Of the things on your list https://t.co/IsExgefW1t 3 seem big: Flores, Safe 3d Country, Remain in Mexico. Last two now being negotiated-100% implementation seems unlikely. And even ending Flores ineffective if surge swamps detention space. There's a crisis. Why not try 1182(f)? https://t.co/T9Wl51T9FI
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) June 7, 2019
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I don't understand. 1182(f) is a law. If Trump invoked it, he'd probably be blocked in lower courts by legal challenges, but might win in SCOTUS (same as with challenges to things your list). There's some respectable inhibition about 1182(f)–trying to figure out what it is. https://t.co/ewS2vvW3OR
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) June 7, 2019
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Skeptical. A large-but-inefffective deployment of Mexican troops seems like the obvious minimum theatrical response. https://t.co/LrKOhjdsCD
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) June 7, 2019
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If only Trump hadn't stocked his administration with Kochies. If only @mschlapp weren't a Kochie and Koch Industries hadn't been the first client of the lobbying firm he set up with his wife @mercedesschlapp, Trump's strategic communications director https://t.co/FaOPtp9Bwk https://t.co/GLiz4f1fcC
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) June 6, 2019
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TRUMP VS. KOCHS: "This new outspoken [GOP] opposition to the use of tariffs is stoked by the Koch network of investors and political donors." https://t.co/EhANJ7Rg63
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) June 6, 2019
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NYT never wrote an obit of Turing? Never even reported his death? Hard to believe. https://t.co/2hw77F86JE
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) June 6, 2019
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Trump's China trade confrontation is encouraging manufacturers to move to Mexico from China–doing Mexico a huge favor, no? You have to wonder if that's somehow factoring in. Is Mexico net ahead from Trump even if the tariffs kick in? https://t.co/fhrpredgPq
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) June 6, 2019
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Can't argue that MSM bigshots are not now aware of the border/asylum crisis … (This retweeted by @costareports) https://t.co/eMDl2ykulU
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) June 6, 2019
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I can't target my enemies for destruction? Why get up in the morning? Seems like this is an issue of means not ends, no? https://t.co/3MdAfA1xrP
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) June 6, 2019
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So you disagree with @RMConservative, who argues Trump could simply cut off "any class of aliens" under 8 U.S.C. §1182(f)–for example, all those from Central America? https://t.co/kTY3b2ySoJ https://t.co/60vrnMoT77
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) June 6, 2019
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Hmm. And "gatekeeper" media wouldn't let itself be bullied by SJWs, etc. if disruptive competitors didn't exist? I'm skeptical. https://t.co/3lf6o2cbbF
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) June 5, 2019
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"harmed the broader community." What could go wrong? https://t.co/GYrb7003Mg
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) June 5, 2019
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2018 GOP loser @kevinyoder, who tried to block Trump Admin's attempt to tighten asylum rules, now advising coalition supporting the EB-5 visa-selling scam, according to PoliticoSwamp https://t.co/wZUb2plRBb
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) June 5, 2019
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"Why Not the Swampiest?" https://t.co/r6GSFa7vb8
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) June 5, 2019
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Might be a little unfair to Sowell. Not sure even he is this unsparing.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) June 5, 2019
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Song is part of a collection of "criminally ignored" tunes championed by the late Gary Stewart and distributed at his memorial. Ironic because Stewart was a big Social Justice type. But he was a dedicated curator.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) June 5, 2019
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I didn't know about this 1966 song. It's the most Thomas Sowellish thing I've heard this side of The Rainmakers' "Government Cheese." Too conservative for me! But it's a good song (& not scared to be nasty) https://t.co/LYVTOzBlVq
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) June 5, 2019
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Correction: By "protecting existing entitlements" I meant Social Security and Medicare. Trump has not protected Obamacare, also an entitlement. But he didn't promise he would. (Maybe universal health care should be part of Trumpism, but it isn't.) https://t.co/5KGzfwfKRH
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) June 5, 2019
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Does this happen to @MaggieHaberman, I ask? If not, does @Twitter or @Tweetdeck give more speech rights to some people? (I don't know the answer.) @jack? https://t.co/f04g4XfBCa
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) June 4, 2019
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That seems wrong. Trumpism also meant protecting existing entitlements against Ryanism-and Trump's done that (whatever's in his budget). It means avoiding more wars, and he's done that too. Immigration still hot in part because it's the area where he's wildly, abjectly failed https://t.co/53egBXevwg
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) June 4, 2019
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Well, if Buttigieg gets all the Dems who think Franken got a raw deal, and the field splits those who think he was treated appropriately, Buttigieg wins, no? Isn't that the sort of wedge primary candidates want? Lots of Dems resent Franken treatment, even if < majority. https://t.co/SWK5rmECwW
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) June 4, 2019
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[THREAD] GOP Senators do nothing about border crisis, then suddenly come alive when Trump tries to do something. https://t.co/KoMhGXjUDz
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) June 4, 2019
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If SCOTUS is about protecting abortion & mandating SSM then appointments are going to be 'ideological firefights." This seems mostly a way to protect expansive liberal court rulings by reducing the ability of voters to choose justices. Not "democratic reform." Democratic reform. https://t.co/OnzXpyNGYK
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) June 4, 2019
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Explain again why it would be a national calamity if we stopped importing manufactured goods from China … https://t.co/YmCh0nzy6z
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) June 4, 2019
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Remember "immigration czar" Cuccinelli? He must be quietly working his will behind the scenes … https://t.co/285aBbG6U7
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) June 4, 2019
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