This is the second great article @Politicomag has published recently https://t.co/5eJnVEHKLs First was this https://t.co/B0TiZN5J8P What's gone wrong over there?
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) October 18, 2019
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Desn't confront whether the Iraq "war of choice" violated his "good guy" rule. And it's wildly interventionist. "If we don’t help the weak and stand up against oppression…what will happen to the Kurds, the Iraqis, the Afghans, the Syrians, the Rohingyas, the South Sudanese…" https://t.co/nJ6G61R5Is
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) October 18, 2019
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Sorry, I don't get the Cult of McRaven. This just seems 16 grafs of sincere bombast that barely even bothers to actually make the case against Trump, "Our Republic Is Under Attack From the President" https://t.co/16ZURNd2Fu
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) October 18, 2019
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"How Liz Wins." Makes it seem quite plausible https://t.co/g7Yo6UoCWC
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) October 18, 2019
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"Pentagon and State..planners should have realized that sooner or later Trump would return to the issue of withdrawal of U.S. support for the Kurds & were either unwilling or unable to prepare for this…" Pattern: They block him & block him & eventually he rebels crudely, badly https://t.co/u4fbxMKye4
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) October 18, 2019
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Agree https://t.co/u4fbxMKye4
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) October 18, 2019
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Made in China https://t.co/Ub1QQnRAmW
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) October 18, 2019
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If you read only one piece on the Brexit deal, don't read this one in @TheAtlantic. No details. https://t.co/Kz4a5AASuZ
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) October 18, 2019
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Nah. Skip right to 6. https://t.co/ULB1wFrYBx [Last item] https://t.co/bqQDqXuvQb
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) October 18, 2019
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You'd want to be Buttigieg in this poll, no? (Maybe doing a bit too well too early) …. https://t.co/4vgyvxiNIa
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) October 18, 2019
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Seems a powerful argument for immigration control–i.e. immigrants may be great but-if only due to language barriers–they often don't make schools great for natives. Only affluent natives can afford neighborhoods that escape this. Income inequality becomes way more important. https://t.co/RJPZtrqLZ3
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) October 17, 2019
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HE'S RESTING: Serious question (that all my friends say I'm crazy for raising): What are the chances Jeffrey Epstein *didn't* have himself frozen for future generations to revive? Would've been done way too late by current standards–but if future tech is sufficiently advanced… https://t.co/FYWz81uj2Y
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) October 17, 2019
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It's right there in the Constitution:"U.S. policy will be determined by the Ukraine desk at the State Department, not the President elected every four years." https://t.co/TRFhqzIK2B
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) October 17, 2019
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Note: The "3 Amigos" are all government officials. So now the beef isn't that Trump went around the official bureaucracy but that he used the wrong bureaucrats?https://t.co/KwEj0xzDyV
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) October 17, 2019
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"What's More Important Than Tax Progressivity." https://t.co/vvkbeLP2UK
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) October 17, 2019
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Approaching 40K followers (thank you). But I know I'll never actually get past that mark. @Twitter will knock me back by taking away some of my loyal, uncomplaining bots. 40K's like that point in The Prisoner when the big weather ball pops up. Or when Joe Pesci becomes a made man
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) October 17, 2019
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Started a newsletter. Can I sign you up? https://t.co/9T889kaXZX
PS Wasn't saying I'd rather work than live on free money. Was saying the opposite. Free $$ (including Yang's) is a "narcotic," as FDR said. If people don't have to work in labor market for $$ many won't. Obvious pt. https://t.co/32eItEpT59— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) October 17, 2019
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Graphic evidence that Dems increasingly represent the economy's winners. GOP represents the "losers." I assume @RonBrownstein would agree (i.e. his "Coalition of the Ascendant'). Many on left boast about it, which seems odd. https://t.co/iqEI8F0ZC1
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) October 17, 2019
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I'm just astonished that after Obama ran against the Iraq War and after the Overton window supposedly moved way left in the Dem party, everyone except (creepy) Gabbard now must be gung-ho for military Great Gaming in the Middle East, lest we "abandon the international stage." https://t.co/KKbub6qTei
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) October 17, 2019
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I think it would be different in public. Here he was trying to bludgeon witness into giving the story he wanted. On TV you have to seem to be reacting to witness' story–can attack it but this was shaping it. Best done in secret! https://t.co/htTVQYm6N2
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) October 16, 2019
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Here's a relevant WaPo piece: https://t.co/rnXbzGq22A I remember thinking at the time it was v-risky for Obama to egg the anti-Assad rebellion on, since Assad would probably win at high cost of lives. https://t.co/QdUM4QNEiF
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) October 16, 2019
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.@Mrwaltershapiro Walter–why is it "morally repugnant" for Tulsi to say those who shaped Syrian intervention bear some responsibility for complications? Maybe wrong, but not repugnant. Obama didn't have to say 'Assad must go.' Had consequences. https://t.co/e3ScxlKRIv
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) October 16, 2019
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"Pressed" seems to be putting it mildly. Schiff also asking Volker to buy into the whole impeachment worldview that delaying aid to "an ally at war with Russia" is the worst thing imaginable. Could Schiff get away with this in a public hearing? https://t.co/pIdN44b2Yw
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) October 16, 2019
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UAW tentative deal with GM delivers 'major gains' — raises, $9 B in investments https://t.co/5GreLD5o7E
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) October 16, 2019
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Maybe it's "They all worked for me" since it applied to Justice Kagan too.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) October 16, 2019
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