George Takei: 'Star Trek' will be 'expecting some royalties' from Space Force logo
George Takei says the team behind "Star Trek" is "expecting some royalties" from the design of the Space Force logo unveiled by President Trump on Friday.
The commander in chief said he was "pleased to present" the emblem for the Space Force, the military service branch launched last month that's tasked with handling and carrying out space operations.
Takei — who played Hikaru Sulu on "Star Trek" — was one of several social media users to point out distinct similarities between the Space Force logo and that of the Starfleet, the fictional organization on the TV series.
Takei quipped to his 3 million Twitter followers:
A technology editor at CNBC also compared the two intergalactic designs:
Takei, 82, is one of Hollywood's most outspoken critics of Trump. He said last year that the country had hit "a new low" under the president.
Star Trek Actor George Takei Thinks He’s Entitled to Royalties for the Space Force Logo
By Matt Margolis
January 25, 2020
George Takei has been suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome for a long time and has probably spent more time in the past few years criticizing Trump than breathing. Nothing is too petty for Takei to gripe about when it comes to Trump. When Trump announced the new logo for the U.S. Space Force, it was inevitable that the has-been actor, mostly known for his portrayal of Lieutenant Sulu on Star Trek: The Original Series, would have an opinion.
Many people quickly noticed the similarities between the new Space Force logo and the logo of the fictional Starfleet Command from the Star Trek universe:
But, the insufferable George Takei’s criticism reached an extra level of absurd when he suggested that he and others connected to Star Trek were somehow entitled to royalties.
It’s possible that Takei was being tongue-in-cheek with his tweet, but I’m inclined to believe he was being serious. For starters, he’s technically accusing the federal government of trademark infringement, since the logo was created for the Space Force, and not the same as the Starfleet Command logo that has been licensed for use by the federal government. If it were, neither Takei nor any actors involved with Star Trek would not be entitled to any such royalties, as ViacomCBS owns Star Trek, and it would be up to them to make any claims of trademark infringement or claim any monetary compensation or royalties.
But here’s the other problem with George Takei’s accusation. Chris Burns at Slash Gear explains why the logos look similar. “[The Space Force] logo should look familiar. It would very much appear to be a reincarnation of its former self – not to mention a clear reminder of the origins and controversy over the original. And yes, that does very much look like the Star Trek Starfleet Command insignia, largely because all of these symbols are designed to mimic one another – for real.”
Michael Okuda, the longtime graphic designer and lead designer for Star Trek who designed the Starfleet Command seal, noted that his logo “was intended to be somewhat reminiscent of the NASA emblem.”
George Takei knows what NASA is, right?
Seriously though, George Takei could have simply acknowledged the logos as being homages to each other, and maybe even taken some pride in the similarities of the logos, but instead, he decided to use the news to make another silly attack on Trump.
So, no George, you aren’t entitled to any royalties. If you’re that desperate for money, go start a GoFundMe page.
He got to where he is with daddy's money and by lying. Once elected he began by lying about crowd size. He has not stopped since. Everyday he lies about something.
He doesn't care if he lies or by chance what he says happens to be true. It makes no difference to him as long as it benefits him.
Stormy he lied. Cohen lied for him. Then he lied about Cohen.
How can anyone including his wife believe a single thing he says? Cry wolf don and nobody believes you.
Except your base of gullible followers who if given the chance would enroll in trump university. Only that was a lie and was forced to shut down.
The healthcare president. I would gladly turn over my tax records but I am under audit. Mexico will pay for my big beautiful wall.
I don't know no Lev Parnas. That 90 minute video just ignore that.
Roll the tape. Then fact check. No. Don't bother because now it is accepted as an untruth. A kind word for a lie.
You can bank on what he says is a lie. He will lie as sure as the sun rises in the East.
But if he said the sun rises from the west; line up "the "gullibles" they will concur.
Hard to admit that you have believed his lies. So instead just keep going along like it doesn't matter.
He is an embarrassment to the office. In fact he has no concept of what the office is meant to portray.
If he had a patriotic bone in his body; he would resign.
And I hear Texas might go purple this year. Libs have been moving to those states to bring sanity back to our politics.
I doubt a single person has moved to change the course of politics..
They move because they were in a state where they voted for politicians who promised them utopia through higher taxes and greater government regulation... then when that doesn't work out for them they look around for a state with lower taxes and less regulation and they move there... then when they get there they vote for the same kinds of politicians they voted for before that killed their previous state...
Bad policies don't suddenly work just because you went to a different state.
Texas is the archetypal conservative state, especially since it claims the mantle as having the most electoral votes for Republican candidates. Its fast growing economy and population are signs that its small government approach works. However, there is compelling evidence that in addition to data showing Texas is being pushed to the left thanks to migration from blue states, internal state migration is also changing the political map.
There are more than just interstate and international factors turning Texas blue. Like a variety of states with vibrant rural and urban areas within their borders, Texas itself is surprisingly divided. As a result, internal migration within the state itself provides as much pressure toward its future division as Californians and Mexican immigrants. On the whole, rural areas across the country are losing density. The rural population of the United States is about 60 million, almost exactly the same as it stood at the end of World War Two. The result is that this share of the total population has dropped from nearly half of the country back then to just under a fifth today. The urban population of the United States, meanwhile, has almost tripled.
Young people generally leave these sparse regions for job opportunities and education. This resulting “brain drain” often leaves an imbalance in age groups, with a rapidly aging rural population and decreasing share of educated young people. Many of the houses of formerly growing families in the state are inhabited by retirees rather than by members of the next generation. Despite Texas consistently ranking as the number one state for domestic migration, it is also home to 90 counties losing population.
This trend causes political shifts. Older rural voters tend to become more conservative, while younger voters tend to become increasingly liberal as they move to the cities for work and school. Millennials and Generation Z often bear the markers of new members of the Democratic Party. They are unmarried, childless, saddled with student loan debt, and do not own any property. This happens both among young people moving from red states to blue ones, and also from red counties to blue countries. In each case, the important factor is not the existing politics of the state. It is that when someone moves to a big city, his or her politics sharply skews to the left.
The concentration of young people in Texas moving from smaller to larger counties, sharply leaning to the left, and becoming more politically active brings on increasing electoral importance to cities such as San Antonio, Houston, Dallas, and Austin. This growth by leaps and bounds means that the political weight of cities is increasing more rapidly than that of rural areas. Whether it be a portion of the Texas electorate or state and federal redistricting, the major cities could soon have veto power over the wishes of the rural areas of the state, similar to that of Chicago or New York City.
The coming blue wave in Texas has already started. Democrats won more than a dozen seats in the state legislature in the 2018 election and even threatened the Senate seat held by Ted Cruz. The combination of sharply Democratic cities and suburban areas shading blue is a long run political disaster in the making for Republicans. We are fortunate enough to view the demographic changes in Texas in detail as a warning and potential model for other states. Any state with stagnant or declining rural areas and dominant or growing urban regions could also suffer a similar fate.
The 2020 election is not likely to hand Texas away from Republicans, but as I have previously written, it may be close enough to force Republicans to expend resources there. The growth of urban and suburban locales will play a major role in redistricting after the census. On the one hand, Texas will gain two or three seats in the House of Representatives. On the other hand, many changes in the state house after the 2020 election will allow for more competitive seats leaning toward Democrats. Left wingers have already made it a goal to flip the Texas state house blue, and are raking in millions of dollars in campaign donations from liberals outside the state.
If the census rearranges the legislature toward a marginal advantage for cities, and the next several years experience migration figures similar to recent history, the results will be striking. Texas is setting itself up to be a victim of its own success. It has a growing economy and booming cities backed by technology, oil, and gas that are all magnets. The movement of young Texans to cities will be a significant factor in the potential obituary of the Republican Party in the state. Since it has not been written just yet, there is still a chance to keep Texas red, and the national economy alive.
Kristin Tate is a libertarian writer and an analyst for Young Americans for Liberty. She is an author whose latest book is “How Do I Tax Thee? A Field Guide to the Great American Rip-Off.” Follow her on Twitter @KristinBTate.
Texas Democrats roll out plan to win state House in November
Texas Democrats are unveiling a new strategy in the hope of taking control of the state House this November for the first time in nearly two decades.
The Texas Democratic Party and Texas House Democratic Campaign Committee on Monday released a list of 22 state House seats they will target in November, with the ultimate goal of winning nine of the seats to regain control of the lower chamber.
The plan shows how Democrats in the state are hoping to build on the gains they made during the 2018 midterms.
Former Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-Texas) came within 3 percentage points of unseating Sen. Ted Cruz (R) and in the process won nine state districts that are currently represented in the state House by GOP lawmakers. In another 13 state House districts, O’Rourke came within single digits of Cruz.
Democrats also picked up 12 state House seats in 2018, bringing them within striking distance for this election cycle.
One of these districts is Texas’s 28th, where O’Rourke hauled in over 48 percent of the vote. The 28th is part of Fort Bend County, which is home to Houston suburbs such as Sugar Land and Missouri City. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton won Fort Bend County in 2016 by 7 points. It was the first time that a Democratic presidential candidate had carried the county since former President Lyndon B. Johnson did in 1964.
The 28th District has a special election for its House seat on Tuesday, the first opportunity for Democrats to see if their strategy is paying off. While the winner will only serve out the remainder of the state House’s current term and the seat will be up for grabs again in November, the race has garnered national attention. Presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg recently canvassed for Democrat Eliz Markowitz, who is running against Republican Gary Gates, earlier in the month.
“We're looking forward to the results on Tuesday, great momentum point for us, but the work has already begun for November,” said Manny Garcia, executive director of the Texas Democratic Party.
One thing that has benefited the Democrats’ effort is the influx of new registered voters in the state. Since 2012, over 3 million new voters have been registered, with the majority coming in the past couple of years. Specifically, since Cruz narrowly beat O’Rourke in 2018, nearly a million new voters have been registered.
The growth is particularly evident in suburban areas. For example, in Harris County — which encompasses most of the Houston metropolitan area — voter registration has boomed 14 percent since 2014. In 2016, Clinton won Harris County by 12 percent and O’Rourke won it by 17 in 2018.
All of this has led to a jump in financial support from national Democratic organizations, such as the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee and the National Democratic Redistricting Committee.
“We’ve gone from a period in time where we couldn’t get a phone call back from the national party to now, being a period of time where [Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee – Texas] has the only regional field pod in the country,” Garcia said.
Abhi Rahman, the state party’s director of strategic communications, said that the funding that the state party has received this election cycle is "more than ever before."
Regaining the House in November could also allow Texas Democrats to influence the redistricting in the state. After the 2020 census, state districts in Texas will be redrawn. When redistricting happened in the state at the beginning of the last decade, Republicans controlled both the state House and Senate.
Garcia says that if Democrats took back the House, they would be able ensure district maps more accurately represent the demographics of the suburban areas that have changed significantly since the lines were last drawn.
“We need a different voice that understands Texas’ rising electorate,” Garcia said.
“We need to make sure that the legislature brings in a redistricting process that is reflective of what that community actually looks like now and that best respects Texas’ voters.”
Massive crowds form for Trump's New Jersey rally amid impeachment fight
Sprawling lines were forming overnight in the Jersey Shore destination of Wildwood in anticipation of President Trump’s campaign rally scheduled for late Tuesday, in a show of support by Trump's faithful amid the bruising impeachment fight back in Washington.
The scene is striking considering Jersey’s political reputation as a blue state.
Where’s all you conservatives at? But we all know if a democrat wins The election, All the tea party losers will come out the woodwork whining about finances again.
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
There is an old saying that you can’t teach an old dog new tricks, and we’ve learned that again with the Congressional Budget Office and its latest highly misleading fiscal forecast.
For years, we’ve been trying to get the CBO to use real-world scoring that reflects how businesses, workers and financial markets react to changes in tax rates. But no go.
This is why the left is having a field day with the CBO forecast that deficits under President Trump will average a trillion dollars a year for the next decade. This is supposed to be a result of Mr. Trump’s tax cuts, but hold on here. Take a look at the nearby chart. It shows the deficit forecast with and without the tax cuts. They are effectively the same.
Mr. Trump didn’t create $1 trillion deficits, he inherited them from the grand maestro of debt spending, Barack Obama. President Obama invented and then perfected the concept of 13-digit borrowing. His deficits in his first term reached $1.5 trillion — an Olympic record of fiscal recklessness.
Is there anything more hypocritical than liberals, who supported Mr. Obama’s policies that ran the debt from about $11 trillion to almost $20 trillion, now fainting over runaway deficit spending? Yes, Chuck Schumer, there is gambling going on here at this casino.
The CBO says that the deficit will be about $1.5 trillion higher because of policy changes. Almost 40 percent of that is the inexcusable omnibus spending bill — a bipartisan raid of the federal cookie jar.
About $1 trillion of the higher borrowing over 10 years is due to the tax cut. By the way, this is the lowest estimate for the “cost” of the tax cut, we’ve seen. That $1 trillion revenue loss is out of almost $40 trillion of expected revenue. That’s a 2.5 percent tax cut — which is hardly the fire hose of lost revenue that is being depicted.
At the very least we can dispense with the hyper-inflated rhetoric of $3, $4 and $5 trillion debt increases due to the tax cut — that are thrown around in the media from liberal interest groups.
The fantastical claim of the CBO is that the economy will grow by only 1.9 percent annual growth for the next decade. (This is up a smidgeon from its 1.8 percent prediction at the start of the Trump presidency.) To be fair, CBO’s growth estimate is in line with most of the Blue Chip forecasters as well.
That prediction makes no sense. GDP growth averaged 1.95 percent annually under Mr. Obama — and nearly everything he did on the economy was anti-growth.
Now we have a president who is cutting tax rates, chopping down regulations, promoting massive new energy and mineral development, reforming welfare to get people into the workforce, redesigning trade policy to get better deals for American companies and products — and this is going to only give us the measly rate of growth we had under Mr. Obama?
No. The core principle of Trumponomics is to attain at least 3 percent growth. Every policy is focused like a laser beam on that goal. It’s not a shot to the moon. The average growth rate of the U.S. economy for the past century is about 3.3 percent.
In a recent economic analysis, Rob Arnott, founder of Research Affiliates, and I recalculated the CBO numbers and plugged in 3 percent growth, not 1.9 percent growth.
Guess what? The debt to GDP ratio goes down, down, down every year. Instead of a horrific debt to GDP ratio of 150 percent in 20 years, that ratio actually falls to about 50 percent — very managable.
With long-term growth of GDP of 3 percent all the entitlement deficits begin to disappear as well. This is because tax revenues overwhelm spending over time with 3 percent GDP growth. It’s called the power of compound interest.
The point here is that CBO’s creaky computer models begin with the firm conviction that Trumponomics won’t work and then surprise, it cranks out a conclusion that Mr. Trump’s policies won’t work. This is what passes for rigorous analysis these days.
• Stephen Moore, a columnist for The Washington Times, is a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation and an economic consultant with FreedomWorks. He served as a senior economic advisor to the Trump campaign.
Massive crowds form for Trump's New Jersey rally amid impeachment fight
Sprawling lines were forming overnight in the Jersey Shore destination of Wildwood in anticipation of President Trump’s campaign rally scheduled for late Tuesday, in a show of support by Trump's faithful amid the bruising impeachment fight back in Washington.
The scene is striking considering Jersey’s political reputation as a blue state.
All of a sudden the deficit is a myth now. That’s freaking rich lololololol
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
and When I compare your knowledge to...well, anybodies.....
Yes, I will be mean. You don’t measure up.
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
I wouldn't say that about 40. He's very knowledgeable about how to troll the left in PP on DT. And he probably knows all the comings and goings at the trailer park too. So don't dis his skills like that, he has mad skills, a regular trumpian pwner.
Trump signs USMCA, paving way for job market boom 'We’re restoring America’s industrial might like never before'
President Trump signed the historic United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, replacing the Clinton-era North American Free Trade Agreement that he called a "disaster."
The USMCA, which is the biggest trade deal of all-time, covers more than $1.3 trillion of commerce, and is the second major trade deal secured by the Trump administration this year. The agreement has already been ratified by Mexico, but not yet by Canada.
Trump signs USMCA, paving way for job market boom 'We’re restoring America’s industrial might like never before'
President Trump signed the historic United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, replacing the Clinton-era North American Free Trade Agreement that he called a "disaster."
The USMCA, which is the biggest trade deal of all-time, covers more than $1.3 trillion of commerce, and is the second major trade deal secured by the Trump administration this year. The agreement has already been ratified by Mexico, but not yet by Canada.
So can you tellus what's actually in it? How it differs from NAFTA? Or are headlines and Trump speak all you have?
Once fully implemented, the USMCA is expected to lift U.S. gross domestic product by as many as 1.2 percentage points and create up to 589,000 jobs, according to the International Trade Commission.
The signing of the USMCA comes nearly two weeks after Trump inked an initial trade deal with China. Combined, the two agreements encompass more than $2 trillion worth of trade and could add as much as 1.7 percentage points to U.S. economic growth. The U.S. economy expanded at a 2.1 percent pace in the three months through September.
So once again you have no idea what's in the deal. You're just regurgitating repeated opinions of what it "could do". Two trillion worth of trade? How does that compare with the current trade numbers?
Intoducing for The Cleveland Browns, Quarterback Deshawn "The Predator" Watson. He will also be the one to choose your next head coach.
No wonder people overseas rarely wants anything built by Americans. Hell, the illegals don’t even need to climb the damn thing(which is stupid easy). Just wait for it to blow over lmfaoooooo
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
No wonder people overseas rarely wants anything built by Americans. Hell, the illegals don’t even need to climb the damn thing(which is stupid easy). Just wait for it to blow over lmfaoooooo
Obviously, Trump didn't build the wall himself, But look at the construction company that was hired.. I don't know who they are, but if you check and find out they were hand picked by Trump, then you got something,
Also, if you read the article, it states that the was wasn't complete, it was under construction.
I'm not a construction expert, but I would think that it's important to secure your build AS YOU BUILD... Just out of the box thinking.
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No wonder people overseas rarely wants anything built by Americans. Hell, the illegals don’t even need to climb the damn thing(which is stupid easy). Just wait for it to blow over lmfaoooooo
Maybe he hired the same construction company that built his hair?
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