Chuck Darwin<p>Krugman: <br>Look, I’m in New York right now. </p><p>I’ve been out for the afternoon running various errands. </p><p>👉 In MAGA mythology, I should be afraid to leave my apartment. </p><p>It should be an urban hellscape where you get murdered if you try and buy a loaf of bread. </p><p>⭐️And the reality is New York is, in fact, one of the safest places in America. </p><p>But what will happen eventually is that<br>—I don’t quite know how it will work because crime data are initially supplied by local police agencies, <br>🆘 but the FBI summaries of that will probably be corrupted quite soon.</p><p>Just in general, if what we are actually going to be seeing is inflation, <br>quite a lot of inflation, we’re going to be seeing enormous pressure to report that, <br>first of all, things were worse. </p><p>💥The retrospective description of what America was like in 2024 is going to bear no resemblance to the actually pretty good state of the nation right now. </p><p>🔥Also, we’re going to be seeing a lot of pressure to not admit things that are going wrong.<br><a href="https://c.im/tags/DataManipulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DataManipulation</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/FakeFigures" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FakeFigures</span></a><br><a href="https://c.im/tags/RevisionistHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RevisionistHistory</span></a></p>