By Selwyn Duke

You could say that many of our elections now, particularly in places such as New York City, are reminiscent of the Third World.

Except that would be an insult to the Third World.

In poor Brazil, after all, where many people suffer greater privation than our vagrants do, the latest election’s results were known in four hours. They just counted the votes — simple addition.

In NYC’s current mayoral race, it’s complete attrition. They count the votes, and count and count and count and count with the Big Apple’s new ranked-choice voting system until — when? When they powers-that-be get the result they want?

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By Selwyn Duke

First, to question our elections was the “denigrating” of our “democracy,” said Hillary Clinton in a 2016 debate with Donald Trump. Immediately after losing that year’s presidential contest, Clinton & Co. commenced the denigration, proclaiming, “Russia stole the election”! Then, denigration fell out of style again when Joe Biden was elevated to the presidency and questioning his “victory” made you complicit in the Insurrection that Wasn’t.

But now, that 135,000 test votes were accidentally counted in the New York City mayoral race, it’s Denigration 2.0. In fact, rich left-wing mayoral candidate Maya Wiley asserted that the error was “not just failure to count votes properly today,” but “the result of generations of failures that have gone unaddressed.”

So what’s the truth on our system? It’s plain: We have the safest, most efficient, most insecure, corrupt elections in the world — bar none.

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By Selwyn Duke

It used to be that when people believed they were something they weren’t, they were called crazy. Now they may be called “brave” and by odd pronouns as those calling them what they are are called names. But perhaps just as crazy are people who cherry-pick which delusions shall be exalted.

A case in point is a British “social influencer” (a relatively new and tiresome designation that’s worthy of an article itself) named Oli London, though he takes exception to being called “British” because he now, after 18 operations, claims to be Korean — not just in terms of nationality, mind you, but racially. In fact, London, who now wants to go by the Korean name “Jimin,” also would no doubt take exception to being called “he” as he claims to be “non-binary” and insists his pronouns are “they/them.”

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By Selwyn Duke

Once you’re 11 you can “have sex with somebody 2 years older or less.” If you’re 12, you can “have sex with somebody who is 3 years older or less.” So stated what was distributed to children at a Washington State government school: a Planned Parenthood flyer “explaining that, once kids are tweens, they’re pretty much on their own when it comes to sex,” as commentator Andrea Widburg put it Saturday.

The scene of the crime was Stewart Middle School in Tacoma.

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By Selwyn Duke

You can bet that when violent Antifa and Black Lives Matter rioters are brought to trial, a quite rare occurrence, they won’t be asked to renounce their beliefs in exchange for leniency. But not so for the first January 6 trespasser to be sentenced, even though she’s a grandmother guilty only of entering the Capitol and peacefully strolling about for a few minutes. So much for equality under the law.

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By Selwyn Duke

It has long been common that authorities won’t identify a criminal’s race unless he happens to be white, ostensibly in the thinking that they don’t want criminality associated with minority status. But recently, in Portland, Oregon, police had another reason to identify a subject as white:

They wanted to convince Antifa to halt protests the latter had initiated.

Apparently, it was “Nothing to see here, move along — we only shot a white guy.”

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By Selwyn Duke

By Selwyn Duke

There’s much talk about “white privilege” today, and it’s becoming ever clearer what it really means: being last in line or excluded for benefits but perhaps alone in line paying bills.

The latest example is a Seattle black “gay pride” event whose organizers said they would charge whites a “reparations fee” of up to $50 to attend.

(What a bargain! If I didn’t have something better to do, like sticking needles in my eyes, I’d go and bring three friends.)

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Selwyn Duke

By Selwyn Duke

“When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around,” the apocryphal line goes. “But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.” In another daddy’s case, President Trump’s, it took only mere months to “become learned.” The latest example, at least according to British paper the Daily Mail, is that he was right about California’s notorious wildfires being due to poor forest management. The evidence?

The Golden State is adopting Trump’s plan for preventing future raging arboreal infernos.

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