when people govern by hope and wishful thinking instead of relying on facts and verifiable information.

I recognize my own propensity to pitch the occasional (cough) epithet here and there but all kidding aside, it seems the world is currently being run by some of the stupidest people in history and we’re getting exactly the stupid results people might have predicted. No, DID predict. At this point, the main question is which stupidity is going to kill us first.

It could be the spread of easily preventable diseases. It might be the return of smog-filled skies. Maybe it will be the effects of climate change. Maybe it will be violence. Maybe it will be something else, I can’t say. But all of those treats are on the way. They represent completely unnecessary pain and suffering and they’re all being brought to you by conservative orthodoxy. Thanks, MAGA…