Friday cognitive dissonance edition

 The Bureau of Labor Statistics -- hey, wake up! -- just announced that 372,000 jobs were created in June, exceeding all expectations.  This is discouraging for Mitch McConnell, who complained this week that Americans are too "flush" with government handouts to go to work.  Apparently it also disappointed the Washington Post, which chose to headline the story "U.S. Unemployment Rate Holds at 3.6 percent in June" and went on to warn of recession, inflation, the "spiraling" stock market and tanking "consumer sentiment."  The glass of a Democratic administration is always two-thirds empty.

President Biden signed an executive order directing federal agencies to protect women's access to healthcare.  He cited the little girl in Ohio, who should be known as Roe II, and asked people to elect Democrats to make healthcare rights permanent and safe from Opus Dei.  No doubt this is already being assailed as "politicizing" one tragic case.  Not like Ohio Governor Mike DeWine, who told the Cincinnati Enquirer that the real problem is the rapist, "who should be picked up and locked up forever."  He's a father and a grandfather.  He's gut-wrenched.  Poor Mike.

The world is shocked by the assassination of former prime minister Shinzo Abe as he campaigned in Nara.  Americans are shocked that it's so hard to obtain a gun in Japan, the assassin had to build his own shotgun.  How do people live like this?  Don't they have any freedom?

In Akron demonstrations continue following the death of Jayland Walker, shot more than sixty times and then, according to one account, handcuffed.  The eight police who shot him are on vacation paid administrative leave.  Breonna Taylor's aunt and Jacob Blake's father were arrested at one such demonstration and, by contrast, charged with disorderly conduct, failure to disperse and riot.  There are enough family members of people killed or crippled by police to keep the protests going for months, and maybe that's the real story.

Doug Mastriano will need a brilliant lawyer to contest the results when he loses to Josh Shapiro for governor of Pennsylvania, so he has hired Jenna Ellis, who did such outstanding work for Trump.  (Ellis is not currently being sued by Dominion Voting Machines, nor has her law license been suspended.)  Ellis jumped back into public view yesterday by tweeting that Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients Simone Biles and Megan Rapinoe are in fact Biden's "fellow losers."  Pro tip, Jenna:  When a career can be measured by the yardstick of athletic victory, "loser" is not the word you want.  Sports is about the purest form of winning we have.  

Show us where in the Constitution it says everyone has a right to eat at an expensive Washington restaurant without attracting unwanted attention.  Because if it's not in there, Mr. Originalist, you can get used to the cuisine at Chick-fil-A.  Maybe they deliver.  As Samantha Bee said, "If Republicans have made our lives hell, it's time to return the favor."  Offer it up, Brett.  Didn't the nuns teach you that?

California, the state so blue it blends in with the Pacific, plans to give every taxpayer a special rebate this fall to help cope with inflation.  Yesterday Governor Gavin Newsom announced that the state is investing $100 million to produce insulin that diabetics can afford.  He also released an ad in the Republic of DeSantis urging people to fight for freedom or seek it in the Golden State, where you can vote, read any books you want and even buy condoms.  And yes, Boatlift Hitler is snarling back.  It's going to be a good summer.