The Patriot Post® · Friday Short Cuts

Dezinformatsiya

“‘Inflation is falling,’ headlined The Washington Post [Wednesday]. ‘Why aren’t people noticing?’ Because inflation is NOT falling. It is true that the annual rate of inflation is now 5%, which is considerably lower than last June, when it hit a 40-year high of 9.1%. Yet that means inflation is still growing, just at a slower pace than a year ago or a month ago. … The Post’s story does largely get the details correct, explaining that the rate is slowing and so forth. Yet the vast majority of people saw only the headline and came away misinformed. That’s often how the media misleads and sometimes flat-out lies to consumers.” —Nate Jackson

Insight

“The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.” —educator and author Stephen Covey (1932-2012)

Odds & Ends

“A funny thing happened on the way to the beer aisle: 39-year-old Bud Light VP of Marketing Alissa Heinerscheid thought a creepy, cultish, fingernails-on-the-chalkboard trans activist would make a great company spokesman. It didn’t work. … You thought making Dylan Mulvaney the face of Bud Light was real marketing genius, but now you can’t even give your toxic brew away at softball games and frat parties. And that’s just as it should be for a business that thinks it knows better than its customers.” —Douglas Andrews

“Bud Light is the Amazon Basics of bad beer.” —Charles C.W. Cooke

“The people of Chicago ousted woke Mayor Lori Lightfoot for the even more woke Brandon Johnson. Nothing says we need a change by steering harder in the wrong direction. The reality is Chicagoans have trapped themselves, going nowhere but in a circle of bad politicians and bad policy. So yeah, it’s no wonder Democrats have selected the Windy City for their national convention in 2024! It’s a perfect exemplar of their policies in action.” —Emmy Griffin

“Amusing that National Public Radio is now trying to deny the meaning of the word ‘public’ in its name. NPR was literally established and financed by the government as part of the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967.” —Christopher F. Rufo

“People say it’s crazy to believe in God. Maybe it’s crazy to believe random amino acids accidentally formed into a single cell which then accidentally formed into a complex organism reading this tweet. By random accident. Imagine how much faith THAT would require.” —Congressman Dan Crenshaw (R-TX)

The BIG Lies

“In the last 20 years, the U.S. had a GDP shortfall of $16 trillion due to discrimination against black Americans. If we closed our racial gaps, we could add another $5 trillion to GDP over just the next five years.” —Domestic Policy Council Director Susan Rice

“Let’s stand together in defense of facts, truth, and history. Today, in states across the nation, we’re seeing bans on innocuous children’s books just because they feature prominently black or brown characters. We’re seeing black history erased from our classrooms and textbooks. And make no mistake: Those who are doing this are trying to tell us that we do not count, that we do not matter, and that perhaps we should not exist.” —Susan Rice

“Last week, I went to New College in Florida — ground zero for what the @GOP are trying to do to education in this country. … Books are banned. Speech is limited. Faculty are scared. Students are bullied. This is just a small dose of what’s to come.” —California Governor Gavin Newsom

“The single existential threat to the world is climate change. We don’t have a lot of time and that’s a fact.” —Joe Biden

And Last…

“Sooo… Megan Rapinoe and the leftist women who complain that women don’t get paid as much as men in sports… now argue for men to take women’s places in sports… got it.” —Tim Young

“Any parent or doctor who sterilizes a child before they are a consenting adult should go to prison for life.” —Elon Musk