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CNN: Calling U.S. a “Republic” Is “an Attack on Democracy”

By Selwyn Duke

“You’re entitled to your own opinions,” late senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y.) once famously said — “but not your own facts.” This, apparently, would be news to the Cable News Network (CNN).

That is, after interviewing Trump supporters on Sunday, a CNN reporter claimed their observation that the United States is a “republic” is “an attack on democracy.”

This isn’t the first time CNN — an unreliable news source that had to pay a huge settlement some years back to a Catholic school student it defamed with false “racism” claims — has attacked our republican form of government. Last year, for example, the network ran a chyron stating, “SCHOLARS WARN OUTDATED CONSTITUTION HAS PUT DEMOCRACY AT RISK.”

Douglas Murray to Joe Rogan: You’re Platforming RADICALS Who Mislead

By Selwyn Duke

Is one man’s radical another man’s reasoned voice? You might suppose that could be the thinking in this relativistic age. But this certainly wasn’t the perspective of British journalist Douglas Murray while appearing on Joe Rogan’s podcast last Thursday.

In fact, Murray called Rogan out on the show, saying he was platforming fringe voices peddling anti-historical views.

Looking for Unicorns: The Search for a “Joe Rogan of the Left”

By Selwyn Duke

My, the worm truly has turned — at least halfway. It wasn’t that long ago, really, that conservatives lamented how “mainstream” media “controlled the narrative.” Back in 2011, in fact, Professor Tim Groseclose estimated that “media bias aids Democratic candidates by about 8 to 10 percentage points in a typical election.” Now, though, the erstwhile “mainstream” media isn’t so mainstream anymore. New media, epitomized by podcaster king Joe Rogan and English comedian Russel Brand, currently boast audiences dwarfing those of the alphabet network shows. So now the lament is different:

“The Right is controlling the narrative!” warn so many leftists.

But are they right? Perhaps even more significantly, are they right about what’s “right” (as opposed to left)?

Trump’s Congressional Address Polls Bigly While Dems Flail and Fail

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By Selwyn Duke

Is it time to retire the donkey and make an angry old man waving a cane the Democratic Party’s new symbol? Such a display, of course, was precisely what got Representative Al Green (D-Texas) expelled from President Donald Trump’s address to Congress on Tuesday. It well reflects the Democrats’ general antics last night, too, behavior which went over like a lead balloon.

Meanwhile, Trump soared like an eagle, with most Americans giving his speech a resounding thumbs-up.

The Fakery That is the War on Fake News

By Selwyn Duke

Is it true that one man’s misinformation is another man’s salvation?

Or is it actually true that what man censors is sometimes God’s sublimity?

Author and university lecturer Nolan Higdon may not be pondering anything so ethereal. What he is sure of is that, as he wrote Sunday at Salon, the “war on fake news has backfired.” As to his meaning, his subtitle tells the tale and the Truth. To wit:

“Content moderation was never about eradicating fake news.”

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.

“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.

WOW: Disney Nixes “Transgender” Storyline; LGBTQ Lobby Is Livid

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By Selwyn Duke

Did Hell just freeze over? Some may thus wonder with news that Disney, aka Woke Entertainment Central, has just eliminated a “transgender” storyline from a new animated series.

The sexual devolutionaries (“LGBTQ+” lobby) are howling, too, accustomed as they are to Disney doing their bidding. The move is still only a baby step, however. The MUSS (Made-up Sexual Status, aka “transgender”) character will still appear on the program, Pixar’s Win or Lose. But dialogue relating to its psychological delusion has been removed by the creators.

Ex-CBS Reporter: We Colluded With Dems in Faking Negative Impact of Gov’t Shutdowns

By Selwyn Duke

It could be Exhibit A for why people don’t trust government and the legacy media. Only, well, there are so many damning exhibits to choose from. The story?

We’ve heard much about “collusion,” such as the Trump/Russia-collusion hoax. But here’s a story of real collusion, from the people who gave us that hoax:

Years ago, CBS couldn’t find real-life negative impacts of a government “shutdown” that was taking place and which the Democrats were blaming on the Republicans. The solution?

Be party to the Democrats’ faking of a negative impact.

This bombshell was revealed, too, by a reporter who was with CBS at the time: Sharyl Attkisson.

The Mangione and Penny Cases Illuminate America’s Moral Degeneracy

By Selwyn Duke

It’s a tale of two naked-city stories. As most know, 26-year-old Luigi Mangione assassinated UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on a New York City street in December 4’s early morning hours. To the surprise of many, too, millions are applauding Mangione as a hero who struck back at a corrupt system. Why, journalist Taylor Lorenz has even expressed “joy” at the murder, and donations for Mangione’s legal defense have topped $75,000. (This, for a child of privilege with millionaire parents.)

Just five days later, ex-Marine Daniel Penny, also 26, was acquitted of criminally negligent homicide in the death of drugged-up, deranged vagrant Jordan Neely. Penny had helped restrain Neely after the latter menaced people aboard a NYC subway car on May 1, 2023. Neely, whose rap sheet lists 42 arrests, later died.

And while some Americans expressed joy at the acquittal and a majority likely supports it, millions nonetheless want Penny’s scalp. What’s more, some observers draw a moral equivalence between his and Mangione’s actions. And Mangione’s case is particularly interesting, as it has revealed, in neon lights, a deep and widespread anger against pseudo-elites in general and the healthcare system in particular.

The Tapper-CNN/Maddow Lawsuits and the Dying Mainstream Media

By Selwyn Duke

The mainstream media may, collectively, be the most dangerous single worldly enemy our country faces. After all, it once was virtually all Americans’ only conduit of information and still serves that function for many. It’s as with a computer, too: garbage in, garbage out. And this lamentation is, essentially, what commentator Mike McDaniel issued in a recent article — in different words.

“To be sure, the media isn’t entirely responsible for the sad state of our representative republic,” he wrote. But “their contribution to our current tribulations is enormous and destructive.”

Oh, and garbage, masquerading as news, is at issue. As Elon Musk put it on X Monday:

Very common mistake to believe that the legacy media only lies about areas that you understand well.

No, they lie about everything.