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Dishonest Innumeracy

Lies and Untruths, Marxists

Whenever some socialist asswipe attempts to use statistics to prove something, they inevitably end up looking like either a fool or else totally dishonest (mostly, both).

Here’s one example:  Hair Gel Boy spouting some anti-Trump nonsense.

Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.) reposted a chart on X Tuesday claiming housing prices are “the most unaffordable in history,” and that it was Trump’s fault.

The chart Newsom shared showed that the housing affordability gap actually widened during Joe Biden’s presidency, and X users noticed almost instantly, flooding his replies with screenshots of the very data he’d just posted as though it helped his argument. It didn’t take long for the pile-on to turn Newsom’s own post into a meme about his reading comprehension.

I’d like to ascribe this to (innumerate) reading comprehension, but if one heeds the old saying that a lie will make its way around the world before the truth gets out of bed, it’s clear that such a tactic was his intention.  (With X, of course, the effect is somewhat ameliorated because of Community Notes — thanks again, Elon — but still.  Now the lie only makes it a quarter of the way around the world before the truth comes out swinging a sledgehammer.)

Newsom’s not, of course, the only one:

In July 2025, the Democratic National Committee posted a chart that they thought proved grocery prices were spiraling out of control in Trump’s second term.

The chart told a different story. It showed a huge spike under Biden. The DNC had unwittingly undermined its own attack on Trump. Social media users mocked the party within hours, dissecting the chart line by line, forcing the DNC to quietly delete the post… not that that stopped us from making fun of them anyway.

I’d like to substitute “public flogging” for “making fun of”, but that’s just me.

We see this stuff time and time again, especially with the old Global Warming Climate Cooling Change© nonsense, where its adherents choose a point in time that oh-so conveniently “proves” their point about the above upward movement.

It’s one of the reasons why I’ve always preferred a “moving average” type of trend graph, because that smooths out one-time or extraordinary data points — which is why the alarmists and mountebanks (like Newsom) hate using them — if indeed they know what a “moving average” even is.

Ignoramus or outright liar?  I report, you decide.

Reader Response

The Gun Thing

Following yesterday’s post about staghorn grips, Longtime Reader Anthony B. has a suggestion — not just for the Single Six — and Altamont Co. looks like they know what they’re doing.


(Wrangler grips also fit the Single Six line)

I wasn’t actually planning to get new grips for my Single Sixes, but now that I see the options…. hmmmm.

It’s always good to find a “new” gunny vendor (i.e. one I’d never heard of before), so many thanks, Anthony.

News Summary — Special Britishland Edition

Bad News


...typical Socialist:  if you can’t win elections, change the voting rules so that you do.


...remember, comrade:  Marxism dictates that all property belongs to the State.

And for a parallel development in Krautland:


...typical Marxist playbook:  create a crisis, then “fix” it by stepping on the rights of others.

But back to Blighty:


...yeah, never mind all that “will of the people” nonsense;  the Party knows best.


...I’m trying to think when this wasn’t Labour Party policy — or the Conservative Party’s, for that matter.


...next step for Labour:  nationalize the bourgeois banking system, because that’s working so well for the ChiComs, after all.


...I’m struggling to think how it could get any worse than the current system.  And speaking of immigrants:


...begging the question:  “Why was he released in the first place?”


...as Labour’s “NetZero” policies come home to roost.


...keep milking the People to pay for the system:  once again, Marxism rules. Also:


...which would be most Brit city households, of course.  Both the above and this move have, as their unstated goal, the abolition of privately-owned transport.


...hard to see how Britishland will stop the next Argy invasion of Las Malvinas, isn’t it?
#GuttedMilitary

In Real Estate News:


...ah yes, Burnham’s “mansion tax” at work, in the world’s most overpriced residential market.

Finally, in the Police State of Britishland:


...ya think?


...because the Union Jack is a symbol of intolerance and racial hatred, you see.  Unlike the Palestinian flag.

And in the Colonies:


...because that patriotism stuff is so intolerant and racist, you see.

And to end this summary, a moment of sanity.

Tread Carefully, Yamo

Good News, Health

I read this story with great joy:

Up until four months ago, Lev was self-harming until he was black and blue, unable to make eye contact and keeping to himself in a corner all day. He was inching dangerously close to being confined by a punishing helmet and sedated with heavy antipsychotic meds to mitigate his severe autism that left him incapable of functioning by himself.

The outlook was bleak for the tormented tyke, who showed symptoms before he was a year old.

His parents, Gabriella and Matthew Bielski, chased every therapeutic intervention and specialist across the country for years, to no avail. The family desperately needed a lifeline, as no medication is approved to address the core symptoms related to autism.

That was until research led the anguished couple to Yamo Pharmaceuticals, a decade-old clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company dedicated to treating the core symptoms of autism spectrum disorder with its “miracle drug” called L1-79.

They managed to get Lev the therapy before FDA approval thanks to the FDA’s expanded-access program — and the results, they said, were immediate.

“It was the next day,” Matthew Bielski said. “It was right away and other people in all the phases said the same thing.”

“It changed everything for us,” he added, beaming over Lev’s “life-changing transformation.”

Overjoyed over his “miracle kid,” Bielski predicted the drug will be the “Ozempic of autism.”

Which is when my joy abruptly ended.

You see, it’s all very well to come up with a new miracle drug which helps perhaps millions of people.  That’s what Ozempic did — and promptly priced its product out of reach for many millions of people (like myself) who desperately need it.

So hooray hurrah and halleluya for this latest wonder drug.  Let’s just hope that Yamo doesn’t price it at $650 per dose*, like Ozempic’s manufacturer Novo Nordisk did.

Because otherwise this will all be for nothing, and only the wealthy will benefit.

*That $650 is what Ozempic would cost me after Medicare has paid the bulk of the pharmaceutical company’s price.  Needless to say, I don’t take it anymore — just can’t afford it — and the dolorous effect of diabetes on my health has recurred.  Bitter?  You bet your ass I am.

Once Again, A Simple Solution

Government Thugs, Rights, The Gun Thing, Two-Minute Hate

We all knew about this disgusting abridgement of our rights, but here it is in black and white:

Rep. Michael Cloud, R-Tex., sent a letter on Tuesday to President Donald Trump urging action on a centralized registry of guns and gun owners that, according to Gun Owners of America (GOA), violates multiple federal statutes. 

Cloud argued the database violates the 1986 Firearm Owners’ Protection Act and congressional spending bans on centralizing records or searching them by name.

“No one in their right mind can look at ATF’s digital, searchable 1.4 billion record database of firearm transactions and tell me that isn’t a gun registry. Several federal laws prohibit gun registration, so it’s truly shocking to see how ATF has disregarded the will of Congress here,” Aidan Johnston, GOA Federal Affairs Director told Just The News.

According to Johnston, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ (ATF) digital database, managed by the National Tracing Center in West Virginia, has surged to 1.4 billion records, a significant increase from the 920 million records reported in 2021. 

The database contains various forms of identifying records such as firearm transaction records, names, addresses, and serial numbers. The records are primarily digitized from paper forms when gun stores go out of business, which happened at an accelerated rate under the Biden administration due to its zero-tolerance policies.

The ATF hides behind a definition:

…the ATF claims this is a tracing system rather than a registry.

Of course it does.  This ignores (uh huh) the fact that it’s a de facto  registration device — just an unintended consequence rather than a feature rather than a bug.  And as for the database’s apologists:

The ATF did not provide documentary evidence that traces from these records have produced successful violent-crime prosecutions.

Needless to say, avoiding the danger of appearing on said database just requires gun owners to utilize ummm impromptu purchasing methods (e.g. the “Texas transfer” and going to a nearby ELGS*).

Not that I would ever do anything like that to avoid appearing on the ATF’s “tracing system”, of course.

You all know the “simple solution” of this post’s title, don’t you?

Abolish the fucking ATF in toto, fire (not transfer) all its agents and bureaucrats, and burn the National Tracing Center to the ground.

*ELGS:  Evil Loophole Gun Show (coined by Rachel Lucas)