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
Mnemosyne
I think I spotted Trump’s next campaign manager.
(Still one of only two movies that can make me literally fall down laughing.)
C.S.
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.
BR
Strange — did Trump punch something and hurt his hand?
patrick II
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.
amk
@BR: magic finger enhancement surgery?
patrick II
@BR:
That sore on his hand makes me very concerned whether he is healthy enough to be president.
Steeplejack
@Mnemosyne:
I presume the other is a Keaton? The General?
Steeplejack
@BR:
They’re so short it’s hard to see.
Ruckus
@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?
cokane
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
Karen marie
@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.
Villago Delenda Est
@Karen marie: Indeed. As one Dr. on the TV put it, “No one has ever been happy to test positive for gonorrhea”.
hellslittlestangel
Ryan and frogs — do I want to know what that means?
Anne Laurie
@hellslittlestangel: Olivia Nuzzi, in the Daily Beast:4Chan’s Pepe the Frog, Alt-Right Symbol
(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.
Cermet
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.
Amir Khalid
@Cermet:
Ach, deine arme Tochter. Es gibt aber viele Menschen in Deutschland, die Englisch können, nicht wahr?
Gin & Tonic
@Cermet: I am in Kiev, and do speak the language, but so far nobody has brought up Trump.
satby
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.
NotMax
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.
satby
@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.
Patricia Kayden
@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).
patrick II
@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.
patrick II
@Ruckus:
You should probably see a doctor too, your snark meter seems stuck in the “off” position.
debbie
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.
HRA
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.
SFAW
@Patricia Kayden:
Oh bullshit. Lincoln freed You People, and he was a Republican, so there!
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@BR: meh, could just be a bruise – he’s 70 and likely the doc has him on aspirin which makes you bruise easily.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@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?
HeartlandLiberal
@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.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
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
Nothing says “expressing my soul” like hijacking someone elses art. But, Jared here lives on the internets.
So basically Trump is a 4/chan troll on a massive scale? And here I was thinking Russians.
shomi
Not funny.
shomi
Seems Drumpf changed once he started getting security briefings. I think that is when he realized that he’s in way over his head.
C.S.
@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.
SFAW
He was just confused, because he kept expecting Eli Manning to show up with the “football.”
Frankensteinbeck
@Cermet:
‘It’s very simple. Imagine how Germany would react if your prime minister was Greek.’
nutella
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!
nutella
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!
daves09
@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.