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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGeorge Takei. The Great Distiller strikes again, another master class in brevity.
George Takei
@georgetakei.bsky.social
Trump poses as the Pope in full holy garments and gets a pass.
Obama puts on a tan suit and they lose their frigging minds.
See how that works?
May 3, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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George Takei. The Great Distiller strikes again, another master class in brevity. (Original Post)
Miles Archer
May 3
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UpInArms
(52,830 posts)1. Did anyone say Dijon?
MLWR
(353 posts)5. It was Grey Poupon.
Celerity
(50,082 posts)14. Which is Dijon mustard.
usonian
(17,937 posts)2. SAY TAN!

BidenRocks
(1,528 posts)6. Tie is too short
Hands too big.
It's perfectly ugly!
OMGWTF
(4,733 posts)3. Obama didn't wear a flag pin, and they lost their minds.
Shitler makes people wear garish gold pins of his head and it's cool. Nothing to see here -- just a narcissistic sundowning sociopathic oligarch with his finger on the nukes.
ananda
(31,885 posts)7. Great lesson in racism in a nutshell.
Well done.
Demovictory9
(35,942 posts)8. Michelle Obama sleeveless ..they objected. MGT owns no sleeves
paleotn
(20,405 posts)11. MTG-wear Neanderthal attire.
Who said they were extinct?
paleotn
(20,405 posts)9. How about Reagan?
It wasn't the suit. That was just an excuse to hate on the Black guy. Racists are such cowards.
hadEnuf
(3,215 posts)10. Takei always has such a clear observation and hits the nail on the head.
No bullshit with that fellow.
Collimator
(1,918 posts)18. Lt. Sulu can be counted on to thread the needle with the Enterprise.
And while Chekov more often fired the phasers, clearly Sulu can score a direct hit as well.
uponit7771
(92,908 posts)12. M$M covers MAGA more positively
spanone
(139,151 posts)13. Thank you George❤️
Martin68
(25,851 posts)15. If only the MAGAts could see the irony. What they see is something that will piss off liberals, and they love that.
Cha
(311,290 posts)16. Boom. The "media" can Go FT.
I Hope someday that "media" Gets What's Coming to Them.
Marcuse
(8,442 posts)17. He claims to have won the vote of the Cardinals by the biggest landslide in history.

But would he be the most corrupt pope in history?https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/10/europe/catholic-church-most-controversial-popes