I mean, youd think at some point Gates would just regard the aggressively bombarding Epstein as a pest. Yet no, he visited him and rode on his plane. As many have said, Gates has explaining to do. Not through PR aides either. https://t.co/VsSWW6h7wz
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) September 10, 2019
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Stevens deleted the tweet. (It talked about Sanford's Argentine mistress' grad degrees.) I just find anti-Trumpers' reflexive credentialism revealing (in different way than Trump's hire-from-Goldman credentialism). Last resort of those whose policies are unpopular for good reason https://t.co/AZia5eKlEM
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) September 10, 2019
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Who knew that "'aggressively'… bombarding [Bill Gates] with calls and contacts" was the way to get a meeting with him? I'll try that next time. https://t.co/gTGYqWf3p8
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) September 9, 2019
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Stuart–Are you going to drive Trump from office with snobbery & credentialism? https://t.co/Utd1HeQTTQ
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) September 9, 2019
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— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) September 9, 2019
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"your caption here" https://t.co/chJ38rolLb
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) September 9, 2019
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MIT Media Lab Agrees To Return All Of Jeffrey Epstein’s Donated Girls https://t.co/X5rIW3QVyR via @theonion
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) September 9, 2019
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Shorter @lessig: 1) I was wrong. 2) But not all that wrong! 3) I was too rational. 4) But people got upset! Shoulda known! 5) Others are guilty too! 6) Look at the Kochs! 7) It's really all of our fault. https://t.co/rnD5Dq9Qag
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) September 9, 2019
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Also note how Lessig stacks the deck by saying nobody had suggested Epstein made his money via "blackmail or sex slavery." But those aren't the only two illicit or immoral ways to make money. (There's also money laundering or insider trading, for starters.) Ito fine with those? https://t.co/xKZ5tTHLmx
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) September 9, 2019
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Anybody who did the slightest bit of due diligence–even reading Vicky Ward's 2003 Vanity Fair article–would know there was a lot of doubt about where Epstein got his money. "The trading desks don't seem to know him" https://t.co/XTymZLyoWM https://t.co/CsJUbqguoQ
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) September 9, 2019
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Lessig: "[W]hen Joi was investigating whether that criminal continued his crime, no one was suggesting that his enormous wealth was the product of blackmail or sex slavery. He was, the world assumed, a brilliant, savant-like investor …" This is BS. https://t.co/rnD5Dq9Qag
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) September 9, 2019
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Lessig on Joi Ito: "Sure, it wasn’t blood money, and sure, because anonymous, the gift wasn’t used to burnish Epstein’s reputation." https://t.co/rnD5Dq9Qag Huh? Epstein put out press releases. https://t.co/lj8xmqidsl
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) September 9, 2019
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Reid Hoffman in particular would seem to have some 'splainin to do. Why would he need to go to bat for Epstein? He certainly doesn't need Epstein's money. https://t.co/K7EDToFV6V
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) September 8, 2019
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Thursday? Might as well say 2052. https://t.co/JjQaOaRM53
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) September 8, 2019
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Link to @xeni tweet: https://t.co/SC2Hgy4kv2 https://t.co/2K9XLb0eK3
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) September 8, 2019
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Link to @xeni tweet: https://t.co/FGlFTuKOVn https://t.co/2K9XLb0eK3
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) September 8, 2019
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I like this whip business. If only it were that easy for U.S. Republicans to get rid of their corporate, loose-border Ryanist K-St hacks https://t.co/9AHoNe1ed8
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) September 8, 2019
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If the story is just that "Epstein [took] advantage of these networks to whitewash his [sex] crimes" I'll be very disappointed. Seems like a bigger story than that. Again: HOW DID HE GET HIS MONEY? https://t.co/ZpieUxZKs5 https://t.co/ng2wrm2PbB
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) September 8, 2019
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Why this @Politico piece, including Philippe Reines' quote (“It’s too late in the game to keep saying it’s too early"), were so wrong https://t.co/r2vElVhXWN https://t.co/NzKZx9V2Hf
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) September 8, 2019
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Get it first, but first get it second. https://t.co/l1KHCYArAR
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) September 8, 2019
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Doesn't seem like a winning message … https://t.co/lYEOaJwBSp
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) September 8, 2019
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"Reps. Liz Cheney and Joe Kennedy almost seem destined to end up squaring off against one another." They do? https://t.co/MvCmuDfito
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) September 8, 2019
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If the @NYTimes really knew the things in Farrow's @NewYorker piece (and @xeni doesn't quite say that) how did it NOT publish them? It can't just be that Ito is (was?) on the NYT Board. Is the paper compromised in some way we don't know about?
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) September 8, 2019
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CA Gov. Gavin Newsom trying to make a big deal of the diversion of … $8 million dollars from National Guard training to pay for the border wall. https://t.co/Ur2NOv0XbA $8 million! The CA state budget is $214 billion. https://t.co/tmfO1dwtwC
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) September 7, 2019
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Ito is finito.** Epstein's links to Bill Gates and Leon Black now a focal point. Bigger fish! https://t.co/HwikJnhxyD
**–Never make predictions like this. Still …— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) September 7, 2019
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