Nothing like, say, what Jim Bouton said was the best pep talk he’d ever heard (not printable here).

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Aug 22, 2024

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August 22, 2024 at 01:04AM
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I admit I don’t like the guy. Strikes me as nasty, not nice. But the only real bit of nastiness in this speech was the ridiculous Yale thing.

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Aug 22, 2024

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August 22, 2024 at 01:07AM
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I admit, Walz’s speech wasn’t as bad as I’d hoped. But the idea that it was some great triumph seems absurd. Nothing striking or original. Do swing voters want a pep talk directed at Dem volunteers? It was an OK football pep talk, though going “one inch at a time” isn’t going to… https://t.co/l1hHbbRrl4

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Aug 22, 2024

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August 22, 2024 at 01:03AM
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Only one weak spot in this brilliant strategy: the candidate. We’ll see. https://t.co/syngmcE32h

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Aug 22, 2024

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August 22, 2024 at 12:51AM
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Good lord–never trust @NoahCRothman on immigration. The bill was a Mayorkas dream bill. It didn’t end “catch and release.” It created a whole new catch & release program (unless you think being released with a cell phone or an ankle bracelet isn’t being released.)… https://t.co/YdtEaIzdwY https://t.co/WyjtNjD0Tn

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Aug 22, 2024

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August 22, 2024 at 12:36AM
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??? https://t.co/y88QtZMmTR

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Aug 22, 2024

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August 21, 2024 at 11:47PM
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Are they trying to push Walz’s speech past 11:30?

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Aug 22, 2024

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August 21, 2024 at 11:15PM
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Is this about Pete Buttigeig or … whatever their names are?

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Aug 22, 2024

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August 21, 2024 at 11:03PM
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Enough “y’all” y’all

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Aug 22, 2024

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August 21, 2024 at 10:54PM
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A complete by the numbers speech by Shapiro–no trace of originality. Maybe that’s what they wanted.

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Aug 22, 2024

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August 21, 2024 at 10:22PM
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On the other hand the Obama act was more compelling …

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Aug 22, 2024

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August 21, 2024 at 10:19PM
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Shapiro seems to have dropped the Obama act. Good.

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Aug 22, 2024

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August 21, 2024 at 10:17PM
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Now he’s warning of anti-Kamala ‘buyer’s remorse’ … https://t.co/yHpjGMCLma

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Aug 22, 2024

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August 21, 2024 at 09:52PM
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Now he’s warning about anti-Kamala ‘buyer’s remorse’ … https://t.co/yHpjGMCLma

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Aug 22, 2024

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August 21, 2024 at 09:45PM
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Also a “burden has been lifted” from Democrats shoulders! Spreading the love to Biden … https://t.co/Lbwp4wJEMr

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Aug 22, 2024

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August 21, 2024 at 09:42PM
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Did Bill Clinton just say Tim Walz was not “broke out in brilliance?” OK!

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Aug 22, 2024

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August 21, 2024 at 09:41PM
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I liked Barack Obama’s speech, but he came out against “thinking that the only way to win is to scold and shame … the other side” only after doing a certain amount of hack scolding and shaming himself. Why not ‘be the change’? https://t.co/ZECkD8Gu2d

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Aug 22, 2024

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August 21, 2024 at 09:27PM
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Maybe the college educated voters who power the Coalition of the Ascendant don’t need universal health care. But other voters would benefit. Right now the system’s stratified by income (Medicaid at bottom, private employer insurance at top, Obamacare in between). Until age 65… https://t.co/AwbLyg00HR

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Aug 22, 2024

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August 21, 2024 at 09:10PM
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I didn’t realize that the 2024 Democrats have removed references to universal health care from their platform. The great unfinished work of the New Deal will remain unfinished, I guess. It’s all about second-order issues like parental leave now. Exciting! https://t.co/D8vRruJrvM

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Aug 22, 2024

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August 21, 2024 at 09:04PM
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And that’s including public sector unionism! The unionization rate in the private sector ws 6% (tied for record low) …https://t.co/WN8F9iMU33

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Aug 22, 2024

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August 21, 2024 at 08:51PM
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I didn’t realize that, despite all Biden’s pro-union bluster, “union membership dropped to just 10 percent in 2023,” a record low–coinciding with Biden’s illegal migrant surge. Sam Gompers wouldn’t have stood for it; UAW’s Shawn Fain is shrugging it off, says @JxhnBxnder … https://t.co/PPPdSO2qz6

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Aug 22, 2024

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August 21, 2024 at 08:49PM
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Does mass immigration undercut labor unions. Yes, says the @CatoInstitute! That’s one of the reasons they like it. “We found that immigration reduced union density by 5.7 percentage points between 1980 and 2020, which accounted for 29.7 percent of the overall decline”… https://t.co/T42KnaaU4Q

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Aug 22, 2024

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August 21, 2024 at 08:39PM
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Always in favor of California skunkworks teams https://t.co/clK1gPpPCI

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Aug 21, 2024

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August 21, 2024 at 05:55PM
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Brooke Rollins seems like a disaster. Talks in language so meaningless it makes Kamala seem a model of precision. She’s Koch-connected like Trump’s other immigration weak reeds (eg Marc Short). If you were going to award a Most Likely to Sell Out in an Amnesty Deal, she’d win. https://t.co/NB1IZVMq44

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Aug 21, 2024

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August 21, 2024 at 04:48PM
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This is true whether or not she was “border czar” … https://t.co/vv5IUeQxNB

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Aug 21, 2024

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August 21, 2024 at 04:46PM
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