Because our side generally tells the truth and the truth isn’t easy or pretty or simple. The world economy has changed. Well paying industry jobs for people with a high school diploma are not coming back. Climate change is happening. We need to reduce our reliance of fossil fuels even if it’s going to cost us jobs at…

I love the lead-in to your quote: “A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it.”

The little twitches of disgust makes this all the more amazing.

Star Trek: The Next Generation (Justice, 1987)

Here’s my fave Picard quote:

“It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness; that is life.”

Well, “Never give up, never surrender” worked its way into our wedding ceremony.

“Fifteen hundred years ago everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, everybody knew the Earth was flat, and fifteen minutes ago, you knew that humans were alone on this planet. Imagine what you’ll know tomorrow.”

With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.” 

Stockard Channing for Leia?

Overused but appropriate in this case.

best guess, I would say 100% hell no, they are just crying out for their safe places

They’re testing their final plan of turning Venus into a smiley emoji.

Soooo... totally 100% not caused by aliens hanging out in Venus’s atmosphere creating an obstruction?

Like being called a racist is worse than being racist. In the immortal words of my father: It’s all coming together...I rather wish it weren’t.

You know, it’s not the golden shower that bothered me that much, it was the detailed reports of literally every member of Trump’s inner circle meeting at one time or another with Russian intelligence officials.

No question, when those horns start really going every hero marvel or dc stops to look up at the sky.