Isikoff & Corn have Trump crudely overpraising Putin in 2013, long before presidential run. ("He's done a very brilliant job…put himself at the forefront of the world."**) Suggests there's some other explanation for this longtime Trump habit. (Don't know what it is!)
**–P. 14 https://t.co/0tTXImBXJ2— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) July 17, 2018
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Also worth reading the earlier article which has the grim details of the misleading …https://t.co/uOXz2nBw9T https://t.co/2I6HTHvRDy
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) July 16, 2018
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Trump isn't acting like a Russian mole https://t.co/6vChC2LO4B .@wrmead argues for looking at what Trump DOES. (Though why would it be a "[sign] of treason" to "acquiesce in a greater Russian presence and say in the Middle East"? Wasn't that practically a campaign promise?)
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) July 16, 2018
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"Stakeholders" is the language of corporatist noblesse oblige. ('We are not constrained by the market. We are not constrained by the voters. We occupy a semi-feudal position. But don't worry, we'll be nice to you serfs.') https://t.co/HED8jslKWY
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) July 16, 2018
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He lost me at "stakeholders"** ..
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**–But not before claiming that France's version of the UBI has been a social disaster, creating "a vast category of déclassés, i.e., people no longer part of the socio-economic fabric." https://t.co/uM1Nq3VblM— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) July 16, 2018
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Not a lot of evidence of Dems campaigning on immigration here — as opposed to infrastructure https://t.co/USXGUx50P1
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) July 16, 2018
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Come to think of it, virtually anything outgoing Speaker Ryan wants to do in his Legacy Lame Duck is more possible with an incoming Dem House–then he can tell GOPs 'It's now or never." How unhappy will he *really* be if GOPs lose mid-terms**?
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** by running on his tax cuts. https://t.co/RnzUli9Ark— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) July 16, 2018
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Some paranoia:
1) Ryan's leaving but says he plans to "run through the tape"
2) That means a potential LAME DUCK SESSION during w/ he tries to pass immig. bill
3) Ryan's position stronger-vs. restrictionists-if incoming Dem majority
4) Does Ryan reallly want GOPS to hold House?— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) July 16, 2018
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When people (eg me) worried that a conservative originalist like Kethledge might undermine immigration control (and were snarked at by @charlescwcooke) this is among the sorts of things we were thinking about … https://t.co/0mpSWzMmXf
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"If they have the detention capacity they should be using it."–Jessica Vaughan https://t.co/uBy960hsdS
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) July 16, 2018
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Illegal immigrant family detention facilities 40% below capacity https://t.co/Oof8zhrIVQ
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) July 16, 2018
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— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) July 16, 2018
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I would gladly pay money to get my info/analysis straight from @maggienyt and cut out the layers of @NYTimes editors. They seem to add negative value https://t.co/r2kbUukh2K https://t.co/G3Adh4KREc
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) July 16, 2018
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Hope it doesn't last. @MaggieNYT performs valuable public service–offers better product for free on Twitter than the one @NYTimes charges $ for. Maybe @Twitter could create green check mark where they cut some posters' employers in on the revenue. …. If they had revenue. https://t.co/MJmhntDfe4
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) July 16, 2018
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Win over Trump, or Kavanaugh? https://t.co/i95kaTHeyk
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) July 16, 2018
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Ice cream truck coming down the street in Beverly Hills just now. Instead of a jingle it's playing Leonard Cohen.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) July 15, 2018
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"It is not a 'threat' when workers do well. But if you need a dash of terror to get your day started…when robust wage growth finally shows itself, Donald Trump will be the one who demands the credit for it. And there’s a chance the people of the US might just give it to him." https://t.co/M8xexJllfo
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) July 15, 2018
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It’s not wage rises that are a problem for the economy – it’s the lack of them | Thomas Frank https://t.co/vV3bF8DtpK
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) July 15, 2018
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When it comes to complaints of a labor shortage, as Neel Kashkari, president of the Minneapolis Fed, has said: “If you’re not raising wages, then it just sounds like whining.” https://t.co/C7ZnpEt3Hs
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) July 15, 2018
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Even the New New New Republic can't help but publish worthwhile articles sometimes https://t.co/rDlTpaNL6i Not sure I buy the left's alternative to free trade ("global unity among the working classes") but a lot of sanity from @ddayen …
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) July 14, 2018
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The Inevitable Death of Global Trade As We Know It https://t.co/rDlTpaNL6i
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) July 14, 2018
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SOLUTION: MORE IMMIGRATION! Why no raises? "[T]he ability of American companies to find cheaper labor abroad or automate further …" I think @PatcohenNYT left something out (namely importing cheaper labor to US) … https://t.co/bWDei6fgdA
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) July 14, 2018
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"Hire me and you get your document sluiced right into the top levels of FBI." Stinks if a Senator's spouse does that, stinks if Michael Cohen does it, and stinks if Ohr's wife does it. https://t.co/0VaTZRfGW6
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) July 14, 2018
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The Ohr business stinks. But why are the implications massive? Seems like half the people in DC were funneling the Steele dossier to the FBI. Did they need Ohr? (I admit haven't followed this closely.) https://t.co/4HO7GHposi
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) July 14, 2018
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Don't think I favor work-testing Medicaid (neither does Rector! https://t.co/aHAyofKLbF) But I recommend DeParle's American Dream for description of real life "complicated family situations" & how work requirement that doesn't accept that excuse can help https://t.co/Kk8DPnqCZP
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) July 14, 2018
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