The New York Times reported today that President Trump might be turning the page on the Epstein controversy. We'll see. However, now, Vice President Vance has entered the chat and kicked up a whole new conspiracy theory. Esquire's Charles P. Pierce dipped into the fever swamp to bring back this dispatch. – Michael Sebastian, editor-in-chief Plus: |
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The vice president's mysterious little trip to Montana might be more devious than we think. |
J.Divan Vance, vice-president of the United States, is a man of great ambition. He is also a man of great unpopularity. These things generally cancel each other out in the life of a politician. But Vance's impression of his own importance is so solid that this rule no longer applies. And, it appears that he may have found his own conservative Sanhedrin, and one willing to pay the thirty pieces of silver it would take to sell out the boss, in the wilds of Montana. Vance's sudden enthusiasm for Big Sky country adds an extra measure of turmoil into the already roiling stew of MAGA politics. The president is being belabored by large portions of his base over documents detailing his relationship with Epstein, perhaps the most notorious American human-trafficker since the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment. Many of those same MAGAnauts have no use for Vance, whom they view as a) the ambitious climber that he is, and b) the tool of a new tech elite led by gazillionaire Peter Thiel, Vance's one-man raison d'être as a politician. |
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It's gonna be six years in August since I did it. It's becoming a little bit of an abstraction. The only way that I can say it changed my life is that now, if I'm down on myself for being selfish, I can remind myself that I did this thing. It reminds me that maybe I am a good, empathetic person. But it's still something I fight with myself over. I also have to remind myself that I have only one kidney. I can't be blasé about my health anymore. Right now, I'm trying to lose weight, so it's on my mind. I'm perfectly healthy, but I made myself more at risk by taking away that extra kidney. I think I was trying to exercise my morality in a way that you might exercise at the gym. I thought of it like training for a marathon. And when I ask myself why I would do that, I think the answer is instinct. When a person is drowning in a lake, there's a natural instinct to save them. In my case, though, it wasn't instantaneous. There was a huge, yearslong gap between the idea of saving someone and the execution. |
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Paris is the last place where you should be cooped up in a hotel room all day long. You should be perusing museums, shops, restaurants, and all the things that made you book that flight in the first place. But would it feel like Paris if there wasn't just a little bit of charm where you slept? In the past five years, Paris has seen more hotel openings that most major cities worldwide. Institutions like Le Meurice and the Ritz still reign supreme, but its latest additions offer new gems in different neighborhoods with chic decor themes that'll leave an impression long after you've left. |
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