Either Wash Monthly or New Republic once ran ads "Are you scared of being right too soon." Trump wasn't what they had in mind. Still … https://t.co/VCINO3smB8
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 22, 2017
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Monthly Archives: February 2017
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Sweden: Riots erupt in Stockholm neighborhood @CNN https://t.co/hF0sUPR5BZ
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 22, 2017
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“We need to lower the tone a bit, speak less and listen more." Who made Steve Bannon pope? https://t.co/u0JiXHwWJm
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 21, 2017
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In US & UK, "the allegedly elite-who are supposed to be cool, considered, above the vulgar passions of the masses-went more or less crazy" https://t.co/iyjTiP502S
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 21, 2017
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Trump and the crisis of the meritocracy: Glenn Reynolds https://t.co/cE9PBKVWOr
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 21, 2017
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Hard to believe Hillary (or her staff) really tweeted this. https://t.co/oOAwpRoj3G
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 20, 2017
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I'm pretty sure any time they compare immg. with US "peers" it means they adjust 4 socioec. status. Eg drill down to https://t.co/GsXJmy65C1 https://t.co/P9bMJsle2N
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 20, 2017
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'X comes at a time when [insert whatever theme you are currently hyping, even if as in this case it is bogus now-clarified anti-Trump meme]' https://t.co/SjOW3qToJ1
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 20, 2017
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WAPO ON MESSAGE! Trump "appeared to invent a terrorist attack in Sweden" https://t.co/t23QAJDb2W Museum-quality 'comes-at-a-time' graf
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 20, 2017
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We want to know "do these immigrants commit more crime than natives?" Chart is way to hide answer. Compares only to equally poor natives! https://t.co/iYSm5dK55m
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 20, 2017
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So on @FrankLuntz 's chart they'd show up as v-lawabiding because better than US "peers." But crime rate would still soar. Chart conceals. https://t.co/XdfgXp6Z8z
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 20, 2017
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In other words, if they are mainly poor young men they could commit crimes *way* above US average & still be < US poor young men. https://t.co/OyxgsENn2q
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 20, 2017
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The "last night" was clearly a mistake (he has explained it) but press is trying to inflate it into dreaded *gaffe* by inserting "terrorist" https://t.co/gD4ZNtKwlJ
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 20, 2017
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Pretty clear even from @NYmag's own quote that Trump might've been talking abt crime ("having problems") not terror https://t.co/41LIfuqiZU
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 20, 2017
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Do we have 2 point out that Trump didn't say was "terrorist incident"? That term inserted by The Resistance (@nymag) https://t.co/41LIfuqiZU
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 20, 2017
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For ex.: Young men commit lot of crime. If immigrants were mainly young men, would it matter if they commit <crime than native young men? https://t.co/wPjFX7Y5Q3
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 20, 2017
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Voters want 2 know "How much crime do immig. commit–ie if we let in more." Not "do 20 yr old immig. commit > crime than 20 yr old natives?" https://t.co/W7bkTRaIXl
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 20, 2017
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These stats compare immigrants w/ "peers"–which I think means they adjust 4 age/sex/poverty. This isn't stat voters want (i.e unadjusted). https://t.co/fQT08u3hma
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 20, 2017
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"If you're the victim of assault from a Syrian refugee, you don't really care if it happened [because] he's poorer than average." https://t.co/tBaD45heY0
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 20, 2017
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Drum especially pithy on the bogosity of adjusting crime stats for socioeconomic factors (which happens to US stats too): "crime is crime." https://t.co/KuYchTJH40
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 20, 2017
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Last honest man @kdrum on Swedish crime stats: "These are very big differences" https://t.co/CfXK53otK2 via @MotherJones
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 20, 2017
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Plus if they were real Americans they would have gotten Blake too https://t.co/jJ6TM32E42
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 19, 2017
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No tableau vivant? Only really creepy part is yes-I-can-buy-Gwen-Stefani. Those performances always phone-ins no? https://t.co/Je2Z01ed7O
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 19, 2017
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Add up all the expenses in @NYT story and you don't come close to $7-9 M. I get < $850K. Something fishy? Did he buy everyone a Pontiac G6? https://t.co/3aUHDpHp2c
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 19, 2017
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Collapse of deportations from interior under Obama striking–steady decline to 27% of 2009 level. If you got past border, were home free. https://t.co/AQ4E567W1Z
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 19, 2017
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