BURIED LEDE OF THE DAY: @PunchbowlNews on parliamentarian's complicated ruling on whether Dems can use multiple "reconciliation" bills to get around filibuster. Does *she* decide whether there's an 'economic downturn' justifying a second (or third) apple bite?
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) June 2, 2021
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June 02, 2021 at 04:46PM
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They should maybe add a sentence: "Our apologies to Sen. Cotton." https://t.co/B30Mayxf8e
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) June 2, 2021
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June 02, 2021 at 02:55PM
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When I was a paranoid Marxist it seemed like the Fed's job was to stop recoveries before working class wages started to rise. But Fed's now pro-growth. A paranoid Marxist might say the ruling class has moved on to Plan B: suppress wages with immigration https://t.co/2w2OyfCnEC
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June 01, 2021 at 09:46PM
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How many people in the world are victim's of domestic violence, or (as an earlier ruling put it) a "culture of machismo"? @Mattyglesias' goal of "One Billion Americans" would look like a restrictionist dream! Multiply by, what, 2X? 3X? https://t.co/545nHN8Pg1
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June 01, 2021 at 09:24PM
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Comparing what happens when 122 people get a UBI with a control group–in a non-UBI society–doesn't tell you what will happen in a society where *everyone's* eligible for UBI. https://t.co/nupcHhEgWq
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June 01, 2021 at 09:06PM
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'Not safe anymore:' Venice resident says homeless crisis has made it unsafe for grandkids to visit https://t.co/Jw2xxbfuXB And it wasn't that safe before–so it must be really bad.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) June 2, 2021
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June 01, 2021 at 08:38PM
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Pretending that everyone doesn't know Biden's plan is about letting illegal immigrants in (through bogus asylum claims that game the system) is like pretending everyone didn't know trips to Epstein's island were about sex https://t.co/TW3ghNxvK4
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) June 1, 2021
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June 01, 2021 at 05:20PM
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Democracy dies without drive-thru voting https://t.co/8Dzwiz8yXI
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June 01, 2021 at 03:57PM
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EXCLUSIVE: West Texas Border Sector Begins ‘Catch and Release’ to Ease Overcrowding, Says Source https://t.co/q5Rc4YWg4j via @BreitbartNews
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) June 1, 2021
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June 01, 2021 at 03:51PM
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The idea that Biden's only streamlining & expanding *legal* immigration is close to a conscious lie. Everyone knows migrants get in & stay even if they *lose* their asylum claims (ie are illegal) under Biden's looser criteria. https://t.co/cyLOOdxSal Yet https://t.co/TW3ghNxvK4
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June 01, 2021 at 03:01AM
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Tennis! Oh wait https://t.co/6SokTb5HnI
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May 31, 2021 at 09:34PM
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TAKES AHOY! This is God's gift to topic-starved Biden-era columnists. They should chip in and pay Osaka's salary for a month. https://t.co/6n7lL8O0NP
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) June 1, 2021
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May 31, 2021 at 09:26PM
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We could have a Davis Cup like competition where the Sports Professionals who do PR and move product compete against the people who play tennis. https://t.co/JQZBi1Z6uu
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May 31, 2021 at 09:10PM
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'But there aren't enough EVs to make installing a charger a paying proposition.' There will be, soon. Tsunami of EVs in the pipeline. But OMG businesses that install them will have to pay for the electricity they resell! Please…
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May 31, 2021 at 08:44PM
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Consultants say "$50 billion would be needed to grow the US charging network to meet the demand within the next decade." Seems to assume those must somehow be federal $, but it's a sum private businesses are perfectly capable of paying.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) June 1, 2021
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May 31, 2021 at 08:41PM
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Here's a piece on the need to repair our broken charger system with federal money. It seems … incompletely convincing! It opens by noting we don't need as many charger stations as gas stations (because people charge at home). Never quite recovers. https://t.co/7ogla8z9Ih https://t.co/8B0zGBNYsW
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May 31, 2021 at 08:38PM
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It's forbidden to be a reclusive star? [GARBO FIRED] PR now more important than performance, etc.?
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May 31, 2021 at 08:16PM
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TAKE! I don't understand why Naomi Osaka should be required to talk to the press. We want her to play tennis, no?
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) June 1, 2021
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May 31, 2021 at 08:11PM
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There are local subsidies for chargers — here's L.A.'s program, which seems to have run out of funding for this year for auto chargers. https://t.co/fsLZX8HLiv Again, if local subsidies + private outlays are working why do we need a $15B federal program? https://t.co/4BHBYejmMF https://t.co/l9cD4rGGcY
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May 31, 2021 at 08:06PM
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Can this floodgate-opening trial balloon be shot down? https://t.co/yO3RjtnbFN https://t.co/QVm9908lGa
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) May 31, 2021
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May 31, 2021 at 07:32PM
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At my local grocery store. Capitalists not waiting for Sen. Schumer's infrastructure-bill subsidies to install chargers. Customers want to charge their cars. pic.twitter.com/4H35wvONNx
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) May 31, 2021
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May 31, 2021 at 01:52AM
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Actually, under the proposed new Biden rules "No" doesn't mean "no." But "yes" means "yes." See https://t.co/UHshogDFTk and https://t.co/Ygmzuxxc3H I should have guessed. https://t.co/0ZRoqqHvBp
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May 30, 2021 at 10:09PM
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See https://t.co/Ygmzuxxc3H and https://t.co/UHshogDFTk.
It's a great new talking point for coyotes! https://t.co/QVm9908lGa
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May 30, 2021 at 10:06PM
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If they lose they just get in the long multi-year line to see a judge, as before, and they get to stay in the country, as before. So the big innovation is that lots of migrants would get an Instant Yes, but nobody actually gets an Instant No. That has to attract more migrants 2/2
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) May 31, 2021
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May 30, 2021 at 10:03PM
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This would not be asylum officers granting "credible fear" (which allows them to pursue an asylum case, which they usually lose). This would be asylum officers granting them actual asylum, as I understand it. (They win their case!) But if they lose they don't lose their case 1/2 https://t.co/FT8forFK7G
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) May 31, 2021
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May 30, 2021 at 10:01PM
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