I’m thinking America’s long-running knowledge show is overdue for a makeover to reflect the times and it might look something like this: Welcome ladies and gentlemen, or non-specific gender term of your choice, this is Woke Jeopardy.
Check all common sense, rational thought, and proven data at the studio door. Here the subject matter is all about agendas, virtue signaling and outright falsehoods.
I’m your host, Al Bino, and my co-host is Sue Dointellectual. Let’s meet the contestants.
He’s an activist and protester for anything that rolls down the left lane of the political agenda, a currently unemployed philosophy major living in his parents’ basement, say hello to Blyn Defanddum.
Our second contestant, who still believes in the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus and the promise of socialism, a government worker from parts unknown, here’s Gull A. Bull.
Rounding out the contestants is a community organizer whose motto is “Often wrong, but never in doubt,” meet Missy Enformed.
OK, Blyn, start us off,
Blyn: Let’s try Different Strokes for Different Folks for $100.
Bino: The answer is, a Minnesota police officer has been convicted of various murder and manslaughter charges for the death of a black man whom he was subduing with a knee to the neck, but as that trial unfolded, it was announced that the U.S. Capitol police officer who shot and killed unarmed protester Ashley Babbitt, a white woman and 14-year Air Force veteran, will face no charges.
(Chime sounds) Bino: Go ahead, Gull.
Gull: What is justice?
Bino: Correct. We also would have accepted what is proof of absurdity in the legal system circa 2021? You have control of the board, Gull.
Gull: I’ll take Uncommon Valor for $100.
Bino: The answer is, Idriss Deby.
(Chime sounds) Bino: Take it, Missy.
Missy: Who was the 68-year-old president of Chad who died this week of wounds suffered while he was commanding a military unit in the field against rebels seeking to oust his government?
Bino: Correct. We also would have accepted who is someone who did more than talk tough, the easy path preferred by Joe Biden or Nancy Pelosi? Go ahead, Missy, pick again.
Missy: Give me Math Is Racist for $100.
Bino: The answer is, 47 percent and 48 percent.
Painfully long period of dead air and finally a buzzer.
Bino: Well, that was a tough one. The correct question is, what is the percentage of respondents to a Pew Research poll who believe coronavirus to be a very big problem (47 percent) vs. those who believe illegal immigration is a very big problem (48 percent)? And this despite massive efforts by government and media to convince the citizenry otherwise. You get to pick again, Missy.
Missy: OK, let’s take a shot – sorry about that – a stab – let me start again – a crack — ummm, ahh, I’ll try Who’s Zooming Who? for $100.
Bino: The answer is “She’s a loving girl.”
(Chime sounds) Bino: Go ahead, Blyn.
Blyn: What is what a mother says of her 15-year-old daughter after that daughter is shot by police while seeming to attack other civilians with a knife?
Bino: Correct . . .
Dointellectual: . . . Sorry to break in here, Al, but our time is up for now.
Bino: Thanks, Sue. Please come back for the next round, Double Woke Jeopardy, where the amounts are doubled and the game will continue to amaze you.
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