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I absolutely love Charles Pierce! (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Aug 2020
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Hekate
(90,686 posts)1. Made me laugh
and I can hardly wait
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,620 posts)2. Charles Pierce is the best! He gets it.
It's a great article.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)3. I suspect Pence's reaction was slightly different
A shame boner that he had to dash out of the room to hide.
leftieNanner
(15,100 posts)7. You made me laugh!
I don't think Mother allows those. She keeps it in her purse anyway.
Politicalgolfer
(317 posts)4. Charlie is a treasure
Charlie nailed it! Pence is crapping his pants and Trump 's diapers runeth over
Hekate
(90,686 posts)5. There's an excellent article at the link
Long about 4:20 ET Tuesday afternoon, Mike Pence of Indiana felt a cold chill Down There and he didnt know why.
Joe Biden returned to the inevitable by selecting Senator Kamala Harris to be his running mate. This decision put Pence in a nutcracker. Either he has to debate Harris on televisionand hes seen what happened to witnesses before Senate committees when Harriss turn came around to question themor he wont get the chance, because this selection has to make some of the cutthroats on the other side wonder if dumping Pence for, say, Nikki Haley, is the proper countermove. (Narrator: They wont, but you know some of them are thinking about it.) Frankly, given the choice between public evisceration and public defenestration, I dont know which way Pence would go. Maybe he should poll on it.
The pick makes all kinds of sense. It always made all kinds of sense. It energizes the most loyal segment of the Democratic base. It honors the election of Barack Obama and the legacy of Bidens work in that administration, while simultaneously acknowledging the reality, seen now in the streets, that, despite the fond anesthetic rhetoric of conservatives, the election of Barack Obama did not solve entirely systemic racism in this society. It puts a prosecutorial edge on the campaign that any campaign against the current president* needs. It injects the campaign with hot molten steel. At the same time, Harris is a genuinely charismatic person. And it demonstrates that, unlike the incumbent, Joe Biden can handle tough criticism like an adult. Nobody was tougher on him during the campaign than Harris was. (Her summoning up his history on busing was the single most memorable haymaker of the entire cycle.) The pick says as much about him as it does about her. There wont be anyone tailoring intel reports to avoid presidential tantrums.
(Also, Harriss election would enable Rep. Katie Porter to run for Senate in California. Bonus!)
...I kept coming back to the times I sat in at various hearings in which she challenged the members of the administration* that has led the nation into disaster, and she did so before they led the nation into disaster. She has receipts to carry us into the next decade.
Joe Biden returned to the inevitable by selecting Senator Kamala Harris to be his running mate. This decision put Pence in a nutcracker. Either he has to debate Harris on televisionand hes seen what happened to witnesses before Senate committees when Harriss turn came around to question themor he wont get the chance, because this selection has to make some of the cutthroats on the other side wonder if dumping Pence for, say, Nikki Haley, is the proper countermove. (Narrator: They wont, but you know some of them are thinking about it.) Frankly, given the choice between public evisceration and public defenestration, I dont know which way Pence would go. Maybe he should poll on it.
The pick makes all kinds of sense. It always made all kinds of sense. It energizes the most loyal segment of the Democratic base. It honors the election of Barack Obama and the legacy of Bidens work in that administration, while simultaneously acknowledging the reality, seen now in the streets, that, despite the fond anesthetic rhetoric of conservatives, the election of Barack Obama did not solve entirely systemic racism in this society. It puts a prosecutorial edge on the campaign that any campaign against the current president* needs. It injects the campaign with hot molten steel. At the same time, Harris is a genuinely charismatic person. And it demonstrates that, unlike the incumbent, Joe Biden can handle tough criticism like an adult. Nobody was tougher on him during the campaign than Harris was. (Her summoning up his history on busing was the single most memorable haymaker of the entire cycle.) The pick says as much about him as it does about her. There wont be anyone tailoring intel reports to avoid presidential tantrums.
(Also, Harriss election would enable Rep. Katie Porter to run for Senate in California. Bonus!)
...I kept coming back to the times I sat in at various hearings in which she challenged the members of the administration* that has led the nation into disaster, and she did so before they led the nation into disaster. She has receipts to carry us into the next decade.
fmdaddio
(192 posts)8. I'd pay to read Charlie's daily blog
Oh wait I do. Besides the Washington post the only 2 sites I pay for is TPM From Josh Marshall (Highly recommended) and Charlies dairy musings on Esquire. Charlie used to be a regular on MSNBC but not so much lately. Too bad.