I once wrote an article about nobody liking Ted Cruz, and it seems we can now add William Shatner to the ever crowded lot. With every Republican under the flat Earth’s sun running for president, it’s hard to keep track of what unelectable candidate is saying what. With polling percentages equivalent to milk, Ted Cruz is going to have to start saying more crazy s*it if he wants to keep up with F*ckface Von Clownstick.
If there’s anything that pisses the internet off even more than politics, it’s anything Star Trek related. So combining the two is just asking for a comment section to go full DEFCON 5.
It seems Ted Cruz is a die-hard Trekie and vehemently pro-Kirk. Evidently, he’s such a fan that he attempted to inject class warfare onto the debate. In an interview with the New York Times , Cruz said, “Kirk is a passionate fighter for justice; Picard is a cerebral philosopher … I think it is quite likely that Kirk is a Republican and Picard is a Democrat.”
Ted Cruz does realize that we have this whole instant social media thing, right? You know-where saying anything that can be remotely offensive to Star Trek will be addressed quicker than ever before. Naturally, Cruz’s comments didn’t quite sit well with a lot of Trek fans. Most importantly, William Shatner, a Canadian like Ted Cruz, weighed in with his own disapproval.
Star Trek may not have been explicitly political, but one might argue there were some underlying political current to the famous series. For example, it famously showed television’s first interracial kiss when Nichelle Nichols (Lieutenant Uhura)-one of the first black actors to be shown on the series-kissed William Shatner’s Kirk. But maybe it’s best if certain bastard spawn of Joseph McCarthy not assign partisan labels to characters more famous than the actors themselves.
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That first Kiss was NOT political.It was just finally time……….well really past time………..It was just wonderful……………Every thing good is not always about politics. It could be about human kind evolving into something better.So say the “first”kiss………..
F*ckface Von Clownstick. Is that copywrited?? 🙂
Doubt it. I think Jon Stewart said it first in reference to Donald Trump. I’m sure you’re free to use it. It does have a certain appeal to it. 🙂
Dang it. I meant copyright. Duh!
I don’t think anyone was worried about it, Doug :-). It’s an easy mistake.
William Shatner to Ted Cruz - from one Canadian to another?
Republicans are passionate fighters for justice? Since when? (oh, maybe back in the Civil War Days, but since Nixon’s time (to be generous)? No way.)
Also, what the heck is wrong with a cerebral philosopher? Kirk relied on one. And Picard held his own pretty damn well.
does’nt ted cruz realize that in that universe that how his views are not even present in that time that after the eugenics war and world war 3 to zefrim cocrens warp flight all but eradicated racism homophobia and bigotry so keep on with your bullshit.
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I would think it’s hard to be a Republican in a society that doesn’t use money and doesn’t have a class structure.
Ted Cruz is no more Canadian than I am American. I lived in the US for one year, and turned 4 there. If Ted Cruz had been raised in Canada, he’d likely be a much nicer person. He’d still be stupid, yes, but much nicer.
The economics of the future work somewhat differently.