Good point: A struggle against multiple autocracies (at least two) is exactly the situation where framing it all as one twilight democracy vs. autocracy struggle will get us into trouble (eg might want to side with one against the other for a while). https://t.co/OWqhp82RcF
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Aug 5, 2022
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August 05, 2022 at 01:34AM
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David McCormick (“weak field”) hardest hit. https://t.co/dVDYb2tDpi
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Aug 5, 2022
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August 05, 2022 at 01:29AM
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Isn’t the answer that Zuckerberg’s equity carries with it some risk of loss, but the hedge funders’ doesn’t (or does it?).
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Aug 5, 2022
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August 05, 2022 at 01:18AM
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I’ve been scouring the Web for the sophisticated defense of the carried interest thing I once heard. Didn’t think I’d finally find it here. https://t.co/L65HwzUFnj
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Aug 5, 2022
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August 05, 2022 at 01:14AM
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I mean, it’s an endless string of nut grafs without the actual goods. Then it blithely says Masters has “monarchist sympathies” because he says start-up companies are not democracies (duh). Note: This is not the same as saying US is not a democracy.
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Aug 5, 2022
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August 05, 2022 at 12:59AM
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Another piece on how menacing dark and anti-democratic the Thielites are that gives up on producing … well, evidence about its subjects and starts talking about Curtis Yarvin. https://t.co/SkU23GbEse
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Aug 5, 2022
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August 05, 2022 at 12:54AM
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They’re both good ads! https://t.co/iwA7doBHp7
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Aug 4, 2022
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August 04, 2022 at 07:25PM
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Hmm. If (per @mtaibbi) the mainstream press is trying to kill off Ron DeSantis by praising him (thereby destroying his anti-MSM cred in a bank shot), what are they doing with Blake Masters? https://t.co/XskOvogzAK
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Aug 4, 2022
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August 04, 2022 at 06:50PM
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Dan Savage is making sense. Mr. Gallahue not so much. https://t.co/irkU64I77P
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Aug 4, 2022
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August 04, 2022 at 06:17PM
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Kyrsten Sinema is seeking a couple of changes to Democrats’ party-line bill. She wants to nix the carried interest provision and add drought funding.
https://t.co/tc1WJHpoqZ
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Aug 4, 2022
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August 04, 2022 at 04:35AM
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And what happens to the 10-year “deficit reduction” when the new Obamacare subsidies are extended after 2 years? Bizarre that NR editorial doesn’t hit this point https://t.co/3TUDkEUCyL https://t.co/R86P2rUEbG
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Aug 4, 2022
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August 04, 2022 at 04:05AM
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Effective ad, though. Better without the sound. (Fetterman doesn’t quite have the booming voice you expect.)
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Aug 4, 2022
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August 04, 2022 at 02:52AM
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Nothing disqualifying about taking subsidy from your parents (or half the freelance writers in US would be DQ). But has Fetterman–“our blue collar tough guy”–ever actually held a blue collar job? https://t.co/7NLTpKHY3u
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Aug 4, 2022
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August 04, 2022 at 02:50AM
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And what happens when the new Obamacare subsidies are extended after 2 years? Bizzarre that NR editorial doesn’t hit this point https://t.co/t0UAjN33SO https://t.co/R86P2rUEbG
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Aug 4, 2022
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August 04, 2022 at 02:39AM
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“Business-Backed Group Says Climate Bill Can Expand Migration” https://t.co/UhKBDgQQ0Q The Niskanen Center is not your friend.
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Aug 4, 2022
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August 04, 2022 at 12:09AM
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Fauxpulists! https://t.co/cZS7XlzVyc
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Aug 3, 2022
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August 03, 2022 at 03:40PM
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“[I]nside CNN the hunt is on for new revenue.”
One word: Cruises https://t.co/bTZ2LZkmCq
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Aug 3, 2022
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August 03, 2022 at 03:09PM
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Translation: Warren wants the issue? https://t.co/ysHOBqPnGU
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Aug 3, 2022
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August 03, 2022 at 02:59PM
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Do you need powerful unions to have a wage-price spiral? I’d always just assumed ‘Yes.’ @jasonfurman says ‘No.’ https://t.co/Wg1TfLlwT8
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Aug 3, 2022
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August 03, 2022 at 02:09AM
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Huh. Most polls had Lake well ahead https://t.co/a4rRFnoWUr https://t.co/VdSVmcMyI8
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Aug 3, 2022
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August 03, 2022 at 12:07AM
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Everybody loves VIn Scully. RIP https://t.co/ilTJkyIjCV
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Aug 3, 2022
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August 03, 2022 at 12:02AM
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I’d go with that look. ‘Don’t f— with @richardrushfield …’ https://t.co/jnPnEDgpvo
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Aug 3, 2022
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August 02, 2022 at 08:54PM
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Hmm https://t.co/cigzLBTTyf
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Aug 2, 2022
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August 02, 2022 at 04:04AM
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Social equality seems as important (I’d say more important) than income equality. Don’t have to justify the former by its effect on the latter. https://t.co/DmOz8n4y5p
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Aug 2, 2022
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August 02, 2022 at 01:58AM
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Class-mixing–actual interactions, “friedships that cut across class lines”–seems like a good in itself, whether or not it “significantly increases how much [poorer people] earn in adulthood.” Glad if it also contributes to upward mobility https://t.co/Jj5kyqPntF
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Aug 2, 2022
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August 02, 2022 at 01:56AM
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