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George Takei 
🏳️🌈🖖🏽I refuse to lose our Republic to a guy with swollen ankles and a tribble on his head.
bouriquet
Tim Zee@georgetakei Rome didn't fall in a day.
宮城巴惠@georgetakei dead tribble*, come on George. Not even a living tribble could survive on that agent orange covered head.
HowToPhil (Phillip R)@georgetakei And now we know why Klingons hate Tribbles
Telpereon@georgetakei With respect Mr. Takei...I think that insults tribbles...
Pikachu stole my car & hit an ICE agent
I Voted for McGovern@georgetakei
a tribble, exactly that, though fortunately not able to reproduce anymore. I have been thinking I'd seen that thing before. Leave it to Starfleet's best Helmsman ever to identify this alien life-form.
#invasivepest
a tribble, exactly that, though fortunately not able to reproduce anymore. I have been thinking I'd seen that thing before. Leave it to Starfleet's best Helmsman ever to identify this alien life-form.
#invasivepest
Lutz@georgetakei
The downfall of a nation is invalid if no one was wearing a toga.
The downfall of a nation is invalid if no one was wearing a toga.
Richard R Lee
Sckenai@georgetakei A tribble would be an improvement.
Number6 
It might have been. The Romans were drinking water delivered by lead pipes.
What's our excuse?
grob (teeth era) 🇺🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️@number6 @georgetakei getting information and news from lead internet
Ed Davies@number6 Much the same: lead in the the petrol through most of the lifetimes of those currently in power in most western countries, particularly the US.
Nae King! Nae quin! Nae Laird!
Tirrimas 
🚫👑@number6 @georgetakei eh, we (GenX and older) had leaded gas and lead in paint.
David Bramian@georgetakei Rome fell, and nobody acknowledged it for nearly 1000 years. The empire split in half. The western half got divvied up by lead poisoned inbred feudal warlords who called themselves "nobility". The eastern half lingered as an oppressive theocracy and slowly declined until it was finally wiped out by Mongols and Turks, alhamdulilah. So yeah, pretty stupid... but after the fall came a renaissance of art and science.
Veronica Olsen@georgetakei Tribbles have done nothing to deserve being associated with Donald Mudd!
Josh 
@georgetakei a tribble hairpiece would be very useful for rooting out secret Klingons posing as humans. 🤔
MasterMischief
PeachMcD@georgetakei um... what Republic? We lost any semblance of representative government with #CitizensUnited
Robin Barton@georgetakei Probably as bowing and truckling becomes more important than principles and democracy.
zedaardv@georgetakei
I have to geek out here.
I've seen references in the comments to Mudd.
Tribbles bad guy was Cyrano Jones - No Harry Mudd in The Trouble with Tribbles.
Sorry that always gets my goat!!!!!
WesDym@zedaardv Jones wasn't a 'bad guy', either. He was actually a very affable merchant, who just had some, er, highly flexible ethics. He didn't seem to actually understand tribbles well; in fact, no one at the start of the story seems to.
🐜@georgetakei is Republic , Klingon?
@georgetakei
Hello? 911? I'd like to report a murder.
Hello? 911? I'd like to report a murder.
RRB@georgetakei To be fair, the fall of Rome was pretty stupid. Nero, Caligula and this guy:
Bill Zaumen@rrb @georgetakei FYI the fall of Rome - the final blow after a long decline - occurred in 476 CE, centuries after the reigns of Nero, Caligula, and Elagabalus (who lasted only a few years and was assassinated at the age of 18). Being a roman emperor could be a high-risk profession.
@bzdev @georgetakei I am not looking at it as a point in time. And there were a number of good emperors after these clowns. But, honestly, what is happening now reminds me quite a bit of Caligula and Elagabalus.
I also think that this was relevant to Takei's comment: the Fall of Rome was at least partly due to stupidity.
OTOH I would rather have horses in charge of the DoD and DoJ. They would be less harmful.
Linda Sgoluppi Artist
Martin Seeger@georgetakei It was surely as absurd. The last emperor was called “Romulus Augustulus” which could be translated to “Teatsucker the pocket emperor”:
The element “Teatsucker” plays on one old folk etymology of the name Romulus, which some ancient writers linked to the word ruma – “teat” or “udder.” The idea refers to the famous myth of Romulus and Remus being suckled by the she-wolf.
The phrase “the Pocket Emperor” renders Augustulus, which is already a diminutive in Latin. It means “little Augustus,” often with the implication of “insignificant” or “not a real emperor.” “Pocket emperor” keeps both the smallness and the irony.
Capt. Tony@georgetakei
That tribble is likely from the mirror universe
That tribble is likely from the mirror universe
Tony Fisk@georgetakei I think Heinlein would have called it a 'puppet master'.
(John Christopher would have blamed those caps. #HailTheTrumpod)
(John Christopher would have blamed those caps. #HailTheTrumpod)
Jenkins. Tom Jenkins. 🤮🤢🤮@georgetakei not to forget diapers on ears.
gunstick@georgetakei as any bad science fiction series (like the new battelstar galactica) production costs are an issue.
So the new star trek has a plot with tribbles taking over the world. At some point the teibbles mutated to be more human like. This avoided all the cost of making the puppets and wiggle them around.
One of those tribbles is US president.
Many thought this was so unrealistic that the popularity of the series tanked.
So the new star trek has a plot with tribbles taking over the world. At some point the teibbles mutated to be more human like. This avoided all the cost of making the puppets and wiggle them around.
One of those tribbles is US president.
Many thought this was so unrealistic that the popularity of the series tanked.