Trump mistook his top adviser on Russia, Fiona Hill, for a member of his clerical staff...

[demmiblue]

Link to tweet

[RockRaven]

1. She's a woman, so of course she must be a typist. What other jobs do women even have?

[mr_lebowski]

6. Nurses and Seamstresses a'course but they dress differently so he was able to differentiate (nt)

[fierywoman]

10. Someone to iron the wrinkles out of the crotch of your pants while

you're still wearing them.

[amywalk]

12. Porn star and child prostitute?

[malaise]

22. A colleague of mine once asked me to get coffee for him and another male

during a conference planning meeting. I got up and made a cup for myself and sat down. The other male did the same. He did not say another word.
I waited until the meeting finished and told him that i would publicly humiliate him if he ever tried that again.

[renate]

2. So the POTUS just hands memos to people he doesn't recognize?

Not surprising, I guess, from someone who uses an unsecured cell phone, but my gosh, what a sieve that White House is.

[chriscan64]

3. What if she did rewrite it?

"I've taken out the treason and translated it into cogent English, you're welcome."

[lunatica]

13. She should have sent it back all marked up in red sharpie.

[mr_lebowski]

4. I find this eminently believable ... though I hope it's not spread widely in the news ...

Our friends at Faux will use it to explain to Cult45 how she's 'hated him ever since' and that's why she gave the testimony she did ...

[RT Atlanta]

5. because that's what women are for, I suppose, in his sexist mind

What a POS

Again, another big hat tip to Dr. Hill and her efforts on behalf of the country she voluntarily chose to become a citizen of.

[The Blue Flower]

7. For him not to know the person in her position says volumes

He confers with no one in his maladministration.

[Hugin]

8. Of course, she was a "gal"...

Presumably with a uterus.

Inconsequential in the eyes of any good rock-ribbed misogynistic Republican.

Only, good for... Well, you get the picture.

[mitch96]

9. I call bullshit..... It's just another way of demeaning Ms Hill...... nt

[smirkymonkey]

11. He's such a sexist pig.

I would have gouged his eyes out with a letter opener. But that's just me.

[Hortensis]

14. :) So believable. Another "the woman"...

It's not just him, though.

Female Republicans are becoming even more unwelcome in positions of authority than they always were. Their numbers, never rising above low, declined in the Year of the Women as the Republican hierarchy helped elect men over them. Last year their house caucus had 23 women; now it's 13 (!), and those're angry and feeling embattled from working in a hostile environment. Some of the Pathetic 13 have decided not to run for reelection because of it.

Notably, this is another indicator of rising fascistic leanings in that party. Fascism isn't just an archconservative ideology, it's a male-dominance one as well. And that's a big part of its success, with too many male populists, left and right, angered by perceived loss of male status, joined by some female cons who believe in and/or are most comfortable with the assigned role and resent seeing women successful in "men's" jobs.

[keithbvadu2]

15. Grassley - republican women are lazy and cannot handle the job.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211531456

Grassley - republican women are lazy and cannot handle the job.

Grassley: Workload may keep women off committee

[txwhitedove]

18. OMG, sigh....

[Hortensis]

19. Lol, plenty of examples, but they're outnumbered big time by

the ACTIONS they take to deny women equality under the law, in the workplace, for healthcare, family and parental rights, politics, etc. That's because most of them know they can act quietly far more safely than than they could admit what and why they're doing.

And that makes all women who fail to stand against them for any reason genuinely dumber than even them. Noting how often those they put their trust in deliberately fail to point out the especially high stakes for women and minorities in not voting for Democrats. 'Cause we're "really no different from Republicans." Right.

[DemoTex]

16. Reminds me of the drunk in a hotel lobby in San Francisco ..

I was in my airline pilot uniform, waiting on the crew to muster to head to the airport for red-eye flight to Philly. It was about 10 pm on a Friday night in a busy lobby of a downtown hotel. A drunk man, with a sober woman, pushed a luggage cart my way, and flashed me a $20 bill.

"Here," he slurred. "Take these to room 1145, and be descreet." He shoved the twenty my way. Like Dr. Hill, I was perplexed. But, I too, just walked away.

But to this day, I wish I had taken his $20 and said, "Yes sir! Room 1145, sir!" Then I should have taken their luggage to another floor, and rolled the cart into a janitorial closet.

[gratuitous]

17. What makes the story believable to me

Presumably, someone eventually got it through to President Trump's peanut brain who Dr. Hill is, and rather than behave like a normal human being (i.e., apologize), Trump got pissed and remains pissed at Dr. Hill to this day. For his mistake.

[Blue Owl]

20. Go fuck yourself Donny

n/t

[tanyev]

21. Good gawd in butter, he's an idiot.