Which will we find first — the F-35 or Tim Scott’s girlfriend?

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Sep 18, 2023

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September 18, 2023 at 04:29PM
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Good lord, it’s Ken Griffin again. Still reconsidering! DeSantis must be doing well with all the other donors if press has to keep trotting out the 5-month-old Griffin Reconsidering story. Franco still dead. https://t.co/tUX4zavi1X

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Sep 18, 2023

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September 18, 2023 at 04:03PM
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Senator Jentleson is always well-dressed. https://t.co/H6S7cehlRY

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Sep 18, 2023

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September 18, 2023 at 03:52PM
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Last graf also important: We “are in dire need of a poverty measure that remedies the well-known flaws of both the OPM and SPM.” It’s a disaster that, in updating the old poverty index, the liberal anti-poverty blob pushed through a complex, near unintelligible hybrid… https://t.co/XkQdOxbCZ7

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Sep 18, 2023

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September 18, 2023 at 03:42PM
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“Contrary to most coverage, the largest effect on child poverty in 2022 was the end of stimulus checks, not the expiration of the temporary expansion in the CTC.”

“[E]ven if the CTC had been [extended] … the SPM child poverty rate would still have risen by 3 points.” https://t.co/z0rMvgVHtC

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Sep 18, 2023

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September 18, 2023 at 03:31PM
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I’m just not sure Democrats have faced up to how powerful nostalgia for the pre-Covid Trump economy is among voters–even if it was partly Obama’s doing and even if Biden has done OK. Maybe there’s some way they can neutralize it … https://t.co/v5Xtxmfyur

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Sep 18, 2023

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September 18, 2023 at 01:05PM
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Forget it, Jake. It’s the @LATimes. https://t.co/wFbPvQXaPP

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Sep 18, 2023

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September 18, 2023 at 11:56AM
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In other words, @DouthatNYT doesn’t seem to have completely accepted that the years of “rapid growth…more equitably shared” were largely THE TRUMP YEARS. Not much political point in figuring out if “the Biden economy is actually in good shape” in the abstract if he’s running… https://t.co/wxkcYKq9Tu

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Sep 18, 2023

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September 17, 2023 at 11:50PM
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Absent fear of Trump, would we really be trying to guarantee that it remains virtually impossible to fire a federal civil servant? You might ask Jimmy Carter or Bill Clinton about that. Or Barack Obama. Or Charlie Peters. There are still not nearly enough patronage jobs to make… https://t.co/3sLXyFpiN8

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Sep 17, 2023

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September 17, 2023 at 05:37PM
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What’s likely to produce a “vibrant, made-in-America [EV] future”? An industry of firms controlled by legalistic Wagner act unionism? For decades Wagner Act/UAW firms have been failng while non-union auto plants–making cars, not work rules– have been succeeding. Why doesn’t… https://t.co/1IQt0QVBQF

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Sep 17, 2023

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September 17, 2023 at 05:19PM
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Probably a lot of editorial planning went into the feel-good immigration story. It had a lot of bureaucratic inertia. Do you expect a newspaper like LAT to just turn on a dime when there’s … news? https://t.co/5lwVEaY2bJ

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Sep 17, 2023

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September 17, 2023 at 04:40PM
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Probably a lot of editorial planning went into the feel-good immigration story. It had a lot of bureaucratic inertia. Do you expect a newspaper like LAT to turn on a dime when there’s … news? https://t.co/s3RsDrYIvZ

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Sep 17, 2023

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September 17, 2023 at 04:34PM
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Make that 2019-2020 …. https://t.co/TfLRqsxZgW

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Sep 17, 2023

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September 17, 2023 at 11:56AM
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Most obviously, both these charts support the nostalgia for 2019 that gives Trump his greatest political advantage https://t.co/EhkMvkxZlJ https://t.co/DHX7NKyCJ7

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Sep 17, 2023

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September 17, 2023 at 02:14AM
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Mayorkas’ plan was in theory a carrot (legal pathways) & stick (if you go outside pathways you don’t get in). Problem: There is no stick. Go outside pathways & you still get in. So more are coming. (PS I doubt there ever was a stick.) https://t.co/I7GBvO0ulh

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Sep 17, 2023

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September 16, 2023 at 11:34PM
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Another way of putting it: “What sort of society do we want?” One where anyone who works, even if unskilled, can earn enough in the market to stand up to anyone–i.e. social equality–or one where employers & the affluent can treat them as disposable? https://t.co/R7g9wAMFaF

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Sep 17, 2023

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September 16, 2023 at 10:49PM
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“Instead, DeSantis seemingly opted to re-run Ted Cruz’s failed 2016 campaign. …” https://t.co/eorBgX8xhy

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Sep 17, 2023

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September 16, 2023 at 10:30PM
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One complication with this theory is that the surge of immigrants was set in motion at the very beginning of Biden’s term, a few months before it was clear inflation was a big problem (though Summers warned about it very early on). https://t.co/etlt5Ft6yD

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Sep 16, 2023

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September 16, 2023 at 07:47PM
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.@JasonFurman–is this true? It seems a mystery why Biden is letting the border break down and economic migrants surge in. https://t.co/TzRdz2bUxa This is one not-implausible explanation on the surface, which has the virtue of portraying Biden as being in charge, not ineffectual. https://t.co/etlt5Ft6yD

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Sep 16, 2023

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September 16, 2023 at 07:30PM
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New Parrot Room: “The Parrot Could Use More Bandwidth” https://t.co/5emWPysvIW

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Sep 16, 2023

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September 16, 2023 at 01:25AM
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A lot of projection in Romney’s complaints. (Didn’t he briefly try sucking up to Trump too? I remember a dinner … and now he can’t sit next to JD Vance?) https://t.co/FbgiASI161

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Sep 15, 2023

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September 15, 2023 at 02:20PM
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Do the Proud Boys even have a position on Kamala Harris? https://t.co/1snXP4qGW4

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Sep 15, 2023

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September 15, 2023 at 02:16PM
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In other words, did a) the poor actually get all that No-Work Child Tax Credit Money or did b) the Census models just predict they would? The MSM assumes (a) –eg. https://t.co/OPEilyI4jo — but what if it was (b)? Alas, Dayen cites a disappeared @MattBruenig tweet. https://t.co/mMetuOwnEV

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Sep 15, 2023

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September 15, 2023 at 02:45AM
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Most important sentence in @ddayen’s piece on poverty numbers: “In addition, some argue that the Census Bureau overstated the drop in poverty in 2021 because it assumed a greater level of take-up of the enhanced Child Tax Credit than actually occurred.” https://t.co/rfvRGUsaBM

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Sep 15, 2023

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September 15, 2023 at 02:37AM
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I don’t think a massively porous border even mobilizes the Dem base. Voters (including Hispanic voters) have never cared about it as much as the activists. Biden’s behavior seems politically inexplicable if we’re talking 2024 …. https://t.co/3NjAbe3ABQ

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Sep 15, 2023

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September 15, 2023 at 02:22AM
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