Disney has an “alignment” problem too … https://t.co/RBnopU64AZ

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 27, 2023

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November 26, 2023 at 10:45PM
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Goes a level deeper than MSM accounts, which is about all I can take at the moment. …. https://t.co/g7QQl1ZcjM

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 26, 2023

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November 26, 2023 at 06:34PM
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[What mean “close ties”?-ed] https://t.co/w6j4eaAIZT

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 26, 2023

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November 26, 2023 at 06:07PM
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Translation: A giant Fool-the-Bubbas fraud, featuring drones, wasted border patrol spending, fake-tough provisions undermined in the fine print, but no effective policy changes–in short, something like Schumer’s Gang-of-Eight bill https://t.co/8BBO4SscIu –would be acceptable. https://t.co/K5zrN4TDxF

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 26, 2023

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November 26, 2023 at 06:04PM
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“If voters aren’t sold on the notion that what stands between them and the end of democracy is Joe Biden, they might be more open to a variation on that theme …” https://t.co/mCWPDjnDCs

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 26, 2023

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November 26, 2023 at 05:43PM
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When you don’t want to change your unpopular policy, one obvious tactic is to cut off information about it … Someone in the Biden administration seems to think that is the right road to go down. https://t.co/P4GtAoTFf2

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 26, 2023

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November 26, 2023 at 04:52PM
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I’d never thought of it, but read a certain way, the utopian Marxist rule of “From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs” is a broad, severe work requirement. No work according to your abilities, no reward according to your needs! And no slacking.

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 25, 2023

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November 25, 2023 at 02:49PM
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“She has close ties to Corey Lewandowski ….” NYT is now blatant about its politics, but on some issues they still speak in code. https://t.co/mWFXpQTYYo

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 25, 2023

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November 25, 2023 at 02:11PM
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The key, non-intuitive point behind Peters’ plan: There is no one perfect Archimedean point at which bureaucrats become easy enough to fire to enforce competence, but hard enough to fire to protect against politics. If easy enough to fire, can’t prevent political firings.

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 25, 2023

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November 25, 2023 at 02:44AM
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Charlie Peters’ 50-50 plan for bureaucrats-1/2 protected civil service, 1/2 patronage-made sense. The civil servants preserved institutional knowledge, the political appointees would implement their party’s agenda. Haley’s plan seems more a mess: no institutional memory, to start https://t.co/N0R7LNgoaG

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 25, 2023

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November 25, 2023 at 02:38AM
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Will these johns get named while Epstein’s bigger-shot customers get protected? https://t.co/BNegH0dsKB

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 25, 2023

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November 25, 2023 at 12:48AM
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via John Ellis’ “Political Week in Review” https://t.co/WS6o9asWoh

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 25, 2023

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November 24, 2023 at 11:14PM
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What would Charlie Peters say? (This is a Peters-style story–the politicians boast as if it’s all as good as done, but the bureaucracy ensures much of it doesn’t get done. Washington Make Believe, he called it.) https://t.co/qfPd4TA0SC

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 25, 2023

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November 24, 2023 at 07:47PM
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One problem: “requirements to promote racial equity, environmental sustainability and fair wages.” Laudable as these goals are, they have slowed things down.” Meanwhile inflation has already eaten the entire highway funding increase. https://t.co/wEAhA3kP3I

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 25, 2023

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November 24, 2023 at 07:44PM
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Biden signed his Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal more than 2 years ago. Since then “total infrastructure spending has fallen by more than 10% in real terms.” https://t.co/D3VaelvMX5

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 25, 2023

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November 24, 2023 at 07:41PM
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Remembering Charlie Peters https://t.co/bIgzg1XWo7 Follow @newrepublic

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 24, 2023

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November 24, 2023 at 04:59PM
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LBJ bowed out on March 31, 1968–i.e. 4 months from today, in the cycle. Does politics move *slower* now? Yes, there were fewer primaries then (and more back rooms). Still. A vigorous, informative campaign was waged at least until RFK was assassinated in June, after winning CA. https://t.co/3L8c5ep13k

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 24, 2023

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November 24, 2023 at 03:22PM
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Charlie’s idea of “Playing Notre Dame” –take on the best arguments of the other side–has been lost on much of the Internet, where the incentive is to go for the quickest shot that will satisfy your like minded audience. https://t.co/g0MQRzXwg8

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 24, 2023

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November 24, 2023 at 02:25PM
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Some actually insightful remembrances …. https://t.co/g0MQRzXwg8

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 24, 2023

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November 24, 2023 at 02:22PM
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See https://t.co/ge9fWplKtE

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 23, 2023

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November 23, 2023 at 03:55PM
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“If Biden announced on [Monday] that he would be retiring, it would give 2024 presidential contenders fewer than 100 days to declare their candidacies and define their image before 14 states pick delegates on Super Tuesday.”
Seems like plenty of time. https://t.co/7ldTvCeqWD

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 23, 2023

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November 23, 2023 at 03:55PM
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“If Biden announced on [Monday] that he would be retiring, it would give 2024 presidential contenders fewer than 100 days to declare their candidacies and define their image before 14 states pick delegates on Super Tuesday.”
Seems like plenty of time https://t.co/7ldTvCeqWD

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 23, 2023

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November 23, 2023 at 03:53PM
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Not a Thanksgiving tweet, I know. Following the @bendreyfuss rule: Tweet it when you think it. But Happy Thanksgiving.

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 23, 2023

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November 23, 2023 at 03:34PM
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If pols can campaign on releasing 1/6 footage, why not on a pledge to make public what the government knows about Epstein? (Not a first order issue, of course, but an intensely populist one: Stop the bipartisan big shots from protecting their own.) https://t.co/4CMrtSLbf8

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 23, 2023

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November 23, 2023 at 03:31PM
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Does the federal government (which raided Epstein’s house) know not only the list of bigshots who were potentially blackmailable, but also the answer to the other mystery: how he made his money? Presumably yes.

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 23, 2023

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November 23, 2023 at 03:29PM
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