Is there evidence that phone calls are losing their power? 1) They take some effort, which scares Congresspeople (might use same energy against them); 2) Just overloading the switchboard creates a sense of crisis, no? But I defer to Rosemary Jenks on this and all questions … https://t.co/lAmhVdWzDO
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 21, 2024
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January 21, 2024 at 01:40AM
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Turns out the one part of Haley’s speech I thought was spontaneous (about the song “Welcome to the Jungle”) wasn’t. Repeated word for word today. Fooled again.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 21, 2024
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January 21, 2024 at 01:12AM
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Why do I think “fixing” the border for Biden means having a nice orderly system that lets everyone in the world who wants to come here in — authorized or not — then gives them work permits and child tax credits and that also amnesties all the illegals already here. See, fixed! https://t.co/5fU0phcAOH
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 21, 2024
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January 21, 2024 at 12:10AM
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Welfare reform was such a disaster that child poverty fell to record lows–for blacks, whites, everyone–by 2019. Having working parents helped. https://t.co/EYPMsWgzJw
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 20, 2024
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January 20, 2024 at 06:43PM
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Is this GOP plot to regrow the underclass so @NewtGingrich can be Speaker again? Single moms who lose connection with the workforce are at center of that phenomenon. The Clinton/Gingrich ’96 welfare reform changed that-lots of single moms joined workforce. Why throw success away? https://t.co/a53XbCJ78L
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 20, 2024
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January 20, 2024 at 06:33PM
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Good lord … https://t.co/zUEwJIClE7
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 20, 2024
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January 20, 2024 at 06:23PM
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Yes, but you can skip working this year and work next year and get the same result (a tax credit check next year). If that’s a “work incentive” …. https://t.co/IcWVYOY4S1
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 20, 2024
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January 20, 2024 at 01:28PM
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“The exact impact of the lookback provision on work incentives depends on a few factors,” which are unspecified and unweighed …
A ringing conclusion. https://t.co/lY15G3o1dF
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 20, 2024
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January 20, 2024 at 01:25PM
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… would quit working under the proposed 2-years-of-benefits-for-one-year-of-work “child tax credit” plan. Starter ingredients for making a culture of non-work … https://t.co/C8dc3qg2LJ
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 20, 2024
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January 20, 2024 at 01:22PM
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“Stop weaponizing my failures!” https://t.co/2QTj3qzvmz
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 20, 2024
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January 20, 2024 at 12:59PM
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Oh, no! A bipartisan border deal is threatened by a “politically treacherous dynamic”! Remember that, in the mainstream press, “bipartisan” deals are always good. They are never fig leaves or make-believe or bandaids or sellouts. https://t.co/imU2uPWnID
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 20, 2024
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January 20, 2024 at 12:58PM
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DeSantis did 5 points better in the Iowa results than in the final Voice-of-God Selzer poll, so Jeff Roe’s super-expensive turnout organization must have been worth *something.*
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 20, 2024
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January 20, 2024 at 10:03AM
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Slow the EV push? Not so easy to do! Biden is counting on expanding EV infrastructure to provide a lot of the new blue collar jobs that are supposed to bring working class voters (“angry white people”) back into Dem party. (https://t.co/3o7LsmJEpz) https://t.co/HAzdiyYJZR
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 20, 2024
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January 20, 2024 at 03:19AM
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“It is a crisis of competence. Why would [voters] trust European and American politicians who are failing so woefully to handle massive illegal migration to manage the rise of artificial intelligence?” https://t.co/pRyZNU2BaH
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 20, 2024
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January 20, 2024 at 02:54AM
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I’m thinking more Full Robert Mitchum https://t.co/sVWm4KDlb4
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 20, 2024
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January 20, 2024 at 02:12AM
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Wouldn’t seem to tell us much because neither of these people can be believed on this issue right now. https://t.co/XZI8wxPet6
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 20, 2024
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January 20, 2024 at 02:07AM
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.@RonDeSantis looks a lot better–or at least more approachable–when his hair is a bit messed up!
Just saying. He doesn’t have to go Full @BorisJohnson, let alone Full Milei.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 20, 2024
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January 20, 2024 at 01:52AM
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What if what you care about isn’t so much total labor supply (how much do workers work) but rather minimizing the number of no-work households (no-work households being the core of an ‘underclass’? There the two-years-for-one provision seems risky–incentive not to work year two. https://t.co/xyTi0hSCc8
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 20, 2024
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January 20, 2024 at 01:29AM
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— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 20, 2024
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January 19, 2024 at 08:10PM
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Haley’s stump speech does not seem to follow the Mercedes policy of “continuous improvement” https://t.co/FRjjpI8HoS
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 20, 2024
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January 19, 2024 at 07:52PM
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Oops— she did one today
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— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 20, 2024
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January 19, 2024 at 07:51PM
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If Haley had a page on Hinge it would say “I don’t gaggle.”
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 20, 2024
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January 19, 2024 at 07:36PM
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Otherwise if Haley asked ChatGPT4 to write a stump speech for her I’m not sure it would have come out much different. https://t.co/CNvcoKeyth
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 20, 2024
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January 19, 2024 at 07:33PM
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Her best segment was talking about the humiliation of pulling out of Bagram air base in the middle of the night. Could use some context ( like how we got into that mess) https://t.co/l6PKU1Kcc4
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 20, 2024
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January 19, 2024 at 07:29PM
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On a post-speech fired-up scale of 1-10 I give this crowd a 4.9. https://t.co/JWvhMyuWUC
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 20, 2024
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January 19, 2024 at 07:20PM
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