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.
Another example from a few years ago when the left was touting a report showing that white HS were self reporting their race as various non-white groups in their college applications to get accepted. This supposedly showed the system was racist against non-white students, but more or less everyone pointed it out that it showed the opposite.
Of course, there is also this famous example: Study from 2012 now corrected to show liberals, not conservatives, more authoritarian https://share.google/oL4QylUmAKSYPoIhJ
They are liars. Stupid, yes, many of them, but deliberate liars.
Many of them probably just assume they are still living in the 80’s when media backed them up and there was no online community to contend with. Which is why Gavin would show obviously incorrect data the way he did – he just assumed no one would question it.
Others assume we have the memory span of a fruit fly. They lie about events we lived thru, events that aren’t even that old. I can remember shenanigans going back to the 70’s and 80’s, they act like we don’t remember anything prior to Trump’s current term.
The old saying, if a politician’s lips are moving, definitely applies here.
He’s a lying ignoramus.
No, Governor Bryl creme’s stupider than that.
The likelihood that Newscum with his low-rent televangelist hair, even understood the presentation he was giving is in the teens.
He was given a chart to point to, people told him what to say, it was full of shit, Gavin’s life continues apace. There is no shame, no self-awareness, there will be no attempt to understand or improve. Gavin will just take the next think he’s handed and meat-puppet his way through that……because he has a captive audience, incapable of thinking, or wholly dependent on his party for handouts, so he can sit there and shove lego bricks up his ass, and still be guaranteed 75% of the vote, in Kalifuckistan, and 47% of the vote nationwide.
We’ve lost touch with the concept, because we’ve come to expect elected officials to pitch us and sell their ideas to us, but Rev. Newscum is just a machine politician. That’s all that ever got anyone elected until the early 20th century. The actual candidate was nothing more than a meat-puppet, to put a face to the poster, and do/say whatever the fuck they were told to do/say.
How’s Johnny Rocco’s soliloquy in Key Largo go?
How many of those guys in office owe everything to me? I made them. Yeah, I made them just like a… Like a tailor makes a suit of clothes. I’d take a nobody, see, teach him what to say, get his name in the papers. Then I’d pay for his campaign expenses. Dish out a lot of groceries and coal. Get my boys to bring the voters out. And then count the votes over and over again ’til they added up right, and he was elected.
It’s no different with the whole “climate change” scam.
Manipulated data, data concocted out of thin air, data misrepresented to say something entirely different from what it actually says, and anyone pointing out all that is branded as “far right”, “paid for by Big Oil”, etc. etc.
And with basically everything else. “Hitler was a far right extremist” is an old one, and now so widely believed even pointing out that the S in NSDAP stands for Socialist is heretical, that they chose that name to trick people into voting for them or just magically changed their entire ideology once they had power (which is of course the exact same thing they say about the republicans and democrats “changing sides” right before the abolishment of slavery in the US.
And then there’s my field of scientific study, nuclear power. I graduated college in nuclear waste classification technology. Nearly EVERYTHING you hear and read about nuclear power being dangerous, every nuclear power station being a nuclear warhead about to go off, areas affected by nuclear contamination being permanently uninhabitable, are flat out lies.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki alone should show that, in fact. As does even the Chernobyl exclusion zone, where people live permanently, animals and plants have lived permanently and are thriving.
Ignoramus or outright liar? I report, you decide.
Easy peasy – both, as are most Leftists, especially their useful idiots.
Leftist – we want shoulda coulda wouda…
Me – I’ll stipulate that’s a good idea, now, give me a detailed, step by step plan how to make that happen.
Leftist – usually word salad or silence, except for sound of grinding gears going nowhere. Once in a thousand times, get a basic step by step plan.
Me – How much will that cost?
Leftist – The rich need to pay their fair share.
Me – How much do they need to pay. Give me a number.
Leftist – I don’t like this. I’m not answering any more of your stupid questions.
Me – YOU write them a personal check, YOU have an EBT family or illegal alien family come live in YOUR house. Put YOUR money where YOUR mouth is, not mine. Otherwise, go fuck yourself.
I’m trying to find fault with anything you’re saying, but meeting with absolute failure.
That’s because GMTA.
> Ignoramus or outright liar?
Embrace the power of “and.” 🙂
Newscum is speaking to his followers who he knows are stupid like him so it doesn’t have to work or even make sense. His tribe will gobble it up and ask for more from their big daddy. Anyone who actually listens to what Newscom, Hillary Benghazi, AOC, Comrade Bernie etc and then refutes the “thought” process will be branded a heretic, racist, fascist etc and discarded. So much from the left simply does not pass a basic sniff test.