1) He looked pretty cadaverous 2) Cranky and partisan–why didn’t press write stories he wants them to write 3) Doesn’t come up with *anything* he’s said that raised temperature too high. (Says “bullseye” was a mistake.) Era of Unity didn’t last a day. (Attn: Mr. Feiler) https://t.co/54BELQJXn8
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 16, 2024
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On the other hand, if you favor a Fully Refundable Child Tax Credit (i.e. dole), you’ve forgotten the conservative lessons of welfare reform in a single generation. https://t.co/XT5AUTN8Jc
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Jul 16, 2024
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Unity > Zelensky https://t.co/nd9hF34fWG
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Jul 16, 2024
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“How can you go over a line so stark as that—and for what?”
Well … https://t.co/gUKan1xwhR
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Jul 16, 2024
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Manichean Civil Rights-style good/evil worldview (See https://t.co/YfVvYR3Su2) makes unity, civility, grace difficult. Apply sparingly. https://t.co/TOl7nMOPzI
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 15, 2024
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Like Reagan, Vance makes his positions sound very reasonable. Don’t think Jeffries’ dog will hunt. https://t.co/lpBCnBnEEN
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Jul 15, 2024
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Especially strange, for Putnam, given his findings on how immigration undermines social solidarity … https://t.co/uvYqjwQ390
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Jul 15, 2024
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Donors resisting Vance is a big plus in my book. https://t.co/sETnVOAhl8
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Jul 15, 2024
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Also way saner than Trump. … https://t.co/Bl9pckoJHi
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Jul 15, 2024
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It’s not the lede, I admit. But that’s a pretty huge and detailed immigration chart Trump had up there at his rally … https://t.co/BUfCDHAB8v
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 15, 2024
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Note that the 2022 Biden didn’t say “MAGA Republicans are good people who are going in a bad direction.” He said MAGA Republicans are bad people. It’s the difference between telling your kid he’s been bad vs. he *is* bad–a “status ” offense, as Justice Sotomayor might put it. https://t.co/d9CRgGxquh
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 15, 2024
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When I attended a few campaign rallies with veteran reporters, I learned they see a whole lot of things that ordinary people like me miss. But the photographers see EVERYTHING. https://t.co/DjEJZmMX8i
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Jul 15, 2024
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America’s Heart Shines Through – Even at Assassination Attempt https://t.co/cE1g7gtuDh
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Jul 15, 2024
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BIDEN 7/14/24:
“I want to speak to you tonight about the need for us to lower the temperature in our politics and to remember, while we may disagree, we are not enemies. We’re neighbors. We’re friends, coworkers …”BIDEN 9/1/22:
“MAGA Republicans represent an extremism… https://t.co/zeAE45Su23— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 15, 2024
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BIDEN 7/14/24:
“I want to speak to you tonight about the need for us to lower the temperature in our politics and to remember, while we may disagree, we are not enemies. We’re neighbors. We’re friends, coworkers, citizens.”
https://t.co/ZL6K9n0W2I
BIDEN 9/1/22:
“MAGA… https://t.co/O4hqfH1Ui5
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 15, 2024
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The Feiler Faster Thesis in action. I agree. Maybe not 10 days, but 25 days.
It’s true that on 9/12 I wrote the 9/11 would be off the evening news by Thanksgiving, https://t.co/FxITXsJKQ1 so there are exceptions (that prove the rule, of course). https://t.co/rofjFAYMwY
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 15, 2024
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Trump the vicious attack dog is often problematic. Trump the healer and uniter is terrifying. What will he sell out to justify a new self-image as the man whom everybody can love? https://t.co/r9qdRnxzDH
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 15, 2024
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Agree on the need to know–but his immigration stance could not conceivably be worse than Biden’s. https://t.co/c7cJ5fgldj
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 14, 2024
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I recommend chapter 5 in Mike Kinsley’s “Old Age: A Beginner’s Guide” if you want to know more about the effects of Parkinson’s. https://t.co/oa8k16SEfF Hobbes wrote Leviathan with Parkinson’s (could be a plus or minus, I never read it). Kinsley wrote this witty and thoroughly… https://t.co/f12h2yDP7r https://t.co/53nGTsufwO
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Jul 14, 2024
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Wouldn’t you rather have this guy (Shapiro) as your Democratic candidate? https://t.co/HANbkgB7ii
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Jul 14, 2024
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July 14, 2024 at 05:25PM
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“Corey was an avid supporter of the former President, and was so excited to be there last night with him in the community.” Shapiro’s statement genuinely moving, because it honors and identifies the victim as one of the people Dems often disdain, if not vilify (“MAGA… https://t.co/mhNdsBLDwb
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 14, 2024
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July 14, 2024 at 05:23PM
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“Corey was an avid supporter of the former President, and was so excited to be there with him in the community.” Shapiro’s statement genuinely moving, because it honors the victim as one of the people Dems often disdain, if not vilify. Not that easy for a Dem pol to do. Did… https://t.co/RCSn2H4okb
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 14, 2024
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July 14, 2024 at 05:20PM
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“Alarming lack of humility or self-awareness …” Those historians really shouldn’t have told him he was the new FDR. https://t.co/8u5wVbclxV
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 14, 2024
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July 14, 2024 at 05:04PM
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Has BlueSky become like a big Journolist, a hothouse where ordinarily sane people try to outdo each other in their anti-Republicanism? … https://t.co/n0wU4s0zCz
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 14, 2024
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??? “Biden’s five-point lead among likely women voters ticked up to 8 points after the debate.” https://t.co/oVcFWCUU9Y
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 14, 2024
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