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========== Conspiracy theories? Why not at least make up plausible ones? Such as, why isn't the acting attorney general, whoever he is today, taking time off from drafting his resignation letter to get to the bottom of the SCANDALOUS Democratic scheme to pay Giuliani and Powell to make Trump and Republicans look RIDICULOUS? Don't say Republicans can do that to themselves without anybody's help, because every Republican will tell you that every Democrat's approach is to invent a problem and throw taxpayer money at it. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/12/four-seasons-total-landscaping-the-full-est-possible-story.html == topic politics ===== impact 35 impactrate 0 likeimpress 2 negative 0 posted 2020-12-29 ratio 8 react 4 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 2 title Conspiracy theories? Why not at least make up plausible topic politics wordrate 0 words 87 audclicks 2 audreach 2 engaged 4 ID 1324323811245468 impress 34 likeclickusers 4 likeimpress 2 likeuimpress 32 likeusers 2 likeuusers 31 matchedlinkclicks 2 oimpress 34 oreach 32 posted "12/29/2020 07:24:59 AM" postlinkclicks 2 reach 32 type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1324323811245468 ========== The question Romney (and all the Lincoln Project and never-Trumpers) need to ask themselves: What is it that they don't like about minority rule? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/12/21/romney-isnt-yet-there-he-should-consider-new-party/ Trumpism is the logical evolution of minority rule from Strom Thurmond. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html Especially when demographics are increasingly against you, you can't maintain minority rule by playing fair or being logical or honest. The major donors that minority rule protects aren't interested in funding the undermining of that rule. And once the crazies control the party, they don't get saner, they just get crazier - look at the California and Texas and Georgia GOP. == If the non-crazies want to start over with a new caucus or a new party, it should not be on the basis of defending minority rule - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#conservative https://www.liberty-and-justice.net/ They'll have to figure out how to build a movement without most of the usual Republican donors and without a significant starting base of voters. Their efforts contributed to the defeat of Trump - by only 43,000 votes - but Trumpism was victorious anyway. == https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/12/21/romney-isnt-yet-there-he-should-consider-new-party/ topic politics ===== comments 1 hide 1 impact 222 impactrate 0 likeimpress 8 negative 1 posted 2020-12-21 ratio 3 react 13 reactrate 0 shares 1 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 2 title The question Romney (and all the Lincoln Project and topic politics wordrate 0 words 171 ID 1319030448441471 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1319030448441471 audclicks 2 audreach 1 commentsimpress 1 commentsusers 1 engaged 10 hideclicks 1 hideclicksusers 1 impress 46 likeclickusers 10 likeimpress 8 likeuimpress 41 likeusers 8 likeuusers 41 matchedotherclicks 2 negclicks 1 negusers 1 oimpress 46 oreach 45 posted "12/21/2020 07:31:01 AM" postotherclicks 1 reach 45 sharesimpress 1 sharesusers 1 type Link ========== Why do we have perpetual continuing resolution and budget ceiling crises? https://www.get-to-sixty.net/ It might seem to be a bug in the system, but it's intentional. While politicians make pious noises about controlling the debt, that's just a subterfuge. The debt will go up or down regardless. Departments will get budgeted sooner or later. So why isn't continuing budgeting AUTOMATIC until a new budget is approved, and why is there a debt ceiling law? https://www.rollcall.com/2020/12/18/congress-to-take-up-two-day-cr-ahead-of-midnight-funding-deadline All they do is create a crisis atmosphere in which legislation gets passed at breakneck speed against a looming deadline, before most legislators have a chance to look at it, much less understand it. That's bad government, right? WRONG! It's how the sausage gets made. If you need to carry a bill for a major donor, the LAST thing you want is a calm deliberate discussion in the clear light of day. Most would get shot down. Instead you sneak a non-germane clause late at night into a huge must-pass bill with an imminent deadline. You can't do that yourself, of course, but your colleagues on the committee will agree to look the other way, because they have their own critical clauses, and they don't want you to slow things down by raising procedural objections. The debt ceiling is currently on hold - but they'll be back. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/whats-in-the-budget-deal-negotiated-by-congress-and-the-white-house/ They are not mechanisms for limiting wasteful government spending, but for enabling wasteful government spending for programs that wouldn't survive calm scrutiny. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_debt_ceiling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuing_resolution If you can't sneak it into a continuing resolution or a debt limit resolution, you can try to get it into a general appropriation bill. For instance today's https://apnews.com/article/ap-top-news-pat-toomey-coronavirus-pandemic-75064ab1007dde0a1411c204df83e888 https://apnews.com/article/congress-900-billion-coronavirus-bill-75389549d3eaf2f3828b16d45c9706e6 5593 pages have these essential added ingredients - "The final agreement would be the largest spending measure yet. It combined COVID-19 relief with a $1.4 trillion government-wide funding plan and lots of other unrelated measures on taxes, health, infrastructure and education. That measure was likely to provide a last $1.4 billion installment for Trump¢s U.S.-Mexico border wall as a condition of winning his signature. The bill was an engine to carry much of Capitol Hill's unfinished business, including an almost 400-page water resources bill that targets $10 billion for 46 Army Corps of Engineers flood control, environmental and coastal protection projects. Another addition would extend a batch of soon-to-expire tax breaks, including one for craft brewers, wineries and distillers. The end-of-session rush also promised relief for victims of shockingly steep surprise medical bills, a phenomenon that often occurs when providers drop out of insurance company networks." And Trump saved the three-martini lunch! https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2020/12/20/meal-tax-deduction/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/12/21/why-republicans-demanded-tax-break-business-lunches/ No doubt every member carefully considered every aspect of each of these add-ons! == https://www.rollcall.com/2020/12/18/congress-to-take-up-two-day-cr-ahead-of-midnight-funding-deadline/ topic politics ===== comments 1 impact 262 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2020-12-20 ratio 4 react 6 reactrate 0 shares 3 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 2 title Why do we have perpetual continuing resolution and budget topic politics wordrate 0 words 437 audclicks 2 audreach 2 commentsimpress 1 commentsusers 1 engaged 4 ID 1318476708496845 impress 31 likeclickusers 3 likeuimpress 20 likeuusers 19 matchedlinkclicks 1 matchedotherclicks 1 oimpress 31 oreach 27 posted "12/20/2020 10:57:43 AM" postlinkclicks 1 postotherclicks 1 reach 27 sharesimpress 3 sharesusers 2 type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1318476708496845 ========== Who's going to be in charge of the Republican Party? https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/12/16/trump-mcconnell-election-biden-president/ The big donor money is likely on McConnell. He's a quiet cannon, not a loose noisy one. == topic politics ===== impact 12 impactrate 0 likeimpress 3 negative 0 posted 2020-12-16 ratio 4 react 4 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 1 title Who's going to be in charge of the Republican Party? topic politics wordrate 0 words 30 audclicks 1 audreach 1 engaged 4 ID 1315620628782453 impress 18 likeclickusers 4 likeimpress 3 likeuimpress 16 likeusers 3 likeuusers 16 matchedlinkclicks 1 oimpress 18 oreach 17 posted "12/16/2020 11:24:15 AM" postlinkclicks 1 reach 17 type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1315620628782453 ========== Anybody for semi-secession? Look at the electoral map. It seems that there are two countries now - a red one in the middle, a blue one on the west coast and the northeast and maybe the upper midwest. It's evident now that the Trumpists will go anywhere and pay any price - https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-election-video/2020/12/02/f6c8d63c-34e8-11eb-a997-1f4c53d2a747_story.html https://wethepeopleconvention.org/articles/WTPC-Urges-Limited-Martial-Law to preserve the noble cause of minority rule before it's lost - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html In response, how about semi-secession to clarify the thinking of the red states about minority rule? Trump wanted to make the unthinkable thinkable, and how he has succeeded, and how much more his successor. So blue states that are so inclined create regional interstate legislative assemblies, that act as debate and negotiation forums to draft model legislation for each participating state, to be enacted by that state's legislature. Each state entering the assembly agrees to enact all model legislation endorsed by a supermajority of the regional assembly. There might be one for the west coast, one for the mid-Atlantic and New England, and perhaps one for the upper Midwest. There's nothing unconstitutional or illegal about that. Nothing is mandatory at the regional level; there is no enforcement or taxation at that level. Instead, like-minded states cooperate more intentionally toward common goals like common state taxation schemes and environmental policies. The regional assemblies could be thought of as uniform act activities involving a limited number of states https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_act rather than an interstate compact which would require Congressional approval, which the red states would withhold. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_compact At the Federal level, representatives of the regional assembly states become the biggest states-rights advocates ever - voting against Federal spending and taxation as the opportunity permits. When the subsidies stop flowing from the blue states to the red states, we'll see if the "states rights" advocates for slavery, then segregation, then suppression of voters, really believe in states rights when it comes to their pocketbooks. There is only one Silicon Valley, one Wall Street, one Hollywood. True there is only one Permian Basin, but there are lots of global suppliers of cheap hydrocarbons to burn, and the regional assembly states would be leading the charge away from burning hydrocarbons anyway. If after all that, the red states still feel they would be better off by themselves, maybe it's time to let that happen. It didn't work for the red states last time because the Confederacy was a feudal agrarian economy that was fast falling behind the rest of the developed world. If that's the noble lost cause they want to recover, let them have their own private fantasy world of magical thinking and faith in the divine right of kings. Time for the red states to get off welfare and stand on their own - as somebody else's natural resources and food colonies! The ultimate dream of Trumpism and minority rule realized at last! https://www.270towin.com/maps/2020-projected-results More at https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-regional.html == topic politics 1 ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2020-12-03 priority 1 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title Anybody for semi-secession? topic politics wordrate 0 words 477 ID 1305953233082526 impress 16 likeuimpress 13 likeuusers 13 oimpress 16 oreach 15 posted "12/03/2020 08:38:17 AM" reach 15 type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1305953233082526 ========== Good new/bad news. Good news is Republicans no longer hide their agenda. Bad news is the agenda. Worse news is that their voters, who would be hurt the most, don't care. "Medicare and Medicaid might have been mistakes." https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/11/29/gop-party-that-cannot-change/ Without voter suppression, "Republicans would never win another election" https://www.businessinsider.com/us-republican-president-mail-in-voting-lindsey-graham-warns-2020-11 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/05/29/trump-just-said-what-republicans-have-been-trying-not-say-years/ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/30/trump-republican-party-voting-reform-coronavirus Nobody ever said enforcing minority rule would be easy. == topic politics 1 ===== impact 36 impactrate 0 likeimpress 2 negative 0 posted 2020-11-29 priority 1 ratio 8 react 6 reactrate 0 shares 2 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 2 title Good new/bad news. Good news is Republicans no topic politics wordrate 0 words 60 audclicks 2 audreach 2 engaged 6 ID 1303303476680835 impress 56 likeclickusers 6 likeimpress 2 likeuimpress 39 likeusers 2 likeuusers 36 matchedlinkclicks 2 oimpress 56 oreach 50 posted "11/29/2020 06:08:08 PM" postlinkclicks 2 reach 50 sharesimpress 2 sharesusers 2 type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1303303476680835 ========== What is the positive Democratic message that unites all Americans? How about The Democratic Party is the REAL DEAL party that dares to REALLY work for good health and good jobs for ALL Americans in order to DELIVER - the forgotten promises Trump's 2016 campaign made to forgotten Americans, by means of bubble-up economics from the bottom 99% instead of trickle-down voodoo economics from the top 1%. as opposed to The Republican Party is the PRETEND DEAL party that dares to PRETEND to work for ALL Americans, but REALLY works to protect the power of its elite 1% ruling class of donors in order to DELIVER - billionaire tax relief, deregulation of corruption and pollution and monopolies, neutered organized labor, as few people allowed to vote as possible, reactionary judges to protect all their deceit How do these things make life better for forgotten Americans? == More at https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-message.html topic politics 1 ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2020-11-29 priority 1 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title What is the positive Democratic message that unites all topic politics wordrate 0 words 151 ID 1303285583349291 impress 25 likeuimpress 22 likeuusers 21 oimpress 25 oreach 22 posted "11/29/2020 05:31:10 PM" reach 22 type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1303285583349291 ========== What is the POSITIVE Democratic message that unites ALL Americans? https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/11/13/elissa-slotkin-braces-for-a-democratic-civil-war-436301 How about "The Democratic Party is the REAL DEAL party that dares to REALLY work for good health and good jobs for ALL Americans" in order to DELIVER on the fake promises of Trump's 2016 campaign, by means of bubble-up economics from the bottom 99% instead of trickle-down voodoo economics from the top 1%, as opposed to The Republican Party is the PRETEND DEAL party that dares to PRETEND to work for ALL Americans, but REALLY works to protect the power of its elite 1% ruling class of donors. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html Billionaire tax relief? Deregulation of corruption and pollution and monopolies, neutering organized labor, allowing as few people to vote as possible? Reactionary judges to protect all their deceit? How do these things make life better for ALL Americans? == William Jennings Bryan - a Trumpist before his time in many ways - actually said it best - "There are two ideas of government. There are those who believe that, if you will only legislate to make the well-to-do prosperous, their prosperity will leak through on those below. The Democratic idea, however, has been that if you legislate to make the masses prosperous, their prosperity will find its way up through every class which rests upon them." == There are three single-issue constituencies among the pillars of Republican minority rule - firearms right-to-life Castro and normalization of relations with Cuba It would be best to leave those issues to be addressed, or not, in each district. Making them pillars of the national Democratic platform is just a gift to Republicans. There are three fear issues that the Republicans manipulate to their advantage - fear of lawlessness fear of immigration voter fraud The Democratic national message must emphasize bringing the rule of law to insure safe streets, orderly legal immigration, and orderly elections, while leaving the details to be addressed appropriately in each district, and noting that the Republican ruling class NEEDS urban unrest to distract voters and NEEDS illegal immigration to supply exploitable workers and NEEDS voter fraud - in the form of voter suppression - to maintain its hold on power. == The national message must be broad enough to encompass the whole party and appeal to all persuadable voters, yet the details have to be worked out to make a winning package in each state and district. Thus leftists who find Joe Manchin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Manchin too conservative should try primarying him out with a leftist and see how much they like the Trumpist that will defeat him, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Blankenship or worse. Trump just turned out all an all-time record number of Republican voters and nearly won, and the Republicans made progress in the House and probably saved the Senate. The Republicans will make further gains in 2022 - the party not in the White House usually does - and Democrats need to start acting now to minimize the damage. The Democrats can't make any progress until they control the Senate, and to do that they have to restore their historical reach in rural areas. Their national message better reflect that. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/senate-states-republican-control/2020/11/18/571573e0-2915-11eb-92b7-6ef17b3fe3b4_story.html The Greens and Libertarians have remarkable ideological purity. On national elections, though, the Greens' greatest successes were electing Bush in 2000 and Trump in 2016, while the Libertarians' was electing Biden in 2020. Don't be like them, Democrats - be a party that can make laws, not just a party of ideals. == topic politics 1 ===== impact 57 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2020-11-22 priority 1 ratio 25 react 1 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 1 title What is the POSITIVE Democratic message that unites ALL topic politics wordrate 0 words 573 audclicks 1 audreach 1 engaged 1 ID 1297867627224420 impress 29 likeclickusers 1 likeuimpress 23 likeuusers 23 matchedlinkclicks 1 oimpress 29 oreach 25 posted "11/22/2020 11:39:04 AM" postlinkclicks 1 reach 25 type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1297867627224420 ========== Some lessons from the election. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/12/opinion/2020-election-voters.html After 2016, it was possible to be discouraged but hopeful. Voters would wise up once they saw what Trump was really up to. After 2020, it is easier to be discouraged and harder to be hopeful. Record numbers of voters like Trump and his enablers and what they do even if it is counter to their interests. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#political%20ideology%20for%20the%20masses In retrospect, in terms of winning the 2020 election, the Democrats' biggest mistake was voting for pandemic economic relief. That made more new, low-information voters feel better economically at election time, so they voted for incumbents. The Republicans would never have been so generous - their plan for Biden is scorched-earth, in hopes of regaining Congress in 2022. But if the Republicans succeed in getting the Democrats to act as poisonously partisan as the Republicans, Vladimir Putin will indeed have won the biggest victory of his career. And so will Strom Thurmond, Newt Gingrich, and the rest of the founders of the modern Republican Party. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html == topic politics 1 ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2020-11-12 priority 1 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title Some lessons from the election. topic politics wordrate 0 words 171 ID 1289862101358306 impress 21 likeuimpress 15 likeuusers 13 oimpress 21 oreach 14 posted "11/12/2020 08:54:14 PM" reach 14 type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1289862101358306 ========== Republican politics in action https://sfist.com/2020/09/14/oracle-wins-tiktok-sweepstakes-rewarding-trump-donor-larry-ellison/ "If TikTok is saved, you can thank me" https://www.businessinsider.com/ellison-donated-250000-to-lindsey-graham-pac-tiktok-2020-10 https://www.cbsnews.com/news/walmart-ticktok-buy-trump-education-fund/ "AI-driven online curriculum to teach children from inner cities to suburbs" using Oracle-provided infrastructure? == topic politics ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2020-10-18 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title Republican politics in action topic politics wordrate 0 words 29 ID 1267765063568010 impress 24 likeuimpress 13 likeuusers 13 oimpress 24 oreach 15 posted "10/18/2020 09:49:23 AM" reach 15 type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1267765063568010 ========== Time for the annual continuing resolution circus For the moment, Pelosi is opposed to bailouts for tobacco farmers https://apnews.com/8c96c1481398cc34404750ced3a9b309 which Trump thought was in the bag https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-farmers-aid/u-s-details-up-to-14-billion-in-new-aid-for-farmers-idUSKBN269261 but it's probably negotiable. Although have you ever heard of a Democratic tobacco farmer in the last 50 years? What seems never to even get on the negotiating table is a bipartisan agreement to pass clean unencumbered continuing resolutions and debt ceiling lifting resolutions. But budget grandstanding polls well with a lot of low-information voters and fits the general political requirement of passing big complex bills at the last minute with very little inspection. That's how big donors get the return on their investment. That's not just politicians being irresponsible - it's politicians being responsive to their major donors. Especially in an election year. https://www.get-to-sixty.net/ == topic politics ===== impact 66 impactrate 0 likeimpress 2 negative 0 posted 2020-09-20 ratio 5 react 5 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 3 title Time for the annual continuing resolution circus topic politics wordrate 0 words 132 audclicks 3 audreach 3 engaged 4 ID 1244363919241458 impress 33 likeclickusers 4 likeimpress 2 likeuimpress 24 likeusers 2 likeuusers 24 matchedlinkclicks 2 matchedotherclicks 1 oimpress 33 oreach 26 posted "09/20/2020 08:50:55 AM" postlinkclicks 2 postotherclicks 1 reach 26 type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1244363919241458 ========== Rallying the storm troopers Carlson thinks he'll be president some day, so he's getting his enforcers ready. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/08/17/we-know-where-you-live-beware-911-call-household-put-blast-by-tucker-carlson/ == topic politics ===== impact 6 impactrate 0 likeimpress 1 negative 0 posted 2020-08-17 ratio 6 react 3 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 2 title Rallying the storm troopers topic politics wordrate 0 words 20 ID 1216330795378104 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1216330795378104 audclicks 2 audreach 2 engaged 3 impress 23 likeclickusers 3 likeimpress 1 likeuimpress 19 likeusers 1 likeuusers 19 matchedlinkclicks 2 oimpress 23 oreach 20 posted "08/17/2020 03:46:38 PM" postlinkclicks 2 reach 20 type Link ========== Boldly following the California Republican Party into irrelevance and oblivion https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/23/us/coronavirus-texas-abbott-republicans.html == topic politics ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2020-07-23 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title Boldly following the California Republican Party into topic politics wordrate 0 words 13 ID 1196884870656030 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1196884870656030 impress 9 likeuimpress 3 likeuusers 3 oimpress 9 oreach 4 posted "07/23/2020 07:36:39 AM" reach 4 type Link ========== Reality-TV politics - it all started with Newt! “Conflict equals exposure equals power” https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/28/opinion/trump-newt-gingrich.html A worthy successor to Preston Brooks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preston_Brooks == topic politics ===== impact 2 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2020-07-08 ratio 14 react 1 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 1 title Reality-TV politics - it all started with Newt! topic politics wordrate 0 words 22 ID 1186013035076547 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1186013035076547 audclicks 1 audreach 1 engaged 1 impress 16 likeclickusers 1 likeuimpress 10 likeuusers 10 matchedlinkclicks 1 oimpress 16 oreach 14 posted "07/08/2020 10:08:59 PM" postlinkclicks 1 reach 14 type Link ========== More ways Trump plans to win in Jacksonville, while some Republican senators are busily scheduling previous engagements. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/republicans-split-over-whether-to-attend-jacksonville-convention/2020/07/07/49867664-c049-11ea-9fdd-b7ac6b051dc8_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/sen-alexander-becomes-second-senior-republican-lawmaker-to-announce-plans-to-skip-gop-convention/2020/07/07/d240ac88-c060-11ea-b4f6-cb39cd8940fb_story.html So what if Herman Cain, Kimberly Guilfoyle and Lenny Curry have gotten exposed to the virus with varying consequences. You might be luckier! This convention was really made for Vegas - a historic oversight. == topic politics 1 ===== comments 1 impact 44 impactrate 0 likeimpress 5 negative 0 posted 2020-07-07 priority 1 ratio 5 react 8 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 2 title More ways Trump plans to win in Jacksonville, while topic politics wordrate 0 words 55 ID 1185089951835522 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1185089951835522 audclicks 2 audreach 2 commentsimpress 1 commentsusers 1 engaged 6 impress 57 likeclickusers 6 likeimpress 5 likeuimpress 51 likeusers 5 likeuusers 41 matchedotherclicks 2 oimpress 57 oreach 43 posted "07/07/2020 05:40:42 PM" postotherclicks 2 reach 43 type Link ========== The future of the Republican Party? https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/md-politics/hogan-memoir-white-house-2024/2020/07/07/51e68962-c070-11ea-b4f6-cb39cd8940fb_story.html Or is the future more like Don Jr or Tucker Carlson? or Stephen Miller or David Duke? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/07/08/why-moderate-republicans-will-have-it-rough-2024/ == topic politics 1 ===== comments 2 hide 1 impact 32 impactrate 0 likeimpress 1 negative 1 posted 2020-07-07 priority 1 ratio 3 react 12 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 8 title The future of the Republican Party? topic politics wordrate 0 words 27 ID 1185038005174050 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1185038005174050 audclicks 8 audreach 6 commentsimpress 2 commentsusers 2 engaged 7 hideclicks 1 hideclicksusers 1 impress 43 likeclickusers 7 likeimpress 1 likeuimpress 38 likeusers 1 likeuusers 35 matchedotherclicks 8 negclicks 1 negusers 1 oimpress 43 oreach 37 posted "07/07/2020 03:43:23 PM" postotherclicks 6 reach 37 type Link ========== Long term planning in a democracy? That's practically an oxymoron. Most voters don't think much longer term than next month's paycheck and rent. It requires leadership to convince voters to put up with short-term pain for long-term gain - and courage - because unforeseen events might wipe out the promised long-term gain. Leadership? Courage? White House? Congress? Talk about oxymorons! https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/24/business/congress-coronavirus-stimulus-bill.html What would it look like? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darkest_Hour_(film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King%27s_Speech Queen Elizabeth remembers the hours her father put into preparing for his wartime radio broadcasts. Thus a man of modest attainments ascended to courageous leadership. But Trump doesn't plan or rehearse his daily virus rallies https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/23/us/politics/coronavirus-trump.html Churchill's courageous leadership led him to be thrown out by the voters as soon as the war was over. But history has been kinder to him than to Chamberlain. == topic politics ===== impact 106 impactrate 0 likeimpress 4 negative 0 posted 2020-04-25 ratio 3 react 8 reactrate 0 shares 1 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 3 title Long term planning in a democracy? topic politics wordrate 0 words 132 ID 1128845777459940 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1128845777459940 audclicks 3 audreach 3 engaged 6 impress 36 likeclickusers 5 likeimpress 4 likeuimpress 30 likeusers 4 likeuusers 29 matchedlinkclicks 1 matchedotherclicks 2 oimpress 36 oreach 30 posted "04/25/2020 08:56:41 AM" postlinkclicks 1 postotherclicks 2 reach 30 sharesimpress 1 sharesusers 1 type Link ========== Fights worth having - the virus is a jolt back to objective reality. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/22/opinion/coronavirus-culture-war.html == topic politics ===== impact 3 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2020-04-22 ratio 5 react 2 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 2 title Fights worth having - the virus is a jolt back to objective topic politics wordrate 0 words 16 ID 1126597677684750 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1126597677684750 audclicks 2 audreach 1 engaged 1 impress 16 likeclickusers 1 likeuimpress 10 likeuusers 10 matchedlinkclicks 2 oimpress 16 oreach 11 posted "04/22/2020 09:27:14 AM" postlinkclicks 1 reach 11 type Link ========== Deadly dysfunction The only winners are America's enemies. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/11/us/politics/wisconsin-politics.html == topic politics ===== impact 8 impactrate 0 likeimpress 4 negative 0 posted 2020-04-13 ratio 5 react 7 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 3 title Deadly dysfunction topic politics wordrate 0 words 11 ID 1119477975063387 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1119477975063387 audclicks 3 audreach 3 engaged 6 impress 49 likeclickusers 6 likeimpress 4 likeuimpress 40 likeusers 4 likeuusers 36 matchedlinkclicks 1 matchedotherclicks 2 oimpress 49 oreach 38 posted "04/13/2020 07:38:15 AM" postlinkclicks 1 postotherclicks 2 reach 38 type Link ========== Gen Z seeks its political identity. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/04/08/gen-z-was-fed-up-with-status-quo-coronavirus-could-reinforce-their-liberal-politics/ == topic politics ===== comments 1 impact 6 impactrate 0 likeimpress 3 negative 0 posted 2020-04-09 ratio 3 react 7 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 3 title Gen Z seeks its political identity. topic politics wordrate 0 words 9 audclicks 3 audreach 2 commentsimpress 1 commentsusers 1 engaged 3 ID 1116569502020901 impress 27 likeclickusers 3 likeimpress 3 likeuimpress 20 likeusers 3 likeuusers 19 matchedotherclicks 3 oimpress 27 oreach 21 posted "04/09/2020 12:57:22 PM" postotherclicks 2 reach 21 type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1116569502020901 ========== What a responsible Republican sounds like. Anybody would be forgiven for thinking they were extinct. You'll never hear Trump talk this way - “I don’t consider myself the brightest guy in the world or the most talented, I think the one skill I really have is I know to bring in smarter people around me and to take advice.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/md-politics/unafraid-to-call-out-trump-hogan-emerges-as-lead-gop-voice-for-urgent-action-on-pandemic/2020/04/04/909b1fae-7527-11ea-85cb-8670579b863d_story.html == topic politics ===== comments 1 impact 248 impactrate 0 likeimpress 11 negative 0 posted 2020-04-05 ratio 1 react 40 reactrate 0 shares 4 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 24 title What a responsible Republican sounds like. topic politics wordrate 0 words 62 ID 1113437789000739 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1113437789000739 audclicks 24 audreach 15 commentsimpress 1 commentsusers 1 engaged 22 impress 92 likeclickusers 21 likeimpress 11 likeuimpress 73 likeusers 11 likeuusers 62 matchedlinkclicks 6 matchedotherclicks 18 oimpress 92 oreach 74 posted "04/05/2020 09:37:30 AM" postlinkclicks 5 postotherclicks 11 reach 74 sharesimpress 4 sharesusers 3 type Link ========== The Cuomo contradiction https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/03/31/can-andrew-cuomo-become-fdr/ Remember how great Giuliani looked right after 9/11 ? The good news about the virus is that it has mostly curtailed his more recent nefarious activities. https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-twitter-deletes-giuliani-tweet-for-spreading-misinformation-2020-3 https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/miriamelder/coronavirus-rudy-giuliani-donald-trump https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/03/opinion/coronavirus-giuliani-trump.html How are the mighty fallen! == topic politics ===== comments 1 impact 96 impactrate 0 likeimpress 12 negative 0 posted 2020-03-31 ratio 2 react 26 reactrate 0 shares 2 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 11 title The Cuomo contradiction topic politics wordrate 0 words 37 ID 1109755442702307 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1109755442702307 audclicks 11 audreach 10 commentsimpress 1 commentsusers 1 engaged 17 impress 74 likeclickusers 16 likeimpress 12 likeuimpress 67 likeusers 12 likeuusers 60 matchedotherclicks 11 oimpress 74 oreach 62 posted "03/31/2020 09:32:53 AM" postotherclicks 10 reach 62 sharesimpress 2 sharesusers 2 type Link ========== Think not that I am come to destroy Trumpism: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. Massie is what Gingrich and Meadows and Jordan and Trump have wrought. They should be proud of him. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/03/27/thomas-massie-is-monster-republicans-created/ https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/27/us/politics/thomas-massie-coronavirus.html Massie's primary opponent is running against him for not being Trumpist enough. Yet Massie is the pure essence of Trumpism. == topic politics ===== comments 2 impact 136 impactrate 0 likeimpress 7 negative 0 posted 2020-03-27 ratio 2 react 23 reactrate 0 shares 1 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 13 title Think not that I am come to destroy Trumpism: I am not topic politics wordrate 0 words 59 ID 1106968402981011 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1106968402981011 audclicks 13 audreach 9 commentsimpress 2 commentsusers 2 engaged 12 impress 68 likeclickusers 12 likeimpress 7 likeuimpress 60 likeusers 7 likeuusers 52 matchedlinkclicks 3 matchedotherclicks 10 oimpress 68 oreach 53 posted "03/27/2020 06:37:11 PM" postlinkclicks 3 postotherclicks 7 reach 53 sharesimpress 1 sharesusers 1 type Link ========== Let's hear it for Jeb Bush! https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/03/11/navarrette-politics-has-the-magical-ability-to-transform-enemies-into-friends/ == topic politics ===== impact 1 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2020-03-12 ratio 24 react 1 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 1 title Let's hear it for Jeb Bush! topic politics wordrate 0 words 9 ID 1095288464149005 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1095288464149005 audclicks 1 audreach 1 engaged 1 impress 28 likeclickusers 1 likeuimpress 23 likeuusers 23 matchedlinkclicks 1 oimpress 28 oreach 24 posted "03/12/2020 06:41:16 PM" postlinkclicks 1 reach 24 type Link ========== Mayor Pete's next job? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/03/02/why-pete-buttigieg-should-be-dnc-chairman/ == topic politics ===== comments 3 impact 18 impactrate 0 likeimpress 12 negative 0 posted 2020-03-02 ratio 3 react 25 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 10 title Mayor Pete's next job? topic politics wordrate 0 words 7 ID 1087836334894218 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1087836334894218 audclicks 10 audreach 8 commentsimpress 3 commentsusers 2 engaged 14 impress 88 likeclickusers 14 likeimpress 12 likeuimpress 81 likeusers 12 likeuusers 82 matchedlinkclicks 1 matchedotherclicks 9 oimpress 88 oreach 86 posted "03/02/2020 03:12:39 PM" postlinkclicks 1 postotherclicks 8 reach 86 type Link ========== Rand Paul stands within a great American tradition. Preston Brooks would be so proud! https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/09/opinion/rand-paul-whistleblower.html == topic politics ===== impact 7 impactrate 0 likeimpress 2 negative 0 posted 2020-02-10 ratio 6 react 4 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 2 title Rand Paul stands within a great American tradition. topic politics wordrate 0 words 17 ID 1071968803147638 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1071968803147638 audclicks 2 audreach 2 engaged 3 impress 30 likeclickusers 3 likeimpress 2 likeuimpress 26 likeusers 2 likeuusers 26 matchedlinkclicks 1 matchedotherclicks 1 oimpress 30 oreach 27 posted "02/10/2020 06:04:44 PM" postlinkclicks 1 postotherclicks 1 reach 27 type Link ========== Thank Trump for delivering the State of the Union Address to its ultimate absurdist address in reality-TV-land. It's time to end the televised charade. It's entirely up to Congress. Most presidents just sent a written report. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/congress-should-put-an-end-to-the-state-of-the-union-for-good/2020/02/07/aa709d86-49db-11ea-9164-d3154ad8a5cd_story.html And the same for the National Prayer Breakfast. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trumps-politicization-of-the-national-prayer-breakfast-is-unholy-and-immoral/2020/02/06/529518e4-4931-11ea-bdbf-1dfb23249293_story.html Pitch defileth the hand that toucheth it. == topic politics ===== comments 2 hide 1 impact 189 impactrate 0 likeimpress 12 negative 1 posted 2020-02-08 ratio 3 react 35 reactrate 0 shares 2 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 18 title Thank Trump for delivering the State of the Union Address topic politics wordrate 0 words 54 ID 1070462216631630 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1070462216631630 audclicks 18 audreach 11 commentsimpress 2 commentsusers 2 engaged 20 hideclicks 1 hideclicksusers 1 impress 125 likeclickusers 20 likeimpress 12 likeuimpress 99 likeusers 12 likeuusers 100 matchedlinkclicks 4 matchedotherclicks 14 negclicks 1 negusers 1 oimpress 125 oreach 123 posted "02/08/2020 05:08:48 PM" postlinkclicks 3 postotherclicks 8 reach 123 sharesimpress 2 sharesusers 2 type Link ========== Infrastructure - talk about it all you like! It's not going anywhere in the Senate. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/01/30/mnuchin-top-democrat-step-up-infrastructure-talks-some-white-house-officials-are-skeptical/ Crumbling infrastructure threatens America's future. But Federal help fixing infrastructure threatens the Trump billionaire tax cut, and that's so much more important! == topic politics ===== impact 16 impactrate 0 likeimpress 2 negative 0 posted 2020-02-03 ratio 8 react 4 reactrate 0 shares 1 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 1 title Infrastructure - talk about it all you like! topic politics wordrate 0 words 40 ID 1066475110363674 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1066475110363674 audclicks 1 audreach 1 engaged 3 impress 35 likeclickusers 3 likeimpress 2 likeuimpress 31 likeusers 2 likeuusers 31 matchedotherclicks 1 oimpress 35 oreach 32 posted "02/03/2020 08:39:11 AM" postotherclicks 1 reach 32 sharesimpress 1 sharesusers 1 type Link ========== A true Trumpist speaks up! https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/02/02/montana-lawmaker-constitution-socialists/ == topic politics ===== comments 10 impact 46 impactrate 0 likeimpress 17 negative 0 posted 2020-02-02 ratio 1 react 58 reactrate 0 shares 3 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 28 title A true Trumpist speaks up! topic politics wordrate 0 words 8 ID 1066090580402127 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1066090580402127 audclicks 28 audreach 12 commentsimpress 10 commentsusers 5 engaged 23 impress 95 likeclickusers 20 likeimpress 17 likeuimpress 88 likeusers 17 likeuusers 86 matchedlinkclicks 5 matchedotherclicks 23 oimpress 95 oreach 90 posted "02/02/2020 08:41:19 PM" postlinkclicks 5 postotherclicks 9 reach 90 sharesimpress 3 sharesusers 3 type Link ========== How to undermine the deep state - the people who have a deep knowledge of what they're doing. The shallow state polls better at Trump rallies because Trumpists get their science from Fox. https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2020/02/01/new-emails-show-how-president-trump-roiled-noaa-during-hurricane-dorian/ It's another form of deregulation - deregulating Federal policy from deep science, facts, and logic - in favor of Lysenko science. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism == topic politics 1 ===== impact 64 impactrate 0 likeimpress 3 negative 0 posted 2020-02-01 priority 1 ratio 2 react 11 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 8 title How to undermine the deep state - the people who have a topic politics wordrate 0 words 58 ID 1064980123846506 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1064980123846506 audclicks 8 audreach 4 engaged 7 impress 32 likeclickusers 7 likeimpress 3 likeuimpress 28 likeusers 3 likeuusers 28 matchedlinkclicks 1 matchedotherclicks 7 oimpress 32 oreach 29 posted "02/01/2020 08:21:54 AM" postlinkclicks 1 postotherclicks 3 reach 29 type Link ========== Daring the president to actually make a deal instead of just talking about it. The major Republican investors aren't giving up any of their tax breaks to fund infrastructure or anything else, and they let their senators and representatives know that loud and clear. Trump is the only one that might be able to bring the Republicans in Congress along. But they are much better at letting concrete proposals die of neglect, while complaining about do-nothing Democrats. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/house-democrats-unveil-760-billion-infrastructure-package--and-call-on-trump-for-bipartisan-push/2020/01/29/2656e2d0-42ce-11ea-b5fc-eefa848cde99_story.html So the next Infrastructure Week will probably be a joke, just like the last three. == topic politics ===== impact 86 impactrate 0 likeimpress 3 negative 0 posted 2020-01-29 ratio 2 react 9 reactrate 0 shares 3 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 3 title Daring the president to actually make a deal instead of topic politics wordrate 0 words 95 ID 1063071004037418 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1063071004037418 audclicks 3 audreach 2 engaged 6 impress 29 likeclickusers 3 likeimpress 3 likeuimpress 25 likeusers 3 likeuusers 25 matchedotherclicks 3 oimpress 29 oreach 26 posted "01/29/2020 03:57:28 PM" postotherclicks 2 reach 26 sharesimpress 3 sharesusers 3 type Link ========== Partisanship has been worse! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preston_Brooks But if Preston Brooks rose from his grave today, would South Carolinians send him back to Congress with a fresh supply of canes? The Trumpists in Congress today are just as ferociously partisan as their forefathers in 1856. And just as corrupt as Aaron Burr - who never went to jail and ended his career as he began, as a lawyer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Burr And lots of South Carolinians don't seem to have a problem with Lindsey Graham. == topic politics ===== impact 8 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2020-01-23 ratio 20 react 1 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 1 title Partisanship has been worse! topic politics wordrate 0 words 82 ID 1058401461171039 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1058401461171039 audclicks 1 audreach 1 engaged 1 impress 23 likeclickusers 1 likeuimpress 19 likeuusers 19 matchedlinkclicks 1 oimpress 23 oreach 20 posted "01/23/2020 09:13:39 AM" postlinkclicks 1 reach 20 type Link ========== Just like Vietnam! https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/afghan-war-plagued-by-mendacity-and-lies-inspector-general-tells-congress/2020/01/15/c65d0d46-37b5-11ea-bf30-ad313e4ec754_story.html If you've forgotten about Vietnam - https://www.nytimes.com/1995/04/16/books/mcnamara-s-retreat.html Another take from the book is that the Vietnam war was about defending LBJ's Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts - the acts that finally broke the back of segregation and launched the southern strategy that converted Dixiecrats into hardcore Republicans, then Trumpists, then Putinists. And what fearsome foe so concerned LBJ? Senate Republicans, especially Goldwater, who would try to ride any indecisiveness in Vietnam into a Republican majority and repeal of the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act. Sound plausible and familiar? == topic politics 1 ===== impact 107 impactrate 0 likeimpress 5 negative 0 posted 2020-01-15 priority 1 ratio 3 react 11 reactrate 0 shares 2 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 4 title Just like Vietnam! topic politics wordrate 0 words 97 ID 1052529488424903 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1052529488424903 audclicks 4 audreach 3 engaged 7 impress 40 likeclickusers 7 likeimpress 5 likeuimpress 35 likeusers 5 likeuusers 35 matchedlinkclicks 1 matchedotherclicks 3 oimpress 40 oreach 37 posted "01/15/2020 10:26:58 PM" postlinkclicks 1 postotherclicks 2 reach 37 sharesimpress 2 sharesusers 2 type Link ========== Whose side is Barr on? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/14/opinion/barr-apple-iphone.html Why, he's on Pio NoNo's side of theocratic rule! https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/29/opinion/william-barr-trump.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syllabus_of_Errors == topic politics 1 ===== comments 1 hide 1 impact 43 impactrate 0 likeimpress 7 negative 1 posted 2020-01-14 priority 1 ratio 2 react 24 reactrate 0 shares 1 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 14 title Whose side is Barr on? topic politics wordrate 0 words 18 ID 1051313285213190 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1051313285213190 audclicks 14 audreach 11 commentsimpress 1 commentsusers 1 engaged 14 hideclicks 1 hideclicksusers 1 impress 59 likeclickusers 14 likeimpress 7 likeuimpress 42 likeusers 7 likeuusers 41 matchedlinkclicks 2 matchedotherclicks 12 negclicks 1 negusers 1 oimpress 59 oreach 55 posted "01/14/2020 03:26:40 PM" postlinkclicks 2 postotherclicks 9 reach 55 sharesimpress 1 sharesusers 1 type Link ========== Must be time to start another Clinton investigation! https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/justice-dept-winds-down-clinton-related-inquiry-once-championed-by-trump-it-found-nothing-of-consequence/2020/01/09/ca83932e-32f9-11ea-a053-dc6d944ba776_story.html Most exonerated politician ever! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/01/12/hillary-clinton-most-exonerated-politician-ever/ == topic politics ===== comments 1 impact 14 impactrate 0 likeimpress 2 negative 0 posted 2020-01-10 ratio 3 react 9 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 6 title Must be time to start another Clinton investigation! topic politics wordrate 0 words 15 ID 1046990972312088 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1046990972312088 audclicks 6 audreach 5 commentsimpress 1 commentsusers 1 engaged 6 impress 34 likeclickusers 6 likeimpress 2 likeuimpress 28 likeusers 2 likeuusers 26 matchedotherclicks 6 oimpress 34 oreach 28 posted "01/10/2020 05:57:48 AM" postotherclicks 5 reach 28 type Link ========== He's planning to run for president in 4 years based on his brilliant handling of Iran! https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/07/world/middleeast/pompeo-trump.html Kansas senator was too small a prize for such a brilliant strategist. It might be a good idea for Pompeo to avoid foreign airports, though, as the Iranians are no doubt well aware of his role as architect of some of their grief. == topic politics 1 ===== impact 32 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2020-01-07 priority 1 ratio 3 react 5 reactrate 0 shares 1 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 4 title He's planning to run for president in 4 years based on topic politics wordrate 0 words 63 ID 1044690845875434 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1044690845875434 audclicks 4 audreach 2 engaged 2 impress 24 likeclickusers 2 likeuimpress 17 likeuusers 17 matchedotherclicks 4 oimpress 24 oreach 19 posted "01/07/2020 06:18:21 PM" postotherclicks 2 reach 19 sharesimpress 1 sharesusers 1 type Link