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Busted — but “Jussie Smollett 2.0” Calls His Lies “Emotional Truths”

By Selwyn Duke

Known for his “social justice commentary,” he trades in lamentations about “white privilege” and “systemic racism”; he tells stories about bigoted white conservatives who did things such as send an envelope of white powder to his home and slam his teenage self on the hood of a car because he, a Muslim, joked post-9/11 about wanting to get his pilot’s license. The problem, it turns out, is that comedian Hasan Minhaj’s tales are tall ones — very tall. But now that he has been busted, by two left-wing journalists no less, Minhaj is not repentant but repugnant.

In fact, he defends his lies, calling them “emotional truths.”

(Now, perhaps, we know what kind of “truths” Joe Biden referenced when he proclaimed, “We choose truth over facts.”)

The original exposé on Minhaj....

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Have Media Found Their Greta Thunberg of “Gender” Madness?

By Selwyn Duke

“No, we’re not being ‘indoctrinated,’” says one Hadi Rahim. “Don’t fall for” the idea that “gender” ideology is in American schools. It’s all an illusion.

He must know what he’s talking about, too; after all, The Charlotte Observer saw fit to publish the 17-year-old’s op-ed on Friday. Well, that’s the main-teen media for you.

Rahim is a senior at Apex High School in Wake County, North Carolina. Claiming there’s been no sexual-devolutionary conditioning during his classes, he writes, “Take it from a cisgender, straight and quite frankly very boring high school senior: No, we’re not being ‘indoctrinated.’”

Hmm, methinks this is what kids his age call (or, at least, did not long ago) a “self-own.” No, a lad calling himself “cisgender” — and who lists personal pronouns, I’ll add — hasn’t been indoctrinated at all.

That aside and taking his claim at face value....

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Felled Statues Are the Canary in the Coal Mine — and That Bird Must Rise Again

By Selwyn Duke

The statues felled by cultural revolutionaries in recent years are like the canary in the coal mine:

If the warning their demise provides goes unheeded, other, bigger targets will also fall.

This is no doubt why commentator David Marcus proposes a solution: Restore those statues to their rightful places and, for a change, reclaim territory in the culture war.

Most Americans don’t trouble much over the statue-removal movement, thinking the matter small potatoes. Yet just as how when “systems fall, so do statues,” as Russia Beyond noted in 2012, statues’ fall can mean your system is soon to follow.

Elizabeth Rogliani, a Venezuelan actress living in the United States, knows this firsthand. “Why do I even worry about some silly little statues coming down? … Why do I care?” she asked rhetorically in a 2020 video. (Note: As with the statues, her video has been taken down.)

“It’s because the last time I didn’t care about this, I was a teenager,” she explained. “I have already lived through this thing … in Venezuela.”

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Gen Z Too Intolerant to Work With People With Different Views, Says Brit TV Head

By Selwyn Duke

“Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians,” Professor Thomas Sowell once noted, “who must be civilized before it is too late.” This all-important process, however, has clearly been effected less well with each of the last several succeeding generations, and one consequence is that many Gen Zers are sorely lacking in a quality that, ironically, has been emphasized nominally their whole lives: tolerance. ‌

Perhaps the latest person to lament this is Alex Mahon, chief executive of U.K. broadcaster Channel 4. In fact, says the British TV boss, too many young people entering the business world today are wholly incapable of working alongside colleagues with differing opinions. Mahon blames this phenomenon on social-media influence and pandemic restrictions. But is that really all there is to it?

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Duke on TNA TV: Does it Matter That NYC Wants to Topple Washington's Statue? — 9/19/23

By Selwyn Duke

If a person finds himself objecting to a statue of George Washington, the father of our nation, he probably should wonder if he really is American at all. But when the statues start coming down...watch out — it's like the canary in the coal mine. Christian Gomez and I discussed the implications of this attack on our cultural landscape. 

My appearance begins at 32:00. 

Anglican Minister: Progressive Christians Are “Fake”; Liberalism Is Devil’s Work

By Selwyn Duke

“Progress is a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.” This observation, by English philosopher G.K. Chesterton, is ideal to confront progressives with because they invariably won’t be able to refute it (partially because they won’t know what it means!). What it means, however, is quite profound, and one man who certainly would agree is another Englishman, Anglican minister and prominent commentator Deacon Calvin Robinson.

In fact, speaking recently with FOX News Digital, Robinson averred “that the term ‘progressive Christian’ is an ‘oxymoron,’ and stated that the liberal, ‘neo-Marxist’ thought that has infected the minds of some leaders and congregants in both the Anglican and Roman Catholic churches is ‘one of the devil’s tools’ being used to destroy Christianity from within...."

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CNN Chyron: “Outdated Constitution Has Put Democracy at Risk”

By Selwyn Duke

CNN may never be able to top its now infamous 2020 chyron, “Fiery But Mostly Peaceful Protests…” — but that doesn’t mean the network isn’t still trying. It’s latest effort is an eyebrows-and-ire-raising attack on America’s foundation reading, “SCHOLARS WARN OUTDATED CONSTITUTION HAS PUT DEMOCRACY AT RISK.”

Of course, perspective is needed. If the “scholars” — Harvard government professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt — mean “democracy” as in the people or our congressmen get whatever they want at the moment based on majority vote no matter how rash, they have a point. The Constitution certainly is an impediment to glorified mob rule. This is for a good reason, too, one that happens to be the precise reason cultural revolutionaries hate the document:

It is conservative by its very nature.

(This doesn’t mean what you may think, but more on that later.)

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Medical Examiner’s Office Source: “Only 1 to 2%” of “COVID Deaths” Were Really COVID

By Selwyn Duke

“Only one to two percent” of deaths officially labeled as caused by COVID actually were induced by the disease. The rest were labeled as COVID but actually had other causes.

So said an individual I spoke to recently, who I’ll keep anonymous, about the deceased people processed by this individual’s medical examiner’s office. I won’t reveal much about this person, who I’ll call “ME,” except to say that ME is highly trained and qualified and works at a major medical examiner’s office in New York State.

Fetterman-inspired Senate Slovenliness Is Symptom of Larger Problem

By Selwyn Duke

Just as some quip that there are politicians who fancy the book 1984 an instruction manual, it appears many Americans today consider the film Idiocracy a video tutorial. A recent example is the dropping of the Senate dress code in deference to one John Fetterman (D-Penn.), a member of that august body who’s determined to dress for distress.

It’s not clear why Fetterman — a physically fettered man as a result of a 2022 stroke — feels compelled to attend Senate sessions wearing a hoodie and shorts. Perhaps his cognitive impairment means he can no longer make a tie knot; maybe he has been trying to conceal a large lump on his neck (though recent reports indicate it’s gone). Then again, he possibly is just another cultural devolutionary who revels in destroying tradition. Whatever the case, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) decided just days ago that the sergeant-at-arms should cease enforcing the Senate’s long-standing dress code.

So, show up in that bathing attire. Just as they say “What’s in a name?” what’s in a suit, after all?

Apparently not much of substance, judging from the politicians who wear them.

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Brit Big Brother Pressures Rumble to Cancel Russel Brand

By Selwyn Duke

If the recent actions of a British parliamentary committee head are any indication, there’s now a new standard for justice:

Mere allegations of sexual assault are enough to get a man canceled and prevented from making a living.

Of course, applying this across the board and beyond Britain would mean removing Joe Biden from office, since he has long been accused of a rather brutal sexual assault (by Tara Reade). But such consequences are rarely visited on leftists. But this standard is being applied to entertainer-turned-commentator Russel Brand, which indicates that it’s not a standard at all.

It’s a double one.

Apropos to this, these allegations were never made when Brand was an out and proud left-winger — which he not long ago was — but only now that he’s an increasingly red-pilled right-winger. Coincidence?

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