“Listen To Yourself”

MacCallum: The Cheesecake Factory comment goes exactly to why Democrats lost the middle class, why they lost blue-collar voters. Because it's kind of a guns and religion clinging kind of comment and it turns a lot of people in this country off https://t.co/xd9iG6FnD0

— Acyn (@Acyn) October 26, 2026

And what Obama said:

Obama in Michigan: "He is focused on home renovations. He should be on HGTV! ... He's got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory" https://t.co/XSulq5sh8f

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 24, 2026

More of a comment on Saddam's aesthetic, really. Meanwhile:

The midterms are going so well for Republicans that Trump is campaigning in Mississippi and Vance is in Montana today.

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) October 26, 2026

BTW, JD Vance is a Yale lawyer.

Vance now getting heckled in Montana. https://t.co/VFhBWIGBsh

— Acyn (@Acyn) October 26, 2026

VANCE on 9/11: I remember driving to a local gas station to wait hours in line for gasoline that was now of course more expensive because of a region of the world made up of countries and names that I cannot even pronounce https://t.co/psJ0q6DEmF

— Acyn (@Acyn) October 26, 2026

And yet Trump has no trouble doing business with them.

EL-SAYED: I get that the President takes personal offense to my first name. He doesn't mind as much when it's the Saudis who are funding his son-in-law's private equity. Doesn't seem to mind as much when it's the Qataris who are giving them a $400 million private jet. He just seems to have trouble pronouncing it when it's my name. I don't care how he pronounces my name. I don't even care that he remembers my whole name. Because he can just go on and call me senator after November.

— Acyn (@Acyn) October 26, 2026

EL-SAYED: I get that the President takes personal offense to my first name. He doesn't mind as much when it's the Saudis who are funding his son-in-law's private equity. Doesn't seem to mind as much when it's the Qataris who are giving them a $400 million private jet. He just seems to have trouble pronouncing it when it's my name.

I don't care how he pronounces my name. I don't even care that he remembers my whole name. Because he can just go on and call me senator after November.

Goldberg: I just think it's a very weird closing message talking about how certain male Republican candidates attract the president's gaze. Bash: G-A-Z-E. I want to make sure we have that on the record. https://t.co/irwniUYN32

— Acyn (@Acyn) October 26, 2026

Same difference.

The audience in Montana corrects Vance when he mispronounces Helena https://t.co/RXWHHNr0Tr

— FactPost (@factpostnews) October 26, 2026

Ooops.

Vance blames high gas prices on Biden then tells voters to remember gas prices were also high in 2007 https://t.co/MiiqqazWMx

— FactPost (@factpostnews) October 26, 2026

That makes things MUCH better! (He knows Election Day is next Tuesday, right?)

VANCE: Democrats do not believe in the United States of America. They have taught our children to hate our history and feel shame about the flag. They feel more comfortable attacking our country than they do defending it. https://t.co/trIFURL654

— Acyn (@Acyn) October 26, 2026

And the crowd of old people with nothing else on a Monday afternoon, goes mild.

Cheesecake Factory populism is so weird to me because the rise of chain restaurants created over-the-top, replicable dining experiences, which eventually put the final squeeze on mom-and-pop restaurants, such as the US version of trattorias. I would argue those family-owned neighborhood businesses made the dining experience feel more special and pulled communities together. The shift to chain restaurants homogenized American life and concentrated corporate power. Strange to frame corporate consolidation as "populism."

— derek guy (@dieworkwear) October 25, 2026

Cheesecake Factory populism is so weird to me because the rise of chain restaurants created over-the-top, replicable dining experiences, which eventually put the final squeeze on mom-and-pop restaurants, such as the US version of trattorias. I would argue those family-owned neighborhood businesses made the dining experience feel more special and pulled communities together. The shift to chain restaurants homogenized American life and concentrated corporate power. Strange to frame corporate consolidation as "populism."

I’m guessing most of those people know the “Cheesecake Factory” from “Big Bang Theory;” and nothing else. And they work for corporations, so they are quite content.