First off, these supposed sequels never work because of the obvious visuals where older technology is vastly superior to the past.

There is also that progressive tendency to sanctimoniously rewrite history to their political advantage and further indoctrinate unsuspecting viewers. For the left, Strange New Worlds did not disappoint.

There were many references to potential nuclear war in the original Star Trek series but the writers were intentionally vague on the issues involved and in the end, we were smart enough to avoid mutually-assured-destruction.

Today’s writers wish (again) to scare their youthful viewers into believing that not only was there a nuclear war, but that it was probably started on January 6th and exacerbated by irrational conservatives.

Micheal Jordan was once quoted as saying something like “Republicans buy shoes too!” Between including Stacey Abrams in another Star Trek series to now pushing the “insurrection” in the latest plot line and blaming the end of civilization as we know it on Republicans, it gives me yet another reason to satisfy my Star Trek jones with the three DVD box sets of the original series that was less talky, politically incorrect, had a decent amount of action, and at no point demonized their viewers.

Sometimes the past is way better than the future.

When 60 Minutes and Lesley Stahl are too tough for you, you ain’t all that tough. If you got to walk out of a 60 Minutes interview, then you’re never going to stand up to a dictator.
— Barack Obama, 10/24/20

The White House wisely shot their own video of the interview which actually lasted close to 40 minutes and what was left out would have given the public a totally different impression of the president’s demeanor and displayed Stahl’s avoidance and/or defense of topics inconvenient to Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden.

Here is an exclusive side-by-side presentation of the interview with President Trump and Lesley Stahl.

Note: There are a few spots where the audio is out of sync. Because of varying bit and frame rates on the original sources, making these as tight as possible is meticulous, challenging and not exact science. It explains why Bob is the only video editor who takes the time to do these.

The President of the United States is a busy man. Not many people are given a couple of hours (set up, interview, tear down) of valuable White House time. 60 Minutes is a television “news” magazine that has set times for segments to allow for commercial breaks. The Sunday, October 25th episodic was divided between Stahl interviews with President Trump and Vice President Pence, and Norah O’Donnell interviews with Joe Biden and Senator Kamala Harris. Each segment would be shot and edited down for time so of course, much of the interviews would not be aired.

However as a matter of import, that’s also why television has what they call “specials” and this would have been a golden opportunity for all of the interviews to be run uninterrupted. What most Americans didn’t see and hear in the Trump interview was Stahl’s whining and defense of Joe Biden which could have been professionally and politically problematic.

Maybe that was the plan all along.

On The Late Show, Stephen Colbert reminded viewers that it’s just two weeks until the midterm elections. He played footage of Obama’s appearance at a Democratic rally where he spoke about his love of facts with a number of pointed references at Trump’s inability to tell the truth. “Oh the truth?” Colbert said. “That is so 2015, Grandpa. We might as well be dancing to Uptown Funk with the Left Shark.”
— The Guardian, 10/24/18

Funny, in 2015 Stephen Colbert made some rather astonishing admissions, given his whole job up to that point was supposedly political satire.

Wow. Contrast that with the Stephen Colbert we see today, he’s either a hypocrite, a liar or both.

On any given late weeknight, you can find Stephen Colbert lambasting President Trump for his entire opening monologue, there are no calls for civility, in fact almost everything he said during the 2015 interview has been thrown out the window. While he tried to come off as measured, Colbert admitted he knew nothing about politics which meant his “conservative” persona was a creation of writers and not based on any personal frame of reference.

Aside from knowing “nothing” about politics but gladly depicting a “conservative blowhard” for years on Comedy Central for Jon Stewart, Colbert was just another actor wearing a mask, aspiring to come off as an expert.

Yeah. There’s a confessional aspect to wearing a mask – you know, the same reason why it’s easier to confess behind a screen to a priest than face-to-face. And so by – the character was a 10-year confession, perhaps of, you know, indulging ego and appetite through the person of this character. Then you go on stage as yourself, and you’re responsible for everything you say.

And there’s a natural – I think there’s a natural inclination to pull your punch because you have to be responsible for what you’re saying. You cannot hide behind the mask. And also – that if you talk about politics all the time – well, isn’t that what that other guy did? Why would I – or we talk about the news all the time. Well, isn’t that what – then how am I changing in any way?

And now I have no qualms about being sharp and satirical and highly opinionated and saying whatever’s on my mind as quickly as I can and not worrying about that – I’m playing the same game. I know I’m not playing the same game. But it took me a little while to realize that the character was not in danger of re-emerging.
— NPR, 12/30/16

Stephen Colbert is another high-paid fraud and a liberal Hollywood mouthpiece who, like other Democrat celebrities, are short on substance because they really don’t know what they’re talking about but as long as they can get partisan talking points out to the American people on a daily basis with no pushback, it keeps things simple for hypocrites like him and others.