337 Comments

They upgraded Kelly to a tree from under a rock? Who knew?

Expand full comment

It's OK, she wasn't using it.

Expand full comment

I will floors me that no one else on that stage stood up for Fiorina that night. Maybe if a couple of them had refused to debate further we might have been able to stop the current situation.

Expand full comment

An attack on one moran is an attack on all morans.

Expand full comment

I thought of Weebles.

Expand full comment

We should and will.

Expand full comment

I took it as how when SHS started the job she looked a little... unpolished. Then Mooch got in some sort of top rate makeup artist and suddenly she had big eyelashes and a smokey eye. And smoothed her hair out or something. What do I know though.

Expand full comment

That is definitely how it's referenced in all those how to videos. Singular eye, even though the majority of us have two.

Expand full comment

I'd like to put together the most typical SHS response to a journalist. She's said they're a very transparent and open administration with all the press conferences they have.

Then she's asked a question. During the question she seems to have really bad stomach cramps, but manages to mostly keep her eyes on the journalist. At the end of the question, she says, "Again, I"m not going to get into the specifics (hypotheticals) of the Mueller Probe. The President has already given you his position on the merits, which is that it's a hoax. If you want to know details of the nights he spent with Linda McDougal you'll have to speak to her lawyer so I suggest you call him for the information you want."

And all during the time she's describing what her answer WOULD BE IF SHE WAS GOING TO ANSWER SUCH A THING, she seems to be imagining throwing right up right there, because she hates them and she hates having to think about their vile questions, which they shouldn't be permitted to ask.

Expand full comment

I agree! why are elites so mean?

Expand full comment

Liar, liar, magenta muumuu on fire!

Expand full comment

Mmm-- don't forget that shoulder ruffle, will you? The magenta shoulder ruffle!

Expand full comment

Because nobody loves her. She's a creep towards women. And the men aren't going to speak up.

Expand full comment

Even more astonishing, nobody (on the dais) protested when Donald Trump called Cruz's wife fugly, fugly, fugly.

I guess that Trump chose his target well, knowing that everybody hates Ted Cruz.

Cruz's recent cringing, obsequious tribute to Trump shows why everybody feels that way.

Expand full comment

I guess it's a manifestation of that principle they keep bringing up on msnbc. That contact with Trump produces bad behavior in everybody else. Because regular people-- sort of regular-- just aren't prepared for the awful things he says and does. It's just a thing that makes sociopaths powerful. IMHO

Expand full comment

She has a few tools- one is as you describe, "hypothetically" answering a question no one has actually asked. Another is plain deflection, usually to run off down some nightmare path of Hillary Clinton loathing as this is still the passion that drives her. She also loves to assume outrage at an insult she imagines has been made, trusting the journalist to never point that out. Usually they oblige. Like a lot of Republicans she knows it's not important to even pretend to answer questions- all that's needed is to wear down the clock and give the impression that certain questions are beyond the pale and horrible for anyone to ask- even when no one has asked them. She realises her performance of indignance will never be cut short by the journalist, and however irrelevant it is will convince the people she wants to convince that she- and by extension they- is being treated harshly. This helps confirm the fiction of liberal bias, strengthens the tribal mentality of Trumpists, and gives no one any useful information.

Somehow this works every single time. I think this is a great illustration of how the outrage over the WHCD was created and continued.

Expand full comment