Excellent tribute from George Takei in that article:
>>“My heart is heavy,” “Star Trek” co-star George Takei wrote on Facebook on Monday, explaining that the pair “stayed friends for nearly six decades” after meeting “on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s.” Koenig served as the best man when Takei and his husband, Brad, wed in 2008, coincidentally on Koenig’s birthday.
“I will always treasure that he and I shared that date,” Takei added. “Walter was more than Chekov. He was a writer, a teacher, a thoughtful man, and a loyal friend. To the fans who loved him for so many years, thank you. He loved you too. Rest well, my dear friend. Keep navigating a steady course.”<<
Back during the pandemic and BLM protests we saw a bunch of “empathy fatigue” op Ed’s crop up claiming that people were getting burnt out on empathy. I saw it for what it was, a conservative agenda to make us stop giving a shit about our fellow Americans.
Interestingly enough, you never see any op Ed’s talking about “asshole fatigue”, do you? Where is the opinion pieces directed at those of us who have spent the last 10 years fatigued by our fellow Americans being selfish fucking nazi assholes?
I stopped watching Sunday morning shows because they were so tilted to conservative politicians. Is it like a rule or something that there's two conservatives for every moderate who appears?
If you don't watch and only read Mora's takes, you get a skewed view. The Rogers MTP episode also had Gretchen Whitmer and Adam Schiff on. Not radical Socialists but still, 2 Ds to 1 R.
All species are destined for closed-ended biological accident status ('cept maybe rats and roaches, which might just survive the swallowing and incineration of Earth during the sun's red giant phase). Can't happen soon enough with ours.
The Jurassic Park movies got human nature exactly right*: Dinosaurs keep breaking out of the parks and killing people, but people keep demanding more Jurassic Parks.
CEOs: "My AI will kill you all!"
People: "Gimme gimme gimme"
* I've only seen the first Jurassic Park movie, but I assume that dinosaurs keep escaping and killing people.
Well, in the second one, one of the dinosaurs stumbles across a nuclear power plant, drinks some unfortunate wastewater and then has a cosmic battle with a giant moth.
I was gonna mention Jurassic Park III where the dinosaurs came out of the bottom of the Pacific ocean and we had to build giant robots to kick their asses, but I didn't want to spoil it for them.
The Muslim Brotherhood won the Arab Spring election in Egypt, which was hailed as a triumph of democracy, but then it clashed with the Coptic Christian minority, so General Sisi stepped in to restore order, which was condemned as a dictatorship. In America, the Muslim Brothers are irrelevant other than to cite as heroes or bogeys as needed.
You should have heard Mikie’s speech at a rally. He lied about absolutely everything from saying that Al-Sayed has claimed to be part of the Muslim brotherhood to him not even being a physician. Then he told a story about how he met with some Dems for a quick chat that turned into an 1 1/2 hour conversation about how MI Dems actually want him instead. He said he was open to welcoming everyone into his campaign, talked about how THEY would be working on affordable health care and how he made your grandmas recipe before she did . One of these wasn’t actually said but one would not be surprised if he did. The crowd was about as milquetoast as possible. You thought Vance has negative charisma? Mike gave him a run for his money.
Well, I heard that Mike Rogers has an extensive collection of little boys' used underwear, and that he carries one or two in his jacket pockets to every one of his hate rallies, for good luck. Someone should ask him about that.
The fucko they had speaking up there yesterday (Todd Beamer's dad) also said a birth certificate doesn't make you American and Dump didn't correct him.
They are test ballooning deporting "home growns", IMO.
This whole obsessive focus he has on "America doesn't belong to those who hate it. Election day will show it belongs to those who love it."
Sounds like he has violence brewing. Sorry, fuckos. I AM JUST AS MUCH AN AMERICAN AS THESE FUCKS EVEN IF I AM NOT MAGA!
Ah. Well, it's hard to be 'fair' about what is probably reflexive misogyny on Trump's part, but it's also hard to think of any entertainer that's made her ass, and its size, more central to her image than Ms. Minaj. (Plus, she's a Trump supporter!) I suspect she's not very offended.
I think El Sayed is a Muslim terrorist. He is a Muslim. And he terrifies republicans.
I’m one degree of separation from a Muslim rapper named TerraWrist.
Crap. Jake Lang is back in town (Minneapolis)
Expect fuckery.
Jake Lang- sex pest, creeper of teen females, J6er, fucking idiot.
Republican liars named Mike in Congress or wannabes.
Rogers (this one)
Rogers (a different one)
Collins
Haridopolos
Simpson
Bost
Guest
Ezell
Flood
Lawler
Baumgartner
Kennedy
Cloud
McCaul
Kelly
Rulli
Carey
Lee
Crapo
Rounds
Ock
I want to slap that perma-simper off that the Squeaker's ugly, vanilla, milquetoast churchman face.
And slap that stupid beard off JGs fugly face while you're at it.
Speaking of Republican liars, I got a spam text claiming my Democratic representative is an Islamic Terrorist 😡 !!!
Here in Texas, apparently everyone in the Democratic party is transgender.
It’s in Texas. They’re smearing him just because he’s Muslim
James Uthmeier's campaign says that Jose Javier Rodriguez wants to pay people to give your kids transgender surgery.
Mister Rodriguez got two votes for Attorney General of Florida the other day when we early voted.
"There's an Islamic terrorist under every bed!" makes for a more clumsy slogan.
They should be sued for this.
I don't give two shits if it's protected under "campaign rhetoric."
This is 100% fucking MALICE!
It all should be illegal. Sorry but running ads openly LYING and SMEARING your opponents should be sued into oblivion.
Yep. 100%.
This country sucks hairy fucking sagging balls.
Speaking of hairy fucking sagging balls....
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/salvadorhernandez/nicki-minaj-tweet-swollen-balls-memes
Shit! How did we not learn this during the primaries?!!!!!
Need a little pick-me-up? Here ya go.
https://substack.com/profile/439485293-holly-lima-charlie/note/c-370871308
I predict a century of Maga tattoos replacing the old swastikas
hmmmmm skinhead.... wholda thunk it?
Rich, white men potentially facing actual consequences? There's going to be some serious crash-outs and possibly some murder-suicides.
Impunity is the oligarch dream
That’s racist!
Oh, well.
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OT: Walter Koneig has passed. Boooooooooooo.
https://www.wdhn.com/news/star-trek-actor-walter-koenig-dies-reports/
Excellent tribute from George Takei in that article:
>>“My heart is heavy,” “Star Trek” co-star George Takei wrote on Facebook on Monday, explaining that the pair “stayed friends for nearly six decades” after meeting “on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s.” Koenig served as the best man when Takei and his husband, Brad, wed in 2008, coincidentally on Koenig’s birthday.
“I will always treasure that he and I shared that date,” Takei added. “Walter was more than Chekov. He was a writer, a teacher, a thoughtful man, and a loyal friend. To the fans who loved him for so many years, thank you. He loved you too. Rest well, my dear friend. Keep navigating a steady course.”<<
:( :( :( :(
Does that leave Shatner and Takei as the last ones left?
Damn it.
Just read.
We lost Eric Bauza, one of the best present day voice actors we've got, last night. Feels like a shotgun blast of loss.
Back during the pandemic and BLM protests we saw a bunch of “empathy fatigue” op Ed’s crop up claiming that people were getting burnt out on empathy. I saw it for what it was, a conservative agenda to make us stop giving a shit about our fellow Americans.
Interestingly enough, you never see any op Ed’s talking about “asshole fatigue”, do you? Where is the opinion pieces directed at those of us who have spent the last 10 years fatigued by our fellow Americans being selfish fucking nazi assholes?
Oh, you mean the SCIENCE of what abusive assholes do to human health?
What a great point!
If you are "burnt out on empathy", you are admitting you had none to begin with.
Well, I do think most Americans are "fatigued" and only some of them realize who the piece of shit actors are that is allowing ALL of this.
Right here at Yr. Wonkette!
for instance, in my opinion, I am EXHAUSTED by these asshole nazis!
Same!
"You're soaking in it!"
My poll is bigger than your poll, Mikey.
I stopped watching Sunday morning shows because they were so tilted to conservative politicians. Is it like a rule or something that there's two conservatives for every moderate who appears?
I mean look who owns them.
I dont even know if "moderate" applies to any Republicans. We damn sure don't have "Radical Socialist!" On the Sunday shows
I meant the Democrat, it's always a moderate / right leaning one.
If you don't watch and only read Mora's takes, you get a skewed view. The Rogers MTP episode also had Gretchen Whitmer and Adam Schiff on. Not radical Socialists but still, 2 Ds to 1 R.
Did either of those Dems bring up charges we're totally doing when we get back into power? Or is that uncivilized still?
No idea. I usually work Sundays and have better things to do or watch when I don't. You won't get anything provocative from either Schiff or Whitmer.
OT:
𝐀𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐜 𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐢𝐠𝐠𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐈𝐏𝐎 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐚𝐬 𝐂𝐄𝐎 𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐤 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐀𝐈
These f'in people..
I know! Let’s pay for our trillion dollar rollouts using the people’s retirement savings!
All species are destined for closed-ended biological accident status ('cept maybe rats and roaches, which might just survive the swallowing and incineration of Earth during the sun's red giant phase). Can't happen soon enough with ours.
People keep paying to keep these fucks afloat.
The Jurassic Park movies got human nature exactly right*: Dinosaurs keep breaking out of the parks and killing people, but people keep demanding more Jurassic Parks.
CEOs: "My AI will kill you all!"
People: "Gimme gimme gimme"
* I've only seen the first Jurassic Park movie, but I assume that dinosaurs keep escaping and killing people.
People are lining up to outsource their cognition and are downright proud of it.
Well, in the second one, one of the dinosaurs stumbles across a nuclear power plant, drinks some unfortunate wastewater and then has a cosmic battle with a giant moth.
In Hokkaido they call that Tuesday.
I was gonna mention Jurassic Park III where the dinosaurs came out of the bottom of the Pacific ocean and we had to build giant robots to kick their asses, but I didn't want to spoil it for them.
“How YOU can profit by the end of the world. Stay tuned….”
"We drop the bomb ourselves"
(Quoted from Fallout, the TV Show)
The Muslim Brotherhood won the Arab Spring election in Egypt, which was hailed as a triumph of democracy, but then it clashed with the Coptic Christian minority, so General Sisi stepped in to restore order, which was condemned as a dictatorship. In America, the Muslim Brothers are irrelevant other than to cite as heroes or bogeys as needed.
You should have heard Mikie’s speech at a rally. He lied about absolutely everything from saying that Al-Sayed has claimed to be part of the Muslim brotherhood to him not even being a physician. Then he told a story about how he met with some Dems for a quick chat that turned into an 1 1/2 hour conversation about how MI Dems actually want him instead. He said he was open to welcoming everyone into his campaign, talked about how THEY would be working on affordable health care and how he made your grandmas recipe before she did . One of these wasn’t actually said but one would not be surprised if he did. The crowd was about as milquetoast as possible. You thought Vance has negative charisma? Mike gave him a run for his money.
Tisk Tisk Mikey. Lying goes against one of The Big Ten you claim to live by.
Well, I heard that Mike Rogers has an extensive collection of little boys' used underwear, and that he carries one or two in his jacket pockets to every one of his hate rallies, for good luck. Someone should ask him about that.
The fucko they had speaking up there yesterday (Todd Beamer's dad) also said a birth certificate doesn't make you American and Dump didn't correct him.
They are test ballooning deporting "home growns", IMO.
This whole obsessive focus he has on "America doesn't belong to those who hate it. Election day will show it belongs to those who love it."
Sounds like he has violence brewing. Sorry, fuckos. I AM JUST AS MUCH AN AMERICAN AS THESE FUCKS EVEN IF I AM NOT MAGA!
Fuck these pissant peons.
Some of us on the left have guns, too. They need to chill out with their cosplay bullshit.
It's quiet out there in election-land.
Too quiet.
(Braces self.)
I recently heard some comedian doing a riff on that but I can't recall who it was . . . and it is going to bug me for the rest of the day
Larry the Loon is on the Mall encouraging students to register and vote, vote, vote.
Dear Leader blarps that Nicki's ass is "hard to miss". Implying it's yuuuge, apparently. A "compliment" every woman yearns for.
He could sexually harass a hundred people on national tv and get away with it on Fifth Avenue
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/salvadorhernandez/nicki-minaj-tweet-swollen-balls-memes
"If I say you have a nice ass would you hold it against me?" –Donald Trump, the assman
"𝑃𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑙𝑤𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑎𝑠𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑚𝑒, '𝐻𝑒𝑦, 𝑅𝑜𝑑𝑛𝑒𝑦, 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑎 𝑏𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑡-𝑚𝑎𝑛, 𝑎 𝑙𝑒𝑔-𝑚𝑎𝑛, 𝑜𝑟 𝑎𝑛 𝑎𝑠𝑠-𝑚𝑎𝑛?' 𝐼 𝑓𝑖𝑔𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝐼'𝑚 𝑎𝑛 𝑎𝑠𝑠-𝑚𝑎𝑛, '𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑙𝑤𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑚𝑒, '𝑌𝑜𝑢'𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑛 𝑎𝑠𝑠, 𝑚𝑎𝑛!'"
-- R. Dangerfield
I can't stand to listen to him anymore b/c his accent and delivery sound too much like Dump. :(
Nicki?
Nicki Minaj, the rapper.
Given name Onika Maraj.
She of "Nicki Minaj's cousin's friend's vaccine-injured yarbles" fame. :D
Ah. Well, it's hard to be 'fair' about what is probably reflexive misogyny on Trump's part, but it's also hard to think of any entertainer that's made her ass, and its size, more central to her image than Ms. Minaj. (Plus, she's a Trump supporter!) I suspect she's not very offended.
If you think her ass is big, you should see her cousin's brother's best friend in Trinidad's BALLS....
fuckin' truck nuts the size of cantaloupes.... :)
Loss of inhibitions.
If you follow the Epistemic Crisis account, he's the home care aide who comments on Trump's health every day. It's a fun account.
Thanks, I'll look it up!