By Judi McLeod ——Bio and Archives--July 8, 2019
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Grab your perspective and common sense with your coffee every morning and hold on to both throughout the whole livelong day.
Seriously.
The big question now going the rounds is 'Are we living in a simulated universe'?"What if everything around us--the people, the stars overhead, the ground beneath our feet, even our bodies and minds--were an elaborate illusion? What if our world were simply a hyper-realistic simulation, with all of us merely characters in some kind of sophisticated video game?"Yes, we've been living in a simulated universe since the November 2016 night when Donald J. Trump was elected president and have remained there ever since. Scientists who say that we're living in a simulated universe should make it that "a forced upon the masses simulated world" and they'd be spot-on. Most of the media, displaced Democrats, and aging Hollywood actors defiantly claim that Nov. 8, 2016 never really happened, that the Russians stole the Election, that Hillary's merely waiting to come back--and that's that. You can't get much more into a forcefully simulated society than where we find ourselves today. Though there's a myriad of examples of its netherworld presence, the most recent test case of our living in a forcefully simulated world comes through CNN pundit Don Lemon, who will join Dana Bash and Jake Tapper for a two-night Democrat Debate, July 30-31 from Detroit. (Fox News, July 8, 2019)
"CNN announced on Monday that Don Lemon will follow in the footsteps of MSNBC's far-left opinion host Rachel Maddow as a Democratic presidential primary debate moderator -- and one critic called the decision a "disservice to voters all across the political spectrum." "In recent memory, Lemon has compared Trump to Adolf Hitler, then claimed he "didn't mean" to compare the president and Hitler. He has also called Trump a "racist," a "fraud," "con man," questioned whether or not the State of the Union should air on a delay to avoid "propaganda," declared that he wouldn't shake the president's hand and questioned Trump's mental fitness. "Now Lemon -- who Trump once called "the dumbest man on television" -- will apparently be prominent when CNN has a chance to grill 2020 hopefuls. While MSNBC admits that Maddow is an opinion host, CNN has continued to label Lemon an "anchor" despite spouting anti-Trump opinions on a regular basis. "Lemon has also suggested Trump doesn't do enough work, speculated on whether or not the president lies about his weight, tied Trump to the college admissions cheating scheme and took a shot at Trump as he was giving his colleague Chris Cuomo a brief tour of his new studio, suggesting that the president can't afford such a lavish space since he isn't a "real billionaire."
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"Lemon initially gained broadcasting prominence as a news anchor, covering breaking news and reporting from the scene of major stories, but DePauw University professor and media critic Jeffrey McCall recently told Fox News that Lemon is no longer a news anchor in the traditional sense because of his partisan rhetoric. "Debate moderators are historically straight-news journalists, as opposed to partisan pundits, but CNN's decision mirrors NBC's strategy to allow Maddow to moderate last month's Democratic Debate."But that's merely stating the obvious. Why would anybody tune in on a Democrat Debate where Don Lemon is the debate host? Why do people walking zombie-like through airports put up with CNN Fake News flickering from the overhead screens?
"The New York Times reportedly forbids its reporters from appearing on both Maddow and Lemon's programs, because they are considered too partisan even for the Times--which is often criticized for leaning left itself. (Fox News) "Accuracy in Media national editor Carrie Sheffield thinks the Times' reportedly pulling back its journalists from appearing on Lemon's show because of concerns of bias "should be a wakeup call to" everyone involved and the CNN anchor "should be striving for greater balance to give voice to a wider swath" of the American electorate.
"This debate could well illustrate how Democrats' constant embrace of divisive identity politics has created a deep fissure within our national culture that can only be solved by coming together and unifying around shared values," Sheffield told Fox News. "We hope Mr. Lemon can use this occasion to embrace true diversity, which includes ideological diversity. "We hope Mr. Lemon can use this occasion to embrace true diversity, which includes ideological diversity."Conservatives decrying "diversity" against the left, while crying for tolerance are on a road going nowhere fast. The Conservative voice has already been effectively suppressed by social media gang-up. Conservatives complaining about it rather than ganging-up to do something about it is taking us down the same dead end street.
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