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You are here: Home / Elections / Election 2016 / Late Night Hate-Fic Open Thread: Entertaining But *Very* NSFW

Late Night Hate-Fic Open Thread: Entertaining But *Very* NSFW

by Anne Laurie|  August 26, 20162:05 am| 38 Comments

This post is in: Election 2016, Excellent Links, Open Threads, Republicans in Disarray!

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RYAN: Quite a day.
TRUMP: My little white frogs are so sad!
RYAN: Yep
TRUMP: If I lose them, I lose them. I only go to Reddit for the nudes

— Owen Ellickson (@onlxn) August 25, 2016

Owen Ellickson is an evil genius, and if you have a taste for nasty political humor you should most definitely be reading him on the regular. Just not at work, or around people with delicate sensibilities…

RYAN: Things are… so bad.
TRUMP: Relax. Hillary's numbers'll nosedive once I reveal she made phone calls while she was saving AIDS kids

— Owen Ellickson (@onlxn) August 25, 2016

TRUMP: You, uh… you scare me.
COULTER: Good.
TRUMP: I never know what you're gonna do.
COULTER: Me neither.
TRUMP: I respect that so much

— Owen Ellickson (@onlxn) August 25, 2016

TRUMP: This is the game. You either die on the toilet or live long enough to become a sellout.
BANNON: ANDREW DID NOT DIE ON THE TOILET!!!

— Owen Ellickson (@onlxn) August 25, 2016

TRUMP: The me-as-racist thing is BS. I've been pro-amnesty for HOURS now. That counts for nothing?
RYAN:
TRUMP: I dumped my frogs for THIS?!

— Owen Ellickson (@onlxn) August 25, 2016

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  1. 1.

    Mnemosyne

    August 26, 2016 at 2:18 am

    I think I spotted Trump’s next campaign manager.

    (Still one of only two movies that can make me literally fall down laughing.)

  2. 2.

    C.S.

    August 26, 2016 at 2:21 am

    Ellickson is a stone genius, and he’s writing the great American comic political novel right in front of our eyes. This campaign is a horrendous clusterfk and shtshow but I bet that years from now I’ll still go back to Ellickson’s collected tweets the same way I re-read Fear & Loathing On The Campaign Trail.

  3. 3.

    BR

    August 26, 2016 at 2:24 am

    Strange — did Trump punch something and hurt his hand?

    ? Many people are saying something is going on with Trump. Injecting Drugs? Cutting himself? Look at his finger. pic.twitter.com/F3f9HIfCDF— The Reagan Battalion (@ReaganBattalion) August 26, 2016

  4. 4.

    patrick II

    August 26, 2016 at 2:26 am

    Trump called Hillary a bigot against black people because her policies are not working and black people continue to be poor and uneducated — therefore she’s a bigot. Except that Hillary isn’t president yet, Barack Obama is. Evidently Barack is the one who is a bigot against black people. Must be tough to look in the mirror or sit down to dinner with his family.

  5. 5.

    amk

    August 26, 2016 at 2:29 am

    @BR: magic finger enhancement surgery?

  6. 6.

    patrick II

    August 26, 2016 at 2:32 am

    @BR:

    That sore on his hand makes me very concerned whether he is healthy enough to be president.

  7. 7.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2016 at 2:49 am

    @Mnemosyne:

    I presume the other is a Keaton? The General?

  8. 8.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2016 at 2:50 am

    @BR:

    They’re so short it’s hard to see.

  9. 9.

    Ruckus

    August 26, 2016 at 2:59 am

    @patrick II:
    A sore on his hand is the major health issue that concerns you? Not that he is a deranged racist lunatic? Not that has the stamina of an never watered house plant? Not that mental health care professionals will study this election season for decades trying to decide if he fits into 5 or 10 diseased categories, any one of which should have gotten him committed?

  10. 10.

    cokane

    August 26, 2016 at 3:01 am

    i must be alone in feeling that shtick gets old pretty fast. was introduced to them here i think, laughed at one or two of the first i saw, but ? they’re just kind of hacky now

  11. 11.

    Karen marie

    August 26, 2016 at 3:07 am

    @patrick II: Trump’s letter from his doctor did say his medical exam showed only “positive results.” Which STD does he have? AOT,K. That would explain any sores.

  12. 12.

    Villago Delenda Est

    August 26, 2016 at 3:37 am

    @Karen marie: Indeed. As one Dr. on the TV put it, “No one has ever been happy to test positive for gonorrhea”.

  13. 13.

    hellslittlestangel

    August 26, 2016 at 3:50 am

    Ryan and frogs — do I want to know what that means?

  14. 14.

    Anne Laurie

    August 26, 2016 at 4:04 am

    @hellslittlestangel: Olivia Nuzzi, in the Daily Beast:4Chan’s Pepe the Frog, Alt-Right Symbol

    … Normies are basics—agreeable, mainstream members of society who have no knowingly abhorrent political views or unsavory hobbies. They are Katy Perry, and when they latch onto a meme, the meme dies the way your favorite band dies when it sells out and licenses a song to Chevrolet. When mainstream culture gets in on the joke, in other words, the joke is ruined forever.

    The campaign to reclaim Pepe from normies was an effort to prevent this sort of death, but it also had the effect of desensitizing swaths of the Internet to racist, but mostly anti-Semitic, ideas supported by the so-called alt-right movement….

    (Also possibly NSFW.)

    Ryan is just boring old Paul Ryan, aka The Zombie-Eyed Granny Starver, whose GOP “leadership” is not being made any easier by Deadbeat Donnie.

  15. 15.

    Cermet

    August 26, 2016 at 4:36 am

    In Greifwald, Germany and glad I can’t speak the language (unlike my daughter) so I don’t have to deal with the tTrump issue. She, hoever, has had to deal with it a lot.

  16. 16.

    Amir Khalid

    August 26, 2016 at 4:56 am

    @Cermet:
    Ach, deine arme Tochter. Es gibt aber viele Menschen in Deutschland, die Englisch können, nicht wahr?

  17. 17.

    Gin & Tonic

    August 26, 2016 at 4:58 am

    @Cermet: I am in Kiev, and do speak the language, but so far nobody has brought up Trump.

  18. 18.

    satby

    August 26, 2016 at 5:32 am

    I’m in Michigan, technically I speak the language though not the local redneck dialect, and Trump isn’t coming up here either. My hard-core Republican neighbors are too embarrassed to put up yard signs, and that includes the guy with the flag of treason flying occasionally.

  19. 19.

    NotMax

    August 26, 2016 at 5:38 am

    Been on this spinning ball a long time yet can barely make head or tail of those tweets, much less detect a whiff of humor in them.

  20. 20.

    satby

    August 26, 2016 at 5:46 am

    @NotMax: I get them. Some are funnier than others for sure. I’m just not the kind of person who can even try to imagine what a conversation between any of those jokers would be like, much less put a funny twist on it. But I appreciate the effort, because ridicule is one of the best weapons against them.

  21. 21.

    Patricia Kayden

    August 26, 2016 at 5:50 am

    @patrick II: lol! Poor Trump. Someone should teach him that projection doesn’t work unless it’s plausible. No one believes that Democrats “are the real racists” when there is so much evidence that Republicans are strongly anti-Black (just look at how hard they’re trying to stop us from voting).

  22. 22.

    patrick II

    August 26, 2016 at 6:54 am

    @Ruckus:

    A sore on the hand could mean leprosy, and that his health is too poor to be president. I am not a doctor but I watched Rudy Guliani on TV last night.

  23. 23.

    patrick II

    August 26, 2016 at 6:57 am

    @Ruckus:

    You should probably see a doctor too, your snark meter seems stuck in the “off” position.

  24. 24.

    debbie

    August 26, 2016 at 7:23 am

    I didn’t want to pollute the pet thread above, but I like this video showing one of the Trump background audience’s reaction to the moment he called Hillary a bigot.

  25. 25.

    HRA

    August 26, 2016 at 7:38 am

    There are racist Democrats. Those of us who have grown up in 90+% Democrat communities found in Blue NYS know it is true. Now in social media the 2nd and 3rd generation of the original racist Democrats have joined the Republican party and boldly show their racism.

    I could write a lot more of what I saw happen to my Black schoolmates in this community. I am seriously thinking of writing a book about it.

  26. 26.

    SFAW

    August 26, 2016 at 8:04 am

    @Patricia Kayden:

    No one believes that Democrats “are the real racists”

    Oh bullshit. Lincoln freed You People, and he was a Republican, so there!

  27. 27.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    August 26, 2016 at 8:40 am

    @BR: meh, could just be a bruise – he’s 70 and likely the doc has him on aspirin which makes you bruise easily.

  28. 28.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    August 26, 2016 at 8:51 am

    @Anne Laurie: ROFL journalists turn on their computers and discover there is this 4/chan thing…

    “On May 16, Ben White, a reporter for Politico, tweeted a drawing of Pepe and asked, “What/who is this character and why do I see it associated with Trumpsters/Alt-Right types all the time?”

    #FrogTwitter descended on White’s mentions, with predictable results. @DonaldjBismarck, a self-described “Nationalist,” replied with a meme of Hillary Clinton, squinting at a computer screen and asking, “WHO THE HELL IS PEPE?”

    “Turns out asking about Pepe was a bad idea,” White tweeted, in conclusion.”

    Google, how does it work?

  29. 29.

    HeartlandLiberal

    August 26, 2016 at 8:55 am

    @Mnemosyne: Proof positive that Trump is of the Lizard People, his fake human skin has ruptured there. This is significant, important news, that should be shared with all Americans. Especially those who believe in the Lizard People conspiracy. I.e., most of Trump’s voters.

  30. 30.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    August 26, 2016 at 9:04 am

    Oh this get better

    From Ann linke
    http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/05/26/how-pepe-the-frog-became-a-nazi-trump-supporter-and-alt-right-symbol.html

    “Most memes are ephemeral by nature, but Pepe is not,” @JaredTSwift told me. “He’s a reflection of our souls, to most of us. It’s disgusting to see people (‘normies,’ if you will) use him so trivially. He belongs to us. And we’ll make him toxic if we have to.”

    Nothing says “expressing my soul” like hijacking someone elses art. But, Jared here lives on the internets.

    “In a sense, we’ve managed to push white nationalism into a very mainstream position,” he said. “Trump’s online support has been crucial to his success, I believe, and the fact is that his biggest and most devoted online supporters are white nationalists. Now, we’ve pushed the Overton window. People have adopted our rhetoric, sometimes without even realizing it. We’re setting up for a massive cultural shift.”

    So basically Trump is a 4/chan troll on a massive scale? And here I was thinking Russians.

  31. 31.

    shomi

    August 26, 2016 at 9:14 am

    Not funny.

  32. 32.

    shomi

    August 26, 2016 at 9:19 am

    Seems Drumpf changed once he started getting security briefings. I think that is when he realized that he’s in way over his head.

  33. 33.

    C.S.

    August 26, 2016 at 9:26 am

    @NotMax: You kinda have to start at the beginning, or near. He’s built up an internal system that’s remarkably consistent and which is sometimes necessary to decipher the humor.

  34. 34.

    SFAW

    August 26, 2016 at 9:27 am

    Seems Drumpf changed once he started getting security briefings. I think that is when he realized that he’s in way over his head.

    He was just confused, because he kept expecting Eli Manning to show up with the “football.”

  35. 35.

    Frankensteinbeck

    August 26, 2016 at 10:39 am

    @Cermet:
    ‘It’s very simple. Imagine how Germany would react if your prime minister was Greek.’

  36. 36.

    nutella

    August 26, 2016 at 11:28 am

    If you want to read all of these tweets from Owen Ellickson, go to https://storify.com/michaeljweigel for links to two storify strings of Owen’s tweets. Be warned though, that there are more than a thousand of them!

  37. 37.

    nutella

    August 26, 2016 at 11:30 am

    Ugh moderated for naked link. And edit doesn’t work.

    Repeat without naked link:

    If you want to read all of these tweets from Owen Ellickson, go to Storify for links to two long strings of Owen’s tweets. Be warned though, that there are more than a thousand of them!

  38. 38.

    daves09

    August 26, 2016 at 6:01 pm

    @nutella: Reread one of the storify links this morning. It’s why I like the snark on Wonkette-some fails but a lot of laugh out louds.

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