This past spring, Louis C.K. wrote a blog post about Donald Trump. In Louis’s humble opinion, Trump was and is like Adolf Hitler. Louis was, at the time, trying to convince Republican primary voters to vote for anyone other than Trump, and Louis even went so far as to suggest John Kasich (Blobby McBlobface, as I call him) as a more suitable GOP presidential candidate. While it might seem like Louis was being a tad melodramatic, taking his entire blog post in context, he made a solid point, which was that Trump is simply awful. I’m sure Louis got a lot of pushback and hate from the Deplorables, which is why he didn’t keep talking politics constantly throughout the election. But he appeared on Conan O’Brien’s show last night and once again started talking politics:
Some quotes:
He’s excited to vote for Hillary Clinton: “I think she’s super smart. It’s really exciting to have the first mother in the White House. It’s not about the first woman, it’s about the first mom… a mother just does it. She feeds you and teaches you, she protects you, she takes care of sh-t. We’ve had 240 years of fathers. Bald father, fat father, every kind of father…fathers are OK… a great father can give a kid 40 percent of his needs – top. Any mother, just a sh-t mother, just a not even trying mother – 200 percent.”
Trump is thin-skinned: “What’s more important about a President than you can sh-t all over them? That’s what Presidents are for. That’s the point of the President, is to get drunk and blame them for everything. This guy every time he’s criticized, everything stops and he makes everybody pay. That’s not how it works. We need somebody who can take abuse. Hillary Clinton can take abuse. We’ve been hazing her, we’ve been holding her down and spitting in her mouth and yelling at her, and she just keeps working!”
Everyone must vote: “I don’t have any quarrel with someone who votes for Trump if that’s what they feel they want. But if you don’t vote because you’re like ‘oh, I don’t know about her,’ if you’re a liberal who’s not gonna vote, you’re a piece of sh-t… they’re like, ‘I don’t like her voice,’ grow the f—k up, are you kidding me?… I don’t want someone who is likeable or cool anymore. We need a two-faced, conniving, crazy, just somebody who’s got a million schemes… all of her sh-t out there and she’s not in jail. We need just a tough bitch mother who nobody likes. If you vote for Hillary, you’re a grownup. If you vote for Trump, you’re a sucker. If you don’t vote for anybody, you’re an a–hole.”
LOL, well I’m expecting this to go down well! I don’t think the “Hillary is a mom” argument will change hearts and minds, but I did love the “we need someone who’s got a million schemes” argument is actually kind of great. Hillary does know how to work the f—king system. She’s a grinder and a workhorse and a “tough bitch mother.”
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LOVE Louis C.K.
Always have. Always will.
He is an IDIOT
I agree wholeheartedly. Additionally, he is rumored to have allegedly sexually harassed, and bullied, quite a few female comics.
Ive never heard anything like that. I met him a couple of times after his standup gigs and he was the nicest guy. He bought my bf and I a couple of beers because we told him we spent all our money on the tickets and weed.
He is the light in my dark abysss of Trump Anxiety this morning.
I have a Nasty Woman shirt, now I want a Tough Bitch Mother shirt.
They need to get those T-shirts out on the street today.
Melly you’re a quick thinker lol. I can’t even joke about the election anymore to lighten up the atmosphere. I’m a Clevelander and we all thought (hoped) we would win last night and we got slaughtered. I’m going to try to avoid CNN and the like till Wednesday morning when hopefully I wake up to Hillary’s Presidency. Until then I will limp my way through the next week. Shitballs.
Yeah, I like the analogy to a mother. Fits her and that’s what we need, not an orange cheeto
So much more sensible than Susan.
Yayyy Louis!!! Kinda hot.
Trump being too thin skinned is actually a really good point. Politicians get shat on all the time ( most deserve it). You can’t adress everything and expect everyone to pay.
Exactly. Trump doesn’t know how to take criticism. How can he think he can do a job where he’ll be criticized every single day?! I really don’t think Trump wants to govern, he just wants to win to inflate his already over-inflated ego. God I hate Trump so much. I’m so freakin stressed about this election. I feel like I need to go on vacation after Nov 8.
I really think Trump would pull a Palin and not finish his term as president. He would be so out of his depth, even with his “very good brain” to help him. One thing this campaign has shown very clearly is that Trump is not very bright. Of course, then we would have Pence as pres. Yikes!
Yes. And his comment about Hillary being hazed in such a graphic manner is spot on. She is tough as hell.
That’s part of why I voted for her. I’ve never seen someone put up with SO MUCH and keep going. We need that. It’s not a reality show prize, it’s a long, grueling, and often thankless job, and she can do it.
Hahaha! This is my fave endorsement do far!
“If you vote for Hilary you are a grown up
If you vote for Trump you are a sucker
If you don’t vote at all you are an a**hole”
Succinctly put Louis C.K.
This is my new mantra.
I just copied that bit to write a comment, but you got there first. Brilliant!!!!
Love this but still don’t know if I’ll survive the next week. At this point I only see two options – drink nonstop until the 9th or check 538 compulsively and suffer a low grade ongoing heart attack until then!
O god Nate Silver is already giving me a heart attack with those sliding numbers… *fearbarfs*
I’m getting so nervous about this election. I can’t take it anymore. I’m going to make like an ostrich and go stick my head in the sand.
I feel the exact same way!
Sometimes, I’d verbally have to tell my mother to relax.
“Did you eat? What’d you eat?”
“How was your day?”
“Is your skin clearing up?”
“How’s your mental health?”
“I’m making a Whole Foods trip. Want something?”
MAM, STAHP IT. LEAVE ME ALONE. I want to self-loathe and bury my face in my laptop.
We don’t need a tough bitch mother. We need a sane bitch mother. That ain’t Trump. It’s not Jill stein or Gary Johnson either. It’s HRC.
I don’t now if this means much..if you’ve ever seen his stand up act, he sounds trumpy when he talks about women..shrug to lck..
No he doesn’t. I’ve been a fan of his for years and I’ve never heard about him talking about sexually assaulting women. He’s not an entitled asshat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRzs7v0do_Q
Naw, I’ve seen every stand up and saw him live recently and I’ve never heard him sound disrespectful towards women. In fact, the title of his stand up, Chewed Up, references his appreciation and preference for real woman, older women who have breast fed with “chewed up” nipples. Whether his personal opinions truly reflect his stand up, he isn’t disrespectful on stage and I think that’s because he has two daughters whom he clearly adores.
I don’t think he sounds trumpy but, as much as I love his show “Louie” and his acerbic standup, I’ve always felt a twinge of something…some deepseated issues with women that he is working hard to overcome. Every taped standup I’ve seen (which is all of them), he says something about the sexes that makes me cringe, and his obsession with his daughters’ genitalia freaks me out a tad. Yeah, I agree there’s something there.
(I also think there’s some squitch there about race, as well. Sometimes he says brilliant wonderful things, and other times…ick. I still can’t get his drunken airplane Asian-people tweets out of my head. I also maintain he’s trying, at least, though I’m no apologist for him. At all. He needs to try harder.)
A suivre.
Pretty surprised no-one here has commented on his pretty widely confirmed history of sexual assault/inappropriate touching??
Like what he says though.
Is it widely confirmed? I’ve loved Louis CK for years (his bit on divorce helped me feel much better during my own) but the rumors I’ve heard about him have made me feel conflicted about him, but I’ve never seen anything beyond second hand rumors (I know Rosanne’s been very vocal but based on her Twitter account it’s hard to view her as a reliable source, even though I respect her immensely as a comedian).
Well Rosanne, and another comedian called Jen Kirkman have both said it, the latter saying it’s like an open secret within comedy circles but people don’t talk about it cos everyone loves him. He also has publicly addressed the rumours without actually denying them… which wasn’t a great sign. (The rumours if anyone is unaware we that, amongst other things, he would deliberately expose himself to females by enuring he was masturbating when he knew they were going to enter his room).
I didn’t really want to believe it cos he’s great in so many other ways but often there’s no smoke without fire!
I think I read on here that Jen Kirkman named the person and it was someone I don’t know (not that clued into all your comedians) and she put his name out there to clear Louis CK.
ETA: I looked it up. She named Doug Stanhope.
So Doug Stanhope said Louis CK didn’t do it – or did? I like Jen Kirkman and if she’s repeating the rumors I give them a bit more credibility. Doug, on the other hand, lost all credibility when he defended Johnny Depp and attacked Amber. And not to totally hijack this string, but I’m really ticked Johnny is going to be in the Fantastic Beast sequel – I’m boycotting his movies.
No, I think you misunderstood me. Jen Kirkman didn’t want to name the man, but later did and she named Doug Stanhope. She eventually named him to clear up any rumors that it was Louis CK.
WOW!
I didn’t know this. I loved Louie before the rumors, but I was really concerned about them. Good to know it wasn’t him!
Oh wow so glad you cleared that up for me! Eurgh even more reason to hate Doug Stanhope after that johnny depp stuff. Thanks for the knowledge, now I can love him again.
Smart, sane & sensible. Team LCK and HRC!
I’m going to be so mad if you guys elect that orange piece of sh*t. Like no one is going to want to talk to you guys except that one weird kid who smells like cheese.
Honestly though I am scared. Not even American, but right on top of you and I’m holding my breath until the 9th. I hope people come to their senses and on election day you make good history.
I explained the election to my five year old. He agrees with my decision to vote for HRC, because we don’t vote for mean people who call other people names, make fun of them, and touch them without their permission over someone who has been practicing for 40 years.
@lizlemon AMAZING and Liz would be so proud! Kenneth may be passive aggressively disappointed though.
I’m Canadian so I can’t vote but the thought of a Trump Presidency is terrifying. Stressed until next Wednesday morning. He’s just the worst person and he fact that he has so many supporters is shocking.
I’m with you America, praying for a Hillary victory otherwise that move to Mars is looking better and better.
Louis CK is right – nobody messes with a Mother……………Mom’s don’t take to Twitter at 3 am and start sending off tweets from their golden toilet bowls about how people hurt their feelings and they’re “going to pay for it”……..they don’t say “no puppet – you’re the puppet” – the equivalent of “I know you are but what am I?” – they don’t grab other women’s “billy bushes” (unless the woman is into it, and then, no harm no foul), and then lie about it, dozens of times over. Yep, Louis CK is right. We need a Mother, not a huge orange anus, for President. This guy needs to crawl back under his 24K gold rock (or maybe it should fall on him), and he should stay there……forever, and take his whole freak-show family.
Go Hillary!!! HRC ftw!!! VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE
Earling Voting in my state!!!
yes yes yes. please get this tough badass bitch in the white house.
I wish we could post gifs here, because that calls for the Amy/Tina Weekend Update “Bitches get stuff done!”
I kinda suspect a lot of his audience is pro-trump so it’s wonderful that he promoted Hillary, and the arguments he used were great – they made sense, especially for his audience. hope he changed at least a few minds out there
‘ It’s not about the first woman’
Errrr it is – and as someone with no kids I really hate this stupid trope of its only mothers that take no shit.
Love a lot of his comedy but he’s a sexist idiot on occasions, this is just stereotyping
Yes, I found that mother bit quite offensive as well. So because I never had a kid I’m a weakling? Really?? Hey Louie why don’t you go masturbate in front of some women and then block them from leaving when they try to escape?
It’s called false imprisonment. Yeah you’re a big feminist Louie, big feminist.
Penny, I think Wilma noted up thread that Louie wasn’t the masturbator.
“Jen Kirkman didn’t want to name the man, but later did and she named Doug Stanhope.” Apparently she named Doug because she saw people going after Louie and it wasn’t him.
Tiffany, far more than just one person has made these accusations! Please don’t try to minimize criminal acts just because you happen to agree with other things that person has said. The same person can do bad things and good things, too.
“At the Aspen Comedy Festival a few years ago, he invited a female comedy duo back to his hotel room. The two ladies gladly joined him, and offered him some weed. He turned it down, but asked if it would be OK if he took his dick out.
Thinking he was joking (that’s exactly the kind of thing this guy would say), the women gave a facetious thumbs up. He wasn’t joking. When he actually started jerking off in front of them, the ladies decided that wasn’t their bag and made for the exit. But the comedian stood in front of the door, blocking their way with his body, until he was done.”
http://defamer.gawker.com/louis-c-k-will-call-you-up-to-talk-about-his-alleged-s-1687820755
“Roseanne doubled down in a follow-up e-mail to the site after the interview, “These allegations [against Louis C.K.] have been leveled and talked about for years.”
http://hollywoodlife.com/2016/07/01/roseanne-barr-louis-c-k-masturbation-accusations-allegations-sexual-harassment/
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/06/30/roseanne-barr-calls-out-louis-c-k-i-ve-heard-so-many-stories.html
Also could you please provide the link where Jen Kirkman explicitly clears Louis CK and names Doug Stanhope instead as the disgusting perv she was talking about? All I found was this non-disclaimer of hers, which doesn’t name anyone:
http://flavorwire.com/533257/jen-kirkman-clarifies-comments-that-may-or-may-not-have-been-about-louis-c-k
“Please don’t try to minimize criminal acts just because you happen to agree with other things that person has said.”
Hi. Please don’t accuse me of minimizing criminal acts because I like a person’s comedy. I did no such thing.
As I wrote, it was my understanding based on another person’s comment that the accusations came from Kirkman and she clarified that she wasn’t talking about Louie. It has been a while since the accusation situation occurred, and I forgot the details regarding how many accusers there were. I hedged my comment intentionally, using the phrases “I think” and “apparently”, and referring back up thread to the other comment. I did not come out balls to the wall proclaiming his innocence. I did not minimize criminal acts. I wrote about what I thought was an update to the story, and referred you back to the source.
@Stella – I think his point was more that mothers are used to dealing with infantile tantrum(p)s.
I, too, love Louis CK and he made me cringe. I sort of gave him a pass at the “first mother” part actually. Yeah it hits the “women must be mothers to be meaningful” trope, which I hate but sure, women who are mothers are forced to figure out how to get shit done. Where it REALLY made me annoyed is where he wandered into the “all mothers” vs “all fathers” territory. Really, Louis, a half-trying mom can meet 200% percent of her kid’s needs? What about moms who are abusive or negligent? Really, Louis, a Dad at his best can meet 40% of his kid’s needs? I guess all single dads or gay couples are just destined to be inadequate.
I know, I’m a humorless jerk, and I’m certainly not writing off Louis, but I think he could have made the joke more specific (say, about his own mom? about his own experiences as a single parent?) to avoid hitting these nerves because the people I’ve described above are actual people I’ve met.
Yeah, it’s still essentialism, which is one of my issues with him (and so many comics, because humour loves easy essentialism!). I want to think he’s better than that, and keep waiting…
He’s a pig and moron.
“If you vote for Hillary, you’re a grownup. If you vote for Trump, you’re a sucker. If you don’t vote for anybody, you’re an a–hole.”
I’m with CK.