Shapiro worked for Torricelli. He knows how this is done! https://t.co/y9tOccOSB6

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 18, 2024

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July 18, 2024 at 05:21PM
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PS I doubt “62% of the population has 401Ks.” Says here it’s about 35%: https://t.co/5Fn3mlZM4n Fine to appeal to this lucky minority. But hard to argue that this is genuine populism and that it’s “phony” not to–i.e. to worry about the bottom half that don’t have 401ks,

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Jul 18, 2024

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July 18, 2024 at 04:49PM
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.@JoeKleinTIME: What’s the argument for casuallly slurring Vance as a “phony populist hypocrite.” Because he doesn’t “appreciate what Wall Street does”? Real populists love Wall Street? https://t.co/fTTr5gshx5

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Jul 18, 2024

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July 18, 2024 at 04:39PM
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Vance talks about immigrants lowering wages (something Krugman has argued in the past) and Krugman responds with charts about unemployment. Employment, but at what wage? Hard to argue that without the migrant influx wages wouldn’t be higher. https://t.co/nleDbsNNhZ

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Jul 18, 2024

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July 18, 2024 at 03:09PM
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How are Katrina and the Waves not the richest people on the planet?

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 18, 2024

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July 18, 2024 at 04:24AM
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York on Vance: “They praised his intelligence, which is formidable, and saw him as running rings around Harris, who has accomplished little in office beyond coming up with a new and strange recipe for word salad.” https://t.co/kvH6mQtopM

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Jul 18, 2024

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July 18, 2024 at 04:14AM
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Obama years from mid-2014 on were good, Trump years until COVID even better.

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 18, 2024

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July 18, 2024 at 03:57AM
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Vance: “[T]here’s this chart that shows worker wages. And they stagnated for pretty much my entire life, until President Donald J. Trump came along. Workers’ wages went through the roof.” I was skeptical, but this chart more or less shows this, no? https://t.co/B6mT5bANMw

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 18, 2024

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July 18, 2024 at 03:51AM
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I’d forgotten about the FAFSA fiasco, which is a fuck-up on a par with the pier in Gaza, the Secret Service in Butler and Buttigieg’s 8 electric-car chargers. (The withdrawal from Afghanistan is on another level.) https://t.co/4pFJgOOUJm

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 18, 2024

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July 18, 2024 at 03:16AM
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But I think that one reason people like William Pekrul would fight for their home is freedom and social equality (“But as Americans that’s not enough. We must be equal in the eyes of each other”**)—not *just* that it’s their home.

**–Reagan

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 18, 2024

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July 18, 2024 at 02:58AM
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What’s ridiculous about the America-is-an-idea idea is that it’s used by the Paul Ryans of the world to suggest that anybody who comes here *should* be here because, hey, they must like our ideas. And there’s no problem of assimilation. So let them all in! What could go wrong?

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 18, 2024

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July 18, 2024 at 02:50AM
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I liked this framing: “Now, it is part of that tradition, of course, that we welcome newcomers. But when we allow newcomers into our American family, we allow them on our terms.” Terms that include freedom & social equality, which are … um, ideas. https://t.co/rBWgHkyVYk

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 18, 2024

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July 18, 2024 at 02:45AM
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I had an idea to compare the aging Biden to Leonid Brezhnev in his dotage. So how bad was Brezhnev? Much, much worse, it turns out. Never mind. https://t.co/EBhMAzFv76 https://t.co/YPEzIBPTeX

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 18, 2024

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July 18, 2024 at 02:33AM
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They’re taking back “Don’t Stop Thinking About Tomorrow”?

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 18, 2024

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July 17, 2024 at 11:24PM
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Kai > Ivanka

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Jul 18, 2024

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July 17, 2024 at 10:35PM
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Don Jr. coming perilously close to talking about the wall (that Trump failed to build) ….

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Jul 18, 2024

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July 17, 2024 at 10:34PM
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COVID solved this problem … https://t.co/R8DFHO9SWN

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Jul 18, 2024

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July 17, 2024 at 10:33PM
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Hard to believe GOP isn’t making hay of the number of electric chargers (7? 8?) that Biden’s Build Back Better has built …

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 18, 2024

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July 17, 2024 at 10:28PM
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In his initial meeting with Trump Vance seems to have defied Charles Peters’ dictum, “Never apologize too quickly.” I’ve always found Peters’ rule useful, but maybe it doesn’t work w/ Trump. https://t.co/1CeAoJGufE

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Jul 18, 2024

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July 17, 2024 at 09:53PM
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#s 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 19 https://t.co/IdS3IQI9nQ

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Jul 17, 2024

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July 17, 2024 at 03:59PM
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This is kind of BS, no? He *couldn’t* save his presidential campaign after the Kinnock theft, the law school plagiarism and multiple false claims about his c.v, made to the guy he had a higher IQ than. Still useful s a roadmap to how to talk Biden into doing the obvious thing. https://t.co/EiXJ90WxGB

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 17, 2024

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July 17, 2024 at 01:04AM
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WHERE HAVE YOU GONE, REINCE PRIEBUS: @MarkHalperin also says establishment GOP types-having failed to block Vance-are now talking about installing one of their own to run Trump transition, or to be his chief of staff. [Hey, it worked before.]

This concludes our Halperin report

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 16, 2024

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July 16, 2024 at 06:03PM
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Mark Halperin on today’s “2-way” describes the post-Holt CW of Dem insiders on Biden (I’m caricaturing. A bit):

OLD CW: Get him out there! Let him show he’s up for it.
NEW CW: Um … maybe keep him under wraps. He’s not up for it.

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 16, 2024

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July 16, 2024 at 05:59PM
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In the comic books, he builds the wall … https://t.co/AGd8ZJLbJ3

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 16, 2024

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July 16, 2024 at 04:37PM
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I THOUGHT THIS WASN’T SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN DUE TO “COMPLEMENTARITY”: SF Fed finds Biden migrant surge making labor market looser–i.e. worse for workers. “[T]he migration wave was much bigger than previously thought …” https://t.co/JU2QGyB1x7

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 16, 2024

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July 16, 2024 at 03:28PM
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