Recessed Presidency

Duh.  To the surprise of nobody outside the present lamest branch, the recession presidency is official.  The inevitability of poverty doesn’t make empty checking accounts paired with full woe any less agonizing.  Joe Biden made the nation as inert as he is.

The executive grifter doesn’t comprehend how we’re not wealthy like him.  The necessity of productivity for others to profit is only one thing he doesn’t grasp.  It would be far more surprising if anyone could afford anything.  What’s the point of all this free money?

It’s not supposed to be like this.  Today, bewildered Biden minions feel this way regarding finances.  Brace for what baffles them tomorrow.

Americans were guaranteed to be rich by now.  The executive branch followed its meticulous plan to the letter, and it can’t be that they’re all-star dopes who don’t understand economics, math, or human nature.  We don’t even care that they’re confused by how existence has become less than awesome.  I blame our inherent lack of empathy.

Churning out entitlements, making oil unobtainable, and adding costs to every transaction somehow didn’t turn all of us into the affluent bastards we’re conditioned to loathe.  The good news is we can still love ourselves.  Treasury printing presses have been particularly useless in stopping Godzilla from smashing fortunes.  You can have all you want of what’s useless.  Unlimited nothing is central to liberalism.

We’re living through 1984 if it had been run by inept twits.  Big Brother is hassling you.  If you can’t change reality, change meanings.

A flailing White House has no solution but to say what is isn’t and what isn’t is.  The putzing autocrats’ dedication to warping words is as thorough as their defiance of finance.  To an administration that claims aborting a baby brings about women’s rights, biology is a decision, and vaccination was never going to stop infection is not going to admit we’re rooming with recession just because it meets the precise terms.

Acting as if the government is the ultimate arbiter of truth was a cry for help.  The same White House that inflicted the comically Orwellian Disinformation Governance Board maintains there’s no recession just because conditions meet the definition of one.  Prosperity through unilaterally inventing quite flexible standards for words can’t work any worse than anything else Biden’s tried.

Those responsible for holding the president accountable have updated their dictionaries.  Journalists who treated Donald Trump as a unique threat to truth sure seem indifferent to a White House that fibs about reality like it’s an ideology.

Pretending finances are swell has served as a Rorschach test for typically compliant media members to see if even they’re fed up with creative writing exercises.  A handful who aspire to create wild fiction have finally encountered a scenario they find too fantastic.

The incumbent’s only helpful inadvertently.  Take how he’s forced purported news professionals to actually do their jobs.  Nothing makes parrots cranky like not getting to spend a shift repeating what their favorite politicians announce.

Even worse, nobody else is toiling during this term.  The president’s flunkies are paid to lie on his behalf, which makes journalists doing so complimentarily even more mortifying. 

By contrast, those who reached their breaking point are catching up on disappointment.  You know it’s bad for Biden when the allegedly objective can’t cover for their dreadful dreamboat anymore.

Not being able to buy anything makes us appreciate how there’s more to life than goods.  It used to be seekers had to choose avoiding materialism, and the enlightened White House confiscated temptation.  Constitution fetishists demand decadent choices to the amusement of office-fillers who mandate inner peace.

You can tell we’re at Red Alert Double Secret DEFCON 1 because Biden says not to panic.  It should be impossible to make a country this awesome idle, but the man who future bad hires will be compared to starting with the phrase “The worst president since…” managed his own kind of feat.

Needing to manufacture meth to afford a tank of gas is a genuine crisis.  The only actual emergencies during an era when a bumbling cabal tries to wrest liberty by labeling every single thing such are ones they cause.

Learning is a sign of weakness, at least if you work in the most maladroit White House anyone can personally remember.  Self-assured geniuses are not about to learn from their ample mistakes.  It’s our fault for not making the economy purr like our selfless heroes carefully planned.

The real recession lies in how we let down our kindly president after he handed us a treasure map to jewels.  This term was supposed to be a fun adventure like The Goonies.  But we let the houses get knocked down.

Did you want to make the poor president weep by not making the economy purr?  He’s thinking his hardest of ways to bribe you, and you keep moaning that the useless bills couldn’t buy stuff that’s out of stock, anyway.  Seeing how their beliefs inflict what anyone perceptive already knew deeply hurts the feelings of White House economists as much as it does when we notice what sucks.

The only thing worse than being wrong is being wrong again.  Biden discovers that he make the world a sadder place every day.  There are healthier ways to never stop discovering.  Biden made America broke and broken.  But at least the rest of the world is in chaos, too.

On Order

But I thought people would enjoy getting bossed around by the most awful idiots amongst us. The consequences of telling others what to do are disregarded by the tellers. Why should instructors deal with what happens? Avoiding effects of what they create is the whole reason our superiors sought office.


The only problem with our reigning politicians is the entire way they ruin life for everyone else with casual diktats. Nothing is hypocritical like violating your rights by pretending capricious commands carry the weight of legality, so they naturally threw that in, too.


Politicians need the threat of force to implement what must undoubtedly be desirable programs. Meanwhile, professional demonizers call managers at work soulless ogres who dare to only care about profits. What do they dare think companies are for?

The purpose of enterprise is obviously to pay others to live comfortably and not on anything pedestrian like how much value is created; focusing on staying open is so greedy. Those are jobs you’re allowed to quit, by the way. The only thing worse than bossing around is when same bossing makes life crummier.


Customers don’t seem to be enjoying maximum aggravation with a preposterous minimum wage. Nobody can find staff or stuff, but at least these teetering piles of currency are worthless. A lower forced rate would allow for give and take between workers and employers just like occurs with sellers and buyers. Payment would naturally increase from competition. Hey: this market thing works great! But the innately useless demand an absurd rate per hour because they can’t conceive of earning a raise after three weeks of displayed competence.


Potential hires have always been entitled to negotiate, which would be a good sign of entrepreneurial competence. You do the same every time you purchase something, believe it or not. Deciding what’s valuable is a right that’s been revoked by professional life coaches elected so they could dish out what you truly need.

Workers who never get hired in the first place should know how much they’d make if they hadn’t been replaced by cyborgs who expect 15 dollars per hour less. Even the employed can’t afford luxuries like sandwiches, which should assuage those who can’t find worthwhile toil. It’s nice to not feel alone.


Food is a right, then? Announce it in a supermarket or restaurant to see if they’ll let you walk out. You’ll need to eat today but hopefully won’t require health care. Treating something others provide for you as something that must be issued means taking it away is a violation. Keep going. Having to provide something means someone is forced to work. There’s a term for that which has been illegal in America for over a century and a half. Liberals don’t just hate the Constitution for the 13th Amendment.


Getting people to work on behalf of others without coercion is just another step that requires faith in government instead of personal abilities. Health care is indeed a commodity, which horrifies those who think self-righteousness is the strongest cure. Its importance is precisely why it’s best treated as a product. Treating curing like something special without limits is exactly what makes it scarce. The lesson in sanctimony-based economics features quite a bit of agony.


It sure is telling why they need government to enforce tolerance. At least, it would be if the self-righteous realized why they think people can’t be trusted to be as cool as them. Voters who don’t select woke are cruel, claim those who want to exclude fans of free markets from what they amusingly think of as polite society. The same people who are totally loving on their own need a court to tell them discrimination is prohibited. Openminded liberals who’d ban conservatives from their businesses if they knew how to run them think everyone else is intolerant.


Property is treated as communal by those who don’t own it. You may be surprised to learn you’re allowed to do as you wish, including in your place of business. Liberals should try running one before telling others how they must conduct their affairs. They’d suddenly be opposed to pushy unions and unbearable taxes. But the axiomatically invasive don’t expect to endure their own onerous demands.


Deciding what constitutes acceptable behavior is what Democrats presume is their role for every store that doesn’t provide abortions. Decent people can obviously agree that excluding based on personal characteristics is loathsome. So, don’t go anywhere that does so. Would you patronize a place that doesn’t serve based on ethnicity or the gender one dates? I hope not, which makes governmental intervention both invasive and redundant. The free market beats bigotry. Liberals can debate in their own heads whether they don’t trust choice because they doubt others or themselves.


We should be appreciative to share this planet with enlightened humans who know exactly how others should act. Compassion in commands is supposed to create what should already exist. People couldn’t just be nice without legal consequences.


Those who treat the law as a chance to inflict values they think nobody else possesses fail to think out results. That makes it like every other thing they believe. But don’t worry, as self-appointed communal conscience imposers compensate by overpromising on every issue. The thought of life being wonderful will have to suffice when those determined to perfect existence make it miserable.

First Amended

Shut up. It’ll save you the embarrassment of uttering a distastefully regressive remark your wholly objective executive overlords would deem hateful. Don’t you prefer self-regulation to legal force? The White House uses their free speech rights to bitch about plebes having theirs. Hostility to talking is a particularly nice touch from emblematic failures who deserve every word of criticism.


Orwell was an amateur. Targeting talking illustrates Joe Biden’s thorough commitment to thorough power. The Disinformation Governance Board only sounds like I made it up. Thankfully, the chilling euphemistic agency had a Chevy Chase Show-length life because citizens ironically used their pesky freedom of speech to notice this putzing White House tried going full autocrat on you noticing they suck hard.


Accountability is the worst if you became a federal employee precisely to avoid it. Biden minions loathe the free market because responses are allowed. As perfect arbiters of truth and ideal distributors of resources, you have some nerve noticing their schemes are going as smoothly as those of Jimmy McGill. Dang feedback undermined the pursuit of truth as declared by the diktats of inept oafs who think inflation is caused by corporate greed.


Checking federal power is precisely why they hate it. The Biden White House shows the precise dangers of pompous twits thinking whatever authority they’ve regrettably been handed is a good start. The incumbent wants to run everything even though he clearly should be in charge of nothing.


The speech-shuttering cabal didn’t even prompt regret once everyone verbalized their outrage. It’s not because those who think the presidency is the only branch that matters realized the government isn’t there to limit words but because they got caught. The most childish bullies with the most power loathe how we use the right to talk to say they should be the last ones allowed to make us pipe down.


A White House that has nothing but messaging even sucks at that. Consistency males life easier. What else would they blame but disinformation? Damnable liars deeming what truth is at least offers amusement, as does engaging in the precise sort of distortions and semantics they claim to fight. Thank them for the example.


Government has decided one entity should be in charge of proclaiming what constitutes facts. The sheen of authority makes federal flunkies accurate every time they yap. This impossibly cloddish White House is undoubtedly correct about everything. A president cracking down on free speech under the guise of battling disinformation should probably strive not to get every last freaking thing wrong.


Please report for your struggle session. Your unmutual contempt for obvious progress keeps the whole from reaching bliss. Let your supervisors have their fantasy. This White House’s dim stooges already dream of a streamlined government that gloriously allows the benevolent leader to order collective utopia into being. Curtailing your option to curtail their obviously incredible scheming is the logical continuation. Being caught in violation doesn’t apply to claiming Hunter Biden behaves.


The First Amendment’s first word is “Congress”, which the White House interprets to mean that they’re allowed to cover your mouth with duct tape. The executive imposes what legislators only wish they could. Checks and balances are a crucial part of our system. And you thought Biden didn’t respect the Constitution.


A president who tries fighting poverty by starting off deciding that we’re all rich has it exactly backward as usual. The Bill of Rights opener is not just our most cherished principle because letting people talk is legal: it’s legal because it’s a basic right. Wait until wannabe fascists learn owning guns follows the same reasoning.


Fearing open opinion markets has been spurred by their contempt for one particular tycoon. Potential Twitter baron Elon Musk is depraved enough to dream of enabling people with less money to speak as they wish. Contemporary titans aren’t a problem as long as they apologize for selling products customers want with genuflecting wokeness.


Very democratic Democrats are horrified by the idea of people having their say. Humans acting as their own editors bypasses completely fair party operatives placed as journalists. Placing narratives makes it tough to cover facts. It’s no wonder they’re inept.


Sorting out what’s worthwhile is our job. This particularly pushy administration doesn’t trust free markets in any case, including when it comes to free speech. Label anyone more conservative than Honecker hateful for ease of labeling.


“Hate speech” means anything liberals disagree with. Noting how inflation has made gasoline even more unobtainable embodies subversiveness. Fuel prices spiked as soon as Biden got behind the wheel, and noticing patterns is malicious. Be honest like when he blames Bond villain Vladimir Putin as this regrettable administration’s own putzing policies inflict misery on Americans.


It’d be bad enough if some Vox twit declared politicians should declare rights aren’t absolute before deciding just how much should be trimmed. These people are in charge of the executive branch. The incumbent is as close to a marionette as possible, but his flunkies assure us he dreamed of lazy tyranny back when he was a semi-coherent plagiarizing statist.


Your kind and wise supervisors will totally wield power thoughtfully fairly, so there’s no need to freak out. Clamping down on yapping reflects the same way they see the rest of their precious invasive government. The only thing worse than lusting after control is how much they suck at it. The only thing worse than that is the lack of foresight involved in thinking they’ll reign indefinitely.


Failing to think of tomorrow’s consequences doesn’t only apply to printing excessive money today. I hope Ron DeSantis wins so he can be in charge of the Federal Truth Squad. Like free money, this White House attaches endless conditions to free speech.

Caught in a Vice

You’re no longer being hassled, which feels uncanny for good reason. Government suddenly acting cool should make everyone wary. They literally have cops. A lax parent who allows cocktail consumption before and after the sock hop only seems awesome. There could certainly never be a catch behind tacit permission to do as you please.


Legalizing vices is the new suspicious hobby of usually strict politicians. Psychologists would deem it ingenious if the elected want to take the fun out of debauchery like parents calling a fad neat.  But it’s unlikely most of those holding offices thought how to trick us; after all, look at most of them. Their remarkably simple mentality spurs a clumsy drive to sap joy like it’s your income.


It isn’t enough for an entity whose sole purpose is preventing harm infliction to be your health care provider, education dispenser, and economy runner. Your state is now your drug dealer and bookie. If you think any random governor won’t somehow take the ecstasy out of getting high from drugs or backing the right football team to lose by less than six and a half points, you must be new to how politics intoxicates.


Nothing’s a blast like wondering how much of a percentage your state will take from you for experiencing pleasure. Purportedly hip leaders will be regulating your fun times then of course making sure they get their cut for performing the crucial function of existing. Get government out of and back into our lives.

Scores of games and drugs will now be used to fund the ghastly infringements into the rest of our lives.  The same people thrilled a business pays alarmingly high taxes as if contributing to the hive for crummy insurance and pothole-filling is life’s purpose aren’t grasping why humans are suddenly allowed to indulge in revelry. The state’s insatiable urges are far more shameful than dosed brownies or point spreads.


If you’re not paranoid, try more reefer. As usual, government didn’t think this out. Don’t take the bet about your mundane overlords wanting you to feel somewhat free for the first time without asterisks. Elected guardians love you deeply as long as you think unconditional is unreasonable. Pacifying the populace means handing out token concessions to liberty. This particular granting of rights just happens to feature a product known for encouraging docile behavior. It turns out those weren’t delusions after all.


The freedom to engage in something foolish or indulgent doesn’t require a hall pass. We already possess the option. Those who decline should recognize the choice’s inherent value. You have every right to do nothing as dully as possible. Your adult gummy bear will make you an orphan-booting terrorist. It’s just that marijuana is the most boring thing other than its users.


And sports are fun because of the competition, not to foolishly attempt to make a couple bucks off them. I’m sure casinos are opulent because bettors are much better at predicting results. Soulless followers of athletics who either somehow haven’t based their personalities on aligning with a team or even wager against their own clubs are free to not get the true purpose of athletics, namely to align with mercenaries paid fortunes to chase balls so you can be furious if they don’t do so as you wish. Like the Cleveland Browns, everyone possesses the choice to do it wrong.


We’re allowed to choose how we waste our precious free hours and limited funds, especially when your kind government made your job scarce and a loaf of bread costs 73 dollars. You can’t win back some of your increasingly worthless currency at supermarkets offering goods that are costly if they’re even stocked. Thinking the Knicks might finally score 110 offers a chance to win back some of what you voluntarily put up to back your choices. Betting sets a bad example for a government that’s committed to coercion.


Shorten your jazz cigarettes via ignition if you find doing so entertaining. Stay inside with the windows shut and the blinds drawn to ensure respect. Time alone creates a chance to realize the sheer suspiciousness of notoriously intolerant authorities suddenly wanting you to enjoy autonomy. Citizens are granted the option to compensate with distractions for how lousy alleged leaders made everything else and at best getting debit accounts drained for recreation. The state is certainly attempting to cash in on the enjoyment of people living their own lives, which to sickos is government’s purest role.


We at least get the chance to show we don’t care what degenerate behavior freaks enjoy on their own time. Libertarianism’s alleged embodiment naturally comes with enough conditions to ruin any pleasantness. The truly openminded may think wagering is a soulless attempt to cash in on recreation that’s almost as self-indulgent as numbing oneself with intoxicants.


Knock yourself out if you’re into funding your sports book being able to afford ordering Uber Eats every night or pretending your aches and ills are cured by the most recreational of psychoactive substances. To prove how fine I am with it, I don’t want a share of your rare winnings or frequent purchases.


The Man laying off hassling you for vice of choice is naturally never for altruism. Your legal bully is not about to allow people to have the freedom to bet or toke for a cause as simple as letting how much of what they charmingly call revenue is siphoned from earners. Wagerers face a vig that’d make mobsters shake their heads as the state embarrasses drug dealers with preposterous control. Taking the thrill out of it while taking in money makes legalization the perfect scheme. You thought office-filling nannies couldn’t ruin your fun. But government always rises to the challenge. Bet on it.

Bought What’s Sold

You’re not getting rid of your fortune properly. Telling billionaires how to spend is the natural extension of thinking property belongs to everyone but the owner. A vaguely menacing lecture about just where money technically in the possession of others should go beats figuring how to profit themselves. Working hard to please consumers embodies decadence.

Sanctimonious pickpocketing is especially popular during the Elon Musk Twitter sweepstakes. Any acquisition for an unfathomable sum leads to pompous pontificating about how to fix whatever ill the lecturer last remembered being documented in a tweet. Barons could spend the purchase price to cure hunger for an afternoon. Or, they could pay workers and buy stuff from thankful retailers which could fund indefinite breakfasts.

Hearing how many orphans could go to college for free if a single tycoon disposed of a fortune in such a manner is the only time those who cheer trillions in federal spending have ever performed mathematics. Liberals cure society’s shortcomings by subtracting earnings. Pondering what happens after the one-time wealth transfer is for those who don’t want to live in the moment. Life may continue, just like the poverty caused by envy as policy.

Deciding what’s important is too important for you to decide. Eminent domain now applies to income. Incessantly ominous lectures about how executives ought to dispose of their earnings are a perversely logical extension of policies designed to seize fortunes so they can be spent properly by the entity that made college unaffordable by subsidizing it. Don’t bother majoring in economics.

Arsonists want to use the ashes to help you rebuild. Helpful liberals are deeply committed to alleviating agonies their beloved policies caused. Punishing success sure creates far less of it, if you can imagine.

The first step will only take them so far, so there’s no reason to even bother. Bitching that the richest won’t liquidate their fortunes is easier than helping at a soup kitchen. Scorn aimed at those who dare guide the most profitable outfits is why those endlessly waging class warfare never get there themselves. At least, that’s one reason. Acting like cash piles are assigned by fate is a convenient excuse for never bothering to try.

Plundering CEOs stole everything except a handful of change tossed our way, most of which fell down the sewer grate. Ingrates who don’t get raises because they’re too busy bitching how they’re underpaid. 

Professional jealousy cultivators figure there’s no reason to even start helping. Existence being fixed is a convenient excuse. Very compassionate liberals expect those with more to not only lead the way but parade alone. Planning the route is a courtesy offered by those who don’t plan to come even close to tithing.

Life is unfair, which is an excuse used by some to not bother. If this is all a test to see how we react to stress, this universe is actually built pretty well. Taking it as a given that the game is stacked is why conspiratorial participants don’t play. The success of others is the easiest excuse for natural quitters.

Hand it over voluntarily before you must by law. Telling the richest how to be less so is nothing more than the liberal policy dream. Confiscating then spending undoubtedly spurs those who’ve had their personal coffers looted to refill them. Big dreamers just know what ghastly federal invasion into liberty and markets will make life dreamy as soon as they get a couple trillion bucks more in involuntary investments. A pyramid scheme only continues indefinitely by force of law.

It never occurs to mandatory sharers that increasing funding is not the panacea their faith compels them to believe. They’re forced to believe in force. Letting people trade with each other might be a more sustainable path to prosperity than chopping down the wealthy. I thought they were into recycling resources. Allowing competition lowers prices so we don’t need to seize fortunes. Removing barriers to thriving would create more rich people while we’re at it. But work sounds like a lot of effort.

Envy starts with giving in to other emotions, too. Enemies of free markets proclaim that there’s only so much money, a great deal which is being hoarded by those who lucked into running companies everyone uses voluntarily. Wealth is finite, according to financial experts who tried making everyone into an honorary tycoon by printing extra bills and tossing them around.

A system that allows people to help each other and even get paid for it only seems unobtainable for those who never create value. Pre-empting poverty is way more fun than addressing it once it happens. It’s better for firefighters to be bored reminding people to clean chimneys than to extinguish blazes. Demanding unbelievable taxation rates because they think everyone would refuse to help just like they do is a prominent way to compensate for wretchedness. Make sure to muster indignant attitude toward those who are not fixing problems they caused with their goofy beliefs.

Persistent resentment has not yet created prosperity. Spending fortunes at restaurants and car dealerships is the right of the cash possessor, not to mention the assistance received by servers and salesmen. Presuming fortunes earned by others theirs to spend takes a special kind of selflessness.

Expensive Speech

The best ideas sure need a lot of protection. Censorship as policy is easier than convincing a populace too lunkheaded to realize the schemes and dreams of the elected coincide with their own. The stubborn lack of compliance with orders prompts demands to cure debate by not permitting criticism to the official line. It’s really your fault for not consenting to think uniformly.

Those were a sketchy couple years when uncooperative citizens could broadcast the messages of their choosing. Such freedom to speak was subversively used to encourage other uncooperative activities like the right to bear arms or have states offer lower taxes than New York. Censorious government fans get smug as they finally find private enterprises they like.

Deciding what’s best for you includes that very decision. Liberty’s entire point is to enable people to figure out their own paths. Federally ordered unity will squelch this vexatious resistance to other commands. Restricting free markets doesn’t just apply to squelching trade. We must heed guardians of truth, claim those who appointed themselves to the task.

The free market applies to yapping as well as buying. Truth wins out just like the best sellers take in the most revenue. Insecurity at their undoubtedly amazing policies motivates everything about those who feel Joe Biden is about to order prosperity into existence. Claiming those who oppose them are full of hatred is a nice touch. They have to censor your because your interest in biology is transphobic.

Doing the bidding of aspiring autocrats doesn’t lead to as many rewards as promised. Pushy politicians don’t need censorship when leftist tech overlords allow for gleeful narcing. Lusty volunteers sift through ancient tweets looking for reactionaries who noted someone named Bruce Jenner once won a medal typically presented to those who retain the choice to be born male.

Those obsessed with messaging never consider fixing what they’re selling. The only reason people loathe federal health care is poor branding, according to those who never let consumers fix it themselves by enjoying competition. Jen Psaki’s cable news zombie army believes private sector is full of manipulative liars, too, which is why they’re so cynical about advertising. You don’t have to buy any cheeseburger because Wendy’s made it look appealing, which makes it unlike crummy health care.

It’s a sure sign of security to silence opposition. The enemies of loving leftism are hateful, you see, which means they must confiscate opinions like they’re income. The left can’t tolerate the intolerant, who are defined as anyone noticing how federal spending creates the problems it’s supposed to solve. But the government is in charge, which means it can’t be wrong.

Society might not enjoy unanimous cultural touchstones, thankfully. We can finally watch what we each like thanks to having more than four channels. People sort out broadcasting options themselves, which frightens anyone who needs the security of hiding in a group. Nothing’s quite scary like a chronological social media feed of those who choose to follow while using the mute and block options. It’s much more nutritious to allow a few network executives to decide what we’re fed. Take your soylent ration like a contributing group member.

The system demands your compliance. Layers of oversight are unhelpful if the circle jerk is comprised of jerks. Doing it yourself like true punks means not seeking the approval of a network news producer. Disregarded hall monitors miss when you couldn’t discredit them in real time.

Reactions to being their own editors is a pretty good test of character. Liberated humans exercising option to construct their own social media feeds aren’t willing to hear pompous lectures about how they’re supposed to listen to pompous lectures.

Hypocrisy only adds to the charm. We just adore shrieking about echo chambers from those who rely on NPR and the New York Times editorial board to stay quite informed and very unbiased. Conservatives encounter nothing but opposition from the purported balanced media. Looking for others who notice risible lies is just why free speech’s enemies are furious. Next, you’ll tell me people can earn their own salaries and buy things like houses and health insurance.

Ancient media endorsers sure believe a lot of things that wouldn’t pass their own alleged standard. The wholly scientific notion that breathing through cloth saves us, detailing where inflation comes from, and documenting Hunter Biden’s skulduggery sure have been covered rather inaccurately by those who are supposed to discern facts as a trade. Explaining how Vladimir Putin made fuel prices skyrocket before he invaded a neighbor minding its own business is as tricky as grasping how the engine goes.

Official approval is the step crazy free marketeers evade. Journalists deciding other journalists got it perfectly is the verification of truth we crave. People who didn’t need to do any math to finish their majors certainly get all information correct.

You’ve got some nerve checking fact-checkers, an industry whose title is designed to squelch dissent. Those in the category might be as partisan as their fellow industry’s quasi-professionals. But reporters think they have the only industry that should be allowed to self-regulate.

Overcompensating paired with their lust for shutting down opposition happens to be ideas this time. Next time, the interdiction will involve shuttering commerce, autonomy, and the right to congregate whenever there’s an airborne virus. They know just how your life should be restricted to enhance it. Speaking as you wish to a theoretically worldwide audience is a privilege enabled by technological advancement. Charging for free speech costs dignity.