Hmm. The “ad lib” replaced whatever the written last line of the speech was. (I doubt the prepared speech ended on “Of decency and dignity and freedom and possibilities.”) So what was that last line Biden didn’t read? Would tell us something. (I bet it’s pretty strident!) https://t.co/1CA57bacd4
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It turns out when low-income Americans (conspicuously including single moms) go to work, they are positioned to benefit from the economy’s “up” periods. Why would Democrats want to undermine this achievement by encouraging non-work via no-strings Child Tax Credit welfare checks? https://t.co/D2rAXLWOdN
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Mar 28, 2022
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“Child Poverty Has Been Cut in Half Since 1996 Welfare Reform”– That’s using expenditure measures. But even under official imperfect income measure, since welfare reform child poverty fell by >25% by 2019 to record lows. https://t.co/OE5lErYYFD
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Mar 28, 2022
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Are now 2 credible, anecdotal reports that this is the year Woke UC Admissions policy really crushed expectations of Asian/white students at good high schools. Will @latimes
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Mar 28, 2022
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Biden actually said pretty much that: (“Putin can and must end this war.”) But that was mid-speech, before he made it clear that ending the war would not satisfy him–i.e. wouldn’t end the long-term anti-Putin, anti-autocracy fight he thinks he was launching. https://t.co/CBb8MwEBaR
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Mar 28, 2022
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Sometimes when you’re stupidly cancelled by social media it’s not worth getting reinstated … https://t.co/p6sSqAEXFq
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Mar 28, 2022
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.@EricGreitens can’t have that many friends https://t.co/iMHD6chUhU
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Mar 28, 2022
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Be Not Afraid! Victoria Nuland @UnderSecStateP will find the right guy and make a few phone calls …. https://t.co/o64GgGYUgw
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This will make it that much harder to end Putinism, even if Putin himself is replaced, no? And it makes it easier for Putin to avoid that fate: He can say *any* gains in a Ukraine deal are a victory in the long war against the obviously anti-Russia West. https://t.co/Tri2GmcgBW
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Biden’s speech, of course, completely fed into Putin’s worldview of Western conspiracy vs. Russia. (“The Eurasian Empire will be constructed on the fundamental principle of the common enemy: the rejection of Atlanticism, the strategic control of the USA”) https://t.co/koI6Q8dbPU https://t.co/Z7ZeJkSGUq
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Mar 28, 2022
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This piece does not provide much reassurance that a Putin successor — even in the case of successful “regime change” — will be *that* much better. It’s not going to be Illya Kuryakin … https://t.co/koI6Q8dbPU
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Mar 28, 2022
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Most obviously, the Biden WH may have felt a show of Big Strength would help erase memories of the botched Afghanistan withdrawal (which seems to have had a huge negative impact on Biden’s polls) and short-circuit a future “weakness” charge. Meanwhile, Ukraine pays the price. https://t.co/Mqyoa3MHfi
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Mar 28, 2022
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“He’s a second Bashar al-Assad. He must fall,” writes Simon Tisdall, without any apparent sense of irony https://t.co/ksNJk7nyR5
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“I asked at the time in The American Prospect, how can you justify some part of the working class paying taxes to subsidize mothers who choose not to work” writes @StanleyGreenberg. Then he endorses a refundable child tax credit which does just that. https://t.co/Lj2E6aPsJx
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Mar 27, 2022
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Again, it’s not just the ad lib at the end. The whole speech was too strident, polarizing, and grandiloquent for the current crisis. Failed to “match the moment,” to use the Bidenist cliche. Who was behind it and can anybody in the WH talk back to this person? https://t.co/gTYGGZFMb0
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Mar 27, 2022
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Officer Time reports for duty … @UnHerd https://t.co/v3n0DFgPTb
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Mar 27, 2022
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The fall of Seattle @UnHerd https://t.co/v3n0DFgPTb “a cop’s-eye view of Seattle’s undoing” from @tafrank.
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Mar 27, 2022
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Biden’s WH is famously leak-proof.
And Biden’s whole speech was so off–in timing and substance–that you have to worry if a less sealed-up WH would have produced it. Did it just sail through without anybody pointing out the problems?This WH is a discreet and insular place! https://t.co/Z7ZeJkSGUq
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Mar 27, 2022
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On @bloggingheads Wright show we discussed the @nfergus article before discussing the @nfergus article was cool –but also before it was semi-confirmed. https://t.co/BaE7PW19Za
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Mar 27, 2022
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TWITTER GONE AMOK #2: Note vaguely (and plausibly) threatening tone … https://t.co/xez0UYvEIz
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Mar 27, 2022
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.@TWITTER GONE AMOK #1* https://t.co/ic3LXPNwFi
*–for today
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Mar 27, 2022
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Big problem with Biden WH is reaching for the cheapest available facile BS: (e.g. Inflation “transitory,” “Putin price hike”). Here they manage to hit on one of the least plausible of the available walkbacks. https://t.co/B9yvCmYmAv
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Mar 27, 2022
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Just when Putin seemed to be narrowing his aims. it sure looks like Biden is snatching war from the jaws of an acceptable peace. … https://t.co/ASa4xTz6vz
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Mar 27, 2022
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* – Sorry, not “first inaugural.” Only inaugural.
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Mar 27, 2022
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It could have been worse https://t.co/N8zlEuQxfW https://t.co/ASa4xTz6vz
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