The Ratfckers Are At It Again

They are out there, scheming like the vicious elves they are, dragging the election deep into the margin of f*ckery. The Republican game plan is now plainly organized theft rather than political victory. The spirit of the Florida Heist of Aught-Aught is with them. According to the emails obtained by CREW and shared with The Guardian, the enterprise is run by an all-star team of veteran ratf*ckers. 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 The Ratfuckers’ Plans to Undermine the 2024 Election in Georgia Are Under Way The Ratfuckers’ Plans to Undermine the 2024 Election in Georgia Are Under Way They are out there, scheming like the vicious elves they are, dragging the election deep into the margin of f*ckery. The Republican game plan is now plainly organized theft rather than political victory. The spirit of the Florida Heist of Aught-Aught is with them. According to the emails obtained by CREW and shared with The Guardian, the enterprise is run by an all-star team of veteran ratf*ckers. [Read More]( [Congratulations to Nobody on the Teamsters’ Endorsement]( [Congratulations to Nobody on the Teamsters’ Endorsement]( Gee, the Teamsters’ endorsement—or, more accurately, their non-endorsement—was subject to lame-ass political expedience. What were the odds on that? O’Brien, of course, made the genius move of speaking at the Republican National Convention, where he was treated like a well-behaved skunk at that garden party. The Democrats thereupon declined to give him a speaker’s slot, and he had a well-publicized tantrum about that. O’Brien has to know that no Republican president ever is going to be a friend to labor, and that’s been the case for a while. [Read More]( [I’m Not Even Surprised Aileen Cannon Didn’t Comply with Disclosure Rules]( [I’m Not Even Surprised Aileen Cannon Didn’t Comply with Disclosure Rules]( The good folks at ProPublica remain on the Judges Gone Wild beat. Their latest subject, to the surprise of absolutely nobody, is Judge Aileen Cannon, the former president*’s concierge judge down in Florida who currently is waiting for an appeals court to throw her ludicrous dismissal of the Pool Shed Papers case back in her teeth. [Read More]( [The Fight Over Redistricting In Ohio Just Got Way Weirder]( [The Fight Over Redistricting In Ohio Just Got Way Weirder]( We begin in Ohio, where there is mischief and ratfcking afoot again. The state has a grossly gerrymandered state legislature and congressional delegation, and it has been fighting over new maps since shortly after Ulysses Grant left Galena to go off and fight the Secesh. The latest front in the ongoing hostility involves a summary of an anti-gerrymandering amendment to the Ohio Constitution, an amendment that is scheduled to come before the voters this fall. Democratic leaders in Ohio believe that the summary, written up by the Ohio Ballot Board under the direction of Republican Secretary of State Frank LaRose, is misleading in that it explains the amendment will do the opposite of what it is intended to do. A lawsuit has ensued. [Read More]( [A Nutball with an AK-47 Got Too Close to Trump While He Was Golfing]( [A Nutball with an AK-47 Got Too Close to Trump While He Was Golfing]( For those of you who, quite sensibly, have taken to tripping balls on South American psychedelics every weekend just to get away from it all, here’s what you missed over the past couple days. First up: Down in Florida, some other nutball got within five hundred yards of the former president* while carrying an AK-47—nutballs with AK-47s are just what the Founders intended—but you needn’t worry. By 4:06 on Sunday afternoon, the former president* was up and grifting by email. [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