The Election Vibes Are Shifting and I
Don’t Love It
Esquire,
by
Charles P. Pierce
Original Article
Posted By: crashnburn,
10/13/2024 12:30:38 PM
I swear to God that this is not about polls, although that Quinnipiac poll on Wednesday shook me up a little. And I understand that it’s hard to determine anything real with all the smoke and noise surrounding the campaign right now. And I also understand that a good fraction of my fellow citizens will believe anything they pick up while Doing Their Own Research on the Intertoobz. And I also understand that a larger fraction of my fellow citizens have surrendered to the Cult of the Vulgar Talking Yam.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 10/13/2024 12:41:15 PM (No. 1812595)
As with all these people you have to wonder what they could possibly be hoping would happened if Kamala were electe
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
anniebc 10/13/2024 12:44:28 PM (No. 1812597)
We have no sympathy or empathy for you, Chuck. Go suffer in silence.
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Way too deep in metaphors, similes, and cheesy humor. But, "Cult of the Vulgar Talking Yam"? Count me in!
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
seamusm 10/13/2024 12:47:00 PM (No. 1812599)
Pierce is gonna give other DimoTwits a bad name.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 10/13/2024 12:56:00 PM (No. 1812606)
LOVE to see liberals twisting in the blustering wind of their own lies. I'm not sure if Pierce believes his own baloney or is just spewing dogma but the angst seems real and that's great!
I look forward to Trump's success in the election and his second term and a renewed Country. Then, after NONE of the dem horror stories come true and the economy comes roaring back, we can say "TOLD YOU SO!" and elect Vance to his first term as President and carry on.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
BeatleJeff 10/13/2024 12:57:44 PM (No. 1812609)
This guy is a self-parody of every stereotypical libtard. He repeats every trope the nasty left has thrown at Trump over the last nine years, and it's evident he truly believes every word of it. And he can't understand why the media elite have utterly failed in their assignment of selling the Myth of Kackles the Klown. Let me explain it to you, Chuckles. They're failing because they're trying to convince the unwashed masses that what the Rats are selling is filet mignon topped with foie gras and caviar, yet everyone paying attention can clearly see it isn't filet mignon, it's a t#rd on a plate, and no one is buying their gaslighting.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Daisymay 10/13/2024 12:59:39 PM (No. 1812612)
Just goes to show ya that you can't make a Silk Purse out of a Sow's Ear, even if she has a Billion Dollars!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
pixelero 10/13/2024 1:00:28 PM (No. 1812613)
From the tone of the first paragraph, this guy’s just a fool.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
DrOstrow 10/13/2024 1:18:25 PM (No. 1812624)
I've been wondering the same thing for weeks #1.
It doesn't take a lot of insight to see where the country was on multiple issues.
Lower energy prices, boarder being secured, businesses starting up, almost everything looked good. Yes I know, we had the covid fiasco but that could have been solved with a few judicious removals of certain individuals !
If you can remember Donald Trumps presidency and his accomplishments why in the name of Geronimo's h******s, would you want 4 MORE YEARS of the national disaster / administration we have been suffering under ??
Beats me and it makes no sense !!
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Pierce has long been the archetype of what we know and dislike. The effete Manhattanite who ventures into 'flyover country' only under duress and protest and returns to write condescending tripe about those he has encountered - but he could have done that from his coffee shop seat in the Village.
He wears a beard because he thinks it hides his weak - and now double - chin. He wears a broad-brimmed hat in some vague, vain attempt to look like Hemingway or an early 20th century adventurer.
He lisps, he blinks violently, he thinks his utterances are important and you must listen.
Pierce is the same individual who convinced a young Tiger Woods to allow Pierce to do one of these 'shadow' pieces, going everywhere with Woods for a dizzying few days as Woods attained early stardom. Woods told an adolescent, off-color joke. Pierce printed it in his story. Woods had opportunity to review the story before publication and asked Pierce to omit the joke, say it was off the record. Pierce refused, claiming Woods didn't invoke the magic words at the time. The controversy that followed was minor but it caused Woods to inherently distrust the media from that time forward - 28 years and counting. It made Woods robotic, evasive, curt etc. Media dutifully attributed to Woods' 'focus' and 'drive' and, as usual, refused to blame another member of the gutter press.
As we know, Woods turned out to be less than an angel but Pierce was and is still a prig.
His political writing is of the familiar but still strange variety: he believes and amplifies the worst, most easily disproven political cliches: Dems Good, GOP Bad. Dems are Racial Saviors, GOP are Nazis. And so on. It's the NY Times without the NY Times.
Like so many of his media peers, he has watched the 'Democratic' party become Soviet in tactics, goals and outcomes. So-called candidates are chosen by a politburo and portrayed as that which they are not - as their leftist madness immediately upon gaining office demonstrates. Debate, legislation, compromise, consent of the governed, the social contract - these are all hindrances and thus become targets for destruction. Covid proved that.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
NorthernDog 10/13/2024 1:38:08 PM (No. 1812636)
That's almost fun to read. Usually Dems think they have the election in the bag [even in 2016]. This time it's a slow twisting in the wind.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
cThree 10/13/2024 1:54:06 PM (No. 1812643)
This is ENORMOUS fun to read. Thanks for posting!
This effete popinjay writes, "It’s like watching reality getting the stuffing beaten out of it and having no real way of fighting back."
That would be his own twisted version of reality, of course.
What came to mind was the image of Icarus (of the Greek myth with Dedalus), anguished and falling as his wings fell apart, incapable of "fighting back," as reality—the actual reality—was fast closing in.
Happy landing, nitwit.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
helibobber 10/13/2024 1:54:08 PM (No. 1812644)
To quote Spiro Agnew, this guy is an indeed an "effete snob".
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Snow Possum 10/13/2024 2:08:55 PM (No. 1812651)
What utter nonsense. The author is mentally ill. Nothing else explains this article purporting to be reaching above truth while grasping nothing even in the same zip code as the truth.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Jimmy Mack 10/13/2024 2:12:43 PM (No. 1812652)
The author - Pierce - is now and has always been a left-wing hack.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
BarryNo 10/13/2024 2:38:18 PM (No. 1812660)
He doesn't see a problem with a culture who forces Heels-Up Harris on its voters?
Cult of the talking Yam. That's real cute. I hope he's promised to leave the country if Trump wins.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Kate318 10/13/2024 2:48:02 PM (No. 1812665)
I love the smell of liberal tears in the morning. It smells like…victory. I’m running out of bumper sticker room, but may need to find space for Cult of the Vulgar Talking Yam. Such a girly insult.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Clearinnc 10/13/2024 2:51:21 PM (No. 1812668)
This is what the Esquire is now? Maybe it's always been a bastion of disillusioned and ill-informed, thumb-sucking baby wipes. He should read Bill Ackman's "33 reasons not to vote Democrat" on X to see just how singularly stupid he really is.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
hershey 10/13/2024 3:14:23 PM (No. 1812679)
I thought Esquire was an English gentleman???
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
earlybird 10/13/2024 3:15:56 PM (No. 1812681)
Dear gang, Your replies are far beetter than this twit's scribblings...
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
paral04 10/13/2024 3:19:51 PM (No. 1812686)
Too bad amigo. Kamala is a inept, nasty individual who was useless as a VP and you want to endanger my grandsons so that idiot when she gets us into war. After what she and Biden have done to our military, depleted out munitions and fuel reserves so that we are sitting ducks.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
DVC 10/13/2024 4:01:04 PM (No. 1812705)
Charlie, when you're not happy millions of us are very happy.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 10/13/2024 4:22:42 PM (No. 1812713)
Thank goodness this article was ONLY an opinion piece by Charles P. Pierce who is himself, one of those pampered princes to whom most Americans are highly allergic. A set of fingerprints, a fanny and an opinion: all of ours are different from each others'. Get over it, we can't all be blonde with blue eyes. And why is he swearing to God? Did he just now learn that God places people in authority over the nations? (That makes me wonder what on earth did we do to deserve Obama OR Biden?) I'll join my hurricane friend under the dresser now.
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Get this guy some Xanax before he codes. He is about to have a psychotic break. Seriously dude you are seeing demons that only exist in your head.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
ronniethek 10/13/2024 5:59:20 PM (No. 1812775)
The author is a total disrespectful schmuck. It takes nothing to be a Trump/Republican hater. No talent or brains required at all.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Strike3 10/13/2024 6:15:50 PM (No. 1812788)
It's a Trump hit piece not-so-cleverly disguised as a lamentation of the bad luck and bad choices of the democrats. There, I read it so you don't have to.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Subsuburban 10/13/2024 6:20:39 PM (No. 1812795)
Sometimes I almost think these soi disant "journalists" actually believe the line of bull they pedal to the brainwashed
"literati" who allegedly read their publcations. Almost.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
MickTurn 10/13/2024 8:41:32 PM (No. 1812859)
Even the Rigged Democrap Polls show Scamala LOSING!
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
DVC 10/13/2024 11:03:39 PM (No. 1812906)
I thought the "Esquire" had a double E in the middle.
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From his comments, this guy is not only drinking the DemonRat Kool-Aid, but he's also swimming in it. And he's still depressed about QueMALA Sutra's chances are slipping away.