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You are here: Home / Politics / Trumpery / Hail to the Hairpiece / Open Thread: Night Terrors of the Misogynists

Open Thread: Night Terrors of the Misogynists

by Anne Laurie|  September 18, 201612:10 am| 59 Comments

This post is in: Hail to the Hairpiece, Open Threads, Republicans in Disarray!, Vagina Outrage, Assholes

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TRUMP: What if girls get the Presidency and they're better at it and we never get it back?
RYAN:
TRUMP: I'll have screwed over boys forever!

— Owen Ellickson (@onlxn) September 17, 2016

I repeat: Owen Ellickson is a godsdamned comic genius.

RYAN: It'll be OK.
TRUMP: You dupe. I bet this was Ayn Rand's plan: to make boys so dumb women have to take over for 'em!
RYAN: TAKE IT BACK

— Owen Ellickson (@onlxn) September 17, 2016

TRUMP: Being THE guy who ends the world: it'd mean I'm a pretty big deal. If aliens come learn our history, I'm name #1. Daddy likey!
AILES:

— Owen Ellickson (@onlxn) September 17, 2016

TRUMP: Let's put a pin in this, Rog. I like it for SURE. But I'd rather win.
AILES: (buzz)
TRUMP: Absolutely. Armageddon's a terrific Plan B

— Owen Ellickson (@onlxn) September 17, 2016

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  1. 1.

    redshirt

    September 18, 2016 at 12:14 am

    Ailes:

  2. 2.

    Ruckus

    September 18, 2016 at 12:15 am

    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.

  3. 3.

    piratedan

    September 18, 2016 at 12:18 am

    @redshirt: no words, but most likely he’s planning to tell Ms. Conway that her career will really take off once she sleeps with him….

  4. 4.

    Ryan

    September 18, 2016 at 12:22 am

    Like Trump knows what an Ayn Rand even is! Isn’t he and that McNally fellow in the mapmaking business?

  5. 5.

    SFAW

    September 18, 2016 at 12:27 am

    @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.

  6. 6.

    redshirt

    September 18, 2016 at 12:31 am

    @piratedan: It’s the Jabba Plan.

  7. 7.

    Faction

    September 18, 2016 at 12:36 am

    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

    September 18, 2016 at 12:40 am

    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

    September 18, 2016 at 12:41 am

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

  10. 10.

    The Pale Scot

    September 18, 2016 at 12:42 am

    I can’t believe no one as thought of this yet;

    Yea, Yea, that’s the ticket

    It’s perfect.

  11. 11.

    SiubhanDuinne

    September 18, 2016 at 12:46 am

    @Adam L Silverman:

    Not Greenspan. Nathaniel Branden.

  12. 12.

    Anne Laurie

    September 18, 2016 at 12:46 am

    @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!

  13. 13.

    hovercraft

    September 18, 2016 at 12:48 am

    @Adam L Silverman:
    Not to be a bitch, but his taste in women is awful. Both inside and out. Sorry.

  14. 14.

    Adam L Silverman

    September 18, 2016 at 12:51 am

    @SiubhanDuinne: She was intimately involved with Greenspan as well when he was one of her acolytes and in her inner circle.

  15. 15.

    redshirt

    September 18, 2016 at 12:52 am

    @The Pale Scot: Don’t you hate it when you rub sandpaper over your tongue?

  16. 16.

    Adam L Silverman

    September 18, 2016 at 12:53 am

    @hovercraft: I’m afraid to even think of what Andrea Mitchell may have contracted as a result.

  17. 17.

    Bruce Webb

    September 18, 2016 at 12:54 am

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

  18. 18.

    mike in dc

    September 18, 2016 at 12:57 am

    Didn’t she die while receiving Social Security and living in a rent-controlled apartment?

  19. 19.

    SFAW

    September 18, 2016 at 12:57 am

    @The Pale Scot:

    I can’t believe no one as thought of this yet

    Nor should you.

    It’s been done here at least one or two other times.

  20. 20.

    hovercraft

    September 18, 2016 at 1:02 am

    @mike in dc:
    But somehow her acolytes seem to overlook the end of her life because her books validate their FUIGM attitudes.

  21. 21.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    September 18, 2016 at 1:05 am

    @AL in OP: Owen

    Ellickson is a godsdamned comic genius.

    I have yet to be convinced.

  22. 22.

    Wag

    September 18, 2016 at 1:08 am

    Has anyone else been enjoying reading James Fallows st the Atlantic as much as I have? He’s been on fire over Trump and is a hell of a good writer with decades of experience sticking it to the GOP. His Trump Time Capsule series (over 100 posts this year) are fantastic.

  23. 23.

    Adam L Silverman

    September 18, 2016 at 1:13 am

    @mike in dc: Yes, she was on SS, medicare and/or medicaid.

  24. 24.

    Suzanne

    September 18, 2016 at 1:29 am

    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

    September 18, 2016 at 1:34 am

    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

    September 18, 2016 at 1:35 am

    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.

  27. 27.

    Major Major Major Major

    September 18, 2016 at 1:35 am

    @Mike in NC: You’re not a real Democrat if your underpants aren’t always at least a little bit moist.

  28. 28.

    redshirt

    September 18, 2016 at 1:37 am

    @Major Major Major Major: Gross!
    You got to keep your powder dry!

  29. 29.

    NoraLenderbee

    September 18, 2016 at 1:43 am

    @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

    September 18, 2016 at 1:43 am

    @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?

  31. 31.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    September 18, 2016 at 1:44 am

    @Major Major Major Major: Underpants?

  32. 32.

    Steeplejack (tablet)

    September 18, 2016 at 1:54 am

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    Inorite?

  33. 33.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    September 18, 2016 at 1:58 am

    Just to add a bit of culture to this here blog: Shakespeare and Disney.

  34. 34.

    Suzanne

    September 18, 2016 at 1:59 am

    @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

    September 18, 2016 at 2:04 am

    @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

    September 18, 2016 at 2:13 am

    @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.

  37. 37.

    redshirt

    September 18, 2016 at 2:22 am

    @karen marie: When I listened to the clip it sounded like Modo was quoting Trump.

  38. 38.

    Villago Delenda Est

    September 18, 2016 at 2:52 am

    @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.

  39. 39.

    Tegdirb

    September 18, 2016 at 3:35 am

    I’m not the only one who pictures Ailes as the creature from the Upside Down, right?

  40. 40.

    opiejeanne

    September 18, 2016 at 4:16 am

    @Anne Laurie: Ailes bears a remarkable resemblance to this creature:
    Ailes’s double

  41. 41.

    opiejeanne

    September 18, 2016 at 4:23 am

    @Anne Laurie: And I agree about Owen Ellickson. Hilarious. I follow him just for these little stories.

  42. 42.

    shomi

    September 18, 2016 at 4:35 am

    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.

  43. 43.

    opiejeanne

    September 18, 2016 at 5:02 am

    @shomi: Ha! Sez you.

  44. 44.

    Elizabelle

    September 18, 2016 at 6:32 am

    Loved the Ayn Rand quip to Ryan.

  45. 45.

    Zinsky

    September 18, 2016 at 6:45 am

    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.

  46. 46.

    Luthe

    September 18, 2016 at 7:00 am

    @Major Major Major Major: Yes, but is it from watching PBO kick ass or from looking at the polls?

  47. 47.

    bystander

    September 18, 2016 at 7:28 am

    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

    September 18, 2016 at 7:35 am

    @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?

  49. 49.

    Quinerly

    September 18, 2016 at 8:18 am

    @Shalimar:
    Pretty much sums it up. Thanks, Shalimar.

  50. 50.

    Quinerly

    September 18, 2016 at 8:21 am

    And I LOVE the Ellickson Tweets. Keep them coming!

  51. 51.

    debbie

    September 18, 2016 at 8:48 am

    @Suzanne:

    She is really something! Betty may have been the brain, but Gloria was the soul.

  52. 52.

    debbie

    September 18, 2016 at 8:51 am

    I find it hard to believe Ailes would ever have nothing to say.

  53. 53.

    Kay

    September 18, 2016 at 9:19 am

    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.

  54. 54.

    burnspbesq

    September 18, 2016 at 9:39 am

    @Faction:

    “Dogs of War” reference. Well played.

  55. 55.

    Mai.naem.mobile

    September 18, 2016 at 10:04 am

    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.

  56. 56.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    September 18, 2016 at 10:05 am

    @burnspbesq:

    The Dead Zone (1983).

  57. 57.

    Peale

    September 18, 2016 at 10:09 am

    @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

    September 18, 2016 at 10:29 am

    @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.

  59. 59.

    debbie

    September 18, 2016 at 10:47 am

    @Mai.naem.mobile:

    I think they might have overreached when they called for the UN Security Council to meet.

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