Tabby Thursday

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Tabby Thursday

Steven L. Taylor

July 3, 2025

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Quite the headline via Vice: Billionaire Dies After Swallowing a Bee During Polo Match.
Via The Atlantic: A Decade of Golden-Escalator Politics.
Via WaPo: Intercepted call of Iranian officials downplays damage of U.S. attack.
Via Politico: Iran could resume uranium enrichment in ‘months,’ says IAEA chief.
Via the NYT: How the United States Helped Create Iran’s Nuclear Program.
Via TNR: UVA President James Ryan Caved to MAGA—and They Forced Him Out Anyway.
Via TPM: The New President of the National Sheriffs’ Association Participated in the Jan. 6 Protests.
A couple from Twitter:

The much anticipated realignment turns out to be… Republicans voting to cut Medicaid and cut taxes for rich people. Who could have seen it coming?

JD Vance is the phoniest man in politics, non-Ted Cruz division. https://t.co/JFGjSbaBmw
— David Ramsey (@ArkDavey) July 1, 2025

this is a real chyron that just aired on Fox pic.twitter.com/8R9HMhIp3z
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 1, 2025

9 responses to “Tabby Thursday”

just nutha

July 3, 2025 at 12:53 pm

It was you, JD. In 2017, you repeatedly said Medicaid cuts like these betray working class voters. Turns out it was all a scam.

Well, not a scam per se. He really believed in helping working class voters while it was important to his political prospects. Now that it’s not, his focus has shifted to his new constituency. It’s really more of a model of what public service should be in a bipartisan, give and take, go along to get along system.

He’s more of an exemplar than anything else.

ETA: And if that’s what it takes to win…

Well, what else matters? You can’t advance the cause from the minority caucus. Right?

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Scott

July 3, 2025 at 1:54 pm

I’m going to add this to your list:

A tale reminiscent of Maoist China. Goodbye to All That.My resignation from the FBI.

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Kingdaddy

July 3, 2025 at 4:41 pm

@Scott: Jesus Effing Christ. That is a must-read, for the insight into how truly debased our federal law enforcement agencies have become.
CSK

July 3, 2025 at 4:55 pm

With respect to The Atlantic article: “He’s doing it for us.”

Jesus, how delusional are people???
CSK

July 3, 2025 at 5:44 pm

@ScandiLib:

And we thank you heartily for your best wishes. It’s awful having a jackass like Trump at the helm–to extend your nautical metaphor.
CSK

July 3, 2025 at 6:38 pm

ScandiLib‘s comment seems to have vanished. Did I hallucinate it?
Kathy

July 3, 2025 at 7:08 pm

@CSK:

I wonder about that. maybe they deleted their post after you replied to it?

Stand by.

ETA: the option to delete still appears with the edit box. Myth Plausible.

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CSK

July 3, 2025 at 7:17 pm

@Kathy:

Why would ScandiLib delete it? It was interesting.
ScandiLib

July 4, 2025 at 4:19 am

I seem to have deleted my comment by mistake. Sorry. I was saying that among my many capers as a boy (details on Wednesday’s forum), sailing my dinghy in a gale was a favorite. (You know, it’s Norway, coastline, fjords, cabin all summer long etc.) It had to go wrong some day and it did. I tried a turn in a storm gust, the boom smacked me in the head and I was knocked out. Luckily wearing my life jacket I woke up floating, then – after a while and a good deal of swimming – finding my rudder and my keel (made of balsa) and getting home somehow (probably with a concussion, but who cared about that stuff in 1971?) but my sail, mast and boom were gone. I finally found the stuff the next evening after a long day scouring the beaches.
I just felt that this is the non-MAGA-America now, trying to ride the gale, being knocked out, barely surviving, looking to saving the wreckage and hoping for luck tomorrow. That’s about it. Again, greetings and best wishes from Norway.

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