What the hell happened in politics this week? Esquire's legendary blogger Charlie P. Pierce has answers |
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I honestly don't know whether I believe the stories that cropped up so suddenly on Wednesday afternoon about how Elon Musk will be leaving the administration. Certainly, the voters of Wisconsin demonstrated quite vividly what a political millstone the guy has become. (As near as I can tell, nobody likes this strange Porcelain Man.) His primary business venture has gone into the blind downward staggers. And the man has the personal charm of a carcinogenic pesticide. Even the president, it seems, is said to have tumbled to what a huge liability the man has become. |
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We begin in Maine, which has a governor named Janet Mills, and Governor Mills made it a point a while back to jump up and down on the president's last nerve. The president has reacted as the national leader we have come to know. |
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Speaker Moses appears to be following the Exodus template very closely. Now, it seems, we are up to the wandering 40 years aimlessly in the desert part. He has lost control of his majority and, for the moment, the entire House of Representatives. He is being beaten like a rented mule by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, of all people, not the brightest bulb in the chamber's chandelier. And he is losing on an issue that he never saw coming. Perhaps the bush was burning too brightly. |
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The Department of Health and Human Services, headed incomprehensibly by one of the greatest weirdos ever to occupy a position of power in this country, has surrendered to patent medicines, hot and cold running PFAS, and various strains of hemorrhagic fever. |
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Keep your face always toward the sunshine, said old Walt Whitman, and shadows will fall behind you. So let's take what we can get. This weekend, in blazing-red Louisiana, Governor Jeff Landry got his jewels kicked through the roof of his mouth. Landry threw his support behind four MAGA-friendly amendments to the state constitution, and all four of them lost. |
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