On the Oval Office colloquy: Frank exchange of views! Blame to go around. In long-run will be less of a big deal than people are now making it out to be-might turn out to have helped (ie clarifying). PS: Who set this up–too many participants, too many baying reporters, went on… https://t.co/mbP7RCwMy6
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 28, 2025
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February 28, 2025 at 04:34PM
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Not to be paranoid, but it’s also possible that Bigshot X successfully lobbied at the last minute to get his name redacted, causing everything to get held up. In which case the person responsible would probably be Trump. https://t.co/pycftIIVWl
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 28, 2025
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February 28, 2025 at 02:46AM
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Why not call off the “release” when it was clear it would be a nothingburger? https://t.co/hhIGNgVCbT
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 28, 2025
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February 27, 2025 at 08:10PM
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Embarrassing https://t.co/puAQYD7KsN
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 27, 2025
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February 27, 2025 at 06:52PM
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Bondi just realizing that the SDNY might not be completely forthcoming with the Epstein files? Hard to believe she is that clueless. https://t.co/wvM8A6EU25
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 27, 2025
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February 27, 2025 at 06:42PM
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So far, Trump Epstein file release = full botch https://t.co/lTzKdyMTiM
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 27, 2025
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February 27, 2025 at 06:40PM
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If there was one message Trump’s voters sent loud and clear in 2024, it’s that they wanted the US to let in millions of rich foreigners and give them citizenship. https://t.co/dhf9UnjgpD
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 27, 2025
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February 27, 2025 at 05:25PM
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The battle against illegal immigration isn’t close to being won–the declines at the border may be temporary (has happened before) and zero legislation has been passed–and already Trump’s implementing a rich man’s scheme to sluice in millions (he says) of other rich people. https://t.co/dhf9UnjgpD
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 27, 2025
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February 27, 2025 at 05:04PM
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“EY has made nearly $70M since 2020 supporting a reform plan at the Department of Housing and Urban Development.” Deeply suspicious of that contract … https://t.co/vWHaWrNnTz
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 27, 2025
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February 27, 2025 at 04:46PM
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HE needs to change the conversation, that’s for sure.
A little scary to be governed by two layers of politicians (Bass, Newsom) who have screwed the pooch on their careers and are now ready to try anything to rescue them. https://t.co/09UdlCeQ30
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 27, 2025
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February 27, 2025 at 04:44AM
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I asked Google –powered by AI!–how many millions in a trillion. I didn’t say “wrong answers only”– but I got one anyway. https://t.co/NlfSY6nvQu
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 27, 2025
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February 27, 2025 at 03:44AM
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It’s Donilon’s fault! Something unseemly, weak and self-serving in what seems to be the new line blaming Biden and his handlers for what’s at least in large part the result of Democrats’ reckless and misguided policies. https://t.co/iqBBwv65EX
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 27, 2025
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February 27, 2025 at 03:21AM
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Social Security is one of the government agencies that works for the average citizen. They may not be the most efficient, but they do the job (like those record-keepers on tricycles in West Virginia). Business mindset says cut anyway. A dollar saved is still a dollar. Political… https://t.co/bV0rnXZgfx https://t.co/2c7U1verkl
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 27, 2025
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February 27, 2025 at 02:14AM
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Respectable policy types campaigned against teen pregnancy, arguing it would produce better social outcomes. They won. And now it turns out it contibuted to the birth decline! So? They were still right, I suspect. (I’m not a natalist. Birth rates seem like a 2d-order concern.) https://t.co/oomnHKeS2o
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 27, 2025
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February 27, 2025 at 01:51AM
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Social equality is not a global value. But it’s an American value. It would take decades to assimilate all these foreign multimillionaires. https://t.co/0oUIt6pMCt
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 27, 2025
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February 27, 2025 at 01:41AM
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Social equality is not a global value. But it’s an American value. It would take decades to assimilate all these foreign multimillionaires. https://t.co/0oUIt6pMCt
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 27, 2025
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February 27, 2025 at 01:35AM
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They are “global citizens,” Ryan. They vote in global elections only. https://t.co/HnSaKjyFnF
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 27, 2025
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February 27, 2025 at 01:31AM
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It would be cheap to note that these are the people who fill Trump’s hotel rooms. That’s not a critique–he knows them and likes them. But it’s a leap to say they should all be permanent American citizens. https://t.co/B0BQf8UyzJ
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 27, 2025
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February 27, 2025 at 12:50AM
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If you are can cure cancer and think you’re better than average Americans, OK, maybe you are, come on in! But there aren’t 10 million of those people, and the 250,000 in line for EB-5 visas aren’t them.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 27, 2025
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February 27, 2025 at 12:46AM
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Last one is dealbreaker for me. “[W]e are all equal in the eyes of God. But as Americans that is not enough we must be equal in the eyes of each other.”–Reagan, 1992
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 27, 2025
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February 27, 2025 at 12:43AM
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“Great global citizens.” A lot packed into that phrase, some bad, some good. Primary allegiance to the US? Maybe not! Building transborder alliances that may one day result in global peace? In the long run, possibly. Think they’re better than schlubby non-global Americans losing… https://t.co/g8XwSyAWZs https://t.co/v5SIMXzGNa
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 27, 2025
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February 27, 2025 at 12:37AM
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This is the sort of immigration policy @Justin_B_Smith would design. Serve the global elite (who have more in common with each other than with anyone else). https://t.co/DM7gur43Or
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 26, 2025
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February 26, 2025 at 10:10AM
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Lots of questions: If Apple buys a tech a “gold card,” will they lock him to in effect indentured employment? Will the new Lutnickers feel entitled as “people of wealth or people of great talent”–and they have a card to prove it! Do we want to build an economy where Americans… https://t.co/a1n6ZWf419
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 26, 2025
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February 26, 2025 at 10:06AM
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Seems a bit Merkel-like to make a sudden decision to let in maybe millions of people that will irrevocably affect the texture of the nation’s life. Maybe have a panel discussion or something first? https://t.co/DM7gur43Or
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 26, 2025
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February 26, 2025 at 10:04AM
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Seems a bit Merkel-like to make a sudden decision to let in maybe millions of people that will irrevocably affect the texture of the nation’s life. Maybe have a panel discussion or something first?
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 26, 2025
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February 26, 2025 at 10:02AM
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