One of Whoopi Goldberg’s big stories was, on seeing Lt. Uhura at age ten running into the next room. “Mama! There’s a black lady on TV and she ain’t a maid!”
The American Gestapo immigration authorities are starting to build out a transportation and storage infrastructure to efficiently move large numbers of people between their concentration camps lucrative for-profit prisons perfectly unremarkable detention facilities.
“It’s beginning to smell a lot like Nazis…”
Edit to add: it occurs to me there might be an upside. This could be the incentive that has been lacking up to now for Americans to properly invest in and upgrade their train networks.
Used to be, among fans? It’s always been a progressive franchise. I wouldn’t think that the Venn diagram of Star Trek fans and the people who were to become the MAGA crowd would have much overlap.
You wouldn’t think so, but you’d be mistaken. As I said, you don’t have to look far to find a LOT of people who claim to be long-time fans who are pissed as hell about how Star Trek “turned woke.”
Claim. I’d bet they’d be tripped up by the simplest trivia question imaginable.
“What is Kirk’s rank in TOS?”
“Who? And why was he tossed? Too conservative, for the libtards most likely.”
To be fair, while TOS was progressive for its time, it also was explicitly pro-America, pro-military, pro-Christianity, and showed a version of the future that was diverse but still dominated by white men. The culture on the Enterprise was one of a volunteer benevolent dictatorship (which maybe is a glib way to describe military deployment in general?)- Kirk did what he did for the good of America (I mean the Federation/Enterprise), with insight from trusted advisors, and everyone else’s job was to trust and obey.
It offered a version of the future that could easily feel like a natural extension of the status quo. Yes, it asks some challenging questions. Yes, it does an ok (for the time remarkable) job at minority representation. But the Roddenberry vision side-steps the “how we get there”, and allows viewers to mostly feel like whatever cultural differences we see in TOS happened easily, inconvenienced no one, and were adopted universally. Sounds like my kind of revolution!
Once TNG showed up, all bets are off, but honestly if there are folks who actively like Star Trek who also are claiming that today’s Trek too woke, I assume they are thinking about TOS as a reference point. And I don’t think they’re necessarily wrong that it’s different.
“This is not the time for Democrats to go tilting at windmills. This is a time for what Alexander Hamilton called “sound discernment.”
Sound discernment suggests this is not the time for impeachment, even if it is merited.”
An interesting article that suggests that impeachment wouldn’t be the best option for Democrats at this time (putting aside the difficulty in getting it done). I largely agree-talking about it is a good idea though to get under Trump’s oniony skin.
I popped into this thread to report I’d just seen a bumper sticker I’d not seen before. It read “Trump was Right about Everything”.
With millions of people that deluded wandering about in our country we are seriously doomed. And yes, any talk of impeaching trump would simply energize those people that the demoncrats are further out to destroy the country and the country’s savior.
Any time I look at my NextDoor app and read the comments people around here post, I’m thrown into despair.
So true! NextDoor comments always prove to me that MAGA is truly a cult. No amount of facts, evidence or logic will sway these people.
I live in Kentucky. Every political ad I see (even on platforms like YouTube) is nothing but a contest to see who will be more of a Trump sycophant. “Nate Morris agrees 100% with Trump,” and so on. Each ad features Trump’s face, DJT jr talking about how they support the candidate, footage of Charlie Kirk saying he came to Kentucky to endorse this candidate over the other, and so on.
Maybe, but in the meantime they could use those cool busses with windows painted over to look like happy people going on a happy trip to a happy place.
Walt Disney World, for years, had window treatments on its ‘airport to WDW’ busses that showed Disney characters in just such ‘happy’ poses. I believe those actually riding the busses could look out—it was some kind of one-way screening. I haven’t seen one in a while but assume that SOMEONE must have remarked on the Nazi connection…
So let’s start with Noem and Patel. Impeachment and prison for those two and then go from there.
The FCC is going after late-night talk shows again.
Essentially, the FCC is trying to recategorize talk shows so that they’re not considered news shows anymore (they fell into this category because they would have political candidates on, even if they were celebrities - like Arnold Schwarzenegger - and weren’t actually discussing politics).
If they’re not news programs anymore, then the “equal coverage” rule would apply again, meaning that the shows would have to feature candidates from both parties in equal coverage. Fox News, OANN, Newsmax, etc would not be required to do so because they don’t operate on public airwaves like ABC or CBS.
I may have some of the details incorrect, and the article goes more in depth than I did in explaining things.
The Orange Tyrant is now threatening a 100% tariff on all Canadian goods if Canada makes a trade deal with China. This follows his demented speech at Davos in which he managed to combine vapid self-praise with insults to American allies. And the Prime Minister of Canada has suddenly become “Governor” Carney in order for Trump to be more insulting. Meanwhile ICE agents are murdering innocent people on the streets of Minneapolis. He is truly sinking into serious dementia.
Too late to edit, but just to add to the above:
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Trump on January 16, speaking to reporters: “It’s a good thing for (Carney) to sign a trade deal. If you can get a deal with China, he should do that.”
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Trump today, January 24: President Donald Trump on Saturday threatened to slap 100% tariffs on Canadian imports if America’s second-biggest trading partner makes a trade deal with China.
You cannot deal with a madman with a serious case of dementia.
On the other hand, it’s amazing what people can rationalize doing if they believe they’re making money doing it. (In this case, “it” being tolerating and even enabling Dementia Don.)
He tried this insult before. Tired, sad, going back to his old stale material. Nobody even cares about this, because it’s just toddler babble.
The best response to this is what he’s now getting… Nothing. Nada. It’s not worth even responding to.
What’s the over under for the TACO date on this new “tariff”?
I suspect it will blow over because the demented fool actually has no idea what we’re doing with China. Carney was there to resolve a couple of very specific trade issues, and that was it. There is no large or comprehensive “trade deal” with China and there never was.
However, the more difficult Trump makes it to trade with the US, the more important it is to establish other trade relationships – with Mexico, China, India, and Europe. On top of that, the US Supreme Court has yet to rule on the legality of Trump’s reckless embrace of tariffs. It’s all based on the misapplication of an emergency powers law that should not apply if there’s no emergency.
It’s hard to know how the court will rule as there are quite a few nutjobs there now, but it’s pretty clear how they should rule, and that ruling may come within weeks. Thomas and Alito are guaranteed to suck up to Trump as always, and maybe Kavanaugh, too. The others may be more rational. Amy Coney Barrett is turning out to be something of a wildcard who, while conservative, is sometimes very reasonable.
While this is true, it won’t stop Trump from just making one up.
See for example how the Fed Chair Jerome Powell is facing an indictment for “lying to Congress” by not going along with Trump’s outright falsehoods about cost overruns on a construction project. Trump blathered that story in front of Powell, Powell had (literal) receipts and Trump ended up looking like slightly more of an idiot. For this, Powell now faces indictment.
So if Trump doesn’t like Canada’s relationship with China, he’ll just make something up. Some fentanyl precursors come from China, that would be an obvious place to start (although that assumes he wants to make his lie sound at least somewhat plausible and I already know he’s not concerned about that at all).