“It’s called the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe it.”

• George Carlin

… I think Americans are waking up with a terrible hangover

This is news? … as in something new?

White Christian America has been promoting this for years

The conservative right starting a civil war because they couldn’t have everything … even though they already had everything.

The President of the United States of Fear and Depravity

Or sense that his long lost comrade in arms and former master was on board the station … or that his son was there too … or that he had just finished interrogating his own daughter.

Also think of your jaw … how do you rest it? … do you let it droop and fall to relax your jaw muscles? … or do you tighten up your mouth to close your mouth? … is the resting position of our jaw to hold your teeth close? or let your jaw fall?

This is going to be normalized

If a ‘suspect’ is being approached or threatened by ICE officers or whatever officers … many people will start to think twice about it all.

• Will you just give up and let them take you away … to prison … with no trial, no law, no recourse … and basically end your life … especially if you are poor and don’t have much to begin with … and no one to help you
• or do you just go out in a blaze of glory and fight because your life is basically over any way

This is the reason why laws evolved over the past few hundred years to remove Capital Punishment for many things … if you create laws where you severely punish people for the most minor things … people will eventually figure out that if you are given no choice, no opportunity, no empathy and no chance at proving your innocence - then people will realize that their lives are over.

Either you give up and let the government take away your life or you stand, fight and die anyway.

That’s exactly the spirit that Star Trek was always about. Hope.

I grew up in the 80s and I never saw the Original Series but I saw a few of the movies and I always looked up to the characters of Kirk, Spock and McCoy and all the others. I was a teen when TNG started but we didn’t have full access to cable TV so I only ever watched a handful of episodes but I loved them all … because like you said, it gave a sense of hope and optimism for the future.

It’s been so much fun over the past 10/15 years that I slowly got to watch all or most of the Star Trek I missed out on. It’s getting to the point of being able to rewatch them all again and I don’t mind.

Thanks for sharing! Keep watching, keep hoping and it’s great to hear your story.

Sitting at the helm, hours on end … and all he thinks about is … gun

It’s called the Overton Window … where you subtly over time shift the political landscape from one extreme to another without anyone noticing

Bullet was forklifted to the press conference for media to view

If you carefully pay attention your breath also has it’s own particular scent. The aroma of what the inside of your lungs smell like.

Your brain just finely tuned your mouth and your nose to filter out that particular smell so as not to bother you.

American definitely has come on their back after being fucked by the conservatives

I would love to have Garak be mean to me all day long

A very strong reminder to all mid level right wing mouth pieces that they are all expendable. That they can be sent to the public to sow devision but not have the protection from the dangers they create … or at the most extreme be martyred by their own followers and leaders to push their agenda.

I’ll never trust America to tell me the truth about any major public event like this … this is the same country that murdered their own president for their dumb right wing agenda and got away with it.

Very telling that no one is talking about his skin color or ethnicity

If he had been black, that detail would have been repeated endlessly … almost joyfully.

TIL Federation star ships are made of control panels filled with napalm, gravel and rocks.

At the end of building the ship, did they just back up a gravel truck and dump a few hundred loads of crushed rocks into the empty spaces?

Let me guess … they run Arch

Hey! … maybe the stroke might just mellow him out and he might not act so strange or say such terrible things