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The Washington Post's Taylor Lorenz (and some other guy) have penned an 'explainer' on why a TikTok video of a $16 McDonald's hamburger is misleading, inflation isn't that bad, and the viral clip is just some guy who ordered a 'novelty item' which ended up with him 'racking up hundreds of thousands of views.'

Lorenz (and sidekick), noting that it wasn't just a 'Big Mac meal,' smelled blood in the water.

The article then proffers this 'viral' hamburger incident as "one of many exaggerated examples of the nation’s economic woes."

An anonymous White House official then whispered in Lorenz' ear, after she wrote: "In reality, inflation has been steadily subsiding, and last week the government reported price hikes had eased yet again in October. The average Big Mac nationally as of this summer cost $5.58, up from $4.89 — or roughly 70 cents — before Biden took office, according to an index maintained by the Economist. That’s up more than 10 percent, but it’s not $16."

The WaPo piece aligns perfectly with a White House campaign to convince Americans things are better than ever, and Biden rocks, and he was only inspecting those children for lice.

Of course, regular readers know better than to believe the Biden administration and its media tentacles.

And when you exclude food and energy:

And what's this, buried towards the bottom of the WaPo report, they admit that disposable income has fallen like a rock.

So it's officially less shitty than the shittiest it's been under Biden, but still not as good as it was under Trump. Thanks Taylor (and guy) for explaining Bidenomics!