Title | Date | Im- press | En- gage | Ex- pand | URL- clicks | Like | Re- tweet | Link to Text | Link to Tweet |
Moving toward regional federalism? | 2022-09-30 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1575910871141736449 | 1575910871141736449 |
"They’ve spent a lot of time waiting for this majority | 2022-09-30 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1575909467018866688 | 1575909467018866688 |
The argument for a negotiated end to the Ukraine war - | 2022-09-30 | 48 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1575906516871233536 | 1575906516871233536 |
Trump is the most incredible president in American history! | 2022-09-30 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1575905111771004928 | 1575905111771004928 |
He's too busy prosecuting Biden! And managing his own | 2022-09-30 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1575903195963879424 | 1575903195963879424 |
That was the week that wasn't. | 2022-09-30 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1575893136823312391 | 1575893136823312391 |
Der Untergang | 2022-09-30 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1575858512332083200 | 1575858512332083200 |
None of the little Pacific island nations can defend itself | 2022-09-30 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1575844058152415232 | 1575844058152415232 |
Is Trump so desperate for attention that he will talk to | 2022-09-30 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1575639385780781056 | 1575639385780781056 |
Flexible ideology - a hallmark of a Trumpist. | 2022-09-30 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1575636844749856768 | 1575636844749856768 |
The Freischütz Caucus wants to impeach Biden, Harris, | 2022-09-29 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1575633624677830659 | 1575633624677830659 |
Staying on message! | 2022-09-29 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1575629825254993921 | 1575629825254993921 |
A self-serving opportunist 24x7, with no concern about | 2022-09-29 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1575360807646294017 | 1575360807646294017 |
Six newspapers wanted change. They got change. | 2022-09-29 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1575356517875785728 | 1575356517875785728 |
Close races where small donations might make a difference. | 2022-09-29 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1575335720218025984 | 1575335720218025984 |
One of a leader's most important tasks is dealing | 2022-09-28 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1575258937376448512 | 1575258937376448512 |
If enough Trumpist candidates change their message between | 2022-09-28 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1575208233936920577 | 1575208233936920577 |
Federal territories should be incorporated into states or | 2022-09-28 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1575014884030369792 | 1575014884030369792 |
What it's like to be the target of the Trumpist propaganda | 2022-09-28 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1575011422328696833 | 1575011422328696833 |
It's not easy to serve a Trumpist! | 2022-09-28 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1575010859662815232 | 1575010859662815232 |
Everything you need to know about most politicians and | 2022-09-27 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1574629116543787008 | 1574629116543787008 |
It's a habit - say one thing and do the opposite - | 2022-09-27 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1574626148067123200 | 1574626148067123200 |
Trumpists cause harm even in Connecticut. | 2022-09-27 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1574624751661641728 | 1574624751661641728 |
QAnons and all the other fringe single-issue constituencies | 2022-09-27 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1574623589478805504 | 1574623589478805504 |
Woke "was used by Black people to describe the Black | 2022-09-27 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1574621582235820034 | 1574621582235820034 |
Looks bad for seditious conspirators - they have a tendency | 2022-09-27 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1574620090212896768 | 1574620090212896768 |
Putin's nuclear options. | 2022-09-27 | 55 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1574618875957694464 | 1574618875957694464 |
"there is a lot of pressure on Republicans to vote to | 2022-09-27 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1574616557514215424 | 1574616557514215424 |
GOP usually oppose wasteful government spending. But | 2022-09-27 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1574613134769213440 | 1574613134769213440 |
"I have so many rich friends and nobody knows who they | 2022-09-27 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1574610149527863297 | 1574610149527863297 |
The shadow docket - no explanations required. | 2022-09-27 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1574609334922670081 | 1574609334922670081 |
Roger Stone never intended to accept the results of the | 2022-09-27 | 30 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1574608376859750400 | 1574608376859750400 |
Victims of violent crime deserve their chance to speak. | 2022-09-27 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1574606917212655617 | 1574606917212655617 |
Another victim of Perla and Ron. | 2022-09-27 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1574605869953662976 | 1574605869953662976 |
Sloppiness at the top encourages sloppiness all the | 2022-09-27 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1574605114941186048 | 1574605114941186048 |
The GOP commitment - to opposition - | 2022-09-26 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1574268103495585792 | 1574268103495585792 |
It's always a challenge to outdo and disable your rivals | 2022-09-26 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1574264097587138561 | 1574264097587138561 |
"immigrants can be converted from throngs of individuals | 2022-09-26 | 64 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1574262191787626496 | 1574262191787626496 |
Look out for Perla and Ron! | 2022-09-26 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1574256530865590273 | 1574256530865590273 |
No progress on Havana Syndrome. | 2022-09-26 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1574249366990118913 | 1574249366990118913 |
A novel plea - | 2022-09-25 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1573891770835824640 | 1573891770835824640 |
Minority rule | 2022-09-25 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1573878252703129600 | 1573878252703129600 |
A Very Long Engagement - | 2022-09-25 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1573876932709478400 | 1573876932709478400 |
Tax laws are intended to benefit the rich and powerful - | 2022-09-25 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1573875556323446785 | 1573875556323446785 |
Of course the suit was without merit on its face. | 2022-09-25 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1573869451291697152 | 1573869451291697152 |
Liz Cheney is already NOT a Trumpist Dixiecrat Republican. | 2022-09-25 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1573868072917602307 | 1573868072917602307 |
Foreign wars were "a great way for the ruling class to | 2022-09-25 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1573840803851403266 | 1573840803851403266 |
Big lies beget big liars. But only some will be able | 2022-09-25 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1573835116761165824 | 1573835116761165824 |
There are a lot more Trumpist evangelicals than Trumpist | 2022-09-25 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1573832759570669569 | 1573832759570669569 |
No matter what GOP candidates say, they will support | 2022-09-25 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1573828440628768768 | 1573828440628768768 |
What exactly was going on? It doesn't matter - as long | 2022-09-25 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1573826681139171328 | 1573826681139171328 |
What seditious conspiracy looks like - | 2022-09-24 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1573815398285180928 | 1573815398285180928 |
Covid is not over | 2022-09-24 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1573812900602339328 | 1573812900602339328 |
"partisan problems — like the one engineered by Mitch | 2022-09-24 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1573535925925081089 | 1573535925925081089 |
The plot to reject the Enlightenment ideals of America's | 2022-09-24 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1573534162547445760 | 1573534162547445760 |
What do Trump, Cuomo, and Atlanta gangsters have in common? | 2022-09-24 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1573531215251922945 | 1573531215251922945 |
A traditional conservative view of Mastriano - | 2022-09-24 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1573529824257183744 | 1573529824257183744 |
Trumpism - and GOP minority rule - depend on single-issue | 2022-09-24 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1573526175577612288 | 1573526175577612288 |
If you're a Trumpist, there's nothing wrong in planning | 2022-09-24 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1573520046789316608 | 1573520046789316608 |
Guilty of many things, but mainly of being gullible. | 2022-09-24 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1573518714481221632 | 1573518714481221632 |
The platform to ENACT for the megadonors hasn't changed - | 2022-09-24 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1573516811269591040 | 1573516811269591040 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Vesco | 2022-09-24 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1573514797189976065 | 1573514797189976065 |
Why is California gas more expensive? | 2022-09-24 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1573512301461745664 | 1573512301461745664 |
Cruelty as a campaign promise! It worked for Roman | 2022-09-23 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1573404462605275136 | 1573404462605275136 |
Why is inflation so stubborn? | 2022-09-23 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1573400995220295681 | 1573400995220295681 |
You can get rich on Youtube! By selling courses to | 2022-09-23 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1573370680044830722 | 1573370680044830722 |
It's true! It's more profitable to operate in a red | 2022-09-23 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1573369553110843393 | 1573369553110843393 |
Hazards of leveraging securities you can't sell - markets | 2022-09-23 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1573366498747465728 | 1573366498747465728 |
"Why do cities across the nation frequently offer wealthy | 2022-09-23 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1573365714395742208 | 1573365714395742208 |
Nobody who voted for Trump in 2000 has lived more than | 2022-09-23 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1573363807199850496 | 1573363807199850496 |
Maybe Trump will send some money to help the candidates | 2022-09-23 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1573328442203987970 | 1573328442203987970 |
In Russia, life at the top has always been hazardous. | 2022-09-23 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1573325555461652482 | 1573325555461652482 |
Trumpism in action - it doesn't matter if it's true if it | 2022-09-23 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1573319720052588544 | 1573319720052588544 |
"I’ve already said I’m sorry, and I’m done saying | 2022-09-23 | 13 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1573154927794614272 | 1573154927794614272 |
The Cuban missile crisis was averted by JFK secretly | 2022-09-23 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1573147359508594688 | 1573147359508594688 |
“the same playbook is being used around the world, if an | 2022-09-23 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1573146124135059456 | 1573146124135059456 |
What happens if the party base nominates a candidate with | 2022-09-23 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1573139364451868675 | 1573139364451868675 |
Trumpists want to make elections more manageable by hand | 2022-09-23 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1573135922140512258 | 1573135922140512258 |
Time to fix the Insurrection Act - | 2022-09-22 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1573096625337028608 | 1573096625337028608 |
Newt Gingrich and the institutionalization of the GOP as | 2022-09-22 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1573082683575599104 | 1573082683575599104 |
"The executive branch has regulations laying out the | 2022-09-22 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1573080379941998592 | 1573080379941998592 |
LOL Nothing Matters - | 2022-09-22 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1573078878649974784 | 1573078878649974784 |
GOP candidates talk about privatizing Social Security. | 2022-09-22 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1573072618621931520 | 1573072618621931520 |
If the GOP retakes the House, they'll reinforce minority | 2022-09-22 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1573066044914241537 | 1573066044914241537 |
Don't show up in court with a Hitler mustache! | 2022-09-22 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1573061377799106560 | 1573061377799106560 |
4 GOP senators reject declassification by telepathy! They | 2022-09-22 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1573060991692447744 | 1573060991692447744 |
The only reality that matters is the reality your audience | 2022-09-22 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1573059058902487041 | 1573059058902487041 |
“Secret Telepathic Unilateral Preemptive Irreversible | 2022-09-22 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1573054150501277696 | 1573054150501277696 |
Vigilantism - a sign of decline of the rule of law. | 2022-09-22 | 25 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1573051339948826624 | 1573051339948826624 |
A house of cards is meant to fall - | 2022-09-22 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1573045592401534976 | 1573045592401534976 |
Reality-TV real estate speculator to Reality-TV star to | 2022-09-22 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1573004058155421696 | 1573004058155421696 |
What's the most important thing to remember about people | 2022-09-22 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1573002313018769408 | 1573002313018769408 |
Looks like the only ace in Putin's sleeve might be his | 2022-09-22 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1573000568989437952 | 1573000568989437952 |
"if he doesn’t run in 2024, it would make it more | 2022-09-22 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1572999529334706177 | 1572999529334706177 |
Does he still have access to sufficient funds to buy | 2022-09-22 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1572995468166303746 | 1572995468166303746 |
Several ways Putin's war could end - from bad to worse. | 2022-09-22 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1572817344887656448 | 1572817344887656448 |
A horror movie - the plot to reject the Enlightenment | 2022-09-22 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1572815649885540353 | 1572815649885540353 |
Unfair! | 2022-09-22 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1572807774660329477 | 1572807774660329477 |
Trump never met a patriarchalist he didn't like - | 2022-09-22 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1572799703296905217 | 1572799703296905217 |
How to use fake children to steal from the government! | 2022-09-22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1572797560120840193 | 1572797560120840193 |
Universal basic income? | 2022-09-22 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1572796526627557378 | 1572796526627557378 |
So much for initiative, referendum, recall as tools of | 2022-09-22 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1572795626244669440 | 1572795626244669440 |
How strong leaders cope with unfavorable social media - | 2022-09-22 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1572794334755590146 | 1572794334755590146 |
House Trumpists do their best to prevent plugging leaks | 2022-09-22 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1572793405469765632 | 1572793405469765632 |
Patriotic Russians - run for their lives. | 2022-09-22 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1572792392121712642 | 1572792392121712642 |
Does Trump actually have a legal defense to charges of | 2022-09-22 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1572789713391747073 | 1572789713391747073 |
Money is the mother's milk of politics. Tired of that? | 2022-09-22 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1572776571785871361 | 1572776571785871361 |
That was the week that wasn't. | 2022-09-16 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1570818341341925376 | 1570818341341925376 |
Who's going to save the GOP from Trump? Not the lunatic | 2022-09-16 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1570764188972351490 | 1570764188972351490 |
China and climate - a confusing tale of internal | 2022-09-15 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1570267130788212737 | 1570267130788212737 |
Eventually children become too expensive and the population | 2022-09-15 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1570264006291783688 | 1570264006291783688 |
Good news and bad news about reverse migration. | 2022-09-15 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1570262520816103425 | 1570262520816103425 |
What happened to the plan to rename military bases? | 2022-09-15 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1570258699779973122 | 1570258699779973122 |
Stare decisis? States rights? Why nobody can | 2022-09-15 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1570257323054223360 | 1570257323054223360 |
Yvon Chouinard - from reinventing rock climbing | 2022-09-15 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1570255768703897601 | 1570255768703897601 |
"false statements, conspiracy and obstruction" | 2022-09-15 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1570252486258364417 | 1570252486258364417 |
"If you don't have the facts, argue the law. If you | 2022-09-15 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1570251259093069827 | 1570251259093069827 |
DOJ might have questions for Meadows that he avoided with | 2022-09-15 | 46 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1570250354117451776 | 1570250354117451776 |
No constitutional basis for Independent State | 2022-09-15 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1570238775179214854 | 1570238775179214854 |
The quiet conclusion of the Durham investigation. | 2022-09-14 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1570118600257867777 | 1570118600257867777 |
How to talk out of both sides of your mouth about abortion | 2022-09-14 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1570117635836346368 | 1570117635836346368 |
GOP sees voter fraud everywhere. | 2022-09-14 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1570095206455980033 | 1570095206455980033 |
Ransomware for fun and profit - the Iranian government | 2022-09-14 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1570092849588490246 | 1570092849588490246 |
Christian Nationalism is on a mission - to preserve | 2022-09-14 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1570091938262708224 | 1570091938262708224 |
How to talk out of both sides of your mouth - a vital | 2022-09-14 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1570056267976286214 | 1570056267976286214 |
How can Xi benefit from Putin's distress? Or at least | 2022-09-14 | 23 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1570052171131158529 | 1570052171131158529 |
GOP Lt Gov says GOP must move beyond Trump. But most | 2022-09-14 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1570050830702874624 | 1570050830702874624 |
Self-serving opportunists founding personality cults | 2022-09-14 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1569895797743038464 | 1569895797743038464 |
The paradox of democracy - free speech can, and will, | 2022-09-14 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1569894080729214978 | 1569894080729214978 |
The goal of minority rule is protecting and enhancing | 2022-09-14 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1569892507902967811 | 1569892507902967811 |
The same struggle between medievalism and Enlightenment | 2022-09-14 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1569890043342520327 | 1569890043342520327 |
What happened to the Misery Index? | 2022-09-14 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1569887334317051908 | 1569887334317051908 |
Ancient ideas discovered anew at Jena - | 2022-09-14 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1569886278350675968 | 1569886278350675968 |
A long winter ahead in Ukraine. | 2022-09-14 | 47 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1569885228667371520 | 1569885228667371520 |
Ranked-choice voting | 2022-09-14 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1569883657862795264 | 1569883657862795264 |
Who's who in the Trumpist Dixiecrat Insurrection against | 2022-09-14 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1569882340951998464 | 1569882340951998464 |
Remember Maria Butina, now elected to the Russian Duma? | 2022-09-14 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1569881125593694209 | 1569881125593694209 |
Odd how healthy Russian executives tend to untimely deaths. | 2022-09-14 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1569879790655778818 | 1569879790655778818 |
It's going to be quiet for 60 days. | 2022-09-14 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1569879320746917889 | 1569879320746917889 |
Three more violent insurrectionists headed to Federal | 2022-09-14 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1569877832066809856 | 1569877832066809856 |
So it wasn't really about states' rights after all! | 2022-09-14 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1569875305938194432 | 1569875305938194432 |
Current projects for Jan 6 committee. | 2022-09-13 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1569751116547772416 | 1569751116547772416 |
Trump's got lots of other people's money saved up - to | 2022-09-13 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1569750166324023296 | 1569750166324023296 |
Wait there's more! md td tw | 2022-09-13 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1569747786069057536 | 1569747786069057536 |
How did they ever get him to leave? | 2022-09-12 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1569291934132506629 | 1569291934132506629 |
Putin supporters have more to say on Ukraine collapse. | 2022-09-12 | 43 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1569291176439853058 | 1569291176439853058 |
Humility is a safer path - | 2022-09-11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1569100318864191488 | 1569100318864191488 |
Ron Johnson - he's a regular Rick Scott! Not the least | 2022-09-11 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1569096783888023552 | 1569096783888023552 |
Good reasons for presidents to be content with one term. | 2022-09-11 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1569095940816146434 | 1569095940816146434 |
In the starting and ending of wars, the enemy has a vote. | 2022-09-11 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1569094526517800961 | 1569094526517800961 |
Trumpism doesn't need Trump. When Trump refers to "America | 2022-09-11 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1569093602051256320 | 1569093602051256320 |
Getting off light - so far. | 2022-09-11 | 16 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1569083562753916928 | 1569083562753916928 |
Are candidate debates good for anything? | 2022-09-11 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1569082474558550016 | 1569082474558550016 |
How the sausage gets made - | 2022-09-11 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1569040519967440897 | 1569040519967440897 |
Distributed denial of service attacks on election | 2022-09-11 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1569039422905270277 | 1569039422905270277 |
Ransomware gangs labored over Labor Day. FBI says they | 2022-09-11 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1568965753059299330 | 1568965753059299330 |
More on Russian military reverses in Ukraine. | 2022-09-11 | 59 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1568861091555594247 | 1568861091555594247 |
Planning to use "election integrity" to undermine future | 2022-09-11 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1568859885265371136 | 1568859885265371136 |
Kansas Kris Kobach is in the news again! | 2022-09-11 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1568858087003668481 | 1568858087003668481 |
Security is a way of life! | 2022-09-11 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1568855913536323587 | 1568855913536323587 |
Is Putin really in trouble? | 2022-09-11 | 38 | 7 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1568849324897107968 | 1568849324897107968 |
By their fruits shall ye know them! Megadonors tolerate | 2022-09-10 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1568399139616202752 | 1568399139616202752 |
Have the megadonors seen that the patriarchalists, in their | 2022-09-10 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1568392793533616128 | 1568392793533616128 |
70 years ago, nobody worried about covid or aids or | 2022-09-09 | 24 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1568388769472192515 | 1568388769472192515 |
Journalism can be dangerous. | 2022-09-09 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1568386735050203137 | 1568386735050203137 |
Ukraine attempts to liquidate the invader collaborator | 2022-09-09 | 31 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1568344920922165248 | 1568344920922165248 |
1933 - "50,000 members of SS were ordered to monitor votes | 2022-09-09 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1568343157749985280 | 1568343157749985280 |
Will Biden's greatest achievement be stopping Trump? | 2022-09-09 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1568339633926451200 | 1568339633926451200 |
The hard life of an itinerant insurrectionist. He has | 2022-09-09 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1568338778636566528 | 1568338778636566528 |
What will it take for Trumpism to move beyond Trump? | 2022-09-09 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1568333162304122880 | 1568333162304122880 |
A few years of quiet to plan to Murder the Media. | 2022-09-09 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1568332009705189378 | 1568332009705189378 |
"reaping where thou hast not sown, and gathering where | 2022-09-09 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1568331523405021184 | 1568331523405021184 |
Of course she wants the record sealed - she's a Trumpist! | 2022-09-09 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1568319491704238080 | 1568319491704238080 |
"he is seeking to flaunt a two-hundred-page political | 2022-09-09 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1568318252941713410 | 1568318252941713410 |
That was the week that wasn't. | 2022-09-09 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1568274492593684480 | 1568274492593684480 |
When did Christianity reverse itself from its roots? | 2022-09-09 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1568112578379018241 | 1568112578379018241 |
Who politicized DOJ? | 2022-09-09 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1568108542623911936 | 1568108542623911936 |
There's no reason the government can't prepare the tax | 2022-09-09 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1568106957168590851 | 1568106957168590851 |
Patriarchalists' demands don't end with prohibiting | 2022-09-09 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1568105509504585729 | 1568105509504585729 |
The new Axis powers - everything coming up roses for Xi. | 2022-09-09 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1568104643263348736 | 1568104643263348736 |
Who wants to merge with a funny business? Only another | 2022-09-09 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1568094924570263552 | 1568094924570263552 |
In red states and elsewhere, 2020 election denial is a | 2022-09-09 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1568093811259342850 | 1568093811259342850 |
Of course Putin liquidates potential opponents. Of course | 2022-09-09 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1568089799529201665 | 1568089799529201665 |
What's SEMI about Trumpism? Decide for yourself - | 2022-09-09 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1568088512330874881 | 1568088512330874881 |
Will Trump get away with running down the clock? | 2022-09-09 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1568086822554849281 | 1568086822554849281 |
Like former KKK members, former Oath Keepers want to | 2022-09-09 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1568085045738602497 | 1568085045738602497 |
Putin must be getting desperate! | 2022-09-09 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1568084699163283457 | 1568084699163283457 |
Some crooks are smarter than others. | 2022-09-09 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1568083839028985858 | 1568083839028985858 |
So who are the real RINO's? Would previous GOP leaders | 2022-09-08 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1567747051169140736 | 1567747051169140736 |
https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#rule-of-law | 2022-09-08 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1567732744574345217 | 1567732744574345217 |
The alliance to restore medieval political values - | 2022-09-08 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1567731668328546305 | 1567731668328546305 |
Trumpists try to win in blue states. "Diehl would rule | 2022-09-08 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1567730840762990593 | 1567730840762990593 |
"the 41 men in the Senate would be better off listening to | 2022-09-08 | 61 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1567729625421475840 | 1567729625421475840 |
Democratic politician adopts Trumpist tactics against | 2022-09-08 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1567727316117393408 | 1567727316117393408 |
Where fascists come from - | 2022-09-08 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1567727086881882112 | 1567727086881882112 |
"protecting the integrity of the lawmaking process against | 2022-09-03 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1566079047800463360 | 1566079047800463360 |
That was the week that wasn't. | 2022-09-02 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1565741047254110208 | 1565741047254110208 |
Mastriano doesn't want to testify about anything that might | 2022-09-02 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1565702599491616768 | 1565702599491616768 |
Trump might pardon violent insurrectionists. | 2022-09-02 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1565701847393845248 | 1565701847393845248 |
(Mostly) red states fight inflation by fanning inflation! | 2022-09-01 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1565417882829201408 | 1565417882829201408 |
People with national security experience know what would | 2022-09-01 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1565404588240318465 | 1565404588240318465 |
Inevitably somebody would spill the beans in public about | 2022-09-01 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1565403628998823936 | 1565403628998823936 |
The Trump Defense - avoid the real issues, muddy the | 2022-09-01 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1565401221111771136 | 1565401221111771136 |
Some people just can't stay out of trouble! | 2022-09-01 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1565400307000954880 | 1565400307000954880 |
Biden to address nation on democracy. GOP leaders have | 2022-09-01 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1565398410483486720 | 1565398410483486720 |
These have not been approved by GOP megadonors as actual | 2022-09-01 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1565394485302796289 | 1565394485302796289 |
Defenestration was a common Stalinist solution to problems. | 2022-09-01 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1565392702203498496 | 1565392702203498496 |
Where's your cellphone been lately? Hopefully not near | 2022-09-01 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1565388508310560768 | 1565388508310560768 |
How to avoid campaign finance laws. Non-profits for | 2022-09-01 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1565346343232491529 | 1565346343232491529 |
"when extremist movements tell you where they are headed, | 2022-09-01 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1565334333203763203 | 1565334333203763203 |
Remember when G W Bush seemed to be the worst president | 2022-09-01 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1565196323262832640 | 1565196323262832640 |
All your personal data is for sale somewhere. | 2022-09-01 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1565195172949856256 | 1565195172949856256 |
Chinese GPS easily hacked - by design? | 2022-09-01 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1565194302572994560 | 1565194302572994560 |
Making decisions based on online reviews? | 2022-09-01 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1565193356161851392 | 1565193356161851392 |
Schools spending billions on high tech defense - | 2022-09-01 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1565192621391093760 | 1565192621391093760 |
Internet Explorer lives! | 2022-09-01 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1565191939854516224 | 1565191939854516224 |
consociated representation? | 2022-09-01 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1565189759202234368 | 1565189759202234368 |
Like DeSantis, like Putin - rewriting history to repeal | 2022-09-01 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1565188222619045888 | 1565188222619045888 |
How far can DeSantis go? | 2022-09-01 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1565175980133519367 | 1565175980133519367 |
Coming next - full legal rights for all fetuses. | 2022-09-01 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1565173867957497856 | 1565173867957497856 |
Where the photo came from | 2022-09-01 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1565172455752183808 | 1565172455752183808 |
A miscalculation - thinking that what would appeal to the | 2022-09-01 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1565172043254865920 | 1565172043254865920 |
A shrinking minority wants to think of itself as the | 2022-09-01 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1565165382930812929 | 1565165382930812929 |
Trumpists going off the deep end! | 2022-09-01 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1565164489883865088 | 1565164489883865088 |
How the Ukrainians are wearing down the Russians. | 2022-09-01 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1565163601437962240 | 1565163601437962240 |
The end of "a get-out-of-jail-free card to violators in | 2022-09-01 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1565160954781765632 | 1565160954781765632 |
KKK at West Point? Why? | 2022-09-01 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1565159798315708416 | 1565159798315708416 |
Lawyers can aggressively defend their clients - but they | 2022-09-01 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1565159140883718145 | 1565159140883718145 |
Trump's defense seems to be that all ex-presidents steal | 2022-09-01 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1565158351419236352 | 1565158351419236352 |
Two kinds of Republicans - | 2022-09-01 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1565156692249088000 | 1565156692249088000 |
Alaskans tired of Palin? | 2022-09-01 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1565141609770954752 | 1565141609770954752 |
Out in the boonies, they think they'd like a lot of new | 2022-09-01 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1565138439598526464 | 1565138439598526464 |
Would Trump defer his own ambitions for the good of | 2022-08-31 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1565031599334256640 | 1565031599334256640 |
Why did Trump want to steal top secrets and what did he | 2022-08-31 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1565008606562435072 | 1565008606562435072 |
Trump is hoping that the violent insurrectionists will | 2022-08-31 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1564839913014435841 | 1564839913014435841 |
L. Lin Wood gets to testify in Atlanta. | 2022-08-31 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1564838307841728512 | 1564838307841728512 |
The crime-fraud exception - | 2022-08-31 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1564837548014284800 | 1564837548014284800 |
The Trump File System! Forget ufs, zfs, efs... | 2022-08-31 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1564835968401969152 | 1564835968401969152 |
Essential to minority rule - keep the masses distracted | 2022-08-31 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1564835102030368770 | 1564835102030368770 |
Treat Trump like Clinton! | 2022-08-31 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1564833673777541120 | 1564833673777541120 |
Besides stealing top secrets, storing them insecurely, | 2022-08-31 | 43 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1564829517570396160 | 1564829517570396160 |
Might GOP be in a better position now if they had fielded | 2022-08-30 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1564458962447020033 | 1564458962447020033 |
Trump and Graham threaten mob violence - and claim that | 2022-08-30 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1564457295576084482 | 1564457295576084482 |
Much of the world sees America in decline. Some cheer, | 2022-08-30 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1564456041923747841 | 1564456041923747841 |
"the other campaign keeps receipts" | 2022-08-30 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1564447317712707584 | 1564447317712707584 |
Rewriting websites - part of the progression from GOP | 2022-08-30 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1564445741304541184 | 1564445741304541184 |
Trump thought he was Emperor while in office. And also | 2022-08-30 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1564443757860204544 | 1564443757860204544 |
Biden to address the struggle for democracy. | 2022-08-30 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1564442660122726400 | 1564442660122726400 |
There's no free lunch energy. | 2022-08-30 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1564438552380706816 | 1564438552380706816 |
Reminder: what happened last time somebody stole secret | 2022-08-30 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1564435359336767488 | 1564435359336767488 |
Next riot he'll just have to watch on prison TV. | 2022-08-29 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1564319372822188032 | 1564319372822188032 |
The progressives of 1911 championed direct democracy to | 2022-08-29 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1564317613060079616 | 1564317613060079616 |
Another way to not change the world - kill switches for | 2022-08-29 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1564294256918876160 | 1564294256918876160 |
How not to change the world. | 2022-08-29 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1564293339737833473 | 1564293339737833473 |
Russian IT brain drain to Georgia - for the time being. | 2022-08-29 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1564291584966811648 | 1564291584966811648 |
Chinese local authorities collect all the data on everybody | 2022-08-29 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1564285162367504384 | 1564285162367504384 |
Trump and QAnons fit like a hand in a glove. He | 2022-08-29 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1564249746776080384 | 1564249746776080384 |
Kushner can't bring himself to admit the 2020 election | 2022-08-29 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1564247025289334786 | 1564247025289334786 |
In with the new, out with the old - including the old | 2022-08-29 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1564126008805978112 | 1564126008805978112 |
It's all right if YOU lost money on crypto! Others won | 2022-08-29 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1564124308619743232 | 1564124308619743232 |
In China, everybody is supposed to have a smart phone and | 2022-08-29 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1564121765160243200 | 1564121765160243200 |
"All men are created equal" - what does it mean? | 2022-08-29 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1564111425923977217 | 1564111425923977217 |
“It shouldn’t be a hard thing to say. That’s wrong | 2022-08-29 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1564106547738791936 | 1564106547738791936 |
What does Lindsey Graham really believe in? Why, | 2022-08-29 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1564105162855030784 | 1564105162855030784 |
The Trump defense - depending on his political base to | 2022-08-29 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1564103711588503552 | 1564103711588503552 |
The Cavalier forebears of today's Trumpist Dixiecrat | 2022-08-29 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1564101777376419841 | 1564101777376419841 |
As usual GOP claims to be defending the blue collar working | 2022-08-28 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1564039080387624960 | 1564039080387624960 |
Foreign money launderers rip off stressed American | 2022-08-28 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1564038089198120964 | 1564038089198120964 |
Might as well make the best of it! | 2022-08-28 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1564034929771433984 | 1564034929771433984 |
Market timing never works for long. Buy and hold a | 2022-08-28 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1564033090246156289 | 1564033090246156289 |
Fearlessness and recklessness - if you're going to be | 2022-08-28 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1564029792743149570 | 1564029792743149570 |
Project Veritas - always skating on the thin ice at the | 2022-08-28 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1564028245959249920 | 1564028245959249920 |
Jared Kushner as his direct reports know him. | 2022-08-28 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1564027264483745792 | 1564027264483745792 |
Tomorrow, it's fusion, tomorrow - it's always a day away. | 2022-08-28 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1564025670237241344 | 1564025670237241344 |
Gannett has to lay off journalists but still has money | 2022-08-28 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1564024609757794305 | 1564024609757794305 |
Most GOP candidates talk fringe in the primary but centrist | 2022-08-28 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1564023488662290432 | 1564023488662290432 |
If Trump stole top secrets, failed to store them properly, | 2022-08-28 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1564022508222787584 | 1564022508222787584 |
Congress says no more free covid tests. | 2022-08-28 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1564020157264961536 | 1564020157264961536 |
Lesson #1 from Ukraine - life is more complicated in | 2022-08-28 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1564019782831054848 | 1564019782831054848 |
The narrower the majority in the House, the more powerful | 2022-08-28 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1563908935861448707 | 1563908935861448707 |
Studying American resistance doctrines to discourage | 2022-08-28 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1563906395010768896 | 1563906395010768896 |
A libertarian paradise in New Hampshire? | 2022-08-28 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1563891383169064960 | 1563891383169064960 |
Would regional federalism limit extremism? | 2022-08-28 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1563785977679585280 | 1563785977679585280 |
Utah politics. | 2022-08-28 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1563782392191393792 | 1563782392191393792 |
Chechens fight on both sides in Ukraine. It's a | 2022-08-28 | 61 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1563780086527971329 | 1563780086527971329 |
Between loss of reproductive freedom and theft of top | 2022-08-28 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1563777006495416320 | 1563777006495416320 |
It's news that Trump doesn't pay his debts? Or usually | 2022-08-28 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1563773621897596928 | 1563773621897596928 |
The modern Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP's defense of minority | 2022-08-28 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1563767880302219264 | 1563767880302219264 |
Why Putin encourages Trumpism while China, N Korea, and | 2022-08-27 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1563518312255852544 | 1563518312255852544 |
Bad times for would-be social media influencers who hugged | 2022-08-27 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1563515438637559810 | 1563515438637559810 |
Regional federalism is a better plan - | 2022-08-27 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1563380327334023170 | 1563380327334023170 |
Musk is the archetypcal Republican - pretends to be for | 2022-08-27 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1563375800899870720 | 1563375800899870720 |
Think you've seen the worst? How about O9A? | 2022-08-27 | 56 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1563373350159757318 | 1563373350159757318 |
Emperor DeSantis struts his stuff! | 2022-08-27 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1563363728384413702 | 1563363728384413702 |
And why wouldn't a Trumpist Dixiecrat dress up in a | 2022-08-27 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1563363129521610753 | 1563363129521610753 |
QAnons are bad for your health. And your childrens'. | 2022-08-27 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1563359461078487041 | 1563359461078487041 |
The Boogaloos can boogie in jail for the rest of | 2022-08-27 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1563358373726171136 | 1563358373726171136 |
Is long covid a cause of labor shortages driving higher | 2022-08-27 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1563353436896210945 | 1563353436896210945 |
Inflationary expectations must be strangled in the cradle. | 2022-08-27 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1563352557677735937 | 1563352557677735937 |
Better oil than coal. Better natural gas than oil. | 2022-08-27 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1563351712445788168 | 1563351712445788168 |
It's not so different from the 1990's, except mainstreamed | 2022-08-26 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1563288299229196289 | 1563288299229196289 |
The Christian Nationalists are coming for pagans now - | 2022-08-26 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1563287110185918465 | 1563287110185918465 |
“you don’t mix classified and unclassified so there’s | 2022-08-26 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1563279362232725506 | 1563279362232725506 |
Maybe cheating on emergency loans is not such a good idea. | 2022-08-26 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1563276804848201728 | 1563276804848201728 |
That was the week that wasn't. | 2022-08-26 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1563188387741192192 | 1563188387741192192 |
The politically convenient myth of maternal instinct. | 2022-08-26 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1563176219733938177 | 1563176219733938177 |
What should Democrats do if they actually get working | 2022-08-26 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1563172607200964618 | 1563172607200964618 |
If you're not the brightest star in the Trumpist firmament, | 2022-08-26 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1563163635236478977 | 1563163635236478977 |
How to keep the money you make by hurting people. | 2022-08-26 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1563051882062286848 | 1563051882062286848 |
How the internet buries the past. | 2022-08-26 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1563050956354244608 | 1563050956354244608 |
"To GOP whining that this does nothing for Americans who | 2022-08-26 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1563048054504116224 | 1563048054504116224 |
Crypto - an industry in search of new suckers. | 2022-08-26 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1563044110977486848 | 1563044110977486848 |
Sometimes luck comes to the tenacious. | 2022-08-26 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1563043235567587330 | 1563043235567587330 |
Russia doesn't trust Iran - but any port in a storm. | 2022-08-26 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1563042319279960071 | 1563042319279960071 |
Traditional GOP business as usual - | 2022-08-26 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1563040073477529600 | 1563040073477529600 |
Dark money is the mother's milk of politics. | 2022-08-26 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1563039032589750272 | 1563039032589750272 |
So when is obstruction criminal in itself? | 2022-08-26 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1563037823908794371 | 1563037823908794371 |
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers. | 2022-08-26 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1563037006778601472 | 1563037006778601472 |
It's true! | 2022-08-26 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1563032955244515328 | 1563032955244515328 |
GOP candidates look at recent special election results | 2022-08-26 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1563030147711651841 | 1563030147711651841 |
Who could imagine that they would freak out in Minnesota? | 2022-08-26 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1563028972560035840 | 1563028972560035840 |
There's more to Senate candidate quality than loyalty to | 2022-08-26 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1563027601618194433 | 1563027601618194433 |
Trump says one thing and does the opposite - and cashes | 2022-08-26 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1563020409485680640 | 1563020409485680640 |
GOP actively undermines confidence in American democracy. | 2022-08-26 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1563018280494714880 | 1563018280494714880 |
Another Soviet monument goes down. | 2022-08-26 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1563012326134976513 | 1563012326134976513 |
Better reserve your hotel room now for the big reunion | 2022-08-26 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1562961469448212480 | 1562961469448212480 |
Only in Silicon Valley! Stanford grads can learn a lot | 2022-08-26 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1562960633716305920 | 1562960633716305920 |
A self-serving opportunist at the top attracts self-serving | 2022-08-25 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1562873232826384384 | 1562873232826384384 |
Business as usual in the Trump family! | 2022-08-25 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1562871375706001408 | 1562871375706001408 |
California GOP, looking for a niche where it might succeed, | 2022-08-25 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1562838703705182209 | 1562838703705182209 |
GOP politicians like to play tough on crime - but they | 2022-08-25 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1562816079402979328 | 1562816079402979328 |
QAnon does some good! | 2022-08-25 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1562792334751739906 | 1562792334751739906 |
Trumpist Dixiecrats score great success in lying to their | 2022-08-25 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1562662243195424768 | 1562662243195424768 |
pre-bunking - training against propaganda. | 2022-08-25 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1562659088957181952 | 1562659088957181952 |
Who cares what the scientists find? Medical decisions | 2022-08-25 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1562658151303766016 | 1562658151303766016 |
Justice served - but unlikely to deter future injustice. | 2022-08-25 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1562657110646697985 | 1562657110646697985 |
That was the week that wasn't. | 2022-08-24 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1562442172409925634 | 1562442172409925634 |
Ignore the Constitution? | 2022-08-19 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1560655444363751426 | 1560655444363751426 |
It's not just Republican senators who know where their | 2022-08-19 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1560653416350724097 | 1560653416350724097 |
“there’s no way this party is going to stay together | 2022-08-19 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1560651208640978946 | 1560651208640978946 |
Pardon Trump? | 2022-08-19 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1560633434111819776 | 1560633434111819776 |
Some questions about Zelenskyy's judgment. | 2022-08-19 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1560631236862693377 | 1560631236862693377 |
Not your father's KGB! | 2022-08-19 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1560625544877617153 | 1560625544877617153 |
How the government finally got on auto warranty | 2022-08-19 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1560619611157958657 | 1560619611157958657 |
Is "the language being used by high-ranking Republicans | 2022-08-19 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1560617443071995905 | 1560617443071995905 |
Will Trump release the security camera footage of the | 2022-08-18 | 16 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1560341601867612160 | 1560341601867612160 |
"Mitt Romney Republican" in now a Trumpist | 2022-08-18 | 18 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1560329411890622465 | 1560329411890622465 |
How to change the subject from homelessness to water | 2022-08-18 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1560327432833343488 | 1560327432833343488 |
Traditional conservative daydreams? | 2022-08-18 | 16 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1560316573264408578 | 1560316573264408578 |
"corruption is the glue that holds the system together, | 2022-08-18 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1560310440139182080 | 1560310440139182080 |
The FBI is extremely conservative. | 2022-08-18 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1560309012091924482 | 1560309012091924482 |
Why did Trump steal top secret documents? Because he | 2022-08-18 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1560307883958382592 | 1560307883958382592 |
Want to murder, rape, and pillage, and get PAID for it? | 2022-08-18 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1560305859493711872 | 1560305859493711872 |
This is why GOP senators (and some Democrats) vote against | 2022-08-18 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1560304041921372160 | 1560304041921372160 |
It's the rural Southern Heritage brought to the Trumpist | 2022-08-18 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1560288042715189248 | 1560288042715189248 |
Time for each of the states to clarify exactly who has | 2022-08-18 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1560286512909918208 | 1560286512909918208 |
John Eastman - the last of the Orange County fruitcakes? | 2022-08-18 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1560284811679346689 | 1560284811679346689 |
Minority rule depends on keeping extremists on board | 2022-08-18 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1560265221108682752 | 1560265221108682752 |
How to make money off fear that you generate! | 2022-08-18 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1560111746303422465 | 1560111746303422465 |
How Peter Navarro progressed from progressive to Trumpist. | 2022-08-18 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1560107652432023552 | 1560107652432023552 |
Dynamics of the Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP - | 2022-08-18 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1560079102366781442 | 1560079102366781442 |
Getting busted by the FBI can be very profitable! | 2022-08-18 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1560075470846058497 | 1560075470846058497 |
The Trumpist Dixiecrat Republican Party repudiates all | 2022-08-18 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1560074371804196865 | 1560074371804196865 |
Democracy in decline - signaled by attacks on independent | 2022-08-18 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1560072105118470144 | 1560072105118470144 |
Illegal immigration is declining - for many reasons, | 2022-08-17 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1559971915501948928 | 1559971915501948928 |
Lean In all you like - just don't expect magic. | 2022-08-17 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1559971319164203008 | 1559971319164203008 |
The paradox of democracy. | 2022-08-17 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1559962402673737728 | 1559962402673737728 |
Prosecute Trump or don't prosecute Trump. Either way | 2022-08-17 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1559961242462130176 | 1559961242462130176 |
"democracy contains the seeds of its own instability, | 2022-08-17 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1559959694843584513 | 1559959694843584513 |
Not everybody runs to win. | 2022-08-17 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1559958051951497216 | 1559958051951497216 |
Apostate Trumpists try to save the GOP. | 2022-08-17 | 37 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1559950268485156865 | 1559950268485156865 |
"Cheney didn't deny that she lost the race, or encourage | 2022-08-17 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1559949080331071488 | 1559949080331071488 |
Pence gestures toward rule-of-law Republicanism. | 2022-08-17 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1559948215381741568 | 1559948215381741568 |
Judges getting tired of fake repentance. | 2022-08-17 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1559908385625370624 | 1559908385625370624 |
Liddell Hart in Ukraine. | 2022-08-17 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1559907786578079745 | 1559907786578079745 |
Pandemic relief fraud - a pandemic itself. | 2022-08-17 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1559772335959224320 | 1559772335959224320 |
The case for and against a carbon tax. | 2022-08-17 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1559767515349233670 | 1559767515349233670 |
Carbon capture and storage is not the answer to anything | 2022-08-17 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1559766558624268293 | 1559766558624268293 |
Identitarians vs traditional Republicans - | 2022-08-17 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1559765482332246017 | 1559765482332246017 |
It's not easy to attract good lawyers if you have a | 2022-08-17 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1559755462152634373 | 1559755462152634373 |
Countdown to Putin's invasion. | 2022-08-17 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1559753695952179202 | 1559753695952179202 |
Too bad for the local people who can't afford to keep up. | 2022-08-17 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1559749200136376321 | 1559749200136376321 |
DHS inspector general holds tough to defend Trump. | 2022-08-17 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1559743966127370240 | 1559743966127370240 |
Expecting the worst from Trump's supporters. | 2022-08-17 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1559743341863903232 | 1559743341863903232 |
Character and moral courage - something you don't find | 2022-08-17 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1559742286308655104 | 1559742286308655104 |
Ellis has to testify in Georgia. Along with the rest | 2022-08-17 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1559740066376757248 | 1559740066376757248 |
Why do Trumpists pursue hopeless recounts? | 2022-08-17 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1559739204845768705 | 1559739204845768705 |
Only the best is good enough for a Trump endorsement! | 2022-08-16 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1559612358556676096 | 1559612358556676096 |
Trumpist or Putinist, it's the same tactics - blame the | 2022-08-16 | 183 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1559610618394554368 | 1559610618394554368 |
Large corporations are in business to enrich their major | 2022-08-16 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1559609706376704001 | 1559609706376704001 |
Trying to find an angle to boost your chances today without | 2022-08-16 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1559395744594817024 | 1559395744594817024 |
Wisconsin is in the balance. | 2022-08-16 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1559383223947300871 | 1559383223947300871 |
Why there's no bipartisanship on climate. | 2022-08-16 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1559381969602940930 | 1559381969602940930 |
What is "conservative"? | 2022-08-16 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1559371389336895489 | 1559371389336895489 |
Getting closer to the top! | 2022-08-16 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1559370024988463104 | 1559370024988463104 |
Trump might beat the rap but not Giuliani! | 2022-08-15 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1559251948473200641 | 1559251948473200641 |
Arizona GOP is leading the way in undermining democracy | 2022-08-15 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1559220246807863296 | 1559220246807863296 |
Tucker Carlson can read the polls of his base better than | 2022-08-15 | 23 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1559187800112525312 | 1559187800112525312 |
The lunatic fringe has gone mainstream and legislators | 2022-08-15 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1559185649445482496 | 1559185649445482496 |
Dominion is making Fox nervous. The case seems likely | 2022-08-15 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1559042409979203586 | 1559042409979203586 |
It's hard to justify stealing classified material, | 2022-08-15 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1559040841879957505 | 1559040841879957505 |
Rand Paul wants to repeal the Espionage Act so Trump can't | 2022-08-15 | 18 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1559039776660996099 | 1559039776660996099 |
"many U.S. officials tasked with carrying out | 2022-08-15 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1559037595698339841 | 1559037595698339841 |
What happens to old assassins? What should happen? | 2022-08-15 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1559036477748551682 | 1559036477748551682 |
The patriarchalists are just getting started on regulating | 2022-08-15 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1559034837968621568 | 1559034837968621568 |
National effort to undermine confidence in voting machines? | 2022-08-15 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1559031582454734848 | 1559031582454734848 |
Doing nothing is taking a stand too. A stand of asking | 2022-08-15 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1558970859166937088 | 1558970859166937088 |
Spotlight on TikTok, which has mostly displaced other | 2022-08-15 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1558969434915581952 | 1558969434915581952 |
Why politicians seldom get better. They can't admit they | 2022-08-15 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1558966929284444161 | 1558966929284444161 |
A positive view of a do-something Congress. | 2022-08-14 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1558965903399612416 | 1558965903399612416 |
What life will be like under President DeSantis. | 2022-08-14 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1558964035076653056 | 1558964035076653056 |
Political or partisan? | 2022-08-14 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1558962848579010561 | 1558962848579010561 |
How Dick Cheney helped pave the way for Trump. | 2022-08-14 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1558962121911611392 | 1558962121911611392 |
It's not just Fox, Newsmax, and OAN! | 2022-08-14 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1558961018964807680 | 1558961018964807680 |
Fake populism and anti-intellectualism are as American as | 2022-08-14 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1558960049531211777 | 1558960049531211777 |
Rupert Murdoch was right there to defend Trump for stealing | 2022-08-14 | 24 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1558954021875986432 | 1558954021875986432 |
Why Trump and Graham need good lawyers in Atlanta. | 2022-08-14 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1558950741879861248 | 1558950741879861248 |
What kind of person wants to endlessly investigate a | 2022-08-14 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1558949311269851136 | 1558949311269851136 |
Hand counting of ballots? That doesn't counter fraud, | 2022-08-14 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1558948613593522176 | 1558948613593522176 |
Rioting for fun and profit! | 2022-08-14 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1558947453088321536 | 1558947453088321536 |
And you thought earthquakes were bad! In 1862, Leland | 2022-08-14 | 49 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1558945871261081600 | 1558945871261081600 |
How the Trumpists cope with bad news - bury it with BS! | 2022-08-13 | 16 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1558456055952134145 | 1558456055952134145 |
An investment that paid off big time. | 2022-08-13 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1558454101913939969 | 1558454101913939969 |
For most taxpayers, the IRS already has all the data it | 2022-08-13 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1558453180312084480 | 1558453180312084480 |
Praise for assassins as patriots - not just in Trump | 2022-08-13 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1558452325508780034 | 1558452325508780034 |
That was the week that wasn't. | 2022-08-12 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1558147914697805824 | 1558147914697805824 |
Trumpists or Ayatollahs - they think the same - don't | 2022-08-12 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1558145496245346305 | 1558145496245346305 |
Fringe right wants to rewrite the Constitution on Trumpist | 2022-08-12 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1558144366325014529 | 1558144366325014529 |
Why little progress is likely with Iran while the founding | 2022-08-12 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1558104215955705856 | 1558104215955705856 |
Putin tries to heat up the Balkans to take heat off his | 2022-08-12 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1558101176943382529 | 1558101176943382529 |
The sad history of Congress trying to rein in the White | 2022-08-12 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1558096492505681921 | 1558096492505681921 |
The first attempt to split California - to preserve | 2022-08-12 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1558086269636210688 | 1558086269636210688 |
How the sausage gets made in West Virginia. | 2022-08-12 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1558072479368695808 | 1558072479368695808 |
Garland gives Trump another chance to show what this is | 2022-08-12 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1558065168596094976 | 1558065168596094976 |
The Wellness-Conspiracy Industrial Complex! | 2022-08-12 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1557939885662560256 | 1557939885662560256 |
How the Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP fights increased tax | 2022-08-12 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1557935509753643009 | 1557935509753643009 |
They talked about the 25th amendment | 2022-08-12 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1557929302124965888 | 1557929302124965888 |
Ranked-choice voting is not hard to understand. | 2022-08-12 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1557928066017476608 | 1557928066017476608 |
The Trump book industry has changed! Instead of a | 2022-08-11 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1557802002851106818 | 1557802002851106818 |
A Supreme Court with five reactionary Catholics and one | 2022-08-11 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1557800448962072576 | 1557800448962072576 |
A surprising choice - but how many good lawyers would be | 2022-08-11 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1557793824226693122 | 1557793824226693122 |
Remember Trump did it all for you, his beloved supporters! | 2022-08-11 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1557791499307216896 | 1557791499307216896 |
Nobody defunds the police better than the Trumpist | 2022-08-11 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1557790471623102464 | 1557790471623102464 |
No point in DOJ deviating from established policies. | 2022-08-11 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1557789200744755200 | 1557789200744755200 |
Who cares if it's illegal if you think you can get away | 2022-08-11 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1557757669506629633 | 1557757669506629633 |
None but the best for Putin's army! | 2022-08-11 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1557715636377120769 | 1557715636377120769 |
Falling markets are hard on amateur tech founders. | 2022-08-11 | 21 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1557587338657554437 | 1557587338657554437 |
Renaming places for heroes instead of rebellious | 2022-08-11 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1557586025274191873 | 1557586025274191873 |
“What is the connection today between evangelical | 2022-08-11 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1557584583247310849 | 1557584583247310849 |
The animals' revenge is not yet complete. | 2022-08-11 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1557581958321807360 | 1557581958321807360 |
Scott Perry denies everything. But he repeats lies | 2022-08-11 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1557581392782823425 | 1557581392782823425 |
Historians point out the ghosts of Huey Long | 2022-08-11 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1557580305443086336 | 1557580305443086336 |
The invasion of Ukraine is not just about Putin's ego! | 2022-08-11 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1557576662346190849 | 1557576662346190849 |
It's not just Republicans! Sen. Sinema knows who butters | 2022-08-11 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1557573459076493313 | 1557573459076493313 |
Who could make Trump look good? DeSantis! While Trump | 2022-08-11 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1557560753246199811 | 1557560753246199811 |
A majority of American voters might be fed up with | 2022-08-11 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1557559264662605824 | 1557559264662605824 |
Like Trump, Musk might finally be running out of room to | 2022-08-11 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1557558437831053312 | 1557558437831053312 |
Thanks to Vladimir Putin! | 2022-08-11 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1557553415407800320 | 1557553415407800320 |
Supreme Court to invalidate all gun laws? | 2022-08-11 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1557552893195980801 | 1557552893195980801 |
No privacy in the social media era. | 2022-08-11 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1557551897208168448 | 1557551897208168448 |
Some of the GOP rally behind Trump, sensing a campaign | 2022-08-11 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1557535079743688704 | 1557535079743688704 |
Pleading the Fifth - it's only an admission of guilt when | 2022-08-10 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1557375594572103680 | 1557375594572103680 |
That was the week that wasn't. | 2022-08-05 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1555596450767048704 | 1555596450767048704 |
Lose-lose for social media. | 2022-08-05 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1555576592218222593 | 1555576592218222593 |
How the Dixiecrat Cavaliers took over the Republican Party | 2022-08-05 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1555553884659101696 | 1555553884659101696 |
Ever heard of carried interest? | 2022-08-05 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1555552522365915137 | 1555552522365915137 |
Free-fire enthusiasts are going after every gun law in | 2022-08-04 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1555190897608110080 | 1555190897608110080 |
Can Trump keep his mouth shut during a deposition? | 2022-08-04 | 25 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1555032766357463040 | 1555032766357463040 |
Eastman didn't give up! Still trying to find | 2022-08-04 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1555031235587555330 | 1555031235587555330 |
Trump says he has big plans for 2025. He'd turn the | 2022-08-04 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1555029627344564224 | 1555029627344564224 |
"A republic if you can keep it!" | 2022-08-04 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1555027197110337537 | 1555027197110337537 |
The would-be dictators trying to take over the GOP. | 2022-08-04 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1555026072273424384 | 1555026072273424384 |
Minority rule depends on single-issue constituencies like | 2022-08-04 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1555022311190695936 | 1555022311190695936 |
Anybody want a job with lousy pay and endless hassle from | 2022-08-04 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1555018648368033792 | 1555018648368033792 |
Ron Johnson is trying to privatize social security, | 2022-08-04 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1555017741408473088 | 1555017741408473088 |
CPAC and Orban - and Tucker Carlson - a marriage made | 2022-08-04 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1555002378503393286 | 1555002378503393286 |
Navarro wants immunity - from what? | 2022-08-04 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1555001416271294464 | 1555001416271294464 |
How the crazies took over the GOP - and were welcomed by | 2022-08-04 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1554999246721495040 | 1554999246721495040 |
Caught in his lies. | 2022-08-04 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1554997912957906944 | 1554997912957906944 |
Trumpist Dixiecrats try to bury the facts of the past | 2022-08-04 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1554996662229016577 | 1554996662229016577 |
You can get rich supporting minority rule by selling lies | 2022-08-03 | 36 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1554836044171751429 | 1554836044171751429 |
The GOP megadonors want to call a constitutional convention | 2022-08-03 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1554706679895191552 | 1554706679895191552 |
Electoral Count Act repair isn't done. | 2022-08-03 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1554693862873935873 | 1554693862873935873 |
Alex Jone keeps lying under oath. The judge's patience | 2022-08-03 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1554675014389051392 | 1554675014389051392 |
Praise for the Manchin-Schumer deal. | 2022-08-02 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1554608078821027840 | 1554608078821027840 |
When is economic warfare effective? | 2022-08-02 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1554606927618772994 | 1554606927618772994 |
How much has the decline of public education contributed | 2022-08-02 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1554605593490366465 | 1554605593490366465 |
Arizona fake electors knew what they were doing was | 2022-08-02 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1554601989719199744 | 1554601989719199744 |
The throwaway society will eventually exact its due. | 2022-08-02 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1554600140144447488 | 1554600140144447488 |
Mini-Trumps assault democracy in broad daylight. | 2022-08-02 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1554599245142904832 | 1554599245142904832 |
Trump administration created a boom in the phone eraser | 2022-08-02 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1554594214331027456 | 1554594214331027456 |
The devil whispers in politicians' ears "this is important | 2022-08-02 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1554309795515011072 | 1554309795515011072 |
Judges getting tired of fake repentance. | 2022-08-02 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1554296048540995584 | 1554296048540995584 |
7 years for insurrection. | 2022-08-02 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1554295315045396480 | 1554295315045396480 |
Income inequality moves from Silicon Valley and Beverly | 2022-08-01 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1553944500216537089 | 1553944500216537089 |
Alex Jones invents all kinds of creative arguments to | 2022-08-01 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1553942071345442817 | 1553942071345442817 |
Expand the House. | 2022-08-01 | 15 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1553940628668461057 | 1553940628668461057 |
Fix the wrong defaults! | 2022-08-01 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1553939108287823872 | 1553939108287823872 |
Putin's neocolonialism in Africa. A century ago, | 2022-08-01 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1553933558250500096 | 1553933558250500096 |
Creativity vs decadence - currently a losing battle. | 2022-07-31 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1553785412308463616 | 1553785412308463616 |
Another new face of the Trumpist Dixiecrat Party - | 2022-07-31 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1553756117582237696 | 1553756117582237696 |
The new face of the Trumpist Dixiecrat Party - | 2022-07-31 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1553753238662365188 | 1553753238662365188 |
Has Fox moved on from Trump? | 2022-07-31 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1553619272995196928 | 1553619272995196928 |
Why wages don't go down in recessions. | 2022-07-31 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1553617882449190912 | 1553617882449190912 |
The historical argument against centrist third parties - | 2022-07-31 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1553617085317623809 | 1553617085317623809 |
How prisoner swaps work - we take a high-value Russian | 2022-07-31 | 97 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1553611744072724480 | 1553611744072724480 |
How Putin emulates Stalin by reviving the NKVD to eliminate | 2022-07-31 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1553608975181983745 | 1553608975181983745 |
Why were the Russians willing to take Americans hostage | 2022-07-31 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1553608526760579072 | 1553608526760579072 |
Stone and Gaetz discuss pardons in advance. | 2022-07-31 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1553606527415595009 | 1553606527415595009 |
And now, some kind words for Joe Manchin, except from GOP | 2022-07-31 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1553605796419710978 | 1553605796419710978 |
The Roe v Wade repeal rejected the Constitutional right | 2022-07-31 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1553599468292820992 | 1553599468292820992 |
Democrats debate sabotaging GOP primaries. Just because | 2022-07-31 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1553592718323884032 | 1553592718323884032 |
Why are McConnell and McCarthy in charge? Is it | 2022-07-31 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1553590964106641408 | 1553590964106641408 |
Virtual social media influencers - no more fake than | 2022-07-31 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1553588758275977217 | 1553588758275977217 |
Internet facilitates a surge in shoplifting - and resulting | 2022-07-31 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1553586428310798337 | 1553586428310798337 |
How the sausage gets made. | 2022-07-30 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1553206333440004098 | 1553206333440004098 |
Fox knew it wasn't true but reported it anyway. | 2022-07-30 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1553204822626619392 | 1553204822626619392 |
A vicious self-serving opportunist at the top attracts | 2022-07-30 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1553204352751325184 | 1553204352751325184 |
Bragging about law-breaking! | 2022-07-30 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1553203263347929088 | 1553203263347929088 |
Alex Jones bankruptcy filing to avoid accountability for | 2022-07-30 | 16 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1553202819200536576 | 1553202819200536576 |
Trump officials did their best to reduce Federal backup | 2022-07-29 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1553093689559244800 | 1553093689559244800 |
That was the week that wasn't. | 2022-07-29 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1553042493754642432 | 1553042493754642432 |
"The church is supposed to direct the government"? | 2022-07-29 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1552886059284848641 | 1552886059284848641 |
A Trumpist who clearly doesn't need Trump any more. | 2022-07-29 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1552884064830382082 | 1552884064830382082 |
Trump promises to be worse next time. If he's elected, | 2022-07-29 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1552883275034533888 | 1552883275034533888 |
No lame excuses here - these GOP are proud of their | 2022-07-29 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1552881581362008065 | 1552881581362008065 |
The exciting new class of GOP candidates. | 2022-07-29 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1552877715937669120 | 1552877715937669120 |
Embracing the big lie as a lifestyle! | 2022-07-29 | 40 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1552876655646949376 | 1552876655646949376 |
The lame excuses of Alex Jones and other conspiracy | 2022-07-29 | 18 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1552875359971921920 | 1552875359971921920 |
The lame excuses of assault weapon manufacturers. | 2022-07-29 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1552873810172334080 | 1552873810172334080 |
The power of cult of personality! | 2022-07-29 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1552868774138654720 | 1552868774138654720 |
A big lie that still hurts 30 years later. | 2022-07-29 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1552866531851116544 | 1552866531851116544 |
Trump tried to overthrow the government by unconstitutional | 2022-07-28 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1552787168250064897 | 1552787168250064897 |
Voting in the Republican primary in | 2022-07-28 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1552785820599197696 | 1552785820599197696 |
Third parties??? Only if they get ranked-choice voting | 2022-07-28 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1552784472516411392 | 1552784472516411392 |
GOP says we can afford trade deals to benefit megadonors - | 2022-07-28 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1552665943066566659 | 1552665943066566659 |
Self-serving opportunists at the top attract self-serving | 2022-07-28 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1552664841063542784 | 1552664841063542784 |
Recession signals from the inverted yield curve. | 2022-07-28 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1552663536945336322 | 1552663536945336322 |
You'll have to read the bill to know what's in it! | 2022-07-28 | 57 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1552464060339195904 | 1552464060339195904 |
DOJ gets closer to Trump. | 2022-07-27 | 13 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1552167323787677698 | 1552167323787677698 |
That was the week that wasn't. | 2022-07-27 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1552164164361019395 | 1552164164361019395 |
What would you do on your last day on earth? Probably | 2022-07-22 | 36 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1550476644862742528 | 1550476644862742528 |
Election officials have to convene in secrecy. | 2022-07-21 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1550189262871470080 | 1550189262871470080 |
Today's public hearing will summarize the case that | 2022-07-21 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1550138115011973121 | 1550138115011973121 |
Erased evidence? Looks bad, sounds bad. | 2022-07-16 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1548299065124786176 | 1548299065124786176 |
Trumpists claim GOP primaries are stolen too! | 2022-07-16 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1548298173709357058 | 1548298173709357058 |
That was the week that wasn't. | 2022-07-15 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1547966084053024768 | 1547966084053024768 |
Romney didn't get the memo - the GOP left him behind | 2022-07-13 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1547222227279495168 | 1547222227279495168 |
Trump's bad. What's worse were the GOP leaders who | 2022-07-13 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1547220603161063424 | 1547220603161063424 |
What happened to Lindsey Graham? | 2022-07-13 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1547218796384923648 | 1547218796384923648 |
Trumpism - you don't have to be competent if you're loyal. | 2022-07-12 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1546714705753882624 | 1546714705753882624 |
You can't tell the players without a scorecard! | 2022-07-12 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1546713203454840832 | 1546713203454840832 |
If Musk is as smart as Trump used to say he was, then it's | 2022-07-11 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1546556000693473281 | 1546556000693473281 |
Putin is on the verge of achieving his greatest strategic | 2022-07-11 | 21 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1546326785343729664 | 1546326785343729664 |
“People every week fill the tank. They see these big | 2022-07-11 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1546324610009837568 | 1546324610009837568 |
It's very hard to achieve a soft landing. | 2022-07-11 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1546319448566423553 | 1546319448566423553 |
Fear of death has led men to seek immortality of some | 2022-07-11 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1546318408001589248 | 1546318408001589248 |
Should Democrats try to harness the outrage over abortion | 2022-07-11 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1546313381195329538 | 1546313381195329538 |
It's really not Trump's fault. It's the enablers that | 2022-07-11 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1546285509294452737 | 1546285509294452737 |
In case you missed the timeline | 2022-07-11 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1546283914737491968 | 1546283914737491968 |
Can American GOP match British Tories? | 2022-07-10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1546282239524163584 | 1546282239524163584 |
Trump's greatest contribution? | 2022-07-10 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1546280995371958272 | 1546280995371958272 |
The wild west gig economy! | 2022-07-10 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1546280084532707329 | 1546280084532707329 |
It's still the same old story - public employee unions | 2022-07-10 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1546279498697490432 | 1546279498697490432 |
What's Bannon's motive to testify supported by Trump? | 2022-07-10 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1546277888219000833 | 1546277888219000833 |
The desire for immortality via celebrity is no stronger for | 2022-07-10 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1546276093631401985 | 1546276093631401985 |
The internet was supposed to be the perfect medium | 2022-07-10 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1546023778722783233 | 1546023778722783233 |
Arthur Bremer is out of jail now. | 2022-07-10 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1546019367661420545 | 1546019367661420545 |
There is a playbook for civil war, and the radical right | 2022-07-10 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1546014289311387648 | 1546014289311387648 |
Trump will run again even if he's broke and in jail - | 2022-07-09 | 23 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1545765734948605953 | 1545765734948605953 |
What does the War of 1812 tell us about 2022? | 2022-07-09 | 17 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1545634145870569474 | 1545634145870569474 |
Why nobody has confidence in Congress. | 2022-07-09 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1545626560102744064 | 1545626560102744064 |
Government alleges Oath Keepers were all the way in. | 2022-07-09 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1545624880560762880 | 1545624880560762880 |
That was the week that wasn't. | 2022-07-08 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1545434335674699776 | 1545434335674699776 |
Fusion parties - reducing extremism by reducing the | 2022-07-08 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1545266842272272384 | 1545266842272272384 |
It's easier to cut taxes - and take the credit - and hard | 2022-07-08 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1545259752866795527 | 1545259752866795527 |
Trump makes money, first, last, and always. He's a | 2022-07-08 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1545258800898134016 | 1545258800898134016 |
Trump will never forgive anybody who won't drink his | 2022-07-08 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1545255558785036288 | 1545255558785036288 |
Trying to conduct an honest election is a true act of | 2022-07-08 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1545253724448120832 | 1545253724448120832 |
Putin makes it clear. He's only interested in | 2022-07-08 | 27 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1545251367484198912 | 1545251367484198912 |
One thing you can say about Pence - he's not as bad as | 2022-07-08 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1545250379528486912 | 1545250379528486912 |
The South has won the Civil War at last! Soon the | 2022-07-07 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1544899527794077697 | 1544899527794077697 |
Can anything good come from a crypto enthusiast? | 2022-07-07 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1544896070718595072 | 1544896070718595072 |
Trumpist Supreme Court intends to end all Federal | 2022-07-07 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1544889082941095936 | 1544889082941095936 |
Freedom Caucus founder Mulvaney's not a weatherman. | 2022-07-07 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1544884617529856000 | 1544884617529856000 |
You can't blame it all on Trump. He had a whole Senate | 2022-07-07 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1544881792141778945 | 1544881792141778945 |
Graham's lawyers working overtime to come up with his | 2022-07-07 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1544879113772486657 | 1544879113772486657 |
Sure, assault weapons create instant orphans and blow up | 2022-07-06 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1544680883537383424 | 1544680883537383424 |
Independent State Legislatures - the final frontier. | 2022-07-06 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1544677339258167296 | 1544677339258167296 |
Red states successfully insure that they will get no | 2022-07-06 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1544572275671781383 | 1544572275671781383 |
Democrats might have a chance to retain control of the | 2022-07-06 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1544566825777631233 | 1544566825777631233 |
Insurrectionists complain that they might get a fair trial | 2022-07-06 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1544563110593277952 | 1544563110593277952 |
Giuliani and Graham get to go to Georgia. | 2022-07-06 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1544561666989256704 | 1544561666989256704 |
The next Jan 6 hearing is Tuesday. Is Sarah Matthews | 2022-07-06 | 60 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1544560130804420608 | 1544560130804420608 |
The people who want to control everybody else's private | 2022-07-05 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1544308250765451265 | 1544308250765451265 |
When the Federal regulators won't do anything - then | 2022-07-05 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1544305590796574720 | 1544305590796574720 |
The states most eager to save the unborn are least eager | 2022-07-05 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1544189493749506048 | 1544189493749506048 |
Trump's impatient heir - smarter, bolder, more dangerous. | 2022-07-05 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1544156921485111296 | 1544156921485111296 |
If Putin succeeds in Ukraine, this is likely his next | 2022-07-05 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1544149605901688832 | 1544149605901688832 |
Putin builds a model for Trumpists everywhere. | 2022-07-05 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1544146439873253376 | 1544146439873253376 |
How can public figures shut down unfavorable media | 2022-07-05 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1544129802155659264 | 1544129802155659264 |
America's founders were human, with virtues and faults, | 2022-07-05 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1544126358946623488 | 1544126358946623488 |
What the Jan 6 hearings show so far - | 2022-07-04 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1543971533613240323 | 1543971533613240323 |
Would Trump only serve four more years? | 2022-07-04 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1543847009785786368 | 1543847009785786368 |
An argument for Youngkin in 2024. | 2022-07-04 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1543845619730505730 | 1543845619730505730 |
"institutions must advance also, and keep pace with | 2022-07-04 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1543843899386384384 | 1543843899386384384 |
Actual malice means actual damages. | 2022-07-04 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1543833109883326464 | 1543833109883326464 |
"India's tragedy is not that it's the worst place in the | 2022-07-04 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1543832244988522496 | 1543832244988522496 |
What's worse than Trump? A Trumpist with courage, | 2022-07-04 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1543830561046745089 | 1543830561046745089 |
What's wrong with this picture? | 2022-07-04 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1543829667743875072 | 1543829667743875072 |
Is it going to be Newsom vs DeSantis in 2024? | 2022-07-04 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1543825539214876672 | 1543825539214876672 |
Increasing GOP registrations - will that translate to | 2022-07-04 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1543822648743890945 | 1543822648743890945 |
Why the Jan 6 public hearings are so effective - no bomb | 2022-07-04 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1543821596153892864 | 1543821596153892864 |
McConnell doing his best to make sure that no more | 2022-07-04 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1543820082094100483 | 1543820082094100483 |
Wisconsin leads the way toward insuring that even if | 2022-07-04 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1543819552819032064 | 1543819552819032064 |
"All men are created equal" has had different meanings to | 2022-07-04 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1543817732281446400 | 1543817732281446400 |
When you disprove somebody's religion, they don't thank | 2022-07-04 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1543747812847783936 | 1543747812847783936 |
No shortage of fireworks for July 4 in DC! | 2022-07-04 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1543746465473765376 | 1543746465473765376 |
Is Trump getting worried about DeSantis et al? How many | 2022-07-03 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1543627019572850689 | 1543627019572850689 |
Trump is getting worried about DeSantis et al? How many | 2022-07-03 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1543500885141008384 | 1543500885141008384 |
How Putin reminds the west what he'll do to them if they | 2022-07-03 | 24 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1543498693365493760 | 1543498693365493760 |
Supreme Court doesn't care about Indians either. | 2022-07-02 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1543108247447490560 | 1543108247447490560 |
That was the week that wasn't. | 2022-07-02 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1543106203504369666 | 1543106203504369666 |
If GOP controls Congress, that will force the real issue - | 2022-07-02 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1543075306075934721 | 1543075306075934721 |
If you're an oligarch or criminal - thank goodness for | 2022-07-02 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1543027211988455424 | 1543027211988455424 |
Money is the mother's milk of politics. Big corporations | 2022-07-01 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1542850687502929920 | 1542850687502929920 |
Is Trump losing steam? Or is that just wishful thinking? | 2022-07-01 | 30 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1542757216863735808 | 1542757216863735808 |
Why Russians put up with Putin - | 2022-07-01 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1542725985593765889 | 1542725985593765889 |
Just in case you missed it - | 2022-07-01 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1542703855640555521 | 1542703855640555521 |
Would Trump tell GOP voters to stay home? Possibly in | 2022-07-01 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1542687439126290432 | 1542687439126290432 |
The table above has these entries:
========== Moving toward regional federalism? https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-regional.html "as U.S. politics nationalizes, blue and red states are diverging even more dramatically" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/09/30/gavin-newsom-ron-desantis-hurricane-ian-migrants-transgender-laws/ #PS1democracy ===== impress 6 time 2022-09-30 18:10 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1575910871141736449 ========== "They’ve spent a lot of time waiting for this majority to happen, and they don’t plan to waste it” "One of the striking things in this area is that originalists do not bring their usual apparatus to bear on these questions" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/09/30/supreme-court-term-conservative-targets/ #PS1justice ===== impress 4 time 2022-09-30 18:04 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1575909467018866688 ========== The argument for a negotiated end to the Ukraine war - remember Saddam Hussein. We were worse off without him. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/09/30/putin-russia-ukraine-negotiated-peace/ #PS1ukraine ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% impress 48 time 2022-09-30 17:52 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1575906516871233536 ========== Trump is the most incredible president in American history! Those who still find him credible won't change their dogma for all the books in the Library of Congress! https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/30/opinions/trump-books-haberman-confidence-man-carter/index.html Ex-staff planning to publish a Trump book might find the market saturated! #PS1trump ===== impress 2 time 2022-09-30 17:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1575905111771004928 ========== He's too busy prosecuting Biden! And managing his own legal defense. It's not fair to expect him to go after ordinary criminals too! https://apnews.com/article/elections-texas-presidential-election-2020-ken-paxton-a1bdcfd0a9d25bd6aa3666b70f74f2b2 #PS1justice ===== engage 1 engage-rate 33% impress 3 time 2022-09-30 17:39 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1575903195963879424 ========== That was the week that wasn't. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-health-social-media-covid-571a85e4c7a2492ea816f6dbd4e32818 #PS1media ===== impress 3 time 2022-09-30 16:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1575893136823312391 ========== Der Untergang When fate and facts go against them, delusional narcissistic leaders become MORE delusional, not less. https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/30/europe/russia-ukraine-annexation-analysis-intl/index.html Putin, Trump, Hitler, .... #PS1putin ===== impress 19 time 2022-09-30 14:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1575858512332083200 ========== None of the little Pacific island nations can defend itself from climate change, much less political change imposed by large countries. So they have to get the best deal for the countries. But sometimes it's just the best deal for the leaders. https://apnews.com/article/biden-business-china-antony-blinken-climate-and-environment-769e80b0ab96de6521ab52deae3cbca4 #PS1other ===== impress 4 time 2022-09-30 13:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1575844058152415232 ========== Is Trump so desperate for attention that he will talk to anybody who will write anything about him? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/29/opinion/donald-trump-maggie-haberman.html #PS1trump ===== engage 1 engage-rate 20% impress 5 time 2022-09-30 00:11 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1575639385780781056 ========== Flexible ideology - a hallmark of a Trumpist. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/29/us/politics/desantis-biden-hurricane-ian-aid.html #PS1trumpism ===== impress 6 time 2022-09-30 00:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1575636844749856768 ========== The Freischütz Caucus wants to impeach Biden, Harris, and many other Democrats - for the high crime of being Democrats and embracing the Enlightenment ideals of America's founders rather than Trumpism. https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/29/politics/republicans-impeach-biden-house-majority/index.html But the devil gets the last shot! #PS1trumpism ===== impress 6 time 2022-09-29 23:48 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1575633624677830659 ========== Staying on message! https://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-us-supreme-court-clarence-thomas-virginia-government-and-politics-3b4102509ef93bc37d24d7c8fd79ba80 She still doesn't have any evidence but she still believes the 2020 election was stolen from Trump. But not from any of the GOP candidates who won? #PS1insurrection ===== impress 7 time 2022-09-29 23:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1575629825254993921 ========== A self-serving opportunist 24x7, with no concern about observing precedents from the past or setting precedents for the future. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/09/28/trump-book-white-house-bomb-mexico/ He never understood that he was just another link in the chain joining his predecessors and successors. #PS1trump ===== impress 4 time 2022-09-29 05:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1575360807646294017 ========== Six newspapers wanted change. They got change. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/09/28/trump-supporter-disappointment/ But Trump never changed. He was a self-serving opportunist in 2004 and 2014, and won't change in 2024. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1765161303828381 #PS1trump ===== impress 7 time 2022-09-29 05:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1575356517875785728 ========== Close races where small donations might make a difference. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-tossups.html #PS1election ===== impress 5 time 2022-09-29 04:04 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1575335720218025984 ========== One of a leader's most important tasks is dealing with subordinates who are not succeeding at their job. The leader must either find a way to help them master it, or move them to a job they can master. https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/28/politics/donald-trump-firing-twitter/index.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1764946783849833 #PS1trump ===== impress 4 time 2022-09-28 22:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1575258937376448512 ========== If enough Trumpist candidates change their message between primary and general, enough independent voters will conclude that those candidates only believe in getting elected - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html and those voters will look elsewhere. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/09/28/peter-thiel-blake-masters-jd-vance-2022-gop-senate-control/ #PS1trumpism ===== impress 4 time 2022-09-28 19:38 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1575208233936920577 ========== Federal territories should be incorporated into states or else given independence. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#Federal%20territories They are all depopulating - https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/09/23/american-territories-population-loss/ for the same reasons as the rest of rural America- Chinese manufacturing seems to be the biggest problem. #PS1other ===== impress 4 time 2022-09-28 06:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1575014884030369792 ========== What it's like to be the target of the Trumpist propaganda machine - https://apnews.com/article/shootings-texas-connecticut-alex-jones-waterbury-f3ef318375efc40dccc7067fb8f53e5e #PS1media ===== impress 2 time 2022-09-28 06:36 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1575011422328696833 ========== It's not easy to serve a Trumpist! https://apnews.com/article/texas-dallas-subpoenas-ken-paxton-3fa293d712fda938142c86aaf5be83c1 Especially a lawyer with lots of legal problems. #PS1justice ===== impress 3 time 2022-09-28 06:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1575010859662815232 ========== Everything you need to know about most politicians and minority rule! https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2022/09/25 #PS1minority ===== impress 6 time 2022-09-27 05:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1574629116543787008 ========== It's a habit - say one thing and do the opposite - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#gop And count on your voters to accept it - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#political%20ideology%20for%20the%20masses It's how you protect minority rule, your dark campaign money, and your re-election. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/26/opinion/gop-economic-policy.html #PS1minority ===== impress 12 time 2022-09-27 05:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1574626148067123200 ========== Trumpists cause harm even in Connecticut. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/26/opinion/dominic-rapini-secretary-state-trump.html #PS1trumpism ===== impress 5 time 2022-09-27 04:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1574624751661641728 ========== QAnons and all the other fringe single-issue constituencies are just cannon fodder for protecting minority rule - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html Not just for Trump, but for most of the GOP - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/26/opinion/politics/trump-election-qanon.html Who cares - there's plenty more where they came from! #PS1minority ===== impress 6 time 2022-09-27 04:54 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1574623589478805504 ========== Woke "was used by Black people to describe the Black people so socially conscious that it bordered on parody. Unfortunately, one of us said it in mixed company, and it eventually entered the mainstream as a synonym for political correctness." https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2022/09/26/damon-young-woke-is-now-dog-whistle-black-whats-next/ #PS1other ===== impress 16 time 2022-09-27 04:46 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1574621582235820034 ========== Looks bad for seditious conspirators - they have a tendency to turn on one another to reduce their sentences. https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/09/24/oath-keepers-sedition-trial-preview/ #PS1insurrection ===== impress 5 time 2022-09-27 04:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1574620090212896768 ========== Putin's nuclear options. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/09/26/putin-nuclear-threat-bluff-us-biden-response/ But before embarking on them, he has to wonder if all the Russian armed forces are as corrupt and decrepit as those invading Ukraine. #PS1putin ===== impress 55 time 2022-09-27 04:36 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1574618875957694464 ========== "there is a lot of pressure on Republicans to vote to impeach Biden" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/09/26/commitment-to-america-revenge/ For which high crime - Not encouraging violent insurrectionists? Not demanding election officials "find" non-existent votes? More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1763400724004439 #PS1biden ===== impress 4 time 2022-09-27 04:26 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1574616557514215424 ========== GOP usually oppose wasteful government spending. But looking for Democratic voter fraud must not be wasteful, even if they don't find any! https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2022/09/26/arizona-election-integrity-unit/ Of course other red states are following suit. #PS1election ===== impress 4 time 2022-09-27 04:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1574613134769213440 ========== "I have so many rich friends and nobody knows who they are” THAT's a unique justification for running for president! https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/26/politics/donald-trump-president-quote-maggie-haberman-book/index.html It's all about the fame and fortune! #PS1trump ===== impress 6 time 2022-09-27 04:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1574610149527863297 ========== The shadow docket - no explanations required. https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/26/opinions/supreme-court-shadow-docket-vladeck/index.html #PS1justice ===== impress 4 time 2022-09-27 03:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1574609334922670081 ========== Roger Stone never intended to accept the results of the 2020 election. Why should he? He led the Brooks Brothers insurrection in 2000. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks_Brothers_riot So it all fits one who has a portrait of Nixon tattooed on his back. https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/26/politics/roger-stone-january-6-documentary-film/index.html #PS1insurrection ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 30 time 2022-09-27 03:54 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1574608376859750400 ========== Victims of violent crime deserve their chance to speak. https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/26/opinions/january-6-attacks-capitol-court-sentencing-young-fanone/index.html #PS1insurrection ===== impress 5 time 2022-09-27 03:48 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1574606917212655617 ========== Another victim of Perla and Ron. https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/26/us/migrants-flight-marthas-vineyard-recruiter/index.html #PS1trumpism ===== engage 1 engage-rate 20% impress 5 time 2022-09-27 03:44 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1574605869953662976 ========== Sloppiness at the top encourages sloppiness all the way down. https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/26/politics/peter-navarro-justice-department-federal-records/index.html #PS1trumpism ===== impress 6 time 2022-09-27 03:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1574605114941186048 ========== The GOP commitment - to opposition - https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/09/25/house-gop-commitment-to-america-mccarthy/ A list of things to talk about, not of things to do. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#gop They are not FOR anything specific that might alienate their crazies. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/09/25/commitment-america-gop-midterms-dionne/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1762421970768981 #PS1gop ===== impress 7 time 2022-09-26 05:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1574268103495585792 ========== It's always a challenge to outdo and disable your rivals without appearing to do so. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/25/us/politics/abbott-desantis-rivalry.html Their love of stunts suggests they should run away to the circus instead of run for president. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 9 time 2022-09-26 05:06 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1574264097587138561 ========== "immigrants can be converted from throngs of individuals with individual lives and stories into an amorphous wave" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/25/opinion/beto-orourke-abbott-texas-governor.html Works for Trumpists! And in Russia, China, Iran, ... So what is the danger of a single story? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9Ihs241zeg #PS1theory ===== impress 64 time 2022-09-26 04:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1574262191787626496 ========== Look out for Perla and Ron! https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/09/25/desantis-perla-migrant-flight-marthas-vineyard/ #PS1immigration ===== impress 4 time 2022-09-26 04:36 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1574256530865590273 ========== No progress on Havana Syndrome. https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/25/politics/havana-syndrome-cia-doctor-cnn-special/index.html #PS1health ===== impress 8 time 2022-09-26 04:07 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1574249366990118913 ========== A novel plea - "go easy on me because the government made it so easy to steal" https://artdaily.com/news/149110/Prosecutors-struggle-to-catch-up-to-a-tidal-wave-of-pandemic-fraud #PS1justice ===== impress 4 time 2022-09-25 04:26 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1573891770835824640 ========== Minority rule https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html is a system to protect both economic and political power of the ruling class, by dividing the masses - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#political%20ideology%20for%20the%20masses Strom Thurmond was a leader in both economic and political oppression - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/24/opinion/labor-union-racism-history.html #PS1minority ===== impress 12 time 2022-09-25 03:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1573878252703129600 ========== A Very Long Engagement - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Very_Long_Engagement come to life - "Google searches in Russia for 'How to break your arm' have skyrocketed" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/24/opinion/putin-trump-ukraine.html #PS1putin ===== impress 26 time 2022-09-25 03:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1573876932709478400 ========== Tax laws are intended to benefit the rich and powerful - at least according to GOP. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/24/us/politics/paul-lepage-maine-taxes.html But don't YOU try to get away with anything! #PS1tax ===== impress 3 time 2022-09-25 03:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1573875556323446785 ========== Of course the suit was without merit on its face. Plaintiffs just wanted publicity for a propaganda win. Who paid their legal fees? https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/24/politics/doj-memo-school-board-threats-dismiss-lawsuit/index.html #PS1justice ===== impress 2 time 2022-09-25 02:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1573869451291697152 ========== Liz Cheney is already NOT a Trumpist Dixiecrat Republican. Maybe she hasn't realized it yet. https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/24/politics/liz-cheney-republican-party-donald-trump-2024/index.html The GOP will go the way of the Whigs, we hope, to be replaced by a rational conservative party with broader appeal. #PS1gop ===== impress 14 time 2022-09-25 02:52 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1573868072917602307 ========== Foreign wars were "a great way for the ruling class to extract wealth and give themselves more power” Just whose extracted wealth does this Republican think is financing his campaign? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/24/opinion/house-republican-elections.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1761445777533267 #PS1trumpism ===== impress 4 time 2022-09-25 01:04 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1573840803851403266 ========== Big lies beget big liars. But only some will be able to monetize their fame. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/09/20/social-media-influencers-election-fraud/ #PS1media ===== impress 1 time 2022-09-25 00:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1573835116761165824 ========== There are a lot more Trumpist evangelicals than Trumpist Mormons. The GOP donors have done the math. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/09/21/oregon-football-obscene-chant-mormon-history/ #PS1other ===== impress 5 time 2022-09-25 00:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1573832759570669569 ========== No matter what GOP candidates say, they will support union-busting to support their megadonors. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#gop One Pennsylvania union says - “Here’s one thing my members get: They’ll never be with someone who is for right-to-work” https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-abortion-pennsylvania-presidential-campaigns-d934158054ec81e2379b72ad40b5f6b7 #PS1gop ===== impress 5 time 2022-09-25 00:15 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1573828440628768768 ========== What exactly was going on? It doesn't matter - as long as it raises doubt, it abets the insurrectionists. https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-technology-lawsuits-donald-trump-voting-6a1324cc6cf45c95ca086a5c81617b15 #PS1insurrection ===== impress 1 time 2022-09-25 00:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1573826681139171328 ========== What seditious conspiracy looks like - https://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-biden-presidential-elections-donald-trump-election-2020-e81901ad99b8ddc5c8f23280e67fa63e and what a pathetic cover-up attempt looks like. They didn't understand, despite all evidence, that Trump would urge them on, but not back them up if they failed. #PS1insurrection ===== impress 5 time 2022-09-24 23:23 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1573815398285180928 ========== Covid is not over https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/09/22/opinion-no-mr-president-the-pandemic-isnt-over/ We'll be paying for covid carelessness for a generation or more. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-22/covid-s-aftermath-study-of-millions-raises-fears-of-brain-nerve-damage #PS1virus ===== impress 3 time 2022-09-24 23:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1573812900602339328 ========== "partisan problems — like the one engineered by Mitch McConnell, Trump and the Federalist Society — demand partisan solutions" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/23/opinion/cannon-trump-federal-judges.html #PS1justice ===== impress 5 time 2022-09-24 04:52 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1573535925925081089 ========== The plot to reject the Enlightenment ideals of America's founders and preserve minority rule forever is now a horror movie - https://nytimes.com/2022/09/21/opinion/republicans-democracy-elections-bannon.html Democracy is not just based upon laws, but on common ideals regulated by rule of law. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/23/opinion/trump-big-lie-elections.html #PS1democracy ===== engage 2 engage-rate 18% impress 11 time 2022-09-24 04:45 +0000 urlclicks 2 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1573534162547445760 ========== What do Trump, Cuomo, and Atlanta gangsters have in common? They are all learning what "law and order" is all about - from bad experiences with Howard University graduates! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/09/23/letitia-james-fani-willis-howard-university-trump/ #PS1justice ===== impress 20 time 2022-09-24 04:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1573531215251922945 ========== A traditional conservative view of Mastriano - https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/09/25/mastriano-danger-pennsylvania-governor/ Mastriano is the future of the Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP. The remaining traditional conservative GOP need to think long and hard about what's really important. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 5 time 2022-09-24 04:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1573529824257183744 ========== Trumpism - and GOP minority rule - depend on single-issue constituencies - right-to-lifers, free-fire advocates, anti-vaxxers, KKK, Nazis... What's next - incels? https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/09/22/incels-rape-murder-study/ But for now - QAnon - https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/09/23/trump-qanon-song/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1760691577608687 #PS1gop ===== impress 12 time 2022-09-24 04:14 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1573526175577612288 ========== If you're a Trumpist, there's nothing wrong in planning to kidnap Democratic officials. https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/23/politics/dixon-whitmer-kidnapping-plot-michigan-governor/index.html Just pretend it was a joke if it didn't succeed. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 14 time 2022-09-24 03:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1573520046789316608 ========== Guilty of many things, but mainly of being gullible. https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/23/politics/douglas-jensen-guilty-qanon-january-6-trial/index.html #PS1insurrection ===== impress 6 time 2022-09-24 03:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1573518714481221632 ========== The platform to ENACT for the megadonors hasn't changed - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#gop So McCarthy published a platform to TALK about for the voters - https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-biden-kevin-mccarthy-newt-gingrich-border-security-97f04b6997ea980a868b8d7628378824 Traditional GOP business as usual. #PS1gop ===== impress 3 time 2022-09-24 03:36 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1573516811269591040 ========== https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Vesco If you're a fugitive on the run, you're just a pawn in other people's games. Better have acce$$ to lot$ of influence to buy protection. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-asia-venezuela-navy-fbbe6efc3c566e76c3891c29677973ff #PS1justice ===== impress 4 time 2022-09-24 03:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1573514797189976065 ========== Why is California gas more expensive? https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/09/23/california-gas-is-out-of-whack-nearly-2-more-than-national-average/ Round up all the usual suspects and you still can't explain the difference. #PS1capolitics ===== engage 1 engage-rate 10% impress 10 time 2022-09-24 03:19 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1573512301461745664 ========== Cruelty as a campaign promise! It worked for Roman emperors, so why not Trumpists? https://www.sunjournal.com/2022/09/22/leonard-pitts-jr-this-is-not-about-immigration/ The last thing a Trumpist would want to do is solve a problem so it's no longer a campaign issue. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 5 time 2022-09-23 20:10 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1573404462605275136 ========== Why is inflation so stubborn? Higher profits on gas - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/21/business/gas-prices-decline-streak.html Higher profits on cars - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/21/business/economy/inflation-car-market.html But inflation is a global problem. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/26/briefing/inflation-prices-ukraine-economy.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1760415590969619 #PS1inflation ===== impress 4 time 2022-09-23 19:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1573400995220295681 ========== You can get rich on Youtube! By selling courses to the gullible that they hope will teach them how to get rich on Youtube. https://indianexpress.com/article/technology/tech-news-technology/you-too-can-strike-it-rich-on-youtube-8077355/ If somebody asks you to send them money to make you rich, ask them to send you money to make them rich. #PS1media ===== impress 6 time 2022-09-23 17:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1573370680044830722 ========== It's true! It's more profitable to operate in a red state that deregulates companies and discourages unions. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/01/business/economy/smithfield-california-factory.html Too bad for the workers. #PS1economics ===== impress 8 time 2022-09-23 17:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1573369553110843393 ========== Hazards of leveraging securities you can't sell - markets go down as well as up. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/20/technology/loans-startup-employees.html #PS1economics ===== impress 7 time 2022-09-23 17:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1573366498747465728 ========== "Why do cities across the nation frequently offer wealthy team owners handouts to create or enhance the palaces in which teams show off their skills?" https://www.ocregister.com/2022/07/16/california-is-pro-sports-no-1-money-making-machine/ #PS1other ===== engage 1 engage-rate 14% expands 1 impress 7 time 2022-09-23 17:36 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1573365714395742208 ========== Nobody who voted for Trump in 2000 has lived more than five years! And more of the week that wasn't. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-biden-science-health-adbf7288863f506cae9e795c6c3b88e5 #PS1media ===== impress 13 time 2022-09-23 17:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1573363807199850496 ========== Maybe Trump will send some money to help the candidates he endorsed. But mostly it goes to his legal defense funds. https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/23/politics/donald-trump-allies-super-pac/index.html #PS1trump ===== impress 11 time 2022-09-23 15:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1573328442203987970 ========== In Russia, life at the top has always been hazardous. https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/23/europe/russia-official-anatoly-gerashchenko-death-intl/index.html #PS1putin ===== impress 14 time 2022-09-23 14:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1573325555461652482 ========== Trumpism in action - it doesn't matter if it's true if it polls well with your base. https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-education-social-media-arizona-lakes-b1524fde3437d21ccfca1c445a254d1f #PS1trumpism ===== impress 6 time 2022-09-23 14:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1573319720052588544 ========== "I’ve already said I’m sorry, and I’m done saying I’m sorry" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/22/us/politics/alex-jones-trial.html Perhaps Jones means that he's sorry that he's going to have to pay so much money for libeling the parents of dead children. He isn't sorry for the dead children or their parents. #PS1media ===== engage 1 engage-rate 8% expands 1 impress 13 time 2022-09-23 03:38 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1573154927794614272 ========== The Cuban missile crisis was averted by JFK secretly agreeing to remove the American missles from Turkey. What can Biden offer Putin in the present crisis? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/09/22/putin-ukraine-threats-biden-cuban-missile-crisis/ #PS1ukraine ===== impress 24 time 2022-09-23 03:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1573147359508594688 ========== “the same playbook is being used around the world, if an election is not in someone’s favor, it’s been rigged" https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/09/22/jan6-committee-twitter-witness-navaroli/ "Whose speech are we protecting at the expense of whose safety? And whose safety are we protecting at the expense of whose speech?” #PS1media ===== impress 9 time 2022-09-23 03:03 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1573146124135059456 ========== What happens if the party base nominates a candidate with no chance in the general elections? https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/22/politics/trump-threaten-democracy-nyt-siena-college-poll/index.html Does the GOP dissolve into a fascist Trumpist Dixiecrat branch and a traditional Burkean conservative branch? More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1759812001029978 #PS1gop ===== impress 5 time 2022-09-23 02:37 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1573139364451868675 ========== Trumpists want to make elections more manageable by hand counting rather than machine counting. It's a lot easier to obtain the desired result with hand counting. https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/22/politics/michigan-republican-gop-nominee-deperno-emails-invs/index.html They keep repeating the same old disproved claims. Their base doesn't care. #PS1election ===== engage 2 engage-rate 33% impress 6 time 2022-09-23 02:23 +0000 urlclicks 2 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1573135922140512258 ========== Time to fix the Insurrection Act - https://brennancenter.substack.com/p/reform-the-insurrection-act to make sure that it's available when needed and not when it's not. #PS1insurrection ===== impress 3 time 2022-09-22 23:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1573096625337028608 ========== Newt Gingrich and the institutionalization of the GOP as the party of minority rule - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/22/opinion/moderate-republicans-gingrich-trump-new-england.html Republicans who don't fit Trumpism have to go elsewhere, but a third party is not the answer - that would mostly empower Trumpism. #PS1minority ===== impress 5 time 2022-09-22 22:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1573082683575599104 ========== "The executive branch has regulations laying out the process that should be followed, such as a requirement to make sure that other agencies and departments with an interest in the secret are consulted" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/14/us/politics/trump-classified-documents.html Telepathy does not count. #PS1trump ===== impress 6 time 2022-09-22 22:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1573080379941998592 ========== LOL Nothing Matters - “It’s one small lie, followed by a demand for a bigger lie” https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1722010971476748 "Political debate has become so degraded that it includes every kind of offense" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/22/opinion/trump-big-lie-big-joke.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1759683321042846 #PS1trumpism ===== impress 4 time 2022-09-22 22:36 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1573078878649974784 ========== GOP candidates talk about privatizing Social Security. Are anonymous bureaucrats better on Wall Street than in DC? Many candidates aren't good at saying one thing to the voters and another to the megadonors. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/09/22/democrats-election-republican-candidate-meltdown/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1759669044377607 #PS1gop ===== impress 6 time 2022-09-22 22:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1573072618621931520 ========== If the GOP retakes the House, they'll reinforce minority rule - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#gop But McCarthy has a platform for the voters! https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/22/politics/house-republicans-midterm-mccarthy/index.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1759658837711961 #PS1gop ===== impress 3 time 2022-09-22 21:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1573066044914241537 ========== Don't show up in court with a Hitler mustache! https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/22/politics/timothy-hale-cusanelli-stephen-ayres-capitol-riot/index.html Evidently not evident to everybody! #PS1insurrection ===== impress 5 time 2022-09-22 21:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1573061377799106560 ========== 4 GOP senators reject declassification by telepathy! They ALL know there are processes and procedures - but so far most won't admit it. https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/22/politics/republican-reaction-trump-secret-records/index.html If they ALL turn on Trump, it will happen overnight, if their megadonors decide Trump is now a liability. #PS1trump ===== impress 5 time 2022-09-22 21:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1573060991692447744 ========== The only reality that matters is the reality your audience feels inside! https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-afghanistan-ohio-campaigns-e75d2566635f11f49332bd1c46711999 Objective external reality? Doesn't exist for Trumpists! #PS1trumpism ===== impress 4 time 2022-09-22 21:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1573059058902487041 ========== “Secret Telepathic Unilateral Preemptive Irreversible Declassification” https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/09/22/trump-declassified-documents-excuses-media/ There is process and procedure for declassifying documents. But Trump is not a process/procedure guy. His process is to do what he wants and let his lawyers justify it. #PS1trump ===== impress 8 time 2022-09-22 20:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1573054150501277696 ========== Vigilantism - a sign of decline of the rule of law. The people who enjoy hunting and trapping other people will eventually find all sorts of excuses and go far beyond child predators. Wrong person? Mistakes happen! https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/09/22/prredator-catchers-vigilante-justice/ #PS1justice ===== engage 2 engage-rate 8% expands 1 impress 25 time 2022-09-22 20:47 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1573051339948826624 ========== A house of cards is meant to fall - https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2022/crypto-exchange-bitcoin-history/ but if new players keep building new ones - the new ones eventually fall too. Greed overcame many celebrities who should have known better. #PS1economics ===== impress 7 time 2022-09-22 20:24 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1573045592401534976 ========== Reality-TV real estate speculator to Reality-TV star to Reality-TV president to Reality-TV defendant? It's all about the image and the ratings, not the substance. He thinks he's being prosecuted for who he is, not for what he's done. https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/22/politics/trump-business-practices-maggie-haberman-book/index.html #PS1trump ===== impress 6 time 2022-09-22 17:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1573004058155421696 ========== What's the most important thing to remember about people of the past? Isn't it the good things they did, not the bad things - the occasions when they rose above their times, not the times they did not? https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/22/opinions/the-woman-king-history-misogyny-burton/index.html #PS1other ===== impress 3 time 2022-09-22 17:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1573002313018769408 ========== Looks like the only ace in Putin's sleeve might be his nukes. Other secondary military powers are taking note. https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/22/europe/russia-mobilization-logistics-analysis-intl-hnk-ml/index.html #PS1ukraine ===== impress 18 time 2022-09-22 17:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1573000568989437952 ========== "if he doesn’t run in 2024, it would make it more difficult for the former President to claim he is being politically victimized" https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/22/politics/donald-trump-dual-legal-blows-analysis/index.html There you have it - Trump will run for president in 2024. Even if he's broke and in jail. #PS1trump ===== engage 1 engage-rate 11% impress 9 time 2022-09-22 17:21 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1572999529334706177 ========== Does he still have access to sufficient funds to buy protection in Venezuela or safe transit to Russia? https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/09/22/fugitive-in-massive-navy-bribery-case-caught-in-venezuela/ Or will he wait and wait and wait in limbo - as in the movie Casablanca. #PS1justice ===== impress 18 time 2022-09-22 17:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1572995468166303746 ========== Several ways Putin's war could end - from bad to worse. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/20/opinion/ukraine-putin.html #PS1ukraine ===== impress 36 time 2022-09-22 05:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1572817344887656448 ========== A horror movie - the plot to reject the Enlightenment ideals of America's founders and preserve minority rule forever! https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/21/opinion/republicans-democracy-elections-bannon.html Democracy is not just based upon laws. It's based on common ideals and conventions, regulated by rule of law. #PS1democracy ===== engage 4 engage-rate 67% expands 4 impress 6 time 2022-09-22 05:10 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1572815649885540353 ========== Unfair! https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/21/opinion/herschel-walker-smart.html Herschel Walker is almost as smart as Donald Trump! Just the sort of black man Trump likes - an entertainer who can follow the cues most of the time. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 11 time 2022-09-22 04:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1572807774660329477 ========== Trump never met a patriarchalist he didn't like - https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/21/politics/john-gibbs-womens-suffrage-19th-amendment-kfile/index.html or a QAnon - https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/21/politics/qanon-fans-donald-trump/index.html Trump accepts the votes and cash from all his admirers, very fine people, no matter what else they believe. #PS1trump ===== impress 16 time 2022-09-22 04:07 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1572799703296905217 ========== How to use fake children to steal from the government! https://apnews.com/article/health-minnesota-covid-nutrition-cc55a566c806a29a7f2e64c762975a09 #PS1justice ===== engage-rate NaN time 2022-09-22 03:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1572797560120840193 ========== Universal basic income? https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-ubi.html It's already here in deep-red Alaska! https://apnews.com/article/inflation-alaska-anchorage-b084bb09ebe256c43a488c186b846c44 #PS1economics ===== impress 3 time 2022-09-22 03:54 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1572796526627557378 ========== So much for initiative, referendum, recall as tools of the people. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#initiative If you've got the bucks, can you buy any election? https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-sports-california-gavin-newsom-native-americans-218eb0e80aa9206cb40e67e9449441c6 Just vote NO on legalized gambling! #PS1democracy ===== impress 3 time 2022-09-22 03:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1572795626244669440 ========== How strong leaders cope with unfavorable social media - they shut down the internet completely. https://apnews.com/article/united-nations-general-assembly-technology-iran-dubai-arab-emirates-5712b917fc4d19eaa01ab8fbf53e2b8f #PS1media ===== impress 6 time 2022-09-22 03:46 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1572794334755590146 ========== House Trumpists do their best to prevent plugging leaks in the Electoral Count Act. They must be planning to use those leaks in 2024. https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-donald-trump-presidential-constitutions-election-2020-32c6ea94829f95d11f7696d2cba542b6 #PS1trumpism ===== impress 19 time 2022-09-22 03:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1572793405469765632 ========== Patriotic Russians - run for their lives. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-fleeing-mobilization-dbe01d0c9be45a8c479565501a2a8f32 There's nothing uniquely Russian about draft dodging! #PS1putin ===== impress 16 time 2022-09-22 03:38 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1572792392121712642 ========== Does Trump actually have a legal defense to charges of stealing and mishandling top-secret documents and lying about it? https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/21/politics/appeals-court-mar-a-lago-criminal-classified-documents/index.html So far, nobody can see one. It seems he's just trying to run down the clock, any way he can. And it's not working. #PS1trump ===== impress 6 time 2022-09-22 03:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1572789713391747073 ========== Money is the mother's milk of politics. Tired of that? https://americanpromise.net/ Meanwhile, who do you support for - Senate? https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1758920977785747 Governor? https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1758923021118876 House of Representatives? https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1758929574451554 https://www.270towin.com/2022-senate-election/ #PS1election ===== impress 2 time 2022-09-22 02:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1572776571785871361 ========== That was the week that wasn't. https://apnews.com/article/queen-elizabeth-ii-health-covid-social-media-germany-19df529423594d1b45ff02530364c65c #PS1media ===== impress 2 time 2022-09-16 16:54 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1570818341341925376 ========== Who's going to save the GOP from Trump? Not the lunatic fringe who love him. Not the self-serving opportunists who keep quiet - no courage there. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/09/02/its-time-republicans-save-themselves/ If GOP leaders do turn on Trump, it will seem unanimous and overnight. Safety in numbers! #PS1gop ===== impress 9 time 2022-09-16 13:19 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1570764188972351490 ========== China and climate - a confusing tale of internal contradictions. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/14/opinion/environment/china-climate-change-heat-drought.html Perhaps most important, the population of China is aging and probably decreasing soon - just like many other industrialized countries, including America. #PS1china ===== impress 10 time 2022-09-15 04:23 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1570267130788212737 ========== Eventually children become too expensive and the population ages. Is that a problem? It is for militarists who like lots of cannon fodder, but for anybody else? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/14/opinion/population-birthrate-decline.html #PS1other ===== engage 1 engage-rate 17% expands 1 impress 6 time 2022-09-15 04:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1570264006291783688 ========== Good news and bad news about reverse migration. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/14/opinion/reverse-great-migration.html #PS1other ===== impress 8 time 2022-09-15 04:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1570262520816103425 ========== What happened to the plan to rename military bases? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/09/14/trump-confederacy-military-bases/ Nothing. Trump vetoed it and was overridden and the renaming is in progress. #PS1trump ===== impress 9 time 2022-09-15 03:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1570258699779973122 ========== Stare decisis? States rights? Why nobody can believe anything a Trumpist stooge promises. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/09/14/lindsey-graham-abortion-ban-states-rights/ But you can believe that they will say whatever it takes to win. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 2 time 2022-09-15 03:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1570257323054223360 ========== Yvon Chouinard - from reinventing rock climbing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yvon_Chouinard#Yosemite_rock_climber_to_leading_alpinist to reinventing capitalism https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2022/09/14/patagonia-yvon-chouinard-climate-change/ #PS1other ===== impress 8 time 2022-09-15 03:38 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1570255768703897601 ========== "false statements, conspiracy and obstruction" Jeffrey Clark should have demanded a pardon from Trump. https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/14/politics/jeffrey-clark-doj-false-statements-conspiracy-obstruction-investigation/index.html #PS1insurrection ===== impress 13 time 2022-09-15 03:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1570252486258364417 ========== "If you don't have the facts, argue the law. If you don't have the law, argue the facts. If you don't have the law or the facts -" shout at the judge? https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/14/politics/oath-keepers-judge-mehta-argument/index.html #PS1insurrection ===== impress 2 time 2022-09-15 03:20 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1570251259093069827 ========== DOJ might have questions for Meadows that he avoided with the Jan 6 committee. No more avoiding! https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/14/politics/mark-meadows-subpoena-justice-department-january-6/index.html #PS1insurrection ===== engage 2 engage-rate 4% impress 46 time 2022-09-15 03:17 +0000 urlclicks 2 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1570250354117451776 ========== No constitutional basis for Independent State Legislatures deciding elections contrary to their own state constitutions. https://brennancenter.substack.com/p/the-other-chief-justices-have-their Some of the Trumpist states might do it anyway. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 5 time 2022-09-15 02:31 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1570238775179214854 ========== The quiet conclusion of the Durham investigation. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/09/14/trump-russia-durham-barr/ #PS1justice ===== impress 12 time 2022-09-14 18:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1570118600257867777 ========== How to talk out of both sides of your mouth about abortion - required for GOP candidates who want to win primary AND general elections. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/09/14/republican-abortion-midterms-graham/ They don't want to talk about what they REALLY believe - that they should say whatever it takes to win. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 7 time 2022-09-14 18:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1570117635836346368 ========== GOP sees voter fraud everywhere. https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/14/politics/jason-schofield-new-york-election-commissioner/index.html That's because so many of the offenders are GOP. #PS1gop ===== impress 2 time 2022-09-14 17:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1570095206455980033 ========== Ransomware for fun and profit - the Iranian government doesn't mind. https://apnews.com/article/technology-iran-violence-new-jersey-united-states-76c970bd4f1cdac3dc6bffa7ce925961 #PS1ransomware ===== impress 4 time 2022-09-14 16:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1570092849588490246 ========== Christian Nationalism is on a mission - to preserve minority rule. https://www.denverpost.com/2022/09/14/lauren-boebert-christian-nationalist-republican-colorado/ They have no use for democracy or separation of church and state or any other Enlightenment ideals of America's founders. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1753101391701039 #PS1trumpism ===== engage 1 engage-rate 14% expands 1 impress 7 time 2022-09-14 16:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1570091938262708224 ========== How to talk out of both sides of your mouth - a vital talent for GOP candidates who want to win the primary AND general elections. https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/14/politics/fact-check-republican-senate-nominees-2020-election/index.html And they don't want to talk about what they REALLY believe - that they should say whatever it takes to win. #PS1trumpism ===== engage 2 engage-rate 18% expands 2 impress 11 time 2022-09-14 14:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1570056267976286214 ========== How can Xi benefit from Putin's distress? Or at least avoid further harm. https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/13/opinions/putin-xi-meeting-uzbekistan-summit-ghitis/index.html Major reductions in trade with the west would be an economic disaster for China and Xi. #PS1china ===== engage 4 engage-rate 17% impress 23 likes 1 time 2022-09-14 14:09 +0000 urlclicks 3 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1570052171131158529 ========== GOP Lt Gov says GOP must move beyond Trump. But most current GOP candidates have hugged the tar baby too closely and can never be clean again, no matter how they scrub their websites. https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/01/opinions/gop-candidates-midterm-elections-duncan/index.html #PS1gop ===== impress 10 time 2022-09-14 14:04 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1570050830702874624 ========== Self-serving opportunists founding personality cults attract other self-serving opportunists and reward them for loyalty, rather than competence. See the result in the Trump administration. See it magnified 1000X in Putin's war. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/12/opinion/ukraine-deflates-maga-macho-myths.html #PS1trumpism ===== impress 17 time 2022-09-14 03:48 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1569895797743038464 ========== The paradox of democracy - free speech can, and will, be used to undermine democracy. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/13/opinion/democracy-crisis-speech-trump.html Putin and Xi, among others, are counting on it, and encouraging it, in order to justify their antidemocratic regimes. #PS1democracy ===== impress 23 time 2022-09-14 03:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1569894080729214978 ========== The goal of minority rule is protecting and enhancing economic inequality - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html and that requires protecting and enhancing political inequality - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/13/opinion/democracy-inequality-united-states.html #PS1democracy ===== impress 4 time 2022-09-14 03:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1569892507902967811 ========== The same struggle between medievalism and Enlightenment that animated America's founders continues within organized religion, most visibly in Roman Catholicism - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/12/books/review/catholicism-history-john-mcgreevy.html #PS1other ===== impress 1 time 2022-09-14 03:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1569890043342520327 ========== What happened to the Misery Index? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/13/opinion/inflation-misery-index-economy-prices.html We'll find out in November! #PS1economics ===== impress 4 time 2022-09-14 03:14 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1569887334317051908 ========== Ancient ideas discovered anew at Jena - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/13/opinion/environment/climate-change-nature-friedrich-schelling.html #PS1other ===== impress 1 time 2022-09-14 03:10 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1569886278350675968 ========== A long winter ahead in Ukraine. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/13/opinion/ukraine-war-biden.html Putin is counting on a long cold winter to turn Ukraine's western allies against it. #PS1ukraine ===== impress 47 time 2022-09-14 03:06 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1569885228667371520 ========== Ranked-choice voting https://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#preferential wins in Alaska! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/09/13/democrats-alaska-special-election-lessons/ May it prosper elsewhere! #PS1democracy ===== impress 1 time 2022-09-14 03:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1569883657862795264 ========== Who's who in the Trumpist Dixiecrat Insurrection against the Enlightenment ideals of America's founders - https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/interactive/2022/wizard-of-oz-flying-monkeys-trump-big-lie/ The hottest seats are reserved for those who knew better and lied anyway for political gain. #PS1insurrection ===== impress 3 time 2022-09-14 02:54 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1569882340951998464 ========== Remember Maria Butina, now elected to the Russian Duma? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Butina Putin still has plenty of money for political influence. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/09/13/united-states-russia-political-campaign/ The GOP (and not a few Democrats) have good reasons to want to keep dark campaign money dark. #PS1russian ===== impress 21 time 2022-09-14 02:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1569881125593694209 ========== Odd how healthy Russian executives tend to untimely deaths. https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/13/business/ivan-pechorin-death-russia-intl/index.html But it's an ancient Russian tradition. #PS1putin ===== impress 4 time 2022-09-14 02:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1569879790655778818 ========== It's going to be quiet for 60 days. https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/13/politics/trump-justice-department-election-investigation/index.html But then will the indictments start coming on November 9? #PS1insurrection ===== impress 3 time 2022-09-14 02:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1569879320746917889 ========== Three more violent insurrectionists headed to Federal prison. https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/13/politics/january-6-rioters-guilty-felony/index.html #PS1insurrection ===== impress 4 time 2022-09-14 02:36 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1569877832066809856 ========== So it wasn't really about states' rights after all! https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-abortion-inflation-us-supreme-court-health-7ea4f8fa597c97042503d856a082ef94 It was really about protecting minority rule. Thank you for the clarification, Sen. Graham. Everybody vote - and donate - accordingly! #PS1health ===== impress 4 time 2022-09-14 02:26 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1569875305938194432 ========== Current projects for Jan 6 committee. https://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-2022-midterm-elections-biden-congress-a4cfc83415b2456e66c85f52e4de8543 #PS1insurrection ===== impress 4 time 2022-09-13 18:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1569751116547772416 ========== Trump's got lots of other people's money saved up - to help Trump! https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-russia-ukraine-donald-trump-presidential-campaigns-4ce3a13c3fe27255210adc0c83a80da1 #PS1trump ===== impress 5 time 2022-09-13 18:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1569750166324023296 ========== Wait there's more! ?? https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-mar-a-lago-carolyn-maloney-congress-government-and-politics-5eddf3738732cbed53f2fa439c43b84f If Trump lied the first time they asked, why would they believe him now? #PS1trump ===== impress 3 time 2022-09-13 18:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1569747786069057536 ========== How did they ever get him to leave? https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/12/politics/trump-vowed-to-stay-in-white-house-haberman-book/index.html #PS1trump ===== impress 4 time 2022-09-12 11:48 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1569291934132506629 ========== Putin supporters have more to say on Ukraine collapse. https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/11/europe/ukraine-russia-eastern-front/index.html #PS1ukraine ===== engage 3 engage-rate 7% impress 43 time 2022-09-12 11:45 +0000 urlclicks 3 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1569291176439853058 ========== Humility is a safer path - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington's_Farewell_Address But hubris is the essential ingredient of Greek tragedy and grand opera. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/10/opinion/rudy-giuliani-9-11-trump.html #PS1other ===== impress 1 time 2022-09-11 23:07 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1569100318864191488 ========== Ron Johnson - he's a regular Rick Scott! Not the least bit shy about talking about the REAL Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP program of strengthening minority rule. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/09/11/johnson-wisconsin-senate-race-republican/ #PS1trumpism ===== impress 3 time 2022-09-11 22:53 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1569096783888023552 ========== Good reasons for presidents to be content with one term. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/09/09/biden-one-term-presidency/ #PS1biden ===== impress 2 time 2022-09-11 22:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1569095940816146434 ========== In the starting and ending of wars, the enemy has a vote. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/09/09/911-21st-anniversary-terrorism-endless-war/ #PS1other ===== impress 4 time 2022-09-11 22:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1569094526517800961 ========== Trumpism doesn't need Trump. When Trump refers to "America First" he's only referring to the historical stream of ethno-nationalist fascism that he is only the latest, and not the last, to paddle in. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/09/09/america-first-american-dream-trumpism/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1751084358569409 #PS1trumpism ===== impress 2 time 2022-09-11 22:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1569093602051256320 ========== Getting off light - so far. https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/09/europe/russia-officials-fined-for-putin-impeachment-call-intl/index.html The mild response suggests Putin's hand is weaker than we thought. #PS1putin ===== engage 3 engage-rate 19% impress 16 time 2022-09-11 22:00 +0000 urlclicks 3 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1569083562753916928 ========== Are candidate debates good for anything? https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-campaigns-presidential-election-2020-herschel-walker-94c6fe26f5f27cab6385e37946124d77 In most cases, the candidates are terrified the voters might find out what they really think, when they respond to an unexpected hostile question. #PS1democracy ===== impress 5 time 2022-09-11 21:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1569082474558550016 ========== How the sausage gets made - https://apnews.com/article/biden-bernie-sanders-congress-climate-and-environment-21dab2374977f3120d2c8d5e364b2e44 Sometimes you have to hold your nose at some of the tactics to achieve laudable strategic goals. #PS1climate ===== impress 3 time 2022-09-11 19:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1569040519967440897 ========== Distributed denial of service attacks on election officials' time - https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-social-media-voting-presidential-279477cae723dd520240f5e35676c880 As a colleague once said, "Bad ideas come along faster than I can deal with them." #PS1trumpism ===== impress 4 time 2022-09-11 19:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1569039422905270277 ========== Ransomware gangs labored over Labor Day. FBI says they don't necessarily restore your system if ransom is paid. https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/09/11/ransomware-attacks-targeting-school-districts-hospitals/ #PS1ransomware ===== impress 6 time 2022-09-11 14:12 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1568965753059299330 ========== More on Russian military reverses in Ukraine. https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/russian-forces-flee-as-ukraine-makes-rapid-eastern-push-1.1817023 Some of these forces are Russian conscripts, others are Ukrainian collaborators. #PS1ukraine ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% impress 59 time 2022-09-11 07:16 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1568861091555594247 ========== Planning to use "election integrity" to undermine future election integrity! https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-biden-donald-trump-presidential-michigan-cdfa5bd771c484335f2f03182af5b08d They are most incensed against rule-of-law Republicans that block them in red states. After they deal with them, they'll go after Democrats in blue states. #PS1insurrection ===== impress 2 time 2022-09-11 07:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1568859885265371136 ========== Kansas Kris Kobach is in the news again! Then - https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/11/kris-kobach-and-search-mythical-voter-fraud/617069/ Now - https://apnews.com/article/steve-bannon-elections-donald-trump-kansas-board-of-directors-6ed6d081ccf5488dfc63ead9407e4d4c No surprise that he was involved with Bannon! #PS1trumpism ===== impress 14 time 2022-09-11 07:04 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1568858087003668481 ========== Security is a way of life! https://apnews.com/article/florida-donald-trump-mar-a-lago-congress-government-and-politics-6916af6f47be5ddbe0f30f428736daaf It's diametrically opposed to the way most politicians think and operate, and even more so to the ways of reality-TV stars. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1750610318616813 #PS1other ===== impress 3 time 2022-09-11 06:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1568855913536323587 ========== Is Putin really in trouble? https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1666827/putin-removal-plot-russia-st-petersburg-Smolninsky-council-ukraine-war-latest-news-ont Probably not - but some of his allies are - https://www.newsweek.com/russian-soldiers-riot-refuse-fight-ukraine-war-1739773 https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1666907/putin-russia-ukraine-war-luhansk-donetsk-soldiers-kremlin-vn #PS1ukraine ===== engage 7 engage-rate 18% impress 38 likes 1 time 2022-09-11 06:30 +0000 urlclicks 6 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1568849324897107968 ========== By their fruits shall ye know them! Megadonors tolerate false prophets to keep the base in line, as long as they don't irritate too many swing and independent voters. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/09/09/doug-mastriano-prophet-julie-green/ #PS1trumpism ===== impress 4 time 2022-09-10 00:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1568399139616202752 ========== Have the megadonors seen that the patriarchalists, in their zeal, will undermine rather than strengthen minority rule? Let's get back to talking about inflation! https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/09/09/republican-abortion-bans/ So it wasn't a profound moral conviction after all - just a political calculation. #PS1gop ===== engage 1 engage-rate 13% impress 8 time 2022-09-10 00:15 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1568392793533616128 ========== 70 years ago, nobody worried about covid or aids or monkeyvirus or flu - it was all about polio. Now anti-vaxxers appear to have made it an issue again. https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/09/health/new-york-polio-disaster-emergency/index.html And in a different direction, smallpox/monkeypox vaccinations might become routine soon. #PS1health ===== engage 1 engage-rate 4% impress 24 time 2022-09-09 23:59 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1568388769472192515 ========== Journalism can be dangerous. https://apnews.com/article/crime-las-vegas-mass-shooting-organized-government-and-politics-57a029429632d25345236d4ab71ebafb More honor to those who are ethical and courageous. But what is their future as local newspapers become vehicles for "sponsored content"? #PS1journalism ===== impress 9 time 2022-09-09 23:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1568386735050203137 ========== Ukraine attempts to liquidate the invader collaborator class in advance of phony refererenda. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/09/08/ukraine-assassinations-occupied-territory-russia/ Does Putin win if he pulls Ukraine down to his moral level? #PS1ukraine ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 31 time 2022-09-09 21:05 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1568344920922165248 ========== 1933 - "50,000 members of SS were ordered to monitor votes as so-called deputy sheriffs" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_1933_German_federal_election#Background 2022 - "When one poll worker objected that this would run afoul of polling place rules, Costantino advised doing it secretly” https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/09/09/michigan-republican-party-trump-2020-election-lie/ #PS1trumpism ===== impress 2 time 2022-09-09 20:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1568343157749985280 ========== Will Biden's greatest achievement be stopping Trump? At least temporarily? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/09/09/joe-biden-legacy-fighting-trumpism/ #PS1biden ===== impress 5 time 2022-09-09 20:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1568339633926451200 ========== The hard life of an itinerant insurrectionist. He has to travel far to find sympathetic audiences - and avoid college towns. https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2022/09/08/an-ex-professor-spreads-election-myths-across-us-one-town-time/ #PS1insurrection ===== impress 3 time 2022-09-09 20:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1568338778636566528 ========== What will it take for Trumpism to move beyond Trump? https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/09/opinions/mitch-mcconnell-rick-scott-what-it-will-take-to-abandon-trump-zelizer/index.html It's all up to the megadonors! They call the shots in the GOP, and it's strictly a business decision for them. They won't throw good money after bad. #PS1gop ===== impress 8 time 2022-09-09 20:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1568333162304122880 ========== A few years of quiet to plan to Murder the Media. https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/09/politics/murder-the-media-proud-boys-guilty/index.html #PS1insurrection ===== impress 3 time 2022-09-09 20:14 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1568332009705189378 ========== "reaping where thou hast not sown, and gathering where thou hast not strawed" https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/09/politics/biden-republicans-infrastructure-law/index.html GOP politicians lead such scripture-based lives! #PS1gop ===== impress 3 time 2022-09-09 20:12 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1568331523405021184 ========== Of course she wants the record sealed - she's a Trumpist! https://apnews.com/article/kristi-noem-south-dakota-sd-state-wire-f47ff2f89fb6ade73ea0d78000d43d7b Why wouldn't a Trumpist official try to intervene on behalf of a loyal family member? #PS1trumpism ===== impress 4 time 2022-09-09 19:24 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1568319491704238080 ========== "he is seeking to flaunt a two-hundred-page political manifesto outlining his grievances against those that have opposed him" Of course! He's Trump! https://apnews.com/article/judge-dismisses-trump-lawsuit-against-clinton-1c49b9f65177507bb06115b631c8499d #PS1trump ===== impress 3 time 2022-09-09 19:19 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1568318252941713410 ========== That was the week that wasn't. https://apnews.com/article/biden-covid-health-social-media-donald-trump-3e3b4f36c611e4b1a40010395ce376fd #PS1media ===== impress 4 time 2022-09-09 16:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1568274492593684480 ========== When did Christianity reverse itself from its roots? When it became a state religion under Constantine - "in hoc signo vinces" - devoted to serving the state rather than the people. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/09/01/michael-gerson-evangelical-christian-maga-democracy/ #PS1other ===== impress 10 time 2022-09-09 05:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1568112578379018241 ========== Who politicized DOJ? https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/09/08/berman-trump-department-justice-organized/ #PS1justice ===== impress 10 time 2022-09-09 05:26 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1568108542623911936 ========== There's no reason the government can't prepare the tax returns of taxpayers with only W-2 and 1099 data - data which the IRS already receives in January. https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2022/09/07/irs-free-efile-biden/ But tax software companies have thought of $63 million reasons not to. #PS1tax ===== engage 1 engage-rate 14% impress 7 likes 1 time 2022-09-09 05:20 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1568106957168590851 ========== Patriarchalists' demands don't end with prohibiting abortion! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/09/08/texas-judge-gay-rights-contraception/ #PS1trumpism ===== impress 2 time 2022-09-09 05:14 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1568105509504585729 ========== The new Axis powers - everything coming up roses for Xi. For Putin, not so much. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/09/08/russia-china-iran-alliance-dictators/ "Russia’s increasing dependence on China is a big problem for Putin over the long term" #PS1china ===== impress 16 time 2022-09-09 05:10 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1568104643263348736 ========== Who wants to merge with a funny business? Only another funny business. https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/08/investing/trump-spac-shareholder-meeting/index.html Expect more funny business to come! #PS1trump ===== impress 4 time 2022-09-09 04:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1568094924570263552 ========== In red states and elsewhere, 2020 election denial is a shibboleth for GOP candidates. The only truth that matters is the truth about how their base feels. https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-biden-cabinet-only-on-ap-election-2020-19131c0f468839bf2b847bd7b3dfaf5c #PS1trumpism ===== impress 3 time 2022-09-09 04:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1568093811259342850 ========== Of course Putin liquidates potential opponents. Of course he denies it. That's what Stalin would have done for Russia! https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-united-states-nations-linda-thomas-greenfield-9fda3a35846a332f593ca50882c472ea #PS1ukraine ===== impress 17 time 2022-09-09 04:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1568089799529201665 ========== What's SEMI about Trumpism? Decide for yourself - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism Biden offered a chance to cooperate in a bipartisan manner. The Trumpists rejected it, calling for defunding the FBI and violence in the streets. https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-biden-donald-trump-presidential-pennsylvania-edd46881a1c0c71df97663ac37236f26 #PS1trumpism ===== engage 1 engage-rate 20% expands 1 impress 5 time 2022-09-09 04:06 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1568088512330874881 ========== Will Trump get away with running down the clock? https://apnews.com/article/florida-donald-trump-mar-a-lago-government-and-politics-edc87319957149db117e931ac93fe5f8 He's certainly hopeful, with a judge he nominated. #PS1trump ===== impress 5 time 2022-09-09 04:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1568086822554849281 ========== Like former KKK members, former Oath Keepers want to pretend that they never inhaled. https://apnews.com/article/oath-keepers-leaked-membership-rolls-2ca4195ed3a10e45dd189bf98f3e5a26 #PS1trumpism ===== impress 5 time 2022-09-09 03:53 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1568085045738602497 ========== Putin must be getting desperate! https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-technology-seoul-moscow-491ad47f3d26b441953a7319838817b9 #PS1putin ===== impress 12 time 2022-09-09 03:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1568084699163283457 ========== Some crooks are smarter than others. https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/09/08/fat-leonards-bold-escape-from-california-home-was-judges-worst-fear-come-true/ But if they catch him, he'll never see the light of day again. How big a reward are they offering? It's going to be hard for the next defendant with a valid request for leniency. #PS1justice ===== impress 3 time 2022-09-09 03:48 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1568083839028985858 ========== So who are the real RINO's? Would previous GOP leaders have won on a "Make America Great Again" slogan? NO - they won on "Make America Even Greater". But there's money to be made peddling a dark vision - https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/09/07/steve-bannon-indictment-trump-wall-right-wing-grift/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1748317822179396 #PS1trumpism ===== impress 6 time 2022-09-08 05:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1567747051169140736 ========== https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#rule-of-law Can a rule-of-law Republican make progress against Trumpism? https://apnews.com/article/abortion-2022-midterm-elections-inflation-presidential-utah-ea8396a0aed62ae0ba9617d157117baa #PS1gop ===== impress 8 time 2022-09-08 04:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1567732744574345217 ========== The alliance to restore medieval political values - https://apnews.com/article/putin-xi-to-meet-in-uzbekistan-84239cfea4b649e3d184561ffc734622 These two plus N Korea and Iran and a few others - aligned against the Enlightenment! #PS1china ===== impress 3 time 2022-09-08 04:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1567731668328546305 ========== Trumpists try to win in blue states. "Diehl would rule your state with an iron fist" https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-abortion-politics-boston-presidential-dbe2bba5472d51c92bb8d653117b0bfc A victory of passion over common sense? #PS1trumpism ===== engage 2 engage-rate 40% impress 5 time 2022-09-08 04:25 +0000 userclicks 2 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1567730840762990593 ========== "the 41 men in the Senate would be better off listening to their wives, daughters, mothers, granddaughters and nieces" https://apnews.com/article/abortion-health-legislature-south-carolina-government-and-politics-8bcf83dc17b0958cb806a6bbe91fa6b9 More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1748289618848883 #PS1health ===== impress 61 time 2022-09-08 04:20 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1567729625421475840 ========== Democratic politician adopts Trumpist tactics against media. https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-las-vegas-newspapers-fc98699b524d0855b3b6e363a3f0455c #PS1journalism ===== impress 2 time 2022-09-08 04:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1567727316117393408 ========== Where fascists come from - https://apnews.com/article/michael-flynn-christian-nationalism-investigation-50fa5dcff7f99cf93409fcd6c1357bee There's big money in fascism! #PS1trumpism ===== impress 3 time 2022-09-08 04:10 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1567727086881882112 ========== "protecting the integrity of the lawmaking process against well-funded interest groups trying to bend state policies in their favor" https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-voting-rights-abortion-arkansas-recreational-marijuana-0c003046cc981ebcfb38fa77c1455737 Meaning, protecting minority rule from democracy. #PS1democracy ===== impress 3 time 2022-09-03 15:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1566079047800463360 ========== That was the week that wasn't. https://apnews.com/article/biden-covid-health-elections-0a48437a7da29c9db48380c79f73ac1e #PS1media ===== impress 4 time 2022-09-02 16:38 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1565741047254110208 ========== Mastriano doesn't want to testify about anything that might affect his election chances. Which means everything beyond name, rank, and serial number. https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/01/politics/doug-mastriano-suing-january-6-committee-deposition/index.html #PS1insurrection ===== impress 4 time 2022-09-02 14:06 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1565702599491616768 ========== Trump might pardon violent insurrectionists. https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/01/politics/january-6-pardons-trump-2024/index.html Or maybe not. His pardons usually only go to those he think will help him in the future - so maybe he just means his close advisors who might testify against him. #PS1insurrection ===== engage 1 engage-rate 14% expands 1 impress 7 time 2022-09-02 14:03 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1565701847393845248 ========== (Mostly) red states fight inflation by fanning inflation! https://apnews.com/article/inflation-covid-health-personal-taxes-legislature-5062f53df342140f945f98e99dc923d6 But tax rebates are a way to try to change the subject in an election year - away from stolen elections, violent insurrections, lost reproductive rights, and stolen top secrets. #PS1gop ===== impress 4 time 2022-09-01 19:14 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1565417882829201408 ========== People with national security experience know what would have happened to them, for a lot less than what Trump's done. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/09/01/republican-lawyers-trump-documents/ #PS1trump ===== impress 10 time 2022-09-01 18:21 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1565404588240318465 ========== Inevitably somebody would spill the beans in public about the real GOP agenda - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#gop McConnell told them to keep their mouths shut! Not exactly the seven wounds of Christ, these seven GOP wounds were all self-inflicted - https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/09/01/republican-midterm-self-inflicted-wounds/ #PS1gop ===== impress 4 time 2022-09-01 18:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1565403628998823936 ========== The Trump Defense - avoid the real issues, muddy the waters, and run down the clock. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/09/01/trump-mar-a-lago-sean-hannity-alina-habba-doj/ #PS1trump ===== impress 5 time 2022-09-01 18:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1565401221111771136 ========== Some people just can't stay out of trouble! https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2022/09/01/ginni-thomas-wisconsin-bernier-tauchen/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/09/01/oathkeepers-attorney-sorelle-arrested-jan6/ Worse if they are lawyers who should know better. Worst if their spouses are Federal judges. #PS1insurrection ===== impress 5 time 2022-09-01 18:04 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1565400307000954880 ========== Biden to address nation on democracy. GOP leaders have prerecorded responses ready - "Joe Biden epitomizes the Democrat Party: divisiveness, disgust, and hostility towards half the country" https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/01/politics/joe-biden-democracy-speech/index.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1743624389315406 #PS1democracy ===== impress 6 time 2022-09-01 17:57 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1565398410483486720 ========== These have not been approved by GOP megadonors as actual policy objectives since they imply tax increases and inflation. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#gop But conservative daydreams are OK as talking points - https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/31/opinions/gop-strategy-2022-midterm-elections-cass/index.html until the day after the election. #PS1gop ===== impress 4 time 2022-09-01 17:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1565394485302796289 ========== Defenestration was a common Stalinist solution to problems. Putin would love to restore Stalinism. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-62750584 #PS1putin ===== impress 9 time 2022-09-01 17:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1565392702203498496 ========== Where's your cellphone been lately? Hopefully not near any crime scenes. https://apnews.com/article/technology-police-government-surveillance-d395409ef5a8c6c3f6cdab5b1d0e27ef #PS1technology ===== impress 1 time 2022-09-01 17:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1565388508310560768 ========== How to avoid campaign finance laws. Non-profits for profit! https://search-portals.com/why-are-california-lawmakers-luring-tech-lobbyists-to-wine-country/ #PS1democracy ===== impress 3 time 2022-09-01 14:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1565346343232491529 ========== "when extremist movements tell you where they are headed, you should believe them" https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2022-07-15/supreme-court-abortion-civil-rights #PS1gop ===== impress 2 time 2022-09-01 13:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1565334333203763203 ========== Remember when G W Bush seemed to be the worst president ever? I swore off third parties - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#registration But Bush has been pushed off his throne. https://news.yahoo.com/nicholas-goldberg-remember-thought-george-100013841.html #PS1trump ===== impress 4 time 2022-09-01 04:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1565196323262832640 ========== All your personal data is for sale somewhere. To anybody! https://apnews.com/article/technology-health-idaho-federal-trade-commission-government-and-politics-a9aabfc0d25828bc4951c736aaab617a #PS1technology ===== impress 2 time 2022-09-01 04:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1565195172949856256 ========== Chinese GPS easily hacked - by design? https://apnews.com/article/technology-boston-b9a6912652794a18e9e1d9bf06fc7b32 The Chinese Communist Party likes to know exactly what everybody is up to. #PS1china ===== impress 15 time 2022-09-01 04:26 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1565194302572994560 ========== Making decisions based on online reviews? https://apnews.com/article/technology-lawsuits-amazoncom-inc-03329beafb3b1eba170a13c99ee0d318 #PS1technology ===== impress 1 time 2022-09-01 04:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1565193356161851392 ========== Schools spending billions on high tech defense - https://thebusinessnewspaper.com/2022/06/26/schools-are-spending-billions-on-high-tech-defense-for-mass-shootings/ How much cheaper it would be to just fund politicians that would ban assault weapons! #PS1firearms ===== impress 3 time 2022-09-01 04:19 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1565192621391093760 ========== Internet Explorer lives! https://www.ekathimerini.com/nytimes/1189034/even-in-death-internet-explorer-lives-on-in-south-korea/ People will put up with all sorts of inconviences to avoid the greater burden of re-architecting and re-implementing their applications. #PS1technology ===== impress 3 time 2022-09-01 04:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1565191939854516224 ========== consociated representation? https://www.kcrw.com/news/shows/zocalos-connecting-california/california-florida-voting-consociated-representation-joe-mathews #PS1democracy ===== impress 2 time 2022-09-01 04:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1565189759202234368 ========== Like DeSantis, like Putin - rewriting history to repeal the modern world. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/16/world/europe/russia-putin-schools-propaganda-indoctrination.html #PS1putin ===== impress 3 time 2022-09-01 04:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1565188222619045888 ========== How far can DeSantis go? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/31/opinion/ron-desantis-re-election-florida.html Most voters did not take Hitler seriously until it was too late. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 5 time 2022-09-01 03:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1565175980133519367 ========== Coming next - full legal rights for all fetuses. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/31/opinion/abortion-fetal-personhood.html Will the GOP megadonors go along or decide that the cost in lost swing and independent voters is too high? #PS1health ===== impress 4 time 2022-09-01 03:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1565173867957497856 ========== Where the photo came from https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/31/us/politics/trump-photo-classified-documents.html #PS1trump ===== impress 1 time 2022-09-01 02:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1565172455752183808 ========== A miscalculation - thinking that what would appeal to the base would carry weight with everybody else. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/31/us/politics/trump-justice-department-special-master.html #PS1trump ===== impress 1 time 2022-09-01 02:57 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1565172043254865920 ========== A shrinking minority wants to think of itself as the "real America". Trumpists encourage the delusion, all to bolster minority rule by their megadonors. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/08/31/real-america-blue-provincetown-maga-trump/ #PS1trumpism ===== impress 1 time 2022-09-01 02:31 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1565165382930812929 ========== Trumpists going off the deep end! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/08/31/trump-gop-lies-qanon/ And they're proud of their loyalty to Trump! #PS1trumpism ===== impress 5 time 2022-09-01 02:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1565164489883865088 ========== How the Ukrainians are wearing down the Russians. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/08/31/zelensky-ukraine-southern-counter-offensive/ #PS1ukraine ===== impress 8 time 2022-09-01 02:24 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1565163601437962240 ========== The end of "a get-out-of-jail-free card to violators in the upper echelons while punishing subordinates for the same or lesser offenses" ? https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/29/opinions/mar-a-lago-search-secret-documents-gup/index.html #PS1trump ===== engage-rate NaN time 2022-09-01 02:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1565160954781765632 ========== KKK at West Point? Why? https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/31/politics/west-point-kkk-plaque/index.html #PS1other ===== impress 3 time 2022-09-01 02:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1565159798315708416 ========== Lawyers can aggressively defend their clients - but they can't lie. Especially to the FBI. https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/31/politics/christina-bobb-evan-corcoran/index.html #PS1trump ===== impress 2 time 2022-09-01 02:06 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1565159140883718145 ========== Trump's defense seems to be that all ex-presidents steal top secrets, store them carelessly, and then lie about it. https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/31/politics/trump-response-mar-a-lago-search-special-master/index.html #PS1trump ===== impress 6 time 2022-09-01 02:03 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1565158351419236352 ========== Two kinds of Republicans - Trumpists who believe that all you have to do is appeal to the base. Others who believe that you have to appeal to swing voters and independents to get control of Congress. https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-presidential-elections-mar-a-lago-election-2020-congress-cfcdf3bccd5bd8c008248b19ab299044 More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1743130286031483 #PS1gop ===== impress 3 time 2022-09-01 01:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1565156692249088000 ========== Alaskans tired of Palin? https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-sarah-palin-voting-government-and-politics-f9855f1138a922ab1147da7900819fa8 This was just a special election for a short term. The full term election is in November. #PS1gop ===== impress 2 time 2022-09-01 00:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1565141609770954752 ========== Out in the boonies, they think they'd like a lot of new money flowing in, until they realize that the cost of living is flowing up. And up. And outsiders bring in new ideas, too. https://apnews.com/article/short-term-rentals-housing-crisis-38d45202f9bc92391b0418d8ad16734d #PS1economics ===== impress 1 time 2022-09-01 00:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1565138439598526464 ========== Would Trump defer his own ambitions for the good of the GOP? Self-restraint just isn't in his DNA. https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/31/politics/trump-delaying-2024-decision/index.html He sees everything in terms of his base, not in terms of the swing voters and independents who decide close elections. #PS1trump ===== impress 7 time 2022-08-31 17:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1565031599334256640 ========== Why did Trump want to steal top secrets and what did he intend to do with them? https://cnn.com/2022/08/30/politics/mar-a-lago-justice-department-response/index.html https://apnews.com/article/mar-a-lago-government-and-politics-1fef158c3a66bfc0ba6224570753ba47 #PS1trump ===== impress 9 time 2022-08-31 16:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1565008606562435072 ========== Trump is hoping that the violent insurrectionists will save him - those that weren't arrested for Jan 6. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/30/us/politics/trump-search-violence.html #PS1trump ===== impress 19 time 2022-08-31 04:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1564839913014435841 ========== L. Lin Wood gets to testify in Atlanta. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/30/us/lin-wood-georgia-trump-inquiry.html #PS1insurrection ===== impress 7 time 2022-08-31 04:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1564838307841728512 ========== The crime-fraud exception - "If I were the lawyers advising Trump, and perhaps making false statements to the government, I would be getting my own counsel as well" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/08/30/trump-lawyers-crime-fraud-exception/ Thus "so many attorneys have declined the invitation to represent Trump" #PS1trump ===== impress 6 time 2022-08-31 04:48 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1564837548014284800 ========== The Trump File System! Forget ufs, zfs, efs... https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/08/30/trump-documents-papers-disorganized/ #PS1trump ===== engage 1 engage-rate 8% impress 13 time 2022-08-31 04:42 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1564835968401969152 ========== Essential to minority rule - keep the masses distracted from what the megadonors are doing. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html “Trump realized that having the right enemies is perhaps the most important thing to the GOP base” https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/08/30/trump-mar-a-lago-republicans-anxious-midterm-elections/ #PS1trumpism ===== impress 8 time 2022-08-31 04:38 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1564835102030368770 ========== Treat Trump like Clinton! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/08/30/trump-hillary-clinton-classified-documents-equal-treatment/ #PS1trump ===== impress 5 time 2022-08-31 04:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1564833673777541120 ========== Besides stealing top secrets, storing them insecurely, and lying about it, it appears that Trump was obstructing the DOJ investigation. Maybe they are still hiding documents? https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/08/31/trump-documents-removed-storage-room/ https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/30/politics/mar-a-lago-justice-department-response/index.html https://apnews.com/article/mar-a-lago-government-and-politics-1fef158c3a66bfc0ba6224570753ba47 #PS1trump ===== engage 3 engage-rate 7% impress 43 likes 2 retweets 1 time 2022-08-31 04:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1564829517570396160 ========== Might GOP be in a better position now if they had fielded more non-Trumpists? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/29/opinion/senate-republicans-trump.html #PS1gop ===== impress 7 time 2022-08-30 03:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1564458962447020033 ========== Trump and Graham threaten mob violence - and claim that an ex-president can't be prosecuted, no matter what, because that would be "political". https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/08/29/lindsey-graham-riots-trump-mob/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/08/29/lindsey-graham-threatens-riots-trump-prosecution-mar-a-lago/ #PS1trump ===== impress 21 time 2022-08-30 03:37 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1564457295576084482 ========== Much of the world sees America in decline. Some cheer, some fret. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/08/29/bucerius-global-leadership-america-democratic-decline/ #PS1other ===== impress 5 time 2022-08-30 03:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1564456041923747841 ========== "the other campaign keeps receipts" https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/29/politics/republicans-shift-abortion-positions-general-election/index.html You bet they do! Switching your positions after winning the primary will get public feedback from all directions. #PS1gop ===== impress 4 time 2022-08-30 02:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1564447317712707584 ========== Rewriting websites - part of the progression from GOP primary appealing to the base, to general election appealing to swing voters and independents. https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/29/politics/blake-masters-campaign-website-changes/index.html Standard procedure if you have no fundamental principles except winning. #PS1gop ===== impress 3 time 2022-08-30 02:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1564445741304541184 ========== Trump thought he was Emperor while in office. And also AFTER leaving office. https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-mar-a-lago-classified-information-government-and-politics-92ebd0ea765e6b09576d2a958ece21b8 "if he had simply returned the documents right away, he’d be in a much stronger position legally" #PS1trump ===== impress 4 time 2022-08-30 02:43 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1564443757860204544 ========== Biden to address the struggle for democracy. https://apnews.com/article/biden-donald-trump-democracy-government-and-politics-d5bf5e4e0e926fe0253415f17e230e3d #PS1democracy ===== impress 4 time 2022-08-30 02:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1564442660122726400 ========== There's no free lunch energy. https://news.yahoo.com/california-went-big-rooftop-solar-120043034.html #PS1climate ===== impress 6 time 2022-08-30 02:23 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1564438552380706816 ========== Reminder: what happened last time somebody stole secret information - https://www.reuters.com/world/us/former-cia-engineer-convicted-wikileaks-espionage-case-2022-07-13/ #PS1trump ===== impress 2 time 2022-08-30 02:10 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1564435359336767488 ========== Next riot he'll just have to watch on prison TV. https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/29/politics/joshua-pruitt-rioter-proud-boys-sentenced/index.html #PS1insurrection ===== impress 3 time 2022-08-29 18:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1564319372822188032 ========== The progressives of 1911 championed direct democracy to provide the people a way around a corrupt legislature. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#initiative But now the same corrupt interests use those tools as a way around the legislature. https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/08/29/win-or-lose-heres-how-tobacco-companies-are-reaping-millions-in-california-off-prop-31-fight/ #PS1capolitics ===== impress 9 time 2022-08-29 18:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1564317613060079616 ========== Another way to not change the world - kill switches for servers. https://apnews.com/article/workers-rights-government-and-politics-8390362e0fed372432f95805f94ac994 #PS1technology ===== impress 8 time 2022-08-29 16:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1564294256918876160 ========== How not to change the world. https://www.seattletimes.com/business/how-wish-built-and-fumbled-a-dollar-store-for-the-internet/ Great advertising doesn't get you a pass on junk or non-existent goods. #PS1economics ===== impress 3 time 2022-08-29 16:46 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1564293339737833473 ========== Russian IT brain drain to Georgia - for the time being. Sort of like Californians to Idaho. The locals aren't thrilled. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-07-06/russian-refugee-tech-workers-make-georgia-a-stepping-stone-for-global-career #PS1putin ===== engage 1 engage-rate 7% impress 14 time 2022-08-29 16:39 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1564291584966811648 ========== Chinese local authorities collect all the data on everybody and then don't take very good care of it! https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/05/business/china-police-data-breach.html #PS1china ===== impress 2 time 2022-08-29 16:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1564285162367504384 ========== Trump and QAnons fit like a hand in a glove. He embraces all unquestioning supporters, no matter how goofy. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/29/technology/qanon-truth-social-trump.html #PS1qanon ===== impress 5 time 2022-08-29 13:52 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1564249746776080384 ========== Kushner can't bring himself to admit the 2020 election was pretty fair. His father-in-law lost by 43000 votes just as he had won by 78000 votes in 2016. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/27/us/politics/jared-kushner-trump-book.html #PS1trumpism ===== impress 3 time 2022-08-29 13:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1564247025289334786 ========== In with the new, out with the old - including the old families. https://apnews.com/article/silicon-heartland-homes-ohio-c5a49bc8bd0ef98ce31bd372b59e9ec7 They got a premium for their land at least. The real issue is when new people arrive with new ideas. #PS1economics ===== impress 1 time 2022-08-29 05:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1564126008805978112 ========== It's all right if YOU lost money on crypto! Others won big! Aren't you happy for them? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/29/technology/crypto-crash-divide.html #PS1economics ===== impress 1 time 2022-08-29 05:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1564124308619743232 ========== In China, everybody is supposed to have a smart phone and is supposed to leave it on all the time. A model for dictatorships elsewhere? https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2022/06/27/asia-pacific/crime-legal-asia-pacific/china-future-police/ #PS1china ===== impress 5 time 2022-08-29 05:24 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1564121765160243200 ========== "All men are created equal" - what does it mean? A question at the heart of being American. https://apnews.com/article/religion-race-and-ethnicity-racial-injustice-kevin-jennings-723c49581d8a78ee54a793716e5212b3 #PS1theory ===== impress 2 time 2022-08-29 04:43 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1564111425923977217 ========== “It shouldn’t be a hard thing to say. That’s wrong for you to take top secret, classified documents back to your house.” https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/28/us/politics/republicans-trump-search.html Of course GOP leaders don't want to talk about Dear Leader stealing top secret information, and then lying about it. #PS1trump ===== impress 2 time 2022-08-29 04:23 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1564106547738791936 ========== What does Lindsey Graham really believe in? Why, Lindsey Graham of course! That makes him the truest sort of Trumpist - a self-serving opportunist. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/24/us/lindsey-graham-trump-georgia.html #PS1insurrection ===== impress 20 time 2022-08-29 04:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1564105162855030784 ========== The Trump defense - depending on his political base to rescue him. It didn't help the Jan 6 defendants. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/28/us/politics/trump-search-legal-team.html If he's indicted, tried, and convincted, he will blame his lawyers. #PS1trump ===== impress 8 time 2022-08-29 04:12 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1564103711588503552 ========== The Cavalier forebears of today's Trumpist Dixiecrat leadership had no use for public education, and little use for private education of their own sons. The point was to keep things the same, not to consider new ways of thinking. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/08/25/conservatives-education-college-threat-real/ #PS1minority ===== impress 2 time 2022-08-29 04:04 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1564101777376419841 ========== As usual GOP claims to be defending the blue collar working class - but as usual it means defending its megadonors from entitlement programs that might raise their taxes. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/27/opinion/republican-biden-student-loan-program.html #PS1economics ===== impress 1 time 2022-08-28 23:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1564039080387624960 ========== Foreign money launderers rip off stressed American communities. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/28/opinion/ukraine-oligarch-cleveland-real-estate.html Will anything happen? The launderers probably invest in GOP senators, and Trump tried to veto a previous attempt to regulate. #PS1economics ===== impress 3 time 2022-08-28 23:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1564038089198120964 ========== Might as well make the best of it! https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-regional.html because "we are stuck with each other" - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/28/opinion/civil-war-america.html We just forget from time to time and need a reminder. #PS1other ===== impress 4 time 2022-08-28 23:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1564034929771433984 ========== Market timing never works for long. Buy and hold a no-load index fund and tear up the monthly statements . https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/26/business/stock-market-bear-nothing.html #PS1economics ===== impress 4 time 2022-08-28 23:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1564033090246156289 ========== Fearlessness and recklessness - if you're going to be fearless, you better not be reckless about what you're going to be fearless about. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/08/26/rudy-giuliani-biography-fearless-ukraine/ But Giuliani knows that Trump prizes loyalty above competence. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 5 time 2022-08-28 23:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1564029792743149570 ========== Project Veritas - always skating on the thin ice at the edge of the law. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/08/27/project-veritas-ashley-biden-diary/ #PS1journalism ===== impress 1 time 2022-08-28 23:12 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1564028245959249920 ========== Jared Kushner as his direct reports know him. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/08/26/jared-kushners-memoir-is-only-inadvertently-revealing/ Trumpism is all about loyalty, not competence. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 8 time 2022-08-28 23:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1564027264483745792 ========== Tomorrow, it's fusion, tomorrow - it's always a day away. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/08/26/nuclear-fusion-technology-climate-change/ But if it ever arrives, what a difference it will make. #PS1climate ===== impress 1 time 2022-08-28 23:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1564025670237241344 ========== Gannett has to lay off journalists but still has money for stock buybacks. At least its executives won't suffer as the internet wipes out local journalism. https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/08/28/gannett-layoffs/ #PS1journalism ===== impress 24 time 2022-08-28 22:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1564024609757794305 ========== Most GOP candidates talk fringe in the primary but centrist in the general election. Not this one! https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/08/28/doug-mastriano-pennsylvania-maga-trump/ #PS1trumpism ===== impress 3 time 2022-08-28 22:53 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1564023488662290432 ========== If Trump stole top secrets, failed to store them properly, and then lied about it - it must be the fault of the National Archives! https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/08/27/trump-archives-records-war/ #PS1trump ===== impress 6 time 2022-08-28 22:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1564022508222787584 ========== Congress says no more free covid tests. https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/28/politics/free-at-home-covid-test-government-program-ending/index.html #PS1virus ===== impress 3 time 2022-08-28 22:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1564020157264961536 ========== Lesson #1 from Ukraine - life is more complicated in practice than in theory. Lesson #2 - do not count on personality cultists to act rationally. Lesson #3 - personality cultists can be very expensive for the whole world. https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/22/opinions/putin-russia-invasion-ukraine-treisman/index.html #PS1ukraine ===== impress 18 time 2022-08-28 22:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1564019782831054848 ========== The narrower the majority in the House, the more powerful the Trumpist Dixiecrat House Freedom Caucus becomes. Expect them to keep doing what they do best - obstruct. https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/28/politics/kevin-mccarthy-house-gop-midterms/index.html #PS1gop ===== impress 5 time 2022-08-28 15:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1563908935861448707 ========== Studying American resistance doctrines to discourage Russian invasion. https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/27/politics/russia-ukraine-resistance-warfare/index.html #PS1putin ===== impress 4 time 2022-08-28 15:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1563906395010768896 ========== A libertarian paradise in New Hampshire? https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-new-hampshire-government-and-politics-261966bda9f95a9b746215abd4bba408 More likely a tax-free and regulation-free resort for wealthy donors. #PS1gop ===== impress 5 time 2022-08-28 14:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1563891383169064960 ========== Would regional federalism limit extremism? https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-regional.html Civil war or not? https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/08/26/civil-war-mar-a-lago-violent-extremism/ The Jan 6 insurrectionists thought there was a crowd of a million people right behind them. But there have only been about a thousand arrests. #PS1insurrection ===== impress 18 time 2022-08-28 07:10 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1563785977679585280 ========== Utah politics. https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/27/politics/evan-mcmullin-utah-senate-candidate-threat-accusation/index.html Just following the Trumpist leadership. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 2 time 2022-08-28 06:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1563782392191393792 ========== Chechens fight on both sides in Ukraine. It's a continuation of their civil war. https://apnews.com/article/chechen-fight-on-both-sides-of-ukraine-war-6c663cbbc506c198ce14fa2266a826be #PS1ukraine ===== impress 61 time 2022-08-28 06:46 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1563780086527971329 ========== Between loss of reproductive freedom and theft of top secrets, things are looking up for Democrats - https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/08/27/democrats-republicans-house-midterms/ Trump's been jump-starting Democratic turnout for six years. Looks like he's doing even more this year. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/08/27/midterms-trump-choice-sundaytake/ #PS1trump ===== impress 11 time 2022-08-28 06:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1563777006495416320 ========== It's news that Trump doesn't pay his debts? Or usually runs his companies into bankruptcy? And has problems with regulatory authorities? https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/08/27/trump-truth-social-mar-a-lago-fbi/ #PS1trump ===== impress 10 time 2022-08-28 06:20 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1563773621897596928 ========== The modern Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP's defense of minority rule - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html began when the Nixon administration harvested what Bilbo and Thurmond and Wallace had sown - and that's when the Old South finally rose again! https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/31/opinion/richard-nixon-america-trump.html #PS1minority ===== engage 1 engage-rate 14% expands 1 impress 7 time 2022-08-28 05:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1563767880302219264 ========== Why Putin encourages Trumpism while China, N Korea, and Iran watch with glee. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/08/26/mar-a-lago-fbi-attacks-lawless-gop/ #PS1trumpism ===== impress 8 time 2022-08-27 13:26 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1563518312255852544 ========== Bad times for would-be social media influencers who hugged the crypto tar baby too closely. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-06-28/crypto-crash-influencers-lose-credibility-on-tiktok-twitter-instagram #PS1economics ===== impress 2 time 2022-08-27 13:15 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1563515438637559810 ========== Regional federalism is a better plan - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-regional.html but secession has its advocates too - https://www.laprogressive.com/california-political-issues/california-secession-a-serious-option #PS1capolitics ===== impress 5 time 2022-08-27 04:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1563380327334023170 ========== Musk is the archetypcal Republican - pretends to be for the common man while pursuing his own economic interests. https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/opinion/2022/07/773_331764.html #PS1gop ===== impress 6 time 2022-08-27 04:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1563375800899870720 ========== Think you've seen the worst? How about O9A? https://apnews.com/article/new-york-manhattan-kentucky-louisville-us-army-c2d9ec281cca5267c25c6395f8cb1761 #PS1insurrection ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% impress 56 time 2022-08-27 03:50 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1563373350159757318 ========== Emperor DeSantis struts his stuff! https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/26/us/florida-desantis-broward-school-board-suspensions/index.html He'll make Trump look like a rule-of-law liberal. #PS1trumpism ===== engage 3 engage-rate 38% impress 8 time 2022-08-27 03:12 +0000 urlclicks 3 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1563363728384413702 ========== And why wouldn't a Trumpist Dixiecrat dress up in a Confederate uniform? https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/26/politics/doug-mastriano-confederate-uniform/index.html Confederate sympathizers are an important GOP voting bloc! #PS1trumpism ===== impress 2 time 2022-08-27 03:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1563363129521610753 ========== QAnons are bad for your health. And your childrens'. https://apnews.com/article/colorado-child-abuse-kidnapping-conspiracy-3bc189e15617f843c1e098d9e9aa28a7 But those dumb enough to fall for QAnon would likely fall for something else just as bad. #PS1qanon ===== impress 2 time 2022-08-27 02:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1563359461078487041 ========== The Boogaloos can boogie in jail for the rest of their lives. Let it be a lesson to other violent insurrectionist Trumpists. They aren't political prisoners. They're just criminal murderers. https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/08/26/santa-cruz-judge-sentences-steven-carrillo-to-life-without-parole/ #PS1insurrection ===== impress 11 time 2022-08-27 02:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1563358373726171136 ========== Is long covid a cause of labor shortages driving higher wages and contributing to inflation? https://www.brookings.edu/research/is-long-covid-worsening-the-labor-shortage/ It could be a factor - the Black Death in the 1300's reset the relative value of labor to capital (land) and led to the rise of the middle class. #PS1inflation ===== impress 8 time 2022-08-27 02:31 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1563353436896210945 ========== Inflationary expectations must be strangled in the cradle. Is there any way to do that, that doesn't hurt the most vulnerable? https://english.aawsat.com/home/article/3835546/paul-krugman/must-we-suffer-bring-inflation-down The least vulnerable - the megadonors - complain the loudest though they suffer the least. #PS1inflation ===== impress 1 time 2022-08-27 02:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1563352557677735937 ========== Better oil than coal. Better natural gas than oil. Better fission than natural gas. Better fusion than fission - but fusion doesn't work yet. Better renewables than fission - but they aren't always available. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-08-25/skelton-newsom-california-diablo-canyon-plan More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1739404496404062 #PS1climate ===== impress 3 time 2022-08-27 02:24 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1563351712445788168 ========== It's not so different from the 1990's, except mainstreamed by Trumpism and Fox. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/08/25/trump-right-wing-threats-fbi-oklahoma-city-bombing/ #PS1insurrection ===== impress 3 time 2022-08-26 22:12 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1563288299229196289 ========== The Christian Nationalists are coming for pagans now - https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2022/08/26/christians-pagans-harassment/ Like the patriarchalists, they intend to expand their scope over time - https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2022/08/19/republicans-mostly-mum-calls-make-gop-party-christian-nationalism/ As usual, most GOP decline to comment. They need those votes. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 2 time 2022-08-26 22:07 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1563287110185918465 ========== “you don’t mix classified and unclassified so there’s no accidents” https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-mar-a-lago-criminal-investigations-government-and-politics-4ee554f467252929f96c70d42a93a05d Working with classified material requires constant attention to process and procedure. Theft, or even unauthorized possession or use, of top secret information is a felony. #PS1trump ===== impress 6 time 2022-08-26 21:36 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1563279362232725506 ========== Maybe cheating on emergency loans is not such a good idea. https://apnews.com/article/covid-health-small-business-us-secret-service-ed482641a658543f4db9e2ec5121153e #PS1economics ===== impress 4 time 2022-08-26 21:26 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1563276804848201728 ========== That was the week that wasn't. https://apnews.com/article/abortion-covid-health-ap-fact-check-91212ea13d420babda26eb078cb63b85 #PS1media ===== engage 1 engage-rate 50% impress 2 time 2022-08-26 15:35 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1563188387741192192 ========== The politically convenient myth of maternal instinct. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/26/opinion/sunday/maternal-instinct-myth.html It's convenient for the megadonors who don't want to pay for a village to raise a poor child. #PS1health ===== impress 11 time 2022-08-26 14:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1563176219733938177 ========== What should Democrats do if they actually get working majorities in Congress? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/26/opinion/democrats-midterms-agenda.html #PS1biden ===== impress 4 time 2022-08-26 14:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1563172607200964618 ========== If you're not the brightest star in the Trumpist firmament, it's best not to get into specifics. https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-biden-inflation-congress-f8dcede99c2a528f6c88630f34144dcc #PS1trumpism ===== impress 5 time 2022-08-26 13:57 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1563163635236478977 ========== How to keep the money you make by hurting people. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/25/us/politics/alex-jones-lawsuits-bankruptcy.html #PS1media ===== impress 5 time 2022-08-26 06:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1563051882062286848 ========== How the internet buries the past. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/25/opinion/social-media-algorithms.html #PS1media ===== impress 4 time 2022-08-26 06:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1563050956354244608 ========== "To GOP whining that this does nothing for Americans who didn’t go to college: What are you proposing to do for them, other than cut taxes on the rich and claim that benefits will trickle down?" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/25/opinion/student-debt-relief-biden.html Actually, that is the exact GOP plan. As usual. #PS1biden ===== impress 7 time 2022-08-26 06:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1563048054504116224 ========== Crypto - an industry in search of new suckers. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/08/24/cryptos-massive-marketing-efforts-have-drawn-few-new-investors/ It's an inherent problem of Ponzi schemes. #PS1economics ===== impress 4 time 2022-08-26 06:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1563044110977486848 ========== Sometimes luck comes to the tenacious. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/interactive/2022/kyiv-battle-ukraine-survival/ Russian military doctrine has never relied much on luck as much as on overwhelming superior numbers. #PS1ukraine ===== impress 2 time 2022-08-26 05:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1563043235567587330 ========== Russia doesn't trust Iran - but any port in a storm. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/08/24/russia-iran-drones-sanctions/ #PS1ukraine ===== impress 5 time 2022-08-26 05:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1563042319279960071 ========== Traditional GOP business as usual - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#gop Protect minority rule and their megadonors by pretending to protect little people. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/08/25/rnc-conference-call-steve-wynn/ #PS1tax ===== impress 4 time 2022-08-26 05:46 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1563040073477529600 ========== Dark money is the mother's milk of politics. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/08/25/dark-money-federalist-society-politics-distortion/ Leonard Leo and the Federalist Society are in charge of defending minority rule by grooming and submitting reactionary judges for Senate confirmation. But Democrats are not immune. #PS1gop ===== engage 1 engage-rate 8% expands 1 impress 12 time 2022-08-26 05:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1563039032589750272 ========== So when is obstruction criminal in itself? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/08/25/barr-memo-trump-obstruction-justice/ #PS1justice ===== impress 2 time 2022-08-26 05:37 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1563037823908794371 ========== When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/08/25/republicans-abortion-politics/ #PS1gop ===== impress 4 time 2022-08-26 05:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1563037006778601472 ========== It's true! Putin was chosen by God to save Russia! https://www.christianpost.com/news/vladimir-putin-sent-by-god.html Trump was chosen by God to save America! https://www.salon.com/2019/08/22/evangelicals-told-trump-he-was-chosen-by-god-now-he-says-it-himself/ DeSantis was chosen by God to save America! https://ifapray.org/blog/desantis-says-put-on-the-full-armor-of-god/ More at https://facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1738739589803886 #PS1gop ===== impress 8 time 2022-08-26 05:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1563032955244515328 ========== GOP candidates look at recent special election results and begin to stammer about right-to-life. https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/25/politics/senate-candidate-abortion-ad-2022/index.html But if they're Trumpists, they'll follow the leader anyway. And confirm more reactionary judges to cement minority rule. #PS1gop ===== engage 1 engage-rate 25% expands 1 impress 4 time 2022-08-26 05:06 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1563030147711651841 ========== Who could imagine that they would freak out in Minnesota? https://genius.com/The-mothers-of-invention-it-cant-happen-here-lyrics https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/25/politics/kfile-kim-crockett-gop-secretary-of-state-nominee/index.html #PS1trumpism ===== impress 14 time 2022-08-26 05:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1563028972560035840 ========== There's more to Senate candidate quality than loyalty to Dear Leader! https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/21/opinions/trump-mcconnell-senate-election-2022-obeidallah/index.html #PS1trumpism ===== impress 3 time 2022-08-26 04:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1563027601618194433 ========== Trump says one thing and does the opposite - and cashes the checks from his supporters. https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/25/politics/trump-maralago-documents-private-concerns-legal-tom-fitton/index.html So what else is new? #PS1trump ===== impress 2 time 2022-08-26 04:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1563020409485680640 ========== GOP actively undermines confidence in American democracy. https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-voting-presidential-conspiracy-theories-colorado-53c90f7afe304e26eaee79b4699181bb Their goal is to have election results decided by state legislators - and their major donors - rather than by voters. #PS1insurrection ===== impress 2 time 2022-08-26 04:19 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1563018280494714880 ========== Another Soviet monument goes down. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-germany-soviet-union-denmark-riga-6b841105e8fb8bc8310b053ae1d9f40a The Austrians can't take down theirs - it's part of the Austrian State Treaty - so they obscured it with fountains. #PS1putin ===== impress 10 time 2022-08-26 03:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1563012326134976513 ========== Better reserve your hotel room now for the big reunion in Atlanta! https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-georgia-presidential-subpoenas-8d451e987a573f37c78d9afe14139050 #PS1insurrection ===== impress 1 time 2022-08-26 00:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1562961469448212480 ========== Only in Silicon Valley! Stanford grads can learn a lot about fonts - https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/abcde.html Maybe more than is good for them! https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/08/25/redwood-city-e-commerce-firm-run-by-family-of-stanford-grads-accused-of-making-fortune-off-stolen-fonts/ #PS1technology ===== impress 5 time 2022-08-26 00:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1562960633716305920 ========== A self-serving opportunist at the top attracts self-serving opportunists all the way down - to the bottom. https://apnews.com/article/biden-new-york-government-and-politics-43eb5a9845aa633aa4e5ade7d16cb735 #PS1trumpism ===== impress 1 time 2022-08-25 18:43 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1562873232826384384 ========== Business as usual in the Trump family! https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/08/25/eric-trump-scared-of-don-jr-oversees-moms-belongings-put-in-trash/ #PS1trump ===== impress 3 time 2022-08-25 18:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1562871375706001408 ========== California GOP, looking for a niche where it might succeed, encourages running for school boards. They hope for some success in rural areas. https://calmatters.org/politics/2022/08/california-republicans-school-board-races/ Of course, their emphasis is on ideology, rather than issues. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1738435789834266 #PS1capolitics ===== impress 5 time 2022-08-25 16:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1562838703705182209 ========== GOP politicians like to play tough on crime - but they don't want to testify under oath about it. https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-georgia-presidential-subpoenas-8d451e987a573f37c78d9afe14139050 #PS1insurrection ===== impress 2 time 2022-08-25 14:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1562816079402979328 ========== QAnon does some good! https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/08/24/state-law-codifies-los-gatos-public-meeting-protocol-following-qanon-disruptions/ They set a bad enough example to inspire a new state law to deal with disrupters at public meetings. #PS1qanon ===== impress 3 time 2022-08-25 13:21 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1562792334751739906 ========== Trumpist Dixiecrats score great success in lying to their supporters and scaring Federal employees. https://apnews.com/article/biden-misinformation-health-care-reform-internal-revenue-service-fb835c1099dad4cca5ff893bfd07d466 And they know better too, but lying is just second nature now. Just as it's been for Trump all his life. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 2 time 2022-08-25 04:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1562662243195424768 ========== pre-bunking - training against propaganda. https://apnews.com/article/technology-misinformation-eastern-europe-902f436e3a6507e8b2a223e09a22e969 #PS1media ===== impress 3 time 2022-08-25 04:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1562659088957181952 ========== Who cares what the scientists find? Medical decisions should be made by Trumpist focus groups! https://apnews.com/article/hydroxychloroquine-covid-treatment-campaign-8f136d7e9dc52fd2d8da8854680d6004 #PS1health ===== impress 5 time 2022-08-25 04:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1562658151303766016 ========== Justice served - but unlikely to deter future injustice. https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-michigan-gretchen-whitmer-kidnapping-grand-rapids-c3609d9d2b567069c1613bc96506f418 #PS1insurrection ===== impress 1 time 2022-08-25 04:24 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1562657110646697985 ========== That was the week that wasn't. https://apnews.com/article/gun-violence-covid-health-ap-fact-check-voter-registration-7d581c8538190834df8a83ea98d0d09e #PS1media ===== impress 2 time 2022-08-24 14:10 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1562442172409925634 ========== Ignore the Constitution? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/19/opinion/liberals-constitution.html There's been entirely too much of that lately! A better approach is regional federalism. #PS1democracy ===== impress 12 time 2022-08-19 15:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1560655444363751426 ========== It's not just Republican senators who know where their bread gets buttered. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/19/opinion/kyrsten-sinema-tax-bill.html #PS1tax ===== impress 1 time 2022-08-19 15:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1560653416350724097 ========== “there’s no way this party is going to stay together without President Trump and his supporters” https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/08/19/trump-cult-of-personality-democracy-erosion-united-states/ It's true - minority rule has always depended on cultivating the nut cases as reliable single-issue constituencies. Trump made it explicit. #PS1minority ===== impress 5 time 2022-08-19 15:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1560651208640978946 ========== Pardon Trump? It might make sense politically if accompanied by Trump's confession of guilt. But that's not likely. He's always gotten off scot-free before, so why not now? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/08/18/trump-pardon-biden-benefit/ #PS1trump ===== impress 8 time 2022-08-19 14:23 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1560633434111819776 ========== Some questions about Zelenskyy's judgment. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/08/18/zelensky-ukraine-wapo-interview-warn-of-war/ Some of it politically motivated. #PS1ukraine ===== impress 3 time 2022-08-19 14:14 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1560631236862693377 ========== Not your father's KGB! https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/08/19/intelligence-war-fsb-ukraine/ Too much cronyism, not enough competence. #PS1putin ===== impress 2 time 2022-08-19 13:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1560625544877617153 ========== How the government finally got on auto warranty robocallers. https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/18/tech/auto-warranty-robocalls-case/index.html Let's hope it's a trend. #PS1technology ===== impress 1 time 2022-08-19 13:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1560619611157958657 ========== Is "the language being used by high-ranking Republicans about increased funding for the IRS shockingly irresponsible"? https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/17/opinions/irs-taxes-funding-increase-inflation-reduction-87000-michel/index.html But high-ranking Republicans are responsible for defending their GOP megadonors - and thus their re-election campaign funds. #PS1tax ===== impress 6 time 2022-08-19 13:19 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1560617443071995905 ========== Will Trump release the security camera footage of the FBI search? Why or why not? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/08/18/trump-threat-mar-a-lago-footage-fbi-steve-bannon/ #PS1trump ===== engage 1 engage-rate 6% expands 1 impress 16 time 2022-08-18 19:03 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1560341601867612160 ========== "Mitt Romney Republican" in now a Trumpist tag. They might as well rant about "Romney/McCain/Reagan/Eisenhower/Theodore Roosevelt/Lincoln" Republicans - the modern Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP rejects all their ideologies and values. https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-campaigns-utah-salt-lake-city-mitt-romney-655f5f880b6980ea7f03083330aa188f #PS1trumpism ===== engage 1 engage-rate 6% impress 18 time 2022-08-18 18:14 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1560329411890622465 ========== How to change the subject from homelessness to water policy. https://www.kcrw.com/news/shows/zocalos-connecting-california/homelessness-california-politics-hobby-horse-joe-mathews They are both ingrained disputes dating back to the Gold Rush. #PS1capolitics ===== impress 4 time 2022-08-18 18:07 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1560327432833343488 ========== Traditional conservative daydreams? "evolution in conservative thinking toward the working class and government addressing free market shortcomings" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/18/opinion/republican-congress-agenda.html Not likely with a Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP Congress! More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1733573893653789 #PS1trumpism ===== engage 13 engage-rate 81% expands 9 impress 16 time 2022-08-18 17:23 +0000 urlclicks 4 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1560316573264408578 ========== "corruption is the glue that holds the system together, not the catalyst to bring it down" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/18/opinion/russia-putin-corruption.html Like Trump, Putin has so soiled everybody close to him that none can risk stepping out of line. #PS1putin ===== impress 3 time 2022-08-18 16:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1560310440139182080 ========== The FBI is extremely conservative. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/18/opinion/trump-fbi-conservative.html But Trump is not a conservative. He's a reactionary populist personality cultist. The FBI had its fill of those, one hopes, with J Edgar Hoover. #PS1justice ===== impress 11 time 2022-08-18 16:53 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1560309012091924482 ========== Why did Trump steal top secret documents? Because he could? Because he's a packrat? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/18/us/politics/trump-fbi-classified-documents.html #PS1trump ===== impress 9 time 2022-08-18 16:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1560307883958382592 ========== Want to murder, rape, and pillage, and get PAID for it? Sign up for the Wagner orchestra! https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/08/17/ukraine-russia-wagner-group-mercenaries/ #PS1putin ===== impress 24 time 2022-08-18 16:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1560305859493711872 ========== This is why GOP senators (and some Democrats) vote against anything to help IRS audits of rich people - especially GOP megadonors - there's scarcely a stone to overturn that doesn't reveal something that thrives in darkness. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/08/18/weisselberg-trump-guilty-plea #PS1tax ===== impress 4 time 2022-08-18 16:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1560304041921372160 ========== It's the rural Southern Heritage brought to the Trumpist Dixiecrat Party! https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html "the embrace of violence, the cultivation of violence, the tacit encouragement of violence, have become Republican staples" https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/leonard-pitts-jr-republicans-are-the-threat/ar-AAYIDwi #PS1trumpism ===== impress 1 time 2022-08-18 15:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1560288042715189248 ========== Time for each of the states to clarify exactly who has exactly what power during and after an election. https://www.lowellsun.com/2022/06/23/johnson-politicians-certifying-election-results-is-risky-and-unnecessary/ Otherwise ambiguities will be exploited again for partisan advantage. #PS1election ===== engage 1 engage-rate 25% impress 4 likes 1 time 2022-08-18 15:24 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1560286512909918208 ========== John Eastman - the last of the Orange County fruitcakes? https://www.arcamax.com/politics/opeds/s-2690872 The Birchers have mostly gone silent in Orange County. #PS1gop ===== impress 8 time 2022-08-18 15:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1560284811679346689 ========== Minority rule depends on keeping extremists on board without turning off swing voters. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html Concede too much to the extremists to win the primary - you lose the general election. https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-abortion-us-supreme-court-government-and-politics-legislature-48279e8a14816377032b491157c72062 More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1733415947002917 #PS1minority ===== impress 3 time 2022-08-18 13:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1560265221108682752 ========== How to make money off fear that you generate! https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/18/us/firearm-gun-sales.html #PS1firearms ===== impress 3 time 2022-08-18 03:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1560111746303422465 ========== How Peter Navarro progressed from progressive to Trumpist. https://www.arcamax.com/politics/opeds/s-2689638 He and Trump were made for each other. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 16 time 2022-08-18 03:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1560107652432023552 ========== Dynamics of the Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#revisionist https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/08/17/five-gop-power-centers-ranked/ #PS1gop ===== impress 3 time 2022-08-18 01:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1560079102366781442 ========== Getting busted by the FBI can be very profitable! Good thing, Trump will need all the money he can get to pay his lawyers. If he pays them. You wouldn't think a billionaire would need the public's help. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/08/17/trump-fundraising-fbi-raid/ #PS1trump ===== impress 14 time 2022-08-18 01:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1560075470846058497 ========== The Trumpist Dixiecrat Republican Party repudiates all previous ideological substance of the Republican Party yet claims the same image and the same name, and calls traditional Republicans RINOs. https://apnews.com/article/cheney-defeat-marks-end-of-era-for-gop-65c8b400b533dffc422322031a0dbf5c #PS1gop ===== impress 7 time 2022-08-18 01:21 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1560074371804196865 ========== Democracy in decline - signaled by attacks on independent judiciary. https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-mar-a-lago-democracy-congress-government-and-politics-3e957660956399da07b59808bd9c8a71 #PS1justice ===== impress 1 time 2022-08-18 01:12 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1560072105118470144 ========== Illegal immigration is declining - for many reasons, including H2A visas, automation, demographics, and improving economic prospects in Mexico. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/28/business/economy/immigration-california-farm-labor.html #PS1immigration ===== impress 20 time 2022-08-17 18:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1559971915501948928 ========== Lean In all you like - just don't expect magic. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/02/business/sheryl-sandberg-lean-in.html #PS1other ===== impress 2 time 2022-08-17 18:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1559971319164203008 ========== The paradox of democracy. https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/zac-gershberg/the-paradox-of-democracy/ Free speech means you can say things that are wrong and influence voters to do wrong things. Democracy depends on self-restraint and patience. #PS1theory ===== engage 2 engage-rate 33% impress 6 likes 1 time 2022-08-17 17:56 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1559962402673737728 ========== Prosecute Trump or don't prosecute Trump. Either way sets a bad precedent for the future. But Trump forced this situation by a lifetime of disregarding old precedents from the past and new precedents set for the future. https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-response-to-jack-goldsmith #PS1trump ===== impress 3 time 2022-08-17 17:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1559961242462130176 ========== "democracy contains the seeds of its own instability, via demagogues who mobilize popular uprisings for the express goal of turning them against the system itself" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/08/17/liz-cheney-loses-primary-trump-reveals-danger/ Exactly what America's founders feared! A republic - if you can keep it! #PS1democracy ===== engage 1 engage-rate 33% impress 3 time 2022-08-17 17:45 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1559959694843584513 ========== Not everybody runs to win. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/08/17/liz-cheney-2024/ #PS1gop ===== impress 3 time 2022-08-17 17:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1559958051951497216 ========== Apostate Trumpists try to save the GOP. https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/17/opinions/countering-trumpism-in-gop-grisham-smith/index.html Is it even possible? Or have too many of its leaders soiled themselves permanently by their passionate embrace of Trumpism - and self-serving opportunism. #PS1trumpism ===== engage 3 engage-rate 8% impress 37 likes 1 time 2022-08-17 17:08 +0000 urlclicks 2 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1559950268485156865 ========== "Cheney didn't deny that she lost the race, or encourage people to believe she won, or incite supporters to block Hageman's victory from being certified" https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/17/media/fox-news-liz-cheney-dick-cheney/index.html Doesn't matter to Fox! #PS1media ===== impress 2 time 2022-08-17 17:03 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1559949080331071488 ========== Pence gestures toward rule-of-law Republicanism. That makes him a RINO as far as Trumpists are concerned. https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-mar-a-lago-new-hampshire-merrick-garland-government-and-politics-85619b0f18da0fb6eaba5bee4d0654f8 #PS1gop ===== impress 4 time 2022-08-17 17:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1559948215381741568 ========== Judges getting tired of fake repentance. https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/08/16/cameron-jan6-judge-lecture/ #PS1insurrection ===== impress 2 time 2022-08-17 14:21 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1559908385625370624 ========== Liddell Hart in Ukraine. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/08/17/ukraine-indirect-approach-hitting-russians-war/ #PS1ukraine ===== impress 21 time 2022-08-17 14:19 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1559907786578079745 ========== Pandemic relief fraud - a pandemic itself. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/16/business/economy/covid-pandemic-fraud.html #PS1recovery ===== impress 10 time 2022-08-17 05:21 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1559772335959224320 ========== The case for and against a carbon tax. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/16/opinion/carbon-tax.html Technology and economics have to compromise with politics to get any progress at all. #PS1climate ===== impress 5 time 2022-08-17 05:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1559767515349233670 ========== Carbon capture and storage is not the answer to anything except oil companies' PR problems. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/16/opinion/climate-inflation-reduction-act.html #PS1climate ===== impress 5 time 2022-08-17 04:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1559766558624268293 ========== Identitarians vs traditional Republicans - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/16/opinion/liz-cheney-wyoming.html Will voters eventually notice that the identitarians are too busy getting on Fox to actually do anything useful? #PS1gop ===== impress 6 time 2022-08-17 04:54 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1559765482332246017 ========== It's not easy to attract good lawyers if you have a reputation for ignoring their advice and stiffing them on fees. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/08/16/trump-lawyers-fbi-raid/ #PS1trump ===== impress 2 time 2022-08-17 04:14 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1559755462152634373 ========== Countdown to Putin's invasion. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/interactive/2022/ukraine-road-to-war/ Nobody believed he would be so irrational. They were wrong. #PS1ukraine ===== impress 4 time 2022-08-17 04:07 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1559753695952179202 ========== Too bad for the local people who can't afford to keep up. https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2022/08/16/ranch-land-west-billionaires/ #PS1economics ===== impress 6 time 2022-08-17 03:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1559749200136376321 ========== DHS inspector general holds tough to defend Trump. https://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-subpoenas-congress-government-and-politics-1b3cf3a512c8975c41cb79c70868f959 #PS1insurrection ===== impress 4 time 2022-08-17 03:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1559743966127370240 ========== Expecting the worst from Trump's supporters. https://apnews.com/article/ghislaine-maxwell-social-media-donald-trump-mar-a-lago-31741bb13f708ee68b523592623341eb He's fanning the fires, hoping they will catch - without catching him. Threatening family members - how Nazi can you get? #PS1trumpism ===== impress 2 time 2022-08-17 03:26 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1559743341863903232 ========== Character and moral courage - something you don't find in Trumpists! https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-donald-trump-presidential-wyoming-alaska-48a5444f247727d26cf67a0a72f14637 #PS1gop ===== impress 5 time 2022-08-17 03:21 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1559742286308655104 ========== Ellis has to testify in Georgia. Along with the rest of the crew. https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/08/16/jenna-ellis-ordered-to-appear-before-election-scheme-grand-jury/ #PS1insurrection ===== impress 4 time 2022-08-17 03:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1559740066376757248 ========== Why do Trumpists pursue hopeless recounts? https://apnews.com/article/voting-rights-abortion-2022-midterm-elections-health-election-recounts-0baf939e0a2d461e919ddac8579a9ec5 It's a method to RAISE money, not spend it, and keep the base engaged and enraged. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 6 time 2022-08-17 03:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1559739204845768705 ========== Only the best is good enough for a Trump endorsement! https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/16/politics/kfile-mark-finchem-treason-watch-list-pinterest/index.html He's locked and loaded! #PS1trumpism ===== engage 1 engage-rate 8% impress 13 time 2022-08-16 18:45 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1559612358556676096 ========== Trumpist or Putinist, it's the same tactics - blame the other side for what you're doing. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-putin-united-states-moscow-5cc322a7ef3b0407c529ebf8bb1fbfd2 Nobody ever planned to invade Russia or China, but they've had plans to invade Ukraine and Taiwan. #PS1putin ===== engage 3 engage-rate 2% impress 183 likes 3 time 2022-08-16 18:38 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1559610618394554368 ========== Large corporations are in business to enrich their major stockholders, not their minor employees. https://apnews.com/article/biden-elizabeth-warren-bernie-sanders-congress-5e5ea68a4b5c1f4f263f5516bcdf8f77 #PS1tax ===== impress 4 time 2022-08-16 18:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1559609706376704001 ========== Trying to find an angle to boost your chances today without risking looking stupid tomorrow. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/15/us/politics/ron-desantis-trump-search.html Trump never makes it easy for his followers - and pretend followers. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 8 time 2022-08-16 04:24 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1559395744594817024 ========== Wisconsin is in the balance. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/15/us/politics/wisconsin-governor-supreme-court.html #PS1election ===== impress 2 time 2022-08-16 03:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1559383223947300871 ========== Why there's no bipartisanship on climate. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/15/opinion/republicans-environment-climate.html Factual and logical argument is considered wokeness by the Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP. #PS1climate ===== impress 2 time 2022-08-16 03:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1559381969602940930 ========== What is "conservative"? https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#diff "personality cults aren’t conservative, conspiracy theories aren’t conservative and treating politics like a religion is not conservative" https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-donald-trump-campaigns-presidential-alaska-da4b2054db6649e04c864973612d32dc #PS1theory ===== impress 6 time 2022-08-16 02:48 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1559371389336895489 ========== Getting closer to the top! https://apnews.com/article/new-york-manhattan-donald-trump-tax-evasion-3565c74051bcce5b6b0dc44f98a2dae8 #PS1trump ===== impress 3 time 2022-08-16 02:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1559370024988463104 ========== Trump might beat the rap but not Giuliani! https://apnews.com/article/lindsey-graham-georgia-election-investigation-5cc5074e112a0323ca2fd4eee4f1da1c #PS1insurrection ===== impress 10 time 2022-08-15 18:53 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1559251948473200641 ========== Arizona GOP is leading the way in undermining democracy in favor of minority rule. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/15/magazine/arizona-republicans-democracy.html #PS1gop ===== impress 6 time 2022-08-15 16:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1559220246807863296 ========== Tucker Carlson can read the polls of his base better than Liz Cheney. And if you're a Trumpist, what's more important than the polls of your base? Those are the only facts that matter. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/08/15/liz-cheney-tucker-carlson-election-fraud/ #PS1media ===== engage 4 engage-rate 17% impress 23 likes 1 replies 1 time 2022-08-15 14:38 +0000 urlclicks 1 userclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1559187800112525312 ========== The lunatic fringe has gone mainstream and legislators who know better are fine with it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/08/15/election-deniers-march-toward-power-key-2024-battlegrounds/ #PS1gop ===== impress 24 time 2022-08-15 14:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1559185649445482496 ========== Dominion is making Fox nervous. The case seems likely to go to trial eventually. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/13/business/media/fox-dominion-lawsuit-first-amendment.html #PS1media ===== impress 5 time 2022-08-15 05:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1559042409979203586 ========== It's hard to justify stealing classified material, especially when the justification keeps changing. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/14/us/politics/trump-documents-explanations.html #PS1trump ===== impress 8 time 2022-08-15 04:54 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1559040841879957505 ========== Rand Paul wants to repeal the Espionage Act so Trump can't get in trouble again! https://www.foxnews.com/politics/sen-rand-paul-calls-repeal-espionage-act-following-fbi-raid-trumps-florida-estate GOP don't agree on how to defend Trump's stealing top secret information. So some just make up stuff. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/14/us/politics/trump-search-republicans.html #PS1trump ===== engage 8 engage-rate 44% expands 6 impress 18 time 2022-08-15 04:50 +0000 urlclicks 1 userclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1559039776660996099 ========== "many U.S. officials tasked with carrying out counterinsurgency and reconstruction in Afghanistan privately knew the mission was failing, but in public spun a different message" Exactly like Vietnam! https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/08/15/afghanistan-us-legacy-failures-one-year-later/ #PS1afghanistan ===== impress 5 time 2022-08-15 04:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1559037595698339841 ========== What happens to old assassins? What should happen? https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/08/13/john-hinckley-reagan-concert/ #PS1other ===== impress 4 time 2022-08-15 04:37 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1559036477748551682 ========== The patriarchalists are just getting started on regulating everybody's private life. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/08/14/medicated-abortions-drugs-students-for-life/ At some point they will ask for too much, and the additional GOP votes that would be gained will be less than those lost. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1731027317241780 #PS1health ===== impress 3 time 2022-08-15 04:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1559034837968621568 ========== National effort to undermine confidence in voting machines? https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/08/14/michigan-voting-machine-breach/ Anything involving "constitutional sheriffs" is automatically suspect. Elected officers derive their authority from the state, not vice versa. #PS1insurrection ===== engage 1 engage-rate 20% impress 5 likes 1 time 2022-08-15 04:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1559031582454734848 ========== Doing nothing is taking a stand too. A stand of asking for more. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/13/opinion/trump-fbi-investigation.html #PS1justice ===== impress 1 time 2022-08-15 00:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1558970859166937088 ========== Spotlight on TikTok, which has mostly displaced other platforms for young people. It's still a tool of the Chinese government. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/14/business/media/on-tiktok-election-misinformation.html https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/14/technology/tiktok-china-washington.html Propaganda fits short formats better than complex truth. #PS1media ===== impress 6 time 2022-08-15 00:10 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1558969434915581952 ========== Why politicians seldom get better. They can't admit they are wrong, so can't learn from their mistakes. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/13/opinion/admitting-mistakes-trump.html #PS1theory ===== impress 2 time 2022-08-15 00:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1558966929284444161 ========== A positive view of a do-something Congress. do-something is better than do-nothing. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/14/opinion/congress-inflation-reduction-act.html Unless you're an insurrectionist who just wants to get on Fox to suggest somebody else should just burn down the government. #PS1biden ===== engage 1 engage-rate 25% impress 4 likes 1 time 2022-08-14 23:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1558965903399612416 ========== What life will be like under President DeSantis. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/08/12/florida-state-attorney-desantis-fired-me/ Trumpism perfected! #PS1trumpism ===== impress 1 time 2022-08-14 23:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1558964035076653056 ========== Political or partisan? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/08/12/mar-a-lago-search-political-not-partisan/ #PS1journalism ===== impress 1 time 2022-08-14 23:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1558962848579010561 ========== How Dick Cheney helped pave the way for Trump. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/08/12/dick-cheney-liz-demise-deception-iraq/ #PS1trumpism ===== engage 1 engage-rate 14% impress 7 time 2022-08-14 23:41 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1558962121911611392 ========== It's not just Fox, Newsmax, and OAN! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/08/14/india-tv-journalism-democracy/ America's future too - all propaganda all the time? #PS1media ===== engage 1 engage-rate 17% impress 6 time 2022-08-14 23:37 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1558961018964807680 ========== Fake populism and anti-intellectualism are as American as apple pie. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/08/14/historians-biden-white-house-rubio/ For while the rabble, with their thumb-worn creeds, Their large professions and their little deeds, Mingle in selfish strife, lo! Freedom weeps, #PS1trumpism ===== impress 7 time 2022-08-14 23:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1558960049531211777 ========== Rupert Murdoch was right there to defend Trump for stealing top secrets. https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/12/media/fox-news-coverage-fbi-mar-a-lago-search/index.html Not a moment lost! They had their stories ready in advance. #PS1media ===== engage 2 engage-rate 8% impress 24 time 2022-08-14 23:09 +0000 urlclicks 2 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1558954021875986432 ========== Why Trump and Graham need good lawyers in Atlanta. https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-entertainment-music-donald-trump-04a4efde4e0aa49cb2ebdbb65138e287 #PS1insurrection ===== engage 1 engage-rate 25% impress 4 time 2022-08-14 22:56 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1558950741879861248 ========== What kind of person wants to endlessly investigate a fair election? https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-wisconsin-donald-trump-c81e1806bc41ab4e8fec91b8f72ee904 Even most of the Republicans gave up on him. #PS1democracy ===== engage 1 engage-rate 13% impress 8 likes 1 time 2022-08-14 22:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1558949311269851136 ========== Hand counting of ballots? That doesn't counter fraud, it promotes it. That's the whole point - make it easier to insure elections produce the desired result. https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-nevada-voting-machines-1fd9ab0e4fabcd036885d998033f614d And it makes ranked-choice voting just about impossible to administer. #PS1democracy ===== engage 1 engage-rate 13% impress 8 time 2022-08-14 22:48 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1558948613593522176 ========== Rioting for fun and profit! https://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-crime-social-media-8161eb5c4e8ae53d8a5b821fd650962c It's not surprising that criminals would ask for handouts - it's surprising that people would donate. #PS1insurrection ===== impress 1 time 2022-08-14 22:43 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1558947453088321536 ========== And you thought earthquakes were bad! In 1862, Leland Stanford had to row a boat in Sacramento to get to his inauguration as governor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Flood_of_1862 It will eventually happen again. https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/08/14/the-coming-california-megastorm/ Can the state prepare in time? #PS1capolitics ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% impress 49 likes 1 time 2022-08-14 22:37 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1558945871261081600 ========== How the Trumpists cope with bad news - bury it with BS! https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/13/politics/fact-check-trump-fbi-search-false-misleading-conspiracy-theories/index.html #PS1media ===== engage 5 engage-rate 31% expands 1 impress 16 likes 1 retweets 1 time 2022-08-13 14:10 +0000 urlclicks 2 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1558456055952134145 ========== An investment that paid off big time. https://apnews.com/article/sinema-took-wall-street-money-while-killing-tax-on-investors-0c07f73ba6db92f87fa33f1aad8dbeac #PS1tax ===== impress 6 time 2022-08-13 14:03 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1558454101913939969 ========== For most taxpayers, the IRS already has all the data it needs to compute their taxes and send a refund or a bill. Now Congress is finally going to allow them to do it. https://apnews.com/article/irs-free-file-system-expansion-one-step-closer-democrats-b2c39db83e4a95f1d1cd1aa488495256 #PS1tax ===== impress 6 time 2022-08-13 13:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1558453180312084480 ========== Praise for assassins as patriots - not just in Trump country. https://apnews.com/article/iran-salman-rushdie-reaction-e9bc5f6841e667cf36506a78496aa3dc #PS1theory ===== impress 11 time 2022-08-13 13:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1558452325508780034 ========== That was the week that wasn't. https://apnews.com/article/astronomy-ghislaine-maxwell-monkeypox-covid-entertainment-e0c71f24749d3ebf814b77f35e7ca4ad #PS1media ===== impress 8 time 2022-08-12 17:46 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1558147914697805824 ========== Trumpists or Ayatollahs - they think the same - don't bother with elections or laws, it's more efficient to just send assassins. https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/12/us/fbi-cincinnati-office-armed-suspect-what-we-know/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/12/us/salman-rushdie-attacked/index.html #PS1justice ===== impress 24 time 2022-08-12 17:36 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1558145496245346305 ========== Fringe right wants to rewrite the Constitution on Trumpist Dixiecrat lines. And they're getting a lot of money from unknown sources to primary out GOP legislators that aren't on board. https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-campaigns-presidential-south-dakota-constitutions-3de00d1fb9748dcffc2e3875375a36f1 #PS1democracy ===== engage 1 engage-rate 17% impress 6 time 2022-08-12 17:32 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1558144366325014529 ========== Why little progress is likely with Iran while the founding revolutionary generation is still alive. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/12/opinion/iran-america-nuclear-policy.html “Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a god, but never without belief in a devil.” Populist dictatorships need an enemy. #PS1mideast ===== impress 7 time 2022-08-12 14:52 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1558104215955705856 ========== Putin tries to heat up the Balkans to take heat off his Ukraine invasion. He has plenty of local enablers. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/12/world/europe/serbia-vucic-russia.html WWI started in the Balkans. Why not WWIII? #PS1putin ===== impress 33 time 2022-08-12 14:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1558101176943382529 ========== The sad history of Congress trying to rein in the White House. https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/12/opinions/trump-fbi-search-presidential-record-keepers-hemmer/index.html Mostly it's a history of the White House ignoring the law and Congress abdicating its responsibility to do anything about it. #PS1democracy ===== impress 3 time 2022-08-12 14:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1558096492505681921 ========== The first attempt to split California - to preserve minority rule and slavery. https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2022-08-07/secession-san-bernardino-slavery-history-california It failed then for the same reason as now - in a closely divided Senate, it is politically impossible to add one new free state or one new slave state. #PS1democracy ===== engage 2 engage-rate 33% impress 6 likes 1 replies 1 time 2022-08-12 13:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1558086269636210688 ========== How the sausage gets made in West Virginia. https://apnews.com/article/covid-health-travel-lung-disease-d44dffb2c886ab21f2540117c73f8c92 With a Senate majority of 1, every senator has veto power. #PS1biden ===== impress 10 time 2022-08-12 12:46 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1558072479368695808 ========== Garland gives Trump another chance to show what this is all about. https://washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/08/11/garland-trump-mar-a-lago/ Trump could publish the search warrant at any time, but so far refuses. https://washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/08/11/garland-trump-warrant-unseal/ At least a few Trump allies wonder if they chose the wrong fight. #PS1trump ===== engage 2 engage-rate 18% expands 1 impress 11 likes 1 time 2022-08-12 12:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1558065168596094976 ========== The Wellness-Conspiracy Industrial Complex! https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/11/opinion/alex-jones-wellness-conspiracy.html Who could resist those kinds of margins? The Feds aren't allowed to regulate "supplements". It's the Wild West for anybody with a talent for big lies. #PS1media ===== impress 5 time 2022-08-12 03:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1557939885662560256 ========== How the Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP fights increased tax auditing of their megadonors - by pretending it applies to the middle class. Do YOU consider $400K and up middle class? https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/08/11/hyperbolic-gop-claims-about-irs-agents-audits/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1728913367453175 #PS1tax ===== impress 4 time 2022-08-12 03:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1557935509753643009 ========== They talked about the 25th amendment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-fifth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution but Pence was opposed, so some resigned and others just did nothing. https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/11/politics/elaine-chao-trump-cabinet-january-6-25th-amendment/index.html #PS1insurrection ===== impress 5 time 2022-08-12 03:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1557929302124965888 ========== Ranked-choice voting is not hard to understand. https://www.fairvote.org/rcv#where_is_ranked_choice_voting_used But Trump and Palin, and political kingmakers, are opposed, because it tends to weed out fringe candidates in favor of centrists with appeal beyond their bases. https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-sarah-palin-voting-government-and-politics-d91f31e3824361a09e27683d6dd3908d #PS1democracy ===== engage 1 engage-rate 7% impress 14 likes 1 time 2022-08-12 03:12 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1557928066017476608 ========== The Trump book industry has changed! Instead of a monthly tell-all about the Trump presidency, now it's a monthly book hinting how the author is the ideal successor to lead the Trumpist movement all the way back to the White House. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/11/opinion/trump-2024-desantis-hawley.html #PS1trumpism ===== impress 19 time 2022-08-11 18:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1557802002851106818 ========== A Supreme Court with five reactionary Catholics and one reactionary Episcopalian. https://news.gallup.com/opinion/polling-matters/391649/religion-supreme-court-justices.aspx Thought America left established religion behind in 1787? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/11/opinion/religion-supreme-court-alito.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1728678387476673 #PS1justice ===== impress 8 time 2022-08-11 18:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1557800448962072576 ========== A surprising choice - but how many good lawyers would be willing to represent Trump? They'll certainly want a cash retainer up front. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/11/us/trump-lawyer-georgia.html #PS1trump ===== impress 7 time 2022-08-11 18:19 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1557793824226693122 ========== Remember Trump did it all for you, his beloved supporters! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/08/11/trump-fantasy-collective-persecution/ #PS1trump ===== engage 1 engage-rate 13% impress 8 likes 1 time 2022-08-11 18:10 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1557791499307216896 ========== Nobody defunds the police better than the Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/08/11/republicans-no-longer-party-law-order/ #PS1trumpism ===== impress 6 time 2022-08-11 18:06 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1557790471623102464 ========== No point in DOJ deviating from established policies. Trump and Trumpists will lie about it no matter what. https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/11/politics/justice-department-trump-fury-analysis/index.html #PS1trump ===== impress 8 time 2022-08-11 18:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1557789200744755200 ========== Who cares if it's illegal if you think you can get away with it? A pillar of Trumpism! https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/11/politics/trump-campaign-fundraising-super-pac/index.html The real action is in the PACs and SuperPACs that aren't much regulated to begin with. Remember "money is the mother's milk of politics." #PS1trump ===== impress 4 time 2022-08-11 15:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1557757669506629633 ========== None but the best for Putin's army! https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-putin-world-news-st-petersburg-treatment-of-prisoners-f20273227cf4c4e65ba6f4866dc975ea #PS1ukraine ===== impress 8 time 2022-08-11 13:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1557715636377120769 ========== Falling markets are hard on amateur tech founders. Anybody can run a business during a bubble. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/10/business/silicon-valley-boy-boss.html #PS1economics ===== engage 1 engage-rate 5% impress 21 time 2022-08-11 04:38 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1557587338657554437 ========== Renaming places for heroes instead of rebellious slaveowners. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/10/opinion/military-bases-renaming-commission.html Expect the Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP to undo all these if they return to power. #PS1other ===== impress 4 time 2022-08-11 04:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1557586025274191873 ========== “What is the connection today between evangelical Christianity, cowboy capitalism, the electronic news media and the Republican Party?” https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/10/opinion/trump-republicans-persecution.html They all work to defend minority rule against the Enlighternment ideals of America's founders. #PS1trumpism ===== engage 1 engage-rate 17% impress 6 likes 1 time 2022-08-11 04:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1557584583247310849 ========== The animals' revenge is not yet complete. https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/08/10/langya-virus-china-shrews-henipavirus/ #PS1virus ===== impress 6 time 2022-08-11 04:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1557581958321807360 ========== Scott Perry denies everything. But he repeats lies and conspiracies about everything, so why believe him? After all, he's head of the House Freedom Caucus - Free to spout nonsense about everything. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/08/10/scott-perry-trump-fbi-phone-explainer/ #PS1trumpism ===== engage 1 engage-rate 10% impress 10 likes 1 time 2022-08-11 04:15 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1557581392782823425 ========== Historians point out the ghosts of Huey Long https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huey_Long#Politics and Father Coughlin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Coughlin#Antisemitism still run the GOP - https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/08/10/biden-us-historians-democracy-threat/ The Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP evolved from the party of Lincoln to the party of Calhoun and Preston Brooks. #PS1gop ===== impress 15 time 2022-08-11 04:10 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1557580305443086336 ========== The invasion of Ukraine is not just about Putin's ego! https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/08/10/ukraine-russia-energy-mineral-wealth/ It's about destroying Ukraine's economy. #PS1ukraine ===== impress 27 time 2022-08-11 03:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1557576662346190849 ========== It's not just Republicans! Sen. Sinema knows who butters her bread. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/09/how-wall-street-wooed-sen-kyrsten-sinema-and-preserved-its-multi-billion-dollar-carried-interest-tax-break.html SOMEBODY has to help the GOP protect billionaires from socialist dictatorship! #PS1tax ===== impress 4 time 2022-08-11 03:43 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1557573459076493313 ========== Who could make Trump look good? DeSantis! While Trump was too incompetent to be the dictator he always wanted to be, DeSantis is perfecting the art. https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/10/politics/ron-desantis-florida-political-power-2024-election/index.html Just as Peronism was better off without Peron, so Trumpism without Trump! #PS1trumpism ===== impress 24 time 2022-08-11 02:53 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1557560753246199811 ========== A majority of American voters might be fed up with billionaires. But a majority of GOP megadonors have bought enough cheap votes of single-issue constituencies and made the most of the rural bias in the Constitution to protect minority rule. https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/09/perspectives/billionaire-wealth-inequality-inflation-reduction-act/index.html #PS1tax ===== engage 1 engage-rate 11% impress 9 likes 1 time 2022-08-11 02:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1557559264662605824 ========== Like Trump, Musk might finally be running out of room to hide, even with his billions. https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/10/business/nightcap-elon-musk-spacex-cpi-dominos/index.html #PS1other ===== engage 1 engage-rate 7% impress 14 time 2022-08-11 02:44 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1557558437831053312 ========== Thanks to Vladimir Putin! Every second-rate despot now understands that nuclear weapons capability is a regime insurance policy. https://apnews.com/article/middle-east-iran-dubai-nuclear-d96093efcf1e6b8581138b9db48cbedc #PS1other ===== impress 11 time 2022-08-11 02:24 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1557553415407800320 ========== Supreme Court to invalidate all gun laws? https://apnews.com/article/gun-violence-us-supreme-court-colorado-shootings-politics-f919b74dc95062f322389349f35c0e93 The court understands that gun enthusiasts are a bulwark of minority rule; their votes are cheaply bought by opposing all gun laws. Doesn't even cost anything; NRA does the publicity for free. #PS1firearms ===== engage 1 engage-rate 11% impress 9 likes 1 time 2022-08-11 02:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1557552893195980801 ========== No privacy in the social media era. https://apnews.com/article/abortion-us-supreme-court-technology-health-c62b071aae11783fe0aeed99bbf8fffc Everything you do online is for sale somewhere! #PS1technology ===== impress 4 time 2022-08-11 02:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1557551897208168448 ========== Some of the GOP rally behind Trump, sensing a campaign issue. It will work with the base, but how about independents and swing voters? https://apnews.com/article/gop-rallies-around-donald-trump-a0f20a219b1090fd02f529acf744f246 #PS1trumpism ===== engage 1 engage-rate 25% impress 4 time 2022-08-11 01:11 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1557535079743688704 ========== Pleading the Fifth - it's only an admission of guilt when other people do it! https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-ny-investigation-testimony-a4e6264d44b194d24dfb916ffc7f51ca #PS1trump ===== impress 6 time 2022-08-10 14:37 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1557375594572103680 ========== That was the week that wasn't. https://apnews.com/article/monkeypox-health-elections-social-media-a470b553c977e64936fa338f5f5573a3 #PS1media ===== impress 4 time 2022-08-05 16:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1555596450767048704 ========== Lose-lose for social media. https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-technology-social-media-voting-0ab5375951df71093d240a6631edb9da Whether they treat fantasy the same as fact or differently, they'll get criticized. #PS1media ===== impress 6 time 2022-08-05 15:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1555576592218222593 ========== How the Dixiecrat Cavaliers took over the Republican Party and turned it to their traditional interests of protecting minority rule. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/08/04/dana-milbank-republican-destructionists-book-excerpt/ Same old strategy - convince poor people that their enemy is each other rather than rich people. #PS1minority ===== impress 4 time 2022-08-05 13:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1555553884659101696 ========== Ever heard of carried interest? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/04/opinion/private-equity-lays-waste.html Probably not, and that's no accident. But every senator - both parties - knows what it is and who benefits from it - namely themselves from campaign donations from hedge fund operators. #PS1tax ===== engage 2 engage-rate 33% impress 6 likes 1 time 2022-08-05 13:53 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1555552522365915137 ========== Free-fire enthusiasts are going after every gun law in the country. https://apnews.com/article/gun-violence-us-supreme-court-colorado-shootings-politics-f919b74dc95062f322389349f35c0e93 #PS1firearms ===== impress 10 time 2022-08-04 13:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1555190897608110080 ========== Can Trump keep his mouth shut during a deposition? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/02/nyregion/trump-letitia-james-deposition-lawsuit.html His track record is not good. #PS1trump ===== engage 2 engage-rate 8% impress 25 time 2022-08-04 03:27 +0000 urlclicks 2 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1555032766357463040 ========== Eastman didn't give up! Still trying to find non-existent fraud, and still trying to get paid for his efforts, about which he pled the 5th. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/03/us/politics/john-eastman-trump-election-fraud.html But if he'd read anything about Trump, he'd know to expect remittances late, or never. #PS1insurrection ===== engage 1 engage-rate 11% impress 9 time 2022-08-04 03:21 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1555031235587555330 ========== Trump says he has big plans for 2025. He'd turn the Federal government into his personal servants. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/03/opinion/trump-has-big-plans-for-2025.html But does he have the attention span to follow through? He had big campaign promises in 2015 but he let McConnell do the actual legislating. #PS1trump ===== impress 4 time 2022-08-04 03:15 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1555029627344564224 ========== "A republic if you can keep it!" And now those that don't want to keep it see their dreams within grasp - minority rule permanently and unassailably enshrined. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/03/opinion/republican-party-anti-democracy.html #PS1democracy ===== engage 1 engage-rate 33% impress 3 likes 1 time 2022-08-04 03:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1555027197110337537 ========== The would-be dictators trying to take over the GOP. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/03/opinion/blake-masters-arizona-senate.html They've no patience for democracy, compromise, self-restraint. All power to the powerful! And to those that have little - even that will be taken away. "A republic if you can keep it." #PS1gop ===== engage 1 engage-rate 7% impress 14 likes 1 time 2022-08-04 03:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1555026072273424384 ========== Minority rule depends on single-issue constituencies like the right-to-lifers - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html And the right-to-lifers depend on minority rule - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/03/opinion/anti-abortion-kansas.html #PS1minority ===== impress 5 time 2022-08-04 02:46 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1555022311190695936 ========== Anybody want a job with lousy pay and endless hassle from delusional parents? You might be more qualified than you know! https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/08/03/school-teacher-shortage/ The red states won't do anything about teacher pay or working conditions - that would raise taxes or anger voters! #PS1other ===== impress 7 time 2022-08-04 02:31 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1555018648368033792 ========== Ron Johnson is trying to privatize social security, medicare, etc, so it's not on the Federal budget and GOP megadonors won't have to make up the shortfall. https://news.yahoo.com/ron-johnson-suggests-medicare-social-233139470.html Of course, in best Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP style, he denies his real objectives. #PS1gop ===== engage 1 engage-rate 25% impress 4 likes 1 time 2022-08-04 02:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1555017741408473088 ========== CPAC and Orban - and Tucker Carlson - a marriage made in hell. https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/03/media/viktor-orbn-cpac-dallas/index.html But that's the future embraced by the Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP. #PS1gop ===== impress 19 time 2022-08-04 01:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1555002378503393286 ========== Navarro wants immunity - from what? https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/03/politics/peter-navarro-documents/index.html From being associated with Trump? That's pretty incriminating in itself. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 24 time 2022-08-04 01:23 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1555001416271294464 ========== How the crazies took over the GOP - and were welcomed by the "traditional" Republicans. https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/03/opinions/alex-jones-sandy-hook-conspiracies-gop-hemmer/index.html The crazies are valuable distractions for the masses as the GOP megadonors plan to get their way for good. #PS1gop ===== impress 6 time 2022-08-04 01:14 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1554999246721495040 ========== Caught in his lies. https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/03/media/alex-jones-sandy-hook-trial/index.html But he's a Trumpist, so what does he care? Only if his bankruptcy claims fail and he actually has to pay up. Then there's the matter of perjury, proven in open court. That's not civil, that's criminal. #PS1media ===== impress 14 time 2022-08-04 01:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1554997912957906944 ========== Trumpist Dixiecrats try to bury the facts of the past while their more violent allies try to repeat them. https://apnews.com/article/Atlanta-race-massacre-9d738b6fa08d26ec91adfcd8fff30f7f What do you expect from people who called the Jan 6 insurrection a normal tourist day? #PS1trumpism ===== engage 1 engage-rate 13% impress 8 time 2022-08-04 01:04 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1554996662229016577 ========== You can get rich supporting minority rule by selling lies and hurting innocent people! Here's how - https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2022/06/politics/alex-jones-infowars-fringe-to-frontline/ Alex Jones and the Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP cult of personality were made by each other and for each other. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1723031284708050 #PS1trumpism ===== engage 2 engage-rate 6% impress 36 likes 1 time 2022-08-03 14:26 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1554836044171751429 ========== The GOP megadonors want to call a constitutional convention rigged to preserve their control forever. https://www.businessinsider.com/constitutional-convention-conservatives-republicans-constitution-supreme-court-2022-7 Their apologists pretend that it couldn't possible run out of control - but running wild is the intent. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1722790131398832 #PS1democracy ===== impress 4 time 2022-08-03 05:52 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1554706679895191552 ========== Electoral Count Act repair isn't done. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/08/01/electoral-count-reform-act-suggested-changes/ #PS1democracy ===== impress 12 time 2022-08-03 05:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1554693862873935873 ========== Alex Jone keeps lying under oath. The judge's patience is wearing thin. https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/02/media/alex-jones-sandy-hook-trial/index.html But what else would you expect from a Trumpist? #PS1media ===== impress 23 time 2022-08-03 03:46 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1554675014389051392 ========== Praise for the Manchin-Schumer deal. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/02/opinion/manchin-inflation-climate.html Are there really 11 GOP votes for it? As noted, if the GOP were really serious about reducing the deficit, they'd repeal some of their 2017 billionaire tax relief. #PS1tax ===== impress 4 time 2022-08-02 23:20 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1554608078821027840 ========== When is economic warfare effective? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/02/opinion/russia-ukraine-war-embargo-gas.html Little has worked out the way that was expected. #PS1economics ===== impress 6 time 2022-08-02 23:15 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1554606927618772994 ========== How much has the decline of public education contributed to political partisanship? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/02/books/review/will-bunch-after-the-ivory-tower-falls.html Probably it's part of the problem, but the takeover of the Republican Party by Dixiecrats played a larger part. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1722561168088395 #PS1democracy ===== impress 4 time 2022-08-02 23:10 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1554605593490366465 ========== Arizona fake electors knew what they were doing was treasonous - but they did it anyway. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/02/us/politics/arizona-trump-fake-electors.html #PS1insurrection ===== impress 3 time 2022-08-02 22:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1554601989719199744 ========== The throwaway society will eventually exact its due. Because there is no "away" that is not somebody else's "here". https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/08/02/why-gadgets-die/ #PS1other ===== impress 2 time 2022-08-02 22:48 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1554600140144447488 ========== Mini-Trumps assault democracy in broad daylight. With impunity. And little news media coverage. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/08/02/gop-anti-democracy-movement/ #PS1minority ===== impress 5 time 2022-08-02 22:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1554599245142904832 ========== Trump administration created a boom in the phone eraser industry. https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/02/politics/defense-department-missing-january-6-texts/index.html #PS1insurrection ===== impress 11 time 2022-08-02 22:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1554594214331027456 ========== The devil whispers in politicians' ears "this is important but there’s a thing I care about more, and if I am not in office, I won’t be able to do what I care about." Liz Cheney has rejected that path. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/01/opinion/liz-cheney-trump-jan-6.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1722010971476748 #PS1theory ===== engage 1 engage-rate 20% impress 5 likes 1 time 2022-08-02 03:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1554309795515011072 ========== Judges getting tired of fake repentance. https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/08/01/derrick-evans-jan6-book/ Future convicted insurrectionists can expect less leniency. Everything else about Trumpism is reality-TV-fake, so why would repentance be different? #PS1insurrection ===== engage 1 engage-rate 33% impress 3 likes 1 time 2022-08-02 02:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1554296048540995584 ========== 7 years for insurrection. https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/08/01/reffitt-sentence-jan6/ #PS1insurrection ===== impress 3 time 2022-08-02 02:37 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1554295315045396480 ========== Income inequality moves from Silicon Valley and Beverly Hills to Sun Valley. So much for lower living costs in Idaho! https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/31/us/sun-valley-workforce-housing.html People who can't afford to live there should move away. Let the idle rich clean their own toilets! #PS1economics ===== impress 24 time 2022-08-01 03:23 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1553944500216537089 ========== Alex Jones invents all kinds of creative arguments to justify publishing lies for profit that hurt other people. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/31/us/politics/sandy-hook-alex-jones.html And then blames the victims. Trumpism in action! #PS1media ===== engage 1 engage-rate 7% impress 15 time 2022-08-01 03:13 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1553942071345442817 ========== Expand the House. Multimember districts combined with ranked-choice or approval voting. No sore-loser laws. These are the elements to defeat minority rule. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html So expect fierce opposition from the minority rulers. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/30/opinion/senate-house-power.html #PS1democracy ===== engage 8 engage-rate 53% impress 15 likes 2 retweets 1 time 2022-08-01 03:08 +0000 urlclicks 1 userclicks 4 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1553940628668461057 ========== Fix the wrong defaults! https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/27/technology/personaltech/default-settings-turn-off.html #PS1technology ===== impress 1 time 2022-08-01 03:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1553939108287823872 ========== Putin's neocolonialism in Africa. A century ago, the other European empires raped Africa. Now it's Russia's turn! https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/29/africa/sudan-russia-gold-investigation-cmd-intl/index.html As always, plenty of local quislings to help. #PS1putin ===== impress 17 time 2022-08-01 02:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1553933558250500096 ========== Creativity vs decadence - currently a losing battle. Decadence doesn't need a machine algorithm, though it helps. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/30/opinion/algorithm-innovation-decadence.html Civilizations have endured these dry spells before, until external surprises jolted them back to creative life. #PS1other #PS1other ===== impress 3 time 2022-07-31 16:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1553785412308463616 ========== Another new face of the Trumpist Dixiecrat Party - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/31/opinion/missouri-senate-eric-greitens.html Will GOP voters elect a guy that even Hawley rejects? #PS1trumpism ===== impress 4 time 2022-07-31 14:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1553756117582237696 ========== The new face of the Trumpist Dixiecrat Party - https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/31/politics/kfile-maryland-attorney-general-9-11-conspiracies/index.html A lot like the old face of the Old South. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 5 time 2022-07-31 14:43 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1553753238662365188 ========== Has Fox moved on from Trump? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/29/business/media/fox-news-donald-trump-rupert-murdoch.html But he still has Newsmax and OAN - and Russia Today! #PS1media ===== impress 16 time 2022-07-31 05:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1553619272995196928 ========== Why wages don't go down in recessions. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/29/opinion/wages-inflation-workers-prices.html That make inflation harder to stop. #PS1inflation ===== impress 7 time 2022-07-31 05:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1553617882449190912 ========== The historical argument against centrist third parties - they don't accomplish anything. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/29/opinion/why-andrew-yangs-new-third-party-is-bound-to-fail.html Put that energy into a coalition of candidates in existing parties pursuing electoral reforms for democracy. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1720733374937841 #PS1democracy ===== impress 5 time 2022-07-31 05:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1553617085317623809 ========== How prisoner swaps work - we take a high-value Russian agent, the Russians take an average tourist and offer to trade. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/29/opinion/brittney-griner-prisoner-swap.html One conclusion - average tourists should not go to Russia, China, Iran, or North Korea, lest they become handy hostages. #PS1putin ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% hashclicks 1 impress 97 time 2022-07-31 05:21 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1553611744072724480 ========== How Putin emulates Stalin by reviving the NKVD to eliminate domestic and foreign opposition. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/russian-federation/putins-new-police-state #PS1putin ===== impress 7 time 2022-07-31 05:10 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1553608975181983745 ========== Why were the Russians willing to take Americans hostage to get this guy back? https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/07/29/victor-bout-gru-sechin/ He knows too much? #PS1putin ===== impress 4 time 2022-07-31 05:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1553608526760579072 ========== Stone and Gaetz discuss pardons in advance. https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2022/07/30/roger-stone-matt-gaetz-pardon-mueller/ https://news.yahoo.com/rep-matt-gaetz-roger-stone-164832545.html What else would you expect from hard core Trumpists? They've got to cover their backs. #PS1trumpism ===== engage 1 engage-rate 9% impress 11 time 2022-07-31 05:00 +0000 userclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1553606527415595009 ========== And now, some kind words for Joe Manchin, except from GOP senators, who had supposed he was with them. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/07/29/manchin-drug-energy-bill-still-democrat/ #PS1biden ===== engage 1 engage-rate 25% impress 4 time 2022-07-31 04:57 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1553605796419710978 ========== The Roe v Wade repeal rejected the Constitutional right of privacy - https://www.ask.com/news/what-is-the-constitutional-right-to-privacy But the delusional branch of the GOP thinks the patriarchal branch will rest with Roe v Wade. https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/28/opinions/republicans-gays-respect-for-marriage-act-senate-smith/index.html Unlikely! More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1720701778274334 #PS1democracy ===== impress 6 time 2022-07-31 04:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1553599468292820992 ========== Democrats debate sabotaging GOP primaries. Just because GOP does it, should Democrats? https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/29/politics/democrats-propping-up-republican-candidates/index.html Better to repeal sore-loser laws and use ranked-choice voting. Otherwise, primaries in one-party states are simply a way of purging moderates. #PS1democracy ===== impress 7 time 2022-07-31 04:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1553592718323884032 ========== Why are McConnell and McCarthy in charge? Is it McConnell's attractiveness and McCarthy's wit and wisdom, or vice versa? None of the above - they're in charge because, in their distinct ways, they keep the megadonors funding GOP candidates. https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/28/politics/mitch-mcconnell-kevin-mccarthy-republican-divisions/index.html #PS1gop ===== engage 1 engage-rate 50% impress 2 likes 1 time 2022-07-31 03:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1553590964106641408 ========== Virtual social media influencers - no more fake than human ones! https://www.cnn.com/style/article/south-korea-virtual-influencers-beauty-social-media-intl-hnk-dst/index.html #PS1media ===== impress 9 time 2022-07-31 03:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1553588758275977217 ========== Internet facilitates a surge in shoplifting - and resulting countermeasures. https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/30/business/drug-stores-locked-products/index.html #PS1justice ===== impress 6 time 2022-07-31 03:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1553586428310798337 ========== How the sausage gets made. https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/28/politics/manchin-schumer-biden-deal/index.html Politics is the art of the possible. What is possible might vary from week to week, if not day to day. #PS1biden ===== impress 2 time 2022-07-30 02:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1553206333440004098 ========== Fox knew it wasn't true but reported it anyway. https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/29/media/bill-barr-smartmatic-subpoena/index.html #PS1media ===== engage 2 engage-rate 25% impress 8 likes 1 time 2022-07-30 02:24 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1553204822626619392 ========== A vicious self-serving opportunist at the top attracts vicious self-serving opportunists all the way down. Always has, always will. Of course they are constantly fighting each other more than the nominal enemies. https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/29/politics/jared-kushner-steve-bannon-west-wing/index.html #PS1trump ===== impress 7 time 2022-07-30 02:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1553204352751325184 ========== Bragging about law-breaking! https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/29/politics/wisconsin-voter-fraud-harry-wait/index.html #PS1election ===== impress 3 time 2022-07-30 02:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1553203263347929088 ========== Alex Jones bankruptcy filing to avoid accountability for intentionally spreading lies. https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/29/media/alex-jones-free-speech-systems-bankruptcy/index.html #PS1media ===== engage 2 engage-rate 13% impress 16 likes 1 time 2022-07-30 02:16 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1553202819200536576 ========== Trump officials did their best to reduce Federal backup and archival storage costs! https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/07/28/homeland-security-texts-jan6/ https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/dhs-texts-become-latest-jan-6-materials-go-missing-rcna40692 #PS1insurrection ===== impress 2 time 2022-07-29 19:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1553093689559244800 ========== That was the week that wasn't. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-science-social-media-53012d0ba8ea5545737a07b606b0c603 #PS1media ===== impress 4 time 2022-07-29 15:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1553042493754642432 ========== "The church is supposed to direct the government"? "tired of this separation of church and state junk"? If you agree that America's Founders were deluded by the Enlightenment and mistaken about history, then Christian Nationalism is for you! https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/27/opinions/christian-nationalism-marjorie-taylor-greene-tyler/index.html #PS1trumpism ===== impress 13 time 2022-07-29 05:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1552886059284848641 ========== A Trumpist who clearly doesn't need Trump any more. When and how will he say that? https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/27/politics/josh-hawley-fist-pump/index.html #PS1gop ===== impress 5 time 2022-07-29 05:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1552884064830382082 ========== Trump promises to be worse next time. If he's elected, with a little bit of voter suppression by his friends, he intends to be president for life. https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/27/politics/donald-trump-2024-campaign-dark-speech/index.html #PS1trump ===== engage 1 engage-rate 20% impress 5 time 2022-07-29 05:06 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1552883275034533888 ========== No lame excuses here - these GOP are proud of their anti-semitism. https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/28/politics/doug-mastriano-gab-pennsylvania-republican/index.html #PS1gop ===== impress 2 time 2022-07-29 04:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1552881581362008065 ========== The exciting new class of GOP candidates. https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-donald-trump-campaigns-race-and-ethnicity-be616cae0967ca6ee9c78ac1efee8e31 The national GOP is afraid to say anything about them in case they win and take over the party the way Trump did. #PS1gop ===== engage 1 engage-rate 25% impress 4 time 2022-07-29 04:44 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1552877715937669120 ========== Embracing the big lie as a lifestyle! https://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-2022-midterm-elections-biden-presidential-texas-b87d4001f2d03df10fa050af5b0b1239 Most GOP senators will never admit they did anything wrong by encouraging insurrection - they're proud of it. #PS1insurrection ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 40 time 2022-07-29 04:40 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1552876655646949376 ========== The lame excuses of Alex Jones and other conspiracy peddlers. https://apnews.com/article/alex-jones-sandy-hook-trial-07b7ee981d6fcd3ebfbccac65ee89d4d They knew they were lying, but they peddled lies for money from the gullible and didn't care how much it hurt other people. The juries should make examples of them. #PS1media ===== engage 2 engage-rate 11% expands 1 impress 18 likes 1 time 2022-07-29 04:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1552875359971921920 ========== The lame excuses of assault weapon manufacturers. https://apnews.com/article/gun-manufacturers-ar-15-461e6729bef5ef5f8af0f128fbfc40be But look how much money they made! #PS1firearms ===== impress 3 time 2022-07-29 04:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1552873810172334080 ========== The power of cult of personality! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evita_(musical) The show was still touring in 2019. https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-poverty-obituaries-buenos-aires-ff7553b9191269449f3eaf13f92fd3ca Practically every Argentine politician calls himself a Peronista, no matter what he actually believes or does. #PS1theory ===== impress 2 time 2022-07-29 04:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1552868774138654720 ========== A big lie that still hurts 30 years later. https://apnews.com/article/wildfires-science-fires-american-petroleum-institute-014d4825f21084a80eb71414dbe63b9e #PS1climate ===== impress 3 time 2022-07-29 04:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1552866531851116544 ========== Trump tried to overthrow the government by unconstitutional means - just as America's founders feared. Will the Jan 6 committee focus on the Trump enablers who knew better but went along for the ride? https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-live-jan-6-committee-hearings-day-8 More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1718848971792948 #PS1insurrection ===== impress 6 time 2022-07-28 22:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1552787168250064897 ========== Voting in the Republican primary in August? Are the candidates - Trumpists? https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#trump Traditional Republicans? https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#gop Rule-of-Law Republicans? https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#rule-of-law More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1718803221797523 #PS1gop ===== impress 4 time 2022-07-28 22:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1552785820599197696 ========== Third parties??? Only if they get ranked-choice voting and get rid of sore-loser laws first! Otherwise they just split the moderate vote. https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/28/politics/andrew-yang-forward-party-whitman-jolly/index.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1719016898442822 #PS1democracy ===== impress 5 time 2022-07-28 22:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1552784472516411392 ========== GOP says we can afford trade deals to benefit megadonors - but retraining workers would be too inflationary. https://www.seattletimes.com/business/americas-safety-net-for-workers-hurt-by-globalization-is-falling-apart/ #PS1trade ===== impress 4 time 2022-07-28 14:43 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1552665943066566659 ========== Self-serving opportunists at the top attract self-serving opportunists all the way down! Under capitalism or communism alike. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/19/world/asia/china-bank-scandal-protest.html Especially when there's only one branch of government - the leader and his party. #PS1china ===== impress 3 time 2022-07-28 14:38 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1552664841063542784 ========== Recession signals from the inverted yield curve. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/21/business/yield-curve-inversion.html We were tired of inflation, right? Let's see how we like recession. #PS1economics ===== impress 7 time 2022-07-28 14:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1552663536945336322 ========== You'll have to read the bill to know what's in it! Already GOP senators are are alarmed by its national security threat to billionaire "job creator" GOP megadonors. https://apnews.com/article/joe-manchin-budget-agreement-7b0ee6e3e0b70357288fd69f44473b9b And is Sinema OK with tax increases on megadonors - just before an election? #PS1biden ===== engage 2 engage-rate 4% impress 57 likes 1 time 2022-07-28 01:20 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1552464060339195904 ========== DOJ gets closer to Trump. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/07/26/trump-justice-investigation-january-6/ https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/26/politics/justice-department-pence-short-jacob-trump-grand-jury/index.html #PS1insurrection ===== engage 2 engage-rate 15% expands 1 impress 13 likes 1 time 2022-07-27 05:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1552167323787677698 ========== That was the week that wasn't. https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-covid-science-health-ap-fact-check-26dc7f6fee09181dd4c9c6f6af19a678 #PS1media ===== impress 6 time 2022-07-27 05:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1552164164361019395 ========== What would you do on your last day on earth? Probably call your family to say goodbye. That's what Pence's Secret Service detail did on Jan 6. https://apnews.com/article/jan-6-hearing-takeaways-da9e850c8744a3d4395928cf19eaf36f Of course Trump didn't call off the mob until it was clear that they had failed. #PS1insurrection ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 36 retweets 1 time 2022-07-22 13:43 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1550476644862742528 ========== Election officials have to convene in secrecy. https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-wisconsin-donald-trump-election-2020-26a69f3a2dbf65e54355df6686c6a399 #PS1insurrection ===== impress 4 time 2022-07-21 18:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1550189262871470080 ========== Today's public hearing will summarize the case that Trump tried to overthrow the government by violent unconstitutional means. It starts at 5pm PDT today with a pre-show starting at 4pm. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-live-jan-6-committee-hearings-day-8 More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1713743058970206 #PS1insurrection ===== impress 6 time 2022-07-21 15:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1550138115011973121 ========== Erased evidence? Looks bad, sounds bad. https://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-government-and-politics-10d40ce2ddd78f7cd6b57e945aa63f44 #PS1insurrection ===== impress 8 time 2022-07-16 13:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1548299065124786176 ========== Trumpists claim GOP primaries are stolen too! https://apnews.com/article/republican-primary-losers-claim-fraud-parroting-trump-7730988a009dfa0873e8133e19232562 #PS1trumpism ===== engage 2 engage-rate 15% impress 13 time 2022-07-16 13:27 +0000 urlclicks 2 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1548298173709357058 ========== That was the week that wasn't. https://apnews.com/article/us-supreme-court-covid-health-social-media-8032fb8abb61a465d3411998185ed200 #PS1media ===== engage 1 engage-rate 17% impress 6 time 2022-07-15 15:27 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1547966084053024768 ========== Romney didn't get the memo - the GOP left him behind years ago. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/13/opinion/abortion-romney-child-tax-credit.html His colleagues might or might not care about abortion as a moral issue, but they certainly care about keeping single-issue voters supporting GOP minority rule. #PS1gop ===== impress 12 time 2022-07-13 14:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1547222227279495168 ========== Trump's bad. What's worse were the GOP leaders who knew better and said nothing, and the worst were the GOP leaders that knew better and actively promoted lies that led to insurrection. What punishment for these Franz von Papens? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/07/12/jan-6-testimony-jason-van-tatenhove-stephen-ayres-deprogrammed/ #PS1insurrection ===== engage 1 engage-rate 14% impress 7 likes 1 time 2022-07-13 14:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1547220603161063424 ========== What happened to Lindsey Graham? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/07/12/will-lindsey-graham-testify-raffensperger/ He should have known that pitch defileth the hand that toucheth it. #PS1insurrection ===== impress 5 time 2022-07-13 13:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1547218796384923648 ========== Trumpism - you don't have to be competent if you're loyal. https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/11/politics/herschel-walker-republican-risk-campaign-trail/index.html #PS1trumpism ===== engage 1 engage-rate 20% impress 5 likes 1 time 2022-07-12 04:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1546714705753882624 ========== You can't tell the players without a scorecard! https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/11/politics/january-6-hearing-biographies/index.html #PS1insurrection ===== impress 4 time 2022-07-12 04:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1546713203454840832 ========== If Musk is as smart as Trump used to say he was, then it's going to be President DeSantis in 2025. Like DeSantis, Musk seems to think that Trumpism is better off without Trump. https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/10/opinions/trump-musk-desantis-election-2024-obeidallah/index.html #PS1gop ===== impress 8 time 2022-07-11 18:04 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1546556000693473281 ========== Putin is on the verge of achieving his greatest strategic goal! More important than conquering Ukraine is spreading instability and conflict throughout the world, especially in the democracies that oppose him. https://buffalonews.com/skyrocketing-global-fuel-prices-threaten-livelihoods-and-social-stability-worldwide/article_fae4464b-16c6-569f-8eed-c53ab2f7276e.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1705836243094221 #PS1putin ===== engage 1 engage-rate 5% expands 1 impress 21 time 2022-07-11 02:53 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1546326785343729664 ========== “People every week fill the tank. They see these big prices” https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/07/04/will-gas-prices-get-republicans-control-of-the-u-s-house/ People who don't follow politics - or economics - can read the price on the pump and be unhappy and vote the rascals out. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1705831329761379 #PS1theory ===== impress 5 time 2022-07-11 02:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1546324610009837568 ========== It's very hard to achieve a soft landing. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/07/opinion/inflation-recession-the-fed.html Rest assured though, that the Republicans can readily switch from blaming Democrats for inflation to blaming Democrats for recession, without having any better ideas for dealing with either. #PS1economics ===== impress 12 time 2022-07-11 02:24 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1546319448566423553 ========== Fear of death has led men to seek immortality of some kind - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/07/opinion/mass-shooters-motive.html Being forgotten is worse! No wonder some of the losers pick up guns. That's not insanity. The insanity is the celebrity culture around them. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1705818733095972 #PS1firearms ===== impress 5 time 2022-07-11 02:20 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1546318408001589248 ========== Should Democrats try to harness the outrage over abortion by putting tests to candidates? One such test - "Do you need to conduct a poll to decide whether there is a constitutional right to privacy?" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/08/opinion/democrats-abortion-midterms.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1705809053096940 #PS1theory ===== impress 6 time 2022-07-11 02:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1546313381195329538 ========== It's really not Trump's fault. It's the enablers that knew better and went along with him. In 2016 just as in 1860. Franz von Papen awards for all of them. https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/06/opinions/trump-liberals-primaries-2022-mcwhorter/index.html #PS1trumpism ===== impress 7 time 2022-07-11 00:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1546285509294452737 ========== In case you missed the timeline https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/10/politics/jan-6-us-capitol-riot-timeline/index.html #PS1insurrection ===== impress 2 time 2022-07-11 00:03 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1546283914737491968 ========== Can American GOP match British Tories? https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/08/opinions/boris-johnson-resignation-republicans-dump-trump-heye/index.html Not likely, but if it does happen, it will seem to be overnight. #PS1gop ===== impress 1 time 2022-07-10 23:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1546282239524163584 ========== Trump's greatest contribution? https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-campaigns-eric-greitens-legislature-st-louis-705610dbf221e5367e796fca708c27da Making it possible for any corrupt criminal or sinner to be a credible political candidate! Only loyalty to the leader matters. #PS1trumpism ===== engage 1 engage-rate 33% impress 3 likes 1 time 2022-07-10 23:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1546280995371958272 ========== The wild west gig economy! https://apnews.com/article/workers-rights-government-and-politics-8390362e0fed372432f95805f94ac994 If you do it the ethical way you'll never get to be a billionaire! #PS1economics ===== impress 4 time 2022-07-10 23:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1546280084532707329 ========== It's still the same old story - public employee unions get defined-benefit pensions without a sufficient stable funding mechanism. So they take investment risks to get better returns - and higher risks of getting bailed out by taxpayers. https://apnews.com/article/cryptocurrency-technology-blockchain-government-and-politics-bb0b28c277f078dc34d5bf90e36f91f7 #PS1economics ===== impress 2 time 2022-07-10 23:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1546279498697490432 ========== What's Bannon's motive to testify supported by Trump? Is he actually going to say anything, or does he just want to postpone his trial date? https://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-steve-bannon-politics-congress-zoe-lofgren-b1d1256bd8b51aa74f69640b90884c87 #PS1insurrection ===== impress 15 time 2022-07-10 23:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1546277888219000833 ========== The desire for immortality via celebrity is no stronger for American mean than other men. The difference is that American men have the tools they need, and the senators to enable them, all for the sake of maintaining minority rule. https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/07/10/pitts-what-is-wrong-with-american-men/ #PS1firearms ===== engage 1 engage-rate 25% impress 4 likes 1 time 2022-07-10 23:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1546276093631401985 ========== The internet was supposed to be the perfect medium for distributing uncensored truth around the world. But now it's the exact opposite - the perfect medium for distributing uncensored lies. https://apnews.com/article/covid-technology-health-government-and-politics-new-york-cfb56a95aec23dddbabcf3ebbe839f05 More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1705181376493041 #PS1media ===== impress 7 time 2022-07-10 06:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1546023778722783233 ========== Arthur Bremer is out of jail now. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Bremer He just wanted to be famous. Like so many assassins and mass murderers. Meanwhile Trump hoped to look powerful! https://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-biden-presidential-elections-election-2020-congress-eb90b5a11a77fe528fa610cccb442c1e More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1705173139827198 #PS1insurrection ===== impress 16 time 2022-07-10 06:31 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1546019367661420545 ========== There is a playbook for civil war, and the radical right is following it. The GOP leadership either cheers them on or keeps quiet, in order to preserve minority rule. https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2022/03/08/they-are-preparing-war-an-expert-civil-wars-discusses-where-political-extremists-are-taking-this-country/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1705163346494844 #PS1insurrection ===== engage 1 engage-rate 13% impress 8 likes 1 time 2022-07-10 06:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1546014289311387648 ========== Trump will run again even if he's broke and in jail - the more opposing candidates the better. https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-campaigns-presidential-iowa-donald-trump-3a53ae3db8ceb1dc9557d9554912f0e2 Anything that divides his GOP opponents, and anything that draws support from the Democrats, will work to Trump's advantage and he'll be elected. #PS1trump ===== engage 1 engage-rate 4% impress 23 likes 1 time 2022-07-09 13:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1545765734948605953 ========== What does the War of 1812 tell us about 2022? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/08/opinion/trump-democracy-states.html There is nothing new under the sun! Bad ideas, like "independent [gerrymandered] state legislatures", never die, they just hide until their moment returns. #PS1democracy ===== engage 2 engage-rate 12% impress 17 likes 1 time 2022-07-09 05:01 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1545634145870569474 ========== Why nobody has confidence in Congress. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/07/08/republicans-broke-americans-confidence-institutions-poll/ Total paralysis is an acceptable outcome for GOP megadonors. They'd welcome more tax cuts and deregulation, but they'll settle for no change in minority rule. #PS1democracy ===== engage 5 engage-rate 56% expands 1 impress 9 likes 3 media-engage 1 time 2022-07-09 04:31 +0000 views 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1545626560102744064 ========== Government alleges Oath Keepers were all the way in. https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/08/politics/oath-keepers-explosives-death-list-january-6/index.html #PS1insurrection ===== impress 11 time 2022-07-09 04:24 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1545624880560762880 ========== That was the week that wasn't. https://apnews.com/article/abortion-climate-science-health-ap-fact-check-a2b4f7537aa429546b3b27993da7f853 #PS1media ===== engage 1 engage-rate 10% expands 1 impress 10 time 2022-07-08 15:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1545434335674699776 ========== Fusion parties - reducing extremism by reducing the influence of party primaries and caucuses. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/06/opinion/moderate-party-new-jersey.html But better to repeal sore-loser laws and allow anybody to run in the general election with the winner selected by ranked-choice voting. #PS1democracy ===== engage 1 engage-rate 10% expands 1 impress 10 time 2022-07-08 04:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1545266842272272384 ========== It's easier to cut taxes - and take the credit - and hard to raise them - and blame the other party. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/07/07/states-cutting-taxes-inflation-they-may-soon-regret-it/ The important thing is to keep the megadonors happy. #PS1tax ===== impress 2 time 2022-07-08 04:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1545259752866795527 ========== Trump makes money, first, last, and always. He's a super-salesman! https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/07/07/trump-for-profit-speeches-american-freedom-tour/ #PS1trump ===== impress 7 time 2022-07-08 04:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1545258800898134016 ========== Trump will never forgive anybody who won't drink his koolaid. https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/07/politics/trump-ducey-arizona-governor-republican/index.html #PS1trumpism ===== impress 6 time 2022-07-08 03:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1545255558785036288 ========== Trying to conduct an honest election is a true act of courageous patriotism. https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-russia-ukraine-voting-presidential-local-89f03587e105290deddc647d43dd6960 Honest elections are the last thing minority rule wants. #PS1election ===== impress 2 time 2022-07-08 03:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1545253724448120832 ========== Putin makes it clear. He's only interested in negotiating the unconditional surrender of Ukraine. He's counting on the west to lose interest and abandon Ukraine to its sad fate. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-putin-kyiv-moscow-6ccaef3a9d9d5ccd370d70126db78c5a #PS1ukraine ===== engage 2 engage-rate 7% impress 27 replies 1 time 2022-07-08 03:40 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1545251367484198912 ========== One thing you can say about Pence - he's not as bad as Trump or DeSantis. Pence had his moment of glory, but that's not enough to be president. https://www.twincities.com/2022/07/07/lynn-schmid-mike-pence-liz-cheney-republican-presidential-ticket/ #PS1gop ===== engage 1 engage-rate 11% impress 9 time 2022-07-08 03:36 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1545250379528486912 ========== The South has won the Civil War at last! Soon the Supreme Court will leave everything up to the states. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/07/04/america-house-divided-guns-abortion-lincoln/ The modern Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP has nothing in common with the party of Lincoln. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1702803990064113 #PS1gop ===== engage 1 engage-rate 6% impress 16 likes 1 time 2022-07-07 04:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1544899527794077697 ========== Can anything good come from a crypto enthusiast? https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/07/02/ukraine-crypto-brittany-kaiser-cambridge-analytica/ #PS1technology ===== impress 4 time 2022-07-07 04:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1544896070718595072 ========== Trumpist Supreme Court intends to end all Federal regulation not explicitly authorized by Congress. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/07/05/epa-supreme-court-environmental-regulations/ A gerrymandered minority-rule Congress will not explicitly authorize ANY Federal regulation. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1702784876732691 #PS1deregulation ===== impress 3 time 2022-07-07 03:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1544889082941095936 ========== Freedom Caucus founder Mulvaney's not a weatherman. But does he know which way the wind's blowin? https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/06/politics/mick-mulvaney-trump-january-6-committee/index.html Has he finally decided that he is a rule-of-law Republican rather than a Trumpist? #PS1insurrection ===== impress 11 time 2022-07-07 03:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1544884617529856000 ========== You can't blame it all on Trump. He had a whole Senate caucus full of essential enablers. And the Federalist Society to groom his judicial nominees. https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/06/opinions/trump-liberals-primaries-2022-mcwhorter/index.html #PS1trumpism ===== impress 7 time 2022-07-07 03:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1544881792141778945 ========== Graham's lawyers working overtime to come up with his excuses. https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-donald-trump-georgia-presidential-new-york-2801525587ff9301ea101380bc154faf But pitch defileth the hand that toucheth it. Once a Trumpist, always a Trumpist - and pay the price. #PS1insurrection ===== impress 2 time 2022-07-07 03:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1544879113772486657 ========== Sure, assault weapons create instant orphans and blow up people beyond recognition. But there's a more important principle here - GOP senators getting the campaign funds to survive their next primary. https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/06/politics/gun-control-mass-shooting-weapons-analysis/index.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1702395206771658 #PS1firearms ===== impress 4 time 2022-07-06 13:53 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1544680883537383424 ========== Independent State Legislatures - the final frontier. The six reactionary Supreme Court justices know they were nominated and confirmed in order to protect and expand minority rule. https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/05/politics/independent-state-legislature-theory-what-matters/index.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1702387023439143 #PS1democracy ===== impress 4 time 2022-07-06 13:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1544677339258167296 ========== Red states successfully insure that they will get no Federal help when the next recession dries up their tax revenues. https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2022/07/05/republicans-tax-cuts-stimulus/ Why finance infrastructure benefits when you can cut taxes for "job creator" GOP megadonors? More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1702198633457982 #PS1tax ===== engage 1 engage-rate 17% impress 6 likes 1 time 2022-07-06 06:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1544572275671781383 ========== Democrats might have a chance to retain control of the Senate. Not much chance of keeping the House though. https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/05/politics/democrats-senate-2022-republicans-house/index.html #PS1election ===== engage 1 engage-rate 33% impress 3 time 2022-07-06 06:20 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1544566825777631233 ========== Insurrectionists complain that they might get a fair trial in DC. https://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-biden-riots-michigan-congress-f19fc848924fcce595caa8067376691b But generally if you commit a crime, you get tried where you committed it. #PS1insurrection ===== impress 6 time 2022-07-06 06:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1544563110593277952 ========== Giuliani and Graham get to go to Georgia. https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-new-york-donald-trump-georgia-atlanta-95424e07089c6d533b9b14af277eaed3 #PS1insurrection ===== engage 2 engage-rate 25% impress 8 time 2022-07-06 05:59 +0000 urlclicks 1 userclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1544561666989256704 ========== The next Jan 6 hearing is Tuesday. Is Sarah Matthews next? https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/05/politics/january-6-committee-hearing/index.html #PS1insurrection ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% impress 60 likes 1 time 2022-07-06 05:53 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1544560130804420608 ========== The people who want to control everybody else's private lives won't stop with abortion. Clarence Thomas is the only one willing to admit it, but the other five reactionary justices will have to follow sooner or later. https://washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/06/26/surpreme-court-abortion-thomas-threatens-contraception-gay-rights/ #PS1justice ===== impress 10 time 2022-07-05 13:12 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1544308250765451265 ========== When the Federal regulators won't do anything - then anything goes! DeSantis and Trump both have over $100 million in cash to spend - fighting each other? https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/05/politics/ron-desantis-campaign-finance-2024-election/index.html #PS1gop ===== engage 1 engage-rate 13% expands 1 impress 8 time 2022-07-05 13:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1544305590796574720 ========== The states most eager to save the unborn are least eager to save the born. GOP politicians know that giving money to poor mothers is a waste since they'll just spend the savings on drugs. https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/05/politics/red-states-roe-v-wade-social-safety-net/index.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1701463046864874 #PS1health ===== engage 1 engage-rate 33% impress 3 likes 1 time 2022-07-05 05:20 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1544189493749506048 ========== Trump's impatient heir - smarter, bolder, more dangerous. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/06/27/can-ron-desantis-displace-donald-trump-as-the-gops-combatant-in-chief #PS1trumpism ===== impress 6 time 2022-07-05 03:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1544156921485111296 ========== If Putin succeeds in Ukraine, this is likely his next target - https://www.politico.eu/article/suwalki-gap-russia-war-nato-lithuania-poland-border/ #PS1putin ===== impress 12 time 2022-07-05 02:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1544149605901688832 ========== Putin builds a model for Trumpists everywhere. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/04/world/europe/russia-putin-arrests.html #PS1putin ===== impress 7 time 2022-07-05 02:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1544146439873253376 ========== How can public figures shut down unfavorable media coverage? Clarence Thomas shows the way, as usual. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/06/27/supreme-court-clarence-thomas-still-going-after-new-york-times-v-sullivan/ #PS1media ===== impress 3 time 2022-07-05 01:23 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1544129802155659264 ========== America's founders were human, with virtues and faults, just like everybody else who tried to improve the common good. So remember the things they got right AND the things they got wrong. We learn more from mistakes than from successes. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/07/04/july-4-declare-independence-founding-fathers/ #PS1theory ===== engage 1 engage-rate 25% impress 4 likes 1 time 2022-07-05 01:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1544126358946623488 ========== What the Jan 6 hearings show so far - https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/02/politics/january-6-latest-what-matters/index.html #PS1insurrection ===== impress 9 time 2022-07-04 14:54 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1543971533613240323 ========== Would Trump only serve four more years? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/06/30/argument-for-trump-supporters-nominate-someone-else-2024/ If he's re-elected, his supporters will find a way to make sure he's president for life. Constitutions can be changed or ignored. The Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP is putting the pieces in place. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 11 time 2022-07-04 06:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1543847009785786368 ========== An argument for Youngkin in 2024. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/07/03/glenn-youngkin-president-2024-campaign/ He's probably better than Trump or DeSantis. But after learning how GOP presidential campaigns are funded, would he forget about campaign promises as soon as elected? Trump did. #PS1gop ===== engage 1 engage-rate 7% impress 14 likes 1 time 2022-07-04 06:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1543845619730505730 ========== "institutions must advance also, and keep pace with the times" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/07/03/dont-venerate-vilify-founders-constitution-july-fourth/ Of course, minority rule is enhanced when institutions retreat rather than advance. #PS1democracy ===== impress 5 time 2022-07-04 06:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1543843899386384384 ========== Actual malice means actual damages. https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/22/media/maga-media-reliable-sources/index.html But the Murdochs surely have the money to beat the rap. Newsmax and OAN? Maybe not. #PS1media ===== impress 13 time 2022-07-04 05:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1543833109883326464 ========== "India's tragedy is not that it's the worst place in the world -- it's that we are on our way there" India is a model that the Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP intends to follow. https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/22/opinions/bjp-hindu-muslim-democracy-modi-arundhati-roy/index.html #PS1democracy ===== impress 5 time 2022-07-04 05:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1543832244988522496 ========== What's worse than Trump? A Trumpist with courage, intelligence, and competence. https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/23/opinions/desantis-trump-2024-zelizer/index.html #PS1trumpism ===== impress 5 time 2022-07-04 05:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1543830561046745089 ========== What's wrong with this picture? https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/26/business/retail-returns/index.html Maybe the future is no cash refunds - only store credits. And customers pay return shipping costs. #PS1economics ===== impress 5 time 2022-07-04 05:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1543829667743875072 ========== Is it going to be Newsom vs DeSantis in 2024? https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/03/opinions/newsom-desantis-2024-campaign-ad-obeidallah/index.html #PS1election ===== impress 12 time 2022-07-04 05:14 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1543825539214876672 ========== Increasing GOP registrations - will that translate to increasing GOP votes? If they are swing voters anyway who vote their pocketbook, their registration doesn't matter much. https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-biden-covid-health-presidential-e50db07385831e67f866ec45402be8b9 #PS1gop ===== impress 5 time 2022-07-04 05:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1543822648743890945 ========== Why the Jan 6 public hearings are so effective - no bomb throwers, no grandstanders, a simple digestible message each day. https://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-ivanka-trump-donald-impeachments-congress-5392fc731c24a33db7e6b42daf580a06 Thank Kevin McCarthy for making it possible. #PS1media ===== impress 7 time 2022-07-04 04:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1543821596153892864 ========== McConnell doing his best to make sure that no more Democratic bills pass. https://apnews.com/article/biden-technology-health-congress-climate-and-environment-0cec1d533e7b9ea99927656f83e6589b By bailing out China if necessary! #PS1biden ===== impress 3 time 2022-07-04 04:52 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1543820082094100483 ========== Wisconsin leads the way toward insuring that even if Democrats win an election, they can't change anything. So much for democracy and the will of the people. https://apnews.com/article/wisconsin-gun-politics-madison-environmental-policy-climate-and-environment-0eb6040fb5bf3c2a4677b4cf603c98e6 It's a model for the GOP in Congress. #PS1democracy ===== engage 1 engage-rate 8% impress 13 time 2022-07-04 04:50 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1543819552819032064 ========== "All men are created equal" has had different meanings to different people from the beginning. https://apnews.com/article/religion-race-and-ethnicity-racial-injustice-kevin-jennings-723c49581d8a78ee54a793716e5212b3 #PS1theory ===== impress 4 time 2022-07-04 04:43 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1543817732281446400 ========== When you disprove somebody's religion, they don't thank you. They kill you. https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/op-ed/bs-ed-op-0705-stephens-trump-cult-20220701-ni6zi75v2bhwbeqmx732nubk5i-story.html "Nobody ever joins a cult." Including cults of personality. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 4 time 2022-07-04 00:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1543747812847783936 ========== No shortage of fireworks for July 4 in DC! More evidence to come https://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-crime-donald-trump-liz-cheney-adam-kinzinger-169a2b2bc35e28d4bf630f0a3aa3e6ee Who put the squeeze on Hutchinson - a felony https://lite.cnn.com/en/article/h_15b63a5f8da34edc9fbcebb63b265dce Multiple criminal referrals possible https://cnn.com/2022/07/03/politics/liz-cheney-january-6-trump/index.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1700640830280429 #PS1insurrection ===== impress 15 time 2022-07-04 00:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1543746465473765376 ========== Is Trump getting worried about DeSantis et al? How many believe that Trumpism is better without Trump? https://cnn.com/2022/07/02/politics/trump-campaign-2024-republican/index.html Announcing his candidacy now might excite Democratic midterm voters. But Trump cares more for revenge on GOP for disloyalty. #PS1trump ===== engage 1 engage-rate 9% impress 11 likes 1 time 2022-07-03 16:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1543627019572850689 ========== Trump is getting worried about DeSantis et al? How many believe that Trumpism is better off without Trump? https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/02/politics/trump-campaign-2024-republican/index.html Announcing his candidacy now might motivate Democratic voters in the midterms. But Trump is only cares about revenge for disloyalty. #PS1trump ===== impress 8 time 2022-07-03 07:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1543500885141008384 ========== How Putin reminds the west what he'll do to them if they keep supporting Ukraine. https://apnews.com/article/g-7-summit-russia-ukraine-putin-boris-johnson-kyiv-4b25bc156410e2e9f764b879348e0184 #PS1ukraine ===== engage 1 engage-rate 4% impress 24 time 2022-07-03 07:35 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1543498693365493760 ========== Supreme Court doesn't care about Indians either. https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/opinion-once-again-supreme-court-180333774.html After all, how much do Indians donate to support minority rule? #PS1justice ===== impress 8 time 2022-07-02 05:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1543108247447490560 ========== That was the week that wasn't. https://apnews.com/article/abortion-us-supreme-court-science-health-d11342c7568bbcd047a18ca063bf4b79 #PS1media ===== impress 4 time 2022-07-02 05:36 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1543106203504369666 ========== If GOP controls Congress, that will force the real issue - who ARE they? America-Firsters? https://britannica.com/biography/Charles-Lindbergh/Germany-and-the-America-First-movement Or defenders of western ideals? https://washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/04/29/nato-republicans-trump/ "Was Trump the exception, or will Biden be the exception?” More at https://facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1652873241723855 #PS1gop ===== impress 7 time 2022-07-02 03:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1543075306075934721 ========== If you're an oligarch or criminal - thank goodness for the no-questions-asked British Virgin Islands. https://washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2022/offshore-putin-russia-oligarchs-pandora/ Putin doesn't like it either, but uses similar schemes himself to protect his ill-gotten gains. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1656251181386061 #PS1putin ===== impress 9 time 2022-07-02 00:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1543027211988455424 ========== Money is the mother's milk of politics. Big corporations donate to both sides in order to retain access. https://nytimes.com/2022/06/15/opinion/jan6-companies-donate.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1687662298244949 #PS1democracy ===== impress 7 time 2022-07-01 12:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1542850687502929920 ========== Is Trump losing steam? Or is that just wishful thinking? https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-donald-trump-presidential-iowa-election-2020-7272d1b8feb3fe1503bd8d80054c5d7e Will he run anyway even if he's broke and in jail? Think Harold Stassen or Lyndon LaRouche. But better Trump than some of his Trumpist would-be successors. #PS1trump ===== engage 2 engage-rate 7% expands 1 impress 30 time 2022-07-01 06:29 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1542757216863735808 ========== Why Russians put up with Putin - https://theamericanscholar.org/putins-potemkin-paradise/ Political repression is constant in Russian history. But relative prosperity is new. So they vote their pocketbooks. Likewise Chinese and Xi - https://theamericanscholar.org/the-china-model/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1698701083807737 #PS1foreign ===== impress 15 time 2022-07-01 04:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1542725985593765889 ========== Just in case you missed it - https://washingtonpost.com/media/2022/05/09/washington-post-wins-pulitzer-prize-jan-6-coverage/ https://washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2021/jan-6-insurrection-capitol/ https://washingtonpost.com/investigations/2021/01/16/video-timeline-capitol-siege/ https://washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2021/01/09/ashli-babbitt-capitol-shooting-trump-qanon/ https://apnews.com/article/pulitzer-prizes-7ef78b613b59f8d8fdc7aa0e65bfe10d There's no excuse for not knowing what really happened on Jan 6. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1660763677601478 #PS1insurrection ===== impress 6 time 2022-07-01 02:57 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1542703855640555521 ========== Would Trump tell GOP voters to stay home? Possibly in 2022, if there's not enough Stop the Steal zealotry, https://washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/14/republicans-have-some-big-problems-their-own/ https://washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/14/trump-virginia-youngkin-gop-leaders/ but certainly not in 2024, when he plans to run and win. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1518193778525136 #PS1election ===== impress 8 time 2022-07-01 01:52 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1542687439126290432