Monthly Archives: December 2025

Do Republicans actually want to drive Tim Walz from office, even if it’s deserved? Don’t they want him to be the 2028 Dem nominee?

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Dec 31, 2025

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December 30, 2025 at 09:12PM
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There’s-also a “New Paradigm” argument that it’s easier to have underperforming third parties go broke than to get underperforming bureaucrats to change. But then you can’t pay the third parties if they have no customers! https://t.co/OVG0wG3qdC

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Dec 31, 2025

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December 30, 2025 at 09:05PM
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It doesn’t even have to be something that *should* be illegal. https://t.co/0LGnQlDVDn

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Dec 30, 2025

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December 29, 2025 at 10:12PM
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The Washington Press Corps scandal rule too often seems to be ‘If you haven caught X doing something illegal, you’ve got no story.” You have to somehow match Watergate. That is so not true. (You don’t even need something illegal to impeach the president, for chrissake). https://t.co/YSsPGGjYY4

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Dec 30, 2025

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December 29, 2025 at 10:11PM
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If a government or private industry bigshot took advantage of Epstein’s operation to get a massage + benefits (as G. Maxwell herself suggests) and thereby gave Epstein leverage, why shouldn’t they be shamed–even if what they did wasn’t illegal? Illegal acts aren’t the only https://t.co/uBb56H4I8n

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Dec 29, 2025

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December 29, 2025 at 01:43PM
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“Gavin Newsom has Hollywood-grade instincts. He was made to perform. … Newsom looks presidential in the way actors look heroic … He understands the camera. He understands posture, pacing, pause.” https://t.co/QHZjqQtacF https://t.co/hX93Ywcns7

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Dec 28, 2025

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December 28, 2025 at 02:41PM
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The @NYTimes has trouble portraying the years of immigration restriction (1920s through 1965) has bad years for the US, since overall they were the years of an unprecedented economic boom, successful assimilation, rising living standards–the years when the US middle class was

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Dec 28, 2025

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December 28, 2025 at 02:30PM
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Even with all Trump’s deportations, “net immigration is running at about 450,000 people a year under current policies.” https://t.co/F1CL0H4ikF

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Dec 28, 2025

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December 28, 2025 at 02:23PM
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.@TheAtlantic hardest hit! https://t.co/C1a4k0a5eu

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Dec 27, 2025

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December 27, 2025 at 02:06PM
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“almost 30% of lower-income households appear to be living ‘paycheck to paycheck.’” You mean 70% of lower income households *aren’t* living paycheck to paycheck? Hard to believe. https://t.co/XStN3FwYXQ

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Dec 27, 2025

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December 27, 2025 at 03:11AM
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If houses were actually growing more affordable, of course, then the real estate lobby would definitely want to subsidize demand to stop that dangerous trend in its tracks. https://t.co/W5n4NWvtik

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Dec 27, 2025

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December 27, 2025 at 03:01AM
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Then Gopnik discovered the present was really 1934 https://t.co/LNUBms0aR9 https://t.co/f3p6E7jRZx

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Dec 27, 2025

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December 27, 2025 at 02:55AM
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Of course, you don’t need underage girls to run a kompromat operation. Sex with overage girls can often be “leverage” enough. … That said, victims’ attorney Brad Edwards leaves open the underage possibility: ” [A] SELECT FEW of these men engaged in sexual acts with a select few https://t.co/il3awCVrCN

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Dec 26, 2025

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December 26, 2025 at 05:13PM
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Anyone who doesn’t find this even a bit funny has to go write for The Bulwark: https://t.co/6vKL4qNWyl

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Dec 25, 2025

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December 25, 2025 at 01:19AM
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Conversely, if we want to be open to the full benefits of international travel–many foreigners visiting, spending money, learning about the US, sharing their knowledge and viewpoints, etc.–we don’t want birthright citizenship, which gives a powerful reason to restrict all that. https://t.co/4yqmqJ06NM

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Dec 25, 2025

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December 25, 2025 at 12:53AM
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I guess the easy compromise–on the less important, Kennedy Center/Broken Windows issues–is to ignore Trump Rufo-style and let the courts decide against him where appropriate. I’m sure there are potential problems with this, e.g. courts get too caught up in their “no” role on

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Dec 25, 2025

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December 25, 2025 at 12:29AM
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The Broken Windows (https://t.co/WK7HzDtvXm) vs. Dao of Trumpism (https://t.co/OS5cdAJtJF) debate seems central. I’m on the fence. Some tentative thoughts:
1) Broken Windows works (we found out in L.A. the hard way). But Trump has something (energy and willingness to tackle

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Dec 25, 2025

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December 24, 2025 at 11:07PM
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As it should. We’re older, we want to live longer, and we have enough footwear. https://t.co/AReVrZbYMG

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Dec 25, 2025

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December 24, 2025 at 09:17PM
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TELL US MORE! A longer piece on “The Dao of Trumpism” might be very useful. https://t.co/41SWiNk2cv

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Dec 25, 2025

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December 24, 2025 at 07:35PM
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The Nassar letter—genuine or not, it almost doesn’t matter in the end!…. Remnick goes all Hitler Diaries on us. https://t.co/llFlyWYm28

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Dec 24, 2025

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December 24, 2025 at 02:04AM
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ATLANTIC RACK, Americas outlet mall of ideas

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Dec 24, 2025

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December 23, 2025 at 09:32PM
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This really is a pathetic lead paragraph. ‘Despite all the stories we’ve been pushing for 11 months, none of the things we’ve been harping on to get at Trump seem to have had much impact on the economy. What about *our* needs?’ What’s the next stage beyond “cope”? https://t.co/TyZFJxQcao

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Dec 24, 2025

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December 23, 2025 at 09:02PM
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