George Takei believes our democracy will be OK — once the ‘Klingon president’ is out of office: “Klingons are the great threat to a more enlightened society who can see diversity as their strength. We’ve got to be rid of him.”
Photographs by Guerin Blask for The Los Angeles Times. | INTERVIEW
We’ll have to see how the next 4 years pan out. But I am cautiously optimistic that the Republican party will struggle to find someone as “appealing” to their party as Trump. I definitely don’t see it for JD Vance
PurpleCaster91123 on
Klingons at least believe in honor, Trump is way more a Ferengi.
IsaacJacobSquires on
Typical dem: “I’m okay with slaughtering Palestinians and I put an anti-Elon sticker on my piece of shit Tesla. Just get this Orange Guy out of my retirement portfolio.”
anonmarmot17 on
Idk the writing was always on the wall this was never a democracy
Current_Brick5305 on
Oh my!
unfoldyourself on
Not to get too nerdy in a celebrity gossip sub, but this view of Klingons feels really xenophobic considering Star Trek VI, Worf in general, and how important the Klingon Empire was in later half of DS9.
CostoLovesUScro on
Bad analogy. Klingons have honor
ooombasa on
If you think this ends with Trump then the world is fucked for the next decade or more. Trump is not the cause, he is a symptom.
Upstairs-Tough8045 on
We need some constitutional amendments minimum
We need a remedy beyond impeachment
And the presidents powers need to be looked at, it’s clearly too much
natural_log93 on
This is such a stupid take OMG. No. This does not end with trump. TRUMP IS A SYMPTOM NOT THE CAUSE.
outsidehere on
The cult cannot continue without Trump. There is no one who can carry it because it is built around him
dd113456 on
One of my heroes
Dusty_VT on
not really. he acts like Trump is the only person causing this.
he’s not. there’s tons of “Klingons”
Scumdog_312 on
He’s libbing out, as usual.
ungranted_wish on
George I love you but we got Trump out once and our democracy wasn’t saved because he came back again.
It’s insane to me how people just. Forget he was president once. He did this before. And it was bad. Fookin’ ‘ell.
Ladner1998 on
He has a point. MAGA is currently imploding. Many centrists (like myself) are turning against Trump if they havent already (i stopped my support after january 6th). Some republican voters are also sick of MAGA and are turning on Trump.
People want a return to some sense of normalcy. MAGA does not represent that. When election time comes whos going to run on the Republican ticket: all the MAGA minions who want to inherit the movement.
If the Democrats put someone up who can represent a return to normalcy and common sense and people turn up to vote, the Dems win the next election easily.
In general, if the Democrats get the lightbulb to click and they realize a lot of young people really like Democratic socialists like Bernie, AOC, and recently Mamdani, they could do a lot of good.
adacmswtf1 on
How can he so fundamentally misunderstand authoritarianism and Star Trek despite starring in one and being raised in the other?
Dry-Interaction-1246 on
I would take President Worf over Trump anyway. I would take President Camacho over Trump.
Sensei_Z-Ro on
Common Takei W.
mitrafunfun97 on
An out of touch lib elite take. Foreign policy is uniparty. Not only that, but how the opposition party acts during what you call “fascism” matters. The Democratic Party are an extremely weak party, and do nothing in terms of opposition to fight the current administration. They actualy work harder to shut up the progressive voices who have a tangible plan to do so. Look what they did to David Hogg and look how they’re allowing SuperPACs to screw over Zohran. Terrible take from George Takei. He just likes what America does when the President has a blue D next to their name.
SemVikingr on
Wow, so Takei is a sci-fi racist. He is a Star Trek boomer… Lieutenant Worf was my favorite alongside Data. Also, it serves no good purpose to dehumanize Trump. He is 100% human, and humans are 100% capable of being that bad. To dehumanize him to is blind ourselves to the coming of the next one.
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George Takei is always a bright spot in my day
We’ll have to see how the next 4 years pan out. But I am cautiously optimistic that the Republican party will struggle to find someone as “appealing” to their party as Trump. I definitely don’t see it for JD Vance
Klingons at least believe in honor, Trump is way more a Ferengi.
Typical dem: “I’m okay with slaughtering Palestinians and I put an anti-Elon sticker on my piece of shit Tesla. Just get this Orange Guy out of my retirement portfolio.”
Idk the writing was always on the wall this was never a democracy
Oh my!
Not to get too nerdy in a celebrity gossip sub, but this view of Klingons feels really xenophobic considering Star Trek VI, Worf in general, and how important the Klingon Empire was in later half of DS9.
Bad analogy. Klingons have honor
If you think this ends with Trump then the world is fucked for the next decade or more. Trump is not the cause, he is a symptom.
We need some constitutional amendments minimum
We need a remedy beyond impeachment
And the presidents powers need to be looked at, it’s clearly too much
This is such a stupid take OMG. No. This does not end with trump. TRUMP IS A SYMPTOM NOT THE CAUSE.
The cult cannot continue without Trump. There is no one who can carry it because it is built around him
One of my heroes
not really. he acts like Trump is the only person causing this.
he’s not. there’s tons of “Klingons”
He’s libbing out, as usual.
George I love you but we got Trump out once and our democracy wasn’t saved because he came back again.
It’s insane to me how people just. Forget he was president once. He did this before. And it was bad. Fookin’ ‘ell.
He has a point. MAGA is currently imploding. Many centrists (like myself) are turning against Trump if they havent already (i stopped my support after january 6th). Some republican voters are also sick of MAGA and are turning on Trump.
People want a return to some sense of normalcy. MAGA does not represent that. When election time comes whos going to run on the Republican ticket: all the MAGA minions who want to inherit the movement.
If the Democrats put someone up who can represent a return to normalcy and common sense and people turn up to vote, the Dems win the next election easily.
In general, if the Democrats get the lightbulb to click and they realize a lot of young people really like Democratic socialists like Bernie, AOC, and recently Mamdani, they could do a lot of good.
How can he so fundamentally misunderstand authoritarianism and Star Trek despite starring in one and being raised in the other?
I would take President Worf over Trump anyway. I would take President Camacho over Trump.
Common Takei W.
An out of touch lib elite take. Foreign policy is uniparty. Not only that, but how the opposition party acts during what you call “fascism” matters. The Democratic Party are an extremely weak party, and do nothing in terms of opposition to fight the current administration. They actualy work harder to shut up the progressive voices who have a tangible plan to do so. Look what they did to David Hogg and look how they’re allowing SuperPACs to screw over Zohran. Terrible take from George Takei. He just likes what America does when the President has a blue D next to their name.
Wow, so Takei is a sci-fi racist. He is a Star Trek boomer… Lieutenant Worf was my favorite alongside Data. Also, it serves no good purpose to dehumanize Trump. He is 100% human, and humans are 100% capable of being that bad. To dehumanize him to is blind ourselves to the coming of the next one.
look at my resistance dawg we’re done for