Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

How any woman could possibly vote for this smug smarmy piece of misogynistic crap is beyond understanding.

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

They were going to turn on one another at some point. It was inevitable.

Republicans don’t lie to be believed, they lie to be repeated.

Fight them, without becoming them!

When you’re in more danger from the IDF than from Russian shelling, that’s really bad.

The republican speaker is a slippery little devil.

“But what about the lurkers?”

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

Roe is not about choice. It is about freedom.

The next time the wall street journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.

Weird. Rome has an American Pope and America has a Russian President.

The line between political reporting and fan fiction continues to blur.

“When somebody takes the time to draw up a playbook, they’re gonna use it.”

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

My right to basic bodily autonomy is not on the table. that’s the new deal.

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

Republicans want to make it harder to vote and easier for them to cheat.

If you voted for Trump, you don’t get to speak about ethics, morals, or rule of law.

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires.

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Open Thread: Night Terrors of the Misogynists

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I repeat: Owen Ellickson is a godsdamned comic genius.

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  2. 2.

    Ruckus

    Owen Ellickson may be a comic genius but his Trump character is smarter than the real thing. He giving Trump credit for actually thinking this through. And it obvious that he only reacts, unless there is possibly money in it for him. Trump is the human that gives the word whore a bad connotation.

  5. 5.

    SFAW

    @Ryan:

    Like Trump knows what an Ayn Rand even is!

    He may not, but as with ZEGS, he gets a frisson at the mention of her name. At least, until he finds out her real name was Rosenbaum.

  7. 7.

    Faction

    I’m getting echoes of Ted Cruz here: he didn’t just want to be the American President, he wanted to be the LAST American President. He’s the candidate Christopher Walken would shoot.

  8. 8.

    Mai.naem.mobile

    I haven’t read MoDos column but I just don’t see Trumpy using the word ‘frisson.’ He seems more like a ‘tingle up my leg’ kind of guy.

  9. 9.

    Adam L Silverman

    @SFAW: And she liked to sleep with Alan Greenspan. Also, was on medicaid because of complications from being a chain smoker.

  12. 12.

    Anne Laurie

    @Ryan:

    Like Trump knows what an Ayn Rand even is!

    Ellickson’s ongoing bit is that Trump bullies Ryan as an Ayn Rand fanboi (which he is) and that Roger Ailes is a squid-like monster (which he may be, from the evidence available).

    Not sure that Ailes is an actual specimen of Lovecraft’s Ancient Ones, but if he were, you know Trump would find that admirable!

  17. 17.

    Bruce Webb

    Yep the Objectivists weren’t big on Conventional Morality. Like Taxes that was for the Little People.

  24. 24.

    Suzanne

    I got home about half an hour ago from seeing Gloria Steinem be interviewed at the Orpheum Theatre. Got to go with Spawn the Elder, Mr. Suzanne, and the Dowager Countess. It was awesome. My kid was just so excited and she said afterward, “Mom, I feel so powerful.” Trump cannot touch me right now. Begone, little man.

  25. 25.

    Mike in NC

    Been great to see all of the usual BJ hand-wringers earlier tonight, predicting the inevitable coronation of President Drumpf only weeks away. The same idiots who thought Sarah Palin was a political genius and Mitt Romney an unstoppable juggernaut. Dimwitted assholes.

  26. 26.

    Mnemosyne

    Finally got off my ass and made the potato salad for tomorrow’s picnic with my writers’ group. Now I’m trying to rehydrate a little more before bed since I’m still a little dehydrated from this afternoon’s bikeshare adventure. Ideally, I’d like to be in Studio City by 9 am for the pre-meeting write-in, but we’ll see.

  29. 29.

    NoraLenderbee

    @hovercraft: According to libertardians I know, it was perfectly OK for her to get SS and Medicaid, because
    –At some point she paid a few $ into the system, so she’s only getting back what’s hers;
    –Gubmint is bad so anything you can take from them is rightfully yours; and
    –Self-interest means never turning down free money because of stupid principles.

    Or something.

  30. 30.

    grrljock

    @Suzanne: Lucky dog! I just finished My Life on the Road–such a fabulous book. Care to share the best parts of the interview with us?

  34. 34.

    Suzanne

    @grrljock: She had some great thoughts on how racism and sexism are absolutely 100% intertwined, how one is a tool of the other, both are equally pervasive and hurtful, and how she doesn’t believe that it is possible to be a feminist without being anti-racist and vice versa. She said something like, “It’s like saying, ‘Which is more important: air or water?'” Love it.

    The interview was also conducted by an art professor, and they discussed the difference between perceptions of arts versus crafts. She pointed out that “art is fancy paintings that men do, while crafts are things that women and natives do, and yet they’re really the same thing”. As someone who works in design in a VERY dude-centric field, I appreciated that a great deal. I feel what she is saying, very much.

  35. 35.

    karen marie

    @Mai.naem.mobile: In print the words — including “frisson” — were in quotation marks. It’s widely misunderstood as Modo quoting Trump when it’s a quote of Modo. It’s obvious, if you watch the video where she says it, that she’s not attributing the word “frisson” to Trump but merely describing her impression of his response to her.

  36. 36.

    karen marie

    @Adam L Silverman: An overweening sense of her own self-importance? I can’t find a clip but a recent example was Clinton’s tarmac presser on September 8th when Mitchell walks in front of the camera, maybe twice, while Clinton was speaking. Just rude.

  38. 38.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @redshirt: Yeah, I got that impression too, but I had to wonder if that was MoDo “interpreting” Drumpf’s intent in words Drumpf himself wouldn’t use because he doesn’t know them.

  42. 42.

    shomi

    Not funny. Don’t know why you keep posting these. They were kind of funny at first but not anymore. May as well keep posting stories about Hillary’s emails and how she is being treated unfairly by the media….oh wait, that’s Doug, tacky lyrics, J’s job.

  45. 45.

    Zinsky

    That is a far too reasoned and lucid Twitter conversation than Trump could ever have in real life. Trump is pure limbic, lizard-brain Id thinking – lust, greed, envy, gluttony. He doesn’t “think” per se, as in the Hegelian dialectic model. He lusts for, he wants, he needs, he hates others who have what he doesn’t have – like the easy coolness that Barack Obama has. Trump doesn’t actually sit down and reason things through. He is simply not capable of that sort of behavior.

  47. 47.

    bystander

    For those who think Clinton is being treated unfairly by the NYtimes:

    Donald J. Trump, in Colorado Springs, rushed to describe the explosion as a bomb well before the authorities had made any determinations about what had happened and while the situation was still in flux.

    “I must tell you that just before I got off the plane, a bomb went off in New York and nobody knows exactly what’s going on,” he said. “But boy, we are living in a time — we better get very tough, folks.”

    The Democratic nominee, Hillary Clinton, was informed of the episode after she gave a speech at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s annual awards dinner, her campaign said.

    She seemed to scold Mr. Trump for his quick assessment.

    “I think it’s always wiser to wait until you have information before making conclusions,” Mrs. Clinton said.

    He blunders and fabricates and fearmongers but that Hillary. She’s such a scold! How can you defend the blatant sexism?

  48. 48.

    Shalimar

    @shomi: Do you have a blog where you show people how they should be doing it, or do you only pop up in other people’s threads to tell them they’re doing it wrong?

    When you visit people in real life, is your first comment always a remark about how ugly their house is? Have you ever been invited to visit anyone a second time? Have you ever wondered why not?

  53. 53.

    Kay

    New lie on Trump’s tax returns:

    Christie defends Trump not releasing tax returns not under audit because IRS is “a partisan entity.” nonsensical but @jaketapper nods along.

    They must know by now that the lies take hold if they sit there like potted plants and nod along, right?

    I hope we’re not in for a hundred discussions on “why this lie took hold” in a month. This is why.

    It is interesting that Jake Tapper and Chris Christie feel they need a new excuse on Trump’s refusal to release anything, however.

    There’s public polling that says 70% of those polled believe Trump is hiding something. People want to see the tax returns. This is now Lie Number Three on why Trump won’t release them.

  55. 55.

    Mai.naem.mobile

    Now that it’s been twelve hours I’m going to speculate that it’s the Russians trying to mess with our elections but it’ll be blamed on muslins. Anybody hear the cheering at Trumpys rally after he announced the bomb because apparently his cult followers think it’s awesome when Americans are bombed. A$$hole.

  57. 57.

    Peale

    @Kay: maybe Trump got a call on his cell from someone claiming to be from the IRS who said he had 24 hours to fork over $5,879 or they’d throw him in jail and he doesn’t want to admit he was scammed. There’s probably write offs in there for his failed investment scheme with a Nigerian general that he doesn’t want to talk about either.

  58. 58.

    Matt McIrvin

    @Mai.naem.mobile: My best guess is some idiot who will claim inspiration by ISIS, just like Orlando, etc. These guys all want Trump to win just as badly as the Russians do: they want to “eliminate the greyzone,” radicalize everybody and make it impossible for Muslims and non-Muslims to coexist. Chaos, violent opposition, apocalypse.

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