“[A]ccording to interviews with more than a dozen recent transplants and longtime residents who left the state in the past two years.” More than a dozen!
Translation: MSM’s still scared of @RonDesantis https://t.co/DfzvRJVfso
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 1, 2024
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April 01, 2024 at 01:39AM
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Can’t reasonable people differ on where greater threat is? Both are threats, of different sorts at the moment. Why push polarization? https://t.co/9eWanFGRpJ
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Mar 31, 2024
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March 30, 2024 at 09:17PM
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Joe Biden Breaks Public Support for ‘Skilled‘ Migration https://t.co/PrC22ezR9h via @BreitbartNews he
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Mar 31, 2024
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PS I suspect Somervell is an example of the non-“wonk” leaders @wrmead says we don’t have any more. https://t.co/V1eGFO8MZQ Take a look at his Wikpedia page–he also built the Pentagon (designed over a weekend). https://t.co/eBcijfgmjS
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Mar 30, 2024
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March 30, 2024 at 04:30AM
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Administrative ability matters: FDR’s WPA was floundering in NY City until they brought in a colonel–a Southerner! yet-to get things going. Col. Somervell proceeded to build a huge number of public works, including LaGuardia Airport. Who are Biden’s Somervells? Does Biden care?… https://t.co/Bh1q4yTMuN https://t.co/T7mjV7fOq7
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Mar 30, 2024
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March 30, 2024 at 04:19AM
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Why do I think @RonDeSantis could get these chargers up and running in a year? …. https://t.co/mrwn2PBpYu
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Mar 30, 2024
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March 30, 2024 at 03:37AM
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Not a failure like the EV charger initiative (which seems v-doable), but Biden’s plan to create manufacturing jobs (that don’t need a college degree) isn’t cutting it in swing states. “[I]t’s hard to battle against global forces of economic change.” https://t.co/M2fTxxtsYT
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Mar 30, 2024
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March 30, 2024 at 03:35AM
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Seems like pure bureaucratic sloth. This is not an exotic experimental technology. Out here in LA there are chargers all over the place. It’s like saying the government couldn’t install washer/dryers. https://t.co/IQq6gWl8GY
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Mar 30, 2024
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March 30, 2024 at 03:18AM
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“One-quarter of Biden’s timeline has elapsed to get the U.S. to 500,000 electric vehicle charging stations by 2030. And so far there are a grand total of seven using the infrastructure law’s funding….” Politico Playbook https://t.co/CEXje50wqd https://t.co/SKsSnG2N3A
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Mar 30, 2024
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March 30, 2024 at 03:13AM
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“[H]e discovered that more than 400 nonconforming aircraft parts had gone missing from the defective parts cage and likely been installed on planes illegally and without documentation, by managers and mechanics desperate to get them out the door.” https://t.co/d9K4cN4WOc
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Mar 30, 2024
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March 30, 2024 at 02:35AM
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“That 15 percent jump in illegals is not what Biden’s deputies wanted when they asked Mexico in December to slash the northward flow of illegals during the 2024 election year.” Some good blunt details in here https://t.co/kDAvW9725N
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Mar 30, 2024
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March 30, 2024 at 02:20AM
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Didn’t big-dollar fundraising events used to be vaguely distasteful-candidates hobnobbing with fatcats, raking in $$ to affect a race when $$ really shouldn’t affect a race? But now portraying them as triumphant and glamorous gives Biden a lifeline, so… https://t.co/ZfcNrVJULg
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Mar 30, 2024
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March 30, 2024 at 02:14AM
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‘Lookback’ (2 years of benefits for one year of work) is still alive? If so, a sign of how much the Dems want to get a foot in the door of diluting the principle of work-based benefits … https://t.co/sAlMS5QEX1
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Mar 29, 2024
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March 29, 2024 at 07:54PM
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Biden’s ICE appointees *favor* sanctuary cities. Not much of a pivot. https://t.co/PVNpkfc0XG
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Mar 29, 2024
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March 29, 2024 at 07:40PM
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Not crazy, assuming you think the nation can survive Kamala… https://t.co/avCf22ivAl
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Mar 29, 2024
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March 29, 2024 at 06:37PM
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Hello…?! https://t.co/dnDlPYHiTS
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Mar 29, 2024
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March 29, 2024 at 06:27PM
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They should run the race for 500 miles, requiring a recharging stop (the length of which will count against their time). https://t.co/hjeofLTNfH
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Mar 29, 2024
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March 29, 2024 at 04:36PM
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Slight whiff of this here https://t.co/ucDrvOIOJL https://t.co/dccEfi6qan
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Mar 29, 2024
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March 29, 2024 at 04:18PM
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The “grind” part comes out when Mead says they have sitzfleisch, and “are not rebels.”
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Mar 29, 2024
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March 29, 2024 at 05:43AM
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These are just instant half-baked Twitter reactions to Mead’s barbed and well-timed essay. A suitable follow-on to the most prescient book of our lifetimes https://t.co/E4Q8V42goJ 6/
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Mar 29, 2024
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March 29, 2024 at 05:27AM
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“Wonks are not rebels or original thinkers. Wonks follow rules.” 1) Can’t say that of McNamara 2) Is it true? If you’re a high-testing hard worker you may have some security & can take risks. If you’re just a charming conference-goer with good-SATs, better stick with the herd 4/
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Mar 29, 2024
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March 29, 2024 at 05:13AM
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Robert McNamara seems an obvious exception to this rule–as a wonk who rose to the top. That he did more damage to the world than anyone else alive might seem to validate Mead’s thesis. But he was still an exception 3/
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Mar 29, 2024
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March 29, 2024 at 05:07AM
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Think Mead may be conflating at least two different groups: 1) High testing hard workers with sitzfleisch who staff bureaucracies, and 2) less wonkish types who have some other career-boosting quality (charm, connections, luck, drive, ethnicity), The 2s–not 1s–become leaders 2/
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Mar 29, 2024
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March 29, 2024 at 04:59AM
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Twilight of the Wonks https://t.co/5f6IxwaaSu “Wonks do well on standardized tests. They pass bar examinations with relative ease..” OK, but do these people (grinds, really) become the mediocre leaders Mead decries? Is Claudine Gay a wonk? 1/
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Mar 29, 2024
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March 29, 2024 at 04:53AM
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Twilight of the Wonks https://t.co/5f6IxwaaSu “Wonks do well on standardized tests. They pass bar examinations with relative ease..” OK, but do these people (grinds, really) become the mediocre leaders Mead decries? Is Claudine Gay a wonk?
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Mar 29, 2024
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March 29, 2024 at 04:52AM
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