Get Over It...

© January 8, 2024, the Griot Poet

David Blight,

Professor of History and African American Studies at Yale University,

As pointed out on Jonathan Capehart’s Sunday Show,

The day after the third anniversary of January 6,

The murder of nine churchgoers at Mother Immanuel Church in Charleston, South Carolina, happened in July 2015.

In August of 2015, “he who shall not be named” came down that escalator to announce his run for the presidency.

He deliberately announced his run for the presidency after Dylann Roof killed nine black worshippers at a prayer service to incite a race war in

South Carolina,

The first state to secede from the Union,

The reason stated in their Articles of Secession, Nikki Haley, was the enslavement of African people.

 

After a mass murder in the state of Iowa,

The twice-impeached,

The four-times indicted,

Ninety-one felony counts charged criminal defendant,

He told a crowd of supporters in Sioux Center, Iowa, that “we’re really with you as much as anybody can be.” After stating the tragedy was “terrible” and “horrible,” He insisted: “We have to get over it. We have to move forward. We have to move forward.”

 

The Iowa Perry High School principal,

Dan Marburger,

Who had led the school for 19 years,

Who had graduated children to careers, colleges, and universities, the military, but more importantly, mature U.S. citizens, succumbed to his injuries from the shooting.

 

“Get over it.”

That’s his true sentiment.

Like Life’s, a film in the early 2000s with actress Kirsten Dunst.

Source: https://www.buzzfeed.com/kaitlinstevens/20-reasons-why-get-over-it-is-the-best-2000s-teen-film-no

 

If he prevails, “thoughts and prayers” will become a verbal relic.

This country hasn’t had one thought or uttered one prayer since Sandy Hook!

So long as republican politicians are in the gun industry’s pocket.

Speaking of which:

Wayne LaPierre quit after decades of mismanagement,

Because Letitia James’s fraud charges against the NRA were too much heat!

The same gun nut that missed every target on a hunting trip!

The same con artist that expensed for himself from the NRA $7,000 designer suits and tried to purchase a mansion in West Lake, Texas, from member donations!

The same charlatan who has run the con of elevating The Second Amendment to scripture status since the 1970s!

 

“Get over it!”

Because, in this tragicomedy, “he who shall not be named” is the clown face of Oligarchy.

 

“Get over it!”

Because this “American Carnage” isn’t touching their exclusive Cul de Sacs!

 

“Get over it!”

That's because the stock ticker for “Smith and Wesson” goes up before the toe tags!

 

“Get over it!”

Because they lifted the prohibition against the mentally disabled owning firearms in 2017 to terrorize American citizens!

Source: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/president-trump-made-it-easier-mentally-ill-get-guns-when-n1039301

 

“Get over it!”

Because divisions between seemingly disparate groups are how the oligarchy maintains power and influence!

 

Because,

African Americans contesting with Hispanics,

Aligning Native Americans with savagery,

Asian/Pacific Islanders challenging Affirmative Action in college admissions,

Muslims against Jewish citizens,

Rural America contesting Urban Dwellers,

Everyone contesting the LGBTQIA community,

 

Plays into the hands of oligarchy,

Because if we’re strapping for crumbs at the Lazarus table of an unjust system,

NO ONE is working on dismantling it!

 

Some of us so are gaslit to be upset that in 2045,

So-called “white” people will be 49.7% of the population.

You’re missing the point that the oligarchy wants you to miss:

If you partnered:

African Americans with Hispanics,

Asian/Pacific Islanders with Native Americans,

Muslim Americans with Jewish Americans,

Rural Americans with Urban Americans,

The LGBTQIA with EVERYBODY,

 

The fraction becomes this:

All of us: 99%. Oligarchy: 1%.

 

“We the people” could get sane gun control legislation,

“We, the people,” could get a free college education,

“We the people” could get environmental regulations that mitigate climate change impacts on cities and rural communities,

“We the people” can return bodily autonomy to women, [the voting majority] of this country,

“We the people” can remove lead pipes from rural and urban communities,

“We the people” could decrease income inequality that exacerbates criminality, climate, and societal instability.

 

Because the fraction that terrifies sociopaths:

All of us: 99%. Oligarchy: 1%.

That’s why “Occupy Wall Street” had to be crushed!

 

Know this:

There is no equivalent functionality for a billionaire/oligarch/grand poobah/potentate/sheik in nature.

 

They aren’t “stable geniuses”. They are Ketamine-addicted, coke-snorting grand theft artists!

 

That fact is what they don’t want you to get.

And “we, the people,” on November 5, 2024, will NOT “get over it!”

I, Psychopath...

 

Source: In a fresh flub, Trump brags 'Hannibal Lecter' loves him, says 'so I love him,' India Today.

© December 7, 2023, the Griot Poet 

 

Inspector: “Do you have any guilty knowledge of the death of Paul Momund?”

Hannibal: “‘Guilty’ knowledge?”

 

It was a clever dodge allowing an eighteen-year-old Hannibal Lecter to pass a lie detector test.

His quip was in the Prequel, “Hannibal Rising.”

At the beginning of his career of cannibalistic carnage, he was incapable of it.

That’s one of the telltale signs of a person more accurately described as suffering from antisocial personality disorder.

 

More still, his fictional character, if real, would have malevolent antisocial disorder because he would never have any “guilty knowledge” of any atrocities he’d ever committed.

 

He, unlike most serial killers, ate his victims.

He never kept souvenirs or collected items for evidence.

Thus, he went undetected in his fictional world until real-world science informed Thomas Harris’ writings.

 

In 2003, a documentary called “The Corporation,” by Joel Bakan,

Which examined how Robber Barons and their lawyers used the 14th Amendment to give birthright citizenship to previously enslaved Africans,

To grant “personhood” to a legal work of fiction.

The documentary asked: “If corporations are ‘persons,’ what kind of person are they?”

 

The answer: A psychopath.

Like Hannibal Lecter.

 

Like the last Oval Office resident, who is running on a promised agenda of vengeance.

Whose first inaugural speech was about “American Carnage.”

Before, we lost one million citizens during a botched handling of a pandemic.

Who is daily encouraging his cult followers to commit political violence.

 

Like Hannibal, he will have “no guilty knowledge” of any wrongdoing he’s PLANNING to commit!

He never has, and he never will.

 

In the 1980s, Saint Ronnie began saluting the military disembarking Marine or Air Force One (note that Eisenhower, a Five Star General who led the Battle of Normandy against the Nazis, didn’t).

 

The Wall Street Journal started referring to the president as “the Chief Executive.”

Analogous to the CEO of a corporation.

 

Question: What’s the number one employment for a psychopath?

Answer: Chief Executive Officer!

 

Source 1: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyclay/2013/01/05/the-top-10-jobs-that-attract-psychopaths/?sh=466a709d4d80

Source 2: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackmccullough/2019/12/09/the-psychopathic-ceo/?sh=7f2d53c6791e

 

Why do billionaires invest in old and new forms of media?

Jeff Bezos: Amazon, The Washington Post,

Mike Bloomberg: Bloomberg News,

Elon Musk: “X,”

Rupert Murdoch: Fox “Not” News, The New York Post, The Wall Street Journal,

Mark Zuckerberg: Facebook, Instagram, and Threads,

 

Hint: It’s NOT to expand your First Amendment rights!

It’s to tell us/gaslight us into what to THINK about them!

 

It explains America:

Who entered almost 400 treaties with Native Americans between 1778 and 1871 and broke or violated EVERY one of them!

Source: https://www.history.com/news/native-american-broken-treaties

 

Who “discovered” a new land that was populated for over ten millennia.

Who slaughtered First Nations people who were responsible for THEIR surviving harsh winters.

Who wrote the “Chinese Exclusion Act” in 1882, after they helped build the transcontinental railroad system for the Robber Barons.

Who used Opium that the Chinese smoked in recreation for the first “War on Drugs” legislation.

Who kidnapped Africans for 400 years of uncompensated labor,

And refused then, and now to their descendants to pay reparations.

Who says, “Remember the Alamo,” leaving out the fact that the war was because Mexico would not return escaped Africans back to Texas.

The US just passed in 2022 that lynching is finally a federal hate crime,

Source: https://www.npr.org/2022/03/29/1086720579/lynching-is-now-a-federal-hate-crime-after-a-century-of-blocked-efforts

 

One-hundred and twenty-seven years after Ida B. Wells-Barnett published “The Red Record” (1895).

Now you understand why they hate accurate history.

Why book banning is no longer the providence of historical Nazis.

 

Why did they take away bodily autonomy from women?

Why is the Supreme Court thinking about removing rights from the LGBT?

Answer to both: 2045 is 22 years away, and they are forcing more white women to have more babies to STAY in the majority!

Addendum: to also make women of color and LGBT families [to] not even bother having any.

Source: https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-us-will-become-minority-white-in-2045-census-projects/

 

We’ve surpassed previous records for gun massacres THIS year! 630 is obscene.

Source: https://truthout.org/articles/2023-breaks-record-for-most-mass-killings-from-guns-in-a-single-year-in-the-u-s/

 

Guns are the number one cause of death for children ages zero to seventeen.

So, why focus on the voluntary activity of attending shows put on by drag queens?

Answer: It’s not happening in their exclusive neighborhoods, and autocrats punch down to the weak.

Also, Black children are six times more likely to die from gun violence than white children.

Source: https://www.snopes.com/news/2023/03/29/guns-leading-deaths-children-us/

 

Why is the only thing we can ever get after gruesome gun massacres are “thoughts and prayers” from so-called legislators?

 

Answer:

Inspector: “Do you have any guilty knowledge of the death of Paul Momund?”

Hannibal: “‘Guilty’ knowledge?”

 

Poetically, we’ve taken “The Red Pill.” 

This country has no “guilty knowledge.”

Uncle Sam is a psychopath.

I’m fighting for democracy because we haven’t achieved it yet!

 

VOTE BLUE in 2024, or, through apathy, fear, and violence, they will make democracy meaningless.

There will BE no other elections if fascism wins.

And they will have “no guilty knowledge” of the consequences!

Vermin...

 

Source: Facebook/Meta meme

© November 18, 2023, the Griot Poet 

 

“We pledge to you that we will root out the communists, Marxists, fascists, and the radical left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country that lie and steal and cheat on elections,” Trump said toward the end of his speech, repeating his false claims that the 2020 election was stolen. “They’ll do anything, whether legally or illegally, to destroy America and to destroy the American Dream.”...the threat from outside forces is far less sinister, dangerous, and grave than the threat from within. Our threat is from within. Because if you have a capable, competent, smart, tough leader, Russia, China, North Korea, they’re not going to want to play with us.”

 

Hitler: I will get rid of the communist “vermin.”

Him: Repeated verbatim.

 

Hitler: I will take care of the “enemy within.”

Him: I will take care of the “threat from within.”

 

Hitler: Jews and migrants are poisoning Aryan blood.

Him: Migrants are poisoning the blood of our country.

 

Hitler: One people, one realm, one leader.

Him: One people, one family, one GLORIOUS nation.

 

Godwin’s law states that as an online discussion grows longer, someone will start comparing their opponents to Nazis.

 

What happens when he blatantly admits it?

What happens when the only book he’s ever read is a collection of Hitler’s speeches?

 

“Make America Great Again” sounds like a road that leads to Auschwitz.

Paved ironically by Stephen Miller, whose Jewish grandfather fled Nazi pogroms in Europe.

 

Speaking of insurrection:

He has promised to use the Insurrection Act to jail his opponents: Antifa, Black Lives Matter, Women in Pink Hats, you, me.

 

What is the litmus test for when they reach “perfection?”

 

When women are barefoot and pregnant, with no careers or bodily autonomy?

When you repeal the federal law making lynching a hate crime?

When [you] can legally kill immigrants seeking asylum at the Texas-Mexico border?

When you force LGBTQIA people back into the closet?

When no Americans can go to school, the library, or the mall without the fear of a random gun slaughter?

How many Palestinian babies and Israeli babies are part of this dark calculus?

 

He killed one million Americans due to negligence during the pandemic: was that [just] practice?

Germans casually swept ashes off their front porches as Hitler enacted his “final solution” on Jewish citizens.

Because the illusion of perfection makes you cast your imperfections on others who don’t have any control over who they are or how they present themselves.

Not accepting your flaws and putting them on others is called projection.

A narcissistic utopia is dystopian for everyone else.

 

What happens if you achieve your white-topia?

Will you be happy then?

No. You’ll find some other “differences.”

Freckles, red hair, left-handed people.

Those little imperfections I listed have a history of being demonized.

They will pervert Jane Elliot’s “blue-eyed, brown-eyed” experiment.

Eugenics IS pseudoscience!

 

In pursuit of illusory perfection,

One million citizens won’t be enough.

6 million of any ethnicity or sexual orientation won’t be enough.

King Leopold’s 10 million slaughtered in the Congo won’t be enough.

He’ll have 8 billion to prune and cut!

 

He said, “I will be your retribution.”

His pettiness is for him, not you.

You now applaud him at his hate rallies,

But you’re going to be fodder for his next American carnage:

More died in red than in blue counties during the pandemic,

 

Source: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/people-in-republican-counties-have-higher-death-rates-than-those-in-democratic-counties/

 

The Bard said ironically in “The Tempest”: What’s past is prologue.

“Project 2025” is obscene.

Making the “Heritage Foundation” an oxymoron.

Their devious plan is anti-constitutional, anti-democratic, anti-human: Antichrist!

This fascist wet dream would mow down MAGA and libs alike.

 

Haven’t you seen the body count of the diehard sycophants he’s casually thrown under the bus?

 

Face it:

Your insistent “great again” pipe dream was always bullshit.

Right up there, insisting on second-place trophies for losing the first insurrection!

“Trickledown” has had forty years to make you filthy rich (It hasn’t).

 

Face it:

Both major parties have septuagenarian and octogenarian candidates.

That’s not a reason for young people to disengage,

But maybe consider running yourselves for public office?

AOC wasn’t AOC until she ran and WON in 2018.

Be the change you want to see.

Run, win, and shape our futures for everyone’s common good and benefit.

 

Which one is better:

The candidate who has a speech impediment,

Or the crotchety, pablum-spewing fascist?

Your third-party, stick-it-to-the-system protest vote in 2024 empowers the fascist!

Who [are] you with?

 

Face it:

A “billionaire” asking you to donate your hard-earned money to finance his legal bills and Big Lie grift,

Doesn’t have a “pot to piss in,”

Has Mike Bloomberg asked you for anything? Michael Dell? Warren Buffet?

Is this logical?

Reread the meme with Mr. Spock’s image.

He’s not running to lead the country; he’s trying to stay out of prison!

 

If after “grab em by the pussy,”

If, after dissing John McCain for being tortured and captured,

If, after calling our war dead “suckers and losers,”

If, after two impeachment proceedings,

The first insurrection since 1860,

January 6 Hearings,

One million dead citizens,

One civil court case confirming sexual assault,

Add to that less than 24 hours later slander,

One civil case of corrupt business practices,

Where New York is deciding how much he OWES them north of 250 million dollars.

Paying hush money to Karen McDougal and Stormy Daniels,

If after 91 federal indictments, ONE for stealing classified nuclear secrets, you’re STILL flying “Trump 2024” off your pickup truck,

You’ve got serious issues.

 

We aren’t voting for the current president because we like him.

We, who aren’t duped, will vote to save our republic and the planet.

Face it before it’s too late, pilgrims:

He doesn’t love you, God, the country, the environment, the planet, your family:

Unless, in his twisted mind, you’re him, YOU ARE vermin!

 

Related: https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/15/media/2024-election-horse-race-stakes-nyu-professor/index.html

Axis of Idiots...

 

Source: https://bonpote.com/en/the-5-basic-laws-of-human-stupidity/

© November 11, 2023, The Griot Poet

According to Google Generative AI, the word “axis” has multiple definitions:

“An imaginary line that an object spins around.”

In geometry:

“An imaginary line around which an object is symmetrically arranged.”

An axis can also refer to:

“A real or imaginary straight line going through the center of an object spinning.”

To pair “axis” with “idiots” must be the best self-own of the millennium.

 

The November 7, 2023, off-year elections were courtesy of Supreme Court Justices Alito, Barrett, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Chief Roberts, and Thomas,

 

Six who lied in their confirmation hearings that previous decisions were Stare decisis – Latin for “precedent.”

 

As in previous decisions by the court, they had already been settled, and they guaranteed that they would not overturn any out of respect.

 

New flash: they didn’t.

The fact that Ohio voters enshrined reproductive rights in their state Constitution means, like Kentucky previously, republicans crossed over to vote for it.

 

Andy Beshear won re-election in a state the twice-impeached, 91-count indicted, responsible for one million Americans dying during the pandemic won by 26 points in the last election,

The one he lost, knew he lost, and still denies it.

 

According to Google Generative AI, the term “idiot” has multiple definitions:

“A person with subnormal intelligence.”

“A foolish or senseless person.”

“A person with a severe learning disability.”

“A very foolish or stupid person.”

“A person of profound mental impedance having a mental age below three years.”

“Synonyms of ‘idiot’ include Changeling, Cretin, Half-wit, Imbecile, Moron.”

The last description, "moron," the previous Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, related with a colorful adjective metaphor.

 

Medias Touch title piece:

“Trump Blames ‘Axis of Idiots’ (DeSantis, McConnell, Youngkin, Kemp) for Electoral ‘Shellacking.’”

Source: https://www.meidastouch.com/news/trump-blames-axis-of-idiots-desantis-mcconnell-youngkin-kemp-for-electoral-shellacking

Did I mention his endorsed candidate in Kentucky, Attorney General Daniel Cameron, LOST to Governor-Elect Andy Beshear?

It didn’t help that he covered for the police in the summary execution of Breonna Taylor,

Making Daniel Cameron perpetually NOT invited to family barbeques, Sunday dinners, or family reunions!

Dumbo Gambino re-fake-tweeted the article “Axis of Idiots” by the right-wing hacks in the National Pulse,

Because Baby Huey was having “the sads,” and he needed a pick-me-up.

He signaled his cult to attack Younkin, whom he endorsed in 2018.

He endorsed DeSantis and Kemp, who couldn’t help him find 11,780 votes in Georgia.

Thanks to Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, we’ve got him recorded.

And so does DA Fani Willis.

Both handily won re-election without the “Big Lie” (and I was rooting for Stacey Abrams).

McConnell helped him pass tax cuts that put the United States trillions of dollars in debt.

For tax cuts for the 1% such that “trickle down” is their urine flowing on everyone else.

Meanwhile, there’s a fourth Republican debate in December.

Did anyone pay attention to the first three? Anyone remember?

You cannot run against the frontrunner unless you’re willing to call out his bullshit!

Meanwhile, there’s probably going to be a government shutdown because if you don’t know how to run an economy, your next option is to wreck it!

A book assignment from the late NYU Journalism Professor Neil Postman: “Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Showbusiness.”

The book was published in 1985 after the advent of CNN on June 1, 1980.

There was no Internet, blogs, email, message boards, or podcasts.

Ted Turner wanted the “HBO of news” to go from dry facts to entertainment.

It was an election year, and we got a B-Movie actor as president.

Who, through his former CIA Director running mate, may have held the hostages in Iran to defeat the Democratic incumbent,

Who was talking about climate change before it became popular,

After the 1980 election, the new president removed the solar panels from the White House.

His party (and some Democrats) has been in the pocket of Big Oil ever since.

Because humans are more concerned with short-term profits than the collective survival of the species and life on the planet!

2016 was the last time the "gang of Putin" bothered writing and publishing a platform.

McConnell wouldn’t commit to a position before the 2022 midterms: “wait until after the elections.”

It’s been a natural evolution from a B-Movie actor to a reality show huckster in a party that doesn’t take governing or compromise seriously.

 

If you want to have some fun,

Look at Bon Pote’s 2019 post “Five Basic Laws of Stupidity,” the last being the most chilling: “A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person.”

And some want to give the stupidest man among us the nuclear codes again (and I’m sure next time, he WILL nuke a hurricane, and democracy with it!).

Source: https://bonpote.com/en/the-5-basic-laws-of-human-stupidity/

 

According to Google Generative AI, “axis” and “idiots” are defined as:

“A real or imaginary straight line going through the center of an object spinning.”

“A person of profound mental impedance having a mental age below three years.”

To pair “axis” with “idiots” must be the best self-own of the millennium.

The man blaming an "axis of idiots" for his electoral defeats won't admit he's the throughline for it!

Last Battlefield...

“Last Battlefield,” 47 years later, StarTrek.com, January 10, 2016

© October 23, 2023, the Griot Poet 

 

January 10, 1969,

“Let That Be Your Last Battlefield” premiered in,

The third and last season of the Star Trek original series,

Arguably, Trek is at its best, or WAY too simplistic and heavy-handed.

 

The premise:

Bele, a constable from the planet of Cheron, pursued a political dissident named Lokai,

Lokai’s people were the pariahs of Cheron‘s planetary caste system:

 

Bele, the “superior race,” was black on the right side of his body and face.

Lokai, the despised, was black on the left side, his mirror image.

 

Science Officer Spock logically postulated that they descended from a monochromatic common ancestor.

 

“Change is the essential process of all existence” is still one of the most classic lines Leonard Nimoy, the grandson of Ukrainian Jewish immigrants fleeing the Nazi pogroms, in character, uttered.

 

Both men scoffed and tried to kill each other with their pyrotechnical powers,

They put the Enterprise in jeopardy of destruction.

 

The faster-than-light chase had been long: 50,000 years of anger, animosity, bitterness, hatred,

Based on a duo-chromatic caste system,

Predating humanity becoming a spacefaring species,

They had been at war since we emerged from the caves.

 

The powerful beings hijacked the Enterprise, forcing it off course in orbit to Cheron,

 

Finding it a lifeless planet, radiated buildings, charred surfaces and bodies, climate utterly disrupted, and no sentient beings to convene a trial or mount a defense.

 

The inevitable consequence of the Hatfield and McCoy feuds is mutually assured destruction.

 

Bele and Lokai, the last beings of their kind, beamed down to complete the genocide.

*****

 

January 10, 1969,

“Let That Be Your Last Battlefield” premiered in,

The third and last season of the Star Trek original series,

 

Seven months after the assassination of presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Sr.,

Nine months after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,

One year and seven months after the Six Day War between Israel versus Egypt, Jordan, and Syria, the only one since that Israel arguably “won.”

 

Whether you believe scripture,

Israelis and Palestinians are the descendants of a common ancestor.

Their religions are monotheistic, 

They are imago alterius of one another,

They are kindred.

They are sisters and brothers.

Trying to kill each other with physical pyrotechnics,

Fighting a duel that started thousands of years ago.

 

Which is the chosen nation?

Which is the child of promise?

Which is the more excellent sacrifice, Cain’s or Abel’s?

 

Cain and Abel. Brahman and Dalit. German and Jew. Catholic and Protestant. Hutu and Tutsi. Ukrainian and Russian. Ishmael and Isaac. “Black” and “White” and all shades in between America created for its racial hierarchy.

 

Quoting a Facebook meme:

 

“We were all humans until:

“Religion separated us.

“Politics divided us.

“Wealth classified us.

“And race disconnected us.”

 

All inhabitants of the same planet,

All members of the same human family,

 

What will it matter?

 

How will we call this “The Holy Lands” if you reduce it to ashes and cinders?

 

An example of negative impacts:

The wholesale slaughter of Native Americans changed the climate of the planet!

 

Source: https://www.sciencealert.com/new-study-says-europeans-killed-so-many-indigenous-americans-the-planet-cooled-down

 

What would the departure of Israel and Palestine trigger?

Know this: World War Three will have no sequel.

 

I figure that the only resolution is a two-state solution,

Or a 50-50 framework for shared powers of an egalitarian representative government.

 

News flash: NO ONE is going to like it!

It’s called compromise: What you should have learned in kindergarten.

 

But returning lands seized would look and sound a LOT like reparations,

Which would have repercussions in the United States’ hierarchical system of government.

 

England, France, and other European nations would have to return their mineral wealth to the nations and peoples on the African/Akebulan continent.

 

Exodus 11:2 states:

The Hebrews left captivity after 400 years carrying Egypt’s gold, silver and jewels on their backs.

 

Star Trek’s self-proclaimed number one fan said: “The choice today is no longer between violence and nonviolence. It is either nonviolence or nonexistence.” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

Last lines of the last act of “Battlefield”:

 

SULU: But their planet’s dead. Does it matter now which one’s right? 
SPOCK: Not to Lokai and Bele. All that matters to them is their hate. 
UHURA: Do you suppose that’s all they ever had, sir? 
KIRK: (Ruefully) No, but that’s all they have left. Warp factor two, Mister Sulu. Set course for Starbase Four.

Source: http://www.chakoteya.net/StarTrek/70.htm