Right Wing Trolls Are Afraid of Billie Eilish. They Should Be.

They see the green hair, but miss the point completely. If you have trouble reading this message, view it in a browser.       Conservative Scumbags Are Terrified of Billie Eilish's DNC Performance. They Should Be.   It would be phenomenally stupid to ignore the power Billie Eilish has in reaching her own generation. But as we saw last night after Eilish's performance at the Democratic National Convention, many conservatives, unsurprisingly, are that stupid. A day after Joe Biden was formally nominated as the Democratic presidential candidate, Eilish took the screen at the DNC to urge people to vote Donald Trump out of office. She then performed her new song, "my future&qquot;—a track that speaks to the hope her generation has for when we get out of this dark time in American history. It's somber, powerful, and beautiful. Republicans didn't see it that way, as the response to Eilish's performance on Twitter made clear. Many of them—as they tend to do—see the easy target of calling out someone who looks different. They see the fodder of a culture war. They see Hollywood elites. But this is isn't the same as Robert DeNiro calling Trump a f*cking idiot. This is a young woman who actually has the clout among a key demographic—one that if mobilized could help turn the tide of this election. Matt Miller explains why the frightened response to Eilish's performance is warranted. Read More           The 26 Best Hoodies to Wear Whenever and Wherever You Want   The thing about the humble hooded sweatshirt is that, at this point, it ain't all that humble. We'd go so far as to say the hoodie's gotten arrogant. Now a star player in the big leagues with the world at its fingertips, the hoodie's developed a bit of an ego. It doesn't see any reason why it can't go on playing forever, and its fanbase seems to get bigger and bigger every day. Don't get us wrong, the hoodie is still putting up stellar numbers, but the scrappiness that defined the earlier stages of its career—built on the backs of skaters and countercultural types —isn't as present as it used to be. It hears talk of streetwear's impending demise, or the rise of casual tailoring, and scoffs, feeling protected by its prestige status and relatively approachable price-point. The hoodie, it thinks to itself, isn't going anywhere. Guess what? It's not wrong. It's the hoodie's world, man, and we're all living in it. The sooner you reconcile yourself to that reality the sooner you can move on (mostly through a process involving copping as many dope hoodies as you possibly can). So hop on board the hoodie bandwagon, bud. It's a hell of a time to be a fan. Read More           Barack Obama's DNC Address Was Patrick Henry and Dr. King, Harmonizing   About halfway through Barack Obama's address to the Democratic Party's virtual convention on Wednesday night, Charles P. Pierce was thinking that he was listening to a good Barack Obama speech, which was all he really expected to hear, and that would have been fine with him. Then, a little past two-thirds of the way through, the feeling came over me that he was hearing Patrick Henry and Dr. King, harmonizing. His voice did not crack but, rather, it thickened, as though it were struggling with the sheer weight of his words, with the gravity of the warning he was trying to give to the country. It was Barack Obama looking back on the speech that made him famous, the conciliatory address to the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston, from the perspective of his eight years in office and the four years that have followed, and recognizing that the forces that always were arrayed against the sentiments of that 2004 address have won often enough to push the country to the very brink of political devolution. Here's Pierce on how Obama rose to the occasion in recognizing that the country is on the very brink of political devolution. Read More           20 Extremely Cool Tote Bags to Replace That Sad One You Got for Free   The prototypical tote bag carrier is always en route back from the farmers' market schlepping a load of fresh ginger in a sweet canvas number they got for free from the New York Public Library shortly after their youngest moved out. You know the type. Probably rocking some sort of drapey, sun-dyed shawl, flowing, voluminous linen trousers, super-practical footwear, and, say, a floppy sun hat? Hell, that person might represent the purest distillation of the perfect summer aesthetic yet. You're telling me you wouldn't want to look like that person? We think you should. So, as summer winds down, make like your local Upper West Side empty nester and cop a tote bag so you'll have plenty of room to store all the Italian sausage you ended up buying (instead of the bok choy you swore you would) after locking eyes with the cute attendant at the cured meats stall you hoped to impress with your financial largesse and studied appreciation of finely cut mortadella. Delicacies aside, here are 20 tote bags that'll last a bit longer than the one you got for free with your magazine subscription. Read More           As We All Turn to 'Comfort' Booze, Craft Distilleries Are Fighting for Survival   Here's a depressing thought, at a time when we really don't need any more depressing thoughts: We could be barreling towards a big-box booze future. Dire predictions abound that only chain restaurants and monolithic brands—the Applebee's and Targets—will make it through this pandemic as independent restaurants flail. Similarly, it's safe to say the dominant corporate distilleries like Jim Beam, Wild Turkey, and Jack Daniel's, all of which produce high quality and affordable whiskey, will survive just fine. Alongside the big guys, though, there are around two-thousand craft distilleries in the U.S. making any and every type of alcohol you can imagine—bourbon, single malt, rye, rum, gin, vodka, even malört, for some reason—that bring much-needed, small-batch diversity to liquor stores. Wouldn't you rather drink in a world where you can go choose between a young peated bourbon distilled in Brooklyn, an amaro made in the Rocky Mountains using local botanicals, and some good old Kentucky whiskey? As Jonah Flicker reports, this just might not be an option a year from now. Read More           Steve Bannon's Alleged Border-Wall Scam Is the Entire Trump Movement in a Nutshell   It seems important that the president's associates keep getting arrested. It's not just his former fixer or his longtime political whisperer or his former deputy campaign manager or his former national security adviser. It's the people who've run his campaigns from the very top. Before 2016, when he was sharing internal campaign polling data and strategy with a man whom a Republican-led Senate committee has now classified as a Russian intelligence agent, Paul Manafort was up to his neck in crooked business. And now, we've learned his successor—Stephen K. Bannon, man about town—has joined the party. Politics Editor Jack Holmes unpacks Bannon's indictment. Read More         Read More on Esquire.com       Follow Us     Unsubscribe  Privacy Notice   esquire.com ©2020 Hearst Communications Inc. All Rights Reserved. Hearst Email Privacy, 300 W 57th St., Fl. 19 (sta 1-1), New York, NY 10019