| Title | Date | Im- press | En- gage | Ex- pand | URL- clicks | Like | Re- tweet | Link to Text | Link to Tweet |
| $6 billion will be spent on the 2022 elections. | 2021-12-31 | 34 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1477001243771891714 | 1477001243771891714 |
| Anti-vax evangelicals admit no boundary between their | 2021-12-31 | 30 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1476780930626830336 | 1476780930626830336 |
| So much for the rule of law! | 2021-12-31 | 27 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1476779226292359170 | 1476779226292359170 |
| Amazing how often it all comes down to unlimited dark | 2021-12-31 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1476764643162931200 | 1476764643162931200 |
| “The value of true modesty or humility is hard to sustain | 2021-12-31 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1476763099596165121 | 1476763099596165121 |
| Watch Night - there's more to New Year's Eve than you | 2021-12-31 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1476760356273811461 | 1476760356273811461 |
| https://www.political-scrapbook.net/controversial.html#guantanamo | 2021-12-31 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1476754404619395072 | 1476754404619395072 |
| How Europe is marching forward to the 1930's again. | 2021-12-31 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1476753229383753729 | 1476753229383753729 |
| Michigan ends gerrymandering. | 2021-12-31 | 24 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1476744598479204354 | 1476744598479204354 |
| Why Xi and Putin think their way is better than democracy. | 2021-12-31 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1476740893088489475 | 1476740893088489475 |
| Don't let the facts bother you! | 2021-12-31 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1476733675253342211 | 1476733675253342211 |
| Vulgar caller has a bright future in the Trumpist Dixiecrat | 2021-12-31 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1476732822056423424 | 1476732822056423424 |
| Conspiracism destroys families. | 2021-12-31 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1476728142421057537 | 1476728142421057537 |
| States anticipate that the Supreme Court will get the | 2021-12-31 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1476705073833021484 | 1476705073833021484 |
| The Klan is back in the Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP, and so is | 2021-12-30 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1476704440639918090 | 1476704440639918090 |
| Inflation will not likely be cured by 2022. Good news | 2021-12-30 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1476702480268365831 | 1476702480268365831 |
| Why don't the red states just explicitly enact laws | 2021-12-30 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1476697909269696513 | 1476697909269696513 |
| "health of families, communities and the nation first" | 2021-12-30 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1476697233739321350 | 1476697233739321350 |
| The omicron worst case is pretty bad. And something | 2021-12-30 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1476692315280343040 | 1476692315280343040 |
| It's the same old Taliban, and they still don't care how | 2021-12-30 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1476691236337512481 | 1476691236337512481 |
| A new wave of unvaccinated pediatric covid cases. | 2021-12-30 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1476687274326650897 | 1476687274326650897 |
| The eternal rural dream of being free from government | 2021-12-30 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1476684986245791745 | 1476684986245791745 |
| The future of low earth orbit. | 2021-12-30 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1476674189922693120 | 1476674189922693120 |
| In America, anybody can run for Senate! If he's rich | 2021-12-30 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1476672591406329858 | 1476672591406329858 |
| Romney is still a traditional conservative. But what's | 2021-12-30 | 30 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1476659841145847819 | 1476659841145847819 |
| When is "private" not so private? | 2021-12-30 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1476596238388641793 | 1476596238388641793 |
| Warning to red state ranchers - beware of politicians in | 2021-12-30 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1476595778634207234 | 1476595778634207234 |
| You can't measure covid by infection rate any more - | 2021-12-30 | 29 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1476573219112964097 | 1476573219112964097 |
| Why do people believe nonsense? They ask a friend if it's | 2021-12-30 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1476565152698814464 | 1476565152698814464 |
| Insurrection part 2 - paving the way for Trumpist success | 2021-12-30 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1476445600484761607 | 1476445600484761607 |
| What it takes to survive Louisiana politics | 2021-12-29 | 26 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1476063125455523840 | 1476063125455523840 |
| Proud Boys having no luck in court | 2021-12-29 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1476062005098213376 | 1476062005098213376 |
| Putin's strategy and tactics to restore the Soviet Union. | 2021-12-29 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1476053803912744966 | 1476053803912744966 |
| There are better ways | 2021-12-29 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1476052293195743234 | 1476052293195743234 |
| Air space provocations - Putin breathes new life into an | 2021-12-29 | 25 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1476050855379963904 | 1476050855379963904 |
| AM radio a casualty of electric cars. | 2021-12-29 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1476050187399303169 | 1476050187399303169 |
| China acts to reduce foreign control of Chinese companies. | 2021-12-29 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1476048584436948993 | 1476048584436948993 |
| How China achieved global dominance in electric car | 2021-12-29 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1476047064970588164 | 1476047064970588164 |
| Your street is the test lab, with very little oversight. | 2021-12-29 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1476046585381330944 | 1476046585381330944 |
| Biden will withhold certain national security documents | 2021-12-28 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1475877107007836169 | 1475877107007836169 |
| Mutual ignorance and hubris. | 2021-12-28 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1475851382850605056 | 1475851382850605056 |
| Six challenges for 2022 | 2021-12-28 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1475850293921206274 | 1475850293921206274 |
| Bad time to have a heart attack or stroke! The ER is full | 2021-12-28 | 37 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1475849387301474304 | 1475849387301474304 |
| "green" metal mining vs Indian tribes. | 2021-12-28 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1475735062381432833 | 1475735062381432833 |
| Politicians like to take the money and give the blame. | 2021-12-28 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1475731454038462469 | 1475731454038462469 |
| The argument against criminal referrals by the Jan 6 | 2021-12-28 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1475730376542724098 | 1475730376542724098 |
| Nine biggest political questions of 2022! | 2021-12-28 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1475729373231648769 | 1475729373231648769 |
| Jan 6 committee plan - create a timeline of the | 2021-12-28 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1475728339163762688 | 1475728339163762688 |
| The population as a whole is losing interest in politics. | 2021-12-28 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1475725647053950977 | 1475725647053950977 |
| The flu didn't go away for long. | 2021-12-28 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1475721639190958081 | 1475721639190958081 |
| The wizards who created social media platforms struggle, | 2021-12-27 | 42 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1475474913213304832 | 1475474913213304832 |
| The Royal Road - to NIMBY. | 2021-12-27 | 47 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1475471469803016192 | 1475471469803016192 |
| Knowing too much about other people doesn't add value, | 2021-12-27 | 58 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1475341346101612545 | 1475341346101612545 |
| The year in review - 41 interesting essays. The last | 2021-12-27 | 48 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1475335877400223744 | 1475335877400223744 |
| Need some end of year tax deductions? | 2021-12-27 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1475319032676900871 | 1475319032676900871 |
| A Federal civilian cyber academy to get America back to | 2021-12-27 | 59 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1475289943962435592 | 1475289943962435592 |
| Are we headed toward regional federalism? | 2021-12-26 | 42 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1475249381737525249 | 1475249381737525249 |
| Trumpists declare total war on the greatest threat to | 2021-12-26 | 45 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1475247557089447945 | 1475247557089447945 |
| Journalism is losing to entertainment fantasy. Will | 2021-12-26 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1475242423554961408 | 1475242423554961408 |
| Endemic covid will be a victory, not a defeat. | 2021-12-26 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1475239795672567808 | 1475239795672567808 |
| The year in review - a changed economy | 2021-12-26 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1475236686875398144 | 1475236686875398144 |
| 10 economic debate topics to take back to the store and | 2021-12-26 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1475235978419703809 | 1475235978419703809 |
| Preparing for guerilla warfare. | 2021-12-26 | 46 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1475190051168350208 | 1475190051168350208 |
| Change tried to come to Enid. The status quo fought | 2021-12-26 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1475188216277848066 | 1475188216277848066 |
| Poor people don't deserve help - an article of faith among | 2021-12-26 | 54 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1475182820167274499 | 1475182820167274499 |
| Anybody want to be mayor of a large city? You're pretty | 2021-12-26 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1475181233508212743 | 1475181233508212743 |
| One pleaded guilty. Five are trying to beat the rap. | 2021-12-26 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1475178365053136896 | 1475178365053136896 |
| Mental illness is communicable - you can catch it from | 2021-12-26 | 38 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1475143271240192002 | 1475143271240192002 |
| Good News year in review | 2021-12-26 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1475124367809863687 | 1475124367809863687 |
| Fact Checker year in review | 2021-12-26 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1475123458900037632 | 1475123458900037632 |
| The moment we've all been waiting for! | 2021-12-26 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1475112617844764673 | 1475112617844764673 |
| You're never too old to learn. | 2021-12-25 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1474884507979304965 | 1474884507979304965 |
| Redistricting turning out different from expected. | 2021-12-25 | 46 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1474873822427840512 | 1474873822427840512 |
| Arctic myths | 2021-12-25 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1474781511052263424 | 1474781511052263424 |
| The Information Age has quickly become the Misinformation | 2021-12-25 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1474780335208501249 | 1474780335208501249 |
| Greed - it's biblical! | 2021-12-25 | 34 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1474774894260850692 | 1474774894260850692 |
| When Christmas really meant something - | 2021-12-25 | 40 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1474751525217980417 | 1474751525217980417 |
| Was the demise of the USSR a good thing? Could it have | 2021-12-25 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1474749207969865728 | 1474749207969865728 |
| Defamed Georgia election workers sue Giuliani and OAN. | 2021-12-25 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1474635231579688964 | 1474635231579688964 |
| "If vaccines are being promoted by Democrats or a | 2021-12-25 | 52 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1474633366389415940 | 1474633366389415940 |
| What can you cover up with attorney-client privilege? | 2021-12-25 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1474627446787821569 | 1474627446787821569 |
| Democrats realized too late that they were losing it in the | 2021-12-24 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1474498677003612160 | 1474498677003612160 |
| Real American masculinity - acknowledging a msitake and | 2021-12-24 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1474492809365180416 | 1474492809365180416 |
| Best. State. Ever. | 2021-12-24 | 34 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1474489358329679874 | 1474489358329679874 |
| That was the week that wasn't. | 2021-12-24 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1474443567649083394 | 1474443567649083394 |
| How the NYT staff and families got out. | 2021-12-24 | 46 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1474442154768363520 | 1474442154768363520 |
| "coronavirus crisis has contributed to the | 2021-12-24 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1474433683562000384 | 1474433683562000384 |
| It's never too soon to hope, but it's definitely too soon | 2021-12-24 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1474431971463864320 | 1474431971463864320 |
| Perfectly example of minority rule at work - Trump | 2021-12-24 | 52 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1474430415410655237 | 1474430415410655237 |
| Protecting kids too young for vaccine. | 2021-12-24 | 32 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1474409574773837826 | 1474409574773837826 |
| Now it's the revenue side. | 2021-12-24 | 39 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1474388898407014402 | 1474388898407014402 |
| Pediatric covid surging and filling pediatric wards | 2021-12-24 | 46 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1474386073455235075 | 1474386073455235075 |
| Pediatric covid surging and filling pediatric wards | 2021-12-24 | 63 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1474384452822638595 | 1474384452822638595 |
| Federal gerrymandering - if the GOP does it, Democrats | 2021-12-24 | 36 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1474239834319319041 | 1474239834319319041 |
| Cruz thinks he's the man to beat in 2024. | 2021-12-24 | 46 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1474238790461898752 | 1474238790461898752 |
| How disinformation works. | 2021-12-24 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1474237367959515137 | 1474237367959515137 |
| Strange bedfellows - Trump's social media SPAC is from a | 2021-12-24 | 48 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1474225766036480004 | 1474225766036480004 |
| FBI surveillance in Portland. | 2021-12-24 | 39 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1474212511754817542 | 1474212511754817542 |
| Gambling addiction can be as bad a drug addiction. | 2021-12-24 | 39 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1474210096842358786 | 1474210096842358786 |
| Court cuts Flynn no slack. | 2021-12-24 | 32 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1474208890539556865 | 1474208890539556865 |
| Leaving no stone unturned. | 2021-12-24 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1474191315587928096 | 1474191315587928096 |
| Wayne La Pierre - a Trumpist to the core - using other | 2021-12-24 | 41 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1474188877539594241 | 1474188877539594241 |
| Fixing supply chain issues will take a long time. | 2021-12-24 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1474188158388506629 | 1474188158388506629 |
| Pope speaks to cardinals - the same speech would work | 2021-12-24 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1474187413182320653 | 1474187413182320653 |
| Will Supreme Court justices remember who nominated them | 2021-12-24 | 44 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1474185904344371217 | 1474185904344371217 |
| A traditional conservative laments the end of traditional | 2021-12-23 | 30 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1474084833420709903 | 1474084833420709903 |
| Is there ANY version of BBB that can pass the Senate AND | 2021-12-23 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1474082050449674253 | 1474082050449674253 |
| "Opportunity zones" were in the 2017 GOP billionaire tax | 2021-12-23 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1474079401360826369 | 1474079401360826369 |
| Do-nothing Congress can't fund an agency it authorized. | 2021-12-23 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1474068756309561366 | 1474068756309561366 |
| Xylazine anybody? It's legal! | 2021-12-23 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1474067622832459794 | 1474067622832459794 |
| Unclear on the concept of cult of personality! | 2021-12-23 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1474066809363976227 | 1474066809363976227 |
| Biggest tech failures of 2021! | 2021-12-23 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1474065657461297152 | 1474065657461297152 |
| Victims of the conspiracy-fantasy money-making machine. | 2021-12-23 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1474013577014956034 | 1474013577014956034 |
| Another traditional conservative gives up on the Trumpist | 2021-12-23 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1473876529201381377 | 1473876529201381377 |
| Fake it til you make it? Bid to win? | 2021-12-23 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1473859195229257729 | 1473859195229257729 |
| Is Trump losing the Trumpists? | 2021-12-23 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1473858225715834880 | 1473858225715834880 |
| Will Manchin make it possible to pass his own voting | 2021-12-23 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1473857373735292937 | 1473857373735292937 |
| Two views on Manchin and BBB - | 2021-12-23 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1473855537468952581 | 1473855537468952581 |
| Rich guys like Elon Musk don't need to obey laws! | 2021-12-23 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1473852528315928580 | 1473852528315928580 |
| What should be the Democratic program? | 2021-12-23 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1473821731353550848 | 1473821731353550848 |
| America is no longer divided between conservative | 2021-12-23 | 29 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1473816159602364417 | 1473816159602364417 |
| Who's paying for the assault on the Constitution? | 2021-12-23 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1473807387341438976 | 1473807387341438976 |
| Wrong direction! | 2021-12-23 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1473806314874703874 | 1473806314874703874 |
| Jim Jordan is next. | 2021-12-22 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1473802996643287040 | 1473802996643287040 |
| Proud Boy cooperates, pleads guilty. | 2021-12-22 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1473801778336387072 | 1473801778336387072 |
| Inflation is bad but recession is worse - | 2021-12-22 | 26 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1473534334288031745 | 1473534334288031745 |
| An argument for doing a few things permanently rather than | 2021-12-22 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1473530904760832002 | 1473530904760832002 |
| It might have been a mistake to split the physical | 2021-12-22 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1473520090641362944 | 1473520090641362944 |
| Five primaries that demonstrate whether the GOP is really | 2021-12-22 | 68 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1473515385160749057 | 1473515385160749057 |
| Not enough babies? We'll be needing more immigrants to | 2021-12-22 | 31 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1473511284465307649 | 1473511284465307649 |
| "a union representing coal miners, including some of the | 2021-12-22 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1473510772558864391 | 1473510772558864391 |
| Sue the Jan 6 committee! It's a matter of Trumpist | 2021-12-22 | 29 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1473507492713824256 | 1473507492713824256 |
| How Fox Trumpists promote the rule of law - the law of | 2021-12-22 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1473443569729884160 | 1473443569729884160 |
| Perry refuses to cooperate - will he refuse a subpoena? | 2021-12-21 | 39 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1473396511673249794 | 1473396511673249794 |
| Trump's not as dumb as he thinks his base is. He's had | 2021-12-21 | 72 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1473393799581683713 | 1473393799581683713 |
| Schumer's aiming for a showdown on filibuster and voting | 2021-12-21 | 26 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1473393078320779265 | 1473393078320779265 |
| What does society owe renters who are priced out of a | 2021-12-21 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1473391145375846403 | 1473391145375846403 |
| Some companies are a little sensitive to bad publicity. | 2021-12-21 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1473388489274114048 | 1473388489274114048 |
| Time for Manchin to publicly submit a bill that he WILL | 2021-12-21 | 34 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1473377634427932672 | 1473377634427932672 |
| Public transit - another victim of covid and (likely) | 2021-12-21 | 81 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1473376306398068736 | 1473376306398068736 |
| Who cares about facts or laws when there's money to | 2021-12-21 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1473355710389833731 | 1473355710389833731 |
| Gas stoves are the next front in culture wars! | 2021-12-21 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1473355021026672640 | 1473355021026672640 |
| Traditional conservatives vs Trumpists in Alabama! Revenge | 2021-12-21 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1473198072691769345 | 1473198072691769345 |
| Trumpists would rather die than admit Democrats are right. | 2021-12-21 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1473194101918953472 | 1473194101918953472 |
| Manchin knows West Virginia voters. | 2021-12-21 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1473193351604174848 | 1473193351604174848 |
| Trump's trying again to sue the government to prevent it | 2021-12-21 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1473191028211421190 | 1473191028211421190 |
| First Congressman asked to submit to Jan 6 questioning. | 2021-12-21 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1473188328195248128 | 1473188328195248128 |
| Omicron might be good news. It's displacing delta | 2021-12-21 | 48 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1473187062761148416 | 1473187062761148416 |
| Is nuclear power worse than burning gas? Is California | 2021-12-20 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1472932689141452802 | 1472932689141452802 |
| Who might challenge Trump in 2024? | 2021-12-19 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1472671292897648642 | 1472671292897648642 |
| Are there any anti-Trumpist GOP left in Congress? If they | 2021-12-19 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1472670249715601411 | 1472670249715601411 |
| In hoc signo vinces! | 2021-12-19 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1472668668014174208 | 1472668668014174208 |
| Nurses are burning out on unvaccinated covid patients. | 2021-12-19 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1472662714459643911 | 1472662714459643911 |
| Don't expect any help from GOP - that would be a win for | 2021-12-19 | 41 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1472661374660534274 | 1472661374660534274 |
| Nebraska's governor is trying anything to get people back | 2021-12-19 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1472659446669066240 | 1472659446669066240 |
| If Manchin won't vote for BBB and won't say what he will | 2021-12-19 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1472655250687332356 | 1472655250687332356 |
| Rick Perry a mastermind? That's news! | 2021-12-19 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1472597275343872004 | 1472597275343872004 |
| Trump lets his inner anti-Semite out again. | 2021-12-19 | 35 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1472596633007181827 | 1472596633007181827 |
| Manchin chooses a showdown. | 2021-12-19 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1472594673159991301 | 1472594673159991301 |
| “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth | 2021-12-19 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1472593611002822658 | 1472593611002822658 |
| Democrats' secret weapon! | 2021-12-19 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1472580906883764224 | 1472580906883764224 |
| Senate confirmation process badly broken. | 2021-12-19 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1472476556920455168 | 1472476556920455168 |
| Inflation is a political problem everywhere, even for | 2021-12-19 | 29 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1472475503005106176 | 1472475503005106176 |
| Ransomware attacks continue. | 2021-12-19 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1472473666336149504 | 1472473666336149504 |
| A perfect Trumpist candidate to support Trump! | 2021-12-19 | 37 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1472472538970091520 | 1472472538970091520 |
| A Trumpist model of how strong leaders run elections. | 2021-12-19 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1472471400426340353 | 1472471400426340353 |
| Who says racism isn't institutionalized? | 2021-12-19 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1472467715151446020 | 1472467715151446020 |
| Just how close are we to another civil war? | 2021-12-18 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1472221737265680384 | 1472221737265680384 |
| New shibboleth for the Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP - deny | 2021-12-18 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1472198967010103297 | 1472198967010103297 |
| Repentant in court - but he still gets 5 years for | 2021-12-18 | 27 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1472197215854628868 | 1472197215854628868 |
| Fair redistricting is good for state offices | 2021-12-18 | 67 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1472195593304825860 | 1472195593304825860 |
| Is Manchin really a Republican? McConnell would welcome | 2021-12-18 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1472082329728274434 | 1472082329728274434 |
| How far will the Dominion lawsuit against Fox go? | 2021-12-18 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1472080595555471365 | 1472080595555471365 |
| The wealthy have found ways to bypass income and estate | 2021-12-18 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1472079445611532295 | 1472079445611532295 |
| Why don't they just... enact common sense - | 2021-12-18 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1472064923567996931 | 1472064923567996931 |
| Newsom copies Texas. | 2021-12-18 | 91 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1472058498443743233 | 1472058498443743233 |
| Not just NSO - add Cytrox! | 2021-12-18 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1472054843288162309 | 1472054843288162309 |
| That was the week that wasn't. | 2021-12-17 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1471926823940333568 | 1471926823940333568 |
| Immunized high-risk people are still at risk - but the | 2021-12-17 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1471851239147130883 | 1471851239147130883 |
| GOP plan for America - Chinese "democracy" where all | 2021-12-17 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1471684575629758468 | 1471684575629758468 |
| How the rich get richer | 2021-12-17 | 18 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1471682888382828548 | 1471682888382828548 |
| Who was behind the insurrection? | 2021-12-17 | 17 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1471682055649980416 | 1471682055649980416 |
| It all comes down to Kashmir. | 2021-12-17 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1471659628320595971 | 1471659628320595971 |
| Stealing military weapons and ammo to sell to anybody with | 2021-12-17 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1471656250647592960 | 1471656250647592960 |
| Sackler settlement fair? | 2021-12-17 | 33 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1471653411288272902 | 1471653411288272902 |
| Most doctors are getting tired of seeing patients killed | 2021-12-17 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1471651935690260483 | 1471651935690260483 |
| omicron is already everywhere, and probably has been - | 2021-12-17 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1471650238947467266 | 1471650238947467266 |
| Rich get richer and poor get poorer - Cayman, Bahamas, | 2021-12-16 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1471377558113439744 | 1471377558113439744 |
| 2020 was a dress rehearsal; GOP didn't quite act in time. | 2021-12-16 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1471367124123721729 | 1471367124123721729 |
| Worst in history? Nobody looks good after a close | 2021-12-16 | 33 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1471365781078220800 | 1471365781078220800 |
| Known by the company he keeps - RFK Jr, Flynn, Stone. | 2021-12-16 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1471363024229322752 | 1471363024229322752 |
| Manchin still won't say what his bottom line is on BBB. | 2021-12-16 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1471359944700006401 | 1471359944700006401 |
| Nothing to see here - so? The goal is to undermine the | 2021-12-16 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1471358686563995648 | 1471358686563995648 |
| Would-be Pelosi shooter gets 28 months. | 2021-12-16 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1471351571044712452 | 1471351571044712452 |
| Did Trump lie to his own accountants? | 2021-12-16 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1471345460677734400 | 1471345460677734400 |
| Omicron is a big enough threat, but not a game changer | 2021-12-16 | 47 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1471343877298659329 | 1471343877298659329 |
| Roots of minority rule. | 2021-12-15 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1471239352856416256 | 1471239352856416256 |
| The 1619 project at the New York Times - | 2021-12-15 | 50 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1471217371515813894 | 1471217371515813894 |
| In Texas they're voting like it was 1880! Or not voting. | 2021-12-15 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1471138456675831813 | 1471138456675831813 |
| AP searches for voter fraud and finds 475 cases - many of | 2021-12-15 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1471004799294271488 | 1471004799294271488 |
| "it will be interesting to reveal all the participants | 2021-12-15 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1471002595900542976 | 1471002595900542976 |
| Debt limit crisis suspended for a while by Democrats. | 2021-12-15 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1471001560901505028 | 1471001560901505028 |
| Militias decide to act local - for now. | 2021-12-15 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1470999905242017795 | 1470999905242017795 |
| Why workers need unions. | 2021-12-15 | 39 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1470998718459494405 | 1470998718459494405 |
| "The pro-life goal isn’t an end to abortion. It’s to | 2021-12-15 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1470997405768163328 | 1470997405768163328 |
| The main problem with BBB - it comes from Democrats. | 2021-12-15 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1470994235839041536 | 1470994235839041536 |
| Another way to undermine Biden. | 2021-12-15 | 33 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1470993235820433410 | 1470993235820433410 |
| Transmitting foreign propaganda can be profitable! | 2021-12-15 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1470992275677216768 | 1470992275677216768 |
| Huawei might be closer to the Chinese Communist Party than | 2021-12-15 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1470988054231875586 | 1470988054231875586 |
| Hitler, Stalin, Krushchev, and Ayatollah Kohmeini were | 2021-12-15 | 43 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1470974023915880451 | 1470974023915880451 |
| It doesn't matter whether the losers are the readers or | 2021-12-15 | 71 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1470972245438709767 | 1470972245438709767 |
| The switch to solar - who pays? | 2021-12-15 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1470971507979350020 | 1470971507979350020 |
| Reading comprehension - readers need a foundation on which | 2021-12-15 | 28 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1470970276779155462 | 1470970276779155462 |
| Some people think BBB should be split up and voted on | 2021-12-14 | 49 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1470788324226859008 | 1470788324226859008 |
| Plausible consumer products pre-emptive statements on | 2021-12-14 | 44 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1470786258213511173 | 1470786258213511173 |
| Corrupt intent does not require violence to be criminal. | 2021-12-14 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1470785526772944903 | 1470785526772944903 |
| The art of losing | 2021-12-14 | 46 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1470783671170912270 | 1470783671170912270 |
| Notable quotes | 2021-12-14 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1470770014210994189 | 1470770014210994189 |
| Ranked-choice voting gets Federal support. | 2021-12-14 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1470628282538233856 | 1470628282538233856 |
| Ingraham, Hannity, and Kilmeade briefly urged Meadows | 2021-12-14 | 48 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1470624992010199040 | 1470624992010199040 |
| "racism is not merely the product of individual bias , | 2021-12-14 | 33 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1470600689877274633 | 1470600689877274633 |
| Doesn't everybody want Wall Street private equity firms | 2021-12-14 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1470595494996967425 | 1470595494996967425 |
| "more capable, more bold, more vicious" Did somebody | 2021-12-14 | 43 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1470594590956687360 | 1470594590956687360 |
| Trump is not the greatest threat of Trumpism. It's his | 2021-12-14 | 35 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1470593419550547968 | 1470593419550547968 |
| Climate crisis is now. | 2021-12-14 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1470571219745329152 | 1470571219745329152 |
| Humans flatter themselves when they think they are in | 2021-12-14 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1470565242153230336 | 1470565242153230336 |
| Why service is so slow, everywhere you go. | 2021-12-14 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1470562549615652866 | 1470562549615652866 |
| Manchin thinks it's best to slow down - so the child care | 2021-12-14 | 46 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1470559646196793345 | 1470559646196793345 |
| The Jan 6 committee will eventually release its report, | 2021-12-14 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1470558140949172224 | 1470558140949172224 |
| Cut the price of insulin? GOP says YES - in public | 2021-12-14 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1470552174006452225 | 1470552174006452225 |
| Manchin got what he needed to protect his dirty-coal | 2021-12-14 | 54 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1470550738694643712 | 1470550738694643712 |
| Taliban puts its best foot forward for interview. | 2021-12-13 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1470540217228533761 | 1470540217228533761 |
| Stimulus funds made a difference - inflation instead of | 2021-12-13 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1470532096242319361 | 1470532096242319361 |
| Beware function creep - half-baked covid technology will | 2021-12-13 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1470530000042401797 | 1470530000042401797 |
| The free market is solving supply chain issues... slowly. | 2021-12-13 | 39 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1470529501889056771 | 1470529501889056771 |
| How billionaires avoid taxes. Disinformation is | 2021-12-13 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1470265844659724291 | 1470265844659724291 |
| Two primaries to watch in May 2022. | 2021-12-13 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1470262878565396482 | 1470262878565396482 |
| If the Supreme Court upholds nullification, John C Calhoun | 2021-12-13 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1470255458514395136 | 1470255458514395136 |
| The Trumpist Supreme Court seems to be willing to | 2021-12-13 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1470253865387716609 | 1470253865387716609 |
| Life on the "Tucker Carlson Channel". | 2021-12-13 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1470252696133267460 | 1470252696133267460 |
| Blind judges! | 2021-12-13 | 36 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1470251605723205635 | 1470251605723205635 |
| Lindsey Graham has chugged the Trump koolaid and recommends | 2021-12-13 | 119 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1470249613210755074 | 1470249613210755074 |
| No need to move to Texas! You can enjoy Permian Basin air | 2021-12-13 | 52 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1470245670934040576 | 1470245670934040576 |
| Social-media organized mash-and-grab crime has changed | 2021-12-13 | 39 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1470244020752302080 | 1470244020752302080 |
| Silicon Valley still booming despite Greg Abbott's kind | 2021-12-13 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1470242670169636864 | 1470242670169636864 |
| Legal strategy worthy of Trumpism - send random documents | 2021-12-13 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1470242186050613249 | 1470242186050613249 |
| If the next generation of women follow tradition of not | 2021-12-13 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1470241564114915330 | 1470241564114915330 |
| The process of how Dixiecrat thinking redefined "freedom" | 2021-12-13 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1470230716210286595 | 1470230716210286595 |
| Kavanaugh said that the Texas abortion approach could | 2021-12-13 | 46 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1470229597266403331 | 1470229597266403331 |
| How gentrification works. | 2021-12-13 | 51 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1470207756460171264 | 1470207756460171264 |
| Nothing new about vax hesitancy. | 2021-12-12 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1470159239431680000 | 1470159239431680000 |
| Some unions are beginning to flex some muscle. Not all | 2021-12-12 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1470157067428057089 | 1470157067428057089 |
| Korea, Taiwan, Ukraine, Iran - Trump should be glad he's | 2021-12-12 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1470153385563226115 | 1470153385563226115 |
| "My country has in its wisdom contrived for me the most | 2021-12-12 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1470128303105183744 | 1470128303105183744 |
| Tort wars - is justice on either side? | 2021-12-12 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1470125478304313344 | 1470125478304313344 |
| Kevin McCarthy is doing his best to lead the country into | 2021-12-12 | 22 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1470121532986777613 | 1470121532986777613 |
| There's big money in big lies! | 2021-12-12 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1470119232721408002 | 1470119232721408002 |
| The fall of Kabul, stunning in its suddenness. | 2021-12-12 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1469913457738883074 | 1469913457738883074 |
| GOP taking control of election machinery in red states. | 2021-12-12 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1469898511487422467 | 1469898511487422467 |
| How Trumpists terrorized an election worker. | 2021-12-12 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1469887495634444295 | 1469887495634444295 |
| Distracted driving should be a violation. | 2021-12-12 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1469886931072741378 | 1469886931072741378 |
| "it is up to us, the people. No party or leader will save | 2021-12-12 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1469880933843025923 | 1469880933843025923 |
| 18 ways to lose a democracy. | 2021-12-12 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1469879985049518081 | 1469879985049518081 |
| Does Manchin not know that GOP senators are devoted to | 2021-12-12 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1469878407278186500 | 1469878407278186500 |
| What's the difference between 1972 and 2021? | 2021-12-12 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1469877153646874625 | 1469877153646874625 |
| Bannon, Flynn, Stone - still inciting insurrection from | 2021-12-12 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1469874741825572867 | 1469874741825572867 |
| Vigilantism or insurrection? | 2021-12-12 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1469872964287881221 | 1469872964287881221 |
| Can Trump snatch defeat from the jaws of victory in Georgia | 2021-12-12 | 20 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1469860859866337281 | 1469860859866337281 |
| Some people make a living by laying the groundwork for | 2021-12-12 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1469859053845172226 | 1469859053845172226 |
| More Trumpism in action - you don't have to obey laws, | 2021-12-12 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1469857535028989952 | 1469857535028989952 |
| Trump an unreliable source of medical evaluations. | 2021-12-12 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1469855374148657154 | 1469855374148657154 |
| Rand Paul is only in favor of Federal disaster relief for | 2021-12-12 | 60 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1469854822912323584 | 1469854822912323584 |
| Masons - like those picture on our money - have an ideal | 2021-12-12 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1469854178549764098 | 1469854178549764098 |
| Crime gets old. | 2021-12-12 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1469843048108490755 | 1469843048108490755 |
| Social media posts are evidence! | 2021-12-12 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1469841529556455424 | 1469841529556455424 |
| Border Patrol plays amateur detective. | 2021-12-12 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1469840642394103811 | 1469840642394103811 |
| H1B abuse in Silicon Valley? | 2021-12-12 | 45 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1469830791571988481 | 1469830791571988481 |
| Is expanding the Supreme Court the only way to get it out | 2021-12-11 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1469661217694224386 | 1469661217694224386 |
| Ask people about "the economy" and they look at gas prices | 2021-12-11 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1469660613953474561 | 1469660613953474561 |
| How should Democrats preserve majority rule? | 2021-12-11 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1469659704120864771 | 1469659704120864771 |
| Don't blame progressive Democrats if GOP gains control of | 2021-12-11 | 43 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1469657248251072513 | 1469657248251072513 |
| What if spiders spread covid? | 2021-12-11 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1469655174343905287 | 1469655174343905287 |
| What makes money work? | 2021-12-11 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1469652945406869505 | 1469652945406869505 |
| GenZ's need to watch Life of Brian again. | 2021-12-11 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1469647462637793281 | 1469647462637793281 |
| Trump loyalty is a one-way street - and it's never enough. | 2021-12-11 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1469645385681367041 | 1469645385681367041 |
| Side effect of covid - enlightenment about what's really | 2021-12-11 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1469644651246194690 | 1469644651246194690 |
| It doesn't have to be true if it's what Trump wants | 2021-12-11 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1469530121149169665 | 1469530121149169665 |
| Six more rally planners subpoena'd. | 2021-12-11 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1469527745709293570 | 1469527745709293570 |
| Call out the National Guard! | 2021-12-11 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1469527191276773380 | 1469527191276773380 |
| Internet on fire - again. | 2021-12-11 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1469525861665628164 | 1469525861665628164 |
| That was the week that wasn't. | 2021-12-11 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1469524881788133376 | 1469524881788133376 |
| Is selling advertising more profitable than selling | 2021-12-10 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1469355522197393408 | 1469355522197393408 |
| The social media business model is inherently anti-social. | 2021-12-10 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1469352636927266816 | 1469352636927266816 |
| GOP has correctly identified the most persecuted group in | 2021-12-10 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1469347633533620226 | 1469347633533620226 |
| Why are drug prices increasing so rapidly in the US? | 2021-12-10 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1469343833108332546 | 1469343833108332546 |
| Too many uncomfortable facts turn people toward | 2021-12-10 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1469341730495365120 | 1469341730495365120 |
| Covid origins - science might never overcome the politics | 2021-12-10 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1469339268107563010 | 1469339268107563010 |
| Even if it doesn't kill, the virus can destroy - | 2021-12-10 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1469319009560498177 | 1469319009560498177 |
| Trump and Putin - two peas in a pod. | 2021-12-10 | 21 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1469313685092909056 | 1469313685092909056 |
| Think Pandora Papers had nothing to do with you? | 2021-12-10 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1469119872529436677 | 1469119872529436677 |
| Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? | 2021-12-10 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1469118390107209728 | 1469118390107209728 |
| Crypto currencies are not as stable as T-Bills! | 2021-12-10 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1469117011179433984 | 1469117011179433984 |
| “We are not going to assemble iPhones in the US” | 2021-12-10 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1469115967896637441 | 1469115967896637441 |
| Reshipping work-at-home scams - you lose money AND might | 2021-12-10 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1469115047020404738 | 1469115047020404738 |
| New Georgia law protects GOP from black Democrats. | 2021-12-10 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1469098234601619458 | 1469098234601619458 |
| Redistricting wars could be minimized by ranked-choice | 2021-12-10 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1469097728428834817 | 1469097728428834817 |
| "President Trump’s duty to defend the Constitution | 2021-12-10 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1469095454285565957 | 1469095454285565957 |
| Is Pence a lost cause? | 2021-12-09 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1468952870837899264 | 1468952870837899264 |
| Pleading the fifth! | 2021-12-09 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1468949908661043202 | 1468949908661043202 |
| Who funds insurrection? Sweet rich grandmas who get | 2021-12-09 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1468817555125006336 | 1468817555125006336 |
| Expensive drug will increase every medicare recipients | 2021-12-09 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1468801973994459138 | 1468801973994459138 |
| The inevitable result of centralization - back to | 2021-12-09 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1468800993575854081 | 1468800993575854081 |
| Manchin sides with GOP in supporting parliamentarian cuts | 2021-12-09 | 47 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1468798995950542848 | 1468798995950542848 |
| Now Trumpists want to sue Congress for investigating | 2021-12-09 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1468798136634122240 | 1468798136634122240 |
| Manchin and Tester join GOP against vax mandate. | 2021-12-09 | 201 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1468795354736783361 | 1468795354736783361 |
| Why does GOP support right-to-life, right-to-shoot, | 2021-12-08 | 30 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1468593631191715842 | 1468593631191715842 |
| The best idea in the 2017 billionaire tax relief was a | 2021-12-08 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1468585215165562883 | 1468585215165562883 |
| How much would it cost to conquer Ukraine? | 2021-12-08 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1468584440553033728 | 1468584440553033728 |
| Trump says GOP shouldn't pay its past indebtedness. | 2021-12-08 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1468583292324569095 | 1468583292324569095 |
| Democratization of technology - groups you arm might not | 2021-12-08 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1468440660512428033 | 1468440660512428033 |
| Choose words carefully but focus on the substance. | 2021-12-07 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1468265231847542787 | 1468265231847542787 |
| Ever wonder what it was like in the California or Alaska | 2021-12-07 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1468262976465424386 | 1468262976465424386 |
| Meadows changes his mind to protect Trump; Short agrees | 2021-12-07 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1468258210645561352 | 1468258210645561352 |
| Will 10 traditional conservative GOP senators step forward | 2021-12-07 | 17 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1468031587031797760 | 1468031587031797760 |
| Trump owns the Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP, to the chagrin of | 2021-12-07 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1468026176794812418 | 1468026176794812418 |
| Clark and Eastman join a distinguished honor roll. | 2021-12-07 | 18 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1468017610360963074 | 1468017610360963074 |
| How does a superspreader happen? | 2021-12-07 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1468016304795754498 | 1468016304795754498 |
| No mystery at all. | 2021-12-07 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1468012699795673092 | 1468012699795673092 |
| "Sherman left more standing than this primary will" | 2021-12-07 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1468011540867547138 | 1468011540867547138 |
| Trumpism thriving in France. | 2021-12-07 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1468009945941495810 | 1468009945941495810 |
| Russians still at it! | 2021-12-07 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1468009087254228995 | 1468009087254228995 |
| Going to the Supreme Court! | 2021-12-06 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1468005529544892419 | 1468005529544892419 |
| Good news for Congress! Bad news for Trump Media! | 2021-12-06 | 35 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1467995234084687876 | 1467995234084687876 |
| The Trumpiest kind of Trumpist! Take other people's | 2021-12-06 | 39 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1467892941993627648 | 1467892941993627648 |
| What things a president says are part of his job? | 2021-12-06 | 39 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1467771235517927424 | 1467771235517927424 |
| Trump's unclear on the concept! | 2021-12-06 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1467770413241356288 | 1467770413241356288 |
| The new GOP - government as reality-TV entertainment! | 2021-12-06 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1467766717141041155 | 1467766717141041155 |
| Manliness - another GOP culture war issue for which they | 2021-12-05 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1467538510185861125 | 1467538510185861125 |
| Maybe it's time to be explicit about class warfare - | 2021-12-05 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1467531488564420612 | 1467531488564420612 |
| Another dream of fast internet riches through social media. | 2021-12-05 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1467493580759609347 | 1467493580759609347 |
| To the victor belong the spoils - Taliban upholds ancient | 2021-12-04 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1466998727600586753 | 1466998727600586753 |
| Who are the unvaccinated? The people who don't trust | 2021-12-04 | 27 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1466997298366345219 | 1466997298366345219 |
| Fifty years later, fulfilling the dreams of Strom Thurmond, | 2021-12-04 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1466993516479868933 | 1466993516479868933 |
| How expectations about the future affect labor market | 2021-12-04 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1466991894362157057 | 1466991894362157057 |
| Nobody says GOP candidates need to talk more to urban | 2021-12-04 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1466990262874370052 | 1466990262874370052 |
| Time to take a stand between fact and fiction. | 2021-12-04 | 19 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1466980760888307717 | 1466980760888307717 |
| What Manchin and Sanders are missing - nothing that they | 2021-12-04 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1466979880235528194 | 1466979880235528194 |
| Blame the boomers! | 2021-12-04 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1466977660177772547 | 1466977660177772547 |
| But Dr Oz is a dedicated Trumpist! Of course, but how | 2021-12-04 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1466976660750618624 | 1466976660750618624 |
| Putin sets up a credible threat to invade Ukraine. | 2021-12-04 | 51 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1466973469745180673 | 1466973469745180673 |
| The Supreme Court appears about to fulfill the expectations | 2021-12-04 | 46 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1466971146264322051 | 1466971146264322051 |
| Why are flash-mob robberies spreading like covid? | 2021-12-04 | 28 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1466968746933686281 | 1466968746933686281 |
| Hazards of the homemade gun business. Apparently it's | 2021-12-04 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1466967571584802822 | 1466967571584802822 |
| Not idle threats - not idle punishment. | 2021-12-04 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1466946865862037506 | 1466946865862037506 |
| “medical condition that precludes his participation in | 2021-12-04 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1466946128490819584 | 1466946128490819584 |
| Manchin refuses to commit to anything, to GOP delight. | 2021-12-04 | 26 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1466937306787377153 | 1466937306787377153 |
| Unclear on the concept! | 2021-12-04 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1466932349514379266 | 1466932349514379266 |
| Bradley "talked about the tax reform law he’d written | 2021-12-04 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1466926821094555648 | 1466926821094555648 |
| Marjorie Taylor Greene, Paul Gosar, and the rest are sure | 2021-12-04 | 28 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1466922794843717635 | 1466922794843717635 |
| Eastman joins Clark in pleading the fifth. But Congress | 2021-12-03 | 39 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1466910080905875457 | 1466910080905875457 |
| How things went bad between Trump and intelligence. | 2021-12-03 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1466908754788585472 | 1466908754788585472 |
| Ingraham and Cruz drop the fig leaves - "if this court | 2021-12-03 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1466907810512338946 | 1466907810512338946 |
| How will the NRA oppose safe storage of firearms? | 2021-12-03 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1466905336296574977 | 1466905336296574977 |
| NSO Pegasus used on US diplomats. By whom? | 2021-12-03 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1466903651650134016 | 1466903651650134016 |
| "Republicans have chosen to be on the side of the virus" | 2021-12-03 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1466902603468402688 | 1466902603468402688 |
| Beating the raps? All in a day's work! But Trump can | 2021-12-03 | 32 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1466899308041490432 | 1466899308041490432 |
| Republican Senate primary could be nasty! So many PA | 2021-12-03 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1466895067260485635 | 1466895067260485635 |
| That was the week than wasn't! | 2021-12-03 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1466890768157605888 | 1466890768157605888 |
| Most school districts have a long list of critical issues | 2021-12-03 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1466631937905213443 | 1466631937905213443 |
| One reason there are so many cute animal videos on social | 2021-12-03 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1466627331003326468 | 1466627331003326468 |
| OPEC planning a small increase in production. That should | 2021-12-03 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1466626060968095751 | 1466626060968095751 |
| Who knew that we would look back to W as a moral leader? | 2021-12-03 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1466623562857414660 | 1466623562857414660 |
| Trying to define a get-rich-quick business model for | 2021-12-03 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1466619980280074241 | 1466619980280074241 |
| Hertz customers still seem to be recovering from Hertz | 2021-12-03 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1466617968410783750 | 1466617968410783750 |
| Trump's plans to become president for life. No more | 2021-12-03 | 23 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1466616832119373825 | 1466616832119373825 |
| Mike Lindell is a complete success at disputing elections - | 2021-12-03 | 102 | 7 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1466615626718273541 | 1466615626718273541 |
| Trump doesn't scare every Republican - just most of them. | 2021-12-03 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1466614180388085771 | 1466614180388085771 |
| Democratic senators take another look at restructuring | 2021-12-03 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1466612955395477505 | 1466612955395477505 |
| More on the barely-averted government shutdown - expect | 2021-12-03 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1466611672349511680 | 1466611672349511680 |
| Wonder what he did? Wonder who's been paying for it, | 2021-12-03 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1466610104829022210 | 1466610104829022210 |
| 249 people interviewed so far. But now something new! | 2021-12-03 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1466605097123680258 | 1466605097123680258 |
| What's $175,000 compared to the exposure on Fox? | 2021-12-03 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1466603458270695425 | 1466603458270695425 |
| Who voted to shut down the government tomorrow? | 2021-12-03 | 42 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1466602818555445252 | 1466602818555445252 |
| Water was the first really big political issue in | 2021-12-03 | 35 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1466600137631809537 | 1466600137631809537 |
| Ideas for fixing supply chain inflation. | 2021-12-03 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1466598194054270981 | 1466598194054270981 |
| Sacklers and oxycontin. | 2021-12-03 | 42 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1466597258766422016 | 1466597258766422016 |
| Get vaccinated! | 2021-12-03 | 21 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1466596492982972417 | 1466596492982972417 |
| Another traditional conservative gives up - no future in | 2021-12-03 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1466595715853918209 | 1466595715853918209 |
| Chinese disinformation on Facebook. | 2021-12-03 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1466594900284100610 | 1466594900284100610 |
| "Wherever Republicans are in charge, they are fully | 2021-12-02 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1466507165787561988 | 1466507165787561988 |
| Negligent parents should be criminally liable and civilly | 2021-12-02 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1466498244372881408 | 1466498244372881408 |
| Trump's hotel lost money but he still did pretty well. | 2021-12-02 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1466497061570764802 | 1466497061570764802 |
| GOP in a nutshell - | 2021-12-02 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1466493183836098564 | 1466493183836098564 |
| What hell is like - millions of fans and no friends | 2021-12-02 | 18 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1466492256035082243 | 1466492256035082243 |
| What's so hard to understand about pro-guns and | 2021-12-02 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1466466985999544327 | 1466466985999544327 |
| Overturning Roe v Wade was Trump's public promise to | 2021-12-02 | 26 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1466463132574965768 | 1466463132574965768 |
| Trump's lasting contribution to America - you don't have | 2021-12-02 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1466461761658261505 | 1466461761658261505 |
| "We are now learning the hard way what 40 years of | 2021-12-02 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1466460938882543618 | 1466460938882543618 |
| GOP doesn't want legal immigration and doesn't want to | 2021-12-02 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1466459949744091141 | 1466459949744091141 |
| Every redistricting map works to somebody's advantage and | 2021-12-02 | 22 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1466456803500179456 | 1466456803500179456 |
| Still no slowdown in Silicon Valley. | 2021-12-02 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1466454674903502853 | 1466454674903502853 |
| GOP has offers criticism but no solutions - | 2021-12-02 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1466433000380510223 | 1466433000380510223 |
| GOP senators would rather shut down the government in | 2021-12-02 | 46 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1466425892108845056 | 1466425892108845056 |
| If you've got the bug, who cares about other people? | 2021-12-02 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1466412369525952514 | 1466412369525952514 |
| Foreign powers take advantage of a divided American | 2021-12-02 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1466407218375319554 | 1466407218375319554 |
| What are they planning to do with stolen military | 2021-12-02 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1466402910158290954 | 1466402910158290954 |
| Who gets to decide how local governments implement state, | 2021-12-02 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1466263213398392837 | 1466263213398392837 |
| Vigilantes have a long tradition in the South - | 2021-12-02 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1466260915343400961 | 1466260915343400961 |
| Most chips in American products are made in Taiwan - | 2021-12-02 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1466259835381424132 | 1466259835381424132 |
| Don't cheat if you're incompetent. | 2021-12-02 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1466258973196120069 | 1466258973196120069 |
| "Sierra Nevada" means "snowy mountain range". Maybe not | 2021-12-02 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1466258580101730305 | 1466258580101730305 |
| A message from the loriginal Republican Party to the | 2021-12-02 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1466257484192960515 | 1466257484192960515 |
| You're not supposed to lie in court. Judges can make | 2021-12-01 | 27 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1466134970280202242 | 1466134970280202242 |
| The price of doing something, or even trying, is generating | 2021-12-01 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1466126332635484163 | 1466126332635484163 |
| Waves of crime lead to waves of tough anti-crime | 2021-12-01 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1466122822569259012 | 1466122822569259012 |
| Traditional Taliban policing. | 2021-12-01 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1465945279434158083 | 1465945279434158083 |
| Don't like polarization? Don't vote GOP - it's an | 2021-12-01 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1465943922656432128 | 1465943922656432128 |
| Ukraine - who's bluffing? | 2021-12-01 | 42 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1465941039429001218 | 1465941039429001218 |
| "Much of their fortunes are held in offshore trusts that | 2021-12-01 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1465940173217153027 | 1465940173217153027 |
| Space junk - the final barrier to the final frontier. | 2021-12-01 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1465939079082614788 | 1465939079082614788 |
| A perfect Trumpist candidate for Pennsylvania - not even | 2021-12-01 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1465937592990400515 | 1465937592990400515 |
| Chipping away at the secrets | 2021-12-01 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1465935530554638339 | 1465935530554638339 |
| Israelis now regret encouraging Trump. | 2021-12-01 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1465933848781283335 | 1465933848781283335 |
| Afghanistan collapses as aid groups struggle to support | 2021-11-30 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1465689261022142474 | 1465689261022142474 |
| "Sovereign citizens" need to shut up in court. | 2021-11-30 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1465686376112816128 | 1465686376112816128 |
| Want Trump on your Christmas cards? | 2021-11-30 | 47 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1465550401512488968 | 1465550401512488968 |
| Most of the developed world has realized that it needs | 2021-11-30 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1465514496328228866 | 1465514496328228866 |
| Does the PRC have a new plan for internet governance? | 2021-11-30 | 81 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1465513494778814464 | 1465513494778814464 |
| "unfavorable economic conditions next year a gold mine | 2021-11-30 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1465511172015153154 | 1465511172015153154 |
| "Having election deniers run elections is like having | 2021-11-30 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1465508496183422979 | 1465508496183422979 |
| Not really sorry - it polled well with the base, with | 2021-11-30 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1465488544856637448 | 1465488544856637448 |
| Jeffrey Clark to follow Bannon. | 2021-11-30 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1465488088394653698 | 1465488088394653698 |
| Inflation seems to be a global problem. | 2021-11-29 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1465317444612808708 | 1465317444612808708 |
| Need more disinformation? Learn Spanish! | 2021-11-29 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1465316249487884296 | 1465316249487884296 |
| Why regional federalism is becoming more appealing | 2021-11-29 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1465184193344720896 | 1465184193344720896 |
| Tired of Silicon Valley real estate prices? Austin is | 2021-11-29 | 54 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1465173135569739781 | 1465173135569739781 |
| John Deere workers win better compensation and benefits, | 2021-11-29 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1465171096328495104 | 1465171096328495104 |
| Manchin - and major political donors - don't like Federal | 2021-11-29 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1465169656809877512 | 1465169656809877512 |
| Will a four-day workweek become the new normal? | 2021-11-29 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1465166121003192321 | 1465166121003192321 |
| They are still here. | 2021-11-29 | 25 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1465163482295259139 | 1465163482295259139 |
| Not everybody in Silicon Valley is hurting for a place | 2021-11-29 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1465144769751834627 | 1465144769751834627 |
| Don't gloat over the deaths of ordinary people. Save | 2021-11-29 | 23 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1465143234582093827 | 1465143234582093827 |
| In the Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP, " there are lawmakers, | 2021-11-29 | 30 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1465132314220908544 | 1465132314220908544 |
| Josephine Baker to the Pantheon. | 2021-11-29 | 30 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1465124020328697859 | 1465124020328697859 |
| Fauci tries to blast Cruz and Paul with facts. But they | 2021-11-29 | 30 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1465119777471418372 | 1465119777471418372 |
| Supply chain myths | 2021-11-28 | 40 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1464866684611661830 | 1464866684611661830 |
| Sounds like Christie will run against Trump in the 2024 | 2021-11-28 | 30 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1464862231334567939 | 1464862231334567939 |
| 1619 was indeed a pivotal year in Virginia - and could | 2021-11-27 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1464604161304006658 | 1464604161304006658 |
| A seasonal labor shortage. | 2021-11-27 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1464599314567548933 | 1464599314567548933 |
| Biden makes little progress on immigration. | 2021-11-27 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1464598553846710277 | 1464598553846710277 |
| The conductivity of your bedrock has something to do with | 2021-11-27 | 23 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1464450404746285059 | 1464450404746285059 |
| covid might have come from bats after all! | 2021-11-27 | 27 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1464445412920598530 | 1464445412920598530 |
| The end of real family farming. | 2021-11-27 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1464444014157959176 | 1464444014157959176 |
| Subminimum wage - a Florida GOP idea. | 2021-11-27 | 24 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1464442303922114560 | 1464442303922114560 |
| Part of the supply chain crisis is Made in China. | 2021-11-27 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1464440177154084868 | 1464440177154084868 |
| The sixties aren't over! | 2021-11-27 | 31 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1464405713355042817 | 1464405713355042817 |
| Trumpism in action - turning contacts from public service | 2021-11-27 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1464404076238557189 | 1464404076238557189 |
| A Madisonian view of contemporary politics. | 2021-11-27 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1464402345014423558 | 1464402345014423558 |
| If natural beauty, low humidity, politics, and being in | 2021-11-27 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1464397359601750016 | 1464397359601750016 |
| It's an old story - | 2021-11-27 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1464389792691470341 | 1464389792691470341 |
| Trumpism in action - "The Senate has become a less | 2021-11-27 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1464383790134878212 | 1464383790134878212 |
| "predatory political fringe threatens to metabolize the | 2021-11-26 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1464381387239157764 | 1464381387239157764 |
| Make your iphone more private. | 2021-11-26 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1464379443057606658 | 1464379443057606658 |
| Is Putin up to something in Ukraine or not? | 2021-11-26 | 49 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1464378482671042564 | 1464378482671042564 |
| It's hard to think of another composer so inventive in | 2021-11-26 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1464376569552523267 | 1464376569552523267 |
| That was the week that wasn't. | 2021-11-26 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1464368010387279872 | 1464368010387279872 |
| Yesterday, covid virus seemed so far away... | 2021-11-26 | 44 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1464365574369075207 | 1464365574369075207 |
| "A large segment of Americans is not particularly | 2021-11-26 | 33 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1464127615610941443 | 1464127615610941443 |
| China undertakes active measures to exclude foreign | 2021-11-26 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1464123346681876485 | 1464123346681876485 |
| Context is important to understanding the whole story. | 2021-11-26 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1464122470261145600 | 1464122470261145600 |
| The horror! | 2021-11-26 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1464120983938207746 | 1464120983938207746 |
| China contests with US and Australia for control of | 2021-11-26 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1464118064060850180 | 1464118064060850180 |
| New variants keep cropping up among the unvaccinated. | 2021-11-25 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1464002476588212227 | 1464002476588212227 |
| What bipartisan support for voting rights? | 2021-11-25 | 31 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1464001578205999120 | 1464001578205999120 |
| Another way for GOP to undermine Biden. | 2021-11-25 | 22 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1463996307010297856 | 1463996307010297856 |
| The science of gerrymandering. Consultants get big bucks | 2021-11-25 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1463993353997979650 | 1463993353997979650 |
| What's happening to the Taliban in eastern Afghanistan? | 2021-11-25 | 36 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1463990607806812161 | 1463990607806812161 |
| The FBI dropped the ball. An ill-timed software | 2021-11-25 | 28 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1463988742033588250 | 1463988742033588250 |
| It's the Trumpist Dixiecrat Party now. They'll purge | 2021-11-25 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1463981972481474560 | 1463981972481474560 |
| Persuadable voters are persuaded more by simple theories | 2021-11-25 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1463980547877707776 | 1463980547877707776 |
| When Norman Rockwell grew up. | 2021-11-25 | 23 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1463970071957565440 | 1463970071957565440 |
| Now hoarding and warehouses full of inventory seems smarter | 2021-11-25 | 29 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1463934557925740547 | 1463934557925740547 |
| Better to do redistricting completely differently - | 2021-11-25 | 34 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1463929280925093889 | 1463929280925093889 |
| Trumpism at its finest - performing for Fox instead of | 2021-11-25 | 44 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1463926371546107904 | 1463926371546107904 |
| The democratization of advanced weaponry eliminates | 2021-11-25 | 31 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1463918112588242949 | 1463918112588242949 |
| Is Russia behind Havana Syndrome? | 2021-11-25 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1463892558417838085 | 1463892558417838085 |
| The way to beat inflation is to have a severe recession. | 2021-11-25 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1463749258100625413 | 1463749258100625413 |
| BBB needs 50 Democratic votes to pass the Senate. It only | 2021-11-25 | 44 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1463747517938495491 | 1463747517938495491 |
| Rittenhouse needs professional career management to make | 2021-11-25 | 45 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1463743771548422147 | 1463743771548422147 |
| Doing something about unruly passengers? They're just | 2021-11-25 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1463741104759607301 | 1463741104759607301 |
| Sounds like much of the alt-right doesn't understand about | 2021-11-25 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1463737056027308036 | 1463737056027308036 |
| Steve Scalise in 2017 and 2021 - what a difference four | 2021-11-25 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1463719260501381122 | 1463719260501381122 |
| More trouble ahead. | 2021-11-25 | 30 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1463713906606559239 | 1463713906606559239 |
| Eternal vigilance is the price of minority rule! | 2021-11-25 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1463711876689195011 | 1463711876689195011 |
| Will civil litigation slow down hacker enablers? | 2021-11-25 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1463710029601669123 | 1463710029601669123 |
| Photo op for Biden. | 2021-11-25 | 118 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1463709654547009537 | 1463709654547009537 |
| There wouldn't be legal pot in California without a local | 2021-11-25 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1463708425016143877 | 1463708425016143877 |
| How should California repay Federal funds borrowed to | 2021-11-24 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1463524888346435584 | 1463524888346435584 |
| Forty years ago it was "don't Californicate Oregon!" and | 2021-11-24 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1463523307991433217 | 1463523307991433217 |
| Will Oath Keepers and Proud Boys comply with subpoenas? | 2021-11-24 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1463411419752271873 | 1463411419752271873 |
| NoMeToo in China! | 2021-11-24 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1463410673916907523 | 1463410673916907523 |
| White supremacists get to pay for the publicity from their | 2021-11-24 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1463409563449790467 | 1463409563449790467 |
| Increasing political production. | 2021-11-23 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1463130432191352836 | 1463130432191352836 |
| Maybe space junk accounts for the Fermi paradox! | 2021-11-23 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1463024271958044673 | 1463024271958044673 |
| GOP has no clue about the kind of inflation we have now, | 2021-11-23 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1463021430212202502 | 1463021430212202502 |
| Why we need immigration - too many people don't want | 2021-11-23 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1463012186599485440 | 1463012186599485440 |
| Another poster boy for the modern Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP. | 2021-11-23 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1463010642663600128 | 1463010642663600128 |
| "By endorsing violence, parties are effectively saying | 2021-11-23 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1463008204904796165 | 1463008204904796165 |
| Biden administration continues a Trump mistake, reducing | 2021-11-23 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1463004952528240640 | 1463004952528240640 |
| Frivolous lawsuits cost real money. Ethical attorneys | 2021-11-23 | 23 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1463003755603922951 | 1463003755603922951 |
| Methane fee? A good way to find out who depends on | 2021-11-23 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1463001869966401549 | 1463001869966401549 |
| A real Trumpist would have just hit back twice as hard! | 2021-11-23 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1463000931973230597 | 1463000931973230597 |
| Alex Jones and Roger Stone - they likely know more than | 2021-11-23 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1462999634465361924 | 1462999634465361924 |
| Traditional conservatives have no place in the Trumpist | 2021-11-23 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1462982059538874376 | 1462982059538874376 |
| What kind of inflation do you prefer? | 2021-11-23 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1462979855578927106 | 1462979855578927106 |
| What's a Trump property worth? Depends on who's asking! | 2021-11-22 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1462805814767357961 | 1462805814767357961 |
| Traditional conservatives still in GOP need to accept | 2021-11-22 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1462665966693740546 | 1462665966693740546 |
| Who really represents American business? | 2021-11-22 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1462657504232423425 | 1462657504232423425 |
| "Biden’s approval ratings are better than Donald | 2021-11-21 | 47 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1462561644492427266 | 1462561644492427266 |
| DeSantis believes in science - political science! How to | 2021-11-21 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1462558965020061696 | 1462558965020061696 |
| Who are the new Texans? | 2021-11-21 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1462556271668723714 | 1462556271668723714 |
| Fentanyl - the best argument yet for staying off illegal | 2021-11-21 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1462533275205844992 | 1462533275205844992 |
| An essential pillar of minority rule - diverting the masses | 2021-11-21 | 26 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1462531535362424835 | 1462531535362424835 |
| Is it possible to get public employee pension funding on | 2021-11-21 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1462529894512947200 | 1462529894512947200 |
| Forget oil and Arabs. The future is cobalt and Congo | 2021-11-21 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1462527512622157826 | 1462527512622157826 |
| DeSantis and Abbott are running for president, not trying | 2021-11-21 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1462523792568119297 | 1462523792568119297 |
| Veterans and active-duty military are highly susceptible | 2021-11-21 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1462517988309880834 | 1462517988309880834 |
| White supremacist guards beating black inmates? | 2021-11-21 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1462503401812418560 | 1462503401812418560 |
| Putin's real motives and tactical goals are unknown, | 2021-11-20 | 43 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1462052855884386305 | 1462052855884386305 |
| Saudi, and for a while Russian, oil production cuts led | 2021-11-20 | 45 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1461943413184417792 | 1461943413184417792 |
| The browser was going to be the universal operating system. | 2021-11-20 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1461941625899257862 | 1461941625899257862 |
| Putin's plans to restore the Soviet Union as a world power. | 2021-11-20 | 28 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1461936312466882562 | 1461936312466882562 |
| Nothing in history is guaranteed. Small changes can | 2021-11-20 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1461933717102813190 | 1461933717102813190 |
| Putin is up to something, again, in Ukraine. | 2021-11-20 | 44 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1461932403937533956 | 1461932403937533956 |
| Of course the Dixiecrat GOP endorses terrorism. It's an | 2021-11-20 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1461931257583976453 | 1461931257583976453 |
| That was the speech that wasn't - true. | 2021-11-20 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1461930258479804419 | 1461930258479804419 |
| "these moments are rare when you can seize on something | 2021-11-20 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1461928968018300935 | 1461928968018300935 |
| Any leader that gets significant change enacted can expect | 2021-11-20 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1461854200871014407 | 1461854200871014407 |
| The real villains here are the enablers who know better | 2021-11-20 | 29 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1461851257899929600 | 1461851257899929600 |
| Guns provoke crimes! | 2021-11-20 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1461850070580482051 | 1461850070580482051 |
| The goal of preserving minority rule gets a new jolt | 2021-11-19 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1461844529850425344 | 1461844529850425344 |
| Traditional conservative George Will identifies Josh Hawley | 2021-11-19 | 39 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1461838089215627266 | 1461838089215627266 |
| GOP will say anything whether true or not. | 2021-11-19 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1461835704552472577 | 1461835704552472577 |
| "The real turning point was the election of Barack Obama | 2021-11-19 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1461832894595276805 | 1461832894595276805 |
| An organized effort to hack election networks. | 2021-11-19 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1461828427518906372 | 1461828427518906372 |
| Russian interference is as big a winner for United Russia | 2021-11-19 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1461826844114636801 | 1461826844114636801 |
| Wisconsin GOP willing to take any steps necessary to insure | 2021-11-19 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1461825418818818048 | 1461825418818818048 |
| That was the week that wasn't. | 2021-11-19 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1461819579659788289 | 1461819579659788289 |
| It was a straight party line vote, except for Democrat | 2021-11-19 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1461712075340668941 | 1461712075340668941 |
| “If you took the worst orator in the world Gave him the | 2021-11-19 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1461705796211773441 | 1461705796211773441 |
| Why is covid worse in US and Europe than in Africa or | 2021-11-19 | 17 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1461703495086600193 | 1461703495086600193 |
| "Republicans said the latest legislation would give tax | 2021-11-19 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1461687735744286723 | 1461687735744286723 |
| McCarthy punished Democrats by ranting for hours tonight. | 2021-11-19 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1461566394638614530 | 1461566394638614530 |
| Lots of truck drivers quit over lousy pay and working | 2021-11-19 | 32 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1461550424545054722 | 1461550424545054722 |
| A reactionary judiciary reacts - | 2021-11-19 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1461545781035368453 | 1461545781035368453 |
| What's in BBB and how much it costs and when it expires | 2021-11-19 | 151 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1461543758449700865 | 1461543758449700865 |
| Ohio shows how it's done. | 2021-11-19 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1461541913199190016 | 1461541913199190016 |
| How will independent commission redistricting work out in | 2021-11-19 | 52 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1461529266856681476 | 1461529266856681476 |
| California might issue tax rebate checks. | 2021-11-19 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1461527541672341507 | 1461527541672341507 |
| What can you learn from DNS logs? | 2021-11-19 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1461509759547285511 | 1461509759547285511 |
| "led to confusion and inefficiency" | 2021-11-19 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1461508294774702081 | 1461508294774702081 |
| Liz Cheney MIGHT be re-elected as an independent, but most | 2021-11-19 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1461507324158246912 | 1461507324158246912 |
| CBO estimate is close enough to even, considering its | 2021-11-19 | 28 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1461499103846621186 | 1461499103846621186 |
| Congress investigates DeSantis' role in suppressing | 2021-11-19 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1461493938481631234 | 1461493938481631234 |
| The Steele dossier was a dead end. But it didn't affect | 2021-11-19 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1461492780841066497 | 1461492780841066497 |
| They speak in code now - but not much longer. What | 2021-11-19 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1461490432949374977 | 1461490432949374977 |
| Redistricting could be rational - | 2021-11-19 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1461489751798681600 | 1461489751798681600 |
| Preston Brooks lives! | 2021-11-19 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1461487852324147204 | 1461487852324147204 |
| Iranian hackers have been busy - | 2021-11-18 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1461484021796376578 | 1461484021796376578 |
| People don't know much about economics, and politicians | 2021-11-18 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1461339001701343237 | 1461339001701343237 |
| Traditional demand-side inflation might be addressed | 2021-11-18 | 30 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1461338536884404230 | 1461338536884404230 |
| You've probably forgotten about the Balkans. Expect to | 2021-11-18 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1461209857705472002 | 1461209857705472002 |
| Elon Musk has the salesman morals and showmanship of Trump | 2021-11-18 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1461199036623437825 | 1461199036623437825 |
| GOP doesn't want IRS to go after its donors. But that's | 2021-11-18 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1461196179127951361 | 1461196179127951361 |
| Gosar has always been an idiot and might not know any | 2021-11-18 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1461195127293022209 | 1461195127293022209 |
| Sometimes the National Guard reports to the governor | 2021-11-18 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1461190893701001221 | 1461190893701001221 |
| Defunding the police is a dead issue. No city is doing | 2021-11-18 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1461172027977461761 | 1461172027977461761 |
| How to make a living peddling racism. | 2021-11-18 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1461170648974184451 | 1461170648974184451 |
| Court-ordered oil and gas lease auction goes forward - | 2021-11-18 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1461153002996203521 | 1461153002996203521 |
| Preston Brooks would be so proud - | 2021-11-18 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1461151953673601027 | 1461151953673601027 |
| Hearing aids or drugs to fight dementia? | 2021-11-18 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1461149015253274627 | 1461149015253274627 |
| The Democratic messaging problem - too much fairness. | 2021-11-18 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1461147536769511431 | 1461147536769511431 |
| Coffee, tea, or stroke? | 2021-11-18 | 21 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1461145861526679554 | 1461145861526679554 |
| Water is the real third rail of California politics - | 2021-11-18 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1461144964037967872 | 1461144964037967872 |
| Inflation can't be that bad - consumer spending is rising | 2021-11-18 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1461142871642284032 | 1461142871642284032 |
| SALT deductions and California | 2021-11-18 | 48 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1461139001713168387 | 1461139001713168387 |
| California redistricting commissions was a good idea - | 2021-11-18 | 44 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1461137487900798977 | 1461137487900798977 |
| Tired of cancelled flights? | 2021-11-18 | 45 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1461132899059523589 | 1461132899059523589 |
| 41 months for most recognizable insurrectionist | 2021-11-18 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1461127594674294788 | 1461127594674294788 |
| Justice delayed is justice denied! | 2021-11-17 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1460983044861423617 | 1460983044861423617 |
| Inflation increasing and all Biden wants to do is talk | 2021-11-17 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1460981189959819265 | 1460981189959819265 |
| Time slips - our next mass psychosis? | 2021-11-17 | 57 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1460872359649308674 | 1460872359649308674 |
| Ever wonder why EVERY restaurant has a Help Wanted sign | 2021-11-17 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1460870746452873218 | 1460870746452873218 |
| God bless and keep Fox - far away from US! | 2021-11-17 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1460869535880253441 | 1460869535880253441 |
| Democratic legislators also feel the heat from major donors | 2021-11-17 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1460868333037776899 | 1460868333037776899 |
| In his best "teacher made me say it" voice, Gosar pretends | 2021-11-17 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1460864817267310592 | 1460864817267310592 |
| Time to get back to the game of brinkmanship. Some of | 2021-11-17 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1460863725208883206 | 1460863725208883206 |
| Nobody puts much faith in a Taliban promise. | 2021-11-16 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1460614204604305408 | 1460614204604305408 |
| Stop making ammunition for Trumpists! | 2021-11-16 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1460461106191761422 | 1460461106191761422 |
| More on Russian space test | 2021-11-16 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1460459738987065347 | 1460459738987065347 |
| Tubbs was the innovative mayor of Stockton and was one of | 2021-11-16 | 41 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1460427824746037249 | 1460427824746037249 |
| “When you underfund the I.R.S., it’s just a tax cut | 2021-11-16 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1460422768546041856 | 1460422768546041856 |
| Party Monday, back to work on Tuesday. | 2021-11-16 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1460421365559791619 | 1460421365559791619 |
| When inflation is externally driven, there is not much | 2021-11-16 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1460419185910030337 | 1460419185910030337 |
| Modi and Trump are great pals - they like the same kinds | 2021-11-16 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1460418116379312135 | 1460418116379312135 |
| A Trump lie that the Biden administration chose to | 2021-11-16 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1460416011832684548 | 1460416011832684548 |
| Get ready for Trump again with regional federalism | 2021-11-16 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1460407637082656771 | 1460407637082656771 |
| Something new in antitrust law - considering effects | 2021-11-16 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1460402617704538112 | 1460402617704538112 |
| Is it time now for something completely different? | 2021-11-16 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1460399576175632386 | 1460399576175632386 |
| The serious case for taking inflation seriously. | 2021-11-15 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1460396056609501193 | 1460396056609501193 |
| Violence is as American as cherry pie! | 2021-11-15 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1460388492995805188 | 1460388492995805188 |
| How big a threat is Iran? | 2021-11-15 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1460386236879695876 | 1460386236879695876 |
| Another Trumpist victory! When it comes to fake, | 2021-11-15 | 22 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1460384727634903041 | 1460384727634903041 |
| How should you donate to campaigns? Usually to | 2021-11-15 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1460384010757021700 | 1460384010757021700 |
| Trump could never do infrastructure because he didn't know | 2021-11-15 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1460380544005378049 | 1460380544005378049 |
| Major manufacturers don't look to politicians for help. | 2021-11-15 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1460378967894990854 | 1460378967894990854 |
| "the just-in-time operating model may not be the right | 2021-11-15 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1460374534901547008 | 1460374534901547008 |
| Space junk is an increasing barrier to outer space. | 2021-11-15 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1460373359309443079 | 1460373359309443079 |
| Too bad - even if Trump were president he couldn't save | 2021-11-15 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1460372075948896259 | 1460372075948896259 |
| Supply chain problems likely to persist - | 2021-11-15 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1460364443292880899 | 1460364443292880899 |
| Unclear on the personality cult concept! | 2021-11-15 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1460276835720204298 | 1460276835720204298 |
| Trump considered and continues to consider all parts of the | 2021-11-15 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1460274766162522112 | 1460274766162522112 |
| Bannon starts to face the music - | 2021-11-15 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1460273475013136388 | 1460273475013136388 |
| "the United States became less future-oriented, less | 2021-11-15 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1460258876381536261 | 1460258876381536261 |
| Beneficiaries of rewritten history. | 2021-11-15 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1460086446677639168 | 1460086446677639168 |
| Aging Democratic legislators decide they've had enough. | 2021-11-15 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1460084629348634624 | 1460084629348634624 |
| So much for the "law and order" GOP. No respect for | 2021-11-15 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1460082757451747334 | 1460082757451747334 |
| Can the GOP blow its big chance - again? With Trump in | 2021-11-15 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1460081176912093188 | 1460081176912093188 |
| Trump has forced us to re-evaluate Warren Harding who was | 2021-11-15 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1460063175353589766 | 1460063175353589766 |
| Why nuclear power is not an attractive solution to global | 2021-11-15 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1460050319988064260 | 1460050319988064260 |
| New laws? They might as well give up and say you can | 2021-11-15 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1460048278230159370 | 1460048278230159370 |
| Military fails to investigate probable war crimes. | 2021-11-15 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1460046383365251079 | 1460046383365251079 |
| Some of the rioters had big plans indeed! | 2021-11-15 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1460044558696255491 | 1460044558696255491 |
| The free market at work - slowly! | 2021-11-15 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1460042007867387905 | 1460042007867387905 |
| Whoops - maybe real estate is NOT a road to instant riches! | 2021-11-15 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1460037640661598208 | 1460037640661598208 |
| DeSantis calls another special session - to defend | 2021-11-14 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1460015022055194626 | 1460015022055194626 |
| Planned obsolescence - good for the companies and for | 2021-11-14 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1460014066353668097 | 1460014066353668097 |
| Inflation in Europe and the US - more similar than | 2021-11-14 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1460009023365804037 | 1460009023365804037 |
| Every issue is global now. | 2021-11-14 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1460008126560669700 | 1460008126560669700 |
| What does "The United States shall guarantee to every | 2021-11-14 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1460006504434524163 | 1460006504434524163 |
| Tired of Silicon Valley real estate? Don't expect it | 2021-11-14 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1460003151499513856 | 1460003151499513856 |
| True crime story of a murderer - Eddie Gallagher. | 2021-11-14 | 119 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1459997070870286337 | 1459997070870286337 |
| Democratization of technology. The NRA is thrilled, | 2021-11-14 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1459992109293850630 | 1459992109293850630 |
| How the NRA decided to respond to Columbine - hit back | 2021-11-14 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1459975204176744450 | 1459975204176744450 |
| Stop the Steal is about to get much worse. | 2021-11-14 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1459969764537765889 | 1459969764537765889 |
| "To succeed in politics, you need to make your opponent | 2021-11-14 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1459966717963034629 | 1459966717963034629 |
| There isn't any fast easy solution to inflation. | 2021-11-14 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1459964738763329537 | 1459964738763329537 |
| Another strong leader role model for Trump | 2021-11-14 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1459960043198038016 | 1459960043198038016 |
| Mayor Pete goes national. | 2021-11-14 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1459959042823000064 | 1459959042823000064 |
| Criminals in cells, criminals outside cells. | 2021-11-14 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1459957657893105666 | 1459957657893105666 |
| Let's see which legislators REALLY support a strong | 2021-11-14 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1459955850739470338 | 1459955850739470338 |
| Cancelled by Trump, restored by Biden. | 2021-11-14 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1459954591756210176 | 1459954591756210176 |
| What strong leaders do! | 2021-11-14 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1459952683264012290 | 1459952683264012290 |
| Public employee pension law reform - not promising more | 2021-11-14 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1459951248505913347 | 1459951248505913347 |
| Remember the great step forward fromn 026 to 029? | 2021-11-14 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1459948386988134401 | 1459948386988134401 |
| Unclear on the concept! | 2021-11-14 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1459944374733709321 | 1459944374733709321 |
| External FBI mail server hacked | 2021-11-14 | 46 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1459942204445626370 | 1459942204445626370 |
| 1619 project in book forms, for adults and kids. | 2021-11-14 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1459775064149164032 | 1459775064149164032 |
| Preserving right to choose for poor women. | 2021-11-14 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1459773843187191808 | 1459773843187191808 |
| Thinking like the GOP - if you have the donors, you can | 2021-11-14 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1459772488431198208 | 1459772488431198208 |
| What's going to happen in Congress next week? | 2021-11-13 | 75 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1459534646392209418 | 1459534646392209418 |
| BBB tries to preserve local journalism. Most GOP | 2021-11-13 | 69 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1459532754782023684 | 1459532754782023684 |
| Where do feelings about the economy and the future come | 2021-11-13 | 69 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1459530524830011398 | 1459530524830011398 |
| Can anybody save the Democratic Congressional majority? | 2021-11-13 | 75 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1459421371658768385 | 1459421371658768385 |
| Trump thought the virus would go away if everybody | 2021-11-13 | 71 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1459418966237933572 | 1459418966237933572 |
| Undoing the Steele dossier story | 2021-11-13 | 79 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1459418034989379587 | 1459418034989379587 |
| Psychology of regret as a factor in vaccine hesitance. | 2021-11-13 | 75 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1459393244593229825 | 1459393244593229825 |
| Who needs math if you're going to be superstitious anyway? | 2021-11-13 | 75 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1459390962266824704 | 1459390962266824704 |
| Are more people returning to single incomes during | 2021-11-13 | 74 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1459387600850939907 | 1459387600850939907 |
| The definition of a cult | 2021-11-13 | 75 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1459384913010909185 | 1459384913010909185 |
| Did some Democrats say Medicare should NOT negotiate | 2021-11-13 | 79 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1459383940976820227 | 1459383940976820227 |
| It's not the fault of Biden or Democrats - the same thing | 2021-11-13 | 77 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1459383058574942213 | 1459383058574942213 |
| It's about time - and what more fitting starting point? | 2021-11-13 | 71 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1459382245316186116 | 1459382245316186116 |
| That was the week that wasn't. | 2021-11-12 | 82 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1459246878525038592 | 1459246878525038592 |
| How the European fractured state system led to the | 2021-11-12 | 81 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1459187299321741320 | 1459187299321741320 |
| Pew political typology | 2021-11-12 | 79 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1459184968693731331 | 1459184968693731331 |
| Big business is bad for small business, even if they do | 2021-11-12 | 77 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1459184381889703938 | 1459184381889703938 |
| How does BBB compare to past efforts? | 2021-11-12 | 78 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1459183129957072896 | 1459183129957072896 |
| How should Democrats respond to culture war attacks? | 2021-11-12 | 55 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1459181484795854850 | 1459181484795854850 |
| Biden can't find a way to solve immigration issues either. | 2021-11-12 | 75 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1459180164307243008 | 1459180164307243008 |
| Protect democracy? How does that protect minority rule | 2021-11-12 | 82 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1459177525783904260 | 1459177525783904260 |
| What's Manchin's bottom line? | 2021-11-12 | 64 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1459175800050094082 | 1459175800050094082 |
| People came to America to escape their past and start over. | 2021-11-12 | 104 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1459173180749148167 | 1459173180749148167 |
| Common sense to hang Mike Pence? | 2021-11-12 | 85 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1459169568836907013 | 1459169568836907013 |
| You can't tell the players without a scorecard. | 2021-11-12 | 79 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1459165006910537730 | 1459165006910537730 |
| Trump punishes traditional conservatism and bipartisanship! | 2021-11-12 | 86 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1459163894518214656 | 1459163894518214656 |
| GOP loves to complain, then do nothing, then attack | 2021-11-12 | 81 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1459032030012870662 | 1459032030012870662 |
| More money for the IRS so they can audit more major | 2021-11-12 | 81 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1459031056565215234 | 1459031056565215234 |
| Billionaires don't have to obey rules. | 2021-11-12 | 77 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1459029247352205313 | 1459029247352205313 |
| The new slave drivers! | 2021-11-12 | 75 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1459028525118230529 | 1459028525118230529 |
| Vaccinating every human being might not be the end | 2021-11-12 | 74 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1459027022919831555 | 1459027022919831555 |
| GOP wants to torpedo "bipartisan" infrastructure bill, | 2021-11-12 | 76 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1459009537482969091 | 1459009537482969091 |
| Everything's political for the Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP! | 2021-11-12 | 76 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1459008970937405442 | 1459008970937405442 |
| Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP plots revenge on bipartisans. | 2021-11-12 | 76 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1459008680347717636 | 1459008680347717636 |
| It's going to be another long anxious winter for the | 2021-11-12 | 59 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1459007952635846661 | 1459007952635846661 |
| No more black pastors? | 2021-11-12 | 94 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1459007618068803588 | 1459007618068803588 |
| Political violence - nobody says no - least of all Trump. | 2021-11-12 | 82 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1459007162475106307 | 1459007162475106307 |
| Long covid research. | 2021-11-11 | 73 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1458867580706250754 | 1458867580706250754 |
| Trumpists may ignore any law they don't like! Trump | 2021-11-11 | 86 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1458865509932290062 | 1458865509932290062 |
| What happens when fewer and fewer legislators have | 2021-11-11 | 75 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1458865353941929991 | 1458865353941929991 |
| The real crisis facing America - savage criticism of the | 2021-11-11 | 71 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1458854706642505729 | 1458854706642505729 |
| It's not just white appeasement. Reaching the relatively | 2021-11-11 | 78 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1458849345583783945 | 1458849345583783945 |
| Book burning coming back into fashion. All the Nazis | 2021-11-11 | 73 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1458845531657019408 | 1458845531657019408 |
| The way prosecutors go after organized crime is to start | 2021-11-11 | 73 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1458844933398274053 | 1458844933398274053 |
| Is the future of GOP in the past or the future? | 2021-11-11 | 76 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1458844212858789888 | 1458844212858789888 |
| What happens when the local press dies or turns into | 2021-11-11 | 77 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1458843359678636045 | 1458843359678636045 |
| Immigrants get to become frozen pawns in the game of | 2021-11-11 | 71 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1458836483167559695 | 1458836483167559695 |
| Nobody needs billionaires who have more money than they | 2021-11-11 | 71 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1458835591299141635 | 1458835591299141635 |
| How Democrats might take the offensive in culture wars. | 2021-11-11 | 73 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1458834846772387841 | 1458834846772387841 |
| Inflation is being driven by external factors beyond | 2021-11-11 | 72 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1458811049876987904 | 1458811049876987904 |
| Democratic senators also need millions of dollars to run | 2021-11-11 | 69 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1458807868665184259 | 1458807868665184259 |
| 41 months for assault | 2021-11-11 | 71 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1458804292165378049 | 1458804292165378049 |
| Gerrymandering at work. | 2021-11-11 | 68 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1458669323694710789 | 1458669323694710789 |
| Afghan refugees end up in - Iran - probably on their way | 2021-11-11 | 79 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1458665971049140226 | 1458665971049140226 |
| Europe warming to Taiwan, to displeasure of PRC. | 2021-11-10 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1458476721053655043 | 1458476721053655043 |
| "Right-wing Leninism" - active defense of minority rule. | 2021-11-10 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1458474932560535557 | 1458474932560535557 |
| More and more hatred, more and more guns, more and more | 2021-11-10 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1458462063697616896 | 1458462063697616896 |
| Sound like a bubble to you? | 2021-11-10 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1458459287441731586 | 1458459287441731586 |
| You think the chip shortage is bad and auto prices are | 2021-11-10 | 46 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1458455604419170307 | 1458455604419170307 |
| Vaccine news | 2021-11-10 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1458453866559672320 | 1458453866559672320 |
| What does the rest of the world owe to nations sinking | 2021-11-10 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1458438143112146949 | 1458438143112146949 |
| A downside of public trials that the Founders never | 2021-11-10 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1458435839432613891 | 1458435839432613891 |
| “There is nothing more expensive than something free” | 2021-11-10 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1458309019471253506 | 1458309019471253506 |
| Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP show their true colors - turning | 2021-11-10 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1458308128680808456 | 1458308128680808456 |
| Major donors had conscience pangs after Jan 6 but have | 2021-11-10 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1458302541255495682 | 1458302541255495682 |
| "Presidents are not kings, and Plaintiff is not President" | 2021-11-10 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1458299077708300291 | 1458299077708300291 |
| Wage increases not beating inflation! | 2021-11-10 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1458281754100260872 | 1458281754100260872 |
| CEO pay and performance | 2021-11-10 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1458281053303414794 | 1458281053303414794 |
| How cult of personality immortalizes itself. | 2021-11-10 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1458280005583007744 | 1458280005583007744 |
| Congressional Black Caucus saved the day. | 2021-11-10 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1458278647123484672 | 1458278647123484672 |
| Christie and Sununu try to talk sense to the Republican | 2021-11-10 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1458257248866603008 | 1458257248866603008 |
| If rural America wants to defend minority rule by embracing | 2021-11-10 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1458255553814155267 | 1458255553814155267 |
| 1619 was a pivotal year - and America is still pivoting. | 2021-11-10 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1458253694772731905 | 1458253694772731905 |
| Want a normal economy? Get everybody vaccinated. | 2021-11-10 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1458242869060243459 | 1458242869060243459 |
| the modern Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP is "constitutionally | 2021-11-10 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1458241620361367553 | 1458241620361367553 |
| Switching from coal to natural gas helps a little, but | 2021-11-10 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1458239828462505985 | 1458239828462505985 |
| The economic structure underlying racism | 2021-11-10 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1458239250189615104 | 1458239250189615104 |
| Minority rule? | 2021-11-10 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1458233802539499521 | 1458233802539499521 |
| How can local journalism be saved from the "free" internet? | 2021-11-10 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1458231761091973124 | 1458231761091973124 |
| Measuring Biden with Trump's yardstick. | 2021-11-10 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1458231405599625217 | 1458231405599625217 |
| Don't threaten just the legislator, but his staff and | 2021-11-10 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1458230430524608517 | 1458230430524608517 |
| Youngkin wouldn't let a dropout with no financial | 2021-11-10 | 25 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1458229539352444931 | 1458229539352444931 |
| There's more money in simple disinformation than | 2021-11-10 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1458227038737731585 | 1458227038737731585 |
| It's easy to get swept up in a mob - especially if you | 2021-11-10 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1458225373745860610 | 1458225373745860610 |
| Trumpists don't have to obey any laws they don't like, | 2021-11-10 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1458223429048422400 | 1458223429048422400 |
| Subdivisions in American politics. | 2021-11-09 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1458222503621390337 | 1458222503621390337 |
| No easy fix - | 2021-11-09 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1458220544298348544 | 1458220544298348544 |
| Sounds like domestic terrorism to most people. | 2021-11-09 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1458219656095809536 | 1458219656095809536 |
| Ransomware kingpins will probably watch their steps more | 2021-11-09 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1458213401352491008 | 1458213401352491008 |
| Violence is as Trumpist as apple pie! | 2021-11-09 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1458211736138379275 | 1458211736138379275 |
| The last conglomerate? Good riddance! | 2021-11-09 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1458210117816512523 | 1458210117816512523 |
| What's faulty about fitting the science to support the | 2021-11-09 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1458208930283147267 | 1458208930283147267 |
| When the saints come marching in, and decline to testify, | 2021-11-09 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1458207012458622977 | 1458207012458622977 |
| "and who paid for it all" | 2021-11-09 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1457978295530582016 | 1457978295530582016 |
| Return of the Barbary Pirates | 2021-11-09 | 39 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1457946518040711174 | 1457946518040711174 |
| "woke" is like "critical race theory" | 2021-11-09 | 32 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1457942688557264897 | 1457942688557264897 |
| "and who paid for it all" | 2021-11-09 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1457937995592466434 | 1457937995592466434 |
| Great news for Trumpists in trouble with the law! | 2021-11-08 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1457806833335209986 | 1457806833335209986 |
| Idealistic legislators soon get pulled into the mechanics | 2021-11-08 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1457748816367550465 | 1457748816367550465 |
| Planning for war, practicing just in case, or just | 2021-11-08 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1457730327103737857 | 1457730327103737857 |
| Remember medicaid expansion | 2021-11-08 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1457728865862709252 | 1457728865862709252 |
| Trump couldn't accomplish the positive parts of his | 2021-11-08 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1457568506648563713 | 1457568506648563713 |
| A positive take on Biden's year. | 2021-11-08 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1457566666808709121 | 1457566666808709121 |
| What's a Democrat? | 2021-11-08 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1457554388008927238 | 1457554388008927238 |
| How to fight back against GOP minority rule | 2021-11-07 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1457398489344712706 | 1457398489344712706 |
| The defenders of the hereditary nobility | 2021-11-07 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1457397147507200000 | 1457397147507200000 |
| Taliban decide maybe vaccination not such a bad idea. | 2021-11-07 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1457353902488055813 | 1457353902488055813 |
| GOP hopes to win governor's races in swing states - so | 2021-11-07 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1457351957450874881 | 1457351957450874881 |
| Virus on the rise again among the unvaccinated and | 2021-11-07 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1457348267453280257 | 1457348267453280257 |
| Ranked choice voting - | 2021-11-07 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1457234234486054914 | 1457234234486054914 |
| Historically, most farmers and ranchers voted Republican. | 2021-11-07 | 29 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1457232553354547202 | 1457232553354547202 |
| Bipartisanship is dead! | 2021-11-07 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1457219211277656068 | 1457219211277656068 |
| Democratization of technology! | 2021-11-07 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1457215876613107712 | 1457215876613107712 |
| Community vaccination successes. | 2021-11-06 | 43 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1456980444495314953 | 1456980444495314953 |
| How the hereditary nobility perpetuates itself by avoiding | 2021-11-06 | 47 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1456979117417504777 | 1456979117417504777 |
| Why are there so many spending laws passed to expire after | 2021-11-06 | 44 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1456978087120232454 | 1456978087120232454 |
| Hazards of comparing the new PRC to the old Soviet Union. | 2021-11-06 | 54 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1456842151552159745 | 1456842151552159745 |
| Implications of wardrobe. | 2021-11-06 | 45 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1456841009908764672 | 1456841009908764672 |
| GOP defends violent threats against school board members. | 2021-11-06 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1456839328756219906 | 1456839328756219906 |
| What happens when "status quo bias" is disrupted by | 2021-11-06 | 43 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1456837954681200645 | 1456837954681200645 |
| Election fraud begins at home - in the GOP governor-elect's | 2021-11-06 | 42 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1456832115568381963 | 1456832115568381963 |
| It's still legal to kill anybody you don't like in most | 2021-11-06 | 42 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1456830945118470148 | 1456830945118470148 |
| The House Democrats finally passed an infrastructure bill | 2021-11-06 | 80 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1456828993777258506 | 1456828993777258506 |
| University of Florida reverses due to bad publicity. | 2021-11-06 | 48 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1456820870450614272 | 1456820870450614272 |
| Willing to appear but not to talk. | 2021-11-06 | 47 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1456820165375451174 | 1456820165375451174 |
| Democrats defer catastrophe for ten days. | 2021-11-06 | 49 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1456817357989367818 | 1456817357989367818 |
| Is this the end of the Biden domestic agenda? | 2021-11-05 | 170 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1456716242539016193 | 1456716242539016193 |
| That was the week that wasn't. | 2021-11-05 | 119 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1456694954474967043 | 1456694954474967043 |
| Kissinger in the Middle East - solving problems and | 2021-11-05 | 116 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1456681784838529029 | 1456681784838529029 |
| The GOP's KGB has been at work! | 2021-11-05 | 113 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1456680727324463107 | 1456680727324463107 |
| Waving the bloody shirt of rebellion - whether in 1861 | 2021-11-05 | 51 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1456679865759911939 | 1456679865759911939 |
| He's got Koch money but still he asks for more. | 2021-11-05 | 113 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1456677237822947328 | 1456677237822947328 |
| A practical plan for climate. | 2021-11-05 | 117 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1456649004700164113 | 1456649004700164113 |
| Persuadable swing voters mostly don't follow politics | 2021-11-05 | 113 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1456647329251880965 | 1456647329251880965 |
| How to build a cult of personality. | 2021-11-05 | 117 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1456614393794347015 | 1456614393794347015 |
| Far more addictive than opioids! | 2021-11-05 | 113 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1456605555418562567 | 1456605555418562567 |
| Can the Democrats get their act together in the House? | 2021-11-05 | 120 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1456602826289737729 | 1456602826289737729 |
| Remember when people thought that the corner was turned | 2021-11-05 | 122 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1456601150887661571 | 1456601150887661571 |
| Like other advanced economies, America "has become | 2021-11-05 | 124 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1456479820838178822 | 1456479820838178822 |
| Political considerations at the Supreme Court over | 2021-11-05 | 116 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1456474718161149953 | 1456474718161149953 |
| "concession is not just a symbolic gesture. It is the | 2021-11-05 | 110 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1456473465020510214 | 1456473465020510214 |
| Will Democrats with cold feet scuttle BBB and the | 2021-11-05 | 114 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1456470257170718723 | 1456470257170718723 |
| 44 months would be getting off light. Only a white man | 2021-11-05 | 113 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1456463458447159301 | 1456463458447159301 |
| Latino voters made the difference in Virginia. They | 2021-11-05 | 123 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1456462768496775170 | 1456462768496775170 |
| Want to end pandemic restrictions? Get everybody in | 2021-11-05 | 111 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1456461488151941131 | 1456461488151941131 |
| How do you just vote NO on legalized gambling? | 2021-11-05 | 112 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1456460762717691912 | 1456460762717691912 |
| Trying to escape by pivoting to something new? Doesn't | 2021-11-05 | 114 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1456460347234156545 | 1456460347234156545 |
| How bad is the economy? Depends on who you count. | 2021-11-05 | 110 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1456458598276427781 | 1456458598276427781 |
| Limits on hackers for hire. | 2021-11-05 | 113 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1456458156066828290 | 1456458156066828290 |
| Smartmatic sues Newsmax and OAN for defamation. | 2021-11-05 | 116 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1456457788113096706 | 1456457788113096706 |
| Democrats' path forward must include confornting race as | 2021-11-05 | 117 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1456443169025839106 | 1456443169025839106 |
| "nobody elected Franklin D. Roosevelt to 'be F.D.R.'" | 2021-11-05 | 108 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1456440962079596550 | 1456440962079596550 |
| A contrarian point of view on urbanization and social | 2021-11-05 | 114 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1456439817043001347 | 1456439817043001347 |
| How can we avoid the "metaverse"? | 2021-11-05 | 113 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1456437231430684674 | 1456437231430684674 |
| Henry Olsen doesn't get that the modern Trumpist Dixiecrat | 2021-11-05 | 117 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1456434845324742656 | 1456434845324742656 |
| "nobody elected Franklin D. Roosevelt to 'be F.D.R.'" | 2021-11-05 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1456433093628375042 | 1456433093628375042 |
| Judge overrules Trump bluster about former executive | 2021-11-05 | 114 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1456431872787894282 | 1456431872787894282 |
| FBI criminal prosecution for worst violent flight | 2021-11-05 | 119 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1456430391254937602 | 1456430391254937602 |
| Convicted of being a poster-child dumb blonde. | 2021-11-05 | 112 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1456429369497321473 | 1456429369497321473 |
| NY prosecutors continue to look into Trump's deceptive | 2021-11-05 | 115 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1456429048335257602 | 1456429048335257602 |
| What's the GOP doing to make it easier for women to | 2021-11-05 | 110 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1456427481607540736 | 1456427481607540736 |
| More fallout from the Steele dossier | 2021-11-04 | 103 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1456320870964596750 | 1456320870964596750 |
| Just as Juan Peron was more useful to Peronistas when dead, | 2021-11-04 | 101 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1456283535375933449 | 1456283535375933449 |
| Low Democratic turnout in NY had its usual effect. | 2021-11-04 | 97 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1456281481353961474 | 1456281481353961474 |
| Wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to | 2021-11-04 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1456259578744561664 | 1456259578744561664 |
| More issues less Trump??? | 2021-11-04 | 96 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1456255485141680134 | 1456255485141680134 |
| "Democrat should stand for doer, not delay, dithering, | 2021-11-04 | 93 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1456254256026030086 | 1456254256026030086 |
| The resurrection of nuclear energy | 2021-11-04 | 106 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1456247919061786631 | 1456247919061786631 |
| Constitutional sheriffs - another movement to thwart the | 2021-11-04 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1456127239871889408 | 1456127239871889408 |
| Where does climate disinformation agitprop come from? The | 2021-11-04 | 97 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1456125565296021504 | 1456125565296021504 |
| What's the Democratic response to GOP's "parental say in | 2021-11-04 | 102 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1456120604579352580 | 1456120604579352580 |
| What, exactly, will Youngkin about campaign promises? | 2021-11-04 | 38 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1456117659280363529 | 1456117659280363529 |
| Mixed results for reactionary attacks on school boards. | 2021-11-04 | 108 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1456114503926497284 | 1456114503926497284 |
| Do insurrectionists who are veterans deserve harsher or | 2021-11-04 | 99 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1456111882763341828 | 1456111882763341828 |
| PRC actively raising the cost of US defense of Taiwan. | 2021-11-04 | 96 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1456110969688518659 | 1456110969688518659 |
| How the Frankenbill sausage gets made | 2021-11-03 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1455897528583409671 | 1455897528583409671 |
| Good news for GOP! | 2021-11-03 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1455894342095151104 | 1455894342095151104 |
| Keys to GOP in 2022 and 2024 - | 2021-11-03 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1455787520856182788 | 1455787520856182788 |
| Read some history of state-encouraged private oppression | 2021-11-03 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1455785523864223745 | 1455785523864223745 |
| Expect to hear a lot more about critical race theory from | 2021-11-03 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1455783473323540485 | 1455783473323540485 |
| Preliminary election analysis | 2021-11-03 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1455774429611368453 | 1455774429611368453 |
| Sure social media don't help people understand different | 2021-11-02 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1455372702840082434 | 1455372702840082434 |
| Nobody has a right to infect other people. | 2021-11-02 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1455370279291551750 | 1455370279291551750 |
| Is there a detour to gun safety around a reactionary | 2021-11-02 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1455369524811862020 | 1455369524811862020 |
| Democracies aren't good at dealing with exponential growth | 2021-11-02 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1455367901872103425 | 1455367901872103425 |
| More on games in DC! | 2021-11-02 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1455366816415436801 | 1455366816415436801 |
| Fahrenheit 451 is what happens when politicians decide | 2021-11-02 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1455366116524511236 | 1455366116524511236 |
| The drug companies vs AARP - who's going to win? | 2021-11-02 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1455364957462163459 | 1455364957462163459 |
| There are always Quislings and Petains to collaborate. | 2021-11-02 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1455363591289274373 | 1455363591289274373 |
| "It’s time our elected leaders in Washington stop | 2021-11-02 | 41 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1455361285986471943 | 1455361285986471943 |
| Can fact overcome fantasy in Nov 2 elections? Election | 2021-11-02 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1455359652137357315 | 1455359652137357315 |
| Facebook beat Wall Street earnings estimates and declared | 2021-11-02 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1455358634259410948 | 1455358634259410948 |
| Don't think you're likely to consistently do better picking | 2021-11-02 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1455355610644373514 | 1455355610644373514 |
| Some history of state-encouraged private oppression of | 2021-11-02 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1455340615424638976 | 1455340615424638976 |
| The triumph of Trumpism in - Afghanistan! You don't need | 2021-11-01 | 46 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1455257008899117056 | 1455257008899117056 |
| Congress to investigate University of Florida suppression | 2021-11-01 | 47 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1455224366145232899 | 1455224366145232899 |
| The modern Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP in a nutshell - they only | 2021-11-01 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1455223251571929090 | 1455223251571929090 |
| Some hoping to advance by encouraging other people's | 2021-11-01 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1455221844231917568 | 1455221844231917568 |
| You shouldn't enroll in AP literature unless you want to | 2021-11-01 | 38 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1455019177282969603 | 1455019177282969603 |
| GOP blames Biden for supply chain inflation - | 2021-11-01 | 58 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1455011246210629636 | 1455011246210629636 |
| The super rich don't like any publicity. All publicity | 2021-11-01 | 39 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1455007657643761673 | 1455007657643761673 |
| Stock buybacks in the oil patch - putting rising oil prices | 2021-11-01 | 39 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1455005073587650564 | 1455005073587650564 |
| Guantanamo | 2021-11-01 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1455004169656410124 | 1455004169656410124 |
| Is it really up to black women voter turnout? If the | 2021-11-01 | 82 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1454982963414765568 | 1454982963414765568 |
| GOP wants to change the subject, but Trump is THE subject, | 2021-11-01 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1454982157538000900 | 1454982157538000900 |
| After workers endured 40 years of union-busting, covid | 2021-11-01 | 33 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1454981125281964033 | 1454981125281964033 |
| Romney boldly steps up to declare himself part of the | 2021-11-01 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1454979451016527877 | 1454979451016527877 |
| Slow progress on Trump's tariffs. | 2021-11-01 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1454977221987164161 | 1454977221987164161 |
| US can't afford to subsidize American children. | 2021-11-01 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1454976778963853313 | 1454976778963853313 |
| Insurrection! | 2021-10-31 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1454930193705930752 | 1454930193705930752 |
| GOP might gain control of Congress in 2022. | 2021-10-31 | 29 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1454695282063544324 | 1454695282063544324 |
| wikipedia - how the internet was originally supposed | 2021-10-31 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1454688716467752966 | 1454688716467752966 |
| Putin is threatening Ukraine again. They want | 2021-10-31 | 44 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1454686745480495106 | 1454686745480495106 |
| Trump has been running for 2024 since January. He even | 2021-10-31 | 50 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1454685115603320835 | 1454685115603320835 |
| New York is a blue state - but it has a bunch of Trumpists | 2021-10-31 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1454683083127414789 | 1454683083127414789 |
| Outsourcing critical business and military infrastructure | 2021-10-31 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1454680936830758913 | 1454680936830758913 |
| Two more tests of the Supreme Court's willingness to | 2021-10-30 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1454445521507012609 | 1454445521507012609 |
| In Florida everybody is free to infect everybody else, | 2021-10-30 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1454443766203387907 | 1454443766203387907 |
| Once a Republican says something bad about Trump, it's | 2021-10-30 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1454441585333051393 | 1454441585333051393 |
| A lucky break for Trump - but not for Brandon. | 2021-10-30 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1454440461372772361 | 1454440461372772361 |
| Trump doesn't want anybody to know who he was talking to, | 2021-10-30 | 29 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1454439396761956354 | 1454439396761956354 |
| Trump can cripple an agency faster than Biden can restore | 2021-10-30 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1454312867465875456 | 1454312867465875456 |
| 66 former legislators file brief against Trump claims of | 2021-10-30 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1454310812986707969 | 1454310812986707969 |
| Better weapons don't necessarily make you safer. | 2021-10-30 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1454310344281583619 | 1454310344281583619 |
| GOP has a simple strategy for 2022 and 2024 - oppose | 2021-10-30 | 38 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1454309078067408900 | 1454309078067408900 |
| The Trumpist Dixiecrat Republicans can proudly claim to | 2021-10-30 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1454307469056884740 | 1454307469056884740 |
| A guy was proselytizing for the LaRouche PAC outside a | 2021-10-30 | 38 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1454305008044822529 | 1454305008044822529 |
| Pence's counsel were having none of it - | 2021-10-30 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1454300463055003651 | 1454300463055003651 |
| Biden chooses to expand Medicaid, knowing that GOP will | 2021-10-30 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1454297260989161481 | 1454297260989161481 |
| Supreme Court does not block vaccination requirement. | 2021-10-30 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1454296775670464520 | 1454296775670464520 |
| Intelligence agencies can't tell about covid. | 2021-10-30 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1454295428120203268 | 1454295428120203268 |
| That was the week that wasn't. | 2021-10-29 | 46 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1454164845956268032 | 1454164845956268032 |
| Why it's so easy to be pessimistic about climate change. | 2021-10-29 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1454151040014508035 | 1454151040014508035 |
| The Constitution was designed to prevent too much popular | 2021-10-29 | 38 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1454146982008684548 | 1454146982008684548 |
| Maybe success is at hand - but strait is the gate, and | 2021-10-29 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1454145227833237504 | 1454145227833237504 |
| It's not just a pandemic, it's a profit opportunity! | 2021-10-29 | 39 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1454144153428758529 | 1454144153428758529 |
| "the pharmaceutical industry has been regulating Congress" | 2021-10-29 | 47 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1454143671180222470 | 1454143671180222470 |
| Politics trumps community spirit. | 2021-10-29 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1454140260372258819 | 1454140260372258819 |
| Kinzinger gerrymandered out of office. | 2021-10-29 | 51 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1454137930109243395 | 1454137930109243395 |
| "Trump supporters understand there really is no time for | 2021-10-29 | 50 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1454136911677648897 | 1454136911677648897 |
| What do the people of Taiwan want? Ideally, | 2021-10-29 | 75 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1454130752761651209 | 1454130752761651209 |
| Can the Constitution still be changed in any fundamental | 2021-10-29 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1454127497184829442 | 1454127497184829442 |
| How will the Supreme Court handle abortion? | 2021-10-29 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1454122702936051717 | 1454122702936051717 |
| Will Trump champion family leave in 2024? | 2021-10-29 | 43 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1454117829087617027 | 1454117829087617027 |
| What does the Second Amendment mean? | 2021-10-29 | 44 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1454116171800735749 | 1454116171800735749 |
| Covid provoked a reset of the relation of labor to capital. | 2021-10-29 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1454094287746961417 | 1454094287746961417 |
| Arpaio has no regrets and would do it all the same way | 2021-10-29 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1454080882734559251 | 1454080882734559251 |
| Democrats gerrymander House seats in Illinois. | 2021-10-29 | 103 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1454079777518735360 | 1454079777518735360 |
| What's in BBB for taxation TODAY. It might be different | 2021-10-29 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1453943118223462402 | 1453943118223462402 |
| It's not mostly crazies or cowards. | 2021-10-29 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1453942297763012616 | 1453942297763012616 |
| Humane wars forever? | 2021-10-29 | 46 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1453939482722385920 | 1453939482722385920 |
| Nine years for plotting insurrection - in Richmond. | 2021-10-29 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1453937666207088649 | 1453937666207088649 |
| Should the punishment fit the crime? | 2021-10-29 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1453936620252528645 | 1453936620252528645 |
| Directed energy weapons - another aspect of democratized | 2021-10-29 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1453935337558798343 | 1453935337558798343 |
| How close are we to WW III between China and US? | 2021-10-29 | 42 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1453934266560040962 | 1453934266560040962 |
| Major donors invest in Democratic senators as well as | 2021-10-29 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1453932706962706442 | 1453932706962706442 |
| Trumpism in the air. | 2021-10-29 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1453931809859727370 | 1453931809859727370 |
| How many military members are willing to be kicked out | 2021-10-29 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1453930857215922176 | 1453930857215922176 |
| GOP using covid restrictions to replace local officials | 2021-10-29 | 39 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1453928922932858880 | 1453928922932858880 |
| Elon Musk and other billionaires sound off. | 2021-10-29 | 44 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1453927969160720388 | 1453927969160720388 |
| "we need Alec Baldwin tweets" | 2021-10-28 | 58 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1453800125633945600 | 1453800125633945600 |
| No Nazi or Klansman has ever denounced Ted Cruz! | 2021-10-28 | 34 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1453795873360547841 | 1453795873360547841 |
| Redistricting House seats should be accomplished by | 2021-10-28 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1453794875665616898 | 1453794875665616898 |
| Constitutionality of a wealth tax. | 2021-10-28 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1453790926858424338 | 1453790926858424338 |
| It's what the Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP does best - not | 2021-10-28 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1453789280837332995 | 1453789280837332995 |
| So just where does the racism mix with the second | 2021-10-28 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1453787791494549528 | 1453787791494549528 |
| She never said we should move on from Benghazi. | 2021-10-28 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1453777236432080902 | 1453777236432080902 |
| Now the Russians are going after the NRA! That's no | 2021-10-28 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1453774950758686745 | 1453774950758686745 |
| Labor is expendable; there's plenty more where it came | 2021-10-28 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1453774385504919574 | 1453774385504919574 |
| What's in BBB? | 2021-10-28 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1453728020292784132 | 1453728020292784132 |
| He must feel right at home in Texas. | 2021-10-28 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1453726793479847944 | 1453726793479847944 |
| Wealth tax issues | 2021-10-28 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1453712822303559684 | 1453712822303559684 |
| The Trumpists' ultimate goal - replace honest election | 2021-10-28 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1453587350466883584 | 1453587350466883584 |
| We knew the GOP was against taxing the rich. What was | 2021-10-28 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1453583415261876224 | 1453583415261876224 |
| Alaska was doing well. Then came a summer of | 2021-10-28 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1453552370823012356 | 1453552370823012356 |
| Re-evaluating childcare as a business means parents have to | 2021-10-28 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1453549628637343744 | 1453549628637343744 |
| The historical truth is what GOP calls "critical race | 2021-10-28 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1453542385355419653 | 1453542385355419653 |
| Confronting the past - this is what the GOP means by | 2021-10-28 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1453538053557927937 | 1453538053557927937 |
| Is this how it ends? | 2021-10-28 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1453535809689165824 | 1453535809689165824 |
| Another possible covid treatment. | 2021-10-28 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1453521338841268226 | 1453521338841268226 |
| There are two possible paths to winning close elections | 2021-10-28 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1453518359589392385 | 1453518359589392385 |
| The red state paradox - they can't stand government aid, | 2021-10-27 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1453511483543855106 | 1453511483543855106 |
| It's much easier to game a wealth tax than an income tax. | 2021-10-27 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1453510486226395137 | 1453510486226395137 |
| What's the difference between espionage and journalism? | 2021-10-27 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1453508049059020804 | 1453508049059020804 |
| It's all grist for the milling into culture war | 2021-10-27 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1453506911249186822 | 1453506911249186822 |
| How the Senate GOP continues Trump's deregulation program - | 2021-10-27 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1453505878980628482 | 1453505878980628482 |
| Use the guns any time, any place you want! | 2021-10-27 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1453504616277032967 | 1453504616277032967 |
| Trump stands by his man in Brazil. | 2021-10-27 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1453496526915862530 | 1453496526915862530 |
| Mission creep - right over the edge of the cliff. | 2021-10-27 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1453493978381176836 | 1453493978381176836 |
| Is there an agreement possible or is it just wishful | 2021-10-27 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1453490738478469121 | 1453490738478469121 |
| California high speed rail - | 2021-10-27 | 42 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1453486969577611264 | 1453486969577611264 |
| Senate finally confirms a few ambassadors | 2021-10-27 | 41 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1453484754595037189 | 1453484754595037189 |
| Pathetic - Trump is still fighting the election by writing | 2021-10-27 | 48 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1453481767789158409 | 1453481767789158409 |
| A majority of American voters support taking steps to | 2021-10-27 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1453479662064070656 | 1453479662064070656 |
| California water projects being paid for with budget | 2021-10-27 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1453477963928801283 | 1453477963928801283 |
| US is way behind on parental leave | 2021-10-27 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1453477009779085315 | 1453477009779085315 |
| Covid panic overcomes the system of scholarly refereeing. | 2021-10-27 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1453475302445776897 | 1453475302445776897 |
| Corruption is still pretty easy. | 2021-10-27 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1453375879321579526 | 1453375879321579526 |
| Another source of inflation - GOP immigration policies. | 2021-10-27 | 50 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1453372488138719235 | 1453372488138719235 |
| Another bank warns about post office delays - | 2021-10-27 | 86 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1453354661566554112 | 1453354661566554112 |
| Lots of short-term programs might be good for short-term | 2021-10-26 | 60 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1452994553124904964 | 1452994553124904964 |
| Paid leave - another unexpected issue in Virginia? | 2021-10-26 | 59 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1452993598950023168 | 1452993598950023168 |
| Announcement from Bank of America - | 2021-10-26 | 62 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1452849873137532935 | 1452849873137532935 |
| "Silicon Valley is for followers. Ohio is for leaders." | 2021-10-26 | 72 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1452846648036454407 | 1452846648036454407 |
| How the ruling class strikes back at dissent | 2021-10-26 | 55 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1452825519523647489 | 1452825519523647489 |
| How the hereditary nobility intends to suppress democracy | 2021-10-26 | 53 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1452824018214481922 | 1452824018214481922 |
| Giant global journalism co-ops to investigate giant | 2021-10-26 | 57 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1452806740546777093 | 1452806740546777093 |
| Job #1 to protect a hereditary nobility - preserve | 2021-10-26 | 55 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1452801197845278720 | 1452801197845278720 |
| QAnon's just following Trump's example. | 2021-10-26 | 76 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1452798834992500736 | 1452798834992500736 |
| How alarming - workers organizing the way their employers | 2021-10-26 | 58 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1452796014717374469 | 1452796014717374469 |
| What little election fraud the GOP claimed to have found | 2021-10-26 | 56 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1452791022216310790 | 1452791022216310790 |
| The Trumpist disinformation machine hits new heights | 2021-10-26 | 47 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1452788227429920772 | 1452788227429920772 |
| "Think about those around you" | 2021-10-25 | 49 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1452787046750117889 | 1452787046750117889 |
| Universal Basic Income catches on. | 2021-10-25 | 64 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1452786360905912322 | 1452786360905912322 |
| Montana's gone Trumpist. | 2021-10-25 | 49 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1452785295238127616 | 1452785295238127616 |
| Facts don't matter; GOP sees school board elections as | 2021-10-25 | 48 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1452780669138989058 | 1452780669138989058 |
| Russians are still at it. | 2021-10-25 | 47 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1452778943493271554 | 1452778943493271554 |
| The new French Trumpist | 2021-10-25 | 45 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1452778329539366919 | 1452778329539366919 |
| Abbott promises race was not a factor. | 2021-10-25 | 48 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1452777363289165825 | 1452777363289165825 |
| How the billionaire wealth tax might work - | 2021-10-25 | 58 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1452776844592181249 | 1452776844592181249 |
| Facebook Papers | 2021-10-25 | 46 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1452774325220626434 | 1452774325220626434 |
| What Facebook really doesn't want to recognize is that | 2021-10-25 | 51 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1452773778417537025 | 1452773778417537025 |
| How's your GRAT? | 2021-10-25 | 53 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1452625144262762499 | 1452625144262762499 |
| The big steal - | 2021-10-25 | 60 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1452622452551340033 | 1452622452551340033 |
| California drought defies easy solutions | 2021-10-25 | 134 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1452475566188232704 | 1452475566188232704 |
| Is compromise a dirty word? | 2021-10-25 | 45 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1452473641136898050 | 1452473641136898050 |
| Does anybody really understand economics? | 2021-10-25 | 51 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1452472188737441793 | 1452472188737441793 |
| What would happen if Stephen Miller had his way and stopped | 2021-10-25 | 77 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1452471032657317889 | 1452471032657317889 |
| No bail for insurrection leader. | 2021-10-25 | 45 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1452465972984483840 | 1452465972984483840 |
| Even leakers need a business plan if they want maximum | 2021-10-25 | 53 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1452464739607404545 | 1452464739607404545 |
| Amazon outsourced all the HR parts that it didn't want to | 2021-10-25 | 54 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1452462973503500294 | 1452462973503500294 |
| Supply-chain-induced inflation was caused by the inevitable | 2021-10-25 | 53 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1452457195208015872 | 1452457195208015872 |
| Repealing filibuster is the Burkean thing to do. | 2021-10-25 | 53 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1452453993234395139 | 1452453993234395139 |
| Will public education be the big GOP issue in 2022? | 2021-10-25 | 53 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1452452628407848961 | 1452452628407848961 |
| The most genuine kind of Trumpist. | 2021-10-25 | 42 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1452449281328046084 | 1452449281328046084 |
| Democrats must show SOME accomplishments to persuadable | 2021-10-25 | 49 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1452444222682927104 | 1452444222682927104 |
| The solution to labor shortages is out there... pay more! | 2021-10-24 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1452396683048853514 | 1452396683048853514 |
| Honor great men and women for the extraordinary good they | 2021-10-24 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1452378515488206848 | 1452378515488206848 |
| Florida health chief doesn't bother with masks. | 2021-10-24 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1452337204324409352 | 1452337204324409352 |
| The Dixiecrat GOP believes taxes are for poor people, | 2021-10-24 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1452323912826724360 | 1452323912826724360 |
| If poor people wanted more influence, they should donate | 2021-10-24 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1452319699572871168 | 1452319699572871168 |
| Will SD legislators put a crimp in Noem's presidential | 2021-10-24 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1452317742615474176 | 1452317742615474176 |
| THE THING - | 2021-10-24 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1452302861841453072 | 1452302861841453072 |
| Following the leader - the only truth that matters is what | 2021-10-24 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1452301738401222668 | 1452301738401222668 |
| Somalia - another expensive endless war not worth fighting? | 2021-10-24 | 45 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1452299487351869456 | 1452299487351869456 |
| Limit sentences to 20 years? | 2021-10-24 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1452293176077783052 | 1452293176077783052 |
| How will China's demographic and economic crises be | 2021-10-24 | 43 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1452289702464270338 | 1452289702464270338 |
| The tragedy of Colin Powell. | 2021-10-24 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1452288459553521683 | 1452288459553521683 |
| Ranked-choice voting and multi-member districts are the | 2021-10-24 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1452270840758865924 | 1452270840758865924 |
| Monetizing the surveillance state | 2021-10-24 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1452265562025889794 | 1452265562025889794 |
| GOP concerns about vote fraud confirmed! | 2021-10-24 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1452260316113473542 | 1452260316113473542 |
| As Virginia goes, so goes the nation? | 2021-10-24 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1452257662456958980 | 1452257662456958980 |
| Voting rights is the #1 issue long term. Nothing | 2021-10-24 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1452137384422764546 | 1452137384422764546 |
| How the insurrectionists plotted at the Wilard Hotel. | 2021-10-24 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1452121481803022337 | 1452121481803022337 |
| Sinema is at a dead end? | 2021-10-24 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1452113694092005380 | 1452113694092005380 |
| Is Sinema really negotiating in good faith? Will she | 2021-10-24 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1452112151926095878 | 1452112151926095878 |
| How the brown shirts - with major GOP donor money - harass | 2021-10-24 | 45 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1452110051737362439 | 1452110051737362439 |
| Needs-testing for "entitlements". | 2021-10-24 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1452108819450908676 | 1452108819450908676 |
| Taliban are confident about ISIS. But Afghanistan is | 2021-10-24 | 51 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1452105808947257346 | 1452105808947257346 |
| Can counties secede and join another state? | 2021-10-24 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1452100534006022146 | 1452100534006022146 |
| Workers want to have a life - a novel concept to some | 2021-10-24 | 30 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1452095111651729410 | 1452095111651729410 |
| The 2022 elections will turn on "economy/inflation/jobs" | 2021-10-24 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1452078504942526468 | 1452078504942526468 |
| Trump gave everybody permission to be their own worst | 2021-10-24 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1452075066557042692 | 1452075066557042692 |
| GOP used to believe in child tax credits. Now they | 2021-10-23 | 64 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1451905716243996673 | 1451905716243996673 |
| Of course, the real goal is to suppress voting and create | 2021-10-23 | 88 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1451890558666895366 | 1451890558666895366 |
| How cults cultivate superstition - | 2021-10-23 | 56 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1451884284172648458 | 1451884284172648458 |
| Where is the Great Resignation greatest? In red states, | 2021-10-23 | 62 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1451883760685764608 | 1451883760685764608 |
| Trump doesn't like McCarthy but puts up with him. | 2021-10-23 | 140 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1451774506205208583 | 1451774506205208583 |
| Biden comes around on reducing filibuster. Who's next? | 2021-10-23 | 76 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1451769988847575046 | 1451769988847575046 |
| Data centers need to clean up their water usage as well | 2021-10-23 | 55 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1451769413573636098 | 1451769413573636098 |
| Known by the company you keep! | 2021-10-23 | 56 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1451767662149656579 | 1451767662149656579 |
| Facebook had its own insurrection. | 2021-10-23 | 55 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1451767144828456962 | 1451767144828456962 |
| A magnitude 7 on the Hayward Fault would make much of the | 2021-10-23 | 68 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1451763978196029443 | 1451763978196029443 |
| Why regional federalism might be in our future - | 2021-10-22 | 74 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1451611478931296256 | 1451611478931296256 |
| Confirming what everybody already knew - social media | 2021-10-22 | 78 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1451608919801950209 | 1451608919801950209 |
| The GOP could re-legalize slavery - an employment draft | 2021-10-22 | 79 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1451607717898948609 | 1451607717898948609 |
| That was the week that wasn't. | 2021-10-22 | 80 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1451605390836178947 | 1451605390836178947 |
| Perfecting an internet for state security - converting | 2021-10-22 | 83 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1451599906511065091 | 1451599906511065091 |
| Why everything is scarce and expensive - | 2021-10-22 | 71 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1451593580544290823 | 1451593580544290823 |
| Dan Patrick rewards vote fraud conviction! | 2021-10-22 | 83 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1451589141540442116 | 1451589141540442116 |
| "George Soros-backed allies, these allies that are in | 2021-10-22 | 84 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1451588342752026627 | 1451588342752026627 |
| "Ambition must be made to counteract ambition" | 2021-10-22 | 78 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1451587436530655238 | 1451587436530655238 |
| Old guys should stick to a script that has been | 2021-10-22 | 81 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1451583504190377990 | 1451583504190377990 |
| California public school finance - is the money being | 2021-10-22 | 81 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1451564687301046279 | 1451564687301046279 |
| No surprise that Trump was deceitful, corrupt, and | 2021-10-22 | 78 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1451564188459888647 | 1451564188459888647 |
| Corporate-driven capitation health care - a path to better | 2021-10-22 | 77 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1451558563227201537 | 1451558563227201537 |
| On their deathbed, nobody wishes they spent more time at | 2021-10-22 | 81 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1451557880780390409 | 1451557880780390409 |
| The Halloween costume we've been looking for! | 2021-10-22 | 75 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1451556837929545728 | 1451556837929545728 |
| "Facebook does not comment on rumor or speculation" It | 2021-10-22 | 82 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1451556253088378884 | 1451556253088378884 |
| If you're a Trumpist, it's what you FEEL that matters. | 2021-10-22 | 73 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1451376995288289284 | 1451376995288289284 |
| Desperate as we are to hire more police officers, don't | 2021-10-22 | 69 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1451376412883968004 | 1451376412883968004 |
| Bringing the big guns to bear on Gaetz. It's hard to | 2021-10-22 | 87 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1451375654629306375 | 1451375654629306375 |
| We knew that climate change was a military and political | 2021-10-22 | 80 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1451346904621535233 | 1451346904621535233 |
| If Biden can't get corporate Democrats to tax the wealthy | 2021-10-22 | 88 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1451346052171272219 | 1451346052171272219 |
| The black death increased the power of labor and led to | 2021-10-22 | 83 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1451345164996280323 | 1451345164996280323 |
| It's all about other people's money - for everybody | 2021-10-22 | 80 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1451343446648655873 | 1451343446648655873 |
| What's the energy transition strategy? | 2021-10-21 | 101 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1451337096795361301 | 1451337096795361301 |
| GOP defends minority rule best by defending its major | 2021-10-21 | 103 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1451335418922745861 | 1451335418922745861 |
| Job #1 for Trumpists - revenge on the disloyal. | 2021-10-21 | 93 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1451307629121191945 | 1451307629121191945 |
| There won't be any more questionable election outcomes | 2021-10-21 | 88 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1451305118301708289 | 1451305118301708289 |
| By a vote of 202-9, GOP Representatives think you should | 2021-10-21 | 87 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1451303720013086748 | 1451303720013086748 |
| Investors jump on the Trump SPAC. | 2021-10-21 | 90 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1451278462421921797 | 1451278462421921797 |
| There are still a few bugs to work out! | 2021-10-21 | 80 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1451254126877151252 | 1451254126877151252 |
| AZ is not WV. There are limits to what a Democrat can | 2021-10-21 | 84 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1451251553562595334 | 1451251553562595334 |
| As usual, control of Congress in2022 will be largely up | 2021-10-21 | 77 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1451245348895133696 | 1451245348895133696 |
| Too much information would make life difficult for major | 2021-10-21 | 82 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1451221548824600586 | 1451221548824600586 |
| Is there a magic path to appeal to the Trump base AND | 2021-10-21 | 79 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1451220873705246725 | 1451220873705246725 |
| The best way to protect a political career is to protect | 2021-10-21 | 77 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1451219767340134404 | 1451219767340134404 |
| It's close enough - the overall impression is correct. | 2021-10-21 | 83 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1451218773126443013 | 1451218773126443013 |
| Facial hair can make a difference. | 2021-10-21 | 89 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1451218132165488646 | 1451218132165488646 |
| Has this scenario played out in other places? | 2021-10-21 | 83 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1451216625256964101 | 1451216625256964101 |
| Time to move on! | 2021-10-21 | 95 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1451183786461302787 | 1451183786461302787 |
| No progress in 40 years of conflict. Another Kashmir? | 2021-10-21 | 107 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1451180392086605831 | 1451180392086605831 |
| Trump launches social media platform! | 2021-10-21 | 82 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1451178516003766274 | 1451178516003766274 |
| How corporations reorganize to avoid liability. | 2021-10-21 | 101 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1451024941441114112 | 1451024941441114112 |
| Manchin vs West Virginia | 2021-10-21 | 83 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1451006261751779329 | 1451006261751779329 |
| In-n-Out decides to be part of the problem, not part of | 2021-10-21 | 103 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1450990397568606208 | 1450990397568606208 |
| A novel Senate strategy for blocking nominations - just | 2021-10-21 | 82 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1450989074638987264 | 1450989074638987264 |
| Vaccine mandates work! | 2021-10-21 | 78 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1450986993735720964 | 1450986993735720964 |
| Living trusts - stepped-up basis. | 2021-10-21 | 96 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1450982188229357568 | 1450982188229357568 |
| Who's a RINO? | 2021-10-21 | 99 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1450980890352316420 | 1450980890352316420 |
| New tax ideas for financing Build Back Better. Will | 2021-10-21 | 95 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1450978471505657861 | 1450978471505657861 |
| Jim Jordan can't remember much about Jan 6. | 2021-10-21 | 76 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1450977178707902465 | 1450977178707902465 |
| Teachers wearing out. | 2021-10-20 | 78 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1450974145601171457 | 1450974145601171457 |
| Yet another Trump investigation. | 2021-10-20 | 86 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1450973463489892359 | 1450973463489892359 |
| Is there a price to be paid for contempt of Congress? | 2021-10-20 | 84 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1450971079875252225 | 1450971079875252225 |
| When it comes to preserving minority rule, there is | 2021-10-20 | 80 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1450969413658701828 | 1450969413658701828 |
| https://political-scrapbook.net/ | 2021-10-20 | 88 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1450714808576208897 | 1450714808576208897 |
| The Taliban have no idea how to run a modern urban society. | 2021-10-20 | 97 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1450712746186592259 | 1450712746186592259 |
| Trump's brown shirts are keeping in shape for the next time | 2021-10-20 | 89 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1450710129112797191 | 1450710129112797191 |
| "The winners in all of this are the exchanges and the | 2021-10-20 | 84 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1450707286469459968 | 1450707286469459968 |
| Deripaska - a name well known to Putin, Manafort, | 2021-10-20 | 111 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1450705891125121026 | 1450705891125121026 |
| Why GOP is so eager to keep dark campaign contributions | 2021-10-20 | 81 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1450704939106271233 | 1450704939106271233 |
| Kashmir - the eternal thorn in the side of India, Pakistan | 2021-10-20 | 86 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1450703456025526272 | 1450703456025526272 |
| Means testing is a pretty good way to keep the deserving | 2021-10-19 | 106 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1450295507180408834 | 1450295507180408834 |
| Negotiating drug prices made sense to Trump, who did | 2021-10-19 | 106 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1450270208183062532 | 1450270208183062532 |
| As predicted - on the whole, hedge funds made money on | 2021-10-19 | 115 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1450253509606051840 | 1450253509606051840 |
| Is Manchin enjoying his moment in the sun? | 2021-10-19 | 111 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1450251752570114051 | 1450251752570114051 |
| "the real tax scandal is what’s legal" | 2021-10-18 | 116 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1450219200060948481 | 1450219200060948481 |
| "all the pandering and outrage was its own reward" | 2021-10-18 | 105 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1450217981405896705 | 1450217981405896705 |
| He might have been the first black president. Then the | 2021-10-18 | 96 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1450216340388663301 | 1450216340388663301 |
| Nobody who was qualified to be president would want it. | 2021-10-18 | 108 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1450214996273602561 | 1450214996273602561 |
| Trump deposed after a four year holiday. | 2021-10-18 | 113 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1450212789679636482 | 1450212789679636482 |
| Trump keeps trying to find a sympathetic judge. | 2021-10-18 | 88 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1450212206469992448 | 1450212206469992448 |
| The woes of blue cities in red states. | 2021-10-18 | 112 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1450108848715427841 | 1450108848715427841 |
| Ride sharing comes back to earth. | 2021-10-18 | 108 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1450106211202785289 | 1450106211202785289 |
| The superstitious peasants are driving out the public | 2021-10-18 | 113 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1450103684960964616 | 1450103684960964616 |
| John Eastman has big plans. Much bigger than just | 2021-10-18 | 111 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1450099643962978304 | 1450099643962978304 |
| That was the economics that wasn't. | 2021-10-18 | 98 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1450098549576777728 | 1450098549576777728 |
| Will Pakistan come to regret sheltering the Afghan Taliban? | 2021-10-18 | 116 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1450075326160117763 | 1450075326160117763 |
| Defund the police? Only in GOP propaganda. Name one | 2021-10-18 | 117 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1449922724495708169 | 1449922724495708169 |
| The horror of elderly dementia. | 2021-10-18 | 115 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1449921815040593921 | 1449921815040593921 |
| It takes millions of dollars to run for the Senate. | 2021-10-18 | 81 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1449919896884711425 | 1449919896884711425 |
| Term limits for Supreme Court justices? | 2021-10-18 | 115 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1449897426488229888 | 1449897426488229888 |
| We should shut down domestic tax havens - | 2021-10-18 | 95 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1449896321830166533 | 1449896321830166533 |
| Can we avoid regional federalism? | 2021-10-18 | 110 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1449894949244182529 | 1449894949244182529 |
| Economists support carbon tax - but not GOP senators, | 2021-10-17 | 87 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1449879492302802946 | 1449879492302802946 |
| Trump will run for president in 2024 - against GOP who | 2021-10-17 | 84 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1449875681920253954 | 1449875681920253954 |
| Why Biden can't do much about global warming - West | 2021-10-17 | 85 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1449870619512696833 | 1449870619512696833 |
| Plan on permanent inflation or plan on transient inflation? | 2021-10-17 | 80 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1449866387514486790 | 1449866387514486790 |
| If Democrats lose this chance and the GOP normalizes | 2021-10-17 | 89 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1449864103753748480 | 1449864103753748480 |
| What happens to the foot soldiers? | 2021-10-17 | 85 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1449862227654111232 | 1449862227654111232 |
| What happens after the revolution? Political power | 2021-10-17 | 87 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1449852411292512259 | 1449852411292512259 |
| When labor is scarce, strikes work better. | 2021-10-17 | 81 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1449847433056309250 | 1449847433056309250 |
| Bannon certainly has staying power. Maybe he'll have | 2021-10-17 | 88 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1449741860142915589 | 1449741860142915589 |
| Texas GOP shows how it's done! | 2021-10-17 | 85 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1449740059129704448 | 1449740059129704448 |
| How much is a Trump endorsement worth? A lot to | 2021-10-17 | 86 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1449735876452315153 | 1449735876452315153 |
| Among the latest victims of the insurrection - Federal | 2021-10-17 | 86 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1449734416553562117 | 1449734416553562117 |
| Fire camp is better than prison! | 2021-10-17 | 84 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1449628074685788166 | 1449628074685788166 |
| Looks like Manchin is determined to protect coal. | 2021-10-17 | 90 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1449626639973765128 | 1449626639973765128 |
| How many legislators will retire, either for personal | 2021-10-17 | 86 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1449625176434298882 | 1449625176434298882 |
| What could get Congress to act on voting rights? | 2021-10-17 | 89 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1449624111303434241 | 1449624111303434241 |
| How the ruling class funds insurrection. | 2021-10-17 | 78 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1449621174921535491 | 1449621174921535491 |
| Lawyers used to sue doctors for malpractice. Now they | 2021-10-17 | 87 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1449619264168620038 | 1449619264168620038 |
| There's a reason China banned cryptocurrency. In the | 2021-10-17 | 114 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1449618100517699586 | 1449618100517699586 |
| There's a name for systems in which your rights supersede | 2021-10-17 | 85 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1449616826502025217 | 1449616826502025217 |
| Biden says prosecute! | 2021-10-16 | 41 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1449183705390485513 | 1449183705390485513 |
| At least we have SOME idea what Manchin wants - | 2021-10-16 | 30 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1449183017604288512 | 1449183017604288512 |
| Off to Paris! | 2021-10-15 | 72 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1449160084106330113 | 1449160084106330113 |
| The good, bad, and ugly on the governor's desk - Newsom | 2021-10-15 | 90 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1449155058134749187 | 1449155058134749187 |
| Raking and thinning aren't nearly as efficient as | 2021-10-15 | 89 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1449154271891496960 | 1449154271891496960 |
| Since Facebook is for old people, the Z's moved to TikTok. | 2021-10-15 | 103 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1449152533570588673 | 1449152533570588673 |
| Fake online reviews are actually illegal! | 2021-10-15 | 107 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1449149391227396099 | 1449149391227396099 |
| The shipping bottleneck is not eternally insolvable. | 2021-10-15 | 107 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1449148816804904960 | 1449148816804904960 |
| Will any more GOP leaders reject Trumpism? | 2021-10-15 | 86 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1449141265342222342 | 1449141265342222342 |
| The relative value of labor to capital changed after the | 2021-10-15 | 98 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1449139655400574985 | 1449139655400574985 |
| We didn't defeat the business cycle after all. | 2021-10-15 | 95 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1449137728050716676 | 1449137728050716676 |
| "If Kevin McCarthy were ever to become speaker, essentially | 2021-10-15 | 91 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1449134964503576580 | 1449134964503576580 |
| More culture warriors to defend minority rule! | 2021-10-15 | 89 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1449132807465299971 | 1449132807465299971 |
| That was the week that wasn't. | 2021-10-15 | 86 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1449130108048924673 | 1449130108048924673 |
| Capitol cop tried to protect insurrectionist. | 2021-10-15 | 90 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1449067482216493064 | 1449067482216493064 |
| The bogus Eastman theory lives on. Time to drive a | 2021-10-15 | 87 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1449055721186758656 | 1449055721186758656 |
| Voters claim they want a smaller government. | 2021-10-15 | 87 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1449054556482985991 | 1449054556482985991 |
| There's always two sides - fact and fantasy. The | 2021-10-15 | 97 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1449052617422753803 | 1449052617422753803 |
| A universal income in lieu of dozens of mean-tested | 2021-10-15 | 90 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1449019978473111558 | 1449019978473111558 |
| Clarence Thomas, the most reactionary justice since | 2021-10-15 | 98 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1449001294824280073 | 1449001294824280073 |
| Reaching the unvaccinated. | 2021-10-15 | 95 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1449000123623608325 | 1449000123623608325 |
| A positive view of Kyrsten Sinema. | 2021-10-15 | 98 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1448997310273241089 | 1448997310273241089 |
| Term limits would be good for the Federal judiciary. | 2021-10-15 | 103 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1448864895676469255 | 1448864895676469255 |
| Humiliation as a dynamic of American history - | 2021-10-15 | 92 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1448863523862286336 | 1448863523862286336 |
| Homeowners associations in LA - a model for progressives | 2021-10-15 | 111 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1448857027862675460 | 1448857027862675460 |
| Why people don't want lousy jobs any more. | 2021-10-15 | 87 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1448854822627647490 | 1448854822627647490 |
| "It doesn’t matter who we elect, it’s all the same" | 2021-10-15 | 98 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1448849465062805504 | 1448849465062805504 |
| Where inflation is hitting hardest - | 2021-10-15 | 91 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1448848445041614855 | 1448848445041614855 |
| For former GOP who didn't get the memo - GOP is a | 2021-10-15 | 85 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1448847179041239043 | 1448847179041239043 |
| Missouri blames the messenger. | 2021-10-15 | 88 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1448844395080339461 | 1448844395080339461 |
| Undoing some Trump damage. | 2021-10-15 | 87 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1448842798774439937 | 1448842798774439937 |
| Is Biden competent? | 2021-10-14 | 89 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1448743313020907542 | 1448743313020907542 |
| Looks like she had a mild case - but who else did she | 2021-10-14 | 106 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1448738004827205642 | 1448738004827205642 |
| At least he didn't have to show up in court! | 2021-10-14 | 89 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1448736226597498883 | 1448736226597498883 |
| Is it possible to avoid both the hazards of globalization | 2021-10-14 | 112 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1448658019051474945 | 1448658019051474945 |
| As always, only the best on the Trump team! | 2021-10-14 | 94 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1448651068003344387 | 1448651068003344387 |
| DO NOT PRESS 1 or 2 Don't answer! Or if you do, just | 2021-10-14 | 85 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1448632176837226500 | 1448632176837226500 |
| DO NOT PRESS 1 or 2 Don't answer, or just hang up. | 2021-10-14 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1448473895980261383 | 1448473895980261383 |
| Fired for election fraud and breach of duty; FBI | 2021-10-14 | 85 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1448471252163710981 | 1448471252163710981 |
| What happens when banks fear losing their largest | 2021-10-14 | 95 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1448461682729050117 | 1448461682729050117 |
| There's no permanent gap between GOP legislators and their | 2021-10-14 | 96 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1448457026246348807 | 1448457026246348807 |
| Single party control is often unsuccessful. | 2021-10-14 | 97 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1448439706375524356 | 1448439706375524356 |
| One way to reduce inflation might have been to export more | 2021-10-13 | 66 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1448436398382469126 | 1448436398382469126 |
| Czech blow against corrupt pseudo-populist Trumpism. | 2021-10-13 | 55 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1448429337871405057 | 1448429337871405057 |
| Trump used to want a big military parade. If he is | 2021-10-13 | 56 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1448427490569908228 | 1448427490569908228 |
| Trumpist insurrection is a model for the whole world! | 2021-10-13 | 45 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1448422764319105026 | 1448422764319105026 |
| Abbott faces 7 primary opponents on his right. He's not | 2021-10-13 | 50 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1448421453808877570 | 1448421453808877570 |
| If you want something from Trump, like a pardon, the past | 2021-10-13 | 43 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1448418025498021888 | 1448418025498021888 |
| For once, Nobel prize research with immediate applications | 2021-10-13 | 51 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1448382808259395584 | 1448382808259395584 |
| What a concept - attack the root cause instead of the | 2021-10-13 | 50 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1448380433058516992 | 1448380433058516992 |
| Of course Trump will run again. His flunkies will tell | 2021-10-13 | 44 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1448373121443004418 | 1448373121443004418 |
| Maybe we should keep Columbus Day. Look how much Italy | 2021-10-13 | 61 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1448341403973537794 | 1448341403973537794 |
| No politician wants to tackle Social Security's long-term | 2021-10-13 | 49 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1448340500793081859 | 1448340500793081859 |
| Breaking the code - | 2021-10-13 | 45 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1448293043212152834 | 1448293043212152834 |
| The preferred transition path is - retire, say what you | 2021-10-13 | 47 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1448291509720084482 | 1448291509720084482 |
| Another reason GOP senators find it easy to support | 2021-10-13 | 63 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1448278545004830723 | 1448278545004830723 |
| Congratulations Fox on your anniversary - they'll see you | 2021-10-13 | 43 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1448172221441064962 | 1448172221441064962 |
| How far will Evergrande infect? | 2021-10-13 | 94 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1448167893988823044 | 1448167893988823044 |
| Hillary's novel about Eric the Dumb. | 2021-10-13 | 45 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1448166623844528128 | 1448166623844528128 |
| It's more important to pass something promptly than | 2021-10-13 | 43 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1448164023342567424 | 1448164023342567424 |
| Now the Taliban is the target of a violent insurgency. | 2021-10-12 | 55 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1447917545340628999 | 1447917545340628999 |
| The Pandora Papers | 2021-10-12 | 64 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1447787426714251265 | 1447787426714251265 |
| Nothing's certain but the game isn't over yet. | 2021-10-12 | 57 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1447786045244805130 | 1447786045244805130 |
| If Trump or a Trumpist is elected in 2024, executive | 2021-10-12 | 59 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1447782877295308804 | 1447782877295308804 |
| Greg Abbott spares no effort to preserve the right of | 2021-10-12 | 65 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1447781803771588610 | 1447781803771588610 |
| Trump has once again convinced some number of traditional | 2021-10-12 | 54 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1447779655839215618 | 1447779655839215618 |
| There's a rolling coup being attempted - | 2021-10-12 | 48 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1447775373748441089 | 1447775373748441089 |
| The dark sides of online retailing - | 2021-10-11 | 70 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1447673843464617988 | 1447673843464617988 |
| "Meaningful legislation is inherently difficult and | 2021-10-11 | 81 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1447649906454265858 | 1447649906454265858 |
| Trumpists don't REALLY want to reign in global elites. | 2021-10-11 | 79 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1447647950386053120 | 1447647950386053120 |
| In Silicon Valley, virus increased wealth and income | 2021-10-11 | 82 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1447640731334496257 | 1447640731334496257 |
| American officials should not accept foreign gifts ever. | 2021-10-11 | 75 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1447623485677654018 | 1447623485677654018 |
| "Competitiveness" - code for low taxes, weak regulation | 2021-10-11 | 77 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1447620255308599297 | 1447620255308599297 |
| Another attempt by never-Trumpist traditional conservatives | 2021-10-11 | 81 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1447618574437076996 | 1447618574437076996 |
| An excellent way to reduce taxes! | 2021-10-11 | 79 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1447608770373185541 | 1447608770373185541 |
| "Money is the mother's milk of politics" | 2021-10-11 | 84 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1447596625933729793 | 1447596625933729793 |
| The mid-term elections usually go badly for the president's | 2021-10-11 | 70 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1447585066964570115 | 1447585066964570115 |
| China is not very forthcoming on virus origins. | 2021-10-11 | 74 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1447580768050376704 | 1447580768050376704 |
| Beware the plain quiet woman sitting and listening - | 2021-10-11 | 169 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1447560785111117825 | 1447560785111117825 |
| There are plenty of Italian-Americans who came to America | 2021-10-11 | 185 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1447558967513665546 | 1447558967513665546 |
| Fall will test GOP in Congress | 2021-10-11 | 84 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1447555317017939972 | 1447555317017939972 |
| Surprise! Neither minimum wage nor immigration cause | 2021-10-11 | 84 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1447552910410223619 | 1447552910410223619 |
| Did he repent not getting vaccinated while he was on | 2021-10-11 | 59 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1447551997381517312 | 1447551997381517312 |
| Has China peaked and started on the way down? | 2021-10-11 | 143 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1447424380275884042 | 1447424380275884042 |
| The search for objective truth in a world that is | 2021-10-11 | 77 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1447411422506336256 | 1447411422506336256 |
| Anything that makes having children less of an economic | 2021-10-11 | 81 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1447409570196779011 | 1447409570196779011 |
| Unclear on the concept! | 2021-10-11 | 97 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1447405243369590787 | 1447405243369590787 |
| Did you notice when Powerade went from 32oz to 28oz? | 2021-10-11 | 84 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1447403508135723009 | 1447403508135723009 |
| The shipping crisis is not getting better. | 2021-10-11 | 88 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1447396257786331137 | 1447396257786331137 |
| Scalise reminds us of the cost of failing to pass the | 2021-10-11 | 80 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1447393387624075265 | 1447393387624075265 |
| The essence of the Biden agenda is | 2021-10-11 | 90 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1447390598030258182 | 1447390598030258182 |
| Why would anybody want to have anything to do with these | 2021-10-11 | 79 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1447364515704627328 | 1447364515704627328 |
| Presidential nominations should be automatically confirmed | 2021-10-11 | 85 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1447353564687306753 | 1447353564687306753 |
| Big corporations would donate to nazis AND communists | 2021-10-11 | 83 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1447351433032912902 | 1447351433032912902 |
| Xinjiang as historical tourist attraction. | 2021-10-10 | 23 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1447349354843443206 | 1447349354843443206 |
| Scalise will do ANYTHING, even saying idiotic | 2021-10-10 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1447347322984095746 | 1447347322984095746 |
| A quid pro quo with Taliban? | 2021-10-10 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1447346327092793348 | 1447346327092793348 |
| Prevent another Trump coup? | 2021-10-10 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1447333011825967105 | 1447333011825967105 |
| How states with loose trust laws rip off other states. | 2021-10-10 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1447331042705096708 | 1447331042705096708 |
| Where would corrupt wealthy foreigners be without South | 2021-10-10 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1447329591043842050 | 1447329591043842050 |
| Why people are desperate to leave Haiti. | 2021-10-10 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1447326994283188231 | 1447326994283188231 |
| Can the Democrats agree on what is possible, and then | 2021-10-10 | 21 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1447325522938130433 | 1447325522938130433 |
| Global energy politics | 2021-10-10 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1447322565937037316 | 1447322565937037316 |
| So by any means possible, GOP creates a do-nothing Congress | 2021-10-10 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1447319543236284418 | 1447319543236284418 |
| Trump's coup was defeated by a very few GOP officials. | 2021-10-10 | 21 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1447315149543510018 | 1447315149543510018 |
| Can't tell the players without a scorecard! | 2021-10-10 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1447310936352583684 | 1447310936352583684 |
| Restaurant business is starving for workers - | 2021-10-10 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1447309140569690114 | 1447309140569690114 |
| As Wisconsin goes, so goes the country? | 2021-10-10 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1447307922321514497 | 1447307922321514497 |
| You can't blame the lunatic fringe for being the lunatic | 2021-10-10 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1447301077913665536 | 1447301077913665536 |
| Bipartisan agreement that SOMEthing should be done about | 2021-10-10 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1447295670440792066 | 1447295670440792066 |
| Why do we put up with a do-nothing Congress? Because the | 2021-10-10 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1447271067479724033 | 1447271067479724033 |
| Delta economy depresses office space in some places | 2021-10-10 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1447267477138722817 | 1447267477138722817 |
| Do Tesla and Texas REALLY want each other? | 2021-10-10 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1447266187520327683 | 1447266187520327683 |
| How ATT funds Trumpist agitprop on OAN - | 2021-10-10 | 20 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1447217337745108994 | 1447217337745108994 |
| What, exactly, is the public interest in Dominion's | 2021-10-10 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1447083744989364224 | 1447083744989364224 |
| Taliban think they can handle Islamic State on their own. | 2021-10-10 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1447080585109774339 | 1447080585109774339 |
| Why so few jobs were filled in September. | 2021-10-10 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1447079285039058946 | 1447079285039058946 |
| Reactionaries training to take over school boards to | 2021-10-10 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1447078116837376002 | 1447078116837376002 |
| Another traditional conservative pushed out of the GOP | 2021-10-10 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1447076926414225415 | 1447076926414225415 |
| He didn't get vaccinated, and he got covid and gave it to | 2021-10-10 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1447076498427432963 | 1447076498427432963 |
| Strategic ambiguity on the PRC side, too. | 2021-10-09 | 36 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1446837672429768714 | 1446837672429768714 |
| Will secret offshore and onshore tax havens reduce | 2021-10-09 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1446836868755062790 | 1446836868755062790 |
| "I really don’t think he’s that stupid" | 2021-10-09 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1446834746592415751 | 1446834746592415751 |
| Who's the entitled class? | 2021-10-09 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1446818891716382725 | 1446818891716382725 |
| Will reputational damage do what tax laws can't? | 2021-10-09 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1446817090732630017 | 1446817090732630017 |
| Body image anxiety isn't new, but social media amplifies | 2021-10-09 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1446815678728601603 | 1446815678728601603 |
| 11 GOP senators who can behave responsibly. | 2021-10-09 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1446709158225399815 | 1446709158225399815 |
| The Constitution stacks the deck for rural states run | 2021-10-09 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1446707793419927556 | 1446707793419927556 |
| Banks don't want any more reporting requirements. That | 2021-10-09 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1446700622921666561 | 1446700622921666561 |
| Why Trump wants to sell. | 2021-10-09 | 44 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1446699761155788800 | 1446699761155788800 |
| The Secret Service is not a place you'd like to work. | 2021-10-09 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1446698817420611585 | 1446698817420611585 |
| Trump endorses unknowns so they owe everything to him. | 2021-10-09 | 55 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1446697893537058825 | 1446697893537058825 |
| Why children have to be vaccinated against childhood | 2021-10-09 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1446692146833072130 | 1446692146833072130 |
| Will Congress do anything about the Electoral Count Act? | 2021-10-09 | 45 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1446690929864110083 | 1446690929864110083 |
| Everybody knew Trump would lie, cheat, and steal. | 2021-10-09 | 44 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1446689488952905736 | 1446689488952905736 |
| Don't leave voice mail when you are drunk. | 2021-10-09 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1446686102643826688 | 1446686102643826688 |
| We're learning about social media as we go along. | 2021-10-09 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1446672971955802112 | 1446672971955802112 |
| At last a law requiring cancellations to be as easy as | 2021-10-09 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1446671102474797056 | 1446671102474797056 |
| Surprise! Biden won't protect Trump! | 2021-10-08 | 55 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1446569881994887168 | 1446569881994887168 |
| That was the week that wasn't. | 2021-10-08 | 49 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1446568592149925888 | 1446568592149925888 |
| Americans agree there's lots of disinformation | 2021-10-08 | 51 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1446508410258612228 | 1446508410258612228 |
| What is worse than the Taliban? | 2021-10-08 | 55 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1446506604531093506 | 1446506604531093506 |
| No separation of church and state under Trumpism. | 2021-10-08 | 68 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1446318164019531778 | 1446318164019531778 |
| Only the best people showed up on Jan 6! | 2021-10-08 | 57 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1446316970094125056 | 1446316970094125056 |
| Immigration has always been a big deal for bigots. | 2021-10-08 | 61 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1446310745117847553 | 1446310745117847553 |
| We build theories about the world to help us get through | 2021-10-08 | 55 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1446307093540007941 | 1446307093540007941 |
| There are some reasons to hope for a better future in | 2021-10-08 | 56 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1446305533821026305 | 1446305533821026305 |
| Texas is the national laboratory for maintaining minority | 2021-10-08 | 56 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1446304401019183112 | 1446304401019183112 |
| The debt ceiling - a guide for the perplexed. | 2021-10-08 | 49 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1446302065769074688 | 1446302065769074688 |
| You can't expect a busy man like Trump to worry about | 2021-10-08 | 45 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1446300379155615751 | 1446300379155615751 |
| All the twisted thinking behind the debt ceiling | 2021-10-08 | 57 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1446298372730540036 | 1446298372730540036 |
| Trump never forgets and never forgives | 2021-10-08 | 56 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1446296606744014855 | 1446296606744014855 |
| How dumb can a nation act? | 2021-10-08 | 59 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1446267583145996289 | 1446267583145996289 |
| More on Trump's "executive privilege" claims | 2021-10-08 | 56 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1446265462430470149 | 1446265462430470149 |
| Hacking for fun - or fame - or fortune? | 2021-10-07 | 79 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1446263563056599041 | 1446263563056599041 |
| Covid hoaxes can land you in prison. | 2021-10-07 | 77 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1446218532853727254 | 1446218532853727254 |
| The myth that better communication media bring people | 2021-10-07 | 77 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1446217881843220517 | 1446217881843220517 |
| Who's paying? | 2021-10-07 | 79 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1446210962671878148 | 1446210962671878148 |
| Trump's role models! | 2021-10-07 | 78 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1446210444608225301 | 1446210444608225301 |
| Who'd like to walk in Trump's footsteps - if they can | 2021-10-07 | 83 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1446209510134071309 | 1446209510134071309 |
| Fear, outrage, and fantasy sell way better than optimism | 2021-10-07 | 80 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1446203267222949888 | 1446203267222949888 |
| Most voters and most Democratic legislators favor | 2021-10-07 | 79 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1446200874674503682 | 1446200874674503682 |
| It's been bad enough already | 2021-10-07 | 75 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1446198151266770946 | 1446198151266770946 |
| How white blue-collar workers shifted from leftists to | 2021-10-07 | 89 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1446196645218054145 | 1446196645218054145 |
| Traditional conservatives need to realize that the Trumpist | 2021-10-07 | 75 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1446175587756752897 | 1446175587756752897 |
| Are Wyoming and Cheney split for good? | 2021-10-07 | 88 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1446172209341341708 | 1446172209341341708 |
| If you want people to work more so we depend less on | 2021-10-07 | 85 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1446167579412733957 | 1446167579412733957 |
| Time for regional federalism? | 2021-10-07 | 86 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1446166727457316868 | 1446166727457316868 |
| QR codes and privacy | 2021-10-07 | 83 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1446162057208811520 | 1446162057208811520 |
| Does the 14th Amendment solve the budget ceiling crisis? | 2021-10-07 | 78 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1446145256932593675 | 1446145256932593675 |
| Could the yuan displace the dollar in international | 2021-10-07 | 83 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1446131386839027720 | 1446131386839027720 |
| The insurrection against the Constitution did indeed start | 2021-10-07 | 75 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1446128888698978314 | 1446128888698978314 |
| The changing dynamics of state hacking. | 2021-10-07 | 99 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1446117480468869128 | 1446117480468869128 |
| The Taliban is against drug addiction in Afghanistan - | 2021-10-07 | 92 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1446114722839818243 | 1446114722839818243 |
| Federal help for ranked-choice voting! The Voter Choice | 2021-10-07 | 74 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1445954364544147462 | 1445954364544147462 |
| Putin must think that Trump is still president. | 2021-10-07 | 77 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1445943590518067202 | 1445943590518067202 |
| McConnell has talked Biden out of the filibuster. | 2021-10-07 | 96 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1445933105747935234 | 1445933105747935234 |
| Nothing's changed in a year. Issues aren't the issues. | 2021-10-06 | 202 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1445901359677538313 | 1445901359677538313 |
| If this guy had been right again his fortune would have | 2021-10-06 | 203 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1445900313211244547 | 1445900313211244547 |
| If Libertarian voters' second choice were Trump, then | 2021-10-06 | 194 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1445899127859023877 | 1445899127859023877 |
| So ten months later how many have been disbarred? | 2021-10-06 | 210 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1445897939822395396 | 1445897939822395396 |
| In December, Cornyn, Thune, and Braun said "game over". | 2021-10-06 | 215 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1445896826335346689 | 1445896826335346689 |
| Republicans don't have to pass anything to preserve | 2021-10-06 | 184 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1445895753411432458 | 1445895753411432458 |
| Texas GOP terrorizes even GOP elections officials. | 2021-10-06 | 212 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1445891704033198087 | 1445891704033198087 |
| What does McConnell want? To wreck the economy on | 2021-10-06 | 184 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1445886430983561221 | 1445886430983561221 |
| Which way is the future? | 2021-10-06 | 177 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1445885134423527432 | 1445885134423527432 |
| The Chinese Wild West is over. From now on the Party | 2021-10-06 | 192 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1445883029692420103 | 1445883029692420103 |
| What do you tell terminal patients in denial? There are | 2021-10-06 | 184 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1445879173852004355 | 1445879173852004355 |
| The Taliban's only way to finance their power without | 2021-10-06 | 179 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1445875929427767307 | 1445875929427767307 |
| The Ministry of Truth for minority rule in general and | 2021-10-06 | 192 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1445874982647595010 | 1445874982647595010 |
| Three strikes against rural hospitals in Trump country. | 2021-10-06 | 190 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1445874201114537986 | 1445874201114537986 |
| Haley as well as Pence are trying to define themselves as | 2021-10-06 | 186 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1445873099748962306 | 1445873099748962306 |
| Can anybody get elected to the Senate who is not a Trumpist | 2021-10-06 | 204 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1445871933883510795 | 1445871933883510795 |
| Can you consistently tell fact from fantasy? Most | 2021-10-06 | 194 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1445870865220964354 | 1445870865220964354 |
| And why shouldn't a Trump cabinet member charter a private | 2021-10-06 | 204 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1445868964068806665 | 1445868964068806665 |
| Lobbying paid off for Yellow. | 2021-10-06 | 199 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1445867081019232261 | 1445867081019232261 |
| Desperately seeking approval! | 2021-10-06 | 204 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1445866023383568388 | 1445866023383568388 |
| There's no penalty for being an irresponsible opposition | 2021-10-06 | 192 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1445855782390558730 | 1445855782390558730 |
| "Stop the Steal" is not just about Trump, except in his | 2021-10-06 | 210 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1445854447893057542 | 1445854447893057542 |
| Pence still thinks he has presidential prospects. | 2021-10-06 | 202 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1445853280689549314 | 1445853280689549314 |
| $171 million so far this year says Medicare won't be able | 2021-10-06 | 203 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1445849950990987267 | 1445849950990987267 |
| A Republican caucusing with Democrats | 2021-10-06 | 188 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1445847215746863107 | 1445847215746863107 |
| The modern way to loot culture. | 2021-10-06 | 184 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1445755333545136128 | 1445755333545136128 |
| The modern way to do bribes. | 2021-10-06 | 189 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1445750904678801408 | 1445750904678801408 |
| Pandora Papers confirm worst suspicions. | 2021-10-06 | 197 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1445745187154632711 | 1445745187154632711 |
| The Scopes monkey trial took place in rural Tennessee - | 2021-10-06 | 182 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1445641750479982598 | 1445641750479982598 |
| Why the Taliban was so successful in rural areas. | 2021-10-06 | 217 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1445636980977532930 | 1445636980977532930 |
| A filibuster change to pass a debt ceiling increase? | 2021-10-06 | 196 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1445632039156285440 | 1445632039156285440 |
| A trillion dollar coin to solve the debt ceiling crisis? | 2021-10-06 | 234 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1445631039318093835 | 1445631039318093835 |
| The threat in 2024 is not so much Trump - | 2021-10-05 | 222 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1445384428373659651 | 1445384428373659651 |
| Can a woman protect minority rule by keeping both the | 2021-10-05 | 238 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1445379054014582786 | 1445379054014582786 |
| In London as in Pierre, money talks, and there are plenty | 2021-10-05 | 225 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1445376694383116292 | 1445376694383116292 |
| QAnon fantasists are turning criminal, world wide. | 2021-10-05 | 207 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1445375296618713088 | 1445375296618713088 |
| Feds planning response to school board violent threats. | 2021-10-05 | 207 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1445234604256882693 | 1445234604256882693 |
| Let Sinema and Machin coddle their major donors as we | 2021-10-05 | 223 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1445214204047159297 | 1445214204047159297 |
| You can get fake versions of anything on the internet. | 2021-10-05 | 217 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1445210702650568709 | 1445210702650568709 |
| Four diverse groups of British immigrants formed four | 2021-10-05 | 230 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1445193468582662145 | 1445193468582662145 |
| To repeat - it's children and climate. The rest can | 2021-10-05 | 197 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1445191836096552961 | 1445191836096552961 |
| Change comes to German politics. | 2021-10-05 | 225 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1445190867459788801 | 1445190867459788801 |
| Why Congress tends toward doing nothing. | 2021-10-05 | 220 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1445189211557040130 | 1445189211557040130 |
| Has Facebook peaked? | 2021-10-05 | 223 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1445187350737215492 | 1445187350737215492 |
| Advice to Biden and Democrats in Congress - do a few things | 2021-10-05 | 223 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1445184462317240322 | 1445184462317240322 |
| Many businesses learned today what happens when your | 2021-10-05 | 207 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1445182755495559175 | 1445182755495559175 |
| We all knew that rich criminals don't pay taxes, and lots | 2021-10-05 | 209 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1445179432801472513 | 1445179432801472513 |
| Trump can be deposed, even though he is still president | 2021-10-04 | 117 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1445152024731942914 | 1445152024731942914 |
| After 40 years, a Dixiecrat court to match a Dixiecrat | 2021-10-04 | 126 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1445150387036590094 | 1445150387036590094 |
| Need employees? Make it pleasant enough to work | 2021-10-04 | 125 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1445134210994368518 | 1445134210994368518 |
| Danger! Legislators are beginning to ask intelligent | 2021-10-04 | 124 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1445132141084381187 | 1445132141084381187 |
| Who can sue whom, and where, for social media comments? | 2021-10-04 | 140 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1445131403302035462 | 1445131403302035462 |
| Companies are rethinking offshoring and just-in-time | 2021-10-04 | 150 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1445130748235636736 | 1445130748235636736 |
| Debt ceiling history and future. | 2021-10-04 | 131 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1445129267390529540 | 1445129267390529540 |
| How close did Pence come to insurrection? | 2021-10-04 | 125 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1445123413396258824 | 1445123413396258824 |
| How the defenders of the ruling class donors dumb | 2021-10-04 | 123 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1445122641862357003 | 1445122641862357003 |
| Desperately seeking death panels! | 2021-10-04 | 120 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1445121169003204622 | 1445121169003204622 |
| At least we got some of them out. | 2021-10-04 | 135 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1445119796849229832 | 1445119796849229832 |
| If you play a good hand poorly, you still lose. | 2021-10-04 | 118 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1445118952007364616 | 1445118952007364616 |
| Are the Democrats trying to do too much at once? | 2021-10-04 | 128 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1445117904794439684 | 1445117904794439684 |
| Looks like Democrats have lost Florida to the GOP. | 2021-10-04 | 124 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1445116735082749959 | 1445116735082749959 |
| More on Darien Gap | 2021-10-04 | 161 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1445115895303397381 | 1445115895303397381 |
| How South Dakota caters to rich foreign criminals - | 2021-10-04 | 134 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1445103351880773638 | 1445103351880773638 |
| How Belize caters to rich American criminals - | 2021-10-04 | 140 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1445101319430176781 | 1445101319430176781 |
| Of course he's going to run! Even if he's broke and | 2021-10-04 | 144 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1445096198164017162 | 1445096198164017162 |
| No need to check the politicalscrapbook Facebook page. | 2021-10-04 | 302 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1445092861419024388 | 1445092861419024388 |
| The stories doctors have to listen to over and over. | 2021-10-04 | 134 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1445092257888043014 | 1445092257888043014 |
| In Wyoming, librarians can be prosecuted for placing books | 2021-10-04 | 145 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1445039975041409025 | 1445039975041409025 |
| Starting with the Reagan era, income and wealth inequality | 2021-10-04 | 133 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1445038396863176707 | 1445038396863176707 |
| Modern America took shape under which president? | 2021-10-04 | 142 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1445033826602795014 | 1445033826602795014 |
| Domestic terrorists threaten California school boards | 2021-10-04 | 145 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1445033147020701700 | 1445033147020701700 |
| Haitian hike of horrors. | 2021-10-04 | 139 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1445032275339448335 | 1445032275339448335 |
| California magnifies the demographic trends of all advanced | 2021-10-04 | 133 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1445030358534164480 | 1445030358534164480 |
| The end of tipping? | 2021-10-04 | 151 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1444870178987147265 | 1444870178987147265 |
| China's era of Wild West capitalism might be drawing to | 2021-10-04 | 156 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1444868081470173188 | 1444868081470173188 |
| The social media business model works most profitably | 2021-10-04 | 143 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1444854677401583617 | 1444854677401583617 |
| More on Ozy's attempt to fake it until you make it | 2021-10-04 | 164 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1444835558111412231 | 1444835558111412231 |
| Senator Cinema | 2021-10-04 | 147 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1444833037032701953 | 1444833037032701953 |
| Don't expect bipartisanship on fair elections. Almost | 2021-10-03 | 44 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1444775904769544195 | 1444775904769544195 |
| Funny money funnies 3 - wrong answers from Eric Cantor! | 2021-10-03 | 68 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1444769547932733440 | 1444769547932733440 |
| Who knew that South Dakota was in the same league as | 2021-10-03 | 203 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1444765737201987590 | 1444765737201987590 |
| Xi obviously wants to conquer Taiwan during his rule. | 2021-10-03 | 99 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1444764142888386562 | 1444764142888386562 |
| Funny money funnies 2 - the trillion dollar platinum coin | 2021-10-03 | 105 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1444763102071779329 | 1444763102071779329 |
| Funny money funnies 1 - regulating "stablecoins" | 2021-10-03 | 92 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1444762695580798978 | 1444762695580798978 |
| Fake it until you make it! | 2021-10-03 | 49 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1444760197612781571 | 1444760197612781571 |
| Trumpists don't have to comply with court orders - Trump | 2021-10-03 | 52 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1444759215382228995 | 1444759215382228995 |
| Arizona "investigators" just made up the numbers. | 2021-10-03 | 52 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1444758632323641352 | 1444758632323641352 |
| When phasing out coal, natural gas becomes more valuable. | 2021-10-03 | 72 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1444757534405902337 | 1444757534405902337 |
| Neiman Marcus - luxury goods without luxury data | 2021-10-03 | 43 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1444756515575906305 | 1444756515575906305 |
| An effective antidote to fear of vaccination - fear | 2021-10-03 | 48 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1444753059582672898 | 1444753059582672898 |
| Another Trumpist deregulation success! | 2021-10-03 | 48 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1444752271237992448 | 1444752271237992448 |
| Biden bill in perspective. | 2021-10-03 | 61 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1444543530693627909 | 1444543530693627909 |
| You never can be part of the Trump family. Because | 2021-10-03 | 60 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1444470616447328259 | 1444470616447328259 |
| Why service is so slow. | 2021-10-03 | 60 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1444469205567348736 | 1444469205567348736 |
| What a pile of political... fertilizer. | 2021-10-03 | 75 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1444467642589323275 | 1444467642589323275 |
| Trump looms over Virginia governor's race. GOP wants to | 2021-10-03 | 110 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1444465950615498754 | 1444465950615498754 |
| Minority rule worked fine in feudal times with the masses | 2021-10-03 | 55 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1444464547583062019 | 1444464547583062019 |
| What can we do about do-nothing Congress? | 2021-10-02 | 54 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1444335286234664965 | 1444335286234664965 |
| There's at least 70,000 more unvaccinated people that | 2021-10-02 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1444329164803170309 | 1444329164803170309 |
| Minority rule in action. | 2021-10-02 | 46 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1444328145843220488 | 1444328145843220488 |
| Trump said not to let the virus dominate you, so he didn't. | 2021-10-02 | 42 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1444326729607090178 | 1444326729607090178 |
| Trump said fight like hell or you won't have a country. | 2021-10-02 | 39 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1444325666795646982 | 1444325666795646982 |
| That was the week that wasn't. | 2021-10-02 | 45 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1444157217171673090 | 1444157217171673090 |
| Cloak and dagger for internet addresses - IPv4 addresses | 2021-10-01 | 50 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1443961541938737153 | 1443961541938737153 |
| A second line of defense after vaccination? | 2021-10-01 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1443958771147935744 | 1443958771147935744 |
| McCarthy's comments require translation. | 2021-10-01 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1443942020662247442 | 1443942020662247442 |
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========== $6 billion will be spent on the 2022 elections. The outcome will mostly be decided by how swing voters who don't follow politics much, feel about the economy. https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-business-health-georgia-donald-trump-2ad863083ef6a097dc5785977c7bd9aa More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1571195183224995 #PS1election ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 34 likes 1 time 2021-12-31 19:38 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1477001243771891714 ========== Anti-vax evangelicals admit no boundary between their politics and their religion. It's indeed against their real religion - Trumpism - to make any concessions to reason. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/30/vaccine-resistance-evangelical-christianity/ #PS1virus ===== engage 2 engage-rate 7% impress 30 likes 1 time 2021-12-31 05:03 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1476780930626830336 ========== So much for the rule of law! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/30/mitch-mcconnells-un-conservative-plea-supreme-court/ Strike down a law with severability provisions? Even McConnell can no longer pass muster as a traditional conservative. That must be an ideological dead end. It's always all about unlimited dark campaign money! #PS1justice ===== engage 1 engage-rate 4% impress 27 likes 1 time 2021-12-31 04:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1476779226292359170 ========== Amazing how often it all comes down to unlimited dark money campaign contributions! https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/30/opinion/democrats-joe-manchin.html #PS1democracy ===== impress 21 time 2021-12-31 03:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1476764643162931200 ========== “The value of true modesty or humility is hard to sustain in an attention economy.” https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/04/opinion/michael-goldhaber-internet.html Thus the attention economy undermines every significant spiritual tradition. The brazen and narcissistic can gain vast power very quickly. #PS1media ===== impress 22 time 2021-12-31 03:52 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1476763099596165121 ========== Watch Night - there's more to New Year's Eve than you might think. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/30/opinion/watch-night-new-years-eve.html #PS1other ===== impress 25 time 2021-12-31 03:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1476760356273811461 ========== https://www.political-scrapbook.net/controversial.html#guantanamo Guantanamo still a stain on America. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/29/opinion/guantanamo-lawyer.html #PS1justice ===== impress 24 time 2021-12-31 03:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1476754404619395072 ========== How Europe is marching forward to the 1930's again. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/29/opinion/poland-european-union.html Same old story - putting yourself first at the expense of common interests. #PS1democracy ===== impress 22 time 2021-12-31 03:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1476753229383753729 ========== Michigan ends gerrymandering. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/29/us/politics/michigan-congressional-maps.html #PS1democracy ===== engage 1 engage-rate 4% impress 24 time 2021-12-31 02:38 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1476744598479204354 ========== Why Xi and Putin think their way is better than democracy. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/29/opinion/democracy-fragmentation-america-europe.html But to help their strategy along, they do their best to create and amplify internal divisions in democracies. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1570653359945844 #PS1democracy ===== impress 27 time 2021-12-31 02:24 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1476740893088489475 ========== Don't let the facts bother you! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/29/this-is-worst-economy-we-never-had/ #PS1economics ===== impress 22 time 2021-12-31 01:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1476733675253342211 ========== Vulgar caller has a bright future in the Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/jared-schmeck-political-office/2021/12/30/7c82a61a-6984-11ec-b0a7-13dd3af4f70f_story.html #PS1trumpism ===== impress 24 time 2021-12-31 01:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1476732822056423424 ========== Conspiracism destroys families. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/interactive/2021/disinformation-conspiracy-family/ The mom, like many conservative Catholics, was a single-issue right to lifer who voted for Trump for that reason. Later she fell into the netherworld of conspiracism. Her children can't get her back. #PS1insurrection ===== impress 41 time 2021-12-31 01:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1476728142421057537 ========== States anticipate that the Supreme Court will get the Federal government out of reproductive rights. https://apnews.com/article/us-supreme-court-health-business-state-legislature-legislature-9d25a4a301dffe8ce788c748081176c6 #PS1health ===== impress 25 time 2021-12-31 00:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1476705073833021484 ========== The Klan is back in the Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP, and so is the Ku Klux Klan Act. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/28/insurrectionists-lawsuit-kkk-act-civil-war/ #PS1insurrection ===== impress 21 time 2021-12-30 23:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1476704440639918090 ========== Inflation will not likely be cured by 2022. Good news for GOP. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/12/29/inflation-2022-price-fed/ But the only way they will be able to stop it is with a recession. Either way they lose in 2024. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1570557403288773 #PS1economics ===== impress 29 time 2021-12-30 23:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1476702480268365831 ========== Why don't the red states just explicitly enact laws limiting unemployment benefits to GOP voters? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/30/republicans-subsidize-unemployment-for-unvaccinated-worker/ #PS1gop ===== impress 23 time 2021-12-30 23:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1476697909269696513 ========== "health of families, communities and the nation first" Good luck with the individualist sects of the Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP! "frontal assault on free-market" Good luck with GOP major donors! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/30/dont-dismiss-josh-hawley/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1570549763289537 #PS1gop ===== impress 28 time 2021-12-30 23:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1476697233739321350 ========== The omicron worst case is pretty bad. And something worse could show up at any time. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/30/omicron-variant-challenges-covid/ #PS1virus ===== impress 21 time 2021-12-30 23:10 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1476692315280343040 ========== It's the same old Taliban, and they still don't care how much the people suffer, as long as it's proper Islamic suffering. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/12/30/afghan-taliban-crackdown-aid/ The Taliban don't need foreign aid. They'll support their soldiers in the traditional way, by selling opium. #PS1afghanistan ===== impress 31 time 2021-12-30 23:06 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1476691236337512481 ========== A new wave of unvaccinated pediatric covid cases. https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-health-pandemics-seattle-centers-for-disease-control-and-prevention-75a48388d6ca85ad88de300f32bfdec6 Even if the child recovers, it might have infected others. #PS1virus ===== impress 21 time 2021-12-30 22:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1476687274326650897 ========== The eternal rural dream of being free from government means, instead, being subject to whichever gang has the most guns. That's anarchy, just like in Portland. Which is just what they want to escape. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/12/oregon-secession-idaho-move-border/621087/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1570533009957879 #PS1theory ===== impress 31 time 2021-12-30 22:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1476684986245791745 ========== The future of low earth orbit. https://www.vox.com/recode/22839485/space-station-iss-orbit-satellites WWI aircraft pilots first waved as they passed. Then they carried pistols and took pot shots. Then came the machine guns. There might not be big money in space, but there is big military advantage. #PS1technology ===== impress 23 time 2021-12-30 21:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1476674189922693120 ========== In America, anybody can run for Senate! If he's rich enough. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/dr-oz-senate-pennsylvania.html But look out if you are running against other richer people. And don't think that what you said before politics, or what you said in the primary, won't come back in the general. #PS1gop ===== impress 26 time 2021-12-30 21:52 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1476672591406329858 ========== Romney is still a traditional conservative. But what's Karl Smith been smoking? https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-12-28/biden-agenda-in-2022-could-depend-more-on-romney-than-on-manchin Bipartisan support for anything? Trump put an end to that after the physical infrastructure bill passed with GOP support. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1570492949961885 #PS1biden ===== engage 2 engage-rate 7% impress 30 time 2021-12-30 21:01 +0000 urlclicks 2 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1476659841145847819 ========== When is "private" not so private? https://www.reuters.com/technology/alphabet-ceo-pichai-can-be-questioned-privacy-lawsuit-judge-rules-2021-12-28/ When it interferes with the business model! #PS1technology ===== impress 21 time 2021-12-30 16:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1476596238388641793 ========== Warning to red state ranchers - beware of politicians in cowboy boots and hats! https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/27/business/beef-prices-cattle-ranchers.html They believe in deregulation and major dark money campaign donors - it takes millions of dollars to run for Senate. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1570378493306664 #PS1deregulation ===== impress 18 time 2021-12-30 16:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1476595778634207234 ========== You can't measure covid by infection rate any more - too many people test at home. You can't measure it by hospitalization rate either - too many people hospitalize for something else and have covid as well. https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/12/30/covid-19-hospitalizations-rising-faster-in-california-than-at-any-other-point-in-the-pandemic/ They hope the peak will be brief. #PS1virus ===== engage 2 engage-rate 7% impress 29 replies 2 time 2021-12-30 15:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1476573219112964097 ========== Why do people believe nonsense? They ask a friend if it's true and the friend says yes. Conspiracism is an American tradition, magnified now by "friends" on one-dimensional broadcast and social media. https://washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/12/29/american-conspiracy-theories-essay/ More at https://facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1570108566666990 #PS1journalism ===== impress 30 time 2021-12-30 14:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1476565152698814464 ========== Insurrection part 2 - paving the way for Trumpist success in every future election. https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-united-states-elections-electoral-college-election-2020-809215812f4bc6e5907573ba98247c0c Most non-Trumpist voters don't believe anybody would be so vile, much less a whole party. They need to read and listen and watch and act. #PS1insurrection ===== impress 32 time 2021-12-30 06:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1476445600484761607 ========== What it takes to survive Louisiana politics https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/28/bill-cassidy-louisiana-anti-trump-republican/ #PS1politics ===== engage 1 engage-rate 4% impress 26 replies 1 time 2021-12-29 05:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1476063125455523840 ========== Proud Boys having no luck in court https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-presidential-elections-capitol-siege-election-2020-indictments-e4f8af8134fdd80bb62c9efa41291b54 #PS1insurrection ===== impress 25 time 2021-12-29 05:26 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1476062005098213376 ========== Putin's strategy and tactics to restore the Soviet Union. https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/putin-is-only-pretending-to-be-crazy-on-ukraine/ He feels free to threaten because he knows the GOP will oppose anything Biden does or proposes. And he's hoping to get Trump back by 2025. #PS1ukraine ===== impress 38 time 2021-12-29 04:53 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1476053803912744966 ========== There are better ways https://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#redistricting but at least gerrymandering is now in the open. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-12-23/skelton-redistricting-new-maps-california #PS1capolitics ===== impress 25 time 2021-12-29 04:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1476052293195743234 ========== Air space provocations - Putin breathes new life into an old cold war tactic. https://apnews.com/article/europe-russia-estonia-latvia-7e07e8518cf4c42259f007bc697f7328 #PS1foreign ===== engage 2 engage-rate 8% impress 25 time 2021-12-29 04:42 +0000 urlclicks 2 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1476050855379963904 ========== AM radio a casualty of electric cars. https://www.soundandvision.com/content/why-tesla-killing-am-radio #PS1technology ===== impress 28 time 2021-12-29 04:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1476050187399303169 ========== China acts to reduce foreign control of Chinese companies. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/china-imposes-curbs-offshore-ipos-092408878.html #PS1china ===== impress 23 time 2021-12-29 04:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1476048584436948993 ========== How China achieved global dominance in electric car batteries https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/22/business/china-catl-electric-car-batteries.html #PS1technology ===== impress 26 time 2021-12-29 04:26 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1476047064970588164 ========== Your street is the test lab, with very little oversight. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/23/business/tesla-self-driving-regulations.html #PS1technology ===== impress 25 time 2021-12-29 04:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1476046585381330944 ========== Biden will withhold certain national security documents from Jan 6 committee. But most will go forward, subject to possible Supreme Court interference. https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-us-supreme-court-donald-trump-capitol-siege-national-security-222ba1cbc7da239240f30a0edba80b46 #PS1insurrection ===== impress 32 time 2021-12-28 17:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1475877107007836169 ========== Mutual ignorance and hubris. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/28/iran-nuclear-talks-vienna-ignorance-mistrust/ #PS1mideast ===== impress 25 time 2021-12-28 15:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1475851382850605056 ========== Six challenges for 2022 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/28/six-resolutions-that-america-must-keep-2022/ #PS1politics ===== impress 21 time 2021-12-28 15:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1475850293921206274 ========== Bad time to have a heart attack or stroke! The ER is full of unvaccinated covid patients. https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/12/28/omicron-how-severe-us/ And a lot of ER doctors and nurses are home sick or quarantined. #PS1virus ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 37 replies 1 time 2021-12-28 15:21 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1475849387301474304 ========== "green" metal mining vs Indian tribes. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/27/us/mining-clean-energy-antimony-tribes.html For some reason they don't trust mining companies. #PS1climate ===== impress 30 time 2021-12-28 07:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1475735062381432833 ========== Politicians like to take the money and give the blame. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/27/biden-initiatives-republicans-like-have-their-cake-eat-it-too/ #PS1politics ===== impress 25 time 2021-12-28 07:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1475731454038462469 ========== The argument against criminal referrals by the Jan 6 committee. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/27/jan-6-committee-trump-criminal-referral-bad-idea/ They need to find out what really happened and could have happened, and devise legislation to prevent it. #PS1insurrection ===== impress 28 time 2021-12-28 07:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1475730376542724098 ========== Nine biggest political questions of 2022! https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/12/24/9-biggest-political-questions-2022/ #PS1politics ===== impress 24 time 2021-12-28 07:24 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1475729373231648769 ========== Jan 6 committee plan - create a timeline of the insurrection - before, during, after - in a report by the end of the year, based on public witness testimony. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/january-6-attack-investigation/2021/12/27/e2c37488-62d4-11ec-8ce3-9454d0b46d42_story.html Criminal referrals are an incidental side activity, not the main thrust. #PS1insurrection ===== impress 28 time 2021-12-28 07:20 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1475728339163762688 ========== The population as a whole is losing interest in politics. https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-health-business-presidential-elections-arts-and-entertainment-7cc91db0950a8e7e7bcf50d5d23dfc26 That's good news for the GOP - the less attention on their real agenda, the better. But it's bad news for GOP cable - Fox, Newsmax, OAN - whose ratings depend on political controversy. #PS1media ===== impress 23 time 2021-12-28 07:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1475725647053950977 ========== The flu didn't go away for long. https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-science-health-flu-8895782660eb8491856e81fd387d6591 It's still bad news for some people. #PS1virus ===== impress 23 time 2021-12-28 06:53 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1475721639190958081 ========== The wizards who created social media platforms struggle, as the wizards who exploit social media platforms are always a step ahead. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/23/facebook-meta-2021-threat-report/ You don't fully understand a technological advance until others figure out how to abuse it. #PS1media ===== impress 42 time 2021-12-27 14:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1475474913213304832 ========== The Royal Road - to NIMBY. https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/12/27/el-camino-real-why-silicon-valleys-grand-boulevard-still-hasnt-taken-off/ Most people did not come to California in order to get to Manhattan. #PS1capolitics ===== impress 47 time 2021-12-27 14:19 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1475471469803016192 ========== Knowing too much about other people doesn't add value, it subtracts it. But the business model of social media is based on learning too much and getting emotional. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/01/opinion/facebook-social-media-problems.html #PS1media ===== impress 58 time 2021-12-27 05:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1475341346101612545 ========== The year in review - 41 interesting essays. The last one is best. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/12/21/opinion/2021-essays-opinion.html #PS1other ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% impress 48 time 2021-12-27 05:20 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1475335877400223744 ========== Need some end of year tax deductions? FairVote https://fairvote.org/ Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy https://itep.org/ American Promise Education Fund https://americanpromise.net/ More at https://facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1568037226874124 #PS1democracy ===== impress 38 time 2021-12-27 04:14 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1475319032676900871 ========== A Federal civilian cyber academy to get America back to parity with its strategic rivals - China and Russia - and lesser irritants like Iran and North Korea. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/23/keep-our-country-safe-we-need-national-cyber-academy-think-it-west-point-technology-defense/ #PS1technology ===== impress 59 time 2021-12-27 02:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1475289943962435592 ========== Are we headed toward regional federalism? https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-regional.html Is America no longer governable? Was it ever? https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/12/21/opinion/2021-essays-opinion.html#bouie #PS1politics ===== impress 42 time 2021-12-26 23:37 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1475249381737525249 ========== Trumpists declare total war on the greatest threat to America - traditional conservatives still in the GOP. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/house-maga-squad/2021/12/26/654f49ea-5448-11ec-8769-2f4ecdf7a2ad_story.html Democrats are next, but cleaning House comes first. They'll get rid of McCarthy as soon as they can, and make Trump Speaker. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 45 time 2021-12-26 23:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1475247557089447945 ========== Journalism is losing to entertainment fantasy. Will there be any journalism left? https://www.arcamax.com/politics/opeds/s-2611569 #PS1journalism ===== impress 34 time 2021-12-26 23:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1475242423554961408 ========== Endemic covid will be a victory, not a defeat. https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2021/12/26/opinion-endemic-covid-19-should-be-cause-for-celebration-not-consternation/ No worse than the flu? We'll take it! #PS1virus ===== impress 36 time 2021-12-26 22:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1475239795672567808 ========== The year in review - a changed economy https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-health-business-economy-prices-5ebdc188d7b2f6eaaedeff863c49ba67 #PS1economics ===== impress 36 time 2021-12-26 22:46 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1475236686875398144 ========== 10 economic debate topics to take back to the store and exchange this week! https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/12/22/lets-exchange-these-10-economic-debates-for-some-real-logic/ #PS1economics ===== impress 34 time 2021-12-26 22:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1475235978419703809 ========== Preparing for guerilla warfare. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/26/world/europe/ukraine-russia-civilian-training.html It might dissuade Putin from invading, but it might weaken Ukraine with infighting and accomplish Putin's goals anyway. #PS1ukraine ===== impress 46 time 2021-12-26 19:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1475190051168350208 ========== Change tried to come to Enid. The status quo fought back. The people were right that they were being exploited by the ruling class. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#political%20ideology%20for%20the%20masses But they were wrong about who the ruling class was. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/26/us/oklahoma-masks.html #PS1minority ===== impress 34 time 2021-12-26 19:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1475188216277848066 ========== Poor people don't deserve help - an article of faith among the political donor class. Most eloquently explained in scripture to Job by his friends. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/12/21/joe-manchin-hunting-trip/ #PS1biden ===== engage 3 engage-rate 6% impress 54 likes 1 retweets 1 time 2021-12-26 19:12 +0000 userclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1475182820167274499 ========== Anybody want to be mayor of a large city? You're pretty much guaranteed to fail! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/16/second-hardest-job-politics/ #PS1politics ===== impress 35 time 2021-12-26 19:06 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1475181233508212743 ========== One pleaded guilty. Five are trying to beat the rap. https://apnews.com/article/michigan-gretchen-whitmer-kidnapping-grand-rapids-indictments-ad34603fac2364fa93cc9227b3a2ac92 #PS1insurrection ===== impress 38 time 2021-12-26 18:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1475178365053136896 ========== Mental illness is communicable - you can catch it from prominent politicians, amplified by social media and cable TV - https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/12/24/collective-trauma-public-outbursts/ #PS1virus ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 38 time 2021-12-26 16:35 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1475143271240192002 ========== Good News year in review https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/22/good-news-2021-vaccines-environment-juneteenth/ #PS1other ===== impress 29 time 2021-12-26 15:20 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1475124367809863687 ========== Fact Checker year in review https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/12/20/most-popular-fact-checks-2021/ #PS1other ===== impress 33 time 2021-12-26 15:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1475123458900037632 ========== The moment we've all been waiting for! https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2021/12/26/dave-barrys-year-review-2021/ #PS1other ===== impress 31 time 2021-12-26 14:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1475112617844764673 ========== You're never too old to learn. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/23/northam-trump-youngkin-virginia-blackface/ But it's your free will choice to learn either fact or fantasy. And be responsible for your choice. #PS1other ===== impress 40 time 2021-12-25 23:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1474884507979304965 ========== Redistricting turning out different from expected. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/23/redistricting-turnaround/ Instead of increasing their GOP House chances, red states focused on making more safe GOP districts. Evidently getting more marginal seats seemed losing against long term demographics. #PS1democracy ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% impress 46 time 2021-12-25 22:44 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1474873822427840512 ========== Arctic myths https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/five-myths/five-myths-about-the-arctic/2021/12/22/b99f7aa6-62a8-11ec-bf70-58003351c627_story.html #PS1climate ===== impress 35 time 2021-12-25 16:38 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1474781511052263424 ========== The Information Age has quickly become the Misinformation and Disinformation Age. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/24/covid-pandemic-uncertainty-bad-information/ Inventors of revolutionary new technology imagine only the good things it will do. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1567081220303058 #PS1technology ===== impress 37 time 2021-12-25 16:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1474780335208501249 ========== Greed - it's biblical! https://washingtonpost.com/religion/2019/06/04/wealthy-televangelist-explains-his-fleet-private-jets-its-biblical-thing/ Other people's money! How Trumpist can you get? #PS1other ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 34 likes 1 time 2021-12-25 16:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1474774894260850692 ========== When Christmas really meant something - https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2021/12/24/christmas-slavery-escape/ #PS1other ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% expands 1 impress 40 time 2021-12-25 14:38 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1474751525217980417 ========== Was the demise of the USSR a good thing? Could it have been avoided? https://apnews.com/article/europe-russia-ukraine-voting-rights-moscow-2f0a5907e9172c5a7c14451d39752f5d #PS1foreign ===== impress 32 time 2021-12-25 14:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1474749207969865728 ========== Defamed Georgia election workers sue Giuliani and OAN. https://apnews.com/article/elections-new-york-lawsuits-new-york-city-donald-trump-33cdb4e73a5091a1299c49a553d4109d #PS1insurrection ===== impress 32 time 2021-12-25 06:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1474635231579688964 ========== "If vaccines are being promoted by Democrats or a government controlled by Democrats, they must be bad" https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2021/12/03/marcus-lamb-daystar-vaccine-televangelist-graham/ Or even if promoted by Trump? #PS1virus ===== impress 52 time 2021-12-25 06:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1474633366389415940 ========== What can you cover up with attorney-client privilege? https://apnews.com/article/business-arts-and-entertainment-media-new-york-lawsuits-965ba63f3ae34bf368a19f9190d3663d Trumpist defendants will watch with keen interest. #PS1journalism ===== impress 31 time 2021-12-25 06:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1474627446787821569 ========== Democrats realized too late that they were losing it in the states, and that the GOP intends to preserve its advantage by fair means or foul. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/24/us/elections/democrats-state-elections.html #PS1democracy ===== impress 35 time 2021-12-24 21:54 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1474498677003612160 ========== Real American masculinity - acknowledging a msitake and fixing it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/23/navy-seals-christmas-story/ #PS1other ===== impress 28 time 2021-12-24 21:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1474492809365180416 ========== Best. State. Ever. Florida leads the way on land and sea. https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-health-travel-lifestyle-miami-d7b4f32f9e52b3842f34aad110c5b6a3 #PS1virus ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 34 time 2021-12-24 21:17 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1474489358329679874 ========== That was the week that wasn't. https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-science-technology-health-business-5055e4eaa720b02a86e09500776f0950 #PS1media ===== impress 37 time 2021-12-24 18:15 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1474443567649083394 ========== How the NYT staff and families got out. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/12/23/world/asia/kabul-evacuation-afghanistan.html #PS1afghanistan ===== impress 46 time 2021-12-24 18:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1474442154768363520 ========== "coronavirus crisis has contributed to the internationalization of the populist right" And the populist left! Populist cults of personality are really the same on the right and the left. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/24/opinion/vaccination-europe-covid-far-right.html #PS1virus ===== impress 36 time 2021-12-24 17:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1474433683562000384 ========== It's never too soon to hope, but it's definitely too soon to be certain about omicron. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/12/21/omicron-mild-cases-numbers/ #PS1virus ===== impress 37 time 2021-12-24 17:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1474431971463864320 ========== Perfectly example of minority rule at work - Trump campaigned on health care insurance for all, then systematically destroyed as much as he could. Just as his donors intended. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/24/biden-medicaid-work-requirements-trump-policy/ #PS1health ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% impress 52 retweets 1 time 2021-12-24 17:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1474430415410655237 ========== Protecting kids too young for vaccine. https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-lifestyle-health-rochelle-walensky-centers-for-disease-control-and-prevention-95d4a7489c4b8a8cd1d8a0f0c6721201 #PS1virus ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 32 time 2021-12-24 16:00 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1474409574773837826 ========== Now it's the revenue side. https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/12/24/manchin-sinema-biden-bbb/ Is there any proposal that Manchin AND Sinema AND the House will all accept? Manchin sounds GOP on spending, Sinema GOP on revenue. #PS1biden ===== impress 39 time 2021-12-24 14:38 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1474388898407014402 ========== Pediatric covid surging and filling pediatric wards https://washingtonpost.com/health/2021/12/24/omicron-children-hospitalizations-us/ Unvaccinated adolescents and adults are the major threat to those 0-5 who can't be vaccinated yet. #PS1virus ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% impress 46 likes 1 time 2021-12-24 14:26 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1474386073455235075 ========== Pediatric covid surging and filling pediatric wards https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/12/24/omicron-children-hospitalizations-us/ Mostly unvaccinated adolescents, but also increasing numbers of 0-5 who can't be vaccinated. Most short term symptoms are mild, but incidence of long haul is not yet known. #PS1virus ===== engage 3 engage-rate 5% expands 2 impress 63 time 2021-12-24 14:20 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1474384452822638595 ========== Federal gerrymandering - if the GOP does it, Democrats must too. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/23/republican-redistricting-gerrymandering-congress-seats/ #PS1democracy ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 36 time 2021-12-24 04:45 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1474239834319319041 ========== Cruz thinks he's the man to beat in 2024. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/12/22/cruz-trump-2024-nomination/ Trump will run. Cruz, like the other would-be Trump successors, has to undercut Trump while appearing to support him. But every other would-be has an intense interest in undercutting Cruz. #PS1gop ===== impress 46 time 2021-12-24 04:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1474238790461898752 ========== How disinformation works. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/12/23/trumpland-has-new-favorite-jan-6-conspiracy-theory/ #PS1insurrection ===== impress 33 time 2021-12-24 04:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1474237367959515137 ========== Strange bedfellows - Trump's social media SPAC is from a sketchy Chinese company founded by Mexicans! https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/12/23/trump-spac-deal-sec/ Trump must bear no grudges about the Chinese virus and Mexican rapists! #PS1trump ===== impress 48 time 2021-12-24 03:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1474225766036480004 ========== FBI surveillance in Portland. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/22/us/portland-protests-fbi-surveillance.html #PS1justice ===== impress 39 time 2021-12-24 02:57 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1474212511754817542 ========== Gambling addiction can be as bad a drug addiction. But many states depend on legalized gambling to balance their budgets. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-12-21/sports-betting-boom-will-foster-compulsive-gambling #PS1health ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 39 time 2021-12-24 02:47 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1474210096842358786 ========== Court cuts Flynn no slack. https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/22/politics/michael-flynn-january-6-lawsuit/index.html He plans to plead the 5th, like all the other guilty insurrectionists. #PS1insurrection ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 32 time 2021-12-24 02:42 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1474208890539556865 ========== Leaving no stone unturned. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/january-6-thompson-trump/2021/12/23/36318a92-6384-11ec-a7e8-3a8455b71fad_story.html The legislative purpose is to determine what laws are required to prevent future insurrections. #PS1insurrection ===== impress 34 time 2021-12-24 01:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1474191315587928096 ========== Wayne La Pierre - a Trumpist to the core - using other people's money and lying about it. https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/nra-chief-wayne-lapierres-misleading-testimony-about-free-yacht-trips-in-the-bahamas #PS1trumpism ===== engage 2 engage-rate 5% impress 41 likes 1 time 2021-12-24 01:23 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1474188877539594241 ========== Fixing supply chain issues will take a long time. How lucky for GOP it didn't happen on their watch. They'd wait for the free market to solve the problem - eventually. https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-business-pete-buttigieg-797fc9ea60ee9d9a22181a2622867fd5 #PS1inflation ===== impress 32 time 2021-12-24 01:20 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1474188158388506629 ========== Pope speaks to cardinals - the same speech would work for senators. https://apnews.com/article/pope-francis-lifestyle-religion-christmas-a04d3c12674a14127f8efbdaafd3ae97 #PS1other ===== impress 34 time 2021-12-24 01:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1474187413182320653 ========== Will Supreme Court justices remember who nominated them and WHY? https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-donald-trump-capitol-siege-mark-meadows-congress-75bf0a0a59eec7a51f4793f6c48cc0bd If Trump is re-elected he will certainly take vengeance on everybody who wasn't a good loyal team player. #PS1insurrection ===== impress 44 time 2021-12-24 01:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1474185904344371217 ========== A traditional conservative laments the end of traditional conservatism vs traditional liberalism. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/22/center-right-is-collapsing-globally-it-has-only-two-options-survival/ Now it's populist cult of personality fueled by social media and cable TV vs rule of law. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1565764360434744 #PS1theory ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% expands 1 impress 30 time 2021-12-23 18:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1474084833420709903 ========== Is there ANY version of BBB that can pass the Senate AND the House? Not today. https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/12/23/biden-manchin-child-tax-credit/ But ALL the Democrats know that failure to deliver on ANY of their promises is bad for ALL of them. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1565759473768566 #PS1biden ===== impress 24 time 2021-12-23 18:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1474082050449674253 ========== "Opportunity zones" were in the 2017 GOP billionaire tax relief bill. Was anybody unclear on the concept? https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/12/23/amazon-opportunity-zone-tax-breaks/ GOP recognizes how much hard-pressed billionaires deserve tax relief! What if they couldn't donate dark money to senate campaigns? #PS1tax ===== impress 32 time 2021-12-23 18:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1474079401360826369 ========== Do-nothing Congress can't fund an agency it authorized. https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-health-business-presidential-elections-election-2020-bf2a1b8b95350382295a1bc5d1073770 Putin should send them all roses in gratitude. #PS1russian ===== impress 33 time 2021-12-23 17:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1474068756309561366 ========== Xylazine anybody? It's legal! https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-health-opioids-centers-for-disease-control-and-prevention-7cb475c8559bf922265124e927e55bfd #PS1health ===== impress 23 time 2021-12-23 17:21 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1474067622832459794 ========== Unclear on the concept of cult of personality! https://apnews.com/article/business-iowa-mississippi-river-davenport-mariannette-miller-meeks-32bdbc69d20a5e5106b704acbe96ecad When Trump says NO, loyal Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP vote NO! NO matter how it affects their district. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 26 time 2021-12-23 17:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1474066809363976227 ========== Biggest tech failures of 2021! https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/23/tech/biggest-tech-fails-2021/index.html And the perpetrators become billionaires! #PS1technology ===== impress 25 time 2021-12-23 17:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1474065657461297152 ========== Victims of the conspiracy-fantasy money-making machine. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/12/january-6-insurrection-us-capitol-riots.html But as adults exercising free will, they have to accept the consequences. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1565616140449566 #PS1insurrection ===== impress 24 time 2021-12-23 13:46 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1474013577014956034 ========== Another traditional conservative gives up on the Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/21/us/politics/john-thune-senate-retirement.html #PS1gop ===== impress 22 time 2021-12-23 04:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1473876529201381377 ========== Fake it til you make it? Bid to win? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/21/elizabeth-holmes-blood-test-theranos/ The dark underbelly of Silicon Valley amorality. #PS1technology ===== impress 28 time 2021-12-23 03:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1473859195229257729 ========== Is Trump losing the Trumpists? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/20/trump-cant-make-trumpists-embrace-vaccines/ He has plenty of would-be successors willing to brand themselves as Trumpier than Trump. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 30 time 2021-12-23 03:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1473858225715834880 ========== Will Manchin make it possible to pass his own voting rights bill? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/21/manchin-voting-rights-filibuster/ Not if he wants to remain Energy Chair if he becomes a Republican. #PS1democracy ===== impress 25 time 2021-12-23 03:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1473857373735292937 ========== Two views on Manchin and BBB - There's nothing in it for WV - https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/21/joe-manchin-bbb-west-virginia/ Manchin could have asked for anything he wanted for WV. But he didn't want anything for WV - https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/22/manchin-has-no-imagination/ #PS1biden ===== impress 25 time 2021-12-23 03:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1473855537468952581 ========== Rich guys like Elon Musk don't need to obey laws! https://apnews.com/article/technology-lifestyle-business-video-games-ohio-cdddb5dc6215b844a488e18486d46bad #PS1technology ===== impress 28 time 2021-12-23 03:06 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1473852528315928580 ========== What should be the Democratic program? https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-message.html 1) future - child care, medical care, and education 2) past - medical care and survival for elderly 3) present - basic income support 4) paid for by a flat tax More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1565252883819225 #PS1politics ===== impress 26 time 2021-12-23 01:04 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1473821731353550848 ========== America is no longer divided between conservative Republican and liberal Democratic parties, but between the Trumpist Dixiecrat cult of personality party and the anti-Trumpist rule of law party. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-election-officials-pressure-campaign/2021/12/22/8a0b0788-5d26-11ec-ae5b-5002292337c7_story.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1565240750487105 #PS1trumpism ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 29 likes 1 time 2021-12-23 00:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1473816159602364417 ========== Who's paying for the assault on the Constitution? "The ongoing attack on the vote is being driven in part by well-funded Trump associates" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-election-officials-pressure-campaign/2021/12/22/8a0b0788-5d26-11ec-ae5b-5002292337c7_story.html They back up their requests with threats of violence. The insurrection did not end on Jan 6. #PS1insurrection ===== impress 30 time 2021-12-23 00:07 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1473807387341438976 ========== Wrong direction! Manchin should be trying to convince McConnell to caucus with the anti-Trumpist party, which is the Democrats. Manchin voted to impeach, so has no future in the Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP. https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-wv-state-wire-mitch-mcconnell-joe-manchin-congress-15d178edf30bdba7764941f6fef9bb71 #PS1gop ===== impress 27 time 2021-12-23 00:03 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1473806314874703874 ========== Jim Jordan is next. https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-capitol-siege-jim-jordan-bennie-thompson-congress-cc0340552ea69c73bedc447e21272d2f Will he cooperate? Will he plead the 5th? #PS1insurrection ===== impress 32 time 2021-12-22 23:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1473802996643287040 ========== Proud Boy cooperates, pleads guilty. https://apnews.com/article/new-york-capitol-siege-electoral-college-congress-proud-boys-ffd1a74ca36cdd699223a463c9cd7766 #PS1insurrection ===== impress 24 time 2021-12-22 23:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1473801778336387072 ========== Inflation is bad but recession is worse - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/17/opinion/inflation-federal-reserve-us-economy.html #PS1economics ===== engage 1 engage-rate 4% impress 26 time 2021-12-22 06:02 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1473534334288031745 ========== An argument for doing a few things permanently rather than many things temporarily. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/21/opinion/manchin-build-back-better-democrats.html But will Manchin support ANY subset of BBB? He says he might, but by now he has a credibility issue. #PS1biden ===== impress 21 time 2021-12-22 05:48 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1473530904760832002 ========== It might have been a mistake to split the physical infrastructure and BBB bills. If Manchin were going to kill them anyway, better get it over sooner, and promptly move on to a plan B. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/19/manchin-build-back-better-oppose-democrats-playing-soft/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1564718190539361 #PS1biden ===== impress 29 time 2021-12-22 05:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1473520090641362944 ========== Five primaries that demonstrate whether the GOP is really a Trumpist cult of personality. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/21/how-much-influence-does-donald-trump-still-have-these-five-republican-primaries-could-tell-us/ Of course, the only way a Trump-endorsed candidate could lose is by a rigged election. Democrats hope GOP uses all its money arguing about that. #PS1gop ===== impress 68 time 2021-12-22 04:46 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1473515385160749057 ========== Not enough babies? We'll be needing more immigrants to maintain our standard of living. https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-immigration-health-us-census-bureau-covid-19-pandemic-d224035ee70e805f1e42da6c1a9c079c #PS1immigration ===== engage 2 engage-rate 6% impress 31 likes 1 replies 1 time 2021-12-22 04:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1473511284465307649 ========== "a union representing coal miners, including some of the nearly 12,000 from his home state, put out a statement urging the lawmaker to revisit his opposition to the package" https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-business-wv-state-wire-joe-manchin-congress-4ac6f440bbcc2eaadcd16f4045897c62 But was Manchin's decision based on voters or on donors? #PS1biden ===== impress 29 time 2021-12-22 04:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1473510772558864391 ========== Sue the Jan 6 committee! It's a matter of Trumpist solidarity! https://www.reuters.com/world/us/ex-trump-adviser-flynn-sues-jan-6-committee-block-release-phone-records-2021-12-21/ #PS1insurrection ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 29 likes 1 time 2021-12-22 04:15 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1473507492713824256 ========== How Fox Trumpists promote the rule of law - the law of the jungle! https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/12/21/fox-news-host-urges-kill-shot-against-fauci/ Nothing conservative here! #PS1trumpism ===== impress 25 time 2021-12-22 00:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1473443569729884160 ========== Perry refuses to cooperate - will he refuse a subpoena? He'll plead the fifth. https://apnews.com/article/elections-donald-trump-capitol-siege-bennie-thompson-congress-701aef885cf58fb433e1e04bc85a5b4b Alex Jones sues committee. He'll plead the fifth. https://sports.yahoo.com/alex-jones-sues-jan-6-192538308.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1564521157225731 #PS1insurrection ===== impress 39 time 2021-12-21 20:54 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1473396511673249794 ========== Trump's not as dumb as he thinks his base is. He's had covid already and knows it's no joke. https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-health-donald-trump-coronavirus-vaccine-74abcd4e6833835f5df445fe2142e22b But he's always ready to use other people's money and let other people take the risks. #PS1trump ===== engage 2 engage-rate 3% impress 72 likes 1 retweets 1 time 2021-12-21 20:43 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1473393799581683713 ========== Schumer's aiming for a showdown on filibuster and voting rights. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/20/us/politics/filibuster-senate-voting-rights.html Filibuster is a tool of those defending the status quo - and saves them from having to take a formal vote on the issues themselves, which might besmirch their legacy. #PS1democracy ===== engage 1 engage-rate 4% impress 26 time 2021-12-21 20:40 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1473393078320779265 ========== What does society owe renters who are priced out of a rising market? What does it owe people looking for housing who are willing and able to pay market rent? https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/12/21/should-renters-get-first-dibs-on-bay-area-real-estate-deals/ #PS1economics ===== impress 33 time 2021-12-21 20:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1473391145375846403 ========== Some companies are a little sensitive to bad publicity. https://apnews.com/article/biogen-alzheimers-drug-price-cut-9dab1bdb5001c0ddcedc981fbc3437b6 But it's hard to put a positive spin on increasing the annual premium of everybody on Medicare by $130. #PS1health ===== impress 27 time 2021-12-21 20:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1473388489274114048 ========== Time for Manchin to publicly submit a bill that he WILL vote for under reconciliation. Enough switch and bait! https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/12/20/manchin-biden-child-tax-credit/ Otherwise it's hard to escape the conclusion that it was all a feint and he's not willing to vote for any of it. #PS1biden ===== engage 2 engage-rate 6% impress 34 time 2021-12-21 19:39 +0000 urlclicks 1 userclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1473377634427932672 ========== Public transit - another victim of covid and (likely) GOP+Manchin. https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/12/20/bay-area-transit-faces-fiscal-cliff-as-ridership-collapse-endures/ Federal funds bailed out transit agencies. But the Senate says no more inflationary bailouts for Biden. Traffic on streets and freeways is getting worse than before covid. #PS1other ===== impress 81 time 2021-12-21 19:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1473376306398068736 ========== Who cares about facts or laws when there's money to be made! https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/06/technology/tesla-autopilot-elon-musk.html Elon Musk, the next, more dangerous, Trump. #PS1technology ===== impress 37 time 2021-12-21 18:12 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1473355710389833731 ========== Gas stoves are the next front in culture wars! Climate deniers - and natural gas producers - want to convince you that natural gas is clean and it should be YOUR CHOICE whether to moderate or exacerbate the global effects of climate change. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/16/climate/gas-stoves-climate-change.html #PS1climate ===== impress 32 time 2021-12-21 18:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1473355021026672640 ========== Traditional conservatives vs Trumpists in Alabama! Revenge is job #1 for Trump and he wants all traditional conservatives purged who aren't 100% on board with the Trump cult of personality. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/alabama-senate-trump/2021/12/18/4363b67e-5e87-11ec-8665-aed48580f911_story.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1564090563935457 #PS1trump ===== impress 35 time 2021-12-21 07:46 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1473198072691769345 ========== Trumpists would rather die than admit Democrats are right. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/20/sarah-palin-anti-vax-tpusa-tconference/ #PS1virus ===== impress 30 time 2021-12-21 07:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1473194101918953472 ========== Manchin knows West Virginia voters. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/19/sen-joe-manchins-position-build-back-better-reflects-reality-west-virginia-politics/ He thinks Democrats should elect more liberal senators, but he won't lift a finger against filibuster to make that possible. https://www.yahoo.com/now/manchin-says-elect-more-liberals-215600758.html #PS1biden ===== impress 41 time 2021-12-21 07:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1473193351604174848 ========== Trump's trying again to sue the government to prevent it from enforcing laws he broke. https://apnews.com/article/business-new-york-lawsuits-donald-trump-albany-8cd1fd3c9dc206a5b563116f3966f2a4 More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1564079677269879 #PS1trump ===== impress 28 time 2021-12-21 07:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1473191028211421190 ========== First Congressman asked to submit to Jan 6 questioning. https://apnews.com/article/elections-donald-trump-capitol-siege-bennie-thompson-congress-701aef885cf58fb433e1e04bc85a5b4b #PS1insurrection ===== impress 32 time 2021-12-21 07:07 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1473188328195248128 ========== Omicron might be good news. It's displacing delta which seems to be less transmissible but more lethal. It will be a while until there's enough evidence to support firm conclusions. https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/12/20/covid-omicron-variant-rockets-to-dominance-across-u-s/ #PS1virus ===== impress 48 time 2021-12-21 07:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1473187062761148416 ========== Is nuclear power worse than burning gas? Is California willing to deal with the the toxic waste of nuclear power? It's much more localized than greenhouse gases, and in that way easier to deal with. https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/12/18/mathews-give-the-diablo-canyon-nuclear-power-plant-more-to-do/ #PS1climate ===== impress 36 time 2021-12-20 14:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1472932689141452802 ========== Who might challenge Trump in 2024? https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/12/18/non-biden-democrats-president-2024-ranked/ #PS1election ===== impress 28 time 2021-12-19 20:52 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1472671292897648642 ========== Are there any anti-Trumpist GOP left in Congress? If they continue to do nothing, they can expect in time to get the same treatment as Democrats. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/sundaytakevotingrightscongress/2021/12/18/4b83eea0-600d-11ec-ae5b-5002292337c7_story.html #PS1democracy ===== impress 22 time 2021-12-19 20:48 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1472670249715601411 ========== In hoc signo vinces! Constantine dreamed of Christianity as leading to military and political victory and so established the church for those ends. Now look how far it went! https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/12/14/guns-christmas-thomas-massie-lauren-boebert/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1563186640692516 #PS1other ===== impress 31 time 2021-12-19 20:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1472668668014174208 ========== Nurses are burning out on unvaccinated covid patients. https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-hospitals-struggle-as-covid-beds-fill-5e98f09c578a231be1411516e9dfff58 Nurses willing to work make more money as traveling nurses. #PS1virus ===== impress 32 time 2021-12-19 20:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1472662714459643911 ========== Don't expect any help from GOP - that would be a win for Biden! Unless of course Trump approves. Don't expect any help from Manchin or Sinema - that would be inflationary! Unless of course enough major donors approve. https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-business-lifestyle-health-restaurants-acf43f8e1bc9cdccc6e85dd699d99edc #PS1inflation ===== engage 4 engage-rate 10% expands 2 impress 41 replies 1 time 2021-12-19 20:13 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1472661374660534274 ========== Nebraska's governor is trying anything to get people back to work, EXCEPT increasing their pay, providing child care, or protecting them from the virus carried by other unvaccinated unmasked employees and customers. https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-business-health-nebraska-pete-ricketts-5cf5cef955a79c466281fd43f32cc358 Slavery? Open borders? #PS1economics ===== impress 23 time 2021-12-19 20:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1472659446669066240 ========== If Manchin won't vote for BBB and won't say what he will vote for, can he still be useful? He could remain a Democrat as an independent traditional conservative - supporting voting rights and the rule of law. https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-business-joe-manchin-congress-e7a0ca4c25c686e91cb21e166c44821b More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1563164900694690 #PS1biden ===== impress 24 time 2021-12-19 19:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1472655250687332356 ========== Rick Perry a mastermind? That's news! https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/17/politics/rick-perry-jan-6-text-mark-meadows-nov-4 Will he plead the 5th too? #PS1insurrection ===== impress 32 time 2021-12-19 15:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1472597275343872004 ========== Trump lets his inner anti-Semite out again. https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/17/politics/trump-anti-semitic-comments He expects more votes and donations, with less expected in return, from evangelicals than from Jews. He is leaning in to the Nazis and Christian nationalists in his base to keep them voting. #PS1trumpism ===== engage 4 engage-rate 11% impress 35 likes 1 time 2021-12-19 15:56 +0000 urlclicks 3 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1472596633007181827 ========== Manchin chooses a showdown. https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-business-joe-manchin-congress-e7a0ca4c25c686e91cb21e166c44821b You can't vote for something if you can't explain it to your donors. It'll be his place in history - of the GOP if he accepts McConnell's invitation. #PS1biden ===== impress 31 time 2021-12-19 15:48 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1472594673159991301 ========== “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” Stone pleads 5th - https://apnews.com/article/steve-bannon-roger-stone-capitol-siege-subpoenas-congress-1286e3017eead8967cd7cf25c5e596cc What about Jones? https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/17/politics/january-6-committee-alex-jones-deposition-postponed Follow the leader! https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/election/article105178626.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1563035530707627 #PS1insurrection ===== impress 24 time 2021-12-19 15:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1472593611002822658 ========== Democrats' secret weapon! Trump is "fighting Republicans and plotting his revenge" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/18/opinion/trump-republicans-2022-midterms.html Democrats just say - the Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP is the party of personality cult, class warfare, and violent overthrow. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1562999570711223 #PS1trumpism ===== impress 33 time 2021-12-19 14:53 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1472580906883764224 ========== Senate confirmation process badly broken. https://apnews.com/article/senate-confirms-biden-ambassadors-cccf92c2d2efc2ec285590cf8b39729e Better if presidential nominations are automatically confirmed unless the Senate votes them down within 30 days. #PS1democracy ===== impress 24 time 2021-12-19 07:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1472476556920455168 ========== Inflation is a political problem everywhere, even for Trumpist "strong leaders" like Orban in Hungary. https://apnews.com/article/business-middle-east-barcelona-poland-spain-74c8a4e002465ceb56afa0d8eed6ec3b GOP should be glad they don't actually have power - then they'd be blamed. #PS1economics ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 29 time 2021-12-19 07:54 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1472475503005106176 ========== Ransomware attacks continue. https://apnews.com/article/ransomware-attacks-us-russia-biden-putin-fce2ebd29cdffc43737a4243a1f04321 They don't seem to bother Putin. #PS1ransomware ===== impress 30 time 2021-12-19 07:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1472473666336149504 ========== A perfect Trumpist candidate to support Trump! https://apnews.com/article/eric-greitens-seeks-comeback-missouri-us-senate-gop-4e77ad06d66767365bfcdfee62bb0ef0 He has the support of Flynn, Giuliani, Bannon, and Don Jr! And he learned gender relations from Trump! How many Democrats will register GOP for the primary in order to endorse Greitens? #PS1trumpism ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 37 time 2021-12-19 07:43 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1472472538970091520 ========== A Trumpist model of how strong leaders run elections. https://apnews.com/article/hong-kong-election-only-china-loyalists-approved-to-run-b81e71d83d99b58864f1f5b1bdeab0fb #PS1china ===== impress 19 time 2021-12-19 07:38 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1472471400426340353 ========== Who says racism isn't institutionalized? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/18/us/politics/gop-gerrymandering-black-democrats.html If you gerrymander by race or gerrymander by party, what difference does it make if your goal is to reduce black Democratic power? How could anybody tell the difference. #PS1democracy ===== impress 24 time 2021-12-19 07:23 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1472467715151446020 ========== Just how close are we to another civil war? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/17/how-civil-wars-start-barbara-walter-research/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/17/eaton-taguba-anderson-generals-military/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1562369507440896 #PS1trumpism ===== impress 24 time 2021-12-18 15:06 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1472221737265680384 ========== New shibboleth for the Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP - deny reality. https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-minnesota-presidential-elections-capitol-siege-elections-8d9e92a27a90511bf8f3f7f9540d44c2 That's how it works in a cult of personality. How hard can it be? It's what the Dixiecrats always did back when they were Democrats. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 25 time 2021-12-18 13:36 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1472198967010103297 ========== Repentant in court - but he still gets 5 years for assaulting Capitol police officer. https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-capitol-siege-university-of-kentucky-b7a82e7205634d7f2e9767e1cfa10ccf He felt betrayed by Trump - who lied and then didn't bail him out. What did he expect? 700 more to go. #PS1insurrection ===== engage 1 engage-rate 4% impress 27 time 2021-12-18 13:29 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1472197215854628868 ========== Fair redistricting is good for state offices https://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#redistricting but for Federal, only if every state does it. https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2021-12-15/california-citizens-redistricting-commission-beats-the-alternative California should suspend fair redistricting for Federal House elections until Texas suspends unfair redistricting. #PS1democracy ===== impress 67 time 2021-12-18 13:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1472195593304825860 ========== Is Manchin really a Republican? McConnell would welcome him. https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-environment-voting-delaware-joe-manchin-a12b0073d4e2d16ccbe4c15deee3e1d5 It does seem that a rich WV Democrat would be GOP in most states. https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-business-poverty-west-virginia-joe-manchin-86da79b1a683de87c4a45c90c96cab52 Nobody knows what he wants or what he would settle for. #PS1biden ===== impress 24 time 2021-12-18 05:52 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1472082329728274434 ========== How far will the Dominion lawsuit against Fox go? https://apnews.com/article/business-elections-media-lawsuits-voting-a8968f707a9733de20141b9ebce819b3 Probably until GOP gets control of Congress. GOP and Fox have been profiting from lies too long to turn back now. #PS1insurrection ===== impress 21 time 2021-12-18 05:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1472080595555471365 ========== The wealthy have found ways to bypass income and estate taxes to create a hereditary nobility - https://www.propublica.org/article/the-great-inheritors-how-three-families-shielded-their-fortunes-from-taxes-for-generations They rewrite the tax code by providing the huge sums of money required to run for political office. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1562070974137416 #PS1tax ===== impress 23 time 2021-12-18 05:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1472079445611532295 ========== Why don't they just... enact common sense - gun laws voting rights laws tax laws drug pricing https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/15/opinion/michigan-school-shooting.html It's no mystery - it takes tens of millions of dollars to run for the Senate. Somebody has to pay for that. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1562047717473075 #PS1democracy ===== impress 24 time 2021-12-18 04:43 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1472064923567996931 ========== Newsom copies Texas. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-12-16/skelton-newsom-california-texas-abortion-law-guns Next, California should suspend fair redistricting for Federal elections until Texas enacts fair redistricting. No point giving away seats to GOP for nothing. #PS1capolitics ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% impress 91 time 2021-12-18 04:17 +0000 userclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1472058498443743233 ========== Not just NSO - add Cytrox! https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-israel-egypt-jamal-khashoggi-4948468da80e73681d9d9ca88ac28fc0 #PS1technology ===== impress 37 time 2021-12-18 04:03 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1472054843288162309 ========== That was the week that wasn't. https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-health-business-ap-fact-check-media-f3740a63e00c7fa7c583c60ed91d4e2a Who makes these up? Some people for fun, others for profit. It's a steady job. #PS1media ===== impress 18 time 2021-12-17 19:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1471926823940333568 ========== Immunized high-risk people are still at risk - but the risk is lower. https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/12/17/covid-19-breakthrough-hospitalizations-who-gets-sick-when-vaccines-dont-work/ #PS1virus ===== impress 16 time 2021-12-17 14:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1471851239147130883 ========== GOP plan for America - Chinese "democracy" where all elections are in favor of The Party. https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/january-6-hearings-mark-meadows-trump-fox-china-biden-democracy-20211214.html That's how the Chinese Communist Party protects minority rule, and it can work here too. #PS1minority ===== impress 17 time 2021-12-17 03:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1471684575629758468 ========== How the rich get richer https://finance.yahoo.com/news/sec-eyes-crackdown-u-executives-143000023.html The SEC might do something about it. #PS1economics ===== engage 2 engage-rate 11% expands 1 impress 18 time 2021-12-17 03:25 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1471682888382828548 ========== Who was behind the insurrection? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/15/us/politics/trump-meadows-republicans-congress-jan-6.html The Freedom Caucus! #PS1insurrection ===== engage 1 engage-rate 6% impress 17 time 2021-12-17 03:21 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1471682055649980416 ========== It all comes down to Kashmir. https://apnews.com/article/religion-india-kashmir-prayer-d45a677b528fb0cc06fca75544ce524b #PS1foreign ===== impress 26 time 2021-12-17 01:52 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1471659628320595971 ========== Stealing military weapons and ammo to sell to anybody with the cash is very profitable, and very lightly punished. https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-business-florida-north-carolina-theft-5fe1ad681d89dfc063c1d0d10b95b870 #PS1firearms ===== impress 18 time 2021-12-17 01:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1471656250647592960 ========== Sackler settlement fair? https://apnews.com/article/business-health-lawsuits-opioids-colleen-mcmahon-1e96ea41f783d8f5db0a024fbb304c1f Opinions vary. #PS1justice ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% expands 1 impress 33 time 2021-12-17 01:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1471653411288272902 ========== Most doctors are getting tired of seeing patients killed by misinformation from a few doctors. They are asking for action. https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-business-health-texas-public-health-5854b2b02c7c9c406fa9277e625b46e8 #PS1virus ===== impress 13 time 2021-12-17 01:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1471651935690260483 ========== omicron is already everywhere, and probably has been - undetected - for a while. Just follow the orders and suggestions and hope nothing worse is incubated in the worldwide reservoir of unvaccinated. https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/12/16/a-deluge-of-omicron-is-coming-santa-clara-countys-health-officer-warns/ #PS1virus ===== impress 25 time 2021-12-17 01:15 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1471650238947467266 ========== Rich get richer and poor get poorer - Cayman, Bahamas, Delaware, carried interest... https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/interactive/2021/investors-rental-foreclosure/ Everywhere investors are buying single family homes for rentals. Fast all cash offers look good to sellers, until they try to buy their next home. #PS1economics ===== impress 37 time 2021-12-16 07:12 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1471377558113439744 ========== 2020 was a dress rehearsal; GOP didn't quite act in time. In 2024 they hope to have all red states lined up with legislatures ready to overturn any Democratic victories. No actual finding of fraud required, just GOP-generated rumors. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/12/15/gop-plotted-overturn-2020-election-before-it-was-even-over/ #PS1election ===== impress 34 time 2021-12-16 06:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1471367124123721729 ========== Worst in history? Nobody looks good after a close encounter of the Trump kind. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/meadows-trump-january-6/2021/12/15/0265b502-5db8-11ec-9c0e-a955f8a009c1_story.html #PS1insurrection ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 33 time 2021-12-16 06:25 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1471365781078220800 ========== Known by the company he keeps - RFK Jr, Flynn, Stone. There's big money in paranoid fantasy! https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-entertainment-business-health-public-health-4997be1bcf591fe8b7f1f90d16c9321e Where does all that money come from? #PS1media ===== impress 36 time 2021-12-16 06:14 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1471363024229322752 ========== Manchin still won't say what his bottom line is on BBB. Biden is now talking about doing voting rights first. That is more important in the long run, but most voters don't understand the issues as well as money in their pockets. https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-business-environment-joe-manchin-congress-40f8b0c57abc54c343e35583de35dcff #PS1biden ===== impress 40 time 2021-12-16 06:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1471359944700006401 ========== Nothing to see here - so? The goal is to undermine the confidence of voters, pretending that something MIGHT have happened, and so election results can never be trusted, and so the legislature should decide what election results should be. https://apnews.com/article/elections-pennsylvania-voting-donald-trump-presidential-elections-62d6c10553c94d27398103f370fe4226 #PS1democracy ===== impress 28 time 2021-12-16 05:57 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1471358686563995648 ========== Would-be Pelosi shooter gets 28 months. https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/14/politics/capitol-pelosi-threat/index.html QAnon claims another victim. #PS1insurrection ===== impress 31 time 2021-12-16 05:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1471351571044712452 ========== Did Trump lie to his own accountants? https://news.yahoo.com/trump-fraud-inquirys-focus-did-131356726.html Why should he treat them differently from anybody else? #PS1trump ===== impress 33 time 2021-12-16 05:04 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1471345460677734400 ========== Omicron is a big enough threat, but not a game changer - the same precautions should protect most people. The real danger is what the next variant might be, given a huge worldwide pool of unvaccinated to incubate it. https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/12/14/what-the-latest-science-tells-us-about-the-fast-spreading-omicron-variant/ #PS1virus ===== impress 47 time 2021-12-16 04:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1471343877298659329 ========== Roots of minority rule. https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/four-folkways/ America's history has been largely dominated by men of British descent. Four distinct cultural groups dominated early American life. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1560542894290224 #PS1minority ===== impress 35 time 2021-12-15 22:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1471239352856416256 ========== The 1619 project at the New York Times - https://nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/1619-america-slavery.htm should have been old news! In 1965, Louis Lomax https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Lomax presented a memorable speech which seems just as timely today - https://political-scrapbook.net/1619/lomax.html More at https://facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1560506264293887 #PS1minority ===== engage 4 engage-rate 8% expands 3 impress 50 time 2021-12-15 20:35 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1471217371515813894 ========== In Texas they're voting like it was 1880! Or not voting. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/01/voter-fraud-myth-election-lie/620846/ How voter suppression works - make it more complicated, easier to make a mistake, harder to fix a mistake, and after a while would-be voters understand it's safer to abstain. #PS1democracy ===== impress 36 time 2021-12-15 15:21 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1471138456675831813 ========== AP searches for voter fraud and finds 475 cases - many of which were caught and not counted. https://apnews.com/article/voter-fraud-election-2020-joe-biden-donald-trump-7fcb6f134e528fee8237c7601db3328f But GOP legislators can't be bothered by facts - they already have their orders. #PS1election ===== impress 38 time 2021-12-15 06:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1471004799294271488 ========== "it will be interesting to reveal all the participants who were involved" - McConnell Only two GOP House members agreed. https://apnews.com/article/steve-bannon-business-donald-trump-capitol-siege-mark-meadows-7da38d635dd5474e899f3a14f171bf1c #PS1insurrection ===== impress 36 time 2021-12-15 06:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1471002595900542976 ========== Debt limit crisis suspended for a while by Democrats. GOP not grateful for Democratic help when GOP was in control. https://apnews.com/article/congress-debt-limit-joe-biden-355758a9591de7e4fe93ab5061904a65 #PS1economics ===== impress 35 time 2021-12-15 06:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1471001560901505028 ========== Militias decide to act local - for now. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/14/us/proud-boys-local-issues.html #PS1insurrection ===== impress 33 time 2021-12-15 06:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1470999905242017795 ========== Why workers need unions. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/14/opinion/tornadoes-mayfield-amazon.html Private government is a libertarian dream. It was the only kind prior to the Enlightenment. #PS1economics ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% expands 1 impress 39 time 2021-12-15 06:06 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1470998718459494405 ========== "The pro-life goal isn’t an end to abortion. It’s to establish another means of controlling women." Poor women that is - rich ones can always travel to get the medical care they want. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/14/opinion/abortion-contraception-pregnancy.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1560098354334678 #PS1minority ===== impress 31 time 2021-12-15 06:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1470997405768163328 ========== The main problem with BBB - it comes from Democrats. And some of it would be paid for by taxing the rich. Two reasons behind unanimous GOP opposition. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/13/opinion/build-back-better.html #PS1biden ===== impress 29 time 2021-12-15 05:48 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1470994235839041536 ========== Another way to undermine Biden. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/14/opinion/jelena-mcwilliams-fdic-bank-regulation.html Bank consolidation is even worse than general corporate consolidation. #PS1economics ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 33 time 2021-12-15 05:44 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1470993235820433410 ========== Transmitting foreign propaganda can be profitable! https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/12/13/technology/china-propaganda-youtube-influencers.html #PS1china ===== impress 30 time 2021-12-15 05:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1470992275677216768 ========== Huawei might be closer to the Chinese Communist Party than it admits. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/12/14/huawei-surveillance-china/ #PS1technology ===== impress 31 time 2021-12-15 05:24 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1470988054231875586 ========== Hitler, Stalin, Krushchev, and Ayatollah Kohmeini were Time Men of the Year. https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-time-person-of-the-year-cdc9f0865ff860942f16213a34de42e7 A narcissist like Trump, but smarter and bolder, and hence more dangerous. #PS1other ===== impress 43 time 2021-12-15 04:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1470974023915880451 ========== It doesn't matter whether the losers are the readers or the authors! https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/13/books/penguin-random-house-simon-schuster.html American antitrust law needs to be explicit that market concentration is bad in and of itself. #PS1economics ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% impress 71 time 2021-12-15 04:21 +0000 userclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1470972245438709767 ========== The switch to solar - who pays? https://apnews.com/article/science-business-environment-and-nature-california-utilities-1bc5070157e0fb4f0c216f8b1dd1daee If there's going to be a backup electrical network, somebody has to pay for it. #PS1capolitics ===== impress 31 time 2021-12-15 04:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1470971507979350020 ========== Reading comprehension - readers need a foundation on which to build comprehension. https://theamericanscholar.org/why-so-many-kids-struggle-to-learn/ #PS1other ===== engage 1 engage-rate 4% impress 28 likes 1 time 2021-12-15 04:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1470970276779155462 ========== Some people think BBB should be split up and voted on in parts. Would Manchin vote for ANY of those parts? He won't say. Does he really want to be remembered as McConnell's chief collaborator in killing BBB? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/14/its-time-entertain-possibility-that-build-back-better-bill-wont-pass/ #PS1biden ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% impress 49 time 2021-12-14 16:10 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1470788324226859008 ========== Plausible consumer products pre-emptive statements on covid - https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/14/listerine-covid-ron-johnson-satire/ #PS1virus ===== impress 44 time 2021-12-14 16:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1470786258213511173 ========== Corrupt intent does not require violence to be criminal. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/14/federal-court-has-ruled-that-obstructing-electoral-vote-count-is-illegal-trump-should-panic/ #PS1insurrection ===== impress 32 time 2021-12-14 15:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1470785526772944903 ========== The art of losing https://theamericanscholar.org/the-art-of-losing/ Losing is something they don't talk about at West Point, but maybe they should. Korea, Vietnam, Balkans, Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan - some were not outright defeats, but none were outright victories. #PS1other ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% impress 46 time 2021-12-14 15:52 +0000 userclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1470783671170912270 ========== Notable quotes https://apnews.com/article/britney-spears-joe-biden-mitch-mcconnell-congress-yale-university-b46513a7bfb24db19e4e15f1909e2297 #PS1other ===== impress 36 time 2021-12-14 14:57 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1470770014210994189 ========== Ranked-choice voting gets Federal support. https://www.fairvote.org/ranked_choice_voting_amendment_passes_u_s_house_of_representatives_1 This is a critical step toward restoring power to the center rather than the fringes. #PS1democracy ===== impress 38 time 2021-12-14 05:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1470628282538233856 ========== Ingraham, Hannity, and Kilmeade briefly urged Meadows to urge Trump to stop the insurrection, to save Trump's legacy. But Trump knew better - he wasn't destroying his legacy, but casting it in concrete. https://washingtonpost.com/media/2021/12/13/fox-ingraham-hannity-kilmeade-jan-6-trump-texts/ More at https://facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1559186521092528 #PS1insurrection ===== impress 48 time 2021-12-14 05:21 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1470624992010199040 ========== "racism is not merely the product of individual bias , but also something embedded in legal systems" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/13/theres-lot-conservatives-embrace-critical-race-theory-question-is-what-we-should-do-with-it/ But Abernathy is mistaken in thinking that Trumpist dogma can be proved right or wrong. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1559214247756422 #PS1trumpism ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 33 likes 1 time 2021-12-14 03:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1470600689877274633 ========== Doesn't everybody want Wall Street private equity firms to manage their health care? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/13/medicare-direct-contracting-privatization-health-care/ #PS1health ===== impress 37 time 2021-12-14 03:24 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1470595494996967425 ========== "more capable, more bold, more vicious" Did somebody mention DeSantis? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/13/ron-desantis-is-paving-his-path-white-house-backs-vulnerable-immigrant-children/ Why would he care about illegal immigrant kids - they don't vote or donate! #PS1immigration ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% impress 43 time 2021-12-14 03:20 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1470594590956687360 ========== Trump is not the greatest threat of Trumpism. It's his many more capable, more bold, more vicious would-be successors waiting for their chance to get control of his voters and donors. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/13/mark-meadows-powerpoint-coup-plot-trump-crackpot/ #PS1trumpism ===== engage 2 engage-rate 6% expands 1 impress 35 likes 1 time 2021-12-14 03:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1470593419550547968 ========== Climate crisis is now. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/13/opinion/nyt-climate-change.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/12/13/opinion/climate-change-effects-countries.html But throughout the world, rich and powerful old men still make most of the decisions, and they have much to lose if anything changes the status quo. And everybody is afraid of change. #PS1climate ===== impress 35 time 2021-12-14 01:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1470571219745329152 ========== Humans flatter themselves when they think they are in control. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/09/books/review/a-natural-history-of-the-future-rob-dunn.html #PS1climate ===== impress 40 time 2021-12-14 01:24 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1470565242153230336 ========== Why service is so slow, everywhere you go. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/12/12/quitting-great-resignation-downside-labor-shortage/ More legal immigration would help. #PS1economics ===== impress 36 time 2021-12-14 01:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1470562549615652866 ========== Manchin thinks it's best to slow down - so the child care credit does not get renewed. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/13/manchin-child-tax-credit-build-back-better/ It's very popular with voters - but not with major political donors who figure they'd pay for it. #PS1biden ===== impress 46 time 2021-12-14 01:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1470559646196793345 ========== The Jan 6 committee will eventually release its report, with or without cooperation from Trumpist witnesses. Will anybody care who wasn't already convinced? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/13/meadows-documents-reveal-coup/ #PS1insurrection ===== impress 34 time 2021-12-14 00:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1470558140949172224 ========== Cut the price of insulin? GOP says YES - in public to voters. In private to donors, they explain they really mean NO. Especially if Democrats propose it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/13/republicans-insulin-prices/ #PS1health ===== impress 34 time 2021-12-14 00:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1470552174006452225 ========== Manchin got what he needed to protect his dirty-coal business - https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/12/13/manchin-blind-trust-enersystems-stock-climate-change/ But he still isn't happy. https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/12/13/senate-biden-manchin-spending/ He says slow down - so more Democratic senators get cold feet? If he's going to vote against BBB, he might as well say so. #PS1biden ===== impress 54 time 2021-12-14 00:26 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1470550738694643712 ========== Taliban puts its best foot forward for interview. https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-united-states-only-on-ap-kabul-taliban-c0475a3370ea219aabb3ded311911cc1 He might be sincere, but does he really speak for anybody other than himself? Afghanistan is inherently tribal and sectarian, no matter who is nominally in charge. #PS1afghanistan ===== impress 36 time 2021-12-13 23:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1470540217228533761 ========== Stimulus funds made a difference - inflation instead of depression. Many people feel bad, but they'd have felt worse in a repeat of 2008. https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/12/13/covid-didnt-increase-poverty-in-the-bay-area-new-report-says/ #PS1recovery ===== impress 40 time 2021-12-13 23:12 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1470532096242319361 ========== Beware function creep - half-baked covid technology will creep into other applications to serve other markets. https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-technology-business-health-europe-7d81971ca5eb93fd59a99d559c968a65 #PS1technology ===== impress 33 time 2021-12-13 23:04 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1470530000042401797 ========== The free market is solving supply chain issues... slowly. https://apnews.com/article/business-lifestyle-education-california-los-angeles-a07e9a4034d76f6d1256d363af45def6 #PS1inflation ===== impress 39 time 2021-12-13 23:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1470529501889056771 ========== How billionaires avoid taxes. Disinformation is important, to get people who would not be affected to fight for them for free. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/10/us/politics/taxing-the-rich.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1558591191152061 #PS1tax ===== impress 35 time 2021-12-13 05:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1470265844659724291 ========== Two primaries to watch in May 2022. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/12/opinion/elections-republicans-2022.html #PS1election ===== impress 40 time 2021-12-13 05:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1470262878565396482 ========== If the Supreme Court upholds nullification, John C Calhoun will be vindicated at last - states as well as individuals need pay no attention to laws they don't like. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/12/opinion/abortion-rights-america.html #PS1justice ===== impress 40 time 2021-12-13 04:53 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1470255458514395136 ========== The Trumpist Supreme Court seems to be willing to decide itself into irrelevance, at least for red states. Maybe that was the point all along. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/11/supreme-court-radical-texas-abortion-ruling/ #PS1justice ===== impress 33 time 2021-12-13 04:46 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1470253865387716609 ========== Life on the "Tucker Carlson Channel". https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/12/chris-wallace-leaves-fox-news-for-cnn/ #PS1journalism ===== impress 38 time 2021-12-13 04:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1470252696133267460 ========== Blind judges! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/12/term-limits-court-packing-for-supreme-court-bad-ideas/ The era of Federal judges chosen for legal acumen and impartiality is over, thanks to Leonard Leo and Mitch McConnell. Recent appointees know why they were appointed and what is expected of them. #PS1justice ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 36 time 2021-12-13 04:37 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1470251605723205635 ========== Lindsey Graham has chugged the Trump koolaid and recommends it to every Dixiecrat Republican. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/12/will-joe-manchin-see-through-lindsey-grahams-desperate-scaremongering/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/12/12/lindsey-graham-debt-ceiling-mcconnell-trump/ #PS1trumpism ===== impress 119 time 2021-12-13 04:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1470249613210755074 ========== No need to move to Texas! You can enjoy Permian Basin air and politicians like Greg Abbott right here in Kern County, and no humidity! https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/11/us/california-housing-bakersfield.html But like Austin, an influx of upward strivers might change the local culture of Bakersfield too. #PS1economics ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% impress 52 time 2021-12-13 04:14 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1470245670934040576 ========== Social-media organized mash-and-grab crime has changed the conversation about crime and punishment. No more talk about defunding police. https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/12/11/8722383/ https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/12/11/skelton-how-should-california-respond-to-smash-and-grab-thefts/ Social media transformed disinformation and insurrection, so why not theft? #PS1justice ===== impress 39 time 2021-12-13 04:07 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1470244020752302080 ========== Silicon Valley still booming despite Greg Abbott's kind invitation to relocate to Texas. https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/12/11/while-most-bay-area-economies-floundered-in-the-first-year-of-the-pandemic-santa-clara-countys-soared/ #PS1economics ===== impress 38 time 2021-12-13 04:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1470242670169636864 ========== Legal strategy worthy of Trumpism - send random documents to counsel and then claim attorney-client privilege. https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-11-30/judge-orders-google-to-hand-over-antiunion-campaign-documents-in #PS1justice ===== impress 34 time 2021-12-13 04:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1470242186050613249 ========== If the next generation of women follow tradition of not marrying below their station - birth rates might drop and increased immigration will be key to maintaining standards of living. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/23/business/dealbook/women-college-economy.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1558553334489180 #PS1immigration ===== impress 36 time 2021-12-13 03:57 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1470241564114915330 ========== The process of how Dixiecrat thinking redefined "freedom" to mean "ignore laws you don't like". It started with housing and now applies to firearms and vax - but not abortion. https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2021/12/10/how-a-california-ballot-measure-on-housing-changed-conservative-politics/ #PS1gop ===== impress 33 time 2021-12-13 03:14 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1470230716210286595 ========== Kavanaugh said that the Texas abortion approach could be used for firearms control. Newsom has accepted the challenge. GOP is opposed - logical consistency was never their goal. https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/12/12/legal-experts-respond-to-newsom-modeling-assault-weapon-law-on-texas-abortion-bill/ #PS1firearms ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% impress 46 time 2021-12-13 03:10 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1470229597266403331 ========== How gentrification works. https://www.northbaybusinessjournal.com/article/article/mattsons-continue-sonoma-valley-buying-spree/ It used to be called urban renewal. Doesn't every community want more billionaires calling the shots? #PS1economics ===== impress 51 time 2021-12-13 01:43 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1470207756460171264 ========== Nothing new about vax hesitancy. https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2021/12/12/first-vaccine-mandate-massachusetts-waterhouse/ But then, as now, most people were eager to get vaccinated. #PS1virus ===== impress 19 time 2021-12-12 22:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1470159239431680000 ========== Some unions are beginning to flex some muscle. Not all are successful. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/interactive/2021/worker-revolt-comes-dollar-general-connecticut/?itid=hp-top-table-main #PS1economics ===== impress 21 time 2021-12-12 22:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1470157067428057089 ========== Korea, Taiwan, Ukraine, Iran - Trump should be glad he's not president! https://apnews.com/article/iran-space-launches-nuclear-deal-72a010e26d3ff0395fd09b7c1b3e51d5 #PS1foreign ===== impress 41 time 2021-12-12 22:07 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1470153385563226115 ========== "My country has in its wisdom contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived" Time to change the way VP's are chosen. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#insignificant As it is, they get no respect. https://m.lasvegassun.com/news/2021/dec/10/harris-has-it-easy-compared-with-quayle/ #PS1other ===== impress 20 time 2021-12-12 20:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1470128303105183744 ========== Tort wars - is justice on either side? https://calmatters.org/commentary/2021/12/californias-tort-wars-heating-up-again/ Trial lawyers are a potent lobby. So are business interests. #PS1capolitics ===== impress 19 time 2021-12-12 20:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1470125478304313344 ========== Kevin McCarthy is doing his best to lead the country into violence and subsequent oppression. https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-12-03/lauren-boebert-ilhan-omar-kevin-mccarthy-congress And what will his reward be? The most fanatic in his caucus want to replace McCarthy with Trump. https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicholasreimann/2021/12/07/matt-gaetz-says-hes-talked-with-trump-about-making-him-speaker-of-the-house #PS1gop ===== engage 1 engage-rate 5% impress 22 time 2021-12-12 20:01 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1470121532986777613 ========== There's big money in big lies! https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/12/08/opinion-spinning-journalistic-fraud-into-ratings-gold/ Reactionary media stars try their best to prove that the masses are too stupid to be allowed to govern themselves - "democracy" must be "guided" - by the minority ruling class. #PS1media ===== impress 17 time 2021-12-12 19:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1470119232721408002 ========== The fall of Kabul, stunning in its suddenness. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/10/magazine/fall-of-kabul-afghanistan.html #PS1afghanistan ===== impress 25 time 2021-12-12 06:14 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1469913457738883074 ========== GOP taking control of election machinery in red states. Democrats not effectively resisting. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/11/us/politics/trust-in-elections-trump-democracy.html Election administration is no longer non-partisan. #PS1democracy ===== impress 23 time 2021-12-12 05:14 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1469898511487422467 ========== How Trumpists terrorized an election worker. https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/kanye-west-publicist-pressed-georgia-election-worker-confess-bogus-fraud-charges-2021-12-10/ Expect more in the future. #PS1insurrection ===== impress 17 time 2021-12-12 04:31 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1469887495634444295 ========== Distracted driving should be a violation. https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-lifestyle-games-video-games-a139b90962d90c5b8516da5cea459836 Enabling distracted driving should be a felony. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1557911411220039 #PS1technology ===== impress 16 time 2021-12-12 04:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1469886931072741378 ========== "it is up to us, the people. No party or leader will save us here. No foreign savior will shake us out of our stupor" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/04/why-international-election-observers-would-give-wisconsin-failing-grade/ Dixiecrat Trumpists are proud, not ashamed, of their authoritarian aims. #PS1democracy ===== impress 15 time 2021-12-12 04:04 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1469880933843025923 ========== 18 ways to lose a democracy. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/interactive/2021/january-6-next-coup-signs/ They are all tried and true, tested in formerly-democratic, now-authoritarian states. #PS1democracy ===== impress 19 time 2021-12-12 04:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1469879985049518081 ========== Does Manchin not know that GOP senators are devoted to protecting minority rule by all available means? Not know or not care? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/10/manchin-filibuster-protecting-our-democracy-act/ One would not have said the same about GOP in 1972 - because the Dixiecrats had not yet gained full control. #PS1democracy ===== impress 17 time 2021-12-12 03:54 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1469878407278186500 ========== What's the difference between 1972 and 2021? https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/12/10/january-6-congress-line/ In 1972, majorities of both parties took seriously their oath to defend the Constitution. In 2021, one party has become a cult of personality actively working to overturn the Constitution. #PS1insurrection ===== impress 16 time 2021-12-12 03:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1469877153646874625 ========== Bannon, Flynn, Stone - still inciting insurrection from the grass roots up. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/12/10/michael-flynn-roger-stone-activists/ And making good money doing it! #PS1insurrection ===== impress 17 time 2021-12-12 03:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1469874741825572867 ========== Vigilantism or insurrection? Vigilantism is as American as cherry pie - especially in the South. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/12/10/january-6-vigilantes-insurrection/ The Dixiecrats lost control of the Democratic Party, but took over the GOP instead. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1557887957889051 #PS1insurrection ===== impress 16 time 2021-12-12 03:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1469872964287881221 ========== Can Trump snatch defeat from the jaws of victory in Georgia - again? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/06/georgia-republicans-faustian-bargain-with-trump-is-catching-up-with-them/ Nothing is as important as revenge! #PS1trump ===== engage 1 engage-rate 5% impress 20 time 2021-12-12 02:45 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1469860859866337281 ========== Some people make a living by laying the groundwork for insurrection. https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/phil-waldron-mark-meadows-powerpoint/2021/12/11/4ea67938-59df-11ec-9a18-a506cf3aa31d_story.html #PS1insurrection ===== impress 19 time 2021-12-12 02:38 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1469859053845172226 ========== More Trumpism in action - you don't have to obey laws, or subpoenas, you don't like. https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/12/11/navarro-defies-democrats-subpoena-coronavirus-response/ Will he plead the 5th too? #PS1virus ===== impress 13 time 2021-12-12 02:31 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1469857535028989952 ========== Trump an unreliable source of medical evaluations. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2021/12/08/purple-heart-iran-missile-attack/ #PS1trump ===== impress 14 time 2021-12-12 02:23 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1469855374148657154 ========== Rand Paul is only in favor of Federal disaster relief for red states? https://www.newsweek.com/rand-paul-opposition-previous-disaster-relief-resurfaces-he-seeks-aid-kentucky-1658537 #PS1gop ===== engage 2 engage-rate 3% impress 60 retweets 1 time 2021-12-12 02:21 +0000 userclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1469854822912323584 ========== Masons - like those picture on our money - have an ideal of masculinity - https://freemasonsfordummies.blogspot.com/2018/12/the-ideals-of-freemason.html Nowadays Trumpists have a different ideal - "If toxic masculinity is worth doing, it’s worth overdoing" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/08/al-gore-was-manly-josh-hawley-not-so-much/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1557853021225878 #PS1trumpism ===== impress 14 time 2021-12-12 02:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1469854178549764098 ========== Crime gets old. https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-sports-business-health-lifestyle-538efc664e9da0d2f0831f3f3ed9a4d7 It eventually tempts support of authoritarians. #PS1justice ===== impress 21 time 2021-12-12 01:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1469843048108490755 ========== Social media posts are evidence! https://apnews.com/article/media-prisons-social-media-capitol-siege-sentencing-0a60a821ce19635b70681faf86e6526e #PS1insurrection ===== impress 14 time 2021-12-12 01:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1469841529556455424 ========== Border Patrol plays amateur detective. https://apnews.com/article/business-arts-and-entertainment-journalists-congress-992f41e92d9402299eaffe798048cd12 #PS1justice ===== impress 13 time 2021-12-12 01:24 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1469840642394103811 ========== H1B abuse in Silicon Valley? https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/12/09/h-1b-visa-major-tech-employer-in-silicon-valley-committing-wage-theft-against-foreign-workers-report-alleges/ #PS1economics ===== impress 45 time 2021-12-12 00:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1469830791571988481 ========== Is expanding the Supreme Court the only way to get it out of its current role of protecting minority rule? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/09/expand-supreme-court-laurence-tribe-nancy-gertner/ #PS1justice ===== impress 36 time 2021-12-11 13:31 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1469661217694224386 ========== Ask people about "the economy" and they look at gas prices and say it's terrible, especially GOP. Ask people and businesses how they are themselves doing, or just look at their economic behavior, and it's just great. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/09/opinion/economy-inflation-spending-jobs.html #PS1economics ===== impress 29 time 2021-12-11 13:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1469660613953474561 ========== How should Democrats preserve majority rule? 1) abolish filibuster for election reform 2) adopt an explicit class bias for working and middle classes - of all races and ethnicities - against the minority rule of a hereditary GOP nobility. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/08/opinion/trump-democrats-republicans.html #PS1politics ===== impress 35 time 2021-12-11 13:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1469659704120864771 ========== Don't blame progressive Democrats if GOP gains control of government for good in 2022. They're not holding up election reform for the sake of filibuster. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/10/opinion/democrats-progressives-moderates-elections.html #PS1biden ===== impress 43 time 2021-12-11 13:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1469657248251072513 ========== What if spiders spread covid? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/10/opinion/covid-omicron-psychology-fear.html #PS1virus ===== impress 32 time 2021-12-11 13:07 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1469655174343905287 ========== What makes money work? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/10/opinion/cash-crypto-trust-money.html For now, at least, take comfort from the most common global store of value is - American $100 bills. #PS1economics ===== impress 32 time 2021-12-11 12:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1469652945406869505 ========== GenZ's need to watch Life of Brian again. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/09/technology/birds-arent-real-gen-z-misinformation.html They should be careful about satire. As a British army veteran recalled once, "Officers were instructed never to joke with enlisted men. They invariably take you seriously." #PS1other ===== impress 35 time 2021-12-11 12:37 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1469647462637793281 ========== Trump loyalty is a one-way street - and it's never enough. As his most loyal sycophants eventually discover. https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/10/politics/donald-trump-benjamin-netanyahu/index.html #PS1trump ===== impress 29 time 2021-12-11 12:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1469645385681367041 ========== Side effect of covid - enlightenment about what's really important. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/04/business/public-resignation-quitting.html A side effect of poverty, though, is desperate desire to take any job, which will happen again eventually. #PS1economics ===== impress 33 time 2021-12-11 12:26 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1469644651246194690 ========== It doesn't have to be true if it's what Trump wants to hear! No matter how many times it's been disproven. https://apnews.com/article/lawsuits-donald-trump-georgia-presidential-elections-elections-5b520fef3ba06833fe8b216952f74a87 #PS1election ===== impress 34 time 2021-12-11 04:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1469530121149169665 ========== Six more rally planners subpoena'd. https://apnews.com/article/elections-donald-trump-presidential-elections-capitol-siege-election-2020-8602f4beb59e780359eba9132954d696 #PS1insurrection ===== impress 30 time 2021-12-11 04:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1469527745709293570 ========== Call out the National Guard! To care for the unvaccinated covid patients, leaving the regular staff to deal with regular patients. https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-business-health-new-york-michigan-f80c396cc06d3b072c49e5fa57f5ab36 Regular staff are quitting in droves for higher pay as traveling nurses. #PS1virus ===== impress 37 time 2021-12-11 04:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1469527191276773380 ========== Internet on fire - again. https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-lifestyle-software-apple-inc-aed3cc628fc602079b100757974c8f01 Expect more of the same. #PS1technology ===== impress 30 time 2021-12-11 04:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1469525861665628164 ========== That was the week that wasn't. https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-health-business-social-media-media-c260faa27b6e0abe749bd50957fc413d #PS1media ===== impress 29 time 2021-12-11 04:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1469524881788133376 ========== Is selling advertising more profitable than selling merchandise? https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/12/08/amazon-search-results-ftc-complaint/ All sorts of internet companies think so. #PS1media ===== impress 20 time 2021-12-10 17:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1469355522197393408 ========== The social media business model is inherently anti-social. And pro-propagandist. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/12/10/twitter-turmoil-spaces/ #PS1media ===== impress 23 time 2021-12-10 17:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1469352636927266816 ========== GOP has correctly identified the most persecuted group in America - old rich white straight male rural evangelical Christians! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/09/supreme-court-crusade/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1556952994649214 #PS1gop ===== impress 22 time 2021-12-10 16:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1469347633533620226 ========== Why are drug prices increasing so rapidly in the US? Because the price of a Senate campaign is increasing so rapidly, and somebody has to pay for it! https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/12/10/house-democrats-find-three-year-investigation-that-drug-prices-are-unsustainable-unjustifiable-unfair/ Unlimited dark campaign money is everywhere you turn! More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1556945407983306 #PS1health ===== impress 23 time 2021-12-10 16:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1469343833108332546 ========== Too many uncomfortable facts turn people toward superstition. It's nice to have a simple theory of everything. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/12/10/omicron-misinformation/ And plenty of foreign and domestic actors have an interest in undermining the rational Enlightenment basis of American democracy. #PS1media ===== impress 21 time 2021-12-10 16:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1469341730495365120 ========== Covid origins - science might never overcome the politics to find a definitive answer, but the search is helpful preparing for future viruses. https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-science-health-covid-19-083bd75a801f9824e0b9ad7316062a5c #PS1virus ===== impress 20 time 2021-12-10 16:12 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1469339268107563010 ========== Even if it doesn't kill, the virus can destroy - https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/12/09/long-covid-work-unemployed/ The unvaccinated are the breeding grounds for new variants that will each kill or destroy more people. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/08/opinion/unvaccinated-people-anti-vaxxers.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1556890011322179 #PS1virus ===== impress 19 time 2021-12-10 14:52 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1469319009560498177 ========== Trump and Putin - two peas in a pod. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/09/putin-trump-ukraine-russia-invasion/ Or so Trump thinks. Putin thinks Trump is a useful idiot. #PS1ukraine ===== engage 1 engage-rate 5% impress 21 time 2021-12-10 14:30 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1469313685092909056 ========== Think Pandora Papers had nothing to do with you? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora_Papers Think again if you are trying to buy a house but losing to above-market all-cash offers from foreign investors! The Biden administration is taking a closer look. https://apnews.com/article/politics-business-0881a307f2e672859cd9c31d764ad7ff #PS1justice ===== impress 26 time 2021-12-10 01:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1469119872529436677 ========== Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-new-york-bitcoin-craig-wright-c822c8fca349b7b779b23aa2b6e9db32 #PS1economics ===== impress 20 time 2021-12-10 01:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1469118390107209728 ========== Crypto currencies are not as stable as T-Bills! https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/bitcoin-plunges-over-20-another-063422558.html #PS1economics ===== impress 17 time 2021-12-10 01:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1469117011179433984 ========== “We are not going to assemble iPhones in the US” https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/29/business/economy/supply-chain-inflation.html Reshoring is more complicated than offshoring because it doesn't pay for itself. #PS1inflation ===== impress 17 time 2021-12-10 01:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1469115967896637441 ========== Reshipping work-at-home scams - you lose money AND might be criminally liable. https://www.freep.com/story/money/personal-finance/susan-tompor/2021/12/01/champagne-buckets-ski-doo-part-reshipping-scam-hit-detroiter/8793353002/ #PS1economics ===== impress 25 time 2021-12-10 01:21 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1469115047020404738 ========== New Georgia law protects GOP from black Democrats. It's 1880 all over again, with Republicans and Democrats switching roles. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/georgia-republicans-purge-black-democrats-county-election-boards-2021-12-09/ #PS1democracy ===== impress 17 time 2021-12-10 00:14 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1469098234601619458 ========== Redistricting wars could be minimized by ranked-choice voting and multimember districts. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#preferential https://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#redistricting Instead - https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/12/02/creating-disharmony-or-suppressing-voters-battle-over-san-jose-redistricting-maps-escalates/ #PS1democracy ===== impress 28 time 2021-12-10 00:12 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1469097728428834817 ========== "President Trump’s duty to defend the Constitution continues, and he will keep fighting for every American and every future Administration" translation - "Trump will keep fighting for Trump and every future Trump Administration" https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-capitol-siege-de54f9ad6c6123dbe85cf86d31b45df1 #PS1insurrection ===== impress 20 time 2021-12-10 00:03 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1469095454285565957 ========== Is Pence a lost cause? Too Trumpy for anti-Trumpists, not Trumpy enough for Trumpists, Pence is cultivating donors anyway - in New Hampshire! Only one reason for a national politician to go to New Hampshire! https://apnews.com/article/mike-pence-new-hampshire-election-midterms-trump-5177af3b3090defc022368d77d1ea0c5 More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1556211494723364 #PS1gop ===== impress 11 time 2021-12-09 14:37 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1468952870837899264 ========== Pleading the fifth! Everybody who joins Roger Stone and Alex Jones is pretty much admitting they're morally guilty if not legally convicted. True Trumpists will wear that as a badge of honor! https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/jan-6-investigators-challenge-trump-093025942.html #PS1insurrection ===== impress 22 time 2021-12-09 14:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1468949908661043202 ========== Who funds insurrection? Sweet rich grandmas who get taken in by Alex Jones! https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/publix-heiress-capitol-insurrection-fancelli/2021/12/08/5144fe1c-5219-11ec-8ad5-b5c50c1fb4d9_story.html #PS1insurrection ===== impress 17 time 2021-12-09 05:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1468817555125006336 ========== Expensive drug will increase every medicare recipients cost by $11/month. https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-health-business-prescription-drug-costs-prescription-drugs-e2eb18059c54ec2091b7486698af84f4 #PS1health ===== impress 11 time 2021-12-09 04:37 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1468801973994459138 ========== The inevitable result of centralization - back to mainframe/terminal computing, except it's called "the cloud" now. The internet was designed to be a network of peers to be robust against such failures. https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-amazoncom-inc-web-services-cloud-computing-a3a668b1b42d3ee560ed4b1d0c5a2fb4 #PS1technology ===== impress 11 time 2021-12-09 04:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1468800993575854081 ========== Manchin sides with GOP in supporting parliamentarian cuts to BBB. https://apnews.com/article/immigration-business-environment-joe-manchin-congress-714cd484d2c9511d512a7e834482a7e0 #PS1biden ===== engage 2 engage-rate 4% impress 47 time 2021-12-09 04:25 +0000 urlclicks 1 userclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1468798995950542848 ========== Now Trumpists want to sue Congress for investigating insurrection. https://apnews.com/article/steve-bannon-capitol-siege-subpoenas-donald-trump-bennie-thompson-84f28fc650d99b9ea45d1e5c2dc44c3c #PS1insurrection ===== impress 12 time 2021-12-09 04:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1468798136634122240 ========== Manchin and Tester join GOP against vax mandate. https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/08/politics/senate-resolution-opposing-biden-vaccine-mandate/index.html They uphold the GOP right to infect other people. #PS1virus ===== engage 1 engage-rate 0% impress 201 replies 1 time 2021-12-09 04:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1468795354736783361 ========== Why does GOP support right-to-life, right-to-shoot, anti-vax? There's no moral logical consistency. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/06/how-is-gops-coronavirus-recklessness-compatible-with-being-pro-life/ The answer is that there is POLITICAL logical consistency - essential to GOP minority rule. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1555545634789950 #PS1theory ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 30 likes 1 time 2021-12-08 14:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1468593631191715842 ========== The best idea in the 2017 billionaire tax relief was a child credit. Marco Rubio, of all people, demanded that this Democratic idea be included. Biden wants to extend it, but is even Rubio still behind it? Not likely. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/07/yes-2017-tax-cuts-helped-working-class-americans-conservatives-should-be-honest-about-how/ #PS1tax ===== impress 23 time 2021-12-08 14:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1468585215165562883 ========== How much would it cost to conquer Ukraine? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/07/ukrainian-border-putin-stands-edge-precipice/ #PS1ukraine ===== impress 29 time 2021-12-08 14:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1468584440553033728 ========== Trump says GOP shouldn't pay its past indebtedness. Many GOP legislators agree. But McConnell says OK as long as Democrats specify the amount of past GOP indebtedness to cover. https://apnews.com/article/business-janet-yellen-congress-2044ae1969a650b0400916dfca758f1d #PS1economics ===== impress 26 time 2021-12-08 14:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1468583292324569095 ========== Democratization of technology - groups you arm might not accept your command. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/iran-drones-iraq-militias/2021/12/06/5685e772-5469-11ec-8769-2f4ecdf7a2ad_story.html If every street gang all over the world learns to use small drones - what would they have to lose? #PS1technology ===== impress 23 time 2021-12-08 04:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1468440660512428033 ========== Choose words carefully but focus on the substance. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/07/opinion/hispanic-voters-messaging.html #PS1politics ===== impress 12 time 2021-12-07 17:04 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1468265231847542787 ========== Ever wonder what it was like in the California or Alaska gold rushes? You can relive that experience. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/07/world/congo-cobalt-investor-hotel.html But watch your back. These are not Sunday School teachers. #PS1foreign ===== impress 18 time 2021-12-07 16:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1468262976465424386 ========== Meadows changes his mind to protect Trump; Short agrees to testify. https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-capitol-siege-subpoenas-mark-meadows-c3968697e8ba30f28df07e7ea895a79f We'll see which chief of staff history recalls as a true patriot. https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-donald-trump-capitol-siege-subpoenas-5fef7f0730fd1b0fabd2fc1e4914d219 #PS1insurrection ===== impress 23 time 2021-12-07 16:36 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1468258210645561352 ========== Will 10 traditional conservative GOP senators step forward to undermine permanent minority rule? Not likely. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/06/electoral-count-act-trump-benjamin-ginsberg/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1554516658226181 #PS1democracy ===== engage 3 engage-rate 18% impress 17 time 2021-12-07 01:36 +0000 urlclicks 3 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1468031587031797760 ========== Trump owns the Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP, to the chagrin of his would-be successors, who have to pretend to love him, and the even greater chagrin of traditional conservatives, who now have no home . https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/12/06/trump-comments-undermining-democracy/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1554508094893704 #PS1trumpism ===== impress 16 time 2021-12-07 01:14 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1468026176794812418 ========== Clark and Eastman join a distinguished honor roll. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/12/06/jeffrey-clark-john-eastman-join-some-rare-company-pleading-fifth-jan-6-committee/ #PS1insurrection ===== engage 1 engage-rate 6% expands 1 impress 18 time 2021-12-07 00:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1468017610360963074 ========== How does a superspreader happen? The president sets the example for a nation - https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2021/12/04/covid-marin-county-parents-sent-child-to-school-with-covid/ It's easy when you're a snake oil salesman and a congenital liar. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-coronavirus-positive/2021/12/05/b1a55fda-544f-11ec-8927-c396fa861a71_story.html #PS1virus ===== impress 15 time 2021-12-07 00:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1468016304795754498 ========== No mystery at all. Trump's enablers that DO know better are far more morally culpable than Trump's followers that DON'T know any better. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/06/how-can-people-who-have-seen-worst-trump-still-think-best-him/ But pitch defileth the hand that toucheth it, so anybody who got close is stuck for life. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 10 time 2021-12-07 00:21 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1468012699795673092 ========== "Sherman left more standing than this primary will" Are there enough traditional conservatives left in the Georgia GOP to defy Trump? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/06/republicans-must-reject-david-perdues-senate-primary-bid-georgia/ Seems doubtful. Trump hates disloyalty. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 12 time 2021-12-07 00:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1468011540867547138 ========== Trumpism thriving in France. https://apnews.com/article/europe-france-elections-paris-campaigns-4e5c33b9feccc477e53b62dca0dff4a8 #PS1foreign ===== impress 14 time 2021-12-07 00:10 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1468009945941495810 ========== Russians still at it! https://apnews.com/article/technology-russia-europe-hacking-espionage-5bd6870ed499856534187827c5506c42 #PS1russian ===== impress 11 time 2021-12-07 00:06 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1468009087254228995 ========== Going to the Supreme Court! Gerrymandering is a pillar of minority rule. The Supreme Court justices know they are there to protect minority rule. If they do so, California should suspend fair redistricting for Federal elections. https://apnews.com/article/texas-lawsuits-dallas-race-and-ethnicity-voting-rights-9e120f7578628a5fb0ed6a65bc2b2872 #PS1democracy ===== impress 38 time 2021-12-06 23:52 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1468005529544892419 ========== Good news for Congress! Bad news for Trump Media! https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/06/politics/devin-nunes-retiring/index.html GOP has a deep bench of idiots qualified to replace Nunes in Congress. Let's make sure the worst is nominated in the primary and defeated in the general! #PS1trumpism ===== engage 2 engage-rate 6% expands 1 impress 35 retweets 1 time 2021-12-06 23:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1467995234084687876 ========== The Trumpiest kind of Trumpist! Take other people's money and then divert it. No audited financials, no records, no paper trail. But she FAILED to overturn the election, and Trump likes WINNERS! https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/sidney-powell-defending-republic-donations/2021/12/06/61bdb004-53ef-11ec-8769-2f4ecdf7a2ad_story.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1554258821585298 #PS1insurrection ===== impress 39 time 2021-12-06 16:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1467892941993627648 ========== What things a president says are part of his job? How can comments about civil litigation over actions taken long before his presidency be part of his job? https://apnews.com/article/trump-defamation-lawsuit-e-jean-carroll-7943f39877672e3ec472f5bf902676a3 #PS1justice ===== impress 39 time 2021-12-06 08:21 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1467771235517927424 ========== Trump's unclear on the concept! Why ELSE would anybody go to work for Trump, if not to be able to write a tell-all book that they can sell to compensate for the damage to their personal integrity caused by working for Trump? https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/us-elections-government/ny-trump-furious-with-marks-meadows-for-revealing-covid-status-before-debate-20211203-6snkpwgqmvavtgwvxuoysgylie-story.html #PS1trump ===== impress 31 time 2021-12-06 08:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1467770413241356288 ========== The new GOP - government as reality-TV entertainment! The more controversy and publicity the better - more time on Fox, more grass-roots funds raised. https://apnews.com/article/steve-bannon-donald-trump-kevin-mccarthy-lauren-boebert-congress-d570aa1ca74c727f59e29abc42d7e6dc More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1554007131610467 #PS1gop ===== impress 24 time 2021-12-06 08:03 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1467766717141041155 ========== Manliness - another GOP culture war issue for which they don't actually intend to do anything. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/04/opinion/josh-hawley-republican-manliness.html #PS1gop ===== impress 20 time 2021-12-05 16:57 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1467538510185861125 ========== Maybe it's time to be explicit about class warfare - and who the real secret ruling elites are. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/05/five-themes-democrats-can-focus-to-boost-their-standing/ #PS1politics ===== impress 29 time 2021-12-05 16:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1467531488564420612 ========== Another dream of fast internet riches through social media. https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-technology-business-media-social-media-51cb0cf43864875390f2cec958273e2a Other people's money! #PS1media ===== impress 17 time 2021-12-05 13:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1467493580759609347 ========== To the victor belong the spoils - Taliban upholds ancient Afghan traditions. And convinces the people that they are no different from their predecessors. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/03/world/asia/afghanistan-land-ownership-taliban.html #PS1afghanistan ===== impress 24 time 2021-12-04 05:12 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1466998727600586753 ========== Who are the unvaccinated? The people who don't trust government and other institutions. And the people whose lives involve much greater risks than covid. There is no sense of working together for the common good. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/03/opinion/vaccine-hesitancy-covid.html https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1552661575078356 #PS1virus ===== engage 4 engage-rate 15% impress 27 likes 1 time 2021-12-04 05:06 +0000 urlclicks 2 userclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1466997298366345219 ========== Fifty years later, fulfilling the dreams of Strom Thurmond, unapologetically, in plain sight. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/03/opinion/trump-bannon-2024.html #PS1gop ===== impress 17 time 2021-12-04 04:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1466993516479868933 ========== How expectations about the future affect labor market behavior today. Is the Great Resignation just a sign of optimism? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/03/opinion/economy-biden-november-jobs-report.html #PS1economics ===== impress 24 time 2021-12-04 04:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1466991894362157057 ========== Nobody says GOP candidates need to talk more to urban residents. They don't care because they don't need them to win! But Democratic candidates have to disproportionately cater to rural voters. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/03/opinion/democrats-rural-america-midterms.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1552650961746084 #PS1democracy ===== impress 16 time 2021-12-04 04:38 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1466990262874370052 ========== Time to take a stand between fact and fiction. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/03/biden-media-coverage-worse-trump-favorable/ Between democracy and dictatorship. #PS1journalism ===== engage 1 engage-rate 5% impress 19 time 2021-12-04 04:00 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1466980760888307717 ========== What Manchin and Sanders are missing - nothing that they can do or prevent will be as bad as GOP control of Congress in 2022 and the White House in 2024. If GOP wins they don't intend to lose again. Is filibuster more important than that? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/03/where-will-democratic-infighting-lead-historys-answer-is-clear/ #PS1biden ===== impress 28 time 2021-12-04 03:57 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1466979880235528194 ========== Blame the boomers! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/03/why-are-labor-markets-so-sluggish-look-older-workers/ Why would an older person want to go back to work in order to be infected by careless young unvaccinated maskless Trumpists? #PS1inflation ===== engage 1 engage-rate 6% impress 16 likes 1 time 2021-12-04 03:48 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1466977660177772547 ========== But Dr Oz is a dedicated Trumpist! Of course, but how does that distinguish him from the other 11 GOP candidates? He's figuring he can buy the election? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/03/what-dr-ozs-senate-campaign-is-missing/ #PS1trumpism ===== impress 20 time 2021-12-04 03:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1466976660750618624 ========== Putin sets up a credible threat to invade Ukraine. Who knows if it's real or a bluff? He certainly thinks Biden is too weak politically to respond meaningfully. For that Putin can thank his social media disinformation purveyors. https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-europe-russia-ukraine-vladimir-putin-9ef2a191af25e2920a0a1c75ccbe4c13 #PS1ukraine ===== impress 51 time 2021-12-04 03:31 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1466973469745180673 ========== The Supreme Court appears about to fulfill the expectations of Leonard Leo, Trump, and McConnell, with regard to abortion. Can firearms restrictions be next? https://calmatters.org/commentary/2021/12/california-gun-law-headed-to-supreme-court/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1552617625082751 #PS1firearms ===== impress 46 time 2021-12-04 03:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1466971146264322051 ========== Why are flash-mob robberies spreading like covid? Because nobody needs to obey laws they don't like - or even customs - just ask Trump. Americans value their freedoms and despise the associated responsibilities. https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/leonard-pitts-jr/article256234457.html #PS1justice ===== engage 1 engage-rate 4% impress 28 likes 1 time 2021-12-04 03:12 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1466968746933686281 ========== Hazards of the homemade gun business. Apparently it's easy to get everything you need to make an assault weapon. The NRA likes it that way! https://apnews.com/article/arrests-georgia-robbery-db26ae0b94e58c806ccd9be0c2d68522 #PS1firearms ===== impress 18 time 2021-12-04 03:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1466967571584802822 ========== Not idle threats - not idle punishment. https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/03/politics/guy-reffitt-targetting-pelosi-mcconnell-january-6/index.html #PS1insurrection ===== impress 14 time 2021-12-04 01:46 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1466946865862037506 ========== “medical condition that precludes his participation in tomorrow’s meeting.” phlebitis perhaps? https://potus-geeks.livejournal.com/640499.html Clark gets a postponement. https://dev-lite.cnn.com/en/article/h_1583e0cd0f48430b195994c7f6b436a4 https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/12/03/jeffrey-clarks-deposition-postponed-until-dec-16/ #PS1insurrection ===== impress 16 time 2021-12-04 01:43 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1466946128490819584 ========== Manchin refuses to commit to anything, to GOP delight. GOP will be able to say either that Biden has passed an expensive bill or that he failed to deliver on his campaign promises. And they'll have Democrats joining them either way. https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-joe-biden-business-health-congress-59c23f1893aafb21a24fc2d805c1dc87 #PS1biden ===== engage 1 engage-rate 4% impress 26 time 2021-12-04 01:08 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1466937306787377153 ========== Unclear on the concept! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/02/shutdown-looms-donna-edwards/ Unending drama and last-minute rescues are essentials of reality-TV. Voters keep electing reality-TV drama queens and kings. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1552552991755881 #PS1politics ===== impress 16 time 2021-12-04 00:48 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1466932349514379266 ========== Bradley "talked about the tax reform law he’d written and his plan to rid politics of corrosive corporate money" - two issues in which most voters have no knowledge and no interest. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/03/bill-bradley-reticent-politician-takes-stage-reminds-what-we-lose-by-choosing-celebrities/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1552542478423599 #PS1politics ===== impress 14 time 2021-12-04 00:26 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1466926821094555648 ========== Marjorie Taylor Greene, Paul Gosar, and the rest are sure THEY are the embodiment of the Trump base; the sooner the weak sisters are removed, the better. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/12/03/gops-vaccine-shutdown-gambit-what-it-says-about-whos-charge/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/12/01/marjorie-taylor-greene-says-shes-gop-base-not-fringe-well-see-2022/ https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/25/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-kevin-mccarthy/index.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1552537591757421 #PS1trumpism ===== engage 1 engage-rate 4% impress 28 time 2021-12-04 00:10 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1466922794843717635 ========== Eastman joins Clark in pleading the fifth. But Congress can grant immunity to force testimony. But pleading the fifth confirms that there are big fish to catch on this expedition. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/12/03/clark-eastman-fifth-amendment/ #PS1insurrection ===== impress 39 time 2021-12-03 23:19 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1466910080905875457 ========== How things went bad between Trump and intelligence. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/02/how-presidents-look-cia-officers-who-brief-them/ #PS1trump ===== impress 21 time 2021-12-03 23:14 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1466908754788585472 ========== Ingraham and Cruz drop the fig leaves - "if this court with six justices cannot do the right thing here, then Republicans should blow it up” https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/03/supreme-court-conservatives-lied/ So much for the rule of law! It was really all about protecting minority rule all along. #PS1justice ===== impress 29 time 2021-12-03 23:10 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1466907810512338946 ========== How will the NRA oppose safe storage of firearms? They'll find a way - by reminding their legislators who funds their campaigns. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/safe-storage-gun-laws-ethan-crumbley-parents/2021/12/03/3f938ea0-5394-11ec-8927-c396fa861a71_story.html #PS1firearms ===== impress 22 time 2021-12-03 23:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1466905336296574977 ========== NSO Pegasus used on US diplomats. By whom? https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/12/03/israel-nso-pegasus-hack-us-diplomats/ #PS1technology ===== impress 23 time 2021-12-03 22:54 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1466903651650134016 ========== "Republicans have chosen to be on the side of the virus" GOP figure the worse the virus over the next year, the better their chances in the 2022 election. Same as inflation - so they try to make both as bad as possible - by opposing Biden. https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-joe-biden-business-health-government-spending-d763bcf66f6640dc36ceb42b6e6c314b #PS1virus ===== impress 22 time 2021-12-03 22:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1466902603468402688 ========== Beating the raps? All in a day's work! But Trump can be re-elected in 2024 even if broke and in jail. https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-new-york-lawsuits-georgia-capitol-siege-db516ff2c9558fc67b2fe21f17c7708f Is it just a "fishing expedition" if the weight of the catch breaks the nets? More at https://facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1552501415094372 #PS1trump ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 32 likes 1 time 2021-12-03 22:37 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1466899308041490432 ========== Republican Senate primary could be nasty! So many PA "inhabitants", so little time. https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-joe-biden-senate-elections-mehmet-oz-congress-8ef5f11efa328d7774e6a1aff691cb98 Maybe they'll spend all their millions on the primary and the survivor won't have any left when he faces a competent and experienced actual PA resident Democrat. #PS1gop ===== impress 28 time 2021-12-03 22:20 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1466895067260485635 ========== That was the week than wasn't! https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-kyle-rittenhouse-ghislaine-maxwell-sports-entertainment-7ffe13c23d14043f69beb77f88309809 #PS1media ===== impress 23 time 2021-12-03 22:03 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1466890768157605888 ========== Most school districts have a long list of critical issues not being addressed. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/01/us/central-bucks-school-board-politics-pennsylvania.html Trumpists try to insure that they don't have time or energy or money to address any of them. #PS1other ===== impress 19 time 2021-12-03 04:54 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1466631937905213443 ========== One reason there are so many cute animal videos on social media - many are there to lure people to disinformation sites like Falun Gong's. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/01/technology/misinformation-cute-cats-online.html #PS1media ===== impress 23 time 2021-12-03 04:36 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1466627331003326468 ========== OPEC planning a small increase in production. That should impede further price increases at the gas pump. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/01/business/oil-opec-omicron-prices.html #PS1inflation ===== impress 29 time 2021-12-03 04:31 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1466626060968095751 ========== Who knew that we would look back to W as a moral leader? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/29/lauren-boebert-ilhan-omar-worst-humankind/ Who knew that his GOP successors would be such moral lepers? #PS1gop ===== impress 23 time 2021-12-03 04:21 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1466623562857414660 ========== Trying to define a get-rich-quick business model for Twitter. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/30/twitters-challenge-after-dorsey-misery-may-love-company-its-tough-monetize/ #PS1media ===== impress 19 time 2021-12-03 04:07 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1466619980280074241 ========== Hertz customers still seem to be recovering from Hertz bankruptcy. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/12/01/hertz-customer-kate-klonick-rental-car/ There are other rental car companies that didn't go bankrupt. #PS1other ===== impress 23 time 2021-12-03 03:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1466617968410783750 ========== Trump's plans to become president for life. No more lost elections! https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/12/01/how-trump-backed-secretary-state-candidates-would-change-elections-america/ #PS1trump ===== engage 1 engage-rate 4% impress 23 time 2021-12-03 03:54 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1466616832119373825 ========== Mike Lindell is a complete success at disputing elections - his pillow sales on Fox are probably way up. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/12/01/mike-lindell-is-bringing-an-imaginary-knife-gun-fight/ #PS1insurrection ===== engage 7 engage-rate 7% impress 102 replies 1 time 2021-12-03 03:49 +0000 urlclicks 6 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1466615626718273541 ========== Trump doesn't scare every Republican - just most of them. https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/young-trump-infrastructure/2021/12/02/c6863870-52dd-11ec-9267-17ae3bde2f26_story.html #PS1gop ===== impress 20 time 2021-12-03 03:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1466614180388085771 ========== Democratic senators take another look at restructuring Supreme Court. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/senators-overhaul-supreme-court/2021/12/02/efee5458-5374-11ec-8927-c396fa861a71_story.html The justices have talked the senators into looking. Going beyond looking is not possible without ending filibuster. #PS1justice ===== impress 24 time 2021-12-03 03:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1466612955395477505 ========== More on the barely-averted government shutdown - expect more of the same, from the same attention-seeking clowns. There's no downside for the party out of power. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/republicans-shutdown/2021/12/02/8bae48e8-53ad-11ec-9267-17ae3bde2f26_story.html The upside is that more Democrats are coming to terms with ending filibuster. #PS1politics ===== impress 32 time 2021-12-03 03:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1466611672349511680 ========== Wonder what he did? Wonder who's been paying for it, aside from Kochs? https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/12/01/tim-phillips-americans-for-prosperity/ #PS1other ===== impress 40 time 2021-12-03 03:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1466610104829022210 ========== 249 people interviewed so far. But now something new! "Clark’s lawyer now says he wants to invoke his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination" We knew that was coming sooner or later. https://apnews.com/article/steve-bannon-donald-trump-elections-capitol-siege-36b68bd9e0c701fea8e6b11f00292604 What crimes has he committed? #PS1insurrection ===== impress 27 time 2021-12-03 03:07 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1466605097123680258 ========== What's $175,000 compared to the exposure on Fox? https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-joe-biden-michigan-detroit-election-2020-4fd2ba9b84e9d9a6bcddd51872ba3f97 #PS1insurrection ===== impress 21 time 2021-12-03 03:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1466603458270695425 ========== Who voted to shut down the government tomorrow? 28 GOP senators 212 GOP representatives https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-business-health-congress-aa30e5922cb6650e9235b0a66813b2f4 They'll all try to get on Fox. These stupid showdowns serve no good public purpose, and are strictly for show and media exposure. #PS1gop ===== engage 3 engage-rate 7% impress 42 likes 1 time 2021-12-03 02:58 +0000 urlclicks 2 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1466602818555445252 ========== Water was the first really big political issue in California and probably will be the last. https://calmatters.org/commentary/2021/11/groundwater-management-drought-california-agriculture/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1551930908484756 #PS1capolitics ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 35 retweets 1 time 2021-12-03 02:48 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1466600137631809537 ========== Ideas for fixing supply chain inflation. https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2021/12/02/opinion-how-to-rescue-covid-christmas-from-the-supply-chain-grinch/ Some are easy to implement. #PS1inflation ===== impress 25 time 2021-12-03 02:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1466598194054270981 ========== Sacklers and oxycontin. American firearms manufacturers and Mexican cartels. There's really no difference. https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-11-26/mexico-lawsuit-gunmakers-liability-violence But the NRA will defend the manufacturers - who fund the NRA. #PS1firearms ===== impress 42 time 2021-12-03 02:36 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1466597258766422016 ========== Get vaccinated! https://www.cartoonistgroup.com/cartoon/Jack+Ohman%27s+Editorial+Cartoons/2021-12-01/192048 Lose-lose for responsible governance. #PS1virus ===== engage 2 engage-rate 10% impress 21 likes 1 time 2021-12-03 02:33 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1466596492982972417 ========== Another traditional conservative gives up - no future in Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP. https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-donald-trump-health-massachusetts-election-2020-76e8d40ead284b4907a85cc0a07c739e #PS1gop ===== impress 21 time 2021-12-03 02:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1466595715853918209 ========== Chinese disinformation on Facebook. https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-technology-health-business-california-07d1da2e760bdbf4cfca38fd1e58411e Numerous Chinese entities were involved - unlikely without government approval. #PS1china ===== impress 21 time 2021-12-03 02:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1466594900284100610 ========== "Wherever Republicans are in charge, they are fully committed to erecting one-party-rule systems" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/01/we-may-have-already-missed-our-last-best-chance-bolster-american-democracy/ That's just their Dixiecrat heritage. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1551771975167316 #PS1gop ===== impress 16 time 2021-12-02 20:38 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1466507165787561988 ========== Negligent parents should be criminally liable and civilly liable for damages. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/oxford-school-shooting-suspect-parents/2021/12/01/9bc30a2c-52e3-11ec-8ad5-b5c50c1fb4d9_story.html #PS1firearms ===== impress 12 time 2021-12-02 20:03 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1466498244372881408 ========== Trump's hotel lost money but he still did pretty well. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/12/02/trump-profit-hotel-sale/ #PS1trump ===== impress 15 time 2021-12-02 19:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1466497061570764802 ========== GOP in a nutshell - "they’d rather the bills at your kitchen table be higher so the tax bills of [corporate and wealthy donors] can be lower" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/02/those-supply-chains-are-straightening-out-so-is-bidens-rhetoric/ Gradual improvement in supply chains is not likely to be noticed, though. #PS1biden ===== impress 12 time 2021-12-02 19:43 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1466493183836098564 ========== What hell is like - millions of fans and no friends https://washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/12/02/twitch-loltyler1-tyler-steinkamp/ Nobody sends you to hell, you run in trying to get past everybody else trying to get in. Your descendants will imagine that all their inherited wealth was somehow productively earned. #PS1technology ===== engage 2 engage-rate 11% expands 1 impress 18 time 2021-12-02 19:39 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1466492256035082243 ========== What's so hard to understand about pro-guns and anti-abortion? Both are single-issue constituencies that will reliably vote GOP, disregarding all other issues, if they get their way on their single issue. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/01/supreme-courts-pro-gun-pro-life-problem/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1551709968506850 #PS1minority ===== impress 13 time 2021-12-02 17:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1466466985999544327 ========== Overturning Roe v Wade was Trump's public promise to his voters. Installing reactionary judges who would ALSO protect minority rule was his more important private promise to his donors. His judges know that. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/02/supreme-court-faces-an-existential-crisis-legitimacy/ #PS1justice ===== engage 2 engage-rate 8% impress 26 time 2021-12-02 17:43 +0000 urlclicks 2 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1466463132574965768 ========== Trump's lasting contribution to America - you don't have to obey laws you don't like, especially if you are rich enough to afford good lawyers. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/02/trump-tested-positive-covid-debate-melania-family/ #PS1trump ===== impress 12 time 2021-12-02 17:38 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1466461761658261505 ========== "We are now learning the hard way what 40 years of unbridled consolidation and lax merger enforcement mean" https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/11/29/ftc-supply-chain-inquiry/ Of course! Deregulation is a pillar of minority rule - a few big wealthy powerful players is better than a bunch of little ones! #PS1economics ===== impress 11 time 2021-12-02 17:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1466460938882543618 ========== GOP doesn't want legal immigration and doesn't want to support families. Who do they think is going to do the work? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/01/enhanced-child-tax-credit-is-smart-investment-senate-should-extend-it/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1551697371841443 #PS1economics ===== impress 14 time 2021-12-02 17:31 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1466459949744091141 ========== Every redistricting map works to somebody's advantage and somebody else's disadvantage. https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/12/02/creating-disharmony-or-suppressing-voters-battle-over-san-jose-redistricting-maps-escalates/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1551690115175502 #PS1democracy ===== engage 4 engage-rate 18% impress 22 time 2021-12-02 17:18 +0000 urlclicks 4 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1466456803500179456 ========== Still no slowdown in Silicon Valley. https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/12/02/even-less-affordable-bay-area-home-prices-keep-soaring/ Pandemic aggravated housing wealth gap. https://mercurynews.com/2021/11/30/bubble-watch-pandemic-made-housings-rich-only-richer/ Location, location, location. #PS1economics ===== impress 14 time 2021-12-02 17:10 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1466454674903502853 ========== GOP has offers criticism but no solutions - https://washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/11/14/inflation-economy-biden-prices/ Suggestions: 1) Deregulate! Allow 12-year-olds to drive 18-wheelers for $15/hour. They can use guns, why not trucks? ... 6) Billionaire tax relief! More at https://facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1551638471847333 #PS1economics ===== impress 9 time 2021-12-02 15:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1466433000380510223 ========== GOP senators would rather shut down the government in the face of omicron, Russia, China, Iran - than accept vaccination mandates. https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/12/02/government-funding-shutdown-vaccine/ But it plays well with the Trumpist base! #PS1politics ===== impress 46 time 2021-12-02 15:15 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1466425892108845056 ========== If you've got the bug, who cares about other people? Even if you don't have the bug, it's still All About ME. https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-donald-trump-joe-biden-health-campaigns-0f7315791a3ead1919842c894bedb68f #PS1trump ===== impress 9 time 2021-12-02 14:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1466412369525952514 ========== Foreign powers take advantage of a divided American government and population that can't even pay its bills or protect itself from disease. https://apnews.com/article/china-japan-seoul-south-korea-lloyd-austin-43cd78f6ba607300e11c7e5bc0962a3c https://apnews.com/article/europe-middle-east-iran-dubai-iran-nuclear-dd40e4a610c2f35aff25353bbcf3a91c https://apnews.com/article/business-europe-russia-ukraine-moscow-aae934e3b73e428da957e9b1b6ddc4f1 #PS1foreign ===== impress 14 time 2021-12-02 14:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1466407218375319554 ========== What are they planning to do with stolen military explosives? https://apnews.com/article/US-military-explosives-stolen-discovered-in-homes-9e72a922bfe34fa5d13e642bd12cdc35 #PS1insurrection ===== impress 12 time 2021-12-02 13:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1466402910158290954 ========== Who gets to decide how local governments implement state, national, or global priorities? https://calmatters.org/commentary/2021/11/california-housing-crisis-political-bonta-initiative/ State governments are not a federation of local governments! More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1551330225211491 #PS1capolitics ===== impress 15 time 2021-12-02 04:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1466263213398392837 ========== Vigilantes have a long tradition in the South - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Lynch_(judge) And the Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP is now the Trumpist Dixiecrat Vigilante GOP. https://www.arcamax.com/politics/opeds/s-2601953 The rule of law takes too long for cults of personality. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 16 time 2021-12-02 04:20 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1466260915343400961 ========== Most chips in American products are made in Taiwan - which might be conquered by PRC at any time. That's a national security issue. https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/12/01/opinion-facing-chip-shortage-u-s-must-train-semiconductor-workforce/ #PS1technology ===== impress 22 time 2021-12-02 04:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1466259835381424132 ========== Don't cheat if you're incompetent. https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/28/us/ppp-funds-miami-lamborghini-trnd/index.html #PS1justice ===== impress 10 time 2021-12-02 04:12 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1466258973196120069 ========== "Sierra Nevada" means "snowy mountain range". Maybe not much longer - and the entire arid West could endure major downsizing. https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/sierra-nevada-snowpack-could-largely-vanish-by-2040s-as-climate-warms-scie/ #PS1climate ===== impress 26 time 2021-12-02 04:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1466258580101730305 ========== A message from the loriginal Republican Party to the Dixiecrats owning it now - "We can not escape history. We of this Congress and this Administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves." https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/second-annual-message-9 More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1551320938545753 #PS1trumpism ===== impress 11 time 2021-12-02 04:06 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1466257484192960515 ========== You're not supposed to lie in court. Judges can make it unprofitable. https://ca.news.yahoo.com/column-socking-trumps-enablers-where-130002354.html Lying in court is just another face of insurrection against our constitutional government. #PS1insurrection ===== engage 2 engage-rate 7% impress 27 likes 1 time 2021-12-01 19:59 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1466134970280202242 ========== The price of doing something, or even trying, is generating opposition. And if you don't, you'll get opposed for doing nothing. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/18/opinion/biden-infrastructure-stimulus-bill.html The Reagan-Biden analogy - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/23/opinion/biden-reagan-approval.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1551105318567315 #PS1politics ===== impress 25 time 2021-12-01 19:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1466126332635484163 ========== Waves of crime lead to waves of tough anti-crime candidates. https://calmatters.org/commentary/2021/11/crime-rates-campaign-political-election-2022/ But the example was set and is set by Trump - you don't have to obey laws you don't like. Especially if you can afford good lawyers. But it's put an end to "defund the police". #PS1justice ===== impress 27 time 2021-12-01 19:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1466122822569259012 ========== Traditional Taliban policing. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/11/30/taliban-killings-security/ The best that can be said is that IS would be worse. #PS1afghanistan ===== impress 30 time 2021-12-01 07:26 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1465945279434158083 ========== Don't like polarization? Don't vote GOP - it's an essential part of the their strategy for protecting minority rule. "The decline in competitive districts leads to more polarization and less compromise" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/30/ahead-2022-gop-advantage-grows/ #PS1gop ===== impress 28 time 2021-12-01 07:20 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1465943922656432128 ========== Ukraine - who's bluffing? https://apnews.com/article/europe-russia-ukraine-vladimir-putin-moscow-cd558699728e9ae935eaadf940efeb18 #PS1ukraine ===== impress 42 time 2021-12-01 07:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1465941039429001218 ========== "Much of their fortunes are held in offshore trusts that could be hard to access in U.S. lawsuits." How much more do you need to know? https://apnews.com/article/business-health-lawsuits-epidemics-opioids-e6049c4d70381c84bfd0d11d5534a6d0 #PS1justice ===== impress 30 time 2021-12-01 07:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1465940173217153027 ========== Space junk - the final barrier to the final frontier. https://apnews.com/article/space-exploration-science-business-europe-russia-71c3b1cc374a5541a128cd149a90416f #PS1technology ===== impress 26 time 2021-12-01 07:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1465939079082614788 ========== A perfect Trumpist candidate for Pennsylvania - not even a resident, no political experience, as much a quack as a doctor, rich but a self-serving opportunist always on the make - and a dual citizen of Turkey! https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-entertainment-pennsylvania-celebrity-senate-elections-0cb009784b4c8a6f2bb1c81a1aa9ce70 #PS1trumpism ===== impress 37 time 2021-12-01 06:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1465937592990400515 ========== Chipping away at the secrets https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-russia-elections-europe-campaigns-bece73eec2f720d55a7e9e074aebc181 Should Don Jr have been prosecuted? #PS1trump ===== impress 26 time 2021-12-01 06:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1465935530554638339 ========== Israelis now regret encouraging Trump. https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-middle-east-iran-jerusalem-israel-02d0a0480a163f56af0852cf44cf137f It's a regret all Trump encouragers eventually feel. #PS1mideast ===== impress 29 time 2021-12-01 06:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1465933848781283335 ========== Afghanistan collapses as aid groups struggle to support the people without supporting the Taliban. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/afghanistan-humanitarian-disaster-aid/2021/11/27/5d2f859a-4ee4-11ec-a1b9-9f12bd39487a_story.html Taliban are rural terrorists, not urban economists or engineers. Picture the Jan 6 insurrectionists trying to manage Silicon Valley. #PS1afghanistan ===== impress 33 time 2021-11-30 14:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1465689261022142474 ========== "Sovereign citizens" need to shut up in court. https://apnews.com/article/florida-united-states-capitol-siege-michael-jackson-14dde4d4b90f9c64b022d0b4ec77ce9b Though it's good for the rest of us to know who promises to ignore any and all laws. #PS1insurrection ===== impress 30 time 2021-11-30 14:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1465686376112816128 ========== Want Trump on your Christmas cards? https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/11/29/re-live-melania-trumps-white-house-christmas-at-trump-charity-fundraiser/ At least some of the money goes to unnamed "charities". Other people's money, same as always. No audited financials, same as always. #PS1trump ===== impress 47 time 2021-11-30 05:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1465550401512488968 ========== Most of the developed world has realized that it needs immigrants to maintain standards of living because children are too expensive. https://www.liberty-and-justice.net/ https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/23/world/asia/immigration-pandemic-labor-shortages.html Not Trumpists though! No on immigration and no on subsidizing children! #PS1immigration ===== impress 33 time 2021-11-30 02:54 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1465514496328228866 ========== Does the PRC have a new plan for internet governance? Or is it just Lu Heng? https://apnews.com/article/technology-africa-china-uganda-pornography-89cf353a0bf0ed1ba135a6c694b382b7 #PS1technology ===== impress 81 time 2021-11-30 02:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1465513494778814464 ========== "unfavorable economic conditions next year a gold mine for" GOP https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/29/florida-iowa-kansas-tennessee-unemployment-benefits-fired-covid-vaccine-requirements/ Of course! That's why the Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP is doing their utmost to support the virus and destroy the economy! If they succeed or if they fail, they blame Biden. Win-Win! #PS1gop ===== impress 30 time 2021-11-30 02:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1465511172015153154 ========== "Having election deniers run elections is like having arsonists take over the fire department" Of course! That's the whole idea! Loyal Trumpists will never lose another election! https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-allies-election-oversight/2021/11/28/3933b3ce-4227-11ec-9ea7-3eb2406a2e24_story.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1550008325343681 #PS1trumpism ===== impress 28 time 2021-11-30 02:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1465508496183422979 ========== Not really sorry - it polled well with the base, with donors, with Fox. https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-business-religion-middle-east-lauren-boebert-72ccb363efd9ef64a5cd8da2f2eb7bd6 #PS1trumpism ===== impress 28 time 2021-11-30 01:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1465488544856637448 ========== Jeffrey Clark to follow Bannon. https://apnews.com/article/steve-bannon-donald-trump-joe-biden-capitol-siege-mark-meadows-cc6df1ed62e65dbee680206527653553 Looks like Meadows is next. #PS1insurrection ===== impress 35 time 2021-11-30 01:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1465488088394653698 ========== Inflation seems to be a global problem. https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-lifestyle-health-business-poland-f559465c6a822d12b2dd513f122d5a31 It can't all be Biden's fault! #PS1inflation ===== impress 36 time 2021-11-29 13:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1465317444612808708 ========== Need more disinformation? Learn Spanish! https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-joe-biden-entertainment-health-lifestyle-334d779a4ec41aa0eef9ea80636f9595 The social media companies seem to be unable or unwilling to do much. Other languages are probably worse. #PS1media ===== impress 38 time 2021-11-29 13:46 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1465316249487884296 ========== Why regional federalism is becoming more appealing https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-regional.html "voters want to hand over Congress to a party that largely treats the Jan. 6 insurrectionists as heroes" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/22/opinion/american-democracy.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1549446195399894 #PS1gop ===== impress 30 time 2021-11-29 05:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1465184193344720896 ========== Tired of Silicon Valley real estate prices? Austin is going the same way - making room by moving out poor people. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/27/us/austin-texas-unaffordable-city.html There's still plenty of Texas where houses are cheap - urban amenities scarce - and politicians ridiculous. #PS1economics ===== engage 3 engage-rate 6% impress 54 likes 1 time 2021-11-29 04:17 +0000 urlclicks 2 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1465173135569739781 ========== John Deere workers win better compensation and benefits, taking advantage of current economic conditions. https://www.arcamax.com/business/businessnews/s-2588950?fs #PS1economics ===== impress 28 time 2021-11-29 04:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1465171096328495104 ========== Manchin - and major political donors - don't like Federal family leave, but small business does. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-11-16/small-u-s-businesses-actually-want-federal-paid-family-leave #PS1biden ===== impress 28 time 2021-11-29 04:04 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1465169656809877512 ========== Will a four-day workweek become the new normal? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/23/business/dealbook/four-day-workweek.html Do organizations have the discipline to shorten or eliminate useless meetings? #PS1economics ===== impress 25 time 2021-11-29 03:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1465166121003192321 ========== They are still here. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/interactive/2021/native-american-heritage-month-were-still-here/ Proud to have survived against all the odds, and hoping for better futures. #PS1other ===== engage 1 engage-rate 4% impress 25 time 2021-11-29 03:39 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1465163482295259139 ========== Not everybody in Silicon Valley is hurting for a place to live! https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/11/28/record-second-home-purchases-fueled-by-bay-area-wealth/ #PS1economics ===== impress 29 time 2021-11-29 02:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1465144769751834627 ========== Don't gloat over the deaths of ordinary people. Save your scorn for the politicians and media personalities who know better but disseminate lies for personal gain. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/27/style/anti-vaccine-deaths-social-media.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1549382178739629 #PS1media ===== engage 1 engage-rate 4% impress 23 likes 1 time 2021-11-29 02:19 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1465143234582093827 ========== In the Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP, " there are lawmakers, strategist and donors who are very comfortable having no agenda whatsoever." https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/27/opinion/republicans-trump.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1549364762074704 #PS1trumpism ===== engage 2 engage-rate 7% impress 30 time 2021-11-29 01:35 +0000 urlclicks 2 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1465132314220908544 ========== Josephine Baker to the Pantheon. https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-france-paris-race-and-ethnicity-europe-b1933ec947e872553166ce9ef418bad6 Did you know she spied against the Nazis? #PS1other ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 30 likes 1 time 2021-11-29 01:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1465124020328697859 ========== Fauci tries to blast Cruz and Paul with facts. But they don't care - they are fact-proof and logic-proof. Cruz' only ambition in life is to replace Trump as Dixiecrat demagogue-in-chief. https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-donald-trump-joe-biden-science-health-80ad119f24f6e7d2e1342429403fde70 #PS1gop ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 30 likes 1 time 2021-11-29 00:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1465119777471418372 ========== Supply chain myths https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/five-myths/supply-chain-myths/2021/11/24/f439dbec-4ca1-11ec-b0b0-766bbbe79347_story.html Caused by covid colliding with offshored manufacturing and just-in-time logistics, all of these factors are going to take years to unwind. Bad news for Biden and Democrats, though GOP has no better ideas. #PS1economics ===== engage 2 engage-rate 5% expands 1 impress 40 likes 1 time 2021-11-28 08:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1464866684611661830 ========== Sounds like Christie will run against Trump in the 2024 primaries if he can line up enough donors. https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-new-jersey-campaigns-barack-obama-election-2020-da8c2189595f06eb8023166efa5dfb01 More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1548873785457135 #PS1gop ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 30 likes 1 time 2021-11-28 07:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1464862231334567939 ========== 1619 was indeed a pivotal year in Virginia - and could be considered the starting point of southern American culture and politics, though not of northern American culture and politics. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/11/19/1619-project-book-history/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1548387712172409 #PS1minority ===== impress 25 time 2021-11-27 14:36 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1464604161304006658 ========== A seasonal labor shortage. https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/santa-shortage-alternatives/2021/11/25/1f117c96-489f-11ec-95dc-5f2a96e00fa3_story.html Who wants to risk omicron for hours every day? #PS1economics ===== impress 36 time 2021-11-27 14:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1464599314567548933 ========== Biden makes little progress on immigration. https://apnews.com/article/immigration-coronavirus-pandemic-joe-biden-health-2ff11057644a05256a032680e5ef9a11 Nobody else did. GOP wants to keep it a hot issue for elections, rather than solve it. Solving it would deprive donors of cheap exploitable illegal immigrant labor. Like Trump used. #PS1immigration ===== impress 22 time 2021-11-27 14:14 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1464598553846710277 ========== The conductivity of your bedrock has something to do with EMP survivability. https://spectrum.ieee.org/one-atmospheric-nuclear-explosion-could-take-out-the-power-grid Your ability to survive without any electronic devices is also important. #PS1other ===== engage 1 engage-rate 4% expands 1 impress 23 time 2021-11-27 04:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1464450404746285059 ========== covid might have come from bats after all! https://www.yahoo.com/now/scientists-uncover-coronavirus-related-sars-180400381.html #PS1virus ===== engage 1 engage-rate 4% impress 27 time 2021-11-27 04:06 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1464445412920598530 ========== The end of real family farming. https://news.yahoo.com/once-were-gone-were-not-125900469.html It's just too hard for the return. Note that when GOP politicians speak of "family farms" they really mean incorporated agribusinesses - big enough to be major political donors. #PS1economics ===== impress 19 time 2021-11-27 04:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1464444014157959176 ========== Subminimum wage - a Florida GOP idea. https://news.yahoo.com/florida-lawmakers-consider-subminimum-wage-013500028.html “The goal here is to get people trained and then moved up to the minimum wage and beyond.” Good - otherwise it sounds like another plot to get $4.25/hour employees and then fire and replace them. #PS1economics ===== engage 1 engage-rate 4% impress 24 time 2021-11-27 03:53 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1464442303922114560 ========== Part of the supply chain crisis is Made in China. https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/china-s-seven-week-port-quarantine-snarls-supply-chains-further-1.1686888 #PS1inflation ===== impress 20 time 2021-11-27 03:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1464440177154084868 ========== The sixties aren't over! https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/25/travel/psychedelic-retreat-ayahuasca.html Not while there's big money to be made. #PS1health ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% expands 1 impress 31 time 2021-11-27 01:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1464405713355042817 ========== Trumpism in action - turning contacts from public service into profit later. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/26/us/politics/kushner-investment-middle-east.html Why would anybody get involved in government for nothing in return? "Draining the swamp" just meant getting rid pf Democrats in government who got in the way. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 22 time 2021-11-27 01:21 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1464404076238557189 ========== A Madisonian view of contemporary politics. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/26/opinion/democrats-aoc-build-back-better.html Madison had no concept of long-term NATIONAL faction in the internet age; it wasn't conceivable in his day - before even the telegraph. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1548013658876481 #PS1democracy ===== impress 25 time 2021-11-27 01:15 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1464402345014423558 ========== If natural beauty, low humidity, politics, and being in the center of technology weren't important to you, maybe you'd prefer Texas. It has its points. But the more outsiders move there, the more outside it will get. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/23/opinion/move-to-texas.html #PS1other ===== impress 24 time 2021-11-27 00:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1464397359601750016 ========== It's an old story - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/controversial.html#defined%20benefit Underfunded defined-benefit pensions - https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/11/26/borenstein-calpers-gambles-with-taxpayers-money-once-again/ Bad timing for that decision! The market was down 2-3% today. #PS1other ===== impress 19 time 2021-11-27 00:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1464389792691470341 ========== Trumpism in action - "The Senate has become a less efficient version of the House, where members vote along party lines rather than conscience" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/26/voting-rights-democratic-senators-need-face-reality/ It's all about the millions - not the millions of voters but the millions of dollars. #PS1democracy ===== impress 25 time 2021-11-27 00:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1464383790134878212 ========== "predatory political fringe threatens to metabolize the demoralized middle" Sound familiar? To see what happens , just go south. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/23/latin-america-braces-booster-shot-toxic-political-polarization/ How long until a dictator in every country again? These democracies had been making such good progress . #PS1foreign ===== impress 28 time 2021-11-26 23:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1464381387239157764 ========== Make your iphone more private. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/11/26/ios-privacy-settings/ #PS1technology ===== impress 21 time 2021-11-26 23:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1464379443057606658 ========== Is Putin up to something in Ukraine or not? https://apnews.com/article/europe-russia-ukraine-kyiv-1c220a99b851ba48be6eb8a69fe84158 #PS1ukraine ===== impress 49 time 2021-11-26 23:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1464378482671042564 ========== It's hard to think of another composer so inventive in musical theatre. The work particularly relevant to Political Scrapbook, of course, is - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassins_(musical) It's the end of an era! https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-music-arts-and-entertainment-theater-frank-sinatra-a4ef685dd49259648991ebfbcef8bbbd More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1547942158883631 #PS1other ===== impress 26 time 2021-11-26 23:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1464376569552523267 ========== That was the week that wasn't. https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-ghislaine-maxwell-business-health-social-media-7693d04d8439d626f0e8955bb10877f1 #PS1media ===== impress 29 time 2021-11-26 22:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1464368010387279872 ========== Yesterday, covid virus seemed so far away... https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/south-africa-detects-new-covid-19-variant-small-numbers-2021-11-25/ Now it looks as though it's here to stay https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-lifestyle-health-travel-europe-116ef818ac4a8e7bc23bb28d6511ecad https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-health-business-asia-stock-markets-7aa5c5acef16621e72d33212e77924f2 https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-new-variant-southern-africa-33fa0983af6c9f961a186f4f4bb1147d Omicron is not the end of the Greek alphabet! More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1547926138885233 #PS1virus ===== impress 44 time 2021-11-26 22:48 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1464365574369075207 ========== "A large segment of Americans is not particularly interested in the future" Trump sets the example - why worry about precedents set in the past or precedents set for the future? Après moi, le déluge! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/25/fertility-rates-keep-falling-there-are-no-easy-solutions-fix-it/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1547447262266454 #PS1other ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% expands 1 impress 33 time 2021-11-26 07:03 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1464127615610941443 ========== China undertakes active measures to exclude foreign competitors. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/china-business-foreign-companies/2021/11/25/f0ff625a-4056-11ec-9404-50a28a88b9cd_story.html #PS1china ===== impress 27 time 2021-11-26 06:46 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1464123346681876485 ========== Context is important to understanding the whole story. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/11/22/most-pernicious-anti-vaccine-talking-point/ If you don't want people to understand the whole story, omit the context. #PS1virus ===== impress 31 time 2021-11-26 06:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1464122470261145600 ========== The horror! "Bennett is lying and it is disgusting that he’d attempt to raise money off these falsehoods" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/republican-national-committee-dismisses-call-for-ronna-mcdaniel-to-resign-as-chairwoman-over-outreach-to-lgbtq-voters/2021/11/23/a4ef6f4e-4c96-11ec-b0b0-766bbbe79347_story.html A Republican attempting to raise money off falsehoods? Where would he ever get such an idea? More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1547437308934116 #PS1gop ===== impress 29 time 2021-11-26 06:36 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1464120983938207746 ========== China contests with US and Australia for control of western Pacific. https://apnews.com/article/china-new-zealand-environment-pacific-ocean-marshall-islands-ec40aeea0cd5da4a17d6f3012e5874ff https://apnews.com/article/china-new-zealand-environment-pacific-ocean-marshall-islands-ec40aeea0cd5da4a17d6f3012e5874ff #PS1china ===== impress 30 time 2021-11-26 06:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1464118064060850180 ========== New variants keep cropping up among the unvaccinated. Which one will win the jackpot? https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/south-africa-detects-new-covid-19-variant-small-numbers-2021-11-25/ #PS1virus ===== impress 32 time 2021-11-25 22:46 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1464002476588212227 ========== What bipartisan support for voting rights? Voting rights are a direct attack on minority rule! Bipartisanship is just a handy excuse for inaction, like saying filibuster promotes compromise, despite all historical evidence. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/sinema-filibuster-voting-rights/2021/11/19/6be2b338-4966-11ec-95dc-5f2a96e00fa3_story.html #PS1democracy ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 31 likes 1 time 2021-11-25 22:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1464001578205999120 ========== Another way for GOP to undermine Biden. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/23/with-hundreds-nominees-confirm-senate-doesnt-deserve-thanksgiving-break/ Rules designed for a Senate with 30 members aren't working now. #PS1democracy ===== engage 2 engage-rate 9% impress 22 likes 1 time 2021-11-25 22:21 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1463996307010297856 ========== The science of gerrymandering. Consultants get big bucks for this. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/11/23/gerrymandering-redistricting-competitive-house-districts/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1547120588965788 #PS1democracy ===== impress 25 time 2021-11-25 22:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1463993353997979650 ========== What's happening to the Taliban in eastern Afghanistan? Exactly what happened to the Americans in western Afghanistan - winning the battles and losing the war. And they have the same kinds of overly-optimistic spokesmen. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/11/22/taliban-isis-afghanistan/ #PS1afghanistan ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 36 time 2021-11-25 21:58 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1463990607806812161 ========== The FBI dropped the ball. An ill-timed software transition might have been butter on their fingers. But software transitions are always ill-timed. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/house-jan6-committee-law-enforcement/2021/11/23/6e14af3a-4ba0-11ec-a1b9-9f12bd39487a_story.html #PS1insurrection ===== engage 1 engage-rate 4% impress 28 likes 1 time 2021-11-25 21:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1463988742033588250 ========== It's the Trumpist Dixiecrat Party now. They'll purge the last traditional conservatives from the GOP in no time. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/11/16/wyoming-republicans-disavow-liz-cheney/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1547212055623308 #PS1gop ===== impress 21 time 2021-11-25 21:24 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1463981972481474560 ========== Persuadable voters are persuaded more by simple theories than complicated facts. So most politicians pander to them. That much is bipartisan. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/25/inflation-cause-democrats-amplify-nonsense-corporate-greed/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1547209872290193 #PS1inflation ===== impress 20 time 2021-11-25 21:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1463980547877707776 ========== When Norman Rockwell grew up. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/24/why-norman-rockwell-left-thanksgiving-americana-behind/ #PS1other ===== engage 1 engage-rate 4% expands 1 impress 23 time 2021-11-25 20:37 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1463970071957565440 ========== Now hoarding and warehouses full of inventory seems smarter than just-in-time logistics. https://bnnbloomberg.ca/people-are-hoarding-food-shortages-are-the-next-supply-chain-crunch-1.1668387 More at https://facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1530403440637503 #PS1economics ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% expands 1 impress 29 time 2021-11-25 18:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1463934557925740547 ========== Better to do redistricting completely differently - automatically drawn districts, with ranked-choice voting and multimember districts. https://apnews.com/article/race-and-ethnicity-michigan-detroit-legislature-voting-rights-17e13485181cead5b1c1da5759fcd35b More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1547120588965788 #PS1democracy ===== engage 2 engage-rate 6% expands 1 impress 34 likes 1 time 2021-11-25 17:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1463929280925093889 ========== Trumpism at its finest - performing for Fox instead of the nation. The Congressional Gold Medal - Churchill, the Dalai Lama, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Mother Teresa... and Kyle Rittenhouse? https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/greene-rittenhouse-congressional-gold-medal/2021/11/24/c09980d2-4d49-11ec-a1b9-9f12bd39487a_story.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1547114978966349 #PS1trumpism ===== impress 44 time 2021-11-25 17:43 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1463926371546107904 ========== The democratization of advanced weaponry eliminates any remaining distinction between organized crime and terrorism. https://www.liberty-and-justice.net/ https://apnews.com/article/africa-somalia-mogadishu-al-qaida-al-shabab-91ae010f4484ed24dd67e301b716f944 https://apnews.com/article/business-mexico-army-gangs-f63d6aac1d8057c8024ae7688c465696 Parts of Mexico are as failed state as Somalia. #PS1technology ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 31 likes 1 time 2021-11-25 17:10 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1463918112588242949 ========== Is Russia behind Havana Syndrome? Technically they seem most likely suspects, but there's no proof. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/cia-havana-syndrome-russians-warning/2021/11/24/6d5a6e26-4d40-11ec-94ad-bd85017d58dc_story.html #PS1russian ===== impress 25 time 2021-11-25 15:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1463892558417838085 ========== The way to beat inflation is to have a severe recession. It worked for Reagan 40 years ago! https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-joe-biden-health-business-richard-nixon-ae06d5cccf066239f9aa7f06491c7698 But usually a recession is blamed on the president, worse than inflation. #PS1economics ===== impress 26 time 2021-11-25 05:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1463749258100625413 ========== BBB needs 50 Democratic votes to pass the Senate. It only needs one Democratic vote to kill it and the Biden agenda for good. https://apnews.com/article/climate-immigration-joe-biden-business-health-3fc94b563232ae0e64ca9ff6dcb3c4cf #PS1biden ===== engage 2 engage-rate 5% impress 44 time 2021-11-25 05:52 +0000 urlclicks 2 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1463747517938495491 ========== Rittenhouse needs professional career management to make the most of fleeting fame. As a public figure now, endorsed by Donald Trump, Tucker Carlson, and Marjorie Taylor Greene, he has no more privacy. https://apnews.com/article/kyle-rittenhouse-donald-trump-entertainment-tucker-carlson-mar-a-lago-a852da724d4e06438da0cef6d02fc8f3 More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1546776122333568 #PS1firearms ===== impress 45 time 2021-11-25 05:38 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1463743771548422147 ========== Doing something about unruly passengers? They're just asserting their freedoms to make other people sick and uncomfortable! https://apnews.com/article/business-merrick-garland-c3b947f81b4281266f9f97eb279db3ba #PS1justice ===== impress 21 time 2021-11-25 05:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1463741104759607301 ========== Sounds like much of the alt-right doesn't understand about Rapid City and the British Virgin Islands. That's the difference between the foot soldiers and the nobility they protect. https://apnews.com/article/race-and-ethnicity-racial-injustice-charlottesville-4a50a14dff0f862b3b09da09054a690d #PS1insurrection ===== impress 22 time 2021-11-25 05:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1463737056027308036 ========== Steve Scalise in 2017 and 2021 - what a difference four years make. https://msn.com/en-us/news/politics/martin-schram-a-must-see-video-for-house-gop-leaders/ar-AAQTqpM More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1546719442339236 #PS1gop ===== impress 21 time 2021-11-25 04:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1463719260501381122 ========== More trouble ahead. The west coast longshoremen contract expires in 2022. The east coast contract expires in 2024. Right now, labor is in command. https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-11-18/biden-had-better-get-the-ports-back-to-work Inflation by increased labor costs or inflation by decreased supply due to strikes? #PS1economics ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 30 likes 1 time 2021-11-25 03:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1463713906606559239 ========== Eternal vigilance is the price of minority rule! https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/editorial-cartoons/jack-ohman/article256046982.html #PS1minority ===== impress 19 time 2021-11-25 03:31 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1463711876689195011 ========== Will civil litigation slow down hacker enablers? https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-software-apple-inc-spyware-578116c8bccca0b79d1d476e0b157b12 #PS1technology ===== impress 23 time 2021-11-25 03:24 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1463710029601669123 ========== Photo op for Biden. https://apnews.com/article/biden-oil-strategic-reserve-gas-prices-a7e0802b299cd627c7ffdeeb0e50bd2c Saudi Arabia and Russia are willing to cut production to maintain prices. GOP's predictable response was to deregulate oil production, though with no immediate impact on gas prices but long term impact on climate. #PS1biden ===== impress 118 time 2021-11-25 03:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1463709654547009537 ========== There wouldn't be legal pot in California without a local option. Some people want to repeal the local option. https://www.sacbee.com/news/california/california-weed/article255936207.html Sure it's confusing - like local option liquor laws in Texas - but it's part of the whole deal. #PS1capolitics ===== impress 22 time 2021-11-25 03:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1463708425016143877 ========== How should California repay Federal funds borrowed to finance pandemic unemployment compensation? https://calmatters.org/commentary/2021/11/california-budget-surplus-spending-newsom/ #PS1capolitics ===== impress 30 time 2021-11-24 15:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1463524888346435584 ========== Forty years ago it was "don't Californicate Oregon!" and "don't Oregonize Idaho!" Now it's "don't be California East". https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2021/11/23/mathews-nation-keeps-californians-in-its-thoughts-this-thanksgiving/ How about flags that say "Don't Trump on Me!" #PS1capolitics ===== impress 30 time 2021-11-24 15:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1463523307991433217 ========== Will Oath Keepers and Proud Boys comply with subpoenas? https://apnews.com/article/steve-bannon-donald-trump-capitol-siege-election-2020-subpoenas-26b7a6d0fb7356bbf8089b5ce0c64df5 #PS1insurrection ===== impress 21 time 2021-11-24 07:37 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1463411419752271873 ========== NoMeToo in China! https://apnews.com/article/sports-china-media-crime-social-media-75efe52e2caae9d5bee9c73e7e16b073 China's Communist Party must feel very insecure. #PS1china ===== impress 20 time 2021-11-24 07:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1463410673916907523 ========== White supremacists get to pay for the publicity from their day in court. https://apnews.com/article/violence-lawsuits-race-and-ethnicity-charlottesville-01d9437ec28ed71b4bae293d7e0d815d #PS1justice ===== impress 21 time 2021-11-24 07:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1463409563449790467 ========== Increasing political production. 50 million barrels is about five days of American production, less than one day of global production. It won't make much difference. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_oil_production But politicians need to APPEAR to do something. https://apnews.com/article/biden-oil-strategic-reserve-gas-prices-a7e0802b299cd627c7ffdeeb0e50bd2c #PS1inflation ===== impress 18 time 2021-11-23 13:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1463130432191352836 ========== Maybe space junk accounts for the Fermi paradox! https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/space-junk-satellite-tests/2021/11/19/d074acdc-487d-11ec-95dc-5f2a96e00fa3_story.html The weaponization of low earth orbit could also account for the seeming lack of advanced technology in the universe. #PS1technology ===== impress 28 time 2021-11-23 05:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1463024271958044673 ========== GOP has no clue about the kind of inflation we have now, nor qualms about tax cuts for the rich. That won't stop them from campaigning against Democrats for inflation and "tax cuts for the rich". https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/21/dismissing-inflation-while-cutting-taxes-wealthy-is-not-winning-strategy-democrats/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1545465589131288 #PS1gop ===== impress 26 time 2021-11-23 05:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1463021430212202502 ========== Why we need immigration - too many people don't want or can't afford to have children - like most prosperous democracies. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/11/21/americans-childless-pew-us-population/ GOP likes to complain about immigration but opposes Biden's efforts to make children less financially burdensome. #PS1immigration ===== impress 19 time 2021-11-23 05:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1463012186599485440 ========== Another poster boy for the modern Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/22/our-foghorn-leghorn-republican-senator-little-resembles-his-former-democratic-self-louisiana-we-know-type/ Being an enthusiastic Trumpist is worse than getting a tattoo - it's a moral stain that can never be removed. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 21 time 2021-11-23 05:04 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1463010642663600128 ========== "By endorsing violence, parties are effectively saying that democracy doesn’t work" https://newamerica.org/political-reform/statements/statement-in-support-of-the-freedom-to-vote-act/ https://washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/22/fox-news-contributors-quit-over-tucker-carlson-larger-truth/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/22/republicans-are-fomenting-violent-extremism-are-also-hostage-extremists/ #PS1insurrection ===== impress 17 time 2021-11-23 04:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1463008204904796165 ========== Biden administration continues a Trump mistake, reducing skilled labor. Immigrants are anti-inflationary. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/22/legal-immigrant-workers-paperwork-renewal-backlog/ #PS1immigration ===== impress 20 time 2021-11-23 04:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1463004952528240640 ========== Frivolous lawsuits cost real money. Ethical attorneys don't file them. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/they-need-to-take-responsibility-federal-judge-orders-hefty-fees-assessed-against-two-lawyers-who-filed-suit-challenging-2020-election/2021/11/22/b7ff5392-4be7-11ec-b0b0-766bbbe79347_story.html They shouldn't expect any help from Trump since they weren't successful. #PS1insurrection ===== engage 1 engage-rate 4% impress 23 time 2021-11-23 04:37 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1463003755603922951 ========== Methane fee? A good way to find out who depends on oil and gas campaign donations. https://apnews.com/article/climate-business-oil-and-gas-industry-joe-manchin-congress-96e33656808adf3cdc42acc942dc0f9c #PS1biden ===== impress 27 time 2021-11-23 04:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1463001869966401549 ========== A real Trumpist would have just hit back twice as hard! https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-elections-pennsylvania-senate-elections-sean-parnell-ada4ac14011ea3dab30ac563589c0a7c A real Trump endorsement evidently doesn't make a real Trumpist. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 32 time 2021-11-23 04:26 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1463000931973230597 ========== Alex Jones and Roger Stone - they likely know more than they'll admit. https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-roger-stone-capitol-siege-subpoenas-alex-jones-eed9f4013bef0100117c4ec004d6828e #PS1insurrection ===== impress 35 time 2021-11-23 04:21 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1462999634465361924 ========== Traditional conservatives have no place in the Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP - and that means no place at Fox, either. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/21/business/jonah-goldberg-steve-hayes-quit-fox-tucker-carlson.html If you can't worship at cult of personality, you're on your own! #PS1trumpism ===== impress 22 time 2021-11-23 03:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1462982059538874376 ========== What kind of inflation do you prefer? From product shortages due to lack of transport - or From rising transport costs? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/09/us/politics/trucker-shortage-supply-chain.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1545407039137143 #PS1inflation ===== impress 22 time 2021-11-23 03:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1462979855578927106 ========== What's a Trump property worth? Depends on who's asking! We expect him to lie and cheat - that's his divine imperial privilege - but his appraisers, accountants, and attorneys need to defend their professionalism in court, if they can. https://washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-organization-investigation-property-values-vance-james/2021/11/19/78c15850-4706-11ec-95dc-5f2a96e00fa3_story.html #PS1trump ===== impress 26 time 2021-11-22 15:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1462805814767357961 ========== Traditional conservatives still in GOP need to accept reality - the modern Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP is a cult of personality. The violent lunatic fringe has Trump's "Complete and Total Endorsement". https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/greene-boebert-gosar-gaetz/2021/11/20/c77dc78a-47dd-11ec-973c-be864f938c72_story.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1544805275863986 #PS1gop ===== impress 35 time 2021-11-22 06:15 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1462665966693740546 ========== Who really represents American business? https://apnews.com/article/prescription-drugs-cost-biden-bill-medicare-38de189cafbe588dbfcacdce4a46aee9 Seems to depend on how much money you get from big pharma. #PS1biden ===== impress 25 time 2021-11-22 05:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1462657504232423425 ========== "Biden’s approval ratings are better than Donald Trump’s at the same time of his presidency" https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-approval-democrats-484bd04fb1c8d921977db224c392c7f5 A lot can happen, good and bad. Democrats should be worrying about 2022, much closer at hand. #PS1biden ===== engage 3 engage-rate 6% impress 47 time 2021-11-21 23:20 +0000 urlclicks 1 userclicks 2 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1462561644492427266 ========== DeSantis believes in science - political science! How to get Trump's voters and donors to support his presidential ambitions. https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-vaccines-natural-immunity-285ae319be9c3ea42dd7bb8400ea4888 But even if you've gotten covid, you can still be re-infected and infect others. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1544628589214988 #PS1virus ===== impress 32 time 2021-11-21 23:10 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1462558965020061696 ========== Who are the new Texans? https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/newest-texans-who-are-they/ And Arkansas is already recruiting Austin folks tired of rising real estate prices, and Illinois is recruiting those alarmed by the politics of Greg Abbott and his pals. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1544625345881979 #PS1other ===== impress 34 time 2021-11-21 22:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1462556271668723714 ========== Fentanyl - the best argument yet for staying off illegal drugs. You don't know what's in them. Neither does the seller. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/20/nyregion/fentanyl-opioid-deaths.html #PS1health ===== impress 20 time 2021-11-21 21:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1462533275205844992 ========== An essential pillar of minority rule - diverting the masses with unimportant issues so they don't pay attention to what's important. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html Calling names while the school burns down - https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/leonard-pitts-jr/article255937242.html with too much media enabling. #PS1minority ===== engage 2 engage-rate 8% expands 1 impress 26 time 2021-11-21 21:21 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1462531535362424835 ========== Is it possible to get public employee pension funding on a sound financial basis? https://www.political-scrapbook.net/controversial.html#defined%20benefit https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2021/11/20/borenstein-biden-like-obama-aims-to-weaken-california-pension-reform/ #PS1economics ===== impress 22 time 2021-11-21 21:14 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1462529894512947200 ========== Forget oil and Arabs. The future is cobalt and Congo and China. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/20/world/china-congo-cobalt.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/21/world/us-china-energy.html Everybody's getting into the act https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/20/world/hunter-biden-china-cobalt.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/20/world/china-congo-cobalt-explained.html #PS1other ===== impress 22 time 2021-11-21 21:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1462527512622157826 ========== DeSantis and Abbott are running for president, not trying to solve supply chain problems. That's the last thing on their minds! How could they blame Biden if they solved his problems for him? https://www.ocregister.com/2021/11/16/letter-to-govs-abbott-and-desantis-your-barbs-wont-cure-shipping-backlogs/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1544575362553644 #PS1inflation ===== impress 25 time 2021-11-21 20:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1462523792568119297 ========== Veterans and active-duty military are highly susceptible to scams. https://www.aarp.org/home-family/voices/veterans/info-2021/scams-report.html #PS1other ===== impress 22 time 2021-11-21 20:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1462517988309880834 ========== White supremacist guards beating black inmates? Why would that be a problem in DeSantis' Florida? Best. State. Ever. https://apnews.com/article/prisons-florida-race-and-ethnicity-racial-injustice-60b96681445509d89e6c0497405497d6 #PS1justice ===== impress 27 time 2021-11-21 19:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1462503401812418560 ========== Putin's real motives and tactical goals are unknown, except he wants to restore the Russian/Soviet empire - with Putin in charge. https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-business-europe-russia-ukraine-3a9ce8d3fc7662ee9c37e28e0e3a82c6 #PS1ukraine ===== impress 43 time 2021-11-20 13:38 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1462052855884386305 ========== Saudi, and for a while Russian, oil production cuts led to rising gasoline prices all over the world. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/05/business/energy-environment/opec-plus-oil-prices.htmlHow Covid didn't help. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-11-18/skelton-rising-gas-prices-covid-19-pandemic #PS1inflation ===== impress 45 time 2021-11-20 06:24 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1461943413184417792 ========== The browser was going to be the universal operating system. Then smartphones happened. https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/11/18/larry-magid-smartphones-are-often-cluttered-with-too-many-apps/ Instead of going to a website, you download an app. #PS1technology ===== impress 25 time 2021-11-20 06:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1461941625899257862 ========== Putin's plans to restore the Soviet Union as a world power. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/19/world/europe/russia-putin-belarus-ukraine.html #PS1foreign ===== engage 1 engage-rate 4% impress 28 time 2021-11-20 05:55 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1461936312466882562 ========== Nothing in history is guaranteed. Small changes can have enormous unforeseen consequences. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/19/books/review/hitlers-american-gamble-brendan-simms-charlie-laderman.html #PS1other ===== impress 25 time 2021-11-20 05:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1461933717102813190 ========== Putin is up to something, again, in Ukraine. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/19/us/politics/russia-ukraine-biden-administration.html A cold winter and Europe dependent on Russian gas - Putin thinks will paralyze NATO response. #PS1ukraine ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% impress 44 time 2021-11-20 05:40 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1461932403937533956 ========== Of course the Dixiecrat GOP endorses terrorism. It's an old Southern tradition! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Lynch_(judge) Why wait for the slow wheels of the legal system? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/19/opinion/kyle-rittenhouse-not-guilty-vigilantes.html #PS1justice ===== impress 25 time 2021-11-20 05:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1461931257583976453 ========== That was the speech that wasn't - true. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/19/us/politics/kevin-mccarthy-speech-fact-check.html The only truth Trumpists care about is the truth about how they FEEL. Who cares about objective reality? #PS1trumpism ===== impress 28 time 2021-11-20 05:31 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1461930258479804419 ========== "these moments are rare when you can seize on something and make real change" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/19/us/politics/democrats-economic-bill.html #PS1biden ===== impress 24 time 2021-11-20 05:26 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1461928968018300935 ========== Any leader that gets significant change enacted can expect to be punished in the next election by the people that didn't like the change. But history remembers the leaders that effected positive change. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/18/opinion/biden-infrastructure-stimulus-bill.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1543244716020042 #PS1politics ===== impress 26 time 2021-11-20 00:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1461854200871014407 ========== The real villains here are the enablers who know better but say nothing. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/19/opinion/trump-gop-misogyny.html You expect Trumpish behavior from his admirers, but the whole GOP? Yes - anybody who isn't willing to pretend to be a Trump admirer will soon be expelled. #PS1gop ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 29 likes 1 time 2021-11-20 00:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1461851257899929600 ========== Guns provoke crimes! https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/17/opinion/kyle-rittenhouse-guns.html #PS1firearms ===== impress 26 time 2021-11-20 00:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1461850070580482051 ========== The goal of preserving minority rule gets a new jolt of energy from young people. Not even close to a majority, but violent enough to cause trouble. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/11/scary-future-american-right-national-conservatism-conference/620746/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1543229876021526 #PS1minority ===== impress 20 time 2021-11-19 23:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1461844529850425344 ========== Traditional conservative George Will identifies Josh Hawley as a progressive, sort of a Theodore Roosevelt. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/19/progressives-have-republican-soulmate-senate-his-name-is-josh-hawley/ It's meant as an insult, but Hawley's main ideology is self-serving opportunism. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1543218982689282 #PS1trumpism ===== engage 2 engage-rate 5% expands 1 impress 39 time 2021-11-19 23:25 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1461838089215627266 ========== GOP will say anything whether true or not. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/19/build-back-better-passes-dumb-gop-attack/ Having a SALT tax cap was a bad idea. Raising it was a bad idea. But for GOP to claim to be for middle-income taxpayers is a very bad joke. https://www.one-flat-tax.net/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1543213316023182 #PS1biden ===== impress 26 time 2021-11-19 23:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1461835704552472577 ========== "The real turning point was the election of Barack Obama in 2008" Nixon's Southern Strategy in action - if you can't win elections, you have to quit having elections that you could lose. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/19/roots-of-republican-war-on-democracy/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1543208069357040 #PS1minority ===== impress 16 time 2021-11-19 23:04 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1461832894595276805 ========== An organized effort to hack election networks. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/attempted-breach-ohio-election/2021/11/19/12417a4c-488c-11ec-b8d9-232f4afe4d9b_story.html The FBI is on it. #PS1insurrection ===== impress 17 time 2021-11-19 22:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1461828427518906372 ========== Russian interference is as big a winner for United Russia Party as for GOP. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/19/world/europe/maria-butina-russia-duma.html #PS1russian ===== impress 24 time 2021-11-19 22:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1461826844114636801 ========== Wisconsin GOP willing to take any steps necessary to insure they never lose another election. They might as well just announce the results and not bother with an election. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/19/us/politics/wisconsin-republicans-decertify-election.html #PS1democracy ===== impress 17 time 2021-11-19 22:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1461825418818818048 ========== That was the week that wasn't. https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-sports-business-health-ap-fact-check-baa0c6b226654d0ce2e78e80f85f12cb #PS1media ===== impress 20 time 2021-11-19 22:12 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1461819579659788289 ========== It was a straight party line vote, except for Democrat Jared Golden of Maine, who didn't like raising the SALT cap. McCarthy's rant might have fortified some wobbly Democrats to vote for the bill. https://apnews.com/article/climate-immigration-joe-biden-health-lifestyle-bff841da156cb12cd47a564f9e0267eb More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1542979322713248 #PS1biden ===== impress 27 time 2021-11-19 15:04 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1461712075340668941 ========== “If you took the worst orator in the world Gave him the worst speech in the world And made him read it for the longest time in the world" https://apnews.com/article/immigration-donald-trump-joe-biden-kevin-mccarthy-congress-4e62762dee96af071d139ac9d4624b01 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/house-mccarthy-reconciliation/2021/11/19/3a07263c-48e9-11ec-b05d-3cb9d96eb495_story.html More at https://facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1542917046052809 #PS1trumpism ===== impress 17 time 2021-11-19 14:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1461705796211773441 ========== Why is covid worse in US and Europe than in Africa or Afghanistan? https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-science-health-pandemics-united-nations-fcf28a83c9352a67e50aa2172eb01a2f #PS1virus ===== engage 1 engage-rate 6% impress 17 time 2021-11-19 14:30 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1461703495086600193 ========== "Republicans said the latest legislation would give tax breaks to some wealthy taxpayers" https://apnews.com/article/climate-immigration-joe-biden-health-lifestyle-bff841da156cb12cd47a564f9e0267eb Translation is required here - "some wealthy taxpayers" means "major Democratic donors". More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1542917046052809 #PS1biden ===== impress 17 time 2021-11-19 13:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1461687735744286723 ========== McCarthy punished Democrats by ranting for hours tonight. https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/11/18/house-reconciliation-budget-biden/ IRS "would add thousands of officials to audit Americans". Translation - coming from a GOP leader, "Americans" means "major GOP donors" - some of whom probably aren't even Americans. #PS1biden ===== impress 15 time 2021-11-19 05:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1461566394638614530 ========== Lots of truck drivers quit over lousy pay and working conditions. The ones that are left are trying to organize. It's not easy. Nobody is on their side. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/18/opinion/supply-chain-trucks-south-carolina-ports.html But almost every imported item you buy was in a container on a truck. #PS1recovery ===== engage 2 engage-rate 6% impress 32 likes 1 time 2021-11-19 04:22 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1461550424545054722 ========== A reactionary judiciary reacts - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/18/opinion/abortion-covid19-supreme-court.html Leo's and McConnell's dreams realized. #PS1justice ===== impress 13 time 2021-11-19 04:04 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1461545781035368453 ========== What's in BBB and how much it costs and when it expires https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/11/18/upshot/whats-in-democrats-reconciliation-bill.html The House was going to vote Thursday night but it's only got a couple hours until Friday morning. The almost-total lunar eclipse is in five hours - something to watch when they get bored. #PS1biden ===== engage 2 engage-rate 1% impress 151 time 2021-11-19 03:56 +0000 urlclicks 2 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1461543758449700865 ========== Ohio shows how it's done. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/ohio-redistricting-gerrymander/2021/11/18/b0dc3bfe-37ef-11ec-91dc-551d44733e2d_story.html Democrats are fools to unilaterally disarm in states that have adopted fair redistricting for Federal elections. #PS1democracy ===== impress 13 time 2021-11-19 03:48 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1461541913199190016 ========== How will independent commission redistricting work out in California? There could be as many as 10 competitive Congressional districts in 2022. That's a lot more than Texas or Ohio. https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/11/18/barabak-deep-blue-california-has-become-a-congressional-battleground/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1542643042746876 #PS1democracy ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% impress 52 time 2021-11-19 02:58 +0000 userclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1461529266856681476 ========== California might issue tax rebate checks. https://calmatters.org/newsletters/whatmatters/2021/11/california-stimulus-checks/ Or might not. It's a complicated law. And as always, harder times ahead will arrive sooner or later. #PS1capolitics ===== impress 26 time 2021-11-19 02:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1461527541672341507 ========== What can you learn from DNS logs? What can you learn about FBI investigation methods by looking at DNS logs they searched? https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/alfa-bank-trump-russia-sussman/2021/11/18/b10e498c-4726-11ec-b8d9-232f4afe4d9b_story.html There are Russians who'd like to know. #PS1russian ===== impress 11 time 2021-11-19 01:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1461509759547285511 ========== "led to confusion and inefficiency" https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/11/17/blm-gao-report-headquarters/ That was the whole point! Get rid of the pros and replace them with Trumpist loyal amateurs who would do the bidding of the GOP donors. Competence never substitutes for loyalty in Trumpism. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 16 time 2021-11-19 01:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1461508294774702081 ========== Liz Cheney MIGHT be re-elected as an independent, but most likely she would just cement a Trumpist victory. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-election.html Likewise for other remaining traditional GOP conservatives . https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/17/liz-cheney-should-consider-alternatives-gop/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1542604922750688 #PS1democracy ===== impress 11 time 2021-11-19 01:31 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1461507324158246912 ========== CBO estimate is close enough to even, considering its inherent uncertainties. Will that be enough to pass BBB in the House tonight? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/18/why-dems-shouldnt-listen-to-the-cbo/ #PS1biden ===== engage 1 engage-rate 4% impress 28 time 2021-11-19 00:58 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1461499103846621186 ========== Congress investigates DeSantis' role in suppressing academic freedom - to unwholesome a precedent to go unchallenged. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/18/desantis-university-florida-congressional-democrats/ It would be surprising if the university and DeSantis comply. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 17 time 2021-11-19 00:38 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1461493938481631234 ========== The Steele dossier was a dead end. But it didn't affect anybody's conclusions - https://www.lawfareblog.com/collusion-reading-diary-what-did-senate-intelligence-committee-find https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/18/even-if-steele-dossier-is-discredited-theres-plenty-evidence-trumps-collusion-with-russia/ Russian interference, and Trumpist collaboration, were real and intentional and might well continue in a second Trump administration. #PS1russian ===== engage 1 engage-rate 7% impress 15 time 2021-11-19 00:33 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1461492780841066497 ========== They speak in code now - but not much longer. What current Trumpist legislator has emphatically disavowed support from Nazis and white supremacists? They need their votes! And their donors don't mind. https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2021/11/18/charlottesville-jury-slang-white-supremacists/ #PS1trumpism ===== impress 12 time 2021-11-19 00:24 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1461490432949374977 ========== Redistricting could be rational - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#redistricting Soon a majority of states won't need to have elections. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/18/republicans-making-elections-irrelevant/ States with fair redistricting laws should suspend them for Federal elections until all states have such laws. #PS1democracy ===== impress 17 time 2021-11-19 00:21 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1461489751798681600 ========== Preston Brooks lives! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preston_Brooks as Trump and McCarthy endorse political violence. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/gosar-house-censure-republicans/2021/11/18/cb6c1396-4888-11ec-b8d9-232f4afe4d9b_story.html Nobody is surprised. #PS1insurrection ===== impress 14 time 2021-11-19 00:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1461487852324147204 ========== Iranian hackers have been busy - trying to corrupt the election https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-technology-elections-campaigns-presidential-elections-45741b886657016d25ab844664da40ba trying to slip into numerous organizations' internal networks with aggressive social engineering https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252509689/Alert-over-spate-of-Iran-linked-BitLocker-attacks #PS1ransomware ===== impress 25 time 2021-11-18 23:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1461484021796376578 ========== People don't know much about economics, and politicians and media aren't quick to educate them! https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/16/opinion/gas-prices-economy.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1542269916117522 #PS1inflation ===== impress 27 time 2021-11-18 14:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1461339001701343237 ========== Traditional demand-side inflation might be addressed by traditional means - higher taxes and higher interest rates - https://nytimes.com/2021/11/16/opinion/biden-inflation-spending-manchin.html GOP doesn't want to fix inflation - it improves their prospects in 2022. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1542269916117522 #PS1inflation ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 30 time 2021-11-18 14:20 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1461338536884404230 ========== You've probably forgotten about the Balkans. Expect to be reminded! https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/17/opinion/bosnia-dodik-dayton-accords.html Almost everybody has an interest in stirring up trouble there. #PS1foreign ===== impress 34 time 2021-11-18 05:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1461209857705472002 ========== Elon Musk has the salesman morals and showmanship of Trump but he's smarter. That makes him more dangerous. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/16/elon-musk-stock-tesla-taxes-twitter/ #PS1other ===== impress 34 time 2021-11-18 05:06 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1461199036623437825 ========== GOP doesn't want IRS to go after its donors. But that's where the evaded tax revenue is. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/17/cbo-build-back-better-irs-revenue-too-low/ #PS1tax ===== impress 23 time 2021-11-18 04:54 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1461196179127951361 ========== Gosar has always been an idiot and might not know any better. McCarthy knows better but does the wrong thing anyway out of loyalty to Trump and his own political future. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/17/paul-gosar-censure-kevin-mccarthy-killing-democracy/ #PS1insurrection ===== impress 35 time 2021-11-18 04:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1461195127293022209 ========== Sometimes the National Guard reports to the governor and sometimes to the President. GOP governors can't resist the temptation to interfere in military readiness for political advantage. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2021/11/17/vaccine-mandate-oklahoma-national-guard/ #PS1gop ===== impress 31 time 2021-11-18 04:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1461190893701001221 ========== Defunding the police is a dead issue. No city is doing it now. https://apnews.com/article/business-police-oregon-george-floyd-race-and-ethnicity-7f6bc5b96ebb4dfb69eb910a2e9e9e56 But that won't keep the GOP from campaigning against it. #PS1justice ===== impress 28 time 2021-11-18 03:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1461172027977461761 ========== How to make a living peddling racism. https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-entertainment-business-race-and-ethnicity-racial-injustice-5b57b4178fec39f30f3caad77b93c087 You just call it patriotism. And stay unswervingly loyal to Trump, to tap into the money river from his base. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 34 time 2021-11-18 03:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1461170648974184451 ========== Court-ordered oil and gas lease auction goes forward - as if there were no climate crisis. https://apnews.com/article/climate-joe-biden-science-business-environment-and-nature-cc0deca6a28aab21cd4e0aa35ea7b6af #PS1climate ===== impress 22 time 2021-11-18 02:03 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1461153002996203521 ========== Preston Brooks would be so proud - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preston_Brooks When legislators espouse violence against each other, GOP legislators look the other way. Except only two, apt to be expelled from GOP soon. https://apnews.com/article/technology-entertainment-marjorie-taylor-greene-censures-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-854fd412b7a1049c8fb9a83fe2c56b8f More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1541940716150442 #PS1trumpism ===== impress 24 time 2021-11-18 01:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1461151953673601027 ========== Hearing aids or drugs to fight dementia? https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2021/11/17/opinion-to-stem-dementia-cover-hearing-aids-not-a-questionable-alzheimers-drug/ A Medicare benefit for hearing aids has been in and out of BBB. #PS1health ===== impress 35 time 2021-11-18 01:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1461149015253274627 ========== The Democratic messaging problem - too much fairness. You'd never see that on Fox, much less Newsmax or OAN. https://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/ap_news/jackie-calmes-yes-democrats-have-a-messaging-problem-the-bigger-problem-is-who-has-the/article_f2e5a449-f9be-5674-890d-d9688545ee88.html Mainstream media are journalists; reactionary media are propagandists. #PS1media ===== impress 25 time 2021-11-18 01:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1461147536769511431 ========== Coffee, tea, or stroke? https://edition.cnn.com/2021/11/16/health/coffee-and-tea-benefits-stroke-dementia-wellness/index.html #PS1health ===== engage 1 engage-rate 5% impress 21 likes 1 time 2021-11-18 01:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1461145861526679554 ========== Water is the real third rail of California politics - worse than Prop 13. https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/11/16/proposed-california-ballot-measure-would-fast-track-construction-of-dams-desalination-plants-and-other-water-projects/ Maybe farmers shouldn't be growing rice and cotton in a desert. It will be interesting to see if the proponents have to hire signature gatherers. #PS1capolitics ===== impress 32 time 2021-11-18 01:31 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1461144964037967872 ========== Inflation can't be that bad - consumer spending is rising faster than inflation. https://apnews.com/article/business-economy-prices-retail-sales-85c933a1ca63498c68111af4b59a006b #PS1inflation ===== impress 22 time 2021-11-18 01:23 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1461142871642284032 ========== SALT deductions and California https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-11-15/skelton-salt-cap-congress-california Increasing the SALT deduction cap is the biggest giveaway in BBB. It may be necessary to get BBB passed, but adding complexity to tax law seldom makes it better. #PS1tax ===== engage 3 engage-rate 6% impress 48 time 2021-11-18 01:07 +0000 urlclicks 3 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1461139001713168387 ========== California redistricting commissions was a good idea - https://calmatters.org/commentary/2021/11/californias-messier-but-fairer-redistricting-process/ but timing was wrong - nobody foresaw Trumpism's unabashed partisanship. California should suspend redistricting commissions for Federal elections until Texas enacts a comparable law. #PS1democracy ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% impress 44 time 2021-11-18 01:01 +0000 userclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1461137487900798977 ========== Tired of cancelled flights? https://www.dallasnews.com/business/airlines/2021/11/15/southwest-airlines-dangles-perks-to-keep-employees-working-during-holidays/ Expect to pay more for reliable service. Flight attendants, like restaurant servers, are tired of fighting unruly passengers without combat pay. #PS1inflation ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% impress 45 retweets 1 time 2021-11-18 00:43 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1461132899059523589 ========== 41 months for most recognizable insurrectionist https://apnews.com/article/prisons-arizona-capitol-siege-5c9ebf384bf936403d42e1a453c89153 He got his 15 minutes of fame, and he got off light. Trump might pardon him some day, but probably not, since he expressed repentance. #PS1insurrection ===== impress 30 time 2021-11-18 00:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1461127594674294788 ========== Justice delayed is justice denied! But you never have to face justice if you can afford enough lawyers to run down the clock forever. "This is a legal system in which being able to afford a lawyer is very often the side that prevails” https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/trump-january-6-strategy/2021/11/16/c17cbe1e-4624-11ec-b8d9-232f4afe4d9b_story.html #PS1justice ===== impress 23 time 2021-11-17 14:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1460983044861423617 ========== Inflation increasing and all Biden wants to do is talk about climate! https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/11/17/holiday-pies-climate-change/ But GOP has the fix - to this and every problem - lower taxes, deregulate, bust unions, reduce social safety net spending! That's what they always can all agree on. #PS1climate ===== impress 24 time 2021-11-17 14:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1460981189959819265 ========== Time slips - our next mass psychosis? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/16/magazine/time-slips-time-travel.html You can't travel back in time. You can imagine doing so, as long as you don't take yourself too seriously, and nobody else does either. But what if this idea spreads in the QAnon world? #PS1other ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% impress 57 time 2021-11-17 07:28 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1460872359649308674 ========== Ever wonder why EVERY restaurant has a Help Wanted sign and so many workers seem to have been hired yesterday? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/16/service-industry-jobs-rude-customers/ If you want better, faster service, you're going to have to pay for it. #PS1economics ===== impress 26 time 2021-11-17 07:21 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1460870746452873218 ========== God bless and keep Fox - far away from US! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/16/turkey-fox-tv-free-speech-democracy/ Everything is relative. #PS1journalism ===== impress 23 time 2021-11-17 07:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1460869535880253441 ========== Democratic legislators also feel the heat from major donors who don't like to pay taxes. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/11/16/second-biggest-program-democrats-budget-gives-billions-rich/ These variable SALT caps are pure political sausage making. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1541364242874756 #PS1tax ===== impress 22 time 2021-11-17 07:12 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1460868333037776899 ========== In his best "teacher made me say it" voice, Gosar pretends he never meant to incite violence. Nobody believes him, but most GOP will vote against censure anyway - anything to spite Democrats! https://apnews.com/article/paul-gosar-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-house-censure-8716db0ab41618be4d6a2d2e6b02340f #PS1insurrection ===== impress 25 time 2021-11-17 06:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1460864817267310592 ========== Time to get back to the game of brinkmanship. Some of the GOP are willing to bankrupt the government in order to get on Fox. Others are just pretending. https://apnews.com/article/business-janet-yellen-congress-f0d9e9e5239f5e1ca80051f221e603d7 #PS1economics ===== impress 20 time 2021-11-17 06:53 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1460863725208883206 ========== Nobody puts much faith in a Taliban promise. https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-islamic-state-group-taliban-kabul-race-and-ethnicity-8c81cda1748fe0fc92224317a7adf92b But IS is worse. Nobody doubts their promise that they will kill everybody they don't like. #PS1afghanistan ===== impress 28 time 2021-11-16 14:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1460614204604305408 ========== Stop making ammunition for Trumpists! https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/15/opinion/diversity-equity-inclusion.html #PS1other ===== impress 23 time 2021-11-16 04:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1460461106191761422 ========== More on Russian space test https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/russia-satellie-weapon/2021/11/15/0695621c-4648-11ec-973c-be864f938c72_story.html #PS1technology ===== impress 19 time 2021-11-16 04:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1460459738987065347 ========== Tubbs was the innovative mayor of Stockton and was one of the first to experiment with universal income. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-ubi.html https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/stockton-ca-gave-residents-a-guaranteed-income-heres-what-happened Michael Tubbs and Oprah tomorrow - https://www.loyaltybookstores.com/roots #PS1tax ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 41 time 2021-11-16 02:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1460427824746037249 ========== “When you underfund the I.R.S., it’s just a tax cut for tax cheats” But those tax cheats are major donors to all GOP senators and not a few Democrats! https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/15/us/politics/biden-social-policy-bill-irs.html So something will have to be cut from BBB to subsidize those tax cheats. #PS1tax ===== impress 25 time 2021-11-16 01:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1460422768546041856 ========== Party Monday, back to work on Tuesday. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/15/us/politics/biden-approval-rating-infrastructure-bill.html For those many Democratic legislators facing likely defeat in 2022, perhaps it's better to accomplish big memorable things in the short time they have, than cower in foxholes and be forgotten. #PS1biden ===== impress 23 time 2021-11-16 01:36 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1460421365559791619 ========== When inflation is externally driven, there is not much anybody can do except let market forces take their course. But "there's nothing to be done but wait" is poison for a politician in a democracy, no matter how true it is. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/15/inflation-biden-gop-delusion/ #PS1economics ===== impress 26 time 2021-11-16 01:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1460419185910030337 ========== Modi and Trump are great pals - they like the same kinds of entertainment! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/15/why-an-indian-films-success-box-office-should-worry-us-all/ #PS1foreign ===== impress 36 time 2021-11-16 01:23 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1460418116379312135 ========== A Trump lie that the Biden administration chose to propagate. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/11/15/trump-era-politicization-pandemic-that-still-benefits-joe-biden/ #PS1immigration ===== impress 22 time 2021-11-16 01:14 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1460416011832684548 ========== Get ready for Trump again with regional federalism https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-regional.html Expect a worse second term. He won't be more competent, but his donors will encourage more competent "helpers". https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/10/trump-winning-2024-real-election-nightmare/620368/ Being broke or in jail are no barriers. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 24 time 2021-11-16 00:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1460407637082656771 ========== Something new in antitrust law - considering effects on workers. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/15/opinion/antitrust-penguin-biden.html But the real point is that concentrated power is bad and needs to be periodically redistributed - as surely for economic power as political. #PS1economics ===== impress 27 time 2021-11-16 00:21 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1460402617704538112 ========== Is it time now for something completely different? https://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#redistricting The redistricting derby is underway. GOP expects to regain control of the House by redistricting, without needing to attract a single new voter. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/15/us/politics/republicans-2022-redistricting-maps.html #PS1democracy ===== impress 24 time 2021-11-16 00:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1460399576175632386 ========== The serious case for taking inflation seriously. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/15/inflation-its-past-time-team-transitory-stand-down/ Deficit Federal spending is not the main problem, and enacting BBB will do more good than harm. The Fed can raise interest rates to curb speculative excess. #PS1recovery ===== engage 1 engage-rate 7% impress 14 time 2021-11-15 23:55 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1460396056609501193 ========== Violence is as American as cherry pie! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/15/trump-supporters-political-violence-deadly/ and as American as Donald Trump! #PS1insurrection ===== impress 21 time 2021-11-15 23:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1460388492995805188 ========== How big a threat is Iran? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/15/iran-talks-israel-vienna-fear/ #PS1mideast ===== impress 14 time 2021-11-15 23:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1460386236879695876 ========== Another Trumpist victory! When it comes to fake, nobody beats Trump! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/15/arizona-audit-republicans-monmouth-poll/ And when it comes to gullible, nobody beats his voters. #PS1trumpism ===== engage 1 engage-rate 5% impress 22 likes 1 time 2021-11-15 23:10 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1460384727634903041 ========== How should you donate to campaigns? Usually to close races where a little money could make a difference. These are not necessarily the best known. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/15/beto-orourke-doesnt-need-your-money/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1540516559626191 #PS1election ===== impress 12 time 2021-11-15 23:07 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1460384010757021700 ========== Trump could never do infrastructure because he didn't know how to work with Congress - and because the GOP is even less united than the Democrats, once they leave their home turf of tax cuts, deregulation, and reactionary judiciary. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/biden-poised-to-sign-12-trillion-infrastructure-bill-fulfilling-campaign-promise-and-notching-achievement-that-eluded-trump/2021/11/15/1b69f9a6-4638-11ec-b8d9-232f4afe4d9b_story.html #PS1infrastructure ===== impress 13 time 2021-11-15 22:53 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1460380544005378049 ========== Major manufacturers don't look to politicians for help. They're retreating from "just-in-time" back to "just-in-case". A well-stocked warehouse used to be viewed as extra cost. Now it's an essential firewall against surprises. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/11/15/supply-chains-companies-strategy/ #PS1recovery ===== impress 13 time 2021-11-15 22:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1460378967894990854 ========== "the just-in-time operating model may not be the right operating model" Just-in-time optimizes the steady state by driving out cost. Once the state becomes unsteady, though... https://apnews.com/article/business-global-trade-e9b91af9bce8e32a7df2d5b4f75a30ee #PS1recovery ===== impress 10 time 2021-11-15 22:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1460374534901547008 ========== Space junk is an increasing barrier to outer space. https://apnews.com/article/space-exploration-science-business-697f5aa719331ab6e74102ebb06b52d8 #PS1technology ===== impress 13 time 2021-11-15 22:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1460373359309443079 ========== Too bad - even if Trump were president he couldn't save Alex Jones from civil lawsuits. https://apnews.com/article/business-alex-jones-school-shootings-lawsuits-sandy-hook-elementary-school-shooting-154bd79946433d0b8db18dfb34906cf1 His whole business is selling lies and quack supplements. Why should this be different? #PS1justice ===== impress 41 time 2021-11-15 22:20 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1460372075948896259 ========== Supply chain problems likely to persist - https://www.thereporter.com/2021/11/09/holiday-season-2021-when-should-you-mail-packages-amid-shortages-and-delays/ Blame offshore outsourcing, just-in-time, covid, consumers, truck drivers ... - or blame those dang retrograde planets! https://www.elsaelsa.com/astrology/mercury-retrograde-effects-on-the-supply-chain/ More credible than the typical GOP response! #PS1recovery ===== impress 20 time 2021-11-15 21:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1460364443292880899 ========== Unclear on the personality cult concept! https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/11/15/trump-aide-taylor-swift-white-house-warning-fired/ “I’m allowed to listen to whatever music I want” - NO! TRUMP is allowed to listen to whatever music he wants. YOU are allowed to listen to whatever music HE wants. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1540324219645425 #PS1trumpism ===== impress 14 time 2021-11-15 16:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1460276835720204298 ========== Trump considered and continues to consider all parts of the Federal government to be his personal political servants, and woe to those who display any other loyalty. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/15/newly-disclosed-memo-reveals-trumps-plot-turn-military-into-his-personal-goon-squad/ So far his many would-be successors have not indicated any different view. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 14 time 2021-11-15 15:53 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1460274766162522112 ========== Bannon starts to face the music - https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/steve-bannon-surrenders-contempt-congress/2021/11/15/7d797918-4620-11ec-b05d-3cb9d96eb495_story.html But he's totally unrepentant - "We’re taking down the Biden regime". The big picture - https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/15/bannons-indictment-should-quiet-doj-critics/ #PS1insurrection ===== impress 12 time 2021-11-15 15:48 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1460273475013136388 ========== "the United States became less future-oriented, less concerned with future generations, beginning around 1970" coinciding with the advent of the Southern Strategy that led to the takeover by the Dixiecrats. https://apnews.com/article/climate-joe-biden-business-congress-economy-b5b8cca843133de060778f049861b144 #PS1infrastructure ===== impress 11 time 2021-11-15 14:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1460258876381536261 ========== Beneficiaries of rewritten history. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/young-taliban-afghanistan-fighters/2021/11/12/94c31236-3cad-11ec-bd6f-da376f47304e_story.html GOP would be proud to have such success in schools. But what will they do next? Taliban no longer want continuous revolution, but that's all these boys know. #PS1afghanistan ===== impress 16 time 2021-11-15 03:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1460086446677639168 ========== Aging Democratic legislators decide they've had enough. https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/democrats-2022-retirements-congress/2021/11/11/aed573de-4172-11ec-a88e-2aa4632af69b_story.html Being stuck in a minority with a bunch of Trumpists doesn't have much appeal. #PS1election ===== impress 14 time 2021-11-15 03:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1460084629348634624 ========== So much for the "law and order" GOP. No respect for law, no respect for constitutional order. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/11/14/bannon-indictment-republicans-payback/ It's no idle threat - they pursued Benghazi, and Clinton emails, for years without turning up anything except more chances to get on Fox. #PS1insurrection ===== impress 11 time 2021-11-15 03:10 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1460082757451747334 ========== Can the GOP blow its big chance - again? With Trump in command, anything is possible. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/republicans-senate-candidates/2021/11/13/cbc574ee-43cf-11ec-9ea7-3eb2406a2e24_story.html He'll do anything to exact revenge on the disloyal in the primaries, even if it cost general elections. “When you do that you end up with witches.” #PS1gop ===== impress 16 time 2021-11-15 03:04 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1460081176912093188 ========== Trump has forced us to re-evaluate Warren Harding who was not the worst president after all, who initiated the first global disarmament treaty https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Naval_Treaty stunned white supremacists in Birmingham https://getpocket.com/explore/item/this-presidential-speech-on-race-shocked-the-nation-in-1921 More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1539917956352718 #PS1other ===== impress 18 time 2021-11-15 01:52 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1460063175353589766 ========== Why nuclear power is not an attractive solution to global warming https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/13/us/politics/tribal-lands-flooding-nuclear-waste.html Everybody wants the clean energy, and nobody wants the dirty waste, so the least powerful are saddled with the risks of other people's power. #PS1climate ===== impress 15 time 2021-11-15 01:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1460050319988064260 ========== New laws? They might as well give up and say you can shoot anybody anytime. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/13/us/rittenhouse-arbery-self-defense.html Just like the old South and the western frontier. If the victim's clan exacts revenge on somebody, that's their right too. Who needs cops, courts, lawyers? #PS1firearms ===== impress 20 time 2021-11-15 00:53 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1460048278230159370 ========== Military fails to investigate probable war crimes. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/13/us/us-airstrikes-civilian-deaths.html #PS1mideast ===== impress 12 time 2021-11-15 00:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1460046383365251079 ========== Some of the rioters had big plans indeed! https://www.gazettextra.com/news/nation_world/was-the-us-capitol-attack-planned-a-north-texas-case-adds-to-intrigue/article_4ef403f5-0816-5557-a90e-9245ee6a438a.html And bragged about them! #PS1insurrection ===== impress 11 time 2021-11-15 00:38 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1460044558696255491 ========== The free market at work - slowly! https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/08/technology/computer-chip-shortage.html The market for commodity microcontrollers has passed from a buyer's market to a seller's. Now manufacturers are increasing capacity. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1539882853022895 #PS1economics ===== impress 10 time 2021-11-15 00:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1460042007867387905 ========== Whoops - maybe real estate is NOT a road to instant riches! https://711web.com/is-the-fickle-zillow-fiasco-at-home-a-warning/ “Buy high, sell high is a suspicious concept" Bubbly suspicious. #PS1economics ===== impress 15 time 2021-11-15 00:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1460037640661598208 ========== DeSantis calls another special session - to defend your right to infect strangers, and to boost his 2024 presidential credentials. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/11/14/desantis-brings-back-florida-lawmakers-crack-down-pandemic-mandates/ #PS1virus ===== impress 15 time 2021-11-14 22:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1460015022055194626 ========== Planned obsolescence - good for the companies and for some consumers. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/11/13/3g-service-ending-fcc/ But old people and poor people don't buy much telecommunications or make large political donations, so who cares? #PS1technology ===== impress 15 time 2021-11-14 22:37 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1460014066353668097 ========== Inflation in Europe and the US - more similar than different. GOP will blame Biden anyway. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/12/opinion/inflation-us-europe-covid.html #PS1economics ===== impress 18 time 2021-11-14 22:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1460009023365804037 ========== Every issue is global now. https://www.liberty-and-justice.net/ Are nation-states becoming obsolete? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/12/opinion/biden-foreign-policy.html #PS1foreign ===== impress 17 time 2021-11-14 22:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1460008126560669700 ========== What does "The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government" mean? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/12/opinion/gerrymandering-guarantee-clause.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1539831496361364 #PS1democracy ===== impress 17 time 2021-11-14 22:07 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1460006504434524163 ========== Tired of Silicon Valley real estate? Don't expect it to be much better in Austin. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/12/magazine/real-estate-pandemic.html Too many tax incentives for investors make it hard to buy a house to live in. The investors are major political donors, so don't expect that to change. #PS1economics ===== impress 40 time 2021-11-14 21:54 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1460003151499513856 ========== True crime story of a murderer - Eddie Gallagher. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/13/books/eddie-gallagher-alpha-excerpt.html #PS1other ===== engage 2 engage-rate 2% impress 119 likes 1 time 2021-11-14 21:30 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1459997070870286337 ========== Democratization of technology. The NRA is thrilled, since soon it will no longer even be POSSIBLE to infringe the right of the people to keep and bear arms. And use them! https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/14/us/ghost-guns-homemade-firearms.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1539810379696809 #PS1firearms ===== impress 13 time 2021-11-14 21:10 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1459992109293850630 ========== How the NRA decided to respond to Columbine - hit back twice as hard. https://www.npr.org/2021/11/09/1049054141/a-secret-tape-made-after-columbine-shows-the-nras-evolution-on-school-shootings #PS1firearms ===== impress 17 time 2021-11-14 20:03 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1459975204176744450 ========== Stop the Steal is about to get much worse. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/vote-fraud-trump-gop/2021/11/11/554478a2-4270-11ec-9ea7-3eb2406a2e24_story.html There's no Republican unity, and it's going to show during caucus and primary season. Trump has set the example - forcefully contest any election you don't win! More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1539770366367477 #PS1democracy ===== impress 16 time 2021-11-14 19:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1459969764537765889 ========== "To succeed in politics, you need to make your opponent respond to you" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/14/why-do-democrats-let-republicans-set-terms-debate/ Democrats need to call out Trumpist Dixiecrat minority rule relentlessly, the way GOP talks about critical race theory, until it's part of the common vocabulary. #PS1politics ===== impress 17 time 2021-11-14 19:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1459966717963034629 ========== There isn't any fast easy solution to inflation. https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/11/14/inflation-economy-biden-prices/ So the GOP will use it to win control of Congress and the White House - making sure that Biden enacts as few fixes as possible. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/11/14/post-abc-poll-biden/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1539760736368440 #PS1recovery ===== impress 17 time 2021-11-14 19:21 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1459964738763329537 ========== Another strong leader role model for Trump https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-business-moscow-latvia-lithuania-513f4212d26474f0d474152f28868fc4 He's as backward-looking as Trump! #PS1foreign ===== impress 19 time 2021-11-14 19:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1459960043198038016 ========== Mayor Pete goes national. https://apnews.com/article/pete-buttigieg-infrasctructure-transportation-cd69c9f2942df561ae0dc1a69ed0c8b7 How many GOP legislators have ever changed a diaper? Or had their neighborhoods divided by a new freeway? #PS1infrastructure ===== impress 30 time 2021-11-14 18:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1459959042823000064 ========== Criminals in cells, criminals outside cells. https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-business-personnel-health-arrests-5be574b4103a2f5420e0d9da2daf5c9c Instead of staff influencing inmates, it's the opposite. #PS1justice ===== impress 16 time 2021-11-14 18:53 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1459957657893105666 ========== Let's see which legislators REALLY support a strong military - and a willing to pay for it. https://apnews.com/article/hunger-in-america-military-food-insecurity-142728bcb5479fd2de73750e11dbd458 It's MUCH cheaper to retain a trained experienced soldier than to recruit a train a new one. #PS1other ===== impress 14 time 2021-11-14 18:46 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1459955850739470338 ========== Cancelled by Trump, restored by Biden. https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-joe-biden-jill-biden-united-states-native-americans-75917706baecf776b7f2412845819d85 Natives must not donate much to Trump or GOP. #PS1other ===== impress 19 time 2021-11-14 18:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1459954591756210176 ========== What strong leaders do! https://apnews.com/article/business-mao-zedong-xi-jinping-china-492f45c5d638ec642a63f674790915db Trump can't wait to issue an official history of Trump when he's re-elected in 2024. Of course he'll have to find somebody to ghost-write it for him. Trump praised Xi until he needed to blame him for the pandemic. #PS1trump ===== impress 23 time 2021-11-14 18:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1459952683264012290 ========== Public employee pension law reform - not promising more than you can pay - is essential https://www.political-scrapbook.net/controversial.html#defined%20benefit but has some unexpected side effects - pension law reform blocks Biden transit money. https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/the-state-worker/article255720896.html #PS1biden ===== impress 12 time 2021-11-14 18:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1459951248505913347 ========== Remember the great step forward fromn 026 to 029? Remember your 33 KSR fondly? Then remember Steve Jobs raving about fractional horsepower compute engines and a new industrial revolution? https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/11/11/computing-has-gone-full-circle/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1539731146371399 #PS1technology ===== impress 12 time 2021-11-14 18:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1459948386988134401 ========== Unclear on the concept! Cornyn can't understand why Biden intends to enact a campaign promise. GOP always enact the opposite of their campaign promises! More union jobs - no - more right-to-work laws! https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-technology-business-congress-electric-vehicles-577b0b441c6650af252f37bff7fea7ba But Manchin gets the last say - "NO". #PS1biden ===== impress 13 time 2021-11-14 18:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1459944374733709321 ========== External FBI mail server hacked https://www.engadget.com/fbi-email-server-hack-221052368.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/11/14/fbi-hack-email-cyberattack/ Why is this so easy? #PS1technology ===== engage 7 engage-rate 15% impress 46 likes 1 retweets 2 time 2021-11-14 17:52 +0000 urlclicks 4 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1459942204445626370 ========== 1619 project in book forms, for adults and kids. https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-business-race-and-ethnicity-austin-texas-b830189aaf391f1ab5afb2d7dc450962 The hereditary nobility is terrified that their methods of pitting the masses against themselves might be exposed to... the masses. #PS1democracy ===== impress 26 time 2021-11-14 06:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1459775064149164032 ========== Preserving right to choose for poor women. https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-abortion-texas-covid-19-pandemic-health-13c2fbe3f1de416d88a5ef6d1ca3406e Careful! Texas bounty hunters will jump on any clues. Of course, RICH women from major GOP donor families can afford to go out of state or out of country to safely end their unwanted pregnancies. #PS1health ===== impress 20 time 2021-11-14 06:43 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1459773843187191808 ========== Thinking like the GOP - if you have the donors, you can get the voters. https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-business-arizona-congress-campaigns-a4dea683b0fabda460e3d6993a46ec8b #PS1democracy ===== impress 14 time 2021-11-14 06:37 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1459772488431198208 ========== What's going to happen in Congress next week? https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-business-congress-nancy-pelosi-80f7a76da9ca0b42fc1dcdc4cf7dd023 Even with a scorecard, you can't tell the real issues from the bargaining chips. #PS1biden ===== impress 75 time 2021-11-13 14:52 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1459534646392209418 ========== BBB tries to preserve local journalism. Most GOP are opposed. https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-business-congress-newspapers-television-604ecdbc81b21c3876ef08d25ebccac4 #PS1journalism ===== impress 69 time 2021-11-13 14:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1459532754782023684 ========== Where do feelings about the economy and the future come from? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/09/opinion/economy-inflation-supply-chain.html Objective reality is only part of it; media propaganda is also important. That matters because swing voters are mostly persuaded by how they feel about the economy. #PS1economics ===== impress 69 time 2021-11-13 14:36 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1459530524830011398 ========== Can anybody save the Democratic Congressional majority? https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2021-11-13/inside-dnc-chairs-challenging-bid-to-avert-midterm-defeat #PS1election ===== impress 75 time 2021-11-13 07:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1459421371658768385 ========== Trump thought the virus would go away if everybody ignored it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/11/12/messonnier-birx-coronavirus-response-interference/ #PS1virus ===== impress 71 time 2021-11-13 07:12 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1459418966237933572 ========== Undoing the Steele dossier story https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/media-washington-post-steele-dossier/2021/11/12/f7c9b770-43d5-11ec-a88e-2aa4632af69b_story.html #PS1journalism ===== impress 79 time 2021-11-13 07:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1459418034989379587 ========== Psychology of regret as a factor in vaccine hesitance. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/11/11/vaccine-hesitancy-psychology-regret/ #PS1virus ===== impress 75 time 2021-11-13 05:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1459393244593229825 ========== Who needs math if you're going to be superstitious anyway? Or if you believe made-up statistics anyway? https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/math-covid-vaccinations-jeremy-mcanulty/2021/11/12/bfe89018-417f-11ec-a3aa-0255edc02eb7_story.html #PS1virus ===== impress 75 time 2021-11-13 05:21 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1459390962266824704 ========== Are more people returning to single incomes during child-raising years? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/12/are-americans-starting-embrace-one-earner-households-again/ If so that's inflationary - and requires more immigration. Where does the "pro-family" GOP stand on this? Blame Biden and force people to go back to work! #PS1economics ===== impress 74 time 2021-11-13 05:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1459387600850939907 ========== The definition of a cult https://apnews.com/article/business-paraguay-europe-argentina-uruguay-43b48ed43c2f7ddebf05ec6203b12d8d #PS1other ===== impress 75 time 2021-11-13 04:57 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1459384913010909185 ========== Did some Democrats say Medicare should NOT negotiate drug prices? https://apnews.com/article/medicare-health-care-costs-medication-alzheimers-disease-health-27a6250da20a6ba6af4820525c64afc4 Only the ones dependent on campaign contributions from big pharma. #PS1health ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% impress 79 time 2021-11-13 04:53 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1459383940976820227 ========== It's not the fault of Biden or Democrats - the same thing is happening in Canada and UK. https://apnews.com/article/business-f155e50d450936fbf666bef07185b0b5 #PS1recovery ===== impress 77 time 2021-11-13 04:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1459383058574942213 ========== It's about time - and what more fitting starting point? https://apnews.com/article/steve-bannon-donald-trump-congress-mark-meadows-subpoenas-70fcf59323df874b4a0def1f4c1222cc #PS1insurrection ===== impress 71 time 2021-11-13 04:46 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1459382245316186116 ========== That was the week that wasn't. https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-business-lifestyle-social-media-ap-fact-check-e10e6f1eba29d3363327b4ffc4577839 #PS1media ===== impress 82 time 2021-11-12 19:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1459246878525038592 ========== How the European fractured state system led to the Enlightenment and the United States. https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-europe-became-so-rich That's what Trumpism is trying to undo. #PS1theory ===== impress 81 time 2021-11-12 15:52 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1459187299321741320 ========== Pew political typology https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2021/11/09/beyond-red-vs-blue-the-political-typology-2/ #PS1theory ===== impress 79 time 2021-11-12 15:43 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1459184968693731331 ========== Big business is bad for small business, even if they do nothing illegal. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/11/07/small-business-supply-chain-pandemic/ #PS1economics ===== impress 77 time 2021-11-12 15:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1459184381889703938 ========== How does BBB compare to past efforts? https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/11/07/biden-infrastructure-build-back-better-analysis/ The political problem is the payoff is gradual and deferred, though substantial over the long term. #PS1biden ===== impress 78 time 2021-11-12 15:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1459183129957072896 ========== How should Democrats respond to culture war attacks? https://shieldpac.org/about https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/08/democrats-cannot-simply-ignore-gops-culture-war-attacks/ #PS1election ===== impress 55 time 2021-11-12 15:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1459181484795854850 ========== Biden can't find a way to solve immigration issues either. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/biden-border-divisions/2021/11/07/e87c8630-3b24-11ec-a67c-d7c2182dac83_story.html Years of failed efforts under several presidents suggest there is no good solution. Doing nothing is less harmful politically than doing anything. #PS1immigration ===== impress 75 time 2021-11-12 15:23 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1459180164307243008 ========== Protect democracy? How does that protect minority rule and unlimited dark campaign money? https://www.flipsnack.com/protectdemocracy/on-democracy-and-authoritarianism-american-affairs/full-view.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/11/sobering-new-report-shows-how-much-work-is-needed-protect-democracy/ #PS1democracy ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% impress 82 time 2021-11-12 15:13 +0000 userclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1459177525783904260 ========== What's Manchin's bottom line? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/11/manchin-found-excuse-to-destroy-bidens-agenda/ Or is the question what is his donors' bottom line? #PS1biden ===== impress 64 time 2021-11-12 15:06 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1459175800050094082 ========== People came to America to escape their past and start over. Is it still possible? https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/interactive/2021/loose-change-korey-rowe-911-truth-conspiracy/ Should it be possible? Now all your mistakes are in the cloud forever - available to anybody with the financial or technical clout to get them. #PS1technology ===== impress 104 time 2021-11-12 14:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1459173180749148167 ========== Common sense to hang Mike Pence? https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-hang-mike-pence/2021/11/12/64a17142-43b0-11ec-a88e-2aa4632af69b_story.html Loyalty is a one-way street in Trumpism! And broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction! #PS1insurrection ===== impress 85 time 2021-11-12 14:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1459169568836907013 ========== You can't tell the players without a scorecard. https://apnews.com/article/steve-bannon-joe-biden-donald-trump-capitol-siege-subpoenas-ea5218b06255349e05f67e1b47a45a31 #PS1insurrection ===== impress 79 time 2021-11-12 14:23 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1459165006910537730 ========== Trump punishes traditional conservatism and bipartisanship! https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-congress-lisa-murkowski-alaska-impeachments-824082f54f29c5a81739ab89eae504eb Nothing else matters if you are not personally loyal to Trump! #PS1trumpism ===== impress 86 time 2021-11-12 14:19 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1459163894518214656 ========== GOP loves to complain, then do nothing, then attack Democrats for trying to do something. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/11/josh-hawley-broken-american-manhood/ It's all part of the culture wars to keep men - and women - from focusing on the real roots of their problems. #PS1other ===== impress 81 time 2021-11-12 05:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1459032030012870662 ========== More money for the IRS so they can audit more major GOP donors? Forget it! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/11/irs-commissioner-we-desperately-need-resources-so-agency-can-serve-you-our-country/ IRS should stick to harassing poor people. #PS1tax ===== impress 81 time 2021-11-12 05:31 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1459031056565215234 ========== Billionaires don't have to obey rules. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/05/08/musk-grimes-baby-name/ They can afford more lawyers. #PS1other ===== impress 77 time 2021-11-12 05:24 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1459029247352205313 ========== The new slave drivers! https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/11/11/lawyer-facial-recognition-monitoring/ #PS1technology ===== impress 75 time 2021-11-12 05:21 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1459028525118230529 ========== Vaccinating every human being might not be the end of covid. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/11/us-covid-wildlife-virus #PS1virus ===== impress 74 time 2021-11-12 05:15 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1459027022919831555 ========== GOP wants to torpedo "bipartisan" infrastructure bill, so Democrats have to sell it themselves. https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-business-congress-transportation-health-1787854f69826c41230d907de3b8134a #PS1infrastructure ===== impress 76 time 2021-11-12 04:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1459009537482969091 ========== Everything's political for the Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP! https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-entertainment-business-lifestyle-ted-cruz-48306bb6b213c486b4d025d4af2acde9 #PS1virus ===== impress 76 time 2021-11-12 04:03 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1459008970937405442 ========== Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP plots revenge on bipartisans. https://apnews.com/article/congress-infrastructure-republicans-death-threats-2e40d5c82f90813ee827276dda5327a8 #PS1trumpism ===== impress 76 time 2021-11-12 04:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1459008680347717636 ========== It's going to be another long anxious winter for the unvaccinated. https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-colorado-united-states-michigan-public-health-f2d9ccb4092fd4651d055dbf7083f259 #PS1virus ===== impress 59 time 2021-11-12 03:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1459007952635846661 ========== No more black pastors? https://apnews.com/article/al-sharpton-racial-injustice-georgia-brunswick-crime-d79f3ef1a8cc16ce74adc38f9e6ec0ec Must be OK, Trump would say the same thing. #PS1justice ===== impress 94 time 2021-11-12 03:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1459007618068803588 ========== Political violence - nobody says no - least of all Trump. https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-paul-gosar-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-fred-upton-violence-d3279a57a4b4815252c10a658e3a7f53 #PS1insurrection ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% impress 82 likes 1 time 2021-11-12 03:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1459007162475106307 ========== Long covid research. https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/11/07/long-covid-fatigue-research/ #PS1virus ===== impress 73 time 2021-11-11 18:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1458867580706250754 ========== Trumpists may ignore any law they don't like! Trump says so. And he might well be president again in 2025. The big money says so https://politico.com/news/2021/11/08/gop-lobbyists-corporate-america-520026 They will delay court cases until he's president and can pardon all the criminals. https://washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/10/trump-court-ruling-democracy-january-6/ #PS1trump ===== engage 2 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 86 time 2021-11-11 18:33 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1458865509932290062 ========== What happens when fewer and fewer legislators have experienced the camaraderie of service and the horrors of war? https://washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/10/fewer-americans-serving-military-takes-toll-our-democracy/ #PS1democracy ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% impress 75 likes 1 time 2021-11-11 18:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1458865353941929991 ========== The real crisis facing America - savage criticism of the job-creating billionaire class! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/10/elon-musk-once-again-proves-need-billionaire-tax/ Polls show almost all voters favor increasing taxes on the job-creating billionaire class! That would ruin America! More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1537554293255751 #PS1tax ===== impress 71 time 2021-11-11 17:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1458854706642505729 ========== It's not just white appeasement. Reaching the relatively few persuadable swing voters requires a certain amount of appeasement on several fronts - but also an aggressive campaign against minority rule. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/11/white-appeasement-politics-democrats/ #PS1election ===== impress 78 time 2021-11-11 17:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1458849345583783945 ========== Book burning coming back into fashion. All the Nazis are pleased. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/11/10/i-think-we-should-throw-those-books-fire-movement-builds-right-target-books/ #PS1other ===== impress 73 time 2021-11-11 17:14 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1458845531657019408 ========== The way prosecutors go after organized crime is to start at the bottom and put the squeeze on the foot soldiers to get evidence for the next level. Repeat until you reach the top. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/11/tough-sentences-jan-6-rioters-should-freak-trump-out/ #PS1insurrection ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% impress 73 likes 1 time 2021-11-11 17:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1458844933398274053 ========== Is the future of GOP in the past or the future? In this corner - fighting for the future - the challenger Christie. In this corner - fighting for the past - the defending champion Trump. May they both land knockout blows and never get up! https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/christie-takes-a-jab-at-trump-for-losing-last-years-election/2021/11/11/8a37297a-42f1-11ec-a3aa-0255edc02eb7_story.html #PS1gop ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% impress 76 likes 1 time 2021-11-11 17:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1458844212858789888 ========== What happens when the local press dies or turns into sponsored content? Local politicians can get away with anything! https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/media/durr-media-blackout/2021/11/09/5e5714f8-400a-11ec-a88e-2aa4632af69b_story.html The internet nationalized journalism and has just about eliminated local journalism. #PS1journalism ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% impress 77 likes 1 time 2021-11-11 17:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1458843359678636045 ========== Immigrants get to become frozen pawns in the game of sanctions. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/belarus-threaten-europe-gas/2021/11/11/970c725c-42df-11ec-9404-50a28a88b9cd_story.html #PS1foreign ===== impress 71 time 2021-11-11 16:38 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1458836483167559695 ========== Nobody needs billionaires who have more money than they can spend wisely. https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-11-08/elon-musk-proves-why-a-billionaires-tax-is-needed #PS1tax ===== impress 71 time 2021-11-11 16:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1458835591299141635 ========== How Democrats might take the offensive in culture wars. https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/democrats-losing-culture-war-education-20211107.html It's all about the GOP's real agenda of defending minority rule. But it's a complicated argument while GOP lies are simple to understand for any voter. #PS1minority ===== impress 73 time 2021-11-11 16:31 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1458834846772387841 ========== Inflation is being driven by external factors beyond Biden's control. Government spending is not driving it. But reducing government spending and lowering taxes always sound good to major donors. https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/11/10/inflation-white-house-manchin/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1537459353265245 #PS1recovery ===== impress 72 time 2021-11-11 14:57 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1458811049876987904 ========== Democratic senators also need millions of dollars to run for re-election! https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/11/11/billionaire-tax-democrats-wyden/ And major donors don't like tax increases. Some things really are bipartisan. The tax code is where legislators give donors return on investment. #PS1tax ===== impress 69 time 2021-11-11 14:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1458807868665184259 ========== 41 months for assault https://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-sentence-scott-fairlamb-8fef3ecc6888ace1b9f949f21b625363 #PS1insurrection ===== impress 71 time 2021-11-11 14:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1458804292165378049 ========== Gerrymandering at work. With so much at stake, no wonder that consultants who can draw maps to order are in such demand. https://apnews.com/article/redistricting-gerrymandering-46ceaf3fb90a4ce3b2fc026c7c18e747 More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1537170346627479 #PS1democracy ===== impress 68 time 2021-11-11 05:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1458669323694710789 ========== Afghan refugees end up in - Iran - probably on their way to Europe since Iran has its own problems. https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-middle-east-taliban-tehran-europe-b713519bab3c2fd37702113e9ce08bb6 #PS1afghanistan ===== impress 79 time 2021-11-11 05:20 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1458665971049140226 ========== Europe warming to Taiwan, to displeasure of PRC. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/10/world/asia/taiwan-europe-china.html #PS1china ===== impress 25 time 2021-11-10 16:48 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1458476721053655043 ========== "Right-wing Leninism" - active defense of minority rule. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/10/opinion/republicans-democrats-crt.html But you'll never win or level the playing field by playing by their rules or using their methods - the great insight of moral leaders from Jesus to Gandhi to Martin Luther King Jr. #PS1minority ===== impress 20 time 2021-11-10 16:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1458474932560535557 ========== More and more hatred, more and more guns, more and more violence - how does it end? https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-11-08/skelton-uc-davis-guns-study-political-violence Usually with a dictator promising to end violence - and then recruiting the violent armed criminals to serve as his secret police. #PS1firearms ===== impress 18 time 2021-11-10 15:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1458462063697616896 ========== Sound like a bubble to you? https://news.bloomberglaw.com/privacy-and-data-security/robinhood-security-breach-exposes-data-on-millions-of-customers https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/05/technology/nft-nyc-metaverse.html The internet makes it easier to lose more of your money faster! #PS1technology ===== impress 17 time 2021-11-10 15:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1458459287441731586 ========== You think the chip shortage is bad and auto prices are high now - think about a Taiwan war! https://www.stripes.com/theaters/asia_pacific/2021-11-03/taiwan-china-us-tensions-semiconductor-chip-supply-3482114.html Xi hopes to occupy Taiwan without firing a shot but he domestic pressure might push. So there's a global effort to build strategic chips elsewhere. #PS1china ===== impress 46 time 2021-11-10 15:24 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1458455604419170307 ========== Vaccine news Better measurements of ongoing immunity coming https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2021/11/08/is-your-covid-19-vaccine-working-the-future-of-antibody-testing-so-far/ Unvaccinated pregnant women at higher risk https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2021/11/08/why-only-one-third-of-pregnant-women-are-vaccinated-against-covid-19-and-what-they-should-know/ #PS1virus ===== impress 24 time 2021-11-10 15:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1458453866559672320 ========== What does the rest of the world owe to nations sinking beneath the sea? https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/11/09/cop26-tuvalu-underwater/ #PS1climate ===== impress 18 time 2021-11-10 14:15 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1458438143112146949 ========== A downside of public trials that the Founders never imagined. https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2021/11/10/charlottesville-trial-white-supremacists-courtroom/ #PS1insurrection ===== impress 26 time 2021-11-10 14:06 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1458435839432613891 ========== “There is nothing more expensive than something free” https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/09/we-can-fix-facebook-its-going-cost-us/ #PS1media ===== impress 19 time 2021-11-10 05:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1458309019471253506 ========== Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP show their true colors - turning on each other, far worse than Democrats. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/republicans-infrastructure-biden/2021/11/09/cc0c4c9e-4167-11ec-9ea7-3eb2406a2e24_story.html Who said GOP doesn't belong to Trump? #PS1gop ===== impress 22 time 2021-11-10 05:38 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1458308128680808456 ========== Major donors had conscience pangs after Jan 6 but have gotten over them. Many donate to both sides anyway, to maintain access. They donate through PACs, to avoid publicity. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/republican-fundraising-insurrection-january6-nrsc/2021/11/09/1e260f2a-3753-11ec-9a5d-93a89c74e76d_story.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1536490616695452 #PS1gop ===== impress 24 time 2021-11-10 05:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1458302541255495682 ========== "Presidents are not kings, and Plaintiff is not President" https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-donald-trump-kayleigh-mcenany-mark-meadows-capitol-siege-0a47eb4f90e17310d6a574e6762d83a4 #PS1insurrection ===== impress 41 time 2021-11-10 05:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1458299077708300291 ========== Wage increases not beating inflation! https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-09-17/inflation-has-turned-15-an-hour-wages-into-a-setback #PS1economics ===== impress 17 time 2021-11-10 03:53 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1458281754100260872 ========== CEO pay and performance https://www.nvdaily.com/nvdaily/motley-food/article_70f356a7-0789-52b2-a7ae-6377465e6cf0.html Worse performance - better pay! #PS1economics ===== impress 16 time 2021-11-10 03:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1458281053303414794 ========== How cult of personality immortalizes itself. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/07/world/asia/china-xi-jinping.html #PS1china ===== impress 15 time 2021-11-10 03:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1458280005583007744 ========== Congressional Black Caucus saved the day. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/06/us/politics/infrastructure-black-caucus-vote.html #PS1biden ===== impress 16 time 2021-11-10 03:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1458278647123484672 ========== Christie and Sununu try to talk sense to the Republican Jewish Coalition - focus on the future, not the past. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/07/us/politics/republican-party-trump.html Cruz got a much better response by praising Trump. But Cruz twice declined to say whether Trump should be the candidate in 2024. #PS1gop ===== impress 30 time 2021-11-10 02:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1458257248866603008 ========== If rural America wants to defend minority rule by embracing fantasy culture wars - they are indeed lost to the factual Democratic Party. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/06/us/rural-vote-democrats-virginia.html #PS1minority ===== impress 17 time 2021-11-10 02:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1458255553814155267 ========== 1619 was a pivotal year - and America is still pivoting. "a republic founded on an irresolvable contradiction — freedom and slavery — was always going to wind up in an irresolvable argument over how to tell its story" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/09/magazine/1619-project-us-history.html Now in a book. #PS1other ===== impress 23 time 2021-11-10 02:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1458253694772731905 ========== Want a normal economy? Get everybody vaccinated. Previous recession recoveries provide no model for this one. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/08/opinion/covid-recession.html Long term, the economic lessons of covid are likely to be forgotten. Back to driving out cost with JIT logistics! #PS1recovery ===== impress 26 time 2021-11-10 01:19 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1458242869060243459 ========== the modern Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP is "constitutionally incapable of investing in America’s future" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/08/opinion/infrastructure-bill-biden.html Trump couldn't draft an infrastructure bill, but Biden got one passed - with a little GOP help, which was denounced by most of the GOP. #PS1infrastructure ===== impress 24 time 2021-11-10 01:14 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1458241620361367553 ========== Switching from coal to natural gas helps a little, but not enough. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/09/opinion/climate-emissions-developing-countries.html #PS1climate ===== impress 19 time 2021-11-10 01:07 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1458239828462505985 ========== The economic structure underlying racism https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/09/opinion/structural-racism.html There's nothing new about these ideas. What's new is a redoubled and unapologetic push to deny them. #PS1economics ===== impress 26 time 2021-11-10 01:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1458239250189615104 ========== Minority rule? https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html Time for Democrats to call out that Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP scam for what it is. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/06/democrats-avoided-defeating-themselves-now-they-must-defeat-plutocratic-populists/ #PS1biden ===== impress 22 time 2021-11-10 00:43 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1458233802539499521 ========== How can local journalism be saved from the "free" internet? https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2021/11/07/media-newspapers-print-ipad-little-rock/ #PS1journalism ===== impress 22 time 2021-11-10 00:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1458231761091973124 ========== Measuring Biden with Trump's yardstick. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/11/09/biden-economy-is-doing-pretty-well-by-measures-trump-used-evaluate-his-own/ #PS1economics ===== impress 24 time 2021-11-10 00:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1458231405599625217 ========== Don't threaten just the legislator, but his staff and family too! That's what Nazis and Communists would do - learn from the experts! https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/gop-rep-fred-upton-receives-death-threats-after-voting-for-bipartisan-infrastructure-deal/2021/11/09/78fe5ac8-4195-11ec-9ea7-3eb2406a2e24_story.html #PS1insurrection ===== impress 21 time 2021-11-10 00:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1458230430524608517 ========== Youngkin wouldn't let a dropout with no financial experience run his hedge fund. But he feels qualified to govern. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/08/glenn-youngkin-won-pragmatic-conservative-how-will-he-change-virginia-policy/ He'll find every move is under intense scrutiny by ambitious pols eager to pounce on any misstep - and that's just the GOP! #PS1politics ===== engage 1 engage-rate 4% impress 25 time 2021-11-10 00:26 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1458229539352444931 ========== There's more money in simple disinformation than complicated information. Compare Fox and PBS. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/09/maga-denialism-covid-19-is-killing-its-adherents/ And there's the money comes from those with an interest in dividing the masses against themselves, and in weakening American social cohesion. #PS1media ===== impress 29 time 2021-11-10 00:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1458227038737731585 ========== It's easy to get swept up in a mob - especially if you believe the president is with you and for you. https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2021/11/09/rioters-charges-arrests-jan-6-insurrection/ Surprise! Trump is not there for those who fail in their mission. #PS1insurrection ===== impress 22 time 2021-11-10 00:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1458225373745860610 ========== Trumpists don't have to obey any laws they don't like, due to divine right of imperial privilege. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/11/09/year-later-an-obviously-illegal-campaign-stunt-is-determined-have-been-illegal/ https://apnews.com/article/presidential-elections-election-2020-elections-778951007a888c1f2af6babbb198634b #PS1trumpism ===== impress 23 time 2021-11-10 00:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1458223429048422400 ========== Subdivisions in American politics. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/11/09/democrat-republican-voters-survey Stressed Sideliners can decide the future of the country. But that are the least informed about and active in politics. #PS1theory ===== impress 36 time 2021-11-09 23:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1458222503621390337 ========== No easy fix - https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/11/09/biden-supply-chain-ports/ Where are they going to find more truck drivers to deliver all the cargo containers they'll pile up? #PS1economics ===== impress 35 time 2021-11-09 23:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1458220544298348544 ========== Sounds like domestic terrorism to most people. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/death-threats-online-abuse-police-protection-school-board-members-face-dark-new-reality/2021/11/09/db007706-37fe-11ec-9bc4-86107e7b0ab1_story.html Follow the money to find the motivation! #PS1trumpism ===== impress 30 time 2021-11-09 23:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1458219656095809536 ========== Ransomware kingpins will probably watch their steps more from now on. https://apnews.com/article/technology-crime-arrests-hacking-cybercrime-ab4fe21487943f21bdae6dc769ece60a #PS1ransomware ===== impress 36 time 2021-11-09 23:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1458213401352491008 ========== Violence is as Trumpist as apple pie! https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-arizona-kevin-mccarthy-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-cortez-2d3c043a97b49e3e0c5192c5454fe2d6 The key is to get other people to take the risk for your benefit. Same as using other people's money. #PS1insurrection ===== impress 35 time 2021-11-09 23:15 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1458211736138379275 ========== The last conglomerate? Good riddance! https://apnews.com/article/business-0efa0e45cba17ec5e51011b83bdd52f1 May it soon be joined by leveraged buyouts and similar scams. #PS1economics ===== impress 27 time 2021-11-09 23:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1458210117816512523 ========== What's faulty about fitting the science to support the donors' goals? https://apnews.com/article/science-business-california-forests-oregon-48c1dc3a59bda47c178437d6b1e538bd #PS1deregulation ===== impress 29 time 2021-11-09 23:04 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1458208930283147267 ========== When the saints come marching in, and decline to testify, citing divine right of imperial privilege. https://apnews.com/article/steve-bannon-joe-biden-donald-trump-capitol-siege-campaigns-effb7335026cfc38fdd8ad6e2ed60ad0 https://apnews.com/article/steve-bannon-joe-biden-donald-trump-stephen-miller-capitol-siege-cd795b70e428f2306e73ac23a7abe02e #PS1insurrection ===== impress 27 time 2021-11-09 22:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1458207012458622977 ========== "and who paid for it all" We all know Trump believes in using other people's money. Which other people? https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-capitol-siege-elections-subpoenas-michael-flynn-08e816bf6f04e62fd71638755b392ed4 #PS1insurrection ===== impress 28 time 2021-11-09 07:48 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1457978295530582016 ========== Return of the Barbary Pirates To fight international hostage-taking, the US needs to close Guantanamo https://www.political-scrapbook.net/controversial.html#guantanamo Americans working abroad must realize that their high salary is partial compensation for their high risk. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/interactive/2021/hostage-taking-americans-foreign-governments/ #PS1foreign ===== impress 39 time 2021-11-09 05:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1457946518040711174 ========== "woke" is like "critical race theory" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/08/wake-up-these-woke-distortions/ Whatever it originally meant to its original audience, now it's a convenient label for anybody to the left of the modern Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP. They couldn't care less what it originally meant. #PS1gop ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 32 likes 1 time 2021-11-09 05:26 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1457942688557264897 ========== "and who paid for it all" We all know Trump believe in using other people's money. Which other people? https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-capitol-siege-elections-subpoenas-michael-flynn-08e816bf6f04e62fd71638755b392ed4 #PS1insurrection ===== impress 3 time 2021-11-09 05:07 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1457937995592466434 ========== Great news for Trumpists in trouble with the law! You're welcome in Belarus! https://washingtonpost.com/world/europe/capitol-rioter-asylum-belarus/2021/11/08/fbc4eb14-4093-11ec-9404-50a28a88b9cd_story.html And if you're a Trumpist, you're going to eventually get in trouble either with the law or with Trump. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1535608463450334 #PS1insurrection ===== impress 37 time 2021-11-08 20:26 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1457806833335209986 ========== Idealistic legislators soon get pulled into the mechanics of staying in Congress - "dialing for dollars". https://washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/11/08/mitch-mcconnell-trump-impeachment-insurrection-senate/ Who's in charge of the modern Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP - Donald Trump or McConnell's donors? More at https://facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1535502003460980 #PS1gop ===== impress 38 time 2021-11-08 16:36 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1457748816367550465 ========== Planning for war, practicing just in case, or just bluffing? https://apnews.com/article/business-china-united-states-beijing-navy-da8da0eb9a4a6d9e53671d25837cae11 Xi might not want war, but might be pushed by popular opinion. #PS1china ===== impress 35 time 2021-11-08 15:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1457730327103737857 ========== Remember medicaid expansion https://www.kff.org/medicaid/issue-brief/status-of-state-medicaid-expansion-decisions-interactive-map/ Will the states with Trumpist governors and legislatures try to block or delay infrastructure improvements just to make sure their residents don't see any benefit from Biden? https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-business-barack-obama-economy-94c4b2349356f5aa8a776e11720b6f61 #PS1biden ===== impress 33 time 2021-11-08 15:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1457728865862709252 ========== Trump couldn't accomplish the positive parts of his campaign promises because the donors weren't interested or he was afraid he might lose. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/biden-trump-infrastructure-afghanistan/2021/11/07/7c7a5534-3f34-11ec-8ee9-4f14a26749d1_story.html So Biden did it instead. #PS1biden ===== impress 36 time 2021-11-08 04:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1457568506648563713 ========== A positive take on Biden's year. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/07/imagine-if-virginia-governors-election-had-been-held-week-later/ Gloom and doom does get higher media ratings than incremental progress. #PS1biden ===== impress 32 time 2021-11-08 04:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1457566666808709121 ========== What's a Democrat? https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/democrats-biden-virginia-new-jersey-infrastructure/2021/11/07/d5811f7e-3e43-11ec-bfad-8283439871ec_story.html Thanks to Trump, the answer is easy. Democrats are the fact-based party; the Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP is the fantasy-based party. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1535152776829236 #PS1politics ===== impress 36 time 2021-11-08 03:43 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1457554388008927238 ========== How to fight back against GOP minority rule https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/07/distinguished-pols-week-how-respond-gop-lies/ #PS1gop ===== impress 31 time 2021-11-07 17:24 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1457398489344712706 ========== The defenders of the hereditary nobility https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html lead the way back to medieval superstition among the peasants. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/07/were-losing-ground-against-diseases-weve-already-defeated/ And quack cures are more profitable because you don't have to waste money testing for safety and effectiveness. #PS1health ===== impress 34 time 2021-11-07 17:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1457397147507200000 ========== Taliban decide maybe vaccination not such a bad idea. https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-health-pakistan-public-health-taliban-7b2152ba4a133d2bbe27a821dcfaf349 That leaves Pakistan as the other remaining polio hotspot. #PS1health ===== impress 37 time 2021-11-07 14:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1457353902488055813 ========== GOP hopes to win governor's races in swing states - so they can throw out any election results they don't like. https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-donald-trump-joe-biden-election-2020-marquette-8240218cd0d94151c29d8632b8787f72 #PS1gop ===== impress 30 time 2021-11-07 14:19 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1457351957450874881 ========== Virus on the rise again among the unvaccinated and uninfected https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/11/06/californias-covid-19-case-rate-now-twice-floridas-whats-up-with-that/ Maybe due to winter weather leading people indoors. #PS1virus ===== impress 35 time 2021-11-07 14:04 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1457348267453280257 ========== Ranked choice voting - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#preferential saved the GOP in Virginia - https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/how-ranked-choice-voting-saved-the-virginia-gop-from-itself/2021/11/05/6d1aa738-3dc2-11ec-8ee9-4f14a26749d1_story.html and should be used everywhere; it can minimize the influence of extreme candidates and factions in the Democratic party too. #PS1democracy ===== impress 35 time 2021-11-07 06:31 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1457234234486054914 ========== Historically, most farmers and ranchers voted Republican. The difference is that now they ALL do. Can the Democrats respond effectively when voters vote against their own interest? https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/sundaytake-democrats-losing-rural/2021/11/06/3f316194-3f0d-11ec-bfad-8283439871ec_story.html #PS1politics ===== engage 2 engage-rate 7% impress 29 likes 1 time 2021-11-07 06:24 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1457232553354547202 ========== Bipartisanship is dead! https://www.newsweek.com/must-eliminated-trump-republicans-vow-oust-gop-members-who-voted-infrastructure-1646725 Pure Trumpists plan to purge the GOP representatives who voted for the infrastructure bill, even though it was drafted by a bipartisan Senate committee. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1534529336891580 #PS1gop ===== impress 33 time 2021-11-07 05:31 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1457219211277656068 ========== Democratization of technology! https://www.liberty-and-justice.net/ Coming soon to a presidential palace near you! https://apnews.com/article/middle-east-fires-iraq-baghdad-embassies-4069e75a45ee9b4eaa5e93648fa15211 #PS1technology ===== impress 31 time 2021-11-07 05:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1457215876613107712 ========== Community vaccination successes. https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2021/11/05/mathews-vaccination-victories-in-californias-vegetable-valleys/ #PS1virus ===== impress 43 time 2021-11-06 13:43 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1456980444495314953 ========== How the hereditary nobility perpetuates itself by avoiding taxation. https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2021/11/05/opinion-repealing-death-tax-will-help-family-businesses-stay-afloat/ They talk about small businesses but the campaign money comes from higher up. You can tell when they say "death tax" to mean "estate tax". #PS1tax ===== impress 47 time 2021-11-06 13:37 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1456979117417504777 ========== Why are there so many spending laws passed to expire after a year or two? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/04/us/politics/democrats-spending-bill-budget-tricks.html It's a bipartisan way of increasing spending under reconciliation, hoping future Congresses will extend them. So it's ultimately about getting around filibuster. #PS1democracy ===== impress 44 time 2021-11-06 13:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1456978087120232454 ========== Hazards of comparing the new PRC to the old Soviet Union. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/02/opinion/biden-china-cold-war.html #PS1china ===== impress 54 time 2021-11-06 04:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1456842151552159745 ========== Implications of wardrobe. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/05/opinion/the-politics-of-a-sleeveless-silhouette.html #PS1other ===== impress 45 time 2021-11-06 04:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1456841009908764672 ========== GOP defends violent threats against school board members. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/05/us/politics/school-board-threats.html As always, they say it's a "states rights" issue that the Federal government shouldn't be involved in, even if the states won't act. We've seen this movie before. #PS1insurrection ===== impress 41 time 2021-11-06 04:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1456839328756219906 ========== What happens when "status quo bias" is disrupted by external shocks? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/05/opinion/great-resignation-quit-job.html #PS1economics ===== impress 43 time 2021-11-06 04:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1456837954681200645 ========== Election fraud begins at home - in the GOP governor-elect's home. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/glenn-youngkin-son-vote-election/2021/11/05/f5eb7ce0-3e62-11ec-8ee9-4f14a26749d1_story.html #PS1election ===== impress 42 time 2021-11-06 03:53 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1456832115568381963 ========== It's still legal to kill anybody you don't like in most states, as long as there aren't any witnesses willing to dispute your story. Or surveillance video. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/11/05/ahmaud-arbery-citizens-arrest-vigilante/ #PS1justice ===== impress 42 time 2021-11-06 03:48 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1456830945118470148 ========== The House Democrats finally passed an infrastructure bill that had already passed the Senate months ago. https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/11/05/house-infrastructure-reconciliation-vote/ They all recognized that they had better do SOMEthing while they still could. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1533792573631923 #PS1biden ===== engage 2 engage-rate 3% impress 80 likes 1 retweets 1 time 2021-11-06 03:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1456828993777258506 ========== University of Florida reverses due to bad publicity. But would they do it again? https://apnews.com/article/elections-education-florida-voting-voting-rights-cc0aa16e9a5b3fb78e979b81db4c9a6b #PS1other ===== impress 48 time 2021-11-06 03:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1456820870450614272 ========== Willing to appear but not to talk. https://apnews.com/article/steve-bannon-donald-trump-elections-capitol-siege-judiciary-0e0ecd9c92c5749a1b1b5736a9bafc97 Trumpists will need to do better than that to avoid prosecution for contempt. They're in a tough place because Trump might be re-elected in 2024 and his vengeance knows no bounds. #PS1insurrection ===== impress 47 time 2021-11-06 03:06 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1456820165375451174 ========== Democrats defer catastrophe for ten days. https://apnews.com/article/immigration-joe-biden-business-health-environment-87d4c106c2a57e2c88525ef9db59e776 Will the CBO analysis really make any difference? Is lacking that what they are really objecting to? #PS1biden ===== impress 49 time 2021-11-06 02:54 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1456817357989367818 ========== Is this the end of the Biden domestic agenda? https://apnews.com/article/immigration-joe-biden-business-health-environment-87d4c106c2a57e2c88525ef9db59e776 It's hard to imagine any new information changing recalcitrants' minds next week. The CBO estimate is also unlikely to change any minds. It's a big victory now for GOP and a bigger one in 2022. #PS1biden ===== engage 2 engage-rate 1% impress 170 time 2021-11-05 20:13 +0000 urlclicks 1 userclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1456716242539016193 ========== That was the week that wasn't. https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-soccer-sports-business-health-bde890db6b8e40bb2e26ece0c468000c Never a dull week in the media propaganda business! #PS1media ===== impress 119 time 2021-11-05 18:48 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1456694954474967043 ========== Kissinger in the Middle East - solving problems and creating them. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/26/books/review/master-of-the-game-martin-indyk.html #PS1mideast ===== impress 116 time 2021-11-05 17:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1456681784838529029 ========== The GOP's KGB has been at work! https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/05/us/politics/project-veritas-investigation-ashley-biden-diary.html But the FBI is finally getting on the case. #PS1gop ===== impress 113 time 2021-11-05 17:52 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1456680727324463107 ========== Waving the bloody shirt of rebellion - whether in 1861 or 2021. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/05/opinion/democrats-bloody-shirt-jan-6.html If sinners won't repent, then you have to keep reminding the righteous of the sins that the sinners won't repent. #PS1insurrection ===== impress 51 time 2021-11-05 17:48 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1456679865759911939 ========== He's got Koch money but still he asks for more. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/05/new-jersey-governor-ciattarelli-republicans-fraud-lies/ Even lost elections are GOP fund-raising opportunities! But they don't intend to lose any more elections, no matter how the votes come out. #PS1democracy ===== impress 113 time 2021-11-05 17:38 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1456677237822947328 ========== A practical plan for climate. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/04/climate-we-need-run-fast-not-run-scared/ Practical in the technical sense, but is the political will there? The status quo benefits so many powerful interests that don't look beyond their lifetimes. #PS1climate ===== impress 117 time 2021-11-05 15:46 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1456649004700164113 ========== Persuadable swing voters mostly don't follow politics or economics closely. They couldn't tell you what BBB contained even if it weren't constantly shifting. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/05/virginia-results-build-back-better/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1533450146999499 #PS1biden ===== impress 113 time 2021-11-05 15:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1456647329251880965 ========== How to build a cult of personality. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/china-xi-jinping-history/2021/11/05/387835c8-388f-11ec-9662-399cfa75efee_story.html #PS1china ===== impress 117 time 2021-11-05 13:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1456614393794347015 ========== Far more addictive than opioids! https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/11/05/pharmaceutical-industry-drug-price-lobbying/ Money is the mother's milk of politics, especially dark money. Every legislator knows what it costs to oppose the drug industry, and what it gains by serving it. #PS1biden ===== impress 113 time 2021-11-05 12:53 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1456605555418562567 ========== Can the Democrats get their act together in the House? Somebody will always find something else to complain about and stall about. https://apnews.com/article/climate-immigration-joe-biden-business-health-da0c5847fe7f3a846ca076c214bb0c79 Then they have to get it through the Senate, and then a conference committee to reconcile differences. #PS1biden ===== impress 120 time 2021-11-05 12:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1456602826289737729 ========== Remember when people thought that the corner was turned on racism when Obama was elected? https://apnews.com/article/lifestyle-elections-education-race-and-ethnicity-racial-injustice-fc8501fa2b0ef655933f4cce27bf4c9a Instead we got the Tea Party. Racism is too potent a tool for the modern Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP to abstain from using it to protect minority rule. #PS1minority ===== impress 122 time 2021-11-05 12:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1456601150887661571 ========== Like other advanced economies, America "has become inextricably dependent on foreign-born workers to perform essential tasks". https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/03/opinion/us-immigration-politics.html So GOP donors want to keep immigration illegal but possible - to obtain cheap exploitable labor. #PS1immigration ===== impress 124 time 2021-11-05 04:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1456479820838178822 ========== Political considerations at the Supreme Court over abortion. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/03/opinion/roe-v-wade-texas-abortion-sb8.html They know what they were nominated and confirmed to do. But they want to go about it carefully. #PS1justice ===== impress 116 time 2021-11-05 04:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1456474718161149953 ========== "concession is not just a symbolic gesture. It is the sine qua non of representative democracy - the loser’s acceptance of the legitimacy of the opponent" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/03/opinion/virgina-election-mcauliffe-democrats-concede.html But the Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP is not going to concede to anybody. #PS1democracy ===== impress 110 time 2021-11-05 04:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1456473465020510214 ========== Will Democrats with cold feet scuttle BBB and the Biden administration - and be defeated in 2022 anyway? They'd deserve it. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/04/us/politics/house-democrats-biden.html #PS1biden ===== impress 114 time 2021-11-05 03:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1456470257170718723 ========== 44 months would be getting off light. Only a white man could hope for that little. https://apnews.com/article/new-jersey-capitol-siege-sentencing-077f838a75c75496ee2ee059811a1066 #PS1insurrection ===== impress 113 time 2021-11-05 03:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1456463458447159301 ========== Latino voters made the difference in Virginia. They don't like crime or socialism. How should Democrats address them? https://entertainment--news.com/2021/11/04/barabak-democrats-cant-afford-to-take-latino-vote-for-granted/ #PS1election ===== impress 123 time 2021-11-05 03:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1456462768496775170 ========== Want to end pandemic restrictions? Get everybody in the whole world vaccinated. https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/g-20-pope-francis-biden-pandemic-putin-bolsenaro-xi-jinping-20211102.html #PS1virus ===== impress 111 time 2021-11-05 03:20 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1456461488151941131 ========== How do you just vote NO on legalized gambling? https://calmatters.org/commentary/2021/11/california-sports-betting-ballot-measures/ They'll have to hire paid signature gatherers because nobody would sign on otherwise. #PS1capolitics ===== impress 112 time 2021-11-05 03:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1456460762717691912 ========== Trying to escape by pivoting to something new? Doesn't usually work. Emulating Elon Musk might not be the best plan either. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-11-03/mark-zuckerberg-takes-a-page-from-elon-musk-s-book-with-the-metaverse #PS1technology ===== impress 114 time 2021-11-05 03:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1456460347234156545 ========== How bad is the economy? Depends on who you count. https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/11/04/new-study-finds-millions-of-workers-are-functionally-unemployed/ #PS1capolitics ===== impress 110 time 2021-11-05 03:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1456458598276427781 ========== Limits on hackers for hire. https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-united-states-spyware-e15abad12084154b873765b420ae5f05 #PS1technology ===== impress 113 time 2021-11-05 03:07 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1456458156066828290 ========== Smartmatic sues Newsmax and OAN for defamation. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/03/business/media/smartmatic-newsmax-oan.html They've already sued Fox. Dominion has also sued them all, as well as individuals. Is "just reporting what prominent people say" an adequate defense if you know what they say is false? #PS1media ===== impress 116 time 2021-11-05 03:06 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1456457788113096706 ========== Democrats' path forward must include confornting race as an issue that the ruling class uses to divide the masses. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html GOP has been doing that since Nixon completed the conversion of Lincoln GOP into Dixiecrat GOP. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/04/opinion/democrats-republicans-virginia-race.html #PS1minority ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% impress 117 time 2021-11-05 02:08 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1456443169025839106 ========== "nobody elected Franklin D. Roosevelt to 'be F.D.R.'" https://washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/04/memo-democrats-be-loud-be-proud/ https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/04/opinion/democrats-election-congress-vaccines.html Better to fail attempting something great than fail attempting something little. Obamacare proved that GOP can't undo a popular program once enacted. #PS1biden ===== impress 108 time 2021-11-05 01:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1456440962079596550 ========== A contrarian point of view on urbanization and social inequality. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/04/opinion/graeber-wengrow-dawn-of-everything-history.html #PS1other ===== impress 114 time 2021-11-05 01:54 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1456439817043001347 ========== How can we avoid the "metaverse"? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/02/style/meta-facebook.html The one thing we can be sure of is it will be intended to be immensely profitable - for somebody else. And it might well be immensely profitable - for somebody completely different from its founders. #PS1technology ===== impress 113 time 2021-11-05 01:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1456437231430684674 ========== Henry Olsen doesn't get that the modern Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP exists to protect and extend minority rule. Donors will make sure that none of Olsen's ideas get any GOP support in Congress. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/04/here-are-some-proposals-that-republicans-can-embrace-tax-rich/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1533022437042270 #PS1tax ===== impress 117 time 2021-11-05 01:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1456434845324742656 ========== "nobody elected Franklin D. Roosevelt to 'be F.D.R.'" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/04/memo-democrats-be-loud-be-proud/ The case for boldness against timidity. Better to fail attempting something great than fail attempting something little. #PS1biden ===== impress 2 time 2021-11-05 01:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1456433093628375042 ========== Judge overrules Trump bluster about former executive privilege. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/trump-records-hearing-jan-6-committee/2021/11/04/4884a830-3d7f-11ec-bfad-8283439871ec_story.html #PS1insurrection ===== impress 114 time 2021-11-05 01:23 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1456431872787894282 ========== FBI criminal prosecution for worst violent flight behaviors. https://www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2021/11/04/faa-refers-unruly-passengers-fbi/ Flight attendants cheer! But the passengers were only following Trump's example and ignoring laws they don't like. But can they afford the same lawyers as Trump? #PS1justice ===== impress 119 time 2021-11-05 01:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1456430391254937602 ========== Convicted of being a poster-child dumb blonde. https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-crime-texas-prisons-social-media-0f9e470c9871a2f5f1440df76ee23671 #PS1insurrection ===== impress 112 time 2021-11-05 01:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1456429369497321473 ========== NY prosecutors continue to look into Trump's deceptive real estate valuations. https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-business-new-york-manhattan-cyrus-vance-jr-282f483ecf8ccfb47f4526a36f52d2c2 #PS1trump ===== impress 115 time 2021-11-05 01:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1456429048335257602 ========== What's the GOP doing to make it easier for women to re-enter the workforce? https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-business-lifestyle-health-careers-075d3b0ab89baffc5e2b9a80e11dcf34 Voting against any Democratic proposal to make it easier for women to re-enter the workforce! What did you expect? More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1531774793833701 #PS1recovery ===== impress 110 time 2021-11-05 01:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1456427481607540736 ========== More fallout from the Steele dossier https://apnews.com/article/europe-russia-arrests-john-durham-9d2344081036235309346ad95b14a8bc It's best not to lie to the FBI. #PS1russian ===== impress 103 time 2021-11-04 18:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1456320870964596750 ========== Just as Juan Peron was more useful to Peronistas when dead, or at least in exile, than alive, so Trump is more useful to Trumpists dead, or at least quiet. than alive and noisy. But how much longer can he contain himself? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/03/opinion/trump-youngkin-virginia.html #PS1trumpism ===== impress 101 time 2021-11-04 15:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1456283535375933449 ========== Low Democratic turnout in NY had its usual effect. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/03/nyregion/ny-ballot-measures.html https://nytimes.com/2021/11/03/nyregion/republican-election-results-new-york.html Voters need to understand that nothing changes unless they vote in every election on every candidate and issue. #PS1election ===== impress 97 time 2021-11-04 15:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1456281481353961474 ========== Wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat There is an endless supply of the gullible who can be talked into doing the dangerous work for the benefit of others. https://apnews.com/article/business-religion-pakistan-media-social-media-ee6744ea3fa9c7adc5cf15ed058a75f5 #PS1insurrection ===== impress 100 time 2021-11-04 13:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1456259578744561664 ========== More issues less Trump??? Not while he's still alive! His #1 priority is revenge on disloyal Republicans. He's the Democrats' secret weapon. https://apnews.com/article/steve-bannon-donald-trump-joe-biden-business-new-jersey-a3ba46211afd0c8be332982c52538d95 #PS1gop ===== impress 96 time 2021-11-04 13:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1456255485141680134 ========== "Democrat should stand for doer, not delay, dithering, do nothing, division" No need to imitate the GOP's mastery of delay, dithering, do nothing, division. https://apnews.com/article/elections-senate-elections-barack-obama-virginia-election-2020-74dc88bf945d78882e84139f47beec7f #PS1biden ===== impress 93 time 2021-11-04 13:37 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1456254256026030086 ========== The resurrection of nuclear energy https://apnews.com/article/climate-science-business-environment-accidents-b334c5cddc50c620d53674a5b32518dd No greenhouse gases, but can you name even one American state willing to have uranium mining, ore processing, power generation, and waste disposal within its boundaries? #PS1climate ===== impress 106 time 2021-11-04 13:12 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1456247919061786631 ========== Constitutional sheriffs - another movement to thwart the Constitution. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/constitutional-sheriffs-elections-trump-pandemic/2021/11/01/4c14c764-368b-11ec-91dc-551d44733e2d_story.html What the Constitution means is decided by the Supreme Court, not sheriffs. They swear to uphold the Constitution. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 100 time 2021-11-04 05:12 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1456127239871889408 ========== Where does climate disinformation agitprop come from? The usual suspects - Breitbart, Russia Today, oil companies. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/11/02/facebook-climate-change-misinformation-breitbart/ #PS1media ===== impress 97 time 2021-11-04 05:06 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1456125565296021504 ========== What's the Democratic response to GOP's "parental say in education" ploy? https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/parent-control-schools-republican-virginia/2021/11/03/313e8a68-3cc3-11ec-a493-51b0252dea0c_story.html #PS1gop ===== impress 102 time 2021-11-04 04:46 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1456120604579352580 ========== What, exactly, will Youngkin about campaign promises? Almost all of them require getting the legislature to act. Issues important to single-issue GOP voters will get him into trouble either with the Trump base or the persuadables. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/glenn-youngkin-virginia-trump/2021/11/03/b66bf55e-3cb9-11ec-8ee9-4f14a26749d1_story.html #PS1gop ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 38 time 2021-11-04 04:34 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1456117659280363529 ========== Mixed results for reactionary attacks on school boards. Nevertheless, the GOP will likely take them national, based on success in Virginia. https://apnews.com/article/election-day-school-boards-1e1f556e51de3f25c6f6eedb6f7a0ebe #PS1gop ===== impress 108 time 2021-11-04 04:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1456114503926497284 ========== Do insurrectionists who are veterans deserve harsher or more lenient treatment? https://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-veterans-e98fcc0785fc80c40aaa8855dd12da92 #PS1insurrection ===== impress 99 time 2021-11-04 04:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1456111882763341828 ========== PRC actively raising the cost of US defense of Taiwan. https://apnews.com/article/china-united-states-beijing-nuclear-weapons-congress-5a8c5ceb9d248810b9dd513894f195f8 #PS1china ===== impress 96 time 2021-11-04 04:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1456110969688518659 ========== How the Frankenbill sausage gets made https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2021-10-31/party-of-ideas-produces-a-frankenbill-it-just-might-work GOP is desperate to kill it before it's passed and its parts become popular. #PS1biden ===== impress 25 time 2021-11-03 13:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1455897528583409671 ========== Good news for GOP! https://apnews.com/article/business-economy-prices-inflation-d98e33f5f024e5109486b70662196ed7 GOP has no idea to cure supply-chain issues or mideast oil cutbacks. But they can offer plenty of criticism until they gain control of Congress, then they'll change the subject until the economy improves on its own. #PS1economics ===== impress 27 time 2021-11-03 13:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1455894342095151104 ========== Keys to GOP in 2022 and 2024 - https://apnews.com/article/virginia-election-ap-votecast-survey-75520c5c9a245bee384526abc138a61a More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1531774793833701 #PS1election ===== impress 23 time 2021-11-03 06:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1455787520856182788 ========== Read some history of state-encouraged private oppression of minorities - every minority except the ruling class of oppressors. https://washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/11/01/texas-abortion-law-history-rights-suppressed/ Greg Abbott proudly follows the historic river of Texas suppression. #PS1minority ===== impress 27 time 2021-11-03 06:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1455785523864223745 ========== Expect to hear a lot more about critical race theory from GOP candidates at every level. They define "critical race theory" as "telling the truth about American racial history". https://apnews.com/article/election-day-school-boards-1e1f556e51de3f25c6f6eedb6f7a0ebe More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1531774793833701 #PS1election ===== impress 24 time 2021-11-03 06:26 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1455783473323540485 ========== Preliminary election analysis https://apnews.com/article/election-2021-virginia-governor-glenn-youngkin-mcaulife-6cdbf77acf9a966e216ab2a297601baa https://apnews.com/article/election-night-takeaways-354cfaf5a23602a583c65288d9a8de9d https://apnews.com/article/election-2021-analysis-virginia-governor-youngkin-c78b860c08a2e7dfa4eba24cd1dc384e https://apnews.com/article/virginia-election-ap-votecast-survey-75520c5c9a245bee384526abc138a61a https://apnews.com/article/election-day-school-boards-1e1f556e51de3f25c6f6eedb6f7a0ebe Running against critical race theory seems to be a winner. #PS1election ===== impress 1 time 2021-11-03 05:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1455774429611368453 ========== Sure social media don't help people understand different viewpoints, and the business model depends on provoking conflict, but the internet itself seems to be incapable of understanding differences. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/01/opinion/facebook-social-media-problems.html This was obvious on USENET 35 years ago. #PS1media ===== impress 35 time 2021-11-02 03:14 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1455372702840082434 ========== Nobody has a right to infect other people. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/01/opinion/vaccine-mandates-biden-republicans.html #PS1virus ===== impress 26 time 2021-11-02 03:04 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1455370279291551750 ========== Is there a detour to gun safety around a reactionary Supreme Court? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/01/opinion/supreme-court-gun-control.html Between their single-issue voters and their donors, the GOP won't allow improving ATF technology any more than improving IRS enforcement. #PS1firearms ===== impress 34 time 2021-11-02 03:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1455369524811862020 ========== Democracies aren't good at dealing with exponential growth until it's too late. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#exponentials Dictatorships aren't much better. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/01/cop26-glasgow-climate-summit-ugly-start/ After all, unborn generations will not vote in the NEXT election. #PS1climate ===== impress 29 time 2021-11-02 02:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1455367901872103425 ========== More on games in DC! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/01/joe-manchins-throws-bomb-progressives-accidentally-hits-centrists/ #PS1biden ===== impress 28 time 2021-11-02 02:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1455366816415436801 ========== Fahrenheit 451 is what happens when politicians decide they are literary critics, at least when they are on Fox. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/01/why-books-have-become-battlefield-texas/ #PS1minority ===== impress 27 time 2021-11-02 02:48 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1455366116524511236 ========== The drug companies vs AARP - who's going to win? https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/11/01/reconciliaton-medicare-prescription-price-negotiation/ Manchin needs more time to review the legislation - with his donors. #PS1biden ===== impress 38 time 2021-11-02 02:43 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1455364957462163459 ========== There are always Quislings and Petains to collaborate. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/taliban-afghanistan-hazaras/2021/11/01/096c9690-3775-11ec-9662-399cfa75efee_story.html #PS1afghanistan ===== impress 29 time 2021-11-02 02:38 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1455363591289274373 ========== "It’s time our elected leaders in Washington stop playing games" Almost everybody would agree with Manchin on that. https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-business-joe-manchin-congress-54560074b59da74436ed6d0bd8a29b3c So let him show some leadership and be the first to stop playing games. If he's going to vote no regardless, he should say so. #PS1biden ===== engage 2 engage-rate 5% impress 41 time 2021-11-02 02:29 +0000 userclicks 2 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1455361285986471943 ========== Can fact overcome fantasy in Nov 2 elections? Election officials are doing what they can against an organized campaign of agitprop disinformation. https://apnews.com/article/elections-colorado-voting-presidential-elections-election-2020-c1c8271524e438367134557b0662dd15 Will the losers reject the results no matter what the facts? #PS1democracy ===== impress 35 time 2021-11-02 02:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1455359652137357315 ========== Facebook beat Wall Street earnings estimates and declared a $50 billion stock buyback to reward investors https://www.investopedia.com/facebook-q3-fy2021-earnings-report-recap-5207097 but failed at ethics on anti-vax https://apnews.com/article/the-facebook-papers-covid-vaccine-misinformation-c8bbc569be7cc2ca583dadb4236a0613 in India https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-technology-business-media-religion-9255fdedb5e238bd3ec74781f50d35f4 #PS1media ===== impress 33 time 2021-11-02 02:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1455358634259410948 ========== Don't think you're likely to consistently do better picking stocks than professional money managers. Passive index stock funds outperform actively managed funds on average. https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/savingandinvesting/jill-on-money-indexing-is-standing-the-test-of-time/ar-AAQ1Oiq More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1531012033909977 #PS1economics ===== impress 32 time 2021-11-02 02:06 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1455355610644373514 ========== Some history of state-encouraged private oppression of minorities. Every minority except the ruling class of oppressors. https://washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/11/01/texas-abortion-law-history-rights-suppressed/ Greg Abbott proudly follow the historic river of Texas suppression. #PS1minority ===== impress 3 time 2021-11-02 01:06 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1455340615424638976 ========== The triumph of Trumpism in - Afghanistan! You don't need any expertise or experience if you are loyal enough! https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-business-middle-east-health-kabul-fa7a556f60fe6eee85328acffb2f728a #PS1afghanistan ===== impress 46 time 2021-11-01 19:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1455257008899117056 ========== Congress to investigate University of Florida suppression of academic freedom? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/01/university-of-florida-desantis-voting-law/ It's clearly in the University's interest to promote DeSantis presidential campaign! #PS1 ===== impress 47 time 2021-11-01 17:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1455224366145232899 ========== The modern Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP in a nutshell - they only know how to preserve the status quo by opposing everything. They wouldn't fix any problems even if they knew how. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/31/rick-scotts-phony-problem-solving/ Their donors are satisfied, and what's the problem? #PS1gop ===== impress 34 time 2021-11-01 17:20 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1455223251571929090 ========== Some hoping to advance by encouraging other people's violence are rousing up the brown shirts everywhere. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/11/01/anti-vaccine-staten-island-protest-burn-threat/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/01/partisan-attacks-drove-me-out-my-job-texas-elections-official/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/11/01/4-10-who-say-election-was-stolen-trump-say-violence-might-be-needed-save-america/ GOP leaders not sufficiently supportive are getting the same threats. #PS1insurrection ===== impress 33 time 2021-11-01 17:14 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1455221844231917568 ========== You shouldn't enroll in AP literature unless you want to study AP literature at a college level. https://tribunecontentagency.com/article/leonard-pitts-jr-americas-nightmare-2/ Don't sign up for AP classes if you're not ready for college. But GOP candidates need to talk about SOMEthing other than Trump if they want to win. #PS1gop ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 38 time 2021-11-01 03:49 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1455019177282969603 ========== GOP blames Biden for supply chain inflation - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/26/business/economy/biden-inflation.html But - surprise! - England is suffering exactly the same problems under Trump pal Boris Johnson, because of Trump-endorsed Brexit. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/27/business/britain-budget-sunak.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1530403440637503 #PS1recovery ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% impress 58 time 2021-11-01 03:18 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1455011246210629636 ========== The super rich don't like any publicity. All publicity is bad publicity for them. https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/10/29/into-the-realm-of-the-super-rich-oakland-author-reports-from-the-gilded-edge/ They know perfectly well that accidents and luck have a lot to do with who gets rich and who doesn't. The best luck is to be born rich. #PS1economics ===== impress 39 time 2021-11-01 03:03 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1455007657643761673 ========== Stock buybacks in the oil patch - putting rising oil prices to profitable use! https://www.bloombergquint.com/business/chevron-crushes-estimates-as-gas-refining-spur-cash-flow-record Taxes on stock buybacks might be part of BBB, or might not. #PS1tax ===== impress 39 time 2021-11-01 02:53 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1455005073587650564 ========== Guantanamo https://www.political-scrapbook.net/controversial.html#guantanamo "a stain on the moral fiber of America" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/31/us/politics/guantanamo-torture-letter.html #PS1other ===== impress 31 time 2021-11-01 02:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1455004169656410124 ========== Is it really up to black women voter turnout? If the election is close enough, it is! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/30/can-black-voters-save-the-republic-again/ #PS1election ===== engage 3 engage-rate 4% impress 82 replies 1 time 2021-11-01 01:25 +0000 urlclicks 1 userclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1454982963414765568 ========== GOP wants to change the subject, but Trump is THE subject, and he will do everything he can to make sure he remains THE subject as long as he lives. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/31/sorry-glenn-youngkin-trump-is-biggest-issue-virginia-every-other-state/ #PS1trump ===== impress 34 time 2021-11-01 01:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1454982157538000900 ========== After workers endured 40 years of union-busting, covid provided leverage to revive the labor movement. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/10/31/faq-striketober/ #PS1economics ===== engage 2 engage-rate 6% impress 33 time 2021-11-01 01:18 +0000 urlclicks 2 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1454981125281964033 ========== Romney boldly steps up to declare himself part of the problem, not part of the solution. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/31/mitt-romney-filibuster-senate-democratic-institution/ He knows perfectly well that filibuster is a tool for obstruction, not for compromise. #PS1democracy ===== impress 32 time 2021-11-01 01:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1454979451016527877 ========== Slow progress on Trump's tariffs. https://apnews.com/article/g-20-summit-joe-biden-business-national-security-katherine-tai-a9ca8a72bb5bc8a5c859ed0067ebf199 They didn't increase American jobs, but they sure increased American prices. #PS1trade ===== impress 37 time 2021-11-01 01:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1454977221987164161 ========== US can't afford to subsidize American children. https://apnews.com/article/health-west-virginia-charleston-joe-manchin-e943df5b39ee385b62e5838e8125a50a It's so much cheaper to solve labor problems by exploiting illegal immigrants. #PS1biden ===== impress 32 time 2021-11-01 01:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1454976778963853313 ========== Insurrection! Introduction from editor https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/10/31/about-jan-6-insurrection-investigation/ Details - before during after https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2021/warnings-jan-6-insurrection/ Summary https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2021/jan-6-insurrection-capitol/#key-findings More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1530276347316879 #PS1insurrection ===== impress 27 time 2021-10-31 21:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1454930193705930752 ========== GOP might gain control of Congress in 2022. https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/10/30/biden-team-struggles-promote-economic-message-inflation-persists/ Persuadable swing voters will make up their minds based on current supply chain and inflation EFFECTS rather than long-term CAUSES. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1529855780692269 #PS1economics ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 29 time 2021-10-31 06:22 +0000 userclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1454695282063544324 ========== wikipedia - how the internet was originally supposed to work before the big bucks media and government realized the internet could be a profitable medium of entertainment-propaganda and personal surveillance. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/wikipedia-jimmy-wales-john-eastman-editing/2021/10/28/f2d61bea-35fd-11ec-9bc4-86107e7b0ab1_story.html #PS1media ===== impress 32 time 2021-10-31 05:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1454688716467752966 ========== Putin is threatening Ukraine again. They want to make it clear that everything is prepared for a lightning invasion of Ukraine at any time. Will they? The geopolitical purpose may be served just by the implicit threat. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/russian-troop-movements-near-ukraine-border-prompt-concern-in-us-europe/2021/10/30/c122e57c-3983-11ec-9662-399cfa75efee_story.html #PS1ukraine ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% impress 44 time 2021-10-31 05:48 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1454686745480495106 ========== Trump has been running for 2024 since January. He even admitted that he wouldn't admit it yet because of campaign finance laws. But he has found workarounds for all those. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-fundraising/2021/10/29/5b5a2e64-31b1-11ec-a1e5-07223c50280a_story.html He's the leading political fundraiser in the country. #PS1trump ===== impress 50 time 2021-10-31 05:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1454685115603320835 ========== New York is a blue state - but it has a bunch of Trumpists in its public employee ranks. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/10/30/vaccine-mandate-new-york-city-firefighters/ Seems they aren't THAT dedicated to serving the public. Some of them won't be serving the public for long. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 28 time 2021-10-31 05:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1454683083127414789 ========== Outsourcing critical business and military infrastructure to outer space does have its drawbacks. https://apnews.com/article/science-lifestyle-aurora-fourth-of-july-sun-9e5c3a010652635f22c3f0b59dce7545 But if you see a good aurora, enjoy it. #PS1technology ===== impress 25 time 2021-10-31 05:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1454680936830758913 ========== Two more tests of the Supreme Court's willingness to follow the Trump line. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/supreme-court-epa-greenhouse-gas/2021/10/29/33d2740e-38f6-11ec-91dc-551d44733e2d_story.html #PS1justice ===== impress 30 time 2021-10-30 13:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1454445521507012609 ========== In Florida everybody is free to infect everybody else, but faculty are not free to testify about voter suppression legislation. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/10/30/florida-voting-rights-desantis-lawsuit/ #PS1trumpism ===== impress 26 time 2021-10-30 13:43 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1454443766203387907 ========== Once a Republican says something bad about Trump, it's hard to recover, especially if it was true. https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-charlotte-north-carolina-senate-elections-election-2020-d4abd8175e44e7e33487994e5b2ca20d #PS1trumpism ===== impress 28 time 2021-10-30 13:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1454441585333051393 ========== A lucky break for Trump - but not for Brandon. https://apnews.com/article/lets-go-brandon-what-does-it-mean-republicans-joe-biden-ab13db212067928455a3dba07756a160 #PS1trumpism ===== impress 30 time 2021-10-30 13:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1454440461372772361 ========== Trump doesn't want anybody to know who he was talking to, when, or what about. He must be afraid it will prove something. His plan is to tie things up in court until he's re-elected. https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-joe-biden-lawsuits-united-states-capitol-siege-4e55ed79b42043fbdef1628d684e1495 #PS1trump ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 29 time 2021-10-30 13:25 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1454439396761956354 ========== Trump can cripple an agency faster than Biden can restore it! https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/10/29/bureau-land-management-grand-junction/ The Trump reorg was a success in benefiting his donors. #PS1deregulation ===== impress 34 time 2021-10-30 05:03 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1454312867465875456 ========== 66 former legislators file brief against Trump claims of executive privilege. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/former-congress-members-file-brief-opposing-trumps-attempt-to-shield-jan-6-records/2021/10/29/07dc57e0-38d6-11ec-9bc4-86107e7b0ab1_story.html #PS1insurrection ===== impress 35 time 2021-10-30 04:54 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1454310812986707969 ========== Better weapons don't necessarily make you safer. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/us-nuclear-weapons-electronic-sensors-accuracy/2021/10/28/79533ff0-34cc-11ec-9bc4-86107e7b0ab1_story.html Deterrence is psychological as well as technical. #PS1technology ===== impress 25 time 2021-10-30 04:53 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1454310344281583619 ========== GOP has a simple strategy for 2022 and 2024 - oppose everything in Congress and blame everything on Biden, even the stuff that Trump did. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/29/lets-go-brandon-republican-build-back-better-response/ They have an even lower opinion of their voters than Democrats do. So what - they defend the ruling class! #PS1gop ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 38 time 2021-10-30 04:47 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1454309078067408900 ========== The Trumpist Dixiecrat Republicans can proudly claim to be the spiritual descendants of Preston Brooks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preston_Brooks#Sumner_assault and Earl Landgrebe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Landgrebe#Watergate They'd rather fight than fact. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/29/republicans-insurrection-dont-confuse-them-with-facts/ #PS1gop ===== impress 26 time 2021-10-30 04:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1454307469056884740 ========== A guy was proselytizing for the LaRouche PAC outside a post office today, with posters saying "Trump can't do it by himself"! LaRouche was a perpetual presidential candidate and he still has a PAC! https://www.larouchepac.com/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1529184900759357 #PS1politics ===== engage 2 engage-rate 5% expands 1 impress 38 time 2021-10-30 04:31 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1454305008044822529 ========== Pence's counsel were having none of it - https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/pence-jacob-trump-op-ed/2021/10/29/d9f324ac-392b-11ec-91dc-551d44733e2d_story.html when Trumpists tried to blame Pence for the riot! https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/eastman-pence-email-riot-trump/2021/10/29/59373016-38c1-11ec-91dc-551d44733e2d_story.html It's the Trump way! Pence should have known that by now. #PS1insurrection ===== impress 22 time 2021-10-30 04:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1454300463055003651 ========== Biden chooses to expand Medicaid, knowing that GOP will kill it if they can. https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-business-seniors-medicaid-nursing-homes-da7a976587393d1522d74b602964132d #PS1biden ===== impress 28 time 2021-10-30 04:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1454297260989161481 ========== Supreme Court does not block vaccination requirement. https://apnews.com/article/us-supreme-court-health-maine-6f246ae1c1dd501e40ceb470f0cc2366 #PS1virus ===== impress 18 time 2021-10-30 03:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1454296775670464520 ========== Intelligence agencies can't tell about covid. https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-joe-biden-science-health-china-2fe4518ac7aef9b54ea4329385d121c4 #PS1virus ===== impress 18 time 2021-10-30 03:53 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1454295428120203268 ========== That was the week that wasn't. https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-science-business-media-religion-9b66d10902eba09336268d9bc5d1943a #PS1media ===== impress 46 time 2021-10-29 19:14 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1454164845956268032 ========== Why it's so easy to be pessimistic about climate change. https://nytimes.com/2021/10/13/business/china-electricity-shortage.html Politicians would rather revert to coal than deal with climate change. #PS1climate ===== impress 41 time 2021-10-29 18:19 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1454151040014508035 ========== The Constitution was designed to prevent too much popular democracy. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/10/28/founders-constructed-our-government-foster-inaction/ The intent was that nothing could happen without approval of the landed gentry. They didn't anticipate the two-party system, but it fit right in. #PS1democracy ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% expands 1 impress 38 time 2021-10-29 18:03 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1454146982008684548 ========== Maybe success is at hand - but strait is the gate, and narrow is the way. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/29/biden-framework-reconciliation-pathway/ #PS1biden ===== impress 36 time 2021-10-29 17:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1454145227833237504 ========== It's not just a pandemic, it's a profit opportunity! https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/10/29/house-committee-covid-misinformation/ Every Trumpist is a potential customer! #PS1virus ===== impress 39 time 2021-10-29 17:52 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1454144153428758529 ========== "the pharmaceutical industry has been regulating Congress" https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/10/29/biden-medicare-drug-negotiation/ It costs millions of dollars to run for the Senate. Somebody has to pay for that, and somebody has to expect a return on investment. Democrats can try again in 30 more years. #PS1biden ===== impress 47 time 2021-10-29 17:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1454143671180222470 ========== Politics trumps community spirit. https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-health-west-virginia-8049bb8c60c6571a908f0ea72c716464 WV, where else. #PS1virus ===== impress 41 time 2021-10-29 17:37 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1454140260372258819 ========== Kinzinger gerrymandered out of office. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/29/us/politics/adam-kinzinger-illinois-election.html There are plenty of worse Republicans that we'd be better off losing than Kinzinger, but most of them are gerrymandered into invulnerability. #PS1democracy ===== impress 51 time 2021-10-29 17:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1454137930109243395 ========== "Trump supporters understand there really is no time for internal squabbling or hurt feelings" Really? Trump hardly has time for anything BUT his hurt feelings and desire for revenge. And so his base. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/29/us/politics/glenn-youngkin-virginia-governors-race.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1528858134125367 #PS1trumpism ===== impress 50 time 2021-10-29 17:23 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1454136911677648897 ========== What do the people of Taiwan want? Ideally, independence. Practically, the status quo. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/29/opinion/taiwan-china-biden.html Xi and Biden - and the Taiwanese - all want to achieve their aims without starting a world war. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1528844204126760 #PS1china ===== impress 75 time 2021-10-29 16:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1454130752761651209 ========== Can the Constitution still be changed in any fundamental way? https://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#amendments For whom was the Constitution made, anyway? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/29/opinion/democracy-madison-robert-dahl.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1528837520794095 #PS1democracy ===== impress 36 time 2021-10-29 16:46 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1454127497184829442 ========== How will the Supreme Court handle abortion? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/29/opinion/amy-coney-barrett-supreme-court-abortion.html Barrett will finally have to show her hand. #PS1justice ===== impress 37 time 2021-10-29 16:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1454122702936051717 ========== Will Trump champion family leave in 2024? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/28/joe-manchin-just-handed-trump-potent-issue-2024/ It's a good campaign issue, but even if he did, once in office he'd leave it to Mitch, and Mitch knows what the donors want. But Trump is more likely to obsess on revenge on the disloyal. #PS1election ===== impress 43 time 2021-10-29 16:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1454117829087617027 ========== What does the Second Amendment mean? https://www.political-scrapbook.net/controversial.html#second%20amendment The Supreme Court is going to have to decide https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/29/now-supreme-court-will-decide-what-it-means-bear-arms/ knowing no matter what they decide, they'll be under fire from all sides. #PS1firearms ===== impress 44 time 2021-10-29 16:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1454116171800735749 ========== Covid provoked a reset of the relation of labor to capital. https://apnews.com/article/business-wages-salaries-increase-8ce98ea3bcc14c4810eb5a1111e1df49 Income inequality had been increasing since Reagan. Inflationary impact depends on whether higher labor costs are passed to consumers or absorbed by shareholders. #PS1recovery ===== impress 34 time 2021-10-29 14:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1454094287746961417 ========== Arpaio has no regrets and would do it all the same way again! https://apnews.com/article/immigration-business-arizona-race-and-ethnicity-racial-injustice-fa5aab2f85ca6d7b22b2a028759eb44a No wonder Trump likes him enough to pardon him! #PS1trumpism ===== impress 38 time 2021-10-29 13:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1454080882734559251 ========== Democrats gerrymander House seats in Illinois. https://apnews.com/article/elections-race-and-ethnicity-philanthropy-barack-obama-state-governments-73d75629c440a971c65e9016476ed869 They should suspend fair redistricting for Federal House seats until, say, Florida adopts fair redistricting too. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1528160274195153 #PS1democracy ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% impress 103 time 2021-10-29 13:36 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1454079777518735360 ========== What's in BBB for taxation TODAY. It might be different again tomorrow. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/28/us/politics/biden-tax-plan-increases.html #PS1tax ===== impress 36 time 2021-10-29 04:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1453943118223462402 ========== It's not mostly crazies or cowards. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/28/opinion/republicans-vaccines.html It's worse - ambitious politicians who CHOOSE to protect their funding and careers by defending minority rule more unflinchingly than ever. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1528420390835808 #PS1gop ===== impress 41 time 2021-10-29 04:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1453942297763012616 ========== Humane wars forever? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/14/books/review/humane-samuel-moyn.html Not likely - sooner or later a small war will escalate into a major one that might end civilization. #PS1other ===== impress 46 time 2021-10-29 04:19 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1453939482722385920 ========== Nine years for plotting insurrection - in Richmond. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/base-white-supremacist-case-sentencing/2021/10/28/2dc41a60-3746-11ec-9bc4-86107e7b0ab1_story.html #PS1insurrection ===== impress 35 time 2021-10-29 04:12 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1453937666207088649 ========== Should the punishment fit the crime? https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/judge-howell-capitol-riot-case/2021/10/28/8f6da2c2-3809-11ec-9bc4-86107e7b0ab1_story.html The prosecution of hundreds of defendants is an enormous task for an unprepared DOJ. So does it make sense to let the minor offenders off quickly in order to focus resources on the leaders? #PS1insurrection ===== impress 35 time 2021-10-29 04:07 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1453936620252528645 ========== Directed energy weapons - another aspect of democratized weapons technology. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/28/dealing-with-havana-syndrome-is-policymakers-nightmare/ The weapons probably are or will be soon available to anybody with the money. #PS1technology ===== impress 40 time 2021-10-29 04:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1453935337558798343 ========== How close are we to WW III between China and US? Probably not at all. Both have too much to lose. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/28/its-not-sputnik-moment-we-should-not-feed-cold-war-paranoia/ The problem with democratizing technology of mass destruction is minor states and terrorists that feel they have nothing to lose. #PS1technology ===== impress 42 time 2021-10-29 03:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1453934266560040962 ========== Major donors invest in Democratic senators as well as Republican. Often, probably, in both, to make sure their calls get returned no matter who wins the election. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/28/tax-hikes-build-back-better-plan-democrats/ #PS1tax ===== impress 35 time 2021-10-29 03:52 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1453932706962706442 ========== Trumpism in the air. Why obey laws you don't like? Better to hit back twice as hard. https://www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2021/10/28/american-airlines-flight-attendant-attack/ But it helps if you can afford expensive lawyers to defend you, or if you can get on Fox. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 41 time 2021-10-29 03:48 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1453931809859727370 ========== How many military members are willing to be kicked out rather than have two more shots? https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2021/10/28/vaccine-mandate-air-force/ They already had a bunch of shots when they first joined up. #PS1virus ===== impress 41 time 2021-10-29 03:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1453930857215922176 ========== GOP using covid restrictions to replace local officials with Trumpist hacks. https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-elections-alaska-pandemics-kansas-ccff6c03533ece7c73b7aa93b5a987e1 #PS1gop ===== impress 39 time 2021-10-29 03:37 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1453928922932858880 ========== Elon Musk and other billionaires sound off. https://apnews.com/article/spacex-business-elon-musk-jeff-bezos-health-care-reform-088929b9bc60f52d00627f2bc44a8ff1 They want to make sure that the senators they've invested in understand what's expected - to preserve the hereditary nobility. #PS1tax ===== impress 44 time 2021-10-29 03:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1453927969160720388 ========== "we need Alec Baldwin tweets" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/28/opinion/jd-vance-trump-hypocrisy.html Look what political ambition has revealed about J D Vance! How pitch defileth the hand that toucheth it! #PS1trumpism ===== impress 58 time 2021-10-28 19:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1453800125633945600 ========== No Nazi or Klansman has ever denounced Ted Cruz! https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/10/28/ted-cruz-nazi-salute-senate-hearing/ He's counting on their support in his effort to succeed Trump. #PS1gop ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 34 likes 1 time 2021-10-28 18:48 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1453795873360547841 ========== Redistricting House seats should be accomplished by automatic algorithms. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#redistricting Independent commissions are not the answer to redistricting. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2021/colorado-redistricting-democrats/ They end up in court anyway. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1528160274195153 #PS1democracy ===== impress 30 time 2021-10-28 18:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1453794875665616898 ========== Constitutionality of a wealth tax. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/10/26/wealth-tax-constitution-supreme-court/ The GOP justices know they were put there precisely to protect the ruling class from attacks like this. So it would have been a long shot. So the BBB framework seems to have moved to an income surtax. #PS1tax ===== impress 36 time 2021-10-28 18:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1453790926858424338 ========== It's what the Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP does best - not governing, but opposing governing, all to get more exposure on Fox. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/28/republicans-have-mastered-politics-of-opposition/ When they get back in power, they'll resume their donors' agenda - tax cuts, deregulation, reactionary judiciary. #PS1gop ===== impress 25 time 2021-10-28 18:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1453789280837332995 ========== So just where does the racism mix with the second amendment? https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/10/27/gun-rights-anti-racism-bruen-conservative-hypocrisy/ #PS1firearms ===== impress 25 time 2021-10-28 18:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1453787791494549528 ========== She never said we should move on from Benghazi. https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-10-23/condoleezza-rice-january-6-view-insurrection #PS1insurrection ===== impress 24 time 2021-10-28 17:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1453777236432080902 ========== Now the Russians are going after the NRA! That's no way to treat your friends. https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-europe-russia-united-states-8e2e6ead27e80e79482caf54111b4c3d #PS1ransomware ===== impress 25 time 2021-10-28 17:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1453774950758686745 ========== Labor is expendable; there's plenty more where it came from. How much do they donate to the GOP anyway? https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-business-health-pandemics-congress-72e766be17083ad819ea3ac26cb7fb76 #PS1virus ===== impress 28 time 2021-10-28 17:23 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1453774385504919574 ========== What's in BBB? https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/28/politics/president-joe-biden-economic-agenda But will it pass? Has Biden figured out exactly what's possible? #PS1biden ===== impress 27 time 2021-10-28 14:19 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1453728020292784132 ========== He must feel right at home in Texas. https://lite.cnn.com/en/article/h_feba83422667e5ea897f85e92cff5fcf Especially if he's rich enough he wouldn't need a working wife and could afford a nanny. His advice seems irrelevant to most people in Silicon Valley. #PS1other ===== impress 28 time 2021-10-28 14:14 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1453726793479847944 ========== Wealth tax issues https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/28/briefing/wealth-tax-spending-bill-manchin.html It wouldn't be part of BBB except Manchin and Sinema vetoed everything else. #PS1tax ===== impress 31 time 2021-10-28 13:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1453712822303559684 ========== The Trumpists' ultimate goal - replace honest election officials with ones as corrupt as third-world bureaucrats. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/26/this-is-how-anti-democratic-right-wins/ It's an old playbook from the 1880's South. https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/26/politics/secretaries-of-state-personal-threats-trump-election-lies/index.html #PS1trumpism ===== impress 26 time 2021-10-28 05:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1453587350466883584 ========== We knew the GOP was against taxing the rich. What was more surprising was how many Democrats are also against the idea when push comes to shove. Though many are shy about it in public. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/26/taxes-democrats-plan-looks-lot-like-trump-plan/ #PS1tax ===== impress 26 time 2021-10-28 04:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1453583415261876224 ========== Alaska was doing well. Then came a summer of disconnection from reality. Then reality reconnected twice as hard. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/27/alaska-did-well-early-pandemic-then-misinformation-distrust-kicked/ #PS1virus ===== impress 22 time 2021-10-28 02:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1453552370823012356 ========== Re-evaluating childcare as a business means parents have to re-evaluate working for somebody else vs caring for their own children. Thus you see many help wanted signs. https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-business-pandemics-economy-seattle-17db11434b2bb82a3d7fb3fc82003514 GOP proposes to protect families by reducing government aid. #PS1recovery ===== impress 20 time 2021-10-28 02:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1453549628637343744 ========== The historical truth is what GOP calls "critical race theory". It doesn't sit well with the Trump base, and they hope to excite persuadable swing voters as well. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/27/opinion/glenn-youngkin-toni-morrison.html #PS1gop ===== impress 27 time 2021-10-28 02:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1453542385355419653 ========== Confronting the past - this is what the GOP means by "critical race theory". The GOP wants to keep it buried. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/27/us/hastings-college-law-native-massacre.html #PS1other ===== impress 24 time 2021-10-28 01:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1453538053557927937 ========== Is this how it ends? https://www.liberty-and-justice.net/ With democratization of weapons of mass destruction for which there is no defense? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/27/us/politics/china-hypersonic-missile.html #PS1china ===== impress 20 time 2021-10-28 01:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1453535809689165824 ========== Another possible covid treatment. https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/10/27/cheap-antidepressant-shows-covid-treatment-promise/ Existing drugs have the advantage that safety is already known. Covid effectiveness has to be tested in clinical trials to determine therapeutic dosage and interactions with other covid drugs. #PS1virus ===== impress 22 time 2021-10-28 00:37 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1453521338841268226 ========== There are two possible paths to winning close elections - maximizing base turnout and persuading swing voters. The ideal is to do both, but that is seldom possible, because those groups decide differently. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/26/campaigning-middle-out-wont-save-democrats/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1527531077591406 #PS1politics ===== impress 21 time 2021-10-28 00:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1453518359589392385 ========== The red state paradox - they can't stand government aid, and they can't survive without it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/26/manchin-warns-that-bidens-agenda-would-create-an-entitlement-society-his-state-leads-way/ "Entitlements" is also GOP code for social security and medicare, which GOP oppose and would like to "save" by privatizing - like the post office. #PS1biden ===== impress 32 time 2021-10-27 23:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1453511483543855106 ========== It's much easier to game a wealth tax than an income tax. Is that why Sinema favors a wealth tax? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/26/tesla-elon-musk-billionaire-tax-complications/ #PS1tax ===== impress 38 time 2021-10-27 23:54 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1453510486226395137 ========== What's the difference between espionage and journalism? A court has decided. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/27/james-okeefe-political-spying-project-veritas/ #PS1journalism ===== impress 30 time 2021-10-27 23:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1453508049059020804 ========== It's all grist for the milling into culture war distractions to keep GOP voters from thinking about the real GOP platform - preserving minority rule of GOP major donors. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/27/safe-spaces-trigger-warnings/ #PS1minority ===== impress 29 time 2021-10-27 23:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1453506911249186822 ========== How the Senate GOP continues Trump's deregulation program - even in the Biden administration! https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/10/27/cpsc-vote-clash/ Rough and tumble, no holds barred, nothing to lose - because GOP doesn't intend to lose any more elections. #PS1deregulation ===== impress 33 time 2021-10-27 23:36 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1453505878980628482 ========== Use the guns any time, any place you want! https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/10/27/when-do-we-get-use-guns-ongoing-danger-false-fraud-claims/ But don't count on Trump or anybody else bailing you out afterward. There is an endless supply of gullible people - what's one more or less? As about 600 are currently learning. #PS1insurrection ===== impress 32 time 2021-10-27 23:31 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1453504616277032967 ========== Trump stands by his man in Brazil. https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-crime-caribbean-health-brazil-80823c6b0d77567d5912373f9d756cbe They are cut from the same cloth. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 32 time 2021-10-27 22:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1453496526915862530 ========== Mission creep - right over the edge of the cliff. https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-joe-biden-taliban-european-union-8b14058e29dbb4e0e5c4fa71b751ebe8 Let it be a lesson, though the same lesson has been offered repeatedly and always fails to stick. #PS1afghanistan ===== impress 28 time 2021-10-27 22:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1453493978381176836 ========== Is there an agreement possible or is it just wishful thinking? Were Manchin and Sinema ever going to vote FOR anything or were they just delaying tactics? https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-business-congress-319a4fe155a72dce4f71bc617547e3fe #PS1biden ===== impress 32 time 2021-10-27 22:36 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1453490738478469121 ========== California high speed rail - https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/10/27/opinion-bay-area-needs-high-speed-rail-its-time-to-finish-it/ If it's ever finished, people will wonder why we didn't do it sooner. If it's never finished, people will wonder why we even tried. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1527478114263369 #PS1capolitics ===== impress 42 time 2021-10-27 22:21 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1453486969577611264 ========== Senate finally confirms a few ambassadors https://apnews.com/article/middle-east-new-zealand-turkey-biden-cabinet-europe-dd868b9b8a9d3747e125d3e93d0d1eb9 But Ted Cruz blocks the rest https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/biden-ambassadors-cruz/2021/10/27/c196b770-359d-11ec-9a5d-93a89c74e76d_story.html For a Trumpist he tries awfully hard to be tough on Russia, in a way that mainly impinges on allies like Germany. #PS1foreign ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% impress 41 time 2021-10-27 22:12 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1453484754595037189 ========== Pathetic - Trump is still fighting the election by writing angry letters to the editor. But he doesn't know any better. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/10/27/14-things-you-need-know-about-trumps-letter-wall-street-journal/ Ultra-pathetic - the Wall Street Journal published the letter without comment. Don't they know any better? #PS1journalism ===== impress 48 time 2021-10-27 22:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1453481767789158409 ========== A majority of American voters support taking steps to reduce global warming. https://apnews.com/article/climate-joe-biden-science-environment-and-nature-only-on-ap-1e48e3315d2e0b618ccaa4a8d466e057 But a majority of major GOP campaign donors do not, so expect no bipartisanship here. #PS1climate ===== impress 28 time 2021-10-27 21:52 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1453479662064070656 ========== California water projects being paid for with budget surplus. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-10-25/skelton-water-projects-drought-california-billions Even though long-term capital improvements like these would normally be funded with bonds. #PS1capolitics ===== impress 27 time 2021-10-27 21:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1453477963928801283 ========== US is way behind on parental leave https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/25/upshot/paid-leave-democrats.html but Manchin and Sinema say no. https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/10/27/biden-democrats-spending-deal/ #PS1biden ===== impress 31 time 2021-10-27 21:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1453477009779085315 ========== Covid panic overcomes the system of scholarly refereeing. https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/10/ivermectin-research-problems/620473/ #PS1virus ===== impress 26 time 2021-10-27 21:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1453475302445776897 ========== Corruption is still pretty easy. https://calmatters.org/commentary/2021/10/california-sees-wave-of-political-corruption/ Just check "abscam" "shrimpgate" or "shrimp boy". Term limits don't seem to help - they enable another malady, having donors draft legislation. #PS1capolitics ===== impress 36 time 2021-10-27 14:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1453375879321579526 ========== Another source of inflation - GOP immigration policies. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/25/business/economy/foreign-workers-shortage-hiring.html Reducing immigration reduces labor supply increases demand for labor increases wages increases prices. You'd think the former free market party would get that. #PS1immigration ===== impress 50 time 2021-10-27 14:46 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1453372488138719235 ========== Another bank warns about post office delays - "USPS announced revised service standards resulting in an increased delivery window.This could impact mail sent to and from Capital One" It's an opportunity to push paperless billing, saving lots of money - for banks. #PS1economics ===== impress 86 time 2021-10-27 13:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1453354661566554112 ========== Lots of short-term programs might be good for short-term politics. But they aren't going to cause any fundamental change. But long-term programs that can't get passed don't change anything either. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/25/democrats-risky-strategies-show-they-never-learned-their-lessons-obamacare/ #PS1biden ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% impress 60 likes 1 time 2021-10-26 13:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1452994553124904964 ========== Paid leave - another unexpected issue in Virginia? And maybe elsewhere? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/25/virginia-governor-mcauliffe-paid-leave/ #PS1economics ===== impress 59 time 2021-10-26 13:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1452993598950023168 ========== Announcement from Bank of America - "Postal Service began changing first-class mail delivery time frames in October. This change may result in mailed statements and payments you mail taking longer to arrive." Thank DeJoy! More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1526121104399070 #PS1other ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% impress 62 retweets 1 time 2021-10-26 04:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1452849873137532935 ========== "Silicon Valley is for followers. Ohio is for leaders." It's propaganda from https://www.jobsohio.com/ohio-for-leaders/ It's hard to think of a single technology area in which Ohio is a leader or attracts leaders. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1526113957733118 #PS1other ===== impress 72 time 2021-10-26 03:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1452846648036454407 ========== How the ruling class strikes back at dissent https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/25/us/vaccine-fired-church.html His employer knew where the money came from. #PS1minority ===== impress 55 time 2021-10-26 02:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1452825519523647489 ========== How the hereditary nobility intends to suppress democracy once and for all - https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2021/10/25/god-trump-closed-door-world-council-national-policy/ It's not really about conservatism, or religion, or the ideals of America's founders, but about preserving power by all means. And their donors approve. #PS1minority ===== impress 53 time 2021-10-26 02:26 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1452824018214481922 ========== Giant global journalism co-ops to investigate giant global issues. https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/media/facebook-leak-consortium/2021/10/25/8125341e-3593-11ec-8be3-e14aaacfa8ac_story.html #PS1journalism ===== impress 57 time 2021-10-26 01:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1452806740546777093 ========== Job #1 to protect a hereditary nobility - preserve “inheritance or transmission in their entirety of fortunes swollen beyond all healthy limits”. The modern Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP accepts the challenge - that's who their donors are! https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/25/opinion/democrats-child-benefit-tax.html #PS1biden ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% impress 55 likes 1 time 2021-10-26 00:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1452801197845278720 ========== QAnon's just following Trump's example. https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/10/25/los-gatos-who-is-this-far-right-group-thats-been-disrupting-council-meetings-for-months/ Undermining democratic government by any available means. #PS1qanon ===== impress 76 time 2021-10-26 00:46 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1452798834992500736 ========== How alarming - workers organizing the way their employers do. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/25/liz-shuler-afl-cio-striketober-workers-healthy-labor-movement/ #PS1economics ===== impress 58 time 2021-10-26 00:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1452796014717374469 ========== What little election fraud the GOP claimed to have found seems to have been from their own voters. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/10/25/trump-team-fox-news-alleged-dead-voters-most-cases-were-either-debunked-or-actually-involved-republicans/ Fox will go on reporting the lies, because they believe in their hearts - that it's good for their ratings. #PS1media ===== impress 56 time 2021-10-26 00:15 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1452791022216310790 ========== The Trumpist disinformation machine hits new heights https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/25/fauci-puppy-experiments-conspiracy-republicans/ #PS1trumpism ===== impress 47 time 2021-10-26 00:04 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1452788227429920772 ========== "Think about those around you" That's not good Trumpist thinking! It's all about #1! https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/10/25/neil-cavuto-vaccine-plea/ #PS1virus ===== impress 49 time 2021-10-25 23:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1452787046750117889 ========== Universal Basic Income catches on. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/10/25/chicago-poised-create-one-nations-largest-guaranteed-basic-income-programs/ Alaska has had it for 40 years. #PS1economics ===== impress 64 time 2021-10-25 23:57 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1452786360905912322 ========== Montana's gone Trumpist. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/montana-extreme-trump/2021/10/22/0f82afbc-0037-11ec-a664-4f6de3e17ff0_story.html Even if they are actually a minority, Trumpists achieve their aim by turning every issue into a political contest. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 49 time 2021-10-25 23:53 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1452785295238127616 ========== Facts don't matter; GOP sees school board elections as a route to control of Congress, even though Congress has little to do with public school curricula. https://apnews.com/article/lifestyle-elections-education-race-and-ethnicity-racial-injustice-f3e0a8198edae71980f942f2eb5ea172 Culture wars are the ammunition the ruling class gives the masses to shoot themselves. #PS1gop ===== impress 48 time 2021-10-25 23:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1452780669138989058 ========== Russians are still at it. https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-europe-russia-1e65777560b39e35209e11dbccfcab1f #PS1technology ===== impress 47 time 2021-10-25 23:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1452778943493271554 ========== The new French Trumpist https://apnews.com/article/immigration-france-paris-europe-migration-a681f51a334fe7e2ccc680d2b52ab4b3 #PS1trumpism ===== impress 45 time 2021-10-25 23:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1452778329539366919 ========== Abbott promises race was not a factor. https://apnews.com/article/elections-texas-voting-race-and-ethnicity-voting-rights-e9521a6eb4d93ac4a874fc7f27e834e3 But how much is a Trumpist's promise worth? #PS1democracy ===== impress 48 time 2021-10-25 23:21 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1452777363289165825 ========== How the billionaire wealth tax might work - https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-joe-biden-business-health-personal-taxes-bb51ab8b987c32e00c743a05d428079c It makes the tax code more complicated, always a bad sign. An increase in tax rates would have been simpler, but Sinema said no. #PS1tax ===== impress 58 time 2021-10-25 23:19 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1452776844592181249 ========== Facebook Papers https://apnews.com/article/what-are-the-facebook-papers-10e59530a699db5345ac3931509778b2 #PS1media ===== impress 46 time 2021-10-25 23:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1452774325220626434 ========== What Facebook really doesn't want to recognize is that negative content provides the profits for social media. Remember it started out as a platform for males to compare female classmates on looks. https://apnews.com/article/the-facebook-papers-whistleblower-misinfo-trafficking-64f11ccae637cdfb7a89e049c5095dca More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1525982281079619 #PS1media ===== impress 51 time 2021-10-25 23:07 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1452773778417537025 ========== How's your GRAT? https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/726717967672725 If you have billions of dollars that you don't want to pay tax on, here's how they work - https://www.bloomberg.com/features/how-billionaires-pass-wealth-to-heirs-tax-free-2021/ The GOP and a few Democrats stoutly defend these arrangements - that pleases their donors mightily. #PS1tax ===== impress 53 time 2021-10-25 13:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1452625144262762499 ========== The big steal - https://washingtonmonthly.com/2021/03/26/no-more-pretending-republicans-admit-vote-restrictions-are-all-about-winning/ is the big lie - https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/153536-the-victor-will-never-be-asked-if-he-told-the “The victor will never be asked if he told the truth” The GOP plans to be the victor from now on, so why bother telling the truth? Trump leads the way. #PS1gop ===== impress 60 time 2021-10-25 13:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1452622452551340033 ========== California drought defies easy solutions https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/10/23/skelton-state-is-trying-to-address-drought-its-a-tough-nut-to-crack/ Too many people, too much pumping, no safe dam sites left. Desalinisation? Water is the defining issue of California politics, as it has been since 1849. #PS1capolitics ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% impress 134 time 2021-10-25 03:22 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1452475566188232704 ========== Is compromise a dirty word? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/23/us/politics/biden-polls-spending-bill.html What if there is no solution to the problem of keeping persuadables away from GOP and keeping the base motivated? The GOP solution is never compromise for the base, but lie about it to the persuadables. #PS1biden ===== impress 45 time 2021-10-25 03:14 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1452473641136898050 ========== Does anybody really understand economics? https://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#cycle Maybe not. There's too much mass psychology involved. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/01/upshot/inflation-economy-analysis.html #PS1economics ===== impress 51 time 2021-10-25 03:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1452472188737441793 ========== What would happen if Stephen Miller had his way and stopped all legal immigration and evicted all illegal immigrants? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/04/world/europe/uk-christmas-turkey-shortage.html You think we have supply-chain-induced inflation now? Just wait! #PS1immigration ===== impress 77 time 2021-10-25 03:04 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1452471032657317889 ========== No bail for insurrection leader. https://apnews.com/article/lifestyle-alabama-alaska-capitol-siege-district-of-columbia-974768bd72106b2aeb6e135a0cc7ee61 #PS1insurrection ===== impress 45 time 2021-10-25 02:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1452465972984483840 ========== Even leakers need a business plan if they want maximum effect. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/24/business/media/facebook-leak-frances-haugen.html #PS1journalism ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% impress 53 time 2021-10-25 02:39 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1452464739607404545 ========== Amazon outsourced all the HR parts that it didn't want to bother with. The theory must have been that HR is not a core competency because no customer chooses a supplier based on its HR practices. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/24/technology/amazon-employee-leave-errors.html Fits GOP ideas about capital vs labor. #PS1economics ===== impress 54 time 2021-10-25 02:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1452462973503500294 ========== Supply-chain-induced inflation was caused by the inevitable collision of just-in-time logistics with unforeseen covid. There's no quick fix. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/22/why-supply-chain-crunch-will-continue-into-2022/ Undeterred by facts, GOP will blame Biden anyway. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1525403934470787 #PS1economics ===== impress 53 time 2021-10-25 02:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1452457195208015872 ========== Repealing filibuster is the Burkean thing to do. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/24/true-conservatives-should-support-filibuster-reform/ But the Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP honors Burke (and conservatism) only in word, not deed. "resistance to reform represents not true conservatism, but an incitement to the wildest radicalism" #PS1democracy ===== impress 53 time 2021-10-25 01:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1452453993234395139 ========== Will public education be the big GOP issue in 2022? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/24/republicans-are-testing-messages-reverse-their-suburban-slide-education-is-winner/ It's perfect for GOP candidates. They can campaign on it, secure in the knowledge that it's primarily a local rather than Federal issue and they won't actually have to do anything about it. #PS1gop ===== impress 53 time 2021-10-25 01:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1452452628407848961 ========== The most genuine kind of Trumpist. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/24/youngkin-rally-trump-virginia-governor/ Lies about everything. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 42 time 2021-10-25 01:37 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1452449281328046084 ========== Democrats must show SOME accomplishments to persuadable voters who vote their pocketbooks. https://nytimes.com/2021/10/24/opinion/biden-voting-filibuster.html To keep control and prevent GOP from undoing everything, Biden must pass a version of BBB before anything else. More at https://facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1525286254482555 #PS1biden ===== impress 49 time 2021-10-25 01:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1452444222682927104 ========== The solution to labor shortages is out there... pay more! https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/24/us/garbage-delays-labor-jacksonville-florida.html It's hard for GOP to swallow a free market for labor as well as capital. #PS1economics ===== impress 31 time 2021-10-24 22:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1452396683048853514 ========== Honor great men and women for the extraordinary good they did, while acknowledging the evil, even if it was not considered noteworthy at the time. https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/556364348041422 Jefferson, for instance. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/24/opinion/thomas-jefferson-statue-new-york.html #PS1other ===== impress 40 time 2021-10-24 20:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1452378515488206848 ========== Florida health chief doesn't bother with masks. https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-health-florida-b79b9e4308b9ce0b4335cdfa69436b1b Thus a fully qualified Trumpist to work for DeSantis. #PS1virus ===== impress 35 time 2021-10-24 18:12 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1452337204324409352 ========== The Dixiecrat GOP believes taxes are for poor people, to finance legislative benefits for major donors. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/24/opinion/republicans-tax-evasion.html That's a fundamental tenet of minority rule. Who ever heard of a hereditary nobility that paid taxes? More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1525158921161955 #PS1tax ===== impress 34 time 2021-10-24 17:19 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1452323912826724360 ========== If poor people wanted more influence, they should donate more to Senatorial campaigns. https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2021/10/24/west-virginia-manchin-child-tax-credit/ Sure they might have to rob a bank to donate enough to be noticed, but that's how you get Congress to work for you instead of against you. #PS1economics ===== impress 34 time 2021-10-24 17:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1452319699572871168 ========== Will SD legislators put a crimp in Noem's presidential aspirations? https://apnews.com/article/business-kristi-noem-legislature-south-dakota-2ba452b0c3ffa389e7bec413b1b79337 Using your office to benefit your self and family is a cardinal principle of Trumpism. Why else run? #PS1trumpism ===== impress 28 time 2021-10-24 16:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1452317742615474176 ========== THE THING - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/23/opinion/the-thing-movie-horror.html The embodiment of Trumpism. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 31 time 2021-10-24 15:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1452302861841453072 ========== Following the leader - the only truth that matters is what you FEEL. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/24/us/politics/montana-misinformation-national-heritage.html Trump has set the example and demonstrated that a very sizeable minority of Americans don't believe in any of the Enlightenment ideals of America's founders. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 29 time 2021-10-24 15:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1452301738401222668 ========== Somalia - another expensive endless war not worth fighting? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/24/world/africa/al-shabab-somalia-us-cia.html Is propping up a corrupt government the best use of our money? #PS1mideast ===== impress 45 time 2021-10-24 15:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1452299487351869456 ========== Limit sentences to 20 years? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/23/opinion/sunday/illinois-parole-mass-incarceration.html #PS1justice ===== impress 28 time 2021-10-24 15:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1452293176077783052 ========== How will China's demographic and economic crises be resolved? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/22/opinion/china-bubble-economy.html By an external adventure that rallies the masses yet poses no threat to the ruling class? #PS1china ===== impress 43 time 2021-10-24 15:03 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1452289702464270338 ========== The tragedy of Colin Powell. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/23/opinion/colin-powell-legacy.html And the futility of being the only adult in the room - a lesson reinforced by the Trump experience. #PS1other ===== impress 33 time 2021-10-24 14:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1452288459553521683 ========== Ranked-choice voting and multi-member districts are the best way to insure representation of sizeable minorities. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#preferential Existing redistricting rules ARE too complicated. https://apnews.com/article/voting-rights-redistricting-2621e98606b1a5f62fdca10ed68a4a80 More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1525043827840131 #PS1democracy ===== impress 32 time 2021-10-24 13:48 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1452270840758865924 ========== Monetizing the surveillance state https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/10/22/crime-suburbs-license-plate-readers/ Fake cameras and signs would probably work equally well. #PS1technology ===== impress 32 time 2021-10-24 13:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1452265562025889794 ========== GOP concerns about vote fraud confirmed! https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/10/22/nevada-republican-who-claimed-someone-voted-his-dead-wife-is-charged-with-voter-fraud/ Looks like the quickest path to cleaner elections is to ignore GOP votes! #PS1election ===== impress 27 time 2021-10-24 13:06 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1452260316113473542 ========== As Virginia goes, so goes the nation? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/23/glenn-youngkin-virginia-governor-race-fail-character-test/ The Trumpists are earning their place in history - as the enablers that, knowing better, stood by or actively helped undermine American democracy and Constitution. #PS1election ===== impress 29 time 2021-10-24 12:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1452257662456958980 ========== Voting rights is the #1 issue long term. Nothing matters more. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/22/no-issue-is-more-important-than-voting-rights/ But that doesn't engage the persuadable voters who don't see how it improves their economic prospects now. Is it worth losing control of Congress to address such matters? #PS1democracy ===== impress 28 time 2021-10-24 04:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1452137384422764546 ========== How the insurrectionists plotted at the Wilard Hotel. https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/willard-trump-eastman-giuliani-bannon/2021/10/23/c45bd2d4-3281-11ec-9241-aad8e48f01ff_story.html #PS1insurrection ===== impress 28 time 2021-10-24 03:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1452121481803022337 ========== Sinema is at a dead end? https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/10/20/manchin-sinema-political-visions-compared/ Perhaps within the Democratic Party. Manchin is the best that can be done in WV, but AZ has clearer prospects than Sinema. #PS1biden ===== impress 29 time 2021-10-24 03:24 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1452113694092005380 ========== Is Sinema really negotiating in good faith? Will she really vote for a BBB bill compromised to get her support? https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/sinema-negotiations-reconciliation/2021/10/23/2341a062-3359-11ec-93e2-dba2c2c11851_story.html And above all, would she support modifying filibuster if bipartisanship is nowhere to be found? #PS1biden ===== impress 31 time 2021-10-24 03:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1452112151926095878 ========== How the brown shirts - with major GOP donor money - harass school boards. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/10/20/jennifer-jenkins-brevard-school-board-masks-threats/ What they can't accomplish in elections, they intend to accomplish by threats and actual violence. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 45 time 2021-10-24 03:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1452110051737362439 ========== Needs-testing for "entitlements". https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/work-requirements-dont-curb-entitlement-they-just-make-families-lives-harder/2021/10/22/f9748c8e-31ed-11ec-93e2-dba2c2c11851_story.html #PS1biden ===== impress 29 time 2021-10-24 03:04 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1452108819450908676 ========== Taliban are confident about ISIS. But Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires, and right now the Taliban is the empire. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/10/23/afghanistan-isis-pakistan-intelligence/ #PS1afghanistan ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% impress 51 time 2021-10-24 02:52 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1452105808947257346 ========== Can counties secede and join another state? https://edition.cnn.com/2021/10/22/politics/west-virginia-jim-justice-maryland-counties/index.html Not likely - the Federal Constitution provides that changes of state boundaries have to be approved by both states and the Federal Congress. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1524712714539909 #PS1democracy ===== impress 36 time 2021-10-24 02:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1452100534006022146 ========== Workers want to have a life - a novel concept to some employers. https://apnews.com/article/business-lifestyle-new-york-306596169aed48d6d7bebe351ce51ad0 That's one of the reasons for the Great Resignation. Workers should exploit what freedoms they can. Party's over when GOP takes over. #PS1economics ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 30 time 2021-10-24 02:10 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1452095111651729410 ========== The 2022 elections will turn on "economy/inflation/jobs" since independent swing voters in swing states usually vote their pocketbooks since they don't see how long-term proposals will affect them this year. https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/democrats-midterm-independents/2021/10/23/4271ad96-335f-11ec-a1e5-07223c50280a_story.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1524677161210131 #PS1election ===== impress 34 time 2021-10-24 01:04 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1452078504942526468 ========== Trump gave everybody permission to be their own worst selves. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/biden-vulgar-signs-chants/2021/10/22/6071836e-3122-11ec-a880-a9d8c009a0b1_story.html Such power from the bully pulpit. You don't have to obey the laws you don't like, so why bother being polite? Next step - just shoot anybody you don't like. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 33 time 2021-10-24 00:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1452075066557042692 ========== GOP used to believe in child tax credits. Now they think they just encourage laziness. Unlike the inherited wealth of their major donors. https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-business-lifestyle-colorado-michael-bennet-23fe6fc6c742eea078134a367be7544a #PS1biden ===== impress 64 time 2021-10-23 13:37 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1451905716243996673 ========== Of course, the real goal is to suppress voting and create distrust in election results. https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-california-voting-pennsylvania-elections-3c4bb63da9313676f522807a6f2a2993 They wouldn't have a chance in California except there will be an enormous amount of Trumpist money for agitprop media. #PS1democracy ===== impress 88 time 2021-10-23 12:37 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1451890558666895366 ========== How cults cultivate superstition - https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2021/10/22/wellness-vaccine-misinformation-social-media/ all the better to sell you quack remedies that, needless to say, have not had safety or effectiveness established by double-blind studies. #PS1virus ===== impress 56 time 2021-10-23 12:12 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1451884284172648458 ========== Where is the Great Resignation greatest? In red states, of course, which tend to be anti-labor. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/10/22/states-labor-quitting-turnvoer-jolts/ #PS1recovery ===== impress 62 time 2021-10-23 12:10 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1451883760685764608 ========== Trump doesn't like McCarthy but puts up with him. He never forgets or forgives, so he will replace McCarthy if he can. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/10/22/kevin-mccarthy-trump/ Trumpists believe "a new Republican Party is emerging" and many doubt McCarthy is reliable. But he knows the donors. #PS1gop ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% impress 140 time 2021-10-23 04:56 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1451774506205208583 ========== Biden comes around on reducing filibuster. Who's next? https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-voting-jen-psaki-voting-rights-filibusters-2754b418c97b88d8d8e2205ab2b83941 #PS1democracy ===== impress 76 time 2021-10-23 04:38 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1451769988847575046 ========== Data centers need to clean up their water usage as well as electricity usage. https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-environment-and-nature-oregon-united-states-2385c62f1a87030d344261ef9c76ccda #PS1technology ===== impress 55 time 2021-10-23 04:36 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1451769413573636098 ========== Known by the company you keep! https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-business-new-york-manhattan-crime-304fc885886af8a77bdb7a90111377e1 #PS1trumpism ===== impress 56 time 2021-10-23 04:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1451767662149656579 ========== Facebook had its own insurrection. https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-technology-business-social-media-media-87cc5087fc653539811ee87ed79464f5 #PS1media ===== impress 55 time 2021-10-23 04:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1451767144828456962 ========== A magnitude 7 on the Hayward Fault would make much of the East Bay unlivable for months to years. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-10-21/california-earthquake-could-cut-off-communications-for-weeks Don't let your gas tank get less than half full, and have a go bag packed. #PS1other ===== impress 68 time 2021-10-23 04:14 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1451763978196029443 ========== Why regional federalism might be in our future - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-regional.html Looks like the Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP is only interested in one thing - preserving minority rule at any cost. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/22/kevin-mccarthy-liz-cheney-threats-jan-6-committee/ #PS1democracy ===== impress 74 time 2021-10-22 18:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1451611478931296256 ========== Confirming what everybody already knew - social media that maximizes engagement is a much bigger benefit for "conservative" fantasy content than "liberal" factual content. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/10/22/twitter-algorithm-right-leaning/ That's also why Fox has much better ratings than NPR. #PS1media ===== impress 78 time 2021-10-22 17:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1451608919801950209 ========== The GOP could re-legalize slavery - an employment draft like the military draft. Then they could avoid making jobs attractive. https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-business-lifestyle-health-indiana-d3acd668eaf6343aada03cd660055bbc Turns out GOP family values do not include parents staying home to take care of children. #PS1economics ===== impress 79 time 2021-10-22 17:53 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1451607717898948609 ========== That was the week that wasn't. https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-joe-biden-business-health-social-media-0a7d0b5708363bf15e60ba4ad832bfb8 #PS1media ===== impress 80 time 2021-10-22 17:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1451605390836178947 ========== Perfecting an internet for state security - converting what was a confederation of independent printing presses into channels for propaganda and surveillance. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/22/technology/russia-internet-censorship-putin.html The technology will be profitably sold to other governments with similar goals. #PS1media ===== impress 83 time 2021-10-22 17:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1451599906511065091 ========== Why everything is scarce and expensive - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/22/business/shortages-supply-chain.html It's the revenge of the virus and just-in-time logistics. The system would fix itself eventually if there were no further shocks, but there will be, sooner or later. As usual, GOP blames Biden. #PS1economics ===== impress 71 time 2021-10-22 16:57 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1451593580544290823 ========== Dan Patrick rewards vote fraud conviction! https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/10/22/dan-patrick-reward-poll-watcher/ The convicted was a GOP voter of course - anybody remember NC-09 in 2018? #PS1election ===== impress 83 time 2021-10-22 16:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1451589141540442116 ========== "George Soros-backed allies, these allies that are in the progressive movement. They’ve inserted political operatives into our school system" Let there be no further doubt that Glenn Youngkin is a 100% all-on-board Trumpist! https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2021/10/21/soros-youngkin-antisemitism-school-board-crt-racism-mcauliffe/ #PS1trumpism ===== impress 84 time 2021-10-22 16:36 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1451588342752026627 ========== "Ambition must be made to counteract ambition" Madison tried to embed that in the Constitution, but it was repealed by Trump - by executive order - "I have the right to do whatever I want as president" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/22/dont-let-trumps-privilege-claim-thwart-jan-6-investigation/ Will his Supreme Court agree? #PS1democracy ===== impress 78 time 2021-10-22 16:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1451587436530655238 ========== Old guys should stick to a script that has been PRE-fact-checked. https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-joe-biden-health-united-states-ap-fact-check-5b36bdc35dbb9aac490b2e2421eea3fd #PS1biden ===== impress 81 time 2021-10-22 16:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1451583504190377990 ========== California public school finance - is the money being spent optimally? https://calmatters.org/commentary/2021/10/big-changes-california-schools-enrollment-funding/ #PS1capolitics ===== impress 81 time 2021-10-22 15:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1451564687301046279 ========== No surprise that Trump was deceitful, corrupt, and ignorant, nor that many of his supporters joyfully got violent. https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/leonard-pitts-jr/article255125302.html The disappointing surprise was that so many legislators rushed to defend them. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1523721877972326 #PS1insurrection ===== impress 78 time 2021-10-22 15:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1451564188459888647 ========== Corporate-driven capitation health care - a path to better health care at less cost? https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/10/21/opinion-american-health-care-climbing-from-worlds-worst-to-first/ #PS1health ===== impress 77 time 2021-10-22 14:38 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1451558563227201537 ========== On their deathbed, nobody wishes they spent more time at the office. https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/10/21/opinion-an-oncologist-relays-what-patients-taught-him-about-what-matters-most-at-the-end/ Maybe that's what covid taught all those participating in the Great Resignation. #PS1health ===== impress 81 time 2021-10-22 14:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1451557880780390409 ========== The Halloween costume we've been looking for! https://www.gocomics.com/mikeluckovich/2021/10/20 #PS1insurrection ===== impress 75 time 2021-10-22 14:31 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1451556837929545728 ========== "Facebook does not comment on rumor or speculation" It only spreads them on its global platforms. But now it's looking for new worlds to conquer. Just in case social media get regulated into unprofitability? https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/20/tech/facebook-name-change/index.html #PS1media ===== impress 82 time 2021-10-22 14:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1451556253088378884 ========== If you're a Trumpist, it's what you FEEL that matters. https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/21/politics/jim-banks-liz-cheney-jan-6-committee/index.html Facts are irrelevant! #PS1insurrection ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% impress 73 time 2021-10-22 02:36 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1451376995288289284 ========== Desperate as we are to hire more police officers, don't take just anybody who comes along. https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/10/21/san-jose-civilian-officer-charged-with-weapons-crimes-after-investigation-into-cop-threats-on-alt-right-social-media/ #PS1justice ===== impress 69 time 2021-10-22 02:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1451376412883968004 ========== Bringing the big guns to bear on Gaetz. It's hard to imagine a more fitting target. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/21/us/politics/matt-gaetz-justice-department.html If you're not rich like Trump or Epstein, it's harder to get away with crimes like theirs. #PS1justice ===== impress 87 time 2021-10-22 02:31 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1451375654629306375 ========== We knew that climate change was a military and political risk. It's also a financial risk. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/21/us/politics/climate-change-us-financial-system.html #PS1climate ===== impress 80 time 2021-10-22 00:37 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1451346904621535233 ========== If Biden can't get corporate Democrats to tax the wealthy and corporations, he should just finance Build Back Better with debt, since it's an investment in the future. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/21/opinion/corporate-taxes-deficit-spending.html #PS1biden ===== impress 88 time 2021-10-22 00:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1451346052171272219 ========== The black death increased the power of labor and led to the rise of the middle class. Is something similar happening now? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/21/opinion/covid-work-strikes-quit-resignation.html Relative incomes of workers increased for a generation after the depression, then declined with Reaganism. #PS1economics ===== impress 83 time 2021-10-22 00:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1451345164996280323 ========== It's all about other people's money - for everybody involved. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/21/business/media/trump-spac-social-media-venture.html The RNC is already trying to monetize it. Trump didn't even tell his closest advisors - must not trust them much. #PS1trump ===== impress 80 time 2021-10-22 00:23 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1451343446648655873 ========== What's the energy transition strategy? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/21/were-headed-global-energy-crisis-what-we-need-is-transition-strategy/ Nuclear offers less pollution and global warming... but name one state that is willing to have a uranium fuel plant, nuclear power plant, and a radioactive waste disposal site within its boundaries. #PS1climate ===== impress 101 time 2021-10-21 23:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1451337096795361301 ========== GOP defends minority rule best by defending its major donors! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/21/gop-rebrands-itself-party-tax-cheats/ They don't believe that banks should report on the wealthy the same way they do W-2 earners. #PS1tax ===== impress 103 time 2021-10-21 23:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1451335418922745861 ========== Job #1 for Trumpists - revenge on the disloyal. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/21/us/politics/liz-cheney-kevin-mccarthy.html #PS1trumpism ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% impress 93 time 2021-10-21 22:01 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1451307629121191945 ========== There won't be any more questionable election outcomes in Texas! Greg Abbott is making sure of that. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-texas-elections-abbott/2021/10/21/d636a1d4-3293-11ec-a1e5-07223c50280a_story.html #PS1election ===== impress 88 time 2021-10-21 21:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1451305118301708289 ========== By a vote of 202-9, GOP Representatives think you should ignore any Congressional subpoena you don't like. https://apnews.com/article/steve-bannon-donald-trump-capitol-siege-subpoenas-congress-f1807d868003e4e93ca9bf59d7821e90 #PS1justice ===== impress 87 time 2021-10-21 21:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1451303720013086748 ========== Investors jump on the Trump SPAC. https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-technology-business-media-social-media-bcd42b4a669557cbc074ba4aac53ca59 #PS1trump ===== impress 90 time 2021-10-21 20:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1451278462421921797 ========== There are still a few bugs to work out! https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/10/21/trump-truth-social-fake-accounts/ But mostly Trump is unclear on the concept - Trumpists don't want to talk only to each other. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/21/trump-social-media-political/ But like other fantasy-based media, it's mainly a platform for selling stuff. #PS1media ===== impress 80 time 2021-10-21 18:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1451254126877151252 ========== AZ is not WV. There are limits to what a Democrat can get away with. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/21/us/politics/sinema-veterans-resign.html #PS1politics ===== impress 84 time 2021-10-21 18:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1451251553562595334 ========== As usual, control of Congress in2022 will be largely up to persuadable voters, who just vote their pocketbooks. So the primary GOP strategy is to wreck the economy as much as possible. https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-business-elections-house-elections-congress-5ac0ececeadbb46895e67b48db5bbcf7 More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1523147321363115 #PS1politics ===== impress 77 time 2021-10-21 17:53 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1451245348895133696 ========== Too much information would make life difficult for major GOP donors who don't bother paying taxes. So GOP legislators are opposed. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/20/democrats-want-crack-down-tax-cheats-republicans-balk/ #PS1tax ===== impress 82 time 2021-10-21 16:19 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1451221548824600586 ========== Is there a magic path to appeal to the Trump base AND persuadable swing voters? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/20/glenn-youngkin-virginia-governor-election-republican-strategy-trump/ The best way is to sabotage the economy, which is job #1 for the GOP in Congress. #PS1gop ===== impress 79 time 2021-10-21 16:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1451220873705246725 ========== The best way to protect a political career is to protect your major donors from tax increases. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/21/sinema-tax-hikes-reconciliation-1-percent/ GOP have practiced that religiously for years, but they have plenty of Democratic company. #PS1tax ===== impress 77 time 2021-10-21 16:12 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1451219767340134404 ========== It's close enough - the overall impression is correct. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/10/21/bidens-favorite-stat-that-55-major-corporations-paid-no-federal-income-tax/ #PS1tax ===== impress 83 time 2021-10-21 16:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1451218773126443013 ========== Facial hair can make a difference. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2021/10/20/capitol-riot-timothy-hale-cusanelli/ Think carefully about the signals you send! #PS1insurrection ===== impress 89 time 2021-10-21 16:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1451218132165488646 ========== Has this scenario played out in other places? https://www.liberty-and-justice.net/ "Mitigating climate-related disasters may call for solutions that some countries cannot afford and political will that some leaders cannot muster" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/intelligence-pentagon-climate-change-warnings/2021/10/21/ea3a2c84-31d3-11ec-a1e5-07223c50280a_story.html #PS1climate ===== impress 83 time 2021-10-21 15:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1451216625256964101 ========== Time to move on! We should have moved on from 9/11, the MLK assassination, the JFK assassination, the Lincoln assassination, without wasting time and energy figuring out who did what and why? Moved on to the price of gasoline? https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/10/21/condoleezza-rice-the-view-capitol-riot/ #PS1insurrection ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% impress 95 likes 1 time 2021-10-21 13:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1451183786461302787 ========== No progress in 40 years of conflict. Another Kashmir? https://apnews.com/article/middle-east-africa-united-nations-algeria-morocco-507429fe13915902668f589179ce0c67 At least Morocco and Algeria aren't nuclear. #PS1foreign ===== impress 107 time 2021-10-21 13:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1451180392086605831 ========== Trump launches social media platform! https://www.reuters.com/world/us/former-us-president-donald-trump-launches-new-social-media-platform-2021-10-21/ "a platform for everyone to express their feelings" Facts might be in short supply, and the main goal is likely - what else - raising money for Trump! Will it be as popular as Trump's short-lived website? #PS1trump ===== impress 82 time 2021-10-21 13:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1451178516003766274 ========== How corporations reorganize to avoid liability. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/20/business/chemours-dupont-pfas-genx-chemicals.html #PS1economics ===== impress 101 time 2021-10-21 03:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1451024941441114112 ========== Manchin vs West Virginia https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/18/opinion/joe-manchin-biden-climate-child-care.html Is he dedicated to his donors or just living in the past? #PS1biden ===== impress 83 time 2021-10-21 02:03 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1451006261751779329 ========== In-n-Out decides to be part of the problem, not part of the solution. https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/10/20/contra-costa-county-fines-in-n-out-for-not-checking-covid-vaccination-status/ After all, nobody has to pay attention to laws they don't like. Just ask Trump! #PS1virus ===== impress 103 time 2021-10-21 01:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1450990397568606208 ========== A novel Senate strategy for blocking nominations - just don't show up to vote. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/19/cowardice-senate-republicans-blocking-qualified-muslims-confirmation/ #PS1gop ===== impress 82 time 2021-10-21 00:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1450989074638987264 ========== Vaccine mandates work! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/20/sticks-work-better-than-carrots-increase-covid-vaccinations-so-use-more-sticks/ #PS1virus ===== impress 78 time 2021-10-21 00:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1450986993735720964 ========== Living trusts - stepped-up basis. Learn about these before buying real estate with another person. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/10/20/dont-put-your-kids-title-your-home-theres-better-way-them-inherit-property/ #PS1tax ===== impress 96 time 2021-10-21 00:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1450982188229357568 ========== Who's a RINO? Trump and all his enablers are in the Dixiecrat tradition of Strom Thurmond, not the Republican tradition of Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, or Eisenhower. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/20/escaped-zebras-maryland-trump-rinos/ #PS1gop ===== impress 99 time 2021-10-21 00:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1450980890352316420 ========== New tax ideas for financing Build Back Better. Will Sinema and Manchin support any of them? https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/10/20/white-house-tax-plan/ Making the tax code more complicated rather than less is usually the wrong answer, even though it has a bipartisan tradition. #PS1tax ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% impress 95 time 2021-10-21 00:13 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1450978471505657861 ========== Jim Jordan can't remember much about Jan 6. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/jordan-trump-calls-capitol-attack/2021/10/20/1a570d0e-31c7-11ec-9241-aad8e48f01ff_story.html #PS1insurrection ===== impress 76 time 2021-10-21 00:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1450977178707902465 ========== Teachers wearing out. https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2021/10/18/teachers-resign-pandemic/ There are so many easier ways to earn a better living. Children just aren't a priority with most voters. #PS1economics ===== impress 78 time 2021-10-20 23:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1450974145601171457 ========== Yet another Trump investigation. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-westchester-golf-criminal-investigation/2021/10/20/b19358c4-31b5-11ec-a1e5-07223c50280a_story.html #PS1trump ===== impress 86 time 2021-10-20 23:53 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1450973463489892359 ========== Is there a price to be paid for contempt of Congress? We should know in a few years. https://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-congress-82628f5b0bbd711ddcf3ebbf50f79dac #PS1insurrection ===== impress 84 time 2021-10-20 23:43 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1450971079875252225 ========== When it comes to preserving minority rule, there is no bipartisanship. Not even one GOP Senate vote for voting rights. They're protecting "states rights" same as the segregationists did before and the slaveholders did before that. https://apnews.com/article/elections-voting-senate-elections-bills-angus-king-97683c9f9c5987167359661413aaf5fa #PS1democracy ===== impress 80 time 2021-10-20 23:37 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1450969413658701828 ========== https://political-scrapbook.net/ https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2021/09/over-1-million-sites-affected-by-redux-framework-vulnerabilities/ #PS1technology ===== impress 88 time 2021-10-20 06:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1450714808576208897 ========== The Taliban have no idea how to run a modern urban society. Their acquaintance with modern technology has advanced from AK47's to cell phones. They can't even suppress an insurgency just like their own, except worse. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/taliban-policing-isis-afghanistan/2021/10/18/7e3dce46-26a7-11ec-8739-5cb6aba30a30_story.html #PS1afghanistan ===== engage 2 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 97 likes 1 time 2021-10-20 06:37 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1450712746186592259 ========== Trump's brown shirts are keeping in shape for the next time "all hell is going to break loose". https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/iowa-democrats-trump-threats/2021/10/19/98a6e034-30e7-11ec-a1e5-07223c50280a_story.html His GOP enablers are proud to stand next to him - and thus endorse his tactics. #PS1trumpism ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% impress 89 time 2021-10-20 06:27 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1450710129112797191 ========== "The winners in all of this are the exchanges and the asset managers and the custodians" Three out of four ain't bad! https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-bitcoin-f6d7ba724bf156fd5d603661c99fd5c2 #PS1economics ===== impress 84 time 2021-10-20 06:15 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1450707286469459968 ========== Deripaska - a name well known to Putin, Manafort, and Mueller, and probably Trump. Just the kind of billionaire to have a trust in the British Virgin Islands. https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-russia-elections-presidential-elections-paul-manafort-90c01dfee5c36ebd75a38e20640e6b38 #PS1russian ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% impress 111 likes 1 time 2021-10-20 06:10 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1450705891125121026 ========== Why GOP is so eager to keep dark campaign contributions dark. https://apnews.com/article/campaigns-nebraska-indictments-omaha-campaign-contributions-015e1a7c565c3287117144830dc5bb6d How many other foreign investors were less clumsy and managed to buy access to legislators? Laundered through intermediaries, of course. #PS1democracy ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% impress 81 likes 1 time 2021-10-20 06:06 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1450704939106271233 ========== Kashmir - the eternal thorn in the side of India, Pakistan - and Afghanistan. https://apnews.com/article/science-religion-india-shootings-kashmir-dd3779ecc2b66918125628cba564adb1 #PS1foreign ===== impress 86 time 2021-10-20 06:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1450703456025526272 ========== Means testing is a pretty good way to keep the deserving off the assistance rolls, as well as the undeserving. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/18/manchins-work-requirement-child-benefits-would-throw-grandparent-led-families-under-bus/ #PS1biden ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% impress 106 likes 1 time 2021-10-19 02:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1450295507180408834 ========== Negotiating drug prices made sense to Trump, who did nothing about it. It made sense to Biden, who made it part of Build Back Better. But it makes no sense to legislators addicted to drug money to finance their campaigns. End of story. https://apnews.com/article/lifestyle-business-congress-health-care-reform-medicare-756e3255a1cb4ab8c813151aec19b60c #PS1health ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% impress 106 likes 1 time 2021-10-19 01:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1450270208183062532 ========== As predicted - on the whole, hedge funds made money on Gamestop in January. Made it off individual investors. https://apnews.com/article/business-bf7f6f6155a9ebf107430806d806330a It's very hard to compete with bargain-price trade execution. #PS1economics ===== impress 115 time 2021-10-19 00:12 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1450253509606051840 ========== Is Manchin enjoying his moment in the sun? https://apnews.com/article/climate-change-joe-biden-business-environment-environment-and-nature-56846c16c1f4c7e989556161f05fcf2e If there are 52 or 49 Democratic senators in the next Congress, nobody will care what Manchin wants. #PS1biden ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% impress 111 replies 1 time 2021-10-19 00:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1450251752570114051 ========== "the real tax scandal is what’s legal" Designed that way to protect the hereditary nobility that funds political campaigns. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/18/rich-winning-taxes/ "Money is the mother's milk of politics" - Jesse Unruh. #PS1tax ===== impress 116 time 2021-10-18 21:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1450219200060948481 ========== "all the pandering and outrage was its own reward" That's how minority rule works. Get the voters with culture wars and then focus on what the donors want - tax cuts and deregulation. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/18/youngkin-critical-race-theory-phony/ #PS1minority ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% impress 105 likes 1 time 2021-10-18 21:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1450217981405896705 ========== He might have been the first black president. Then the Tea Party and Trumpism would have started 12 years earlier, laying to rest any mistaken notions that racism was in the past. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/18/colin-powell-first-black-responsibility-eugene-robinson/ #PS1other ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% impress 96 time 2021-10-18 21:44 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1450216340388663301 ========== Nobody who was qualified to be president would want it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2021/10/18/president-run-colin-powell-1996/ #PS1other ===== impress 108 time 2021-10-18 21:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1450214996273602561 ========== Trump deposed after a four year holiday. https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-new-york-lawsuits-new-york-city-campaigns-cd8c630845c03cecc4862f48bc72ffa8 #PS1trump ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% impress 113 time 2021-10-18 21:30 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1450212789679636482 ========== Trump keeps trying to find a sympathetic judge. https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-joe-biden-lawsuits-734dc2a47d3875cc844456073e93cedc This one just seems to be a delaying tactic. #PS1insurrection ===== impress 88 time 2021-10-18 21:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1450212206469992448 ========== The woes of blue cities in red states. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/18/opinion/parler-nashville.html They attract the monetizers of Trumpism with the best of both worlds - combining no income taxes and Trumpist state politicians with an intellectually and artistically stimulating and vibrant economy. #PS1economics ===== impress 112 time 2021-10-18 14:37 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1450108848715427841 ========== Ride sharing comes back to earth. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/17/opinion/uber-lyft.html #PS1economics ===== impress 108 time 2021-10-18 14:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1450106211202785289 ========== The superstitious peasants are driving out the public health departments. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/18/us/coronavirus-public-health.html The ruling class is pleased that its culture wars keep the peasants attacking doctors and nurses instead of the ruling class. So are the peddlers of animal dewormer. #PS1virus ===== impress 113 time 2021-10-18 14:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1450103684960964616 ========== John Eastman has big plans. Much bigger than just Trump. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/18/john-eastman-plans-2020-election/ But he might be disbarred first. #PS1insurrection ===== impress 111 time 2021-10-18 14:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1450099643962978304 ========== That was the economics that wasn't. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/18/urban-myths-about-economics-have-taken-root-cost-is-high/ The Nobel Prize in economics was awarded to scholars who tried to put statistical economics comparative studies on more solid ground. #PS1economics ===== impress 98 time 2021-10-18 13:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1450098549576777728 ========== Will Pakistan come to regret sheltering the Afghan Taliban? The Afghans are now sheltering the Pakistani Taliban. https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-religion-pakistan-islamabad-taliban-3d002d01a1fee6f7f868ae9cd3f243a8 #PS1afghanistan ===== impress 116 time 2021-10-18 12:24 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1450075326160117763 ========== Defund the police? Only in GOP propaganda. Name one major city that is not desperately trying to hire more officers! https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/10/16/oakland-homicides-surpass-2020-totals-leaving-victims-families-in-stunned-grief/ #PS1justice ===== impress 117 time 2021-10-18 02:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1449922724495708169 ========== The horror of elderly dementia. https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/10/17/covid-forced-bay-area-families-to-make-agonizing-elder-care-decisions-is-there-a-fix/ And this is in wealthy Silicon Valley, which of course means it's even worse if you're not wealthy. #PS1health ===== impress 115 time 2021-10-18 02:14 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1449921815040593921 ========== It takes millions of dollars to run for the Senate. Where does the money come from? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/16/us/politics/midterm-elections-campaign-financing.html It's all about buying access, meaning the elected candidate will return your calls. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1520676641610183 #PS1democracy ===== impress 81 time 2021-10-18 02:06 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1449919896884711425 ========== Term limits for Supreme Court justices? Yes - https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/17/what-supreme-court-commission-does-does-not-do/ No - https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/18/supreme-court-term-limits-wouldnt-solve-anything/ The court is already politicized, so give each president a chance to politicize the court. The GOP has studied Eastern European methods and is eager to adopt them. #PS1justice ===== impress 115 time 2021-10-18 00:37 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1449897426488229888 ========== We should shut down domestic tax havens - https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/17/states-must-stop-letting-ultrawealthy-dodge-taxes-law/ But the beneficiaries know where to send donations so nothing happens. GOP legislators are particularly receptive. The Trumpist rank and file will oppose regulation if the Democrats are for it. #PS1tax ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% impress 95 likes 1 time 2021-10-18 00:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1449896321830166533 ========== Can we avoid regional federalism? https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-regional.html Since we can't fix minority rule - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html It's an uphill climb - https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/17/our-system-is-biased-against-reform-get-used-it-democrats/ #PS1democracy ===== impress 110 time 2021-10-18 00:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1449894949244182529 ========== Economists support carbon tax - but not GOP senators, who are opposed to any tax. So that's no solution to the Manchin problem, since he won't touch filibuster. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/16/climate/democrats-carbon-tax-climate.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1520618031616044 #PS1biden ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% expands 1 impress 87 time 2021-10-17 23:26 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1449879492302802946 ========== Trump will run for president in 2024 - against GOP who weren't 100% loyal. That goes over well with his base, and nobody else, but his base are the ones who energize him by attending his campaign rallies. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/17/us/politics/trump-voter-fraud-republicans.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1520609984950182 #PS1trump ===== impress 84 time 2021-10-17 23:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1449875681920253954 ========== Why Biden can't do much about global warming - West Virginians would rather replace their houses every few years than stop the coal train. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/17/climate/manchin-west-virginia-flooding.html Are the few with flood insurance subsidized by the rest of the country? #PS1climate ===== impress 85 time 2021-10-17 22:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1449870619512696833 ========== Plan on permanent inflation or plan on transient inflation? Which is worse if we're wrong? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/15/opinion/us-economy-inflation.html #PS1economics ===== impress 80 time 2021-10-17 22:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1449866387514486790 ========== If Democrats lose this chance and the GOP normalizes election decisions by state legislatures, infrastructure won't matter any more. Regional federalism next? https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-regional.html Voting rights are more important than infrastructure. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/17/opinion/voting-rights-congress.html #PS1democracy ===== impress 89 time 2021-10-17 22:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1449864103753748480 ========== What happens to the foot soldiers? https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/10/16/us/capitol-riot.html They take the risks for the benefit of the leaders that they want to put in power. The leaders inspire and lead from a safe distance. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1520574338287080 #PS1theory ===== impress 85 time 2021-10-17 22:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1449862227654111232 ========== What happens after the revolution? Political power attracts ideologically flexible people interested foremost in power and the trappings of power. Eventually they take over for their own benefit. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/an-insiders-view-of-chinas-communist-party-corruption-and-capitalist-excess/2021/10/13/679696c4-1189-11ec-882f-2dd15a067dc4_story.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1520574338287080 #PS1theory ===== impress 87 time 2021-10-17 21:38 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1449852411292512259 ========== When labor is scarce, strikes work better. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/10/17/strikes-great-resignation/ #PS1economics ===== impress 81 time 2021-10-17 21:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1449847433056309250 ========== Bannon certainly has staying power. Maybe he'll have staying power in jail. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/16/steve-bannons-defiance-jan-6-committee-is-just-his-latest-con/ Maybe he'd volunteer to work on a forest fire crew raking forests. #PS1trumpism ===== engage 2 engage-rate 2% expands 2 impress 88 time 2021-10-17 14:19 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1449741860142915589 ========== Texas GOP shows how it's done! https://apnews.com/article/austin-texas-race-and-ethnicity-racial-injustice-elections-4a40e921b8cec9449e24ed5adc637d87 They've been protecting minority rule for generations. #PS1democracy ===== impress 85 time 2021-10-17 14:12 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1449740059129704448 ========== How much is a Trump endorsement worth? A lot to Democrats if it divides the GOP and they spend all their money on the primary. https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-pennsylvania-senate-elections-sean-parnell-congress-785d01549c87af7af666090cb060df3e #PS1election ===== impress 86 time 2021-10-17 13:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1449735876452315153 ========== Among the latest victims of the insurrection - Federal judges who have to deal with incompetent defendants insisting on defending themselves. Try this at home. Not in court. It never works. https://apnews.com/article/new-york-capitol-siege-0814e7d8cfc5ab1e6c413da08c157268 #PS1insurrection ===== impress 86 time 2021-10-17 13:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1449734416553562117 ========== Fire camp is better than prison! https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/prison-firefighter-california-exploit/2021/10/15/3310eccc-2c61-11ec-8ef6-3ca8fe943a92_story.html And we need fire fighters. #PS1justice ===== impress 84 time 2021-10-17 06:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1449628074685788166 ========== Looks like Manchin is determined to protect coal. Biden's programs won't go anywhere until he can get Manchin on board. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/10/16/white-house-climate-manchin/ #PS1biden ===== impress 90 time 2021-10-17 06:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1449626639973765128 ========== How many legislators will retire, either for personal reasons or battle fatigue? https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/democrats-retirements-majority/2021/10/16/2f409710-2dd2-11ec-985d-3150f7e106b2_story.html #PS1election ===== impress 86 time 2021-10-17 06:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1449625176434298882 ========== What could get Congress to act on voting rights? Bipartisanship is a dead end - no GOP senator will vote to reduce minority rule. It's going to take a modification of filibuster - and Biden has to persuade ALL 50 Democratic senators. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/biden-democracy-eroding/2021/10/15/2ca8181c-2c55-11ec-92bd-d2ffe8570c7d_story.html #PS1democracy ===== impress 89 time 2021-10-17 06:31 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1449624111303434241 ========== How the ruling class funds insurrection. https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/publix-heiress-capitol-riot-wren/2021/10/16/34b7d55a-2481-11ec-a6ad-9ee7deda7f34_story.html #PS1insurrection ===== impress 78 time 2021-10-17 06:19 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1449621174921535491 ========== Lawyers used to sue doctors for malpractice. Now they sue them for NOT malpractice. https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-business-health-new-york-lawsuits-7ab397f269d1fb9083bb782f9bfc2317 Where were these lawyers when thalidomide was being suppressed? #PS1virus ===== impress 87 time 2021-10-17 06:12 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1449619264168620038 ========== There's a reason China banned cryptocurrency. In the fight against air pollution and climate change, crypto mining is not in the public interest. https://apnews.com/article/bitcoin-mining-new-york-power-plant-climate-change-516dbd319394a6a30f83d94947abad20 #PS1climate ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% impress 114 replies 1 time 2021-10-17 06:07 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1449618100517699586 ========== There's a name for systems in which your rights supersede the rights of others. Anarchy, if superior rights are decided by superior might. Feudalism, if superior rights are decided by superior caste. https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-health-legislature-new-hampshire-misinformation-f2545555283926ca3baea10a9476fac2 More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1520078328336681 #PS1theory ===== impress 85 time 2021-10-17 06:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1449616826502025217 ========== Biden says prosecute! https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-capitol-security/biden-says-those-who-refuse-to-testify-in-jan-6-probe-should-be-prosecuted-idUSKBN2H52BM Bannon has no claim whatever on executive privilege. #PS1insurrection ===== engage 3 engage-rate 7% impress 41 likes 1 time 2021-10-16 01:21 +0000 urlclicks 2 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1449183705390485513 ========== At least we have SOME idea what Manchin wants - https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/15/politics/clean-electricity-program-cut-budget-bill-climate/ Unlike Sinema. #PS1biden ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 30 time 2021-10-16 01:18 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1449183017604288512 ========== Off to Paris! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/15/what-does-sinema-want-biden-agenda/ #PS1politics ===== impress 72 time 2021-10-15 23:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1449160084106330113 ========== The good, bad, and ugly on the governor's desk - Newsom signed some and not others. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-10-14/skelton-newsom-california-legislature-bills-2021 There were hundreds more. #PS1capolitics ===== impress 90 time 2021-10-15 23:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1449155058134749187 ========== Raking and thinning aren't nearly as efficient as fortifying houses against wildfires. https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/10/15/opinion-californias-wildfire-dilemma-put-houses-or-forest-first/ The houses are the problem, not the forest. #PS1climate ===== impress 89 time 2021-10-15 23:24 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1449154271891496960 ========== Since Facebook is for old people, the Z's moved to TikTok. Now the question is, how can they sell more ads and generate more commerce while still maintaining the veneer of authenticity? https://apnews.com/article/business-d03b6021d7a8e64f9a2978e6d2b8fde6 #PS1media ===== impress 103 time 2021-10-15 23:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1449152533570588673 ========== Fake online reviews are actually illegal! https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-media-social-media-federal-trade-commission-66952342602efdac6c24fbc5cdf3fa3d FTC could nip a budding industry in the bud. They'd better become major GOP donors quickly. #PS1media ===== impress 107 time 2021-10-15 23:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1449149391227396099 ========== The shipping bottleneck is not eternally insolvable. Oakland fixed it by hiring more longshoremen. https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/10/14/oakland-port-avoid-cargo-bottleneck-hire-dockworker-economy-jobs/ LA and Long Beach are planning on being open 24x7 until the backlog is processed. #PS1trade ===== impress 107 time 2021-10-15 23:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1449148816804904960 ========== Will any more GOP leaders reject Trumpism? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/14/mcconnell-cant-avoid-it-he-must-directly-refute-trumps-election-fraud-claims/ Not unless Trump starts to slip in popularity. Then the GOP rats will jump the Trump ship faster than Afghan warlords change sides! But none of them will take the risk as long as it's a risk. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 86 time 2021-10-15 22:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1449141265342222342 ========== The relative value of labor to capital changed after the black death and the middle class was born. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consequences_of_the_Black_Death Where might the Great Resignation lead? The major GOP donors don't want to find out. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/15/great-resignation-better-economy/ #PS1recovery ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% impress 98 likes 1 time 2021-10-15 22:26 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1449139655400574985 ========== We didn't defeat the business cycle after all. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#cycle People can believe inflation into existence - just like recession. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/10/15/us-economy-inflation-uncomfortable/ Thus transitory covid demand-supply imbalance can lead to long-term inflationary psychology. #PS1economics ===== impress 95 time 2021-10-15 22:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1449137728050716676 ========== "If Kevin McCarthy were ever to become speaker, essentially Donald Trump would be speaker" https://apnews.com/article/steve-bannon-donald-trump-elections-capitol-siege-europe-828d1b08e9da35a7fe6d22a50b287d5d #PS1insurrection ===== impress 91 time 2021-10-15 22:07 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1449134964503576580 ========== More culture warriors to defend minority rule! https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/moms-for-liberty-parents-rights/2021/10/14/bf3d9ccc-286a-11ec-8831-a31e7b3de188_story.html #PS1minority ===== impress 89 time 2021-10-15 21:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1449132807465299971 ========== That was the week that wasn't. https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-science-business-ap-fact-check-media-569714f738fb7d857e93e2594777d596 #PS1media ===== impress 86 time 2021-10-15 21:48 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1449130108048924673 ========== Capitol cop tried to protect insurrectionist. https://apnews.com/article/riots-capitol-siege-indictments-obstruction-of-justice-36f12a272f9b955e6524aa1d8e55776e #PS1insurrection ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% impress 90 time 2021-10-15 17:39 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1449067482216493064 ========== The bogus Eastman theory lives on. Time to drive a stake through it. Would any GOP senators vote for that? Would Manchin and Sinema allow a bypass of filibuster? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/15/eastman-memo-jan-6-trump-pence/ #PS1insurrection ===== impress 87 time 2021-10-15 16:53 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1449055721186758656 ========== Voters claim they want a smaller government. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/14/new-problem-democrats-americans-suddenly-want-smaller-government-after-all/ The best argument for a larger government would be to promptly pass a Biden bill that does a few popular things well, that will have palpable impact within a year. #PS1biden ===== impress 87 time 2021-10-15 16:48 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1449054556482985991 ========== There's always two sides - fact and fantasy. The fantasy belongs in the fiction section - it's not historically equivalent to fact. https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2021/10/15/holocaust-texas-school-books-opposing/ But confusing fact and fantasy is a pillar of minority rule - just ask Greg Abbott. #PS1other ===== engage 2 engage-rate 2% impress 97 likes 1 time 2021-10-15 16:40 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1449052617422753803 ========== A universal income in lieu of dozens of mean-tested programs and associated bureaucracies might be more effective. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-ubi.html Means testing is a way to prevent broad popularity of programs and make it easier to kill them. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/14/means-testing-is-bad-policy-bad-politics-keep-it-out-build-back-better-act/ #PS1economics ===== impress 90 time 2021-10-15 14:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1449019978473111558 ========== Clarence Thomas, the most reactionary justice since the 1930's. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/15/opinion/clarence-thomas-supreme-court.html He was a minority of one, until Trump came along. #PS1justice ===== impress 98 time 2021-10-15 13:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1449001294824280073 ========== Reaching the unvaccinated. Mandates for the perpetually undecided. Tranquilizers for the needle-phobic. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/15/opinion/covid-vaccines-unvaccinated.html There are several disjoint subgroups among the unvaccinated. #PS1virus ===== impress 95 time 2021-10-15 13:12 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1449000123623608325 ========== A positive view of Kyrsten Sinema. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/15/opinion/kyrsten-sinema-democratic-party-senate.html But by protecting minority rule by defending filibuster even against voting rights, where there is no bipartisan ground, she might as well be a Trumpist. Filibuster discourages bipartisanship. #PS1politics ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% impress 98 time 2021-10-15 13:00 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1448997310273241089 ========== Term limits would be good for the Federal judiciary. 18 years is ideal for the Supreme Court - on average, each Congress would have one vacancy to fill. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/14/us/politics/supreme-court-expansion-term-limits.html However, if a constitutional amendment were required, the GOP would block it. #PS1justice ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% expands 1 impress 103 time 2021-10-15 04:14 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1448864895676469255 ========== Humiliation as a dynamic of American history - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/14/opinion/america-immigration-history.html "the recurring tale of people conquering humiliation through creative action" #PS1other ===== impress 92 time 2021-10-15 04:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1448863523862286336 ========== Homeowners associations in LA - a model for progressives everywhere! https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/14/opinion/california-housing-renters.html Get up, suit up, show up, at every boring little meeting. #PS1politics ===== impress 111 time 2021-10-15 03:43 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1448857027862675460 ========== Why people don't want lousy jobs any more. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/14/opinion/workers-quitting-wages.html The pandemic focused their thinking. Life is too short for lousy jobs. #PS1economics ===== impress 87 time 2021-10-15 03:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1448854822627647490 ========== "It doesn’t matter who we elect, it’s all the same" https://washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/12/more-women-are-tuning-out-politics-danger-sign-democrats-virginia-beyond/ Congratulations McConnell and McCarthy! You've convinced Democratic voters that democracy is a waste of time, especially mid-term elections. Putin and Xi couldn't be prouder. #PS1election ===== impress 98 time 2021-10-15 03:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1448849465062805504 ========== Where inflation is hitting hardest - https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/10/14/inflation-prices-supply-chain/ Can we rein it in before inflationary psychology sets in for a decade or more? #PS1economics ===== impress 91 time 2021-10-15 03:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1448848445041614855 ========== For former GOP who didn't get the memo - GOP is a subsidiary of the Trump Organization. NOT vice versa. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-gop-fraud-claims/2021/10/14/f37887fe-2cfc-11ec-985d-3150f7e106b2_story.html If you don't like it, you can join the politically homeless under an overpass. For all the wannabes - Trump WILL run in 2024. #PS1trump ===== impress 85 time 2021-10-15 03:04 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1448847179041239043 ========== Missouri blames the messenger. https://apnews.com/article/technology-education-hacking-missouri-newspapers-6f730cb3ac61ad4cf120e7702a789d6b #PS1technology ===== impress 88 time 2021-10-15 02:53 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1448844395080339461 ========== Undoing some Trump damage. https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-business-lawsuits-james-comey-jeff-sessions-2be69b9a619dcbeb64469edd485b1a1b #PS1justice ===== impress 87 time 2021-10-15 02:46 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1448842798774439937 ========== Is Biden competent? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/14/opinion/joe-biden-democratic-party.html GOP will blame Biden for everything, and Democrats won't. Persuadable voters in swing states will vote their pocketbooks, which is why the GOP is keen to prevent further economic recovery. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1518315738512940 #PS1biden ===== impress 89 time 2021-10-14 20:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1448743313020907542 ========== Looks like she had a mild case - but who else did she infect? https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/10/14/alaska-lora-reinbold-covid-gop/ #PS1virus ===== impress 106 time 2021-10-14 19:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1448738004827205642 ========== At least he didn't have to show up in court! https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-courts-deposition-protest/2021/10/14/805e876c-2d12-11ec-baf4-d7a4e075eb90_story.html #PS1trump ===== impress 89 time 2021-10-14 19:43 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1448736226597498883 ========== Is it possible to avoid both the hazards of globalization AND the hazards of industrial policy? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/14/opinion/supply-chain-america.html Possible perhaps, but is there the political will to make it probable? #PS1trade ===== engage 4 engage-rate 4% expands 2 impress 112 retweets 1 time 2021-10-14 14:32 +0000 userclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1448658019051474945 ========== As always, only the best on the Trump team! https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/10/14/wisconsin-election-review-gableman-errors/ They are succeeding beyond their dreams in undermining confidence in American democracy! #PS1election ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% impress 94 time 2021-10-14 14:05 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1448651068003344387 ========== DO NOT PRESS 1 or 2 Don't answer! Or if you do, just hang up. https://nytimes.com/2021/10/13/opinion/spam-call-blocking.html Texts? Delete before reading. #PS1technology ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% impress 85 time 2021-10-14 12:49 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1448632176837226500 ========== DO NOT PRESS 1 or 2 Don't answer, or just hang up. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/13/opinion/spam-call-blocking.html Texts? Delete before reading. #PS1technology ===== impress 2 time 2021-10-14 02:21 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1448473895980261383 ========== Fired for election fraud and breach of duty; FBI investigating. https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/tina-peters-mesa-colorado-elections/2021/10/13/c60b842a-2c65-11ec-baf4-d7a4e075eb90_story.html The Trumpists will call her a patriot. #PS1election ===== impress 85 time 2021-10-14 02:10 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1448471252163710981 ========== What happens when banks fear losing their largest depositors and legislators fear losing their largest donors. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/11/business/irs-bank-accounts.html They PRETEND it's about little people and get the voters excited enough to complain. That's how minority rule works. #PS1tax ===== impress 95 time 2021-10-14 01:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1448461682729050117 ========== There's no permanent gap between GOP legislators and their major donors. Corporations that had reservations about Jan 6 seem to have gotten over it. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/12/opinion/republicans-corporations-extremism.html Greg Abbott's anti-vax laws will be enforced against small businesses but not big contributors. #PS1gop ===== impress 96 time 2021-10-14 01:14 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1448457026246348807 ========== Single party control is often unsuccessful. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/13/opinion/democrats-control-congress.html because both parties contain elements going in different directions. Failure to act is more a problem for Democrats than GOP, which is happier doing nothing than supporting Democrats. #PS1theory ===== impress 97 time 2021-10-14 00:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1448439706375524356 ========== One way to reduce inflation might have been to export more covid vaccines to countries that do a lot of manufacturing for us, so their factories would not have closed so much due to covid. But there are many other choke points as well. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/13/us/politics/biden-port-los-angeles-supply-chain.html #PS1recovery ===== impress 66 time 2021-10-13 23:52 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1448436398382469126 ========== Czech blow against corrupt pseudo-populist Trumpism. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/13/world/europe/czech-populism-strongmen.html Will it work in Hungary and Poland? #PS1foreign ===== impress 55 time 2021-10-13 23:23 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1448429337871405057 ========== Trump used to want a big military parade. If he is re-elected he might study Kim to up his game. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/10/13/north-korea-shirtless-soldiers-video/ That's a REAL cult of personality! #PS1foreign ===== impress 56 time 2021-10-13 23:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1448427490569908228 ========== Trumpist insurrection is a model for the whole world! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/13/rome-riots-jan-6-capitol-siege-playbook/ #PS1insurrection ===== impress 45 time 2021-10-13 22:57 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1448422764319105026 ========== Abbott faces 7 primary opponents on his right. He's not crazy enough for Texas! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/13/greg-abbott-republican-fringe/ But he has Trump's endorsement, for now. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 50 time 2021-10-13 22:52 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1448421453808877570 ========== If you want something from Trump, like a pardon, the past does not matter. You have to offer him something for the future. Such as a promise of silence. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/13/trump-bannon-jan-6-committee-subpoenas/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1517647281913119 #PS1insurrection ===== impress 43 time 2021-10-13 22:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1448418025498021888 ========== For once, Nobel prize research with immediate applications to ordinary life. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/11/opinion/nobel-prize-economics.html Sometimes you can do fairly well controlled experiments in economics. But that won't bother GOP legislators. They already know what they are paid to believe. #PS1economics ===== impress 51 time 2021-10-13 20:19 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1448382808259395584 ========== What a concept - attack the root cause instead of the effect! https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-immigration-donald-trump-business-health-547026462efb3bafa7846321228874d4 Don't worry - when GOP regains power, they'll make sure that DHS, like IRS, will only be able to oppress the powerless, instead of major campaign donors. #PS1immigration ===== impress 50 time 2021-10-13 20:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1448380433058516992 ========== Of course Trump will run again. His flunkies will tell him he's sure to win, because that's what he wants to hear. He craves campaign rallies like a junkie craves crack. He's desperate for revenge. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/13/trump-will-run-in-2024/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1517570438587470 #PS1trump ===== impress 44 time 2021-10-13 19:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1448373121443004418 ========== Maybe we should keep Columbus Day. Look how much Italy is like America. https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-europe-italy-rome-violence-2f61aafb5a9c219f5856c3ea4b3273aa And to think people made fun of Berlusconi. #PS1foreign ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% impress 61 likes 1 time 2021-10-13 17:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1448341403973537794 ========== No politician wants to tackle Social Security's long-term problem - raise taxes or reduce benefits. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/controversial.html#defined%20benefit People live too long and there aren't enough young people to pay for it. But they get an inflation offset - https://apnews.com/article/social-security-cola-increase-4f2cd7b763371b91923227be883e367e #PS1economics ===== impress 49 time 2021-10-13 17:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1448340500793081859 ========== Breaking the code - "It will cost you" means "It will cost us" means "paid for by undisclosed donors" Campaign business as usual for GOP. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/gop-senate-ads/2021/10/12/b2ef0076-2b82-11ec-baf4-d7a4e075eb90_story.html #PS1election ===== impress 45 time 2021-10-13 14:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1448293043212152834 ========== The preferred transition path is - retire, say what you really think, get into politics. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/marine-scheller-to-plead-guilty/2021/10/12/ccf1be18-2b74-11ec-92bd-d2ffe8570c7d_story.html Do things in the wrong order and you can expect big trouble. But maybe some people will help you if you're politically convenient for them. #PS1other ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% impress 47 time 2021-10-13 14:16 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1448291509720084482 ========== Another reason GOP senators find it easy to support burning hydrocarbons. Some of their major donors do, and senate campaigns cost millions of dollars. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/13/climate/private-equity-funds-oil-gas-fossil-fuels.html #PS1climate ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% impress 63 likes 1 time 2021-10-13 13:24 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1448278545004830723 ========== Congratulations Fox on your anniversary - they'll see you in court about what you've been doing the last 25 years. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/09/fox-news-25th-anniversary-big-lie/ If Smartmatic and Dominion prevail, others might jump in. #PS1media ===== impress 43 time 2021-10-13 06:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1448172221441064962 ========== How far will Evergrande infect? https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/china-evergrande-debt-property/2021/10/12/403d48ca-2b1a-11ec-b17d-985c186de338_story.html #PS1china ===== engage 2 engage-rate 2% impress 94 time 2021-10-13 06:05 +0000 urlclicks 2 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1448167893988823044 ========== Hillary's novel about Eric the Dumb. https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/hillary-clinton-louise-penny-state-of-terror/2021/10/08/9d585a9e-2841-11ec-8d53-67cfb452aa60_story.html #PS1other ===== impress 45 time 2021-10-13 06:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1448166623844528128 ========== It's more important to pass something promptly than something else later. Sooner is better than later. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/12/build-back-better-biden-bleeds-out/ #PS1biden ===== impress 43 time 2021-10-13 05:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1448164023342567424 ========== Now the Taliban is the target of a violent insurgency. Can they handle it better than the previous government? https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-taliban-islamic-state-group-united-states-middle-east-fbfab79028913b255cd94af3fdcff366 #PS1afghanistan ===== impress 55 time 2021-10-12 13:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1447917545340628999 ========== The Pandora Papers https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/interactive/2021/central-romana-tax-haven-south-dakota/ https://apnews.com/article/business-london-europe-media-f91432c785e4e06a8fb2c7370d4ca63d show how the west has enabled corruption and oppression in Russia - and many other places. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/11/why-west-has-itself-blame-russian-corruption/ #PS1tax ===== impress 64 time 2021-10-12 04:53 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1447787426714251265 ========== Nothing's certain but the game isn't over yet. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/11/take-democrats-are-doomed-narrative-with-grain-salt/ The Democrats might yet snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. Or vice versa. The GOP, lacking any positive program of its own, is doing all it can to thwart the Democrats. #PS1biden ===== impress 57 time 2021-10-12 04:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1447786045244805130 ========== If Trump or a Trumpist is elected in 2024, executive privilege will be gone for good along with all the other norms of democratic fair play. There's nothing to be gained by shielding him now. https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-joe-biden-us-supreme-court-congress-capitol-siege-13803c23a094992233df3b6880d2808b #PS1insurrection ===== impress 59 time 2021-10-12 04:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1447782877295308804 ========== Greg Abbott spares no effort to preserve the right of Texans to infect other Texans. https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-business-greg-abbott-texas-health-1180a8d70d4274765e137ccac9ce97b2 It's too bad for the infected but might boost his presidential ambitions. #PS1virus ===== engage 2 engage-rate 3% impress 65 time 2021-10-12 04:30 +0000 urlclicks 1 userclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1447781803771588610 ========== Trump has once again convinced some number of traditional conservatives to vote for Democrats - https://washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/11/im-no-democrat-im-voting-exclusively-democrats-save-our-democracy/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/11/trump-nightmare-looms-again/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1516471042030743 #PS1democracy ===== impress 54 time 2021-10-12 04:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1447779655839215618 ========== There's a rolling coup being attempted - https://www.newsweek.com/msnbc-host-mehdi-hasan-rolling-coup-overturn-2020-election-1637471 Will the media call it what it is? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/11/media-are-finally-waking-up-rolling-coup-they-must-take-side-democracy/ #PS1journalism ===== impress 48 time 2021-10-12 04:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1447775373748441089 ========== The dark sides of online retailing - https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/11/free-returns-online-shopping/620169/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/10/11/warehouse-jobs-holidays-seasonal-hiring/ #PS1economics ===== impress 70 time 2021-10-11 21:21 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1447673843464617988 ========== "Meaningful legislation is inherently difficult and controversial, which mobilizes your opponents against you without doing enough to inspire your supporters" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/11/trump-solve-biden-political-dilemma/ The 2022 election will probably be decided by the economy; no help from GOP. #PS1biden ===== impress 81 time 2021-10-11 19:46 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1447649906454265858 ========== Trumpists don't REALLY want to reign in global elites. Where would their campaign finance come from if they did? Tax havens = campaign contributions. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/11/biden-global-minimum-tax-trumpism/ Saying one thing and doing the opposite is built in to minority rule. #PS1tax ===== impress 79 time 2021-10-11 19:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1447647950386053120 ========== In Silicon Valley, virus increased wealth and income inequality, as well as health inequality. https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/10/11/covid-widened-the-chasm-between-bay-area-haves-and-have-nots/ #PS1virus ===== impress 82 time 2021-10-11 19:10 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1447640731334496257 ========== American officials should not accept foreign gifts ever. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/11/us/politics/trump-gifts.html #PS1other ===== impress 75 time 2021-10-11 18:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1447623485677654018 ========== "Competitiveness" - code for low taxes, weak regulation and lax enforcement. Before Sioux Falls and the British Virgin Islands, there was London. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/11/opinion/pandora-papers-britain-london.html #PS1tax ===== impress 77 time 2021-10-11 17:48 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1447620255308599297 ========== Another attempt by never-Trumpist traditional conservatives to define themselves. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/11/opinion/2022-house-senate-trump.html Is there a significant voter base and donor base for traditional conservative values? More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1516162935394887 #PS1politics ===== impress 81 time 2021-10-11 17:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1447618574437076996 ========== An excellent way to reduce taxes! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/11/florida-teachers-covid-quitting-desantis/ Get all the teachers to quit! DeSantis is on it! Major GOP donors send their kids to private schools, so they don't care. #PS1other ===== impress 79 time 2021-10-11 17:03 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1447608770373185541 ========== "Money is the mother's milk of politics" The "moderates" Manchin and Sinema have an immoderate attachment to their major donors. Just like GOP senators. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/11/dont-blame-moderates-reconciliation-fight/ #PS1biden ===== impress 84 time 2021-10-11 16:15 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1447596625933729793 ========== The mid-term elections usually go badly for the president's party, because its supporters are sad that so little progress has been made, and its opposition is angry because so much progress has been made. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/biden-falling-poll-numbers-georgia/2021/10/10/3606c99e-2002-11ec-8200-5e3fd4c49f5e_story.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1516086265402554 #PS1election ===== impress 70 time 2021-10-11 15:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1447585066964570115 ========== China is not very forthcoming on virus origins. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/china-covid-bats-caves-hubei/2021/10/10/082eb8b6-1c32-11ec-bea8-308ea134594f_story.html #PS1virus ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% expands 1 impress 74 time 2021-10-11 15:12 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1447580768050376704 ========== Beware the plain quiet woman sitting and listening - and taking notes. https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-fiona-hill-vladimir-putin-russia-europe-f582f211aa82b69092954b7db94bbf4f Putin is the man Trump always wanted to be, but he just couldn't measure up. #PS1russian ===== impress 169 time 2021-10-11 13:52 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1447560785111117825 ========== There are plenty of Italian-Americans who came to America and contributed to America. Honor one of them instead of Columbus. And why not have a rotating holiday that honors a different immigrant-American every year? https://apnews.com/article/columbus-indigenous-peoples-day-b00777738e9d0ae411e9b6acad223371 #PS1other ===== engage 3 engage-rate 2% impress 185 likes 2 time 2021-10-11 13:45 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1447558967513665546 ========== Fall will test GOP in Congress https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-business-congress-filibusters-27ee5558714da1347b68d58952cc137b Can they save the filibuster, avoid being blamed for shutting down the government, and still prevent Democrats from passing any popular legislation? It would be a lost cause unless Democrats keep infighting. #PS1politics ===== impress 84 time 2021-10-11 13:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1447555317017939972 ========== Surprise! Neither minimum wage nor immigration cause unemployment. https://apnews.com/article/nobel-prizes-business-europe-3cbc672f994ae6f4f486a68b52c2bb32 GOP politicians will keep saying the opposite anyway, because that's what they do. #PS1economics ===== impress 84 time 2021-10-11 13:21 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1447552910410223619 ========== Did he repent not getting vaccinated while he was on the ventilator? https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-wisconsin-legislature-health-ca51df32a129fc88ea67966d03285f05 #PS1virus ===== impress 59 time 2021-10-11 13:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1447551997381517312 ========== Has China peaked and started on the way down? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/08/china-rise-vs-authoritarian-decline/ If so, it's more dangerous as it seeks distractions - perhaps a war with Taiwan. #PS1china ===== impress 143 time 2021-10-11 04:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1447424380275884042 ========== The search for objective truth in a world that is constantly changing. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/10/business/journalists-objectivity.html Nobody is ever right all the time, for all time. #PS1journalism ===== impress 77 time 2021-10-11 03:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1447411422506336256 ========== Anything that makes having children less of an economic catastrophe is a good idea in mature western democracies. But more means-testing bureaucrats is the wrong answer! https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/09/opinion/family-policy-manchin.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1515747158769798 #PS1biden ===== impress 81 time 2021-10-11 03:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1447409570196779011 ========== Unclear on the concept! https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/10/opinion/opportunity-zones-tax-loopholes.html Opportunity zones were never intended to help the residents of opportunity zones. They were intended to help major GOP donors. How else could they have gotten in the GOP billionaire tax relief bill? #PS1tax ===== impress 97 time 2021-10-11 03:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1447405243369590787 ========== Did you notice when Powerade went from 32oz to 28oz? https://www.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/comments/eta5ps/powerade_is_using_shrinkflation_by_replacing/ Other forms of inflation are subtler - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/10/upshot/shadow-inflation-analysis.html Restaurant and hotel service is not what it used to be. Phone tree hell has replaced customer service people. #PS1economics ===== impress 84 time 2021-10-11 03:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1447403508135723009 ========== The shipping crisis is not getting better. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/10/business/supply-chain-crisis-savannah-port.html Who's to blame? All those MBA's who 30 years ago were touting offshore manufacturing and just-in-time logistics. They were right - it was cheaper - as long as absolutely nothing went wrong. #PS1economics ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% impress 88 time 2021-10-11 02:58 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1447396257786331137 ========== Scalise reminds us of the cost of failing to pass the Biden agenda - https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/10/steve-scalise-election-stolen-2020/ Congressional Democrats need to quickly get to a realistic assessment of what's possible and enact it. GOP will vote against anyway. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1515714298773084 #PS1biden ===== impress 80 time 2021-10-11 02:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1447393387624075265 ========== The essence of the Biden agenda is 1) enhance economic democracy and opportunity 2) enhance political democracy and opportunity These enhancements complement and reinforce each other. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/10/biden-approval-decline-complicated-dionne-analysis/ The essence of GOP minority rule is to reduce both. #PS1biden ===== impress 90 time 2021-10-11 02:36 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1447390598030258182 ========== Why would anybody want to have anything to do with these guys? https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-10-07/crypto-mystery-where-s-the-69-billion-backing-the-stablecoin-tether Don't invest in something you don't understand - very ancient wisdom. #PS1economics ===== impress 79 time 2021-10-11 00:52 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1447364515704627328 ========== Presidential nominations should be automatically confirmed unless the Senate acts in 90 days. How much time do they need? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/10/america-is-shorthanded-foreign-affairs-thanks-ted-cruz/ Of course the real question is how much Fox time Ted Cruz needs. #PS1gop ===== impress 85 time 2021-10-11 00:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1447353564687306753 ========== Big corporations would donate to nazis AND communists if they thought it necessary to preserve access to legislators. "It's just business" as the Godfather would say. That's one reason they like dark money - less embarrassing. https://apnews.com/article/us-supreme-court-business-texas-laws-abortion-7ed4b1afdacdcec91a2071448f7d8144 #PS1health ===== impress 83 time 2021-10-11 00:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1447351433032912902 ========== Xinjiang as historical tourist attraction. https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-lifestyle-china-health-travel-7a6967f335f97ca868cc618ea84b98b9 #PS1china ===== engage 1 engage-rate 4% impress 23 time 2021-10-10 23:52 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1447349354843443206 ========== Scalise will do ANYTHING, even saying idiotic things himself, to keep from being primaried by some Trump-endorsed idiot. https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-donald-trump-joe-biden-business-health-c1645564f5ced76356e8423b5e12f103 He's thus in the vanguard of the modern Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 17 time 2021-10-10 23:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1447347322984095746 ========== A quid pro quo with Taliban? https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-business-taliban-islamic-state-group-united-states-0f386a9d22bafa86601c8a6251b02bc6 The Taliban is not going to be recognized as legitimate until it has free contested elections - but their position is that democracy is incompatible with Islam. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1515629175448263 #PS1afghanistan ===== impress 15 time 2021-10-10 23:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1447346327092793348 ========== Prevent another Trump coup? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/09/without-these-changes-us-democracy-will-remain-vulnerable-trump-other-bad-actors/ "Republicans who still respect the Constitution should be willing to join in this effort" Only if they want to get primaried by some idiot endorsed by Trump. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1515606708783843 #PS1democracy ===== impress 15 time 2021-10-10 22:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1447333011825967105 ========== How states with loose trust laws rip off other states. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/10/07/tax-shelters-states-pandora/ No taxes ever! They are certainly supporting minority rule by a hereditary nobility. #PS1tax ===== impress 16 time 2021-10-10 22:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1447331042705096708 ========== Where would corrupt wealthy foreigners be without South Dakota trusts? https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/interactive/2021/central-romana-tax-haven-south-dakota/ It's a major growth industry in SD. #PS1tax ===== impress 17 time 2021-10-10 22:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1447329591043842050 ========== Why people are desperate to leave Haiti. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/10/09/haiti-kidnapping/ Is their only hope that the Taliban take over and hang accused kidnappers from streetlight poles? #PS1foreign ===== impress 30 time 2021-10-10 22:23 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1447326994283188231 ========== Can the Democrats agree on what is possible, and then enact it? https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/10/09/biden-faces-shrinking-timetable-salvage-his-agenda/ If nothing passes, even less cooperative GOP will be in Democratic seats soon, even Manchin and Sinema's. All the GOP needs is for Democrats to pass nothing. #PS1biden ===== engage 1 engage-rate 5% impress 21 replies 1 time 2021-10-10 22:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1447325522938130433 ========== Global energy politics https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/10/09/energy-crisis-global/ In a democracy, it's more important to save your seat this year than to make sure that there's anything saved for your grandchildren. #PS1climate ===== impress 16 time 2021-10-10 22:06 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1447322565937037316 ========== So by any means possible, GOP creates a do-nothing Congress that, by doing nothing, will defend minority rule. Redistrict creatively to create as many safe seats as possible. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/redistricting-partisanship-fighting/2021/10/08/e765d50c-2522-11ec-8831-a31e7b3de188_story.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1515580808786433 #PS1democracy ===== impress 14 time 2021-10-10 21:54 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1447319543236284418 ========== Trump's coup was defeated by a very few GOP officials. Most of them will be ousted from office before the next election and replaced with more compliant coup enablers. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/10/08/hollowness-it-didnt-work-defense-trumps-attempt-retain-power/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1515572695453911 #PS1insurrection ===== engage 1 engage-rate 5% impress 21 time 2021-10-10 21:36 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1447315149543510018 ========== Can't tell the players without a scorecard! https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/10/10/democrats-republicans-biden-budget-fights/ And can't always tell WHY X wants Y, because X is often not fully forthcoming about motivations - because the motivations involving campaign donations don't sound or look good in broad daylight. #PS1politics ===== impress 15 time 2021-10-10 21:19 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1447310936352583684 ========== Restaurant business is starving for workers - https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/10/08/restaurant-job-growth-slows/ because the customers make the job too unpleasantly stressful. Even pay raises and signing bonuses don't compensate. #PS1recovery ===== impress 14 time 2021-10-10 21:12 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1447309140569690114 ========== As Wisconsin goes, so goes the country? https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/10/08/wisconsin-polarization-democrats-republicans/ #PS1politics ===== impress 13 time 2021-10-10 21:07 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1447307922321514497 ========== You can't blame the lunatic fringe for being the lunatic fringe. https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/leonard-pitts-jr/article254836147.html But you can blame people who know better but encourage and defend the lunatic fringe in order to protect minority rule. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1515545998789914 #PS1minority ===== impress 16 time 2021-10-10 20:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1447301077913665536 ========== Bipartisan agreement that SOMEthing should be done about big tech. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/09/technology/facebook-big-tobacco-regulation.html No bipartisan agreement whatever about exactly WHAT should be done. The big tech lobby puts big pharma and big tobacco to shame. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1515536698790844 #PS1technology ===== impress 11 time 2021-10-10 20:19 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1447295670440792066 ========== Why do we put up with a do-nothing Congress? Because the GOP donors like it that way! How did we resolve the debt ceiling for 3 months? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/08/us/politics/congress-crisis.html By scaring McConnell about losing the filibuster! More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1515484585462722 #PS1democracy ===== impress 19 time 2021-10-10 18:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1447271067479724033 ========== Delta economy depresses office space in some places https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-business-unemployment-health-bf233e99f16690a3e37cf102021b956a But not Silicon Valley https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/10/08/covid-real-estate-silicon-valley-office-rent-record-heights-tech/ Housing prices continue to rise too - amazing since everybody is moving to Texas, according to Greg Abbott. #PS1economics ===== impress 22 time 2021-10-10 18:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1447267477138722817 ========== Do Tesla and Texas REALLY want each other? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/08/business/tesla-texas-headquarters.html Musk is driving toward an electric future with himself in command, while Abbott is driving toward a hydrocarbon past with himself in command. But they agree on low taxes. #PS1climate ===== impress 21 time 2021-10-10 18:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1447266187520327683 ========== How ATT funds Trumpist agitprop on OAN - https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/media/one-america-news-herring-trump-reuters/2021/10/08/b439a2f8-283d-11ec-8d53-67cfb452aa60_story.html Trump likes OAN better than Fox because its support never varies no matter what the facts. Unlike Fox, OAN doesn't separate reporting and opinion. https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-oneamerica-att/ #PS1media ===== engage 2 engage-rate 10% impress 20 likes 1 time 2021-10-10 15:07 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1447217337745108994 ========== What, exactly, is the public interest in Dominion's financial records? And how can they contain trade secrets? https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/10/09/prominent-voting-hardware-company-seeks-to-block-docs-from-release-in-santa-clara-county-court/ #PS1election ===== impress 16 time 2021-10-10 06:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1447083744989364224 ========== Taliban think they can handle Islamic State on their own. They have not been successful before. https://apnews.com/article/business-taliban-islamabad-middle-east-islamic-state-group-4d419bb70259f93f7165169889d05ff1 As for the Afghan currency reserves, the west should use those to pay resettlement costs of Afghan refugees. #PS1afghanistan ===== impress 28 time 2021-10-10 06:04 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1447080585109774339 ========== Why so few jobs were filled in September. https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-business-united-states-health-economy-c9189de30b0cf807689e83f5e56d218d #PS1economics ===== impress 14 time 2021-10-10 05:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1447079285039058946 ========== Reactionaries training to take over school boards to protect minority rule, though they probably don't all understand the big picture. Culture wars are an essential diversionary tactic of minority rule. https://apnews.com/article/lifestyle-ohio-school-boards-racial-injustice-election-2020-a27a6ea4b7d4acc07173ebf7fa494257 #PS1minority ===== impress 13 time 2021-10-10 05:54 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1447078116837376002 ========== Another traditional conservative pushed out of the GOP by Trumpism. https://apnews.com/article/joy-hofmeister-oklahoma-teacher-pay-education-6ee002e07ac9ac89b664f51e437b04b6 #PS1gop ===== impress 13 time 2021-10-10 05:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1447076926414225415 ========== He didn't get vaccinated, and he got covid and gave it to his wife, who was vaccinated. https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-allen-west-texas-pneumonia-health-03839ff2547c8895fb0e4f155705322a Trump got over it, so will West too? #PS1virus ===== impress 25 time 2021-10-10 05:48 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1447076498427432963 ========== Strategic ambiguity on the PRC side, too. https://apnews.com/article/xi-jinping-taipei-beijing-taiwan-china-61f510599558249f9afa839052c4000a Will he or won't he use force on Taiwan? #PS1china ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 36 time 2021-10-09 13:59 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1446837672429768714 ========== Will secret offshore and onshore tax havens reduce charitable giving? https://apnews.com/article/business-philanthropy-b8acb10f529ac2dbaff7631021d823c9 Yes, to the extent that donors give to reduce taxes and tax havens allow them to avoid taxes entirely. #PS1tax ===== impress 28 time 2021-10-09 13:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1446836868755062790 ========== "I really don’t think he’s that stupid" https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-joe-biden-business-pandemics-congress-7466507d8f33fbc94a4c5bf0f329f6a2 He's not stupid, he's just traded his medical smarts for Trumpist political smarts - and in Kansas, that's smart. #PS1virus ===== impress 25 time 2021-10-09 13:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1446834746592415751 ========== Who's the entitled class? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/08/opinion/joe-manchin-biden.html The Pandora Papers show it's the ultrarich, not the masses. What do Manchin and Sinema want to do about those entitlements? And the other entitled class is legislators supported by unlimited dark campaign money. #PS1other ===== impress 34 time 2021-10-09 12:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1446818891716382725 ========== Will reputational damage do what tax laws can't? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/08/opinion/pandora-papers-leak.html Some rich people care, but most don't seem to. #PS1tax ===== impress 25 time 2021-10-09 12:37 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1446817090732630017 ========== Body image anxiety isn't new, but social media amplifies it. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/08/opinion/instagram-teen-girls-mental-health.html Just like it amplifies everything. #PS1media ===== impress 23 time 2021-10-09 12:31 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1446815678728601603 ========== 11 GOP senators who can behave responsibly. https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/07/politics/republican-debt-ceiling-filibuster-list/index.html History suggests they usually won't, however. #PS1gop ===== impress 27 time 2021-10-09 05:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1446709158225399815 ========== The Constitution stacks the deck for rural states run by GOP. https://www.reduce-rural-bias.net/ What's the best way for Democrats to overcome that? What do persuadable voters in swing states really care about? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/08/opinion/democrats-david-shor-education-polarization.html #PS1politics ===== impress 28 time 2021-10-09 05:23 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1446707793419927556 ========== Banks don't want any more reporting requirements. That might inconvenience their biggest tax-averse customers. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/07/banking-industry-is-throwing-stones-key-biden-nominee-it-lives-glass-house/ #PS1tax ===== impress 28 time 2021-10-09 04:54 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1446700622921666561 ========== Why Trump wants to sell. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/10/08/trump-hotel-millions-foreign-governments/ With personal legal expenses coming he can't afford to subsidize it any longer. #PS1trump ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% impress 44 time 2021-10-09 04:51 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1446699761155788800 ========== The Secret Service is not a place you'd like to work. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/10/08/secret-service-overwork-morale-underfunded-report/ #PS1other ===== impress 29 time 2021-10-09 04:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1446698817420611585 ========== Trump endorses unknowns so they owe everything to him. If they win. It's a great test of personality cult. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/07/here-are-trumps-most-important-endorsements-ranked/ They are running against Republicans who are perfectly acceptable to the GOP base, except they have crossed Trump. #PS1trump ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% impress 55 time 2021-10-09 04:43 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1446697893537058825 ========== Why children have to be vaccinated against childhood diseases, to protect themselves and to protect adults, and to minimize incubation of more virulent strains. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/08/mandatory-vaccination-kids-is-not-great-option-its-best-one-we-have/ #PS1virus ===== impress 25 time 2021-10-09 04:21 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1446692146833072130 ========== Will Congress do anything about the Electoral Count Act? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/08/trump-jan-6-committee-electoral-count-act/ Not likely. That would require 10 GOP senators with enough character to help, or 2 Democratic senators with enough character to end filibuster on election reforms. #PS1democracy ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% impress 45 time 2021-10-09 04:16 +0000 userclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1446690929864110083 ========== Everybody knew Trump would lie, cheat, and steal. No surprise there. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/10/08/adam-schiff-midnight/ The shock was that so many people we thought were better than that - were, are, and will be happy to enable Trump's crimes. #PS1insurrection ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 44 time 2021-10-09 04:10 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1446689488952905736 ========== Don't leave voice mail when you are drunk. https://apnews.com/article/congress-lisa-murkowski-alaska-fairbanks-texas-1bd7e14ed742b674906be74fc1589e80 #PS1insurrection ===== impress 25 time 2021-10-09 03:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1446686102643826688 ========== We're learning about social media as we go along. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/07/technology/facebook-scandals.html What we're learning is that all new technology has good and bad uses, and there are people and organizations devoted to finding and exploiting the bad uses. #PS1technology ===== impress 25 time 2021-10-09 03:04 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1446672971955802112 ========== At last a law requiring cancellations to be as easy as signing up! https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/10/07/larry-magid-new-law-will-make-it-easier-to-cancel-online-subscriptions/ Making it as hard as possible to cancel seems to be part of the business model pioneered by cable tv and cell phone companies, and now standard throughout the internet. #PS1technology ===== impress 22 time 2021-10-09 02:57 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1446671102474797056 ========== Surprise! Biden won't protect Trump! https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-business-congress-capitol-siege-subpoenas-375f0349971f87d30ffd24fe5b8bbdf0 #PS1insurrection ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% impress 55 time 2021-10-08 20:15 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1446569881994887168 ========== That was the week that wasn't. https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-business-race-and-ethnicity-racial-injustice-social-media-b0c5633662b18765458d7abfe9203708 #PS1media ===== impress 49 time 2021-10-08 20:10 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1446568592149925888 ========== Americans agree there's lots of disinformation https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-technology-business-health-misinformation-fbe9d09024d7b92e1600e411d5f931dd But there's a lot of money to be made in disinformation, as these chiropractors demonstrate - https://apnews.com/article/anti-virus-chiropractors-rising-force-misinformation-02b347767b45cab1d6d532be03c57529 #PS1media ===== impress 51 time 2021-10-08 16:10 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1446508410258612228 ========== What is worse than the Taliban? https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-prayer-religion-2b9d9863da38661ba6fa186a72ac5352 #PS1afghanistan ===== impress 55 time 2021-10-08 16:03 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1446506604531093506 ========== No separation of church and state under Trumpism. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/07/us/politics/religious-conservative-michael-farris-lawsuit-2020-election.html Eventually it's not that different from the Taliban. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 68 time 2021-10-08 03:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1446318164019531778 ========== Only the best people showed up on Jan 6! https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/07/us/politics/proud-boys-capitol-riot.html But the best people don't necessarily make the best witnesses. That makes it harder for them to cut a plea deal. #PS1insurrection ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% impress 57 time 2021-10-08 03:30 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1446316970094125056 ========== Immigration has always been a big deal for bigots. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/07/opinion/asian-americans-1965-immigration-act.html But immigration is necessary to sustain the standard of living in an aging society. #PS1immigration ===== impress 61 time 2021-10-08 03:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1446310745117847553 ========== We build theories about the world to help us get through the day. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/07/opinion/essentialism-stereotypes-bias.html Unfortunately it's easy to mistake our theories for the objective reality, which is much too complicated to comprehend, which is why we had to theorize it. #PS1other ===== impress 55 time 2021-10-08 02:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1446307093540007941 ========== There are some reasons to hope for a better future in 6-9 months. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/07/opinion/recovery-covid-economy.html But climate change and know-nothing-ism aren't going away. #PS1economics ===== impress 56 time 2021-10-08 02:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1446305533821026305 ========== Texas is the national laboratory for maintaining minority rule. GOP hopes that if they can do it there, they can do it anywhere. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/07/opinion/texas-politics-greg-abbott.html #PS1gop ===== impress 56 time 2021-10-08 02:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1446304401019183112 ========== The debt ceiling - a guide for the perplexed. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/27/us/politics/us-debt-ceiling.html #PS1economics ===== impress 49 time 2021-10-08 02:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1446302065769074688 ========== You can't expect a busy man like Trump to worry about little details, even if he's no longer busy on social media. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/10/07/james-rosemond-trump-clemency/ Maybe Trump meant it, maybe not, but he might have to testify in court to prove it, and he won't do that. #PS1justice ===== impress 45 time 2021-10-08 02:24 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1446300379155615751 ========== All the twisted thinking behind the debt ceiling postponement. https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/default-senate-deal/2021/10/07/222f9008-2779-11ec-8831-a31e7b3de188_story.html McConnell knew what he was doing, and so did Schumer. They both think they are better off. Those who speak, do not know; those that know, do not speak. For now. #PS1economics ===== impress 57 time 2021-10-08 02:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1446298372730540036 ========== Trump never forgets and never forgives https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/mcconnell-trump-debt-limit-republicans/2021/10/07/00f07f4e-2777-11ec-8831-a31e7b3de188_story.html But Trump never has a better idea, which is why he's out and McConnell is still in. And McConnell probably will still be calling the shots longer than Trump. #PS1trump ===== impress 56 time 2021-10-08 02:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1446296606744014855 ========== How dumb can a nation act? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/07/reconciliation-vaccines-election-america-dumb/ Can the GOP act so dumb that business starts to fund Democrats? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/07/republicans-are-losing-support-business-community-democrats-should-take-advantage/ Yes, it's already happening. Especially on covid and immigration, the GOP is anti-business and anti-growth. #PS1gop ===== impress 59 time 2021-10-08 00:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1446267583145996289 ========== More on Trump's "executive privilege" claims https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/07/trump-jan-6-committees-subpoena-515593 He doesn't want the truth to get out. #PS1trump ===== impress 56 time 2021-10-08 00:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1446265462430470149 ========== Hacking for fun - or fame - or fortune? https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/10/07/twitch-epik-hack-hacktivist/ #PS1technology ===== impress 79 time 2021-10-07 23:57 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1446263563056599041 ========== Covid hoaxes can land you in prison. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/06/us/christopher-charles-perez-covid-licking.html Unless you're rich and powerful. #PS1justice ===== impress 77 time 2021-10-07 20:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1446218532853727254 ========== The myth that better communication media bring people together. https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/leonard-pitts-jr/article254783607.html It wasn't true for printed newspapers - and it's not true for social media. For that matter, it wasn't true for shouting. It's easier to shout war chants than lullabies. #PS1media ===== impress 77 time 2021-10-07 20:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1446217881843220517 ========== Who's paying? https://mercurynews.com/2020/10/09/deep-pockets-who-is-behind-the-big-spending-in-californias-elections-this-year/ And that doesn't even count who's behind the dark money. #PS1capolitics ===== impress 79 time 2021-10-07 20:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1446210962671878148 ========== Trump's role models! https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-coronivirus-kim/2020/10/10/d355df9e-0b0b-11eb-a166-dc429b380d10_story.html #PS1trump ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% expands 1 impress 78 time 2021-10-07 20:26 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1446210444608225301 ========== Who'd like to walk in Trump's footsteps - if they can figure out how to invisibly sideline him and steal his base and donors? https://washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/10/18/2024-race-begins-republicans-nov-4/ They hope the Senate GOP will continue to undermine the economy so they can blame it on Biden in 2022 and 2024. #PS1trumpism ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% expands 1 impress 83 time 2021-10-07 20:23 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1446209510134071309 ========== Fear, outrage, and fantasy sell way better than optimism and rationality. The tabloids, cable TV, and social media built their business models on stirring emotions rather than intellect. Facts were never necessary. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/05/fear-sells-dark-times-america-needs-courage/ #PS1media ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% expands 1 impress 80 time 2021-10-07 19:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1446203267222949888 ========== Most voters and most Democratic legislators favor increased taxation on the rich, and increased enforcement of tax laws. But when Congress is almost evenly split, it only takes a few to say no. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/07/briefing/corporate-democrats-taxing-the-rich.html So nothing happens. #PS1tax ===== impress 79 time 2021-10-07 19:48 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1446200874674503682 ========== It's been bad enough already https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-election-2020-judiciary-presidential-elections-elections-2fec942d0c09bc31858190afbb5d8e42 https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/06/us/politics/trump-election-fraud-report.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/07/stunning-new-report-reveals-trumps-threat-democracy-republicans-shrug/ So Trump will try to prevent any more truth from getting out. https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-congress-subpoenas-capitol-siege-4eb9ffd1e94550219f5acab9e3d3b162 #PS1insurrection ===== impress 75 time 2021-10-07 19:38 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1446198151266770946 ========== How white blue-collar workers shifted from leftists to reactionaries, and ending up serving the purposes of the minority rulers that abused them. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/07/opinion/globalization-work-trump-social-justice.html #PS1economics ===== impress 89 time 2021-10-07 19:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1446196645218054145 ========== Traditional conservatives need to realize that the Trumpist Dixiecrat Republican Party has left them behind and they have no place to go. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/07/advice-gop-trump-critics-democracy-lovers-leave-party/ There never were that many traditional conservative voters after all. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1513257462352101 #PS1gop ===== impress 75 time 2021-10-07 18:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1446175587756752897 ========== Are Wyoming and Cheney split for good? https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2021/10/07/wyoming-voters-liz-cheney/ The Trumpists would be in a better position in the primary if they adopted ranked-choice voting. As it is, too many anti-Cheney candidates might mean Cheney is nominated. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 88 time 2021-10-07 17:54 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1446172209341341708 ========== If you want people to work more so we depend less on immigration, you better make children more affordable. That's a big part of the Biden bill. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/07/sanders-manchin-reconciliation-democrats/ But conservatives and especially their donors don't want to pay for middle class children. #PS1biden ===== impress 85 time 2021-10-07 17:36 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1446167579412733957 ========== Time for regional federalism? https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-regional.html It's clear that the red states want a different federal government than the blue states, but the red states want the blue states to pay for it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/04/maga-politics-broken-federalism-state-national-power/ #PS1theory ===== impress 86 time 2021-10-07 17:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1446166727457316868 ========== QR codes and privacy https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/10/07/are-qr-codes-safe/ #PS1technology ===== impress 83 time 2021-10-07 17:14 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1446162057208811520 ========== Does the 14th Amendment solve the budget ceiling crisis? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/07/opinion/biden-debt-ceiling.html It would end up in court, so who can tell. Better for the Democrats to bite the bullet and use filibuster to eliminated the budget ceiling permanently. #PS1economics ===== impress 78 time 2021-10-07 16:07 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1446145256932593675 ========== Could the yuan displace the dollar in international finance? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/01/20/how-trump-made-chinas-currency-great-again/ That's where the GOP is headed. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/10/07/world-is-questioning-washingtons-competence-fearing-prospect-us-default/ The world is right to question the competence of Congress. #PS1economics ===== engage 2 engage-rate 2% impress 83 likes 1 time 2021-10-07 15:12 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1446131386839027720 ========== The insurrection against the Constitution did indeed start with Trump - and continues to this day. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/durbin-report-trump-pressure-justice/2021/10/07/b51712d4-2769-11ec-8d53-67cfb452aa60_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/10/07/3-takeaways-senate-report-trumps-brazen-efforts-overturn-2020-election/ #PS1insurrection ===== impress 75 time 2021-10-07 15:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1446128888698978314 ========== The changing dynamics of state hacking. https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-china-europe-united-states-e13548edf082992a735a0af1da39b6c8 #PS1russian ===== impress 99 time 2021-10-07 14:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1446117480468869128 ========== The Taliban is against drug addiction in Afghanistan - but exporting drugs is a major source of foreign exchange. https://apnews.com/article/business-only-on-ap-taliban-kabul-afghanistan-312374ad26aa5741394b2308bfd99487 #PS1afghanistan ===== impress 92 time 2021-10-07 14:06 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1446114722839818243 ========== Federal help for ranked-choice voting! The Voter Choice Act would make it easier for communities to embrace ranked choice voting across the country. https://www.bennet.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2020/2/bennet-king-phillips-introduce-bill-to-promote-ranked-choice-voting https://www.fairvote.org/rcv More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1512829612394886 #PS1democracy ===== impress 74 time 2021-10-07 03:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1445954364544147462 ========== Putin must think that Trump is still president. https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/06/politics/nato-expels-members-russian-mission/index.html #PS1foreign ===== impress 77 time 2021-10-07 02:46 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1445943590518067202 ========== McConnell has talked Biden out of the filibuster. What about Manchin and Sinema? Depends on their donors. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/06/thanks-mcconnell-even-biden-is-losing-faith-filibuster/ Most of the major donors that support Manchin and Sinema probably support their GOP opponents too. Donors just want access. #PS1democracy ===== impress 96 time 2021-10-07 02:04 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1445933105747935234 ========== Nothing's changed in a year. Issues aren't the issues. Attitude is the issue. "they want somebody, above all, that's going to fight the Democrats. They actually don't really care often what you're fighting about" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/27/magazine/trump-influence-gop.html #PS1theory ===== impress 202 time 2021-10-06 23:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1445901359677538313 ========== If this guy had been right again his fortune would have been made. https://www.nytimes.com/article/trump-polls-trafalgar-group.html But of 1000 monkeys randomly typing, one might get it right once. Two in a row is more interesting. Close but no cigar. He was right about many Congressional races. #PS1election ===== engage 1 engage-rate 0% expands 1 impress 203 time 2021-10-06 23:54 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1445900313211244547 ========== If Libertarian voters' second choice were Trump, then the Libertarian candidate Jo Jorgensen cost Trump the election in AZ, GA, WI, PA. Just as the Greens cost Gore the election in 2000 and Clinton in 2016. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-election.html #PS1election ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% expands 1 impress 194 time 2021-10-06 23:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1445899127859023877 ========== So ten months later how many have been disbarred? Lawyers are also officers of the court. If they seek to undermine the legal system, shouldn't they be disbarred? And sooner than a month before they die, like Roy Cohn? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/12/01/dc-bar-presidents-lawyers-trump-election/ #PS1justice ===== engage 1 engage-rate 0% expands 1 impress 210 time 2021-10-06 23:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1445897939822395396 ========== In December, Cornyn, Thune, and Braun said "game over". After the insurrection, do they still think that? https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-donald-trump-politics-gretchen-whitmer-michigan-ffd40e9fb35a9a77bddecd2029193e14 #PS1gop ===== engage 1 engage-rate 0% expands 1 impress 215 time 2021-10-06 23:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1445896826335346689 ========== Republicans don't have to pass anything to preserve minority rule. They please their donors just by blocking progress. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/12/24/bipartisanship-ends-where-joe-bidens-agenda-begins/ #PS1gop ===== impress 184 time 2021-10-06 23:36 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1445895753411432458 ========== Texas GOP terrorizes even GOP elections officials. https://www.texastribune.org/2021/10/01/texas-election-official-hood/ Why would anybody want to move to Texas? #PS1gop ===== engage 1 engage-rate 0% expands 1 impress 212 time 2021-10-06 23:20 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1445891704033198087 ========== What does McConnell want? To wreck the economy on Biden's watch, to get GOP control of the Senate in 2022. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/05/us/politics/mcconnell-debt-ceiling.html #PS1gop ===== impress 184 time 2021-10-06 22:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1445886430983561221 ========== Which way is the future? The Texas GOP and the new arrivals have diametrically opposed ideas. Who's going to win? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/05/opinion/texas-census-united-states.html #PS1other ===== impress 177 time 2021-10-06 22:54 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1445885134423527432 ========== The Chinese Wild West is over. From now on the Party will control all large enterprises. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/05/business/china-businesses.html #PS1china ===== engage 2 engage-rate 1% impress 192 time 2021-10-06 22:45 +0000 urlclicks 2 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1445883029692420103 ========== What do you tell terminal patients in denial? There are lots of them these days. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/06/opinion/doctor-patient-death-truth.html #PS1health ===== engage 2 engage-rate 1% impress 184 time 2021-10-06 22:30 +0000 urlclicks 2 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1445879173852004355 ========== The Taliban's only way to finance their power without becoming a client state of a foreign power. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/05/afghanistan-drugs-could-become-bigger-danger-than-terrorism/ #PS1afghanistan ===== impress 179 time 2021-10-06 22:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1445875929427767307 ========== The Ministry of Truth for minority rule in general and Trumpism in particular. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/05/stephanie-grisham-fox-state-news/ #PS1media ===== impress 192 time 2021-10-06 22:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1445874982647595010 ========== Three strikes against rural hospitals in Trump country. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/10/05/hospitals-delta-variant-surge-budgets/ #PS1virus ===== impress 190 time 2021-10-06 22:10 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1445874201114537986 ========== Haley as well as Pence are trying to define themselves as Trumpists but not Trumpists. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/05/pence-haley-trump-vortex/ It's wasted effort. Trump will certainly run and there won't be any major donor money left for anybody else. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 186 time 2021-10-06 22:06 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1445873099748962306 ========== Can anybody get elected to the Senate who is not a Trumpist and not a Democrat? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/06/how-you-beat-trump-loyaltist-utah/ Probably not - where's he going to get the major donors he'll need? True, Utah is a little different from the rest of Trump country - but different enough? #PS1gop ===== impress 204 time 2021-10-06 22:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1445871933883510795 ========== Can you consistently tell fact from fantasy? Most Americans can't. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/interactive/2021/conspiracy-theory-quiz/ #PS1qanon ===== impress 194 time 2021-10-06 21:57 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1445870865220964354 ========== And why shouldn't a Trump cabinet member charter a private jet whenever he wants? https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/10/06/tom-price-hhs-charter-jets/ It's not as if he had to pay for it himself. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 204 time 2021-10-06 21:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1445868964068806665 ========== Lobbying paid off for Yellow. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/10/06/yrc-pandemic-loan-emails/ As usual for the Trump administration. #PS1recovery ===== impress 199 time 2021-10-06 21:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1445867081019232261 ========== Desperately seeking approval! https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-forbes-rich-list-removed-history/2021/10/06/4dbdfdc8-26a1-11ec-8831-a31e7b3de188_story.html But the "respectable" old money in Manhattan doesn't think much of the nouveau riche, especially from the outer boroughs - the dirt on new money has not yet been bleached away by time and charitable works. #PS1trump ===== impress 204 time 2021-10-06 21:38 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1445866023383568388 ========== There's no penalty for being an irresponsible opposition party. The voters will blame the party in charge. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/06/why-republicans-think-they-can-get-away-with-setting-fire-economy/ Just like there's no penalty for lying in politics. Democracy isn't automatic; it relies on the character of the participants. #PS1gop ===== impress 192 time 2021-10-06 20:57 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1445855782390558730 ========== "Stop the Steal" is not just about Trump, except in his own mind. It's the foundation of the GOP's strategy to maintain minority rule going forward, regardless of who their candidates might be. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/06/trump-2024-republican-governors/ #PS1minority ===== engage 3 engage-rate 1% impress 210 time 2021-10-06 20:52 +0000 urlclicks 3 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1445854447893057542 ========== Pence still thinks he has presidential prospects. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/in-weighing-2024-run-pence-tests-whether-there-is-political-life-after-trump/2021/10/06/523a1df2-2217-11ec-9309-b743b79abc59_story.html But Trumpists hate him - and so do the anti-Trumpists. And Trump will run - count on it. How many major donors will bet on Pence? #PS1gop ===== impress 202 time 2021-10-06 20:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1445853280689549314 ========== $171 million so far this year says Medicare won't be able to negotiate drug prices. https://apnews.com/article/lifestyle-business-congress-health-care-reform-medicare-756e3255a1cb4ab8c813151aec19b60c $171 million buys a lot of Senate votes. #PS1health ===== impress 203 time 2021-10-06 20:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1445849950990987267 ========== A Republican caucusing with Democrats https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2021-10-04/kyrsten-sinema-shaking-up-democrats-gop-arizona Perhaps - seeing demographic change - she wants to retain bipartisan support of suburban women and retain GOP major donors. #PS1politics ===== impress 188 time 2021-10-06 20:23 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1445847215746863107 ========== The modern way to loot culture. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2021/met-museum-cambodian-antiquities-latchford/ #PS1tax ===== engage 6 engage-rate 3% expands 6 impress 184 time 2021-10-06 14:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1445755333545136128 ========== The modern way to do bribes. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/interactive/2021/billionaires-offshore-accounts/ #PS1tax ===== impress 189 time 2021-10-06 14:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1445750904678801408 ========== Pandora Papers confirm worst suspicions. https://apnews.com/article/business-middle-east-lebanon-najib-mikati-europe-10d4cb891e514c538b67e3607c4feda7 #PS1tax ===== impress 197 time 2021-10-06 13:38 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1445745187154632711 ========== The Scopes monkey trial took place in rural Tennessee - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scopes_Trial There hasn't been much progress since. https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2021/10/04/kids-covid-cases-tennessee/ #PS1virus ===== impress 182 time 2021-10-06 06:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1445641750479982598 ========== Why the Taliban was so successful in rural areas. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/afghanistan-village-us-taliban/2021/10/04/e531303c-214a-11ec-a8d9-0827a2a4b915_story.html #PS1afghanistan ===== impress 217 time 2021-10-06 06:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1445636980977532930 ========== A filibuster change to pass a debt ceiling increase? https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-business-congress-filibusters-daf3d1c1e78a764b01af043ac2617cc6 Then call out the Democratic senators who fail to support it. #PS1economics ===== impress 196 time 2021-10-06 06:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1445632039156285440 ========== A trillion dollar coin to solve the debt ceiling crisis? https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-business-congress-85d495defe92b42915c19f3fc2d0176d Better to vote to eliminate the debt ceiling altogether - and call out the GOP senators who vote for default. Then pass it anyway by overriding the filibuster on this one issue. #PS1economics ===== engage 1 engage-rate 0% impress 234 time 2021-10-06 06:04 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1445631039318093835 ========== The threat in 2024 is not so much Trump - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/05/opinion/trump-2024.html as which, among his abler, bolder, and thus more dangerous would-be successors, will get the benefit of Trump's subversion of the rule of law. They're all quietly courting major donors now. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 222 time 2021-10-05 13:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1445384428373659651 ========== Can a woman protect minority rule by keeping both the Trump base and major GOP donors in line, while stealthily running against Trump? https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/10/05/kristi-noem/ But how much did she help SD to become a global tax haven, and covid haven, and for what rewards? #PS1trumpism ===== engage 1 engage-rate 0% impress 238 likes 1 time 2021-10-05 13:23 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1445379054014582786 ========== In London as in Pierre, money talks, and there are plenty of legislators ready to listen. https://apnews.com/article/business-london-europe-media-f91432c785e4e06a8fb2c7370d4ca63d #PS1tax ===== impress 225 time 2021-10-05 13:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1445376694383116292 ========== QAnon fantasists are turning criminal, world wide. https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-europe-kidnapping-health-79761187c5d2767a8a27072a0e2d81ef #PS1qanon ===== impress 207 time 2021-10-05 13:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1445375296618713088 ========== Feds planning response to school board violent threats. https://apnews.com/article/merrick-garland-school-boards-violence-daaff3f659981354b7a9a536db5cf2e2 #PS1insurrection ===== impress 207 time 2021-10-05 03:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1445234604256882693 ========== Let Sinema and Machin coddle their major donors as we try to find out what they WILL vote for. Manchin is as liberal as we can hope for from WV, but the Democratic Party can do better in AZ next time. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/04/opinion/sinema-kyrsten.html #PS1politics ===== engage 1 engage-rate 0% expands 1 impress 223 time 2021-10-05 02:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1445214204047159297 ========== You can get fake versions of anything on the internet. But how can you tell which is which? https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/10/04/online-shopping/ There may yet be a place for in-person bricks-and-mortar retail stores. #PS1media ===== impress 217 time 2021-10-05 02:14 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1445210702650568709 ========== Four diverse groups of British immigrants formed four distinctive strands of American culture - the differences have pervaded American culture and politics for 400 years. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/04/books/review/joe-klein-explains-how-the-history-of-four-centuries-ago-still-shapes-american-culture-and-politics.html #PS1theory ===== engage 1 engage-rate 0% impress 230 likes 1 time 2021-10-05 01:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1445193468582662145 ========== To repeat - it's children and climate. The rest can wait a while longer. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/04/opinion/budget-deficits-climate-child-poverty.html #PS1biden ===== impress 197 time 2021-10-05 00:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1445191836096552961 ========== Change comes to German politics. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/04/opinion/cdu-germany-elections.html Can another party maintain stability as well as the CDU? It's like the former conservative Republican Party, replaced by a cult of personality and with no clear home for its former members. #PS1foreign ===== engage 1 engage-rate 0% expands 1 impress 225 time 2021-10-05 00:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1445190867459788801 ========== Why Congress tends toward doing nothing. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/04/us/politics/biden-lobbying-congress.html "Money is the mother's milk of politics" and unlimited dark money colors every legislator's thinking - about the primary or the general election or both. #PS1democracy ===== impress 220 time 2021-10-05 00:48 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1445189211557040130 ========== Has Facebook peaked? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/04/technology/facebook-files.html Is it destined to become the preferred platform of the AARP, at least when it's having a good day? #PS1media ===== engage 1 engage-rate 0% expands 1 impress 223 time 2021-10-05 00:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1445187350737215492 ========== Advice to Biden and Democrats in Congress - do a few things well - invest in the future, not the past. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/04/if-democrats-must-scale-down-their-ambitions-they-should-prioritize-investments-young-future/ Children and climate. GOP is glad to vote against climate, so make them vote against families and campaign on that. #PS1biden ===== impress 223 time 2021-10-05 00:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1445184462317240322 ========== Many businesses learned today what happens when your platform goes down. It's good to have a Plan B. https://apnews.com/article/facebook-whatsapp-instagram-outage-8b9d3862ed957029e545182a595fdce1 #PS1media ===== impress 207 time 2021-10-05 00:23 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1445182755495559175 ========== We all knew that rich criminals don't pay taxes, and lots of other rich people don't bother too. https://apnews.com/article/leaked-pandora-records-show-how-powerful-shield-assets-b31daac39800f6a6423e24465df45ffc Now it's much clearer how they do it. GOP donors are dead set against disclosure requirements in the Biden BBB bill. No surprise. #PS1tax ===== impress 209 time 2021-10-05 00:10 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1445179432801472513 ========== Trump can be deposed, even though he is still president in his own mind. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/judge-says-trump-can-be-deposed-former-apprentice-contestants-lawsuit-2021-10-04/ He's got a lot to be deposed about. #PS1trump ===== impress 117 time 2021-10-04 22:21 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1445152024731942914 ========== After 40 years, a Dixiecrat court to match a Dixiecrat GOP. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/04/victory-rights-40-year-quest-remake-american-law-is-hand/ Strom Thurmond would be so proud. The Federalist Society will have to be proud on his behalf. #PS1justice ===== impress 126 time 2021-10-04 22:14 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1445150387036590094 ========== Need employees? Make it pleasant enough to work for you. https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/10/04/how-some-bay-area-businesses-are-trying-to-entice-workers-to-return/ Just as after the Black Death, the relationship of labor and capital has changed. #PS1recovery ===== impress 125 time 2021-10-04 21:10 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1445134210994368518 ========== Danger! Legislators are beginning to ask intelligent questions about social media. https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-media-ohio-congress-02c339d34cf38e8ed4d697472926feaa #PS1media ===== impress 124 time 2021-10-04 21:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1445132141084381187 ========== Who can sue whom, and where, for social media comments? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/24/technology/facebook-australia-comments.html Be careful, the law is evolving rapidly. #PS1media ===== impress 140 time 2021-10-04 20:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1445131403302035462 ========== Companies are rethinking offshoring and just-in-time logistics. Those approaches were cheaper - until they didn't work at all. https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-technology-business-health-hurricanes-46bce9cc36dab2b330309dae0354cf53 If the pandemic economic recovery had been slower, the chances of shortages and inflation might have been lower. #PS1economics ===== impress 150 time 2021-10-04 20:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1445130748235636736 ========== Debt ceiling history and future. https://usanewssite.com/culture/jill-on-money-debt-ceiling-fight-risks-fiscal-defcon-1/ There's still a sufficient majority to prevent default. But the GOP is recruiting Foxy Trumpist morons and crazies to Congress who would vote for default, just because the Democrats said not to. #PS1economics ===== impress 131 time 2021-10-04 20:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1445129267390529540 ========== How close did Pence come to insurrection? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/04/pence-eastman-memo-jan-6-role/ And who in the world is funding his presidential ambitions, and why? #PS1insurrection ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% impress 125 time 2021-10-04 20:27 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1445123413396258824 ========== How the defenders of the ruling class donors dumb themselves down in public. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/04/gop-proud-of-its-own-stupidity/ But the pretend dummies are being replaced by real dummies who see nothing wrong with insurrection, corruption, shutting down the government, or defaulting on the debt. #PS1gop ===== impress 123 time 2021-10-04 20:24 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1445122641862357003 ========== Desperately seeking death panels! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/04/welcome-death-panels-build-back-better-edition/ Don't worry. If the GOP can't dig it up, they can make it up. Then use all that dark campaign money to repeat it over and over. That's how minority rule protects itself from democracy. #PS1minority ===== engage 2 engage-rate 2% impress 120 time 2021-10-04 20:18 +0000 urlclicks 2 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1445121169003204622 ========== At least we got some of them out. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/09/30/cia-afghanistan-allies/ #PS1afghanistan ===== impress 135 time 2021-10-04 20:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1445119796849229832 ========== If you play a good hand poorly, you still lose. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/09/30/us-economy-soars-while-american-politics-craters/ #PS1economics ===== impress 118 time 2021-10-04 20:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1445118952007364616 ========== Are the Democrats trying to do too much at once? Most voters could not accurately describe the scope of Biden's bill. Picking just one or two things that GOP legislators would hate to vote against might be more fruitful. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/09/30/democratic-strategy-agenda-infrastructure-social-spending/ #PS1biden ===== impress 128 time 2021-10-04 20:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1445117904794439684 ========== Looks like Democrats have lost Florida to the GOP. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/facing-historic-challenge-florida-democrats-stumble-against-desantis/2021/09/30/bb2cdc76-1d32-11ec-bcb8-0cb135811007_story.html It doesn't take much. Anti-Castro Cubans can make the winning difference in statewide elections. #PS1politics ===== impress 124 time 2021-10-04 20:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1445116735082749959 ========== More on Darien Gap https://apnews.com/article/caribbean-panama-united-states-358e8ef8d1696c56ecf153c7fc9d709f #PS1immigration ===== impress 161 time 2021-10-04 19:57 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1445115895303397381 ========== How South Dakota caters to rich foreign criminals - https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/interactive/2021/booming-us-tax-haven-industry/ #PS1tax ===== impress 134 time 2021-10-04 19:07 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1445103351880773638 ========== How Belize caters to rich American criminals - https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/interactive/2021/us-offshore-accounts-belize-enforcement/ #PS1tax ===== impress 140 time 2021-10-04 18:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1445101319430176781 ========== Of course he's going to run! Even if he's broke and in jail. He loves campaign rallies. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-2024-campaign-candidacy/2021/10/03/73af3b12-21f8-11ec-b3d6-8cdebe60d3e2_story.html And he loves keeping his many would-be successors off balance by forcing them to say they won't run if he runs - so donors are waiting and seeing. #PS1trump ===== impress 144 time 2021-10-04 18:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1445096198164017162 ========== No need to check the politicalscrapbook Facebook page. You can't. https://apnews.com/article/facebook-whatsapp-instagram-outage-8b9d3862ed957029e545182a595fdce1 #PS1media ===== engage 6 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 302 time 2021-10-04 18:26 +0000 urlclicks 5 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1445092861419024388 ========== The stories doctors have to listen to over and over. https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-misinformation-health-433991ea434e12ccfdf97b5db415310d At least the patients quit repeating myths when they get to the morgue. #PS1virus ===== impress 134 time 2021-10-04 18:23 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1445092257888043014 ========== In Wyoming, librarians can be prosecuted for placing books in the wrong section. https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-lifestyle-business-wyoming-nonfiction-22b0a682cb5ba95de8eb3975d101228c The prosecution can call the Taliban as expert witnesses. They don't need libraries either. #PS1other ===== impress 145 time 2021-10-04 14:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1445039975041409025 ========== Starting with the Reagan era, income and wealth inequality has grown so great that it threatens American democracy. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/09/23/robert-kagan-constitutional-crisis/ That's why the common man deserves $3.5 trillion - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/30/opinion/federal-spending-democrats.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1511317445879436 #PS1economics ===== impress 133 time 2021-10-04 14:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1445038396863176707 ========== Modern America took shape under which president? https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/10/02/opinion-1619-or-1776-nope-we-need-an-1848-project/ James K Polk! #PS1other ===== impress 142 time 2021-10-04 14:31 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1445033826602795014 ========== Domestic terrorists threaten California school boards https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/10/02/opinion-attacks-on-school-boards-are-a-threat-to-democracy/ #PS1insurrection ===== impress 145 time 2021-10-04 14:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1445033147020701700 ========== Haitian hike of horrors. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/02/world/americas/haitian-migrants-mexican-border.html #PS1immigration ===== impress 139 time 2021-10-04 14:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1445032275339448335 ========== California magnifies the demographic trends of all advanced economies - children too expensive to raise and too poor to stay. https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/09/27/where-are-all-of-californias-youth/ There are plenty of wealthy immigrants for Silicon Valley. And poorer immigrants for the Central Valley. #PS1immigration ===== impress 133 time 2021-10-04 14:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1445030358534164480 ========== The end of tipping? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/20/dining/restaurant-wages.html Food service employers are considering the radical idea of paying a living wage to ALL their employees. Better to raise prices accordingly and enforce a NO TIPPING policy in order to pay every worker fairly. #PS1economics ===== impress 151 time 2021-10-04 03:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1444870178987147265 ========== China's era of Wild West capitalism might be drawing to a close. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/28/business/china-evergrande-economy.html Leverage has its risks, financially and politically. #PS1china ===== engage 2 engage-rate 1% impress 156 time 2021-10-04 03:32 +0000 urlclicks 2 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1444868081470173188 ========== The social media business model works most profitably by heightening emotional involvement in a positive feedback loop, to increase screen time and thus exposure to advertising. It's hard to see how to change that in a free market. https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-joe-biden-business-misinformation-4a3640440769d9a241c47670facac213 #PS1media ===== impress 143 time 2021-10-04 02:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1444854677401583617 ========== More on Ozy's attempt to fake it until you make it https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/03/business/media/ozy-media-investors.html #PS1media ===== impress 164 time 2021-10-04 01:23 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1444835558111412231 ========== Senator Cinema https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/02/opinion/kyrsten-sinema-congress.html Is she as devoted to preserving minority rule as the GOP? Maybe she should run as one. #PS1politics ===== impress 147 time 2021-10-04 01:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1444833037032701953 ========== Don't expect bipartisanship on fair elections. Almost all Trumpist Dixiecrat Republican legislators have signed on to voter suppression to protect minority rule. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/02/opinion/jan-6-trump-eastman-election.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1510841205927060 #PS1democracy ===== impress 44 time 2021-10-03 21:26 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1444775904769544195 ========== Funny money funnies 3 - wrong answers from Eric Cantor! https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/old-debt-ceiling-fights-had-a-purpose-this-one-doesnt/2021/10/01/847a3b74-2237-11ec-9309-b743b79abc59_story.html The debt ceiling fights haven't changed. The difference is we have more reality-deprived legislators willing to actually default on the debt. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1510829965928184 #PS1economics ===== impress 68 time 2021-10-03 21:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1444769547932733440 ========== Who knew that South Dakota was in the same league as Florida or Belize? Or Tony Blair as King Abdullah? https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-business-religion-media-jordan-67b2674fc44fa543df49dfc8f52e29cd Now we see why the GOP major donors, and their senators, are so desperate to keep the IRS emasculated and focused on EITC small potatoes. #PS1tax ===== engage 5 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 203 likes 1 retweets 2 time 2021-10-03 20:46 +0000 userclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1444765737201987590 ========== Xi obviously wants to conquer Taiwan during his rule. But will he risk war? https://apnews.com/article/china-united-states-taiwan-a3afef4fa39ee74f8d902d98cfc74dad Will the US risk war to defend Taiwan? #PS1china ===== impress 99 time 2021-10-03 20:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1444764142888386562 ========== Funny money funnies 2 - the trillion dollar platinum coin https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/10/01/mint-coin-debt-ceiling/ Instant solution to the debt limit crisis. Do it, and then repeal the debt limit entirely when the absurdity has fully sunk in. #PS1economics ===== engage 3 engage-rate 3% expands 2 impress 105 time 2021-10-03 20:35 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1444763102071779329 ========== Funny money funnies 1 - regulating "stablecoins" https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/10/02/stablecoins-crypto-regulation/ Right now they don't have to have any inherent value at all. It's a first step toward regulating cryptocurrencies to take all the criminal fun out of them. #PS1economics ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% expands 1 impress 92 time 2021-10-03 20:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1444762695580798978 ========== Fake it until you make it! https://apnews.com/article/business-media-795759da5d8412c78143938c647eabe8 Unless you "make it" to the top of the business crime page, like Theranos. #PS1media ===== impress 49 time 2021-10-03 20:24 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1444760197612781571 ========== Trumpists don't have to comply with court orders - Trump doesn't so why should they? https://apnews.com/article/arts-and-entertainment-shootings-austin-texas-education-7f41616ffbe55514c1370c19ce77558b Of course, if somehow they end up in trouble, they can expect no help from Trump. Other people's money, other people's jail time. #PS1media ===== impress 52 time 2021-10-03 20:20 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1444759215382228995 ========== Arizona "investigators" just made up the numbers. But that's OK - it's what we expect from Trumpists. It's what you feel that matters - not slippery facts that can be proved or disproved. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/01/us/arizona-election-review.html Other GOP states are following suit. #PS1election ===== impress 52 time 2021-10-03 20:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1444758632323641352 ========== When phasing out coal, natural gas becomes more valuable. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/01/business/natural-gas-prices.html Turns out that affects chemical and fertilizer prices - and thus food prices. Oil (and gasoline) are going up too. #PS1economics ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% impress 72 time 2021-10-03 20:13 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1444757534405902337 ========== Neiman Marcus - luxury goods without luxury data protection! https://www.dallasnews.com/business/retail/2021/10/01/neiman-marcus-tells-46-million-customers-that-credit-card-and-gift-card-data-breached/ Nobody noticed for 18 months. #PS1technology ===== impress 43 time 2021-10-03 20:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1444756515575906305 ========== An effective antidote to fear of vaccination - fear of firing. https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-business-health-3d41206ae1418ea81f2c47040dbd523f Years from now getting fired for refusing to vaccinate against covid might not be something you'd want on your resume. #PS1virus ===== impress 48 time 2021-10-03 19:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1444753059582672898 ========== Another Trumpist deregulation success! https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-business-science-health-california-106808694cb797a59db366df54e85692 The stem cell companies and the doctors made money! Many of them might have become big campaign donors. #PS1health ===== impress 48 time 2021-10-03 19:52 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1444752271237992448 ========== Biden bill in perspective. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/10/02/joe-biden-new-deal-infrastructure/ #PS1biden ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% impress 61 time 2021-10-03 06:03 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1444543530693627909 ========== You never can be part of the Trump family. Because ultimately, it has only one member. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/10/01/stephanie-grisham-memoir/ #PS1trump ===== impress 60 time 2021-10-03 01:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1444470616447328259 ========== Why service is so slow. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/09/30/during-great-resignation-workers-refuse-accept-unacceptable/ People aren't willing to work crappy jobs and endure abuse by employers and customers. covid unemployment relief really had little to do with it. #PS1economics ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% impress 60 time 2021-10-03 01:07 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1444469205567348736 ========== What a pile of political... fertilizer. https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/10/01/white-house-debt-ceiling/ Congress should abolish the debt ceiling once and for all, and pass a permanent continuing resolution to end this foolishness. By breaking filibuster if need be. #PS1economics ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% impress 75 time 2021-10-03 01:01 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1444467642589323275 ========== Trump looms over Virginia governor's race. GOP wants to focus on Biden to avoid Trump toxicity in suburbs. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/02/virginia-governors-race-toss-up/ #PS1trumpism ===== impress 110 time 2021-10-03 00:54 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1444465950615498754 ========== Minority rule worked fine in feudal times with the masses knowing only what they heard in church. The antebellum rural South was not much different, or even in 1965. Reactionaries would be happy to return to those simpler times. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/09/29/school-board-meetings-used-be-boring-why-have-they-become-war-zones/ #PS1minority ===== impress 55 time 2021-10-03 00:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1444464547583062019 ========== What can we do about do-nothing Congress? https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-congress.html The drama club on Capitol Hill sees that there is more drama in doing nothing - and then complaining on Fox about executive overreach and judicial legislation. https://apnews.com/article/congress-9cf47f7e54f9c45f371a366fdfae8295 #PS1democracy ===== impress 54 time 2021-10-02 16:15 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1444335286234664965 ========== There's at least 70,000 more unvaccinated people that won't be infecting anybody else. https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-health-pandemics-public-health-80209c66802902e42adfbe075ff5272b #PS1virus ===== impress 35 time 2021-10-02 15:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1444329164803170309 ========== Minority rule in action. https://apnews.com/article/iowa-philanthropy-evan-feinberg-f2680a1c7c1f84c8f69d63eaa631908a The SAY they oppose school censorship, but they FUND the groups leading the charge, because those groups also support minority rule tax cuts, deregulation, and reactionary judiciary. #PS1minority ===== impress 46 time 2021-10-02 15:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1444328145843220488 ========== Trump said not to let the virus dominate you, so he didn't. https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-health-texas-arrests-houston-16cc58f0f6e8b47edfe5efd3f74b7d4a He shouldn't count on Trump paying his bail. #PS1virus ===== impress 42 time 2021-10-02 15:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1444326729607090178 ========== Trump said fight like hell or you won't have a country. So this guy did. https://apnews.com/article/fires-austin-texas-arrests-arson-3ed1a441166bb0367d44b41227ebe227 But he best not count on Trump paying his bail. Trump needs to save up for his days in court. #PS1insurrection ===== impress 39 time 2021-10-02 15:37 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1444325666795646982 ========== That was the week that wasn't. https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-entertainment-business-social-media-ap-fact-check-737ba5005d897d31ff5185574c9bf69d #PS1media ===== impress 45 time 2021-10-02 04:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1444157217171673090 ========== Cloak and dagger for internet addresses - IPv4 addresses are a valuable commodity. https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-africa-china-uganda-5462f03bbd75bf9724a26623295fbf0e #PS1technology ===== impress 50 time 2021-10-01 15:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1443961541938737153 ========== A second line of defense after vaccination? https://apnews.com/article/merck-says-experimental-covid-pill-cuts-worst-effects-a9a2245fdcee324f6bbd776a0fffcc60 #PS1virus ===== impress 31 time 2021-10-01 15:19 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1443958771147935744 ========== McCarthy's comments require translation. https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-business-ap-fact-check-personal-taxes-congress-ae7ad0e5a1cb575b73933674b5ae74d9 When he says taxes on middle class will go up, he means that GOP major corporate donors will attempt to offset tax increases with lower wages or increase prices. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1509249556086225 #PS1tax ===== impress 38 time 2021-10-01 14:12 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1443942020662247442