By Selwyn Duke

We discussed the usual light issues: life, the Universe and everything (hat tip: Douglas Adams). My appearance begins at 36:10. Watch at your own risk.

By Selwyn Duke

First there was the claim that because of the tremendous amount of CO₂ released during an electric vehicle’s (EV’s) production, you’d have to drive one hundreds of thousands of miles to reach CO₂-emissions parity with a gas-powered car. Next came an assertion from a think tank that an EV costs “approximately $48,698 more to own over a 10-year period.” Now there’s another apparent blow to the EV dream:

The true cost of charging such a vehicle, factoring in hidden expenses, is the equivalent of $17.33-per-gallon gasoline, reports the aforementioned think tank, the Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF).

There’s a kicker here, too: Since much of this cost is covered by government subsidies, it means that middle-class and other taxpayers are subsidizing wealthy EV owners.

These realities and more are revealed….

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By Selwyn Duke

Politicians are well known, and oft derided, for tailoring their message to suit the crowd. But it turns out, a new study has found, that there’s a little politician inside of many of us — that is, people will often alter their political positions based on social pressure. This is stating the obvious, of course, but the research also indicates something many will find counterintuitive.

While some believe money trumps all in corrupting man’s endeavors, social pressure can have a greater impact than even monetary incentives.

The study, conducted at the University of Bern, Switzerland, was largely inspired by the uniformity in thought and action observed in government officials and citizens alike with the Covid-19 response. And the Bern researchers sought to replicate famed 1950s conformity experiments performed by psychologist Solomon Asch. In these, Asch would ask an individual to match line lengths as part of a group exercise but, unbeknownst to that person, the other members of his group were study confederates instructed to deliberately give incorrect answers. The result?

A striking number of the subjects chose to parrot the obviously wrong answers rather than buck the group consensus.

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By Selwyn Duke

It’s ironic that while many women are complaining about halfway-demasculinized (“trans”) men seizing their sporting titles, “female-empowerment entertainment” is still being unabashedly thrust upon America. This is, of course, entertainment with macho but still sultry female characters who not only toss gargantuan men around like rag dolls, but whose portrayal suggests that women should have no problem equaling (besting?) men at sports.

Yet, though Hollywood loves its 120-pound, pulchritudinous, man-bashing dynamos, “audiences are not embracing these stories,” film consultant David Gross told The New York Times last month. A case in point is the subject of the Gray Lady’s article: how Disney’s recent film The Marvels flopped. And why the rejection? Here’s a reason:

“Real women like strong men, even fake ones portraying superheroes…."

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By Selwyn Duke

Van Jones, the ex-Obama official who, while chuckling, once said he was basically “a communist,” has stated that he was “shaking” listening to GOP candidate Vivek Ramaswamy during Wednesday’s Republican primary debate. What disturbed the former “green czar” so? Did Ramaswamy, a wealthy entrepreneur, throw shade on Karl Marx?

Actually, the candidate talked about Democratic policy — a policy that has two different names.

When critics warn about it, Democrats call it a fringe idea dubbed “Great Replacement theory.”

When Democrats kvell about it, they call it “immigration policy” — when they call it anything at all.

At issue is our immigration regime (as well as illegal migration), which has ensured that 85 to 90 percent of our post-1967 immigrants would come from the Third World, and which has caused America's European-descent population to shrink from being close to 90 percent of the country 55 years ago to barely 60 percent today.

Some believe this is avoidable and, since the immigration pattern is continuing, that there must be some human agency behind it. Others, apparently, believe this immigration is just inevitable, akin to a force of nature or act of God, like the tides, the rising and setting sun, or a lightning strike. Jones is seemingly in the latter camp.

For the record, the video and transcription of Ramaswamy’s remarks about the Great Replacement Fact are below.

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By Selwyn Duke

This is Bill Martinez's new podcast. He has long had a radio show, on which I've been a guest numerous times.

Today we had a wide-ranging discussion. In particular, however, we talked about America's moral decline and how to reverse it. 

Bill is a good man, and his voice should be heard far and wide.

By Selwyn Duke

Big Tech is “probably shifting this year in this election about 15 million votes without anyone’s awareness” — and “without leaving a paper trail for authorities to trace.” So said liberal researcher Dr. Robert Epstein in 2020, issuing a warning that essentially was:

We now have a government by Big Tech, of Big Tech, and for Big Tech.

Now, three years later, they’re at it again, tilting the playing field for the 2024 election. In fact, Joe Biden’s opponents — from Donald Trump to liberal Democrat-turned-Independent Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — have already been censored by Big Tech 162 times, according to a recent study. And Biden the fumbling fabulist?

He’s been censored only seven times.

(Perhaps seven more than a cynic would expect.)

Google was the worst offender, too

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By Selwyn Duke

Last month, famed psychologist Jordan Peterson called multiculturalism “a miracle of stupidity.” First of all, “we’ve always had a multicultural world,” he explained on GB News. “That’s why there’s been wars, right? So along with multiculturalism goes wars when the cultures don’t get along.”

And when “multiculturalism” gives you multiple cultures within the same country and they don’t get along, the wars occur within.

Welcome to today’s West.

Yet as multicultural fantasies crash and burn and threaten to immolate the nations that entertained them, the pseudo-elites who caused the problems don’t take responsibility — instead, they blame the working- and middle-class citizens who bear the brunt of these miraculously stupid policies….

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By Selwyn Duke

They used to be report cards — now they’re distort cards. As a consequence, says education expert Cindi Williams, parents are oblivious to how their kids are failing in school.

And failing they are. In a Friday article, Williams laments how focus groups have shown that even in districts where student performance is rock bottom, parents believe their kids are succeeding academically. The result is that even though states and localities spend billions in Covid relief dollars to provide extra instructional programs for failing students, they’re not often utilized because dad and mom never get an accurate diagnosis.

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By Selwyn Duke

After expelling a large number of illegal aliens approximately 20 to 25 years ago, the Japanese government made a firm statement I’ll never forget. “Japan is for Japanese,” Tokyo unabashedly explained. “Others are welcome to come and visit, but they’re expected to go home.” And just like that, Japan exhibited the historical norm: defending your homeland and preserving national cohesion — without hesitation or apology.

The West — the modern West — has been a different story. Shortly before his death at age 100, famed diplomat Henry Kissinger warned of immigration’s effects after having witnessed the support for Hamas inside Germany. It was “a grave mistake to let in so many people of totally different culture and religion and concepts,” he announced, “because it creates a pressure group inside each country that does that.” Of course, he was just stating the obvious. In fact, we’re so far down the balkanization rabbit hole that there’s only one thing to figure out: What should have been one’s first clue?

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