What the hell happened in politics this week? Esquire's legendary blogger Charlie P. Pierce has answers |
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DJ Donny's Big Week on the Campaign Trail |
Let's do an update on the ongoing presidential campaign in the world's last great democracy. What say we begin at the fringes. Dateline: Coachella, California: The clusterf*ck that was the former president*'s useless hootenanny on one of Earth's primary skillets continues to make news. When last we met the thirsty masses, they were waiting for buses to return them to the parking lots. There arose much ill-feeling. |
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Let's get the easy stuff out of the way. The vice president dope-slapped Bret Baier to Ohtani distance, and I don't think he's playable anymore. Recall that Tim Walz landed his KO punch late in his debate, when J. Divan Vance declined to say whether he thought the former president* lost the 2020 election. (He copped to the answer "No" on Wednesday, by the way.) The vice president did the same thing to Baier when he attempted—via a barbered piece of videotape—to minimize the "enemy within" poison that the Republican ticket has been ladling out for the past month. The vice president called him out for that sleight-of-hand with the tape and then sent him aloft with a considerable launch angle. |
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Presenting our semi-regular weekly survey of what's goin' down in the several states where, as you know, the real work of governmentin' gets done and where the people are many and their hands are all empty. Let's begin in Montana, where incumbent Democratic senator Jon Tester is in a life-and-death struggle with Republican Tim Sheehy, who is a piece of work. This week, Sheehy unburdened himself on the subject of public education. |
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Down in Texas, Rep. Colin Allred has a long uphill push against what can fairly be called Republican muscle memory in any election, let alone an election for the United States Senate. That he is in a virtual tie with Tailgunner Ted Cruz is a testament to his drive and to a well-run campaign and, one hopes, a reaction to Cruz's devolution into a mindless MAGA drill thrall. |
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On Tuesday, some genius in the former president*'s campaign decided to put him in a one-on-one with Bloomberg EIC John Micklethwait. Moreover, C-SPAN decided to show the event live. It was a triumph in the history of human incoherence. The former president* didn't so much dodge the questions as simply answer the questions that were being asked by the moderator in his head. Micklethwait tried nobly to haul things back to reality, as befits a man whose ancestors were clearly spawned in a Dickens novel, but there was no pulling the former president* out of his own private universe. |
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