Oh hooray, there is a new Internet Meme, just in time to Make the Internet Laugh Again, during this era of gloom and strife and unspeakable bullshit. Mr. Spock is a demon from the not-actually-popular television melodramaStar Trek, which was a cultural contemporary of the Sid & Marty Kroft showH.R. PufnstufandThe Velvet Underground and Nicoand the comeback presidential campaign of Richard Nixon. It was a time just like now, but without anything memorable. That's why what we have instead of creative culture in the 2010s (social media) has a new fad starring Spock looking unimpressed with whatever anybody is doing -- especially Boehner and Obama and the rest of these Captains of the Titanic.
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"Illogical," said Mr. Spock. "Alex Jones said Osama bin Laden died in 1999."
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Why would this unpatriotic devil alien not be impressed by the final launch (in 2011) of a series of low-orbit space gliders built in the 1970s?
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Spock is also unimpressed with those inbred bucktoothed prematurely-balding Germanic "royals" in Merry Olde England. [ Tumblr ]
Seems plausible. Or maybe some sort of magnetic field acting on his belt buckle.
right on