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Trump May Kill “DEI” in Name, but It Will Live on Unless….

By Selwyn Duke

President Trump has made clear that he aims to trump Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) schemes. Democrats aim to trump him and keep them alive. And while the president will very likely win the current battle, in the federal political realm, what of the war? Is this just a matter of killing programs?

Or is it really, at bottom, a matter of killing a spirit— an idea?

Will the Red-hot California Fires Red-pill Americans?

By Selwyn Duke

When all is said and done, the wildfires raging in and around Los Angeles may be the worst natural disaster in American history in terms of scope and cost. But did it have to be this way? For sure, there are factors beyond man’s control, such as the fierce Santa Ana winds and Southern California’s dry environment. Then, however, there are the controllable factors: Having quota (DEI) hires in the Los Angeles Fire Department’s upper echelons, failure to be proactive (authorities did have advance warning of extreme fire danger), poor forest management, not maintaining water stocks, and vagrancy’s normalization. (Approximately 50 percent of all Los Angeles fires are set by vagrants, according to reporter Michael Shellenberger.) But then, though it’s the hardest of ways to learn a lesson, there may be one silver lining in this very tragic cloud: More Americans may be waking up to the wages of woke governance.

Cartoonist Portrayed Trump as Sex Offender — Then Was Arrested for Child Porn

By Selwyn Duke

Methinks the man doth protest too much.

This twist on a Shakespeare line could come to mind while pondering the story of one Darrin Bell, Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist. Bell is famous for, among other things, drawing anti-Trump cartoons in which he portrays the president as a vile sex offender. He also often characterizes conservatives generally as, writes a critic, “sexual predators or people who are weirdly obsessed with child sexuality.” Given this, the following may seem poetic.

Bell was arrested last Wednesday on charges of possessing 134 child pornography videos, as well as AI-generated child porn.

Wow, who saw that coming?

(That is, except for anyone mildly acquainted with a certain ideological group’s projection tendencies.)

What’s more, if guilty, Bell will just be the latest among a multitude of leftists found complicit in sexual misconduct.

Biden Warns of Tech “Oligarchs” — Now That Tech ISN’T Censoring for Dems Anymore

By Selwyn Duke

As I had on many other occasions, in 2020 I warned of a “dystopia-delivering tech oligarchy.” I cited Dr. Robert Epstein, a liberal who’s the senior research psychologist at the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology, and his studies on Big Tech influence. His findings were alarming, too. Big Tech, he warned, could shift 15 million votes toward a given presidential candidate at election time. That’s more than sufficient to swing a White House race, do note, especially given how close our elections now are.

Oddly enough, though, neither Joe Biden nor any other Democratic office holder complained about this tech “oligarchy” back then. Yet lo and behold, Biden has changed his tune. In fact, in his farewell speech Wednesday evening, he warned that a “tech” oligarchy was seizing control of America.

What explains this epiphany?

Well, an inveterate cynic might suppose he’s just upset that much of Big Tech has stopped censoring for Democrats.

Theater That Promoted “Tolerance for Migrants” Faces Bankruptcy — After Occupation by Migrants

By Selwyn Duke

It was Benjamin Franklin, it is said, who noted that “[g]uests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.” If this is true, what would the stench be like after more than a month? Well, the left-wing Gaîté Lyrique theater in Paris, France, ought to be able to tell you. After all, it has been occupied by African migrants for five weeks now. The kicker:

The takeover began after the theater hosted a free-of-charge conference promoting tolerance for migrants — which the migrants attended.

Liberal Magazine: “Colleges Are Lying to Their Students”

By Selwyn Duke

If ever there were a sign that academia’s shtick is getting a bit stale, it’s when even a liberal magazine starts scoffing at its norms. This is what has happened, too, with the left-wing Atlantic warning that “colleges are lying to their students.”

No, the outlet isn’t complaining about the various leftist isms pervading the average campus, but about something more fundamental. That is, states The Atlantic’s Caitlin Flanagan, every college tour today seems to have something in common. The guide will at some point say, “What’s different about College X … is that our professors don’t teach you what to think,” Flanagan writes. “They teach you how to think.”

Government Spent Millions on “Indigenous Knowledge” to Fight California Wildfires

By Selwyn Duke

In another example of the all-consuming fires of wokeness, it has been revealed that authorities spent millions of dollars the last two years incorporating “indigenous knowledge” into California’s wildfire-mitigation policies. What could possibly go wrong?

What already has, apparently.

“Trans” Violence Phenomenon: Man Claiming Womanhood Brutally Kills Postal Worker

By Selwyn Duke

Is it that they have the emotionalism of a woman and the aggression of a man, as an observer once suggested? Or is it that, as poet William Blake put it, the “eye altering alters all”? Or is it both — or something else?

Whatever the explanation, there’s been another case of violence committed by a MUSS (Made-up Sexual Status, aka “transgender”) individual. Contrary to mainstream media narrative, too, it’s part of a phenomenon in which MUSS individuals are more likely to kill than be killed and are even overrepresented among pedophiles, according to a 2019 report.

NYC Spent Millions on Deportation Defense for Migrants — Who Were Crippling the City

By Selwyn Duke

 

Is “Put America Last” the immigrationists’ slogan? It’s not enough that Joe Biden said in 2020 that many illegal aliens are “more American than most Americans are.” It’s not enough that New York City has spent literally billions of dollars on hotel rooms for illegals. It’s not enough that the Big Apple shelled out more than $50 million on prepaid credit cards for migrants. It’s not enough that NY has offered illegals driver’s licenses. Because there’s a kicker, too.

All the while the city was also spending millions on a program providing lawyers who defend the interlopers against deportation.

What’s more, a New York jurisdiction that dared cooperate with federal authorities’ deportation efforts has been fined $60 million.

It’s the immigrationist conception of virtue: Open the borders and invite illegals in — then treat them better than citizens.

Colleges Are Cults “Teaching Victimhood” — and Twisting Minds

By Selwyn Duke

“I was anxious. I felt guilty constantly. I couldn’t stop thinking about the whole white privilege thing.”

This is what Lucy Kross got for her money as a Stanford University student (yearly tuition, room, and board: $76,312). She would eventually realize she’d been deceived and, it could be said, intellectually abused — as would fellow undergraduate Kimi Katiti.

Katiti’s abuser was the Art Institute of California, where her indoctrination wasn’t quite like Kross’.

As a young black woman, she learned she was a “victim.”