I know I am still sticker-shocked every time I go to the grocery store to get my old-fashioned groceries.

The BLS is. And the BLS is solid and full of dedicated career civil servants who would make it known if their data was being corrupted. Trump's pick to head the BLS was not put in.

..the weighting that goes into CPI has been considered questionable by economists, statisticians, and others expert in mathematical analysis for a few decades.
I'm one of them.
I think the number is more accurately presented as whatever BLS reports × 1.2..
For instance, I think housing costs are overweighted given the substantial number of mortgage payers for whom monthly costs are fixed, and for whom, in many cases, have property tax bills that are statutorily limited for year over year increases.
I think transportation is underweighted because the cost of new cars has gone by by roughly 2x the reported inflation rate for 40 years or so. Used car prices are even worse.
I could go on, but really worth it.
Unless inflation is VERY low, I think the official number is too low by a meaningful to the consumer degree.
I agree that BLS isn't fudging numbers. We don't agree that their numbers are beyond reproach.

Not looking forward to it.

and I got the gist of his response from Aaron Rupar. But almost all of it was my "opinion" of his reaction. I wouldn't call it an article exactly, but just me blowing off steam.

When problems are pointed out, real problems that are affecting real people he can’t even be brought to acknowledge they’re real. He deflects to “well a year ago things were great”. Yeah we know, a year ago you were 4 months into your term being handed a decent situation that you little on fire.

That's why these "journalists" competing so hard and putting up with so much disrespect just to get this meaningless drivel out of him are really doing their viewers/readers a disservice.

Welcome to the party, everyone who's suddenly complaining about wages vs inflation, now.