I haven’t been this frustrated in ages. You know whatever the reference was, he got it completely wrong.
“Sydney is so crazy, it’s like when Mr. Spock got his liver stolen by Cardassians!”
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They’re eating the tribbles, they’re eating the Alpha 177 Canines.
They protein resequenced Porthos, they protein resequenced Spot, they’re protein resequencing the non-sentient beings aboard the ship!
What I won’t do is take in two hundred thousand Bajorans who could be Maquis… I have been watching this migration. And I see the people. I mean, they’re men. They’re mostly men, and they’re strong men. These are physically young, strong men. They look like prime-time soldiers. Now it’s probably not true, but where are the women?.. So, you ask two things. Number one, why aren’t they fighting for their world? And number two, I don’t want these people coming over here.
The only thing Trump probably remembers that’s Star Trek themed is “Beam me up Scotty”, which he probably said instead of calling her a space cadet. His generation thinks space is a fantasy land of rocks and nerds.
I bet this was it. James Trafficant was a congressman who used to end his speeches by saying “Beam me up” which I understand was a way to say “this shit is crazy / out of this world”
I’d say Trump was the right age for the demographics when Star Trek TOS aired. He would have been 20.
It’s just that he would have no interest in a socialist utopia full of diversity and equality, including (mostly, it was the 60s) gender equality and where you talk things out first rather than come in guns blazing.
He’s against all of that.
And he probably wouldn’t be able to take it when Kirk got the pretty girl and he didn’t because TV is reality to him.
He went to military school, Ensign Ricky is a pretty common reference to being both unknown and totally expendable.
Fred Trump and his generation used military school as a way to reform shithead kids before they turned 18. Doesn’t seem to have had much impact on Don so Ensign Ricky may not have stuck. Besides, he was talking about Sidney Powell, and gender is important to him, so he may have avoided the comparison because of the misgendering.
Honestly I think he’s just an asshole, but not a particularly nuanced or articulate asshole.
He’s literally Reagan, they even reused that dumb fucking slogan and probably the same puppet string on his bad days.
My assumption is that he said something like “It all sounds like made-up Star Trek bullshit.”
I have no doubt it was “Resistance is futile.”
Ya, but you just know that he pronounced ‘futile’ with a silent “I” sound, instead of ī like you’re supposed to.
Sometimes I can’t tell if people are saying ‘futile’ or ‘feudal’.
Resistance is feudal? Sounds like a peasent uprising.
I imagine that’s what he says to any woman he’s alone in a room with.
It’s probably a Pakled quote, trying to appeal to his base.
We look for fake electors to make the MAGA go.
The screencap cuts off the content in the document embedded in the tweet.
It does, but it never says what the reference was either way. You can see that from what wasn’t clipped.
Yes, but the reading comprehension for folks with reading disabilities still makes it very difficult.
Fair enough. See my edit.
Beautiful! Thanks.
Unfortunately footnote 224 just says “GA258-260 (description redacted)”, which is probably the transcript of the conversation.
Are we sure he wasn’t just fumbling with buttons on the phone, making a series of beeps that they thought was a reference to Pike in The Menagerie?
“Should we lie and say the election was stolen, sir?”
“He says yes.”
He did the Vulcan salute but with his arm fully outstretched at a 45 degree angle.
What does footnote 224 say?
