I don’t believe even Trump thinks Money=Merit. Lutnick’s making Trump look like Michael Walzer. https://t.co/1ZaCB3DvlG

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Mar 27, 2025

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March 27, 2025 at 07:19PM
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CLUNKER QUOTE OF THE DAY: Sen. Cornyn calls Lutnick’s $5M Gold Card Visas “sort of the ultimate merit-based immigration” https://t.co/jlT54ehDDH

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Mar 27, 2025

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March 27, 2025 at 11:59AM
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PS He must have known way before he dropped out that the conversation was real. And if he’d dropped out earlier he certainly would have known when the bombs started exploding in Yemen.

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Mar 27, 2025

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March 26, 2025 at 10:17PM
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This is the “pass” I’m talking about. https://t.co/e0epKGUUEm If JG wants to stay on the conversation hoping for a scoop, OK, he’a a journalist. But maybe hold the patriotism awards. The real patriotic thing to do was get out of the chat you weren’t supposed to be in.

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Mar 27, 2025

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March 26, 2025 at 10:14PM
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“Both Waltz and Goldberg represent the dominant foreign policy establishment that Trump expressly ran against. Instead of ‘Make America Great Again,’ they think the government’s job is to ‘Make the Middle East Great Again.'” https://t.co/6CCFN9Phkv

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Mar 26, 2025

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March 26, 2025 at 04:00PM
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Homan says ICE ‘confident’ all Venezuelans deported to El Salvador were gang members – https://t.co/SPVTO97uBa – @washtimes

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Mar 26, 2025

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March 26, 2025 at 03:22AM
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I hope they fix the part where people can jump onto the hood, immobilizing the car, and then local thieves can rob you (with no driver to defend you). https://t.co/eFIbiSCa1z

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Mar 26, 2025

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March 26, 2025 at 02:28AM
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It’s blindingly obvious what the Democrats should do on immigration: Give up. Change. Retreat. Don’t start babbling about ‘abundance’ and ‘One Billion Americans.’ Revert to a traditional Dem immigration restriction position. Say you’ll be as effective as Trump but more humane, https://t.co/wiyLXyoG7E

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Mar 26, 2025

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March 26, 2025 at 12:03AM
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I do think Goldberg’s getting a pass on lurking on the call way too long. https://t.co/GAwBETprSk

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Mar 26, 2025

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March 25, 2025 at 11:46PM
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Here’s Goldberg in 2002, infamously, on Saddam’s Aflatoxin threat https://t.co/yBzx9Ab9Pt

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Mar 26, 2025

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March 25, 2025 at 09:35PM
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Here’s Goldberg in 2022, infamously, on Saddam’s Aflatoxin threat https://t.co/yBzx9Ab9Pt

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Mar 26, 2025

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March 25, 2025 at 08:19PM
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The Signal story already seems past it’s sell-by date. May even be helping Trump by crowding out more damaging DOGE stories. The main cost to national security is burnishing the resume of J. Goldberg, who’s never paid the price for his misleading pre-Iraq reporting. [Link below]

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Mar 26, 2025

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March 25, 2025 at 08:16PM
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PS I didn’t care about Hillary’s emails either. https://t.co/2GBqVe3yhH

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Mar 26, 2025

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March 25, 2025 at 08:10PM
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From Trump’s POV, why would anyone on his staff think anything was to gain by communicating with @JeffreyGoldberg? He’s their committed enemy. They’re going to impress him with their Mid East maneuvers? Of course the person who thought that might be Trump. (See Haberman, M.)

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Mar 25, 2025

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March 25, 2025 at 04:33PM
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Of course both groups wanted to be conned (which Yglesias doesn’t deny).

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Mar 25, 2025

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March 25, 2025 at 04:21PM
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Overall, though, @mattyglesias argues Dems can’t continue to duck the immigration issue–then concludes blandly, well, immigration’s good for growth while he continues to duck the way it lowers wages at the bottom, increases income inequality, increases social inequality, https://t.co/rKgnVTiy2Y

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Mar 25, 2025

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March 25, 2025 at 02:57PM
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Yglesias has one great paragraph on how Obama’s team conned reporters and Republicans into thinking Romneys’ loss was because he didn’t endorse amnesty! https://t.co/3887ZOuykB

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Mar 25, 2025

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March 25, 2025 at 02:32PM
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Inside Bukele’s prison–11 minute video worth watching if, like me, you hadn’t seen an inside view before https://t.co/LYmihzzzyx

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Mar 25, 2025

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March 25, 2025 at 02:23PM
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The ratchet is familiar to readers of Chief Justice Roberts’ opinion in the DACA case: He agrees it was unlawful for Obama to grant work permits to those “DREAMER” illegals without a “rulemaking”. Ah, but you can’t easily rescind those unlawful permits because–Robert says–the https://t.co/AVZCKZfpP7

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Mar 25, 2025

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March 25, 2025 at 01:38PM
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There has been some visible incremental improvement—about what the numbers suggest (10-15%) https://t.co/A0VWOWjVIq

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Mar 25, 2025

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March 25, 2025 at 02:46AM
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“But what exactly is [the left’s] policy on immigration?…Nowhere has a politically coherent, empirically detailed, candid answer yet been spelled out.”

ONE BILLION AMERICANS, you people! Do I have to put it in bigger letters? Call it “Abundance”? https://t.co/BkX2egGF4D

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Mar 25, 2025

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March 25, 2025 at 01:11AM
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TL;DR: Immigration https://t.co/BkX2egGF4D

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Mar 25, 2025

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March 25, 2025 at 01:03AM
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Trump’s pledged to abolish the Department of Education. But Congress has established by law (with a president’s signature) not just “the department itself but several specific offices inside the department.” So Trump’s such an authoritarian he seems to be…obeying Congress. https://t.co/qj66CoegVT

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Mar 25, 2025

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March 24, 2025 at 10:30PM
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If Rauch says this happened, I’m sure it happened. He’s an honest person. It always might have been an instinctive Firemen First move (restricting important services to trigger backlash to budget cuts). Or maybe chemo trials are cancelled all the time. I don’t know. But it might https://t.co/XEIhzlMBkx

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Mar 25, 2025

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March 24, 2025 at 09:20PM
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It’s war on LA restaurant Republique because one of its owners expressed support for a ‘Tesla diner’ @ElonMusk wants to open in West Hollywood. https://t.co/x0GQp5PFh1

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Mar 25, 2025

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March 24, 2025 at 08:13PM
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