Fox News star Laura Ingraham, a person who probably wouldn’t help an old lady across the street even if they were offering to give her back her old, far superior time slot, reacted to the two days of testimony we’ve seen so far from Stormy Daniels:
Ingraham said, and we quote, “Daniels comes across as not only an angry shrew, but an angry shrew who’s also an extortionist.”
OK.
We feel like there is a word for the thing Ingraham is doing, and we invite every psychologist and mental health professional who ever lived to identify it.
Here are Wonkette’s recaps of the testimony of Stormy Daniels, angry shrew, JK Daniels comes off as an extremely credible witness and personable human being.
We only wrote this post so we could repost our picture of that time we met Stormy Daniels 100 years ago at an event for the fabulous Abortion Access Front. She was as kind and funny as she could be, and Laura Ingraham can go fuck herself while we all try to remember the word for that thing she was doing when she called Daniels an “angry shrew.”
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I don't know what word Evan has in mind, but that photo of him and Ms. Daniels could certainly be made into a slide that is then placed in a device of some kind and shown on a screen.
𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗺𝘆’𝘀 𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗼𝗻𝘆 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘄𝘀 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽 𝗶𝘀 𝗯𝗼𝘁𝗵 𝗮 𝗰𝗹𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗮 𝗺𝗲𝗻𝗮𝗰𝗲
One of the most striking aspects of the court testimony Stormy Daniels gave on Tuesday is the Initially contradictory images of Trump she offered. At first, she described him as a comical figure: A pompous ass who did embarrassing things like compare her to his daughter. Then he basically bullied her into sex. In that part of the story, he’s a scary figure, someone she wanted to say no to, but couldn’t.
And yet, they are the same man. In fact, his clownishness is why he was able to corner her. She only let her guard down with him because he was too pathetic to seem like a threat, at least at first. Notably, E. Jean Carroll’s story followed a similar trajectory: First, she’s laughing at him, then he’s attacking her. (Daniels says he didn’t attack her, but she was clearly intimidated.)
I realized, reading the testimony Daniels gave, that this is what Trump does to all of us. He is a total clown, with his stupid combover and his over-the-top bragging and his “does he have a mirror?” make-up. It’s hard to take ol’ President Drink Bleach seriously. And yet, he is a singular threat to American democracy, and has a real shot at turning our nation into a fascist autocracy.
The two images aren’t actually a contradiction. As with Daniels, Trump uses his idiot persona to get people to let their guard down. Because he’s such a joke, they can’t remember how bad things were in his first presidency. They struggle to take his crimes seriously. But his very ridiculousness makes him so very dangerous, because it’s such an effective disguise.
-- Amanda Marcotte, SALON
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