The kicker would have been:

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Feb 5, 2025

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February 04, 2025 at 07:21PM
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This did not work well for Biden/Meacham (except in the 2022 midterms) ….

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Feb 5, 2025

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February 04, 2025 at 07:03PM
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Very important for Dems to retain the Civil Rights Model of politics: on virtually every issue, it’s not just that Dems have the better arguments, or even that they are right. They are morally good and their opponents (the Bull Connors) are morally evil. https://t.co/HxwfGzn9sJ

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Feb 4, 2025

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February 04, 2025 at 06:55PM
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This story (link here https://t.co/TO2MeqSwy1) makes it clear that the tariff threat a) got the Mexicans to deploy more troops in its south faster and b) got them to accelerate Remain in Mexico. Both measures worked (not clear at time they would), but tariffs not for show. https://t.co/iK6wulfZBF

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 4, 2025

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February 04, 2025 at 03:50PM
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Man, it was tough to cut the kicker on this one.

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Feb 4, 2025

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February 04, 2025 at 04:22AM
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Right. And the 2019 tariff-induced deal played a key role in blocking the fake-asylum surge of the Trump years. Then Biden opened the floodgates.** So here we are again. What’s the problem?
** He only closed them with a pre-election MX deal. His threat was Trump might win. https://t.co/kDBYzqt2it

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Feb 4, 2025

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February 04, 2025 at 04:19AM
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I see YIMBY boiler rooms filled with earnest @mattyglesias types. … (This is actually not a bad idea. ABADU.)

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 3, 2025

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February 03, 2025 at 03:58PM
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Since the fires, I’ve started to get cold calls offering to build me ADUs (i.e. granny houses) in my back yard. I suppose that is a good sign, even if the callers are sketchy.

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Feb 3, 2025

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February 03, 2025 at 03:56PM
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Link: https://t.co/rwII6bDFrA With items on absurd diversity empires & Michigan teacher contracts (“to be fired, a teacher has to be caught drunk at school five times”), TGIF now seems like an updated heir to the late C. Peters’ @monthly
“Tilting at Windmills” column. (That’s a… https://t.co/4rRHNuPquu

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Feb 3, 2025

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February 03, 2025 at 03:50PM
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Hadn’t read @NellieBowles’ TGIF in a bit. Still good! “Please, I beg you, move on from January 6. It’s been done! Democrats see themselves as the January 6 Remembrance Party. And I’m telling you, that’s cool, but it can’t be the whole thing. You have to have one other thing!”

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Feb 3, 2025

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February 03, 2025 at 03:48PM
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Link: https://t.co/VdxZLPqqiY With items on absurd diversity empires & teacher contracts (“to be fired, a teacher has to be caught drunk at school five times”), TGIF now seems like an updated heir to the late C. Peters’ @monthly “Tilting at Windmills” column. (That’s a good… https://t.co/LmCVxqbMnv

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 3, 2025

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February 03, 2025 at 03:44PM
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Hadn’t read @NellieBowles TGIF in a while. It’s still good! “Please, I beg you, move on from January 6. It’s been done! Democrats see themselves as the January 6 Remembrance Party. And I’m telling you, that’s cool, but it can’t be the whole thing. You have to have one other… https://t.co/oq8girfLuy

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Feb 3, 2025

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February 03, 2025 at 03:30PM
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Measured! https://t.co/GkAyi5h0DW

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Feb 3, 2025

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February 02, 2025 at 08:52PM
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“Twenty big cities, Aspen and Martha’s Vineyard–that’s what’s left of the Democratic Party.” https://t.co/huYU6y14bH

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Feb 2, 2025

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February 02, 2025 at 04:06PM
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Time for “The Brutalist Is a Pack of Lies That Conveys Nothing About Our Time” by @richardrushfield– a sequel to his famous, and effective >> https://t.co/7sYV20LixD https://t.co/ELOIyq2D2c

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Feb 2, 2025

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February 01, 2025 at 10:39PM
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How is Maher useless? Here you are praising him for his LGBTQ views on Fox (“it strikes at the heart of this progressive orthodoxy in these big cities …”) https://t.co/nStOmg6x3i I think you have to name names to make your argument and his was the only name you gave. https://t.co/I7OmFuux4k

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Feb 2, 2025

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February 01, 2025 at 07:57PM
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PS A bad movie on so many levels.

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Feb 2, 2025

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February 01, 2025 at 07:45PM
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What if Trump illegally skews the constitutional balance of power between Congress & President in favor of the latter–and voters kind of like it (even as courts block). A signal for constitutional reformers. Our Constitution (even with the unelected 4th branch) too damn slow … https://t.co/DV8ETra5M0

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Feb 2, 2025

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February 01, 2025 at 07:31PM
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It’s the community center from The Brutalist https://t.co/6njDZQ8fJc

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Feb 2, 2025

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February 01, 2025 at 07:18PM
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The great thing about @JamesPPinkerton’s “new paradigm” outsourcing is that NGOs are easier to cut off when you don’t need them. In theory. We’ll see. But imagine if all these NGO people were official bureaucrats … https://t.co/M8S2m3HOdI

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 1, 2025

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February 01, 2025 at 06:59PM
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I do see a solid basis for assimilation in the donuts, though https://t.co/wKhlINwJi6

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Feb 1, 2025

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February 01, 2025 at 06:53PM
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Late to the party? Good grief, what about Silicon Valley? https://t.co/SNKfKBpWtf

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Feb 1, 2025

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February 01, 2025 at 05:39PM
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Do I think that a nominee with Tulsi’s views but not her ambitious guru would be relatively easily confirmed? Yes.

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 1, 2025

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February 01, 2025 at 05:38PM
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I think that’s what I was trying to get at: The cult stuff gives Senators the heebie-jeebies, but they want it to seem like Tulsi’s in trouble because of her doubts on Syria and Ukraine, where she has (more than) a point. The MSM lets them get away with it. https://t.co/9OE1CNqxuI

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 1, 2025

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February 01, 2025 at 05:32PM
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If the issue is ‘what do they bring to the table,’ well, Maher brings a lot to the table. If you’re looking for “models” of how Democrats might slide into the Trump camp, or at least the Trump fellow traveler camp, anti-PC Maher is way more valuable than eccentric, erratic Tulsi.

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 1, 2025

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February 01, 2025 at 05:25PM
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