By now you’re probably used to being told that what you think you can see with your own eyes isn’t true. Instead, you should trust the experts.
Do you think you’re spending a lot more on groceries today than you were when Joe Biden took office in 2020? Well, you think wrong, and you can’t add up the dollars you’ve spent, because the experts say [1] President Biden has inflation under control, and it’s only stupid MAGA right wingers that claim eggs were not always $5 a dozen.
You might even be foolish enough to think you’ve noticed more violent and dangerous behavior, like robbery, shoplifting, or assault out on the streets. Once again, you would be wrong to trust data from your own senses, and even more wrong to believe any stories your friends and family tell about being accosted in what used to be safe neighborhoods.
No, friends, you haven’t seen what you think you’ve seen. The experts say so. The biggest experts of all, the FBI, can confirm that not only are you not seeing what you think you see, but you’re even crazier than you knew. Violent crime is actually down, you dumb MAGA rabble rouser. See? The statistics say so [2].
Mainstream media like NBC are nothing but helpmeets to the federal government now, parroting every fib and misdirection. This articles just repeats the FBI’s implausible claim that murder declined at the steepest rate in 20 years between 2022 and 2023. And you can trust NBC, because they put it in a headline:
