The Lincoln Logue | White House Calls Dems Terrorists While Bombing the Caribbean
The administration is blurring the lines of the difference between defense and domination — at home and abroad.
The President spent the week rewriting both economics and ethics. He declared inflation “defeated,” praised falling mortgage rates, and claimed tariffs were “saving American jobs” as groceries, rent, and coffee prices all kept rising. The Fed cut rates in lockstep, offering validation instead of restraint, while Trump bragged that “the people are winning again.” Economists called it delusion dressed as policy, a confidence game meant to turn loyalty into currency. When propaganda becomes monetary policy, the balance sheet is just a script. The White House insists this is recovery; the country feels like collateral. Every speech sounds like a celebration of stability that only exists inside the teleprompter.
Elsewhere, lies finally met consequence. The Supreme Court refused to rescue Alex Jones from the billion-dollar judgment he owes to Sandy Hook families, ending years of courtroom spectacle. His defeat should have been a moral turning point, but it barely lasted a day. By midweek, the CIA was bombing boats in the Caribbean, the president was boasting about “looking at land,” and the press secretary was calling Democrats terrorists. The government now trades in conspiracies with better branding, where the truth lasts only until the next broadcast. What used to be fringe rhetoric is now the president’s foreign policy language.
Every institution joined the act: the Fed gambling with fantasy, the courts silencing a liar, the Pentagon staging “peacekeeping” in real time. Trump insists the world is safer, the economy stronger, the truth simpler — and millions still want to believe him. Reality is the only thing left ungoverned, and even that feels temporary.
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Monday, October 13 — Trump Declares Inflation ‘Defeated’ as Prices Keep Rising
▌The White House “defeated” inflation the old-fashioned way — by redefining the word “defeated.”
Trump opened the week declaring victory over inflation, a battle still raging in every American household. “Grocery prices are down, mortgage rates are down, inflation has been defeated,” he told the United Nations, reciting the line like a campaign pledge carved into scripture. But inflation has risen in three of the last four months, driven by the same tariffs he insists are “protecting American jobs.” Coffee prices have spiked 21% thanks to new import taxes on Brazil, while furniture and appliances are climbing again for the first time in decades. The Fed, desperate to reassure markets, rewarded the illusion with its first rate cut of the year, calling inflation “under control.” What it really controlled was the narrative — a fiction polished into policy and sold back to voters as victory.
The illusion endures because it’s repeated until resistance sounds unpatriotic. Officials describe tariffs as “temporary,” rate cuts as “precautionary,” and price spikes as “the cost of freedom.” But behind the slogans are real people rationing groceries, delaying rent, and watching their paychecks shrink under “American greatness.” Economists warn that cutting rates while prices climb will destroy what credibility the Fed still has, but their caution doesn’t trend — soundbites do. “In hindsight,” one expert said, “these cuts will look like a mistake,” though everyone knows hindsight is banned when hubris writes the forecast. It’s the kind of mistake that isn’t meant to be corrected, only repeated until the lie feels like stability.
Even as inflation creeps upward, Trump’s team insists the suffering is proof the system works. Tariffs are sold as loyalty tests, hardship rebranded as patriotism, and data molded to fit devotion. The administration doesn’t manage the economy; it manages emotion, converting frustration into political faith. Every press release reads like a sermon about sacrifice, where truth is the heretic.
Source: AP