And I just realized the significance of the day this awful announcement was made. I feel so incredibly awful for Tatiana, her husband, and her small children. But I'm gutted for Caroline. How much pain is one person supposed to endure, you know?

I have just discovered the political snark of folk singer Jesse Welles.
(He sang this on Colbert on Thursday.)

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Since this all relates to RFK who is now inexplicably in our government, we might as well post the equally odious Ryan Lizza's Substack post about his ex Olivia Nuzzi and her affair with RFK, etc. That's Part 1 about her and Mark Sanford. Part 2, about RFK is here. This may have already put Nuzzi's new perch at Vanity Fair at risk, particularly the revelation that Nuzzi helped orchestrate catch and kill ops for Kennedy.

If our country survives all this Nuzzi will end up an aging figure, drifting out to sea like a dead elder on an ice floe, on Fox News or Newsmax in 10-15 years - the polar opposite of where she very distinctly wants to position herself - and I hope I'm there to see it.

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From the above: Someone was kind enough to post the entire, un-paywalled second Lizza post re: Nuzzi/RFK (Part 2) on Google Docs.

An excerpt:

I did not believe Olivia’s version of events. I believed she had engaged in a long affair with Mark. She insisted that while her “infatuation” lasted months, it was one-sided and they only ever slept together that one night. She insisted that I search her phone and laptop to corroborate her story, but, of course, she had already erased everything that was incriminating.

Well, almost everything. There was that voice memo. And then there was something much stranger. Olivia had written a tabloid-style news story about how “sources in Washington, D.C. and Charleston have been buzzing recently about an unexpected romance: Mark Sanford and Olivia Nuzzi,” who was described as “one of the most famous political reporters in America,” a “blonde beauty” who “gained critical acclaim as a skilled profile writer, gaining access to the powerful and the mysterious and turning it into pure journalistic gold.”

Olivia told me she wrote the fake article as an exercise to think through what might be the worst that could be said publicly if the affair became known, though that didn’t really make sense to me given the piece’s tone. Her fantasizing about what it would be like when her secret relationship with a notorious politician finally became public would repeat itself during her affair with Bobby.

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