Trump: “You want me to go to the Cheescake Factory?”
Aide: “Yes, sir.”
Trump: “But I don’t like the Cheescake Factory.”
Aide: “You do now.”— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Oct 25, 2026
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October 25, 2026 at 04:09AM
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I’d like to think the Restorers who yearn to revive the old pre-Tump GOP consensus have turned against mass immigration, but I’m deeply skeptical. Start with the Bushes. Have they turned against mass immigration? Now everyone who worked for the Bushes. Now all the GOP squishes in the Senate. The drive for cheap labor and cheap virtue (where the GOP allegedly realigns politics by playing Abraham Lincoln for Latinos) is stronger than a few foreign-policy-oriented misgivings.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Oct 25, 2026
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October 25, 2026 at 03:41AM
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“Black Sheep” is even better. https://t.co/NJMZxSPBG3 https://t.co/KQ4Kr7wy7j
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Oct 25, 2026
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October 25, 2026 at 03:38AM
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I’d like to think the Restorers who yearn to revive the old pre-Tump GOP consensus have turned against mass immigration, but I’m deeply skeptical. Start with the Bushes. Have they turned against mass immigration? Now everyone who worked for the Bushes. Now all the GOP squishes in the US. The drive for cheap labor and cheap virtue (where the GOP allegedly realigns politics by playing Abraham Lincoln for Latinos) is stronger than a few foreign-policy-oriented misgivings.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Oct 25, 2026
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October 25, 2026 at 03:29AM
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Would be worth it for Trump, even if it doesn’t save the midterms, because it would nail Obama and lower his future campaign value.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Oct 25, 2026
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October 25, 2026 at 03:14AM
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Last election it was McDonald’s. Is this Trump’s 2026 anti-snob stunt: https://t.co/zX0oo5CZMK https://t.co/atokGlO1y0
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Oct 25, 2026
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October 25, 2026 at 03:11AM
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Vivek sneers as prom queens and sleepovers. https://t.co/Qgbo0plydO Obama sneers at Cheesecake Factory. At least Vivek’s politically fatal snobbery had a point (US needs to do better producing tech talent). Obama’s is closer to pure taste signalling. https://t.co/atokGlO1y0
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Oct 25, 2026
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October 25, 2026 at 02:36AM
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I don’t know about blocking buildings because of shade. But a lot more skyscrapers should be blocked because of WIND–specifically downdraft winds that render surrounding public spaces unusable. Worst examples I’ve noticed: Yamasaki’s original World Trade Center and his similar, smaller Century Plaza towers in LA. Lovely, unusable public parks in both. You can’t eat lunch there because your lunch will blow away.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Oct 25, 2026
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October 25, 2026 at 02:01AM
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It’s one thing to get rid of the filibuster to actually pass, eg. national health care. It’s another to get rid of it just to stage a bunch of show votes to use in the 2028 campaign. https://t.co/hVHpgUcNMj
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Oct 25, 2026
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October 25, 2026 at 01:38AM
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If this guy wins I will be really amazed. https://t.co/93VoqMkUio
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Oct 23, 2026
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October 23, 2026 at 07:03PM
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Obviously 2 million new entrants will bid down wages whether or not the were processed in “orderly” fashion and whether or not we ‘know who they are.” Those two 2d-order things are mainly brought up by mass immigration supporters in an attempt to con voters into accepting more millions
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Oct 23, 2026
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October 23, 2026 at 06:56PM
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They don’t run on that. But would they DO that? It’s pretty clear that, e,g., James “Welcome Mat” Talarico would– as long as they are processed in “orderly” fashion and we find out ‘who they are,’ etc. https://t.co/9OwImoHUBj
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Oct 23, 2026
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October 23, 2026 at 04:19PM
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One of the most suspicion-raising polls is the “experimental project” showing El Sayed to be the most electable Dem. I suppose this could also have been commissioned by GOPs who thought El Sayed would be a weaker opponent. Occam says no, but someone has to follow the money. …
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Oct 22, 2026
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October 22, 2026 at 04:53PM
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Was Wedgewood just a straight El Sayed dirty trick? https://t.co/QC2WyJ1psZ
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Oct 22, 2026
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October 22, 2026 at 03:09PM
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Bringing in 600,000,000 immigrants with “above average earnings” at the moment AI puts half of them out of work is about as surefire a recipe for revolution as you can think of. https://t.co/N4d5hecF2L
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Oct 22, 2026
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October 22, 2026 at 03:03AM
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Hmm … https://t.co/JbdnY8U5Xi
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Oct 22, 2026
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October 22, 2026 at 02:13AM
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Bringing in 600,000 immigrants with “above average earnings” at the moment AI puts half of them out of work is about as surefire a recipe for revolution as you can think of. https://t.co/8ACq1h8rYu
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Oct 22, 2026
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October 22, 2026 at 02:01AM
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If California’s voter registration system, including “motor voter,” sluices noncitizens unthinkingly onto the voter rolls, which way does that cut? Isn’t that what Motor Voter critics have charged? https://t.co/vt6D3JpZYQ
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Oct 21, 2026
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October 21, 2026 at 04:56PM
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He’s one step away from saying Raman will heighten the contradictions: “If Nithya gets in now, she may make it so bad, so rapidly, she gets recalled or at least shocks Angelenos enough to vote differently next time.”
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Oct 21, 2026
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October 21, 2026 at 03:59PM
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.@SpencerPratt not not so not tilting to Mayor Bass like some of her more respectable former opponents. He’ll settle for different: “If [Bass is] not at fault for our city’s rapid decline that just happened to coincide with her 4 year term…why should we be afraid of Nithya running the show? We know how bad it will be with Karen…we’re living it right now. But we don’t know how bad it will be with Nithya. Could be worse, sure…but it could also be better. … The tooth has to be pulled. The problem is, Karen is the tooth.”
Good column, actually. https://t.co/xAz4HGrY7t
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Oct 21, 2026
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October 21, 2026 at 03:56PM
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If you get @McDonalds coffee in the regular brown cup, it’s fine. The science is settled! https://t.co/kYdzbgBUB6
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Oct 20, 2026
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October 20, 2026 at 12:45PM
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If you get @McDonalds coffee in the regular brown cup, it’s fine. Sorry. The science is settled! https://t.co/kYdzbgBUB6
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Oct 20, 2026
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October 20, 2026 at 12:33PM
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Suggestion: Instead of “pouncing” or “seizing the moment,” every other time say “having a field day.” https://t.co/8yFtsp9nOj
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Oct 20, 2026
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October 19, 2026 at 09:19PM
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.@MaxTani “He was at home with the flu, journalists from The New York Times confirmed, citing images from Talarico’s home security cameras.” No. NYT confirmed that he was at home, not that he was at home due to the flu, or even that he had the flu. Flu evidence is basically all from him. Just saying. Carry on. https://t.co/LzdBHuQMYe See also https://t.co/1JoqWVPzKE
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Oct 19, 2026
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October 19, 2026 at 02:14PM
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NYT: “Polls are tightening in three Senate races in which Democrats have enjoyed narrow but consistent polling leads: Texas, Ohio and Michigan…” https://t.co/qObDcVLqI2 https://t.co/pGhOC81sLI
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Oct 19, 2026
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October 19, 2026 at 01:35PM
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