PS Not saying Trump *didn't* blow off early warnings. I assume there were a lot more instances that the NYT just didn't get. Cotton's efforts, for one.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 15, 2020
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Monthly Archives: April 2020
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Finally read the NYT's big-deal account of Trump's early failure. Strangely thin. Some internal bureaucratc history. Only a few examples of Trump blowing off warnings and heeding Rush Limbaugh instead. Bottom up history when history was made at the top. https://t.co/E1Ou5sUiF4
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 15, 2020
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RIP. Terrific person.// "Abigail Thernstrom, dead at 83, refused to tiptoe around the truth. One of America’s great social scientists, she put intellectual honesty ahead of political correctness," writes @jasonrileywsj https://t.co/hXQtcNLkMP
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 15, 2020
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Learned that the hard way years ago https://t.co/Uh29t306Zp
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 15, 2020
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HHS: Nearly 40 Migrant Children Test Positive for Coronavirus at Shelter https://t.co/5Kya00jT7D
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 14, 2020
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From 4/8: Hardest hit group in Sweden seems to be … Somalis https://t.co/VXLHY4NZwR
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 14, 2020
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My Twitter hits are inexplicably going through the roof. I think the algorithm has suddenly decided I'm a liberal.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 14, 2020
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I think we were! https://t.co/1YoLqkZ9mo https://t.co/xiLghzpz1k
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 14, 2020
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Many courts would be itching to put Trump in his constitutional place if he acts unilaterally. But SOME federal power should be able to stop regional groups like Newsom's or Cuomo's from opening up too soon–and potentially jeopardizing rest of nation, no? https://t.co/cEofL1ly4D
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 14, 2020
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"If the cost of doing business in China includes increased exposure to ruinous shocks like the pandemic, 'Made in China' doesn’t pay." https://t.co/tLdoWAe84X But for any one US company, it might still pay, no? Costs of a pandemic are spread around, passed on to government.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 14, 2020
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"China’s doctors, scientists and independent journalists are earning a global reputation for competence, honesty and courage; the government’s actions will damage China’s global standing for years to come." https://t.co/tLdoWAe84X
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 14, 2020
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CHINA IS STILL LYING, RIGHT NOW: "This isn’t the old coverup, when Communist Party bumbling and deceit allowed [the outbreak].The new coverup is even more brazen. China continues to falsify vital information about the epidemic on a massive scale." https://t.co/tLdoWAe84X
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 14, 2020
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Intra-GOP pushback … https://t.co/84kuHH7gbc
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 14, 2020
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The Note: "Democrats are trying to learn some lessons from 2016" https://t.co/eNgKWtJeY9 If they're not toughening their stand on immigration they're not learning the lessons of 2016.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 14, 2020
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First failure vastly outweighs second success, no? https://t.co/XTrcQUZPTy
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 14, 2020
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And if you're not a conservtive and always thought the country would be better off divided into 10 numbered sectors …? https://t.co/5TMwltHqHn
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 14, 2020
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Isn't there a lot federal governnent (ie Congress + President, not just President) can do to order governors around-eg voiding stay-at-home orders. Not that this would be good idea. But it's a point that seems to be getting lost in new anti-Trump states-rightsism https://t.co/tXjOlpucuB
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 13, 2020
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"Hearty hack" is a term coined by my one-time colleague Helen Rogan for (annoying) attempts to replace dull reporting prose with breezy, knowing prose. (Classic example: "Let's review the bidding.")
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 13, 2020
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Is protocol-driven COVID-19 respiratory therapy doing more harm than good? https://t.co/WbE1ViFAhM
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 13, 2020
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Has anyone suggested that he's changed his mind or reconsidered? https://t.co/6Jf9dwlK0e
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 13, 2020
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"Biden owns the empathy marketplace” –Douglas Brinkley. Hearty-hack quote of the day https://t.co/Nehfpx5q9y
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 13, 2020
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Roosevelt sailor with coronavirus dies https://t.co/qonofrfwKG
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 13, 2020
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Even Sweden has closed high schools and universities. (I did not realize that.) And many Swedes are spontaneously staying home. https://t.co/prvv6RQL4W
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 13, 2020
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Here's the second cut: https://t.co/4KPiWOSvAY I think it's the 3rd-saddest song I've ever heard. https://t.co/UuBqlefz23
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 13, 2020
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AXIOS: "We can't test everyone …" Why not? https://t.co/i8086ORb1s
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 13, 2020
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