This was praised as the best election tweet ever, and I didn't get it. Turns out I am culturally illiterate and it's a ST:TNG reference, a pretty philosophically deep one too.Donald, when the walls fell
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) November 4, 2026
If we pretend that “Shaka, when the walls fell” is a signifier, then its signified is not the fictional mythological character Shaka, nor the myth that contains whatever calamity caused the walls to fall, but the logic by which the situation itself came about. Tamarian language isn’t really language at all, but machinery.