"[T]he manufacturer, in this case BMW, is paying for the rebates .." The i3, while cool,, isn't selling, so BMW is in effect dropping the price. Hard to see what's wrong with that. https://t.co/NrMxij7QpU
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 20, 2018
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Koch network urges Trump to accept Democrats’ immigration deal https://t.co/RdIVi9pRP8 Kaus network says Koch network is a menace (to workers, environment, social equality). Do the Republicans who give them money know they're doing the Dems' loose-borders work?
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 20, 2018
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Always seemed weird to me that you could go to work for a politician or official in DC & there was *no* expectation that you wouldn't tell all afterwards. Done it myself. NDAs seem heavy-handed, but shouldn't there be a … norm! https://t.co/dCZFtdma7l
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 19, 2018
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If you can't kill the wasteful, failed CDBG program, what can you kill? Neolib "REGO" reformers don't like it. I can't imagine the UBI enthusiasts at @Voxdotcom like it. And those are just the Dems … https://t.co/3AqbbB6hAc
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 19, 2018
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If you've run for office you know how grateful you are for donations. I'm still indebted to people who gave me $400. $400,000 I can't imagine. Maybe they don't own you-but you owe them. Idea that end of campaign ended this conflict (for McCabe) is absurd https://t.co/LMSyAPCWJL
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 19, 2018
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"It’s hard to justify McCabe’s reported actions" https://t.co/vZ7SpHjmb3
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 19, 2018
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"Narcissistic cosmopolitanism" is also the best description of what Hillary was saying in India, and why it's so unpalatable https://t.co/ygSgAkhvTV
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 17, 2018
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Do we have to march into an "open" future–free trade/free immigration/global bureaucracy (don't call it 'globalism')–if it means a society, stratified by merit, with unskilled in dustbin–that we hate? https://t.co/ygSgAkhvTV
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 17, 2018
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"Narcissitic cosmopolitanism." The sort of column @jbennet's @NYTimes op-ed page desperately needs and apparently will never get https://t.co/ygSgAkhvTV
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 17, 2018
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"Former Koch Exec [now Trump aide] Marc Short: Trump 'Anxious' for DACA Amnesty, 'Wants to Protect' Illegal Aliens" https://t.co/ePMmIUiCzN
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 17, 2018
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"Illegal immigration, sidelined by the so-called “Trump effect” in the past year, is likely to surge 70 percent this year" to "475,000-875,000" https://t.co/WNtEBEIXrT These seem to be "crossings"-i.e. something a wall could stop. Drawn by jobs-i.e. something E-Verify could stop
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 17, 2018
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"In California, for example, tougher border enforcement has raised farm wages to $16 / hour, up perhaps $5 / hour over earlier times.” https://t.co/jsR45HYeHC
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 17, 2018
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"In California, for example, tougher border enforcement has raised farm wages to $16 / hour, up perhaps $5 / hour over earlier times.” https://t.co/jsR45HYeHC
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 17, 2018
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Summary goes beyond what's in the linked @thehill story, but @NumbersUSA has its own sources and may know something … https://t.co/jq1YAxa8eq
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 17, 2018
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"Further declines in the participation rates of less educated" are troublesome even if there are increases in educational attainment overall, no? Unskilled dropping out the bottom of society. https://t.co/4GS4T9kOIa
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 16, 2018
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Google says it spent $270,000 to close its pay gap https://t.co/nKnlJyuzyi That is not a typo, apparently..
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 16, 2018
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Now Marc Short doesn't have to choose between Trump and his former employer, the Kochs https://t.co/x6hrxLc8Db
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 16, 2018
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Glad WH is at least issuing a vague denial.
(Do not take to bank.) https://t.co/9lYfUcityz
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 16, 2018
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Three for three: Three years of amnesty (which once granted will almost certainly be renewed) in exchange for three years of interest groups blocking wall construction with lawsuits. @RealdonaldTrump wants that deal? Why we needed Bannon in the WH. https://t.co/ZT4hhJQfMN
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 16, 2018
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Not sure Dems aren't just pretending not to want it while they get their best deal. Main people on GOP side pushing the amnesty it seem to be Trump and Kochs, no? https://t.co/8dBRZDW0ZQ
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 16, 2018
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I forget–how do those Tarantino movies end? Does anyone survive?
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 16, 2018
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Yes, that was yesterday's report. I'm giving you today's report from my sources. Trump's still calling. https://t.co/ezyhRmSqaZ
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 16, 2018
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By the time of the mid-terms in Nov., under this deal, will the DACAns and their backers be celebrating in the press? Yes. Will the wall be built, even partly? No. Message to Trump base: Why vote? https://t.co/blyL0iz38T
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 16, 2018
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Coincidentally–or not!–this is also what the Koch brothers have been lobbying Republicans to do (stick an amnesty in the omnibus). https://t.co/Xz0AuXB7e3
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 16, 2018
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It's worse than that! @realdonaldtrump himself is *still* making calls asking GOP members to put amnesty & wall in the omnibus. Like, today.
Luckily that may not count as "clear direction from the White House" … https://t.co/uLiYl58CdZ
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 16, 2018
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