"Equally unclear was what measures Mexico could take to seal the border with the United States…" Classic sentence the reader suspects was added by clueless NYT editor. Trump wants them to seal their Southern border-not border with US-as piece later notes https://t.co/qzbbqEG4YT
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) June 1, 2019
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This was apparently an absurd sub-theme of @BuzzfeedBen's piece on kausfiles. Too subtle for me! I didn't notice it until people said he was trying to make me look poor.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) June 1, 2019
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Why are you so sure it will fail? Maybe there are other, better ideas, but that is a different point. https://t.co/3gckb0GvBe
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) May 31, 2019
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This wasn't true about welfare for decades (Americans hated welfare but Congress stalled major reform til '96). It's not true about immigration now (much of Cong.-esp. leaders-trying to give voters who want to stabilize/cut the flow more immigration than Congress knows they want) https://t.co/TYieTJ8ro2
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) May 31, 2019
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Plus Mueller's enmeshed in the facts of the case he's investigating-whether or not he wanted a job he was at the WH talking to Trump after the Comey firing. If Mueller wasn't considered a god & the press wasn't anti-Trump, you'd say 'Maybe we should get someone else for this job" https://t.co/vzYRF2wdjo
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) May 31, 2019
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It's inconceivable that the pro-migration lobby would agree to even a v-Schumeresque 'sensible compromise' — amnesty + guestworkers + enforcement of whatever limits remain — without then trying to undermine the enforcement. https://t.co/orqtGHz81g
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) May 31, 2019
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I sense a lack of trust https://t.co/orqtGHz81g
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) May 31, 2019
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How discredited? "Comey, two decades his junior, treated Mueller as a close friend and almost mentor. The men had known each other for years as each rose into the small, elite fraternity."–Garrett M. Graff https://t.co/aMF2vWtIDn Seems like a conflict to me. https://t.co/YWxhYta6yA
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) May 31, 2019
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"immigration crisis that exists only in his mind"? I thought this sneer had been dropped, now that even the @NYTimes editorial board https://t.co/LIeh2ToNQw and Obama's DHS secretary https://t.co/ctP4ASImax agree there's a crisis. https://t.co/4L1Qquv7gr
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) May 31, 2019
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Still mystified that *leftish* whippersnappers think it's devastating to portray their enemies as poor. Isn't that what the most obnoxious conservatives used to do? Whether or not it's true, what's wrong with living on $23K a year (not easy)? https://t.co/4vpfJeNwBF
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) May 31, 2019
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.@RMConservative argues what would really make Mexico remedy the problem is if you, @realdonaldtrump, began denying amnesty-seekers entry at *our* border. Once they start backing up into Mexico … https://t.co/R5tfhpABBI https://t.co/OAUgBy6elv
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) May 31, 2019
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Biden "has made the bet that America’s populist moment is over." https://t.co/v2j5e43dTl
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) May 31, 2019
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NYT acts like Hofeller was the only person giving this obvious advice. It's a v-useful question with ancillary political effects that probably help GOP. No evidence in story that Trump wants it to pursue Hofeller's "voting age" idea. If Trump does, then story will make sense. 2/
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) May 31, 2019
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Doesn't show that Hofeller's wacky plan to count only voting age citizens "drove" the citizenship question. He advised them to include the question & a friend of his became an informal adviser to Sec. Ross. Pretty thin. Didn't need Hofeller to tell 'em to include the question. 1/ https://t.co/2w3VkFRvOA
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) May 31, 2019
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If only … https://t.co/9qWbpOJ3o5
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) May 31, 2019
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Doesn't seem a good sign for @Voxdotcom if they are losing their best reporters to @Propublica … @NYTimes I could understand. https://t.co/xwK38lg1MF
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) May 31, 2019
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Tell me more about these "Gulen cult schools" … https://t.co/rp8qhcoWex
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) May 31, 2019
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Asked at on-record briefing on the Mexico tariffs which goods they will apply to, administration official (think it was Mulvaney) says "All of them." Then silence. Then next question.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) May 31, 2019
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Relying on Mexico to do a job America won't do … https://t.co/iXkTYcoBQB
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) May 31, 2019
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So if Trump walks out on talks, the NoKo negotiators will die? That's some leverage https://t.co/6my43ZLchl
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) May 31, 2019
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Will Trump be allowed to declare victory and lower the tariffs if they don't produce more than a typical seasonal drop? I suspect not … https://t.co/3OUHLhoo3A
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) May 31, 2019
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I'm stupid so this article seems-how to put it-insane. There's no American culture since we didn't invent English (?) & what we did invent ("popular music, the cinema") is liked elsewhere. (?) The only fixed thing we inherited is Alexander the Great's command to invade Argentina. https://t.co/tRMe2lTRkG
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) May 30, 2019
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"It’s unbelievably extreme to try to inhibit anyone who comes through another country in their quest for asylum"–migrant advocate.
Why? You've a right to be safe from persecution. Do you have a right to then say only the US will do as your destination? https://t.co/vvvxFuwKfZ— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) May 30, 2019
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Right. And Hope Hicks can too. https://t.co/BmVX59t2hp
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) May 30, 2019
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Corollary: If establishment parties had controlled immigration earlier, there would have been no widespread populist rise and no "crisis" of globalization (or "liberalism"). They might have happily gone on being globalists on trade & transnational governance. https://t.co/43tkAkQCn9
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) May 30, 2019
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