SunTabs

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SunTabs

Steven L. Taylor

May 18, 2025

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Via AL.com: Why does Alabama’s GOP chairman have a Tennessee driver’s license under a different name?
Via The Atlantic: Finally, Someone Said It to Joe Rogan’s Face.
Via The Bulwark: An Afrikaner Refugee Has Thoughts About the Jews.
Via the AP: Mexican security chief confirms cartel family members entered US in a deal with Trump administration.
Studies in intellectual honesty and consistency.

The hypocrisy has no bottom. pic.twitter.com/Jdj4DSo99x
— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) May 16, 2025

The latest in “trade wars are good and easy to win.”

Mattel’s CEO says toy manufacturing won’t return to the U.S., but price hikes will—blaming costs, supply issues, and Trump’s tariffs. These import taxes are set to cost U.S. consumers over $90B in 2025, with households paying $1,600–$5,200 more, depending on income. pic.twitter.com/IwDZhTUCJa
— The Intellectualist (@highbrow_nobrow) May 17, 2025

Trump imposed tariffs on Singapore, despite the fact that Singapore imposes no tariffs on the United States— undermining your central thesis that his policies are based on fairness or reciprocity.

Rather than repairing an imperfect system, Trump’s tariff regime is actively…
— The Intellectualist (@highbrow_nobrow) May 18, 2025

I’m old enough to remember — because I’m not a newborn infant — when Trump said tariffs were paid by other countries. How can Walmart eat tariffs when they’re not already eaten by other countries? pic.twitter.com/2DauWcsz6S
— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahDispatch) May 17, 2025

3 responses to “SunTabs”

gVOR10

May 18, 2025 at 1:44 pm

Nothing looks as relaxed as a sleeping cat.

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Moosebreath

May 18, 2025 at 2:14 pm

People have been placed into ICE custody for expressing less antisemitic statemants than the subject of the Bulwark article. But of course, they had far darker skin color.

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Gustopher

May 18, 2025 at 2:15 pm

From the linked story on Rogan:

Murray has the kind of English accent that—I’m afraid to say, having experienced something similar myself—instantly makes Americans think you’re smart. He was on The Joe Rogan Experience to promote his new book, On Democracies and Death Cults, which strongly supports Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s war against Hamas in Gaza.

Huh. From the title, I would have assumed his book was opposed to death cults. Just shows, you cannot judge a book by its title. I will not posit a guess on whether he is in favor of democracy.

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