No, no, you haven't irresponsibly torqued the headline against Trump enough! Should go all the way to Business Insider's saying Trump "praised [Epstein] FOR liking women 'on the younger side.'" [BS-Trump was pointing out elephant in room] https://t.co/2997bKoKYE https://t.co/VFusBXG8Du
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) July 7, 2019
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Maybe higher-ups in DC were intentionally overloading Clint, maybe not–but that's not in this piece. (Would be a good piece to get.) In this piece DC pushes Clint to make improvements faster. PS: Also no drinking from toilets (as @AOC alleged) in piece.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) July 7, 2019
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Multi-reporter multi-paper effort on Clint holding facility. Lots of evidence of border patrol being overwhelmed by numbers–not of a "cruelty as deterrent" policy. https://t.co/qhJiw07H4G
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) July 7, 2019
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ABC: "Forty-four percent of Americans approve of Trump’s overall job performance, up a slight 5 percentage points from April …" Slight? Doesn't seem so slight to me (still not enough). They let the millennial write that paragraph. https://t.co/TxnLk1LWTi
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) July 7, 2019
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So BMW's problem was that its electric car didn't sell, so it should have moved faster into electric cars? OK!
I blame Chris Bangle. https://t.co/3m7eX8lvq6
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) July 7, 2019
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Doesn't seem definitive, but there's this response to the 'fracking' theory: https://t.co/1FFHAVAdVW https://t.co/zamARUqnHh
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) July 7, 2019
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I should say that when I spent a week in Pecos, Texas (when my car broke down) the local frackers had a forthright attitude I didn't expect: "You read about those earthquakes down south [Texas]? We did that!" https://t.co/pPUcCga01E
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) July 7, 2019
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Huh … https://t.co/g2QefiQMqw
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) July 7, 2019
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Hewitt points out: We really do want to know how many citizens there are. Gearing the 'second-try' rationale for trying to find out toward new developments (eg possible extensions of government health care) seems like a promising idea. https://t.co/SMycNQrtUC
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) July 7, 2019
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"faves"–plural? Bill Clinton and ________? https://t.co/aRiX362YeK
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) July 7, 2019
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Does he seem full of himself in *everything* he does? https://t.co/TmsZNlwcPu
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) July 7, 2019
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I think the accepted last line is "…… I'm thinking." https://t.co/u96tC5XSKu
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) July 7, 2019
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Trump connection (as in the story you link to) seems pretty flimsy, so far. Who knows what might develop. https://t.co/drGPwUc8Qj
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) July 7, 2019
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And here's a book by Conchita Sarnoff, who may know more about Epstein than anyone … https://t.co/lnV2tf6LcS
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) July 7, 2019
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Best short intro to the Epstein case remains Coulter's 2015 TV spiel. "This is not just a Clinton sex scandal; this is the elites getting cozy and covering up and protecting one another. It also involves the Bush administration. …" https://t.co/oe2FCjpiqD https://t.co/T7IewD2CRL
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) July 7, 2019
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Now maybe we'll also get answers to the underlying mysteries in this case a) How, exactly, *did* Epstein make his money. Many are skeptical he made it as a trader; b) How much of the US elite is involved. Bill Clinton has some splainin to do, but who else? https://t.co/T7IewD2CRL
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) July 7, 2019
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Acosta's deal was very weak, but he at least stepped in to prosecute Epstein when the [Democratic] county prosecutor wimped out. It's still mainly a Democratic scandal (though who knows how far it goes) https://t.co/aVcsBOB87E https://t.co/I9W0ZaHQOL
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) July 7, 2019
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Getting bored. Hasn't been a quake in well over an hour. Seems like forever.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) July 6, 2019
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But note: 213,000 released into country already since December. They're here to stay, even if they lose their asylum cases. "The overwhelming majority of border crossers and illegal aliens are never deported from the country once they are released into the U.S. " https://t.co/qg5hzguAjf
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) July 6, 2019
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"Trump-Mexico Deal Cuts Release of Illegal Aliens into U.S. by 70 Percent" https://t.co/VXfc2YM6Hk a) Wow. This is the deal the CW said was phony b) Seasonal? c) Will it last? d) If Trump can get catch & release to 0, that'll discourage bogus asylum claimants from coming at all.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) July 6, 2019
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It's ABQ out h
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e— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) July 6, 2019
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He needn't. But would it be arbitrary & capricious if he decides to do it? https://t.co/z0eclKknJN
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) July 6, 2019
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Level headed, but wildly insufficient. Does not stop the system from being overwhelmed with questionable claims, as now. Do you detain? Do you deport? Do you tighten the "credible fear" standard? Those seem like the key questions. https://t.co/RiszZhJbwm
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) July 5, 2019
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Sure if you pick the mid-70s madness. But if you pick a) pre-inflation (eg: 1951-67) and b) factor in the price of housing? I'm with R. Fulks: "Something in the big frame moved, it never was so hard
To keep a twenty-inch tube and a fenced-in yard." https://t.co/dXVFp7uSXi https://t.co/b5uwpIV9Sz— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) July 5, 2019
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HANG ON, WILBUR! What happened to this point from @JoshMBlackman–arguing an obscure 14th Amendment provision REQUIRES asking citizenship question in the census? https://t.co/GE4dJeUryL
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) July 5, 2019
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