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.