Musk’s Epstein charge “was an especially explosive one to make, given that large swaths of Mr. Trump’s base remain so animated by the sordid details of that particular case.”
Why is @ShawnMcCreesh sneering at people interested in the (still unexplained) Epstein case? Isn’t
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Jun 6, 2025
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LINKS: Here is NYT telling you what you already know straight: https://t.co/80gaXQPwzM
Here is the same thing with performative McCreeshing https://t.co/KgqpboBAP0
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Jun 6, 2025
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What’s the actual ur-cause of the Trump/Musk breakup? I was hoping @NYTimes would tell us, Haberman style. But no. They tell us what we already know, once with McCreesh ‘tude & once straight. Obviously has something to do with the Isaacman defenestration. But what caused that?
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Jun 6, 2025
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“Contrary to popular belief, the media is not the handmaiden of the Democratic Party; the Democratic Party is the handmaiden of the media. They are the ones calling the shots …”–@AnnCoulter
I’d never thought of it this way before, but it’s not an implausible perspective. https://t.co/3eSXCrguAt
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Jun 6, 2025
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Re: Elon being a mite sensitive about H-1Bs: https://t.co/xis8iRM6q1 https://t.co/4ao6caZCgu
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Jun 6, 2025
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What if Trump decides to hit Elon in the H-1Bs (which he’s been known to be mite sensitive about)? https://t.co/KRzCxh1xXh
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Jun 6, 2025
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If Elon were trying to rebuild Tesla’s standing with its liberalish customer base, what would he be doing differently? https://t.co/BcSOAzcisT
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 6, 2025
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Aren’t the other tech bros (eg @pmarca) worried that the Musk rebellion may spill over and damage their hard-won (or bought) influence with the President? Perhaps it already has. @DavidSacks untroubled?
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Jun 6, 2025
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Here is a non-paywalled link to the column https://t.co/gbzs4rarqL https://t.co/DX3XqpXkjG
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Jun 6, 2025
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If Elon were trying to rebuild Tesla’s standing with it’s liberalish customer base, what would he be doing differently? https://t.co/BcSOAzcisT
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Jun 6, 2025
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OK. But if he really cared about immigration control, he’d be for it. The bill funds the border wall, a huge increase in detention beds (if people know they’ll be detained until the hearings on their typically bogus asylum claims, they won’t come), more patrol agents, tax on https://t.co/9NECpbkeuo
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Jun 6, 2025
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Actually a reasonable point. (Not saying anybody should be deported in order to lower benefit costs, but if they should be deported anyway it has positive budgetary “knock-on” effects, no?) https://t.co/dA7Prq7Csh
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Jun 6, 2025
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Radical but possibly accurate theory of US politics buried in penultimate paragraph of this @AnnCoulter column https://t.co/9gFvSRAEjp
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Jun 5, 2025
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Let’s keep that pineapple right side up. Need centrist votes. https://t.co/2EBeInuvki
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Jun 5, 2025
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“People don’t like ‘defund the police,’ but voters really hate electric cars,” said Shor. https://t.co/HDIVCUlyoU
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Jun 5, 2025
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Mystery? Or intersectionality … https://t.co/w7XloaaGym
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Jun 5, 2025
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If only 500,000 Social Security recipients get paper checks, that’s surprisingly low. I would have thought shifting them to digital would produce Tea Party II. https://t.co/TBCOH3N2e3 PS I’m much more scared of electronic theft than physical theft. Aren’t you?
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 4, 2025
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ICE doing its job. But if you’re looking to avoid backlash, while sacrificing some shock & awe, may I recommend E-Verify? Could accomplishe the same goal more quietly. Just saying. … https://t.co/XXl5A9U53V
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Jun 4, 2025
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Also: DC lawyers would be begging in the streets, eating at McKenna’s Wagon. Wouldn’t even last until they were replaced by AI. …
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 4, 2025
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“'[T]he biggest obstacle to fast, decisive, ambitious government action was the Administrative Procedure Act ….’Time and time again, [ex-Biden official] Ramamurti says, it was fear of lawsuits filed by corporate interests under the APA that thwarted government action.” https://t.co/Bj2venZVTh
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Jun 4, 2025
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Key point to remember: If Congress just passed regulations as statutes there would be none of APA’s procedural chazerei–no notice & comment, no judicial review for anything “arbitrary and capricious”(eg whatever the judge doesn’t like). APA wouldn’t apply. Only issue would be https://t.co/6Pv7hVckJ2
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 4, 2025
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Serious question: Have any actually significant spending reforms (e.g. reductions) been achieved by using debt limit leverage? Seems to me it takes up a huge amount of DC’s political energy and either conservatives lose or wind up with mostly window-dressing reform. https://t.co/Q6FTrHvArs
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 4, 2025
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In other words, win/win!
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 4, 2025
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June 03, 2025 at 10:52PM
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The Admin Procedures Act imposes a layer of judicial review of regs due to the suspect democratic bona fides of rules declared by unaccountable “independent” agencies. If regs are now to be produced by a democratically accountable president fighting with an accountable Congress, https://t.co/Zre5xSfkLh
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 4, 2025
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The point is “There is no easy solution.” Bezos’ Post has become Hugh Sidey on Agronsky & Co. https://t.co/X7BdaZunLV https://t.co/uYsTmD47Vz
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Jun 3, 2025
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