George Takei to Lara Trump - "CHALLENGE ACCEPTED!"

[kpete]

Lara Trump's Challenge:

@GeorgeTakei
Challenge accepted!

Btw, the Earth itself sits in a mostly empty void of our solar system, all the humans gathered together in a little blue dot. Just making sure you understand how this works.

Link to tweet

and:

[rurallib]

1. The funny thing is - Trump came in second

[Bluepinky]

3. Yes, Trump lost. And that was even with cheating.

[LastDemocratInSC]

2. In other words, dirt doesn't vote. People vote.

[quakerboy]

31. Yall keep saying dirt dont vote

But Wyoming has two senators and three EC votes. That a 1 senator per 270k people and one EC vote per 180k people

Compared with California that has two senators and 55 EC votes. Thats one senator per 20million people and 1 ec vote per 720k people.

Thats kinda dirt voting, no?

[LastDemocratInSC]

32. Point taken with respect to federal representation

But these maps are usually displayed as evidence that there's a relationship between the size of a county and the vote count for the winning candidate.

[swimboy]

33. We need to grow the House

Expanding the number of Representatives offsets the weight of Senate electoral votes.

[IronLionZion]

39. DC has 700,000 and no vote in Congress

"Taxation without representation" is on my license plate. It took a constitutional amendment to get us electors for the EC.

[quakerboy]

42. Exactly

We give dirt an awful lot of votes, best as I can tell, and deny votes to an aweful lot of fellow humans.

[BlueStater]

4. That's not even a map of the 2016 election.

As far as I can tell, it doesn't represent any presidential election in history. It's completely made up.

Lara Trump is a dipshit and a liar.

[Scarsdale]

5. Well, Lara

seems to be every bit as "intelligent" as Eric, so they are well matched.

[erpowers]

49. Was Wondering About the Map

I was wondering if that map real. It did not look like a real map. I was thinking about asking if it was a real map. So just to be clear, that is not a real map.

[ancianita]

6. Another fact-based reality response. Thank you for this thread. It's now "meme ON"

with the Right Wing. Good thing we've grasped reality far longer than they have.

[Mr.Bill]

7. How stupid do you have to be

to think that acres vote?

[lunatica]

9. There are vast cavernous empty areas of unused storage

space in the Trump family skulls. They all marry their own kind so the big hollow skull gene just gets passed on genetically. The stupid gene is a dominant one.

[albacore]

20. I believe it's (lack of) brain development in some areas.

Reading graphs and diagrams is difficult/impossible for some people. I saw it in teaching. I have used the above maps in arguments on social media. They can't see it.
Some see all that red and simply can't process the fact that the blue areas have more people.

No defending them, but we shouldn't expect people who CAN'T understand to get the point.

[Mr.Bill]

23. I think some of it is people that have never been to these areas.

I drove through central Oregon in the summer of 2016 and there were Trump signs everywhere. But no one lived there.

[stopdiggin]

8. it's kind of hysterical really

to find the progeny of a silver spoon NY real estate grifter -- suddenly championing the "values" voters of Oklahoma and Arkansas. Just like Daddy is a friend to the working man -- right after he's figured out a way to stiff them on the work they've done.

[lunatica]

11. Before this is over

they will find out he truly despises them as low lives living in shit hole states.

[Garrett78]

15. No, they'll view him even more strongly as their persecuted savior.

And some of them will respond with violence if he's forced out of office.

[lunatica]

16. Not when they realize he hates them.

There are a few who are self aware enough to get it that he used them. Granted, not all of them. And although a handful will get violent most of them will just sink back into their sad, resentful lives. He won’t be there to whip up their frenzy of emotions and without a leader they just don’t function. They’re addicted but they won’t get their rage fix.

[Garrett78]

18. He has insulted his supporters more than once and they adore him.

He talked about loving the uneducated. He said he could murder someone and not lose a supporter. His supporters somehow didn't find either statement to be insulting.

Cult 45 isn't going away.

[lunatica]

22. They don't think he's talking about them

Your word cult describes them perfectly. They don’t think much. They become emotionally attached to what stimulates them most, and anger stimulates the hell out of them. Self pity is also wallow worthy and feels so good. These emotions are very strong. They get their heart pumping. They wake out of a stupor, but when the stimulus is withdrawn there is no direction to go in until the next con man leader comes along.

They’re every dictator’s dream followers. That’s all they are. Followers.

[Celerity]

35. If they wish to forfeit their lives over Rump in any way shape or form, no matter how he

leaves office, via violent acts of rebellion, then I shall shed no tears at all when they are escorted off this mortal coil.

I am sure many have delusions of grandeur, thinking they will set up some semi-permanent covert force of armed resistance and domestic terrorism, and turn the US into a giant Northern Ireland. If they try that, the Republican party and hard RW will be annihilated electorally for decades to come, probably will end up destroyed.

[dchill]

10. Says she who married a Trump ON PURPOSE.

The Force is wrong in this one.

[lunatica]

12. Birds of a feather...

[dchill]

13. ...grift together.

[pangaia]

19. I just looked at pics of her.(Never saw before) She looks like.... ready for this?

Kelly Ann Con-twit

And about as smart...

[dchill]

24. OMG. You're right. Must be a type that...

does something for them.

[pangaia]

25. Well, there are good witches ............

.and then there are bad 'witches...'

Not quite a witch, but..

[smirkymonkey]

47. They both have that republican "horsey" look.

I know, I know, we shouldn't make fun of women's looks, but their faces are both reflections of the evil that resides in their souls.

[BigMin28]

27. The dumbest one too

In that family, that's really saying something.

[DesertRat]

14. k&r

[pangaia]

17. Lara trump? Who dat ?

[Generic Other]

21. I see blue wings

supporting a bloated red corpse in the adjusted Rorschach.

[klook]

26. Oh, can livestock vote now?

[Retrograde]

38. Or rocks?

I know that some people who are as dumb as rocks do vote, but actual landscape features....

[OilemFirchen]

28. I like maps.

[Bleacher Creature]

29. Here's the 1972 electoral map.

Nixon was gone 16 months later.

[LastDemocratInSC]

34. Excellent point.

[FakeNoose]

40. George McGovern didn't even win his own state

There was so much turmoil in 1972 and '73. But the Democrats did finally figure out what they needed to do, and they got it done. In those days you could still count on a few honorable Republicans, because this was before Newt Gingrich's madness took hold.

[smirkymonkey]

30. Lara Trump would do herself and her image a big

favor by keeping her stupid mouth shut. Every time she opens it, she makes Eric look like the 2nd dumbest Trump.

[George II]

36. They like to talk about how many "counties" trump won, like that means something. Actually....

There are more people in just the city of New York, (CITY, not state) than the top seven states that trump won COMBINED.

Look at a map of New York City and then these states: Alaska, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, West Virginia, Wyoming.

[MasonDreams]

37. We actually tried very hard not to Impeach him.

His abuses became intolerable. Why did your marriage end?

[FakeNoose]

41. She's actually married to Eric

... so they're not divorced ... yet. Lara works on Chump's re-election campaign.

[IronLionZion]

43. That's so much worse

Eric is probably the dumbest Trump based on SNL skits about him

[MasonDreams]

46. Oops, I just guessed she was wife #2 of grabber.

[sharedvalues]

44. Best map, IMO

[calimary]

45. These are all useful.

Good to have!

Even better to be reminded. They may have acreage, but WE have the population centers. We mustn’t forget that. There are MORE OF US than there are of them. We just have to make use of those superior numbers.

[NCLefty]

48. What is that anyway, a threat? Are the Republicans going to murder us all if Trump is impeached?