EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Inflation is Straining the Charitable Sector. “According to Feeding America, 53 million people turned to food banks, food pantries and meal programs in 2021, one-third more than prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, when millions of Americans relied on food banks – some for the first time – as workers lost jobs or were temporarily unemployed. Today, many people are back to work, but real wages, or inflation-adjusted pay, keeps falling, as grocery prices rise. Again, food banks are seeing long lines for help and reporting spiking demand.”
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August 18, 2022
CHILD ABUSE: Libs of TikTok Pointed Out Boston Children’s Hospital’s Trans Surgery Policy. Then the Fact-Checkers Got Involved. “Well, funny thing about that. PolitiFact is correct about the ’18 and older’ language, but it’s quite possible the site did not include it when Libs of TikTok tweeted about it on August 11. The archives from the Wayback Machine website show that at some point between July 31 and August 14, that language was added to the site.”
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Should the GOP Hit the Panic Button About November? “Even my hard heart has been softening in recent months about the party’s chances of winning back control of the House. I’ve evolved from agonizing about how the GOP might blow it all to thinking that we’re in rarefied political air this year because Biden is such a trainwreck and that even they couldn’t muck this one up.”
OK, GROOMER: ‘Terror Campaign’: Trans Activists Push for Censorship of Discussions on Child Sex Changes.
Activists accused the accounts of “stochastic terrorism” and demanded Twitter take action to censor the conversation and take down their accounts.
“In the last 5 days, Libs of Tiktok has tweeted and retweeted 14 posts about Boston Children’s Hospital. As a result, BCH providers are being inundated in death threats and harassing calls and emails,” Alejandra Caraballo wrote. “It’s now affecting their services. This is stochastic terrorism, full stop.”
The post was retweeted by Ari Drennen, LGBTQ program director at the left-wing activist organization Media Matters, along with several other posts expressing concern about criticism of the hospital posing a potential safety threat.
The truth is only a threat to people hiding behind lies.
BIDENFLATION: Sky-high inflation is here to stay — so brace for the Fed to stick to its guns on tightening, renowned economist says. “I don’t think a very soft touch of very mild increases in interest rates will put a stop to what is going to be an ongoing inflationary pressure.”
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Matt Margolis: Can We Talk About the ‘Good Republicans’ the Liberal Media ‘Loves’?
Kruiser: Dear MSM: Enough of the ‘Liz Cheney 2024’ Nonsense, Already.
Yours Truly: Putin Wants a Fleet of Aircraft Carriers and Has Also Maybe Eaten Shrooms.
August 17, 2022
HARSH BUT FAIR: Twitter Is Objectively Pro-Groomer.
THIS IS WHY YOU SHOULDN’T GET COCKY: Don’t Look Now, but Democrats Are Gaining on Republicans Across the Board.
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MALPRACTICE: California gender clinic treats patients as young as 2-years-old. “UCSF explicitly adheres to the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) guidelines, which recommends that children as young as 8 could begin medical transition. WPATH is set to release its new 8th edition guidelines this year, which plans to lower the minimum age for teens to obtain hormones, as well as face, chest, and genital surgeries.”
Related: Biden’s Change to Title IX Shuts Parents Out of Kids’ Mental, Emotional Health.
MATT MARGOLIS: Twitter Censored My Articles on the FBI Raid of Mar-a-Lago.
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY (EURO EDITION): Germany Faces Power Grid Collapse as Demand for Electric Heaters Soar.
Germans are now panic buying electric heaters after firewood supplies and stoves sold out, a desperate backup option to survive the plummeting winter temperatures.
But according to the boss of the Stadtwerke Wiesbaden Netz utility company, Peter Lautz, the sheer amount of citizens using electric heaters would put enormous strain on the country’s electricity grid.
Electric heaters use between 1,000 and 3,000 watts of energy, so when all are plugged in simultaneously, it could cause a massive overload and cause the grid to collapse.
“If everyone switched on a fan heater at home, it would mean that we would have to almost double the existing network structure on every street,” said Lautz.
Germans have bought 600,000 electric heaters already in 2022, which is a 35 percent increase from usual numbers, and that figure is likely to rise as temperatures drop.
Meanwhile: In a Belated Outburst of Rationality, Germany Decides To Keep Three Nuclear Plants Open.
They’ve shuttered 14.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Cheney’s Concession Speech Was a Mentally Ill Cry for Help. “The race was called for Hageman about 14 seconds after the polls closed. What followed were a few hours of every leftist media outlet in America making Cheney out to be the bravest American woman since Rosa Parks.”
WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG? Scientists Have Re-Created The Deadly 1918 Flu Virus. Why?
ROD DREHER: Trans Totalitarianism: Time For Moral Panic.
When I was reporting Live Not By Lies, I talked to a senior physician at a major US hospital in a conservative state. The man only talked to me if I agreed not to use his name. His family emigrated to the West from the USSR when he was a child. Now, he said, he is seeing things that didn’t even exist in the Soviet Union. He told me that at his hospital, the management instructed all the physicians to give to any patient, including children, any gender-transition assistance they asked for — even if it violated the physician’s best judgment about that particular patient. There was no other health care issue in which doctors were told by the hospital to suspend their medical judgment to give a patient what he or she wants. Why do you think that is, reader? When the lawsuits begin, I wonder if “just following orders” will protect doctors?
By the way, this particular physician told me that the HR department at his hospital monitored their social media accounts, looking for wrongthink. He said that if he didn’t have a social media account, that would cause HR to flag him as a potential problem. So he kept his account up, but only put happy-clappy “wellness” things on it. This man is a top doctor at one of the country’s biggest hospitals, and he has to live in that kind of fear. Why doesn’t he quit? Because he has a family, and tuition to pay, and all the usual reasons. The other day in Vienna, I talked to a young Muslim from Canada, a man who works in IT. We agreed that the Canadian government is insane, and that trans ideology is destroying children and families. “Why don’t people stand up?” he said. I asked him if he would stand up, knowing that it would probably cost him his job. He thought for a second, and said, no, he guesses that he wouldn’t.
I understood. This is the condition most people are in. You maybe start to see why there were so few dissidents in the Communist world. It really and truly cost you a lot. Everybody likes to think that they would stand up, but when it comes right down to it, almost everybody conforms.
Rod has written an incredibly important essay and I can’t urge you strongly enough to read the whole thing — and to share it, and to speak up.
