George Takei: "Behold what has become of your movement, Donald."

[Miles Archer]

Link to tweet

[Hekate]

1. KnR!

[electric_blue68]

2. Bwah!

[Docreed2003]

3. K&r

[Blue Owl]

4. Suck it Donny you fat piece of shit

[sheshe2]

5. It was just a bowel movement.

It got flushed 15 times and it went down beautifully. Beautiful, the likes you have never seen.

[BigmanPigman]

9. It was a HUGE movement. He heard that

it was the best. Huge!

[wnylib]

33. YUGE movement that went down bigly.

[luckyexpat]

10. His movement?

I have a feeling his only movements will be into his overflowing diaper. So long, LOSER!

[ret5hd]

6. Ozymandias:

[Volaris]

11. Now I want one of these for Buzzymanduis lol..

[Frerotte]

23. Favorites from College

One my favorite bits of poetry I memorized from college days...

And on the pedestal these words appear:
'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

So relevant in today's landscape.

[wnylib]

36. I'm thinking of MacBeth as the classic

morality play about the harm and chaos done to a nation when its ruler is corrupted by ambition and greed. Many quotes in it could apply to DJT.

Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown
And put a barron scepter in my grip
There to be wrenched with an unlineal hand
No son of mine succeeding.

Now does he feel his title
Hang loose about him, like a giant's robe
Upon a dwarfish thief.

Fit to govern? No, not fit to live.

False face must hide what the false heart doth know.

And the well-known:

Out, out brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And is heard no more.
'Tis a tale told by an idiot
Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

But MacBeth did have a conscience, which Trump lacks.

[Frerotte]

37. College Shakespeare

I do recall this from my college Shakespeare course!

I want a mask now that says
"Out brief candle!"

[wnylib]

40. I read MacBeth my senior

year in high school. Not sure that high school kids are quite ready for it, though. As I remember, we kids spent a lot of time joking around by imitating the witches and miming the hand washing of Lady MacBeth.

Shakespeare aside, I want a mask that says, "Cover your nose, stupid." Or one that shows little spiked images of the virus lurking around an exposed nose, above the mask over the mouth.

[Frerotte]

41. Some High School Exposure

I also had some high school exposure especially to Macbeth.

I was in honors English classes for the duration of my high school years.

My undergraduate degree was in English which is where I studied most of the classics in great detail.

My mother must have been in a Macbeth play or had a high school class.

We too had fun mimicking the witches with their cauldrons!
Good times with all that hand washing!

[wnylib]

42. We covered 3 Shakespearean plays

in high school. Julius Caesar as sophomores, Hamlet as juniors, and MacBeth as seniors. I, too, was in AP English in high school. In college, I Clepped out of a couple required English courses in order to have room in my schedule for the ones I wanted. Loved Shakespeare's poetry and Chaucer in college.

I married an English major, but my major was Spanish language, literature, culture, and history that included both Spain and Latin America. Minor was anthropology.

Hamlet gave us a lot to have fun with in high school, too. For weeks we greeted each other with, " Stand and unfold yourself" or mumbled, "Wormwood, wormwood" in the middle of another class.

[Frerotte]

43. Chaucer!

We had to read Chaucer in Middle English in college!

That was a fun time! this was in pre internet days so only book learning/study groups.

Sounds like you found an interesting life match - Spanish/English scholars would provide lots of learning opportunities everyday.

You just reminded me that I did have Hamlet and Julius Cesare in high school.

Beware the Ides of March!

[wnylib]

44. We read Chaucer in Middle English, too.

I'd been exposed to a modern translation in high school and had Latin and German in high school, so the original English in college was not so bad.

I remember reading the Miller's Tale in the cafeteria and getting stared at when I laughed out loud.

[Frerotte]

45. Latin and French

Yes - language exposure did help tremendously.

I had Latin in high school and college level French. Even though I love languages I found it was so surreal reading English words in those forms - although I enjoyed every minute of it!

Wish I could do it over again now~!

[wnylib]

46. I've always liked noticing language

developments and changes, so, besides enjoying the stories, I kept comparing some of the words and phrasing in the Canterbury Tales to their origins and to how we use them today. Middle English still had a Germanic base but some Latin and French influence from the Normans and the church. Although I didn't study French, my Latin helped because of French being a Latin language.

I liked seeing how word usage and pronunciation changed from Middle English to modern English, too. The same words in Chaucer's writings could have different meanings today. Ideas also seemed timeless to me, e.g. the greed and self interest of some clergy, the complaints about women lacking full rights, hostility between common people and the "educated elites," etc.

The Tales are a good read. I still have my college copy of them.

[RussellCattle]

25. When I see an amazing animation and artistic construct like this, and it truly is a work....

....of art, I can't help but think that the medium and the technology that created it would amaze the artists of the Renaissance and they would be the first to want to try their hand. Add some timeless and rather dramatic poetry and you've really got something.

[coti]

7. This is likely because the Jan 6 insurrection was organized by Trump

and other traitors with political power.

[SledDriver]

8. George should have @'d him

Oh, wait... right. tRump was permanently banned from Twitter. Oh well.

[Ferrets are Cool]

12. K and R

[monkeyman1]

13. he did it!!

NOW THE WORLD'S MOST HATED FAMILY !! POS WILL NOW GET THE RECOGNITION THEY DESERVE !!! AN JUST THINK, ALL STARTED WITH HIS GREAT GRAND -PA GETTING HIS ASS KICKED OUT OF GERMANY BECAUSE HE DIDN'T WANT TO PLAY SOLDIER ! SOUND FAMILIAR !!!!

[NurseJackie]

14. Movement.

Ewwww.

[Beartracks]

20. Hey heh. Heh. Heh heh. He said "movememt." Heh heh heh.

[C Moon]

15. The arrests and lack of pardons scared the fuck out of them.

Along with thousands of troops.

[Warpy]

16. Local news said NOBODY showed up at the Round House in Santa Fe

NOBODY.

I guess they're all too busy living in their cars in different parking space every night while they use their cell phones to tell each other how easily they're evading the FBI.

[BobTheSubgenius]

17. The big, and probably only, positive to come from the Capitol riot.

People got to see behind the curtain and see that things are being run, not by the great and powerful Oz, but by a broken-down old crackpot that lied to them right till the end.

I saw a tweet from a Proud Boy (alleged) leader, denouncing Trump. When one of the main parts of their loyalty oath is undying fealty to Il Douche, and it becomes the exact opposite in a few short months (although they didn't seem so short at the time), you have a pretty pitiful movement with a disgrace as its titular head, and are all just one big ball of pathetic. A dangerous kind of pathetic over a short run, but not much of a sustained threat.

[Nitram]

18. Georgie boy, we love you!

[Earthshine2]

32. Be respectful please! That's Captain Sulu, not some boy George.

[Danascot]

19. Well that de-escalated quickly.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

21. Maybe the kraken got covid? Or maybe diarrhea.

[erronis]

24. Or hungry and out of funds since their family and friends have turned on them.

They might have been "cute" while spouting spittlish sophisms about socialists but now their just a bunch of stinking middle-aged men (and whatever) and need a hot meal, a shower, a change of identify....

[ProfessorGAC]

29. One Thing To Know About The Kraken

In "The Clash Of The Titans", that claymation Kraken was only 14" tall.
Seems appropriate.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

30. Its life expectancy would be about 2 seconds in the hands of my grandson.

[ProfessorGAC]

34. It Didn't Last Long In The Movie!

Perseus turned it to stone with the head of Medusa.

[Cha]

22. Rt TY!

[SunSeeker]

26. Cowards only want to hit soft targets. The real soldiers with real guns scared them away. nt

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

27. Like Ozymandias

I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”

Percy Bysshe Shelley

[Lock him up.]

28. Guess these moRons R tired of winning...

They've been had. Lock him up.

[czarjak]

31. Stop me if you've heard this before, rubes...

We took our country back?

[malaise]

35. Delish

Rec

[Aristus]

38. "Guys?......guys?......GUYS?!?......Come on, guys! Joke's over!......"

[theneworiginal]

39. I've had bigger bowel movements. nt