This is the sort of immigration policy @Justin_B_Smith would design. Serve the global elite (who have more in common with each other than with anyone else). https://t.co/DM7gur43Or
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 26, 2025
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February 26, 2025 at 10:10AM
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Lots of questions: If Apple buys a tech a “gold card,” will they lock him to in effect indentured employment? Will the new Lutnickers feel entitled as “people of wealth or people of great talent”–and they have a card to prove it! Do we want to build an economy where Americans… https://t.co/a1n6ZWf419
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 26, 2025
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February 26, 2025 at 10:06AM
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Seems a bit Merkel-like to make a sudden decision to let in maybe millions of people that will irrevocably affect the texture of the nation’s life. Maybe have a panel discussion or something first? https://t.co/DM7gur43Or
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 26, 2025
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February 26, 2025 at 10:04AM
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Seems a bit Merkel-like to make a sudden decision to let in maybe millions of people that will irrevocably affect the texture of the nation’s life. Maybe have a panel discussion or something first?
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 26, 2025
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February 26, 2025 at 10:02AM
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Or buying their way into Harvard (see Kushner, Jared).
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 26, 2025
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February 26, 2025 at 09:19AM
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Second thought: Letting rich people buy green cards and a “route to citizenship” seems a direct violation of social equality–money exercising power “outside its sphere,” as Michael Walzer might say. Like letting them buy their way out of speeding laws https://t.co/3hPb50b6S2
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 26, 2025
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February 26, 2025 at 09:15AM
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This is kind of the evergreen Trump II tweet https://t.co/JXXSeZTtOx
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 26, 2025
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February 26, 2025 at 12:57AM
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Maybe a lower court will overrule him–but by then they’ll all have “reliance interests”! Was enough for Justice Roberts in the DACA case. https://t.co/JXXSeZTtOx
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 26, 2025
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February 26, 2025 at 12:56AM
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.@jdawsey1 of @WSJ on “special government employees” paid by private clients https://t.co/6Z2ctOf5ox Now do government employees paid by NGOS … https://t.co/nMbpSH3MVZ
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 26, 2025
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February 25, 2025 at 11:06PM
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Strategic bitcoin reserve: https://t.co/Xf0rSc0YXX One for @jackshafer’s rent-seeking series (https://t.co/9KWPBPgL00)
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 26, 2025
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February 25, 2025 at 07:46PM
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Seems a bit clubby https://t.co/EMQ5Ohhh4E
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 25, 2025
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February 25, 2025 at 04:24PM
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One for @jackshafer’s rent-seeking series …(https://t.co/9KWPBPgL00) https://t.co/OfFgTN0qme
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 25, 2025
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February 25, 2025 at 01:34PM
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“No less an expert than …Joe Biden claimed in August 2007 that the government needed to extend fencing at the Southwest border… because “you can’t take 100 kilos of cocaine over and under a fence”, a position [he] subsequently abandoned in the Oval Office”… https://t.co/svU48nRyZZ
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 25, 2025
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February 25, 2025 at 01:27PM
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“As illegal migrant entries rise, Border Patrol’s ability to stop drugs from coming across the border declines.” Now the reverse is happening … https://t.co/otLQFdDTlD
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 25, 2025
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February 25, 2025 at 01:24PM
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“Over the coming months, this column will survey the economy for [examples] of rent-seeking. An early goal will be to devise a catchier label for rent-seeking, perhaps one that refers to leeches, tapeworms or lampreys.” https://t.co/9vpsj5DZi6
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 25, 2025
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February 25, 2025 at 12:47PM
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LA’s fire recovery is going great! https://t.co/gL697vw8FP
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 25, 2025
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February 25, 2025 at 01:44AM
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“Together, the Christian Democrats and the AfD would have enough seats to solve Germany’s immigration problem in short order. The mathematical possibility of such a coalition is now staring the public in the face, even if Merz is resolved not to form it.” https://t.co/RVlpfvSGOk
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 25, 2025
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February 25, 2025 at 01:17AM
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The case against Biden on Ukraine https://t.co/lJqTNUaN7F “Absent backing from Washington, Zelensky would never have dared to make a U-turn and pursue a belligerent approach toward Russia.”
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 25, 2025
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February 24, 2025 at 09:49PM
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I didn’t know that the “best and the brightest” were *not* for NATO expansion into East Europe. They lost the bureaucratic war, amazingly. https://t.co/42RZpxBdI4 Makes it harder to see The Blob as a big, single thing …
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 25, 2025
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February 24, 2025 at 09:43PM
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Just talking “interagency consensus” https://t.co/qYNREvypxv Has DC found a way to make transgressive Dionysian ecstasy boring?
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 25, 2025
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February 24, 2025 at 09:29PM
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Also they bet on green energy (and killed their nuclear plants). Commenters are right: big mistake.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 24, 2025
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February 24, 2025 at 06:48PM
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“A majority of Germans want [Merz] to carry out the AfD’s policies—but without the AfD.” https://t.co/6PHW0aoYE3
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 24, 2025
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February 24, 2025 at 06:44PM
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So after 2026 will Trump stop being scared to actually try to pass legislation (eg reforming immigration system for good)? https://t.co/t2LWH5rE2G
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 24, 2025
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February 24, 2025 at 06:30PM
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Half-baked idea: Germany bet on diesel engines. Big mistake. Germany bet on mass immigration. Big mistake. When you are an elite-run corporatist state there are only so many big mistakes you can make–there’s no free sector (eg Tesla) to pick up the slack, too much invested in… https://t.co/MVkcDtnmqo
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 24, 2025
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February 24, 2025 at 06:28PM
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E-Verify, but for Idaho first. https://t.co/UkXLeDh6j1
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 24, 2025
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February 24, 2025 at 06:18PM
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