Yesterday, I bought gas. Then I went grocery shopping. It was an expensive day for me. $6.09 per gallon. We’re closing in on the all-time high for gas, here in California. Pretty much every item I picked up in the grocery store has gone up in cost. So far, Donny’s Iran War Tax only affects things that move around by truck, but since that’s pretty much everything, well, yeah, everything is more expensive. Or, less affordable, if you prefer.

Our National Embarrassment was giving a speech to senior citizens in Florida. Let’s just take a closer look at what he said; “Republicans have given you much lower taxes, much lower prices.” The reality? Depending upon your situation, you might find your taxes reduced – for now. But if you’re not in the One Percent, your “tax breaks” end at the end of his term. (Theirs don’t.)

The fact is, prices were high when Biden took office. President Pedo did a terrible job managing Covid-19 and it did significant damage to the economy. (It was worse for human beings, but the topic, here, is the economy.) Biden gained control of the economy. The Biden recovery was the best among developed nations anywhere in the world.

MAGA doesn’t like that, though, so they pretend it isn’t true. Presidents don’t have much control over most prices, unless they do something completely stupid, like start a war that chokes off supply of a desperately needed (or, perhaps, artificially addicted) commodity. Biden didn’t bring prices down like people wanted to. But Donny didn’t either. In fact, pretty much everything is MORE expensive now, not less.

Donny’s blather continued, “You know, they use the word affordability, but I was the one that — that received these high prices. You know, it’s amazing. I come into office, and I say, ‘wow, look at how high these prices are,’ and the Democrats start screaming, affordability, affordability. They’re the ones that caused the problem.” (No. It STILL traces back to his mismanagement of Covid-19.) “I’ll tell you one thing, they got one good line of bullshit. That’s one thing I’ll say about it. They are so bad.”

His mouth wouldn’t stop. “Affordability. It’s the first time I heard the word two, two days in, and I watched this sleazebag, one of these crazy congressmen, get up and he’s being interviewed. He said, affordability prices are too high. I’ve just got there. But we brought prices way down. They gave us tremendously high prices, and they’ll give them to you again.”

That’s a bit of a word salad. If I have parsed it correctly, 47 thinks affordability is a word recently made up to blast him on the economy. Oh, AND “affordability” is “one good line of bullshit.” So far, his “solution” to high prices is to tell you they could have been worse. Remember the promise he made about bringing them down on day one? Promises made, promises not kept. Apparently, he meant he would frighten you by telling you it could have been worse.

Well, then. I guess we should all be grateful he hasn’t done an even worse job, eh? “I’m terrible, but I could have been worse” isn’t the strongest platform I’ve ever heard from a politician but that seems to be where Thieving Donny has landed. He IS terrible. I’m not sure he could be any worse…

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Meta lost a lawsuit in New Mexico in which they were accused of not protecting minors enough from online dangers. The jury levied a penalty of $375 million dollars, a drop in the bucket for Meta. They found that the company knowingly violated the state’s consumer protection laws and exposed children to sexual exploitation and other harms.

Now they’re going into a phase in which the judge decides how much Meta has to comply with the changes New Mexico officials demand. In response, Meta has said it might just shut down Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp in New Mexico, pending the outcome. Uh-huh.

Do you think Meta is going to bypass a market just to make a point? They’ve gone to a great deal of trouble to addict children to their products because it increases their revenues. They’re just going to block access for an entire state because their option is less access? Less or none, let’s see. Somehow, I think Meta will simply comply…

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Recent polls suggest that 6 in 10 Americans think President Pedo is doing a poor job. Think about that. Look around. Read the news. Talk to people. 6 in 10 Americans know what the Dumbass is doing and they strongly disapprove. But that means fully 4 in 10 Americans are simply too stupid to understand, or too stubborn to defend, their own best interest. 4 in 10. That’s really mind boggling…

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Okay, I know things sometimes appear confused initially. Details can be murky. But the latest on the runner at the White House Correspondent’s Dinner keeps changing. First, he shot a security agent in the bullet-proof vest. Then someone reported he had fired his shotgun. Shotguns shoot a spray of pellets, so that hurt the story.

Consequently, the story changed. No, the runner didn’t shoot. The agent was shot by “friendly fire,” a euphemism for “one of their own guys shot him.” But that just reinforces the image of Keystone Kops these guys struggle with under this regime. They don’t want that, so, the story has changed again. No, it WAS the runner, after all.

Jeanine Pirro is claiming they found a single pellet in the fibers of the bullet-proof vest. A single pellet. A shotgun fires a handful of small pellets. When they first leave the gun, they are a force. A shotgun can make a very big hole in a person. But the further they travel from the barrel of the gun, the more the pellets spread out.

By the time one is far enough away from the gun to be hit by only a single pellet, there isn’t much force left in that pellet. Somehow, I think this story will change again…

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Yes, I’ve heard. Climate change is a hoax. Absolutely. Oh, AND, that hoax is closing in on New Orleans. Scientists (oh, I know…vomit…) say sea level rise is going to inundate New Orleans in the near future, decades, rather than centuries. They say New Orleans is past the point of no return. No amount of money or mitigation can save it. We can move it or lose it. Period.

It’s almost as if science doesn’t care about people’s political opinions at all. How disrespectful…