“The all-electric Toyota bZ4X.” They really don’t want to sell electric cars, do they?

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 25, 2024

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November 25, 2024 at 05:53PM
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‘Journolist was a bad idea’–@mattyglesias https://t.co/56Sfyff6hX

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Nov 25, 2024

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November 25, 2024 at 02:46PM
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Does it have the story of how he produced the guitar break on Jackson Browne’s “Doctor My Eyes”? (Told by the late David Lindley in concert.) https://t.co/Bklk0sKwzM

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Nov 25, 2024

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November 25, 2024 at 02:15PM
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These are also the groups MSM talks about … https://t.co/igiXgX57Cw

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Nov 25, 2024

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November 25, 2024 at 02:10PM
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I’m surprised the Center for Immigration Studies (@CIS_org) didn’t put out this chart. Makes stopping illegal immigration seem totally do-able, as far as the economy is concerned. https://t.co/UUvVnsVZzt

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Nov 25, 2024

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November 24, 2024 at 10:50PM
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The basic impact of this chart is to convince people that the illegal immigrant share of various workforces is WAY LESS than the stereotype. 16.7% in agriculture? 19.4% in landscaping–and that’s the highest percentage on the list? Only 13.4% in construction. https://t.co/n84pD7cUeF

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Nov 25, 2024

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November 24, 2024 at 10:47PM
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It used to take 3 to make a trend. The Web cut that to 2 (if you wait for 3 you’ll get beat). But now “Hollywood luvvies heading to the Cotswolds” is built on exactly one (1) example: Ellen DeGeneres. https://t.co/5wzUe46Vdq

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Nov 24, 2024

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November 24, 2024 at 02:02AM
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“On the issue of immigration [the Polish] government has dropped the inflammatory language of Mr. Kaczynski…[b]ut it has continued and even strengthened his hard-line stance, with Mr. Tusk announcing that Poland would suspend recognizing asylum requests”… https://t.co/LTtgjD3wiA

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Nov 24, 2024

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November 24, 2024 at 01:42AM
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“If the economic and immigration headwinds were so strong, why didn’t you attack them …? … The fact that … they thought going to the border once in September was going to move the immigration numbers is comical.” –Dem @DanTurrentine on @2waytvapp https://t.co/6ycFAC0r2l

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Nov 23, 2024

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November 23, 2024 at 06:03PM
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Nov 23, 2024

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November 23, 2024 at 05:27PM
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I mean, how much damage can she do as Secretary of Agriculture? USDA=out of the way https://t.co/UINsNK0Aw5

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Nov 23, 2024

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November 23, 2024 at 05:08PM
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One lesson seems to be that when the corporatist gov/business group decides on a course (56% EVs in 2032!) that proves wrong (customers don’t want it that fast) their first instinct is to double-down, protecting the massive mistaken investments made. Plus they need a… https://t.co/K6RPSclOb1 https://t.co/8ugmydfm1S

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Nov 23, 2024

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November 23, 2024 at 02:37PM
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“But the focus among Republican senators and staffers right now seems to be on another less titillating story: The pick of former Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard to be the nation’s intelligence chief.”–Stirewalt https://t.co/1eeVHRL8Yn https://t.co/KHeGCsyybE

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Nov 23, 2024

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November 23, 2024 at 01:42PM
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Wasn’t the awful “bipartisan” Lankford bill based on how trustworthy ankle bracelets are? Now even less trustworthy … https://t.co/hjKZNpdjsr

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Nov 21, 2024

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November 21, 2024 at 01:46PM
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Wasn’t the awful “bipartisan” Lankford bill based on how trustworthy ankle bracelets are? Now not so trustworthy … https://t.co/hjKZNpdjsr

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Nov 21, 2024

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November 21, 2024 at 01:41PM
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“Even when it’s working correctly, the new app doesn’t check for past arrests or outstanding warrants — something the current system tied to in-person appointments does, sources said.” https://t.co/hjKZNpdjsr

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Nov 21, 2024

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November 21, 2024 at 01:39PM
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“[Butler] declared, with striking certainty, that “an increasing number of women in the United States keep dogs for sexual reasons.”” This was apparently said in the 1980s. Move over, cat ladies! https://t.co/z00rOgIbMD

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Nov 21, 2024

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November 21, 2024 at 04:27AM
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“[Butler] declared, with striking certainty, that “an increasing number of women in the United States keep dogs for sexual reasons.” This was apparently said in the 1980s. Move over, cat ladies! https://t.co/z00rOgIbMD

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Nov 21, 2024

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November 21, 2024 at 03:42AM
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It’s an empirical question, and I’m not sure the answer is clear. Until it is, there are other candidates for Director of National Intelligence. (I agree with many of Gabbard’s anti-interventionist stances. That’s not the issue.) If she’d been nominated for Secretary of… https://t.co/BhqeVZSJbe

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Nov 21, 2024

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November 21, 2024 at 03:34AM
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than from a small, intense sect. The foreign policy aims of the mainstream Catholic Church in 1960 didn’t really differ from the US’s general anti-Communist aims. Who knows what Butler wants. (There’s speculation in those articles.) >>

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Nov 21, 2024

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November 21, 2024 at 03:25AM
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separate location through her”–Howley again.) 5) The obvious comparison is with JFK, who had to battle the notion that as a Catholic he’d take orders from the Pope. Would Gabbard be influenced by Butler? It seems easier to have distance from the giant,sprawling Catholic church

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Nov 21, 2024

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November 21, 2024 at 03:21AM
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(An original focus of the group was battling gay marriage, but that seems to be in the past.) 4) Tulsi Gabbard herself is somewhat opaque about her relationship to the sect, and seems opaque in general. (“Her speeches feel not so much overly prepared as capably delivered from a… https://t.co/Mpu5uqhLDs

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Nov 21, 2024

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November 21, 2024 at 03:11AM
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2) It’s not like Gabbard has graduated from that group; many if not all the important people in her life are still associated somehow with Science of Identity (the name of the group); 3) the group has always been politically ambitious and somewhat secretive. What’s it up to? 3/

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 21, 2024

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November 21, 2024 at 03:02AM
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Should this be a problem for Gabbard’s nomination to be Director of National Intelligence? You can read those articles and decide for yourself–but it sure bothers me. 1) This is a relatively small, secretive group, headed by a teacher who makes RFK Jr. look like Marcus Welby; 2/

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 21, 2024

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November 21, 2024 at 02:59AM
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Two good articles on the small, close knit Hindu spinoff sect –don’t call it a cult!–headed by guru Chris Butler, in which Tulsi Gabbard is still deeply enmeshed. https://t.co/z00rOgIbMD (The New Yorker) and https://t.co/EbRvef4wel (New York). 1/x

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Nov 21, 2024

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