It’s the old contest between exit (take your business elsewhere) and voice (change from within).** Exit’s been winning–easier to pick new restaurant than teach the chef to cook. But what if the private med schools have an oligopoly and answer to a smaller, woker constituency?… https://t.co/SMLtClyvE8
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 28, 2024
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February 27, 2024 at 07:22PM
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Is Woke Medicine more likely to take over the private health care sector or government programs (like Medicare for All) I’ve always assumed the latter https://t.co/rkJIsgRHpe This thread suggests maybe not. With government programs, voters can force changes. With Wake Forest…. https://t.co/4z8UindHH6
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 27, 2024
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February 27, 2024 at 06:50PM
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You would think, after McConnell’s border bill fiasco, that he’d have limited persuasive power in the House. You would also think he would recognize this. But no. https://t.co/MB70Jn8rJ3
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Feb 27, 2024
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February 27, 2024 at 06:43PM
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Make-up call https://t.co/5IZ3YkfvY1
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 27, 2024
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February 27, 2024 at 06:17PM
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My cult.
(I had to say that before @jackshafer did.) https://t.co/CEUu1abD7K— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 27, 2024
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February 27, 2024 at 06:01PM
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On the condescension question, thumbsucker here: https://t.co/QCZ8CjXmaH
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 27, 2024
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February 27, 2024 at 05:01PM
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“You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania … They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion, or antipathy to people who aren’t like them, or anti-immigrant sentiment, or anti-trade sentiment…” And that was a sympathetic (if condescending) view. https://t.co/HAziaapnnD
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 27, 2024
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February 27, 2024 at 03:57PM
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The only way to pretend it doesn’t do that is to claim that releasing someone with an ankle bracelet isn’t releasing them. https://t.co/ix0K5kZWaL
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 27, 2024
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February 27, 2024 at 03:51PM
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Why I claim I’m still a follower of the late Charlie Peters’ “gospel” and what was great about him. (Also the exact moment I started to split off.) Discussed at the end of this podcast [around 1 hour mark] https://t.co/SqEjH6SS4G
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 27, 2024
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February 27, 2024 at 03:49PM
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The only way to pretend it doesn’t do that is to claim that releasing someone with an ankle bracelet isn’t releasing them.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 27, 2024
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February 27, 2024 at 03:27PM
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“[I]f you don’t view Biden being out there as a net positive, then the argument he shouldn’t be running is right.” https://t.co/ztlx4Etb65
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 27, 2024
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February 27, 2024 at 02:53PM
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For anyone who still thinks the “bipartisan Senate bill” would have solved the border problem, including ending “catch and release” — no, it would have ratified “catch & release” and turbocharged “asylum” abuse. …. https://t.co/Brgm378VHU
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 27, 2024
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February 27, 2024 at 10:30AM
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“Pick one thing.” Don’t know how brilliant this is but I think it would work, and represent progress. https://t.co/UvjqXzbXZX
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 27, 2024
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February 27, 2024 at 10:00AM
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Mayorkas throwing Biden under the bus? https://t.co/MqWAqpJwxN
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 27, 2024
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February 27, 2024 at 05:36AM
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“The executive order Mr. Biden is considering would shut down the border to new arrivals if more than an average of 5,000 migrants per day tried to cross…It is likely to be blocked by the courts …”
You sure about that, Justice Swan? https://t.co/Hk0PVC9Ox6
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 27, 2024
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February 27, 2024 at 05:33AM
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“In one scene, a bird tells one of the rabbits to ‘piss off’.” https://t.co/FqGecfFFPz
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 27, 2024
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February 27, 2024 at 05:24AM
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Now fully briefed on the McFlurry Spoon Update, but still need a take.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 27, 2024
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February 27, 2024 at 04:17AM
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Wait. Mayorkas is now distancing himself from Biden’s first-day-in-office anti-Trump border moves that “threw the baby out with the bathwater”? Mayorkas had nothing to do with that? (He was confirmed on Feb 2, 2021.) https://t.co/dpSdJiJl5t
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 27, 2024
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February 27, 2024 at 03:14AM
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Because the Dems want Jared in the next Trump White House, if there is one? A valuable asset for them. https://t.co/CpFIdYpRGe
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 27, 2024
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February 27, 2024 at 02:49AM
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The main obstacle to a strong bill was McConnell embracing a weak one (making it “bipartisan”). If there was going to be a non-weak compromise, the Schumer/McConnell/Lankford bill had to die a humiliating death. https://t.co/mydyjbsOpl
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 27, 2024
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February 27, 2024 at 02:47AM
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One thing that endears Haley to conservatives is her instinctive lurch for anti-GOP talking points she knows the MSM will applaud her for and broadcast. Why shouldn’t Trump sabotage a bill if it’s weak? (Haley ducks the somewhat crucial issue of the merits of the “bipartisan”… https://t.co/vmEMLIZMdl https://t.co/X2LlzC8scx
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 27, 2024
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February 27, 2024 at 02:43AM
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Because they want Jared in the next Trump White House? A valuable asset for them. https://t.co/CpFIdYpRGe
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 27, 2024
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February 27, 2024 at 02:29AM
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“To be sure, immigration is by no means the only issue confronting American workers, but it should not be dismissed as a ‘distraction’ when all of the evidence indicates otherwise.”
Controlling immigration is about the easiest lever we can pull to raise wages at the bottom. https://t.co/Ac6MY9Qlq5
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 27, 2024
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February 26, 2024 at 11:57PM
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“Costa and Shierholz would do well to consider what labor leaders knew in decades past: Immigration is generally not in the interests of American workers.” https://t.co/fcgqpyUwje
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 27, 2024
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February 26, 2024 at 11:55PM
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Yes, apparently. “Last week, when Biden spoke to governors…one attendee said it was clear the president believes the politics of the issue had changed more in Democrats favor in the weeks since the bipartisan immigration deal failed.” https://t.co/1xN1YWu32q https://t.co/0XeQeX5h6Z
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 27, 2024
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February 26, 2024 at 11:29PM
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