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Quote #1
Are you having a good time? She asked.
The moon really isn't working out, I said.
Next time, maybe you should try Mars.
Yeah, I've been to Mars, I said. It was dumb.
Suddenly, she laughed. Are you serious?
Yeah, I'm serious.
Omigod, she said. Mars is a whole planet.
And it's dumb!
She was like, Dumb?
She was starting to piss me off.
I said, Yes, dumb.
The whole world?
Dumb.
The whole world.
Dumb.
Oh, this is golden.
The Red Planet was a piece of s***. (5.71-87)
Here's Titus' 21st century equivalent: "Yeah, I've been to Europe. It was boring. No, really. It was so dumb. All those old buildings and stuff, like can't they put in new plumbing, or find someone to wash the windows? And I could hardly get wifi anywhere."
Quote #2
... In other news, protests continued today against the American annexation of the moon. Several South American countries including Brazil and Argentina have submitted requests to join the Global Alliance in response. President Trumbull spoke from the White House. "What we have today, with the things that are happening in today's society, is..." (17.33)
Uh-huh. America is trying to colonize the moon, and other countries aren't too happy about that. That sounds familiar.
Quote #3
... which the President denied in an address early on Tuesday. "It is not the will of the American people, the people of this great nation, to believe the allegations that were made by these corporate 'watch' organizations, which are not the majority of the American people, I repeat not, and aren't its will. It is our duty as Americans, and as a nation dedicated to freedom and free commerce, to stand behind our fellow Americans and not cast... things at them. Stones, for example. The first stone. By this I mean that we shouldn't think that there are any truth to the rumors that the lesions are the result of any activity of American industry. Of course they are not the result of anything American industry has done. The people of the United States know, as I know, that that is just plain hooey. We need to remember... Okay, we need to remember that America is the nation of freedom, and that freedom, my friends, freedom does not lesions make." The President is expected to veto the congressional... (ChatterFeed3.1)
Okay, Mr. President. Things start off well here, but they degenerate rapidly from "allegations," "duty as Americans," and "free commerce" to "not cast … things at them" and "freedom does not lesions make." Wait, what? Where is Titus' English-to-English wordbook when you need it?