THEY'RE EATING THE DOGS!!!!

If you’re having trouble viewing this email, [view in browser]( What the hell happened in politics this week? Esquire's legendary blogger Charlie P. Pierce has answers You Know It's Bad When The Candidate Hits The Spin Room After a Debate You Know It's Bad When The Candidate Hits The Spin Room After a Debate Come along on a short walk across the battlefield, checking out the smoking ruins, the shattered artillery pieces, and the tattered flags of the MAGA armies. 1) El Caudillo del Mar-a-Lago's drop-by in the post-debate spin room was a real tell. Usually, candidates avoid the spin room as though it's a cholera ward. The spin room is a job for vice presidents, at best. (J. Divan Vance did show his face, but mostly to defend the dog-eating fantasy.) But, usually, you trot out experts, or famous senators, to make your case. You don't allow the ambulatory carcass of what used to be your candidate to come out and blither to Kaitlan Collins of CNN about how he "won all the polls" after the debate was over. That was pure desperation with a fine glaze of flopsweat on it. [Read More]( [Declassify the Senate Report on the Torture Program? Sounds Like A Job For Lame Duck Joe Biden]( [Declassify the Senate Report on the Torture Program? Sounds Like A Job For Lame Duck Joe Biden]( It is occurring to more than a few people that President Joe Biden is pretty much free to do anything he wants within the law for the rest of his term. (For that matter, if we take the Supreme Court seriously, he's pretty much free to do anything he wants, the law be damned. Take that immunity thing out for a spin and see what she's got.) For example, the indefatigable Jefferson Morley is ramping up his campaign for the CIA to release all the remaining documents regarding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, something that was supposed to happen 32 years ago. [Read More]( [I Believe Trump When He Says Kicking Immigrants Out Will Be a “Bloody Story”]( [I Believe Trump When He Says Kicking Immigrants Out Will Be a “Bloody Story”]( It all became a farce over the weekend—the whole of the presidential campaign but especially Tuesday night’s debate between the former president* and the current vice president. It will all be covered as though this were nothing more than a conventional political campaign, perhaps a little noisier than most of them, when, in fact, one of the candidates is now running as an out-and-out fascist, his authoritarian ravings mitigated only marginally by the fact that he also is obviously lost in a cognitive netherworld. I have chosen to believe every word he said over the weekend. [Read More]( [What Was Judge Juan Merchan Thinking Delaying Trump’s Sentencing?]( [What Was Judge Juan Merchan Thinking Delaying Trump’s Sentencing?]( Oh, Judge Merchan. You were inches from a clean getaway. Of course, Judge Merchan took the opposite tack from Judge Tanya Chutkan as to the relative relationship between the legal processes and the election. The major difference is that Merchan is dealing with sentencing and Chutkan is dealing with trying to get a trial under way. But it’s hard to understand what Merchan—or the country—gains by this delay. It leaves open the possibility that people will be asked to vote for a president* whose immediate place of residence will be uncertain. But in a country where people are planning by the millions to vote for a convicted felon anyway, I suppose sentencing doesn’t really matter in the balance. [Read More]( [Trump on Childcare: “Childcare Is Childcare”]( [Trump on Childcare: “Childcare Is Childcare”]( His audience, the Economic Club of New York, sat there like people at the zoo when the monkeys suddenly begin to f*ck. There are 360 words in that alleged answer. Two of them make sense: “Thank you.” C’mon, people. Be real about this election. [Read More]( Follow Us [Visit Esquire on Facebook]( [Visit Esquire on X formerly Twitter]( [Visit Esquire on Instagram]( [Visit Esquire on YouTube]( [Unsubscribe]( | [Privacy Notice]( | [CA Notice at Collection]( Esquire is a publication of Hearst Magazines. ©2024 Hearst Magazine Media, Inc. All Rights Reserved. This email was sent by Hearst Magazines, 300 West 57th Street, New York, NY 10019-3779