| Title | Date | Im- press | En- gage | Ex- pand | URL- clicks | Like | Re- tweet | Link to Text | Link to Tweet |
| An interesting claim. | 2019-09-28 | 369 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1177935899784441858 | 1177935899784441858 |
| False equivalence | 2019-09-28 | 70 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1177934982737612805 | 1177934982737612805 |
| A free press is worth fighting for. | 2019-09-28 | 147 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1177934663311974400 | 1177934663311974400 |
| Remember Frank Wills? | 2019-09-27 | 166 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1177570879317794817 | 1177570879317794817 |
| How do you get people to vote against their own interests? | 2019-09-27 | 72 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1177422939802632192 | 1177422939802632192 |
| Giuliani ? Say no more, squire, say no more! | 2019-09-27 | 180 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1177422575858700288 | 1177422575858700288 |
| The media overlooked Trump's UN speech today. | 2019-09-27 | 111 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1177422094197354497 | 1177422094197354497 |
| False equivalence | 2019-09-27 | 66 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1177420950658146304 | 1177420950658146304 |
| A free press is worth fighting for. | 2019-09-27 | 102 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1177420615902384129 | 1177420615902384129 |
| The Republican quandary. | 2019-09-23 | 113 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1175986217835302912 | 1175986217835302912 |
| A genuine intellectual with a genuine common touch. | 2019-09-23 | 139 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1175984268188606465 | 1175984268188606465 |
| Medicare for all who want it. | 2019-09-23 | 310 | 18 | 2 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 1175983970825060352 | 1175983970825060352 |
| 70 is too old!! | 2019-09-23 | 98 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1175983154336686080 | 1175983154336686080 |
| Resetting the balance of power. | 2019-09-23 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1175982536868036609 | 1175982536868036609 |
| Yemen = Afghanistan + Iraq + Vietnam? Persians and Arabs | 2019-09-18 | 153 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1174315058735640577 | 1174315058735640577 |
| The business cycle is ultimately a phenomenon of mass | 2019-09-18 | 180 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1174314414792527873 | 1174314414792527873 |
| The death of fiscal democracy. | 2019-09-18 | 94 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1174313812557627393 | 1174313812557627393 |
| The president should make only those decisions that nobody | 2019-09-18 | 95 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1174313308003819521 | 1174313308003819521 |
| McCarthy said if Republicans retake the House, the first | 2019-09-18 | 118 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1174312527242526720 | 1174312527242526720 |
| Ranked choice voting experiment - Warren wins. | 2019-09-18 | 104 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1174311244955652097 | 1174311244955652097 |
| It IS the Trumpist party now. | 2019-09-12 | 99 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1172169911365357571 | 1172169911365357571 |
| Foreign policy goal #1 - re-elect Trump. | 2019-09-12 | 95 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1172169623531163648 | 1172169623531163648 |
| What do you do when even your cheerleaders lose heart? | 2019-09-12 | 126 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1172169227257561089 | 1172169227257561089 |
| How a politicized Supreme Court undoes constitutional | 2019-09-12 | 95 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1172168833718616065 | 1172168833718616065 |
| Who owns the courts? | 2019-09-12 | 84 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1172168360634679296 | 1172168360634679296 |
| How a politicized Supreme Court undoes constitutional | 2019-09-09 | 98 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1171081941363245056 | 1171081941363245056 |
| Power to the people becomes power against the people. | 2019-09-09 | 97 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1171081328206344198 | 1171081328206344198 |
| In a tossup between a Trumpist and a Democrat, voting for | 2019-09-08 | 206 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1170571252097900544 | 1170571252097900544 |
| Turnout will decide Tuesday's election in NC-09. | 2019-09-06 | 168 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1170070187724304389 | 1170070187724304389 |
| Take the money and run! | 2019-09-06 | 94 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1170067558763921408 | 1170067558763921408 |
| Power to the people becomes power against the people. | 2019-09-06 | 116 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1169766947967234048 | 1169766947967234048 |
| Dangerous times. | 2019-09-06 | 221 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1169765673536327680 | 1169765673536327680 |
| The chaos seekers. | 2019-09-06 | 91 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1169765285265473536 | 1169765285265473536 |
| How tax reform works. | 2019-09-06 | 109 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1169764958122364928 | 1169764958122364928 |
| A pillar of minority rule. | 2019-09-06 | 75 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1169764701061824512 | 1169764701061824512 |
| The chaos seekers. | 2019-09-04 | 84 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1169395841880088576 | 1169395841880088576 |
| How tax reform works. | 2019-09-04 | 128 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1169395410986602496 | 1169395410986602496 |
| A pillar of minority rule. | 2019-09-04 | 85 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1169395079967936512 | 1169395079967936512 |
| Defined-benefit pensions - define a benefit for now, | 2019-09-04 | 129 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1169394681907572738 | 1169394681907572738 |
| Just a few states are going to matter. | 2019-09-04 | 148 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1169394268860903424 | 1169394268860903424 |
| Opportunity zones for billionaires. | 2019-09-04 | 115 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1169393541128130562 | 1169393541128130562 |
| It's very difficult to pull off without creating a whole | 2019-09-04 | 122 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1169393008967421953 | 1169393008967421953 |
| A different kind of polling. | 2019-09-04 | 453 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1169392217221287936 | 1169392217221287936 |
| A recipe for a trade truce. | 2019-09-04 | 3372 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1169391939268923392 | 1169391939268923392 |
| A different kind of polling. | 2019-08-29 | 546 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1167180300599709696 | 1167180300599709696 |
| About the Electoral College | 2019-08-29 | 110 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1167179981400657920 | 1167179981400657920 |
| A recipe for a trade truce. | 2019-08-29 | 125 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1167179364867297280 | 1167179364867297280 |
| Fox News isn't good enough any more! | 2019-08-29 | 95 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1167178790138605568 | 1167178790138605568 |
| "A republic not a democracy." What does that mean? | 2019-08-29 | 87 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1167178117758111744 | 1167178117758111744 |
| Local government has to lead the way when other levels | 2019-08-29 | 93 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1167177672683687936 | 1167177672683687936 |
| Staying home is a vote too. | 2019-08-25 | 110 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1165757141614911489 | 1165757141614911489 |
| Thank goodness we have Xi and Putin to protect us from | 2019-08-25 | 133 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1165756607839387648 | 1165756607839387648 |
| Doing something about the Electoral College. | 2019-08-25 | 118 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1165755803682267137 | 1165755803682267137 |
| The second coming of God! | 2019-08-25 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1165755236759195649 | 1165755236759195649 |
| Republicans can count on Democrats! | 2019-08-25 | 112 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1165754945473110017 | 1165754945473110017 |
| What does it mean when the traffic light shows red, yellow, | 2019-08-22 | 1081 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1164332303067185152 | 1164332303067185152 |
| The second coming of God! | 2019-08-22 | 187 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1164331950326218757 | 1164331950326218757 |
| Republicans can count on Democrats! | 2019-08-22 | 3972 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1164331560008503296 | 1164331560008503296 |
| Trump is right about one thing - psychiatric hospitals | 2019-08-22 | 120 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1164330752990781440 | 1164330752990781440 |
| Reaction and revisionism - longing for a golden age that | 2019-08-22 | 102 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1164328972135456768 | 1164328972135456768 |
| Emperor of immigration. | 2019-08-22 | 89 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1164328496585252865 | 1164328496585252865 |
| Emperor of immigration. | 2019-08-18 | 118 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1163193068654252034 | 1163193068654252034 |
| Observations on taxation. | 2019-08-18 | 1229 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1163192796116742144 | 1163192796116742144 |
| America's future without immigrants. | 2019-08-15 | 128 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1161996802066808832 | 1161996802066808832 |
| A tea partier talks about challenging Trump from the right. | 2019-08-15 | 147 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1161996417360990208 | 1161996417360990208 |
| Income inequality depends on impotent labor. | 2019-08-15 | 99 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1161995907555966979 | 1161995907555966979 |
| An attempt to explain evangelical support for Trump. | 2019-08-15 | 132 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1161995615053598720 | 1161995615053598720 |
| Single-issue voters are a pillar of Republican minority | 2019-08-15 | 105 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1161995111057645568 | 1161995111057645568 |
| Who has an interest in a poisonous atmosphere? | 2019-08-15 | 104 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1161994068018077697 | 1161994068018077697 |
| When's the impeachment vote? | 2019-08-15 | 93 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1161993242126123008 | 1161993242126123008 |
| Who has an interest in a poisonous atmosphere? | 2019-08-12 | 122 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1160897253776560130 | 1160897253776560130 |
| How the Nationalist International works. | 2019-08-12 | 91 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1160896932815855616 | 1160896932815855616 |
| Calendar of coming attractions - when's the impeachment | 2019-08-12 | 97 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1160896434490601472 | 1160896434490601472 |
| Life at Conception Act. | 2019-08-12 | 87 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1160895420333092864 | 1160895420333092864 |
| "There is concern with the unknown and what the next tweet | 2019-08-12 | 90 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1160894963334303746 | 1160894963334303746 |
| Where are the governors? Finding new ways to make | 2019-08-12 | 78 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1160893783539453953 | 1160893783539453953 |
| Where are the governors? Finding new ways to make | 2019-08-09 | 82 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1159841769573384197 | 1159841769573384197 |
| NRA and Republican senators take a break from worrying | 2019-08-09 | 103 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1159841426135375872 | 1159841426135375872 |
| What white supremacy? | 2019-08-09 | 80 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1159840929408094211 | 1159840929408094211 |
| Tariffs? It's really world power. | 2019-08-09 | 98 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1159840593813487616 | 1159840593813487616 |
| THIS is an emergency - why wait for Mitch? | 2019-08-06 | 138 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1158742911107751936 | 1158742911107751936 |
| No more thoughts and prayers - we need action. | 2019-08-05 | 74 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1158377153592844290 | 1158377153592844290 |
| Preserve the rights of the majority. Reduce the Rural | 2019-08-05 | 91 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1158194948400803840 | 1158194948400803840 |
| Mulvaney's got the answer! - "Crazy people like this should | 2019-08-04 | 145 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1158093124029173760 | 1158093124029173760 |
| Here's a Democratic cause - organize labor! | 2019-08-04 | 95 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1158092379678629888 | 1158092379678629888 |
| Fiftieth college reunion - Who are the lucky winners? | 2019-08-04 | 91 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1158091886130655232 | 1158091886130655232 |
| When national socialism comes to America, it will be | 2019-08-04 | 87 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1158088962776264704 | 1158088962776264704 |
| Which proposals are popular? | 2019-08-04 | 103 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1158088452631490560 | 1158088452631490560 |
| The circular firing squad accomplishes Trump's mission. | 2019-08-04 | 91 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1158086920116658177 | 1158086920116658177 |
| Which proposals have wide support? | 2019-08-02 | 97 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1157314730421178369 | 1157314730421178369 |
| The circular firing squad accomplishes Trump's mission. | 2019-08-02 | 91 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1157312487991021568 | 1157312487991021568 |
| Sore loser laws are a bigger problem than primaries. | 2019-08-02 | 91 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1157311629505130496 | 1157311629505130496 |
| It's not enough to have a vision. It's not enough to have | 2019-07-31 | 157 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1156563999170818049 | 1156563999170818049 |
| Impeachment hearings have begun. | 2019-07-30 | 92 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1156302515421376513 | 1156302515421376513 |
| If a recession is palpable to voters in 2020, more | 2019-07-30 | 97 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1156302175842136064 | 1156302175842136064 |
| Who was Theodore Roosevelt? | 2019-07-29 | 116 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1155650299773587457 | 1155650299773587457 |
| Not bothering to hide any more. | 2019-07-29 | 124 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1155649981472104448 | 1155649981472104448 |
| There's big bucks in the ignorance industry! | 2019-07-29 | 128 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1155649442327851008 | 1155649442327851008 |
| Preserving minority rule. | 2019-07-29 | 97 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1155649052622512128 | 1155649052622512128 |
| Who's actually proposing solutions to the problems of | 2019-07-29 | 104 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1155648611566280710 | 1155648611566280710 |
| They did it before and they will do it again. With or | 2019-07-29 | 79 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1155648322482262016 | 1155648322482262016 |
| They did it before and they will do it again. With or | 2019-07-25 | 73 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1154384674942140417 | 1154384674942140417 |
| Who are the Democratic voters and what do they care about? | 2019-07-25 | 123 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1154384233156108291 | 1154384233156108291 |
| How to win friends and influence nations. | 2019-07-25 | 102 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1154383642933657600 | 1154383642933657600 |
| Not everybody sees foreign interference as a threat. | 2019-07-25 | 111 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1154383105345540096 | 1154383105345540096 |
| Stephen Miller doesn't even try to pretend. | 2019-07-25 | 99 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1154381638656122881 | 1154381638656122881 |
| Tucker Carlson and the rebirth of national socialism. | 2019-07-22 | 138 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1153416825696210944 | 1153416825696210944 |
| Stephen Miller doesn't even try to pretend. | 2019-07-22 | 86 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1153416363953623040 | 1153416363953623040 |
| Cognitive dissonance | 2019-07-21 | 88 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1153017262053269504 | 1153017262053269504 |
| John Tanton had a point - | 2019-07-21 | 112 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1153016766420754432 | 1153016766420754432 |
| A historic opportunity. | 2019-07-21 | 78 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1153016464196063232 | 1153016464196063232 |
| My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; | 2019-07-21 | 99 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1153016234213986304 | 1153016234213986304 |
| My Antonia. | 2019-07-21 | 104 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1153015886757785600 | 1153015886757785600 |
| Conservative or a populist? | 2019-07-21 | 107 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1153014929001025536 | 1153014929001025536 |
| The global surveillance industry. | 2019-07-21 | 94 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1153013951132647424 | 1153013951132647424 |
| Turning anti-semitism on its head. | 2019-07-21 | 74 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1153013707447787521 | 1153013707447787521 |
| Being mayor is harder than being president. | 2019-07-21 | 203 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1153013479227326464 | 1153013479227326464 |
| Winner-take-all bias. | 2019-07-21 | 102 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1153013223949402112 | 1153013223949402112 |
| No accident. | 2019-07-21 | 99 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1153012363571843072 | 1153012363571843072 |
| It could be worse - | 2019-07-21 | 107 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1153011903691542528 | 1153011903691542528 |
| There's a better way to do this. | 2019-07-19 | 138 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1152232427261009920 | 1152232427261009920 |
| Eventually you have to quit and write a book. | 2019-07-19 | 153 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1152224052691390464 | 1152224052691390464 |
| Bipartisanship isn't always productive. | 2019-07-19 | 96 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1152211090727559170 | 1152211090727559170 |
| Alternative explanation for Trump's racist tweets? | 2019-07-19 | 191 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1152080465387384833 | 1152080465387384833 |
| The biggest threat to our security. | 2019-07-19 | 201 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1152079614556041224 | 1152079614556041224 |
| politicians don't care what voters think. They care | 2019-07-19 | 137 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1152055857938518017 | 1152055857938518017 |
| Simone Weil saw it all coming - then - and now. | 2019-07-19 | 66 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1152014424791646211 | 1152014424791646211 |
| How to make money writing browser extensions. | 2019-07-19 | 130 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1152013861584719873 | 1152013861584719873 |
| How purges work these days. | 2019-07-19 | 127 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1152013614577926144 | 1152013614577926144 |
| Rahm Emmanuel on what it takes to win. | 2019-07-19 | 75 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1152013058518032384 | 1152013058518032384 |
| Why have Republicans become Trumpists? | 2019-07-19 | 90 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1152012780054016000 | 1152012780054016000 |
| NRCC - all in with Trumpism. | 2019-07-19 | 76 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1152010708051083265 | 1152010708051083265 |
| An emergency is when there is an imminent threat to the | 2019-07-19 | 80 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1152010433173192704 | 1152010433173192704 |
| Be careful what you download. | 2019-07-19 | 83 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1152009878866542592 | 1152009878866542592 |
| The King of Debt! | 2019-07-19 | 106 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1152009608468189184 | 1152009608468189184 |
| Technology news. | 2019-07-17 | 157 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1151504122924847106 | 1151504122924847106 |
| In case you don't have enough to worry about. | 2019-07-17 | 73 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1151484685941260288 | 1151484685941260288 |
| Why Trumpists will never really permit immigration reform. | 2019-07-17 | 139 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1151484447079849985 | 1151484447079849985 |
| You say you want a revolution Well, you know We all want | 2019-07-17 | 143 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1151484156519444480 | 1151484156519444480 |
| So was the electoral college about slavery? | 2019-07-17 | 118 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1151483657988628481 | 1151483657988628481 |
| Trying to find a positive role for conservative ideology. | 2019-07-17 | 160 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1151483348524470272 | 1151483348524470272 |
| Why Trump has so much trouble in the courts. | 2019-07-17 | 68 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1151482933779165185 | 1151482933779165185 |
| A 50th anniversary year - the last episode of the first | 2019-07-17 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1151482492886499328 | 1151482492886499328 |
| Why do people believe conspiracy theories? | 2019-07-17 | 148 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1151482189768343552 | 1151482189768343552 |
| Good thing Trump is not micro-managing this operation. | 2019-07-17 | 117 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1151481859190079488 | 1151481859190079488 |
| This should worry Trump. | 2019-07-17 | 97 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1151481575512502274 | 1151481575512502274 |
| A candidate you might not know about yet. | 2019-07-17 | 72 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1151480746575446016 | 1151480746575446016 |
| Too much steel, not enough Bibles | 2019-07-17 | 130 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1151480365535490048 | 1151480365535490048 |
| Sununu fearlessly stands up to protect unlimited dark | 2019-07-17 | 124 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1151480111989850112 | 1151480111989850112 |
| Abolish the "debt ceiling." | 2019-07-16 | 75 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1150956744912191488 | 1150956744912191488 |
| The age of impunity! | 2019-07-15 | 50 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1150872150359719936 | 1150872150359719936 |
| Pitch defileth the hand that toucheth it. | 2019-07-15 | 122 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1150871908893638656 | 1150871908893638656 |
| We can visit. But we have to come back. | 2019-07-15 | 90 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1150871687639916545 | 1150871687639916545 |
| Polite expression on a small island requires quantum | 2019-07-15 | 126 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1150871174961745920 | 1150871174961745920 |
| Can you be sued for making a joke that people take | 2019-07-15 | 77 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1150870910850617344 | 1150870910850617344 |
| Who's really in charge here? The Dick Cheney of the | 2019-07-15 | 79 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1150870676636459008 | 1150870676636459008 |
| Now we have a real character test for the Republicans in | 2019-07-15 | 103 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1150870139065122816 | 1150870139065122816 |
| No real limits for big agribusiness. | 2019-07-07 | 161 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1147958216556367873 | 1147958216556367873 |
| What the radical freshman don't get. | 2019-07-07 | 114 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1147733365203730438 | 1147733365203730438 |
| Trucker fatigue - if Obama was against it, then who's | 2019-07-06 | 185 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1147621117957292032 | 1147621117957292032 |
| "Putin looks more like a pope to me" | 2019-07-06 | 983 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1147620411007328256 | 1147620411007328256 |
| Plant trees! | 2019-07-06 | 99 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1147619761490055168 | 1147619761490055168 |
| Ranked-choice voting would avoid this. | 2019-07-06 | 170 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1147595440918974465 | 1147595440918974465 |
| What all those candidates should be doing instead. | 2019-07-06 | 214 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1147584174510882816 | 1147584174510882816 |
| Why it's important to keep or win Democratic governorships | 2019-07-06 | 113 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1147583903147761664 | 1147583903147761664 |
| More tick horrors. | 2019-07-06 | 82 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1147583607461965825 | 1147583607461965825 |
| Should Justin Amash run for President? | 2019-07-06 | 118 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1147583213432397824 | 1147583213432397824 |
| Making tax-advantaged retirements available for the lower | 2019-07-03 | 213 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1146521986522206208 | 1146521986522206208 |
| A thermostatic reaction? | 2019-07-03 | 108 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1146517936640671744 | 1146517936640671744 |
| The Nationalist International | 2019-07-03 | 89 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1146515898083106816 | 1146515898083106816 |
| The challenges ahead | 2019-07-03 | 105 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1146515425859002368 | 1146515425859002368 |
| The acorn doesn't fall far from the oak. | 2019-07-03 | 120 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1146515137848729600 | 1146515137848729600 |
| How can social media companies fight fake news without | 2019-07-03 | 189 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1146514817152274432 | 1146514817152274432 |
| The view from a Trump supporter. | 2019-07-03 | 179 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1146514420408832001 | 1146514420408832001 |
| Some mysteries might never be solved. | 2019-07-03 | 75 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1146514125339557888 | 1146514125339557888 |
| A plan to end homelessness! | 2019-07-03 | 123 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1146512532229652480 | 1146512532229652480 |
| Ever wonder where batteries come from? | 2019-07-02 | 77 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1145871767572897792 | 1145871767572897792 |
| The Senate is more important than the White House. | 2019-07-02 | 178 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1145862549335728128 | 1145862549335728128 |
| Beware of trips to Mongolia. | 2019-07-02 | 191 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1145860344096514049 | 1145860344096514049 |
| A deal might be possible. | 2019-07-01 | 204 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1145840318186577921 | 1145840318186577921 |
| Competitive authoritarianism. | 2019-07-01 | 83 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1145838526849662976 | 1145838526849662976 |
| Some mysteries might never be solved. | 2019-07-01 | 84 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1145537726906658818 | 1145537726906658818 |
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========== An interesting claim. https://www.foxnews.com/media/jeff-flake-35-gop-senators-impeach-trump What is certain is that IF Republican senators turn against Trump, it will be 3 or 4 one day and 30 or 40 the next. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/09/27/seven-important-awful-signs-trump/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trumps-fate-is-in-the-hands-of-fox-news/2019/09/27/05587756-e144-11e9-8dc8-498eabc129a0_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-best-antidote-for-a-bad-election-is-a-better-election/2019/09/27/3c2105e2-e080-11e9-8dc8-498eabc129a0_story.html More at https://t.co/VjB0qcRRKB #PS1notopic ===== engage 2 engage-rate 1% expands 2 impress 369 time 2019-09-28 13:19 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1177935899784441858 ========== False equivalence https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/09/patient-zero-of-the-next-false-equivalence-epidemic/598573/ More at https://t.co/FVzuRuG4mu #PS1notopic ===== impress 70 time 2019-09-28 13:15 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1177934982737612805 ========== A free press is worth fighting for. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/23/opinion/press-freedom-arthur-sulzberger.html Trump's war on objective reality is his highest crime and misdemeanor. More at https://t.co/jFyusQ5Sza #PS1notopic ===== impress 147 time 2019-09-28 13:14 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1177934663311974400 ========== Remember Frank Wills? He brought down Nixon. An intelligence analyst may do the same for Trump. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/whistleblower-painstakingly-gathered-material-and-almost-single-handedly-set-impeachment-in-motion/2019/09/26/bec9608c-e06e-11e9-be96-6adb81821e90_story.html If everything the Trump administration did was legal, why did they try so hard to hide it? https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/effort-to-shield-trumps-call-with-ukrainian-leader-was-part-of-broader-secrecy-effort/2019/09/26/dc3a482c-e076-11e9-be96-6adb81821e90_story.html More at https://t.co/C3X26G1rWI #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% expands 1 impress 166 time 2019-09-27 13:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1177570879317794817 ========== How do you get people to vote against their own interests? By keeping them anxious and fearful. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/25/opinion/trump-economy.html More at https://t.co/EtgTyJ6o1h #PS1notopic ===== impress 72 time 2019-09-27 03:21 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1177422939802632192 ========== Giuliani ? Say no more, squire, say no more! https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/giuliani-pursued-shadow-ukraine-agenda-as-key-foreign-policy-officials-were-sidelined/2019/09/24/ee18aaec-deec-11e9-be96-6adb81821e90_story.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/25/opinion/giuliani-trump-ukraine.html More at https://t.co/pvSJDSwmvG #PS1notopic ===== impress 180 time 2019-09-27 03:19 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1177422575858700288 ========== The media overlooked Trump's UN speech today. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-touts-nationalistic-view-of-foreign-affairs-at-un/2019/09/24/e4a8486a-ded2-11e9-8fd3-d943b4ed57e0_story.html It's the attitudes of the original America Firsters until Pearl Harbor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Lindbergh Amazing how Lindbergh sounded just like Trump. https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2019/09/25/new-un-climate-report-massive-change-already-here-worlds-oceans-frozen-regions/ More at https://t.co/UZACbtS87L #PS1notopic ===== impress 111 time 2019-09-27 03:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1177422094197354497 ========== False equivalence https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/09/patient-zero-of-the-next-false-equivalence-epidemic/598573/ More at https://t.co/FVzuRuG4mu #PS1notopic ===== impress 66 time 2019-09-27 03:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1177420950658146304 ========== A free press is worth fighting for. https://www.nytimes.com/!D/press-freedom-arthur-sulzberger.h!D Trump's war on objective reality is his highest crime and misdemeanor, and is treason on a higher level than the founding fathers could have imagined. More at https://t.co/jFyusQ5Sza #PS1notopic ===== impress 102 time 2019-09-27 03:12 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1177420615902384129 ========== The Republican quandary. Republican politicians will NOT go down with the ship. But if the economy sinks, the sinking Trumpist ship will take a lot of Republicans with it. The Republicans could impeach Trump now. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-has-done-plenty-to-warrant-impeachment-but-the-ukraine-allegations-are-over-the-top/2019/09/20/51eff90c-dbf1-11e9-bfb1-849887369476_story.html More at https://t.co/qsktIJQeQp #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% expands 1 impress 113 time 2019-09-23 04:12 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1175986217835302912 ========== A genuine intellectual with a genuine common touch. Military service does broaden an intellectual's horizons. Polite and even-tempered, too. https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2019/09/18/posts-theater-critic-is-reviewing-performances-democratic-candidates-this-installment-pete-buttigieg-barnstorms-new-hampshire-with-homespun-virtues-reminiscent-our-town/ More at https://t.co/mMIVYfCDb7 #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% expands 1 impress 139 time 2019-09-23 04:04 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1175984268188606465 ========== Medicare for all who want it. Sounds like a good start. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/09/19/pete-buttigieg-heres-better-way-do-medicare-for-all The big issue for all candidates - all your big ideas require progress against the rural bias. https://www.reduce-rural-bias.net/ More at https://t.co/X2QwHyOlA7 #PS1notopic ===== engage 18 engage-rate 6% expands 2 impress 310 likes 4 retweets 1 time 2019-09-23 04:03 +0000 urlclicks 9 userclicks 2 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1175983970825060352 ========== 70 is too old!! After eight years in office, a president inaugurated at 70 is as worn out as an 86 year old. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/i-hope-theres-an-age-limit-jimmy-carter-questions-whether-he-could-have-handled-the-presidency-at-80/2019/09/18/3af87eca-d9ff-11e9-bfb1-849887369476_story.html Fortunately there are plenty of younger possibilities. More at https://t.co/ZhIWS99x0b #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% expands 1 impress 98 time 2019-09-23 04:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1175983154336686080 ========== Resetting the balance of power. Maybe anonymous Wall Street bureaucrats are not the most reliable defenders of workers. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/17/opinion/uaw-gm-strike.html More at https://t.co/WrcFWztvN2 #PS1notopic ===== impress 100 time 2019-09-23 03:57 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1175982536868036609 ========== Yemen = Afghanistan + Iraq + Vietnam? Persians and Arabs have been contending for supremacy since before the Hebrew scriptures were written down. It's an ethnic battle plus a political battle plus a religious battle. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/15/world/middleeast/iran-us-saudi-arabia-attack.html More at https://t.co/EzN85C2gAR #PS1notopic ===== impress 153 time 2019-09-18 13:31 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1174315058735640577 ========== The business cycle is ultimately a phenomenon of mass psychology. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/12/business/recession-fear-talk.html That's why it's so hard to predict and control. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#cycle Confused about negative interest rates? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/should-we-love-or-hate-negative-interest-rates/2019/09/15/70536a50-d64c-11e9-9343-40db57cf6abd_story.html More at https://t.co/oglcPqp0tx #PS1notopic ===== engage 2 engage-rate 1% expands 1 impress 180 retweets 1 time 2019-09-18 13:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1174314414792527873 ========== The death of fiscal democracy. It's immoral to make future generations pay for current consumption. https://beta.washingtonpost.com/outlook/congress-is-supposed-to-decide-how-the-us-spends-money-soon-it-wont-be-able-to/2019/09/12/3a7f77f8-d411-11e9-9343-40db57cf6abd_story.html Everybody knows what to do https://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#bipartisanship https://www.one-flat-tax.net/ More at https://t.co/bHAFNybT31 #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% expands 1 impress 94 time 2019-09-18 13:26 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1174313812557627393 ========== The president should make only those decisions that nobody else can. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/09/13/trump-is-most-aggressive-micromanager-history-oval-office/ But Trump was only CEO of one public corporation, which failed disastrously. https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2017/02/21/trump-wasnt-a-real-ceo-no-wonder-his-white-house-is-disorganized/ More at https://t.co/ElI1onoQsQ #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% expands 1 impress 95 time 2019-09-18 13:24 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1174313308003819521 ========== McCarthy said if Republicans retake the House, the first thing we would do is make sure our debt is taken care of. He means Medicare and Social Security. https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2019-09-06/hiltzik-republican-ernst-gutting-social-security The real threat is a recession. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/12/opinion/trump-economy.html More at https://t.co/Q4hiXXEDdy #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% expands 1 impress 118 time 2019-09-18 13:21 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1174312527242526720 ========== Ranked choice voting experiment - Warren wins. https://www.fairvote.org/fairvote_yougov_ranked_choice_poll_throws_floodlight_on_better_ways_to_gauge_democratic_voter_preferences_in_crowded_presidential_field More at https://t.co/fBAm2lNKJK #PS1notopic ===== impress 104 time 2019-09-18 13:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1174311244955652097 ========== It IS the Trumpist party now. https://beta.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/09/11/trumps-war-truth-just-got-lot-more-cult-like/ At least until the next recession. More at https://t.co/dVQdUzIqM6 #PS1notopic ===== impress 99 time 2019-09-12 15:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1172169911365357571 ========== Foreign policy goal #1 - re-elect Trump. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/10/us/politics/bolton-firing.html Who's willing to sign on for that job? More at https://t.co/X8een8Aseh #PS1notopic ===== impress 95 time 2019-09-12 15:26 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1172169623531163648 ========== What do you do when even your cheerleaders lose heart? https://beta.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/09/10/trumps-taliban-invite-is-one-most-shameful-moments-his-presidency/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/09/10/republicans-are-canceling-primaries-is-trump-afraid-something/ Can it really be true that time is on the side of the Democrats? https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/10/opinion/republicans-democrats-2020-election.html More at https://t.co/zEoyj6hBEx #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% expands 1 impress 126 time 2019-09-12 15:24 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1172169227257561089 ========== How a politicized Supreme Court undoes constitutional protections. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/07/opinion/sunday/reconstruction-trump.html More at https://t.co/np73VPQeX5 #PS1notopic ===== impress 95 time 2019-09-12 15:23 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1172168833718616065 ========== Who owns the courts? https://beta.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-supreme-court-has-become-just-another-arm-of-the-gop/2019/09/06/8ad36642-d0e2-11e9-87fa-8501a456c003_story.html More at https://t.co/YBfGBMdbhE #PS1notopic ===== impress 84 time 2019-09-12 15:21 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1172168360634679296 ========== How a politicized Supreme Court undoes constitutional protections. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/07/opinion/sunday/reconstruction-trump.html More at https://t.co/np73VPQeX5 #PS1notopic ===== impress 98 time 2019-09-09 15:24 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1171081941363245056 ========== Power to the people becomes power against the people. Initiatives were intended to return power to the people from a legislature bought by special interests. https://www.apnews.com/0ac87eaf24804ee98f88760cec11dd39 But now, complicated initiatives are used against the people. More at https://t.co/zFxdEFvx7B #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% expands 1 impress 97 time 2019-09-09 15:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1171081328206344198 ========== In a tossup between a Trumpist and a Democrat, voting for neither, or not at all, is irresponsible. https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/07/california-repubilcans-2020-reboot-1484589 "The Trumps will be a dynasty that lasts for decades" Brad Parscale Is that what you want? More at https://t.co/m7pJcL4tnW or https://t.co/Aj46lt3CG4 #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 0% expands 1 impress 206 time 2019-09-08 05:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1170571252097900544 ========== Turnout will decide Tuesday's election in NC-09. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-north-carolina/north-carolina-congressional-do-over-watched-for-clues-to-2020-idUSKCN1VJ2BL Every vote counts the same. Staying home is a vote too. In 2016, 78,000 stay-at-homes elected Trump and regretted it - https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/some-pennsylvania-democrats-regret-not-voting-in-2016-they-say-theyll-be-sure-to-cast-a-ballot-in-2020/2019/08/23/e2d4f4c0-a1b0-11e9-b732-41a79c2551bf_story.html More at https://t.co/xpZjf1WFqd #PS1notopic ===== engage 5 engage-rate 3% expands 1 impress 168 retweets 1 time 2019-09-06 20:24 +0000 urlclicks 3 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1170070187724304389 ========== Take the money and run! https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/05/opinion/trump-economy.html Get with the program! More at https://t.co/9mpZIyJg61 #PS1notopic ===== impress 94 time 2019-09-06 20:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1170067558763921408 ========== Power to the people becomes power against the people. Initiative was a progressive reform to return power to the people. https://www.apnews.com/0ac87eaf24804ee98f88760cec11dd39 But now special interests use initiatives to thwart the people. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/trump.html#no More at https://t.co/zFxdEFvx7B #PS1notopic ===== impress 116 time 2019-09-06 00:19 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1169766947967234048 ========== Dangerous times. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/04/magazine/iran-strike-israel-america.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/04/opinion/china-taiwan-war.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/05/world/asia/afghanistan-taliban-deal-ashraf-ghani.html https://beta.washingtonpost.com/world/at-a-sprawling-tent-camp-in-syria-isis-women-impose-a-brutal-rule/2019/09/03/3fcdfd14-c4ea-11e9-8bf7-cde2d9e09055_story.html https://beta.washingtonpost.com/world/africa/if-i-dont-pay-they-kill-me-al-shabab-tightens-its-grip-on-somalia-with-growing-tax-racket/2019/08/30/81472b38-beac-11e9-a8b0-7ed8a0d5dc5d_story.html Politicians play games. Soldiers and civilians die. More at https://t.co/3L3sESgwg4 #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 0% expands 1 impress 221 time 2019-09-06 00:14 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1169765673536327680 ========== The chaos seekers. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/04/opinion/trump-voters-chaos.html More at https://t.co/43nC6ADAxT #PS1notopic ===== impress 91 time 2019-09-06 00:12 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1169765285265473536 ========== How tax reform works. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/02/opinion/trump-tax-opportunity-zones.html The more complicated the tax law, the more places for cockroaches and other bugs to hide in the dark. https://www.one-flat-tax.net/ More at https://t.co/Q8953VQoiv #PS1notopic ===== impress 109 time 2019-09-06 00:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1169764958122364928 ========== A pillar of minority rule. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/30/opinion/electoral-college.html More - https://equalvotes.us/ https://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#electoral More at https://t.co/7BW2Sj8UmK #PS1notopic ===== impress 75 time 2019-09-06 00:10 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1169764701061824512 ========== The chaos seekers. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/04/opinion/trump-voters-chaos.html More at https://t.co/43nC6ADAxT #PS1notopic ===== impress 84 time 2019-09-04 23:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1169395841880088576 ========== How tax reform works. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/02/opinion/trump-tax-opportunity-zones.html The more complicated the tax law, the more places for cockroaches and other bugs to hide in the dark. https://www.one-flat-tax.net/ More at https://t.co/Q8953VQoiv #PS1notopic ===== impress 128 time 2019-09-04 23:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1169395410986602496 ========== A pillar of minority rule. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/30/opinion/electoral-college.html https://equalvotes.us/ https://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#electoral More at https://t.co/7BW2Sj8UmK #PS1notopic ===== impress 85 time 2019-09-04 23:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1169395079967936512 ========== Defined-benefit pensions - define a benefit for now, and a liability for the future. https://beta.washingtonpost.com/opinions/chicago-kept-saying-it-would-pay-for-pensions-later-well-its-later/2019/08/30/473e4102-cb58-11e9-a4f3-c081a126de70_story.html Unlike the Feds, state and local government can't print money. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/controversial.html#defined More at https://t.co/PtaK0biSiw #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% expands 1 impress 129 time 2019-09-04 23:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1169394681907572738 ========== Just a few states are going to matter. https://beta.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-2020-electoral-map-could-be-the-smallest-in-years-heres-why/2019/08/31/61d4bc9a-c9a9-11e9-a1fe-ca46e8d573c0_story.html That's just the way the Electoral College works. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#electoral But a recession by election time - then Trump will surely lose. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/01/world/asia/trump-trade-war-china.html More at https://t.co/ykEl6Ckggw #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% expands 1 impress 148 time 2019-09-04 23:38 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1169394268860903424 ========== Opportunity zones for billionaires. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/31/business/tax-opportunity-zones.html More return on investment for Trump donors. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/31/business/the-trump-associates-benefiting-from-a-tax-break-for-poor-communities.html More at https://t.co/fKA2kY0yKA #PS1notopic ===== impress 115 time 2019-09-04 23:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1169393541128130562 ========== It's very difficult to pull off without creating a whole bunch of tax shelters and inefficiencies. But that's the whole idea! https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/08/30/white-house-still-considering-tax-cut-bypassing-congress-trump-appeared-rule-out-last-week/ Trump acknowledged that a tax cut on capital gains benefits his donors, not his voters. More at https://t.co/YHGB71o5UY #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% expands 1 impress 122 time 2019-09-04 23:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1169393008967421953 ========== A different kind of polling. Not particularly suited to reality-TV. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/29/opinion/democratic-debate-2020-election.html More at https://t.co/A8PbSSOhZa #PS1notopic ===== impress 453 time 2019-09-04 23:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1169392217221287936 ========== A recipe for a trade truce. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/27/opinion/trump-china.html Unfortunately it requires Trump to avoid announcing victory or indeed saying anything explicitly undermining Xi. But Trump has to run for president next year, and Xi doesn't. More at https://t.co/EIu6z9GOX1 #PS1notopic ===== impress 3372 time 2019-09-04 23:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1169391939268923392 ========== A different kind of polling. Not particularly suited to reality-TV. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/29/opinion/democratic-debate-2020-election.html More at https://t.co/A8PbSSOhZa #PS1notopic ===== impress 546 time 2019-08-29 21:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1167180300599709696 ========== About the Electoral College Against: https://t.co/LZleQBTQhU For: https://t.co/ERLqfmnBHt But the Electoral College system we have is a state-by-state choice for winner-take-all that is not mandated by the Constitution or any Federal law. More at https://t.co/Q1rLLijKqN #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% expands 1 impress 110 time 2019-08-29 20:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1167179981400657920 ========== A recipe for a trade truce. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/27/opinion/trump-china.html But Trump has to run for president next year, and Xi doesn't. Ti-i-ime is on Xi's side, yes it is! More at https://t.co/EIu6z9GOX1 #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% expands 1 impress 125 time 2019-08-29 20:57 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1167179364867297280 ========== Fox News isn't good enough any more! https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/fox-isnt-working-for-us-anymore-tweets-trump-in-another-blast-at-the-network/2019/08/28/51cce8a4-c9d1-11e9-a1fe-ca46e8d573c0_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-accuses-fox-news-of-heavily-promoting-democrats-urges-followers-to-look-for-another-news-outlet/2019/08/28/1adec124-c99e-11e9-be05-f76ac4ec618c_story.html What's the new source of truth going to be? Breitbart? Infowars? Why not just call it Pravda? Or is it - https://www.oann.com/ More at https://t.co/8Cs1NeE2Yz #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% expands 1 impress 95 time 2019-08-29 20:54 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1167178790138605568 ========== "A republic not a democracy." What does that mean? https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/27/opinion/aoc-crenshaw-republicans-democracy.html Turns out it's code for Republican minority rule. https://www.reduce-rural-bias.net/ More at https://t.co/ahdNYGQC3w #PS1notopic ===== impress 87 time 2019-08-29 20:52 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1167178117758111744 ========== Local government has to lead the way when other levels fail. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/san-jose-mayor-why-im-requiring-my-residents-to-insure-guns/2019/08/26/e1187d20-c80f-11e9-be05-f76ac4ec618c_story.html More at https://t.co/KlpG6HMK10 #PS1notopic ===== impress 93 time 2019-08-29 20:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1167177672683687936 ========== Staying home is a vote too. In 2016, 78,000 stay-at-homes elected Trump. Not all of them are happy with the result. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/some-pennsylvania-democrats-regret-not-voting-in-2016-they-say-theyll-be-sure-to-cast-a-ballot-in-2020/2019/08/23/e2d4f4c0-a1b0-11e9-b732-41a79c2551bf_story.html More at https://t.co/QJcENNEP7g #PS1notopic ===== engage 2 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 110 likes 1 time 2019-08-25 22:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1165757141614911489 ========== Thank goodness we have Xi and Putin to protect us from Powell! https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1164914610836783104 Does the Constitution mention executive order by tweet? "American companies are hereby ordered to immediately start looking for an alternative to China" More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/929552374055949 ===== impress 133 time 2019-08-25 22:43 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1165756607839387648 ========== Doing something about the Electoral College. On to the Supreme Court! https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/22/us/politics/electoral-college-faithless-elector.html Do Electors have free will or not? https://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/rnc-trump-electoral-college-232537 Where you can help - https://equalcitizens.us/ More at https://t.co/sj3X5FfpvU #PS1notopic ===== impress 118 time 2019-08-25 22:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1165755803682267137 ========== The second coming of God! https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-quotes-conspiracy-theorist-claiming-israelis-love-him-like-he-is-the-second-coming-of-god/2019/08/21/603cea14-c405-11e9-9986-1fb3e4397be4_story.html https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/21/trumps-trade-war-the-chosen-one-1674796 More at https://t.co/TE00tNAmn5 #PS1notopic ===== impress 100 time 2019-08-25 22:38 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1165755236759195649 ========== Republicans can count on Democrats! If recession damage becomes apparent before the election, the Democrats should do all they can to make sure they are running against Trump. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-critics-eye-gop-primary-race-even-if-defeating-him-seems-preposterous/2019/08/20/4382f3dc-c360-11e9-b72f-b31dfaa77212_story.html More at https://t.co/s8j2JqpBkg #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% expands 1 impress 112 time 2019-08-25 22:36 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1165754945473110017 ========== What does it mean when the traffic light shows red, yellow, and green all at the same time? https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/21/upshot/trumps-economic-message-conflicted.html Just look at the evidence! https://beta.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/08/20/trump-admits-his-trade-war-could-lead-recession-says-i-have-do-it/ https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/19/business/trump-economy.html https://beta.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/white-house-officials-eyeing-payroll-tax-cut-in-effort-to-reverse-weakening-economy/2019/08/19/4cab28ec-c2bd-11e9-b72f-b31dfaa77212_story.html More at https://t.co/pht5pwRXFV #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 0% expands 1 impress 1081 time 2019-08-22 00:23 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1164332303067185152 ========== The second coming of God! https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-quotes-conspiracy-theorist-claiming-israelis-love-him-like-he-is-the-second-coming-of-god/2019/08/21/603cea14-c405-11e9-9986-1fb3e4397be4_story.html Just look at the evidence! https://beta.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-questions-sincerity-of-tlaibs-tears-as-she-talked-about-her-grandmother/2019/08/20/03d7b532-c339-11e9-b72f-b31dfaa77212_story.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/20/opinion/israel-palestinian-peace-plan.html More at https://t.co/TE00tNAmn5 #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% expands 1 impress 187 time 2019-08-22 00:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1164331950326218757 ========== Republicans can count on Democrats! Democrats should do all they can to make sure they are running against Trump and his recession. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-critics-eye-gop-primary-race-even-if-defeating-him-seems-preposterous/2019/08/20/4382f3dc-c360-11e9-b72f-b31dfaa77212_story.html It's all up to - Chairman Xi. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/xis-choice-destroy-trump-or-save-him-and-weaken-america/2019/08/20/c6e6f934-c384-11e9-9986-1fb3e4397be4_story.html More at https://t.co/s8j2JqpBkg #PS1notopic ===== engage 2 engage-rate 0% expands 2 impress 3972 time 2019-08-22 00:20 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1164331560008503296 ========== Trump is right about one thing - psychiatric hospitals were closed. https://beta.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-says-the-us-should-build-more-psychiatric-institutions-in-response-to-rising-gun-violence/2019/08/15/bb9b24e8-bfa5-11e9-9b73-fd3c65ef8f9c_story.html But that has nothing to do with mass shootings. https://beta.washingtonpost.com/health/after-trump-blames-mental-illness-for-mass-shootings-health-agencies-ordered-to-hold-all-posts-on-issue/2019/08/20/c4030e4c-c370-11e9-b5e4-54aa56d5b7ce_story.html All government PR about guns goes through NRA now. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-tells-nra-chief-that-universal-background-checks-are-off-the-table/2019/08/20/deae5b5a-c39a-11e9-9986-1fb3e4397be4_story.html More at https://t.co/kDGTbqMQNC #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% expands 1 impress 120 time 2019-08-22 00:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1164330752990781440 ========== Reaction and revisionism - longing for a golden age that never was. It's an ancient, and global, phenomenon. But who knows unreality better than a reality-TV star? https://beta.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/08/20/project-far-right-fear-history/ More at https://t.co/ur617SfQRN #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% expands 1 impress 102 time 2019-08-22 00:10 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1164328972135456768 ========== Emperor of immigration. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/17/us/politics/stephen-miller-immigration-trump.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/politics/stephen-miller-trump-immigration/ More at https://t.co/vABPWBoq4J #PS1notopic ===== impress 89 time 2019-08-22 00:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1164328496585252865 ========== Emperor of immigration. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/17/us/politics/stephen-miller-immigration-trump.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/politics/stephen-miller-trump-immigration/ More at https://t.co/vABPWBoq4J #PS1notopic ===== impress 118 time 2019-08-18 20:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1163193068654252034 ========== Observations on taxation. https://itep.org/one-tax-system-for-most-americans-and-a-second-system-for-the-wealthiest/ https://itep.org/taxing-offshore-profits-and-domestic-profits-equally-could-curb-corporate-tax-dodging/ https://itep.org/irs-salt-workaround-regulations-should-be-strengthened-not-rejected/ https://itep.org/the-mortgage-interest-deduction-is-a-house-of-cards/ There is virtue in simplicity. https://www.one-flat-tax.net/ More at https://t.co/YFvljEKTIQ #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 0% expands 1 impress 1229 time 2019-08-18 20:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1163192796116742144 ========== America's future without immigrants. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/this-will-be-catastrophic-maine-families-face-elder-boom-worker-shortage-in-preview-of-nations-future/2019/08/14/7cecafc6-bec1-11e9-b873-63ace636af08_story.html https://www.liberty-and-justice.net/ The coming recession will help defer the problem for a while. It'll be back. More at https://t.co/wejp45aCpn #PS1notopic ===== engage 2 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 128 likes 1 time 2019-08-15 13:43 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1161996802066808832 ========== A tea partier talks about challenging Trump from the right. Perhaps there are others that agree. Perhaps one day many will agree publicly. Especially if the recession becomes palpable before the election. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/14/opinion/joe-walsh-trump-primary.html More at https://t.co/eRCJm82ZvV #PS1notopic ===== impress 147 time 2019-08-15 13:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1161996417360990208 ========== Income inequality depends on impotent labor. https://www.apnews.com/6c9263d76e9e477da15abaec2045f6c9 More for the well-connected at the top, less for the unorganized masses below. https://www.epi.org/publication/ceo-compensation-2018/ More at https://t.co/Sxt8HC6cHv #PS1notopic ===== impress 99 time 2019-08-15 13:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1161995907555966979 ========== An attempt to explain evangelical support for Trump. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/08/14/evangelicals-view-trump-their-protector-will-they-stand-by-him/ In a way, they are right - the apocalypse is coming, but probably not in the form they expect. https://www.liberty-and-justice.net/ More at https://t.co/dEgC8nWYw9 #PS1notopic ===== engage 3 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 132 time 2019-08-15 13:38 +0000 urlclicks 2 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1161995615053598720 ========== Single-issue voters are a pillar of Republican minority rule. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-08-08/single-issue-voters-have-doomed-gun-control-in-congress-that-could-be-changing Republican politicians might prefer fewer military weapons among citizens. But they can't survive without the votes and money of the gun enthusiasts. More at https://t.co/TeRPmzEyiD #PS1notopic ===== impress 105 time 2019-08-15 13:36 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1161995111057645568 ========== Who has an interest in a poisonous atmosphere? https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/11/opinion/jeffrey-epstein-suicide-conspiracies.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/08/11/dangerous-cycle-that-keeps-conspiracy-theories-news-trumps-tweets/ https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/11/business/media/el-paso-killer-conservative-media.html Americans who promote poisonous divisiveness might do so to increase readership. Foreigners do so for geopolitical aims. More at https://t.co/WOxvsK6qfU #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% expands 1 impress 104 time 2019-08-15 13:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1161994068018077697 ========== When's the impeachment vote? https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/us/elections/2020-presidential-election-calendar.html The last big primary day is April 28. The Democratic convention is July 13. The Republican convention is August 24. So have the impeachment vote in the House in May-June. More at https://t.co/1wDbrCCVIb #PS1notopic ===== impress 93 time 2019-08-15 13:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1161993242126123008 ========== Who has an interest in a poisonous atmosphere? https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/11/opinion/jeffrey-epstein-suicide-conspiracies.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/08/11/dangerous-cycle-that-keeps-conspiracy-theories-news-trumps-tweets/ https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/11/business/media/el-paso-killer-conservative-media.html More at https://t.co/WOxvsK6qfU #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% expands 1 impress 122 time 2019-08-12 12:54 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1160897253776560130 ========== How the Nationalist International works. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/10/world/europe/sweden-immigration-nationalism.html Its spiritual predecessors were the Comintern and the Cominform. So perhaps this should be called the Natintern. More at https://t.co/5jiwg40TA6 #PS1notopic ===== impress 91 time 2019-08-12 12:52 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1160896932815855616 ========== Calendar of coming attractions - when's the impeachment vote? https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/us/elections/2020-presidential-election-calendar.html The last big primary day is April 28; Democratic convention - July 13; Republican convention - August 24. So vote on impeachment in June. More at https://t.co/1wDbrCCVIb #PS1notopic ===== impress 97 time 2019-08-12 12:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1160896434490601472 ========== Life at Conception Act. Has anybody heard of this? Sen Rand Paul is sending out petitions and fundraising appeals to everybody who's ever mentioned his name, it seems. https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/michael-w-chapman/sen-paul-reintroduces-life-conception-act-and-bill-end-funding More at https://t.co/JeGK1sZ35L #PS1notopic ===== impress 87 time 2019-08-12 12:46 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1160895420333092864 ========== "There is concern with the unknown and what the next tweet is going to be and what that could mean" "There is so much hope that President Trump would just talk about the economy for three days straight" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/theyre-afraid-suburban-voters-in-red-states-threaten-gops-grip-on-power/2019/08/08/86b12410-b868-11e9-bad6-609f75bfd97f_story.html More at https://t.co/Pa0i6zfo5D #PS1notopic ===== impress 90 time 2019-08-12 12:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1160894963334303746 ========== Where are the governors? Finding new ways to make progress together. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/sidelined-on-the-national-stage-us-governors-are-frustrated-with-washington/2019/08/03/ff751dc6-b2db-11e9-951e-de024209545d_story.html Governors, who have to do something, are better bets for President than Senators, who never have to do more than talk. More at https://t.co/Qasez3LXai #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% expands 1 impress 78 time 2019-08-12 12:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1160893783539453953 ========== Where are the governors? Finding new ways to make progress together. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/sidelined-on-the-national-stage-us-governors-are-frustrated-with-washington/2019/08/03/ff751dc6-b2db-11e9-951e-de024209545d_story.html Governors, who have to do something, are better bets for President than Senators, who never have to do more than talk. More at https://t.co/Qasez3LXai #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% expands 1 impress 82 time 2019-08-09 15:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1159841769573384197 ========== NRA and Republican senators take a break from worrying about themselves - https://www.huffpost.com/entry/nra-mansion-reports-wayne-lapierre_n_5d4adddee4b01e44e4739aeb and rush to assure a worried nation - that nothing is going to change - https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-openness-to-extensive-background-checks-for-gun-buys-draws-warning-from-nra/2019/08/07/a5f82060-b92d-11e9-a091-6a96e67d9cce_story.html But enough is enough! https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/08/07/have-we-arrived-an-inflection-point-gun-debate/ More at https://t.co/di7ePPtUDw #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% expands 1 impress 103 time 2019-08-09 14:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1159841426135375872 ========== What white supremacy? https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/08/07/tucker-carlson-white-supremacy-hoax-lie-not-real-problem/ Taking Trumpism to the next level! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/07/22/what-comes-after-trump-may-be-even-worse/ Perhaps he's hoping the Republicans will draft him for 2020. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/04/05/tucker-carlson-floats-theory-what-if-trump-is-secretly-trying-sink-his-own-reelection-bid/ More at https://t.co/qKfVffxNUQ #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% expands 1 impress 80 time 2019-08-09 14:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1159840929408094211 ========== Tariffs? It's really world power. Trump is driving away all our traditional allies. Xi is trying to buy new friends around the world. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/06/opinion/trump-china-trade.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/08/opinion/trump-china-trade.html More at https://t.co/ofj75D389Q #PS1notopic ===== impress 98 time 2019-08-09 14:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1159840593813487616 ========== THIS is an emergency - why wait for Mitch? https://www.huffpost.com/entry/shooting-mitch-mcconell-guns-senate_n_5d470e3ae4b0ca604e33b6b9 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/05/us/politics/mitch-mcconnell-guns.html McConnell might not recover until some new crisis distracts attention from this one. Why can't the President of the Senate reconvene it - Mike Pence? More at https://t.co/cwYhRVH2KK #PS1notopic ===== impress 138 time 2019-08-06 14:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1158742911107751936 ========== No more thoughts and prayers - we need action. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/04/us/politics/gun-control-laws-mass-shootings.html The Senate is the problem, and there won't be any action without fixing that problem. https://www.dscc.org/ More at https://t.co/sYh7gGLPie #PS1notopic ===== impress 74 time 2019-08-05 14:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1158377153592844290 ========== Preserve the rights of the majority. Reduce the Rural Bias in American Federalism. https://www.reduce-rural-bias.net/ https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/916844578660062 #PS1notopic ===== impress 91 time 2019-08-05 01:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1158194948400803840 ========== Mulvaney's got the answer! - "Crazy people like this should not have been able to get guns" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/mulvaney-defends-trump-in-wake-of-el-paso-dayton-shootings/2019/08/04/f62af682-b6b9-11e9-bad6-609f75bfd97f_story.html OK, next question: WHO decides who's "crazy" and WHEN? Hint: the answer has to be acceptable to Trump's base. More at https://t.co/ZwLyCmps72 #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% expands 1 impress 145 time 2019-08-04 19:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1158093124029173760 ========== Here's a Democratic cause - organize labor! https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/03/opinion/sunday/labor-unions.html There needs to be an equitable balance of power between labor and capital. More at https://t.co/TiOOshWEC0 #PS1notopic ===== impress 95 time 2019-08-04 19:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1158092379678629888 ========== Fiftieth college reunion - Who are the lucky winners? Those that went first before they could accomplish anything great? Or those that lasted to the end? The end might not be so bad - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKxHQk2I6h0 More at https://t.co/WicgJbvRZo #PS1notopic ===== impress 91 time 2019-08-04 19:06 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1158091886130655232 ========== When national socialism comes to America, it will be called Americanism! https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/02/opinion/national-conservatives-republicans-trump.html The national socialists always carry an American flag. And often a Confederate flag, and stranger banners. More at https://t.co/0aUPrIf8Vz #PS1notopic ===== impress 87 time 2019-08-04 18:54 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1158088962776264704 ========== Which proposals are popular? - Requiring background checks for gun purchases And which aren't? - A guaranteed universal basic income of $1,000 per month https://www.npr.org/2019/07/22/743516166/npr-newshour-marist-poll-americans-not-sold-on-trump-or-democrats What's essential to achieving these? https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/7/30/20748078/pete-buttigieg-democratic-debate-cnn More at https://t.co/o37OKPSO8y #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% expands 1 impress 103 time 2019-08-04 18:52 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1158088452631490560 ========== The circular firing squad accomplishes Trump's mission. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/01/opinion/democratic-debate-2020-trump-republicans.html Don't expect anything better until the broadcast media embrace substance rather than theatre. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/cnn-democratic-debates-network-betting-live-events-a-touch-game-show-theatrics-1228089 More at https://t.co/Tg9qrpGlnc #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% expands 1 impress 91 time 2019-08-04 18:46 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1158086920116658177 ========== Which proposals have wide support? -- Background checks for gun purchases (89%) And which don't? -- A guaranteed basic income of $1,000 per month (26%) https://www.npr.org/2019/07/22/743516166/npr-newshour-marist-poll-americans-not-sold-on-trump-or-democrats What reform enables all the rest? https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/7/30/20748078/pete-buttigieg-democratic-debate-cnn More at https://t.co/o37OKPSO8y #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% impress 97 time 2019-08-02 15:38 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1157314730421178369 ========== The circular firing squad accomplishes Trump's mission. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/01/opinion/democratic-debate-2020-trump-republicans.html No surprise when the broadcast media pick a format that emphasizes issues and consequences rather than reality-tv conflict entertainment. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/cnn-democratic-debates-network-betting-live-events-a-touch-game-show-theatrics-1228089 More at https://t.co/Tg9qrpGlnc #PS1notopic ===== impress 91 time 2019-08-02 15:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1157312487991021568 ========== Sore loser laws are a bigger problem than primaries. https://ballotpedia.org/Sore_loser_laws_in_the_50_states First and second choices are easy to understand. https://www.fairvote.org/voter_choice What enables Democratic success? https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/7/30/20748078/pete-buttigieg-democratic-debate-cnn More at https://t.co/gxANGjf8OC #PS1notopic ===== impress 91 time 2019-08-02 15:26 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1157311629505130496 ========== It's not enough to have a vision. It's not enough to have a plan. It's not enough to control the White House. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/07/31/marianne-williamson-wont-be-president-her-competitors-should-take-note/ What's the plan to protect the right of the majority by overcoming Republican minority rule? More at https://t.co/TgAKMvzYq5 #PS1notopic ===== engage 2 engage-rate 1% expands 2 impress 157 time 2019-07-31 13:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1156563999170818049 ========== Impeachment hearings have begun. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/29/opinion/trump-impeachment.html But a vote on impeachment might best wait until about a month before the Republican convention. https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/913156045695582 #PS1notopic ===== impress 92 time 2019-07-30 20:36 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1156302515421376513 ========== If a recession is palpable to voters in 2020, more Democrats will be elected than if the recovery seems to be continuing. That's why Trump's so anxious. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/28/business/economy/economy-recession.html Every avalanche has a trigger. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#cycle More at https://t.co/nS42gpaogJ #PS1notopic ===== impress 97 time 2019-07-30 20:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1156302175842136064 ========== Who was Theodore Roosevelt? https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/27/sunday-review/josh-hawley-roosevelt.html A reformer, a nativist, an imperialist, a trustbuster, a conservative and a progressive. More at https://t.co/v1J9WFFpV1 #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% expands 1 impress 116 time 2019-07-29 01:24 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1155650299773587457 ========== Not bothering to hide any more. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-campaign-sees-political-advantage-in-a-divisive-appeal-to-working-class-white-voters/2019/07/26/39234f00-aef1-11e9-8e77-03b30bc29f64_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/maryland-slaps-back-at-trump-over-tweet-attacking-baltimore-and-congressman/2019/07/27/0528bf64-b090-11e9-8e77-03b30bc29f64_story.html For Trump, it's working wonders firing up his base. For Trump donors, it's working wonders keeping his base from looking at the real agenda. More at https://t.co/0Qb4tE7h7e #PS1notopic ===== engage 2 engage-rate 2% expands 2 impress 124 time 2019-07-29 01:23 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1155649981472104448 ========== There's big bucks in the ignorance industry! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/youre-probably-making-incorrect-assumptions-about-your-opposing-political-party/2019/07/26/9f888f0a-a995-11e9-86dd-d7f0e60391e9_story.html There's much more money to be made fanning resentment and prejudice than in dispassionate discussion of facts. Compare Fox and Friends vs NPR. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/07/26/sean-hannity-is-most-influential-tv-host/ More at https://t.co/kdgdzKJyk0 #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% expands 1 impress 128 time 2019-07-29 01:21 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1155649442327851008 ========== Preserving minority rule. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/07/25/mitch-mcconnell-is-right-secure-open-elections-would-elect-more-democrats/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/07/24/gops-questions-mueller-seemed-bizarre-unless-you-watch-fox-news/ Some of it's even constitutional - https://www.reduce-rural-bias.net/ More at https://t.co/LuFoxazF3o #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% expands 1 impress 97 time 2019-07-29 01:19 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1155649052622512128 ========== Who's actually proposing solutions to the problems of globalization? https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/25/opinion/elizabeth-warren-conservative-nationalists-global-finance.html Not the Trumpists - they never met a big bank whose dark money they wouldn't accept. https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/909779032699950 #PS1notopic ===== impress 104 time 2019-07-29 01:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1155648611566280710 ========== They did it before and they will do it again. With or without Trump's help. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/25/us/politics/russian-hack-of-elections-system-was-far-reaching-report-finds.html More at https://t.co/FVWISUW9Mr #PS1notopic ===== impress 79 time 2019-07-29 01:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1155648322482262016 ========== They did it before and they will do it again. With or without Trump's help. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/americans-wanted-to-see-the-mueller-movie-they-didnt-get-it/2019/07/24/4bf6773e-ae2d-11e9-a0c9-6d2d7818f3da_story.html https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/909337516077435 #PS1notopic ===== impress 73 time 2019-07-25 13:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1154384674942140417 ========== Who are the Democratic voters and what do they care about? Interesting answers here - https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/24/opinion/2020-progressive-candidates.html Are primary elections, small donors, and social media leading to Trump re-election? https://www.fairvote.org/ More at https://t.co/2sC2Ha2VUE #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% expands 1 impress 123 time 2019-07-25 13:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1154384233156108291 ========== How to win friends and influence nations. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/07/23/trumps-ignorance-was-full-display-his-meeting-with-imran-khan/ Anything the US says about Kashmir makes matters worse. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/i-just-dont-want-to-kill-10-million-people-trumps-comments-reverberate-in-afghanistan/2019/07/23/88e8d15e-ad0c-11e9-b071-94a3f4d59021_story.html https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/908279312849922 #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% expands 1 impress 102 time 2019-07-25 13:31 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1154383642933657600 ========== Not everybody sees foreign interference as a threat. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/07/22/people-privy-intelligence-are-convinced-another-electoral-attack-is-coming/ How about some novel channels for foreign interference - such as dark money to fund divisive ballot initiatives? https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/secret-donors-and-trump-allies-inside-the-operation-to-push-noncitizen-voting-laws-in-florida-and-other-states/2019/07/21/e0604e2e-a359-11e9-b8c8-75dae2607e60_story.html https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/907858789558641 #PS1notopic ===== engage 3 engage-rate 3% expands 1 impress 111 likes 1 retweets 1 time 2019-07-25 13:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1154383105345540096 ========== Stephen Miller doesn't even try to pretend. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/07/21/stephen-miller-lets-mask-slip/ https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/907121872965666 #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% impress 99 time 2019-07-25 13:23 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1154381638656122881 ========== Tucker Carlson and the rebirth of national socialism. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/07/22/what-comes-after-trump-may-be-even-worse/ They could even call it the National Socialist Donald Adherents Party - N S D A P. More at https://t.co/ONNigXBgwM #PS1notopic ===== engage 5 engage-rate 4% expands 1 impress 138 time 2019-07-22 21:29 +0000 urlclicks 4 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1153416825696210944 ========== Stephen Miller doesn't even try to pretend. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/07/21/stephen-miller-lets-mask-slip/ https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/907121872965666 #PS1notopic ===== impress 86 time 2019-07-22 21:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1153416363953623040 ========== Cognitive dissonance https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/the-psychological-phenomenon-that-blinds-trump-supporters-to-his-racism/2019/07/18/29789344-a8ac-11e9-ac16-90dd7e5716bc_story.html https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/906504723027381 #PS1notopic ===== impress 88 time 2019-07-21 19:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1153017262053269504 ========== John Tanton had a point - https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/this-is-the-legacy-of-john-tanton-will-it-survive/2019/07/19/a8f02f82-aa42-11e9-9214-246e594de5d5_story.html over-population is an environmental issue, and an economic one. But it's a global one. https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/906149359729584 #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% expands 1 impress 112 time 2019-07-21 18:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1153016766420754432 ========== A historic opportunity. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/07/19/lets-drive-stake-through-heart-debt-ceiling/ https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/906129303064923 #PS1notopic ===== impress 78 time 2019-07-21 18:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1153016464196063232 ========== My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Schurz A German immigrant, Schurz didn't always do the right thing by modern standards, but he kept trying. https://www.bartleby.com/73/1641.html More at https://t.co/gG1VCvqG5h #PS1notopic ===== engage 2 engage-rate 2% expands 2 impress 99 time 2019-07-21 18:57 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1153016234213986304 ========== My Antonia. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/19/opinion/trump-presidency-immigration.html There was nothing but land, Cather writes, Not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made. But to the native inhabitants, the land and their nation were already great. More at https://t.co/wzUR7rmeWm #PS1notopic ===== impress 104 time 2019-07-21 18:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1153015886757785600 ========== Conservative or a populist? Populists like to print money. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/trump-tells-aides-to-look-for-big-spending-cuts-in-second-term-seeding-confusion-about-budget-priorities/2019/07/19/3e9e9bde-a98c-11e9-86dd-d7f0e60391e9_story.html Conservatives want to reduce government by eliminating programs . But it signifies nothing if entitlements for an aging population are not addressed. More at https://t.co/uQZZVgO38t #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% expands 1 impress 107 time 2019-07-21 18:52 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1153014929001025536 ========== The global surveillance industry. Coming soon to a device near you. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/19/opinion/private-surveillance-industry.html https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/905691399775380 #PS1notopic ===== impress 94 time 2019-07-21 18:48 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1153013951132647424 ========== Turning anti-semitism on its head. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/19/opinion/trump-ilhan-omar.html How many Jews want Sebastian Gorka "defending" them? https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/905685236442663 #PS1notopic ===== impress 74 time 2019-07-21 18:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1153013707447787521 ========== Being mayor is harder than being president. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/18/magazine/pete-buttigieg-2020.html https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/905683166442870 #PS1notopic ===== impress 203 time 2019-07-21 18:46 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1153013479227326464 ========== Winner-take-all bias. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/19/upshot/trump-electoral-college-edge-.html The laws of 48 states award all a state's electoral votes to the plurality winner in that state. Nebraska and Maine decided differently. A landslide counts the same as a squeaker. More at https://t.co/TZJfukBoJZ #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% expands 1 impress 102 time 2019-07-21 18:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1153013223949402112 ========== No accident. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trumps-assault-on-minority-congresswomen-is-a-trap-dont-fall-into-it/2019/07/19/ea578956-aa39-11e9-9214-246e594de5d5_story.html By attacking the squad, Trump wants to elicit a reaction attacking his base. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/trump.html#First But a big part of Trump's base voted for Obama. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/trump.html#Second More at https://t.co/rY0gcyuPzl #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% expands 1 impress 99 time 2019-07-21 18:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1153012363571843072 ========== It could be worse - https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/07/19/feeling-bad-about-us-politics-take-look-britain/ https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/905652649779255 #PS1notopic ===== impress 107 time 2019-07-21 18:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1153011903691542528 ========== There's a better way to do this. https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/07/13/sunnyvale-to-hold-workshops-for-residents-who-want-a-hand-in-drawing-up-election-district-maps/ Districts can be gerrymandered. Ranked-choice voting and multi-member districts makes it easier for minorities to get the representation they deserve. https://www.fairvote.org/ https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/905447139799806 #PS1notopic ===== impress 138 time 2019-07-19 15:03 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1152232427261009920 ========== Eventually you have to quit and write a book. https://www.apnews.com/761b14ceeeae456fb75f8c8a86e0d654 Joke of the month from Mark Meadows - "There's room for a difference of opinion, and to be passionate about it. But you don't have to be personal with your attacks." More at https://t.co/1YOPEU1ZYp #PS1notopic ===== impress 153 time 2019-07-19 14:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1152224052691390464 ========== Bipartisanship isn't always productive. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/defense-spending-is-americas-cancerous-bipartisan-consensus/2019/07/18/783a9e1a-a978-11e9-9214-246e594de5d5_story.html Defense spending is a convenient way to reward allies and punish opponents. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/18/us/politics/trump-amazon-defense-department-contract.html Especially if nobody's in charge. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/iran-and-north-korea-arent-our-militarys-biggest-concerns-this-is/2019/07/16/4873b540-a7ed-11e9-9214-246e594de5d5_story.html https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/905393426471844 #PS1notopic ===== engage 2 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 96 time 2019-07-19 13:38 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1152211090727559170 ========== Alternative explanation for Trump's racist tweets? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trumps-tweets-are-a-distraction-for-something-else-he-doesnt-want-us-to-see/2019/07/16/4274a34c-a811-11e9-9214-246e594de5d5_story.html More likely it's just a preview of the blatant racism Trumpist strategy for 2020. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/16/us/politics/trump-election-squad.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/17/us/politics/donald-trump-republicans.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/16/opinion/squad-trump-aoc.html More at https://t.co/LxH2BNvVgA #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% expands 1 impress 191 time 2019-07-19 04:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1152080465387384833 ========== The biggest threat to our security. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/iran-and-north-korea-arent-our-militarys-biggest-concerns-this-is/2019/07/16/4873b540-a7ed-11e9-9214-246e594de5d5_story.html Trump likes the flexibility of "acting" appointments, and as few as possible, and filling them based on loyalty rather than competence. https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/905161113161742 #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 0% expands 1 impress 201 time 2019-07-19 04:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1152079614556041224 ========== politicians don't care what voters think. They care what donors think. Get enough donors and blitz the voters. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/11/opinion/politicians-voters.html Don't like it? Do something about money in politics. https://www.uniteamerica.org/ https://www.americanpromise.net/ https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/905114409833079 #PS1notopic ===== impress 137 time 2019-07-19 03:21 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1152055857938518017 ========== Simone Weil saw it all coming - then - and now. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/07/18/this-french-intellectual-diagnosed-americas-current-political-malaise/ https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/904998299844690 #PS1notopic ===== impress 66 time 2019-07-19 00:36 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1152014424791646211 ========== How to make money writing browser extensions. Develop a popular extension, then sell it to a data collection company. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/07/18/i-found-your-data-its-sale/ https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/904736953204158 #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% expands 1 impress 130 time 2019-07-19 00:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1152013861584719873 ========== How purges work these days. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/16/magazine/immigration-department-of-homeland-security.html It used to be worse - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Purge https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/904723749872145 #PS1notopic ===== impress 127 time 2019-07-19 00:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1152013614577926144 ========== Rahm Emmanuel on what it takes to win. Hint - you can't outtrump Trump. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/rahm-emanuel-no-the-democratic-party-hasnt-lurched-to-the-left/2019/07/17/06e09d6e-a8ab-11e9-a3a6-ab670962db05_story.html https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/904343773243476 #PS1notopic ===== impress 75 time 2019-07-19 00:31 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1152013058518032384 ========== Why have Republicans become Trumpists? Many Republicans could have advanced a conservative agenda better - but Trump has the devotion of the racists. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy Keeping the racists on board is essential for minority rule . More at https://t.co/XqM7tO52mn #PS1notopic ===== impress 90 time 2019-07-19 00:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1152012780054016000 ========== NRCC - all in with Trumpism. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/17/us/politics/donald-trump-republicans.html Should Bakersfield rename itself McCarthysfield? https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/904301596581027 #PS1notopic ===== impress 76 time 2019-07-19 00:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1152010708051083265 ========== An emergency is when there is an imminent threat to the country and Congress doesn't have time to act. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/house-votes-to-block-trumps-arms-sales-to-saudi-arabia-setting-up-likely-veto/2019/07/17/7f329a9c-a8ce-11e9-9214-246e594de5d5_story.html Abuse of emergency powers is an impeachable offense. More at https://t.co/eroDkOpxKw #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% expands 1 impress 80 time 2019-07-19 00:21 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1152010433173192704 ========== Be careful what you download. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/07/17/you-downloaded-faceapp-heres-what-youve-just-done-your-privacy/ https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/904292996581887 #PS1notopic ===== impress 83 time 2019-07-19 00:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1152009878866542592 ========== The King of Debt! https://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/trump-king-of-debt-224642 But will China take fifty cents on the dollar? They have ways of collecting that aren't available to Trump's business competitors. Help from Congress? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/no-budget-on-the-brink-of-default-its-a-hell-of-a-way-to-run-a-country/2019/07/17/71b9ff36-a8b5-11e9-a3a6-ab670962db05_story.html More at https://t.co/lXAUzzMgUJ #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% expands 1 impress 106 time 2019-07-19 00:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1152009608468189184 ========== Technology news. The flower power car was originally a populist project. https://www.apnews.com/53243665f30f4d97a2a292e3c7e76a41 Don't forget ad blockers. https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/07/10/malicious-apps-infect-25-million-android-devices-with-agent-smith-malware/ Trump administration reserves for itself the right to hassle tech companies. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-10/u-s-said-to-investigate-french-plan-for-tax-on-tech-giants https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/904058309938689 #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% expands 1 impress 157 time 2019-07-17 14:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1151504122924847106 ========== In case you don't have enough to worry about. https://www.rollcall.com/news/house-orders-pentagon-report-whether-weaponized-ticks https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/904006589943861 #PS1notopic ===== impress 73 time 2019-07-17 13:31 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1151484685941260288 ========== Why Trumpists will never really permit immigration reform. They need farm (and hospitality) labor to be illegal, fearful, unorganized and unorganizable. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/16/opinion/labor-laws-california-new-york-lesson.html https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/903793773298476 #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% expands 1 impress 139 time 2019-07-17 13:31 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1151484447079849985 ========== You say you want a revolution Well, you know We all want to change the world https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/16/opinion/trump-2020.html Just remember, revolution comes from Congress and the states. And the game is biased toward conservative voters. https://www.reduce-rural-bias.net/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/903778449966675 #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% impress 143 time 2019-07-17 13:29 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1151484156519444480 ========== So was the electoral college about slavery? No - https://t.co/5B5e6UbnvB Yes - https://t.co/aZC0bTx1e9 For certain it was about reinforcing the power of small states, which nowadays means rural states. https://www.reduce-rural-bias.net/ More at https://t.co/OcioR6rOYU #PS1notopic ===== engage 2 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 118 time 2019-07-17 13:27 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1151483657988628481 ========== Trying to find a positive role for conservative ideology. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/16/opinion/trump-thiel-nationalism.html It's hard when there's no conservative party, only a gang that mouths whatever ideology serves the purpose of the moment, following their leader. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#conservative https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/903710626640124 #PS1notopic ===== impress 160 time 2019-07-17 13:26 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1151483348524470272 ========== Why Trump has so much trouble in the courts. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/trumps-racist-comments-can-be-used-against-him-in-court-as-judges-cite-them-to-block-policies/2019/07/16/6ed0ea6a-a7f1-11e9-86dd-d7f0e60391e9_story.html He just can't shut up about his motives. https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/903704999974020 #PS1notopic ===== impress 68 time 2019-07-17 13:24 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1151482933779165185 ========== A 50th anniversary year - the last episode of the first Star Trek in June, the landing on the moon in July. https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2019/07/16/extraordinary-trek-george-takei/ https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/903699886641198 #PS1notopic ===== impress 100 time 2019-07-17 13:23 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1151482492886499328 ========== Why do people believe conspiracy theories? https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/50-years-after-apollo-conspiracy-theorists-are-still-howling-at-the-moon-hoax/2019/05/23/ca5b4a3a-700e-11e9-9f06-5fc2ee80027a_story.html Why do people who know better promote them? https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2019/07/13/half-million-people-signed-up-storm-area-what-happens-if-they-actually-show-up/ Because there's money or celebrity or political power in indulging the gullible. https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/903694883308365 #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% impress 148 replies 1 time 2019-07-17 13:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1151482189768343552 ========== Good thing Trump is not micro-managing this operation. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/americas-immediate-challenge-in-the-persian-gulf/2019/07/16/fc99941e-a7f6-11e9-86dd-d7f0e60391e9_story.html https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/903686296642557 #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% impress 117 time 2019-07-17 13:20 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1151481859190079488 ========== This should worry Trump. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/07/08/weve-just-lived-through-greatest-period-restaurant-growth-us-history-heres-why-its-ending/ It's as ominous as an inverted yield curve. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/i/invertedyieldcurve.asp Republican politicians who now claim to be Trumpists? A recession will turn them back into traditional conservatives overnight. https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/903684483309405 #PS1notopic ===== engage 2 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 97 time 2019-07-17 13:19 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1151481575512502274 ========== A candidate you might not know about yet. https://www.wonkette.com/excuse-me-there-is-a-time-traveler-running-for-president-and-i-need-to-know-more-please But here's a candidate you might recall - https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/mark-sanford-says-hes-considering-primary-challenge-against-trump/2019/07/16/1b7af7d6-a7f4-11e9-86dd-d7f0e60391e9_story.html Evidently he didn't get the memo that Republicans are only fiscal conservatives when the Democrats are in charge. https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/903627533315100 #PS1notopic ===== impress 72 time 2019-07-17 13:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1151480746575446016 ========== Too much steel, not enough Bibles https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-07/the-trump-tariff-twist-that-s-cost-u-s-steel-5-5-billion https://www.apnews.com/35b3c523466d4cc58db5507e6e1190ec Just another example of the Law of Unintended Consequences. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unintended_consequences https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/903608829983637 #PS1notopic ===== impress 130 time 2019-07-17 13:14 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1151480365535490048 ========== Sununu fearlessly stands up to protect unlimited dark political money. https://www.concordmonitor.com/New-Hampshire-Governor-Sununu-vetoes-election-finance-reform-bills-26907467 Somebody has to protect the sacred principle of one dollar one vote. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#corporate https://www.americanpromise.net/ https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/903606623317191 #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% expands 1 impress 124 time 2019-07-17 13:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1151480111989850112 ========== Abolish the "debt ceiling." https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/abolish-the-debt-ceiling--no-strings-attached/2019/07/15/1f1693d2-a73b-11e9-9214-246e594de5d5_story.html Getting a handle on public debt is a good thing. But the "debt ceiling" is just a prop for political theatre. https://www.get-to-sixty.net/ https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/903072930037227 #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% expands 1 impress 75 time 2019-07-16 02:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1150956744912191488 ========== The age of impunity! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/were-in-an-age-of-impunity-it-will-have-consequences-for-us-all/2019/07/07/8ff2d894-9f2b-11e9-9ed4-c9089972ad5a_story.html https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/897840490560471 #PS1notopic ===== impress 50 time 2019-07-15 20:57 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1150872150359719936 ========== Pitch defileth the hand that toucheth it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/07/07/trump-is-huge-headache-deutsche-bank-has-plenty-more/ https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/897853637225823 #PS1notopic ===== impress 122 time 2019-07-15 20:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1150871908893638656 ========== We can visit. But we have to come back. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/what-the-space-age-taught-us-earth-is-the-best-of-all-possible-worlds/2019/06/18/b7454e78-65cd-11e9-8985-4cf30147bdca_story.html What about the Fermi Paradox? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox And if we did somehow manage to establish a self-sustaining colony on Mars, why would they want to bail us out? More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/900808253597028 #PS1notopic ===== impress 90 time 2019-07-15 20:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1150871687639916545 ========== Polite expression on a small island requires quantum state superposition. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/07/11/critiquing-trump-was-not-problem-failing-use-british-doublespeak-was/ https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/902174743460379 #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% impress 126 time 2019-07-15 20:54 +0000 userclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1150871174961745920 ========== Can you be sued for making a joke that people take seriously and act upon? https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2019/07/13/half-million-people-signed-up-storm-area-what-happens-if-they-actually-show-up/ https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/902786403399213 #PS1notopic ===== impress 77 time 2019-07-15 20:53 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1150870910850617344 ========== Who's really in charge here? The Dick Cheney of the Trump era. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/his-own-fiefdom-mulvaney-builds-an-empire-for-the-right-wing-as-trumps-chief-of-staff/2019/07/14/85c5ebdc-942b-11e9-b570-6416efdc0803_story.html If Obama was for it, he's against it and wants it stopped NOW in case the Democrats win the Senate in 2020. https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/902741100070410 #PS1notopic ===== engage 2 engage-rate 3% expands 2 impress 79 time 2019-07-15 20:52 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1150870676636459008 ========== Now we have a real character test for the Republicans in public life - either they are Trumpists all the way now or they are not. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/07/15/republicans-trump-quiet-minority-congresswomen-leave/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/07/15/racism-straight-white-house-trumps-tweets-revolt-politicians-around-world/ Easy Rider is ancient history, right? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easy_Rider More... https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/902735210070999 #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% expands 1 impress 103 time 2019-07-15 20:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1150870139065122816 ========== No real limits for big agribusiness. https://www.apnews.com/75df5e7bf56e43df99d091bc4d16a87d https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/897712183906635 #PS1notopic ===== impress 161 time 2019-07-07 19:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1147958216556367873 ========== What the radical freshman don't get. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2019/07/05/feature/haunted-by-the-reagan-era/ The Reagan victory involved changing the minds of relatively few voters. The rural bias in the constitution, https://www.reduce-rural-bias.net/ provides plenty of conservatives in Congress. https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/897292997281887 #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% expands 1 impress 114 time 2019-07-07 05:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1147733365203730438 ========== Trucker fatigue - if Obama was against it, then who's for it? https://www.apnews.com/5cf6c7d728b44834bea7f2ebf5121088 https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/897125297298657 #PS1notopic ===== impress 185 time 2019-07-06 21:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1147621117957292032 ========== "Putin looks more like a pope to me" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/04/world/europe/pope-francis-putin.html https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/897124110632109 #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 0% impress 983 time 2019-07-06 21:36 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1147620411007328256 ========== Plant trees! https://www.apnews.com/8ac33686b64a4fbc991997a72683b1c5 https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/897122980632222 #PS1notopic ===== impress 99 time 2019-07-06 21:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1147619761490055168 ========== Ranked-choice voting would avoid this. https://calmatters.org/articles/blog/california-independents-presidential-primary-unable-to-vote-no-party-affiliation/ If every candidate ran in the general election, then every voter could vote first choice for the one they love and second choice for the one they might win. https://www.fairvote.org/ https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/895134267497760 #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% impress 170 replies 1 time 2019-07-06 19:57 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1147595440918974465 ========== What all those candidates should be doing instead. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/07/05/when-do-struggling-candidates-have-bail-run-another-office/ Anybody who could keep or get a Senate or Governor seat should do so. State law governs when they have to decide. https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/896265777384609 #PS1notopic ===== impress 214 time 2019-07-06 19:12 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1147584174510882816 ========== Why it's important to keep or win Democratic governorships and state legislatures. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/05/us/gerrymandering-state-legislatures-elections.html Another way to help - https://democraticredistricting.com/ Or we could start over - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#redistricting https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/896272584050595 #PS1notopic ===== impress 113 time 2019-07-06 19:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1147583903147761664 ========== More tick horrors. https://elemental.medium.com/lyme-disease-cases-are-exploding-and-its-only-going-to-get-worse-5d3c3a2de5c5 https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/6/18/18677511/lyme-disease-diagnosis-health https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/896916733986180 #PS1notopic ===== impress 82 time 2019-07-06 19:10 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1147583607461965825 ========== Should Justin Amash run for President? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/justin-amash-our-politics-is-in-a-partisan-death-spiral-thats-why-im-leaving-the-gop/2019/07/04/afbe0480-9e3d-11e9-b27f-ed2942f73d70_story.html The election might be decided by the 12th Amendment - that guarantees a Trump victory. https://www.reduce-rural-bias.net/ https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/896234444054409 #PS1notopic ===== engage 3 engage-rate 3% expands 1 impress 118 time 2019-07-06 19:08 +0000 urlclicks 2 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1147583213432397824 ========== Making tax-advantaged retirements available for the lower middle class. https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article232148142.html Who's against it? The usual suspects. https://www.pionline.com/article/20190401/ONLINE/190409956/court-dismisses-challenge-to-calsavers-secure-choice-program https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/895136470830873 #PS1notopic ===== impress 213 time 2019-07-03 20:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1146521986522206208 ========== A thermostatic reaction? https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/03/opinion/trump-republican-base.html https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/895132717497915 #PS1notopic ===== impress 108 time 2019-07-03 20:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1146517936640671744 ========== The Nationalist International https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/03/opinion/the-surprising-history-of-nationalist-internationalism.html https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/895013637509823 #PS1notopic ===== impress 89 time 2019-07-03 20:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1146515898083106816 ========== The challenges ahead https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/02/opinion/america-threat.html https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/895009217510265 #PS1notopic ===== impress 105 time 2019-07-03 20:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1146515425859002368 ========== The acorn doesn't fall far from the oak. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/07/02/what-revolution-reveals-about-americas-modern-day-empire/ https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/894754834202370 #PS1notopic ===== impress 120 time 2019-07-03 20:24 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1146515137848729600 ========== How can social media companies fight fake news without cutting off Trump's most enthusiastic supporters? https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/the-technology-202/2019/07/02/the-technology-202-trump-invites-conservative-tech-critics-to-white-house-for-social-media-summit/5d1a7d40a7a0a47d87c56f90/ Trust-busting is a good idea, in general, when companies get large enough. But that won't solve Trump's problem. https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/894374504240403 #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% expands 1 impress 189 time 2019-07-03 20:23 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1146514817152274432 ========== The view from a Trump supporter. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/07/01/no-one-makes-trump-unsteady-kamala-harris-does/ https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/894369290907591 #PS1notopic ===== engage 2 engage-rate 1% impress 179 time 2019-07-03 20:21 +0000 urlclicks 2 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1146514420408832001 ========== Some mysteries might never be solved. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-enigma-of-the-entire-mueller-probe-focus-on-origins-of-russian-investigation-puts-spotlight-on-maltese-professor/2019/06/30/b374fe8c-8185-11e9-bce7-40b4105f7ca0_story.html https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/893341481010372 #PS1notopic ===== impress 75 time 2019-07-03 20:20 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1146514125339557888 ========== A plan to end homelessness! https://washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/07/02/trump-paints-dark-picture-homelessness-cities-we-may-intercede/ Just as soon as he publishes his Obamacare replacement that will provide better care for more people for less money. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/07/02/trumps-incoherent-monologue-homelessness/ https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/894365594241294 #PS1notopic ===== engage 2 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 123 time 2019-07-03 20:14 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1146512532229652480 ========== Ever wonder where batteries come from? https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-06-11/saving-the-planet-with-electric-cars-means-strangling-this-desert https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/894012337609953 #PS1notopic ===== impress 77 time 2019-07-02 01:48 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1145871767572897792 ========== The Senate is more important than the White House. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/01/opinion/senate-democrats-mcconnell-2020.html All those Democratic presidential hopefuls who might keep ot get a Senate seat are misplacing their energy. And Democratic governors fight Republican gerrymandering. https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/893994770945043 #PS1notopic ===== impress 178 time 2019-07-02 01:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1145862549335728128 ========== Beware of trips to Mongolia. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/01/opinion/john-bolton-trump.html https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/893991774278676 #PS1notopic ===== impress 191 time 2019-07-02 01:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1145860344096514049 ========== A deal might be possible. All it might take is the usual professional diplomatic patience and attention to detail. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/01/opinion/north-korea.html https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/893962080948312 #PS1notopic ===== impress 204 time 2019-07-01 23:43 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1145840318186577921 ========== Competitive authoritarianism. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/01/opinion/republicans-trump-democracy.html One of the Trumpist pillars is the rural bias in the Constitution - https://www.reduce-rural-bias.net/ https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/893959147615272 #PS1notopic ===== engage 2 engage-rate 2% impress 83 time 2019-07-01 23:36 +0000 urlclicks 2 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1145838526849662976 ========== Some mysteries might never be solved. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-enigma-of-the-entire-mueller-probe-focus-on-origins-of-russian-investigation-puts-spotlight-on-maltese-professor/2019/06/30/b374fe8c-8185-11e9-bce7-40b4105f7ca0_story.html https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/893341481010372 #PS1notopic ===== impress 84 time 2019-07-01 03:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1145537726906658818