What the hell happened in politics this week? Esquire's legendary blogger Charlie P. Pierce has answers |
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These two bedraggled grotesques of public service dropped Tuesday evening when we were all still digesting the idea of a Fox News weekend host with white-nationalist body art as secretary of defense. But these two are so far off the chain they are no longer visible to the naked eye. Gaetz's nomination to be attorney f*cking general (!) can reasonably be seen as a tactic to monkey-wrench a scathing House Ethics Committee report detailing Gaetz's frolicking with Florida prom queens. |
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Regulars here at the shebeen know what big fans we are around here of the idea of private prisons. Now, it seems, the incoming administration is out to show that we haven't seen anything yet. Combined with their enthusiastic embrace of rounding up anyone with a last name ending in z, they're obviously working to make sure the supply chain for inmates is a steady one. |
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Philip Bump of The Washington Post has a lovely bucket of fresh, cold water to throw in the face of the MAGA crowd about exactly what happened last Tuesday night. According to Bump, the results, believe it or not, are not a reaction to school nurses performing gender-affirming surgeries, or people eating dogs and cats in Ohio, or even the price of bacon. It's something far more banal, if nonetheless distressing. |
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Wherever they're from, is there national health care and some decent, affordable beachfront housing? I mean, I don't care if the ocean is purple and green and the sand is a fine turquoise as long as the water's warm and there's national health care and some decent, affordable beachfront housing. I mean, I don't care if the ocean is purple and green and the sand is a fine turquoise as long as the water's warm and there's nobody there named Miller, Gabbard, or Gaetz. |
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I don't want to alarm anyone unnecessarily—as though any alarm were unnecessary anymore—but the last time we did this, the last time we elected a president whom we'd rejected four years earlier, things didn't turn out so well. It was in 1892, and former president Grover Cleveland had been nominated by the Democratic party to face incumbent Republican president Benjamin Harrison, who'd beaten Cleveland four years earlier. The primary economic-policy issue in that race involved tariffs, the primary economic-policy issue in every presidential contest since the dawn of the republic. The fact that Cleveland's campaign was run (badly) by the third cousin of P.T. Barnum couldn't have helped, either. |
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