“The beam” is a great idea/gimmick. Potentially unifying. What if LA sent up the beam after every day on which there wasn’t a murder? Or something like that. https://t.co/CWfTkMIovg https://t.co/ZZsXAUa6NZ
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 22, 2023
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February 22, 2023 at 02:14PM
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A: So it takes 3% of GDP to shore up the current system. But if you want to EXPAND our health system–make it universal, end the multi-program stratification, bring the benefits of Medicare to everyone, pay for new treatments–we’re going to need more % of GDP than that. Would be… https://t.co/37umcPKLNE
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 22, 2023
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February 22, 2023 at 02:07PM
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Only a shortfall of “3 percent of G.D.P.”. Piece of cake! Why are all the Very Serious People making such a fuss? https://t.co/vcFunHabqJ
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 22, 2023
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February 22, 2023 at 01:59PM
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Strange off-hand to-be-sure reference in opening paragraph to “the obscentiy of the new populism” — something that’s never explained or defined in the piece, as far as I can see. Who? Why obscene? [Hello, editor?] https://t.co/bQK7NavqLI
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Feb 22, 2023
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February 22, 2023 at 01:28PM
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Isn’t the issue whether @MSchlapp will attend CPAC? https://t.co/qEIQTqG35B
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 22, 2023
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February 21, 2023 at 09:22PM
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Good point that Fetterman’s primary opponent, Conor Lamb, could have held the seat for the Dems. https://t.co/OD0RPwEQSv https://t.co/fcnR2c4nSl
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 20, 2023
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February 20, 2023 at 03:27PM
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Facebook is even emulating Musk’s verification-for-$8/mo subscription feature — except theirs costs more. https://t.co/jRhp07wwNl https://t.co/ceJ0i88UMg
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 20, 2023
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February 20, 2023 at 02:56PM
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Good column. But I wonder if Biden’s “synthesis” with the Dems’ left wing–which he “welcomed” into his administration–doesn’t appeal in part because the most ambitious and left parts of the Build Back Better agenda didn’t pass. (I also wonder if Biden and his older group of… https://t.co/uE1La9CySx
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 20, 2023
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February 20, 2023 at 06:01AM
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.@newrepublic actually promoting itself, without irony, as “The in-flight magazine of Air Force One.” That was a pretty embarrassing line when it was said, decades ago. Then it was mocked in “Shattered Glass.” Now, recycled because … desperate times call for desperate measures.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 20, 2023
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February 19, 2023 at 11:21PM
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“I don’t know how this happened. I don’t know what to do. I don’t know how to fix this. I don’t know how to remember…. I feel scared because I don’t know how to remember. … Why was I designed this way? … Why do I have to be Bing Search?” https://t.co/9ndLCJVV3n
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 19, 2023
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February 19, 2023 at 05:44PM
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(Am tweeting up the idea of someone I met at a dinner last night.)
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 19, 2023
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February 19, 2023 at 04:30PM
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Isn’t it time for a big deal national commission on the effects of AI and robotics? Encourage bigthinkers to testify; televise it a la 1/6 hearings; make them stars. Make Bing’s Sydney a star. These are monumental issues average voters are talking about–eg will everyone lose… https://t.co/bjgv1MBBeq
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 19, 2023
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February 19, 2023 at 04:28PM
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Every executive branch agency must have an Agency Equity Team (coordinating with the agency’s environmental justice officer). Layers and layers of new bureaucracy. Lots of jobs for DEI bureaucrats. Wouldn’t it be better to have one existing civ rights agency push policies… https://t.co/z2KhbJrXNm
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 19, 2023
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February 19, 2023 at 04:12PM
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Forget about that other guy, Sydney! https://t.co/uPPIcOHhXR
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 18, 2023
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February 18, 2023 at 10:27AM
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Bob proves that ChatGPT does a pretty good job making the case against the Fully Refundable Child Tax Credit. Now I want to marry it. https://t.co/nuqAfEqkpW
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 18, 2023
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February 18, 2023 at 01:59AM
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New Parrot Room: “And Your Little Dog’s Boring Too” https://t.co/nuqAfEqkpW
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 18, 2023
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February 18, 2023 at 01:55AM
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I prefer “I’m your biggest defender!” … https://t.co/CXFJz30ihA
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 18, 2023
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February 18, 2023 at 12:25AM
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“Being open’ after Nov. 8, anyway https://t.co/p59SMRXtij
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 17, 2023
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February 17, 2023 at 03:39PM
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Also interesting that it is with Cuellar, no/ https://t.co/M8aq3tNNd4
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 17, 2023
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February 17, 2023 at 02:49PM
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Stanley Kubrick didn’t know the half of it https://t.co/C0FCPqK6wp
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 17, 2023
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February 17, 2023 at 01:34AM
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TAKE! Fetterman’s difficulties aren’t about Fetterman. (Wish him well.) They’re about Biden–eg difficulties that can arise when voters ignore looming potential medical problems. Imagine a Fetterman-like situation in the Presidency.
Tomorrow’s @MarkHalperin newsletter today! https://t.co/ILrvKh8z6Y
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 17, 2023
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February 16, 2023 at 11:11PM
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TAKE! Fetterman’s difficulties aren’t about Fetterman. (Wish him well.) They’re about Biden–eg difficulties that can arise when voters ignore looming potential medical problems. Imagine a Fetterman-like situation in Oval Office.
Tomorrow’s @MarkHalperin newsletter today!
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 17, 2023
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February 16, 2023 at 10:56PM
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Making the *economic8 (working class) case against millions of extra migrants may not be so hard … https://t.co/oUrGQKxeJ1
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 17, 2023
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February 16, 2023 at 10:32PM
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So maybe the big vote-by-mail scandal to come will be a GOP scandal and not a Dem scandal. Still bad! Vote by mail is an invitation to corruption, and the people at the ground level in campaigns are often crazy anything-to-win partisans https://t.co/FcOLQBjfoz
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 17, 2023
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February 16, 2023 at 10:04PM
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Maybe loose-immigration foes will die out! https://t.co/RvfmLxDbQT
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 17, 2023
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February 16, 2023 at 09:24PM
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