Another big list post of dreams. #3

Same deal as before. Lots of Star Trek Q-related dreams this time, for whatever reason. Also, lots more dreams in which I was female. *shrug*

( Behind cut for obvious reasons. )

It keeps happening...

"UPSHOT/ I honestly believe that the story of Donald Trump is the single most shocking and complex news story focused on a single person—possibly in the world—in many, *many* decades. Historians will be working to unpack what happened here long after everyone reading this is dead."

Some quotes...

Yes, they're already in my user profile and all, but I feel the need to repeat them here, a bit more visibly, given how ridiculously timely they are (and have been for at least the past three years or so), based on current events:

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"However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people, and to usurp for themselves the reins of government; destroying afterwards the very engines, which have lifted them to unjust dominion."

-- George Washington - excerpted from his Farewell Address, September 17, 1796


"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."

-- George Orwell, 1984 (See also.)


"It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character."

-- Joseph Heller, Catch 22


"The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to the Nation as a whole. Therefore it is absolutely necessary that there should be full liberty to tell the truth about his acts, and this means that it is exactly necessary to blame him when he does wrong as to praise him when he does right. Any other attitude in an American citizen is both base and servile. 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. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else."

-- Theodore Roosevelt, The Kansas City Star - May 7, 1918