Note: Factor e) could be Jill.

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Jan 23, 2022

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January 23, 2022 at 12:39AM
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Maybe f) some anti-Obama oneupmanship in the overbig stimulus (‘I’m not going to make mistake of the guy who dissed me in 2016’) and overstuffed BBB,

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Jan 23, 2022

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January 23, 2022 at 12:39AM
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Not clear he explains Biden’s misplaced optimism. I’d blame a) ego b) historians who fed ego c) arc-of-history dogma that fed overoptimism d) weakness (inability to tell interest groups ‘no’) e) bad advice from aides (WH a black box so we don’t know who precisely) …

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Jan 23, 2022

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January 23, 2022 at 12:23AM
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.@MrWalterShapiro senses a pattern! https://t.co/HW43x8fYql

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Jan 23, 2022

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January 23, 2022 at 12:17AM
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Time for paranoia! Why the Apple delay? Are they running podcasts through some Echelon-style computer filter before posting them? https://t.co/rg2yfeXwNF

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 22, 2022

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January 22, 2022 at 06:17PM
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Free the Los Gatos Party Mom! [1:19:30 in] https://t.co/0aaZST34Ey

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Jan 22, 2022

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January 22, 2022 at 11:00AM
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Get on the Goldman Train, Pennsylvania! What’s holding you back? https://t.co/7ZyZ0XJh9f

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Jan 22, 2022

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January 22, 2022 at 06:26AM
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Debbie Dingell: “[Biden’s] staff needs to be united in the advice that they’re giving him.” Huh? Seems insane. Doesn’t he get to make decisions? Everyone knows they should give him three options, two crazy extreme ideas and then the middle one they want. https://t.co/zUI7iRF7tn

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 22, 2022

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January 22, 2022 at 05:45AM
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“Everyone agrees that the man who messed up negotiations with Manchin so badly was Ron Klain, who managed to convert the prospect of a deal with Manchin into a burnt-out cinder.”

Is that true? Why not blame Biden? (Either one.) https://t.co/sFJlKjT1K4

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 22, 2022

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January 22, 2022 at 05:37AM
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Debbie Dingell: “[Biden’s] staff needs to be united in the advice that they’re giving him.” Huh? Seems wacky. Everyone knows they should give him three options, two crazy extreme ideas and then the middle one they want. https://t.co/zUI7iRF7tn

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 22, 2022

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January 22, 2022 at 05:32AM
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This isn’t @TheAtlantic. This is the SNL parody of @TheAtlantic (“We have nothing left in us but screams of anger and pain.”) https://t.co/xX5SIeovGr

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Jan 22, 2022

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January 22, 2022 at 03:43AM
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Here is the video version of the special Name-Dropping Edition of the Parrot Room https://t.co/0aaZSSLtfY

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Jan 22, 2022

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January 22, 2022 at 03:28AM
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It’s a special All Name-Dropping Edition of the Parrot Room https://t.co/QchstQ9jNH

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Jan 22, 2022

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January 22, 2022 at 03:20AM
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Holding out for Zembla Kingdom airdrop https://t.co/3O8XbvnKDm

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Jan 22, 2022

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January 22, 2022 at 03:02AM
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.@THEATLANTIC LEANS IN! “[S]imply an exercise in absurdity. We are broken. We have nothing left in us but screams of anger and pain.” Eeyore is now torturing Nietzsche. https://t.co/xX5SIeovGr

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 22, 2022

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January 22, 2022 at 02:34AM
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I would hold out for Pottery Barn Caleb.

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 22, 2022

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January 22, 2022 at 02:21AM
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Thesis suggested by this @ByronYork piece: https://t.co/jJAa2asatp

PS SMARMIER BREVITY! Note what @Axios said in March, 2020: “Biden’s presidency has already been transformative…” Hello?

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Jan 21, 2022

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January 21, 2022 at 03:01PM
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Why did Biden pursue an excessively grandiose and un-passable agenda? Working thesis: It’s the historian’s fault! https://t.co/h9wGf1iH9m

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Jan 21, 2022

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January 21, 2022 at 02:56PM
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What if it’s Biden, even more than Trump, whose perceptions are warped because he pays attention to cable news (in his case, MSNBC or CNN)? https://t.co/R0WHFLdcBO

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Jan 21, 2022

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January 21, 2022 at 02:36PM
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Psst — Quincy Institute. Not about the Uighurs … https://t.co/tzbRpajmi1

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Jan 21, 2022

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January 21, 2022 at 06:36AM
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TWEET CONFLICT DISCLOSURE: Experiences like this are why I bought a few shares of Tesla for my IRA a couple of years ago. Incredible market penetration.

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 21, 2022

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January 21, 2022 at 05:09AM
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Driving down Olympic Blvd at 8:45 PM. Road clear. Only 3 cars in front of me. All 3 are Teslas (various sizes). One turns left off onto a side street. Soon we catch up to a 4th car. It’s another Tesla. Welcome to driving in West L.A. …

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 21, 2022

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January 21, 2022 at 05:04AM
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FLIP When Americans marched for peace during the Cold War, did that mean they were “on the side of ethno-nationalist authoritarianism”? That was right-wing rhetoric–now Ben Rhodes’. Tucker has a point, no? Why is it so essential Ukraine join NATO? Not crazy for Russia to object. https://t.co/ENTUlCKd39

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 21, 2022

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January 21, 2022 at 04:02AM
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Recommended, re Ukraine https://t.co/V819GcHot9

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 21, 2022

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January 21, 2022 at 03:38AM
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We want tick-tock. But there is no tick-tock https://t.co/ldV3qV0SBQ Anything that pries open the mysterious black box of White House decision-making would be good! …

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 21, 2022

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January 21, 2022 at 02:53AM
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