I’m no longer holding Star Trek or Star Wars “accountable” for their clunky-looking sixties-and-seventies future technology.

Why?

Because the Enterprise is off on a years-long voyage through space. There’s no Verizon store, no Radio Shack, no Geek Squad out there. If the Klingons fire photon torpedoes and the bridge shakes and Spock’s head bangs against the fancy iPad72 touchscreen and cracks the glass, the ship’s toast. If Han Solo’s fingerprints get all over the starchart and the touch-calibration is off by half a centimeter, the Falcon is going right into a star. But if Mister Worf accidentally twists the command knob too hard and pops it off, he can just screw that thing right back on and it will keep working. Dust gets in there? Take it apart and clean it out. All the plugs are big and universal, all the power cells are functional and have a decent battery life, and nothing is built to expire in the next six months so you have to buy a new one.

That tech isn’t anachronistic or suffering a bad case of Zeerust–it’s practical, effective, and it works. Apple tried launching its own space exploration craft, it had to come back for full repairs within three months, and then it had to be upgraded over the next two.

Rebekah Jones was fired from the Florida Department of Health because she refused to report altered data. Florida is now actively deleting cases and hiding data in order to move forward with Phase 3 of reopening, despite actually currently leading the country in COVID-19 cases. It is likely my state will become the new epicenter of the virus in the US, and more tourists and locals are here, without masks, every single day.

We are breaking records for new cases each day even with the state government hiding information from the public. They are letting us die so the shops can reopen. I am absolutely disgusted, but not surprised with the (lack of) leadership from our Trump-loving leader. IMPEACH GOVERNOR RON DESANTIS AND STOP LETTING PEOPLE DIE.

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And a John A. MacDonald bonus round for the road -

Sure I’ll sum up.

So there was a very good peaceful protest by.... Lafayette Park? Right outside the White House. They were chanting, they had multiple reporters in the crowd, it was fucking CHILL, people were waiting for Trump to do a speech in the Rose Garden.

Then, out of nowhere, truly NOWHERE, the cops closed in from three directions and threw gas into the crowd. They used rubber bullets on the crowd IMMEDIATELY. One dude told the reporter “They don’t care about new, move.” They drove out the totally fucking peaceful, pre-curfew protestors.

They moved them all out, and Trump started speaking, and you could hear the fucking gas going off over his speech. CNN fucking did a splitscreen to show the peopple being shoved back as the motherfucker stood up there and said he would protect our rights and would mobilize the military against people.

Then back to the reporters, and everyone was forced further and further away. One woman on a bike told the reporter “They are getting the water cannons ready, you wanna move.”

TURNS OUT.

ALL OF THIS.

WAS BECAUSE TRUMP WANTED A PHOTO OP AT THE CHURCH ACROSS THE STREET. HE WANTED THEM OUT OF THE WAY SO HE COULD STAND WITH A BIBLE IN FRONT OF A CHURCH.

Even CNN is calling him a dictator, at 7PM.

about an hour ago

Thread can be found here

[Photo Description: six tweets taken from the official twitter of Presiding Bishop Michael Curry, @ PB_Curry.

First tweet: This evening, the President of the United States stood in front of St. John’s Episcopal Church, lifted up a Bible, and had pictures of himself taken. In so doing, he used a church building and the Holy Bible for partisan political purposes.

Second tweet: This was done in a time of deep hurt and pain in our country, and his action did nothing to help us or to heal us.

Third tweet: The Bible reaches us that “God is love.” Jesus of Nazareth taught, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” The prophet Micah taught that the Lord required us to, “do justice, love mercy, and walk humbly with our God.”

Fourth tweet: The bible the President held up and the church he stood in front of represent the values of love, of justice, of compassion, and of a way to heal our hurts.

Fifth tweet: We need our President, and all who hold office, to be moral leaders, who help us to be a people and a nation living these values.

Sixth tweet: For the sake of George Floyd, for all who have wrongly suffered, and for the sake of us all, we need leaders to help us to be “one nation, under God, with liberty and justice for all.”