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  • X Marks the Plot: “Defenders of Democracy” Trying to Destroy the One True Social-media Democracy

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    By Selwyn Duke

    We hear continual warnings from the Establishment and the Left (and the overlap there is profound) about “attacks on democracy.” Donald Trump, of course, is supposed to be a “threat to democracy.” Yet it all appears like projection. Why?

    Because the self-proclaimed “defenders of democracy” are now aiming to destroy the only major extant social-media democracy: X (formerly Twitter).

    Two recent stories epitomize this. The first involves an actual UK government plot to destroy X. The second revolves around a study blaming Elon Musk, X’s owner, for causing college professors’ departure from the platform. An article at The Independent on the matter actually calls it the “Twitter brain drain.” It’s yet another attack based on the supposition that it is freedom of speech that’s the social-media perversion. It’s inversion — of reality.

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  • Pennsylvania Voters Leaving the Democratic Party in RECORD Numbers

    Donkey-ElephantBy Selwyn Duke

    “I didn’t leave the Democratic Party,” late President Ronald Reagan famously said, “the Democratic Party left me.” While Reagan’s departure was in 1962, more and more Americans today could echo his sentiments. For example, the #WalkAway (from the Democrats) campaign was founded by disaffected liberal Brandon Straka in 2018. Six years later, though, has that walk turned into a run?

    We could thus wonder with news that there’s been a 103-percent increase in voters leaving the Democratic Party in swing state Pennsylvania.

    This just reflects, however, a nationwide trend. In fact, “Why I left the Democratic Party” has become a relatively common headline. Ex-congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, who’d been a Democrat for more than 20 years, penned a piece of that kind in 2022. She was later joined by North Carolina state Representative Tricia Cotham and Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson, just to cite two examples. Why, even liberal pundit Ana Kasparian, co-host of radically left-wing news show The Young Turks, ditched the Democrats this year.

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  • Charity Disparity: The Virtue That Can Only Be Practiced Privately

    Virtue SignBy Selwyn Duke

    “We make a living by what we get,” said Winston Churchill, “but we make a life by what we give.”

    Well more than 2,000 years before, ancient Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu also sang charity’s praises.

    “The wise man does not lay up his own treasures,” he averred. “The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.” There’s also the saying, “Charity is the lifeblood of a compassionate society.” This raises a question, too:

    If we were to “outsource” all our good works to government — and even assuming they then remained “good” — would society’s compassion not die like a blood-starved limb?

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  • NY Times: U of Michigan Blew a Quarter BILLION on DEI — and HURT Students and Staff

    Failure FigureBy Selwyn Duke

    When even The New York Times complains about your leftism, you know that you not only jumped the shark with wokism, but that the shark you jumped is a megalodon. This is the case, too, with a new report on how the University of Michigan squandered megabucks on DEI indoctrination. The result of these programs?

    A decade and a quarter “billion dollars later,” the Times writes, “students and faculty are more frustrated than ever.”

    Note that much of this is tax money, too. In fact, the University of Michigan (UoM) campus in question, Ann Arbor, received $357 million in state funds last year. (That’s a 5.1-percent increase over 2022.) Given this, is it possible the UoM has too much money on its hands? Should it be defunded?

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  • Official Put on Leave After Purple-haired Subordinate Complained He Was Hiring Based on Merit, Not Identity

    6a00e54eeb1431883402e860edce8f200d-120wiBy Selwyn Duke

    The Oregon Department of Forestry’s second-in-command has been put on administrative leave for committing what is now, apparently, considered misfeasance. His sin?

    The official, one Mike Shaw, resolved to hire at his bureau the “candidates most qualified for the job.”

    That’s what Megan Donecker — a purple-haired, tattooed DEI trainer who filed a complaint against him — said he told her, anyway.

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  • Vermont School Bans Saying Pledge of Allegiance, Parents Say

    American FlagBy Selwyn Duke 
     
    There was a time, not long ago, when reciting the Pledge of Allegiance was standard in schools — and uncontroversial. Then it became an issue — and optional. Now it’s not even an option at one Vermont school, say local parents.

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  • Battle of the Sexes? Election Might Be “Boys vs. Girls”

    Arm-wrestling-Man vs. WomanBy Selwyn Duke

    If men are from Mars and women from Venus, as author John Gray put it, then something is for sure.

    Mars is MAGA territory.

    And Venus is Kamala Land.

    In fact, as polls consistently demonstrate, the intersex voting gap is perhaps now historically large. For example, the latest NBC poll finds that men favor President Trump in the upcoming election by 16 points (56-40). In contrast, women favor Kamala Harris by 14 (55-41). For those who don’t like NBC (and I can sympathize), it’s not just that nattering network. Polls from Gallup to Pew, from left to right to center, all show the same divide, with some variation in magnitude. And the ultimate poll — voting — also reveals the gap. For instance, men supported Republicans 51 to 47 percent in the 2018 midterms; women broke for the Democrats 59-40.

    This male-female chasm is evident as well among young people, ages 18 to 29. While both sexes break for Harris, young women’s support is shockingly one-sided. This isn’t surprising, as Gen Z is overall the least “traditional” generation in American history. In fact, its members are more likely to identify as “LGBTQ” than Republican. And as the Harvard Youth Poll reports on this age cohort’s current leanings:

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  • Is the Myth of Plastic Recycling Finally Being Exposed?

    Barge1By Selwyn Duke

    It was to be a routine voyage.

    It would become historic.

    On March 22, 1987, the barge Mobro 4000, loaded with six million pounds of garbage and towed by tugboat Break of Dawn, departed Islip, New York. It was bound for Morehead City, North Carolina — but never did dock there. Instead, it spent the next five months at sea, turned away by multiple states and three foreign countries. It became big news, with journalist Dan Rather calling it “the most watched load of garbage in the memory of man.” But another load of garbage was the story the media spun about it. In reality, no one would accept the Mobro because of a rumor that it was carrying medical waste. But that’s not the narrative the media pushed.

    It advanced the notion that the Mobro’s fate was a result of a lack of dump space.

    The “solution,” of course, was recycling. The timing was perfect, too, as there already was increasing public concern about waste. Oh, never mind that, as Reader’s Digest reported decades ago, 1,000 years’ of America’s trash could fit in an area 50 miles square (one m2 per state) and 200 feet high — the average modern dump’s height. “Never let a crisis go to waste,” and this one wasn’t wasted: The story helped catalyze the recycling movement. The Mobro 4000 might have been at sea, but recycling proponents’ ship had come in.

    Of particular concern, too, is plastic, with stories of the material polluting our oceans. But what if plastic recycling is a myth, if not a scam, that is not only wasteful but environmentally damaging?

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  • “Green Energy Transition” Is a Costly “Myth,” Says Expert, and “Isn’t Happening”

    Banana RepublicBy Selwyn Duke

    “The definition of insanity,” the apocryphal saying goes, “is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.” This could come to mind now that yet another warning has been issued about “green” energy.

    A transition to it simply “isn’t happening,” says researcher Bjørn Lomborg, of the Copenhagen Consensus Center. The problem?

    Such a transition is, first, prohibitively expensive. In fact, Lomborg has estimated, lowering Earth’s temperature just 1/3 of one degree Fahrenheit by 2100 would cost $100 trillion. This makes the endeavor unfeasible.

    Second, and counterintuitively, creating “renewable” energy doesn’t replace coal, oil, and gas. It mainly just adds to energy consumption.

    Despite this, the world is proceeding with bull-in-a-china-shop energy ambitions, spending $2 trillion annually trying to “transition.” The bottom line, says Lomborg, is that we need a “major policy overhaul.”

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  • Warning: NY’s ERA Is a “Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing” That LEGALIZES Discrimination

    Scales of JusticeBy Selwyn Duke

    Any discriminating shopper knows that you can’t judge a product’s goodness based on its name or a manufacturer’s advertisement. Those are just superficial appeals designed to entice. Instead, you must examine the ingredients label. So it is, too, with government laws and propositions, a good example being New York’s Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). On the ballot this coming Election Day as “Proposition One,” it sounds wonderful. Who’s against “equal rights”? But then there are the ingredients on the label.

    And they, warns a watchdog organization, are toxic.

    What’s more, the ERA’s advocates are guilty of a type of false advertising. That is, some of the most poisonous amendment ingredients won’t even be mentioned in the ballot language in polling places. They’re hiding them for good reason, too.

    These provisions would reportedly make discrimination for the alleged purposes of preventing discrimination a N.Y. constitutional right. For example, according to the Equal Protection Project (EPP), white employees denied promotions in order to achieve workplace “diversity” would no longer be able to sue in court (state court, anyway).

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