George Takei is usually nice to everybody

[Blecht]

And he holds true to form. This is about as nice as any thinking person can be to the orange idiot.

Link to tweet

Text in response to Trump's latest "Suburban Housewife" Tweet.

Suburban women (stop saying housewives like you’re stuck in the 50s) see through you entirely. You’re a misogynistic, incompetent, racist thug who can barely wipe his own ass let alone lead a country out of this crisis.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

1. Oh, my!

[Fritz Walter]

13. Still as sharp as ever!

[dalton99a]

2. Perfect.

[CaptYossarian]

3. This time, Trump is right.

All FIVE suburban housewives in the U.S. will vote for him.

They're still the subserviate ones who vote the same way Master does.

[calimary]

14. I have always resented that label "housewife."

ALWAYS. Even in elementary school I didn't like it. Thought it was demeaning. Resolved I would NEVER be one, even if I ever got married.

And that's long before I ever woke up to the women's movement.

[CaptYossarian]

19. When you look at the work they do, they really are married to the house.

Especially when Ralph Kramden doesn't help.

I think this year, I'll give 2021 calendars to any I might know--just as a hint.

[calimary]

26. "I now pronounce you man and maid."

When our daughter got married, I gently but firmly leaned on the young man they chose to officiate at the wedding. During the rehearsal, he said "I now pronounce you man and wife." Which I heard, as I always have, as "man and thing." I made a beeline for him as soon as I saw he wasn't with a bunch of people and pulled him aside and discreetly said - "Hi! MOTHER of the BRIDE here! "Just one correction, please. It's HUSBAND and wife. NOT 'man and wife.' She's NOT a thing. And he's not an owner." I was polite. He was receptive. And I thanked him. And when it counted, he delivered! "I now pronounce you husband and wife."

But dammit, I've lived too long and taken too much shit and fought too hard to break through and make it in a man's industry (broadcasting, back when it wasn't something women were into yet) to let that be done to my daughter, especially when I'm in the exalted position of MOTHER OF THE BRIDE and I have standing here (and the fact that her dad and I are PAYING FOR ALL OF THIS - including the nice tip to the officiant). I figured I'm entitled to throw my weight around in that case. She's NOT a thing. NO daughter of mine is a mere THING of which a man takes ownership. And that goes double for my granddaughters, DAMMIT.

And btw, by now I think I'm entitled to be an old crank whenever I damn well feel it's necessary!

[CaptYossarian]

27. That is a great anecdote.

Good for you to squelch all that traditional sexist nonsense.

I may have gone a step farther though. How many men told his teenage daughters about Lucy Stone? As far as I know, just me.

I have generated more eye rolling from my wife than my "dad jokes" have from my daughters. It's fun too!

[Hav]

4. He contines going full racist because he can

Careful! The big black man is coming with his housing policies!

[Ferrets are Cool]

5. He probably has one of his assistants wipe it for him

like any king would.

[Bucky]

8. The honor of wiping might be one of the thank you gifts they give to high dollar donors

[Aristus]

6. Harlan Ellison said George Takei was the most charming man he had ever met.

Ellison was not the most easily charmed man in the world, either.

[TlalocW]

7. I had a Spanish professor in college

That was the most engaging, happy man who loved his job and his students. I saw him get upset once in my life - it was not a loud yelling kind of upset, but his demeanor change and the fact that he wasn't just upset with a person but disappointed in them immediately chilled the room.

I imagine that's how Takei is when he gets upset. I don't believe in vibes or positive/negative energy, etc. It's just that when someone who you know as one way has to change their demeanor drastically, it creates a kind of cognitive dissonance that you physically feel.

I don't think I could handle Takei being upset with me.

TlalocW

[TygrBright]

9. The number of women married to houses is pretty small. I'm not worried. n/t

[niyad]

17. Is it still legal tom marry one's house? I thought same-sex marriage put an end to that?

[GopherGal]

20. Didn't they have a bill to define marriage?

As the union of one woman and one house?

I think they had trouble passing it because too many repukes wanted it to be open to up to seven houses...

[niyad]

24. Like horcruxes?

[yaesu]

10. looks like dumph deleted his tweet. nt

[Hekate]

11. He can go right on calling us "housewives" because it shows where his head is at. Not just 1950s...

But think of that wretched reality series — “Housewives of New Jersey,” wasn’t it? Ick.

So, he thinks we’re supposed to be June Cleaver, God rest her soul, but way worse? Keep talking, jerk.

[burrowowl]

12. George nails it as usual!

[iluvtennis]

15. A tweeter fixed trumpty dumpty's tweet to say what he really meant....

Link to tweet

[niyad]

18. Aimee, it is Cory, not Corey. Please correct all of dotard's mistakes.

[GopherGal]

21. "All of dotard's mistakes" - Pretty tall order.

She only had 280 characters.

[niyad]

23. You are correct, of course. I was not thinking.

[sandensea]

16. OF COURSE he can't wipe his ass.

He'd need to find it first.

[keithbvadu2]

22. Many, many small towns have low income housing that is a vast majority white seniors.

Many, many small towns have low income housing that is a vast majority white seniors.

Are Trump and Ben Carson going to shut them down?

[herding cats]

25. I'd missed this excellent post!

I completely agree, and said similar in another thread.

Takei is in full, get the Orange Anus out mode. He's turned serious about this, as we all should now. It's time to focus and use everything in our arsenal!

[Nitram]

28. Dog Whistle: "with Cory Booker in charge."