What the hell happened in politics this week? Esquire's legendary blogger Charlie P. Pierce has answers |
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Dear God, Can't This Sh*t Just Be Over Already? |
On Wednesday, the former president* dressed up like a traffic cone, his orange vest clashing grotesquely with the orange of his face. He thereupon nearly killed himself trying to open the door to a fake garbage truck he'd hired for a stunt. He showed up for a rally still wearing the orange doublet and then gave a speech to an audience made up of people who'd apparently spent too much time at the complimentary all-U-can-eat Haldol buffet. |
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Out in the country, as we also know, rats are being f*cked in very interesting ways, but we are also semi-encouraged by the fact that some of the people who are f*cking rats in anticipation of next week's election are finding themselves running afoul of obscure local statutes that protect rats from being f*cked in certain ways. Let us beam down first into Indiana. |
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Vice President Kamala Harris gave a speech on Tuesday night that largely exorcised the dark forces that have hung over the National Mall ever since January 6, 2021. It was a strong and vivid address, delivered well to a huge and appreciative crowd. It did one unexpected thing: It fastened the vice president securely to a chain that links the previous two Democratic presidents, both of whom were elected to repair the monumental damage done by the previous two catastrophic Republican presidencies. Harris, of course, is running to keep another catastrophic Republican presidency from occurring. |
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I am not going to cancel my Washington Post subscription. I learned long ago that most publishers are in it for the main chance and have their own private agendas that they occasionally foist upon the grunts below. But the main reason I'm not going to cancel it is that I—and you all—need to benefit from reporting like this horrible story from Nevada. |
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This is a revolutionary proposal, and people should be debating it fiercely up one side of the campaign and down the other. It should be worth a massive bushel of votes for the Democratic ticket. Instead, the elite political press has greeted it with a self-satisfied shrug and moved on to whatever the daily fauxtrage is. Interestingly, though, House Speaker Mike Johnson had some thoughts to share about health care under a second Trump administration, and he shared them with an audience in Pennsylvania. |
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