See also: https://t.co/ug3nCdDhfU https://t.co/pMIKXKOF6n

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Mar 25, 2024

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March 25, 2024 at 01:08AM
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“[T]he [new spending] bill doubles the annual inflow of H-2B visa workers into blue-collar jobs along the East Coast.” https://t.co/YACwK6lO54

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Mar 25, 2024

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March 25, 2024 at 12:58AM
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Imagine if someone in Trumps orbit said “The bullet’s in the chamber” about an immigration-control measure. It would be a bloodbath. https://t.co/asr2HtGeoP

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Mar 25, 2024

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March 24, 2024 at 11:14PM
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What was the question?

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Mar 25, 2024

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March 24, 2024 at 10:04PM
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Old @paulkrugman knew better. https://t.co/eIV65Iq6rt https://t.co/bhDiZv21LY

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Mar 25, 2024

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March 24, 2024 at 09:00PM
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I also know friends who worked for him in the Senate who respected him as a decent retail poll — and in the campaign appearances I witnessed in 2000 that’s what he was, lingering for hours with voters. But that’s not the Biden we’re getting now. Was he driven mad by Meachamism?

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Mar 24, 2024

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March 24, 2024 at 07:13PM
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If Biden does it, it may well be for show — ie. he’ll still sluice migrants in via direct “parole” flights and at “ports of entry.” But it also might work (to reelect him)–especially if pro-immigration activists make a big fuss in protest. https://t.co/asr2HtGeoP

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Mar 24, 2024

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March 24, 2024 at 07:08PM
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I think this voter has his finger on something: Biden’s too angry! Hard to fix. Ice cream cones and a Corvette won’t do it. (I’ve always felt his frequent surface unpleasantness reflected a deeper unpleasantness, but figured it was my personal bias.) https://t.co/DCesag4Yv6

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Mar 24, 2024

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March 24, 2024 at 06:56PM
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“The bullet’s in the chamber.” Biden WH gets ready to do what it says it couldn’t do without Lankford’s bogus border bill. Maybe the genius SOTU strategy of blaming GOP for rejecting Lankford is proving less-then-effective in WH polling? https://t.co/7iEKOlnhqk #axiossneakpeek

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Mar 24, 2024

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March 24, 2024 at 06:42PM
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Suburban PA voter: “I honestly cannot believe I am saying that, yet Biden has given me no reason to support him. He has not brought the country together as promised, he hasn’t even tried. He is mostly angry all of the time,” https://t.co/fgWORmHXJv

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Mar 24, 2024

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March 24, 2024 at 05:37PM
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I’m rooting for Speaker Johnson, but it’s true he has little progress, border-wise, to show for his speakership (except blocking the crap Lankford bill). Again: Why not pick just one (1) popular provision of HR2, staple it to Ukraine aid, send it to the Senate & send House home?

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Mar 23, 2024

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March 23, 2024 at 04:18AM
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Here’s a more flattering picture: https://t.co/GW1UMKQWH0

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Mar 23, 2024

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March 23, 2024 at 04:07AM
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As feared: There is no bigger swamp of BS & wasted human potential than the non-profit sector. I should’ve known that people who work for 501 (c)(3)s can categorically have their student loans forgiven https://t.co/nYzDFLgaZQ But if you work at your neighborhood bakery …

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Mar 23, 2024

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March 23, 2024 at 03:52AM
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A more subtle worry is whether this work, even if it doesn’t require a degree, will still be skills-biased, creating a non-college economic hierarchy that fails create much opportunity for people without those skills who still need jobs.

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Mar 23, 2024

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March 23, 2024 at 03:33AM
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One Biden/Yellen theme that is relatively fresh is “creating economic opportunity for Americans regardless of…whether they have college degrees.” But the jury is still out on whether Biden’s policies (trade, CHIPs, Infrastructure, etc.) will actually have this effect.

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Mar 23, 2024

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March 23, 2024 at 03:29AM
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Beautiful as it is, imagine what happens if this 5,961 lead sled crashes into your 3,000 pound Honda Civic? EVs will clearly cause a lot of damage https://t.co/HlBJx8fJC2 but that seems forgotten in the climate change battle….Amazed Trump hasn’t glommed on to this safety issue. https://t.co/kD84ue0aKw

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Mar 23, 2024

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March 23, 2024 at 03:07AM
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Does @paulkrugman think this isn’t happening—or more precisely that the only people affected by the wage drop are new immigrants, because all the natives and other previous legal residents have achieved “complementarity”? https://t.co/Np25Fd4RKL

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Mar 23, 2024

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March 22, 2024 at 11:15PM
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Been dreading the @Cadillac Lyric EV–but it’s quite beautiful in the flesh, free of Genesis-like cliches. Congrats to @GM stylists. Unfortunately it weighs almost 3 tons. Yikes. One day we’ll look back on this and it will all seem funny https://t.co/f59JfJyw71

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Mar 23, 2024

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March 22, 2024 at 11:00PM
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If Ukraine aid passes, you think McConnell sticks around as Minority Leader?

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Mar 23, 2024

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March 22, 2024 at 08:11PM
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Immigration pushing wages down at the bottom. … https://t.co/pI1kHeY95l

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Mar 23, 2024

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March 22, 2024 at 08:00PM
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Signing his resignation letter “Semper Fi” seems an especially perverse touch. Fidelity to self, not service–not the Marines’ motto. https://t.co/SbSY3DrZoV

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Mar 22, 2024

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March 22, 2024 at 06:03PM
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The idea that giving cash to parents, including single parents, whether or not they work won’t increase the number of single moms seems ….crazy. Hard to sell that as pro-marriage policy. https://t.co/b3tkH94yUe

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Mar 22, 2024

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March 22, 2024 at 06:00PM
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Dems lead most Senate races but margins are small. A big GOP Senate gain–like 8 seats–seems possible, no? I’ve always doubted that Tester or Baldwin would lose, but these margins are eminently surmountable. https://t.co/hVk1TEP1pM

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Mar 22, 2024

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March 22, 2024 at 05:39PM
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Janet Yellen’s “vision”: A bunch of little subsidy programs for college, housing, child care, etc. Some lower drug prices, taxes on the rich and a no-work dole. This seems like pre-Clinton, Carter era vision–unsatisfying at the time, unsatisfying now. https://t.co/5CedPJyx6o

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Mar 22, 2024

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March 22, 2024 at 05:27PM
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V-irresponsible for these self-centered pols to leave their constituents without representation until November. They ran for the job, they should finish it. Why isn’t the press shaming them? https://t.co/3JuXKTcuLi

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Mar 22, 2024

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March 22, 2024 at 05:00PM
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