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
redshirt
Ailes:
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.
piratedan
@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….
Ryan
Like Trump knows what an Ayn Rand even is! Isn’t he and that McNally fellow in the mapmaking business?
SFAW
@Ryan:
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.
redshirt
@piratedan: It’s the Jabba Plan.
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.
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.
Adam L Silverman
@SFAW: And she liked to sleep with Alan Greenspan. Also, was on medicaid because of complications from being a chain smoker.
The Pale Scot
I can’t believe no one as thought of this yet;
Yea, Yea, that’s the ticket
It’s perfect.
SiubhanDuinne
@Adam L Silverman:
Not Greenspan. Nathaniel Branden.
Anne Laurie
@Ryan:
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!
hovercraft
@Adam L Silverman:
Not to be a bitch, but his taste in women is awful. Both inside and out. Sorry.
Adam L Silverman
@SiubhanDuinne: She was intimately involved with Greenspan as well when he was one of her acolytes and in her inner circle.
redshirt
@The Pale Scot: Don’t you hate it when you rub sandpaper over your tongue?
Adam L Silverman
@hovercraft: I’m afraid to even think of what Andrea Mitchell may have contracted as a result.
Bruce Webb
Yep the Objectivists weren’t big on Conventional Morality. Like Taxes that was for the Little People.
mike in dc
Didn’t she die while receiving Social Security and living in a rent-controlled apartment?
SFAW
@The Pale Scot:
Nor should you.
It’s been done here at least one or two other times.
hovercraft
@mike in dc:
But somehow her acolytes seem to overlook the end of her life because her books validate their FUIGM attitudes.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@AL in OP: Owen
I have yet to be convinced.
Wag
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.
Adam L Silverman
@mike in dc: Yes, she was on SS, medicare and/or medicaid.
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.
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.
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.
Major Major Major Major
@Mike in NC: You’re not a real Democrat if your underpants aren’t always at least a little bit moist.
redshirt
@Major Major Major Major: Gross!
You got to keep your powder dry!
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.
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?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Major Major Major Major: Underpants?
Steeplejack (tablet)
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Inorite?
?BillinGlendaleCA
Just to add a bit of culture to this here blog: Shakespeare and Disney.
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.
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.
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.
redshirt
@karen marie: When I listened to the clip it sounded like Modo was quoting Trump.
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.
Tegdirb
I’m not the only one who pictures Ailes as the creature from the Upside Down, right?
opiejeanne
@Anne Laurie: Ailes bears a remarkable resemblance to this creature:
Ailes’s double
opiejeanne
@Anne Laurie: And I agree about Owen Ellickson. Hilarious. I follow him just for these little stories.
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.
opiejeanne
@shomi: Ha! Sez you.
Elizabelle
Loved the Ayn Rand quip to Ryan.
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.
Luthe
@Major Major Major Major: Yes, but is it from watching PBO kick ass or from looking at the polls?
bystander
For those who think Clinton is being treated unfairly by the NYtimes:
He blunders and fabricates and fearmongers but that Hillary. She’s such a scold! How can you defend the blatant sexism?
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?
Quinerly
@Shalimar:
Pretty much sums it up. Thanks, Shalimar.
Quinerly
And I LOVE the Ellickson Tweets. Keep them coming!
debbie
@Suzanne:
She is really something! Betty may have been the brain, but Gloria was the soul.
debbie
I find it hard to believe Ailes would ever have nothing to say.
Kay
New lie on Trump’s tax returns:
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.
burnspbesq
@Faction:
“Dogs of War” reference. Well played.
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.
Steeplejack (phone)
@burnspbesq:
The Dead Zone (1983).
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.
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.
debbie
@Mai.naem.mobile:
I think they might have overreached when they called for the UN Security Council to meet.