SORRY, @SenSherrodBrown: “[M]any working-class parents viewed the idea of unconditional cash benefits going to families without a worker as fundamentally unfair. Polling, too, suggests that child benefits with no connection to work are unpopular.” https://t.co/TF1SniDawc
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
May 8, 2022
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May 07, 2022 at 10:23PM
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We tackle the @NewYorkTimes’ two big failed hit pieces (Carlson, Musk) in .. the Parrot Room https://t.co/FjmdqiRuKM
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
May 7, 2022
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May 07, 2022 at 05:23PM
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Tonelson on the mess of the “Competitivess Bill” https://t.co/DyRxqoyv6D via @AlanTonelson
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
May 7, 2022
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May 07, 2022 at 05:11PM
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“PayPal Has Begun Quietly Shuttering Left-Wing Media Accounts”–from @jacobin https://t.co/wVhy1xDX9n
Does the left maybe better understand @ElonMusk’s point now?
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
May 7, 2022
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May 07, 2022 at 05:07PM
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Why would anyone now use @PayPal? They decide they don’t like you (for some unspecified reason) and then keep your money for “damages” https://t.co/l4pWgiE9b0
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
May 7, 2022
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May 07, 2022 at 05:04PM
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New Parrot Room, including Musk’s nuclear weapon against Bill Gates https://t.co/FjmdqiRuKM
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
May 7, 2022
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May 07, 2022 at 02:46AM
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“Throughout the tortured debate over Biden’s agenda last year, White House officials promised progressives their wish list could remain intact …” https://t.co/pzGWjWyNju
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
May 6, 2022
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May 06, 2022 at 12:54PM
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“I’m fairly confident that JD Vance would have won the Ohio GOP Senate primary without former president Trump’s endorsement.” https://t.co/bUKUsYbW4q
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
May 6, 2022
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May 06, 2022 at 05:08AM
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Not your best argument https://t.co/tf0TZD9qqo
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
May 6, 2022
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May 06, 2022 at 02:26AM
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You call this a shakeup? https://t.co/LVowygqa9H
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
May 6, 2022
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May 06, 2022 at 01:07AM
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Hillary vs. AOC in 2024 is going to be lit, as they say.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
May 6, 2022
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May 05, 2022 at 11:16PM
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“First, expect a Trump revival to be more like his 2016 insurgent-populist campaign than his incumbent run in 2020. ”
Not if Jared can help it.
https://t.co/dEKKbfLWcJ
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
May 6, 2022
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May 05, 2022 at 10:51PM
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Think Musk has the decisive weapon in any battle with Gates at this point. … https://t.co/m7F26J8OMm
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
May 6, 2022
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May 05, 2022 at 10:16PM
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Have a guess as to who on the Epstein “client list” Musk might nominate to “go down”? https://t.co/rb7ltDNyxG https://t.co/m2YkadbegD
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
May 6, 2022
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May 05, 2022 at 10:13PM
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Hard to find this piece on the @NYTimes home page now. (Think it’s buried at bottom.) Are they embarrassed by it? I suppose that would be a good sign. https://t.co/oK4tLslRJb
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
May 6, 2022
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May 05, 2022 at 09:58PM
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Which way does this cut? a) Did Trump fulfill their request? Doesn’t look like it. b) Doesn’t this undermine idea that there was some pre-existing conspiracy between Trump & Oath Keepers? If there were, they would have worked this out, no? https://t.co/ia50PQemHW
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
May 6, 2022
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May 05, 2022 at 08:56PM
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Reminds me of a boss I had who disastrously inserted themselves in the editorial process, then held a staff-wide meeting to find out who was creating problems..
Anybody going to tell Klain “It’s you”? https://t.co/osnRGtSh6b
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
May 6, 2022
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May 05, 2022 at 08:49PM
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When do I get to be a “stakeholder”? https://t.co/UdZhVjtJpH
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
May 6, 2022
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May 05, 2022 at 08:38PM
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It’s John Stuart Mill’s fault! Hadn’t thought of that. Sometimes the NYT gives you a fresh perspective.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
May 6, 2022
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May 05, 2022 at 08:14PM
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Heroic effort to muddy or avoid the obvious: the apartheid regime depended on the sort of censorship and removal of “misinformation” that Musk wants to end at @Twitter. https://t.co/3hQnAAiJUf
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
May 6, 2022
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May 05, 2022 at 08:10PM
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When @BillGates discloses all the misinformation about him & Jeffrey Epstein, then maybe he’ll be in a better position to lecture us on the topic https://t.co/61nQyINBsc
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
May 5, 2022
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May 05, 2022 at 07:57PM
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Also raises the perennial issue of how much of the party-line torquing is added in rewrites by unnamed mid-level @NYtimes editors in New York … https://t.co/pLMKRJkUZ2
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
May 5, 2022
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May 05, 2022 at 03:31PM
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Thread https://t.co/I1A0OrWJA2
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
May 5, 2022
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May 05, 2022 at 03:27PM
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Isn’t it also possible that Roberts, as an institutionalist, would in the end join Alito’s anti-Roe majority because it’s bad for the Court to overturn such a big precedent with a mere 5 votes?
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
May 5, 2022
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May 05, 2022 at 03:44AM
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Note that “disabilities,” in the hands of bureaucratic administrators, tends to degenerate into any “employment barrier,” including drug addiction, “special needs such as clothing and tools,” or lack of “job seeking/retention skills,” or obesity. https://t.co/oLT5v25hzF
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
May 5, 2022
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May 05, 2022 at 02:59AM
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