| Title | Date | Im- press | En- gage | Ex- pand | URL- clicks | Like | Re- tweet | Link to Text | Link to Tweet |
| Weird Al explains the debate | 2020-09-30 | 56 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1311452210568417280 | 1311452210568417280 |
| How is Trump a threat to national security? | 2020-09-30 | 47 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1311447014962425856 | 1311447014962425856 |
| Fox and Friends try to break the bad news gently! | 2020-09-30 | 42 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1311441858149543938 | 1311441858149543938 |
| If the act like Brown Shirts - they they are Brown Shirts | 2020-09-30 | 35 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1311440109581950976 | 1311440109581950976 |
| California should take wildfire preparation as seriously | 2020-09-30 | 59 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1311414117182267392 | 1311414117182267392 |
| Give credit where due - some Trump administration | 2020-09-30 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1311411814169669632 | 1311411814169669632 |
| Not long for the Trump administration! | 2020-09-30 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1311406192355282944 | 1311406192355282944 |
| Trump paid lots of taxes! He said so himself! Who knew? | 2020-09-30 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1311405259508465664 | 1311405259508465664 |
| Not on the mainstream ever? | 2020-09-30 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1311367590988578817 | 1311367590988578817 |
| Zoom booms! Its gain is their loss though - | 2020-09-30 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1311364315178434560 | 1311364315178434560 |
| The Apprentice paid for it all! | 2020-09-30 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1311355932287197184 | 1311355932287197184 |
| What we learned in 1800 - | 2020-09-30 | 35 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1311351217381994496 | 1311351217381994496 |
| The cranks keep cranking away! | 2020-09-30 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1311347763804647425 | 1311347763804647425 |
| A Second Amendment champion - five handguns, two rifles, | 2020-09-30 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1311306515077197826 | 1311306515077197826 |
| Republicans want to deter minority voters - this is news? | 2020-09-30 | 26 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1311305510818213889 | 1311305510818213889 |
| Specifics of Trump tax abuse | 2020-09-30 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1311302890946871297 | 1311302890946871297 |
| First presidential debate - unconditional victory for | 2020-09-30 | 112 | 14 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1311175210024886272 | 1311175210024886272 |
| What happens if you just let what happens, happen? | 2020-09-29 | 133 | 21 | 19 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1310780295520509952 | 1310780295520509952 |
| It's good to have foreign contacts if you need a loan or | 2020-09-29 | 78 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1310773132098060288 | 1310773132098060288 |
| Why people with a lot of debt are security risks. | 2020-09-29 | 64 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1310771726142169088 | 1310771726142169088 |
| Look at what Trump has done for Ohio auto workers! | 2020-09-29 | 60 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1310768420854493184 | 1310768420854493184 |
| One more time - do whatever you can to take care of | 2020-09-29 | 57 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1310767510111756288 | 1310767510111756288 |
| One more bad choice to cap a long career of bad choices! | 2020-09-29 | 58 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1310765742250369024 | 1310765742250369024 |
| Seasonal Affective Disorder might be extreme this year! | 2020-09-29 | 66 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1310764725756506113 | 1310764725756506113 |
| “I paid many millions of dollars in taxes but was | 2020-09-29 | 60 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1310760936890707968 | 1310760936890707968 |
| "It's the hiding of a vulnerability that is a real | 2020-09-29 | 61 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1310759731204513793 | 1310759731204513793 |
| Unanswered questions! | 2020-09-29 | 56 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1310746463740153856 | 1310746463740153856 |
| Everybody needs to pass some kind of stimulus bill before | 2020-09-29 | 150 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1310745244015554560 | 1310745244015554560 |
| The New York Times article was filled with inaccuracies! | 2020-09-29 | 66 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1310743513282215942 | 1310743513282215942 |
| Maintaining minority rule is hard. Never reveal your | 2020-09-29 | 61 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1310740436474982400 | 1310740436474982400 |
| Trumpists hope that the Supreme Court fight will take the | 2020-09-28 | 113 | 23 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1310688146988789760 | 1310688146988789760 |
| "Donald Trump needs this election to be about Joe Biden. | 2020-09-28 | 59 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1310685363837362176 | 1310685363837362176 |
| There's a good reason to keep cutting the IRS enforcement | 2020-09-28 | 53 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1310673432065892352 | 1310673432065892352 |
| Silence of the lambs! | 2020-09-28 | 85 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1310663431389732864 | 1310663431389732864 |
| Miracles still happen! | 2020-09-28 | 61 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1310648740353658880 | 1310648740353658880 |
| Trump has three wishes for the new Supreme Court that he | 2020-09-28 | 57 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1310646923393548288 | 1310646923393548288 |
| There might not be ANY persuadable undecideds. | 2020-09-28 | 62 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1310623303611031552 | 1310623303611031552 |
| The real election threat - intentional disinformation! | 2020-09-28 | 49 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1310607426484236289 | 1310607426484236289 |
| It hurts to be close to Trump! | 2020-09-28 | 54 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1310409749611986945 | 1310409749611986945 |
| Talking about a corrupt election is music to Putin's ears. | 2020-09-28 | 58 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1310383607362453505 | 1310383607362453505 |
| Trump has high hopes for Roe v Wade. | 2020-09-28 | 50 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1310382261460545537 | 1310382261460545537 |
| Expect foreign ransomware attacks over the next couple | 2020-09-28 | 58 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1310376217711751168 | 1310376217711751168 |
| Trump taxes - free summary of NYT reporting - | 2020-09-27 | 130 | 17 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1310353485532000256 | 1310353485532000256 |
| Paying taxes? telling the truth? - that's for suckers! | 2020-09-27 | 77 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1310344479925178368 | 1310344479925178368 |
| This is what the deep state looks like - dedicated | 2020-09-27 | 71 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1310338560440983552 | 1310338560440983552 |
| Collecting data for future reference! | 2020-09-27 | 71 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1310331037239537665 | 1310331037239537665 |
| Good news for Biden | 2020-09-27 | 70 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1310329587981713408 | 1310329587981713408 |
| The unpersuadables! They don't care what Trump's | 2020-09-27 | 77 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1310323752316534784 | 1310323752316534784 |
| Good news for major Trump donors! | 2020-09-27 | 87 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1310318929710120961 | 1310318929710120961 |
| Susan Collins is far from the worst Republican senator. | 2020-09-27 | 68 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1310278575535190017 | 1310278575535190017 |
| It's always good to get a second opinion! | 2020-09-27 | 66 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1310275048125546496 | 1310275048125546496 |
| Selling the sizzle instead of the steak. | 2020-09-27 | 72 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1310274361283104773 | 1310274361283104773 |
| How Israel tested a bomb? | 2020-09-27 | 70 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1310253942677237760 | 1310253942677237760 |
| Partial disclosure is unhelpful to the public but useful | 2020-09-27 | 67 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1310209786282090497 | 1310209786282090497 |
| Bad news - air travel is an ideal way to spread virus. | 2020-09-27 | 67 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1310206731637518337 | 1310206731637518337 |
| The Supreme Court used to be political, but Congress did | 2020-09-27 | 66 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1310202352062722053 | 1310202352062722053 |
| Minority rule is a downward spiral. | 2020-09-27 | 58 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1310199836558241797 | 1310199836558241797 |
| No debate - Biden and Trump will just talk past each | 2020-09-27 | 78 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1310102232713453568 | 1310102232713453568 |
| Whether they admit it or not, almost everybody's made up | 2020-09-27 | 69 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1310097503308582912 | 1310097503308582912 |
| All congressional districts would matter if states | 2020-09-27 | 59 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1310095674491326464 | 1310095674491326464 |
| Ultimately the unfavorable outcomes or do-nothing | 2020-09-27 | 82 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1310094014641651713 | 1310094014641651713 |
| Airlines must not be important enough donors to get either | 2020-09-27 | 67 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1310091898049032193 | 1310091898049032193 |
| Unconvincing argument for filibuster. | 2020-09-27 | 59 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1310087397992849409 | 1310087397992849409 |
| Court packing is a dead end. | 2020-09-27 | 65 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1310085784288948224 | 1310085784288948224 |
| How hard is it to find somebody more corrupt than Trump? | 2020-09-27 | 74 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1310085032908713985 | 1310085032908713985 |
| American politics, including courts, are driven by two | 2020-09-26 | 81 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1309854609360351237 | 1309854609360351237 |
| Is Amy Coney Barrett really a role model for her | 2020-09-26 | 100 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1309847964538425345 | 1309847964538425345 |
| Taking another look at The Civil War | 2020-09-26 | 70 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1309845689250193408 | 1309845689250193408 |
| Trump succeeds where Reagan and Bush failed. They | 2020-09-26 | 67 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1309843463559507968 | 1309843463559507968 |
| Total surveillance - China leads the way. | 2020-09-26 | 53 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1309842663714115584 | 1309842663714115584 |
| It's hard to believe all those memos meant anything other | 2020-09-26 | 59 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1309718124053147649 | 1309718124053147649 |
| Tucker Carlson, like Trump and the rest of the Trumpists, | 2020-09-26 | 73 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1309704127354531842 | 1309704127354531842 |
| Who would want to be first in line for a vaccine released | 2020-09-26 | 65 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1309701550068043776 | 1309701550068043776 |
| Unpleasant parallels! | 2020-09-26 | 70 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1309655062977949698 | 1309655062977949698 |
| Presidential "debates" are pretty useless - they just talk | 2020-09-26 | 80 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1309653257279561728 | 1309653257279561728 |
| Maybe it's just as well Romney was never elected president. | 2020-09-26 | 62 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1309652047571034112 | 1309652047571034112 |
| So which decisions were wrongly decided? Roe v Wade | 2020-09-26 | 104 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1309650775920967682 | 1309650775920967682 |
| Is McConnell going to call the vote before or after the | 2020-09-25 | 98 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1309629284516945920 | 1309629284516945920 |
| Why accept any paid political advertising from a week | 2020-09-25 | 66 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1309627256331882496 | 1309627256331882496 |
| Having Republican state legislators choose electors | 2020-09-25 | 67 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1309625920550875136 | 1309625920550875136 |
| Approving a vaccine is not the end. It's just the | 2020-09-25 | 67 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1309623986221797376 | 1309623986221797376 |
| Don't panic - just vote! | 2020-09-25 | 62 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1309622855001202688 | 1309622855001202688 |
| No recovery for 4000 local businesses | 2020-09-25 | 61 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1309619082115731456 | 1309619082115731456 |
| The rest of the world is no longer laughing at America. | 2020-09-25 | 96 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1309593632668700672 | 1309593632668700672 |
| State legislatures have the right to determine presidential | 2020-09-25 | 61 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1309590121147031552 | 1309590121147031552 |
| The Missouri Compromise didn't settle a thing. | 2020-09-25 | 67 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1309559334037147648 | 1309559334037147648 |
| Biden should mostly stick to the facts, but if he wants | 2020-09-25 | 102 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1309532921586356224 | 1309532921586356224 |
| Supreme Court - abortion is for Trump voters, but | 2020-09-25 | 72 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1309501101276762112 | 1309501101276762112 |
| A born-again Lysenko. As well as a born-again | 2020-09-25 | 57 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1309466185247776768 | 1309466185247776768 |
| A reliable Trumpist vote! | 2020-09-25 | 79 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1309464773956755456 | 1309464773956755456 |
| Even Chad Wolf recognizes that white supremacists pose | 2020-09-25 | 71 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1309352454765518855 | 1309352454765518855 |
| 87 pages of nothing! Your tax dollars at work! | 2020-09-25 | 55 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1309350681518587904 | 1309350681518587904 |
| Trump strikes back at tech companies that treat lies | 2020-09-25 | 59 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1309347573157605376 | 1309347573157605376 |
| Election officials worry about trying to figure out what | 2020-09-25 | 57 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1309302627050504192 | 1309302627050504192 |
| Trump proudly announces today - | 2020-09-25 | 92 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1309300949463097344 | 1309300949463097344 |
| Federal courts embrace full speed ahead on voter | 2020-09-25 | 55 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1309296603929300992 | 1309296603929300992 |
| Republicans try to make the best of a bad situation - | 2020-09-25 | 66 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1309291887908462592 | 1309291887908462592 |
| Predictions four years ago - amazed at how many came true? | 2020-09-25 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1309289256657932288 | 1309289256657932288 |
| All the ways things could go bad. | 2020-09-25 | 55 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1309286960674947072 | 1309286960674947072 |
| The Trumpists are taking active step to suppress votes. | 2020-09-25 | 50 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1309283583857627136 | 1309283583857627136 |
| The promise of a Republican! | 2020-09-24 | 121 | 19 | 18 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1309264061331251202 | 1309264061331251202 |
| Eliminating minority culture and thought. | 2020-09-24 | 58 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1309143078519943169 | 1309143078519943169 |
| Trump has tremendous trust in drug companies! | 2020-09-24 | 53 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1309139005490032654 | 1309139005490032654 |
| Let America be America again! | 2020-09-24 | 52 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1309136572378419202 | 1309136572378419202 |
| How the swamp works | 2020-09-24 | 50 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1309119728074608641 | 1309119728074608641 |
| Justices could solve this problem themselves. | 2020-09-24 | 56 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1309008597096058882 | 1309008597096058882 |
| As we said back in the 1960's - the majority is not silent. | 2020-09-24 | 58 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1309005819401338882 | 1309005819401338882 |
| Anything to avoid talking about the virus or Obamacare! | 2020-09-24 | 57 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1308974335777005578 | 1308974335777005578 |
| Roe v. Wade is a decoy. | 2020-09-24 | 62 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1308971935225831425 | 1308971935225831425 |
| Still no national plan for testing, because that would | 2020-09-24 | 61 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1308970223542898691 | 1308970223542898691 |
| Rand Paul just told the truth about how he feels, and | 2020-09-24 | 70 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1308966245052620800 | 1308966245052620800 |
| The new Supreme Court will invalidate Obamacare as | 2020-09-24 | 60 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1308964401022631939 | 1308964401022631939 |
| There's only one acceptable outcome to the election, | 2020-09-24 | 64 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1308959287989870592 | 1308959287989870592 |
| The 60's and 70's were not always inferior to our present. | 2020-09-24 | 45 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1308958245281697792 | 1308958245281697792 |
| Effective Altruism - who's up to the challenge? | 2020-09-24 | 61 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1308956605669539840 | 1308956605669539840 |
| Thinking about protecting democracy? | 2020-09-23 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1308918529580773377 | 1308918529580773377 |
| Who needs security review training if the boss has already | 2020-09-23 | 57 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1308913216651755522 | 1308913216651755522 |
| Being a Trump doesn't work any more in NY? Unfortunately | 2020-09-23 | 63 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1308911671243665410 | 1308911671243665410 |
| Ideas for enabling majority rule. | 2020-09-23 | 58 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1308910898594095109 | 1308910898594095109 |
| A genuine success for Pompeo? | 2020-09-23 | 81 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1308908893419048960 | 1308908893419048960 |
| Cindy McCain endorses Biden | 2020-09-23 | 58 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1308860698651435008 | 1308860698651435008 |
| Surprise! Everybody remembered that an election is in | 2020-09-23 | 57 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1308860268059992065 | 1308860268059992065 |
| Another casualty of the virus - public transportation. | 2020-09-23 | 67 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1308859800319594502 | 1308859800319594502 |
| Always ready to make a deal - with other people's money, | 2020-09-23 | 122 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1308839828314894338 | 1308839828314894338 |
| Maintaining minority rule is never easy. | 2020-09-23 | 53 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1308838144649895941 | 1308838144649895941 |
| Putin is happy because Fox, Infowars, QAnon, etc are doing | 2020-09-23 | 76 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1308834440387465218 | 1308834440387465218 |
| The firus impact on cultural institutions could be its | 2020-09-23 | 56 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1308832234904915969 | 1308832234904915969 |
| It's official - the Republican senators will approve | 2020-09-23 | 70 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1308830735533510661 | 1308830735533510661 |
| Things weren't so different 100 years ago | 2020-09-23 | 50 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1308828756417544192 | 1308828756417544192 |
| Chinese interference is done differently from Russian | 2020-09-23 | 48 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1308823958389551104 | 1308823958389551104 |
| Should local governments be able to spend taxpayer dollars | 2020-09-23 | 46 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1308822552173637632 | 1308822552173637632 |
| Ted Cruz - the Senate's watchdog against partisanship! | 2020-09-23 | 49 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1308772717131251712 | 1308772717131251712 |
| Republicans criticize unemployment office | 2020-09-23 | 56 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1308771808414298113 | 1308771808414298113 |
| Income inequality prolonging depression? | 2020-09-23 | 45 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1308771003888066561 | 1308771003888066561 |
| You'll notice that Article III does NOT say that the | 2020-09-23 | 56 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1308645590033510401 | 1308645590033510401 |
| Does anybody really doubt Putin is in charge? | 2020-09-22 | 286 | 24 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1308400491626467330 | 1308400491626467330 |
| Money talks, making this election even noisier. | 2020-09-22 | 80 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1308242648650588161 | 1308242648650588161 |
| Hawley won't confirm anyone who would allow Roe v Wade. | 2020-09-22 | 117 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1308240770483200000 | 1308240770483200000 |
| Don't let Trump distract you. The presidential | 2020-09-22 | 72 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1308236928643338240 | 1308236928643338240 |
| Republican senators could figure out the right thing to | 2020-09-22 | 71 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1308227585654943744 | 1308227585654943744 |
| "Confirm thy soul in self control Thy liberty in law" | 2020-09-22 | 71 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1308225927457824770 | 1308225927457824770 |
| "It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole | 2020-09-22 | 118 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1308223788123742208 | 1308223788123742208 |
| Trumpists always choose the best role models - Xi, | 2020-09-21 | 799 | 44 | 44 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1308123188245614592 | 1308123188245614592 |
| How the money moves around! | 2020-09-21 | 69 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1308121336833736704 | 1308121336833736704 |
| Deregulated banks and stock market crashes - it's happened | 2020-09-21 | 71 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1308120582148423680 | 1308120582148423680 |
| The new Supreme Court will certainly look at redistricting | 2020-09-21 | 60 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1308119841983721473 | 1308119841983721473 |
| Trump and McConnell are going to get what they want. | 2020-09-21 | 56 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1308118916313411585 | 1308118916313411585 |
| Why every last Republican senator has to go! | 2020-09-21 | 61 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1308115680953212928 | 1308115680953212928 |
| New life for racist and imperialist statues. | 2020-09-21 | 64 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1308075402645008385 | 1308075402645008385 |
| Trump and Barr declare war on blue cities! | 2020-09-21 | 67 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1308071178674737154 | 1308071178674737154 |
| Why not have term limits - active Supreme Court justices | 2020-09-21 | 68 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1308070505832800257 | 1308070505832800257 |
| It's about Obamacare, not abortion. | 2020-09-21 | 55 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1308043625926811649 | 1308043625926811649 |
| Another way to increase turnout in Florida. | 2020-09-21 | 56 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1308038696696905729 | 1308038696696905729 |
| How Trump is draining the swamp - one Trumpist at a time! | 2020-09-21 | 58 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1308028447529164802 | 1308028447529164802 |
| What the stock market is saying now? | 2020-09-21 | 80 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1308027069134065664 | 1308027069134065664 |
| Deranged conspiracy theorist gets 2 million followers. | 2020-09-21 | 72 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1308026147670638593 | 1308026147670638593 |
| Scorched earth politics destroy democracy. | 2020-09-21 | 48 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1307886236095246337 | 1307886236095246337 |
| It's a good thing Trump doesn't have this degree of | 2020-09-21 | 49 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1307882766332174337 | 1307882766332174337 |
| DeSantis has his favored candidate too! | 2020-09-21 | 125 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1307881386045370373 | 1307881386045370373 |
| Prevent Avoidable Constitutional Crises! | 2020-09-21 | 46 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1307875190710218752 | 1307875190710218752 |
| He does deserve a statue - | 2020-09-21 | 52 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1307839272515284993 | 1307839272515284993 |
| End Republican Minority Rule! | 2020-09-20 | 68 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1307802669050859520 | 1307802669050859520 |
| Tangible tribute to Ginsburg's legacy | 2020-09-20 | 61 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1307777503679840256 | 1307777503679840256 |
| Preview of future actions? | 2020-09-20 | 56 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1307770311455068161 | 1307770311455068161 |
| Slow steady bipartisan progress. | 2020-09-20 | 61 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1307761005997338624 | 1307761005997338624 |
| Not all who cry Wolf are wrong. | 2020-09-20 | 57 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1307758374369468416 | 1307758374369468416 |
| Our next Supreme Court justice. | 2020-09-20 | 87 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1307751747645927425 | 1307751747645927425 |
| Surgery practice on detained migrant women | 2020-09-20 | 55 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1307712226195730437 | 1307712226195730437 |
| "the numbers used to divide up seats in Congress are due | 2020-09-20 | 70 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1307711195982438400 | 1307711195982438400 |
| What does transgender athletics have to do with | 2020-09-20 | 58 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1307709389214633985 | 1307709389214633985 |
| In the last 50 years, have you ever heard of a Democratic | 2020-09-20 | 55 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1307691751847600128 | 1307691751847600128 |
| Rural hysteria | 2020-09-20 | 52 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1307688639548157952 | 1307688639548157952 |
| Techniques for discerning fake news, propaganda, and | 2020-09-20 | 54 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1307686815155986432 | 1307686815155986432 |
| Who can deliver the goods, and who's just a salesman? | 2020-09-19 | 55 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1307315286790471680 | 1307315286790471680 |
| Time to enlarge the Supreme Court? | 2020-09-19 | 58 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1307314113203191808 | 1307314113203191808 |
| Drug companies decline to participate in Trump pre-election | 2020-09-19 | 58 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1307188543635165184 | 1307188543635165184 |
| Trump remembers that Puerto Ricans vote - if they live in | 2020-09-19 | 54 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1307187276674260993 | 1307187276674260993 |
| Offenses of the Republican Party against American Democracy | 2020-09-19 | 144 | 58 | 58 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1307127793050845184 | 1307127793050845184 |
| Offenses of Trump against the Republican Party | 2020-09-19 | 78 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1307127644782239744 | 1307127644782239744 |
| The fundamental offense of Donald Trump against America | 2020-09-19 | 61 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1307127421968297986 | 1307127421968297986 |
| Prayers answered for McConnell, Barr, and Trump. | 2020-09-19 | 70 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1307118142632722434 | 1307118142632722434 |
| Facebook is not up to the task of dealing with QAnon. | 2020-09-18 | 120 | 27 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1307047415808221185 | 1307047415808221185 |
| Don't they all understand that they are working for Trump? | 2020-09-18 | 54 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1307045821670723586 | 1307045821670723586 |
| Why does Barr bother trying to maintain a facade? | 2020-09-18 | 53 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1307024476777791488 | 1307024476777791488 |
| Life on the bottom - you can't do this job by zoom. | 2020-09-18 | 47 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1306998272356044800 | 1306998272356044800 |
| Police fatigue | 2020-09-18 | 50 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1306996797382955008 | 1306996797382955008 |
| Why "law and order" worked for Nixon but not Trump. | 2020-09-18 | 51 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1306995313157177344 | 1306995313157177344 |
| One of Trump's greatest successes - deregulation. | 2020-09-18 | 49 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1306994003812917249 | 1306994003812917249 |
| Profiles in Cowardice | 2020-09-18 | 51 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1306992988359282688 | 1306992988359282688 |
| Chris Coons for secretary of state. | 2020-09-18 | 56 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1306990262384644096 | 1306990262384644096 |
| Trump did as much as he could - to insure his re-election. | 2020-09-18 | 51 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1306973561580482560 | 1306973561580482560 |
| If it ain't broke don't fix it? | 2020-09-18 | 52 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1306962206248988672 | 1306962206248988672 |
| A perfect channel for propaganda | 2020-09-18 | 45 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1306941267511705600 | 1306941267511705600 |
| The ambition of corporate executives must be checked by | 2020-09-18 | 46 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1306938567491371009 | 1306938567491371009 |
| Fraud Guarantee! | 2020-09-18 | 44 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1306827633892577280 | 1306827633892577280 |
| The difference between the modern Democratic Party and the | 2020-09-18 | 39 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1306817212871663616 | 1306817212871663616 |
| Sounds like he means pushing more "pro-Trump" history. | 2020-09-18 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1306814948853469185 | 1306814948853469185 |
| Some people avoid problems by learning from the experiences | 2020-09-18 | 39 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1306813215272173568 | 1306813215272173568 |
| Who can make Jeff Sessions look like a model of | 2020-09-18 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1306811925464903680 | 1306811925464903680 |
| Gathering reinforcements to fight voter suppression | 2020-09-18 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1306801531732160513 | 1306801531732160513 |
| Republicans adopt a Silicon Valley career move - starting | 2020-09-18 | 43 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1306800413144834048 | 1306800413144834048 |
| No looking back! | 2020-09-18 | 42 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1306794725458849793 | 1306794725458849793 |
| The new pledge of allegiance | 2020-09-18 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1306793343263936517 | 1306793343263936517 |
| One more leaf falls from the tree | 2020-09-18 | 39 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1306792631587004416 | 1306792631587004416 |
| Believe it - Putin is still at it! | 2020-09-18 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1306790622930636805 | 1306790622930636805 |
| It's a big secret surprise! Trump will announce his | 2020-09-17 | 110 | 13 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1306595781290254337 | 1306595781290254337 |
| Congress can put together trillions of dollars | 2020-09-17 | 68 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1306594485686550532 | 1306594485686550532 |
| Cleaning up the Federal government - clearing out the | 2020-09-17 | 65 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1306593060466253826 | 1306593060466253826 |
| A proposal to deny election victory to Vladimir Putin. | 2020-09-17 | 62 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1306591833162612740 | 1306591833162612740 |
| Turmoil in the post office - became critical with the | 2020-09-17 | 61 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1306589784421277702 | 1306589784421277702 |
| Gimme that new time religion! | 2020-09-17 | 67 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1306574559722631170 | 1306574559722631170 |
| Barr finds sedition in violent protests, and maybe | 2020-09-17 | 65 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1306433538359570437 | 1306433538359570437 |
| The end of gradual improvement in global living standards. | 2020-09-17 | 66 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1306432087122092035 | 1306432087122092035 |
| Who needs third-party presidential candidates? | 2020-09-17 | 74 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1306431095123050496 | 1306431095123050496 |
| Trump fired him for getting in his way. Why not just | 2020-09-17 | 66 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1306426347519057920 | 1306426347519057920 |
| Nothing spontaneous - a carefully planned event! | 2020-09-17 | 65 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1306425720176951299 | 1306425720176951299 |
| Barr tells all. It's junior bureaucrats who are | 2020-09-17 | 74 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1306425465222045696 | 1306425465222045696 |
| America First is looking like America Alone. | 2020-09-17 | 65 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1306421160893009920 | 1306421160893009920 |
| Trump's finally gotten his man in the Dept of Justice. | 2020-09-17 | 57 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1306413234971312128 | 1306413234971312128 |
| Apocalypse now? Way too many people are looking | 2020-09-17 | 58 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1306409744777662465 | 1306409744777662465 |
| Trump peace plan for Middle East - sell more bombs that | 2020-09-17 | 64 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1306407411612184576 | 1306407411612184576 |
| It might be a good idea for a Democratic senator to | 2020-09-17 | 55 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1306393365093609476 | 1306393365093609476 |
| If you announce that everything you do is for political | 2020-09-16 | 105 | 12 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1306353813750607872 | 1306353813750607872 |
| Why wouldn't an amateur president use amateur diplomats? | 2020-09-16 | 61 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1306352798288625664 | 1306352798288625664 |
| American influence declines | 2020-09-16 | 46 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1306229984973869057 | 1306229984973869057 |
| Lists of potential judges considered harmful. | 2020-09-16 | 45 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1306223306689802241 | 1306223306689802241 |
| Why can't Trump do as much as Nixon did? | 2020-09-16 | 50 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1306211244659990528 | 1306211244659990528 |
| Still delusional about his own competence! | 2020-09-16 | 44 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1306209737608847360 | 1306209737608847360 |
| Superspreading from rural Maine | 2020-09-16 | 48 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1306208479875485697 | 1306208479875485697 |
| Somebody is doing something about preventing Russian | 2020-09-16 | 45 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1306062349854416896 | 1306062349854416896 |
| Scientific American endorses a presidential candidate for | 2020-09-16 | 48 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1306061489741078528 | 1306061489741078528 |
| Q was right about something! | 2020-09-16 | 49 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1306041177037185024 | 1306041177037185024 |
| Which is the parody? It's getting hard to tell these | 2020-09-15 | 75 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1306004916545007616 | 1306004916545007616 |
| Desperatedly trying to change the topic from Russian | 2020-09-15 | 54 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1306004587493560320 | 1306004587493560320 |
| Turning Point - toward Russian methods. | 2020-09-15 | 56 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1306003041053626369 | 1306003041053626369 |
| Third party presidential candidates are counter-productive. | 2020-09-15 | 52 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1306000226914762752 | 1306000226914762752 |
| Climate migration - how it works in Central America. | 2020-09-15 | 51 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1305976417272823808 | 1305976417272823808 |
| Trump even makes up stuff to tell Fox! | 2020-09-15 | 52 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1305965453617979392 | 1305965453617979392 |
| Trump won't shut up even if he leaves the White House. | 2020-09-15 | 54 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1305964200200527872 | 1305964200200527872 |
| Scotland rejects Boris Johnson's Trumpism. | 2020-09-15 | 53 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1305963071513346048 | 1305963071513346048 |
| Climate migration - it will be bad enough in America. | 2020-09-15 | 52 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1305961255274856448 | 1305961255274856448 |
| Sorry, 2021 will not be like 2019. Maybe 2022 | 2020-09-15 | 51 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1305956359301509120 | 1305956359301509120 |
| Work from home! | 2020-09-15 | 51 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1305955217796509698 | 1305955217796509698 |
| Limbaugh and Carlson agree with Trump on climate, as long | 2020-09-15 | 52 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1305953959668924416 | 1305953959668924416 |
| Caputo really needs a nice long absence. | 2020-09-15 | 48 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1305953174843355136 | 1305953174843355136 |
| The Republicans reject the House relief bill passed | 2020-09-15 | 52 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1305952262527676416 | 1305952262527676416 |
| Trump says not to worry about climate because it will | 2020-09-15 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1305936562014662656 | 1305936562014662656 |
| Amazon hiring! | 2020-09-15 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1305931502258061313 | 1305931502258061313 |
| Trumpists deconstruct modern government. They don't have | 2020-09-15 | 44 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1305877930728284160 | 1305877930728284160 |
| Who's ready for the election and who's not? | 2020-09-15 | 46 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1305875036100673537 | 1305875036100673537 |
| What's Trump's campaign strategy? | 2020-09-15 | 46 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1305873627460501505 | 1305873627460501505 |
| Over-leverage come back to bite you? Don't worry, major | 2020-09-15 | 43 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1305872517048020994 | 1305872517048020994 |
| The self-confidence of a salesman! | 2020-09-15 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1305870709802110976 | 1305870709802110976 |
| There are problem solvers in Congress. | 2020-09-15 | 52 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1305867744903139328 | 1305867744903139328 |
| Don't get sick now, the state can't afford you. | 2020-09-15 | 46 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1305857423891214337 | 1305857423891214337 |
| Finally time to move on from slavery | 2020-09-15 | 44 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1305853450740092930 | 1305853450740092930 |
| Trump always has a list of witnesses who weren't there - | 2020-09-15 | 43 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1305851495678500866 | 1305851495678500866 |
| Cults for the internet. | 2020-09-15 | 46 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1305742456260931585 | 1305742456260931585 |
| It's a drug he can't resist! | 2020-09-15 | 44 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1305701139833208832 | 1305701139833208832 |
| Is South Carolina really in play? | 2020-09-15 | 44 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1305693128872005633 | 1305693128872005633 |
| Good news! 10 foot sea rise won't occur until after | 2020-09-14 | 81 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1305650599992541184 | 1305650599992541184 |
| Open up the country too soon? You have to stay home for | 2020-09-14 | 52 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1305634486961360897 | 1305634486961360897 |
| Same old story! | 2020-09-14 | 50 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1305633797359108096 | 1305633797359108096 |
| Trump still knows it's dangerous. He still loves | 2020-09-14 | 53 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1305633012315336704 | 1305633012315336704 |
| Jobs gone forever! | 2020-09-14 | 51 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1305631315174109184 | 1305631315174109184 |
| Why shouldn't an old ignorant white guy president with an | 2020-09-14 | 51 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1305627156752429056 | 1305627156752429056 |
| Pence doesn't want to get too close to QAnon? Good for | 2020-09-14 | 50 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1305626203307405314 | 1305626203307405314 |
| What if he'd put his wall on hold until he defeated | 2020-09-14 | 51 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1305608670345003008 | 1305608670345003008 |
| It's all too easy for good people to do nothing. | 2020-09-14 | 51 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1305607230897549314 | 1305607230897549314 |
| Why Trump doesn't need whistle-blowers. He can do it | 2020-09-14 | 49 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1305602253424791553 | 1305602253424791553 |
| A make-believe environmentalist! It's as easy as being | 2020-09-14 | 50 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1305600288804319232 | 1305600288804319232 |
| No wonder he's in charge! He'll go even further in | 2020-09-14 | 51 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1305569670833954816 | 1305569670833954816 |
| Wear your mask! For the same reasons you will get | 2020-09-14 | 52 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1305565306190852097 | 1305565306190852097 |
| Going around in circles doesn't get you very far! | 2020-09-14 | 49 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1305562895518842887 | 1305562895518842887 |
| Getting pushed back to the office? | 2020-09-13 | 95 | 12 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1305010292150083586 | 1305010292150083586 |
| Don't count on saving money by moving! | 2020-09-13 | 78 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1304967261636104194 | 1304967261636104194 |
| Trump should study this defense! Can't tell right from | 2020-09-13 | 55 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1304966744948105217 | 1304966744948105217 |
| Who cares what other doctors think? Trump's opinion is | 2020-09-12 | 66 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1304931824880119808 | 1304931824880119808 |
| "In Vladimir Putin242s greatest triumph, Americans are | 2020-09-12 | 83 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1304930487647875073 | 1304930487647875073 |
| Dueling reports likely before the election! | 2020-09-12 | 53 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1304929659558047744 | 1304929659558047744 |
| Why Trump likes to pretend he's religious. | 2020-09-12 | 60 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1304926407147937792 | 1304926407147937792 |
| What has Trump accomplished? | 2020-09-12 | 58 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1304665072589963264 | 1304665072589963264 |
| Of course Trump wants some results announced before the | 2020-09-12 | 59 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1304663217352761344 | 1304663217352761344 |
| Everybody knew it couldn't possibly work. | 2020-09-12 | 59 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1304661516038225920 | 1304661516038225920 |
| The anti-Hillary | 2020-09-12 | 70 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1304659916532056067 | 1304659916532056067 |
| Trump administration still impotent on supply chains. | 2020-09-12 | 60 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1304652320051884033 | 1304652320051884033 |
| Tucker Carlson thinks Lindsey Graham set up Trump with | 2020-09-12 | 64 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1304651309878927360 | 1304651309878927360 |
| Climate change - believe it! | 2020-09-12 | 66 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1304644235140804609 | 1304644235140804609 |
| Another victory for Putin... or somebody! | 2020-09-12 | 111 | 17 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1304638390709620737 | 1304638390709620737 |
| The revelations are about Trump's enablers. | 2020-09-11 | 70 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1304451804365647872 | 1304451804365647872 |
| Why doesn't the Constitution apply in Guantanamo? | 2020-09-11 | 75 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1304246979577352192 | 1304246979577352192 |
| Is the election going to be decided by Chief Justice | 2020-09-11 | 76 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1304230818353610753 | 1304230818353610753 |
| Regulation that builds trust is good for the economy. | 2020-09-11 | 75 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1304229964204576768 | 1304229964204576768 |
| Trump likes to be a calming presence. Nobody knew! | 2020-09-11 | 84 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1304227577045725184 | 1304227577045725184 |
| Does Trump have enough money? | 2020-09-11 | 73 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1304226597742862336 | 1304226597742862336 |
| Trump's list of Supreme Court candidates | 2020-09-10 | 124 | 15 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1304201231955419136 | 1304201231955419136 |
| Mothers for Q! | 2020-09-10 | 55 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1304170463426351104 | 1304170463426351104 |
| Social Progress Index | 2020-09-10 | 56 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1304169060142260225 | 1304169060142260225 |
| How a REAL strong leader handles the virus and the press! | 2020-09-10 | 57 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1304168078872199168 | 1304168078872199168 |
| Trump's not delusional! | 2020-09-10 | 55 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1304167016958369792 | 1304167016958369792 |
| What it's like at rock bottom | 2020-09-10 | 55 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1304166073609060352 | 1304166073609060352 |
| Treasury finally sanctions Derkach - a pal of Giuliani | 2020-09-10 | 56 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1304162708955172864 | 1304162708955172864 |
| Microsoft detects foreign hacking | 2020-09-10 | 56 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1304161708554952704 | 1304161708554952704 |
| Judge does his part! | 2020-09-10 | 57 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1304146879056289792 | 1304146879056289792 |
| Trump's re-election strategy | 2020-09-10 | 53 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1304144764036501504 | 1304144764036501504 |
| Another look at income inequality | 2020-09-10 | 54 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1304107449855610880 | 1304107449855610880 |
| Know the name of your secretary of state? You will in | 2020-09-10 | 49 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1304106230449754112 | 1304106230449754112 |
| How individualism overcame clannishness | 2020-09-10 | 50 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1304105012558135301 | 1304105012558135301 |
| Ride into South Dakota and we'll have a real good time! | 2020-09-10 | 48 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1304102170539601920 | 1304102170539601920 |
| Lucky Rittenhouse wasn't black! | 2020-09-10 | 50 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1304101216746528769 | 1304101216746528769 |
| Spending his own money? | 2020-09-10 | 47 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1304099284590063618 | 1304099284590063618 |
| Must be an election soon! | 2020-09-10 | 74 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1304098467334160385 | 1304098467334160385 |
| The secret of Trump's success - | 2020-09-10 | 51 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1303934408219455488 | 1303934408219455488 |
| Would you pay more attention to climate change if your | 2020-09-10 | 47 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1303931793096151040 | 1303931793096151040 |
| Eight ways that Putin can win the election! | 2020-09-10 | 48 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1303930483097575425 | 1303930483097575425 |
| Strike against feudalism! | 2020-09-10 | 46 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1303928052523569159 | 1303928052523569159 |
| Let's make this the last election with an electoral | 2020-09-10 | 48 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1303927027611779072 | 1303927027611779072 |
| How to defraud the government. | 2020-09-10 | 48 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1303925312720310273 | 1303925312720310273 |
| Did you know that suing the president is the same as suing | 2020-09-10 | 52 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1303918893799337984 | 1303918893799337984 |
| No need to ask the president how he really feels. | 2020-09-10 | 51 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1303917428729020421 | 1303917428729020421 |
| City economies will have to change for good. | 2020-09-10 | 47 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1303909222455758850 | 1303909222455758850 |
| FBI has to invent an angle to investigate domestic | 2020-09-10 | 49 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1303883383408218112 | 1303883383408218112 |
| Democrats should stick to health care | 2020-09-10 | 50 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1303881444863832064 | 1303881444863832064 |
| If people bring Trump bad news anyway, he just likes to | 2020-09-10 | 47 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1303880467230281728 | 1303880467230281728 |
| Don't nobody bring Trump no bad news! | 2020-09-10 | 48 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1303879972759597056 | 1303879972759597056 |
| Neither Republicans nor Democrats want to budge. | 2020-09-10 | 50 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1303879296906215424 | 1303879296906215424 |
| Why German kids can go to school in person - and American | 2020-09-10 | 47 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1303860496383143936 | 1303860496383143936 |
| Cost of inequality of expectations and inequality of | 2020-09-10 | 47 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1303859893481291776 | 1303859893481291776 |
| Virus still real, still real threat | 2020-09-10 | 45 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1303858156657758210 | 1303858156657758210 |
| California legislature finds insurance too hot to handle | 2020-09-10 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1303857735440543745 | 1303857735440543745 |
| Trump won by 78,000 votes in 2016. | 2020-09-10 | 46 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1303856230973149184 | 1303856230973149184 |
| Last Chance | 2020-09-09 | 64 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1303831007716470784 | 1303831007716470784 |
| Maybe these don't need to be competitive events | 2020-09-08 | 88 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1303188382667829249 | 1303188382667829249 |
| So Trump is going to tell anti-vaxxers to take the vaccine? | 2020-09-08 | 47 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1303135184791851008 | 1303135184791851008 |
| Where your Trump campaign donation goes | 2020-09-07 | 63 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1303113303791603712 | 1303113303791603712 |
| The filibuster has got to go! | 2020-09-07 | 60 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1303097990479929344 | 1303097990479929344 |
| Why we needed a strong Republican Party - strong enough | 2020-09-07 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1303047335820230657 | 1303047335820230657 |
| Our stagnant future | 2020-09-07 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1303045205734486016 | 1303045205734486016 |
| No help for states and local governments as long as Mitch | 2020-09-07 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1303017980951814144 | 1303017980951814144 |
| Let's redivide Germany into Trumpist and Putinist sectors | 2020-09-07 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1303015484451819520 | 1303015484451819520 |
| Getting worse on the bottom | 2020-09-07 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1303011491008753665 | 1303011491008753665 |
| Forget about dark matter or dark energy. The universe | 2020-09-07 | 39 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1302992841921032192 | 1302992841921032192 |
| Being liked is not the job of journalism. | 2020-09-07 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1302977318038634496 | 1302977318038634496 |
| Trump a racist? Who knew?? | 2020-09-07 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1302975321914843137 | 1302975321914843137 |
| Unpass the SALT cap! | 2020-09-07 | 39 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1302973846341861376 | 1302973846341861376 |
| Happy Labor Day, Republican senators! A day for decisions. | 2020-09-07 | 39 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1302972220839325696 | 1302972220839325696 |
| When is a "suggestion" from the boss just a suggestion? | 2020-09-07 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1302970732440240128 | 1302970732440240128 |
| More on what Republicans have done for Labor Day | 2020-09-07 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1302830894999166977 | 1302830894999166977 |
| Remember the forgotten Americans on Labor Day. Nobody | 2020-09-07 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1302827213650161670 | 1302827213650161670 |
| Consistent with the overall competence of the Trump | 2020-09-07 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1302816633484787712 | 1302816633484787712 |
| When you donate to the Trump campaign, where does the | 2020-09-07 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1302816455071735809 | 1302816455071735809 |
| How laws get made. | 2020-09-07 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1302800333572206592 | 1302800333572206592 |
| Intentionally spreading lies. | 2020-09-07 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1302795913501396992 | 1302795913501396992 |
| See no evil hear no evil | 2020-09-07 | 33 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1302794595336552449 | 1302794595336552449 |
| Hence the disorders, convulsions, and tumults, which have | 2020-09-07 | 35 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1302770721194565632 | 1302770721194565632 |
| On Labor Day, honor the workers who support Trump just | 2020-09-07 | 33 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1302762790965264384 | 1302762790965264384 |
| Putin wins in three out of four scenarios | 2020-09-07 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1302761765344747520 | 1302761765344747520 |
| Some ideas take a long time to change. | 2020-09-07 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1302759188280426496 | 1302759188280426496 |
| Even if Trump's not there in 2021, his ideals will persist! | 2020-09-06 | 67 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1302753566851960832 | 1302753566851960832 |
| Serbia and Kosovo normalizing. And what's in it for | 2020-09-06 | 68 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1302752849806258176 | 1302752849806258176 |
| Can it be true? Reasons for hope in the worst year | 2020-09-06 | 64 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1302752345206394881 | 1302752345206394881 |
| Can it be true? A no-nonsense bipartisan bill to put | 2020-09-06 | 43 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1302746761702731776 | 1302746761702731776 |
| Can it be true? A no-nonsense bipartisan continuing | 2020-09-06 | 43 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1302745988721860609 | 1302745988721860609 |
| people don’t stop playing the game until it stops | 2020-09-04 | 96 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1301736839724769280 | 1301736839724769280 |
| All states should use libraries for voting. But some | 2020-09-04 | 71 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1301733977338777600 | 1301733977338777600 |
| Was there a planeload of thugs or not? | 2020-09-04 | 73 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1301719813933289472 | 1301719813933289472 |
| Selective leaking | 2020-09-04 | 63 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1301697206311768064 | 1301697206311768064 |
| Time to support the troops | 2020-09-04 | 65 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1301696249935007744 | 1301696249935007744 |
| The difference between Trump and Biden | 2020-09-04 | 63 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1301695440790802432 | 1301695440790802432 |
| The dead tweet on - verified! | 2020-09-04 | 66 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1301694650462294022 | 1301694650462294022 |
| What happens if things get out of hand? | 2020-09-04 | 65 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1301687459764289537 | 1301687459764289537 |
| Republican senators toe the line | 2020-09-04 | 62 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1301686235681796096 | 1301686235681796096 |
| China on track to be #1 military power | 2020-09-04 | 64 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1301685489548713984 | 1301685489548713984 |
| Kanye won't be taking votes from Biden in Virginia | 2020-09-04 | 63 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1301677547109847041 | 1301677547109847041 |
| Raising taxes is a bad idea. Not raising them is worse. | 2020-09-04 | 63 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1301674839321661441 | 1301674839321661441 |
| Kindred spirits! | 2020-09-03 | 98 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1301668888929685505 | 1301668888929685505 |
| Facebook hits hit pieces! | 2020-09-03 | 65 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1301656865357492224 | 1301656865357492224 |
| How often we confuse luck with skill | 2020-09-03 | 66 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1301564665353261057 | 1301564665353261057 |
| Propping up endangered Republicans - a shell game to guess | 2020-09-03 | 70 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1301563326191693825 | 1301563326191693825 |
| Another Republican for Biden | 2020-09-03 | 66 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1301562225010778112 | 1301562225010778112 |
| Fruity fake news! | 2020-09-03 | 64 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1301559382606409728 | 1301559382606409728 |
| Rapid rollout of vaccine has its risks! | 2020-09-03 | 66 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1301385324795314177 | 1301385324795314177 |
| Ready or not, here they come! | 2020-09-03 | 61 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1301384381248933888 | 1301384381248933888 |
| Voting so nice, you should do it twice! | 2020-09-03 | 58 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1301383767509151744 | 1301383767509151744 |
| There's no vaccine for fire. | 2020-09-03 | 63 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1301375256460886019 | 1301375256460886019 |
| Goldwater said extremism in defense of liberty is no vice. | 2020-09-03 | 65 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1301374489914040324 | 1301374489914040324 |
| Adding context to trending topics | 2020-09-03 | 62 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1301373405329985536 | 1301373405329985536 |
| Facebook vs Internet Research Agency | 2020-09-03 | 61 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1301372959848767490 | 1301372959848767490 |
| Small business in big trouble; big business smiles. | 2020-09-03 | 61 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1301372476102905857 | 1301372476102905857 |
| What hath Don wrought? | 2020-09-03 | 58 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1301371545386795008 | 1301371545386795008 |
| It's not about saving the earth from carbon dioxide - it's | 2020-09-03 | 56 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1301370317365886978 | 1301370317365886978 |
| Lessons on how to recover quickly from coronavirus | 2020-09-03 | 60 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1301369211898355712 | 1301369211898355712 |
| Just what the world needs - more plastic! | 2020-09-03 | 51 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1301368622762213376 | 1301368622762213376 |
| How to become postmaster general! | 2020-09-03 | 51 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1301368213213597697 | 1301368213213597697 |
| Birds of a feather! | 2020-09-02 | 87 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1301292252262617088 | 1301292252262617088 |
| The bases of minority rule | 2020-09-02 | 62 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1301150508015517696 | 1301150508015517696 |
| What should be done about the police? | 2020-09-02 | 59 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1301019404499443712 | 1301019404499443712 |
| More approaches to fixing the presidency | 2020-09-02 | 56 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1301018337564975104 | 1301018337564975104 |
| Approaches to fixing the presidency | 2020-09-02 | 61 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1301017575283765250 | 1301017575283765250 |
| Putin is still at it! | 2020-09-02 | 62 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1300981507729702912 | 1300981507729702912 |
| More essential relief for King Coal! | 2020-09-01 | 92 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1300834583185747968 | 1300834583185747968 |
| Aren't taxes complicated enough? What's the point if | 2020-09-01 | 79 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1300654979485581312 | 1300654979485581312 |
| Herd immunity will save Trump? So what if two million | 2020-09-01 | 74 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1300654036585078785 | 1300654036585078785 |
| An unwelcome guest who will come anyway | 2020-09-01 | 73 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1300651722935644160 | 1300651722935644160 |
| Fixing politics at the root | 2020-09-01 | 73 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1300649543436967936 | 1300649543436967936 |
| Trump administration believes in coal. Get with the | 2020-09-01 | 72 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1300647152394231808 | 1300647152394231808 |
| Trump thinks he's not as bad as you think! | 2020-08-31 | 106 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1300457120718974976 | 1300457120718974976 |
| No military prop for Biden! | 2020-08-31 | 120 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1300456790140710913 | 1300456790140710913 |
| History repeats itself... in advance | 2020-08-31 | 105 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1300316708096282625 | 1300316708096282625 |
| Don't overdo it on Twitter! Just because something | 2020-08-31 | 88 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1300311819408437248 | 1300311819408437248 |
| What's the overlap between people who actually read social | 2020-08-30 | 85 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1300162334988447744 | 1300162334988447744 |
| Working for Trump can be hazardous to your career! | 2020-08-30 | 83 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1300161809593200641 | 1300161809593200641 |
| Big changes ahead for Postal Service | 2020-08-30 | 89 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1300093704451969027 | 1300093704451969027 |
| What happens when a Trumpist puts the army in charge of | 2020-08-30 | 74 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1299958852905959425 | 1299958852905959425 |
| Is it going to be Ivanka or Don Jr in 2024? | 2020-08-30 | 75 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1299912538977517568 | 1299912538977517568 |
| Laws are for serfs, not the nobility. | 2020-08-30 | 78 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1299909544227647488 | 1299909544227647488 |
| Where are the criminals? In the White House. | 2020-08-30 | 76 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1299903838397198336 | 1299903838397198336 |
| Don't have enough to worry about? | 2020-08-30 | 76 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1299902429366857728 | 1299902429366857728 |
| Nobody wants half-baked ideas | 2020-08-30 | 74 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1299893359478108161 | 1299893359478108161 |
| Why are these Republicans voting for Democrats? | 2020-08-29 | 132 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1299712908901769219 | 1299712908901769219 |
| Entertainment and propaganda are replacing journalism | 2020-08-29 | 88 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1299712659630088192 | 1299712659630088192 |
| Will the Republican Party ever be anything except the | 2020-08-29 | 74 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1299712489932779521 | 1299712489932779521 |
| What the Trump administration really thinks about | 2020-08-29 | 73 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1299712342481989637 | 1299712342481989637 |
| How the South was born again | 2020-08-29 | 74 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1299712187087245315 | 1299712187087245315 |
| Trump has role models all around the world | 2020-08-29 | 71 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1299712036234911744 | 1299712036234911744 |
| Just a matter of time | 2020-08-29 | 71 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1299711863450550273 | 1299711863450550273 |
| Social media are so much better at spreading inflammatory | 2020-08-29 | 74 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1299711492795768832 | 1299711492795768832 |
| Questions that nobody's had to ask for 150 years | 2020-08-29 | 71 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1299711103488806916 | 1299711103488806916 |
| Unclear on the concept of feudalism! | 2020-08-29 | 63 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1299710954490355713 | 1299710954490355713 |
| No more spring forward/fall back! | 2020-08-29 | 62 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1299710802010628096 | 1299710802010628096 |
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========== Weird Al explains the debate https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000007370133/presidential-debate-weird-al.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 56 time 2020-09-30 23:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1311452210568417280 ========== How is Trump a threat to national security? Let him count the ways! https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/30/us/politics/trump-debate-election.html https://apnews.com/article/ap-top-news-donald-trump-business-elizabeth-warren-national-security-042cc007c36cf773558bfd250c9701df #PS1notopic ===== impress 47 time 2020-09-30 23:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1311447014962425856 ========== Fox and Friends try to break the bad news gently! https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/media/fox-and-friends-offer-trump-debate-advice/2020/09/30/15e6500c-0326-11eb-a2db-417cddf4816a_story.html #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% impress 42 retweets 1 time 2020-09-30 23:04 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1311441858149543938 ========== If the act like Brown Shirts - they they are Brown Shirts even if they don't have uniforms. A very odd cult, but small so far. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/09/30/proudboys1001/ Trump is doing his best to help them recruit. #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% expands 1 impress 35 time 2020-09-30 22:57 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1311440109581950976 ========== California should take wildfire preparation as seriously as earthquake preparation! https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-09-24/skelton-california-preparation-wildfires-earthquakes #PS1notopic ===== impress 59 time 2020-09-30 21:14 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1311414117182267392 ========== Give credit where due - some Trump administration regulators are still on the job - https://www.reuters.com/article/jp-morgan-spoofing-penalty/jpmorgan-to-pay-920-million-for-manipulating-precious-metals-treasury-market-idUSKBN26K325 https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-new-york-us-news-e82edbf715547d974e1149f38b786cae #PS1notopic ===== impress 26 time 2020-09-30 21:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1311411814169669632 ========== Not long for the Trump administration! To contradict the president's designated minion is to contradict the president. Right before an election? That's a career-limiting move. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-cdc/cdc-director-on-pandemic-were-nowhere-near-the-end-nbc-idUSKBN26J21A #PS1notopic ===== impress 30 time 2020-09-30 20:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1311406192355282944 ========== Trump paid lots of taxes! He said so himself! Who knew? https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/28/politics/kfile-trump-taxes/index.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 27 time 2020-09-30 20:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1311405259508465664 ========== Not on the mainstream ever? https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/09/24/stocktons-americas-got-talent-winner-brings-spoken-word-poetry-to-the-masses/ Homer founded Western literature - and naturally lavished praise on his profession - to him beyond all others, the power to please, however the spirit stirs him on to sing #PS1notopic ===== impress 33 time 2020-09-30 18:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1311367590988578817 ========== Zoom booms! Its gain is their loss though - https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/09/28/coronavirus-economy-bay-area-california-hotel-huge-decline-real-estate/ https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-united-airlines-pilots-avoid-furloughs-20200928-ndoyuquguzccxhgzhknpuflovi-story.html Business travel and office space markets have probably shrunk permanently. Too bad for Trump Towers around the world! Good news for others though - https://apnews.com/article/archive-751e3db7d82e27025b2fd80075342e4a #PS1notopic ===== impress 35 time 2020-09-30 17:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1311364315178434560 ========== The Apprentice paid for it all! Other people's money! https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/09/28/us/donald-trump-taxes-apprentice.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 26 time 2020-09-30 17:23 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1311355932287197184 ========== What we learned in 1800 - Having the runner-up be vice president was a bad idea. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/29/opinion/theres-a-reason-the-election-of-1800-still-sings-out-to-us.html One election is not the end of the world if both sides accept the process now and in the future The 12th Amendment was barely an improvement. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelfth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 35 time 2020-09-30 17:04 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1311351217381994496 ========== The cranks keep cranking away! https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/29/health/coronavirus-herd-immunity.html They need a miracle every day. #PS1notopic ===== impress 28 time 2020-09-30 16:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1311347763804647425 ========== A Second Amendment champion - five handguns, two rifles, two shotguns and a small revolver! https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/parscale-suicide-threat-abuse/2020/09/28/34644958-01aa-11eb-8879-7663b816bfa5_story.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 28 time 2020-09-30 14:06 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1311306515077197826 ========== Republicans want to deter minority voters - this is news? https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/09/28/trump-2016-cambridge-analytica-suppression/ Maybe it was news in 1964 - but it's what we expect now. Thanks Facebook! Don't think it's stopped because it's more subtle. Right, Kanye? #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 4% expands 1 impress 26 time 2020-09-30 14:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1311305510818213889 ========== Specifics of Trump tax abuse https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/tax-trump-legal-experts/2020/09/28/4142dd44-01c6-11eb-b7ed-141dd88560ea_story.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 18 time 2020-09-30 13:52 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1311302890946871297 ========== First presidential debate - unconditional victory for President Vladimir Putin! Nothing is true and everything is possible! https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2020/09/30/1st-trump-biden-presidential-debate-was-exhausting-how-to-do-a-mental-cleanse/#51bc296824f6 More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1252703098407540 #PS1notopic ===== engage 14 engage-rate 13% expands 14 impress 112 time 2020-09-30 05:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1311175210024886272 ========== What happens if you just let what happens, happen? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/24/business/economy/us-economy-pandemic.html Fortunately Mnuchin and Pelosi are talking again - https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2020/09/28/democrats-white-house-stimulus-checks/ but can they get the Republicans in safe seats to go along? #PS1notopic ===== engage 21 engage-rate 16% expands 19 impress 133 time 2020-09-29 03:15 +0000 urlclicks 2 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1310780295520509952 ========== It's good to have foreign contacts if you need a loan or a hideout. But what if their loyalties are as one-way as his? A Trump without money or power or TV show? "Nobody knows you when you're down and out." https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/28/opinion/trump-tax-returns-russia.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 78 time 2020-09-29 02:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1310773132098060288 ========== Why people with a lot of debt are security risks. Trump would never be able to get a security clearance if he were not president. Interestingly, the foreign dictators he likes run countries where he has hotel interests. Do they hold his debt too? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/28/opinion/trump-taxes-debt.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 64 time 2020-09-29 02:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1310771726142169088 ========== Look at what Trump has done for Ohio auto workers! Trump is pleased and the new owners are pleased, and two out of three ain't bad! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-said-he-would-bring-jobs-back-to-ohios-manufacturing-workers-instead-he-deserted-them/2020/09/28/d494a408-01bf-11eb-897d-3a6201d6643f_story.html #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 60 time 2020-09-29 02:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1310768420854493184 ========== One more time - do whatever you can to take care of the Senate! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/democrats-need-to-put-an-expiration-date-on-the-republican-senate/2020/09/28/cf6ecb82-01c1-11eb-a2db-417cddf4816a_story.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 57 time 2020-09-29 02:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1310767510111756288 ========== One more bad choice to cap a long career of bad choices! He was a success as a reality-TV star. Remember that! Because it appears that avenue is closed to him now. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/running-for-president-was-the-worst-business-decision-trump-ever-made/2020/09/28/d0bad886-01c7-11eb-b7ed-141dd88560ea_story.html #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 58 time 2020-09-29 02:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1310765742250369024 ========== Seasonal Affective Disorder might be extreme this year! https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/november-may-be-the-darkest-month-americans-have-seen-in-a-long-time/2020/09/27/c60e72d8-fdaa-11ea-9ceb-061d646d9c67_story.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 66 time 2020-09-29 02:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1310764725756506113 ========== “I paid many millions of dollars in taxes but was entitled, like everyone else, to depreciation & tax credits.” Actually, almost everybody else is NOT entitled to depreciation or business tax credits - because they can't afford to invest in real estate. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/09/28/trump-taxes-compare-presidents/ #PS1notopic ===== engage 2 engage-rate 3% expands 2 impress 60 time 2020-09-29 01:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1310760936890707968 ========== "It's the hiding of a vulnerability that is a real indicator of potential security risk" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/trump-taxes-national-security-compromise/2020/09/28/3116b096-01b5-11eb-897d-3a6201d6643f_story.html Adversaries seek out persons who might be easily compromised. #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 61 time 2020-09-29 01:54 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1310759731204513793 ========== Unanswered questions! https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/what-we-know--and-still-want-to-know--about-trumps-company/2020/09/28/3f9e8552-0189-11eb-b7ed-141dd88560ea_story.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 56 time 2020-09-29 01:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1310746463740153856 ========== Everybody needs to pass some kind of stimulus bill before the election. Except a few recalcitrant Republican legislators in safe seats, who will please their donors by voting NO. https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2020/09/28/democrats-white-house-stimulus-checks/ #PS1notopic ===== engage 5 engage-rate 3% expands 1 impress 150 time 2020-09-29 00:56 +0000 urlclicks 4 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1310745244015554560 ========== The New York Times article was filled with inaccuracies! But Trump won't tell you what they are, or show the real tax returns. He says he might produce financial statements - after the election. Audited by independent accountants? Of course - not! https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2020/09/28/trump-tax-middle-class/ #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 66 time 2020-09-29 00:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1310743513282215942 ========== Maintaining minority rule is hard. Never reveal your real motives! Grab every fair or unfair advantage! Republicans in PA had to bypass the state supreme court for the Federal - https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/pennsylvania-gop-lawmakers-ask-supreme-court-to-stop-voting-accommodations/2020/09/28/e9893594-01b6-11eb-a2db-417cddf4816a_story.html It doesn't always work. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts-voting-fraud-claims-republicans/2020/09/28/ceff1184-fda2-11ea-b555-4d71a9254f4b_story.html #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 61 time 2020-09-29 00:37 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1310740436474982400 ========== Trumpists hope that the Supreme Court fight will take the heat off the virus. If the Democrats can even just get the nominee to equivocate on the constitutionality of Obamacare, that's all they really need to get out of the confirmation hearings. https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-virus-outbreak-winston-salem-voting-fraud-and-irregularities-us-supreme-court-4920f6704962fd2d45a7684bf0b50ba9 #PS1notopic ===== engage 23 engage-rate 20% expands 23 impress 113 time 2020-09-28 21:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1310688146988789760 ========== "Donald Trump needs this election to be about Joe Biden. So long as this campaign is all about Trump, he's going to lose." https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-new-york-archive-joe-biden-donald-trump-a745b2e59de2c85e8bcffce3f8466eeb But Trump has been singing the "all about me" tune his whole life. https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/politics/donald-trump-father-will/ Too late to change now! #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 59 time 2020-09-28 20:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1310685363837362176 ========== There's a good reason to keep cutting the IRS enforcement budget - IRS audits reduce the cash flow available for dark money contributions to Republican campaign coffers. Taxes are for poor people, anyway. As the president so well illustrates. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/07/15/opinion/tax-evasion-irs.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 53 time 2020-09-28 20:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1310673432065892352 ========== Silence of the lambs! Does the virus cause Republican senators to be deaf or dumb about Trump's - tax fraud - threats to overturn election - repeal Obamacare - repeal Roe v Wade Hear their silent pleas! https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1249020885442428 #PS1notopic ===== engage 2 engage-rate 2% expands 2 impress 85 time 2020-09-28 19:31 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1310663431389732864 ========== Miracles still happen! A convicted ex-Trump administration member wrote a book in praise of the president! Trump's short temper and attention span shows an unconventional politician! https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-ivanka-rick-gates-book/2020/09/28/ea2000a2-ff5c-11ea-8d05-9beaaa91c71f_story.html A family member vice president shows a conventional mobster. #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 61 time 2020-09-28 18:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1310648740353658880 ========== Trump has three wishes for the new Supreme Court that he built - with help from McConnell and Leo. #2 - strike down Obamacare https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/judge-barrett-aca-health-care-law/2020/09/28/429d165e-ff4c-11ea-b555-4d71a9254f4b_story.html The others? #1 - insure his re-election by supporting his court challenges to election results #3 - strike down Roe v Wade #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 57 time 2020-09-28 18:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1310646923393548288 ========== There might not be ANY persuadable undecideds. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/undecided-voters-2020-presidential-debates/2020/09/27/0911c650-fd9e-11ea-8d05-9beaaa91c71f_story.html In 2016, many "undecideds" were actually Trump voters who didn't want to say so in public. Now some say they will decide after the debate - maybe to skip this election - too bad for down-ticket candidates. #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 62 time 2020-09-28 16:52 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1310623303611031552 ========== The real election threat - intentional disinformation! https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/09/28/cybersecurity-202-here-are-five-big-things-election-experts-are-really-worried-about/ Mail ballot fraud is a tiny threat, too time and labor intensive. Stirring up unfounded fears about mail ballot fraud is a major threat, fast and cheap on mass media, then foreign amplified. #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 49 time 2020-09-28 15:48 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1310607426484236289 ========== It hurts to be close to Trump! He asks so much, and gives so little. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-parscale-police/2020/09/27/356f861a-0127-11eb-a2db-417cddf4816a_story.html Look out if he starts treating you like family. #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 54 time 2020-09-28 02:43 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1310409749611986945 ========== Talking about a corrupt election is music to Putin's ears. Unfortunately, it's necessary to get all election officials on board with the scope of the threat. Maybe it shouldn't be a public discussion. But the president won't shut up about it. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/27/trump-election-cede-power-hr-mcmaster #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 58 time 2020-09-28 00:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1310383607362453505 ========== Trump has high hopes for Roe v Wade. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/27/trump-amy-coney-barrett-supreme-court-roe-v-wade #PS1notopic ===== impress 50 time 2020-09-28 00:54 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1310382261460545537 ========== Expect foreign ransomware attacks over the next couple of months. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/27/technology/2020-election-security-threats.html They don't need to actually deliver ransom money - they succeed if they undermine confidence in American democracy, enhancing the undermining started by Trump. #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 58 time 2020-09-28 00:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1310376217711751168 ========== Trump taxes - free summary of NYT reporting - https://apnews.com/article/archive-personal-taxes-donald-trump-f0e2af5f9f99de9d30dc6b9097121188 More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1250813261929857 #PS1notopic ===== engage 17 engage-rate 13% expands 17 impress 130 time 2020-09-27 22:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1310353485532000256 ========== Paying taxes? telling the truth? - that's for suckers! Trump's likely response - Who leaked? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/27/us/trump-taxes-takeaways.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/09/27/us/donald-trump-taxes.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/09/27/us/donald-trump-taxes-timeline.html https://www.political-scrapbook.net/trump.html#insecurity Simple taxes are hard to cheat! https://www.one-flat-tax.net/ #PS1notopic ===== impress 77 time 2020-09-27 22:24 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1310344479925178368 ========== This is what the deep state looks like - dedicated individuals getting some things right and some wrong - unlike the current shallow state that can't seem to do anything right. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/25/books/review/the-man-who-ran-washington-james-baker-peter-baker-susan-glasser.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 71 time 2020-09-27 22:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1310338560440983552 ========== Collecting data for future reference! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/09/26/data-dump-that-reveals-astonishing-breadth-beijings-interference-operations/ #PS1notopic ===== impress 71 time 2020-09-27 21:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1310331037239537665 ========== Good news for Biden https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/poll-trump-biden-post-abc/2020/09/26/940ef678-ff7f-11ea-9ceb-061d646d9c67_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/09/27/chances-blowout-are-high/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-storm-is-coming-for-donald-trump/2020/09/25/edd915f0-ff37-11ea-9ceb-061d646d9c67_story.html But it won't matter much if it's the same old Senate. You can hope, or you can act! https://www.dscc.org/ #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% expands 1 impress 70 time 2020-09-27 21:24 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1310329587981713408 ========== The unpersuadables! They don't care what Trump's policies are or how those policies would affect them, or what he's actually accompished. They're ecstatic that somebody is in power who thinks the way they do and annoys the people they hate. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump--white-men-boat-parade/2020/09/27/dcd7bdd8-fe79-11ea-8d05-9beaaa91c71f_story.html #PS1notopic ===== engage 2 engage-rate 3% expands 2 impress 77 time 2020-09-27 21:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1310323752316534784 ========== Good news for major Trump donors! Thanks to the virus, more people are willing to take entry-level jobs with entry-level pay and benefits. https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/09/27/lower-pay-higher-risk-coronavirus-layoffs-send-middle-class-workers-down-the-economic-ladder/ At least the economy will recover for people at the top! #PS1notopic ===== engage 2 engage-rate 2% impress 87 likes 1 time 2020-09-27 20:42 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1310318929710120961 ========== Susan Collins is far from the worst Republican senator. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/27/us/politics/sara-gideon-susan-collins-maine-senate.html But she is not able to manage the untenable situation she is in, so she should welcome a quiet retirement. https://saragideon.com/ #PS1notopic ===== impress 68 time 2020-09-27 18:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1310278575535190017 ========== It's always good to get a second opinion! https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/09/25/california-plans-to-independently-vet-covid-19-vaccine-data/ #PS1notopic ===== impress 66 time 2020-09-27 17:48 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1310275048125546496 ========== Selling the sizzle instead of the steak. Trump couldn't even sell the sizzle to Republican senators, so he had to make up something quick on his own before the election. Is he going to distribute the cards by mail? Each personally signed. https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-seniors-elections-prescription-drugs-medicare-6f2aaaf4e94a0dba12abd5b1641bbccc #PS1notopic ===== impress 72 time 2020-09-27 17:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1310274361283104773 ========== How Israel tested a bomb? https://getpocket.com/explore/item/blast-from-the-past Nobody's admitting anything, yet the combination of plausible deniability, yet a credible message to potential adversaries, may well have been appealing. #PS1notopic ===== impress 70 time 2020-09-27 16:24 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1310253942677237760 ========== Partial disclosure is unhelpful to the public but useful to partisan candidates. If you want to avoid attention to voter suppression affecting thousands or millions of ballots, it's helpful to make a big deal about nine ballots handled improperly. https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-local-elections-pennsylvania-elections-campaigns-07ab572103d67a3341011a691118f696 #PS1notopic ===== impress 67 time 2020-09-27 13:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1310209786282090497 ========== Bad news - air travel is an ideal way to spread virus. Good news - if everybody masks up and follows the rules, it seems to be pretty safe. https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/09/26/coronavirus-airlines-say-flying-is-safe-but-new-study-reveals-potential-for-superspreader-disaster/ #PS1notopic ===== impress 67 time 2020-09-27 13:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1310206731637518337 ========== The Supreme Court used to be political, but Congress did the legislating. Now, unlimited dark money, powerful media, and foreign influence combine to produce a deadlocked partisan legislature, leading to executive overreach and activist judiciary. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/supreme-court-politics-history/2020/09/25/b9fefcee-fe7f-11ea-9ceb-061d646d9c67_story.html #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 66 time 2020-09-27 12:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1310202352062722053 ========== Minority rule is a downward spiral. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/minority-party-electoral-college-court-trump/2020/09/25/1163b954-fdfc-11ea-8d05-9beaaa91c71f_story.html It's part of the lingering legacy of feudalism, slavery, and the southern strategy. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 58 time 2020-09-27 12:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1310199836558241797 ========== No debate - Biden and Trump will just talk past each other, Biden to the two or three truly undecided voters in the country, Trump to his millions of already-decided base voters. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/trump-debate-biden/2020/09/25/557abab0-fe98-11ea-9ceb-061d646d9c67_story.html Harris-Pence has more potential on Oct 7. #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% expands 1 impress 78 time 2020-09-27 06:21 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1310102232713453568 ========== Whether they admit it or not, almost everybody's made up their mind, based on facts or fiction. And very few are willing to consider an alternative point of view. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/09/24/michigan-undecided-voters-democrats/ Congratulations on your overwhelming victory, President Putin! #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% expands 1 impress 69 time 2020-09-27 06:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1310097503308582912 ========== All congressional districts would matter if states abandoned winner-take-all electoral votes. https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/presidency-electoral-maine-nebraska/2020/09/18/0657bc9c-f9c2-11ea-89e3-4b9efa36dc64_story.html Or if no-majority elections were decided by individual House votes instead of by states. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#electoral%20college #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 59 time 2020-09-27 05:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1310095674491326464 ========== Ultimately the unfavorable outcomes or do-nothing non-outcomes are the result of legislative processes that no longer match social reality. But most voters don't want to try to understand the abstract process issues. https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/court-trump-senate-democrats/2020/09/25/2f7259a8-ff48-11ea-9ceb-061d646d9c67_story.html #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% expands 1 impress 82 time 2020-09-27 05:48 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1310094014641651713 ========== Airlines must not be important enough donors to get either Trump or Pelosi to budge. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/airline-industry-job-cuts/2020/09/26/824b1380-fdaf-11ea-b555-4d71a9254f4b_story.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 67 time 2020-09-27 05:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1310091898049032193 ========== Unconvincing argument for filibuster. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/09/23/dont-fall-filibuster-abolition-its-trap/ Its defenders imagine a time when filibuster threat resulted in compromise. Nowadays, the result is inaction, a do-nothing Congress, executive overreach, and judicial legislation. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#filibuster #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 59 time 2020-09-27 05:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1310087397992849409 ========== Court packing is a dead end. https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/09/24/fdr-supreme-court-packing-rbg-trump/ Term limits for Supreme Court justices seems like a better idea. #PS1notopic ===== impress 65 time 2020-09-27 05:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1310085784288948224 ========== How hard is it to find somebody more corrupt than Trump? You need look no further than his friends. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/benjamin-netanyahu-us-visits-dirty-laundry/2020/09/23/8407f52c-fdb3-11ea-830c-a160b331ca62_story.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 74 time 2020-09-27 05:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1310085032908713985 ========== American politics, including courts, are driven by two new factors since Biden started - unlimited dark money and partisan media, now magnified by foreign influences. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/26/us/politics/biden-supreme-court-confirmation.html It's going to take more than character and principled behavior to counteract all that. #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% expands 1 impress 81 time 2020-09-26 13:57 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1309854609360351237 ========== Is Amy Coney Barrett really a role model for her reactionary supporters? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/26/opinion/amy-coney-barrett-supreme-court.html Kinder, Küche, Kirche https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinder,_K%C3%BCche,_Kirche #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% impress 100 time 2020-09-26 13:31 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1309847964538425345 ========== Taking another look at The Civil War https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/09/26/ken-burns-civil-war-breonna-taylor-george-floyd-shelby-foote/ #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% impress 70 time 2020-09-26 13:22 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1309845689250193408 ========== Trump succeeds where Reagan and Bush failed. They were concerned about the voters, but Trumpists figure if they keep the donors, they can indoctrinate the voters. https://theamericanscholar.org/still-made-for-you-and-me #PS1notopic ===== impress 67 time 2020-09-26 13:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1309843463559507968 ========== Total surveillance - China leads the way. As always, it's total for the masses. There are always exceptions for the ruling class. https://theamericanscholar.org/our-post-privacy-world/ #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 53 time 2020-09-26 13:10 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1309842663714115584 ========== It's hard to believe all those memos meant anything other than what they said. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/09/24/usps-delays-dejoy-documents/ #PS1notopic ===== impress 59 time 2020-09-26 04:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1309718124053147649 ========== Tucker Carlson, like Trump and the rest of the Trumpists, always tells the truth about how he feels. What other truth matters? https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/09/25/hours-after-judge-describes-tucker-carlson-engaging-exaggeration-trump-highlights-his-false-claims/ #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% expands 1 impress 73 time 2020-09-26 03:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1309704127354531842 ========== Who would want to be first in line for a vaccine released before the election? https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/09/25/coronavirus-vaccine-trump-interference/ The president doesn't care whether it's safe or effective. That won't be known until well after the election. It just needs to be available before the election. #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 65 time 2020-09-26 03:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1309701550068043776 ========== Unpleasant parallels! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/09/25/this-is-not-drill-reichstag-is-burning/ #PS1notopic ===== impress 70 time 2020-09-26 00:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1309655062977949698 ========== Presidential "debates" are pretty useless - they just talk past each other. Trump will address his base, Biden the undecideds. Vulgarity delights Trump's base, as any of his campaign rallies demonstrate, but not the undecideds. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-loves-low-blows-but-voters-want-a-clean-debate-biden-shouldnt-take-the-bait/2020/09/25/d2d452f8-feae-11ea-9ceb-061d646d9c67_story.html #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% expands 1 impress 80 time 2020-09-26 00:37 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1309653257279561728 ========== Maybe it's just as well Romney was never elected president. Even though he would have been better than Trump. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/09/25/american-democracy-needs-mitt-romney-reconsider/ At least he was willing to comment on the record, unlike his colleagues facing a difficult election who run from reporters. #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 62 time 2020-09-26 00:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1309652047571034112 ========== So which decisions were wrongly decided? Roe v Wade of course. How about Brown v Board? Miranda? Baker v Carr? Marbury v Madison? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-bombshell-consequences-of-amy-coney-barrett/2020/09/25/3531ab9c-ff6f-11ea-8d05-9beaaa91c71f_story.html No matter! The die is cast and Republican senators have to confirm her before something bad happens. #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% expands 1 impress 104 time 2020-09-26 00:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1309650775920967682 ========== Is McConnell going to call the vote before or after the election? Too bad Jimmy the Greek is no longer with us to call the odds. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/25/opinion/amy-coney-barrett-scotus.html #PS1notopic ===== engage 9 engage-rate 9% expands 9 impress 98 time 2020-09-25 23:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1309629284516945920 ========== Why accept any paid political advertising from a week before the election until the new president is inaugurated? It's not that anybody NEEDS to advertise during that time. Unpaid messages to followers will not be restricted anyway. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/09/25/get-ready-tsunami-disinformation-when-trump-declares-victory/ #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 66 time 2020-09-25 22:54 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1309627256331882496 ========== Having Republican state legislators choose electors needn't be defensible. Just buy enough time for the election to be decided in the House - voting by states. Done deal for Trump! Remember to vote for better Federal and state legislators! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-could-stay-in-power-even-if-he-doesnt-win-the-election-the-constitution-allows-it/2020/09/24/d9371bb0-fe97-11ea-9ceb-061d646d9c67_story.html #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% expands 1 impress 67 time 2020-09-25 22:48 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1309625920550875136 ========== Approving a vaccine is not the end. It's just the beginning. And who says all the anti-vaxxers and conspiracy theorists will even accept vaccination? https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/09/25/covid-vaccine-distribution-logistics/ #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% expands 1 impress 67 time 2020-09-25 22:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1309623986221797376 ========== Don't panic - just vote! https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/09/25/trump-peaceful-transfer-power/ #PS1notopic ===== impress 62 time 2020-09-25 22:36 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1309622855001202688 ========== No recovery for 4000 local businesses https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/09/22/the-bay-areas-small-business-closure-crisis-is-already-here/ #PS1notopic ===== impress 61 time 2020-09-25 22:21 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1309619082115731456 ========== The rest of the world is no longer laughing at America. They are crying for the world's collective loss. Except Putin, Xi, Kim, Duterte, Erdogan, Orban, and the rest of the populist kleptocrats. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/25/world/asia/trump-united-states.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 96 time 2020-09-25 20:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1309593632668700672 ========== State legislatures have the right to determine presidential electors. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/25/trump-attack-election-electors-republicans Republican senators will enable them. Get rid of those enablers - so Trump will have to answer to a Democratic Senate. https://www.dscc.org/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1249020885442428 #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 61 time 2020-09-25 20:26 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1309590121147031552 ========== The Missouri Compromise didn't settle a thing. There was no way to resolve, by political compromise, the sectional differences due to 200 years of slavery. The best that could be done was to delay the inevitable resolution by other means. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/25/opinion/trump-supreme-court-missouri-compromise.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 67 time 2020-09-25 18:24 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1309559334037147648 ========== Biden should mostly stick to the facts, but if he wants to go lower, here is some advice - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/25/opinion/debate-trump-biden-lie.html What resonates with the few undecided persuadable voters? Attacks on Trump's character, however justified, might be counter-productive. #PS1notopic ===== engage 3 engage-rate 3% impress 102 time 2020-09-25 16:39 +0000 urlclicks 3 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1309532921586356224 ========== Supreme Court - abortion is for Trump voters, but deregulation is for Trump donors. Same for McConnell. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/23/climate/trump-environment-courts.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 72 time 2020-09-25 14:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1309501101276762112 ========== A born-again Lysenko. As well as a born-again Potemkin. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/24/opinion/trump-science-coronavirus.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trofim_Lysenko https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigory_Potemkin #PS1notopic ===== impress 57 time 2020-09-25 12:14 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1309466185247776768 ========== A reliable Trumpist vote! No silly recusals at the hour of crisis, unlike Jeff Sessions! https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/barbara-lagoa-florida-felons-vote/2020/09/24/794e9520-fde3-11ea-8d05-9beaaa91c71f_story.html #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% impress 79 time 2020-09-25 12:08 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1309464773956755456 ========== Even Chad Wolf recognizes that white supremacists pose the greatest terrorist threat to America. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/09/23/dhs-secretary-white-supremacy-poses-persistent-and-lethal-threat/3511913001/ #PS1notopic ===== impress 71 time 2020-09-25 04:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1309352454765518855 ========== 87 pages of nothing! Your tax dollars at work! https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/23/us/politics/biden-inquiry-republicans-johnson.html At least the Russian tax dollars were well spent on disinformation. #PS1notopic ===== impress 55 time 2020-09-25 04:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1309350681518587904 ========== Trump strikes back at tech companies that treat lies differently from facts https://apnews.com/article/media-social-media-archive-donald-trump-2b1e91fa4387dacf864046e0632ed813 But DOJ is also getting settlements on corporate corruption - good for them! https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-23/jpmorgan-is-set-to-pay-1-billion-in-record-spoofing-penalty https://www.reuters.com/article/gilead-usa/gilead-to-pay-97-million-to-settle-us-kickback-probe-idUSKCN26F06I #PS1notopic ===== impress 59 time 2020-09-25 04:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1309347573157605376 ========== Election officials worry about trying to figure out what they should be worried about. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-election-transition-crisis/2020/09/24/068d2286-fe79-11ea-8d05-9beaaa91c71f_story.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 57 time 2020-09-25 01:24 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1309302627050504192 ========== Trump proudly announces today - that he has no clue about what kind of health care plan Congress will enact when his new Supreme Court declares Obamacare unconstitutional. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-health-care-affordable-care-act/2020/09/24/e1cd928a-fe6b-11ea-9ceb-061d646d9c67_story.html In the end, he'll just rechristen Obamacare as Trumpcare. #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% expands 1 impress 92 time 2020-09-25 01:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1309300949463097344 ========== Federal courts embrace full speed ahead on voter suppression. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/09/24/trump-roberts-supreme-court-conservative-majority/ #PS1notopic ===== impress 55 time 2020-09-25 01:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1309296603929300992 ========== Republicans try to make the best of a bad situation - by the traditional divert and deflect and whatabout. They say that the regular procedures will apply but they've reversed themselves on which procedures are regular enough times already. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/09/24/republicans-try-both-sides-trumps-peaceful-transfer-of-power-comments/ #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 66 time 2020-09-25 00:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1309291887908462592 ========== Predictions four years ago - amazed at how many came true? You shouldn't be - autocrats generally try to do what they promised. https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2016/11/10/trump-election-autocracy-rules-for-survival/ #PS1notopic ===== impress 100 time 2020-09-25 00:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1309289256657932288 ========== All the ways things could go bad. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/11/what-if-trump-refuses-concede/616424/ #PS1notopic ===== impress 55 time 2020-09-25 00:21 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1309286960674947072 ========== The Trumpists are taking active step to suppress votes. With more to come. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/09/24/trump-openly-told-us-exactly-what-he-intends-do/ #PS1notopic ===== impress 50 time 2020-09-25 00:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1309283583857627136 ========== The promise of a Republican! “I promise you as a Republican, if the Supreme Court decides that Joe Biden wins, I will accept the result." We can really count on that, especially coming from Lindsey Graham! But did he clear his remarks with Trump? https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/09/24/us/trump-vs-biden-election #PS1notopic ===== engage 19 engage-rate 16% expands 18 impress 121 time 2020-09-24 22:50 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1309264061331251202 ========== Eliminating minority culture and thought. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/china-muslims-detention-centers-xinjiang-crackdown/2020/09/23/44d2ce50-f32b-11ea-8025-5d3489768ac8_story.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/24/opinion/tibet-china-labor.html Trump approves - it's just patriotic education - with teeth. https://www.npr.org/2020/09/17/914127266/trump-announces-patriotic-education-commission-a-largely-political-move #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 58 time 2020-09-24 14:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1309143078519943169 ========== Trump has tremendous trust in drug companies! https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/coronavirus--vaccine-trump-fda/2020/09/23/bed73438-fda4-11ea-8d05-9beaaa91c71f_story.html Maybe that's why Trump never got them to reduce drug prices. #PS1notopic ===== impress 53 time 2020-09-24 14:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1309139005490032654 ========== Let America be America again! https://poets.org/poem/let-america-be-america-again https://theamericanscholar.org/let-america-be-america-again/ #PS1notopic ===== engage 2 engage-rate 4% impress 52 time 2020-09-24 14:24 +0000 urlclicks 2 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1309136572378419202 ========== How the swamp works https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2020/09/23/pebble-mine-secret-tapes/ Donate to both sides so they will return your calls later. #PS1notopic ===== impress 50 time 2020-09-24 13:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1309119728074608641 ========== Justices could solve this problem themselves. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/09/22/justices-themselves-can-turn-down-heat-by-creating-their-own-term-limits/ But that's not the problem Trump appointed them to solve. #PS1notopic ===== impress 56 time 2020-09-24 05:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1309008597096058882 ========== As we said back in the 1960's - the majority is not silent. The government is deaf. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/09/22/white-house-blames-voters-messes-trump-made/ #PS1notopic ===== impress 58 time 2020-09-24 05:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1309005819401338882 ========== Anything to avoid talking about the virus or Obamacare! https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/republicans-trump-ginsburg-senate/2020/09/23/02e344ac-fdc6-11ea-9ceb-061d646d9c67_story.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 57 time 2020-09-24 03:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1308974335777005578 ========== Roe v. Wade is a decoy. The real agenda is "dismantling regulation, gutting civil rights laws, narrowing voting rights strengthening corporate power, weakening unions" and killing Obamacare. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/capitulating-to-the-right-wont-end-the-judicial-wars/2020/09/23/5402f378-fdd5-11ea-9ceb-061d646d9c67_story.html But minority rule is just say one thing, do another. #PS1notopic ===== impress 62 time 2020-09-24 03:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1308971935225831425 ========== Still no national plan for testing, because that would mean that there is a national crisis, but the virus is a done deal. Trump hasn't gotten it, his family hasn't gotten it, his Mar-a-Lago friends haven't gotten it, so what's the problem? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/09/23/seven-months-into-pandemic-trumps-testing-plan-enters-its-second-wave-failure/ #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% impress 61 likes 1 time 2020-09-24 03:23 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1308970223542898691 ========== Rand Paul just told the truth about how he feels, and Fauci just wanted to talk about objective reality. It's entirely possible that Paul doesn't believe what he says, but minority rule is enabled by saying one thing and doing another. Get over it! https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/09/23/fauci-finally-loses-his-patience-with-rand-paul/ #PS1notopic ===== impress 70 time 2020-09-24 03:07 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1308966245052620800 ========== The new Supreme Court will invalidate Obamacare as unconstitutional. Republicans in Congress are against any replacement. Trump has never solved the problem of how to get votes for a plan that nobody wants. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-plans-to-sign-executive-order-on-preexisting-conditions/2020/09/23/21b89340-fd1d-11ea-830c-a160b331ca62_story.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 60 time 2020-09-24 03:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1308964401022631939 ========== There's only one acceptable outcome to the election, and Trump will do whatever it takes to get it. McConnell and the rest of the Senate enablers will be right behind him. So will Putin and Q! Trump's base is stocking up on ammunition. https://apnews.com/8bb28627b03474a3a5ce2454ae3d1639 #PS1notopic ===== impress 64 time 2020-09-24 02:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1308959287989870592 ========== The 60's and 70's were not always inferior to our present. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/23/opinion/trump-media.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 45 time 2020-09-24 02:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1308958245281697792 ========== Effective Altruism - who's up to the challenge? https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2020/09/23/effective-altruism-charity/ More people are attuned to "charity begins at home." #PS1notopic ===== impress 61 time 2020-09-24 02:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1308956605669539840 ========== Thinking about protecting democracy? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/09/23/democrats-lay-out-plan-halt-drift-toward-authoritarianism/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/09/23/democratic-house-chairs-trump-damage-democracy/ https://protectdemocracy.org/update/protecting-our-democracy-act/ Nothing's going to happen while the Republicans control the Senate, so the first step is for you to vote Democratic and donate if you can - https://www.dscc.org/ #PS1notopic ===== impress 100 time 2020-09-23 23:57 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1308918529580773377 ========== Who needs security review training if the boss has already indicated the necessary outcome? https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/white-house-intervened-to-halt-release-of-bolton-book-with-flawed-classification-review-official-says/2020/09/23/d9af262e-fd9c-11ea-9ceb-061d646d9c67_story.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 57 time 2020-09-23 23:36 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1308913216651755522 ========== Being a Trump doesn't work any more in NY? Unfortunately Dad doesn't have any particular power over state investigations. He's not even a NY resident! https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/eric-trump-new-york-attorney-general/2020/09/23/5970bb24-fd44-11ea-8d05-9beaaa91c71f_story.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 63 time 2020-09-23 23:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1308911671243665410 ========== Ideas for enabling majority rule. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/09/23/dramatic-governing-changes-democrats-could-make-if-they-take-power/ Here's more https://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#amendments https://www.reduce-rural-bias.net/ #PS1notopic ===== impress 58 time 2020-09-23 23:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1308910898594095109 ========== A genuine success for Pompeo? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/09/23/breakthrough-could-be-near-greece-turkey-dispute-thanks-some-strategic-diplomatic-pressure/ #PS1notopic ===== impress 81 time 2020-09-23 23:19 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1308908893419048960 ========== Cindy McCain endorses Biden https://apnews.com/6eea561a0fc235651ae6d01b64546492 #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% impress 58 likes 1 time 2020-09-23 20:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1308860698651435008 ========== Surprise! Everybody remembered that an election is in progress. https://apnews.com/93fd821da811eeb1ae1c064a3b534c83 #PS1notopic ===== impress 57 time 2020-09-23 20:06 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1308860268059992065 ========== Another casualty of the virus - public transportation. Nobody want to face unknown health risks, at least until they've gotten sick of driving back and forth to work again. https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/09/22/coronavirus-cuts-vta-could-slash-bus-service-to-1980-levels/ #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% impress 67 likes 1 time 2020-09-23 20:04 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1308859800319594502 ========== Always ready to make a deal - with other people's money, to get other people's money. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/22/books/review-white-house-inc.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 122 time 2020-09-23 18:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1308839828314894338 ========== Maintaining minority rule is never easy. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/22/opinion/trump-supreme-court-appointment.html You have to keep working for it with every opportunity. McConnell and Trump have been very consistent. https://www.reduce-rural-bias.net/ #PS1notopic ===== impress 53 time 2020-09-23 18:38 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1308838144649895941 ========== Putin is happy because Fox, Infowars, QAnon, etc are doing his work for him without being told - he just cheers them on! https://www.thedailybeast.com/russian-media-is-rooting-for-civil-war-in-america If Trump loses and contests the loss, Putin wins. If Trump wins, Putin wins bigger. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/22/opinion/trump-national-security.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 76 time 2020-09-23 18:23 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1308834440387465218 ========== The firus impact on cultural institutions could be its most significant long-term cost. The Trump administration has no interest in relief for performing arts organizations or in relief for state and local governments, which might otherwise act. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/23/arts/music/metropolitan-opera-cancels-coronavirus.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 56 time 2020-09-23 18:14 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1308832234904915969 ========== It's official - the Republican senators will approve Trump's Supreme Court nominee as soon as possible, even if it cost them the White House and Senate. Susan Collins is the only one in doubt, and she will probably come around like she always does. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/22/us/politics/ruth-bader-ginsburg-republicans.html #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% expands 1 impress 70 time 2020-09-23 18:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1308830735533510661 ========== Things weren't so different 100 years ago https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/09/21/how-the-promise-of-normalcy-won-the-1920-election except the KKK was a critical part of the Democratic coalition instead of the Republican. Harding did call the first world disarmament conference. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Naval_Conference #PS1notopic ===== impress 50 time 2020-09-23 18:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1308828756417544192 ========== Chinese interference is done differently from Russian interference https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-china-espionage/u-s-charges-new-york-city-police-officer-with-acting-as-illegal-agent-of-china-idUSKCN26C2ZP #PS1notopic ===== impress 48 time 2020-09-23 17:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1308823958389551104 ========== Should local governments be able to spend taxpayer dollars on advertising for new taxes? https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/09/22/opinion-local-governments-fight-to-spend-public-money-on-campaigns/ #PS1notopic ===== impress 46 time 2020-09-23 17:36 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1308822552173637632 ========== Ted Cruz - the Senate's watchdog against partisanship! https://www.texastribune.org/2020/09/22/ted-cruz-supreme-court/ #PS1notopic ===== impress 49 time 2020-09-23 14:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1308772717131251712 ========== Republicans criticize unemployment office https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/09/21/coronavirus-edd-unemployment-payments-backlog-jobs-layoff-economy/ Of course, modernizing a state agency BEFORE there's a crisis is the last thing a Republican would spend tax dollars on. Though Democrats aren't much better. No legislators have volunteered to learn Cobol. #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 56 time 2020-09-23 14:14 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1308771808414298113 ========== Income inequality prolonging depression? Mar-a-Lago members don't see a problem. https://apnews.com/28a44dd1a025d9b9af5a8d4ff8c5a033 Single moms working retail have problems? Can't be a big deal since nobody at Mar-a-Lago is complaining. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/21/business/coronavirus-retail-workers-mothers.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 45 time 2020-09-23 14:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1308771003888066561 ========== You'll notice that Article III does NOT say that the Supreme Court decides what the Constitution means, except as it applies to specific cases. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/22/opinion/down-with-judicial-supremacy.html #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 56 time 2020-09-23 05:53 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1308645590033510401 ========== Does anybody really doubt Putin is in charge? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/09/22/secret-cia-assessment-putin-probably-directing-influence-operation-denigrate-biden/ #PS1notopic ===== engage 24 engage-rate 8% expands 24 impress 286 time 2020-09-22 13:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1308400491626467330 ========== Money talks, making this election even noisier. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/21/us/politics/ginsburg-senate-donations.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 80 time 2020-09-22 03:12 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1308242648650588161 ========== Hawley won't confirm anyone who would allow Roe v Wade. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/21/opinion/ruth-bader-ginsburg-supreme-court-roe-v-wade.html Because he's a more competent Trump in training. https://www.kansascity.com/opinion/editorials/article240060163.html Was he offered a Supreme Court seat to get him out of running for president? https://reason.com/2020/09/10/josh-hawley-doesnt-want-trumps-scotus-endorsement-thank-goodness-but-ted-cruz-and-tom-cotton-do/ He declined. #PS1notopic ===== impress 117 time 2020-09-22 03:04 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1308240770483200000 ========== Don't let Trump distract you. The presidential election is about the virus and Obamacare. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/21/opinion/trump-supreme-court-health-care.html But if you are in one of the 23 states with Republican senators running, you can ask that senator why he silently agreed with all of Trump's bad acts. #PS1notopic ===== impress 72 time 2020-09-22 02:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1308236928643338240 ========== Republican senators could figure out the right thing to do - how would they react if Obama acted like Trump? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/09/21/what-if-president-biden-abused-power-way-president-trump-does/ But they don't have time to think about that, because they need to take important phone calls from their major campaign donors. #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% expands 1 impress 71 time 2020-09-22 02:12 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1308227585654943744 ========== "Confirm thy soul in self control Thy liberty in law" The Republican senators have come to agree with Trump - to hell with precedents from the past, and who cares about precedents for the future? It's all about maintaining minority rule. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-gop-traded-democracy-for-a-supreme-court-seat-and-tax-cuts-it-wasnt-worth-it/2020/09/21/d0c364c4-fc22-11ea-b555-4d71a9254f4b_story.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 71 time 2020-09-22 02:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1308225927457824770 ========== "It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world. But for Trump?" Richard Rich had nothing on Republican senators. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-gop-traded-democracy-for-a-supreme-court-seat-and-tax-cuts-it-wasnt-worth-it/2020/09/21/d0c364c4-fc22-11ea-b555-4d71a9254f4b_story.html But to be fair, the story is different coming from Thomas More vs Thomas Cromwell. #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% expands 1 impress 118 time 2020-09-22 01:57 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1308223788123742208 ========== Trumpists always choose the best role models - Xi, Bolsonaro, Erdogan, Orban.... Stalin and Hitler. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/09/21/trump-patriotic-education-china-orban/ #PS1notopic ===== engage 44 engage-rate 6% expands 44 impress 799 time 2020-09-21 19:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1308123188245614592 ========== How the money moves around! https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/09/21/finance-202-global-banks-process-trillions-dirty-money-despite-suspicions-investigation-finds/ Usual Trump administration response - who's the leaker? #PS1notopic ===== impress 69 time 2020-09-21 19:10 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1308121336833736704 ========== Deregulated banks and stock market crashes - it's happened before! Trump can't have it both ways - a high stock market and unregulated financial institutions. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/09/21/stock-market-today-financials/ #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% expands 1 impress 71 time 2020-09-21 19:07 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1308120582148423680 ========== The new Supreme Court will certainly look at redistricting and may well decide that nonpartison citizens redistricting commissions are unconstitutional. They almost did last year. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/03/26/will-supreme-court-unleash-frenzy-gop-partisan-gerrymandering/ #PS1notopic ===== engage 2 engage-rate 3% expands 2 impress 60 time 2020-09-21 19:04 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1308119841983721473 ========== Trump and McConnell are going to get what they want. Get it over as soon as possible, and then go after the Republican senators who enable all the feudal anti-democratic minority rule. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/09/21/nightmare-ahead-imagine-damage-6-3-conservative-supreme-court-could-do/ #PS1notopic ===== impress 56 time 2020-09-21 19:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1308118916313411585 ========== Why every last Republican senator has to go! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/09/21/trumps-latest-supreme-court-spin-unmasks-gops-vile-game/ By their silence and inaction the last four years, they give Trump permission to do whatever he wants. He said so on Fox today. #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 61 time 2020-09-21 18:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1308115680953212928 ========== New life for racist and imperialist statues. https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/why-a-russian-billionaire-wants-to-buy-controversial-statues-that-were-taken-down/2020/09/18/164050d0-eec6-11ea-ab4e-581edb849379_story.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 64 time 2020-09-21 16:07 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1308075402645008385 ========== Trump and Barr declare war on blue cities! Blue states next no doubt. https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/doj-designates-new-york-city-as-an-anarchist-jurisdiction/2627588/ #PS1notopic ===== impress 67 time 2020-09-21 15:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1308071178674737154 ========== Why not have term limits - active Supreme Court justices have terms of nine years. https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1245132955831221 After that, they become senior justices and no longer vote on decisions or sign opinions for the court, but otherwise retain their offices for life. #PS1notopic ===== impress 68 time 2020-09-21 15:48 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1308070505832800257 ========== It's about Obamacare, not abortion. But frankness about motives is not part of the playbook for minority rule. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/09/21/biden-blows-up-notion-rbgs-seat-helps-right/ #PS1notopic ===== impress 55 time 2020-09-21 14:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1308043625926811649 ========== Another way to increase turnout in Florida. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/21/opinion/bloomberg-florida-felon-debts.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 56 time 2020-09-21 13:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1308038696696905729 ========== How Trump is draining the swamp - one Trumpist at a time! https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/21/opinion/trump-supporters.html Pitch defileth the hand that toucheth it. The hand is never clean again, but the pitch never changes. The salesman's pitch, that is. #PS1notopic ===== impress 58 time 2020-09-21 13:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1308028447529164802 ========== What the stock market is saying now? It loves low interest rates and hates uncertainty - just like it always has. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/21/opinion/stock-market-trump-biden.html #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% impress 80 time 2020-09-21 12:55 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1308027069134065664 ========== Deranged conspiracy theorist gets 2 million followers. Simple factual rebuttal gets 23 thousand followers. That's the trouble with social media! https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/09/21/come-on-guys-firefighter-goes-viral-debunking-wildfire-conspiracies-on-tiktok/ #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% impress 72 likes 1 time 2020-09-21 12:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1308026147670638593 ========== Scorched earth politics destroy democracy. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/republicans-and-democrats-nightmares-are-not-equivalent/2020/09/20/b3ae3e2e-fb2b-11ea-9ceb-061d646d9c67_story.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 48 time 2020-09-21 03:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1307886236095246337 ========== It's a good thing Trump doesn't have this degree of dedication and focus! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/09/20/mitch-mcconnell-is-apex-predator-us-politics/ #PS1notopic ===== impress 49 time 2020-09-21 03:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1307882766332174337 ========== DeSantis has his favored candidate too! https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/barbara-lagoa-supreme-court/2020/09/20/364d73e4-fb50-11ea-b555-4d71a9254f4b_story.html ANYTHING to change the subject from the virus. #PS1notopic ===== impress 125 time 2020-09-21 03:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1307881386045370373 ========== Prevent Avoidable Constitutional Crises! https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-crises.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 46 time 2020-09-21 02:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1307875190710218752 ========== He does deserve a statue - in the warehouse with the other Confederates! https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-woodward-judges/2020/09/20/86839d54-fae5-11ea-a510-f57d8ce76e11_story.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 52 time 2020-09-21 00:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1307839272515284993 ========== End Republican Minority Rule! https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 68 time 2020-09-20 22:03 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1307802669050859520 ========== Tangible tribute to Ginsburg's legacy https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/20/21447684/actblue-surge-donations-ginsburg-death https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/19/dem-donors-smash-record-ginsburgs-death-418355 https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/517267-democrats-see-donor-surge-after-ginsburgs-death https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/09/19/democratic-campaign-donations-spike-after-ruth-bader-ginsburgs-death/5839031002/ #PS1notopic ===== impress 61 time 2020-09-20 20:23 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1307777503679840256 ========== Preview of future actions? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/19/us/politics/trump-supporters-early-voting-virginia.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 56 time 2020-09-20 19:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1307770311455068161 ========== Slow steady bipartisan progress. It can happen. It won't make the national media. Danville is better off without their attention. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/reckoning-in-a-small-town-civil-war-meets-civil-rights-in-the-last-capital-of-the-confederacy/2020/09/18/317eaf88-f6a3-11ea-89e3-4b9efa36dc64_story.html #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 61 time 2020-09-20 19:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1307761005997338624 ========== Not all who cry Wolf are wrong. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/americans-have-long-been-blind-to-future-disasters-but-we-see-this-storm-coming/2020/09/18/ec1ab686-f9e9-11ea-a275-1a2c2d36e1f1_story.html "when someone tells you who they are, you should believe them the first time" #PS1notopic ===== impress 57 time 2020-09-20 19:07 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1307758374369468416 ========== Our next Supreme Court justice. At least she has a law degree. Will McConnell hold the vote before or after the election? Collins and Murkowski say not before the election, but say nothing about the day after. They might go along anyway. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/09/19/who-is-amy-coney-barrett/ #PS1notopic ===== engage 2 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 87 time 2020-09-20 18:41 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1307751747645927425 ========== Surgery practice on detained migrant women https://apnews.com/f2008d23c5f9087f4214d9722dfb097e #PS1notopic ===== impress 55 time 2020-09-20 16:04 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1307712226195730437 ========== "the numbers used to divide up seats in Congress are due by December 31... Justice Department attorney ... suggested it would be grounds for Congress to reject the numbers. " Setting the stage to avoid or ignore an accurate census count. https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/18/politics/census-lawsuit-accuracy/index.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 70 time 2020-09-20 16:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1307711195982438400 ========== What does transgender athletics have to do with desegregation? A lot when Trump is up for re-election! https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/18/us/transgender-students-betsy-devos.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 58 time 2020-09-20 15:53 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1307709389214633985 ========== In the last 50 years, have you ever heard of a Democratic tobacco grower? There's a reason for that, especially close to an election! https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-farmers-aid/u-s-details-up-to-14-billion-in-new-aid-for-farmers-idUSKBN269261 Especially for major donors! #PS1notopic ===== impress 55 time 2020-09-20 14:43 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1307691751847600128 ========== Rural hysteria Creating terror is advantageous. Strategic advantages for Putin, political advantages for demagogues that don't have an any actual ideology or practical proposals, and economic advantages for media advertisers that promote them. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/19/opinion/sunday/wildfires-united-states.html #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% impress 52 likes 1 time 2020-09-20 14:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1307688639548157952 ========== Techniques for discerning fake news, propaganda, and salesmanship https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-baloney-detection-kit-carl-sagan-s-rules-for-bullshit-busting-and-critical-thinking #PS1notopic ===== impress 54 time 2020-09-20 14:23 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1307686815155986432 ========== Who can deliver the goods, and who's just a salesman? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/biden-just-exposed-who-trump-really-is/2020/09/18/847d51d6-f9e0-11ea-be57-d00bb9bc632d_story.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 55 time 2020-09-19 13:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1307315286790471680 ========== Time to enlarge the Supreme Court? https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/09/19/mcconnell-biden-pack-court/ https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/19/opinion/ruth-bader-ginsburg-death-supreme-court-nomination.html First, though, the Democrats need to win a majority in the Senate, and then repeal the filibuster. https://www.dscc.org/ https://www.brookings.edu/policy2020/votervital/what-is-the-senate-filibuster-and-what-would-it-take-to-eliminate-it/ #PS1notopic ===== engage 3 engage-rate 5% expands 2 impress 58 time 2020-09-19 13:42 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1307314113203191808 ========== Drug companies decline to participate in Trump pre-election stunt. Perhaps they are thinking ahead to what would happen to them under a Democratic president if the stunt doesn't work. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/18/us/politics/trump-drug-prices.html #PS1notopic ===== engage 3 engage-rate 5% expands 2 impress 58 likes 1 time 2020-09-19 05:23 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1307188543635165184 ========== Trump remembers that Puerto Ricans vote - if they live in Florida, which was decided in 2000 by less than 1000 votes. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-puerto-rico-election/2020/09/18/00ee5a2a-f9ba-11ea-be57-d00bb9bc632d_story.html Democrats want Puerto Rican statehood. Republicans are opposed - two more Democrats in the Sentate? No way! #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 54 time 2020-09-19 05:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1307187276674260993 ========== Offenses of the Republican Party against American Democracy https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-offenses.html#republican-america #PS1notopic ===== engage 58 engage-rate 40% expands 58 impress 144 time 2020-09-19 01:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1307127793050845184 ========== Offenses of Trump against the Republican Party https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-offenses.html#trump-party #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% impress 78 time 2020-09-19 01:21 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1307127644782239744 ========== The fundamental offense of Donald Trump against America is his rejection and active assault on the Enlightenment ideals of America's founders. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-offenses.html#trump-america #PS1notopic ===== impress 61 time 2020-09-19 01:20 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1307127421968297986 ========== Prayers answered for McConnell, Barr, and Trump. https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/18/politics/ruth-bader-ginsburg-dead/index.html A test of character for Republican senators up for re-election. Will they confirm a new justice in less than a month? In less than four months? #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% expands 1 impress 70 time 2020-09-19 00:43 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1307118142632722434 ========== Facebook is not up to the task of dealing with QAnon. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/18/technology/facebook-tried-to-limit-qanon-it-failed.html The resilience and adaptability of the QAnon movement strongly suggests that it has strong institutional support now. From the Internet Research Agency? Or from some domestic group? #PS1notopic ===== engage 27 engage-rate 23% expands 27 impress 120 time 2020-09-18 20:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1307047415808221185 ========== Don't they all understand that they are working for Trump? Get with the program! https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/18/us/politics/trump-cdc-coronavirus.html Of course, working for Trump in 2020 might not be an enhancement on your resume in 2021. #PS1notopic ===== impress 54 time 2020-09-18 19:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1307045821670723586 ========== Why does Barr bother trying to maintain a facade? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/09/17/william-barr-has-gone-rogue/ It's obvious that he's only there to support Trump and future Trumpists. #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 53 time 2020-09-18 18:31 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1307024476777791488 ========== Life on the bottom - you can't do this job by zoom. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/18/business/housekeepers-covid.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 47 time 2020-09-18 16:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1306998272356044800 ========== Police fatigue https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/dwindling-ranks-and-declining-public-trust-plague-police-agencies-amid-summer-of-protests/2020/09/18/ff15182a-f84b-11ea-a275-1a2c2d36e1f1_story.html The constant pressure of public distrust is taking its toll on good officers and bad. #PS1notopic ===== impress 50 time 2020-09-18 16:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1306996797382955008 ========== Why "law and order" worked for Nixon but not Trump. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/09/18/trumps-biggest-argument-is-failing-him-new-polls-explain-why/ Trump needs George Wallace running to his right. But it's getting harder and harder for anybody to get farther right than Trump. #PS1notopic ===== engage 2 engage-rate 4% expands 1 impress 51 time 2020-09-18 16:35 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1306995313157177344 ========== One of Trump's greatest successes - deregulation. Not a single major donor has been overlooked. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/09/16/trump-administration-keeps-using-chaos-cover/ Whether by accident or design, the nonstop insanity of Trump administration officials faced with a microphone provides smokescreen for deregulation. #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% impress 49 likes 1 time 2020-09-18 16:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1306994003812917249 ========== Profiles in Cowardice https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/17/politics/republican-reaction-trump-controversies/index.html Be sure to vote - once - as safely as you can. Vote a straight Democratic ticket with confidence that you are using the power you have to do the right thing for America - unlike a Republican senator. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/09/17/republicans-not-democrats-are-party-controlled-by-extremists/ #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 51 time 2020-09-18 16:26 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1306992988359282688 ========== Chris Coons for secretary of state. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/this-is-who-should-be-bidens-secretary-of-state/2020/09/17/59d3cbfa-f91c-11ea-be57-d00bb9bc632d_story.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 56 time 2020-09-18 16:15 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1306990262384644096 ========== Trump did as much as he could - to insure his re-election. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/09/18/trump-claims-nothing-more-could-have-been-done-defeat-coronavirus-hes-wrong/ But with his usual incompetence, he made a bad situation worse and then lied about it. #PS1notopic ===== engage 2 engage-rate 4% expands 1 impress 51 likes 1 time 2020-09-18 15:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1306973561580482560 ========== If it ain't broke don't fix it? But what if you wait until it breaks and you can no longer fix it? https://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/it/inside-hidden-world-legacy-it-systems Learn Cobol, young man or woman! It's a basic problem of democracy - how can you get taxpayers to pay to prevent problems that haven't happened yet? #PS1notopic ===== impress 52 time 2020-09-18 14:24 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1306962206248988672 ========== A perfect channel for propaganda https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/facebook-ignore-political-manipulation-whistleblower-memo #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% impress 45 time 2020-09-18 13:00 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1306941267511705600 ========== The ambition of corporate executives must be checked by the ambition of politicians. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/18/opinion/milton-friedman-essay.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 46 time 2020-09-18 12:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1306938567491371009 ========== Fraud Guarantee! Sure it's guaranteed - Giuliani is involved! https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/lev-parnas-charged-giuliani-ukraine/2020/09/17/83b69f82-f92c-11ea-89e3-4b9efa36dc64_story.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 44 time 2020-09-18 05:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1306827633892577280 ========== The difference between the modern Democratic Party and the modern Republican Party. It's the difference between a coalition and a cult. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/17/opinion/trump-biden-socialism.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 39 time 2020-09-18 04:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1306817212871663616 ========== Sounds like he means pushing more "pro-Trump" history. https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/trump-history-education/2020/09/17/f40535ec-ee2c-11ea-ab4e-581edb849379_story.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 37 time 2020-09-18 04:38 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1306814948853469185 ========== Some people avoid problems by learning from the experiences of others. But others have to reinvent the wheel every time - poorly. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/american-exceptionalism-has-become-a-hazard-to-our-health/2020/09/17/9521a060-f921-11ea-be57-d00bb9bc632d_story.html #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% expands 1 impress 39 time 2020-09-18 04:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1306813215272173568 ========== Who can make Jeff Sessions look like a model of self-restraint? William Barr can! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/william-barr-has-gone-too-far-before-but-never-this-far/2020/09/17/8a0412b8-f920-11ea-a275-1a2c2d36e1f1_story.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 41 time 2020-09-18 04:26 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1306811925464903680 ========== Gathering reinforcements to fight voter suppression https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/14/us/politics/biden-legal-challenges-trump.html This wasn't so necessary prior to 2018 - but a court freed the Republican Party to go back to voter suppression - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/18/us/Voting-republicans-trump.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 40 time 2020-09-18 03:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1306801531732160513 ========== Republicans adopt a Silicon Valley career move - starting a fire and then taking credit for putting it out. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/09/08/republicans-have-insufficient-evidence-call-elections-rigged-fraudulent/ #PS1notopic ===== impress 43 time 2020-09-18 03:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1306800413144834048 ========== No looking back! Barr is all-in on Trumpism and whatever follows. https://apnews.com/843dcf4c766a1684164e428752939e07 No pretense of neutrality! #PS1notopic ===== impress 42 time 2020-09-18 03:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1306794725458849793 ========== The new pledge of allegiance https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/17/opinion/donald-trump-masks.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 41 time 2020-09-18 03:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1306793343263936517 ========== One more leaf falls from the tree https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/olivia-troye-coronavirus-white-house/2020/09/17/d3f67ede-f8ed-11ea-a510-f57d8ce76e11_story.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 39 time 2020-09-18 03:10 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1306792631587004416 ========== Believe it - Putin is still at it! https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/wray-fbi-election-security-threats-hearing/2020/09/16/4461526e-f869-11ea-a275-1a2c2d36e1f1_story.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 36 time 2020-09-18 03:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1306790622930636805 ========== It's a big secret surprise! Trump will announce his health care plan that will cover more people better for less money - just as soon as Q tells him what it is. Is the delay so far because Q tried to mail a copy of the plan to Trump by the US mail? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/17/us/politics/trumps-health-care.html #PS1notopic ===== engage 13 engage-rate 12% expands 13 impress 110 time 2020-09-17 14:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1306595781290254337 ========== Congress can put together trillions of dollars of billionaire tax relief practically overnight. Why can't it perform as well for ordinary voters? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/17/opinion/covid-relief-plan-congress.html For one thing, ordinary voters aren't as generous political donors as billionaires. #PS1notopic ===== impress 68 time 2020-09-17 14:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1306594485686550532 ========== Cleaning up the Federal government - clearing out the competent, installing the complicit. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/17/opinion/trump-barr-justice-department.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 65 time 2020-09-17 13:57 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1306593060466253826 ========== A proposal to deny election victory to Vladimir Putin. How many members of Congress would actually support concrete effective efforts to that end? Expect no help from the Trump administration towards a fair and peaceful election. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/17/opinion/2020-election-voting.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 62 time 2020-09-17 13:52 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1306591833162612740 ========== Turmoil in the post office - became critical with the virus. https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2020/09/17/usps-trump-coronavirus-amazon-foia/ #PS1notopic ===== impress 61 time 2020-09-17 13:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1306589784421277702 ========== Gimme that new time religion! It's easier to understand than the old time religion. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/17/opinion/evangelicals-qanon.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 67 time 2020-09-17 12:43 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1306574559722631170 ========== Barr finds sedition in violent protests, and maybe non-violent too. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/16/us/politics/william-barr-sedition.html But he's not politicizing Justice, even though he says that a Biden victory would lead America inevitably to socialism. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/16/us/elections/in-an-interview-barr-warned-of-the-us-going-down-the-socialist-path-if-trump-is-not-re-elected.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 65 time 2020-09-17 03:23 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1306433538359570437 ========== The end of gradual improvement in global living standards. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/16/opinion/coronavirus-hunger-disease.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 66 time 2020-09-17 03:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1306432087122092035 ========== Who needs third-party presidential candidates? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/16/opinion/third-parties-2020.html Montana Republicans will pay for Greens. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/us-high-court-denies-bid-to-restore-greens-on-montana-ballot/2020/08/25/dc6a1250-e719-11ea-bf44-0d31c85838a5_story.html For local and state offices, third-party candidates are fine only if there is ranked-choice-voting. https://www.fairvote.org/rcv#where_is_ranked_choice_voting_used #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% expands 1 impress 74 time 2020-09-17 03:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1306431095123050496 ========== Trump fired him for getting in his way. Why not just admit it? Trump's base won't mind. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/state-department-officials-to-appear-before-house-panel-on-inspector-generals-ouster/2020/09/16/764a6374-f823-11ea-be57-d00bb9bc632d_story.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 66 time 2020-09-17 02:54 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1306426347519057920 ========== Nothing spontaneous - a carefully planned event! https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-protest-lafayette-square/2020/09/16/ca0174e4-f788-11ea-89e3-4b9efa36dc64_story.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 65 time 2020-09-17 02:52 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1306425720176951299 ========== Barr tells all. It's junior bureaucrats who are politicizing Justice, not him. Black Lives Matter is just radicals looking for props to advance their agenda. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/william-barr-hillsdale-college/2020/09/16/0986dac4-f887-11ea-a275-1a2c2d36e1f1_story.html Surprised? Just as Trump is the executive branch, Barr is Justice. #PS1notopic ===== engage 2 engage-rate 3% expands 2 impress 74 time 2020-09-17 02:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1306425465222045696 ========== America First is looking like America Alone. How is that going to work out with no imports and no exports? https://apnews.com/58a89252300408e255ed3a9a26004091 Xi would be happy to lead the way to a new world trade order, and the third world, and increasingly Europe, would be happy to follow. #PS1notopic ===== impress 65 time 2020-09-17 02:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1306421160893009920 ========== Trump's finally gotten his man in the Dept of Justice. Or has Barr finally gotten his man in the White House? https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2020/09/15/william-barr-president-trump-perfect-match #PS1notopic ===== impress 57 time 2020-09-17 02:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1306413234971312128 ========== Apocalypse now? Way too many people are looking forward to it. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/16/opinion/biden-trump-2020-violence.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 58 time 2020-09-17 01:48 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1306409744777662465 ========== Trump peace plan for Middle East - sell more bombs that will be used against civilians. This is a war crime against humanity. Some State Department officials have been worried about their personal legal liability. Not Pompeo! https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/14/us/politics/us-war-crimes-yemen-saudi-arabia.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 64 time 2020-09-17 01:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1306407411612184576 ========== It might be a good idea for a Democratic senator to introduce the House Problem Solvers bill to see if any Republican senators will flinch. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/09/16/why-house-democrats-have-good-reason-be-anxious-about-no-coronavirus-relief-deal/ https://www.rollcall.com/2020/09/15/bipartisan-house-group-to-release-1-5-trillion-coronavirus-relief-plan/ Each house should pass its bill and send it to a conference committee. #PS1notopic ===== impress 55 time 2020-09-17 00:43 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1306393365093609476 ========== If you announce that everything you do is for political advantage - the media will acknowledge that by ignoring you unless you pay standard political advertising rates. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/09/16/senate-gops-effort-boost-trumps-reelection-hopes-are-too-ham-handed-work/ #PS1notopic ===== engage 12 engage-rate 11% expands 12 impress 105 time 2020-09-16 22:06 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1306353813750607872 ========== Why wouldn't an amateur president use amateur diplomats? https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/09/15/ivanka-trump-wanted-a-plan-to-quickly-defeat-isis-woodwards-book-shows/ At least if they are family, he can somewhat count on their loyalty. #PS1notopic ===== impress 61 time 2020-09-16 22:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1306352798288625664 ========== American influence declines https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2020/09/15/us-image-plummets-internationally-as-most-say-country-has-handled-coronavirus-badly/ and Europe has to figure it out on its own https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/16/opinion/international-world/can-biden-fix-what-trump-broke.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 46 time 2020-09-16 13:54 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1306229984973869057 ========== Lists of potential judges considered harmful. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/16/opinion/trump-supreme-court-list.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 45 time 2020-09-16 13:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1306223306689802241 ========== Why can't Trump do as much as Nixon did? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/16/opinion/california-wildfires.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 50 time 2020-09-16 12:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1306211244659990528 ========== Still delusional about his own competence! If the purpose of the debates with Biden is to persuade the undecided, Trump better quit preaching to his base. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/09/16/trumps-incoherent-defense-his-coronavirus-response/ #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 44 time 2020-09-16 12:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1306209737608847360 ========== Superspreading from rural Maine https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/09/15/maine-wedding-covid/ #PS1notopic ===== impress 48 time 2020-09-16 12:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1306208479875485697 ========== Somebody is doing something about preventing Russian interference - but of course it's not a Trump appointee. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-military-is-providing-an-unexpected-and-powerful-line-of-defense-against-russian-interference/2020/09/15/6fafbb86-f779-11ea-a275-1a2c2d36e1f1_story.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 45 time 2020-09-16 02:48 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1306062349854416896 ========== Scientific American endorses a presidential candidate for the first time. Now which one could possibly qualify as scientific? https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientific-american-endorses-joe-biden/ #PS1notopic ===== impress 48 time 2020-09-16 02:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1306061489741078528 ========== Q was right about something! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/09/15/trump-has-exposed-deep-state-it-is-him/ #PS1notopic ===== impress 49 time 2020-09-16 01:24 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1306041177037185024 ========== Which is the parody? It's getting hard to tell these days. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/i-cant-stand-trump-but-democrats-may-force-me-to-vote-for-him/2020/09/14/1cf10518-f6c4-11ea-a275-1a2c2d36e1f1_story.html or https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/09/15/i-cant-believe-youre-forcing-me-vote-trump-which-i-definitely-didnt-already-want-do/ #PS1notopic ===== impress 75 time 2020-09-15 23:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1306004916545007616 ========== Desperatedly trying to change the topic from Russian interference by making up Chinese interference. https://www.lawfareblog.com/does-dhs-whistleblower-report-reveal-election-interference-scandal #PS1notopic ===== impress 54 time 2020-09-15 22:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1306004587493560320 ========== Turning Point - toward Russian methods. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/turning-point-teens-disinformation-trump/2020/09/15/c84091ae-f20a-11ea-b796-2dd09962649c_story.html Gaming the social media rules - valuable vocational training if you want to go to work for the Internet Research Agency. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Research_Agency #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 56 time 2020-09-15 22:52 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1306003041053626369 ========== Third party presidential candidates are counter-productive. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/09/15/why-third-parties-should-stop-running-candidates-president/ Advocate ranked choice voting and oppose winner-take-all electoral college voting. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#preferential https://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#electoral%20college https://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#registration #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 52 time 2020-09-15 22:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1306000226914762752 ========== Climate migration - how it works in Central America. Compassion has been replaced by Trumpism in Mexico. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/07/23/magazine/climate-migration.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 51 time 2020-09-15 21:06 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1305976417272823808 ========== Trump even makes up stuff to tell Fox! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/09/15/how-desperate-is-trump-he-wants-do-weekly-fox-friends-stints/ #PS1notopic ===== impress 52 time 2020-09-15 20:23 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1305965453617979392 ========== Trump won't shut up even if he leaves the White House. Will his enablers still stimulate his base? Or will they transfer their zeal to a new, more capable dictator candidate? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/09/15/why-biden-presidency-might-see-period-heightened-violence/ #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 54 time 2020-09-15 20:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1305964200200527872 ========== Scotland rejects Boris Johnson's Trumpism. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/09/14/boris-johnson-coronavirus-are-pushing-scotland-break-up-with-united-kingdom/ #PS1notopic ===== impress 53 time 2020-09-15 20:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1305963071513346048 ========== Climate migration - it will be bad enough in America. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/09/15/magazine/climate-crisis-migration-america.html A sea level rise of ten feet would probably provoke a billion people to want to move globally. It's hard to see how that can happen peacefully. https://www.liberty-and-justice.net/ #PS1notopic ===== impress 52 time 2020-09-15 20:06 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1305961255274856448 ========== Sorry, 2021 will not be like 2019. Maybe 2022 will be better if everybody follows the rules AND gets vaccinated when available. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/15/opinion/coronavirus-precautions.html We all need a miracle - the miracle of everybody following the rules as long as necessary. #PS1notopic ===== impress 51 time 2020-09-15 19:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1305956359301509120 ========== Work from home! https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/15/technology/money-mules-fraud-pandemic.html If it sounds too good to be true... #PS1notopic ===== impress 51 time 2020-09-15 19:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1305955217796509698 ========== Limbaugh and Carlson agree with Trump on climate, as long as it affects blue states. Not just fires - hurricanes affect red states - and the Gulf Coast will really change with rising sea levels. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/15/business/media/wildfires-conservative-media.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 52 time 2020-09-15 19:37 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1305953959668924416 ========== Caputo really needs a nice long absence. https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/15/michael-caputo-apology-hhs-staff-415206 #PS1notopic ===== impress 48 time 2020-09-15 19:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1305953174843355136 ========== The Republicans reject the House relief bill passed in May. So the House needs to come up with something that Republicans should accept now. Democrats can then campaign on its inadequacies rather than Republicans campaigning about no action. https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2020/09/15/congress-democrats-coronavirus-relief-economy/ #PS1notopic ===== engage 2 engage-rate 4% expands 2 impress 52 time 2020-09-15 19:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1305952262527676416 ========== Trump says not to worry about climate because it will start to get cooler. https://apnews.com/bd152cd786b58e45c61bebf2457f9930 It does start to get cooler in the fall in the northern hemisphere, every year. The problem is the following summers are getting hotter and hotter, every year. #PS1notopic ===== impress 41 time 2020-09-15 18:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1305936562014662656 ========== Amazon hiring! If you don't mind minimum wage and no union. https://financialpost.com/pmn/business-pmn/amazon-hiring-100000-new-employees-in-u-s-canada/wcm/b4b50ef6-3abc-4907-a93a-194f1306202e/ #PS1notopic ===== impress 41 time 2020-09-15 18:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1305931502258061313 ========== Trumpists deconstruct modern government. They don't have an alternative in mind other than letting major Republican donors do what they want. This is McConnell's greatest accomplishment - a reactionary judiciary to support freedom - of the donors. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/15/opinion/us-government-constitution.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 44 time 2020-09-15 14:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1305877930728284160 ========== Who's ready for the election and who's not? https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/09/15/opinion/states-election-2020.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 46 time 2020-09-15 14:24 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1305875036100673537 ========== What's Trump's campaign strategy? Declare victory in advance, and then violently suppress any dissent? Vladimir would approve! Even if it's just talk to stir up the violent wanna-bes. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/15/opinion/caputo-trump-2020.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 46 time 2020-09-15 14:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1305873627460501505 ========== Over-leverage come back to bite you? Don't worry, major donors go to the head of the line. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/15/business/economy/hotel-owners-trump-federal-bailout.html But you might have to wait until after the election to get the return on your campaign investment. #PS1notopic ===== impress 43 time 2020-09-15 14:14 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1305872517048020994 ========== The self-confidence of a salesman! https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/09/trump-bob-woodward-book-411225 #PS1notopic ===== impress 41 time 2020-09-15 14:06 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1305870709802110976 ========== There are problem solvers in Congress. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/15/us/politics/bipartisan-stimulus-bill.html But they are a distinct minority. The majority favor creating problems that they can run against without ever solving. https://www.nolabels.org/building-blocks/ #PS1notopic ===== impress 52 time 2020-09-15 13:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1305867744903139328 ========== Don't get sick now, the state can't afford you. https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/covid-medicaid-enrollment-increases/2020/09/14/84b6249a-e6f1-11ea-97e0-94d2e46e759b_story.html But don't worry, the party will go on without you. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-nevada-rally-coronavirus/2020/09/14/82af86f0-f682-11ea-be57-d00bb9bc632d_story.html #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 46 time 2020-09-15 13:14 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1305857423891214337 ========== Finally time to move on from slavery https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2020/09/15/southern-baptist-name-great-commission-baptist/ But when it comes to declining membership, they're not so different from mainline Protestants. https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2020/06/04/southern-baptists-see-historic-drop-membership/ #PS1notopic ===== engage 2 engage-rate 5% expands 2 impress 44 time 2020-09-15 12:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1305853450740092930 ========== Trump always has a list of witnesses who weren't there - https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/09/15/trump-says-there-are-25-witnesses-disputing-atlantic-nope/ But he won't allow actual witnesses to be questioned by Congress - https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/dhs-says-it-wont-make-officials-available-for-questioning-in-house-probe-of-portland-protests/2020/09/14/69e86882-f6e9-11ea-be57-d00bb9bc632d_story.html #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 43 time 2020-09-15 12:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1305851495678500866 ========== Cults for the internet. What makes people fall for them? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/14/arts/television/nxivm-internet-cult.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 46 time 2020-09-15 05:37 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1305742456260931585 ========== It's a drug he can't resist! He needs the energy from his base - and campaigning is so much more energizing than the tedium of governing. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/14/us/politics/trump-rally.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 44 time 2020-09-15 02:53 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1305701139833208832 ========== Is South Carolina really in play? https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/senate-graham-trump-south-carolina/2020/09/10/e54ed1e0-ee1b-11ea-a21a-0fbbe90cfd8c_story.html You can help Lindsey Graham to a well-deserved retirement! https://jaimeharrison.com/ #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 44 time 2020-09-15 02:21 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1305693128872005633 ========== Good news! 10 foot sea rise won't occur until after the election! https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2020/09/14/glaciers-breaking-antarctica-pine-island-thwaites/ Think of all those Trumpists losing their coastal homes. But Trump doesn't mind. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/devastating-wildfires-out-west-inject-climate-change-into-the-presidential-campaign/2020/09/14/5418cd62-f694-11ea-be57-d00bb9bc632d_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/09/14/president-who-says-coronavirus-will-go-away-makes-same-prediction-about-global-warming/ It's just a Chinese hoax, or a Democratic one. #PS1notopic ===== engage 11 engage-rate 14% expands 11 impress 81 time 2020-09-14 23:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1305650599992541184 ========== Open up the country too soon? You have to stay home for High Holy Days. https://apnews.com/af7e03891cdebdc9eb507094401b5146 Can Trump learn from his pal Netanyahu? #PS1notopic ===== impress 52 time 2020-09-14 22:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1305634486961360897 ========== Same old story! https://apnews.com/0f59968fe06851efc30ccca084c66095 Emperors believe the best way to deal with bearers of bad news is to get rid of them. #PS1notopic ===== impress 50 time 2020-09-14 22:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1305633797359108096 ========== Trump still knows it's dangerous. He still loves unmasked crowds packed together cheering for him. https://apnews.com/a6aa8368f81917614dff07c2a8a9fdc3 He blames the governor for enforcing the official Federal advice on virus safety. But he'll always have Minden! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minden,_Nevada #PS1notopic ===== impress 53 time 2020-09-14 22:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1305633012315336704 ========== Jobs gone forever! https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/04/business/economy/service-economy-workers.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 51 time 2020-09-14 22:15 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1305631315174109184 ========== Why shouldn't an old ignorant white guy president with an old ignorant white guy political base have an old ignorant white guy administration? For diversity, they have a few pretty young blondes around. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/12/us/politics/trump-race-state-department.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 51 time 2020-09-14 21:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1305627156752429056 ========== Pence doesn't want to get too close to QAnon? Good for him. https://apnews.com/35a881fb3e95ff8421efe57d05a5c374 #PS1notopic ===== impress 50 time 2020-09-14 21:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1305626203307405314 ========== What if he'd put his wall on hold until he defeated the virus? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/12/opinion/sunday/donald-trump-coronavirus.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 51 time 2020-09-14 20:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1305608670345003008 ========== It's all too easy for good people to do nothing. Take for instance current Republican senators. Their friends and family probably think of them as good people. But history will judge them unkindly for their passivity in the face of evil. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/13/opinion/activism-trump-masks-climate.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 51 time 2020-09-14 20:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1305607230897549314 ========== Why Trump doesn't need whistle-blowers. He can do it all himself. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/12/opinion/sunday/donald-trump-bob-woodward.html It's a matter of national insecurity - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/trump.html#insecurity #PS1notopic ===== impress 49 time 2020-09-14 20:20 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1305602253424791553 ========== A make-believe environmentalist! It's as easy as being a make-believe public health expert. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/13/us/politics/california-fires-trump-climate-change.html The dead are not make-believe, but at least they are not voting against him. #PS1notopic ===== impress 50 time 2020-09-14 20:12 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1305600288804319232 ========== No wonder he's in charge! He'll go even further in the next Trump administration. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/14/us/caputo-virus.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 51 time 2020-09-14 18:10 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1305569670833954816 ========== Wear your mask! For the same reasons you will get vaccinated - Them continue to wear your mask! For the same reasons you got vaccinated - * reduce probability of infection * reduce severity of infection https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2026913 #PS1notopic ===== impress 52 time 2020-09-14 17:53 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1305565306190852097 ========== Going around in circles doesn't get you very far! https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/09/pandemic-intuition-nightmare-spiral-winter/616204/ #PS1notopic ===== impress 49 time 2020-09-14 17:43 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1305562895518842887 ========== Getting pushed back to the office? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/09/11/bankers-are-leading-way-back-our-offices-good-or-ill/ How ambitious are you? #PS1notopic ===== engage 12 engage-rate 13% expands 12 impress 95 time 2020-09-13 05:07 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1305010292150083586 ========== Don't count on saving money by moving! https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-11/vmware-twitter-cut-pay-for-remote-workers-fleeing-bay-area #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% expands 1 impress 78 time 2020-09-13 02:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1304967261636104194 ========== Trump should study this defense! Can't tell right from wrong? Everybody's off the hook! https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/09/11/theranos-founder-holmes-to-claim-mental-condition-affecting-issue-of-guilt/ #PS1notopic ===== impress 55 time 2020-09-13 02:14 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1304966744948105217 ========== Who cares what other doctors think? Trump's opinion is the one that matters. And he has an election ahead. https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/09/12/stanford-doctors-take-aim-at-former-colleague-scott-atlas-trumps-new-adviser-on-the-covid-19-pandemic/ #PS1notopic ===== impress 66 time 2020-09-12 23:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1304931824880119808 ========== "In Vladimir Putin242s greatest triumph, Americans are using Russia242s playbook against one another without the faintest clue." https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/12/opinion/russia-meddling-disinformation-fake-news-elections.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 83 time 2020-09-12 23:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1304930487647875073 ========== Dueling reports likely before the election! https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/biden-ukraine-senate-investigation/2020/09/11/e969d848-f379-11ea-999c-67ff7bf6a9d2_story.html #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 53 time 2020-09-12 23:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1304929659558047744 ========== Why Trump likes to pretend he's religious. https://getpocket.com/explore/item/why-did-women-vote-for-hitler-long-forgotten-essays-hold-some-answers Q is using the same technique by pretending to be interested in the welfare of children. #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% impress 60 time 2020-09-12 23:34 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1304926407147937792 ========== What has Trump accomplished? It boils down to tax cuts for billionaires, deregulation for billionaires, and reactionary judiciary for billionaires. The same things any Republican would have accomplished - as long as McConnell was running the Senate. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/11/opinion/trump-fact-check.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 58 time 2020-09-12 06:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1304665072589963264 ========== Of course Trump wants some results announced before the election. Otherwise why bother? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/11/us/politics/nora-dannehy-durham-russia-investigation.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 59 time 2020-09-12 06:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1304663217352761344 ========== Everybody knew it couldn't possibly work. So why does he keep pushing it? Does he think his base is too dumb to know the difference? https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/09/11/trumps-dubious-tax-gambit-fizzles-even-red-states-balk/ #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 59 time 2020-09-12 06:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1304661516038225920 ========== The anti-Hillary https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-lean-in-feminism-created-elizabeth-holmes-and-the-toxic-ladyboss #PS1notopic ===== impress 70 time 2020-09-12 05:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1304659916532056067 ========== Trump administration still impotent on supply chains. https://apnews.com/1295eae6f73d1870a23cb8e2cb66ad05 #PS1notopic ===== impress 60 time 2020-09-12 05:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1304652320051884033 ========== Tucker Carlson thinks Lindsey Graham set up Trump with Woodward. Must have been a slow news day. Hardly any Republican has tied himself more securely to the Trump anchor than Graham. https://apnews.com/ed3e19335541f86825f783a68d33be5d #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 64 time 2020-09-12 05:21 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1304651309878927360 ========== Climate change - believe it! https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/10/us/climate-change-california-wildfires.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 66 time 2020-09-12 04:53 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1304644235140804609 ========== Another victory for Putin... or somebody! Convincing Americans that other Americans are conspiring against them. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/11/us/fires-oregon-antifa-rumors.html #PS1notopic ===== engage 17 engage-rate 15% expands 17 impress 111 time 2020-09-12 04:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1304638390709620737 ========== The revelations are about Trump's enablers. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/woodwards-rage-is-a-damning-account-of-trumps-cowering-sycophants-and-enablers/2020/09/10/dab8917a-f2d6-11ea-bc45-e5d48ab44b9f_story.html Pitch defileth the hand that toucheth it. #PS1notopic ===== impress 70 time 2020-09-11 16:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1304451804365647872 ========== Why doesn't the Constitution apply in Guantanamo? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/10/opinion/guantanamo-due-process.html #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% expands 1 impress 75 time 2020-09-11 02:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1304246979577352192 ========== Is the election going to be decided by Chief Justice John Roberts? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/prepare-for-election-month-not-election-night/2020/09/10/c8ae8c16-f3a1-11ea-bc45-e5d48ab44b9f_story.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 76 time 2020-09-11 01:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1304230818353610753 ========== Regulation that builds trust is good for the economy. But try convincing a Republican of that. For that matter, Trump has courted the anti-vaxxers for so long that he shouldn't be surprised that people are skeptical of a covid vaccine. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/growing-public-skepticism-on-vaccines-is-an-indictment-of-trumps-record/2020/09/10/ca5de6bc-f38b-11ea-b796-2dd09962649c_story.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 75 time 2020-09-11 01:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1304229964204576768 ========== Trump likes to be a calming presence. Nobody knew! https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-woodward-coronavirus-panic/2020/09/10/5376cd7c-f375-11ea-999c-67ff7bf6a9d2_story.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 84 time 2020-09-11 01:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1304227577045725184 ========== Does Trump have enough money? Is he spending it wisely for 2020? https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/republican-worries-rise-as-trump-campaign-pulls-back-from-television-advertising/2020/09/10/92db20e4-f2b7-11ea-b796-2dd09962649c_story.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 73 time 2020-09-11 01:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1304226597742862336 ========== Trump's list of Supreme Court candidates He plans to do as much damage as possible, and McConnell is there to help. https://www.npr.org/2020/09/10/911317444/trumps-newest-supreme-court-shortlist-is-overtly-more-political #PS1notopic ===== engage 15 engage-rate 12% expands 15 impress 124 time 2020-09-10 23:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1304201231955419136 ========== Mothers for Q! Where did they come from? And why do they believe it? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/10/opinion/qanon-women-conspiracy.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 55 time 2020-09-10 21:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1304170463426351104 ========== Social Progress Index https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/09/opinion/united-states-social-progress.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 56 time 2020-09-10 21:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1304169060142260225 ========== How a REAL strong leader handles the virus and the press! Maybe if Trump is re-elected he can get lessons from Brazil. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/10/opinion/bolsonaro-broadcasts-brazil.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 57 time 2020-09-10 21:21 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1304168078872199168 ========== Trump's not delusional! His lies were intentional and calculated... and on tape. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/10/opinion/trump-woodward-coronavirus-tapes.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 55 time 2020-09-10 21:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1304167016958369792 ========== What it's like at rock bottom https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/national/kissimmee-star-motel/ #PS1notopic ===== impress 55 time 2020-09-10 21:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1304166073609060352 ========== Treasury finally sanctions Derkach - a pal of Giuliani and One America News https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/election-interference-sanctions-ukraine/2020/09/10/ba537510-f382-11ea-9279-45d6bdfe145f_story.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 56 time 2020-09-10 20:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1304162708955172864 ========== Microsoft detects foreign hacking https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/russian-hackers-who-disrupted-2016-election-targeting-political-parties-again-microsoft-says/2020/09/10/301dd5fe-f36c-11ea-bc45-e5d48ab44b9f_story.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 56 time 2020-09-10 20:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1304161708554952704 ========== Judge does his part! If Democrats can't vote, then they can't commit fraud! https://apnews.com/8a0146c85df9117804043194fe2d9bc2 #PS1notopic ===== impress 57 time 2020-09-10 19:57 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1304146879056289792 ========== Trump's re-election strategy https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-09-06/how-trump-can-win #PS1notopic ===== impress 53 time 2020-09-10 19:48 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1304144764036501504 ========== Another look at income inequality https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/07/income-inequality-wealth-gap-409234 #PS1notopic ===== impress 54 time 2020-09-10 17:20 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1304107449855610880 ========== Know the name of your secretary of state? You will in November! https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-05/democrats-hold-secret-edge-if-election-is-too-close-to-call #PS1notopic ===== impress 49 time 2020-09-10 17:15 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1304106230449754112 ========== How individualism overcame clannishness What country is more individualistic than America? https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/10/joseph-henrich-weird-people/615496/ #PS1notopic ===== impress 50 time 2020-09-10 17:10 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1304105012558135301 ========== Ride into South Dakota and we'll have a real good time! Just like Sturgis! https://apnews.com/3cfc0826a528c6a4ad403dfecc7d1c33 Paid for with your virus relief tax dollars. #PS1notopic ===== impress 48 time 2020-09-10 16:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1304102170539601920 ========== Lucky Rittenhouse wasn't black! https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2020/09/06/leonard-pitts-kyle/ #PS1notopic ===== impress 50 time 2020-09-10 16:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1304101216746528769 ========== Spending his own money? https://apnews.com/518a317338d4ade5ff750e653edd8133 That's not the Trump way - you spend Other People's Money! #PS1notopic ===== impress 47 time 2020-09-10 16:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1304099284590063618 ========== Must be an election soon! A ban on offshore drilling? https://apnews.com/c984829ef78b964cc7d09bf2e0e1ab34 Bringing the boys home? https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-iraq-troops/united-states-formally-announces-troop-reduction-in-iraq-idUSKBN2601RZ #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% expands 1 impress 74 time 2020-09-10 16:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1304098467334160385 ========== The secret of Trump's success - “Resentment borne of humiliation is the most potent political sentiment of all” What can Biden do to address the resentments fueling Trump's base? Policy initiatives are not the most important aspect. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/08/opinion/biden-trump-humiliation.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 51 time 2020-09-10 05:52 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1303934408219455488 ========== Would you pay more attention to climate change if your house were on fire? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/09/opinion/california-fires.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 47 time 2020-09-10 05:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1303931793096151040 ========== Eight ways that Putin can win the election! https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/09/opinion/election-security-trump.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 48 time 2020-09-10 05:37 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1303930483097575425 ========== Strike against feudalism! https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/09/opinion/general-strike.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 46 time 2020-09-10 05:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1303928052523569159 ========== Let's make this the last election with an electoral college. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/08/opinion/electoral-college-trump-biden.html There are better ways https://www.reduce-rural-bias.net/ #PS1notopic ===== impress 48 time 2020-09-10 05:23 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1303927027611779072 ========== How to defraud the government. It's easier than you might think, especially in the top-secret arenas. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/09/opinion/garrison-courtney-spies-contracts.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 48 time 2020-09-10 05:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1303925312720310273 ========== Did you know that suing the president is the same as suing the government? And thus, just as likely to succeed. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/09/us/politics/trump-e-jean-carroll-lawsuit.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 52 time 2020-09-10 04:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1303918893799337984 ========== No need to ask the president how he really feels. He's already told all, on the record. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/09/us/politics/trump-generals-attacks.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 51 time 2020-09-10 04:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1303917428729020421 ========== City economies will have to change for good. The virus showed corporations how to save money with remote work. https://marker.medium.com/remote-work-is-killing-the-hidden-trillion-dollar-office-economy-5800af06b007 #PS1notopic ===== impress 47 time 2020-09-10 04:12 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1303909222455758850 ========== FBI has to invent an angle to investigate domestic terrorists. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/09/09/fbi-boogaloo-hamas-terrorism/ #PS1notopic ===== impress 49 time 2020-09-10 02:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1303883383408218112 ========== Democrats should stick to health care https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/09/09/oft-forgotten-key-issue-2020/ #PS1notopic ===== impress 50 time 2020-09-10 02:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1303881444863832064 ========== If people bring Trump bad news anyway, he just likes to play it down. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/09/09/what-bob-woodwards-book-tells-us-about-trump/ #PS1notopic ===== impress 47 time 2020-09-10 02:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1303880467230281728 ========== Don't nobody bring Trump no bad news! https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/senior-dhs-official-alleges-in-whistleblower-complaint-that-he-was-told-to-stop-providing-intelligence-analysis-on-threat-of-russian-interference/2020/09/09/9d0661c4-f2b6-11ea-b796-2dd09962649c_story.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 48 time 2020-09-10 02:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1303879972759597056 ========== Neither Republicans nor Democrats want to budge. They think they get the advantage in the election by defending their donors instead of their voters. https://apnews.com/7c1bed2232a10917285fa27cf9fab53c #PS1notopic ===== impress 50 time 2020-09-10 02:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1303879296906215424 ========== Why German kids can go to school in person - and American kids can't. https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/school-reopening-germany-united-states-trump-angela-merkel-covid-coronavirus-20200903.html #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 47 time 2020-09-10 00:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1303860496383143936 ========== Cost of inequality of expectations and inequality of results https://www.inquirer.com/columnists/attytood/wall-street-records-millions-unemployed-evictions-20200903.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 47 time 2020-09-10 00:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1303859893481291776 ========== Virus still real, still real threat https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/09/08/7432389/ #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 45 time 2020-09-10 00:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1303858156657758210 ========== California legislature finds insurance too hot to handle https://calmatters.org/commentary/2020/09/california-legislature-ignores-fire-insurance-crisis/ #PS1notopic ===== impress 26 time 2020-09-10 00:48 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1303857735440543745 ========== Trump won by 78,000 votes in 2016. https://apnews.com/881c098ab2847dea9d87604bab9568d6 Absentee ballots could make the difference. #PS1notopic ===== impress 46 time 2020-09-10 00:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1303856230973149184 ========== Last Chance https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/09/08/as-wildfire-closed-in-he-made-a-harrowing-stand-against-a-certain-death-in-remote-last-chance/ Maybe not quite last! https://www.landsofamerica.com/property/664-Swanton-RD-Davenport-California-95017/6957696/ #PS1notopic ===== impress 64 time 2020-09-09 23:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1303831007716470784 ========== Maybe these don't need to be competitive events https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/07/us/gender-reveal-party-wildfire.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 88 time 2020-09-08 04:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1303188382667829249 ========== So Trump is going to tell anti-vaxxers to take the vaccine? https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-vaccine-election/2020/09/05/c0da86d6-edf5-11ea-99a1-71343d03bc29_story.html They are such a big part of his base. #PS1notopic ===== impress 47 time 2020-09-08 00:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1303135184791851008 ========== Where your Trump campaign donation goes https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/07/us/politics/trump-election-campaign-fundraising.html aside from the part that goes to lawyers https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/05/us/politics/trump-docket-legal-bills.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 63 time 2020-09-07 23:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1303113303791603712 ========== The filibuster has got to go! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/09/07/senate-filibuster-rule-repeal/ https://www-x.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#filibuster #PS1notopic ===== impress 60 time 2020-09-07 22:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1303097990479929344 ========== Why we needed a strong Republican Party - strong enough to resist Trumpism. https://getpocket.com/explore/item/why-do-democracies-fail Instead, either a new strong conservative party gets invented in time, or the economic oligarchs will get into line behind fascism under Trump's more competent successor. #PS1notopic ===== impress 36 time 2020-09-07 19:07 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1303047335820230657 ========== Our stagnant future https://getpocket.com/explore/item/why-growth-will-fall But stagnant is a lot better than some other plausible alternatives - https://www.liberty-and-justice.net/ #PS1notopic ===== impress 36 time 2020-09-07 18:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1303045205734486016 ========== No help for states and local governments as long as Mitch is in charge! https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/07/business/state-budgets-coronavirus-aid.html Perhaps the Republicans, considering how badly they might lose in November, want to make the recession as bad as possible so they can blame it on Biden in 2022. #PS1notopic ===== impress 38 time 2020-09-07 17:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1303017980951814144 ========== Let's redivide Germany into Trumpist and Putinist sectors https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/07/world/europe/germany-trump-far-right.html At least they will have a place to hide if they are evicted from office. #PS1notopic ===== impress 35 time 2020-09-07 17:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1303015484451819520 ========== Getting worse on the bottom https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/07/opinion/trump-economy-jobs.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 36 time 2020-09-07 16:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1303011491008753665 ========== Forget about dark matter or dark energy. The universe runs on dark money! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/09/07/louis-dejoy-could-hardly-be-more-emblematic-trump-administration/ #PS1notopic ===== impress 39 time 2020-09-07 15:31 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1302992841921032192 ========== Being liked is not the job of journalism. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/06/business/media/trump-election-journalists.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 37 time 2020-09-07 14:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1302977318038634496 ========== Trump a racist? Who knew?? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/06/us/politics/cohen-book-trump.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 38 time 2020-09-07 14:21 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1302975321914843137 ========== Unpass the SALT cap! https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/07/opinion/salt-tax-deduction-cut.html There's better ways to reward homeownership and to finance state and local government. https://www.one-flat-tax.net/ #PS1notopic ===== impress 39 time 2020-09-07 14:15 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1302973846341861376 ========== Happy Labor Day, Republican senators! A day for decisions. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/07/trump-despondent-as-numbers-crater-loser-label-looms #PS1notopic ===== impress 39 time 2020-09-07 14:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1302972220839325696 ========== When is a "suggestion" from the boss just a suggestion? https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/09/07/legal-lines-louis-dejoys-alleged-campaign-contribution-reimbursements-may-have-crossed/ #PS1notopic ===== impress 36 time 2020-09-07 14:03 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1302970732440240128 ========== More on what Republicans have done for Labor Day https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/06/opinion/labor-unions-republicans.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 40 time 2020-09-07 04:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1302830894999166977 ========== Remember the forgotten Americans on Labor Day. Nobody named Trump will! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-forgot-his-promise-to-the-forgotten-men-and-women/2020/09/06/f56dd96c-eedf-11ea-b4bc-3a2098fc73d4_story.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 36 time 2020-09-07 04:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1302827213650161670 ========== Consistent with the overall competence of the Trump administration! https://apnews.com/f2f01300037f1fdfe888e5a190576671 #PS1notopic ===== impress 37 time 2020-09-07 03:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1302816633484787712 ========== When you donate to the Trump campaign, where does the money go? They don't talk about this in their letter soliciting donations. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/05/us/politics/trump-docket-legal-bills.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 41 time 2020-09-07 03:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1302816455071735809 ========== How laws get made. You have to prime the pump. https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/louis-dejoy-campaign-contributions/2020/09/06/1187bc2c-e3fe-11ea-8181-606e603bb1c4_story.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 32 time 2020-09-07 02:46 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1302800333572206592 ========== Intentionally spreading lies. Putin would be proud. So would Hitler. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-disinformation-campaign/2020/09/06/f34f080a-eeca-11ea-a21a-0fbbe90cfd8c_story.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 33 time 2020-09-07 02:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1302795913501396992 ========== See no evil hear no evil https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/09/04/white-house-racial-sensitivity-training/ And above all, change the subject from the virus, economy, unrest, and Trump's comments about the military! #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% expands 1 impress 33 time 2020-09-07 02:23 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1302794595336552449 ========== Hence the disorders, convulsions, and tumults, which have so often overturned the liberties of republics; enabling the leaders of the parties to become the Masters & oppressors of the People. https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-13-02-0217 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/09/05/trumps-insults-troops-are-just-latest-episode-nothing-matters-presidency/ #PS1notopic ===== engage 2 engage-rate 6% expands 2 impress 35 time 2020-09-07 00:48 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1302770721194565632 ========== On Labor Day, honor the workers who support Trump just by showing up for work every day despite the risks. But don't expect him to return the favor. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/09/04/we-are-all-losers-trumps-america/ #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% expands 1 impress 33 time 2020-09-07 00:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1302762790965264384 ========== Putin wins in three out of four scenarios https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/09/03/trump-stay-in-office/ #PS1notopic ===== impress 28 time 2020-09-07 00:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1302761765344747520 ========== Some ideas take a long time to change. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/08/the-popes-jews/615736/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortara_case Was it so different from kidnapping American Indian children and sending them to assimilation schools? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Indian_boarding_schools At least that lasted less than a century. #PS1notopic ===== impress 30 time 2020-09-07 00:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1302759188280426496 ========== Even if Trump's not there in 2021, his ideals will persist! Maybe they will be Q's ideals by then. https://apnews.com/6100d243d4c43de305a81b7fa9e96c8f #PS1notopic ===== impress 67 time 2020-09-06 23:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1302753566851960832 ========== Serbia and Kosovo normalizing. And what's in it for Trump? There has to be something - and it's moving the Serbian embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. Just what does that have to do with Serbia and Kosovo? https://apnews.com/3b7aca39c6829655d43de30f68497ed1 #PS1notopic ===== impress 68 time 2020-09-06 23:37 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1302752849806258176 ========== Can it be true? Reasons for hope in the worst year in a long time, with everything broken? https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/leonard-pitts-jr/article245416855.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 64 time 2020-09-06 23:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1302752345206394881 ========== Can it be true? A no-nonsense bipartisan bill to put unemployed young people to work? https://www.doverpost.com/story/news/2020/08/05/coons-wicker-corps-act-gains-bipartisan-cosponsors/3304425001/ #PS1notopic ===== impress 43 time 2020-09-06 23:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1302746761702731776 ========== Can it be true? A no-nonsense bipartisan continuing resolution? https://apnews.com/2c635b4e14e17ec6db0b13dfb089aa8c #PS1notopic ===== impress 43 time 2020-09-06 23:10 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1302745988721860609 ========== people don’t stop playing the game until it stops fulfilling a need https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/03/opinion/qanon-facebook-trump.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 96 time 2020-09-04 04:20 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1301736839724769280 ========== All states should use libraries for voting. But some resist. Why? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/03/opinion/mail-voting-trump-libraries.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 71 time 2020-09-04 04:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1301733977338777600 ========== Was there a planeload of thugs or not? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/02/us/politics/barr-trump-protest-violence.html The lack of detail that could be corroborated suggests that it's just another Trump fantasy. #PS1notopic ===== impress 73 time 2020-09-04 03:12 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1301719813933289472 ========== Selective leaking https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/09/01/trumps-wolfs-unsubstantiated-claims-investigations-carry-more-than-whiff-politics/ #PS1notopic ===== impress 63 time 2020-09-04 01:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1301697206311768064 ========== Time to support the troops https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/support-for-trump-appears-to-be-slipping-in-the-military-and-no-wonder/2020/08/31/7748cf3e-ebb9-11ea-b4bc-3a2098fc73d4_story.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 65 time 2020-09-04 01:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1301696249935007744 ========== The difference between Trump and Biden https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/its-obscene-to-focus-on-how-violence-affects-the-vote-but-it-is-our-reality/2020/08/31/5aea00f4-ebb6-11ea-99a1-71343d03bc29_story.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 63 time 2020-09-04 01:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1301695440790802432 ========== The dead tweet on - verified! https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/08/31/herman-cain-twitter-account/ Likewise, it's possible the original Q is no longer running the Q account. #PS1notopic ===== impress 66 time 2020-09-04 01:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1301694650462294022 ========== What happens if things get out of hand? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/09/02/chinas-military-deceit-himalayas-could-spell-disaster-region/ What's the American response? #PS1notopic ===== impress 65 time 2020-09-04 01:04 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1301687459764289537 ========== Republican senators toe the line https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/opinions/2020/08/28/republicans-traded-party-platform-this/ #PS1notopic ===== impress 62 time 2020-09-04 00:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1301686235681796096 ========== China on track to be #1 military power https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/09/02/trump-promised-350-ship-navy-china-actually-built-it/ Maintaining Taiwan's independence is going to be very difficult. Hong Kong proves that the PRC can do what it wants with no repercussions. #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 64 time 2020-09-04 00:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1301685489548713984 ========== Kanye won't be taking votes from Biden in Virginia https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/03/politics/2020-election-kanye-west-virginia-ballot/index.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 63 time 2020-09-04 00:24 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1301677547109847041 ========== Raising taxes is a bad idea. Not raising them is worse. If the Federal government won't help states, they have to help themselves, as they've already learned from the virus. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/03/opinion/sunday/progressive-policies-taxes.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 63 time 2020-09-04 00:14 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1301674839321661441 ========== Kindred spirits! Trump - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/03/us/politics/trump-distrust.html Putin - https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/30/books/review/nothing-is-true-and-everything-is-possible-by-peter-pomerantsev.html That's why they get along so well - https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/democratic-senators-ask-trump-administration-for-sanctions-over-election-interference-from-russia-other-countries/2020/09/03/bcc131f0-ed5d-11ea-b4bc-3a2098fc73d4_story.html #PS1notopic ===== engage 9 engage-rate 9% expands 9 impress 98 time 2020-09-03 23:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1301668888929685505 ========== Facebook hits hit pieces! Generally the worst hit pieces circulate immediately before the election, so there's no time for the other side to respond. So vote as early as you can! https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/09/03/facebook-political-ads/ #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 65 time 2020-09-03 23:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1301656865357492224 ========== How often we confuse luck with skill https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/02/opinion/education-prejudice.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 66 time 2020-09-03 16:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1301564665353261057 ========== Propping up endangered Republicans - a shell game to guess where the money is coming from and going to. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/pentagon-restarts-projects-defunded-for-trumps-wall-helping-some-gop-senators/2020/09/02/f2e9056c-e3fa-11ea-ade1-28daf1a5e919_story.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 70 time 2020-09-03 16:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1301563326191693825 ========== Another Republican for Biden https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/09/03/rick-snyder-why-im-voting-joe-biden-even-republican-column/5696508002/ #PS1notopic ===== impress 66 time 2020-09-03 16:46 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1301562225010778112 ========== Fruity fake news! https://narratively.com/the-literally-unbelievable-story-of-the-original-fake-news-network/ Che Guevara studied the model and applied it successfully. #PS1notopic ===== impress 64 time 2020-09-03 16:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1301559382606409728 ========== Rapid rollout of vaccine has its risks! https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/02/opinion/coronavirus-vaccine-trump.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 66 time 2020-09-03 05:03 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1301385324795314177 ========== Ready or not, here they come! https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/02/health/covid-19-vaccine-cdc-plans.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 61 time 2020-09-03 04:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1301384381248933888 ========== Voting so nice, you should do it twice! https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/02/politics/donald-trump-north-carolina-voter-fraud/index.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 58 time 2020-09-03 04:57 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1301383767509151744 ========== There's no vaccine for fire. California's original inhabitants had to learn how to live with it. Can we do as well? https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-08-31/george-skelton-fire-season-blame #PS1notopic ===== impress 63 time 2020-09-03 04:23 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1301375256460886019 ========== Goldwater said extremism in defense of liberty is no vice. Trump says extremism in defense of Trump is no vice. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/31/opinion/trump-biden-violence.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 65 time 2020-09-03 04:20 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1301374489914040324 ========== Adding context to trending topics https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/01/technology/twitter-trending-topics.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 62 time 2020-09-03 04:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1301373405329985536 ========== Facebook vs Internet Research Agency https://apnews.com/080e18b6bbe7ea28da72466f2af7bf96 #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 61 time 2020-09-03 04:14 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1301372959848767490 ========== Small business in big trouble; big business smiles. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/01/business/economy/small-businesses-coronavirus.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 61 time 2020-09-03 04:12 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1301372476102905857 ========== What hath Don wrought? https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/08/31/report-gilroy-man-arrested-on-suspicion-of-sending-threatening-letters-to-public-health-official/ #PS1notopic ===== impress 58 time 2020-09-03 04:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1301371545386795008 ========== It's not about saving the earth from carbon dioxide - it's about saving Trump supporters from fracked natural gas! https://apnews.com/7dff4afe289890f99e783aa26e4234fb #PS1notopic ===== impress 56 time 2020-09-03 04:03 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1301370317365886978 ========== Lessons on how to recover quickly from coronavirus https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/31/business/trumps-tariffs-coronavirus-china-exports.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 60 time 2020-09-03 03:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1301369211898355712 ========== Just what the world needs - more plastic! https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/30/climate/oil-kenya-africa-plastics-trade.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 51 time 2020-09-03 03:57 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1301368622762213376 ========== How to become postmaster general! https://apnews.com/a838c0bb546e2dae6b159bcd2f7b7277 #PS1notopic ===== impress 51 time 2020-09-03 03:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1301368213213597697 ========== Birds of a feather! https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/09/02/scandals-surrounding-trump-are-beginning-overlap-strange-ways/ #PS1notopic ===== engage 11 engage-rate 13% expands 11 impress 87 time 2020-09-02 22:53 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1301292252262617088 ========== The bases of minority rule https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/09/02/when-voting-doesnt-work-inequity-follows/ #PS1notopic ===== impress 62 time 2020-09-02 13:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1301150508015517696 ========== What should be done about the police? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/01/opinion/biden-trump-police-minneapolis.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 59 time 2020-09-02 04:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1301019404499443712 ========== More approaches to fixing the presidency https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/01/opinion/trump-corruption-democracy.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 56 time 2020-09-02 04:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1301018337564975104 ========== Approaches to fixing the presidency https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/01/opinion/presidency-donald-trump.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 61 time 2020-09-02 04:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1301017575283765250 ========== Putin is still at it! https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/09/01/facebook-disinformation-takedown/ #PS1notopic ===== impress 62 time 2020-09-02 02:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1300981507729702912 ========== More essential relief for King Coal! https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2020/08/31/coal-ash-epa-trump/ #PS1notopic ===== engage 5 engage-rate 5% expands 5 impress 92 time 2020-09-01 16:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1300834583185747968 ========== Aren't taxes complicated enough? What's the point if you just have to pay back your "tax cut" in a few months? https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2020/08/31/payroll-tax-trump-federal-employee/ #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% impress 79 time 2020-09-01 04:41 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1300654979485581312 ========== Herd immunity will save Trump? So what if two million people die. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-coronavirus-scott-atlas-herd-immunity/2020/08/30/925e68fe-e93b-11ea-970a-64c73a1c2392_story.html But it's not going to work, even badly, before the election. #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% expands 1 impress 74 time 2020-09-01 04:37 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1300654036585078785 ========== An unwelcome guest who will come anyway https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/trump-to-visit-kenosha-as-local-officials-ask-him-to-stay-away/2020/08/31/91eef2d8-ebd1-11ea-99a1-71343d03bc29_story.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 73 time 2020-09-01 04:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1300651722935644160 ========== Fixing politics at the root https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/kathryn-murdoch-election-reform/2020/08/31/d3945772-e943-11ea-bc79-834454439a44_story.html https://www.uniteamerica.org/ And let's not forget about dark money - https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/citizens-united-explained #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% expands 1 impress 73 time 2020-09-01 04:19 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1300649543436967936 ========== Trump administration believes in coal. Get with the program! https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/08/how-trump-appointees-short-circuited-grid-modernization/615433/ #PS1notopic ===== impress 72 time 2020-09-01 04:10 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1300647152394231808 ========== Trump thinks he's not as bad as you think! https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/29/us/politics/trump-swing-voters-.html #PS1notopic ===== engage 2 engage-rate 2% expands 2 impress 106 time 2020-08-31 15:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1300457120718974976 ========== No military prop for Biden! https://apnews.com/0c4e81ca8812d73086c97ecc53888e4d #PS1notopic ===== impress 120 time 2020-08-31 15:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1300456790140710913 ========== History repeats itself... in advance https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/26/books/review-hitler-downfall-volker-ullrich.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 105 time 2020-08-31 06:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1300316708096282625 ========== Don't overdo it on Twitter! Just because something feels right to you doesn't mean it is right. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/30/us/politics/trump-protests-violence-coronavirus.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 88 time 2020-08-31 05:57 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1300311819408437248 ========== What's the overlap between people who actually read social media and people who actually vote? https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/08/28/there-is-dormant-trump-vote-best-place-look-probably-isnt-facebook-memes/ #PS1notopic ===== impress 85 time 2020-08-30 20:03 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1300162334988447744 ========== Working for Trump can be hazardous to your career! And if you're a Federal employee or contractor, you're working for Trump. https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/convalescent-plasma-treatment-covid19-fda/2020/08/29/e39a75ec-e935-11ea-bc79-834454439a44_story.html #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% expands 1 impress 83 time 2020-08-30 20:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1300161809593200641 ========== Big changes ahead for Postal Service Some changes were just postponed until after the election, but they'll be back. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/08/29/postal-service-dejoy-delays/ #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% expands 1 impress 89 time 2020-08-30 15:31 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1300093704451969027 ========== What happens when a Trumpist puts the army in charge of the environment? https://apnews.com/0ed3562a94f5b20b561adbbd11b20731 https://apnews.com/56a278cf4b849dc06dadc309d06aa63f #PS1notopic ===== impress 74 time 2020-08-30 06:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1299958852905959425 ========== Is it going to be Ivanka or Don Jr in 2024? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/29/opinion/sunday/ivanka-melania-trump-2020.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 75 time 2020-08-30 03:31 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1299912538977517568 ========== Laws are for serfs, not the nobility. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/trump-norms-convention-rules/2020/08/27/fbe81864-e879-11ea-97e0-94d2e46e759b_story.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 78 time 2020-08-30 03:19 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1299909544227647488 ========== Where are the criminals? In the White House. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/29/opinion/sunday/trump-protests-law.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 76 time 2020-08-30 02:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1299903838397198336 ========== Don't have enough to worry about? https://getpocket.com/explore/item/would-a-supervolcano-eruption-wipe-us-out #PS1notopic ===== impress 76 time 2020-08-30 02:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1299902429366857728 ========== Nobody wants half-baked ideas https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2020/08/28/trump-payroll-tax-irs/ #PS1notopic ===== impress 74 time 2020-08-30 02:15 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1299893359478108161 ========== Why are these Republicans voting for Democrats? They hold many traditional conservative Republican points of view, and they aren't going to become Democrats, but they are voting Democratic this time. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/08/27/mark-salter-john-mccain-aides-endorse-biden/ https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/513900-former-george-w-bush-alumni-endorse-biden https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/27/mitt-romney-staffers-support-joe-biden-402408 #PS1notopic ===== engage 11 engage-rate 8% expands 11 impress 132 time 2020-08-29 14:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1299712908901769219 ========== Entertainment and propaganda are replacing journalism because they are more profitable. And most of the people in charge don't care about undermining American democracy. https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/media/fact-checking-trumps-lies-is-essential-its-also-increasingly-pointless/2020/08/28/35fb41de-e947-11ea-bc79-834454439a44_story.html #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% expands 1 impress 88 time 2020-08-29 14:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1299712659630088192 ========== Will the Republican Party ever be anything except the Trumpist Party? Even after Trump is out of office, he'll still be trying to rouse his base. And why not? He enjoys campaigning much more than governing. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/08/27/gop-is-strapped-ticking-time-bomb/ #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% expands 1 impress 74 time 2020-08-29 14:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1299712489932779521 ========== What the Trump administration really thinks about immigrants https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-missing-immigrant-voters-whose-absence-might-swing-the-election/2020/08/27/db144c16-e897-11ea-97e0-94d2e46e759b_story.html Don't believe everything you see on TV! #PS1notopic ===== impress 73 time 2020-08-29 14:15 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1299712342481989637 ========== How the South was born again It took 80 years to start to undo the damage, with many more years ahead. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/28/opinion/black-lives-civil-rights.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 74 time 2020-08-29 14:15 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1299712187087245315 ========== Trump has role models all around the world https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/28/opinion/donald-trump-europe-china.html Europeans are beginning to think of Trump as a problem to be contained, like Putin or Xi, rally than an ally. #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% expands 1 impress 71 time 2020-08-29 14:14 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1299712036234911744 ========== Just a matter of time And with global warming, the amount of time is shrinking. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/28/opinion/hurricane-laura-texas-houston.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 71 time 2020-08-29 14:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1299711863450550273 ========== Social media are so much better at spreading inflammatory disinformation than cold sober information! Nothing is true and everything is possible! So who would want to spread disinformation? Scammers and propagandists! https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/28/opinion/coronavirus-misinformation-faceboook.html #PS1notopic ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% expands 1 impress 74 time 2020-08-29 14:12 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1299711492795768832 ========== Questions that nobody's had to ask for 150 years https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/amid-fears-that-trump-might-not-leave-office-two-lawmakers-press-for-pentagon-assurances-on-the-election/2020/08/28/f6bff17a-e966-11ea-bc79-834454439a44_story.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 71 time 2020-08-29 14:10 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1299711103488806916 ========== Unclear on the concept of feudalism! The laws apply to the serfs, not the nobility. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/hatch-act-trump-convention/2020/08/28/dce68a7e-e877-11ea-bc79-834454439a44_story.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 63 time 2020-08-29 14:10 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1299710954490355713 ========== No more spring forward/fall back! https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/wellness/sleep-daylight-saving-time-end/2020/08/28/213d3a0c-e8b8-11ea-bc79-834454439a44_story.html #PS1notopic ===== impress 62 time 2020-08-29 14:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1299710802010628096