| Title | Date | Im- press | En- gage | Ex- pand | URL- clicks | Like | Re- tweet | Link to Text | Link to Tweet |
| Should there be consequences for public figures that lie | 2022-06-30 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1542395105750880256 | 1542395105750880256 |
| DeSantis doesn't need Trump any more. | 2022-06-30 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1542394054238797824 | 1542394054238797824 |
| How to make money promoting lies and violence to the | 2022-06-30 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1542393109073473537 | 1542393109073473537 |
| And to think he was supposed to be presidential timber | 2022-06-30 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1542392219180535808 | 1542392219180535808 |
| Will Clarence Thomas support right-to-lifers with an | 2022-06-30 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1542391307124953089 | 1542391307124953089 |
| Will Cipollone talk? He was there and saw and heard | 2022-06-30 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1542388669398392832 | 1542388669398392832 |
| Surprise! Those who voted for Trump think he's innocent. | 2022-06-30 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1542387172203831296 | 1542387172203831296 |
| Trumpism and Trumpists are not conservative - just a | 2022-06-30 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1542366177472544768 | 1542366177472544768 |
| Trumpists have been around since 1619 under various names | 2022-06-30 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1542312747391561728 | 1542312747391561728 |
| What hath Trump wrought? Amber Heard 2.0 and the | 2022-06-29 | 106 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1542209393118150656 | 1542209393118150656 |
| What's new today? | 2022-06-29 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1542051047417339905 | 1542051047417339905 |
| What is Pence thinking? | 2022-06-28 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1541773670736990209 | 1541773670736990209 |
| SPACs lose their luster. | 2022-06-28 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1541644719456849920 | 1541644719456849920 |
| The fly on the wall gets a special hearing. | 2022-06-28 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1541644406372962304 | 1541644406372962304 |
| "A historic victory for white life"? Anybody might have | 2022-06-28 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1541642216199704576 | 1541642216199704576 |
| "Majority of Americans disapprove of SCOTUS Roe v. Wade | 2022-06-28 | 14 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1541641158677254144 | 1541641158677254144 |
| Plot insurrection and you might get a visit from the FBI. | 2022-06-28 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1541639638023950336 | 1541639638023950336 |
| How Mexico's abolition of slavery led to the Alamo, the | 2022-06-28 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1541619759078199297 | 1541619759078199297 |
| Why "defund the police" has lost its luster. | 2022-06-27 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1541266586929049600 | 1541266586929049600 |
| Susan Collins is a poor judge of GOP character. She | 2022-06-25 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1540734449129623552 | 1540734449129623552 |
| It will take decades to obtain majority rule. | 2022-06-25 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1540728415019360257 | 1540728415019360257 |
| Biden signed off on a gun safety bill that was weak and | 2022-06-25 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1540725082313457670 | 1540725082313457670 |
| The "libertarian" billionaires are coming to reshape | 2022-06-25 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1540696772086943745 | 1540696772086943745 |
| It's lonely and dangerous being a rule-of-law Republican. | 2022-06-25 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1540693639847759873 | 1540693639847759873 |
| Democrats catch up with Republicans in institutionalizing | 2022-06-25 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1540693181481725952 | 1540693181481725952 |
| Just like everybody else. Except for that odd slight | 2022-06-25 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1540690638772903937 | 1540690638772903937 |
| There is no constitutional right to privacy. | 2022-06-25 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1540690029583839232 | 1540690029583839232 |
| Putin is biding his time, wearing down Ukraine and more | 2022-06-25 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1540688835679358977 | 1540688835679358977 |
| No inconsistency! | 2022-06-25 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1540686726737276929 | 1540686726737276929 |
| Jan 6 hearings starting to make a small difference. | 2022-06-25 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1540684660501467139 | 1540684660501467139 |
| The GOP major donor class hit two home runs. But they | 2022-06-24 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1540459983912853506 | 1540459983912853506 |
| "They are just winding up. They are coming after | 2022-06-24 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1540456378871201792 | 1540456378871201792 |
| That was the week that wasn't. | 2022-06-24 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1540349269990731777 | 1540349269990731777 |
| Georgia grand jury turns to Giuliani. | 2022-06-24 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1540319008523661312 | 1540319008523661312 |
| Another point where Trump's coup almost succeeded. | 2022-06-24 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1540318095352311808 | 1540318095352311808 |
| Personality cult leaders are alike! | 2022-06-24 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1540195480201601025 | 1540195480201601025 |
| The most impressive moment of the 5th Jan 6 hearing - | 2022-06-24 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1540192061365768192 | 1540192061365768192 |
| The most impressive moment of the 4th Jan 6 hearing - | 2022-06-24 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1540191251969896449 | 1540191251969896449 |
| Trump threatens McConnell and other senators working on | 2022-06-23 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1540018520011837441 | 1540018520011837441 |
| Trumpist Supreme Court protects minority rule! Makes it | 2022-06-23 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1540012596614443011 | 1540012596614443011 |
| No peace for our time by giving away other countries' | 2022-06-23 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1539977190380404737 | 1539977190380404737 |
| The Trump administration is all about loyalty, not | 2022-06-23 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1539975560763277314 | 1539975560763277314 |
| The evidence keeps pouring in! | 2022-06-23 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1539802178717483008 | 1539802178717483008 |
| IRS is getting further and further behind. | 2022-06-23 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1539801097111425025 | 1539801097111425025 |
| McConnell flinches - | 2022-06-23 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1539800315339296768 | 1539800315339296768 |
| DOJ started with the fake electors that backed out. | 2022-06-23 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1539796805373665280 | 1539796805373665280 |
| "QAnon may not be an outlier in the Republican Party" | 2022-06-22 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1539505964046381058 | 1539505964046381058 |
| Everybody is afraid the country is becoming less | 2022-06-22 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1539504417942122496 | 1539504417942122496 |
| Hitler, Stalin, and Putin would have been so proud - if | 2022-06-22 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1539491756919517185 | 1539491756919517185 |
| Upholding the Constitution can be hazardous to your health | 2022-06-22 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1539489433472208896 | 1539489433472208896 |
| The great historian Putin knows that Germany has a greater | 2022-06-21 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1539274526655062017 | 1539274526655062017 |
| "the means of change is not the triumph of ideology or | 2022-06-21 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1539248037494652929 | 1539248037494652929 |
| The future of Trumpism finally out and loud! | 2022-06-21 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1539246520129691650 | 1539246520129691650 |
| Nuclear energy in our future? | 2022-06-21 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1539243441883856896 | 1539243441883856896 |
| Putin has achieved his aim of making his mark on world | 2022-06-21 | 26 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1539242462698414080 | 1539242462698414080 |
| Greitens stokes GOP's greatest fear - losing a winnable | 2022-06-21 | 13 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1539240117373526016 | 1539240117373526016 |
| There aren't 10 Republican Senate votes to do almost | 2022-06-21 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1539235193227161600 | 1539235193227161600 |
| We wouldn't be so hesitant if American lives were on | 2022-06-21 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1539232895776063488 | 1539232895776063488 |
| Regional federalism - | 2022-06-21 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1539231973368950791 | 1539231973368950791 |
| "The actual status of the poorest and most unfortunate | 2022-06-20 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1538892632092422145 | 1538892632092422145 |
| Prosecute Trump? No good choices. | 2022-06-20 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1538889653750665217 | 1538889653750665217 |
| "The conditions that helped us meet past challenges no | 2022-06-20 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1538886375176429568 | 1538886375176429568 |
| Texas Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP reaffirms its leap toward | 2022-06-20 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1538884587891269634 | 1538884587891269634 |
| Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP acknowledges that white supremacists | 2022-06-20 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1538883058585042945 | 1538883058585042945 |
| Is the internet just another mechanism of state authority? | 2022-06-20 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1538882028820582401 | 1538882028820582401 |
| How the Trumpists made the Jan 6 hearings worth watching. | 2022-06-20 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1538880997680291840 | 1538880997680291840 |
| What is the "rest of" the Republican agenda? | 2022-06-20 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1538879719336120320 | 1538879719336120320 |
| More on the fake electors conspiracy at tomorrow's | 2022-06-20 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1538876841674432513 | 1538876841674432513 |
| Here's a reactionary American Fascist manifesto. Putin | 2022-06-18 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1538174966041980928 | 1538174966041980928 |
| Always check that your gas cap is tight after somebody | 2022-06-18 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1538168851191345152 | 1538168851191345152 |
| Justice catches up with more insurrectionists. | 2022-06-18 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1538166947191304192 | 1538166947191304192 |
| What'll become of all those investors of billions of | 2022-06-18 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1538160761314324480 | 1538160761314324480 |
| Foreign and domestic terrorists corrupt election officials | 2022-06-18 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1538045740324270080 | 1538045740324270080 |
| What's the truth about sanctions against Putin? | 2022-06-18 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1538044101014106112 | 1538044101014106112 |
| Can the west afford to support Ukraine? | 2022-06-18 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1538042085789446144 | 1538042085789446144 |
| Putin unrepentant about Russkiy Mir. | 2022-06-18 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1538040643330576384 | 1538040643330576384 |
| What's the difference between Watergate and Jan 6? | 2022-06-18 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1538039247440973824 | 1538039247440973824 |
| All the wannabes are booking trips to Iowa. | 2022-06-18 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1538034668020240384 | 1538034668020240384 |
| The insurrectionists were NOT ordinary people. Neither | 2022-06-18 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1538023459267018752 | 1538023459267018752 |
| Did you imagine that NFT's were immune to crypto diseases? | 2022-06-18 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1538010428231389184 | 1538010428231389184 |
| The insurrectionists were NOT ordinary people. Neither | 2022-06-18 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1538007456583888897 | 1538007456583888897 |
| The insurrectionists were NOT ordinary people. | 2022-06-18 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1538006726158323712 | 1538006726158323712 |
| So much for bipartisanship. Looks like there won't be 10 | 2022-06-18 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1538005463991656449 | 1538005463991656449 |
| Everybody else at the fundamentalist political conference | 2022-06-18 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1538004389050187778 | 1538004389050187778 |
| Musk believes in liberty - for Elon Musk. | 2022-06-18 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1538003430375010304 | 1538003430375010304 |
| Online fraud on linkedin too! | 2022-06-17 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1537884309213786113 | 1537884309213786113 |
| Trump will run again, even if he's in jail. The big | 2022-06-17 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1537883061219495936 | 1537883061219495936 |
| Crypto crash | 2022-06-17 | 17 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1537856617860825088 | 1537856617860825088 |
| Mike Pence did almost nothing for four years. Too bad he | 2022-06-17 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1537839811398017024 | 1537839811398017024 |
| That was the week that wasn't. | 2022-06-17 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1537820963563130880 | 1537820963563130880 |
| Trumpist thought under Chinese Communism - facts and | 2022-06-17 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1537793508211208192 | 1537793508211208192 |
| Ransomware business is still thriving. | 2022-06-17 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1537792237211250689 | 1537792237211250689 |
| Jeffrey Clark thought the 5th was a good move. | 2022-06-17 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1537650686191472641 | 1537650686191472641 |
| The highlight of the second day of Jan 6 hearings - | 2022-06-17 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1537648061735784449 | 1537648061735784449 |
| There's an important reason for DeSantis' decision. | 2022-06-17 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1537618326083383296 | 1537618326083383296 |
| Most swing voters vote their pocketbooks. They reject | 2022-06-16 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1537287296646410240 | 1537287296646410240 |
| Wave the flag of insurrection and get treated as an | 2022-06-16 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1537277708140355585 | 1537277708140355585 |
| The cancer of Trumpism spreads - simply ignore any election | 2022-06-16 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1537276811482058753 | 1537276811482058753 |
| That was the week that wasn't. | 2022-06-13 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1536333963920146432 | 1536333963920146432 |
| The incredulity factor - from the Big Short to the | 2022-06-10 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1535246959044198401 | 1535246959044198401 |
| The party's about over! | 2022-06-10 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1535125079939371008 | 1535125079939371008 |
| The most interesting item in the Jan 6 broadcast? That a | 2022-06-10 | 22 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1535082758728323072 | 1535082758728323072 |
| “If the law and the evidence are both against you, | 2022-06-08 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1534543425411989507 | 1534543425411989507 |
| You'll be hearing about the Speech and Debate clause - | 2022-06-08 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1534421885026377729 | 1534421885026377729 |
| Trump really wanted to be part of the riot. | 2022-06-08 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1534420478139551745 | 1534420478139551745 |
| Is Iran-Contra the right comparison for Jan 6 hearings? | 2022-06-08 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1534420069593194496 | 1534420069593194496 |
| Everybody's hoping nobody will notice! | 2022-06-08 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1534415796885041152 | 1534415796885041152 |
| Fake electors might have Federal criminal liability. | 2022-06-07 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1534161685673410560 | 1534161685673410560 |
| Though most ambitious Trumpists think Trumpism is better | 2022-06-07 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1534160350634905600 | 1534160350634905600 |
| GOP senators boldly stand firm to protect kids' rights | 2022-06-07 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1534153689409040385 | 1534153689409040385 |
| Not much an American president can do about global | 2022-06-06 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1533857571060084736 | 1533857571060084736 |
| New version of Gresham's law - pink slime drives out real | 2022-06-06 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1533844278237007874 | 1533844278237007874 |
| Self-serving opportunists at the top attract self-serving | 2022-06-06 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1533843236216635392 | 1533843236216635392 |
| Trump and Nixon weren't so different. What changed | 2022-06-06 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1533838084617302016 | 1533838084617302016 |
| You can't even lie to Congress? | 2022-06-06 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1533833042019553280 | 1533833042019553280 |
| Assault weapons are for assaults - killing as many people | 2022-06-06 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1533831357167652864 | 1533831357167652864 |
| How should GOP respond to Jan 6 hearings? Most would | 2022-06-06 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1533827851144687617 | 1533827851144687617 |
| The only way to stop a bad guy with a big bag of | 2022-06-06 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1533824118562246659 | 1533824118562246659 |
| The greatest show on Earth for a day - but will anybody | 2022-06-06 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1533813679191232516 | 1533813679191232516 |
| What's the endgame in Ukraine - can we afford it? | 2022-06-05 | 47 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1533265687648448512 | 1533265687648448512 |
| Immigrants get the job done - bringing new ideas and | 2022-06-05 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1533263613409931266 | 1533263613409931266 |
| GOP recruits diverse candidates to talk about all the | 2022-06-05 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1533262061588733954 | 1533262061588733954 |
| Epistemology - how do we know what we think we know? | 2022-06-05 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1533259586110599168 | 1533259586110599168 |
| "If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt it is | 2022-06-05 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1533256826153598977 | 1533256826153598977 |
| Are you old enough to remember Charles Whitman? | 2022-06-05 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1533255124272828416 | 1533255124272828416 |
| He killed with polonium. He died from covid. | 2022-06-05 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1533249505650364417 | 1533249505650364417 |
| The future right-to-lifers hope to see - for poor women. | 2022-06-05 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1533248867264647168 | 1533248867264647168 |
| It would be easier with ranked-choice voting. | 2022-06-05 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1533247465167630337 | 1533247465167630337 |
| NY to ban cryptomining? | 2022-06-04 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1533131650799767552 | 1533131650799767552 |
| One certain economic benefit of casinos - lots of dark | 2022-06-04 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1533124107792883712 | 1533124107792883712 |
| On Jan 5, Marc Short warned the Secret Service about | 2022-06-04 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1533121207645753345 | 1533121207645753345 |
| Why push for 2% inflation? 4% used to be good enough. | 2022-06-04 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1533119576086441984 | 1533119576086441984 |
| “celebrity worship syndrome” - what every mass shooter | 2022-06-04 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1533118609131614208 | 1533118609131614208 |
| How cancel culture works in Florida. | 2022-06-04 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1533093635499036674 | 1533093635499036674 |
| Want to launch the next front-page massacre? | 2022-06-04 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1533086672266461185 | 1533086672266461185 |
| Is Russian dependence on western parts eventually going | 2022-06-04 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1532960505538617344 | 1532960505538617344 |
| Who's for defending the minority rule of wealthy old | 2022-06-04 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1532959003042492416 | 1532959003042492416 |
| 4% of the voters is enough to preserve minority rule | 2022-06-04 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1532956738013388805 | 1532956738013388805 |
| The Trumpists have outgrown the need for democracy. | 2022-06-04 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1532955005237399557 | 1532955005237399557 |
| Can the right Democratic candidates recapture the white | 2022-06-04 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1532952464785174528 | 1532952464785174528 |
| Trumpist response to Jan 6 committee hearings? | 2022-06-04 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1532951579493429248 | 1532951579493429248 |
| A true reactionary - boldly fighting the future in every | 2022-06-04 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1532950725105397760 | 1532950725105397760 |
| "Fantasies of unlimited power and greatness and an intense | 2022-06-04 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1532947048152018944 | 1532947048152018944 |
| So much for the will of the people in South Dakota. | 2022-06-04 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1532946082094649345 | 1532946082094649345 |
| Black presidents? Female senior executives? Must be | 2022-06-04 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1532944111388332032 | 1532944111388332032 |
| Showing up way late for the Jan 6 party. | 2022-06-03 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1532865390996357120 | 1532865390996357120 |
| The Nazis couldn't have taken over without the Franz von | 2022-06-03 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1532864999160393729 | 1532864999160393729 |
| Pence knew it would be no picnic. Give him credit for | 2022-06-03 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1532862644415102977 | 1532862644415102977 |
| Sasse auditions, perhaps not knowing it, for a place on | 2022-06-03 | 17 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1532860765320802304 | 1532860765320802304 |
| Paul Ryan decides he's a rule-of-law Republican after all. | 2022-06-03 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1532858879318425600 | 1532858879318425600 |
| There's no there there! The present value of future | 2022-06-03 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1532857144902447104 | 1532857144902447104 |
| Guns make you less safe. | 2022-06-03 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1532852679327641600 | 1532852679327641600 |
| Navarro will get his day in court. He will plead | 2022-06-03 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1532760759876214785 | 1532760759876214785 |
| That was the week that wasn't. | 2022-06-03 | 114 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1532741647733170177 | 1532741647733170177 |
| Putin will wait as long as necessary for the west to get | 2022-06-03 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1532735970860097543 | 1532735970860097543 |
| Putin might have accidentally launched WWIII. Covid | 2022-06-03 | 40 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1532732912130347008 | 1532732912130347008 |
| Finally understanding when Putin is saying what he REALLY | 2022-06-03 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1532729658130649088 | 1532729658130649088 |
| The secret electronic war. | 2022-06-03 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1532728031705411584 | 1532728031705411584 |
| Ukraine won't cede any of its territory, and Russia won't | 2022-06-03 | 24 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1532727705673682947 | 1532727705673682947 |
| The US Coast Guard is on duty in the Western Pacific. | 2022-06-03 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1532588256746799104 | 1532588256746799104 |
| Conditional funding worked to increase the drinking age. | 2022-06-03 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1532583346290642944 | 1532583346290642944 |
| So much for the good guy with the gun. | 2022-06-03 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1532574697405095937 | 1532574697405095937 |
| Worried about climate change? What about nuclear war? | 2022-06-03 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1532572656884559872 | 1532572656884559872 |
| Instead of reparations, consider a Universal Basic Income. | 2022-06-03 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1532569846231076865 | 1532569846231076865 |
| It was just a matter of time! | 2022-06-03 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1532559101439320064 | 1532559101439320064 |
| California voters don't think much of Biden's record | 2022-06-03 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1532553395629719552 | 1532553395629719552 |
| "no elected officials claim the only way to stop a bad | 2022-06-03 | 21 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1532550681181028352 | 1532550681181028352 |
| We Build the Wall jury deadlocked. | 2022-06-03 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1532548521013825536 | 1532548521013825536 |
| "political power is derived from questioning reality; | 2022-06-03 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1532531081479565312 | 1532531081479565312 |
| Federal gun safety research was banned for 20 years - | 2022-06-03 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1532529201726689280 | 1532529201726689280 |
| There might not be a new normal for a few years! | 2022-06-03 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1532527878608277504 | 1532527878608277504 |
| Diesel is costing you more than gasoline. You just | 2022-06-03 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1532525626992693248 | 1532525626992693248 |
| Rooftop solar is part of the solution. Hawaii is leading | 2022-06-03 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1532524764060782592 | 1532524764060782592 |
| How unlimited outside money works - | 2022-06-03 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1532523689056448514 | 1532523689056448514 |
| Trumpism is the same everywhere! | 2022-06-02 | 31 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1532479689339461632 | 1532479689339461632 |
| Taliban attacks main money crop. | 2022-06-02 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1532358446007193600 | 1532358446007193600 |
| Atlanta grand jury getting into gear! | 2022-06-02 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1532357581733101569 | 1532357581733101569 |
| First known insurrection plans. | 2022-06-02 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1532229825066283008 | 1532229825066283008 |
| Another subpoena for Navarro, this time from the Justice | 2022-06-01 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1531992587912916993 | 1531992587912916993 |
| Quackery uncovered | 2022-06-01 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1531992274183172096 | 1531992274183172096 |
| Putin declared war on Europe, and Europe responded with | 2022-06-01 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1531859676815425537 | 1531859676815425537 |
| The novel "The Third World War: August 1985" attributed the | 2022-06-01 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1531858306402160640 | 1531858306402160640 |
| How the AR-15 was sold to America | 2022-06-01 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1531852449840959490 | 1531852449840959490 |
| Have you read the million words of your privacy agreements? | 2022-06-01 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1531851167654768640 | 1531851167654768640 |
| GOP embracing its destiny as the party of guns and | 2022-06-01 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1531845433068122113 | 1531845433068122113 |
| What could happen with Taiwan? | 2022-06-01 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1531843618343768065 | 1531843618343768065 |
| Rising income and wealth inequality are two of the | 2022-05-31 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1531691046047862784 | 1531691046047862784 |
| Will fusion energy ever deliver? | 2022-05-31 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1531688094721667072 | 1531688094721667072 |
| Making an election issue of high inflation or low | 2022-05-31 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1531685446526201857 | 1531685446526201857 |
| Can GOP overcome its lead over Democrats? Bring on | 2022-05-31 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1531684329486594049 | 1531684329486594049 |
| The casino is closed for a while. | 2022-05-31 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1531680873396940802 | 1531680873396940802 |
| Not much to show yet for Durham investigation. | 2022-05-31 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1531679422561935360 | 1531679422561935360 |
| Crossover voting - what voters do because there's no | 2022-05-31 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1531678391723761664 | 1531678391723761664 |
| The big show begins June 9! Will it last as long as | 2022-05-30 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1531270477968134149 | 1531270477968134149 |
| Chinese Trumpism | 2022-05-30 | 70 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1531267780007276544 | 1531267780007276544 |
| Solar power comes to Afghan poppy fields. They turn | 2022-05-30 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1531121084191240192 | 1531121084191240192 |
| Remember NC-09? | 2022-05-30 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1531118528631148544 | 1531118528631148544 |
| Another idea that lost in Georgia - rejecting economic | 2022-05-30 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1531115110114111489 | 1531115110114111489 |
| Musk has joined the club of reactionary billionaires. | 2022-05-30 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1531112669444333568 | 1531112669444333568 |
| Four days are up. Nothing has changed. The country | 2022-05-30 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1531072243459010560 | 1531072243459010560 |
| There's a reason McConnell is majority leader! He knows | 2022-05-30 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1531071237174153216 | 1531071237174153216 |
| It's pretty hard to hack voting machines, if they are | 2022-05-30 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1531067155625615360 | 1531067155625615360 |
| Who's keeping an eye on the crypto store? | 2022-05-30 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1531062961288097792 | 1531062961288097792 |
| White Christian Nationalism - dying gasp or new life? | 2022-05-29 | 60 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1531060503920775169 | 1531060503920775169 |
| California has avoided a reckoning on water rights and | 2022-05-29 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1531044654119956480 | 1531044654119956480 |
| What does Haiti have to do with Uvalde? The Second | 2022-05-29 | 2742 | 160 | 40 | 44 | 44 | 23 | 1531042764892168192 | 1531042764892168192 |
| There's hardly any difference between the parties on | 2022-05-29 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1531033334255562752 | 1531033334255562752 |
| Political paralysis protected minority rule by protecting | 2022-05-29 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1531013921829552133 | 1531013921829552133 |
| "China’s failure to match the West in developing | 2022-05-29 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1531009329754607616 | 1531009329754607616 |
| It's true! Massacres are caused by Evil! | 2022-05-29 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1530917402677874690 | 1530917402677874690 |
| The Uvalde shooter achieved his goal! He'll be | 2022-05-29 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1530907139748728833 | 1530907139748728833 |
| Being an underequipped underdog against the Russian army | 2022-05-29 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1530809554354655232 | 1530809554354655232 |
| Putin gets criticism from both sides, but that won't | 2022-05-29 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1530807602673659904 | 1530807602673659904 |
| A few things Trump got right - usually by accepting the | 2022-05-29 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1530806477933318144 | 1530806477933318144 |
| Those were the tweets that were - not true. | 2022-05-29 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1530804172299177991 | 1530804172299177991 |
| McConnell and Cornyn vow to search every avenue that won't | 2022-05-29 | 22 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1530797677947981824 | 1530797677947981824 |
| You wouldn't expect objective FACTS from Trump or Cruz or | 2022-05-28 | 24 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1530415934795657216 | 1530415934795657216 |
| Immigrants get the job done! | 2022-05-28 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1530412047329964033 | 1530412047329964033 |
| How France enslaved Haiti, then after independence, ripped | 2022-05-28 | 20 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1530387059906473984 | 1530387059906473984 |
| Does the internet still need a profit motive? Not in | 2022-05-28 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1530378695226974208 | 1530378695226974208 |
| Fulton County grand jury begins its work. | 2022-05-28 | 79 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1530357460019474432 | 1530357460019474432 |
| Minority rule today? | 2022-05-28 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1530356628079267840 | 1530356628079267840 |
| Heritage Foundation abandons traditional conservatism in | 2022-05-28 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1530354840152354816 | 1530354840152354816 |
| The connection between guns and segregation? It's the | 2022-05-28 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1530353634436730881 | 1530353634436730881 |
| What's pushing America toward regional federalism? | 2022-05-28 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1530351989971857409 | 1530351989971857409 |
| Imitation Hitler didn't know what happens in the Capitol | 2022-05-28 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1530347204346384385 | 1530347204346384385 |
| GOP isn't going to cough up the money for arming teachers. | 2022-05-28 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1530344619883450368 | 1530344619883450368 |
| Several Texas GOP thought it best to keep a low profile - | 2022-05-27 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1530337439889272832 | 1530337439889272832 |
| That was the week that wasn't. | 2022-05-27 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1530313545627250689 | 1530313545627250689 |
| Permission granted to explore all possible dead ends! | 2022-05-27 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1530224090501394433 | 1530224090501394433 |
| FBI talking to fake electors who dropped out. | 2022-05-27 | 170 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1530220086446804992 | 1530220086446804992 |
| What is victory? Any cease-fire will allow Putin to | 2022-05-27 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1530200668144693253 | 1530200668144693253 |
| GOP response to climate change in one sentence - “Who | 2022-05-27 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1530191391011155969 | 1530191391011155969 |
| The show must go on! Gun manufacturers, gun voters, | 2022-05-27 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1530187977074233344 | 1530187977074233344 |
| Why GOP politicians always return calls from gun | 2022-05-27 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1530186680329568256 | 1530186680329568256 |
| Toublesome Ukrainians are useful hostages for trading if | 2022-05-27 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1530185042613284864 | 1530185042613284864 |
| More guns = more gun deaths. | 2022-05-27 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1530182490077286400 | 1530182490077286400 |
| "I don’t fully understand this aversion to the basic | 2022-05-27 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1530018411824046080 | 1530018411824046080 |
| GOP members refuse subpoenas. Some worry that | 2022-05-27 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1530015298954272768 | 1530015298954272768 |
| "Western democracies act as accomplices to Putin, providing | 2022-05-27 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1530013438235189248 | 1530013438235189248 |
| Nothing like a good massacre to generate insane ideas | 2022-05-27 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1530011539041767426 | 1530011539041767426 |
| Trump has succeeded in remolding the whole GOP in his image | 2022-05-27 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1530009574366818304 | 1530009574366818304 |
| There are limits to Ukrainian resistance. | 2022-05-27 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1529996944763867136 | 1529996944763867136 |
| Not since Eisenhower has an American president mobilized | 2022-05-27 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1529994387890896897 | 1529994387890896897 |
| Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is | 2022-05-27 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1529992419025948672 | 1529992419025948672 |
| The NRA is well into its death spiral, or at least | 2022-05-27 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1529991353236541440 | 1529991353236541440 |
| Kemp no hero of democracy - but he did stand up to Trump. | 2022-05-27 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1529988501243981824 | 1529988501243981824 |
| McConnell and Cornyn vos to search every avenue that won't | 2022-05-27 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1529978461355270144 | 1529978461355270144 |
| Why WOULDN'T you have a gun show right after a gun | 2022-05-26 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1529974281815224321 | 1529974281815224321 |
| What inequality? | 2022-05-26 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1529972709483982848 | 1529972709483982848 |
| That was the shooting that wasn't. | 2022-05-26 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1529685804364181504 | 1529685804364181504 |
| Don't expect many more stories like this from small local | 2022-05-26 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1529683861952532480 | 1529683861952532480 |
| Lying comes so naturally to Trumpists that they don't even | 2022-05-26 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1529681823223013376 | 1529681823223013376 |
| All the ways that Congress won't act against massacres. | 2022-05-26 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1529680868582707200 | 1529680868582707200 |
| Remember Charles Whitman? | 2022-05-26 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1529679582957146112 | 1529679582957146112 |
| Does Pence have a political future? Not loyal enough | 2022-05-26 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1529677096162717696 | 1529677096162717696 |
| Trump liked the "Hang Mike Pence" line. | 2022-05-26 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1529675087212736512 | 1529675087212736512 |
| Like nouveau riche of previous generations, most Silicon | 2022-05-25 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1529608433942552577 | 1529608433942552577 |
| Should Democrats be as obnoxious as Republicans? | 2022-05-25 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1529606506340986880 | 1529606506340986880 |
| Sue for social media addiction? | 2022-05-25 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1529602322137235456 | 1529602322137235456 |
| Good news and bad news | 2022-05-25 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1529512606553190400 | 1529512606553190400 |
| A Republican winning statewide office in California? | 2022-05-25 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1529510040763179009 | 1529510040763179009 |
| What economic problems? | 2022-05-25 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1529507993061978113 | 1529507993061978113 |
| Think different didn't help Apple with homeless. | 2022-05-25 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1529506504729980928 | 1529506504729980928 |
| Politicians travel in herds. If prominent GOP leaders | 2022-05-25 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1529472036774432768 | 1529472036774432768 |
| Another Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. | 2022-05-25 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1529466751741661190 | 1529466751741661190 |
| Another of Trump's greatest accomplishments - setting the | 2022-05-25 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1529465197773041665 | 1529465197773041665 |
| The families of the massacre victims can take heart from | 2022-05-25 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1529338482685906944 | 1529338482685906944 |
| Trump endorsement not magic in Georgia! Three of his | 2022-05-25 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1529336740875448321 | 1529336740875448321 |
| Putin appears to be bogged down in Ukraine in a war of | 2022-05-24 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1529089497643687936 | 1529089497643687936 |
| GOP collectively conspiring to make sure they never lose | 2022-05-24 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1529086101477916672 | 1529086101477916672 |
| "The rich are different from you and me: They are usually | 2022-05-24 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1528937568972156929 | 1528937568972156929 |
| Pitch defileth the hand that toucheth it! | 2022-05-24 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1528932745077874688 | 1528932745077874688 |
| An export on the Hitler Putsch looks forward to duplicating | 2022-05-24 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1528924485260169216 | 1528924485260169216 |
| Putin builds influence in conflict zones with mercenaries. | 2022-05-24 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1528923511267291138 | 1528923511267291138 |
| Are major GOP donors REALLY opposed to Replacement Theory? | 2022-05-24 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1528921362596712448 | 1528921362596712448 |
| Who are insurrectionists? People that don't seem that | 2022-05-24 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1528918853685682176 | 1528918853685682176 |
| Crypto is good for criminals and scammers. | 2022-05-24 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1528914955537289217 | 1528914955537289217 |
| Successful organizations tend to converge on | 2022-05-24 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1528913287106088960 | 1528913287106088960 |
| Trump and Fox are still welcome in Putin's Russia! | 2022-05-24 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1528912346436972544 | 1528912346436972544 |
| When it's all too much! | 2022-05-24 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1528898457372479488 | 1528898457372479488 |
| You don't have to worry about criminal charges if you're | 2022-05-24 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1528891469133598720 | 1528891469133598720 |
| If Lavrov calls it fake news - it must be true! | 2022-05-24 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1528888960503537664 | 1528888960503537664 |
| Chinese crowd-cancel - not so different from America's | 2022-05-23 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1528768730133434368 | 1528768730133434368 |
| Time for a European Army? It'll get a big boost if | 2022-05-23 | 55 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1528615934117654528 | 1528615934117654528 |
| The problem with primaries - and caucuses. | 2022-05-23 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1528609553226510336 | 1528609553226510336 |
| What it's like when you might be next on Putin's list. | 2022-05-23 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1528607604317954048 | 1528607604317954048 |
| GOP stands for GOP. | 2022-05-23 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1528584500883558400 | 1528584500883558400 |
| Young people's favorite source of news is TikTok. | 2022-05-23 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1528582910680322049 | 1528582910680322049 |
| Who killed High Speed Rail? | 2022-05-23 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1528580748621410305 | 1528580748621410305 |
| "died of covid and stubbornness" | 2022-05-23 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1528579154832003072 | 1528579154832003072 |
| The slowing economy now - is what economists thought | 2022-05-23 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1528576887311585281 | 1528576887311585281 |
| The great covid retirement might not last for the 55-65 | 2022-05-23 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1528576144391274496 | 1528576144391274496 |
| The worst is yet to come for Russian businesses and | 2022-05-23 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1528575408169357312 | 1528575408169357312 |
| What recession? The big get bigger and the small get | 2022-05-23 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1528570485092384768 | 1528570485092384768 |
| Concentrations of power are inherently bad! | 2022-05-23 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1528568488662401024 | 1528568488662401024 |
| Some Russians won't fight Putin's war. | 2022-05-22 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1528373886831562755 | 1528373886831562755 |
| Belarusians see an opportunity for freedom. | 2022-05-22 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1528368716798234629 | 1528368716798234629 |
| Regional federalism is a possible temporary solution to | 2022-05-21 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1527868204734763009 | 1527868204734763009 |
| Giulani finally talks. | 2022-05-21 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1527867021643243520 | 1527867021643243520 |
| No more collegiality! | 2022-05-21 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1527813361743802369 | 1527813361743802369 |
| Larry Ellison in on insurrection discussion too. | 2022-05-21 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1527811088581992448 | 1527811088581992448 |
| There's a reason Musk went GOP - he fit right in. | 2022-05-21 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1527810280083709952 | 1527810280083709952 |
| No worries - Trump will pay the fine out of his supporters' | 2022-05-21 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1527809098162446336 | 1527809098162446336 |
| If this isn't an attempt to overthrow the US government | 2022-05-21 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1527808440604643333 | 1527808440604643333 |
| That was the week that wasn't. | 2022-05-20 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1527693911308652544 | 1527693911308652544 |
| Social media terrorism - effective and effectively | 2022-05-20 | 65 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1527683598114967552 | 1527683598114967552 |
| DC swamp morality - | 2022-05-20 | 23 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1527672389022015488 | 1527672389022015488 |
| Now the Freedom Caucus is going too far! | 2022-05-20 | 24 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1527657830035038208 | 1527657830035038208 |
| Artificial intelligence is now mostly neural networks. | 2022-05-20 | 21 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1527651499316129793 | 1527651499316129793 |
| War in the Ukraine raises temperatures worldwide - that's | 2022-05-20 | 44 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1527504546838110214 | 1527504546838110214 |
| Conservatives and reactionaries have power out of | 2022-05-20 | 25 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1527460428560756737 | 1527460428560756737 |
| "Imports, not exports, are the point of international | 2022-05-20 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1527457468002861056 | 1527457468002861056 |
| It's the same in every time and place - | 2022-05-20 | 18 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1527456614843682816 | 1527456614843682816 |
| How white supremacists became mainstream thanks to | 2022-05-20 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1527454739406811136 | 1527454739406811136 |
| The GOP has no clue about inflation. They can't fix | 2022-05-20 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1527450564027527168 | 1527450564027527168 |
| "Is this country prepared for any crisis requiring communal | 2022-05-20 | 20 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1527447397105668096 | 1527447397105668096 |
| American leadership is at a zenith abroad and a nadir | 2022-05-20 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1527445842012999680 | 1527445842012999680 |
| Were there or weren't there Capitol tours on Jan 5? | 2022-05-20 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1527444709458649089 | 1527444709458649089 |
| Red state legislatures demand that investors ignore | 2022-05-20 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1527443349937852416 | 1527443349937852416 |
| There's no there there. | 2022-05-20 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1527441780886474752 | 1527441780886474752 |
| Why bad content never goes away - | 2022-05-19 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1527346681246732302 | 1527346681246732302 |
| Russia keeps fighting via internet. | 2022-05-19 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1527345302998437891 | 1527345302998437891 |
| Nothing ever happens about unlimited dark campaign money, | 2022-05-19 | 24 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1527343536672104450 | 1527343536672104450 |
| It's hard to keep a secret if you use the internet. | 2022-05-19 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1527340537258266625 | 1527340537258266625 |
| Inflation likely to get worse in the short run | 2022-05-19 | 45 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1527338350843027465 | 1527338350843027465 |
| As Dixiecrats migrated to and eventually took over the | 2022-05-19 | 34 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1527329981969227780 | 1527329981969227780 |
| California's top-2 method is a small improvement over | 2022-05-19 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1527323622364176397 | 1527323622364176397 |
| George Wallace - one of the prophets of the Trumpist | 2022-05-19 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1527288699699875841 | 1527288699699875841 |
| Why we need a wealth tax. | 2022-05-19 | 24 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1527264851529084931 | 1527264851529084931 |
| Understanding "pro-life" Republicans - | 2022-05-19 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1527139827602247680 | 1527139827602247680 |
| It's OK to ignore campaign finance laws - if you're | 2022-05-19 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1527138470539382784 | 1527138470539382784 |
| Raising taxes reduces the deficit and inflation - a little. | 2022-05-19 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1527129625377198080 | 1527129625377198080 |
| A lawyer that well merits disbarment - | 2022-05-19 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1527125346687954944 | 1527125346687954944 |
| Hedge funds win again? | 2022-05-19 | 19 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1527124717957574656 | 1527124717957574656 |
| Does Fetterman have what it takes in Pennsylvania? | 2022-05-19 | 37 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1527123219538317312 | 1527123219538317312 |
| How can populism be kept away from becoming authoritarian | 2022-05-19 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1527122013915033600 | 1527122013915033600 |
| Trump is right! Cawthorn deserves a second chance! | 2022-05-19 | 22 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1527120552409694209 | 1527120552409694209 |
| Insurrectionists were all over the place before and after. | 2022-05-19 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1527105783095128065 | 1527105783095128065 |
| Before QAnon and anti-vaxxers there were UFO zealots. | 2022-05-19 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1527103497006510081 | 1527103497006510081 |
| If you believe the "well regulated militia" clause was | 2022-05-19 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1527102330784534528 | 1527102330784534528 |
| OK boomers - time to move on! | 2022-05-19 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1527101185131393024 | 1527101185131393024 |
| Surprise! Trump retaliates against those who oppose him. | 2022-05-19 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1527098852897005569 | 1527098852897005569 |
| Iran hasn't gone away. But Biden is too weak to do | 2022-05-19 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1527097977562550272 | 1527097977562550272 |
| The lesson of the primaries - the GOP is moving further | 2022-05-19 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1527097258499379201 | 1527097258499379201 |
| Trumpism in action - no need to count votes! Trump's man | 2022-05-19 | 63 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1527095768020004865 | 1527095768020004865 |
| Livestreaming crimes - another gift of technology that | 2022-05-18 | 23 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1526926671554613249 | 1526926671554613249 |
| Laws don't apply if you're rich enough. | 2022-05-18 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1526925270883573760 | 1526925270883573760 |
| So much for the mighty Trump wall. | 2022-05-18 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1526924388561367040 | 1526924388561367040 |
| Hard times again in North Korea | 2022-05-18 | 17 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1526803495197605888 | 1526803495197605888 |
| Why mass murders persist - | 2022-05-18 | 23 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1526801419306561536 | 1526801419306561536 |
| Musk's method of re-negotiating price. | 2022-05-18 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1526799735759155200 | 1526799735759155200 |
| Of course rich Trumpists do whatever they need to do to | 2022-05-18 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1526798753373384704 | 1526798753373384704 |
| The Afghan collapse was triggered by Trump's deal with | 2022-05-18 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1526797927653396480 | 1526797927653396480 |
| Trump's score so far tonight - | 2022-05-18 | 87 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1526795283417313281 | 1526795283417313281 |
| Voting today? | 2022-05-17 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1526543341319401472 | 1526543341319401472 |
| Being Uyghur is a crime | 2022-05-17 | 58 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1526423729294561280 | 1526423729294561280 |
| Bird flu just more fodder for conspiracists. | 2022-05-17 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1526422279504113664 | 1526422279504113664 |
| Minority rule is a problem for America - | 2022-05-17 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1526415102160687105 | 1526415102160687105 |
| How America got to a million covid deaths. | 2022-05-17 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1526403002990358531 | 1526403002990358531 |
| Alito is no champion of democracy. The reactionaries | 2022-05-17 | 42 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1526396293169328128 | 1526396293169328128 |
| Most rich people own medium-sized businesses. That's why | 2022-05-17 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1526392496170754048 | 1526392496170754048 |
| Ultra-MAGA - who benefits from that label? | 2022-05-17 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1526389991756079104 | 1526389991756079104 |
| Nothing new about mass murders of minorities - | 2022-05-17 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1526374968249835520 | 1526374968249835520 |
| How hate and violence migrate from the fringe to the | 2022-05-17 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1526373338976636930 | 1526373338976636930 |
| The Trumpist wing of the GOP is moving away from defending | 2022-05-17 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1526370813360099328 | 1526370813360099328 |
| Insurrectionists are hoping to sweep the GOP primaries in | 2022-05-17 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1526369568523816960 | 1526369568523816960 |
| What's the polar opposite of the Enlightenment ideals of | 2022-05-17 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1526366818700447744 | 1526366818700447744 |
| Can the Enlightenment ideals of America's founders survive? | 2022-05-17 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1526364628736876544 | 1526364628736876544 |
| Musk's road to Mars - and why Twitter is more than a minor | 2022-05-17 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1526362845109051394 | 1526362845109051394 |
| Theodore Bilbo - a man who, 70 years in advance, knew | 2022-05-16 | 51 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1526262073063137280 | 1526262073063137280 |
| What if other people start defining Trumpism? | 2022-05-16 | 21 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1526252535543001089 | 1526252535543001089 |
| Which candidate sounds the most like Trump? One he | 2022-05-16 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1526248861479469058 | 1526248861479469058 |
| California water mostly goes to agriculture. Taking | 2022-05-16 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1526247984542863361 | 1526247984542863361 |
| What changed Finland's mind? | 2022-05-16 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1526246858406133760 | 1526246858406133760 |
| Another gift to GOP - an issue that they can blame on | 2022-05-16 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1526086764498018304 | 1526086764498018304 |
| Trump endorses a true Trumpist insurrectionist for | 2022-05-16 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1526084065140494336 | 1526084065140494336 |
| GOP intends to install reactionary judges to support | 2022-05-16 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1526083204494422016 | 1526083204494422016 |
| What's uniquely good about Twitter - and what's uniquely | 2022-05-16 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1526082541366652928 | 1526082541366652928 |
| It's remarkable that Trump endorsed a Muslim and Turkish | 2022-05-16 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1526081622684012544 | 1526081622684012544 |
| Putin's greatest achievement - expanding NATO. | 2022-05-16 | 47 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1526080976723382272 | 1526080976723382272 |
| GOP convinced voters to vote in person rather than by mail. | 2022-05-16 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1526080587592650752 | 1526080587592650752 |
| Trump can't announce his candidacy in 2024 yet, to avoid | 2022-05-16 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1526080019436449794 | 1526080019436449794 |
| Several not-very-good-ways to encourage House members to | 2022-05-16 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1526078816791040002 | 1526078816791040002 |
| Some people who are supposed to protect election integrity | 2022-05-16 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1526076886995959813 | 1526076886995959813 |
| Surprising numbers of GOP leaders are willing to starve | 2022-05-13 | 21 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1525252444791271425 | 1525252444791271425 |
| "As long as they’re fighting and complaining, they’re | 2022-05-13 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1525251327806255104 | 1525251327806255104 |
| Not everbody buys Trump's endorsements. | 2022-05-13 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1525247991442907138 | 1525247991442907138 |
| Ordinary people don't get elected to Congress because | 2022-05-13 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1525245375514152960 | 1525245375514152960 |
| GOP plans to blame Pelosi for Jan 6 insurrection. | 2022-05-13 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1525242933691047936 | 1525242933691047936 |
| That was the week that wasn't. | 2022-05-13 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1525131731027693568 | 1525131731027693568 |
| Money is the mother's milk of politics - you can buy any | 2022-05-13 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1525115510114750464 | 1525115510114750464 |
| Pence to rally for Kemp. | 2022-05-13 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1525113412950183936 | 1525113412950183936 |
| Neural Networks are reaching their limits in Artificial | 2022-05-13 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1525111119278272513 | 1525111119278272513 |
| How big is the Madison Cawthorn base? | 2022-05-13 | 17 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1525098049910865920 | 1525098049910865920 |
| Maybe he never really meant it after all. Didn't he do | 2022-05-13 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1525097207799504897 | 1525097207799504897 |
| Just in case you missed it - | 2022-05-13 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1525094190194888704 | 1525094190194888704 |
| Voting in the Republican primary? What do the candidates | 2022-05-13 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1525093232803082240 | 1525093232803082240 |
| In 2019 Trumpists pretended to be outraged by the idea | 2022-05-13 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1525091764347908096 | 1525091764347908096 |
| How much longer will Trump own Trumpism? | 2022-05-13 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1524970707305697280 | 1524970707305697280 |
| Entertainment celebrities find Twitter not worth the | 2022-05-13 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1524955637469179904 | 1524955637469179904 |
| ICE surveillance of everybody. | 2022-05-13 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1524950322212286465 | 1524950322212286465 |
| The bloom is off technology startups. | 2022-05-13 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1524948463040884736 | 1524948463040884736 |
| Crypto is just another high-tech stock gamble. | 2022-05-13 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1524947720674299905 | 1524947720674299905 |
| Want more workers? Provide more child care! | 2022-05-13 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1524946941708161025 | 1524946941708161025 |
| Want to do something about campaign finance? | 2022-05-13 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1524910861801861120 | 1524910861801861120 |
| Corrupt politicians have always lied, cheated, and stolen. | 2022-05-13 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1524905850715840513 | 1524905850715840513 |
| Corrupt politicians have always lied, cheated, and stole. | 2022-05-12 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1524899716097462272 | 1524899716097462272 |
| Oligolopy - the downside of index funds. | 2022-05-12 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1524898537430913025 | 1524898537430913025 |
| Is DeSantis really a revisionist Trumpist? | 2022-05-12 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1524897023987548161 | 1524897023987548161 |
| DOJ looking into how classified documents got to | 2022-05-12 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1524894987506184192 | 1524894987506184192 |
| Crypto markets tank - | 2022-05-12 | 24 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1524894159387078656 | 1524894159387078656 |
| It's hard to keep the Trumpists straight. Even for | 2022-05-12 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1524888284156964868 | 1524888284156964868 |
| Ukraine is starting to look a lot like Syria. That's no | 2022-05-12 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1524887254677630976 | 1524887254677630976 |
| Rand Paul stands up decisively - for Rand Paul. | 2022-05-12 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1524885365969981441 | 1524885365969981441 |
| So what if 59,000 workers died? Lots of them were | 2022-05-12 | 19 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1524880001992376320 | 1524880001992376320 |
| Another Kentucky Derby in Pennsylvania - | 2022-05-12 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1524756800070815744 | 1524756800070815744 |
| Lots of people are feeling no pain. | 2022-05-12 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1524583849715400704 | 1524583849715400704 |
| A coup in search of a legal theory. | 2022-05-12 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1524581581960085506 | 1524581581960085506 |
| Cutting taxes is NOT the solution to inflation. | 2022-05-12 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1524580175647674368 | 1524580175647674368 |
| 2000 Mules - a Triumph of the Will. | 2022-05-12 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1524573194312581121 | 1524573194312581121 |
| All in on culture wars! | 2022-05-12 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1524571087874318336 | 1524571087874318336 |
| Most the the NC GOP establishment would love to retire | 2022-05-12 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1524546930172329984 | 1524546930172329984 |
| Trump wanted to court-martial RETIRED generals for - | 2022-05-12 | 24 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1524546490420453376 | 1524546490420453376 |
| Why the Electoral Count Act needs to be fixed. | 2022-05-12 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1524545246054387712 | 1524545246054387712 |
| Can Armenia come to terms with its neighbors? | 2022-05-12 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1524544576953872384 | 1524544576953872384 |
| Who needs debates or press conferences if you have campaign | 2022-05-12 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1524541747484798977 | 1524541747484798977 |
| How Putin sold Finland and Sweden on NATO. | 2022-05-11 | 59 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1524536950387994624 | 1524536950387994624 |
| Along with money laundering comes reputation laundering! | 2022-05-11 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1524534805223772161 | 1524534805223772161 |
| Why can't Trump be on BOTH Truth and Twitter? | 2022-05-11 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1524531604114141184 | 1524531604114141184 |
| Baked Alaska can't decide if he's innocent or guilty, | 2022-05-11 | 77 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1524526794203824128 | 1524526794203824128 |
| What happens when people get too rich - they figure laws | 2022-05-11 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1524524173158010880 | 1524524173158010880 |
| The evidence keeps pouring in | 2022-05-11 | 23 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1524523618578751489 | 1524523618578751489 |
| They've got a little list - of society offenders that | 2022-05-11 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1524424255265333254 | 1524424255265333254 |
| What would it take to get Putin to stop? | 2022-05-11 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1524391421855162374 | 1524391421855162374 |
| Indicted Trumpists barred from interfering with elections. | 2022-05-11 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1524389568992083969 | 1524389568992083969 |
| Republican renegades oppose Trump. | 2022-05-11 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1524388874985697281 | 1524388874985697281 |
| Trumpery lives on - a widespread movement of corruption. | 2022-05-11 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1524265816937549825 | 1524265816937549825 |
| Everybody who participated in a fake elector certificate | 2022-05-11 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1524264537096024064 | 1524264537096024064 |
| McConnell won't say what GOP-controlled Senate would do, | 2022-05-11 | 23 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1524263543457165314 | 1524263543457165314 |
| While "moderate" Trumpists worry that an unelectable | 2022-05-11 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1524261614324645888 | 1524261614324645888 |
| There is no compromise satisfactory to both Putin and | 2022-05-11 | 47 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1524259935197925378 | 1524259935197925378 |
| Musk says Twitter will be much more even-handed - | 2022-05-11 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1524258563694088192 | 1524258563694088192 |
| So much for crypto - and meme stocks - and companies built | 2022-05-10 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1524015030617866240 | 1524015030617866240 |
| In red states is it always a victory for Trumpism? | 2022-05-10 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1523894369664651264 | 1523894369664651264 |
| Musk can fire everybody he doesn't like but he still will | 2022-05-10 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1523891562081521664 | 1523891562081521664 |
| Is Putin trapped on a road of no return? | 2022-05-10 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1523890681193762817 | 1523890681193762817 |
| If the Supreme Court decides there is no implied | 2022-05-10 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1523889803665715205 | 1523889803665715205 |
| Mark Meadows was at the center of Jan 6, but he's no longer | 2022-05-10 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1523888378864750592 | 1523888378864750592 |
| Trumpists have been around since 1619 under various names | 2022-05-10 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1523887934578982912 | 1523887934578982912 |
| Henry de Bracton | 2022-05-10 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1523884598874152962 | 1523884598874152962 |
| Sir Matthew Hale | 2022-05-10 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1523883222647468032 | 1523883222647468032 |
| A Victory Day for hackers. | 2022-05-10 | 22 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1523881073507151874 | 1523881073507151874 |
| Criminal investigations work their way up from the bottom, | 2022-05-10 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1523875984335728641 | 1523875984335728641 |
| Bad choices - for Perdue, for Trump. | 2022-05-10 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1523857306898685952 | 1523857306898685952 |
| It's hard to make something out of nothing. | 2022-05-10 | 21 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1523856058543865857 | 1523856058543865857 |
| Does pumped storage have a new lease on life? | 2022-05-09 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1523787486220087296 | 1523787486220087296 |
| No need to call Pence, no use to call Trump. | 2022-05-09 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1523673019251535872 | 1523673019251535872 |
| TikTok danger? | 2022-05-09 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1523538660087373825 | 1523538660087373825 |
| North Korea has learned from Ukraine and is seizing the | 2022-05-09 | 44 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1523513658369712132 | 1523513658369712132 |
| Term limits for Supreme Court justices. | 2022-05-09 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1523458344454742017 | 1523458344454742017 |
| Direct democracy - a good idea in 1911 that has gone bad | 2022-05-09 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1523456702795771906 | 1523456702795771906 |
| Another inflationary factor - not enough immigrants to do | 2022-05-09 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1523454098216914945 | 1523454098216914945 |
| At Pennsylvania Trump rally, Vance gets better reception | 2022-05-08 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1523452536488808448 | 1523452536488808448 |
| Inflationary pressures - | 2022-05-08 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1523450616474849281 | 1523450616474849281 |
| Texas Bar suing Paxton - for conduct unbecoming an | 2022-05-08 | 20 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1523447498093645824 | 1523447498093645824 |
| Who's going to get the blame for embarrassing Putin? | 2022-05-08 | 19 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1523412450409738240 | 1523412450409738240 |
| On this day remember the original idea of Mother's Day | 2022-05-08 | 19 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1523366856278437888 | 1523366856278437888 |
| About Trumpism - | 2022-05-08 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1523303402037399552 | 1523303402037399552 |
| QAnon will get you far in today's GOP. | 2022-05-08 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1523301162534924288 | 1523301162534924288 |
| The changing face of journalism. | 2022-05-08 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1523297936129466368 | 1523297936129466368 |
| American reshoring means higher prices but more jobs for | 2022-05-08 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1523193091867348992 | 1523193091867348992 |
| Another fatal flaw in Russian planning. | 2022-05-08 | 25 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1523189970248241159 | 1523189970248241159 |
| Trump lawsuit successful! | 2022-05-08 | 21 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1523185165035470848 | 1523185165035470848 |
| Why we need a quick way to avoid constitutional crises - | 2022-05-07 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1522945535270817793 | 1522945535270817793 |
| Advanced economies do need immigration to support their | 2022-05-07 | 25 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1522929800658128902 | 1522929800658128902 |
| "many of the Taliban, like Sirajuddin Haqqani, are | 2022-05-07 | 60 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1522928750073028608 | 1522928750073028608 |
| Walking the Ukraine tightrope - | 2022-05-07 | 50 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1522786539893256192 | 1522786539893256192 |
| Bipartisan agreement - of two persons. But Trumpists | 2022-05-07 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1522784988751532032 | 1522784988751532032 |
| Just what you'd expect from a Trumpist investigation. | 2022-05-07 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1522783870248050688 | 1522783870248050688 |
| Prohibit abortions? Not a winning campaign tactic | 2022-05-06 | 29 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1522695483025616897 | 1522695483025616897 |
| Do the facts end the Ray Epps story? | 2022-05-06 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1522693176280031232 | 1522693176280031232 |
| "Dwindling Western commitment is part of Putin’s | 2022-05-06 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1522687855822213121 | 1522687855822213121 |
| Now the project that GOP have been setting up for decades | 2022-05-06 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1522685371208806400 | 1522685371208806400 |
| Caveman gets eight months. | 2022-05-06 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1522678818699243520 | 1522678818699243520 |
| Epistemology - the Enlightenment struggle to define truth | 2022-05-06 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1522601726943014912 | 1522601726943014912 |
| That was the week that wasn't. | 2022-05-06 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1522597684959342592 | 1522597684959342592 |
| Will THIS change the minds of those male anti-vaxxers that | 2022-05-06 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1522578037463601152 | 1522578037463601152 |
| If you overturn one precedent you don't like, you might | 2022-05-06 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1522576388129116162 | 1522576388129116162 |
| Carlson in 2024! | 2022-05-06 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1522574274036338691 | 1522574274036338691 |
| VPN's flourish under Putin. | 2022-05-06 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1522572214243004416 | 1522572214243004416 |
| Elections are rigged but you should vote anyway? | 2022-05-06 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1522559991294484485 | 1522559991294484485 |
| Stealing farm machinery didn't work because it could | 2022-05-06 | 44 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1522556611830501376 | 1522556611830501376 |
| Why America's founders embraced the Enlightenment ideal | 2022-05-06 | 56 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1522421174042460161 | 1522421174042460161 |
| Trump's always full of unconventional ideas. | 2022-05-06 | 18 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1522418119351832576 | 1522418119351832576 |
| Putin and his pals have stolen Russia's wealth and hidden | 2022-05-06 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1522417628618235904 | 1522417628618235904 |
| Wagner Group is Putin's "plausible deniability" terrorist | 2022-05-06 | 42 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1522414015636418561 | 1522414015636418561 |
| US tells Ukraine some, but not all. | 2022-05-06 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1522413455222853634 | 1522413455222853634 |
| Greens elected Bush in 2000 and Trump in 2016. | 2022-05-06 | 17 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1522411393617596416 | 1522411393617596416 |
| Big Conn in West Virginia. | 2022-05-06 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1522405762621870080 | 1522405762621870080 |
| Hypersonic missiles - a new saber to rattle. One for | 2022-05-06 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1522403048093458432 | 1522403048093458432 |
| You can't destroy a people without destroying its history. | 2022-05-06 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1522401791823937537 | 1522401791823937537 |
| Pride runs deep - | 2022-05-06 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1522400488083255297 | 1522400488083255297 |
| Foreign investors starting to have doubts about China. | 2022-05-06 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1522397650644914176 | 1522397650644914176 |
| Nobody knows you when you're down and out - especially | 2022-05-06 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1522396561023508481 | 1522396561023508481 |
| Congress working on 401k's. Will they make things | 2022-05-06 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1522395288664563713 | 1522395288664563713 |
| Belarusan puppet dictator Lukashenko is surprised that | 2022-05-06 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1522381602122190848 | 1522381602122190848 |
| LGBT are not an important GOP constituency. They should | 2022-05-06 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1522379857300054016 | 1522379857300054016 |
| GOP legislators always remember where their campaign funds | 2022-05-06 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1522378222716944384 | 1522378222716944384 |
| Are you old enough to remember when the first internet | 2022-05-06 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1522375618112868354 | 1522375618112868354 |
| How many liberal arts ought to figure in an MBA? | 2022-05-06 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1522374171761598464 | 1522374171761598464 |
| An up-or-down vote that all senators running for | 2022-05-05 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1522340845457838081 | 1522340845457838081 |
| Stealing farm machinery didn't work because it could | 2022-05-05 | 18 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1522338239377408001 | 1522338239377408001 |
| What's Dinesh D'Souza up to now that he's been pardoned | 2022-05-05 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1522334914074779649 | 1522334914074779649 |
| How GOP gerrymanders Democrats into retirement. | 2022-05-05 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1522226088541245441 | 1522226088541245441 |
| Can Russians be expelled from Ukraine before they kill | 2022-05-05 | 43 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1522224873388404736 | 1522224873388404736 |
| Just the kind of nutcase that Democrats hoped would win | 2022-05-05 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1522045897495891969 | 1522045897495891969 |
| Money is the mother's milk of politics! | 2022-05-05 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1522045156202991616 | 1522045156202991616 |
| Not easy to be a Russian general. | 2022-05-05 | 44 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1522042740485201921 | 1522042740485201921 |
| Quislings are never that hard to find. | 2022-05-05 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1522041060284780546 | 1522041060284780546 |
| Three violent insurrectionists hope to cut plea deals. | 2022-05-05 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1522040571329581057 | 1522040571329581057 |
| The future market for data about your sex life. | 2022-05-05 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1522013995300835329 | 1522013995300835329 |
| It's going to be Benghazi all over again! | 2022-05-05 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1522012986012962816 | 1522012986012962816 |
| Wouldn't you know it - there's ANOTHER McCarthy tape! | 2022-05-05 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1522011499505483778 | 1522011499505483778 |
| Once the coup failed, Trump had no further interest in | 2022-05-05 | 32 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1522010913846403073 | 1522010913846403073 |
| Pro-life is not the essence of GOP's reactionary judge | 2022-05-05 | 16 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1522009523443044353 | 1522009523443044353 |
| The British Virgin Islands is a global capital for | 2022-05-05 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1522003290350784512 | 1522003290350784512 |
| Trump Jr's turn. Will he talk or plead 5th? | 2022-05-04 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1522002695636226048 | 1522002695636226048 |
| Looks like Jan 6 committee will focus on Meadows. | 2022-05-04 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1521950747914514432 | 1521950747914514432 |
| At least in one red district, there's such a thing as too | 2022-05-04 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1521949598222151680 | 1521949598222151680 |
| Does technology now favor military defense or offense? | 2022-05-04 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1521948974399188993 | 1521948974399188993 |
| Bad news for revisionist Trumpists - | 2022-05-04 | 21 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1521856238320947206 | 1521856238320947206 |
| "The only winning move is not to play" | 2022-05-04 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1521723782305488896 | 1521723782305488896 |
| Ways to improve the 2024 primary election process - | 2022-05-04 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1521691342014873600 | 1521691342014873600 |
| What would Putin do in a pinch? | 2022-05-04 | 57 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1521689602674728960 | 1521689602674728960 |
| It's not so easy to replace all those weapons going to | 2022-05-04 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1521688313450491904 | 1521688313450491904 |
| Why has Putin shown restraint? | 2022-05-04 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1521687095219163136 | 1521687095219163136 |
| The argument for limited aims in Ukraine. | 2022-05-04 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1521685674243416065 | 1521685674243416065 |
| Electronic warfare in Ukraine. | 2022-05-04 | 40 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1521679186544316416 | 1521679186544316416 |
| Will Putin declare war in order to get more cannon fodder? | 2022-05-04 | 32 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1521674922841366528 | 1521674922841366528 |
| Putin's gift to the GOP was timely wartime inflation. | 2022-05-04 | 42 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1521657956147900419 | 1521657956147900419 |
| Don't nobody bring Trump, no bad news! | 2022-05-04 | 14 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1521656251548987393 | 1521656251548987393 |
| "It's the economy!" Meaning inflation, meaning war in | 2022-05-03 | 48 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1521497318780018691 | 1521497318780018691 |
| The stakes for Trump - starting today and the next couple | 2022-05-03 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1521495062290575360 | 1521495062290575360 |
| We'll know a lot more about American politics tomorrow. | 2022-05-03 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1521491484704448519 | 1521491484704448519 |
| A concession for privacy - | 2022-05-03 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1521488844109012993 | 1521488844109012993 |
| What do GOP candidates REALLY believe? There are so | 2022-05-03 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1521360859804487681 | 1521360859804487681 |
| How the European Union works - or doesn't work. | 2022-05-03 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1521358907741904897 | 1521358907741904897 |
| The Constitution has a rural bias. | 2022-05-03 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1521357644211974145 | 1521357644211974145 |
| Inflation hits cooking oil. | 2022-05-03 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1521351283059216385 | 1521351283059216385 |
| Taliban switches from opium to meth. | 2022-05-03 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1521350561869615104 | 1521350561869615104 |
| Five stages of inflation grief - | 2022-05-03 | 104 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1521349053396574208 | 1521349053396574208 |
| The Tom turkeys of DC want complete power over all the | 2022-05-03 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1521347923597922305 | 1521347923597922305 |
| Laws don't apply if Trump's got your back! | 2022-05-03 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1521346956555014144 | 1521346956555014144 |
| Putin tries to turn back the tide of history. | 2022-05-03 | 49 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1521345252170240000 | 1521345252170240000 |
| Pretended to be a fake elector? There could be | 2022-05-03 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1521342600501862400 | 1521342600501862400 |
| Trump children rush in where Trump advisors fear to tread. | 2022-05-03 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1521342148716552194 | 1521342148716552194 |
| Will Trump ever get the free room and board he so richly | 2022-05-03 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1521340222591565829 | 1521340222591565829 |
| Another reason for regional federalism - | 2022-05-03 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1521339006369234944 | 1521339006369234944 |
| GOP primary candidates are spending tens of millions of | 2022-05-03 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1521336936446582785 | 1521336936446582785 |
| Hard for a violent insurrectionist to make a self-defense | 2022-05-03 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1521335155654230022 | 1521335155654230022 |
| Trumpists don't need no stinkin' debates! | 2022-05-03 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1521334333100855296 | 1521334333100855296 |
| Sometimes social media are beneficial. | 2022-05-03 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1521333236625944576 | 1521333236625944576 |
| Abortion restrictions don't bother rich donors who can | 2022-05-03 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1521331579330592768 | 1521331579330592768 |
| In Putin's Russkiy Mir, nothing is true and everything | 2022-05-02 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1521162756061159424 | 1521162756061159424 |
| Some people can't wait to hear from Trump. Others can't | 2022-05-02 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1521143873837228032 | 1521143873837228032 |
| There are so many GOP factions for Democrats to attack - | 2022-05-02 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1520991256653930496 | 1520991256653930496 |
| In the Merry Month of May, Trump doesn't have a problem | 2022-05-02 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1520986712138149888 | 1520986712138149888 |
| Strikes against the Democrats. | 2022-05-02 | 106 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1520983466631868416 | 1520983466631868416 |
| The new face of GOP politics - Buckeye bomb throwers. | 2022-05-02 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1520975595282198529 | 1520975595282198529 |
| What a rising tide of firearms gets us - | 2022-05-02 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1520974033180790785 | 1520974033180790785 |
| Why nobody's doing anything about gasoline prices. | 2022-05-02 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1520972686540697600 | 1520972686540697600 |
| What crummy economy? Unemployment claims are lowest | 2022-05-02 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1520971647624224768 | 1520971647624224768 |
| Don't move to Idaho or Utah expecting relief from | 2022-05-02 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1520970975931551745 | 1520970975931551745 |
| The modern Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP is not conservative | 2022-05-02 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1520952134165954560 | 1520952134165954560 |
| For JD Vance, Trumpism is "reconnecting politics to | 2022-05-02 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1520949583114768384 | 1520949583114768384 |
| The Ohio senate primary is a preview of the next Trumpist | 2022-05-01 | 44 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1520853716856762368 | 1520853716856762368 |
| What it's like to be a backup standin for Trump in Ohio. | 2022-05-01 | 35 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1520852656243183616 | 1520852656243183616 |
| Trump and Tucker Carlson together changed the GOP - | 2022-05-01 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1520840725486657537 | 1520840725486657537 |
| Back to the Wild West in Eastern Europe! | 2022-05-01 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1520810285400944640 | 1520810285400944640 |
| How lucky the Ukrainians are that the US House GOP | 2022-05-01 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1520808213846773761 | 1520808213846773761 |
| Pillage - one of the things the Russian army does best, | 2022-05-01 | 71 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1520805883898257409 | 1520805883898257409 |
| Freedom Caucus members and White House staff plotted for | 2022-05-01 | 27 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1520804518715297792 | 1520804518715297792 |
| No border wall between state and press, any more than | 2022-05-01 | 29 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1520790183204909057 | 1520790183204909057 |
| It's all about who you know and what you can do for them. | 2022-05-01 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1520788303624081408 | 1520788303624081408 |
| Hazards of over-leveraging! Get rich quick, get poor | 2022-05-01 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1520786635822026757 | 1520786635822026757 |
| A simple arithmetic error? | 2022-05-01 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1520781165849849858 | 1520781165849849858 |
| No wonder there were so many cops among the | 2022-05-01 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1520772719637278721 | 1520772719637278721 |
| Stolen checks readily available for sale on dark web. | 2022-05-01 | 39 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1520638390252695552 | 1520638390252695552 |
| Scott Perry and Jeffrey Clark - unsung heroes of the | 2022-05-01 | 25 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1520636515721760770 | 1520636515721760770 |
| By November 2022, either painful Putin and covid inflation | 2022-05-01 | 29 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1520634118685429760 | 1520634118685429760 |
| Manchin endorses non-Trumpist GOP candidate. | 2022-05-01 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1520629711407181825 | 1520629711407181825 |
| Of course he's publicly vilified. He's a public villain | 2022-05-01 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1520628465560481793 | 1520628465560481793 |
| Biden auditions for a future career in comedy. | 2022-05-01 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1520626295545032704 | 1520626295545032704 |
| Reactionary chic - we know where it came from, but where | 2022-05-01 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1520583330810400768 | 1520583330810400768 |
| Who struck down the Federal travel mask mandate? | 2022-05-01 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1520577598266302464 | 1520577598266302464 |
| In the finest Nazi tradition | 2022-05-01 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1520572217351827457 | 1520572217351827457 |
| Yeltsin oligarchs vs Putin oligarchs. | 2022-05-01 | 28 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1520571565720580096 | 1520571565720580096 |
| Why artillery is a big deal in Ukraine now. | 2022-05-01 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1520569754309722112 | 1520569754309722112 |
| Another Oath Keeper agrees to plead guilty and cooperate. | 2022-05-01 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1520567331826544640 | 1520567331826544640 |
| Finns have a long memory of Russian aggression. | 2022-05-01 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1520566610565627904 | 1520566610565627904 |
| Differences between Democratic and Republican rule-of-law - | 2022-04-30 | 20 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1520433085371744256 | 1520433085371744256 |
| If it's President DeSantis in 2025 - we might be longing | 2022-04-30 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1520425955520622592 | 1520425955520622592 |
| How will Biden manage to support Democratic candidates in | 2022-04-29 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1520068458913755136 | 1520068458913755136 |
| That was the week that wasn't. | 2022-04-29 | 258 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1520066213480521729 | 1520066213480521729 |
| No royal road to authenticity. | 2022-04-29 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1520050415177396224 | 1520050415177396224 |
| Why Putin will make some kind of victory announcement on | 2022-04-29 | 63 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1520049609137041408 | 1520049609137041408 |
| A black hole with no escape? | 2022-04-29 | 60 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1520048241378619392 | 1520048241378619392 |
| A alliance for rule of law - | 2022-04-29 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1520045132594122753 | 1520045132594122753 |
| Who says the Sixties are over? It's back to east, west, | 2022-04-29 | 42 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1520039574394744832 | 1520039574394744832 |
| Can't ship FROM America because containers are going | 2022-04-29 | 39 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1520038374840565761 | 1520038374840565761 |
| Putin gave Biden an opportunity to lead the democratic | 2022-04-29 | 45 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1519906648168407041 | 1519906648168407041 |
| Jan 6 march on Capitol was carefully planned to stoke the | 2022-04-29 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1519901292042149890 | 1519901292042149890 |
| Trump abolished ethical and moral standards for political | 2022-04-29 | 49 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1519898674746191873 | 1519898674746191873 |
| Surprise! Major companies spent a lot more on share | 2022-04-29 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1519896070121082880 | 1519896070121082880 |
| California has a very volatile job market. Startups | 2022-04-29 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1519895318741069829 | 1519895318741069829 |
| No hiding in a secure location for Zelenskyy. | 2022-04-29 | 76 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1519894075926667264 | 1519894075926667264 |
| Why air travel is so unreliable now. | 2022-04-29 | 69 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1519893065594331136 | 1519893065594331136 |
| How would Trump have handled the Ukraine invasion? | 2022-04-29 | 81 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1519851955002089473 | 1519851955002089473 |
| Campaigning on emotion again, rather than facts. | 2022-04-29 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1519847907351879682 | 1519847907351879682 |
| Another global cost of the Ukraine war - re-investing | 2022-04-29 | 61 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1519845896627757056 | 1519845896627757056 |
| Putin's men take care of another journalist. | 2022-04-29 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1519844230033674240 | 1519844230033674240 |
| Nuclear power or a hydrocarbon tax paid to Russians | 2022-04-29 | 51 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1519842026560258048 | 1519842026560258048 |
| Bringing the war home. | 2022-04-29 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1519839806762590272 | 1519839806762590272 |
| Does Tucker Carlson have a knee on McCarthy's neck too? | 2022-04-28 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1519826740947816448 | 1519826740947816448 |
| The Trumpists plan to deal with McCarthy only after they | 2022-04-28 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1519826193263915008 | 1519826193263915008 |
| Everybody in the world will be paying for Putin's war | 2022-04-28 | 48 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1519822343803080705 | 1519822343803080705 |
| Moldova? Transnistria? Putin wants to make sure that | 2022-04-28 | 176 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1519819065174286336 | 1519819065174286336 |
| Why regional federalism may be the only way out - | 2022-04-28 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1519816662492401664 | 1519816662492401664 |
| Significance of Azovstal | 2022-04-28 | 65 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1519813116481089536 | 1519813116481089536 |
| Why not shoot at the Secretary-General of the United | 2022-04-28 | 48 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1519806145963065344 | 1519806145963065344 |
| Zelenskyy conquered his fear of enemy fire. Trump | 2022-04-28 | 43 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1519804637175459840 | 1519804637175459840 |
| Prefer billionaires running for office with their own | 2022-04-28 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1519696120481411072 | 1519696120481411072 |
| Russians compiled an extermination list well in advance | 2022-04-28 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1519693839056867329 | 1519693839056867329 |
| Getting ready for another fake election. | 2022-04-28 | 46 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1519691859899035649 | 1519691859899035649 |
| Giuliani's turn with Jan 6 committee. | 2022-04-28 | 43 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1519545328382271488 | 1519545328382271488 |
| New Boeing management hopes to avoid Trump-era mistakes. | 2022-04-28 | 54 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1519544658082160640 | 1519544658082160640 |
| Why would Trump pay for an OBJECTIVE appraisal of his | 2022-04-28 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1519520950621851648 | 1519520950621851648 |
| What's really going on here? | 2022-04-28 | 39 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1519520195265503237 | 1519520195265503237 |
| Who's the REAL Trumpist? | 2022-04-28 | 44 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1519509432815693824 | 1519509432815693824 |
| Russian armor was designed for opponents who wouldn't | 2022-04-28 | 93 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1519506849468346368 | 1519506849468346368 |
| Should any one person have the economic power to control | 2022-04-28 | 43 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1519505273043386368 | 1519505273043386368 |
| Will McCarthy become Speaker? One word from Trump would | 2022-04-28 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1519504224035295233 | 1519504224035295233 |
| Russian cyberwarfare units were laying the groundwork in | 2022-04-28 | 65 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1519503072216510464 | 1519503072216510464 |
| People who get violent hateful responses on Twitter can | 2022-04-28 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1519502488214200320 | 1519502488214200320 |
| Putin tries divide-and-conquer once more - and fails again | 2022-04-28 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1519500870194327552 | 1519500870194327552 |
| Musk will put Trump back on Twitter. Good for rallying | 2022-04-27 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1519343337441951744 | 1519343337441951744 |
| Unraveling the Trump dolls. | 2022-04-27 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1519341718868422661 | 1519341718868422661 |
| How Musk's game might be for the best. | 2022-04-26 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1518969641405583361 | 1518969641405583361 |
| Unexpected allies in Belarus helped slow down the Russian | 2022-04-24 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1518247693251796993 | 1518247693251796993 |
| A bold Trumpist will stop at nothing. | 2022-04-24 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1518243609828503552 | 1518243609828503552 |
| Jan 6 committee works its way up the ladder. | 2022-04-23 | 51 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1517834729600405505 | 1517834729600405505 |
| Greene can't - or won't - remember what she did. | 2022-04-23 | 48 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1517708556862038017 | 1517708556862038017 |
| It's true - Putin does not intend to stop with Donbas. | 2022-04-23 | 137 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1517707045188689920 | 1517707045188689920 |
| Would a Muskified Twitter be the end of Trump Media? | 2022-04-22 | 512 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1517652090604048384 | 1517652090604048384 |
| Don't brag about insurrection while intoxicated! | 2022-04-22 | 502 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1517649784667992065 | 1517649784667992065 |
| The qualifications are well known - | 2022-04-22 | 516 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1517649360246296578 | 1517649360246296578 |
| In the best Dixiecrat tradition - | 2022-04-22 | 511 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1517635538710269952 | 1517635538710269952 |
| Hackers claim to have raided Russian military and | 2022-04-22 | 508 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1517633677596917760 | 1517633677596917760 |
| "Twitter should take away other Republican lawmakers' | 2022-04-22 | 504 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1517631559737565184 | 1517631559737565184 |
| Oh wait there's more! Another McCarthy tape surfaces. | 2022-04-22 | 531 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1517628123772166144 | 1517628123772166144 |
| That was the week that wasn't. | 2022-04-22 | 519 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1517517666298204160 | 1517517666298204160 |
| 63 GOP House members followed Trump's cues to oppose NATO. | 2022-04-22 | 528 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1517516185411104768 | 1517516185411104768 |
| Can Trump pick them or not? Depends on whether the | 2022-04-22 | 516 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1517514102695890945 | 1517514102695890945 |
| Trumpist voters like lies and Trumpist politicians are | 2022-04-22 | 506 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1517511628014510080 | 1517511628014510080 |
| Tourism is booming in Iowa - Cotton, Cruz, Haley, Pence, | 2022-04-22 | 514 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1517510556025974786 | 1517510556025974786 |
| What would a competent Trump be like? | 2022-04-22 | 504 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1517492941845000193 | 1517492941845000193 |
| Murder, rape, pillage civilians - ancient military | 2022-04-22 | 515 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1517480706858835970 | 1517480706858835970 |
| Too bad for Trump's Kevin - there's a tape! | 2022-04-22 | 522 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1517478018406514689 | 1517478018406514689 |
| No immigration reform - Trumpist voters can be told that | 2022-04-22 | 543 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1517357146421161986 | 1517357146421161986 |
| Will Utah Democrats decline to nominate a Senate candidate | 2022-04-22 | 516 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1517353551227351041 | 1517353551227351041 |
| How politicians corrupt non-profits. | 2022-04-22 | 515 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1517339460702130176 | 1517339460702130176 |
| Le Pen - a model for American Putinist/Trumpists. | 2022-04-22 | 520 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1517330785082040320 | 1517330785082040320 |
| DeSantis' objective - government telling private | 2022-04-22 | 509 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1517330011291721728 | 1517330011291721728 |
| The "populist" kleptocratic personality cultists | 2022-04-22 | 515 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1517329593044070400 | 1517329593044070400 |
| “Florida’s authoritarian socialist attacks on the | 2022-04-22 | 515 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1517325687446589440 | 1517325687446589440 |
| The fast-cash criminal element has noticed that pot shops | 2022-04-22 | 508 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1517322686787055616 | 1517322686787055616 |
| McCarthy denies ever thinking ill of Trump or Trumpism, | 2022-04-22 | 522 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1517311400858689536 | 1517311400858689536 |
| Profiles in Courage was written about US Senators. | 2022-04-22 | 519 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1517310725320212480 | 1517310725320212480 |
| Some people foresaw the devolution of the internet. | 2022-04-22 | 502 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1517309333788233730 | 1517309333788233730 |
| QAnon - fake stories, real victims. | 2022-04-22 | 519 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1517308790760083456 | 1517308790760083456 |
| Alaska, Delaware, Nevada, South Dakota - and New York City | 2022-04-22 | 526 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1517307651977211904 | 1517307651977211904 |
| Just the kind of people you'd expect to find close | 2022-04-22 | 499 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1517306648255078401 | 1517306648255078401 |
| The argument for holding our noses and allying with Saudi | 2022-04-22 | 549 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1517306045109989376 | 1517306045109989376 |
| Moldova fears it's next. It's not in NATO or EU. | 2022-04-22 | 523 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1517304899251228672 | 1517304899251228672 |
| A smarter Trumpist is more dangerous! | 2022-04-22 | 518 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1517303415340105728 | 1517303415340105728 |
| Das Fürstentum Liechtenstein leads the way! | 2022-04-22 | 528 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1517300476852588544 | 1517300476852588544 |
| It's y2k all over again, this time for streaming services - | 2022-04-22 | 509 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1517298867967983616 | 1517298867967983616 |
| DeSantis is on his way to redefining Trumpism | 2022-04-21 | 489 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1517203117380554752 | 1517203117380554752 |
| Treating Federal territories as colonies - | 2022-04-21 | 486 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1517202201260609536 | 1517202201260609536 |
| Trump's greatest achievement - proving traditional | 2022-04-21 | 495 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1517198823814156288 | 1517198823814156288 |
| The face of Trumpism in France. | 2022-04-21 | 494 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1517195012634644481 | 1517195012634644481 |
| Why the free world admires Zelenskyy. | 2022-04-21 | 494 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1517192892095205376 | 1517192892095205376 |
| Swing voters are mostly influenced by economics, especially | 2022-04-21 | 508 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1517149253642035201 | 1517149253642035201 |
| Alex Jones might be willing to talk in exchange for a plea | 2022-04-21 | 486 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1517145524058558465 | 1517145524058558465 |
| McCarthy and McConnell - quick repentance, quicker | 2022-04-21 | 558 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1517144431324844033 | 1517144431324844033 |
| How Russian interference works. It's not much | 2022-04-21 | 510 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1517141763957280769 | 1517141763957280769 |
| Mike Lee is going to show up how to get re-elected without | 2022-04-21 | 493 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1517139951363649537 | 1517139951363649537 |
| There must have been a reason for Pence to leave the room | 2022-04-21 | 498 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1517138337353527297 | 1517138337353527297 |
| Don't want to talk about your real agenda in public? | 2022-04-21 | 488 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1517136481759887363 | 1517136481759887363 |
| Judge reads GOP senators' remarks immediately after Jan | 2022-04-21 | 498 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1516996906253049856 | 1516996906253049856 |
| "Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace– but there is no peace." | 2022-04-21 | 393 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1516993975898370049 | 1516993975898370049 |
| Trump's gaze is fixed in the past. So he's filed a | 2022-04-21 | 490 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1516991476336496640 | 1516991476336496640 |
| As you'd expect, GOP representatives sued to prevent proxy | 2022-04-21 | 482 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1516990483188183040 | 1516990483188183040 |
| What lessons will Xi learn from Ukraine? | 2022-04-21 | 504 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1516989249140142080 | 1516989249140142080 |
| GOP talks about grooming so much since they know so much | 2022-04-21 | 479 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1516987901803786240 | 1516987901803786240 |
| California Democrats knock on doors to get occasional | 2022-04-21 | 491 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1516968740595769345 | 1516968740595769345 |
| Russian diplomats dutifully propagate official propaganda. | 2022-04-21 | 491 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1516965864779616256 | 1516965864779616256 |
| Another violent insurrectionist pleads guilty. | 2022-04-21 | 493 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1516964959866920960 | 1516964959866920960 |
| To get us to a nuclear-free future - we first need | 2022-04-21 | 499 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1516964363038445569 | 1516964363038445569 |
| There's a reason why America's founders insisted on an | 2022-04-21 | 482 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1516937353515864064 | 1516937353515864064 |
| Is Musk actually getting the money together? | 2022-04-20 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1516843488024743936 | 1516843488024743936 |
| There's a reason why America's founder insisted on an | 2022-04-20 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1516842355730489348 | 1516842355730489348 |
| Sexual misconduct doesn't exist for GOP candidates. | 2022-04-20 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1516840451113832449 | 1516840451113832449 |
| Did the decline start with Gingrich? Or Thurmond? | 2022-04-20 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1516837569492783107 | 1516837569492783107 |
| Round up the usual suspects - they are still trying to | 2022-04-20 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1516835778260656138 | 1516835778260656138 |
| Preview for America - what happens when western democracies | 2022-04-20 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1516828709985996802 | 1516828709985996802 |
| Running down the clock on the Jan 6 committee until GOP | 2022-04-19 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1516407044458246144 | 1516407044458246144 |
| Putin honors excellence in murder, rape, and pillage | 2022-04-19 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1516406579439943681 | 1516406579439943681 |
| McConnell fights back against Trump. McConnell wants | 2022-04-19 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1516397628291911681 | 1516397628291911681 |
| Trump accumulates his war chest while doling out pittances | 2022-04-19 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1516397346778595335 | 1516397346778595335 |
| "I require frequent reports from many key people. This | 2022-04-19 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1516267394129293313 | 1516267394129293313 |
| "When the people are suffering, you don’t try to solve | 2022-04-19 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1516263763967569920 | 1516263763967569920 |
| California school board recall elections make a lot of | 2022-04-19 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1516242465270816771 | 1516242465270816771 |
| It's not easy to build a huge internet empire. Looks | 2022-04-19 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1516241113618677763 | 1516241113618677763 |
| Another Putin accomplishment - technology brain drain. | 2022-04-19 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1516239718521868288 | 1516239718521868288 |
| 4% inflation might become the new normal. If it's | 2022-04-19 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1516239130014806018 | 1516239130014806018 |
| The GOP has a plan for when they gain control of | 2022-04-19 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1516237492604661762 | 1516237492604661762 |
| Covid was a gift to the rich, making them richer. | 2022-04-19 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1516235790686187525 | 1516235790686187525 |
| He routinely lies for profit, so why would he tell the | 2022-04-19 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1516234853875740675 | 1516234853875740675 |
| “when the White House is in favor of something, when | 2022-04-19 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1516234029950902273 | 1516234029950902273 |
| Looking forward to May 9 - originally to celebrate Stalin's | 2022-04-19 | 49 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1516216733933072385 | 1516216733933072385 |
| Kimberly Guilfoyle's turn. | 2022-04-19 | 136 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1516215471359422469 | 1516215471359422469 |
| Like other personality cult leaders, Modi wants to suppress | 2022-04-18 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1516095849146695683 | 1516095849146695683 |
| Republicans used to just lie about their goals - | 2022-04-18 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1516094731385655299 | 1516094731385655299 |
| Using tax law to dampen investor speculation in | 2022-04-18 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1516092712985903104 | 1516092712985903104 |
| Remote control war has victims on both ends. | 2022-04-18 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1516091663231303681 | 1516091663231303681 |
| Food price inflation doesn't bother you yet? | 2022-04-18 | 22 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1516089592943837188 | 1516089592943837188 |
| Antitrust law to protect workers as well as consumers. | 2022-04-18 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1516087520265596932 | 1516087520265596932 |
| More inflation in food prices ahead. | 2022-04-18 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1516086390995382278 | 1516086390995382278 |
| Bankruptcy isn't as disruptive as being another victim of | 2022-04-18 | 23 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1516081918197993472 | 1516081918197993472 |
| California economy growing pretty well, thanks to | 2022-04-18 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1516081360892411904 | 1516081360892411904 |
| Budding democracies around the world are inspired by | 2022-04-18 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1515926548427157508 | 1515926548427157508 |
| Lots of Alaskans see better alternatives to Sarah Palin. | 2022-04-18 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1515925318342643713 | 1515925318342643713 |
| Hardly anybody can write a truthful book that pleases | 2022-04-18 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1515921821803053061 | 1515921821803053061 |
| Donbas - the prize in the next phase of Putin's invasion. | 2022-04-18 | 67 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1515920441910579203 | 1515920441910579203 |
| Think inflation might soon be under control? Maybe not! | 2022-04-18 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1515918228085624836 | 1515918228085624836 |
| How sanctioned Putin Pollock gets to the US through China. | 2022-04-17 | 29 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1515826885602824194 | 1515826885602824194 |
| Another of Putin's lasting gifts - proving that engagement | 2022-04-17 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1515765053315706883 | 1515765053315706883 |
| Dollar dominance likely to continue - it's the most stable | 2022-04-17 | 18 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1515590219570941963 | 1515590219570941963 |
| Economically isolating Russia won't change Putin, but will | 2022-04-17 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1515585072736477188 | 1515585072736477188 |
| Army learning from Ukraine. | 2022-04-17 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1515578809713500161 | 1515578809713500161 |
| GOP governors want poor people to get back to normal - | 2022-04-16 | 32 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1515322762415337472 | 1515322762415337472 |
| How to make sure the state legislature is mostly rich | 2022-04-16 | 41 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1515321356589535233 | 1515321356589535233 |
| “there is no separation between church and state” | 2022-04-16 | 47 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1515308576574607362 | 1515308576574607362 |
| Putin and Fox - a match made in heaven. | 2022-04-16 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1515171196081385472 | 1515171196081385472 |
| Nuclear energy reduces carbon dioxide emissions and | 2022-04-16 | 45 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1515169821855346690 | 1515169821855346690 |
| Trump endorses Vance. | 2022-04-16 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1515166568761552899 | 1515166568761552899 |
| What does the future hold for covid? | 2022-04-16 | 44 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1515165088012914693 | 1515165088012914693 |
| Justice Department and Bannon lawyers square off on | 2022-04-16 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1515162178575224834 | 1515162178575224834 |
| What is the significance of the Moskva sinking? | 2022-04-16 | 95 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1515161316683509764 | 1515161316683509764 |
| Like the League of Nations before it, the UN is powerless | 2022-04-16 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1515159712261574660 | 1515159712261574660 |
| Is more local government power what democracy in France | 2022-04-16 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1515128622457131014 | 1515128622457131014 |
| Global problems can only be solved by global cooperation. | 2022-04-16 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1515124827815743495 | 1515124827815743495 |
| That was the week that wasn't. | 2022-04-15 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1514988785452212227 | 1514988785452212227 |
| Why Putin might settle for Donbas - for now. | 2022-04-15 | 39 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1514955279032487936 | 1514955279032487936 |
| "the net effect could help people like Ted and Josh to | 2022-04-15 | 36 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1514951564200329217 | 1514951564200329217 |
| Putin's revenge - replay 2016? He has a host of willing | 2022-04-15 | 56 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1514819190892339208 | 1514819190892339208 |
| Require everybody to vote, to change politicians' behavior. | 2022-04-15 | 45 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1514790595226570757 | 1514790595226570757 |
| FBI is still tracking down insurrectionists. | 2022-04-15 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1514789343210061841 | 1514789343210061841 |
| This time we beat the Russians to the punch. We think. | 2022-04-15 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1514787922985189379 | 1514787922985189379 |
| GOP can blame Democrats for causing inflation, and then | 2022-04-15 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1514775460487467008 | 1514775460487467008 |
| Though they don't like to talk about it to the voters | 2022-04-15 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1514774443058368512 | 1514774443058368512 |
| Food prices going up? Thank Greg Abbott's presidential | 2022-04-15 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1514771242837954565 | 1514771242837954565 |
| You wouldn't allow an individual in government that | 2022-04-15 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1514769655096696834 | 1514769655096696834 |
| Five ways the world has changed - | 2022-04-15 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1514759102655737882 | 1514759102655737882 |
| Trump is still in charge of GOP. | 2022-04-15 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1514755838245711884 | 1514755838245711884 |
| Putin has won hearts and minds in Finland - and in | 2022-04-14 | 77 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1514755138279288839 | 1514755138279288839 |
| Judge finds insurrectionist feloniously stupid for | 2022-04-14 | 39 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1514753880524959757 | 1514753880524959757 |
| "One often hears the excuse, “I am not responsible.” | 2022-04-14 | 42 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1514753424297930767 | 1514753424297930767 |
| Conscription and corruption - hallmarks of populist | 2022-04-14 | 52 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1514749314223943680 | 1514749314223943680 |
| Although you can't take anything Musk says at face value, | 2022-04-14 | 45 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1514586258047086594 | 1514586258047086594 |
| Trade need not lead to peace. Globailization need not | 2022-04-14 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1514461326763978754 | 1514461326763978754 |
| The last thing GOP candidates want to do is reveal the | 2022-04-14 | 45 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1514459871353077760 | 1514459871353077760 |
| Anti-vaxxers turning to violent threats. Just what | 2022-04-14 | 43 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1514457687433494533 | 1514457687433494533 |
| Speculation on Musk's Twitter motives. | 2022-04-14 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1514455293840658434 | 1514455293840658434 |
| Tim Scott: skin color is only skin deep, but political | 2022-04-14 | 47 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1514453325718073351 | 1514453325718073351 |
| No wonder DeSantis wants election fraud cops. But will | 2022-04-14 | 37 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1514452095608320006 | 1514452095608320006 |
| Populist kleptocrats stick together. | 2022-04-14 | 52 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1514451713096265733 | 1514451713096265733 |
| Are we giving Putin's threats too much credence? | 2022-04-14 | 42 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1514450864664047617 | 1514450864664047617 |
| It usually takes a recession to douse inflationary fevers. | 2022-04-14 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1514437015432925184 | 1514437015432925184 |
| Like populist kleptocrats everywhere, Russian oligarchs | 2022-04-14 | 38 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1514436319560175623 | 1514436319560175623 |
| "China has often sought to present two different narratives | 2022-04-14 | 44 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1514434548297216003 | 1514434548297216003 |
| Why Republicans talk so much about election fraud. | 2022-04-14 | 44 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1514431558685388809 | 1514431558685388809 |
| Ukrainians beat FSB to capture a pawn. | 2022-04-14 | 51 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1514428997823696898 | 1514428997823696898 |
| Trumpist Putinist in France advocates appeasement. | 2022-04-14 | 47 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1514428277498126339 | 1514428277498126339 |
| Putin prepares Russians to support genocide in Ukraine. | 2022-04-14 | 60 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1514420179110821892 | 1514420179110821892 |
| Might makes right. | 2022-04-13 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1514237814904266753 | 1514237814904266753 |
| Despite the bad record of | 2022-04-13 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1514138066151096320 | 1514138066151096320 |
| Just get over insurrection? | 2022-04-13 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1514134136256049158 | 1514134136256049158 |
| Somebody has to take the blame for Putin's mistakes. | 2022-04-13 | 31 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1514132540168179713 | 1514132540168179713 |
| Why Russians support Putin. | 2022-04-13 | 30 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1514131908132704257 | 1514131908132704257 |
| Sure Trump is to blame. That does not let you off | 2022-04-13 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1514129595355721732 | 1514129595355721732 |
| Putin thought Ukrainians were Russians. Now he's | 2022-04-12 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1513870808979894272 | 1513870808979894272 |
| Evolution of tax preparation companies from tax preparation | 2022-04-12 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1513869964926599172 | 1513869964926599172 |
| Like Putin's army, authoritarian populists are regrouping | 2022-04-12 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1513868659218784262 | 1513868659218784262 |
| San Jose city council rejects ranked-choice voting. | 2022-04-12 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1513855641277763586 | 1513855641277763586 |
| Realpolitik's limitations on American idealism. Many | 2022-04-12 | 28 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1513727043514429445 | 1513727043514429445 |
| Why the Russian army is so ineffective except at murder, | 2022-04-12 | 49 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1513723687882526721 | 1513723687882526721 |
| How Putin got it wrong - he didn't bother to ask anybody | 2022-04-12 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1513722445227716610 | 1513722445227716610 |
| How oligarchs hide their ill-gotten gains. | 2022-04-12 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1513719782616436741 | 1513719782616436741 |
| Can Russia contribute to rebuilding Ukraine? | 2022-04-12 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1513719014056292357 | 1513719014056292357 |
| Time for Democrats to quit ringing McConnell's bell! | 2022-04-12 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1513714299537035268 | 1513714299537035268 |
| DeSantis gets to draw Florida's maps - the legislature | 2022-04-12 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1513713613071998977 | 1513713613071998977 |
| Tracking you? Google and Amazon have a home-court | 2022-04-12 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1513701315297173507 | 1513701315297173507 |
| Despite plenty of advance notice, Meta really wasn't ready | 2022-04-12 | 53 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1513699907290353667 | 1513699907290353667 |
| Rising wages vs inflation - they go together. | 2022-04-12 | 49 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1513682887014453248 | 1513682887014453248 |
| Poor single mothers needs paid family leave and subsidized | 2022-04-12 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1513681594334162945 | 1513681594334162945 |
| Best place to leave from California? Depends on what | 2022-04-12 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1513680546873831428 | 1513680546873831428 |
| The complexity of tax returns keeps going up. | 2022-04-12 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1513669879785689091 | 1513669879785689091 |
| Ex-cop now a convict. | 2022-04-11 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1513665409207074816 | 1513665409207074816 |
| Putin is a permanent threat. He is a product of his | 2022-04-11 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1513538779679666181 | 1513538779679666181 |
| A regular Sarah Palin of indecision! | 2022-04-11 | 69 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1513389347772329985 | 1513389347772329985 |
| McConnell doesn't want to talk about the real platform. | 2022-04-11 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1513329125649358849 | 1513329125649358849 |
| Did somebody mention rehabilitating Stalin? It's been | 2022-04-11 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1513327535437717504 | 1513327535437717504 |
| A big Rolodex but too lightweight even for the Trump | 2022-04-11 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1513326161815752708 | 1513326161815752708 |
| American unity gelled briefly in 2001, but quickly | 2022-04-11 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1513317722829991936 | 1513317722829991936 |
| Stalinism rebooted. | 2022-04-11 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1513315771681673216 | 1513315771681673216 |
| Not all heroic defenses end in immediate victory. | 2022-04-11 | 43 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1513315211712684033 | 1513315211712684033 |
| Goebbels - or Stalin - or Putin - would be so proud! | 2022-04-10 | 35 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1513252126868185091 | 1513252126868185091 |
| Putin puts experienced professional civilian murderer | 2022-04-10 | 55 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1513247536311463937 | 1513247536311463937 |
| Serbian fascists have always admired Russian nationalists. | 2022-04-10 | 53 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1513246386053033987 | 1513246386053033987 |
| Putin disinformation for dissension continues, so far with | 2022-04-10 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1513149806734032899 | 1513149806734032899 |
| Trump repeats promise to pardon some Jan 6 | 2022-04-10 | 39 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1513146393505898506 | 1513146393505898506 |
| The most honest human being God ever created! | 2022-04-10 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1513145281159774208 | 1513145281159774208 |
| Trump-Cawthorn love fest. | 2022-04-10 | 30 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1513144565041049601 | 1513144565041049601 |
| Then it was Stalin's job to defend eastern Europe from | 2022-04-10 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1513045188041588737 | 1513045188041588737 |
| Like father, like son. | 2022-04-10 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1513043618122010626 | 1513043618122010626 |
| The detailed insurrection strategy might well have been | 2022-04-10 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1513042272463454209 | 1513042272463454209 |
| Trump endorses Dr Oz. | 2022-04-10 | 86 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1513041241428045824 | 1513041241428045824 |
| Russia captures Ukrainian hostages for future use. | 2022-04-10 | 36 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1513040752598654977 | 1513040752598654977 |
| Treason? | 2022-04-10 | 38 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1513037431896911873 | 1513037431896911873 |
| It used to be GOP candidates never talked about policy - | 2022-04-09 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1512786510529003523 | 1512786510529003523 |
| Nunes' seat likely to remain GOP for a few months. | 2022-04-09 | 37 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1512784236914216960 | 1512784236914216960 |
| On May 17 we'll see if a Trump endorsement has retained | 2022-04-09 | 42 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1512783568891645954 | 1512783568891645954 |
| Election year? All partisan all the time. | 2022-04-09 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1512782142417170435 | 1512782142417170435 |
| Putin will be back - spreading dissension and | 2022-04-09 | 47 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1512771126316855303 | 1512771126316855303 |
| Putin's gift to Russian soldiers - pointless exposure to | 2022-04-09 | 94 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1512641243611758592 | 1512641243611758592 |
| All politics is personal? | 2022-04-09 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1512638112719015941 | 1512638112719015941 |
| Traditional Democrats and Republicans dream of things that | 2022-04-09 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1512637083214487556 | 1512637083214487556 |
| Putin's mistakes in Ukraine. | 2022-04-09 | 60 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1512636129387839488 | 1512636129387839488 |
| Give Putin credit for expanding NATO, by proving that what | 2022-04-09 | 106 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1512635341345157124 | 1512635341345157124 |
| Federal judge sympathetic to disqualifying insurrectionist | 2022-04-09 | 33 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1512634088439513093 | 1512634088439513093 |
| Ali Alexander agrees to cooperate - to a degree. | 2022-04-09 | 96 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1512633175125622787 | 1512633175125622787 |
| Two days after the election, Don Jr was already plotting | 2022-04-09 | 62 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1512632657414279169 | 1512632657414279169 |
| How media influencers make their money. | 2022-04-09 | 52 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1512629245670948864 | 1512629245670948864 |
| Laws are for poor people! | 2022-04-09 | 45 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1512627886158536706 | 1512627886158536706 |
| robocalls - the Feds don't seem to be able to stop them. | 2022-04-09 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1512626973947817985 | 1512626973947817985 |
| That was the week that wasn't. | 2022-04-08 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1512477831267495940 | 1512477831267495940 |
| The new McConnell rule. | 2022-04-08 | 31 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1512449392174804994 | 1512449392174804994 |
| What would life be like if Trump had been politically | 2022-04-08 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1512428554390179843 | 1512428554390179843 |
| Did Putin really miscalculate? Or is he progressing | 2022-04-08 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1512421695197351945 | 1512421695197351945 |
| Putin has to go sooner or later. Otherwise he'll keep | 2022-04-08 | 32 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1512420686454661121 | 1512420686454661121 |
| View from the porch! | 2022-04-08 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1512419623609667585 | 1512419623609667585 |
| Global ripple effects - | 2022-04-08 | 49 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1512411412148076545 | 1512411412148076545 |
| How China is exploiting Ukraine. | 2022-04-08 | 108 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1512409630520995840 | 1512409630520995840 |
| The German ruling class was enjoying the benefits of | 2022-04-08 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1512271565596946433 | 1512271565596946433 |
| Trump recites a fable that his supporters can memorize | 2022-04-08 | 35 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1512263300452524033 | 1512263300452524033 |
| Expulsion of spy-diplomats reduces espionage and reduces | 2022-04-08 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1512261875936886785 | 1512261875936886785 |
| Increased military spending means lower standard of living | 2022-04-08 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1512248555402014722 | 1512248555402014722 |
| The globalization party is over. Thank Putin for that. | 2022-04-08 | 37 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1512246461269889024 | 1512246461269889024 |
| Know about the San Patricios? | 2022-04-08 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1512241815830732808 | 1512241815830732808 |
| McConnell is fine if GOP nominates Trump again, even though | 2022-04-08 | 33 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1512225974972153859 | 1512225974972153859 |
| Trump investigations continue. | 2022-04-08 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1512223795678904323 | 1512223795678904323 |
| Why bother with formalities - just pretend! Fake it | 2022-04-08 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1512221932908781569 | 1512221932908781569 |
| Need a machine gun? Got a 3D printer? | 2022-04-08 | 28 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1512219605661495303 | 1512219605661495303 |
| Russia's social media war in India and elsewhere. | 2022-04-07 | 73 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1512060209752989699 | 1512060209752989699 |
| To save the environment from climate change and protect | 2022-04-07 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1512059446003830795 | 1512059446003830795 |
| New and used car prices are not going to get better | 2022-04-07 | 39 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1512058749246054404 | 1512058749246054404 |
| What's his goal? | 2022-04-07 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1512058057945075716 | 1512058057945075716 |
| Repealing the Enlightenment of America's founders by | 2022-04-07 | 32 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1511934676654460929 | 1511934676654460929 |
| The advance of technology for murder and maiming. | 2022-04-07 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1511932692429873153 | 1511932692429873153 |
| AB 2808 would prohibit ranked-choice voting. | 2022-04-07 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1511926292039430145 | 1511926292039430145 |
| Murdering civilians doesn't work. | 2022-04-07 | 32 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1511883632675221507 | 1511883632675221507 |
| Technology is making it harder to conceal some facts. | 2022-04-07 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1511879594067914755 | 1511879594067914755 |
| 5000 murdered in Mariupol? | 2022-04-07 | 72 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1511877614356480002 | 1511877614356480002 |
| Sarah Palin gets Trump endorsement but mixed reaction from | 2022-04-07 | 44 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1511875881509298179 | 1511875881509298179 |
| Hacking to undermine legitimate sources. | 2022-04-06 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1511576381968183296 | 1511576381968183296 |
| Wyoming is the smallest state in population, but it's | 2022-04-06 | 18 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1511572848090918912 | 1511572848090918912 |
| 46 months for Capitol cocktails. | 2022-04-06 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1511571818783543299 | 1511571818783543299 |
| How much is Trump worth? | 2022-04-06 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1511571194671079433 | 1511571194671079433 |
| More Trumpist women governors? Like Greene and Boebert? | 2022-04-06 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1511569680154050560 | 1511569680154050560 |
| Bad times ahead for future generations. | 2022-04-06 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1511568849442729992 | 1511568849442729992 |
| What liberation by Russian Army is like - | 2022-04-06 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1511565499003408384 | 1511565499003408384 |
| Trumpists try to overcome Federal powers. | 2022-04-06 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1511563400093966340 | 1511563400093966340 |
| Truth Social growing pains! | 2022-04-05 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1511332416920571906 | 1511332416920571906 |
| If Trump were as rich as Musk he might have bought Twitter | 2022-04-05 | 40 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1511330818349625346 | 1511330818349625346 |
| Cops on the wrong side of the law. | 2022-04-05 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1511329199268642821 | 1511329199268642821 |
| Whenever you look for real election fraud - you start and | 2022-04-05 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1511328373238161411 | 1511328373238161411 |
| Saying out loud what everybody knows. | 2022-04-04 | 33 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1510782642504962052 | 1510782642504962052 |
| Now nobody can claim any doubt where Orban's and Hungary's | 2022-04-04 | 65 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1510781336495157253 | 1510781336495157253 |
| Sanctions rarely solve anything by themselves. They | 2022-04-03 | 50 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1510642498175004678 | 1510642498175004678 |
| World War Wired - globalization means everybody is | 2022-04-03 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1510640581923336198 | 1510640581923336198 |
| Putin has failed in Ukraine before. But he can never | 2022-04-03 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1510639270452629504 | 1510639270452629504 |
| Putin missed the most important lesson of competitive | 2022-04-03 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1510636727752278019 | 1510636727752278019 |
| Commodities - a good way to lose a nickel. | 2022-04-03 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1510635095819911174 | 1510635095819911174 |
| No end in sight - Putin can't win but he doesn't dare lose. | 2022-04-03 | 37 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1510621575816437762 | 1510621575816437762 |
| Democrats seek key to appeal to persuadable Trump voters. | 2022-04-03 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1510619339946266632 | 1510619339946266632 |
| Putin isn't channeling Stalin after all. It's Hitler. | 2022-04-03 | 33 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1510615704298393601 | 1510615704298393601 |
| Taliban bans poppies and drugs. | 2022-04-03 | 31 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1510612580389167115 | 1510612580389167115 |
| The Falklands war - a perfect example of a war fought not | 2022-04-03 | 34 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1510465510642577409 | 1510465510642577409 |
| What happens when the unthinkable becomes thinkable? | 2022-04-03 | 58 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1510464005998985217 | 1510464005998985217 |
| Afghanistan and Ukraine. | 2022-04-02 | 48 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1510254922238861314 | 1510254922238861314 |
| Life for small business in Russia today. | 2022-04-02 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1510253503461015556 | 1510253503461015556 |
| DeSantis displacing Trump at Fox? | 2022-04-02 | 35 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1510252089464610825 | 1510252089464610825 |
| Sarah Palin thinks she has something more to contribute! | 2022-04-02 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1510109115267182597 | 1510109115267182597 |
| “Be there, will be wild!” | 2022-04-02 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1510076401830965250 | 1510076401830965250 |
| The smarter you are, the easier it is to fool yourself. | 2022-04-02 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1510074753586925568 | 1510074753586925568 |
| Sometimes pound-wise and penny-foolish is best. | 2022-04-02 | 36 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1510073906350067713 | 1510073906350067713 |
| Life under the USSR. | 2022-04-02 | 44 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1510059437687394306 | 1510059437687394306 |
| Putinist-Trumpist Americans - long on criticism of Biden, | 2022-04-02 | 40 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1510058141135777794 | 1510058141135777794 |
| Life on Truth Social. | 2022-04-02 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1510057049450713089 | 1510057049450713089 |
| Life in the USSR - resurrected. | 2022-04-02 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1510055986693771266 | 1510055986693771266 |
| Molotov man gets 46 months. | 2022-04-02 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1510054289615441922 | 1510054289615441922 |
| Deepfakes coming to a company near you! | 2022-04-02 | 46 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1510053517968363522 | 1510053517968363522 |
| Possible ways Trump MIGHT be prosecuted. | 2022-04-02 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1510051313681256453 | 1510051313681256453 |
| Cubans suffer from Ukraine invasion. | 2022-04-02 | 58 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1510050056572837893 | 1510050056572837893 |
| Not every Russian wants to die for Putin. | 2022-04-02 | 34 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1510049309638635522 | 1510049309638635522 |
| That was the week that wasn't. | 2022-04-02 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1510047580926873600 | 1510047580926873600 |
| Apple and Meta easily tricked by hackers. | 2022-04-01 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1509878113966067713 | 1509878113966067713 |
| Inflation no problem if you can pass it on to consumers! | 2022-04-01 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1509876421446946816 | 1509876421446946816 |
| Russia's neighbors know what to expect. They want to | 2022-04-01 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1509738101169541121 | 1509738101169541121 |
| The only sanctions that matter to the Russian oligarchs | 2022-04-01 | 47 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1509737171401408517 | 1509737171401408517 |
| “Republicans could not help themselves” | 2022-04-01 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1509733251295813632 | 1509733251295813632 |
| "Good politics makes for bad policy" | 2022-04-01 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1509731211438043139 | 1509731211438043139 |
| Putin and Potter | 2022-04-01 | 17 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1509730458069704706 | 1509730458069704706 |
| Taking Swiss banking secrecy too far? | 2022-04-01 | 17 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1509729353004838917 | 1509729353004838917 |
| Trump has learned that there are no consequences from | 2022-04-01 | 20 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1509715279139336193 | 1509715279139336193 |
| If anybody acts to remove Putin, it will be in their own | 2022-04-01 | 31 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1509714084014436355 | 1509714084014436355 |
| If they finally have to testify - they'll just plead the | 2022-04-01 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1509711513405190146 | 1509711513405190146 |
| It's the same old Taliban after all. | 2022-04-01 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1509710752436826116 | 1509710752436826116 |
| Putin divides and conquers - first eastern and southern | 2022-04-01 | 55 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1509709003873431558 | 1509709003873431558 |
| Timeline for the 8 hour gap. | 2022-04-01 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1509704386028597250 | 1509704386028597250 |
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========== Should there be consequences for public figures that lie about normal people? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/06/22/sue-trump-2020-election-lies/ #PS1trumpism ===== impress 8 time 2022-06-30 06:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1542395105750880256 ========== DeSantis doesn't need Trump any more. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/06/27/ron-desantis-snub-trump-2024-nomination-battle/ DeSantis does Trumpism better without Trump. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 15 time 2022-06-30 06:26 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1542394054238797824 ========== How to make money promoting lies and violence to the Trumpist base. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/06/27/with-violent-rhetoric-election-denial-podcaster-becomes-gop-force/ #PS1trumpism ===== impress 9 time 2022-06-30 06:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1542393109073473537 ========== And to think he was supposed to be presidential timber twenty years ago. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/06/27/giuliani-backslap-supermarket/ #PS1trumpism ===== engage 1 engage-rate 13% impress 8 likes 1 time 2022-06-30 06:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1542392219180535808 ========== Will Clarence Thomas support right-to-lifers with an updated Dred Scott decision? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dred_Scott_v._Sandford Right-to-lifers want to hunt down poor women no matter where they go. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/06/29/abortion-state-lines/ But relax - none of this applies to GOP male megadonors. #PS1health ===== engage 1 engage-rate 10% impress 10 likes 1 time 2022-06-30 06:15 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1542391307124953089 ========== Will Cipollone talk? He was there and saw and heard a lot. https://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-biden-donald-trump-subpoenas-pat-cipollone-1c6b5339b27ccf885ae6261e84089e9c He could confirm or refute Hutchinson's recollections. #PS1insurrection ===== impress 12 time 2022-06-30 06:04 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1542388669398392832 ========== Surprise! Those who voted for Trump think he's innocent. And those who didn't think he's guilty. https://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-crime-donald-trump-congress-government-and-politics-bb9efcbca309c3acb66e9c6d8a13657d The question is - what do persuadable voters in swing states think? #PS1trump ===== engage 1 engage-rate 10% impress 10 likes 1 time 2022-06-30 05:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1542387172203831296 ========== Trumpism and Trumpists are not conservative - just a reactionary cult of personality. The conservative viewpoint is irrelevant: that Roe v Wade was bad, but repealing it after 50 years is just as bad. https://nytimes.com/2022/05/03/opinion/abortion-supreme-court-conservative.html More at https://facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1656268181384361 #PS1justice ===== impress 13 time 2022-06-30 04:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1542366177472544768 ========== Trumpists have been around since 1619 under various names - no reason to expect them to go away any time soon. Their influence waxes and wanes. https://washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/05/09/trump-trumpism-repubublican-success-popular-with-voters/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1660885140922665 #PS1trumpism ===== impress 3 time 2022-06-30 01:03 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1542312747391561728 ========== What hath Trump wrought? Amber Heard 2.0 and the degradation of American political discourse. Nobody needs to tell the truth any more! https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/06/28/trump-cassidy-hutchinson-jan6-hearing/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/06/29/cassidy-hutchinsons-testimony-was-unique-aftermath-hasnt-been/ But Trump shouldn't claim all the credit. Gamergate set the stage. #PS1trumpism ===== engage 2 engage-rate 2% impress 106 likes 1 time 2022-06-29 18:12 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1542209393118150656 ========== What's new today? Knowing the rioters - "his people" - were armed and headed toward the Capitol, Trump WANTED to lead the riot in person, and struggled to get his Secret Service detail to agree. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-live-jan-6-committee-hearings-day-6 More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1697280670616445 #PS1insurrection ===== engage 1 engage-rate 6% impress 16 likes 1 time 2022-06-29 07:43 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1542051047417339905 ========== What is Pence thinking? https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/06/27/abortion-2024-presidential-candidates/ Leaning in hard for national abortion prohibition, Pence might increase his hold on Trumpist evangelicals who will vote GOP anyway, but probably will lose ground with persuadable swing state voters. What's the point? #PS1gop ===== impress 8 time 2022-06-28 13:21 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1541773670736990209 ========== SPACs lose their luster. https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/27/investing/digital-world-acquisition-trump-grand-jury/index.html #PS1media ===== impress 6 time 2022-06-28 04:48 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1541644719456849920 ========== The fly on the wall gets a special hearing. https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/27/politics/cassidy-hutchinson-former-meadows-aide-testify-january-6-committee-hearing/index.html Expect the Trumpists to spend a lot more energy attacking the witnesses and the committee than disproving the factual allegations. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/pfbid02vUeRDv4rPZPDUFoogCJtPgcmXk1jnNySD5sf9jtuyt6PwqZKH1VM5Faid55LEuiJl #PS1insurrection ===== impress 4 time 2022-06-28 04:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1541644406372962304 ========== "A historic victory for white life"? Anybody might have tripped over words. https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/27/opinions/trump-rally-roe-white-life-miller-obeidallah/index.html But the enthusiastic approval by the Trumpist Dixiecrat crowd was the real news. They heard what they wanted. They'd be disappointed if she didn't mean it. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 12 time 2022-06-28 04:38 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1541642216199704576 ========== "Majority of Americans disapprove of SCOTUS Roe v. Wade reversal" https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/27/politics/americans-disapprove-supreme-court-abortion-poll/index.html So what? The majority of major GOP donors approve, because keeping the single-issue right-to-lifers enthusiastically voting GOP is a pillar of Dixiecrat GOP minority rule. #PS1minority ===== engage 2 engage-rate 14% impress 14 likes 2 time 2022-06-28 04:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1541641158677254144 ========== Plot insurrection and you might get a visit from the FBI. https://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-donald-trump-government-and-politics-c0debd10f352062b002dd4a967272f5f Too bad for Eastman that Trump didn't see fit to pardon him. Trump must have foreseen that Eastman would be of no further use. #PS1insurrection ===== engage 1 engage-rate 14% impress 7 likes 1 time 2022-06-28 04:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1541639638023950336 ========== How Mexico's abolition of slavery led to the Alamo, the Mexican War, and the American Civil War. Minority rule depended on a balance of power in the Senate, and when that was threatened, war ensued. https://www.keyreporter.org/book-reviews/2022/south-to-freedom-runaway-slaves-to-mexico-and-the-road-to-the-civil-war/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/pfbid09xvKC52qAVNMiUFiz2JHcTYsL2b9zowHvbVkn9YM7NTLxsvuDfxK5jUrWsrxELPAl #PS1minority ===== impress 12 time 2022-06-28 03:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1541619759078199297 ========== Why "defund the police" has lost its luster. https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/06/26/mysterious-bay-area-criminal-organization-had-nationwide-reach-law-enforcement-imposter-ties-to-shootings-and-notorious-murder-feds-say/ #PS1justice ===== impress 10 time 2022-06-27 03:46 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1541266586929049600 ========== Susan Collins is a poor judge of GOP character. She thought Trump's first impeachment taught him a lesson - he learned he could get away with anything. Then she believed Kavanaugh that Roe was settled law. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/pfbid0KijfCPPsXdMLY9qqacNvijz57WzBywmKbZRPe9vQJCpj1CAFbCrJCTVWZzMQWuhcl https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/24/us/roe-kavanaugh-collins-notes.html #PS1gop ===== impress 15 time 2022-06-25 16:31 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1540734449129623552 ========== It will take decades to obtain majority rule. One approach is regional federalism. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-regional.html It has taken decades of increasing fortification of Dixiecrat GOP minority rule to get to this week. https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/25/politics/reshaping-politics-roe-v-wade/index.html #PS1democracy ===== impress 10 time 2022-06-25 16:07 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1540728415019360257 ========== Biden signed off on a gun safety bill that was weak and ineffective enough to get 15 GOP senate votes. That means 35 voted against it. But those 15 will be hearing from the NRA at their next election. https://apnews.com/article/biden-signs-gun-violence-bill-c21249287f976c2c164d8753205c2e6d More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/pfbid02U1UgqJqcnHw2TUAfaP83fGeS9JJ2dx77qW3VPYyZecqkbJnFBK3BWdgwJdZsHUQ8l #PS1firearms ===== impress 13 time 2022-06-25 15:54 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1540725082313457670 ========== The "libertarian" billionaires are coming to reshape society. Into the same reactionary form as their forebears - the anti-Enlightenment form that America's founders rejected. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/06/19/peter-thiel-facebook-new-right/ #PS1minority ===== impress 8 time 2022-06-25 14:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1540696772086943745 ========== It's lonely and dangerous being a rule-of-law Republican. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#rule-of-law https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/06/21/rusty-bowers-jan-6/ #PS1gop ===== impress 4 time 2022-06-25 13:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1540693639847759873 ========== Democrats catch up with Republicans in institutionalizing Congressional inaction. https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/21/politics/house-democrats-vote-unity/index.html Filibuster has to go, along with representation decided by primary rather than general election. #PS1democracy ===== impress 7 time 2022-06-25 13:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1540693181481725952 ========== Just like everybody else. Except for that odd slight accent. https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/24/politics/russian-spy-johns-hopkins-classmates-accent-suspicious/index.html #PS1putin ===== impress 6 time 2022-06-25 13:37 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1540690638772903937 ========== There is no constitutional right to privacy. https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/24/opinions/clarence-thomas-what-next-toobin/index.html A lot more than Roe has been shot down. It's all red meat for a certain essential part of the GOP voting base. But can swing voters get their minds off gas prices long enough to understand? #PS1justice ===== impress 8 time 2022-06-25 13:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1540690029583839232 ========== Putin is biding his time, wearing down Ukraine and more importantly, wearing down western will to resist. https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/25/world/g7-summit-analysis-intl-cmd/index.html #PS1putin ===== impress 15 time 2022-06-25 13:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1540688835679358977 ========== No inconsistency! https://apnews.com/article/abortion-us-supreme-court-health-constitutions-7c23635f8a992f4f24a915f9179463f2 The Trumpist justices were groomed by the Federalist Society to do exactly what they did - say whatever was needed to get confirmed, and then support minority rule at every opportunity once confirmed. #PS1justice ===== impress 3 time 2022-06-25 13:21 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1540686726737276929 ========== Jan 6 hearings starting to make a small difference. https://www.standardspeaker.com/jan-6-hearings-have-been-so-much-better-than-i-expected/article_f16e2744-a004-58ed-8063-d95c9814d856.html A small difference is all it takes in a swing district. That's why GOP is working so hard to eliminate swing districts with gerrymandering and voter suppression, to save minority rule. #PS1insurrection ===== impress 6 time 2022-06-25 13:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1540684660501467139 ========== The GOP major donor class hit two home runs. But they don't really care about abortion rights or gun safety. What they do care about is tax cuts for billionaires and benefit decreases for poor people. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#gop More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/pfbid0Uy4piTFxuuEEmLCcMtnbiNyn52iEL68y6LcUKwZnbH6WBeZBcp3jdBx9EEqwYR9ql #PS1gop ===== impress 3 time 2022-06-24 22:20 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1540459983912853506 ========== "They are just winding up. They are coming after YOU next." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaueeH69xkY Look around minutes 42-44. Newsom has not been a very impressive speaker before, but he was in great form today. #PS1health ===== impress 15 time 2022-06-24 22:06 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1540456378871201792 ========== That was the week that wasn't. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-zelenskyy-kyiv-entertainment-e0d6a8ad75a53a54322c7cd5e26892e8 #PS1media ===== engage 1 engage-rate 8% expands 1 impress 12 time 2022-06-24 15:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1540349269990731777 ========== Georgia grand jury turns to Giuliani. https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/24/politics/giuliani-georgia-grand-jury-probe-trump/index.html #PS1insurrection ===== impress 8 time 2022-06-24 13:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1540319008523661312 ========== Another point where Trump's coup almost succeeded. https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/23/opinions/january-6-hearing-trump-justice-department-williams/index.html A bolder, smarter Trumpist would have pulled it off - think Carlson, Cruz, DeSantis, Hawley, Musk - and that's the real danger of Trumpism. #PS1insurrection ===== impress 6 time 2022-06-24 12:57 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1540318095352311808 ========== Personality cult leaders are alike! https://www.sgvtribune.com/2022/06/14/how-vanessa-huas-novel-of-china-forbidden-city-grew-out-of-her-time-at-uc-riverside/ "Mao is a man with an eye for younger women, he thrives on creating chaos among his advisors, he is willing to damage to his country to maintain power and he believes his own lies, as do his followers." #PS1china ===== impress 8 time 2022-06-24 04:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1540195480201601025 ========== The most impressive moment of the 5th Jan 6 hearing - https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/23/politics/january-6-hearing-day-5-takeaways/index.html The number of Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP congressional representatives that asked for a pre-emptive pardon - along with government and party officials - most of whom didn't get one. #PS1insurrection ===== impress 11 time 2022-06-24 04:36 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1540192061365768192 ========== The most impressive moment of the 4th Jan 6 hearing - https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/21/politics/january-6-hearing-day-4-takeaways/index.html Trump doesn't care who he hurts in his narcissistic mania. Especially poor people, poor Democrats, poor Democratic women, poor Democratic black women. But it all polls well with his base. #PS1trump ===== impress 18 time 2022-06-24 04:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1540191251969896449 ========== Trump threatens McConnell and other senators working on bipartisan gun safety, no matter how timidly. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-threatens-mitch-mcconnell-over-gun-bill-final-straw/ar-AAYN1A5?cvid=9b3ab616e873485ab98c7a5f4e4e25e2 The final Senate vote will show the degree that Trump still rules the Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP. #PS1trump ===== impress 10 time 2022-06-23 17:06 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1540018520011837441 ========== Trumpist Supreme Court protects minority rule! Makes it easier to smash small fry https://cnn.com/2022/06/23/politics/supreme-court-miranda-rights/index.html but allows them to be shot https://cnn.com/2022/06/23/politics/supreme-court-death-row-inmates/index.html and stands tall to protect everybody's right to shoot anybody anywhere anytime. https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/23/politics/supreme-court-guns-second-amendment-new-york-bruen/index.html #PS1firearms ===== impress 6 time 2022-06-23 16:43 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1540012596614443011 ========== No peace for our time by giving away other countries' territory. https://apnews.com/article/kaja-kallas-estonia-prime-minister-interview-5ad4bcc1fd76d9c5530129160fafa814 Not in 1938, not in 2022. #PS1ukraine ===== impress 4 time 2022-06-23 14:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1539977190380404737 ========== The Trump administration is all about loyalty, not competence. https://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-elections-donald-trump-campaigns-presidential-4e7e68e2ff57aadd96d09c873a43a317 And the loyalty is one way. For all his pains, Eastman didn't get the pardon he needed. #PS1insurrection ===== engage 1 engage-rate 25% impress 4 likes 1 time 2022-06-23 14:15 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1539975560763277314 ========== The evidence keeps pouring in! https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/22/politics/trump-documentary-trailer-video-january-6-committee/index.html #PS1insurrection ===== impress 11 time 2022-06-23 02:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1539802178717483008 ========== IRS is getting further and further behind. https://apnews.com/article/personal-taxes-groundhog-day-congress-f305d84940dcbce994b083595ad20729 Thanks to GOP legislators who jump on every chance to cut IRS budgets - to protect their major donors. #PS1tax ===== impress 6 time 2022-06-23 02:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1539801097111425025 ========== McConnell flinches - https://apnews.com/article/shootings-texas-new-york-violence-buffalo-df9202d5686880aab00559979d180e17 But McCarthy stands strong for your right to shoot up schools. https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/22/politics/house-republicans-bipartisan-gun-bill/index.html Can McConnell keep 10 GOP senators in favor? More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/pfbid027SuGsEaHdKgwMjspn97hUjP7iRPQsQcr9r77jkBaA3mkqVxX4Ady6baHceUgQWd3l #PS1firearms ===== impress 11 time 2022-06-23 02:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1539800315339296768 ========== DOJ started with the fake electors that backed out. Now it's on those who didn't back out. Will they wish they'd been smarter? https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/06/22/jan6-fbi-electors-subpoenas/ https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/06/22/doj-subpoenas-georgia-gop-party-chair-in-fake-elector-probe/ #PS1insurrection ===== engage 1 engage-rate 7% impress 15 likes 1 time 2022-06-23 02:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1539796805373665280 ========== "QAnon may not be an outlier in the Republican Party" Definitely not an outlier - but a norm in Texas! https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-biden-presidential-gun-politics-united-states-b4260882260dfc913766b5304900d00b #PS1trumpism ===== impress 6 time 2022-06-22 07:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1539505964046381058 ========== Everybody is afraid the country is becoming less democratic. What they don't agree on is what that means. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/06/16/destroy-democracy-in-order-to-save-it/ #PS1democracy ===== impress 5 time 2022-06-22 07:03 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1539504417942122496 ========== Hitler, Stalin, and Putin would have been so proud - if it had worked. Next time, the Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP will make sure it works. https://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-2022-midterm-elections-georgia-election-recounts-5cffe294a372eb32dc68588784202314 #PS1insurrection ===== impress 12 time 2022-06-22 06:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1539491756919517185 ========== Upholding the Constitution can be hazardous to your health https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-capitol-siege-biden-donald-trump-presidential-70b3fad9f2b3d990c2e097c3d1143f1a Trumpists don't take "oaths to uphold the Constitution" as a legitimate answer. #PS1insurrection ===== engage 1 engage-rate 20% impress 5 likes 1 time 2022-06-22 06:04 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1539489433472208896 ========== The great historian Putin knows that Germany has a greater claim to Konigsberg than Russia to Crimea. But Stalin demanded it and got it anyway as spoils of war. https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/21/europe/kaliningrad-explainer-russia-lithuania-sanctions-intl/index.html It would be hard for Russia to defend in a major war. #PS1putin ===== impress 26 time 2022-06-21 15:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1539274526655062017 ========== "the means of change is not the triumph of ideology or the spread of dogma; it is to be close to people with the closeness Jesus had" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/06/20/mission-which-pope-francis-should-never-retire/ Of course it was easier for Jesus; the devil had not yet invented modern mass media. #PS1other ===== impress 10 time 2022-06-21 14:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1539248037494652929 ========== The future of Trumpism finally out and loud! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/06/20/texas-gop-platform-secession-theocracy/ And the number of prominent Texas Republican legislators expressing dissatisfaction - none. But GOP legislators from other states worry about losing power in Congress if Texas secedes. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 6 time 2022-06-21 13:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1539246520129691650 ========== Nuclear energy in our future? https://apnews.com/article/technology-politics-utilities-nuclear-power-climate-and-environment-23357f4087988a9d21fe714e5660838b Just a couple of problems - where do we get the fuel, and where do we put the waste. #PS1climate ===== engage 1 engage-rate 14% impress 7 time 2022-06-21 13:46 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1539243441883856896 ========== Putin has achieved his aim of making his mark on world history - insuring that a nuclear WWIII happens sooner rather than later. But will there be anybody left to remember him afterward? https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-middle-east-africa-south-korea-persian-gulf-tensions-8c6bd3929ee3fe407ea9627168fc6132 #PS1putin ===== engage 1 engage-rate 4% impress 26 likes 1 time 2022-06-21 13:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1539242462698414080 ========== Greitens stokes GOP's greatest fear - losing a winnable seat to Democrats. https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-eric-greitens-missouri-campaigns-government-and-politics-0f979167868c2d75893a8f555fa5f596 Sure they all want to purge the GOP of traditional Republicans. But not so explicitly. #PS1trumpism ===== engage 3 engage-rate 23% impress 13 likes 1 time 2022-06-21 13:33 +0000 urlclicks 2 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1539240117373526016 ========== There aren't 10 Republican Senate votes to do almost anything supported by Democrats. Why would electoral count reform be any different, especially in an election year? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/06/19/fix-electoral-count-law-now-before-trump-tries-exploit-it-again/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/pfbid02GNtJ5FeF3WZ6jbrDLqsG6DBvrRbGckoipLjJhVntzTtT6D7Evzxxkkm6Kzg2nv1Wl #PS1democracy ===== engage 2 engage-rate 40% impress 5 likes 2 time 2022-06-21 13:14 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1539235193227161600 ========== We wouldn't be so hesitant if American lives were on the front lives. But sooner or later they will be. Especially if we don't act now. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/06/20/us-military-aid-ukraine-tanks-planes-drones-kyiv-russia-war/ #PS1ukraine ===== engage 1 engage-rate 25% impress 4 likes 1 time 2022-06-21 13:04 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1539232895776063488 ========== Regional federalism - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-regional.html It's already happening in red states. Time for blue states to catch up. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/06/20/gop-making-national-policy-one-state-time/ #PS1democracy ===== impress 3 time 2022-06-21 13:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1539231973368950791 ========== "The actual status of the poorest and most unfortunate woman in society determines the possible status of every woman" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/20/opinion/roe-heard-feminism-backlash.html Feminism can't avoid being about the economic and political status of poor women. And poor men. #PS1economics ===== impress 9 time 2022-06-20 14:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1538892632092422145 ========== Prosecute Trump? No good choices. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/20/opinion/trump-merrick-garland-january-6-committee.html His lawyers will run down the clock until high gasoline prices lead to a Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP Congress - which will end all investigations and prosecutions - and do nothing about gasoline prices. #PS1trump ===== impress 13 time 2022-06-20 14:20 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1538889653750665217 ========== "The conditions that helped us meet past challenges no longer hold" It's not 1973 or 2000 any more. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/19/opinion/its-not-the-future-we-cant-see.html #PS1democracy ===== impress 4 time 2022-06-20 14:07 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1538886375176429568 ========== Texas Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP reaffirms its leap toward the past. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/19/us/politics/texas-republicans-approve-far-right-platform-declaring-bidens-election-illegitimate.html #PS1gop ===== impress 7 time 2022-06-20 14:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1538884587891269634 ========== Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP acknowledges that white supremacists are one of the single-issue constituencies essential for GOP minority rule. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/06/07/white-supremacist-attacks-hearing-republicans/ #PS1gop ===== impress 4 time 2022-06-20 13:54 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1538883058585042945 ========== Is the internet just another mechanism of state authority? That's what Putin and Xi think. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/06/07/us-russia-conflict-is-heating-up-cyberspace/ #PS1media ===== impress 5 time 2022-06-20 13:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1538882028820582401 ========== How the Trumpists made the Jan 6 hearings worth watching. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/06/19/thanks-kevin-mccarthy-for-making-jan-6-hearings-worthwhile/ Don't expect a similar experience in the future. The Benghazi hearings are the Trumpist model - keep repeating the same things over and over until the media quit showing up. #PS1insurrection ===== impress 7 time 2022-06-20 13:46 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1538880997680291840 ========== What is the "rest of" the Republican agenda? https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#gop Voters' choices are "high gas prices and the rest of the Democratic agenda; or, high gas prices and the rest of the Republican agenda" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/06/19/voters-angry-about-inflation-should-pay-attention-before-november/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/pfbid02P6sdCWXEa6DRua3TkiehfcCWVwvVbn362CWrguB9awHkbY5e2T8dq6pksHK9jXtal #PS1inflation ===== impress 3 time 2022-06-20 13:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1538879719336120320 ========== More on the fake electors conspiracy at tomorrow's committee hearing. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/06/20/trump-documents-fake-elector-plan/ #PS1insurrection ===== impress 4 time 2022-06-20 13:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1538876841674432513 ========== Here's a reactionary American Fascist manifesto. Putin or HItler could have written it. Nothing conservative about it! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/06/17/national-conservative-manifesto-edmund-burke-foundation-trumpism/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/pfbid095hFzxkDqwcUanHZ5Pzrh3RM9Gv8efgvEQS7ga6JJitSHqZr4Hi5bUgbfxFk12mdl #PS1trumpism ===== impress 10 time 2022-06-18 15:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1538174966041980928 ========== Always check that your gas cap is tight after somebody else pumps your gas, lest you get a check engine light. Self-serve prohibitions are all about safety - income safety for full-serve stations and the politicians they support. https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/18/energy/new-jersey-oregon-pump-your-own-gas/index.html #PS1economics ===== impress 16 time 2022-06-18 14:36 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1538168851191345152 ========== Justice catches up with more insurrectionists. The fraudulent - https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/16/politics/simone-gold-january-6-covid-us-capitol/index.html The violent - https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/17/politics/mark-mazza-capitol-riot/index.html #PS1insurrection ===== impress 2 time 2022-06-18 14:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1538166947191304192 ========== What'll become of all those investors of billions of dollars in crypto mining data centers? Unlike the coin speculators, they can't bail out overnight. https://apnews.com/article/cryptocurrency-technology-financial-markets-bitcoin-873a92a17402bf1510755e3ad4901869 #PS1economics ===== impress 9 time 2022-06-18 14:04 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1538160761314324480 ========== Foreign and domestic terrorists corrupt election officials https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-new-mexico-government-and-politics-donald-trump-fa26178d77b421ff7317d1a6ae83e0c4 and threaten the uncorruptible. https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/17/politics/elections-midterms-2022-security-threats/index.html #PS1election ===== impress 8 time 2022-06-18 06:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1538045740324270080 ========== What's the truth about sanctions against Putin? Will they really bite harder over time? https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/17/politics/nerd-warriors-treasury-department-sanctions-economic-war-russia/index.html #PS1ukraine ===== engage 1 engage-rate 13% impress 8 time 2022-06-18 06:21 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1538044101014106112 ========== Can the west afford to support Ukraine? https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/16/opinions/ukraine-war-putin-eu-biden-cost-andelman/index.html Putin is betting that the west forgot the lesson learned in 1938. Earlier is way cheaper than later. Both are inflationary. Later is worse. #PS1ukraine ===== impress 14 time 2022-06-18 06:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1538042085789446144 ========== Putin unrepentant about Russkiy Mir. https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/17/europe/russia-president-vladimir-putin-speech-spief-intl/index.html Like Trump, he doesn't recognize the Enlightenment ideals of America's founders as distinct from America's narrow political and economic interests. #PS1putin ===== impress 11 time 2022-06-18 06:07 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1538040643330576384 ========== What's the difference between Watergate and Jan 6? There are hardly any rule-of-law Republicans left! https://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-ivanka-trump-congress-donald-government-and-politics-570444a76bacec6bcfaa507cae7ea452 #PS1insurrection ===== impress 8 time 2022-06-18 06:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1538039247440973824 ========== All the wannabes are booking trips to Iowa. https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-cedar-rapids-iowa-south-carolina-tim-scott-d7f173b915d93302c10d43bbf6c252d1 But how can they sell the idea to Trumpists that they should vote for a Trumpist other than Trump? #PS1gop ===== impress 20 time 2022-06-18 05:43 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1538034668020240384 ========== The insurrectionists were NOT ordinary people. Neither are their fringe supporters. https://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-ivanka-trump-biden-voting-elections-1ccfd89df6868911d934529b9e47d6c8 #PS1trumpism ===== impress 2 time 2022-06-18 04:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1538023459267018752 ========== Did you imagine that NFT's were immune to crypto diseases? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/06/technology/nft-opensea-theft-fraud.html SOME people get rich. That's the main thing. Everybody else - caveat emptor. #PS1technology ===== impress 35 time 2022-06-18 04:07 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1538010428231389184 ========== The insurrectionists were NOT ordinary people. Neither are their fringe supporters. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/06/12/election-suspicion-georgia-greene-trump/ #PS1insurrection ===== impress 4 time 2022-06-18 03:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1538007456583888897 ========== The insurrectionists were NOT ordinary people. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/06/17/january-6-hearings-extremists-proud-boys/ #PS1insurrection ===== impress 4 time 2022-06-18 03:52 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1538006726158323712 ========== So much for bipartisanship. Looks like there won't be 10 GOP votes for ANY gun control legislation. Keep on shooting - and getting campaign funds from the gun lobby. https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/17/politics/john-cornyn-booed-by-republicans/index.html #PS1firearms ===== impress 12 time 2022-06-18 03:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1538005463991656449 ========== Everybody else at the fundamentalist political conference wanted to look forward. But the keynote speaker was only interested in looking back. https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-donald-trump-south-carolina-nikki-haley-government-and-politics-eeeaef5b13a8a68361bd64bb8d9713f6 #PS1trump ===== impress 3 time 2022-06-18 03:43 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1538004389050187778 ========== Musk believes in liberty - for Elon Musk. https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-twitter-inc-spacex-technology-science-1a64e388206cfb2cd209dedb2bcdbfc0 Everybody else can toe the line. #PS1technology ===== impress 7 time 2022-06-18 03:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1538003430375010304 ========== Online fraud on linkedin too! https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/17/fbi-says-fraud-on-linkedin-a-significant-threat-to-platform-and-consumers.html Gone, gone, gone! #PS1media ===== impress 5 time 2022-06-17 19:46 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1537884309213786113 ========== Trump will run again, even if he's in jail. The big question is when he'll make a formal announcement - and become subject to campaign finance laws. Of course, he could just ignore those laws. https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-donald-trump-south-carolina-nikki-haley-government-and-politics-eeeaef5b13a8a68361bd64bb8d9713f6 More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/pfbid02RBYptkatuG3GGgthEFCRpS8cmXUDjC9XNaeUNmNN5kQaPHyaFfemkbTLz7GFGfw2l #PS1trump ===== impress 6 time 2022-06-17 19:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1537883061219495936 ========== Crypto crash https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/17/technology/tether-stablecoin-cryptocurrency.html Stablecoins can't redeem all their coins overnight because their assets are not all available overnight. Why would everybody bail out overnight? Don't be last in line at a bank run! More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/pfbid03XXQj6H59vL3rbaMwukq3aMomFcEWKEuA3hdNbArnUKCdQF9RhycN1EkPCDFEiKDl #PS1economics ===== engage 1 engage-rate 6% impress 17 time 2022-06-17 17:56 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1537856617860825088 ========== Mike Pence did almost nothing for four years. Too bad he was so willing to be a loyal lieutenant to Trump. But at the moment of national crisis he was strong - at great risk from the Trumpist lynch mob. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/jan-6-probe-says-pences-life-was-in-danger-during-capitol-riot-after-he-rejected-trumps-demands-here-are-the-other-takeaways-from-the-hearing/ar-AAYAl28 More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/pfbid02neKt6m46TbHWFQEaarPPaRpX3f8zy4HRMwPL5jAPWTqyfQxcG8m2QzUCwJmKV1nZl #PS1insurrection ===== engage 1 engage-rate 11% impress 9 likes 1 time 2022-06-17 16:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1537839811398017024 ========== That was the week that wasn't. https://apnews.com/article/abortion-science-health-africa-058a34d5c058e98e7cee0dea7ef92f9a #PS1media ===== impress 2 time 2022-06-17 15:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1537820963563130880 ========== Trumpist thought under Chinese Communism - facts and logic don't matter. Only the feelings of the leader will be studied! https://apnews.com/article/united-nations-china-beijing-hong-kong-4fdabb78fd9f467da44ca453f3655e27 #PS1china ===== impress 3 time 2022-06-17 13:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1537793508211208192 ========== Ransomware business is still thriving. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-technology-united-states-costa-rica-central-america-194c69b0966dacf785d2be613c7734dd #PS1ransomware ===== impress 10 time 2022-06-17 13:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1537792237211250689 ========== Jeffrey Clark thought the 5th was a good move. https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/03/politics/jeffrey-clark-justice-department-plead-fifth-january-6/index.html The highlight of the third day of Jan 6 hearings? https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-lawyer-john-eastman-knew-jan-6-plan-was-illegal-asked-for-pardon-afterward-committee-hears/ar-AAYySIP John Eastman also decided to plead the 5th. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/pfbid0f1omaJVGTUAeiyR5HHnJtKnEMqCDfdkEgemC6dEz9J4DsUGqHLR4PX3V7hzF9Uz2l #PS1insurrection ===== impress 19 time 2022-06-17 04:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1537650686191472641 ========== The highlight of the second day of Jan 6 hearings - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-jan-6-committee-hearings-day-2 the whole stolen election lie was a fundraising technique for Trump, to raise funds for - what? Not litigating the 2020 election, a known lost cause. Other people's money!! #PS1insurrection ===== impress 5 time 2022-06-17 04:07 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1537648061735784449 ========== There's an important reason for DeSantis' decision. https://apnews.com/article/covid-health-florida-karine-jean-pierre-6b3272b50364855a58a5503aaf932b19 You can't get elected president in the Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP if the anti-vaxxers stay home - and likewise for all the other single-issue constituencies that enable minority rule. #PS1trumpism ===== engage 1 engage-rate 14% impress 7 time 2022-06-17 02:09 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1537618326083383296 ========== Most swing voters vote their pocketbooks. They reject the guys in charge without knowing whether the other guys could do any better, and without knowing what OTHER things the other guys would do. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/06/15/inflation-anger-could-sweep-election-deniers-midterm-victory/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/pfbid0ebZZA5JCX5AX3wLLuaRN2nnWjmkttVCtGxQatypDPtPJgugGh983ewPA78jNP35ol #PS1economics ===== engage 1 engage-rate 17% impress 6 likes 1 time 2022-06-16 04:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1537287296646410240 ========== Wave the flag of insurrection and get treated as an insurrectionist. https://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-biden-politics-congress-donald-trump-1fcaacc1199cb37cd971b71768b8ace3 #PS1insurrection ===== impress 4 time 2022-06-16 03:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1537277708140355585 ========== The cancer of Trumpism spreads - simply ignore any election results you don't like. https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-biden-new-mexico-voting-machines-7b91e326d2f378898046ec7df779ba20 #PS1trumpism ===== impress 4 time 2022-06-16 03:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1537276811482058753 ========== That was the week that wasn't. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-covid-health-united-states-7331a43bbdf848afba69c4e3d209eef6 #PS1media ===== impress 7 time 2022-06-13 13:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1536333963920146432 ========== The incredulity factor - from the Big Short to the Big Scam. https://energiesnet.com/from-the-big-short-to-the-big-scam-paul-krugman/ It's easier to believe a big lie than a small one. #PS1economics ===== impress 22 time 2022-06-10 13:06 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1535246959044198401 ========== The party's about over! https://apnews.com/article/cryptocurrency-technology-politics-sports-business-1cc246808911cc408186952d53db22ef #PS1economics ===== engage 1 engage-rate 17% impress 6 likes 1 time 2022-06-10 05:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1535125079939371008 ========== The most interesting item in the Jan 6 broadcast? That a group of 200-300 Proud Boys had already started marching toward the Capitol even before Trump started speaking. Nothing spontaneous about it! #PS1insurrection ===== engage 1 engage-rate 5% impress 22 likes 1 time 2022-06-10 02:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1535082758728323072 ========== “If the law and the evidence are both against you, then pound on the table” https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/news/how-to-watch-jan-6-insurrection-hearing-everywhere-except-fox-news-which-wont-cover-it/ar-AAYdJrI Trumpism's defenders have to pound on the Jan 6 committee, to drown out the facts it uncovered. https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/07/politics/donald-trump-defense-january-6/index.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/pfbid0XFXeV7gNZ7aJTGF5y2Z3rhmkfaDq5mSRu7Nyt9WCh5n1KjFCsy6We7fEMPTtVu8tl #PS1insurrection ===== impress 7 time 2022-06-08 14:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1534543425411989507 ========== You'll be hearing about the Speech and Debate clause - from Art 1 Sec 6 - "for any Speech or Debate in either House, they shall not be questioned in any other Place" https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/07/politics/bannon-pelosi-contempt/index.html #PS1insurrection ===== impress 6 time 2022-06-08 06:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1534421885026377729 ========== Trump really wanted to be part of the riot. https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/07/politics/secret-service-trump-capitol/index.html #PS1insurrection ===== impress 6 time 2022-06-08 06:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1534420478139551745 ========== Is Iran-Contra the right comparison for Jan 6 hearings? https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/07/opinions/iran-contra-warning-january-6-hearings-zelizer/index.html Just run down the clock until nobody's interested. #PS1insurrection ===== impress 8 time 2022-06-08 06:20 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1534420069593194496 ========== Everybody's hoping nobody will notice! https://apnews.com/article/india-prices-business-d2c8279d39e1304f5623b3a99b56b8cc #PS1inflation ===== impress 6 time 2022-06-08 06:03 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1534415796885041152 ========== Fake electors might have Federal criminal liability. https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/06/politics/georgia-trump-investigation-fake-electors-email/index.html But will the organizers of the fake electors ever get charged? #PS1insurrection ===== impress 10 time 2022-06-07 13:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1534161685673410560 ========== Though most ambitious Trumpists think Trumpism is better off without Trump, they can't or won't say so. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#revisionist Is Trump still in charge or not? We'll find out this month. https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/07/politics/donald-trump-defense-january-6/index.html #PS1trumpism ===== impress 10 time 2022-06-07 13:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1534160350634905600 ========== GOP senators boldly stand firm to protect kids' rights to shoot up their schools and GOP senators' rights to unlimited dark campaign money from gun industry! https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/06/politics/gun-negotiations-congress-republicans/index.html #PS1firearms ===== engage 1 engage-rate 10% expands 1 impress 10 time 2022-06-07 12:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1534153689409040385 ========== Not much an American president can do about global inflation. Regardless of party. Putin and MBS have a lot more say. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/05/business/biden-oil-saudi-arabia.html #PS1inflation ===== impress 16 time 2022-06-06 17:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1533857571060084736 ========== New version of Gresham's law - pink slime drives out real local journalism. https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/06/05/pink-slime-west-cook-news-school-race-grading/ #PS1journalism ===== impress 8 time 2022-06-06 16:12 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1533844278237007874 ========== Self-serving opportunists at the top attract self-serving opportunists all the way down. They don't have to be competent, just loyal. Sometimes they turn out to be neither. https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2022/06/05/gaslit-martha-mitchell-baldwin-watergate/ #PS1other ===== engage 1 engage-rate 11% impress 9 time 2022-06-06 16:08 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1533843236216635392 ========== Trump and Nixon weren't so different. What changed in 50 years was the conversion of the GOP to a Dixiecrat party. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 8 time 2022-06-06 15:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1533838084617302016 ========== You can't even lie to Congress? https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/06/politics/louie-gohmert-texas-sussman/index.html Sure you can - all you have to do is wait for Trump to get re-elected and maybe get you out of jail free with a pardon. #PS1insurrection ===== impress 7 time 2022-06-06 15:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1533833042019553280 ========== Assault weapons are for assaults - killing as many people as possible as fast as possible. They're not much help for defense. https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/05/opinions/guns-ar-15-uvalde-school-shooting-fanone/index.html #PS1firearms ===== impress 5 time 2022-06-06 15:21 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1533831357167652864 ========== How should GOP respond to Jan 6 hearings? Most would rather talk about inflation, but Trump demands they hit back twice as hard. https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/05/politics/donald-trump-preparations-january-6-hearing/index.html #PS1insurrection ===== impress 8 time 2022-06-06 15:07 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1533827851144687617 ========== The only way to stop a bad guy with a big bag of dark campaign cash is a good guy with a bigger bag. Nothing will happen until senators fear more from gun safety supporters than gun safety opponents. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/06/05/senators-say-gun-deal-is-within-reach-without-bidens-wish-list/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/pfbid09ujvucEYjas5mPpkCfahQ3ty2Zp6LrY2u9uivB8YpQKA27bnaWBLAt71ChuMhJvel #PS1firearms ===== impress 12 time 2022-06-06 14:52 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1533824118562246659 ========== The greatest show on Earth for a day - but will anybody pay attention? https://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-congress-united-states-impeachments-government-and-politics-334c3bc07da118c69025f99649f5d2f4 About a third of the electorate seems to have permanently moved beyond facts and logic to embrace fantasy. #PS1insurrection ===== impress 8 time 2022-06-06 14:10 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1533813679191232516 ========== What's the endgame in Ukraine - can we afford it? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/04/opinion/ukraine-russia-putin-war.html Return to the boundaries of Feb 23, use Russian assets to rebuild Ukraine, admit Ukraine to EU and NATO, to discourage Putin's second act - that all sounds good, but Putin wouldn't accept it. #PS1ukraine ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 47 time 2022-06-05 01:53 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1533265687648448512 ========== Immigrants get the job done - bringing new ideas and new energy. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/06/03/realestate/utica-burma-refugees.html #PS1immigration ===== impress 10 time 2022-06-05 01:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1533263613409931266 ========== GOP recruits diverse candidates to talk about all the things the GOP actually won't do if it gains power. Look at 2017-2018 - their one big accomplishment was billionaire tax relief. They couldn't even agree on how to replace Obamacare. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/04/us/politics/gop-diversity-texas-arizona.html #PS1gop ===== impress 13 time 2022-06-05 01:38 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1533262061588733954 ========== Epistemology - how do we know what we think we know? We have wikipedia on the side of fact over fantasy. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/05/31/wikipedia-hitler-putin-lavrov/ #PS1other ===== impress 7 time 2022-06-05 01:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1533259586110599168 ========== "If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt it is mine alone" That was from Eisenhower's speech if D-Day failed. You wouldn't hear that from any Trumpist today. Any failure is due to Democrats or RINOS. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/06/03/undelivered-speeches-historys-alternate-paths/ #PS1other ===== impress 10 time 2022-06-05 01:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1533256826153598977 ========== Are you old enough to remember Charles Whitman? https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/06/03/university-texas-tower-charles-whitman-shooting/ He set a precedent - partly. His pride in marksmanship was irrelevant once anybody could obtain an assault rifle. Now, massacres of strangers are hardly news. #PS1firearms ===== impress 9 time 2022-06-05 01:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1533255124272828416 ========== He killed with polonium. He died from covid. KGB is better at poisons than vaccines. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-putin-covid-health-london-c9303aced131fa50613f4046cbf2e14d #PS1putin ===== impress 25 time 2022-06-05 00:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1533249505650364417 ========== The future right-to-lifers hope to see - for poor women. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/two-women-were-charged-with-murder-after-having-stillbirths-the-cases-are-rocking-this-conservative-corner-of-california/ar-AAY4DxE Rich women can travel. And prosecute the men? Not in GOP territory! #PS1health ===== impress 7 time 2022-06-05 00:46 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1533248867264647168 ========== It would be easier with ranked-choice voting. https://www.fairvote.org/rcv#where_is_ranked_choice_voting_used As it is, running as an independent is a very long shot. https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-abortion-oregon-government-and-politics-campaign-2016-9126bc3a99e2084e6654a2bd112c467a #PS1democracy ===== impress 6 time 2022-06-05 00:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1533247465167630337 ========== NY to ban cryptomining? https://apnews.com/article/cryptocurrency-climate-technology-environment-ee46804d5c6c0280b318d5ff3abcb731 Why burn fantastic amounts of natural gas (or coal in some places) to support a very dubious enterprise? #PS1climate ===== impress 10 time 2022-06-04 17:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1533131650799767552 ========== One certain economic benefit of casinos - lots of dark campaign money for supportive politicians. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/04/nyregion/nyc-casinos-gambling.html #PS1other ===== impress 13 time 2022-06-04 16:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1533124107792883712 ========== On Jan 5, Marc Short warned the Secret Service about personal danger to Mike Pence. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/03/us/politics/trump-pence-safety-jan-6.html Trump and his henchmen were turning every screw to put pressure on Pence. #PS1insurrection ===== impress 20 time 2022-06-04 16:19 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1533121207645753345 ========== Why push for 2% inflation? 4% used to be good enough. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/03/opinion/inflation-federal-reserve.html #PS1inflation ===== impress 8 time 2022-06-04 16:12 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1533119576086441984 ========== “celebrity worship syndrome” - what every mass shooter dreams of being the object of. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/04/opinion/amber-heard-johnny-depp-trial-celebrity.html Are people's lives so empty of real objects of affection that they have to lavish love on strangers who are only in it for the money? #PS1media ===== impress 20 time 2022-06-04 16:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1533118609131614208 ========== How cancel culture works in Florida. https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/03/politics/ron-desantis-tampa-bay-rays-gun-violence/index.html #PS1trumpism ===== impress 6 time 2022-06-04 14:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1533093635499036674 ========== Want to launch the next front-page massacre? Everything you need to know is on the internet! https://apnews.com/article/technology-gun-politics-shootings-race-and-ethnicity-2d37c8ede6135eca9f0b2150e7927a92 #PS1firearms ===== impress 5 time 2022-06-04 14:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1533086672266461185 ========== Is Russian dependence on western parts eventually going to matter? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/02/business/economy/russia-weapons-american-technology.html #PS1putin ===== impress 6 time 2022-06-04 05:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1532960505538617344 ========== Who's for defending the minority rule of wealthy old white men? https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html Majority rule and minority rights - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/03/opinion/majority-rule-democracy.html #PS1democracy ===== impress 7 time 2022-06-04 05:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1532959003042492416 ========== 4% of the voters is enough to preserve minority rule in Texas. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/03/opinion/texas-republicans-abbott.html #PS1minority ===== impress 6 time 2022-06-04 05:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1532956738013388805 ========== The Trumpists have outgrown the need for democracy. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/06/02/anti-democratic-threat-remains-very-much-alive/ From now on it will be "guided" just like in Hungary, Russia, China, and N Korea, to protect minority rule. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 20 time 2022-06-04 05:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1532955005237399557 ========== Can the right Democratic candidates recapture the white working-class vote? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/06/02/tim-ryan-john-fetterman-ohio-pennsylvania-democrats-could-serve-as-populist-model/ #PS1election ===== impress 2 time 2022-06-04 05:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1532952464785174528 ========== Trumpist response to Jan 6 committee hearings? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/06/03/trump-scam-response-jan-6-committee-hearings/ “institutionalization of an insurrectionary movement” #PS1trumpism ===== impress 11 time 2022-06-04 05:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1532951579493429248 ========== A true reactionary - boldly fighting the future in every form in a vain attempt to make it go away. https://www.washingtonpost.com/food/2022/06/03/lab-meat-politics/ #PS1trumpism ===== impress 2 time 2022-06-04 05:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1532950725105397760 ========== "Fantasies of unlimited power and greatness and an intense desire for admiration" Why shouldn't adolescent males mimic the unrestrained behavior and obsession with celebrity modeled by their political leaders? https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/06/03/why-so-many-mass-shooters-young-angry-men/ #PS1firearms ===== impress 10 time 2022-06-04 04:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1532947048152018944 ========== So much for the will of the people in South Dakota. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/06/02/south-dakota-ballot-initiative-gop-subvert-voters/ Minority rule wins again. #PS1gop ===== impress 4 time 2022-06-04 04:43 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1532946082094649345 ========== Black presidents? Female senior executives? Must be bugs in the system of minority rule. https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/03/opinions/sheryl-sandberg-step-down-facebook-coo/index.html Minority rule is striking back to return to its traditional values. #PS1minority ===== engage 1 engage-rate 20% impress 5 likes 1 time 2022-06-04 04:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1532944111388332032 ========== Showing up way late for the Jan 6 party. https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/03/politics/capitol-police-arrest-man/index.html #PS1insurrection ===== impress 6 time 2022-06-03 23:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1532865390996357120 ========== The Nazis couldn't have taken over without the Franz von Papens who thought they were in control. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_von_Papen But the Nazis took over - bit by bit - normalizing their ideas as the von Papens said nothing. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#trump https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/06/02/whats-far-right-trying-build-power/ #PS1gop ===== impress 6 time 2022-06-03 23:21 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1532864999160393729 ========== Pence knew it would be no picnic. Give him credit for standing his ground for once when it counted. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/06/03/mike-pences-team-could-see-storm-coming/ #PS1insurrection ===== impress 9 time 2022-06-03 23:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1532862644415102977 ========== Sasse auditions, perhaps not knowing it, for a place on a centrist Rule of Law national unity platform. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/06/03/ben-sasse-optimistic-republican-party/ He doesn't seem to grasp that he has no place in the Trumpist Dixiecrat Republican Party. https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/03/politics/ben-sasse-gop-party-leader-comments/index.html #PS1gop ===== engage 1 engage-rate 6% impress 17 time 2022-06-03 23:04 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1532860765320802304 ========== Paul Ryan decides he's a rule-of-law Republican after all. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#rule-of-law That's why he has no place in the Trump Dixiecrat GOP. https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/03/politics/paul-ryan-republicans-impeach-trump/index.html #PS1gop ===== engage 1 engage-rate 14% expands 1 impress 7 time 2022-06-03 22:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1532858879318425600 ========== There's no there there! The present value of future crypto dividends is... zero. The only hope for profit is to find a bigger fool than you who will pay more than you paid. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/06/03/crypto-scams-ftc/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/06/03/crypto-skeptics-growing/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/pfbid0cxS5mngtUgH7TmGABGzvvfSoB9iQpYLgdqsz79NdZZbbiiycfumeqn5qXGpsEvnZl #PS1economics ===== impress 4 time 2022-06-03 22:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1532857144902447104 ========== Guns make you less safe. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/live-with-a-gun-owner-researchers-say-that-makes-you-less-safe/ar-AAY025A If they are there, they get used. #PS1firearms ===== impress 2 time 2022-06-03 22:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1532852679327641600 ========== Navarro will get his day in court. He will plead executive privilege; when that fails, will he plead the 5th? https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/06/03/pete-navarro-indicted-contempt-congress/ #PS1insurrection ===== impress 12 time 2022-06-03 16:26 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1532760759876214785 ========== That was the week that wasn't. https://apnews.com/article/covid-science-politics-health-95196447675dc44a9c58bfbb1f2ce76e #PS1media ===== engage 2 engage-rate 2% impress 114 time 2022-06-03 15:11 +0000 urlclicks 2 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1532741647733170177 ========== Putin will wait as long as necessary for the west to get tired of supporting Ukraine. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/06/03/russia-putin-economy-attrition-war/ But the west knows that success in Ukraine would lead Putin to further adventures elsewhere. #PS1ukraine ===== impress 11 time 2022-06-03 14:48 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1532735970860097543 ========== Putin might have accidentally launched WWIII. Covid economic dislocations were bad enough, but global economic sanctions, runaway inflation, the likely ensuing recession, and ultimately global starvation might have profound consequences. https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/03/opinions/economic-aftershocks-pandemic-ukraine-political-turmoil-ghitis/index.html #PS1inflation ===== engage 3 engage-rate 8% impress 40 likes 2 retweets 1 time 2022-06-03 14:36 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1532732912130347008 ========== Finally understanding when Putin is saying what he REALLY thinks. https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/02/opinions/russia-vladimir-putin-true-intentions-dougherty/index.html #PS1putin ===== engage 2 engage-rate 50% impress 4 likes 1 time 2022-06-03 14:23 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1532729658130649088 ========== The secret electronic war. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-kyiv-technology-90d760f01105b9aaf1886427dbfba917 All those "smart" weapons rely on wireless communications. #PS1technology ===== impress 18 time 2022-06-03 14:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1532728031705411584 ========== Ukraine won't cede any of its territory, and Russia won't yield on its conquests. So the war will continue as long as Russia has the means to offend and Ukraine the means to defend. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-putin-moscow-government-and-politics-139234bb95a3fe3ca2de0fe2c716dda8 #PS1ukraine ===== engage 1 engage-rate 4% impress 24 likes 1 time 2022-06-03 14:15 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1532727705673682947 ========== The US Coast Guard is on duty in the Western Pacific. As it has been for many years. https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/02/asia/us-coast-guard-pacific-islands-china-intl-hnk-ml/index.html Chinese fishing fleets are not popular in small island countries. #PS1china ===== impress 10 time 2022-06-03 05:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1532588256746799104 ========== Conditional funding worked to increase the drinking age. Why not to increase the shooting age? https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/02/opinions/gun-reform-backdoor-congress-solution-rangappa/index.html #PS1firearms ===== impress 4 time 2022-06-03 04:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1532583346290642944 ========== So much for the good guy with the gun. https://www.bakersfield.com/opinion/leonard-pitts-so-much-for-the-good-guy-with-a-gun/article_2918de74-e1dc-11ec-a99e-2305a9a4d5cf.html The bad guys always get to choose when and where and get the first shots. Many don't care if they live or die. #PS1firearms ===== engage 1 engage-rate 20% impress 5 likes 1 time 2022-06-03 04:07 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1532574697405095937 ========== Worried about climate change? What about nuclear war? Putin has unleashed a global race to arm for deterrence protection. Like other arms races, it's likely to end in a bad miscalculation. https://turonzamin.com/putins-threats-highlight-the-dangers-of-a-new-riskier-nuclear-era-the-new-york-times #PS1foreign ===== impress 6 time 2022-06-03 03:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1532572656884559872 ========== Instead of reparations, consider a Universal Basic Income. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-ubi.html Reparations - for whom? What about Native Americans, Latinos, poor ignorant white victims of lousy schools? https://apnews.com/article/california-race-and-ethnicity-san-francisco-voter-registration-0cb66f61c4b9f0136c43a17408720d98 More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/pfbid0QCKJWJrEv17Bsqk2gd9yXugetiS4cBr5HgUnMT4wPiFZ7TZkzQJEZFNKvncLV2Jml #PS1democracy ===== impress 12 time 2022-06-03 03:48 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1532569846231076865 ========== It was just a matter of time! https://apnews.com/article/technology-new-york-arrests-manhattan-a9de5a1cebeef9f1588f03dc0262aa57 Everything new... is not so new after all. #PS1economics ===== impress 5 time 2022-06-03 03:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1532559101439320064 ========== California voters don't think much of Biden's record on inflation. They're really not going to like the recession that stops it. https://patabook.com/news/2022/05/30/skelton-will-inflation-help-california-republicans-win-races/ But most of them still won't vote for anti-abortion, pro-guns Trumpists. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/pfbid029bidY1FAm9KpavUAit83jXdqkdxMhjrrTuAvDJHUhH35fE9ruR9xnGoYLTPpeVjAl #PS1capolitics ===== impress 11 time 2022-06-03 02:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1532553395629719552 ========== "no elected officials claim the only way to stop a bad guy with a bomb is a good guy with a bomb" https://richmond.com/opinion/columnists/louis-klarevas-sonali-rajan-and-charles-branas-column-why-our-response-to-school-shootings-is/article_8d609bd8-4046-5247-810d-9e0ba185720a.html The 2nd amendment just says "arms". No distinction between guns and bombs. #PS1firearms ===== engage 1 engage-rate 5% impress 21 replies 1 time 2022-06-03 02:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1532550681181028352 ========== We Build the Wall jury deadlocked. https://apnews.com/article/steve-bannon-politics-donald-trump-453dfc35ce16d42034526acb6f24cce9 Sounds like there is one Trumpist on the jury who will vote to acquit no matter what. Bannon was already off the hook with a Trump pardon. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 7 time 2022-06-03 02:23 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1532548521013825536 ========== "political power is derived from questioning reality; endorsing myth, rage, and paranoia; and promoting lies" https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#trump White Replacement Theory is a very old pillar of fascism. https://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20220530000114 #PS1trumpism ===== engage 1 engage-rate 13% expands 1 impress 8 time 2022-06-03 01:14 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1532531081479565312 ========== Federal gun safety research was banned for 20 years - so we are well behind the curve. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-05-26/why-there-isn-t-more-research-on-how-to-stop-school-shootings #PS1firearms ===== impress 4 time 2022-06-03 01:06 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1532529201726689280 ========== There might not be a new normal for a few years! https://english.aawsat.com/home/article/3668546/farhad-manjoo/it%E2%80%99s-still-covid%E2%80%99s-world-we%E2%80%99re-just-living-it #PS1virus ===== impress 3 time 2022-06-03 01:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1532527878608277504 ========== Diesel is costing you more than gasoline. You just don't see it every day. https://www.adn.com/nation-world/2022/05/27/high-gas-prices-hurt-but-heres-how-diesel-prices-are-slamming-your-wallet-in-hidden-ways/ #PS1inflation ===== impress 4 time 2022-06-03 00:52 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1532525626992693248 ========== Rooftop solar is part of the solution. Hawaii is leading the way. They've no choice. https://www.sanjuandailystar.com/post/hit-hard-by-high-energy-costs-hawaii-looks-to-the-sun #PS1climate ===== impress 5 time 2022-06-03 00:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1532524764060782592 ========== How unlimited outside money works - https://calmatters.org/politics/2022/05/california-primary-special-interests-money/ That's why nationally the GOP and some Democrats are eager to keep dark money dark. The bottom line is that there's no penalty for false or misleading campaign material, so none of it is worth reading. #PS1capolitics ===== impress 7 time 2022-06-03 00:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1532523689056448514 ========== Trumpism is the same everywhere! https://thequint.com/us-nri-news/google-dalit-rights-activist-thenmozhi-soundararajan-presentation-lecture-anti-hindu-tanuja-gupta-senior-manager-resigns#read-more https://finance.yahoo.com/news/equality-labs-demands-accountability-google-144300506.html https://washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/06/02/google-caste-equality-labs-tanuja-gupta/ If you grow up saturated with racism, you can no longer see it in yourself or others. All you see is trouble stirred up by outside agitators. #PS1other ===== engage 2 engage-rate 6% impress 31 likes 1 retweets 1 time 2022-06-02 21:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1532479689339461632 ========== Taliban attacks main money crop. https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-politics-taliban-asia-d228b020cdc7538d3cf66c2e08a905fc #PS1afghanistan ===== impress 3 time 2022-06-02 13:48 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1532358446007193600 ========== Atlanta grand jury getting into gear! https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-georgia-atlanta-presidential-3bc4ae72555ee3f22a13554d9b27d240 #PS1insurrection ===== impress 5 time 2022-06-02 13:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1532357581733101569 ========== First known insurrection plans. https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/01/politics/january-6-email-plan-overturn-election-trump/index.html #PS1insurrection ===== impress 3 time 2022-06-02 05:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1532229825066283008 ========== Another subpoena for Navarro, this time from the Justice Department. Will he refuse this one too? https://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-donald-trump-government-and-politics-peter-navarro-presidential-elections-0744f3e7819e07a7989895e0caa60e4c #PS1insurrection ===== impress 3 time 2022-06-01 13:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1531992587912916993 ========== Quackery uncovered https://washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/05/31/covid-cure-doctor-jennings-staley/ "Staley’s license has been temporarily suspended by a court order" Temporarily? Then he can go back to quackery? #PS1virus ===== impress 3 time 2022-06-01 13:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1531992274183172096 ========== Putin declared war on Europe, and Europe responded with unforeseen unity. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/31/opinion/putin-europe-ukraine.html But some European leaders are still willing to give him the Sudetenland if he'll just quit shooting for a little while. #PS1putin ===== impress 10 time 2022-06-01 04:46 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1531859676815425537 ========== The novel "The Third World War: August 1985" attributed the west's victory over Soviets to, in part, more independence of western non-commissioned officers. Reality now is a weak Russian military due to lack of independence in lower ranks https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/31/us/politics/russia-military-eastern-ukraine.html #PS1ukraine ===== impress 22 time 2022-06-01 04:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1531858306402160640 ========== How the AR-15 was sold to America https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/05/31/uvalde-shooting-ar-15-interview-ryan-busse/ #PS1firearms ===== impress 8 time 2022-06-01 04:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1531852449840959490 ========== Have you read the million words of your privacy agreements? Nobody else has either. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/05/31/abolish-privacy-policies/ #PS1technology ===== impress 5 time 2022-06-01 04:12 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1531851167654768640 ========== GOP embracing its destiny as the party of guns and violence. It's not just about hunting animals any more. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/31/republicans-guns-ads-posts/ #PS1firearms ===== impress 5 time 2022-06-01 03:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1531845433068122113 ========== What could happen with Taiwan? https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/31/asia/china-taiwan-invasion-scenarios-analysis-intl-hnk-ml/index.html The lowest-risk option would be a quarantine - with strategic ambiguity about its ultimate intent. #PS1china ===== impress 25 time 2022-06-01 03:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1531843618343768065 ========== Rising income and wealth inequality are two of the inevitable benefits of minority rule. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#gop So now there's another inflation issue - this time against DeSantis. https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/31/politics/florida-affordable-housing-ron-desantis-democrats/index.html #PS1inflation ===== impress 10 time 2022-05-31 17:36 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1531691046047862784 ========== Will fusion energy ever deliver? https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2022/05/world/iter-nuclear-fusion-climate-intl-cnnphotos/ #PS1technology ===== impress 10 time 2022-05-31 17:24 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1531688094721667072 ========== Making an election issue of high inflation or low unemployment is tricky - since the causes and effects are global, and neither Democrats nor Republicans can do much about them. https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/22/politics/inflation-biden-republicans-washington/index.html #PS1inflation ===== impress 7 time 2022-05-31 17:14 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1531685446526201857 ========== Can GOP overcome its lead over Democrats? Bring on the pro-lifers with AR-15's! https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/31/politics/midterm-elections-issues-guns-abortion/index.html #PS1election ===== engage 1 engage-rate 10% impress 10 time 2022-05-31 17:09 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1531684329486594049 ========== The casino is closed for a while. https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/31/investing/stock-market-investing-trading/index.html #PS1economics ===== impress 5 time 2022-05-31 16:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1531680873396940802 ========== Not much to show yet for Durham investigation. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-hillary-clinton-john-durham-presidential-elections-59158f83bd6a9159b420f2b04848b77f Durham will perform his intended role as long as he generates some headlines until the election. #PS1russian ===== impress 5 time 2022-05-31 16:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1531679422561935360 ========== Crossover voting - what voters do because there's no ranked-choice voting. Both parties do it. If your party's primary doesn't matter, why not vote in the other party's? For the one most likely to lose, or the one least intolerable. https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-donald-trump-georgia-campaign-2016-congress-df4fa72d2d4a1e4d9344d61c0a3d4b9e #PS1democracy ===== engage 1 engage-rate 7% impress 15 time 2022-05-31 16:46 +0000 userclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1531678391723761664 ========== The big show begins June 9! Will it last as long as Benghazi? https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/30/opinions/top-gun-january-6-committee-hearings-obeidallah/index.html #PS1insurrection ===== impress 15 time 2022-05-30 13:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1531270477968134149 ========== Chinese Trumpism https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/30/china/china-textbook-illustration-controversy-intl-hnk-mic/index.html Who knows more about culture wars than the Chinese Communist Party? #PS1china ===== engage 5 engage-rate 7% expands 3 hashclicks 2 impress 70 time 2022-05-30 13:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1531267780007276544 ========== Solar power comes to Afghan poppy fields. They turn the desert green - until the aquifers dry up. Just like California. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/29/world/asia/afghanistan-opium-taliban.html Opium remains as profitable as all other exports combined. #PS1afghanistan ===== impress 11 time 2022-05-30 03:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1531121084191240192 ========== Remember NC-09? https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2019-nc-09.html Home of the most prominent election fraud in recent decades, carried out by a Republican! https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/25/us/politics/l-mccrae-dowless-dead.html But he died before he could be fully brought to justice. #PS1election ===== engage 2 engage-rate 40% impress 5 time 2022-05-30 03:41 +0000 urlclicks 2 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1531118528631148544 ========== Another idea that lost in Georgia - rejecting economic development. https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/29/politics/big-lie-georgia-republicans-rejection/index.html But as small red state towns discovered, economic development means new ideas, increased cost of living, and even harder lives for natives who can't compete. #PS1economics ===== engage 1 engage-rate 13% impress 8 likes 1 time 2022-05-30 03:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1531115110114111489 ========== Musk has joined the club of reactionary billionaires. No doubt he'll become a major Trumpist donor. Here's tutorials for him on how it works: https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#revisionist Here's what he has to say for himself - https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/27/business/elon-musk-billionaires-tweet/index.html #PS1trumpism ===== engage 1 engage-rate 14% impress 7 likes 1 time 2022-05-30 03:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1531112669444333568 ========== Four days are up. Nothing has changed. The country will have to wait for another massacre. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/05/26/uvalde-school-shooting-emotions-guns/ #PS1firearms ===== impress 7 time 2022-05-30 00:37 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1531072243459010560 ========== There's a reason McConnell is majority leader! He knows what keeps his donors and his members and his voters happy - preserving minority rule. And that requires keeping the freefire advocates engaged and voting. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/28/mcconnell-guns-mass-shootings/ #PS1firearms ===== engage 1 engage-rate 10% impress 10 likes 1 time 2022-05-30 00:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1531071237174153216 ========== It's pretty hard to hack voting machines, if they are used with their recommended procedural safeguards. That won't stop election deniers - they never cared about facts. And they just want to bypass the safeguards. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/05/28/dominion-voting-machines-cisa-review/ #PS1election ===== engage 1 engage-rate 11% impress 9 likes 1 time 2022-05-30 00:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1531067155625615360 ========== Who's keeping an eye on the crypto store? https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/05/29/molly-white-crypto/ $10 billion lost so far. #PS1economics ===== impress 16 time 2022-05-30 00:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1531062961288097792 ========== White Christian Nationalism - dying gasp or new life? It's popular in Russia, Hungary, and other authoritarian states. https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-pennsylvania-religion-nationalism-8bf7a6115725f508a37ef944333bc145 It overlaps with white supremacists, QAnons, anti-vaxxers, and election deniers - its symbols were prominent on Jan 6. #PS1trumpism ===== engage 3 engage-rate 5% impress 60 retweets 2 time 2022-05-29 23:50 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1531060503920775169 ========== California has avoided a reckoning on water rights and usage. Climate change means running out of bandaids to delay the day of reckoning. https://calmatters.org/commentary/2022/05/as-drought-persists-water-rights-on-agenda/ California water politics is big money politics. Expect it to get ugly. #PS1capolitics ===== impress 11 time 2022-05-29 22:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1531044654119956480 ========== What does Haiti have to do with Uvalde? The Second Amendment was inspired by fear of the Haitian slave revolution. Not about protecting the people from tyranny - about protecting tyranny from the people. https://www.npr.org/2021/06/02/1002107670/historian-uncovers-the-racist-roots-of-the-2nd-amendment More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/pfbid02k4G4pBR93nhj1Q9ma8Bm2WRFAhjpGZWoixii51wHzHMbo2HyHKefuPZZ1MXbL1rfl #PS1firearms ===== engage 160 engage-rate 6% expands 40 impress 2742 likes 44 replies 3 retweets 23 time 2022-05-29 22:40 +0000 urlclicks 44 userclicks 6 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1531042764892168192 ========== There's hardly any difference between the parties on inflation because it mostly depends on external factors neither controls. But what does correlate over and over - it's EITHER inflation or unemployment. https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/05/27/lansners-mailbag-are-democrats-to-blame-for-high-inflation/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/pfbid02bb9Fn21k1W67paX39N1NpK1KVQGfnyFp1ydQdMe967iToxtjgmMuZuj5qjifxqKwl #PS1inflation ===== impress 3 time 2022-05-29 22:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1531033334255562752 ========== Political paralysis protected minority rule by protecting slavery. From 1820 to 1860 the biggest political issue was protecting the South's parity in the Senate. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/05/29/our-gun-debate-paralysis-stretches-back-to-civil-war/ Paralysis still protects minority rule. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/pfbid0zZWPTngMYvcdxVifnXkreKA1HrjGdMRFQidC6YDcjQwzZWVpATKosnkf92ze2WVml #PS1democracy ===== impress 4 time 2022-05-29 20:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1531013921829552133 ========== "China’s failure to match the West in developing effective coronavirus vaccines, resulting in continued shutdowns and an anemic recovery, should dispel the notion that it has some inherent advantage over the West" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/05/29/china-policy-biden-blinken-asia-trip-despite-war-ukraine-china-matters-most/ #PS1china ===== impress 26 time 2022-05-29 20:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1531009329754607616 ========== It's true! Massacres are caused by Evil! https://www.cruz.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/sen-cruz-issues-statement-on-uvalde-shooting The Evil Tempter tells politicians "Nothing good can be accomplished if you don't get the votes and the donors. So do what it takes to get the donors." More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/pfbid0ninzxBGQ893JV4MwPECNsdJg1hxfhc1M3fBNNYdhcixrKCsUBnQXSo6GPhZJRvR2l #PS1firearms ===== impress 4 time 2022-05-29 14:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1530917402677874690 ========== The Uvalde shooter achieved his goal! He'll be remembered far longer than all the thoughts and prayers of the NRA and its accomplices in Congress. https://apnews.com/article/uvalde-school-shooting-schools-security-0be46be6a91f113912dcc8f2a52ee75e #PS1firearms ===== impress 22 time 2022-05-29 13:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1530907139748728833 ========== Being an underequipped underdog against the Russian army is too great a challenge for some. Foreigners can go home, but Ukrainians are stuck with it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/05/28/americans-fighting-in-ukraine/ #PS1ukraine ===== impress 32 time 2022-05-29 07:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1530809554354655232 ========== Putin gets criticism from both sides, but that won't bother him. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/05/28/putin-russia-ukraine-war-censorship/ #PS1putin ===== impress 16 time 2022-05-29 07:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1530807602673659904 ========== A few things Trump got right - usually by accepting the advice of experts - and the many he got disastrously wrong - usually by ignoring the advice of experts. https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/28/opinions/donald-trump-chaos-bergen/index.html Certainly the worst American president - since Jefferson Davis. #PS1trump ===== impress 11 time 2022-05-29 07:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1530806477933318144 ========== Those were the tweets that were - not true. https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/28/politics/fact-check-false-viral-tweets-texas-shooting-abbott-cruz/index.html #PS1media ===== impress 5 time 2022-05-29 06:52 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1530804172299177991 ========== McConnell and Cornyn vow to search every avenue that won't lead to a solution, until the clock runs out. Again. https://cnn.com/2022/05/26/politics/mcconnell-cornyn-democrats-bipartisan-effort-gun-violence/index.html #PS1firearms ===== engage 1 engage-rate 5% impress 22 retweets 1 time 2022-05-29 06:26 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1530797677947981824 ========== You wouldn't expect objective FACTS from Trump or Cruz or the NRA would you? Why would they change now? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/27/us/politics/fact-check-trump-cruz-nra.html Instead they talk about their subjective FEELINGS - that's all they know for sure anyway! And it polls well with their audience. #PS1firearms ===== engage 1 engage-rate 4% impress 24 time 2022-05-28 05:09 +0000 userclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1530415934795657216 ========== Immigrants get the job done! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/05/25/military-recruitment-immigrants-green-card/ They KNOW what they're fighting for. But only if we let them. #PS1immigration ===== impress 8 time 2022-05-28 04:54 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1530412047329964033 ========== How France enslaved Haiti, then after independence, ripped off the survivors - with plenty of help from America and not a few corrupt members of the Haitian elite. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/20/world/americas/haiti-history-colonized-france.html #PS1other ===== engage 1 engage-rate 5% expands 1 impress 20 time 2022-05-28 03:14 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1530387059906473984 ========== Does the internet still need a profit motive? Not in China or North Korea. Will a local cooperative structure preserve the good and inhibit the bad? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/27/opinion/technology/what-would-an-egalitarian-internet-actually-look-like.html #PS1technology ===== impress 16 time 2022-05-28 02:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1530378695226974208 ========== Fulton County grand jury begins its work. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/27/us/trump-grand-jury-georgia.html #PS1insurrection ===== impress 79 time 2022-05-28 01:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1530357460019474432 ========== Minority rule today? https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html Minority rule then - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/27/opinion/uvalde-senate-gun-control.html Then as now, constitutional pillars include equal representation in the Senate and thus control of the judiciary. #PS1democracy ===== impress 7 time 2022-05-28 01:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1530356628079267840 ========== Heritage Foundation abandons traditional conservatism in favor of Trumpist isolationism. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/27/us/politics/ukraine-aid-heritage-foundation.html Like politicians, think tanks have to go where the money flows. #PS1trumpism ===== engage 1 engage-rate 7% impress 14 time 2022-05-28 01:06 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1530354840152354816 ========== The connection between guns and segregation? It's the same kinds of politicians acting for the same reason - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html preserving minority rule. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/27/opinion/uvalde-guns-senate-republicans.html #PS1firearms ===== impress 5 time 2022-05-28 01:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1530353634436730881 ========== What's pushing America toward regional federalism? https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-regional.html all the pillars of minority rule! https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html Why should blue states continue to subsidize red states' fantasies? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/27/opinion/uvalde-shooting.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/pfbid02omd2qNUW7YvimZTu8Pa27E9Thdt3EeB3e5f5x7DAayE9CZGevXCuQLgo4rZ6G3sul #PS1democracy ===== impress 8 time 2022-05-28 00:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1530351989971857409 ========== Imitation Hitler didn't know what happens in the Capitol but he'll learn what happens in a Federal penitentiary. https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/27/politics/timothy-hale-cusanelli-verdict/index.html #PS1insurrection ===== impress 4 time 2022-05-28 00:36 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1530347204346384385 ========== GOP isn't going to cough up the money for arming teachers. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/27/newt-gingrich-offered-one-worst-school-shooter-plans-yet/ Or for any of their other lame suggestions in response to massacres. It's just what they say to distract and divert. #PS1firearms ===== impress 4 time 2022-05-28 00:26 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1530344619883450368 ========== Several Texas GOP thought it best to keep a low profile - away from the NRA - but not Trump! Or Cruz or Noem. https://apnews.com/article/uvalde-school-shooting-nra-convention-212dfd1b57474f1ab208d4a72521a010 More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/pfbid0Yzym26sbFspzMMmES6MciQbssJFctaYpFVDFzY1ESy6jBFJaktAanfYTEy7Vv1KHl #PS1firearms ===== impress 20 time 2022-05-27 23:57 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1530337439889272832 ========== That was the week that wasn't. https://apnews.com/article/covid-health-texas-social-media-7b5b38f536d4346ff104d0d898125517 #PS1media ===== impress 4 time 2022-05-27 22:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1530313545627250689 ========== Permission granted to explore all possible dead ends! https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/27/politics/mitch-mcconnell-gun-control/index.html Mental health is a sure dead end. And anyway, what's insane about wanting to be immortal in infamy if the alternative is to be a forgotten loser? More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/pfbid02Ja6ogboMtNqYCZBSCHW3evmmiZbFz7cyDsj1ZugiCjHsRKNSLQ8hDdcYgVWmsts9l #PS1firearms ===== engage 2 engage-rate 29% impress 7 likes 1 time 2022-05-27 16:27 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1530224090501394433 ========== FBI talking to fake electors who dropped out. https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/26/politics/doj-georgia-republicans-trump-fake-elector-probe/index.html Why did they drop out? #PS1insurrection ===== engage 7 engage-rate 4% impress 170 likes 1 retweets 2 time 2022-05-27 16:11 +0000 urlclicks 4 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1530220086446804992 ========== What is victory? Any cease-fire will allow Putin to regroup and try again. So it must be accompanied by immediate Ukrainian membership in NATO and EU. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/26/us/politics/zelensky-ukraine-war.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/pfbid02s7MsvuNh3RHsp9X676sBk73VpgvnTEs44K56u7BrjHiup7QYx8nmHnBAabrzipkFl #PS1ukraine ===== impress 18 time 2022-05-27 14:54 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1530200668144693253 ========== GOP response to climate change in one sentence - “Who cares if Miami is six meters underwater in 100 years?” https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/27/climate/republicans-blackrock-climate.html A six-meter (40 feet) rise in sea level will have a major impact on Washington, DC, and Manhattan, too. https://topocreator.com/ned-jpg/city_a/600/dc.jpg #PS1climate ===== impress 5 time 2022-05-27 14:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1530191391011155969 ========== The show must go on! Gun manufacturers, gun voters, and gun politicians need to refresh their bonds when they're under attack. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/27/opinion/nra-trump-texas-guns.html All the Trump men will be there! #PS1firearms ===== engage 1 engage-rate 20% impress 5 time 2022-05-27 14:03 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1530187977074233344 ========== Why GOP politicians always return calls from gun manufacturers. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/27/texas-shooting-gun-manufacturer-donations/ Even if they never return calls from reporters about campaign funding! It's all about keeping "open the door of access" - because "money is the mother's milk of politics". #PS1firearms ===== impress 8 time 2022-05-27 13:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1530186680329568256 ========== Toublesome Ukrainians are useful hostages for trading if the war goes badly for Russia, useful forced labor if the war ends well. https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/26/politics/ukraine-filtration-camps-forcibly-remove-russia/index.html Russians should take note. Since Putin says they are brothers, he treats Russians the same way. #PS1ukraine ===== impress 16 time 2022-05-27 13:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1530185042613284864 ========== More guns = more gun deaths. https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/26/politics/gun-violence-data-what-matters/index.html Especially in former slavery-rebellion states and in modern sagebrush-rebellion states. Guns let a man know what it means to be free - free to kill strangers, free to kill family members, free to kill himself. #PS1firearms ===== impress 8 time 2022-05-27 13:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1530182490077286400 ========== "I don’t fully understand this aversion to the basic rules of a civilized society" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/26/opinion/republicans-guns-uvalde.html It's red state politics - if you waver one millimeter, you'll lose the next primary, in favor of somebody with a huge campaign fund from the gun lobby. #PS1firearms ===== impress 6 time 2022-05-27 02:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1530018411824046080 ========== GOP members refuse subpoenas. Some worry that could set a precedent for when they are in control, but the modern Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP never bothers with precedents. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/26/us/republicans-jan-6-subpoenas.html #PS1insurrection ===== impress 6 time 2022-05-27 02:37 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1530015298954272768 ========== "Western democracies act as accomplices to Putin, providing him with a lifeline access to Western financial systems — a lifeline the Kremlin uses to challenge the West’s own interests.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/05/25/vladimir-kara-murza-columns-truths-putin-russia/ There is Russian opposition, but can it survive? #PS1putin ===== impress 22 time 2022-05-27 02:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1530013438235189248 ========== Nothing like a good massacre to generate insane ideas from GOP politicians. Definitely sounds like a mental health crisis. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/05/25/republican-deceitful-dodges-gun-control-man-traps-ballistic-blankets-more-guns/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/pfbid02bpuGGcYwdQ75YTPMK8Mz3u1m5t9yJszu63rjezEyxuFTD9AXEqyopF8C7FQMHUXXl #PS1firearms ===== impress 5 time 2022-05-27 02:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1530011539041767426 ========== Trump has succeeded in remolding the whole GOP in his image - which means Trumpism doesn't need him, specifically, any more. Just like Peron and Peronism! Will Trump be outTrumped by somebody Trumpier? DeSantis is trying. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/05/25/trump-2024-republican-primary-chances/ #PS1trumpism ===== impress 23 time 2022-05-27 02:14 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1530009574366818304 ========== There are limits to Ukrainian resistance. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/05/26/ukraine-frontline-russia-military-severodonetsk/ #PS1ukraine ===== impress 8 time 2022-05-27 01:24 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1529996944763867136 ========== Not since Eisenhower has an American president mobilized such a massive international response. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/05/26/biden-white-house-secret-planning-helped-ukraine-counter-russia/ But if Trump had won, he'd have remembered Zelenskyy's uncooperativeness and asked Putin if there were anything Trump could do to help Putin. #PS1ukraine ===== impress 15 time 2022-05-27 01:14 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1529994387890896897 ========== Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it. https://mobile.twitter.com/drewharwell/status/1529277794794053640 If he gets to grow up to be old. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/05/26/daniel-defense-uvalde-shooting-rifle-photo-tweets/ #PS1firearms ===== impress 10 time 2022-05-27 01:06 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1529992419025948672 ========== The NRA is well into its death spiral, or at least irrelevance spiral. But "NRA" is a handy abbreviation for its successors, just as "KGB" is a shortcut for its successors - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Butina who incidentally support the NRA. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/05/26/nra-uvalde-shooting-trump-cruz-gop/ #PS1firearms ===== impress 9 time 2022-05-27 01:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1529991353236541440 ========== Kemp no hero of democracy - but he did stand up to Trump. Once. https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/26/opinions/georgia-primary-kemp-perdue-trump-democracy-eisen-aftergut/index.html #PS1gop ===== impress 6 time 2022-05-27 00:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1529988501243981824 ========== McConnell and Cornyn vos to search every avenue that won't lead to a solution, until the clock runs out. Again. https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/26/politics/mcconnell-cornyn-democrats-bipartisan-effort-gun-violence/index.html #PS1firearms ===== impress 15 time 2022-05-27 00:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1529978461355270144 ========== Why WOULDN'T you have a gun show right after a gun massacre? The massacres are getting so frequent, you'd never be able to have a gun show! https://apnews.com/article/politics-texas-violence-shootings-af5b4e62e51370da14381018e1ad46da Trump will be there to congratulate NRA on all it has done. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/pfbid0bBfNCj5xV44TZUCeVMBGbfwDd9HLnHxwe7qdiqdWHWUZULs3pMAGWaJRD8D5dHhLl #PS1firearms ===== impress 15 time 2022-05-26 23:54 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1529974281815224321 ========== What inequality? https://apnews.com/article/2021-median-ceo-pay-df8a253483aebd48be99f50826ef2b49 But they're not as bad as Russian oligarchs! #PS1economics ===== impress 4 time 2022-05-26 23:48 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1529972709483982848 ========== That was the shooting that wasn't. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/25/technology/texas-shooting-misinformation.html The rumor-mongers don't care whether it's true or not, only whether it advances their agendas. #PS1media ===== engage 1 engage-rate 13% impress 8 time 2022-05-26 04:48 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1529685804364181504 ========== Don't expect many more stories like this from small local newspapers. They are going extinct or converting to vehicles for "sponsored content" advertising. https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/05/25/southern-baptist-convention-sex-abuse-houston-chronicle-san-antonio-news/ #PS1journalism ===== engage 1 engage-rate 11% impress 9 likes 1 time 2022-05-26 04:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1529683861952532480 ========== Lying comes so naturally to Trumpists that they don't even feel it any more. They just tell the truth about how they FEEL and that's all the truth they need. https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/25/politics/fact-check-walker-university-of-georgia-graduated/index.html #PS1trumpism ===== engage 1 engage-rate 20% impress 5 likes 1 time 2022-05-26 04:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1529681823223013376 ========== All the ways that Congress won't act against massacres. https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/25/politics/gun-laws-us-congress/index.html #PS1firearms ===== impress 7 time 2022-05-26 04:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1529680868582707200 ========== Remember Charles Whitman? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Whitman He lives on in infamy. https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/25/opinions/uvalde-texas-elementary-school-shooting-guns-moore/index.html But for lots of men, living on in infamy is better than living a life of failure and then being forgotten. That's a big part of the appeal of being a mass murderer. #PS1firearms ===== engage 1 engage-rate 11% impress 9 likes 1 time 2022-05-26 04:23 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1529679582957146112 ========== Does Pence have a political future? Not loyal enough for Trumpists, too loyal for anti-Trumpists - who's left? https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/25/opinions/pence-2024-election-campaign-politics-dantonio/index.html #PS1gop ===== impress 11 time 2022-05-26 04:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1529677096162717696 ========== Trump liked the "Hang Mike Pence" line. https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/25/politics/donald-trump-january-6-mike-pence-chants/index.html Was he disappointed it didn't happen? #PS1insurrection ===== impress 7 time 2022-05-26 04:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1529675087212736512 ========== Like nouveau riche of previous generations, most Silicon Valley titans tend toward reactionary politics in middle age and just get worse. https://greeleytribune.net/the-hard-right-turn-by-silicon-valley-tech-titans-is-remarkable/ Compare Russian oligarchs - they do what they want and don't care what others think - except Putin. #PS1theory ===== engage 1 engage-rate 17% impress 6 likes 1 time 2022-05-25 23:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1529608433942552577 ========== Should Democrats be as obnoxious as Republicans? https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/05/25/opinion-when-democrats-play-defense-while-republicans-play-offense/ #PS1democracy ===== impress 3 time 2022-05-25 23:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1529606506340986880 ========== Sue for social media addiction? https://apnews.com/article/technology-california-government-and-politics-netflix-inc-f48601e13be547bf8b86aff42eed5124 #PS1media ===== impress 3 time 2022-05-25 23:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1529602322137235456 ========== Good news and bad news https://www.twincities.com/2022/05/24/thomas-friedman-my-lunch-with-president-biden/ Some things that took generations to break will take generations to fix. #PS1theory ===== impress 5 time 2022-05-25 17:19 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1529512606553190400 ========== A Republican winning statewide office in California? It's unlikely, but remotely possible. https://greeleytribune.net/yes-a-republican-can-win-the-california-statewide-election/ Very few voters could say what the state controller does. #PS1capolitics ===== impress 12 time 2022-05-25 17:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1529510040763179009 ========== What economic problems? Not for the average American - https://apnews.com/article/politics-81e09f653235d730e6ead3602ebe6291 And not for billionaires - https://edition.cnn.com/2022/05/22/economy/billionaires-poverty-oxfam-davos/index.html But Rick Scott's GOP has a plan - tax cuts for those poor billionaires, and entitlement reform for those lazy average Americans. #PS1economics ===== engage 1 engage-rate 20% impress 5 likes 1 time 2022-05-25 17:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1529507993061978113 ========== Think different didn't help Apple with homeless. https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/05/23/last-homeless-residents-of-apples-motel-program-move-out/ The only long-term solution for those who can't or won't conform to rules is institutionalization. Which is where many of them came from in the first place. #PS1other ===== impress 3 time 2022-05-25 16:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1529506504729980928 ========== Politicians travel in herds. If prominent GOP leaders turn on Trump, it will happen all at once. Though most won't say anything publicly at the time - what counts is who's courting major GOP donors. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/25/trump-midterms-setbacks-2024/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/pfbid0nnit84bgWVDiFtZvReMgh7NMryvg5P8BbrLZZgSup8YWaudEVkwZG96maKuMqwHdl #PS1trumpism ===== impress 15 time 2022-05-25 14:38 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1529472036774432768 ========== Another Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_East_Asia_Co-Prosperity_Sphere History repeats! https://apnews.com/article/wang-yi-beijing-china-new-zealand-96f78c97071116055ebc3e7c216a0ef8 #PS1china ===== engage 1 engage-rate 13% impress 8 time 2022-05-25 14:17 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1529466751741661190 ========== Another of Trump's greatest accomplishments - setting the moral character bar for public office to zero. "Trump set the model in 2016, and his followers are perfecting it — never let a scandal get in the way of winning an election" https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-georgia-takeaways-f2226127c5f6223501b77edf277bfd73 #PS1trumpism ===== engage 1 engage-rate 11% impress 9 likes 1 time 2022-05-25 14:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1529465197773041665 ========== The families of the massacre victims can take heart from the thoughts and prayers of GOP politicians - thoughts of switching the subject to inflation, prayers that nobody learns who funds their campaigns. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Butina More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/pfbid02jmL9JbEZxQ9cPvdzYMPzJMq2EkwMNg4k8sSGwTcrPPsFjwdddb4spz87wGudjKUQl #PS1firearms ===== engage 1 engage-rate 8% impress 12 likes 1 time 2022-05-25 05:48 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1529338482685906944 ========== Trump endorsement not magic in Georgia! Three of his endorsed candidates lost. https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/24/politics/georgia-alabama-primary-election/index.html #PS1trumpism ===== engage 1 engage-rate 8% impress 12 time 2022-05-25 05:41 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1529336740875448321 ========== Putin appears to be bogged down in Ukraine in a war of attrition - https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-putin-kyiv-politics-9e0c72aa16d97d7466f22dfbf6dc8fa0 But his attrition strategy is working - wearing down the west with internal divisions over the price of supporting Ukraine until we give up. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-economy-inflation-467db62b671b1057ab867cf9a1335c93 #PS1ukraine ===== engage 1 engage-rate 7% impress 14 time 2022-05-24 13:18 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1529089497643687936 ========== GOP collectively conspiring to make sure they never lose another election! https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/24/politics/midterm-election-2022-georgia-false-claims-trump/index.html It's not who the people voted for that matters, it's who counts the votes that matters. #PS1gop ===== impress 5 time 2022-05-24 13:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1529086101477916672 ========== "The rich are different from you and me: They are usually surrounded by people who tell them what they want to hear." https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/23/opinion/elon-musk-jeff-bezos-social-media.html As with the emperor's new clothes! #PS1other ===== engage 1 engage-rate 14% expands 1 impress 7 time 2022-05-24 03:14 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1528937568972156929 ========== Pitch defileth the hand that toucheth it! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/05/20/elise-stefanik-evolution-moderate-trump-extremist/ Once a Trumpist, always a Trumpist, always defiled. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 2 time 2022-05-24 02:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1528932745077874688 ========== An export on the Hitler Putsch looks forward to duplicating it - and blaming it on the opposition, just like Hitler did. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/20/mastriano-thesis-hitlerian-putsch-pennsylvania/ #PS1insurrection ===== impress 2 time 2022-05-24 02:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1528924485260169216 ========== Putin builds influence in conflict zones with mercenaries. And profits. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/05/23/mali-russia-west-africa-wagner/ #PS1putin ===== engage 1 engage-rate 9% impress 11 replies 1 time 2022-05-24 02:19 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1528923511267291138 ========== Are major GOP donors REALLY opposed to Replacement Theory? Or will they donate to anybody, in order to preserve access and get their calls returned? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/05/23/lincoln-project-ad-elise-stefanik-great-replacement/ #PS1gop ===== impress 3 time 2022-05-24 02:10 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1528921362596712448 ========== Who are insurrectionists? People that don't seem that different from everybody else - at first. https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2022/05/23/how-my-hometown-produced-jan-6-sedition-suspect/ #PS1insurrection ===== impress 3 time 2022-05-24 02:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1528918853685682176 ========== Crypto is good for criminals and scammers. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/05/20/crypto-bitcoin-dogecoin-ethereum-crashing/ For everybody else? Rank speculation, in a market that is very easily manipulated by big players. #PS1economics ===== impress 5 time 2022-05-24 01:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1528914955537289217 ========== Successful organizations tend to converge on self-protection to protect their success, and thus forget their original motivations. Religious organizations are the worst. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/05/23/southern-baptist-sexual-abuse-culture-of-misogyny/ #PS1other ===== impress 5 time 2022-05-24 01:38 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1528913287106088960 ========== Trump and Fox are still welcome in Putin's Russia! https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/05/21/russia-bans-963-americans-ukraine-biden/ #PS1putin ===== impress 9 time 2022-05-24 01:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1528912346436972544 ========== When it's all too much! https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/05/23/russia-diplomat-resigns-united-nations-ukraine-war/ Hopefully his family is safe from Putin. #PS1putin ===== engage 1 engage-rate 33% impress 3 replies 1 time 2022-05-24 00:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1528898457372479488 ========== You don't have to worry about criminal charges if you're a Trumpist! https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-dallas-houston-ken-paxton-62273089acc4feb70dd64349bc398f5d Especially in Texas! #PS1justice ===== impress 3 time 2022-05-24 00:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1528891469133598720 ========== If Lavrov calls it fake news - it must be true! https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/05/23/satellite-pics-appear-to-show-russia-stealing-ukrainian-grain/ Murder, rape, pillage - it's the traditional Russian way of war. And Putin is nothing if not traditional Russian. #PS1ukraine ===== impress 27 time 2022-05-24 00:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1528888960503537664 ========== Chinese crowd-cancel - not so different from America's reactionary attack trolls. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/18/business/china-internet-censors-ip-address.html #PS1china ===== impress 11 time 2022-05-23 16:04 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1528768730133434368 ========== Time for a European Army? It'll get a big boost if Trump is re-elected. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/05/18/european-union-army-ukraine/ #PS1foreign ===== impress 55 time 2022-05-23 05:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1528615934117654528 ========== The problem with primaries - and caucuses. https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/21/opinions/pennsylvania-closed-primaries-problem-thornburgh/index.html Better to leave party primaries and caucuses alone, and allow all candidates to run in the general election, using ranked-choice voting. #PS1democracy ===== impress 5 time 2022-05-23 05:31 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1528609553226510336 ========== What it's like when you might be next on Putin's list. https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/16/opinions/putin-georgia-ukraine-war-mitchell/index.html #PS1putin ===== impress 4 time 2022-05-23 05:23 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1528607604317954048 ========== GOP stands for GOP. https://www.sunjournal.com/2022/05/22/leonard-pitts-jr-the-republican-party-stands-for-the-republican-party/ Cawthorn only lost by 1300 votes. But he must have embarrassed GOP donors - who relayed their dissatisfaction to legislators. Something Green, Boebert, Stefanik, Hawley, Cruz, Gaetz, Gosars, never accomplished. #PS1gop ===== engage 1 engage-rate 11% impress 9 time 2022-05-23 03:51 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1528584500883558400 ========== Young people's favorite source of news is TikTok. That should alarm you! https://www.ypulse.com/article/2022/01/05/ok-tiktok-is-now-officially-young-peoples-favorite-app/ Social media is killing all but the largest white-owned newspapers by siphoning off ad revenue. It's far worse for minority newspapers. https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/05/21/opinion-small-media-vs-big-tech-why-congress-must-regulate-facebook-and-google/ #PS1media ===== impress 8 time 2022-05-23 03:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1528582910680322049 ========== Who killed High Speed Rail? https://www.bakersfield.com/opinion/joe-mathews-hercule-poirot-and-the-murder-of-hsr/article_d88b998e-d861-11ec-a1c7-9f8636fabecc.html Was it a mercy killing? #PS1capolitics ===== impress 8 time 2022-05-23 03:37 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1528580748621410305 ========== "died of covid and stubbornness" How Silicon Valley families write obituaries. https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/05/22/a-million-stories-just-as-heartbreaking-as-mine-how-humble-death-notices-captured-covids-historic-toll/ #PS1virus ===== impress 8 time 2022-05-23 03:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1528579154832003072 ========== The slowing economy now - is what economists thought we needed. https://www.advisorperspectives.com/articles/2022/05/19/welcome-to-our-be-careful-what-you-wish-for-economy They might still be right, but they'll get no credit from politicians or voters. #PS1inflation ===== engage 1 engage-rate 17% impress 6 likes 1 time 2022-05-23 03:21 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1528576887311585281 ========== The great covid retirement might not last for the 55-65 age group. https://rebel-locker.com/local/i-had-to-go-back-over-55-and-not-retired-after-all/600175067/ They need the money. #PS1economics ===== impress 6 time 2022-05-23 03:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1528576144391274496 ========== The worst is yet to come for Russian businesses and consumers. https://www.vartahub.com/odia/2022/05/19/in-russia-as-prices-soar-the-outlook-for-its-economy-grows-especially-gloomy/ #PS1putin ===== impress 3 time 2022-05-23 03:15 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1528575408169357312 ========== What recession? The big get bigger and the small get swallowed up. https://jacklimpert.com/2022/05/future-of-big-tech/ #PS1economics ===== engage 1 engage-rate 7% impress 14 likes 1 time 2022-05-23 02:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1528570485092384768 ========== Concentrations of power are inherently bad! https://www.yahoo.com/news/ex-wells-fargo-exec-says-181447962.html https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-biden-congress-climate-and-environment-199c935b6c81b6520c39fbf2791b899b https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/20/business/economy/baby-formula-shortage-market.html Every GOP knows that concentration of political power is BAD - but not concentration of economic power. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/pfbid02UChzgbnscz1RFfQ6dG7vaiaR8b7cjWHMdg8EmZtJW28HpFcRzte1zmqb7cmijAWXl #PS1democracy ===== impress 3 time 2022-05-23 02:48 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1528568488662401024 ========== Some Russians won't fight Putin's war. https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/22/europe/ukraine-russian-officer-resigns/index.html #PS1ukraine ===== impress 15 time 2022-05-22 13:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1528373886831562755 ========== Belarusians see an opportunity for freedom. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-zelenskyy-alexander-lukashenko-poland-3d8d211ce217fff9550263466ffa5fd3 #PS1ukraine ===== engage 1 engage-rate 8% impress 13 time 2022-05-22 13:34 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1528368716798234629 ========== Regional federalism is a possible temporary solution to toxic partisanship - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-regional.html Actual secession is extreme - especially since the red states are subsidized by the blue states. https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/20/politics/kfile-jr-majewski-secession-2020-election/index.html Trump probably wouldn't mind secession. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 23 time 2022-05-21 04:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1527868204734763009 ========== Giulani finally talks. https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/20/politics/rudy-giuliani-january-6-committee/index.html But did he say anything? #PS1insurrection ===== impress 18 time 2022-05-21 04:20 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1527867021643243520 ========== No more collegiality! https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/20/politics/clarence-thomas-john-roberts-supreme-court-roe-wade/index.html The reactionary right wants a decisive moment and a decisive victory. #PS1justice ===== impress 17 time 2022-05-21 00:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1527813361743802369 ========== Larry Ellison in on insurrection discussion too. https://news.yahoo.com/oracle-ceo-larry-ellison-joined-call-about-contesting-trumps-election-loss-002304636.html He's also a major backer of Musk's Twitter takeover. #PS1insurrection ===== impress 28 time 2022-05-21 00:38 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1527811088581992448 ========== There's a reason Musk went GOP - he fit right in. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/elon-musk-calls-claims-of-sexual-misconduct-politically-motivated/ar-AAXwUpG Bolsonaro and Musk - a match made in heaven, now that Musk has come out of the GOP closet. https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-jair-bolsonaro-spacex-politics-technology-b39ec2cbf6f8177294d0538eda26009b No surprise, Musk has been acting like a Trumpist for years. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 18 time 2022-05-21 00:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1527810280083709952 ========== No worries - Trump will pay the fine out of his supporters' campaign contributions. https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-new-york-manhattan-government-and-politics-995bd4cb6e6dfb285cbc99f0c8c57e29 Rule #1 - Other People's Money! #PS1trump ===== impress 15 time 2022-05-21 00:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1527809098162446336 ========== If this isn't an attempt to overthrow the US government by unconstitutional means, then what is? https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-biden-us-supreme-court-clarence-thomas-arizona-9e6929dfc81fa53a9b5f9d70b2ba15e8 #PS1insurrection ===== impress 17 time 2022-05-21 00:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1527808440604643333 ========== That was the week that wasn't. https://apnews.com/article/climate-covid-space-exploration-science-politics-a3f14201d4a931b1d46417e0118c567c #PS1media ===== impress 24 time 2022-05-20 16:53 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1527693911308652544 ========== Social media terrorism - effective and effectively legal. Hardly any of these terrorists go to jail or even lose their jobs or even get positively identified. Perhaps there needs to be a counter-terrorist network to out those terrorists. https://apnews.com/article/technology-social-media-united-nations-government-and-politics-089df30e3b7a46401fd18abce0cdad77 #PS1 ===== engage 3 engage-rate 5% impress 65 likes 1 retweets 1 time 2022-05-20 16:12 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1527683598114967552 ========== DC swamp morality - https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/19/look-time-tucker-carlson-asked-hunter-biden-favor/ Never let friendship impede your career! https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/19/tucker-carlson-hunter-biden-georgetown-emails #PS1media ===== engage 1 engage-rate 4% impress 23 likes 1 time 2022-05-20 15:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1527672389022015488 ========== Now the Freedom Caucus is going too far! https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/19/politics/freedom-caucus-bipartisan-irritation/index.html Interfering with GOP fundraising! When the GOP gets control of Congress, count on them doing - not much. That's fine with their donors. #PS1gop ===== engage 1 engage-rate 4% impress 24 time 2022-05-20 14:29 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1527657830035038208 ========== Artificial intelligence is now mostly neural networks. There is now a theory about the fundamental limits of the technology - while sometimes good approximations of reality might exist, they might not be computable. https://sinews.siam.org/Details-Page/proving-existence-is-not-enough-mathematical-paradoxes-unravel-the-limits-of-neural-networks-in-artificial-intelligence #PS1technology ===== engage 1 engage-rate 5% impress 21 likes 1 time 2022-05-20 14:04 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1527651499316129793 ========== War in the Ukraine raises temperatures worldwide - that's why Biden is visiting the far east. https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/19/asia/biden-asia-trip-military-analysis-intl-hnk-ml/index.html #PS1foreign ===== impress 44 time 2022-05-20 04:20 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1527504546838110214 ========== Conservatives and reactionaries have power out of proportion to their numbers due to rural bias - https://www.reduce-rural-bias.net/ Create a better future or preserve the best of the past? - the essential political argument. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/19/opinion/democrats-morality-wars.html #PS1theory ===== engage 1 engage-rate 4% impress 25 likes 1 time 2022-05-20 01:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1527460428560756737 ========== "Imports, not exports, are the point of international trade" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/19/opinion/putin-russia-sanctions-ukraine.html #PS1trade ===== impress 24 time 2022-05-20 01:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1527457468002861056 ========== It's the same in every time and place - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#putin Fascism is a Triumph of the Will over Enlightenment reason - the will of one man. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/19/opinion/russia-fascism-ukraine-putin.html #PS1theory ===== engage 1 engage-rate 6% impress 18 likes 1 time 2022-05-20 01:10 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1527456614843682816 ========== How white supremacists became mainstream thanks to Dixiecrats, Tucker Carlson, et al. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/19/opinion/sunday/buffalo-oprah-winfrey-tucker-carlson.html Fox wouldn't be behind it if it weren't profitable. #PS1media ===== impress 29 time 2022-05-20 01:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1527454739406811136 ========== The GOP has no clue about inflation. They can't fix China's covid policies or undo the damage to Ukraine. They won't say what they'd do instead. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/05/19/republicans-have-no-plan-to-lower-inflation-prices/ But they'll blame the Democrats no matter what. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/pfbid04nMNXLNvURbaTgjsncaRJYaXwcSc2Fe5V7NGNwBot81oapFB2c8QagyYYaDYpqU6l #PS1gop ===== impress 41 time 2022-05-20 00:46 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1527450564027527168 ========== "Is this country prepared for any crisis requiring communal action" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/05/19/covid-million-americans-dead-complacency-ideology/ Millions of Americans would rather die, or infect other people, than admit they were wrong. Thank mass media for that. #PS1virus ===== engage 1 engage-rate 5% impress 20 likes 1 time 2022-05-20 00:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1527447397105668096 ========== American leadership is at a zenith abroad and a nadir at home. https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/19/opinions/us-leadership-thriving-abroad-different-story-at-home-ghitis/index.html #PS1foreign ===== impress 18 time 2022-05-20 00:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1527445842012999680 ========== Were there or weren't there Capitol tours on Jan 5? https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/19/politics/barry-loudermilk-capitol-tour-january-6/index.html #PS1insurrection ===== impress 20 time 2022-05-20 00:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1527444709458649089 ========== Red state legislatures demand that investors ignore the future. https://apnews.com/article/technology-cultures-climate-and-environment-government-politics-37bd9e4894541275982a7ff99089cc7e Their ideological forebears would have demanded that investors ignore the uses to which Zyklon B was put. #PS1climate ===== impress 19 time 2022-05-20 00:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1527443349937852416 ========== There's no there there. https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-steve-bannon-voting-donald-trump-a56558112632ff2bfb21667e512c84c9 But she's still under indictment, and still running for Secretary of State. #PS1insurrection ===== impress 17 time 2022-05-20 00:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1527441780886474752 ========== Why bad content never goes away - https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/18/tech/4chan-buffalo-shooting-accountability/index.html There's always somebody that will host it for money. #PS1media ===== impress 24 time 2022-05-19 17:53 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1527346681246732302 ========== Russia keeps fighting via internet. https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/19/politics/pro-russia-disinformation-report/index.html #PS1russian ===== impress 29 time 2022-05-19 17:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1527345302998437891 ========== Nothing ever happens about unlimited dark campaign money, a pillar of GOP minority rule, and not a few Democratic politicians too. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#corporate%20donations Isn't a massacre each month a cheap price to pay to fund campaigns? https://arcamax.com/politics/opeds/s-2677464 #PS1firearms ===== engage 1 engage-rate 4% impress 24 time 2022-05-19 17:40 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1527343536672104450 ========== It's hard to keep a secret if you use the internet. https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/05/19/opinion-i-hid-my-pregnancy-from-the-internet-online-pregnancy-is-nearly-impossible/ Nothing is free on the internet; you're paying for it with your personal data. #PS1technology ===== impress 27 time 2022-05-19 17:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1527340537258266625 ========== Inflation likely to get worse in the short run https://au.news.yahoo.com/chicken-wings-34-pent-inflation-140006054.html Producer prices have been rising faster than consumer prices, but that won't last. There isn't much US can do about covid in China and war in Ukraine. Lost production is gone forever. #PS1inflation ===== impress 45 time 2022-05-19 17:20 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1527338350843027465 ========== As Dixiecrats migrated to and eventually took over the Republican Party, they brought fantasy politics with them. So GOP voodoo economics did not lead to GOP replacement theory - the poison was already there. https://greeleytribune.net/from-voodoo-economics-to-maga-buffalo-mass-shooting/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/pfbid02FP6Srvt8qJHUHJWRoFyadGozMgjj5JB2dBGVDJEyqDftdYYN7sWLsW8J52GyDmuol #PS1gop ===== engage 2 engage-rate 6% impress 34 likes 2 time 2022-05-19 16:46 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1527329981969227780 ========== California's top-2 method is a small improvement over partisan primaries and caucuses, but it still allows kingmakers to discourage candidates that might "split the vote". https://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/ap_news/nicholas-goldberg-a-decade-ago-california-adopted-a-strange-top-two-primary-system-hows-it/article_15ee9cc8-b9a4-52fb-9c03-7052e932fc84.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/pfbid02mZBksSsS7iHAt9LJa5wibYRMevT3twfntMNg1ELU9ZnLgky2AGfpsf4FYx3RbM7Dl #PS1democracy ===== impress 28 time 2022-05-19 16:21 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1527323622364176397 ========== George Wallace - one of the prophets of the Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP. https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/interactive/2022/george-wallace-trump-white-anger/?itid=hp-top-table-main #PS1trumpism ===== impress 23 time 2022-05-19 14:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1527288699699875841 ========== Why we need a wealth tax. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/musk-loses-12-billion-day-210911453.html When people get too rich, their antics affect other people's money. Other people's money is a pillar of Trumpism, so no surprise Musk is now a Republican. #PS1media ===== engage 1 engage-rate 4% impress 24 likes 1 time 2022-05-19 12:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1527264851529084931 ========== Understanding "pro-life" Republicans - "Pro-life" means criminalizing abortion for poor people who can't afford to travel. "Pro-life" also means doing nothing once children are born, since that would mean taxing the political donor class. https://www.timesleader.com/opinion/op-ed/1556215/jackie-calmes-republican-pro-life-advocacy-ends-with-a-childs-birth #PS1health ===== impress 24 time 2022-05-19 04:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1527139827602247680 ========== It's OK to ignore campaign finance laws - if you're a Trumpist! https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-campaigns-brad-parscale-0a8013b0b787bacd0ac0a8bf4dcf8b42 https://apnews.com/article/us-supreme-court-elections-campaigns-government-and-politics-ted-cruz-a4905abe71982ec1fef0e5c7ef183b95 #PS1democracy ===== impress 22 time 2022-05-19 04:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1527138470539382784 ========== Raising taxes reduces the deficit and inflation - a little. But it doesn't change China's covid policies or OPEC's price of oil. https://apnews.com/article/biden-elon-musk-technology-government-and-politics-227a7b84f162e79afa04e861c11fe201 Raising taxes on corporations is popular with voters, but not with major political donors - so don't expect much. #PS1tax ===== impress 36 time 2022-05-19 03:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1527129625377198080 ========== A lawyer that well merits disbarment - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/18/us/politics/ted-cruz-disbarment-2020-election.html #PS1insurrection ===== impress 17 time 2022-05-19 03:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1527125346687954944 ========== Hedge funds win again? "they could cash out on the backs of retail" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/18/technology/terra-luna-cryptocurrency-do-kwon.html Too bad for retail speculators - as usual! #PS1economics ===== engage 1 engage-rate 5% impress 19 likes 1 time 2022-05-19 03:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1527124717957574656 ========== Does Fetterman have what it takes in Pennsylvania? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/18/opinion/john-fetterman-pennsylvania-democratic-party.html Can he appeal to rural whites AND urban blacks? #PS1election ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 37 time 2022-05-19 03:05 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1527123219538317312 ========== How can populism be kept away from becoming authoritarian cult of personality? So far there's no clear answer. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/18/opinion/doug-mastriano-republicans-constitution.html #PS1theory ===== impress 19 time 2022-05-19 03:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1527122013915033600 ========== Trump is right! Cawthorn deserves a second chance! https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/trump-says-scandal-ridden-madison-150547869.html A second chance at finding a college! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madison_Cawthorn#Early_life_and_education He'll be happier away from the pressure of Congress, which is not really reality-TV. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/18/opinion/madison-cawthorn-republicans.html #PS1trumpism ===== engage 1 engage-rate 5% impress 22 time 2022-05-19 02:54 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1527120552409694209 ========== Insurrectionists were all over the place before and after. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/17/senior-trump-official-state-met-with-election-denial-activists-jan-6/ #PS1insurrection ===== impress 17 time 2022-05-19 01:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1527105783095128065 ========== Before QAnon and anti-vaxxers there were UFO zealots. They haven't gone away - except to Congress. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/05/17/congress-ufo-hearing-disinformation-conspiracy-theories/ #PS1theory ===== impress 33 time 2022-05-19 01:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1527103497006510081 ========== If you believe the "well regulated militia" clause was meaningless window dressing, then "the right of the people to keep and bear arms" must be absolute - any person of any age may bear any arms in any place at any time for any purpose. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/05/18/gun-rights-assault-weapons-teenagers/ #PS1firearms ===== impress 18 time 2022-05-19 01:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1527102330784534528 ========== OK boomers - time to move on! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/05/17/old-baby-boomers-resign-gergen/ Candidates for president, in particular, shouldn't be over 60 - if they serve for 8 exhausting years, they'll be 76 in normal years by the end of their second term - too old. #PS1theory ===== impress 20 time 2022-05-19 01:37 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1527101185131393024 ========== Surprise! Trump retaliates against those who oppose him. The only right or wrong is whether you support Trump. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/05/18/yevgeny-vindman-trump-inspector-general/ #PS1trump ===== impress 21 time 2022-05-19 01:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1527098852897005569 ========== Iran hasn't gone away. But Biden is too weak to do what's necessary. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/05/17/carl-bildt-javier-solana-revive-iran-nuclear-deal/ #PS1mideast ===== impress 22 time 2022-05-19 01:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1527097977562550272 ========== The lesson of the primaries - the GOP is moving further right. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/05/18/tuesday-primaries-show-that-trumpism-has-metastasized/ Even nominating insurrectionists. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/05/18/doug-mastriano-insurrectionist/ #PS1trumpism ===== impress 22 time 2022-05-19 01:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1527097258499379201 ========== Trumpism in action - no need to count votes! Trump's man won, and if he didn't, it must be election fraud! https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/18/politics/trump-dr-oz-pa-senate-primary/index.html But what if ALL the candidates in a primary are Trumpists? #PS1trump ===== impress 63 time 2022-05-19 01:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1527095768020004865 ========== Livestreaming crimes - another gift of technology that technologists never dreamed of. https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/17/tech/twitch-buffalo-shooting/index.html #PS1media ===== engage 1 engage-rate 4% impress 23 time 2022-05-18 14:04 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1526926671554613249 ========== Laws don't apply if you're rich enough. https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/17/business/elon-musk-rules/index.html #PS1other ===== impress 12 time 2022-05-18 13:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1526925270883573760 ========== So much for the mighty Trump wall. https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/17/us/california-border-tunnel-cocaine-arrests-intl/index.html #PS1other ===== impress 14 time 2022-05-18 13:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1526924388561367040 ========== Hard times again in North Korea https://apnews.com/article/covid-health-government-and-politics-seoul-south-korea-1b9087337475c3a9b5eb83df05e2a966 https://apnews.com/article/covid-health-government-and-politics-south-korea-north-07e3aa5c1b6bce2323c8621c05a61ea4 #PS1foreign ===== engage 1 engage-rate 6% impress 17 replies 1 time 2022-05-18 05:54 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1526803495197605888 ========== Why mass murders persist - https://apnews.com/article/buffalo-supermarket-shooting-technology-shootings-b2291cdeb1645f4c37025dff36617fc2 It's the celebrity - how else can a loser get to be front page news? Trump sets the example - nothing matters but the ratings - are spending the rest of one's life as a loser or in prison equally bad? #PS1firearms ===== engage 1 engage-rate 4% impress 23 likes 1 time 2022-05-18 05:46 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1526801419306561536 ========== Musk's method of re-negotiating price. https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-technology-a71c76ed753b144f4aee081df5ab707c Or maybe he's figured out that he really doesn't bring anything new to Twitter. #PS1media ===== impress 9 time 2022-05-18 05:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1526799735759155200 ========== Of course rich Trumpists do whatever they need to do to protect their business interests! They don't need to comply with any laws. https://apnews.com/article/government-and-politics-china-lawsuits-donald-trump-lobbying-39f30c1b3dd32e6b2ef122301817c156 #PS1trumpism ===== engage 1 engage-rate 10% impress 10 likes 1 time 2022-05-18 05:36 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1526798753373384704 ========== The Afghan collapse was triggered by Trump's deal with Taliban. The Afghan government realized the US would no longer defend them. Trump was lucky not to be president when the collapse happened. https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-biden-government-and-politics-donald-trump-7cef514c6cc96848f61a9e8b7fcdf263 #PS1afghanistan ===== impress 14 time 2022-05-18 05:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1526797927653396480 ========== Trump's score so far tonight - Wins Mastriano, PA governor Budd, NC senator Losses Cawthorn, NC congressional representative McGeachin, ID governor Tossups Oz, PA senator https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/primary-election-results-pennsylvania-north-carolina-2022/index.html #PS1election ===== engage 2 engage-rate 2% impress 87 time 2022-05-18 05:22 +0000 urlclicks 2 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1526795283417313281 ========== Voting today? https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1655313134813199 What will it mean? https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/17/politics/primary-elections-may-17-what-to-watch/index.html #PS1election ===== impress 20 time 2022-05-17 12:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1526543341319401472 ========== Being Uyghur is a crime https://apnews.com/article/china-terrorism-c90fcc319775278d91da70e8bbe7c226 #PS1china ===== impress 58 time 2022-05-17 04:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1526423729294561280 ========== Bird flu just more fodder for conspiracists. https://apnews.com/article/covid-science-health-c24347e917b2ef3bd8389c42bd118136 They'll make up anything to exploit current events. #PS1media ===== impress 29 time 2022-05-17 04:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1526422279504113664 ========== Minority rule is a problem for America - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html And for EU and NATO too - https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/16/opinions/putin-allies-orban-erdogan-europe-andelman/index.html One that Putin exploits. #PS1democracy ===== impress 30 time 2022-05-17 04:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1526415102160687105 ========== How America got to a million covid deaths. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/05/13/us/covid-deaths-us-one-million.html A quarter of those victims might be alive today if other states had done the same things as California - https://extras.mercurynews.com/millionth/ Even more if SF Bay Area rules had been imposed elsewhere. #PS1virus ===== impress 34 time 2022-05-17 03:23 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1526403002990358531 ========== Alito is no champion of democracy. The reactionaries on the Supreme Court strike blows against democracy at every opportunity. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/13/opinion/overturning-roe-democracy-equality.html #PS1democracy ===== impress 42 time 2022-05-17 02:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1526396293169328128 ========== Most rich people own medium-sized businesses. That's why the tax system rewards them - they are rich enough to afford major political donations. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/14/opinion/sunday/rich-happiness-big-data.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/pfbid0CeJVzXqb4QYdcYPbyryAo9ks5Yh9wuRornF7ve2ZRaUTapE3ssWJs9TVXxL2FMrXl #PS1other ===== impress 18 time 2022-05-17 02:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1526392496170754048 ========== Ultra-MAGA - who benefits from that label? The main claim seems to be that America WAS great under Trump, so all MAGA means is re-elect Trump - or some other Trumpist - no questions asked. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/13/biden-ultra-maga/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/pfbid029uQCYRoLr6miUkzK34hv7dyKe1hnuxfFmutFuHo95kWnRcQwobvA24xWacHpNnfql #PS1trumpism ===== impress 16 time 2022-05-17 02:31 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1526389991756079104 ========== Nothing new about mass murders of minorities - https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/05/16/replacement-theory-white-supremacy-banish-racist-gop-officials/ Nothing particularly American about it either - plenty of current precedents in other countries. “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men should do nothing.” #PS1 ===== impress 20 time 2022-05-17 01:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1526374968249835520 ========== How hate and violence migrate from the fringe to the mainstream. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/05/16/republicans-far-right-group-statistics/ #PS1insurrection ===== impress 16 time 2022-05-17 01:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1526373338976636930 ========== The Trumpist wing of the GOP is moving away from defending democracy. Lindbergh would have been proud. Trump is going to have to decide whether to sprint to keep up with them. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/14/antiukraine-republicans/ #PS1trumpism ===== impress 20 time 2022-05-17 01:15 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1526370813360099328 ========== Insurrectionists are hoping to sweep the GOP primaries in Pennsylvania on May 17. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/15/leading-gop-candidates-pennsylvania-were-washington-jan-6/ #PS1insurrection ===== impress 26 time 2022-05-17 01:10 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1526369568523816960 ========== What's the polar opposite of the Enlightenment ideals of America's founders? https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#rule-of-law The reactionary theorist behind a reactionary dictator. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/05/12/dugin-russia-ukraine-putin/ #PS1theory ===== impress 16 time 2022-05-17 00:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1526366818700447744 ========== Can the Enlightenment ideals of America's founders survive? https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/05/13/fukuyama-rachman/ #PS1theory ===== impress 20 time 2022-05-17 00:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1526364628736876544 ========== Musk's road to Mars - and why Twitter is more than a minor speed bump. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/05/14/musk-twitter-deal-legacy/ He thinks most problems are technical in nature, rather than human in nature. #PS1 ===== impress 17 time 2022-05-17 00:43 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1526362845109051394 ========== Theodore Bilbo - a man who, 70 years in advance, knew more about Trumpism than Trump does. Many revisionist Trumpists are trumpeting the Great Replacement Theory. https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2022/05/15/great-replacement-theory-buffalo-bilbo/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/pfbid0QZVYKyv6sTXTrFmVEmnGcBNRRP8Wu1W9L9eUChtmYCKMW16u2C4Kqj2zuonPHnSjl #PS1trumpism ===== impress 51 time 2022-05-16 18:03 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1526262073063137280 ========== What if other people start defining Trumpism? https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#revisionist Waterloo, Georgia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterloo,_Georgia maybe a good place for Trump to hold a rally for Perdue. https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/13/politics/trump-georgia-primary-gop-status/index.html #PS1trump ===== engage 1 engage-rate 5% impress 21 time 2022-05-16 17:25 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1526252535543001089 ========== Which candidate sounds the most like Trump? One he didn't endorse! https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/14/politics/kathy-barnette-pennsylvania-republican-senate/index.html #PS1trumpism ===== impress 18 time 2022-05-16 17:10 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1526248861479469058 ========== California water mostly goes to agriculture. Taking shorter showers won't help much. https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/15/us/california-water-usage-increase-drought-climate/index.html #PS1capolitics ===== impress 17 time 2022-05-16 17:07 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1526247984542863361 ========== What changed Finland's mind? https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/14/opinions/finland-nato-russia-invasion-heinonen/index.html Security through peaceful trade proved a false god. #PS1putin ===== impress 24 time 2022-05-16 17:03 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1526246858406133760 ========== Another gift to GOP - an issue that they can blame on Biden and don't have to come up with a credible solution of their own. https://apnews.com/article/biden-health-texas-elections-bb1e02dc5c0436e17284e03eb299b527 More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/pfbid02VpqsBRFoAENC8B8bVaajWU5GDtZvnhA9z8gFqdc7xsKAHtEGyZqHTdNBSYnUGXN5l #PS1election ===== impress 16 time 2022-05-16 06:26 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1526086764498018304 ========== Trump endorses a true Trumpist insurrectionist for governor. https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-pennsylvania-donald-trump-election-2020-a11442ea2ef35ae27f50c5f940069193 Democrats should hope he wins the primary. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 20 time 2022-05-16 06:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1526084065140494336 ========== GOP intends to install reactionary judges to support its minority rule in the states as well as the Federal judiciary. https://apnews.com/article/abortion-2022-midterm-elections-us-supreme-court-raleigh-9233470c6557fff307a24cd97db3453c #PS1justice ===== impress 14 time 2022-05-16 06:12 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1526083204494422016 ========== What's uniquely good about Twitter - and what's uniquely bad - https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-mlb-technology-entertainment-sports-83d5da9480807d2841eba47f98aa0ea4 It would be easy to get rid of the good, but nobody has figured out how to get rid of the bad. #PS1media ===== impress 13 time 2022-05-16 06:10 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1526082541366652928 ========== It's remarkable that Trump endorsed a Muslim and Turkish citizen. https://apnews.com/article/abortion-2022-midterm-elections-pennsylvania-religion-primary-7731ebe00e378a59294396cc6eb1b7a3 It's unremarkable that other Trumpists are making an issue of it. #PS1gop ===== impress 20 time 2022-05-16 06:06 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1526081622684012544 ========== Putin's greatest achievement - expanding NATO. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-middle-east-finland-public-opinion-3b04a7217c8aa11ffb925885b1c3ca8a Moldova and Georgia have expressed interest too. #PS1putin ===== impress 47 time 2022-05-16 06:03 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1526080976723382272 ========== GOP convinced voters to vote in person rather than by mail. https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-covid-health-georgia-united-states-2037755d325dd5d6a650fea3ff2e073e They were hoping, of course, to discourage as many voters as possible from voting at all. #PS1election ===== impress 17 time 2022-05-16 06:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1526080587592650752 ========== Trump can't announce his candidacy in 2024 yet, to avoid inconvenient campaign finance reporting laws, but is he going to turn down such a money-making opportunity, even if he loses? Melania won't. https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/15/politics/melania-trump-reelection-nft-auction/index.html #PS1trump ===== impress 25 time 2022-05-16 06:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1526080019436449794 ========== Several not-very-good-ways to encourage House members to answer subpoenas. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/13/jan-6-panels-historic-subpoenas-house-gopers-whats-next/ #PS1insurrection ===== impress 13 time 2022-05-16 05:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1526078816791040002 ========== Some people who are supposed to protect election integrity actively undermine it. GOP is trying to install as many as possible for 2024. https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2022/05/13/coffee-county-misty-hampton-election/ #PS1election ===== impress 14 time 2022-05-16 05:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1526076886995959813 ========== Surprising numbers of GOP leaders are willing to starve babies of illegal immigrants, despite existing laws and treaties. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/05/13/greg-abbott-cant-take-formula-from-migrant-babies-to-feed-americans-he-shouldnt-try/ Even if they know it's not going to happen, they're happy to get the publicity to support their political ambitions. #PS1trumpism ===== engage 1 engage-rate 5% impress 21 likes 1 time 2022-05-13 23:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1525252444791271425 ========== "As long as they’re fighting and complaining, they’re getting their way" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/05/13/texas-social-media-law-shows-republicans-debased-courts/ That helps conceal the real agenda - "overturning Roe v. Wade, expanding gun rights, undermining civil rights protections, eliminating campaign finance regulations" etc. #PS1media ===== impress 22 time 2022-05-13 23:07 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1525251327806255104 ========== Not everbody buys Trump's endorsements. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/13/trump-endorsements-undermined/ #PS1trump ===== impress 14 time 2022-05-13 22:53 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1525247991442907138 ========== Ordinary people don't get elected to Congress because ordinary people can't afford to run. https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/13/opinions/inflation-katie-porter-democrats-hemmer/index.html #PS1democracy ===== engage 2 engage-rate 17% impress 12 likes 1 time 2022-05-13 22:43 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1525245375514152960 ========== GOP plans to blame Pelosi for Jan 6 insurrection. They'll hold hearings as long as the cameras keep coming, even if they never find anything. https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/13/politics/nancy-pelosi-subpoenas-january-6/index.html But first they plan to set a precedent of ignoring subpoenas of members of Congress. #PS1insurrection ===== impress 14 time 2022-05-13 22:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1525242933691047936 ========== That was the week that wasn't. https://apnews.com/article/immigration-abortion-us-supreme-court-science-health-427f09ddea476ce1da65b990c9371a50 #PS1media ===== impress 14 time 2022-05-13 15:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1525131731027693568 ========== Money is the mother's milk of politics - you can buy any candidate you want! https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/12/trailer-empire-strikes-back-wave-pac-money-buries-left-wing-democrats Democrats have their own internal divisions about how to best survive the next two years. #PS1democracy ===== impress 12 time 2022-05-13 14:07 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1525115510114750464 ========== Pence to rally for Kemp. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/pence-backs-georgias-kemp-in-opposition-to-trump/ar-AAXeBH9 Pence is definitely not working for Trump any more. #PS1gop ===== impress 13 time 2022-05-13 13:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1525113412950183936 ========== Neural Networks are reaching their limits in Artificial Intelligence - practical - https://theconversation.com/it-takes-a-lot-of-energy-for-machines-to-learn-heres-why-ai-is-so-power-hungry-151825 theoretical - https://sinews.siam.org/Details-Page/proving-existence-is-not-enough-mathematical-paradoxes-unravel-the-limits-of-neural-networks-in-artificial-intelligence But for purposes of repression, low-accuracy surveillance might be a feature rather than a bug. #PS1other ===== impress 14 time 2022-05-13 13:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1525111119278272513 ========== How big is the Madison Cawthorn base? https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-social-media-north-carolina-219902ac8442fbe1f1b85a7736370222 Maybe not as big as Trump's. #PS1trumpism ===== engage 2 engage-rate 12% impress 17 time 2022-05-13 12:58 +0000 urlclicks 2 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1525098049910865920 ========== Maybe he never really meant it after all. Didn't he do due diligence first? https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-technology-social-media-64b8534f53aa0213fbfd2245bacd6109 What will the SEC think? #PS1media ===== impress 14 time 2022-05-13 12:54 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1525097207799504897 ========== Just in case you missed it - https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2021/jan-6-insurrection-capitol/ There's no excuse for not knowing what really happened on Jan 6. https://apnews.com/article/pulitzer-prizes-7ef78b613b59f8d8fdc7aa0e65bfe10d More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1660763677601478 #PS1insurrection ===== impress 13 time 2022-05-13 12:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1525094190194888704 ========== Voting in the Republican primary? What do the candidates really believe? Are they - Trumpists? https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#trump Traditional Republicans? https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#gop Rule-of-Law Republicans? https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#rule-of-law More here - https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1655313134813199 #PS1gop ===== impress 14 time 2022-05-13 12:38 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1525093232803082240 ========== In 2019 Trumpists pretended to be outraged by the idea that American history started in 1619. But this was old news in reactionary Virginia school textbooks in 1957 and civil rights speeches in 1965. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/1619/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1656318428046003 #PS1theory ===== impress 16 time 2022-05-13 12:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1525091764347908096 ========== How much longer will Trump own Trumpism? https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/13/politics/trump-maga-republicans-primaries/index.html He has plenty of would-be successors looking for their chance. #PS1trump ===== impress 17 time 2022-05-13 04:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1524970707305697280 ========== Entertainment celebrities find Twitter not worth the trouble. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/05/12/twitter-celebrities-musk/ #PS1media ===== impress 15 time 2022-05-13 03:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1524955637469179904 ========== ICE surveillance of everybody. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-05-10/report-immigration-officials-spying-on-majority-of-americans #PS1justice ===== impress 17 time 2022-05-13 03:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1524950322212286465 ========== The bloom is off technology startups. https://bdnews24.com/technology/2022/05/11/fear-and-loathing-return-to-us-tech-startups #PS1economics ===== impress 13 time 2022-05-13 03:03 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1524948463040884736 ========== Crypto is just another high-tech stock gamble. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/11/technology/bitcoin-price-crashing-stocks.html #PS1technology ===== impress 14 time 2022-05-13 03:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1524947720674299905 ========== Want more workers? Provide more child care! https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/11/business/child-care-work-force.html #PS1economics ===== impress 15 time 2022-05-13 02:57 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1524946941708161025 ========== Want to do something about campaign finance? https://americanpromise.net/ Senate campaigns cost tens of millions of dollars. Georgia alone will be over $80 million. https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/12/politics/battle-senate-control-midterms/index.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/pfbid029jtydPJM3XHSXhVToGanSZEKbE5JvzxNLttPtgZphT7sCoW45k6KK8SVRBvq1EnLl #PS1democracy ===== impress 20 time 2022-05-13 00:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1524910861801861120 ========== Corrupt politicians have always lied, cheated, and stolen. Is technology making it worse by making it more efficient? https://nytimes.com/2022/05/12/opinion/marcos-philippines-putin-trump.html #PS1media ===== impress 12 time 2022-05-13 00:14 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1524905850715840513 ========== Corrupt politicians have always lied, cheated, and stole. Is technology making it worse by making it more efficient? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/12/opinion/marcos-philippines-putin-trump.html #PS1media ===== impress 2 time 2022-05-12 23:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1524899716097462272 ========== Oligolopy - the downside of index funds. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/12/opinion/vanguard-power-blackrock-state-street.html If one person held all the stock of all the companies in the world, we'd agree that was bad. So how many such persons does it take before it's not bad? #PS1economics ===== impress 20 time 2022-05-12 23:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1524898537430913025 ========== Is DeSantis really a revisionist Trumpist? https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#revisionist or really just a traditional Republican in disguise? https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#gop So what's the future of Trumpism and GOP? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/12/opinion/ron-desantis-conservatism.html #PS1trumpism ===== impress 25 time 2022-05-12 23:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1524897023987548161 ========== DOJ looking into how classified documents got to Mar-a-Lago. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/12/us/politics/justice-department-trump-classified.html #PS1trump ===== impress 17 time 2022-05-12 23:31 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1524894987506184192 ========== Crypto markets tank - https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/12/investing/luna-terra-stablecoin-explained/index.html Even as crypto CEO's and investors spread cash far and wide in DC. https://apnews.com/article/cryptocurrency-technology-congress-b93f1f2dc4971a16af8133e24ebd9bb5 So far crypto is mainly useful for criminals and scammers. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/pfbid02zkCXwFftdSLAfwAvhTSmXtpARBFaGaYGT3AfqaM3TY24n9pdKDSdSaGKpX8mRwXfl #PS1economics ===== engage 1 engage-rate 4% impress 24 replies 1 time 2022-05-12 23:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1524894159387078656 ========== It's hard to keep the Trumpists straight. Even for the Trumpists! https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/12/politics/kfile-kathy-barnette-bigoted-statements/index.html They all sound either deranged or deceitful. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 16 time 2022-05-12 23:04 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1524888284156964868 ========== Ukraine is starting to look a lot like Syria. That's no accident. https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/12/world/russia-general-ukraine-syria-cluster-bombs-intl-cmd/index.html Putin just wants victory. He doesn't care how. He selects generals that agree. #PS1ukraine ===== impress 33 time 2022-05-12 23:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1524887254677630976 ========== Rand Paul stands up decisively - for Rand Paul. https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/12/politics/rand-paul-blocks-ukraine-aid/index.html It's not a futile gesture if it gets reported in the media. That's why bipartisanship so rarely works these days. #PS1gop ===== impress 33 time 2022-05-12 22:52 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1524885365969981441 ========== So what if 59,000 workers died? Lots of them were immigrants, legal or illegal, and easily replaced. https://apnews.com/article/covid-trump-meat-health-restrictions-0800b4a4e1af64eec53015c38a42a05d Embracing deregulation, important to major donors, is certainly a greater GOP virtue than protecting workers, who seldom donate. #PS1deregulation ===== engage 1 engage-rate 5% impress 19 time 2022-05-12 22:31 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1524880001992376320 ========== Another Kentucky Derby in Pennsylvania - https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/12/politics/trump-oz-barnette-pennsylvania/index.html The dark horse is gaining in the stretch and may pass the two leaders who've crippled each other. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 23 time 2022-05-12 14:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1524756800070815744 ========== Lots of people are feeling no pain. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/10/business/economy-boom-times.html But the gap between the pain-free haves and the pain-ridden have-nots is wider and growing wider faster than ever. #PS1economics ===== impress 21 time 2022-05-12 02:54 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1524583849715400704 ========== A coup in search of a legal theory. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/11/us/politics/john-eastman-trump-2020-election.html There's always theorists to support violent insurrectionists - from a safe distance. #PS1insurrection ===== impress 15 time 2022-05-12 02:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1524581581960085506 ========== Cutting taxes is NOT the solution to inflation. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/11/opinion/inflation-tax-cuts-desantis.html Promising to cut taxes for the average voter IS the solution to getting elected. Actually cutting taxes for the average major political donor IS the solution to getting re-elected. #PS1tax ===== engage 1 engage-rate 6% impress 16 likes 1 time 2022-05-12 02:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1524580175647674368 ========== 2000 Mules - a Triumph of the Will. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/11/2000-mules-offers-least-convincing-election-fraud-theory-yet/ Not a Triumph of the Facts. #PS1insurrection ===== impress 16 time 2022-05-12 02:12 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1524573194312581121 ========== All in on culture wars! https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/10/gop-culture-wars-midterms-biden/ If there's no constitutional right to privacy - then abortion, birth control, same-sex marriage, can all be criminalized. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/pfbid02sD955hwdcbjouMucSqfTgx4aD3MWxir7YEUWXcgjVhMgP9WPUsSZWcv47uazqLRal #PS1gop ===== impress 17 time 2022-05-12 02:04 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1524571087874318336 ========== Most the the NC GOP establishment would love to retire Cawthorn - the earlier the better. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/05/10/thom-tillis-madison-cawthorn-primary/ #PS1gop ===== impress 21 time 2022-05-12 00:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1524546930172329984 ========== Trump wanted to court-martial RETIRED generals for - disloyalty to Trump. Nobody in the armed forces ever swore an oath of loyalty to defend Trump. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/05/11/esper-book-trump-mchrystal-mcraven/ But Trump always viewed everybody in government or the GOP as his personal servants. #PS1trump ===== engage 3 engage-rate 13% impress 24 likes 2 retweets 1 time 2022-05-12 00:26 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1524546490420453376 ========== Why the Electoral Count Act needs to be fixed. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/05/11/john-eastman-emails-2024-trump-coup/ #PS1insurrection ===== impress 17 time 2022-05-12 00:21 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1524545246054387712 ========== Can Armenia come to terms with its neighbors? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/05/10/armenia-pashinyan-azerbaijan-turkey-diplomacy/ Can it be a model for Ukraine? #PS1foreign ===== impress 24 time 2022-05-12 00:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1524544576953872384 ========== Who needs debates or press conferences if you have campaign rallies, social media, and Fox? https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/09/media/midterm-campaigns-reliable-sources/index.html #PS1gop ===== impress 14 time 2022-05-12 00:07 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1524541747484798977 ========== How Putin sold Finland and Sweden on NATO. https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/10/europe/finland-nato-putin-analysis-intl-cmd/index.html #PS1putin ===== engage 2 engage-rate 3% impress 59 time 2022-05-11 23:48 +0000 urlclicks 2 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1524536950387994624 ========== Along with money laundering comes reputation laundering! https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/11/us/russian-oligarchs-philanthropy-ukraine-war-invs/index.html #PS1russian ===== impress 20 time 2022-05-11 23:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1524534805223772161 ========== Why can't Trump be on BOTH Truth and Twitter? https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/11/politics/elon-musk-donald-trump-twitter-truth-social/index.html How hard can it be to post the same fantasies on both? #PS1media ===== impress 23 time 2022-05-11 23:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1524531604114141184 ========== Baked Alaska can't decide if he's innocent or guilty, so will stand trial. https://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-alaska-riots-d62b4e1038d2c86a6976b43134f107a5 #PS1insurrection ===== impress 77 time 2022-05-11 23:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1524526794203824128 ========== What happens when people get too rich - they figure laws don't apply to them any more. https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-spacex-technology-2e6b0f2c2f70fdd07f853169e3515e3b #PS1media ===== impress 24 time 2022-05-11 22:57 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1524524173158010880 ========== The evidence keeps pouring in https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/11/politics/national-archives-trump-documents/index.html #PS1insurrection ===== engage 2 engage-rate 9% expands 2 impress 23 time 2022-05-11 22:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1524523618578751489 ========== They've got a little list - of society offenders that might well be above ground. https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/11/politics/jan-6-hearings-witness-list-preparations/index.html #PS1insurrection ===== impress 25 time 2022-05-11 16:20 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1524424255265333254 ========== What would it take to get Putin to stop? https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/11/politics/putin-biden-jfk-russia-ukraine/index.html And would he stop for any other reason than to rearm and reorganize for an encore? #PS1putin ===== impress 28 time 2022-05-11 14:10 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1524391421855162374 ========== Indicted Trumpists barred from interfering with elections. https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/10/politics/mesa-county-clerk-tina-peters-2022-elections-ban/index.html #PS1insurrection ===== impress 20 time 2022-05-11 14:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1524389568992083969 ========== Republican renegades oppose Trump. https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/11/politics/brian-kemp-georgia-pete-ricketts-chris-christie/index.html They're renegades because they stand for traditional GOP principles rather than cult of Trump. According to Trump, that makes them Republicans in Name Only, and he'd like to purge all of them. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 27 time 2022-05-11 14:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1524388874985697281 ========== Trumpery lives on - a widespread movement of corruption. https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/10/opinions/trumpery-oz-walker-2022-election-eisen-galliher/index.html #PS1trumpism ===== impress 23 time 2022-05-11 05:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1524265816937549825 ========== Everybody who participated in a fake elector certificate campaign was attempting to overthrow the United States government by unconstitutional means. But some are cooperating with investigations. https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/10/politics/georgia-trump-investigation-fake-electors-witness-interviews/index.html #PS1insurrection ===== impress 25 time 2022-05-11 05:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1524264537096024064 ========== McConnell won't say what GOP-controlled Senate would do, but Scott is not so shy. He speaks for all billionaire major GOP donors - reduce taxes and increase benefits for billionaires, increase taxes and decrease benefits for everybody else. https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/10/politics/rick-scott-joe-biden-resign/index.html #PS1gop ===== engage 1 engage-rate 4% impress 23 likes 1 time 2022-05-11 05:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1524263543457165314 ========== While "moderate" Trumpists worry that an unelectable fanatic will win the primary - https://apnews.com/article/abortion-2022-midterm-elections-covid-health-pennsylvania-854dc3d0559708896beffc40b35682b2 Trump wins one in WV - https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterms-west-virginia-congress-27b92b35719944ebf3c3bf65f0fb81f7 and loses one in NB - https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterms-nebraska-west-virginia-results-2310bff8fc215850bba672938013f059 #PS1trumpism ===== impress 34 time 2022-05-11 05:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1524261614324645888 ========== There is no compromise satisfactory to both Putin and Ukraine. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-europe-western-nato-a990adcad47a34764d64b03bdcd69f7b Like our Civil War, or like WWII, once a certain expenditure of blood and treasure has been made, it is not possible to accept less than a total victory to justify the sacrifice. #PS1ukraine ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% impress 47 likes 1 time 2022-05-11 05:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1524259935197925378 ========== Musk says Twitter will be much more even-handed - https://apnews.com/article/twitter-elon-musk-would-reverse-trump-ban-9e891601ca0a86a6b21c1d667c2cf5ba Meaning lies get equal standing with the truth? #PS1media ===== impress 21 time 2022-05-11 05:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1524258563694088192 ========== So much for crypto - and meme stocks - and companies built on them. https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/05/10/bitcoin-plummet-continues-now-at-half-its-november-high/ Crypto is sensitive to Fed quantitative tightening - not independent of government actions after all. #PS1technology ===== impress 41 time 2022-05-10 13:14 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1524015030617866240 ========== In red states is it always a victory for Trumpism? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/09/opinion/trump-nebraska-politics.html Shall reality-TV triumph over reality? #PS1trumpism ===== impress 33 time 2022-05-10 05:15 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1523894369664651264 ========== Musk can fire everybody he doesn't like but he still will have the problem of owning the unruly result. He'll be a fat target for litigation. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/05/09/twitter-lawyer-censor-musk/ #PS1media ===== impress 22 time 2022-05-10 05:03 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1523891562081521664 ========== Is Putin trapped on a road of no return? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/05/09/putin-victory-day-russia-ukraine-quagmire/ #PS1putin ===== impress 21 time 2022-05-10 05:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1523890681193762817 ========== If the Supreme Court decides there is no implied constitutional right to privacy, red state legislators will certainly run that ball as far as they can. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/09/gop-beyond-roe-restrictions/ Abortion is just the beginning. #PS1justice ===== impress 24 time 2022-05-10 04:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1523889803665715205 ========== Mark Meadows was at the center of Jan 6, but he's no longer cooperating with the investigation. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/09/inside-mark-meadowss-final-push-keep-trump-power/ #PS1insurrection ===== impress 25 time 2022-05-10 04:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1523888378864750592 ========== Trumpists have been around since 1619 under various names - no reason to expect them to go away any time soon. Their influence waxes and wanes. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/05/09/trump-trumpism-repubublican-success-popular-with-voters/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/pfbid0N1BWzssMRneqhvc9em9tm5hb5P5fjcsHEGqM4WtsumDtpMW8JqJKbgDbVaXwhvvKl #PS1trumpism ===== impress 20 time 2022-05-10 04:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1523887934578982912 ========== Henry de Bracton https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/05/09/alito-13th-century-law-roe-opinion-snl/ #PS1justice ===== impress 25 time 2022-05-10 04:36 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1523884598874152962 ========== Sir Matthew Hale https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/05/09/alito-roe-sir-matthew-hale-misogynist/ #PS1justice ===== impress 23 time 2022-05-10 04:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1523883222647468032 ========== A Victory Day for hackers. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/05/09/russia-tv-hack-victory-day-ukraine-war/ #PS1putin ===== engage 1 engage-rate 5% impress 22 time 2022-05-10 04:22 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1523881073507151874 ========== Criminal investigations work their way up from the bottom, as usual. https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/09/politics/oath-keepers-january-6-election-fraud-trump/index.html #PS1insurrection ===== impress 21 time 2022-05-10 04:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1523875984335728641 ========== Bad choices - for Perdue, for Trump. https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/09/politics/david-perdue-senate-republican-reaction/index.html #PS1trumpism ===== impress 21 time 2022-05-10 02:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1523857306898685952 ========== It's hard to make something out of nothing. https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/09/opinions/putin-may-9-victory-day-speech-ghitis/index.html But it's not as hard if you control all the media. #PS1putin ===== engage 1 engage-rate 5% impress 21 time 2022-05-10 02:42 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1523856058543865857 ========== Does pumped storage have a new lease on life? https://apnews.com/article/technology-science-business-michigan-lake-f977350c21788d2dcd62f7cef5b7c280 It depends on the relative economics vs battery storage. All energy generation methods have downsides. #PS1technology ===== impress 25 time 2022-05-09 22:10 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1523787486220087296 ========== No need to call Pence, no use to call Trump. https://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-ivanka-trump-biden-donald-elections-7f840bc863259b8465164bd28aa743a9 #PS1insurrection ===== impress 21 time 2022-05-09 14:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1523673019251535872 ========== TikTok danger? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/08/opinion/tiktok-twitter-china-bytedance.html #PS1media ===== impress 23 time 2022-05-09 05:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1523538660087373825 ========== North Korea has learned from Ukraine and is seizing the moment. It may even invade South Korea once it has credible nuclear deterrent against US and Japan. https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/08/asia/north-korea-nuclear-ukraine-war-lessons-intl-hnk/index.html #PS1foreign ===== impress 44 time 2022-05-09 04:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1523513658369712132 ========== Term limits for Supreme Court justices. https://www.arcamax.com/politics/opeds/s-2672926 Unfortunately that requires a constitutional amendment, probably impossible these days. Increasing the court size is not as good a solution, but it does not require an amendment. #PS1justice ===== impress 23 time 2022-05-09 00:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1523458344454742017 ========== Direct democracy - a good idea in 1911 that has gone bad under unlimited dark money - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#initiative Ballot initiatives that are too long and difficult to understand, with paid circulators - how does that help? https://www.kcrw.com/news/shows/zocalos-connecting-california/california-politics-direct-democracy-ballot-voters #PS1democracy ===== impress 21 time 2022-05-09 00:15 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1523456702795771906 ========== Another inflationary factor - not enough immigrants to do the work. https://apnews.com/article/immigration-covid-health-business-united-states-dcfd75981dcd212ef6747eeaf87f4f31 #PS1inflation ===== impress 27 time 2022-05-09 00:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1523454098216914945 ========== At Pennsylvania Trump rally, Vance gets better reception than Oz. https://vitalmethod.com/dr-oz-rallying-with-trump-in-pennsylvania-meets-a-damp-reception-the-new-york-times/ And Trump is quiet on abortion. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 33 time 2022-05-08 23:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1523452536488808448 ========== Inflationary pressures - Price gouging by foreign shipping companies? https://vitalmethod.com/american-importers-accuse-shipping-giants-of-profiteering-the-new-york-times/ Governments hoarding food by preventing exports? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/30/business/economy/global-food-prices-ukraine.html #PS1inflation ===== impress 23 time 2022-05-08 23:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1523450616474849281 ========== Texas Bar suing Paxton - for conduct unbecoming an attorney? https://apnews.com/article/biden-us-supreme-court-business-donald-trump-texas-a50f24ebf3b62f4e6ee23f1918683dc2 #PS1insurrection ===== engage 1 engage-rate 5% impress 20 time 2022-05-08 23:39 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1523447498093645824 ========== Who's going to get the blame for embarrassing Putin? https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/05/08/russia-ukraine-shoigu-putin/ #PS1putin ===== engage 2 engage-rate 11% impress 19 time 2022-05-08 21:20 +0000 urlclicks 2 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1523412450409738240 ========== On this day remember the original idea of Mother's Day "We, women of one country, will be too tender of those of another country, to allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother%27s_Day_Proclamation More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/pfbid02HG5bNfWhkjjBszuJA3FN9uW6rEPFPV3R8AiJhJ2bLReprhSkhmHi9uteKtZU1Fbnl #PS1other ===== engage 1 engage-rate 5% impress 19 likes 1 time 2022-05-08 18:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1523366856278437888 ========== About Trumpism - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#revisionist about traditional GOP - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#gop Democratic campaign strategy - a choice not a referendum. https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/08/politics/biden-democrats-midterm-elections-new-strategy/index.html If traditional GOP won't disown their fringe, then Democrats will make sure GOP owns it. #PS1election ===== impress 18 time 2022-05-08 14:06 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1523303402037399552 ========== QAnon will get you far in today's GOP. https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/08/politics/kfile-jr-majewski-jan-6-qanon-material/index.html #PS1qanon ===== impress 18 time 2022-05-08 13:57 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1523301162534924288 ========== The changing face of journalism. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-technology-business-europe-forensics-d1093d4ea4e98a3ae21850196847c6e1 What is the downside going to be? All disruptive new technologies have a negative aspect that will be exploited by malefactors that can figure them out. #PS1journalism ===== impress 20 time 2022-05-08 13:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1523297936129466368 ========== American reshoring means higher prices but more jobs for some Americans. But aging population means there won't be enough workers for those jobs - increasing wage pressure and inflation. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/03/business/economy/pandemic-supply-chains-inflation.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/pfbid023vsZ7mzLu4QqAexRyHAuyqAMoCbS4a1xSyTdmUrQFTFLDHUq9n98j18FpMG9eCMil #PS1inflation ===== impress 28 time 2022-05-08 06:48 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1523193091867348992 ========== Another fatal flaw in Russian planning. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/07/world/europe/russia-putin-ukraine-politicians.html Did Russians really think Ukrainians would resist foreign invaders in 2022 with less determination than Russians resisted foreign invaders in 1941? #PS1ukraine ===== engage 1 engage-rate 4% impress 25 likes 1 time 2022-05-08 06:36 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1523189970248241159 ========== Trump lawsuit successful! https://apnews.com/article/business-lawsuits-donald-trump-san-francisco-436deab188d30f8bab1eb0592de0d3d8 He used it for fundraising, and probably got way more than the legal fees, with the excess available - for other uses. 1st Amendment says "Congress shall make no law". It didn't say anything about social media. #PS1media ===== engage 1 engage-rate 5% impress 21 likes 1 time 2022-05-08 06:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1523185165035470848 ========== Why we need a quick way to avoid constitutional crises - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-crises.html Who says Trump can't be re-elected even if he's in jail? https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/56838/if-a-prisoner-runs-for-president-and-wins-do-they-stay-in-prison-while-elect Being in jail no bar to elected office! https://www.mlive.com/news/2022/05/indiana-republican-accused-of-killing-wife-wins-primary-from-his-jail-cell.html #PS1election ===== impress 28 time 2022-05-07 14:24 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1522945535270817793 ========== Advanced economies do need immigration to support their standard of living, because children are too expensive. https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-europe-st-louis-kabul-f59eaeb720c7529620faeb378a6cde09 #PS1immigration ===== engage 1 engage-rate 4% impress 25 likes 1 time 2022-05-07 13:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1522929800658128902 ========== "many of the Taliban, like Sirajuddin Haqqani, are educating their girls in Pakistan, while in Afghanistan women and girls have been targeted by their repressive edicts" https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-taliban-49b17d77d03022ad4817eeecf4f5da93 Some things are universal, such as laws for poor people! #PS1afghanistan ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% impress 60 likes 1 time 2022-05-07 13:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1522928750073028608 ========== Walking the Ukraine tightrope - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/06/opinion/biden-ukraine-leaks.html Loose lips sink strategies. #PS1ukraine ===== impress 50 time 2022-05-07 03:52 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1522786539893256192 ========== Bipartisan agreement - of two persons. But Trumpists don't agree. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/05/06/cheney-auchincloss-democracy-ukraine/ #PS1ukraine ===== impress 23 time 2022-05-07 03:46 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1522784988751532032 ========== Just what you'd expect from a Trumpist investigation. https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2022/05/06/hotze-texas-recording-ballots/ Of course Hotze lied about it. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 24 time 2022-05-07 03:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1522783870248050688 ========== Prohibit abortions? Not a winning campaign tactic in California. https://www.arcamax.com/politics/opeds/s-2672911 California GOP would rather talk about gas prices. #PS1gop ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% expands 1 impress 29 time 2022-05-06 21:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1522695483025616897 ========== Do the facts end the Ray Epps story? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/05/us/jan-6-ray-epps-evidence.html Not in Trump fantasyland! #PS1insurrection ===== impress 20 time 2022-05-06 21:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1522693176280031232 ========== "Dwindling Western commitment is part of Putin’s calculus" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/05/opinion/russia-ukraine-propaganda.html When GOP controls Congress, they will stop aid to Ukraine, since Trump opposes everything Biden does. Putin will do whatever he can to help Trumpists and Trump win elections. #PS1putin ===== impress 40 time 2022-05-06 21:20 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1522687855822213121 ========== Now the project that GOP have been setting up for decades is ready to bear fruit, to demolish any judicial precedents their donors find inconvenient. That's the real scandal. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/06/opinion/supreme-court-roe-dobbs-legitimacy.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/pfbid02dd5QicJDdB6DvjERqgrw5cjtc3pjAyeZxiaa15QVyyXhz1o4pqcZhMcR1FtwdoH7l #PS1justice ===== engage 1 engage-rate 6% impress 16 likes 1 time 2022-05-06 21:10 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1522685371208806400 ========== Caveman gets eight months. https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/06/politics/mostofsky-son-of-new-york-judge-rioter-caveman-sentenced/index.html #PS1insurrection ===== impress 13 time 2022-05-06 20:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1522678818699243520 ========== Epistemology - the Enlightenment struggle to define truth https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#rule-of-law never ended - amplified by new forms of mass media. https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/06/opinions/george-orwell-1984-beers/index.html #PS1media ===== impress 20 time 2022-05-06 15:38 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1522601726943014912 ========== That was the week that wasn't. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/not-real-news-a-look-at-what-didnt-happen-this-week/2022/05/06/7a68b5da-cd49-11ec-b7ee-74f09d827ca6_story.html #PS1media ===== impress 14 time 2022-05-06 15:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1522597684959342592 ========== Will THIS change the minds of those male anti-vaxxers that call covid a hoax? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/05/health/covid-impotence-erectile-dysfunction.html #PS1virus ===== impress 13 time 2022-05-06 14:04 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1522578037463601152 ========== If you overturn one precedent you don't like, you might as well overturn them all. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/05/us/abortion-precedent-alito.html #PS1justice ===== impress 15 time 2022-05-06 13:57 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1522576388129116162 ========== Carlson in 2024! https://carlson2024.com/ His audience ratings are higher than Trump's ever were, and his politics are even Trumpier, at least in his opinion, https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#revisionist So who needs Trump? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/05/06/tucker-carlson-bullies-fox-news-colleagues/ #PS1media ===== impress 13 time 2022-05-06 13:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1522574274036338691 ========== VPN's flourish under Putin. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/05/06/russia-vpn-putin-censorship-disinformation/ But paying for them is tricky. #PS1technology ===== impress 13 time 2022-05-06 13:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1522572214243004416 ========== Elections are rigged but you should vote anyway? https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-covid-entertainment-health-georgia-90b6af6a7f1f17d73b394a4bb0ff9586 Trumpist candidates never cared about internal contradictions. #PS1election ===== impress 13 time 2022-05-06 12:52 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1522559991294484485 ========== Stealing farm machinery didn't work because it could be remotely disabled. So they stole the grain. That's what the Russians love about the Chechens. Stalin did the same 80 years ago. https://cnn.com/2022/05/05/europe/russia-ukraine-grain-theft-cmd-intl/index.html #PS1ukraine ===== engage 2 engage-rate 5% impress 44 likes 1 time 2022-05-06 12:39 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1522556611830501376 ========== Why America's founders embraced the Enlightenment ideal of separation of church and state. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/05/05/kirill-bartholomew-orthodox-church-putin/ Now we have the Russian Orthodox Church supporting Russia and the Ukrainian Orthodox Church supporting Ukraine. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/pfbid0JGQ1XAt7aKtRyfzxLRMW2A1dLfpHCM5wzNjk1ZZE823FzWpZqmc1rDBjpN27uqYPl #PS1theory ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% impress 56 replies 1 time 2022-05-06 03:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1522421174042460161 ========== Trump's always full of unconventional ideas. https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/05/politics/donald-trump-missiles-mexico-drug-labs-esper-book/index.html Who cares who gets shot or bombed if they're not Trump supporters? #PS1trump ===== engage 4 engage-rate 22% impress 18 time 2022-05-06 03:28 +0000 urlclicks 3 userclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1522418119351832576 ========== Putin and his pals have stolen Russia's wealth and hidden it carefully all around the world in friendly jurisdictions like Cayman Islands, British Virgin Islands, maybe South Dakota and Wyoming. https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/05/politics/doj-kleptocapture-task-force-russian-assets-putin-oligarchs/index.html Can the US unravel it all? #PS1putin ===== impress 29 time 2022-05-06 03:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1522417628618235904 ========== Wagner Group is Putin's "plausible deniability" terrorist special operations force. https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/05/africa/russian-forces-executions-car-intl/index.html #PS1putin ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% impress 42 time 2022-05-06 03:12 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1522414015636418561 ========== US tells Ukraine some, but not all. https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/05/05/us-provided-intelligence-that-helped-ukraine-target-russian-warship/ #PS1ukraine ===== impress 27 time 2022-05-06 03:10 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1522413455222853634 ========== Greens elected Bush in 2000 and Trump in 2016. Libertarians elected Biden in 2020. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-election.html That's a good reason to avoid them https://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#registration Now we pay the price https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2022/05/05/pitts-america-is-paying-a-steep-price-for-staying-home-on-election-day/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/pfbid025nmdb57GmbxBmwnkyrKsRsULk3vpxj14Rq5voBcrNy3ytiyNADhMDefqgftGCUxzl #PS1democracy ===== engage 2 engage-rate 12% impress 17 time 2022-05-06 03:02 +0000 urlclicks 2 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1522411393617596416 ========== Big Conn in West Virginia. https://www.ocregister.com/2022/05/03/big-conn-has-a-memorable-villain-but-apple-tv-docuseries-tells-more-complex-story/ There's always money on the table if you can find the right angle to get it. #PS1other ===== impress 18 time 2022-05-06 02:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1522405762621870080 ========== Hypersonic missiles - a new saber to rattle. One for which there is no defense yet. They don't even need a warhead. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/04/politics/us-hypersonic-missile-test/index.html #PS1other ===== impress 13 time 2022-05-06 02:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1522403048093458432 ========== You can't destroy a people without destroying its history. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/04/opinions/putin-destroying-ukraine-history-archives-florea/index.html #PS1ukraine ===== impress 17 time 2022-05-06 02:24 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1522401791823937537 ========== Pride runs deep - https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/04/europe/russia-military-culture-brutality-intl/index.html Pride of murder, rape, and pillage. #PS1ukraine ===== impress 11 time 2022-05-06 02:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1522400488083255297 ========== Foreign investors starting to have doubts about China. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/25/investing/china-capital-outflows-covid-ukraine-war-intl-mic-hnk/index.html Too many potential problems at the moment. #PS1china ===== impress 16 time 2022-05-06 02:07 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1522397650644914176 ========== Nobody knows you when you're down and out - especially Trumpists! https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/25/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-testimony-ties-anthony-aguero/index.html #PS1trumpism ===== impress 12 time 2022-05-06 02:03 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1522396561023508481 ========== Congress working on 401k's. Will they make things simpler or more complicated? Better for minimum-wage workers or better for billionaires - who have quite sophisticated 401k plans. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/26/economy/401k-senate-congress-retirement-changes/index.html #PS1tax ===== impress 11 time 2022-05-06 01:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1522395288664563713 ========== Belarusan puppet dictator Lukashenko is surprised that Ukraine is taking longer than Putin said. Meanwhile his unsupporters act to help Ukraine - https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/04/23/ukraine-belarus-railway-saboteurs-russia/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/pfbid0soeY36DmhG6Ewa1aF1AR82v6q1JGeUfeP96pdpAtRu3YHUq2C3iHZ2U4GL7xhXjSl #PS1ukraine ===== impress 31 time 2022-05-06 01:03 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1522381602122190848 ========== LGBT are not an important GOP constituency. They should not be surprised to be sacrificed to excite the GOP voter base. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/04/23/republicans-lgbt/ GOP politicians speak to the most committed base, not to the center. #PS1gop ===== impress 13 time 2022-05-06 00:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1522379857300054016 ========== GOP legislators always remember where their campaign funds come from - from lowering taxes on billionaire GOP campaign donors - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#gop It's no contradiction when they put new taxes on people who are NOT major GOP donors! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/04/26/republicans-prioritize-culture-wars-even-over-low-taxes/ #PS1gop ===== impress 10 time 2022-05-06 00:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1522378222716944384 ========== Are you old enough to remember when the first internet bubble popped in 2000? No worries, you can watch it happen again! https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/05/opinion/crypto-nfts-web3.html Ultimately, you have to create value for SOMEbody. Even if it turns out to be the wrong SOMEbody. #PS1technology ===== impress 18 time 2022-05-06 00:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1522375618112868354 ========== How many liberal arts ought to figure in an MBA? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/05/opinion/business-schools-capitalism-mba.html Certainly a law degree - even from Yale or Harvard - doesn't seem to be enough preparation for a career in politics. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/pfbid02t4ibPqUWNqJcLagjCdEAhEfh9M6cZipf1grv7zJbDsDvXH3eGfYEFSrBXAYZqfXWl #PS1other ===== impress 23 time 2022-05-06 00:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1522374171761598464 ========== An up-or-down vote that all senators running for re-election will have to explain. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/05/us/politics/democrats-codify-roe.html #PS1health ===== impress 17 time 2022-05-05 22:21 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1522340845457838081 ========== Stealing farm machinery didn't work because it could be remotely disable. So they stole the grain. That's what the Russians love about the Chechens. Stalin did the same 80 years ago. https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/05/europe/russia-ukraine-grain-theft-cmd-intl/index.html #PS1ukraine ===== engage 1 engage-rate 6% impress 18 likes 1 time 2022-05-05 22:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1522338239377408001 ========== What's Dinesh D'Souza up to now that he's been pardoned by Trump? https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44321650 His same old tricks. https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-covid-technology-health-arizona-e1b49d2311bf900f44fa5c6dac406762 #PS1election ===== impress 12 time 2022-05-05 21:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1522334914074779649 ========== How GOP gerrymanders Democrats into retirement. https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/05/politics/jr-majewski-marcy-kaptur-ohio-what-matters/index.html #PS1democracy ===== engage 1 engage-rate 8% impress 13 time 2022-05-05 14:45 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1522226088541245441 ========== Can Russians be expelled from Ukraine before they kill all the Ukrainian soldiers? "quantity has a quality all its own" https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/04/opinions/bergen-repass-ukraine-interview/index.html Should NATO members be training and equipping additional brigades of Ukrainian soldiers? #PS1ukraine ===== impress 43 time 2022-05-05 14:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1522224873388404736 ========== Just the kind of nutcase that Democrats hoped would win the GOP primary! https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/04/us/elections/jr-majewski-ohio.html #PS1qanon ===== impress 14 time 2022-05-05 02:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1522045897495891969 ========== Money is the mother's milk of politics! https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/04/us/politics/jd-vance-trump-ohio-fox-news.html If you get enough money, you can get the rest. "Thiel’s $15 million appears to be the most ever spent by an individual megadonor to elect a single Senate candidate" #PS1trumpism ===== impress 18 time 2022-05-05 02:46 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1522045156202991616 ========== Not easy to be a Russian general. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/04/us/politics/russia-generals-killed-ukraine.html You have to go to the front to give a pep talk to the conscripts about the joy of murdering, raping, and pillaging - and dying - for Putin's glory. Too bad if a sniper knows where you will be and when. #PS1ukraine ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% impress 44 time 2022-05-05 02:37 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1522042740485201921 ========== Quislings are never that hard to find. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/05/04/ukraine-collaborators-chernihiv-fear-paranoia-villages/ Money works for some, threats for others. #PS1ukraine ===== impress 12 time 2022-05-05 02:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1522041060284780546 ========== Three violent insurrectionists hope to cut plea deals. They'll be expected to cooperate. https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/04/politics/michael-fanone-case-assault-plea-agreements/index.html #PS1insurrection ===== impress 17 time 2022-05-05 02:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1522040571329581057 ========== The future market for data about your sex life. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/05/04/abortion-digital-privacy/ If the data is there, somebody will monetize it. And somebody else will criminalize it. #PS1technology ===== impress 20 time 2022-05-05 00:43 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1522013995300835329 ========== It's going to be Benghazi all over again! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/05/04/hunter-biden-obsession-republicans-comer/ Even if they never find anything, they'll keep the hearings going as long as the TV cameras keep showing up. #PS1gop ===== impress 14 time 2022-05-05 00:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1522012986012962816 ========== Wouldn't you know it - there's ANOTHER McCarthy tape! https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/04/politics/mccarthy-audio-25th-amendment-biden/index.html #PS1insurrection ===== engage 1 engage-rate 7% impress 15 time 2022-05-05 00:33 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1522011499505483778 ========== Once the coup failed, Trump had no further interest in the failed insurrectionists- as would have been obvious to anybody who knew Trump. https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/04/politics/oath-keepers-wilson-rhodes/index.html The penalty for failure is prison time, and a slim chance of a pardon if Trump is re-elected. #PS1insurrection ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 32 likes 1 time 2022-05-05 00:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1522010913846403073 ========== Pro-life is not the essence of GOP's reactionary judge campaign. The real goal is reactionary decisions on taxes, deregulation, campaign finance, and voter suppression, to protect GOP's major donors. https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/04/opinions/supreme-court-abortion-conservatives-roe-stewart/index.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/pfbid02xj1gQCocFbiQx7MZCRrms3eqiXfnT7bEbsmjKFEipoFok7rBoBUeRXq3gomhbngil #PS1gop ===== engage 2 engage-rate 13% impress 16 likes 1 time 2022-05-05 00:25 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1522009523443044353 ========== The British Virgin Islands is a global capital for criminals and tax evaders. Why would their politicians be any different? https://apnews.com/article/business-lifestyle-miami-florida-smuggling-79a95237d39760c9406eb2466d9c9842 #PS1other ===== impress 14 time 2022-05-05 00:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1522003290350784512 ========== Trump Jr's turn. Will he talk or plead 5th? https://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-ivanka-trump-donald-congress-c7b7db7defae63e627514dc55de24157 #PS1insurrection ===== impress 18 time 2022-05-04 23:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1522002695636226048 ========== Looks like Jan 6 committee will focus on Meadows. He will try to run out the clock until January with legal action. https://edition.cnn.com/2022/05/04/politics/january-6-committee-mark-meadows/index.html #PS1insurrection ===== impress 17 time 2022-05-04 20:31 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1521950747914514432 ========== At least in one red district, there's such a thing as too much Trumpism. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/05/04/democrats-upset-victory-michigan-mallory-mcmorrow/ #PS1trumpism ===== impress 15 time 2022-05-04 20:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1521949598222151680 ========== Does technology now favor military defense or offense? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/05/04/russia-ukraine-aggression-in-age-defensive-dominance/ It seems to favor the side that can operate dispersed inexpensive light mobile arms in great numbers, and against the side that requires fixed expensive heavy arms. #PS1technology ===== impress 17 time 2022-05-04 20:24 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1521948974399188993 ========== Bad news for revisionist Trumpists - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#revisionist So far it looks like the Trump still owns the GOP. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/04/opinion/trump-republicans-ohio-jd-vance.html #PS1trump ===== engage 2 engage-rate 10% impress 21 retweets 1 time 2022-05-04 14:16 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1521856238320947206 ========== "The only winning move is not to play" https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/03/opinions/nuclear-war-talk-russia-helfand-christ/index.html But that assumes rational leadership, not necessarily what one finds in a secure bunker of a threatened narcissist. #PS1other ===== impress 24 time 2022-05-04 05:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1521723782305488896 ========== Ways to improve the 2024 primary election process - rotating early primaries or (better) ranked-choice-voting. https://www.arcamax.com/politics/opeds/s-2671091 #PS1democracy ===== impress 19 time 2022-05-04 03:21 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1521691342014873600 ========== What would Putin do in a pinch? https://www.arcamax.com/politics/opeds/s-2671147 US should quietly let Putin know that any use of weapons of mass destruction in Ukraine will lead to a proportionate destruction of Russian military forces in Ukraine. #PS1ukraine ===== engage 2 engage-rate 4% expands 1 impress 57 likes 1 time 2022-05-04 03:14 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1521689602674728960 ========== It's not so easy to replace all those weapons going to Ukraine - we've got supply chain issues. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-biden-business-eastern-europe-dover-35586737ec1923b1477d26bc45eeb7ed It seems likely that future DOD procurements will specify all made-in-America components. That will get expensive. #PS1ukraine ===== impress 40 time 2022-05-04 03:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1521688313450491904 ========== Why has Putin shown restraint? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/03/world/europe/russia-ukraine-war-nato.html Is it lack of resources or is he saving everything he's got for one big push at a later date? #PS1ukraine ===== impress 20 time 2022-05-04 03:04 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1521687095219163136 ========== The argument for limited aims in Ukraine. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/03/opinion/biden-ukraine.html Putin could easily be replaced by somebody worse. #PS1ukraine ===== impress 31 time 2022-05-04 02:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1521685674243416065 ========== Electronic warfare in Ukraine. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/05/03/russia-ukraine-electronic-warfare/ #PS1ukraine ===== engage 2 engage-rate 5% impress 40 time 2022-05-04 02:32 +0000 urlclicks 2 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1521679186544316416 ========== Will Putin declare war in order to get more cannon fodder? He'd hoped for a "victory celebration" on May 9, but that doesn't look like it would fool anybody. https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/03/europe/russia-ukraine-declaration-of-war-intl-hnk-ml/index.html #PS1ukraine ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 32 likes 1 time 2022-05-04 02:15 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1521674922841366528 ========== Putin's gift to the GOP was timely wartime inflation. The leaker's gift to the Democrats was a timely leak. Putin won't stop with Ukraine. GOP won't stop with abortion bans in red states. https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-us-supreme-court-business-congress-36b1c6a0fc5aec46fab8ea4d617d1ca4 #PS1health ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% impress 42 time 2022-05-04 01:08 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1521657956147900419 ========== Don't nobody bring Trump, no bad news! https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/03/politics/donald-trump-russian-interference-election-politics/index.html #PS1russian ===== engage 2 engage-rate 14% impress 14 retweets 1 time 2022-05-04 01:01 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1521656251548987393 ========== "It's the economy!" Meaning inflation, meaning war in Ukraine and covid in China - global problems that Congress can't fix quickly. https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/03/politics/ohio-primary-issues-inflation/index.html So 2022 is bleak for Democrats - GOP blames them without having a clue about getting different results. #PS1inflation ===== impress 48 time 2022-05-03 14:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1521497318780018691 ========== The stakes for Trump - starting today and the next couple of months - https://cnn.com/2022/05/03/politics/donald-trump-2024-republican-primaries/index.html This month's results will affect future primaries - Is Trump an essential part of Trumpism or not? After all, Peronism was better off without Peron! #PS1trumpism ===== impress 31 time 2022-05-03 14:21 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1521495062290575360 ========== We'll know a lot more about American politics tomorrow. https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-ohio-indiana-special-b44b7be7079cc694455309c3c7c77d54 How far right? How far left? What's Trump's endorsement worth? https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-politics-ohio-donald-trump-indiana-f6874601f57f5bf6e5fa39b047c13b97 #PS1election ===== impress 21 time 2022-05-03 14:06 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1521491484704448519 ========== A concession for privacy - https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/05/03/google-you-can-now-ask-to-have-your-address-phone-number-removed-from-search-results/ Next question - what devious abuses of this service can criminals devise? #PS1technology ===== impress 18 time 2022-05-03 13:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1521488844109012993 ========== What do GOP candidates REALLY believe? There are so many choices - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html Ohio GOP primary voters still struggle with that - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/02/us/ohio-senate-republican-primary.html #PS1gop ===== impress 29 time 2022-05-03 05:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1521360859804487681 ========== How the European Union works - or doesn't work. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/02/opinion/european-union-macron-ukraine.html It's not the United States of Europe - yet. But give Putin more time! #PS1foreign ===== impress 26 time 2022-05-03 05:20 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1521358907741904897 ========== The Constitution has a rural bias. https://www.reduce-rural-bias.net/ Here's one way to deal with that. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/02/opinion/democrats-rural-america.html #PS1democracy ===== impress 20 time 2022-05-03 05:15 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1521357644211974145 ========== Inflation hits cooking oil. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-covid-business-health-africa-688a358195a4723fc862cfe3f9e60474 Thank Putin for that! But if you're a Republican, blame Biden. #PS1inflation ===== impress 25 time 2022-05-03 04:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1521351283059216385 ========== Taliban switches from opium to meth. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2022/afghanistan-meth-opium-drug-industry/?itid=hp-top-table-main They need to get money from somewhere. #PS1afghanistan ===== impress 28 time 2022-05-03 04:46 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1521350561869615104 ========== Five stages of inflation grief - https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/05/02/democrats-experience-five-stages-of-grief-on-inflation/ There's nothing to be done about covid in China and the Ukraine war is up to Putin, so in the acceptance stage you say - let the GOP take over and take the blame since they haven't got a clue either. #PS1inflation ===== impress 104 time 2022-05-03 04:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1521349053396574208 ========== The Tom turkeys of DC want complete power over all the hens everywhere. Is that a pillar of Trumpism? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/05/02/wild-turkey-dc-toxic-masculinity-republicans/ #PS1trumpism ===== impress 22 time 2022-05-03 04:36 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1521347923597922305 ========== Laws don't apply if Trump's got your back! https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/02/cawthorn-accusations/ #PS1trumpism ===== impress 19 time 2022-05-03 04:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1521346956555014144 ========== Putin tries to turn back the tide of history. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/05/02/soviet-putin-russia-revenge-of-history/ He has no trouble finding enough Ukrainian collaborators. Just like the Nazis did in 1941. #PS1ukraine ===== impress 49 time 2022-05-03 04:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1521345252170240000 ========== Pretended to be a fake elector? There could be consequences! https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/02/politics/trump-investigation-georgia/index.html #PS1insurrection ===== impress 18 time 2022-05-03 04:15 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1521342600501862400 ========== Trump children rush in where Trump advisors fear to tread. https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/02/politics/ivanka-trump-january-6-committee-bennie-thompson/index.html #PS1insurrection ===== impress 20 time 2022-05-03 04:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1521342148716552194 ========== Will Trump ever get the free room and board he so richly deserves? https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/02/opinions/georgia-grand-jury-trump-legal-challenges-honig/index.html "Find" was definitely a bad choice of words, but is that enough? #PS1insurrection ===== impress 20 time 2022-05-03 04:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1521340222591565829 ========== Another reason for regional federalism - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-regional.html Right to lifers are trying to regulate other states as well as their own! https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/23/politics/abortion-out-of-state-legislation/index.html So much for traditional understandings of federalism #PS1trumpism ===== impress 20 time 2022-05-03 04:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1521339006369234944 ========== GOP primary candidates are spending tens of millions of dollars to attack each other. https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-ohio-donald-trump-campaigns-89a597655ab2c39529c8d38e961a4081 Everything they say will be held against them by the Democrats in November. But Trumpism is all about the past and revenge. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 17 time 2022-05-03 03:52 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1521336936446582785 ========== Hard for a violent insurrectionist to make a self-defense argument. https://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-police-new-york-riots-presidential-elections-4ec211cda4f84edb02e5c26e4e08be71 #PS1insurrection ===== impress 18 time 2022-05-03 03:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1521335155654230022 ========== Trumpists don't need no stinkin' debates! https://apnews.com/article/voting-rights-2022-midterm-elections-college-football-sports-media-648e93570285a35ad4b94fc43b3c0ece Or at least, they don't want them. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 18 time 2022-05-03 03:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1521334333100855296 ========== Sometimes social media are beneficial. https://apnews.com/article/climate-spacex-technology-entertainment-business-62848dbcffc7df4892233414d359a025 #PS1media ===== impress 17 time 2022-05-03 03:38 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1521333236625944576 ========== Abortion restrictions don't bother rich donors who can travel, but excite the single-issue right-to-life voters. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#gop Supreme Court justices doing the job they were appointed to do! https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-abortion-draft-opinion-07439f9fc4542f1500ab78dfd34036b1 More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/pfbid03237SSzTsjg8btr3SJhbbbmK3zZvQcEauwoNkM6u6Mz2k1QcAL2kxzxukhaqcM8ovl #PS1trumpism ===== impress 27 time 2022-05-03 03:31 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1521331579330592768 ========== In Putin's Russkiy Mir, nothing is true and everything is possible. https://news.yahoo.com/zelensky-jewish-hitler-had-jewish-093816649.html What else would you expect from the people that published the Protocols of the Elders of Zion? Anti-semitism is a Russian tradition, and Putin is a very traditional Russian. #PS1putin ===== impress 41 time 2022-05-02 16:20 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1521162756061159424 ========== Some people can't wait to hear from Trump. Others can't wait to get him off the line! https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/02/politics/georgia-grand-jury-meadows-texts/index.html #PS1insurrection ===== impress 26 time 2022-05-02 15:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1521143873837228032 ========== There are so many GOP factions for Democrats to attack - that will certainly be locked in bitter rivalry if GOP achieves power. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html Which part of the GOP should Democrats run against? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/05/01/republicans-dual-midterm-campaigns-highlight-task-before-democrats/ #PS1election ===== impress 27 time 2022-05-02 04:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1520991256653930496 ========== In the Merry Month of May, Trump doesn't have a problem with groping https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/01/politics/trump-defends-herbster-sexual-misconduct-claims/index.html He's proud of his track record! By the end of the month we'll all have better ideas of what Trumpism is and who's in charge of it. https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/02/politics/donald-trump-republican-primaries-midterms/index.html #PS1trumpism ===== impress 30 time 2022-05-02 04:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1520986712138149888 ========== Strikes against the Democrats. https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/02/politics/election-2022-biden-democrats-political-environment/index.html Putin is probably hoping to collect on the debt GOP owes him for starting the Ukraine war inflation on Biden's watch instead of Trump's. Swing voters just see inflation - they don't care where it came from. #PS1election ===== impress 106 time 2022-05-02 04:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1520983466631868416 ========== The new face of GOP politics - Buckeye bomb throwers. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/30/us/politics/ohio-senate-primary-vance-trump.html The rhetoric shows what GOP hopefuls think of their rivals - and thus of themselves. Trumpism was never about being nice, polite, respectful - or even truthful or logical. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 24 time 2022-05-02 03:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1520975595282198529 ========== What a rising tide of firearms gets us - https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/05/01/scared-to-drive-the-freeway-surge-in-bay-area-freeway-shootings-yields-few-arrests/ Freeway shootings are just about a perfect crime. The only countermeasure to unlimited firearms in circulation is universal and constant automatic surveillance. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/pfbid02TNKHMUAzgipC5YSsRhgZk3uzR24eoScH51wBE4MY6PaQeRPyjeVorw477NEFRduul #PS1capolitics ===== impress 26 time 2022-05-02 03:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1520974033180790785 ========== Why nobody's doing anything about gasoline prices. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/26/business/energy-environment/oil-us-europe-russia.html It makes no sense to invest in new drilling unless you can be sure the price of the product will pay for the drilling. Instead, oil companies face higher prices for materials and labor. #PS1inflation ===== impress 22 time 2022-05-02 03:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1520972686540697600 ========== What crummy economy? Unemployment claims are lowest since 1970. https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/jobless-claims-another-184000-americans-filed-new-claims-last-week/ar-AAWq4DO #PS1economics ===== impress 23 time 2022-05-02 03:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1520971647624224768 ========== Don't move to Idaho or Utah expecting relief from rapidly-rising home prices. https://winnquick.com/index.php/2022/04/30/hiring-outpaces-homebuilding-orange-county-register/ Areas with thriving economies often hire faster than they build homes for the new hires. #PS1economics ===== impress 26 time 2022-05-02 03:38 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1520970975931551745 ========== The modern Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP is not conservative in any sense. Reactionary kleptocratic personality cult instead. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#trump Traditional conservatives are starting to notice that. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/01/opinion/desantis-republicans-disney.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/pfbid0KWanNxZe2n7sstEUhtt7GuV9FXQjvH9zvVFFZXpPz2RF5hSwkj1XJVxWTxyNBKwnl #PS1trumpism ===== impress 23 time 2022-05-02 02:23 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1520952134165954560 ========== For JD Vance, Trumpism is "reconnecting politics to ordinary people" https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#trump But Trump's specialty is the demagogue's - confuse the masses into thinking the your interests are theirs. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/29/opinion/jd-vance-senate.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/pfbid0f4BcTR5Afm9ydF5ZLriap9566sxeNXsjaWgKsujwuh132QGk7fHjeNeRgYuqGGwGl #PS1trumpism ===== impress 26 time 2022-05-02 02:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1520949583114768384 ========== The Ohio senate primary is a preview of the next Trumpist administration - not accomplishing much, but generating a lot of heat in the process. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/30/opinion/ohio-senate-trump.html #PS1trumpism ===== engage 2 engage-rate 5% impress 44 time 2022-05-01 19:52 +0000 urlclicks 2 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1520853716856762368 ========== What it's like to be a backup standin for Trump in Ohio. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/01/opinion/trump-jd-vance-ohio.html The principal stand for Trump, of course, was Trump Jr - polishing his shtick for the future. #PS1trumpism ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 35 time 2022-05-01 19:48 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1520852656243183616 ========== Trump and Tucker Carlson together changed the GOP - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/30/us/tucker-carlson-gop-republican-party.html But now Carlson "has taken Trumpism away from Trump" to enhance his ratings and own cult of personality - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#revisionist https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/30/us/tucker-carlson-fox-news.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/pfbid03nTdm3NrSttG4pkrNzF5MyaBu8S3BkbghhRo4rrgHhuMuRUTwtqRB7T1ea5rwffVl #PS1media ===== impress 27 time 2022-05-01 19:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1520840725486657537 ========== Back to the Wild West in Eastern Europe! https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/05/01/russia-cyber-attacks-hacking/ #PS1technology ===== impress 26 time 2022-05-01 17:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1520810285400944640 ========== How lucky the Ukrainians are that the US House GOP conference was not in charge of resisting Putin. https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/01/opinions/2013-government-shutdown-problem-with-gop-dent/index.html They can't even resist Trump. No Profiles in Courage for the Fear Caucus. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/pfbid0zuodZnPiAVRAiXo9X6t6v31rASYudzzHs7VNz6oWD9GZ53nXTjui3bSbKtZEp22Sl #PS1gop ===== impress 36 time 2022-05-01 16:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1520808213846773761 ========== Pillage - one of the things the Russian army does best, along with murder and rape. https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/01/europe/russia-farm-vehicles-ukraine-disabled-melitopol-intl/index.html Putin's glad he didn't kill ALL the Chechens in 2000. They're proving useful. #PS1ukraine ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% impress 71 time 2022-05-01 16:42 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1520805883898257409 ========== Freedom Caucus members and White House staff plotted for months to overthrow the government by unconstitutional means. They all deny it now. Or pretend not to remember. Or refuse to testify. Or plead the fifth. https://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-biden-presidential-elections-electoral-college-mark-meadows-296ddf04ffaacec07f548a2a997af448 #PS1insurrection ===== engage 1 engage-rate 4% impress 27 likes 1 time 2022-05-01 16:37 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1520804518715297792 ========== No border wall between state and press, any more than between state and church. https://siouxcityjournal.com/opinion/columnists/leonard-pitts-a-bad-monday-for-freedom/article_e2187fcd-946e-574e-9655-e4ed2bf1442f.html Then nothing is true, and everything is possible. #PS1trumpism ===== engage 3 engage-rate 10% impress 29 likes 1 retweets 1 time 2022-05-01 15:40 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1520790183204909057 ========== It's all about who you know and what you can do for them. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/27/us/politics/trump-pandemic-loan-yrc.html #PS1trumpism ===== impress 23 time 2022-05-01 15:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1520788303624081408 ========== Hazards of over-leveraging! Get rich quick, get poor quick, get indicted quick. https://apnews.com/article/business-new-york-arrests-manhattan-indictments-6f1334b24b3206535c7ab1b0d71a380e #PS1economics ===== impress 29 time 2022-05-01 15:26 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1520786635822026757 ========== A simple arithmetic error? https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/article260845297.html Or just McConnell's usual flexible principles. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 23 time 2022-05-01 15:04 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1520781165849849858 ========== No wonder there were so many cops among the insurrectionists! https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-04-28/audit-of-california-law-enforcement-finds-extreme-bias-among-officers-goes-unchecked #PS1justice ===== impress 23 time 2022-05-01 14:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1520772719637278721 ========== Stolen checks readily available for sale on dark web. https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/05/01/chevy-chase-mailbox-stolen-checks/ Police seem to be helpless. So don't mail checks except inside a post office. #PS1technology ===== impress 39 time 2022-05-01 05:36 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1520638390252695552 ========== Scott Perry and Jeffrey Clark - unsung heroes of the (ongoing) insurrection. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/26/politics/mark-meadows-texts-scott-perry-key-role-overturn-election/index.html Oddly enough, they don't want to testify under oath about their actions. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/pfbid02um1DJpu4sbQf6zGz2nTrjbN6hP1vbjp6ibkozfUDEvLtDm6Erf7w8Q6SY1NcDxWKl #PS1insurrection ===== engage 1 engage-rate 4% impress 25 time 2022-05-01 05:29 +0000 userclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1520636515721760770 ========== By November 2022, either painful Putin and covid inflation will still be running rampant, or America will be in a painful recession to kill inflation. Either way, GOP candidates will blame Biden. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/26/politics/meadows-texts-trump-lies-2022-election-analysis/index.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/pfbid02BTVPDh2J8CZHF1gYZZFmeMU4VcBFp8j6g5AD6cN72EfKgw2ujQjFsNGx91gTbYw1l #PS1democracy ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% expands 1 impress 29 time 2022-05-01 05:20 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1520634118685429760 ========== Manchin endorses non-Trumpist GOP candidate. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/30/politics/manchin-west-virginia-republican-mckinley-mooney/index.html Does this help or hinder the candidate? Help on hinder Manchin? #PS1election ===== impress 21 time 2022-05-01 05:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1520629711407181825 ========== Of course he's publicly vilified. He's a public villain - insurrectionist! https://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-subpoenas-mark-meadows-congress-02c86e2bf05363ac8d485f33b96ef87a #PS1insurrection ===== impress 17 time 2022-05-01 04:57 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1520628465560481793 ========== Biden auditions for a future career in comedy. https://apnews.com/article/pete-davidson-biden-covid-entertainment-health-eb0fae0500b1291059eba9947fad2453 Trump, the reality-TV star, never showed up - he's only interested in being in complete control and the center of attention. #PS1media ===== impress 28 time 2022-05-01 04:48 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1520626295545032704 ========== Reactionary chic - we know where it came from, but where does it go? https://olxpraca.com/goldberg-the-terrible-emergence-of-todays-reactionary-chic/ Nowhere good if you're not an old straight rich white Christian man. Just look at Russia and Belarus. #PS1theory ===== impress 31 time 2022-05-01 01:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1520583330810400768 ========== Who struck down the Federal travel mask mandate? https://news.yahoo.com/column-bogus-decision-strike-travel-100017007.html An inexperienced groomee of the Federalist Society and Mitch McConnell. That's where nearly all Federal judges come from now. #PS1justice ===== impress 34 time 2022-05-01 01:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1520577598266302464 ========== In the finest Nazi tradition https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/04/30/ukraine-russia-art-mariupol/ Will some of it end on the walls of Putin's country retreats? #PS1ukraine ===== impress 32 time 2022-05-01 01:14 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1520572217351827457 ========== Yeltsin oligarchs vs Putin oligarchs. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/04/29/russia-oligarchs-ukraine-invasion-dissent/ But NOBODY criticizes Putin. #PS1putin ===== engage 1 engage-rate 4% impress 28 time 2022-05-01 01:11 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1520571565720580096 ========== Why artillery is a big deal in Ukraine now. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/04/30/ukraine-russia-artillery/ #PS1ukraine ===== impress 36 time 2022-05-01 01:04 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1520569754309722112 ========== Another Oath Keeper agrees to plead guilty and cooperate. https://www.npr.org/2022/04/29/1095538077/a-second-oath-keeper-pleaded-guilty-to-seditious-conspiracy-in-the-jan-6-riot #PS1insurrection ===== impress 17 time 2022-05-01 00:54 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1520567331826544640 ========== Finns have a long memory of Russian aggression. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Finnish_wars Now Putin has accomplished the one thing he hated most - expanding NATO. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/04/30/finland-join-nato/ #PS1putin ===== impress 29 time 2022-05-01 00:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1520566610565627904 ========== Differences between Democratic and Republican rule-of-law - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#diff #PS1theory ===== engage 1 engage-rate 5% impress 20 time 2022-04-30 16:01 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1520433085371744256 ========== If it's President DeSantis in 2025 - we might be longing for incompetent and ignorant President Trump again. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/30/opinions/desantis-trumpism-2-0-dantonio/index.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/pfbid0333Y9wiKzu15XAHGsAGn4EgSyjDTaNGaZDoGQYerB4vzW6JDYfyc6ezHZxSHh27Rhl #PS1trumpism ===== impress 26 time 2022-04-30 15:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1520425955520622592 ========== How will Biden manage to support Democratic candidates in 2022 and prepare for 2024? https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/29/politics/joe-biden-2022-politics/index.html Like Trump, he doesn't want to declare his candidacy too early, to avoid campaign finance restrictions. #PS1biden ===== impress 15 time 2022-04-29 15:52 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1520068458913755136 ========== That was the week that wasn't. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-covid-health-business-social-media-d3426647ead43f5316ed7071d58fcb67 #PS1media ===== engage 2 engage-rate 1% impress 258 time 2022-04-29 15:43 +0000 urlclicks 2 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1520066213480521729 ========== No royal road to authenticity. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/28/tech/elon-musk-authenticate-all-real-humans/index.html #PS1media ===== impress 32 time 2022-04-29 14:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1520050415177396224 ========== Why Putin will make some kind of victory announcement on May 9. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/29/opinions/may-9-putin-victory-war-nixey/index.html Ukraine is no doubt planning some daring action to stain Putin's big day. Can they pull if off? #PS1ukraine ===== engage 2 engage-rate 3% impress 63 time 2022-04-29 14:37 +0000 urlclicks 2 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1520049609137041408 ========== A black hole with no escape? https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/29/politics/ukraine-war-week-that-changed/index.html Putin's demand - unconditional surrender by Ukraine. Ukraine's demand - all Russian forces out of Ukraine, and western guarantees against a Putin encore invasion. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/pfbid02z5XmA3Lm2vdeL1DY21YqynFRmW7Z9QgvxhRDNbZw1vXPWBrcZU58kBWxLQEJdX6Nl #PS1ukraine ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% impress 60 likes 1 time 2022-04-29 14:31 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1520048241378619392 ========== A alliance for rule of law - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#rule-of-law over cult of personality - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#trump and partisanship - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#gop Utah Democrats get behind never-Trumper Evan McMullin against Trumpist Mike Lee. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/24/politics/utah-democrats-evan-mcmullin-mike-lee/index.html #PS1election ===== impress 33 time 2022-04-29 14:19 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1520045132594122753 ========== Who says the Sixties are over? It's back to east, west, and non-aligned, but with more nuclear-armed countries. https://news.yahoo.com/us-them-cold-war-neither-115041636.html #PS1foreign ===== impress 42 time 2022-04-29 13:57 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1520039574394744832 ========== Can't ship FROM America because containers are going back empty! https://www.yahoo.com/news/americas-farmers-got-cut-supply-183012199.html Will GOP blame Biden while they watch the market sort itself out? That would be the traditional GOP approach - until major donor farming operations start funding Democrats. #PS1economics ===== impress 39 time 2022-04-29 13:52 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1520038374840565761 ========== Putin gave Biden an opportunity to lead the democratic world. "the country needs to come together on at least two crucial points: that democracy must survive and that truth must be respected" https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/28/opinions/putin-created-unexpected-opportunity-future-of-democracy-ghitis/index.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/pfbid0o4SATFXoecBpE3v159PnZvS6hbao1oCpYW2CYXZkFPKnGtpftRi7fhyg1Dgi4UKYl #PS1democracy ===== impress 45 time 2022-04-29 05:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1519906648168407041 ========== Jan 6 march on Capitol was carefully planned to stoke the crowd, disregarding dangers of violence. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/23/us/politics/trump-meadows-freedom-caucus-jan-6.html #PS1insurrection ===== impress 35 time 2022-04-29 04:48 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1519901292042149890 ========== Trump abolished ethical and moral standards for political office. Now the only crime he enforces is disloyalty to Trump. Other GOP agree that "the victor will never be asked if he told the truth". https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation-politics/for-trumps-gop-crossing-lines-has-few-consequences/ #PS1trumpism ===== impress 49 time 2022-04-29 04:37 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1519898674746191873 ========== Surprise! Major companies spent a lot more on share buybacks than on improving employee compensation. https://www.brookings.edu/research/profits-and-the-pandemic-as-shareholder-wealth-soared-workers-were-left-behind/ GOP response - more tax cuts for billionaire "job creators" of course! #PS1economics ===== impress 38 time 2022-04-29 04:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1519896070121082880 ========== California has a very volatile job market. Startups explode or implode at random. Tourism fluctuates a lot. https://www.ocregister.com/2022/04/19/california-job-market-ranks-8th-most-volatile-in-us/ The most stable job markets include SD, AR, KS, WV. Not much startup action there. Not much other action at all. #PS1economics ===== impress 38 time 2022-04-29 04:24 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1519895318741069829 ========== No hiding in a secure location for Zelenskyy. https://arabdawaer.com/tehiyuwi/world-news/2022/04/28/volodymyr-zelensky-refused-evacuated-kyiv-even-russian-hit-men/ #PS1ukraine ===== engage 2 engage-rate 3% impress 76 time 2022-04-29 04:19 +0000 urlclicks 2 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1519894075926667264 ========== Why air travel is so unreliable now. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/21/business/airlines-earnings-american-united.html Lots of passengers, not enough planes, pilots, air traffic controllers, security agents. Airlines will have to pay more, and so will travelers. #PS1inflation ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% impress 69 time 2022-04-29 04:15 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1519893065594331136 ========== How would Trump have handled the Ukraine invasion? Channeled Neville Chamberlain or Charles Lindbergh? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/28/opinion/russia-ukraine-biden-aid.html Instead Biden and Johnson and the rest of the western leadership channeled FDR while Zelynskyy channeled Churchill. #PS1ukraine ===== impress 81 time 2022-04-29 01:31 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1519851955002089473 ========== Campaigning on emotion again, rather than facts. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/28/us/gop-vote-fraud-immigrants.html It works with the GOP base! #PS1immigration ===== impress 36 time 2022-04-29 01:15 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1519847907351879682 ========== Another global cost of the Ukraine war - re-investing in strategic weapons for deterrence against ambitious dictators. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/04/28/russia-ukraine-nuclear-pentagon-budget/ #PS1other ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% impress 61 time 2022-04-29 01:07 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1519845896627757056 ========== Putin's men take care of another journalist. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/04/28/russia-ukraine-muratov-attack-intelligence/ #PS1putin ===== impress 38 time 2022-04-29 01:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1519844230033674240 ========== Nuclear power or a hydrocarbon tax paid to Russians and Arabs? https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/interactive/2022/nuclear-power-fear/?itid=hp-top-table-main Give Putin credit for changing global calculations about nuclear power. #PS1climate ===== impress 51 time 2022-04-29 00:52 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1519842026560258048 ========== Bringing the war home. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/04/28/ukrainian-attacks-bring-war-home-russia-fraying-civilian-nerves/ #PS1ukraine ===== impress 41 time 2022-04-29 00:43 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1519839806762590272 ========== Does Tucker Carlson have a knee on McCarthy's neck too? https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/27/politics/kevin-mccarthy-audio-republican-social-media/index.html #PS1trumpism ===== impress 38 time 2022-04-28 23:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1519826740947816448 ========== The Trumpists plan to deal with McCarthy only after they win solid control of the House. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/27/politics/mccarthy-comments-trump-defenders-gop-conference/index.html #PS1trumpism ===== impress 38 time 2022-04-28 23:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1519826193263915008 ========== Everybody in the world will be paying for Putin's war for years. All that economic output is lost forever, and that's a problem for the developed countries and a disaster for the third world. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/28/politics/ukraine-war-world-costs-analysis/index.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1652412121769967 #PS1ukraine ===== impress 48 time 2022-04-28 23:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1519822343803080705 ========== Moldova? Transnistria? Putin wants to make sure that you hear a lot more about them as he establishes his idea of Russkiy Mir. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/27/europe/transnistria-moldova-ukraine-russia-war-explainer-intl/index.html #PS1putin ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% impress 176 time 2022-04-28 23:21 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1519819065174286336 ========== Why regional federalism may be the only way out - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-regional.html The GOP has been laying the groundwork for permanent minority rule for years - https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/27/opinions/gop-blueprint-to-steal-the-2024-election-luttig/index.html #PS1democracy ===== impress 37 time 2022-04-28 23:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1519816662492401664 ========== Significance of Azovstal https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/28/europe/mariupol-azovstal-steel-plant-intl-cmd/index.html #PS1ukraine ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% impress 65 time 2022-04-28 22:57 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1519813116481089536 ========== Why not shoot at the Secretary-General of the United Nations? Putin needs to teach him a lesson too. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-business-europe-bulgaria-nato-138362dbd31e65e7c06f91760bee75ce #PS1ukraine ===== impress 48 time 2022-04-28 22:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1519806145963065344 ========== Zelenskyy conquered his fear of enemy fire. Trump succumbed to his fear of enemy fruit. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/28/politics/donald-trump-dangerous-fruit-tomato/index.html #PS1trump ===== impress 43 time 2022-04-28 22:23 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1519804637175459840 ========== Prefer billionaires running for office with their own money, or billionaires funding candidates with dark money? https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-business-pennsylvania-campaigns-mehmet-oz-fcc1e26d6fc733874fdfa32b1627567d Since it takes tens of millions of dollars for a Senate campaign, pick one or the other. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1652169711794208 #PS1democracy ===== impress 40 time 2022-04-28 15:12 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1519696120481411072 ========== Russians compiled an extermination list well in advance of invasion. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-technology-business-border-patrols-automobiles-fa3f88e07e51bcaf81bac8a40c4da141 #PS1ukraine ===== impress 41 time 2022-04-28 15:03 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1519693839056867329 ========== Getting ready for another fake election. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-europe-moscow-referendums-crimea-7129a6d1f5ab81279ac7cf1a6be0996b Trumpists might well study Putin's methods. #PS1ukraine ===== impress 46 time 2022-04-28 14:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1519691859899035649 ========== Giuliani's turn with Jan 6 committee. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/27/politics/rudy-giuliani-january-6-committee-next-month/index.html Will he plead the fifth, executive privilege, or attorney-client privilege? #PS1insurrection ===== impress 43 time 2022-04-28 05:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1519545328382271488 ========== New Boeing management hopes to avoid Trump-era mistakes. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/27/politics/air-force-one-boeing-trump/index.html #PS1other ===== impress 54 time 2022-04-28 05:10 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1519544658082160640 ========== Why would Trump pay for an OBJECTIVE appraisal of his properties? https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/27/politics/trump-appraiser-cushman-wakefield/index.html The appraisers knew what they were getting paid for and what they were getting into. #PS1trump ===== impress 40 time 2022-04-28 03:36 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1519520950621851648 ========== What's really going on here? https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/27/politics/john-durham-criminal-probe-rodney-joffe/index.html Nobody can tell from the outside. #PS1russian ===== impress 39 time 2022-04-28 03:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1519520195265503237 ========== Who's the REAL Trumpist? https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#revisionist Trump and Trump Jr vs Club for Growth. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/27/politics/trump-club-for-growth-ohio/index.html It's every man for himself in the modern Trumpist/Putinist Dixiecrat GOP. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 44 time 2022-04-28 02:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1519509432815693824 ========== Russian armor was designed for opponents who wouldn't resist. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/27/europe/russia-tanks-blown-turrets-intl-hnk-ml/index.html The west learned from the Iraq war, but Russia did not. #PS1putin ===== engage 3 engage-rate 3% impress 93 likes 1 time 2022-04-28 02:40 +0000 urlclicks 1 userclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1519506849468346368 ========== Should any one person have the economic power to control a social media platform? https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-spacex-technology-business-sports-d42809b692fc9f7a5eaad327a86526a0 Putin and his oligarchs are anxiously awaiting the answer. #PS1media ===== impress 43 time 2022-04-28 02:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1519505273043386368 ========== Will McCarthy become Speaker? One word from Trump would make or break him. https://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-elections-donald-trump-kevin-mccarthy-congress-891eabe5ef653e7bb3983f8e3fa96a67 Though it's kind of like making or breaking a jellyfish. #PS1gop ===== impress 40 time 2022-04-28 02:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1519504224035295233 ========== Russian cyberwarfare units were laying the groundwork in Ukraine months before the military invasion. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-technology-business-europe-hacking-f844d60f06fa98ee3cc1456df4080c26 #PS1ukraine ===== impress 65 time 2022-04-28 02:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1519503072216510464 ========== People who get violent hateful responses on Twitter can just respond in kind. Musk sees no problem there. https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-business-race-and-ethnicity-racial-injustice-016830630ede1575c6eff917e4aacd6b As long as Musk can say whatever Musk wants, he's happy. Anybody who has a problem with that can offer to buy Twitter from him. #PS1media ===== impress 37 time 2022-04-28 02:23 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1519502488214200320 ========== Putin tries divide-and-conquer once more - and fails again - so far. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-kyiv-business-bulgaria-moldova-2505307f5dcc882d38bab642ffce649f #PS1putin ===== impress 40 time 2022-04-28 02:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1519500870194327552 ========== Musk will put Trump back on Twitter. Good for rallying the Democratic base. Good for rallying the Trump base. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/26/opinions/twitter-trump-musk-politics-filipovic/index.html Or will he be outmedia-ed by DeSantis? #PS1media ===== impress 30 time 2022-04-27 15:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1519343337441951744 ========== Unraveling the Trump dolls. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/27/politics/trump-ny-investigation/index.html Slow going - "Eric Trump was deposed in 2020 and asserted his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination more than 500 times" Par for a Trump course! #PS1trump ===== impress 25 time 2022-04-27 15:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1519341718868422661 ========== How Musk's game might be for the best. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/25/opinions/twitter-musk-takeover-internet-alaimo/index.html #PS1media ===== engage 1 engage-rate 10% impress 10 time 2022-04-26 15:05 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1518969641405583361 ========== Unexpected allies in Belarus helped slow down the Russian assault. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/04/23/ukraine-belarus-railway-saboteurs-russia/ But their grandfathers did it to Germans. #PS1ukraine ===== impress 21 time 2022-04-24 15:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1518247693251796993 ========== A bold Trumpist will stop at nothing. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#revisionist You'll never get tired of culture wars on Fox? Get ready for President DeSantis! https://apnews.com/article/travel-business-arts-and-entertainment-florida-donald-trump-81eb6eccb4354fc6bae6e20a59cf5c90 #PS1trumpism ===== impress 10 time 2022-04-24 15:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1518243609828503552 ========== Jan 6 committee works its way up the ladder. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/22/politics/mark-meadows-scott-perry-january-6/index.html #PS1insurrection ===== impress 51 time 2022-04-23 11:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1517834729600405505 ========== Greene can't - or won't - remember what she did. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/04/21/rep-marjorie-taylor-greene-expected-testify-about-jan-6/ She won't come right out and deny anything, to be safe from perjury charges, just in case there are tapes or screen shots lurking on the internet. #PS1insurrection ===== impress 48 time 2022-04-23 03:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1517708556862038017 ========== It's true - Putin does not intend to stop with Donbas. He does not intend to stop with Ukraine. And nobody thinks he intends to stop with Moldova and Transnistria. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/04/22/russian-ambition-beyond-ukraine/ #PS1putin ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% impress 137 time 2022-04-23 03:28 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1517707045188689920 ========== Would a Muskified Twitter be the end of Trump Media? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/22/business/trump-truth-social-elon-musk.html #PS1media ===== impress 512 time 2022-04-22 23:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1517652090604048384 ========== Don't brag about insurrection while intoxicated! https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/04/22/capitol-rioter-coors-beer-sentenced/ #PS1insurrection ===== impress 502 time 2022-04-22 23:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1517649784667992065 ========== The qualifications are well known - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#trump So of course McCarthy's a liar - he wants to be a Trumpist! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/04/22/kevin-mccarthy-jan-6-recording-lying/ #PS1trumpism ===== impress 516 time 2022-04-22 23:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1517649360246296578 ========== In the best Dixiecrat tradition - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#gop "an assault on the very idea of public education, part of the long war against public goods and collective responsibility fought by conservatives on behalf of hierarchy and capital" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/22/opinion/red-scare-culture-wars.html #PS1gop ===== impress 511 time 2022-04-22 22:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1517635538710269952 ========== Hackers claim to have raided Russian military and intelligence personnel files. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/22/us/politics/hackers-russia-cyberattacks.html #PS1ukraine ===== impress 508 time 2022-04-22 22:37 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1517633677596917760 ========== "Twitter should take away other Republican lawmakers' Twitter accounts" - attributed to McCarthy during his brief rule-of-law moment. Not known if there are tapes. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/22/politics/kevin-mccarthy-audio-republican-reaction/index.html #PS1insurrection ===== impress 504 time 2022-04-22 22:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1517631559737565184 ========== Oh wait there's more! Another McCarthy tape surfaces. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/22/politics/trump-january-6-responsibility-book/index.html Privately, Trump briefly admitted "some" responsibility for insurrection. #PS1insurrection ===== impress 531 time 2022-04-22 22:15 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1517628123772166144 ========== That was the week that wasn't. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-science-business-lifestyle-middle-east-b203d41981df1fa5959dd2a2ffb4f4b4 #PS1media ===== impress 519 time 2022-04-22 14:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1517517666298204160 ========== 63 GOP House members followed Trump's cues to oppose NATO. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/04/06/house-gop-nato-support/ No wonder Putin hopes to re-elect Trump and as many Trumpists as possible! https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/04/22/trump-says-he-threatened-not-defend-nato-russia/ But nothing Trump says can be taken at face value. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 528 time 2022-04-22 14:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1517516185411104768 ========== Can Trump pick them or not? Depends on whether the stolen election big lie is the main thing on the minds of GOP primary voters. Perhaps the more Trump endorsees win primaries, the more Democrats win general elections. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/22/politics/trump-endorsements-may-primaries/index.html #PS1trump ===== impress 516 time 2022-04-22 14:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1517514102695890945 ========== Trumpist voters like lies and Trumpist politicians are happy to feed them. And it's easier to just make stuff up than to do actual research and analysis. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/21/politics/fact-check-david-perdue-2020-election-brian-kemp/index.html #PS1trumpism ===== impress 506 time 2022-04-22 14:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1517511628014510080 ========== Tourism is booming in Iowa - Cotton, Cruz, Haley, Pence, Pompeo have all visited recently. But they're really hoping for a visit from DeSantis. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-2022-midterm-elections-presidential-election-2020-iowa-80201caa714144a5aff7082d10cbbaee #PS1gop ===== impress 514 time 2022-04-22 14:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1517510556025974786 ========== What would a competent Trump be like? https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/22/politics/governor-desantis-imperial-governorship-analysis/index.html We're about to find out. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 504 time 2022-04-22 13:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1517492941845000193 ========== Murder, rape, pillage civilians - ancient military traditions upheld by Putin, who says he's a very traditional Russian. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/22/europe/ukraine-sexual-violence-allegations-russia-cmd-intl/index.html #PS1ukraine ===== impress 515 time 2022-04-22 12:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1517480706858835970 ========== Too bad for Trump's Kevin - there's a tape! https://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-2022-midterm-elections-kevin-mccarthy-rachel-maddow-2dda5a508f77bb14fe31b0fa89b08197 But nobody ever expects any Trumpist to tell the truth. #PS1insurrection ===== impress 522 time 2022-04-22 12:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1517478018406514689 ========== No immigration reform - Trumpist voters can be told that immigrants are criminals, and Trumpist donors can be told that immigration will remain dangerous and illegal, better to exploit illegal workers. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/21/us/jim-jordan-republicans-memo-immigration.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1647798728897973 #PS1immigration ===== engage 1 engage-rate 0% impress 543 likes 1 time 2022-04-22 04:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1517357146421161986 ========== Will Utah Democrats decline to nominate a Senate candidate so Evan McMullin can take on Mike Lee directly? https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/21/politics/mike-lee-texts-meadows-obscured-what-he-knew-overturn-election-duplicate-2/index.html McMullin is a rule-of-law candidate and perhaps more electable than any Democrat in Utah. #PS1election ===== impress 516 time 2022-04-22 04:04 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1517353551227351041 ========== How politicians corrupt non-profits. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/21/us/politics/crime-stoppers-houston.html #PS1justice ===== impress 515 time 2022-04-22 03:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1517339460702130176 ========== Le Pen - a model for American Putinist/Trumpists. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/04/21/marine-le-pen-showcases-weaknesses-far-right-france-french-debate-emmanuel-macron/ #PS1trumpism ===== impress 520 time 2022-04-22 02:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1517330785082040320 ========== DeSantis' objective - government telling private corporations what to do. Sounds a lot like socialism, doesn't it? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/04/21/desantis-war-on-disney-gop-future/ #PS1trumpism ===== engage 1 engage-rate 0% impress 509 likes 1 time 2022-04-22 02:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1517330011291721728 ========== The "populist" kleptocratic personality cultists intend to destroy traditional conservatism as well as liberalism. Their public agenda superficially coincides with some progressive ideas, but the real agenda of their major donors is private. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/03/22/tucker-carlson-jd-vance-new-right/ #PS1trumpism ===== impress 515 time 2022-04-22 02:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1517329593044070400 ========== “Florida’s authoritarian socialist attacks on the private sector are driving businesses away” https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/04/21/desantis-disney-gop-business/ But they're driving support for DeSantis' presidential aspirations, which is the point. #PS1trumpism ===== engage 1 engage-rate 0% impress 515 likes 1 time 2022-04-22 02:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1517325687446589440 ========== The fast-cash criminal element has noticed that pot shops are easier than liquor stores. https://apnews.com/article/business-marijuana-seattle-washington-patty-murray-b86b1105f64faea8a3d4a33736f91100 So far the US Senate has rejected all efforts to allow legal pot shops to use conventional banking - including credit cards. #PS1other ===== impress 508 time 2022-04-22 02:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1517322686787055616 ========== McCarthy denies ever thinking ill of Trump or Trumpism, and proves it with devotion that would embarrass even Mike Pence. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/04/21/mccarthy-disputes-report-that-he-privately-vowed-confront-trump-after-jan-6/ #PS1trumpism ===== impress 522 time 2022-04-22 01:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1517311400858689536 ========== Profiles in Courage was written about US Senators. None qualify lately - https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/04/21/zelensky-cheney-jfk-profiles-in-courage/ Instead - “I didn’t get to be leader by voting with five people in the conference.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/04/21/mcconnell-mccarthy-miscalculation/ #PS1insurrection ===== engage 2 engage-rate 0% impress 519 likes 1 time 2022-04-22 01:14 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1517310725320212480 ========== Some people foresaw the devolution of the internet. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/08/12/philip-agre-ai-disappeared/ #PS1technology ===== impress 502 time 2022-04-22 01:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1517309333788233730 ========== QAnon - fake stories, real victims. https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/interactive/2021/wayfair-qanon-sex-trafficking-conspiracy/?itid=hp_temp2-subfavs #PS1qanon ===== engage 1 engage-rate 0% impress 519 time 2022-04-22 01:06 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1517308790760083456 ========== Alaska, Delaware, Nevada, South Dakota - and New York City - all play major roles in hiding assets of criminals and foreign oligarchs, as became clear with Ukraine sanctions. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/04/21/financial-secrecy-laws-russian-assets/ Federal legislation is needed to end asset hiding for good. #PS1foreign ===== impress 526 time 2022-04-22 01:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1517307651977211904 ========== Just the kind of people you'd expect to find close to Trump. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/04/21/kolfage-bannon-wall-plea/ #PS1trump ===== engage 1 engage-rate 0% impress 499 likes 1 time 2022-04-22 00:57 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1517306648255078401 ========== The argument for holding our noses and allying with Saudi Arabia and UAE - instead of Russia, Venezuela, and Iran. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/04/21/russia-ukraine-oil-production-saudi-arabia-uae-gulf-states-security/ Meanwhile, we try to wean Europe from burning hydrocarbons as quickly as possible. #PS1foreign ===== engage 2 engage-rate 0% expands 1 impress 549 time 2022-04-22 00:55 +0000 userclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1517306045109989376 ========== Moldova fears it's next. It's not in NATO or EU. It has plenty of internal problems that Russia exploits and exacerbates. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/04/21/russia-putin-united-states-must-keep-eye-on-moldova/ #PS1foreign ===== engage 1 engage-rate 0% impress 523 time 2022-04-22 00:50 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1517304899251228672 ========== A smarter Trumpist is more dangerous! https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#revisionist DeSantis looks forward to the White House. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/21/politics/florida-governor-desantis-poll-numbers/index.html #PS1trumpism ===== impress 518 time 2022-04-22 00:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1517303415340105728 ========== Das Fürstentum Liechtenstein leads the way! https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-united-nations-general-assembly-business-europe-states-3e1560d3b38bc0110d65fe388a6ea4ad It should take two votes to veto in the Security Council anyway. #PS1foreign ===== impress 528 time 2022-04-22 00:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1517300476852588544 ========== It's y2k all over again, this time for streaming services - https://apnews.com/article/business-arts-and-entertainment-david-zaslav-031d6ae5e126c196ee09668f9b83502d https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/20/investing/premarket-stocks-trading/index.html Is Devin Nunes in charge? #PS1media ===== impress 509 time 2022-04-22 00:26 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1517298867967983616 ========== DeSantis is on his way to redefining Trumpism https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#revisionist to meet his ambitions. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/21/politics/trump-desantis-republican-party/index.html #PS1trumpism ===== impress 489 time 2022-04-21 18:06 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1517203117380554752 ========== Treating Federal territories as colonies - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#Federal%20territories They have no rights, only privileges subject to revocation. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/21/politics/puerto-rico-supreme-court-federal-disability-benefits/index.html #PS1democracy ===== impress 486 time 2022-04-21 18:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1517202201260609536 ========== Trump's greatest achievement - proving traditional conservatism was never a mass movement. Second - proving the GOP voter base was ready for a nativist populist kleptocratic cult of personality. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/20/opinion/trump-trumpism-republican-party.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1647474902263689 #PS1trumpism ===== impress 495 time 2022-04-21 17:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1517198823814156288 ========== The face of Trumpism in France. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/20/opinion/le-pen-france-election.html #PS1foreign ===== impress 494 time 2022-04-21 17:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1517195012634644481 ========== Why the free world admires Zelenskyy. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/19/opinion/why-we-admire-zelensky.html #PS1ukraine ===== engage 1 engage-rate 0% impress 494 likes 1 time 2022-04-21 17:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1517192892095205376 ========== Swing voters are mostly influenced by economics, especially inflation, especially of gas prices. Most swing voters don't think through to root causes. So GOP gets away with voter suppression. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/21/us/politics/democrats-democracy-election.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1647274428950403 #PS1democracy ===== impress 508 time 2022-04-21 14:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1517149253642035201 ========== Alex Jones might be willing to talk in exchange for a plea deal. Or he might just take the 5th 100 more times. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/20/us/politics/alex-jones-jan-6-interview.html #PS1insurrection ===== impress 486 time 2022-04-21 14:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1517145524058558465 ========== McCarthy and McConnell - quick repentance, quicker backsliding. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/21/us/politics/trump-mitch-mcconnell-kevin-mccarthy.html Enablers who know better earn the greatest moral censure. #PS1insurrection ===== engage 1 engage-rate 0% impress 558 time 2022-04-21 14:13 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1517144431324844033 ========== How Russian interference works. It's not much different in America, except Putin has recruited more influential allies. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/20/world/europe/russian-spies-europe-ukraine.html #PS1russian ===== impress 510 time 2022-04-21 14:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1517141763957280769 ========== Mike Lee is going to show up how to get re-elected without ever answering any questions. Will it work in Utah? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/04/21/mike-lee-is-hiding-from-questions-texts-jan-6-overthrow-election/ If GOP gets control of the House, then he might feel safe. #PS1insurrection ===== impress 493 time 2022-04-21 13:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1517139951363649537 ========== There must have been a reason for Pence to leave the room for a private conversation. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/04/20/trump-pence-call-january-6-committee/ #PS1insurrection ===== impress 498 time 2022-04-21 13:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1517138337353527297 ========== Don't want to talk about your real agenda in public? https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#gop Talk about culture wars instead! https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/04/20/republicans-grooming-democrats/ It doesn't have to be true to poll well with your base. #PS1gop ===== engage 1 engage-rate 0% impress 488 likes 1 time 2022-04-21 13:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1517136481759887363 ========== Judge reads GOP senators' remarks immediately after Jan 6 to establish insurrectionists' terrorist intent. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/20/politics/sullivan-republican/index.html #PS1insurrection ===== impress 498 time 2022-04-21 04:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1516996906253049856 ========== "Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace– but there is no peace." https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/20/business/oleg-tinkov-ukraine-insane-war/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/20/opinions/sachs-ukraine-negotiation-op-ed/index.html As with Hitler or Stalin, a cease fire or "security guarantees" are just methods to regroup, sow division among enemies, and resume the war later. #PS1ukraine ===== impress 393 time 2022-04-21 04:15 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1516993975898370049 ========== Trump's gaze is fixed in the past. So he's filed a ridiculous suit against Hillary Clinton. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/20/politics/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-lawsuit/index.html It doesn't seem ridiculous to his base, so he'll probably make money off it. #PS1trump ===== impress 490 time 2022-04-21 04:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1516991476336496640 ========== As you'd expect, GOP representatives sued to prevent proxy voting, then opted to make the most of it. https://apnews.com/article/covid-health-business-congress-voting-414cb594073bab735552c6918c308470 #PS1gop ===== impress 482 time 2022-04-21 04:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1516990483188183040 ========== What lessons will Xi learn from Ukraine? https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-europe-china-xi-jinping-taiwan-e9f50d985c38c487aba918d088099f9a #PS1china ===== impress 504 time 2022-04-21 03:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1516989249140142080 ========== GOP talks about grooming so much since they know so much about it. https://apnews.com/article/media-social-michigan-9651ec94e425db841581562aed6bbcbb Time for Democrats to emphasize that QAnons are delusional maniacs, but those, knowing better, that repeat QAnon nonsense are the worst and unfit for public service. #PS1qanon ===== impress 479 time 2022-04-21 03:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1516987901803786240 ========== California Democrats knock on doors to get occasional voters to the polls. https://www.growvoters.com/ #PS1election ===== impress 491 time 2022-04-21 02:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1516968740595769345 ========== Russian diplomats dutifully propagate official propaganda. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-covid-technology-health-business-628cf047adf9fde93c0d7f820e46f8e4 They have plenty of global allies in right-wing circles. #PS1russian ===== impress 491 time 2022-04-21 02:23 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1516965864779616256 ========== Another violent insurrectionist pleads guilty. https://apnews.com/article/tampa-florida-ilhan-omar-congress-3c7fd71fcc581ad69dd7186040047123 #PS1insurrection ===== impress 493 time 2022-04-21 02:20 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1516964959866920960 ========== To get us to a nuclear-free future - we first need to get past a global-warming carbon-burning present. Nuclear power still has a role to play. https://apnews.com/article/climate-business-environment-nuclear-power-us-department-of-energy-2cf1e633fd4d5b1d5c56bb9ffbb2a50a And to wean western democracies from their hydrocarbon fix supplied by dictators like Putin. #PS1climate ===== impress 499 time 2022-04-21 02:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1516964363038445569 ========== There's a reason why America's founders insisted on an Emoluments clause - https://britannica.com/story/what-is-the-emoluments-clause It's how big powers take over little countries. https://nytimes.com/2022/04/20/world/australia/china-solomon-islands-security-pact.html #PS1china ===== impress 482 time 2022-04-21 00:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1516937353515864064 ========== Is Musk actually getting the money together? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/19/technology/elon-musk-twitter.html Nobody knows whether to take him seriously. #PS1media ===== impress 12 time 2022-04-20 18:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1516843488024743936 ========== There's a reason why America's founder insisted on an Emoluments clause - https://www.britannica.com/story/what-is-the-emoluments-clause It's how big powers take over little countries. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/20/world/australia/china-solomon-islands-security-pact.html #PS1china ===== impress 2 time 2022-04-20 18:12 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1516842355730489348 ========== Sexual misconduct doesn't exist for GOP candidates. Certainly not for Trumpists, who are only following Trump's lead. But they'll tell you the Democrats are all perverts and should be in jail. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/15/us/politics/republicans-accusations-women.html #PS1trumpism ===== impress 15 time 2022-04-20 18:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1516840451113832449 ========== Did the decline start with Gingrich? Or Thurmond? https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html “We can never make a binary choice between turning out our base and appealing to swing voters. We will not succeed if we don’t figure out how to do both.” https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/18/us/politics/david-price-republicans-democrats-midterms.html #PS1democracy ===== engage 1 engage-rate 8% impress 12 time 2022-04-20 17:53 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1516837569492783107 ========== Round up the usual suspects - they are still trying to overthrow the government by unconstitutional means. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/18/us/politics/trump-allies-election-decertify.html They encourage Trump and he encourages them. #PS1insurrection ===== engage 1 engage-rate 8% impress 12 time 2022-04-20 17:46 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1516835778260656138 ========== Preview for America - what happens when western democracies are asked to sacrifice a little bit to support Ukraine, which is learning real sacrifice? https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-business-germany-europe-economy-b9004fca7ea3a60fd281ad58d21a7bd4 #PS1ukraine ===== impress 21 time 2022-04-20 17:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1516828709985996802 ========== Running down the clock on the Jan 6 committee until GOP controls House next year. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/19/politics/john-eastman-january-6-documents/index.html #PS1insurrection ===== impress 10 time 2022-04-19 13:23 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1516407044458246144 ========== Putin honors excellence in murder, rape, and pillage of civilians. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/19/europe/russia-bucha-brigade-honorary-title-putin-intl/index.html #PS1putin ===== impress 19 time 2022-04-19 13:21 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1516406579439943681 ========== McConnell fights back against Trump. McConnell wants a majority, Trump wants revenge. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/18/politics/mcconnell-murkowski-super-pac-money/index.html #PS1gop ===== impress 7 time 2022-04-19 12:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1516397628291911681 ========== Trump accumulates his war chest while doling out pittances to supplicants. https://jacklimpert.com/2022/04/trump-as-gop-party-boss/ #PS1trump ===== impress 7 time 2022-04-19 12:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1516397346778595335 ========== "I require frequent reports from many key people. This provides a way to communicate problems to me without having them filtered." https://govleaders.org/rickover.htm A weakness of cult of personality - it's hard to find out what's really going on. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/18/opinion/china-russia-putin.html #PS1theory ===== engage 1 engage-rate 11% impress 9 time 2022-04-19 04:08 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1516267394129293313 ========== "When the people are suffering, you don’t try to solve their problems; instead, you distract them by giving them someone to hate" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/18/opinion/republicans-senate-immigration-jd-vance.html #PS1trumpism ===== impress 8 time 2022-04-19 03:53 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1516263763967569920 ========== California school board recall elections make a lot of noise but most amount to little or nothing. https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2022/04/18/cupertino-union-recall-attempt-fizzles-as-recall-fever-continues-in-california/ Anybody who's dealt with typical school board issues would wonder why anybody would want that job so badly. #PS1capolitics ===== impress 9 time 2022-04-19 02:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1516242465270816771 ========== It's not easy to build a huge internet empire. Looks like Substack is not interested in a small empire and is trying to find a niche that can become huge. https://unitednewspost.com/news/technology/substacks-growth-spurt-brings-growing-pains/ #PS1media ===== impress 10 time 2022-04-19 02:23 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1516241113618677763 ========== Another Putin accomplishment - technology brain drain. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/04/13/business/russian-tech-industry-faces-brain-drain-workers-flee/ #PS1putin ===== impress 12 time 2022-04-19 02:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1516239718521868288 ========== 4% inflation might become the new normal. If it's stable, we can adapt to it. https://www.fa-mag.com/news/inflation-s-new-normal-will-be-4---get-used-to-it-67308.html #PS1inflation ===== impress 8 time 2022-04-19 02:15 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1516239130014806018 ========== The GOP has a plan for when they gain control of government. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#gop They just don't want to talk about it in public where the voters might hear. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/04/17/republicans-are-track-regain-power-they-should-decide-what-do-with-it/ #PS1gop ===== impress 6 time 2022-04-19 02:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1516237492604661762 ========== Covid was a gift to the rich, making them richer. The poor, not so much. https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/04/18/silicon-valleys-covid-windfall-raises-alarms-about-regions-economy/ #PS1economics ===== impress 9 time 2022-04-19 02:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1516235790686187525 ========== He routinely lies for profit, so why would he tell the truth about his finances? https://apnews.com/article/alex-jones-infowars-bankruptcy-filing-1a3b51946cb06c5f90c341d3118947cf #PS1media ===== impress 7 time 2022-04-19 01:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1516234853875740675 ========== “when the White House is in favor of something, when Democrats are in favor of something, Republicans are in favor of something, the House is in favor of it, and the Senate is in favor of it, we still can’t seem to get it done." https://apnews.com/article/climate-2022-midterm-elections-biden-technology-business-7aa66d84e150a4c1d54831677075cee9 #PS1democracy ===== impress 9 time 2022-04-19 01:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1516234029950902273 ========== Looking forward to May 9 - originally to celebrate Stalin's victory over Nazis - now to celebrate neo-Nazi Putin's victory over Ukraine. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/18/opinions/vladimir-putin-may-9-deadline-ghitis/index.html #PS1putin ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 49 time 2022-04-19 00:46 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1516216733933072385 ========== Kimberly Guilfoyle's turn. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/18/politics/kimberly-guilfoyle-january-6-committee/index.html If you get too close to Trump, you can expect a subpoena sooner or later. The presumption of guilt is contagious. #PS1insurrection ===== engage 2 engage-rate 1% impress 136 time 2022-04-19 00:41 +0000 urlclicks 2 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1516215471359422469 ========== Like other personality cult leaders, Modi wants to suppress the truth about covid deaths. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/16/health/global-covid-deaths-who-india.html #PS1virus ===== impress 25 time 2022-04-18 16:46 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1516095849146695683 ========== Republicans used to just lie about their goals - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#gop Now the Putinist Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP denies the possibility of truth - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#trump You can't really "both-sides" truth and falsehood - https://news.yahoo.com/pitts-republican-party-clear-present-120023472.html #PS1trumpism ===== impress 20 time 2022-04-18 16:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1516094731385655299 ========== Using tax law to dampen investor speculation in single-family homes. https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2022/04/16/opinion-tackling-housing-speculation-needs-to-be-in-our-housing-solutions/ Expect opposition from everybody with a vested interest in rapidly rising real estate prices. #PS1tax ===== impress 26 time 2022-04-18 16:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1516092712985903104 ========== Remote control war has victims on both ends. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/15/us/drones-airstrikes-ptsd.html #PS1technology ===== impress 21 time 2022-04-18 16:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1516091663231303681 ========== Food price inflation doesn't bother you yet? https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/widespread-famine-death-and-starvation-if-ukraine-ports-close-un/ar-AAWhMn3 It will! #PS1inflation ===== engage 1 engage-rate 5% impress 22 time 2022-04-18 16:21 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1516089592943837188 ========== Antitrust law to protect workers as well as consumers. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/14/business/economy/wages-antitrust-law-us.html #PS1economics ===== impress 20 time 2022-04-18 16:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1516087520265596932 ========== More inflation in food prices ahead. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-putin-business-health-europe-c6a2d11380d3cb0c48d4c22703d1954e Most people would blame Putin. He'd blame Zelenskyy for not immediately surrendering without a fight. GOP of course will blame Biden. #PS1inflation ===== impress 28 time 2022-04-18 16:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1516086390995382278 ========== Bankruptcy isn't as disruptive as being another victim of a mass shooting. https://www.yahoo.com/now/alex-jones-infowars-files-bankruptcy-115329958.html #PS1media ===== engage 1 engage-rate 4% impress 23 time 2022-04-18 15:51 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1516081918197993472 ========== California economy growing pretty well, thanks to technology industries. https://www.universalpersonality.com/california-no-3-state-for-economic-growth-by-gdp-math/ #PS1capolitics ===== impress 23 time 2022-04-18 15:48 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1516081360892411904 ========== Budding democracies around the world are inspired by America's presidential debates. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/04/17/gop-and-trump-withdraws-debate-commission/ But Trumpism's response to budding democracy is to nip it in the bud. #PS1democracy ===== impress 35 time 2022-04-18 05:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1515926548427157508 ========== Lots of Alaskans see better alternatives to Sarah Palin. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/04/16/palin-campaign-alaska/ #PS1trumpism ===== impress 30 time 2022-04-18 05:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1515925318342643713 ========== Hardly anybody can write a truthful book that pleases DeSantis! https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/17/us/florida-math-textbooks-critical-race-theory/index.html #PS1trumpism ===== impress 23 time 2022-04-18 05:15 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1515921821803053061 ========== Donbas - the prize in the next phase of Putin's invasion. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/15/europe/donbas-region-ukraine-war-russia-explainer-intl/index.html #PS1ukraine ===== engage 2 engage-rate 3% impress 67 time 2022-04-18 05:09 +0000 urlclicks 2 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1515920441910579203 ========== Think inflation might soon be under control? Maybe not! https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/17/economy/stocks-week-ahead/index.html The economic output lost to lockdowns is gone forever, with corresponding reductions in standard of living around the globe. #PS1inflation ===== impress 25 time 2022-04-18 05:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1515918228085624836 ========== How sanctioned Putin Pollock gets to the US through China. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-putin-business-global-trade-salmon-ff87f8285633a18a77b7f8081009213e #PS1trade ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% expands 1 impress 29 time 2022-04-17 22:57 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1515826885602824194 ========== Another of Putin's lasting gifts - proving that engagement with kleptocratic dictators does not work as advertised. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/04/16/us-nato-isolate-russia/ #PS1putin ===== impress 17 time 2022-04-17 18:52 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1515765053315706883 ========== Dollar dominance likely to continue - it's the most stable store of value. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/15/opinion/us-dollar-dominance.html #PS1economics ===== engage 2 engage-rate 11% expands 1 impress 18 time 2022-04-17 07:17 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1515590219570941963 ========== Economically isolating Russia won't change Putin, but will it influence Xi? https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/04/11/russia-china-peace-capitalism/ #PS1trade ===== impress 22 time 2022-04-17 06:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1515585072736477188 ========== Army learning from Ukraine. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-us-army-training-54e76eba46f9bf79542dd3f872456e67 #PS1ukraine ===== impress 26 time 2022-04-17 06:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1515578809713500161 ========== GOP governors want poor people to get back to normal - starving! https://apnews.com/article/covid-health-nebraska-iowa-des-moines-4ff5e0d51f61e6704f44dfc31279376a Why not? It polls well with their major donors! #PS1inflation ===== engage 2 engage-rate 6% impress 32 likes 1 time 2022-04-16 13:34 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1515322762415337472 ========== How to make sure the state legislature is mostly rich retired white men? Don't pay a living wage. https://apnews.com/article/business-connecticut-oregon-legislature-26634f73a7aca275510baf41203e37f7 Low wages are not for saving taxpayers money on salaries. It's to save major donors from new tax laws. #PS1democracy ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% impress 41 likes 1 time 2022-04-16 13:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1515321356589535233 ========== “there is no separation between church and state” https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-josh-mandel-ohio-congress-campaigns-c4e71c8e6e6193632404d1e42412c6f6 That's an odd sentiment for a Jewish candidate! But now that Trump has endorsed Vance, the other GOP candidates have to distinguish themselves somehow beyond supporting Trumpism. #PS1trumpism ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% impress 47 likes 1 time 2022-04-16 12:38 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1515308576574607362 ========== Putin and Fox - a match made in heaven. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/15/technology/russia-media-fox-news.html Just like Putin and Trump. #PS1media ===== impress 32 time 2022-04-16 03:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1515171196081385472 ========== Nuclear energy reduces carbon dioxide emissions and dependence on foreign oil and gas. https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/04/15/nuclear-energy-europe-ukraine-war/ But there's a catch - or two. How can nuclear plants be protected from warfare and natural disasters? Whence the fuel and whither the wastes? #PS1climate ===== impress 45 time 2022-04-16 03:26 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1515169821855346690 ========== Trump endorses Vance. https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-steve-bannon-josh-mandel-congress-ohio-06e64ac7ba0f8d84b608fb82f4e632eb Too bad for the other Trumpist candidates who tried so hard to sell their souls to Trump. Vance was the lowest bidder. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 35 time 2022-04-16 03:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1515166568761552899 ========== What does the future hold for covid? https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/15/health/covid-19-herd-immunity/index.html Quite likely, we'll never be done. Even measles is coming back as parents refuse to vaccinate their children. Polio is still strong in countries like Pakistan where many people refuse vaccination. #PS1virus ===== impress 44 time 2022-04-16 03:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1515165088012914693 ========== Justice Department and Bannon lawyers square off on evidence rules for his contempt trial. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/15/politics/steve-bannon-contempt-of-congress-trial/index.html Since he wasn't part of the Trump administration, he's skating on thin ice. #PS1insurrection ===== impress 34 time 2022-04-16 02:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1515162178575224834 ========== What is the significance of the Moskva sinking? https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/15/europe/russia-guided-missile-cruiser-moskva-sinks-intl-hnk-ml/index.html Naval planners world-wide are trying to decide what it means for their fleets. The trend in modern warfare rewards multitudes of expendable attack weapons and penalizes high-value targets. #PS1ukraine ===== engage 5 engage-rate 5% expands 2 impress 95 time 2022-04-16 02:53 +0000 urlclicks 2 userclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1515161316683509764 ========== Like the League of Nations before it, the UN is powerless to address conflicts between permanent members of its Security Council. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/15/politics/united-nations-ukraine-russia/index.html That doesn't mean the UN is useless. It does mean that NATO is not obsolete. #PS1foreign ===== impress 37 time 2022-04-16 02:46 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1515159712261574660 ========== Is more local government power what democracy in France needs? https://xklsv.com/mathews-france-shows-the-perils-of-powerless-local-democracy/2022-04-15 #PS1democracy ===== impress 31 time 2022-04-16 00:43 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1515128622457131014 ========== Global problems can only be solved by global cooperation. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-business-europe-africa-middle-east-007c608c453b7a45e51b291d145792b3 #PS1inflation ===== impress 33 time 2022-04-16 00:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1515124827815743495 ========== That was the week that wasn't. https://apnews.com/article/covid-business-health-sports-infertility-78ac2c8ca67ba647f6e301fce07472c5 #PS1media ===== impress 34 time 2022-04-15 15:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1514988785452212227 ========== Why Putin might settle for Donbas - for now. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/15/europe/donbas-region-ukraine-war-russia-explainer-intl/index.html #PS1ukraine ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 39 time 2022-04-15 13:14 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1514955279032487936 ========== "the net effect could help people like Ted and Josh to the detriment of DJT." https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/15/politics/mike-lee-chip-roy-text-messages-jan-6-mark-meadows-overturn-election/index.html Looking to 2024, the plan worked beautifully. Cruz and Hawley increased their standing among extreme Trumpists. They didn't need any actual proof. #PS1insurrection ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 36 time 2022-04-15 12:59 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1514951564200329217 ========== Putin's revenge - replay 2016? He has a host of willing collaborators among Trumpists. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/14/opinions/putin-threat-american-elections-revenge-ukraine-ghitis/index.html "Bring regime change in the US before Biden’s term expires and again help our partner Trump to become president.” #PS1russian ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 56 time 2022-04-15 04:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1514819190892339208 ========== Require everybody to vote, to change politicians' behavior. https://www.arcamax.com/politics/opeds/s-2662835 #PS1democracy ===== engage 2 engage-rate 4% impress 45 time 2022-04-15 02:19 +0000 urlclicks 1 userclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1514790595226570757 ========== FBI is still tracking down insurrectionists. https://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-biden-donald-trump-florida-arrests-72702d4b814e4e93ec47f2266c457b10 #PS1insurrection ===== impress 33 time 2022-04-15 02:14 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1514789343210061841 ========== This time we beat the Russians to the punch. We think. https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-north-america-malware-300f886c2757a9e6bd96f1ee20a8f5db #PS1russian ===== impress 30 time 2022-04-15 02:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1514787922985189379 ========== GOP can blame Democrats for causing inflation, and then for causing a recession. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/14/opinion/interest-rates-inflation-federal-reserve.html They'll continue to do so even when they are in charge. #PS1inflation ===== impress 34 time 2022-04-15 01:19 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1514775460487467008 ========== Though they don't like to talk about it to the voters https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#gop the GOP is still bought and paid for by its rich major donors. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/14/opinion/republicans-populism-rich.html #PS1gop ===== impress 32 time 2022-04-15 01:15 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1514774443058368512 ========== Food prices going up? Thank Greg Abbott's presidential ambitions! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/04/14/greg-abbott-border-inspection-policy-hurt-texas-own-voters/ Like most Trumpists, he figures the voter base doesn't know or doesn't care. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 32 time 2022-04-15 01:03 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1514771242837954565 ========== You wouldn't allow an individual in government that much power. Why anybody else? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/04/14/elon-musk-twitter-bid-peak-billionaire/ Orders of magnitude differences in wealth are inherently anti-democratic. #PS1economics ===== impress 31 time 2022-04-15 00:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1514769655096696834 ========== Five ways the world has changed - https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/04/14/russia-ukraine-war-50-days-economy-sanctions-refugees/ So much for globalized trade, neutrality, and nuclear non-proliferation. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1642711099406736 #PS1putin ===== impress 37 time 2022-04-15 00:14 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1514759102655737882 ========== Trump is still in charge of GOP. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/14/politics/rnc-debate-donald-trump/index.html And he doesn't want another fair debate that makes him look like an idiot. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/14/politics/rnc-withdraws-from-presidential-debates/index.html But after all, NO modern Putinist Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP leader wants anything to do with a fair debate. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 36 time 2022-04-15 00:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1514755838245711884 ========== Putin has won hearts and minds in Finland - and in Sweden - for NATO. Finns had thought they were safe from another Stalinist invasion like 1939's. They've reconsidered. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/14/opinions/finland-nato-russia-invasion-heinonen/index.html #PS1putin ===== engage 2 engage-rate 3% impress 77 time 2022-04-14 23:59 +0000 urlclicks 2 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1514755138279288839 ========== Judge finds insurrectionist feloniously stupid for believing Trump. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/14/politics/dustin-thompson-january-6-trump/index.html #PS1insurrection ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% expands 1 impress 39 time 2022-04-14 23:54 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1514753880524959757 ========== "One often hears the excuse, “I am not responsible.” That is literally correct. The man who takes such a stand in fact is not responsible; he is irresponsible." https://govleaders.org/rickover.htm And if the shoe fits - https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/14/politics/mitch-mcconnell-donald-trump-scapegoat/index.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1642700836074429 #PS1trump ===== impress 42 time 2022-04-14 23:52 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1514753424297930767 ========== Conscription and corruption - hallmarks of populist kleptocratic regimes. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/14/europe/ukraine-war-russia-trucks-logistics-intl-hnk-ml/index.html #PS1ukraine ===== impress 52 time 2022-04-14 23:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1514749314223943680 ========== Although you can't take anything Musk says at face value, it's clear that he didn't like the restrictions on his behavior that a board seat would entail. https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/04/14/tesla-ceo-elon-musk-offers-to-buy-twitter-for-43-billion/ Maybe he's set his sights too low, and should just offer to buy out Congress instead. #PS1media ===== impress 45 time 2022-04-14 12:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1514586258047086594 ========== Trade need not lead to peace. Globailization need not provide universal benefit. Thank Putin for clarifying that. https://puffnachrichten.com/opinion/trade-and-peace-the-great-illusion/15142/ #PS1trade ===== impress 40 time 2022-04-14 04:31 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1514461326763978754 ========== The last thing GOP candidates want to do is reveal the same agenda to voters and donors. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#gop McConnell is right about that, and Rick Scott wrong. https://www.arcamax.com/politics/opeds/s-2662292 Democrats will help make sure their message to donors gets to voters as well. #PS1gop ===== impress 45 time 2022-04-14 04:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1514459871353077760 ========== Anti-vaxxers turning to violent threats. Just what you'd expect from Trumpists. https://www.arcamax.com/politics/opeds/s-2660695 #PS1virus ===== impress 43 time 2022-04-14 04:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1514457687433494533 ========== Speculation on Musk's Twitter motives. https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-elon-musk-board-of-directors-217a2c041b13e7f647c5275ef29a6394 #PS1media ===== impress 41 time 2022-04-14 04:07 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1514455293840658434 ========== Tim Scott: skin color is only skin deep, but political ambition goes straight to the core. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/04/12/tim-scott-ketanji-jackson-brown/ #PS1justice ===== impress 47 time 2022-04-14 03:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1514453325718073351 ========== No wonder DeSantis wants election fraud cops. But will he send them where the fraud is? https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/04/13/florida-voter-fraud-2020/ #PS1trumpism ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 37 likes 1 time 2022-04-14 03:54 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1514452095608320006 ========== Populist kleptocrats stick together. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/04/13/nicaragua-russia-bffs-in-latin-america/ #PS1foreign ===== impress 52 time 2022-04-14 03:53 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1514451713096265733 ========== Are we giving Putin's threats too much credence? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/04/13/west-help-ukraine-win-next-phase-russia/ #PS1ukraine ===== impress 42 time 2022-04-14 03:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1514450864664047617 ========== It usually takes a recession to douse inflationary fevers. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/12/economy/recession-inflation-economy/index.html #PS1economics ===== impress 35 time 2022-04-14 02:54 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1514437015432925184 ========== Like populist kleptocrats everywhere, Russian oligarchs and their families like to spend as little time in Russia as possible. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/12/us/kremlin-kids-in-the-west-invs/index.html #PS1putin ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 38 likes 1 time 2022-04-14 02:52 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1514436319560175623 ========== "China has often sought to present two different narratives -- one for domestic audiences and another for those overseas." https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/13/china/china-ukraine-great-translation-movement-intl-hnk-mic/index.html #PS1china ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% impress 44 likes 1 time 2022-04-14 02:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1514434548297216003 ========== Why Republicans talk so much about election fraud. They're experts at it! https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/13/politics/mark-meadows-removed-voter-rolls-north-carolina/index.html #PS1trumpism ===== impress 44 time 2022-04-14 02:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1514431558685388809 ========== Ukrainians beat FSB to capture a pawn. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-putin-zelenskyy-kyiv-business-1453669c4918e71051806e38f9d076c3 #PS1ukraine ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% impress 51 time 2022-04-14 02:23 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1514428997823696898 ========== Trumpist Putinist in France advocates appeasement. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-business-marine-le-pen-macron-moscow-d79b5ddd4fe93ebef39da900d99b22da #PS1ukraine ===== impress 47 time 2022-04-14 02:20 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1514428277498126339 ========== Putin prepares Russians to support genocide in Ukraine. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/04/13/russias-war-ukraine-founders-ominous-rhetoric-gains-ground/ #PS1putin ===== impress 60 time 2022-04-14 01:48 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1514420179110821892 ========== Might makes right. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/12/politics/donald-trump-pennsylvania-governor/index.html The essence of Trumpism. And Putinism, Stalinism, Naziism. Even Genghis Khan believed in one rule of law that applied to everybody from the top to the bottom. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 32 time 2022-04-13 13:43 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1514237814904266753 ========== Despite the bad record of Grossdeutschland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-Germanism Putin wants to create Russkiy Mir https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_world And that makes everybody who was once part of the Soviet Union or Russian Empire nervous. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/04/12/putin-ukraine-aggression-nato-obligation-to-baltic-states/ #PS1putin ===== impress 32 time 2022-04-13 07:07 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1514138066151096320 ========== Just get over insurrection? https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/12/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-over-january-6/index.html Just get over John Wilkes Booth or Lee Harvey Oswald. Each only happened once! Get over Pearl Harbor or 9/11 - each only happened once! #PS1insurrection ===== impress 33 time 2022-04-13 06:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1514134136256049158 ========== Somebody has to take the blame for Putin's mistakes. https://news.yahoo.com/putin-purges-more-100-fsb-043240239.html #PS1putin ===== engage 2 engage-rate 6% impress 31 likes 1 time 2022-04-13 06:45 +0000 userclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1514132540168179713 ========== Why Russians support Putin. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/12/opinions/russians-view-putin-post-soviet-journalism-kucher/index.html Expect no change from within. There are still plenty of Russians that admire Stalin, and Germans that admire Hitler. #PS1putin ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 30 time 2022-04-13 06:42 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1514131908132704257 ========== Sure Trump is to blame. That does not let you off the hook for believing his nonsense and acting on it. https://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-steve-bannon-donald-trump-ohio-d43b2c470cac572ee06c500baa16d3ad #PS1insurrection ===== impress 27 time 2022-04-13 06:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1514129595355721732 ========== Putin thought Ukrainians were Russians. Now he's caused most Ukrainians to reject everything Russian. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/04/12/ukrainians-abandon-russian-language/ #PS1ukraine ===== impress 27 time 2022-04-12 13:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1513870808979894272 ========== Evolution of tax preparation companies from tax preparation to private data collection and monetization. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/04/12/tax-prep-privacy/ #PS1tax ===== impress 22 time 2022-04-12 13:21 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1513869964926599172 ========== Like Putin's army, authoritarian populists are regrouping around the world and planning to rise again to even greater effect. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/12/politics/rise-of-extremism-us-and-europe/index.html #PS1trumpism ===== impress 16 time 2022-04-12 13:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1513868659218784262 ========== San Jose city council rejects ranked-choice voting. https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/04/11/san-jose-wont-seek-switch-to-controversial-ranked-choice-voting/ Same old excuses - "too confusing," "allows gaming." Meaning that it's confusing for traditional politicians, because they can't game the system the way they are used to. #PS1democracy ===== impress 31 time 2022-04-12 12:24 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1513855641277763586 ========== Realpolitik's limitations on American idealism. Many other nations, like India, view the Ukrainian war not as an ideological crusade, but as a profitable opportunity for cheap Russian oil and other potential advantages. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/11/opinion/ukraine-war-realist-strategy.html #PS1ukraine ===== engage 1 engage-rate 4% expands 1 impress 28 time 2022-04-12 03:53 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1513727043514429445 ========== Why the Russian army is so ineffective except at murder, rape, and pillage. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/04/11/trump-war-ukraine-russia-brutality-wokeness/ It's as if it were run by Trump! #PS1putin ===== impress 49 time 2022-04-12 03:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1513723687882526721 ========== How Putin got it wrong - he didn't bother to ask anybody who knew and would tell him what they knew. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/04/11/putin-misjudged-ukraine-hubris-isolation/ #PS1putin ===== impress 21 time 2022-04-12 03:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1513722445227716610 ========== How oligarchs hide their ill-gotten gains. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2022/russia-oligarchs-sanctions-pandora-papers/ #PS1putin ===== impress 19 time 2022-04-12 03:24 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1513719782616436741 ========== Can Russia contribute to rebuilding Ukraine? https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/11/opinions/ukraine-russia-monetary-damages-legislation/index.html #PS1ukraine ===== impress 37 time 2022-04-12 03:21 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1513719014056292357 ========== Time for Democrats to quit ringing McConnell's bell! https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/11/opinions/mitch-mcconell-scotus-williams/index.html #PS1justice ===== impress 17 time 2022-04-12 03:03 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1513714299537035268 ========== DeSantis gets to draw Florida's maps - the legislature rolled over. He'll eliminate as many Democratic majority districts as possible, counting on the Trumpist Supreme Court to not intervene. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/11/politics/desantis-florida-redistricting-map/index.html #PS1trumpism ===== impress 24 time 2022-04-12 03:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1513713613071998977 ========== Tracking you? Google and Amazon have a home-court advantage. https://www.ekathimerini.com/nytimes/1181716/youre-still-being-tracked-on-the-internet-just-in-a-different-way/ #PS1media ===== impress 24 time 2022-04-12 02:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1513701315297173507 ========== Despite plenty of advance notice, Meta really wasn't ready for the war in Ukraine. They've changed permissible content guidelines frequently. https://priceza.us/list-cheapests-www.nytimes.com/2022/03/30/technology/ukraine-russia-facebook-instagram.html #PS1media ===== impress 53 time 2022-04-12 02:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1513699907290353667 ========== Rising wages vs inflation - they go together. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/31/business/economy/inflation-rising-wages.html Counting on spending shifts to services to reduce inflationary pressure on goods? Ukraine war scuttles that. #PS1economics ===== impress 49 time 2022-04-12 00:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1513682887014453248 ========== Poor single mothers needs paid family leave and subsidized childcare. Congress has other ideas. https://www.bendbulletin.com/opinion/commentary-poor-single-mothers-need-money-not-husbands/article_2ea923fe-b440-11ec-a069-0378aff77736.html #PS1economics ===== impress 18 time 2022-04-12 00:53 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1513681594334162945 ========== Best place to leave from California? Depends on what you've got, and what you want. https://www.ocregister.com/2022/04/06/leaving-california-a-2022-guide-to-what-state-is-best-to-move-to/ #PS1capolitics ===== impress 11 time 2022-04-12 00:48 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1513680546873831428 ========== The complexity of tax returns keeps going up. https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/qualified-business-income-deduction And the price of a Senate campaign keeps going up. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/11/politics/pennsylvania-expensive-senate-race/index.html What's the correlation? One dollar one vote! More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1640519259625920 #PS1tax ===== impress 10 time 2022-04-12 00:06 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1513669879785689091 ========== Ex-cop now a convict. https://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-biden-congress-virginia-riots-aa94f1664014d4b08d190329d79d5804 #PS1insurrection ===== impress 23 time 2022-04-11 23:48 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1513665409207074816 ========== Putin is a permanent threat. He is a product of his background. Any of his other KGB veteran pals will be the same. Don't expect any of them to change. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/11/opinions/understanding-putin-worldview-london/index.html #PS1putin ===== impress 36 time 2022-04-11 15:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1513538779679666181 ========== A regular Sarah Palin of indecision! https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/11/tech/elon-musk-twitter-board/index.html #PS1economics ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% expands 1 impress 69 time 2022-04-11 05:31 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1513389347772329985 ========== McConnell doesn't want to talk about the real platform. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#gop Easier just to blame Biden for global inflation without saying what GOP would do about it. But lowering taxes on billionaires would be a good guess - as usual. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/04/10/emptiness-heart-republicans-midterm-campaign/ #PS1gop ===== impress 30 time 2022-04-11 01:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1513329125649358849 ========== Did somebody mention rehabilitating Stalin? It's been Putin's project for years. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jul/10/vladimir-putin-russia-rehabilitating-stalin-soviet-past Now it's on the front burner. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/04/10/russia-war-dissent-opposition-crackdown/ #PS1putin ===== impress 35 time 2022-04-11 01:26 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1513327535437717504 ========== A big Rolodex but too lightweight even for the Trump administration. They knew better than to trade the deep state for a state with no depth at all. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/10/politics/ginni-thomas-trump-influence/index.html #PS1trumpism ===== impress 25 time 2022-04-11 01:20 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1513326161815752708 ========== American unity gelled briefly in 2001, but quickly was lost. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html The fundamental question - what is America all about? Blut und Boden or Enlightenment ideals? - always comes back to divide us. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/leonard-pitts-jr-americans-have-lost-the-willingness-ability-to-share-a-common-national-identity/ar-AAW3ftk #PS1theory ===== impress 38 time 2022-04-11 00:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1513317722829991936 ========== Stalinism rebooted. https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/04/09/spurred-by-putin-russians-turn-on-one-another-over-the-war/ #PS1putin ===== impress 30 time 2022-04-11 00:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1513315771681673216 ========== Not all heroic defenses end in immediate victory. https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/04/10/horrific-bataan-death-march-commemorated-on-its-80th-anniversary/ But the Bataan defenders gave time for the Allies to regroup eventually go on the offensive. It seems likely that Ukraine's main trial is about to begin. #PS1other ===== impress 43 time 2022-04-11 00:37 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1513315211712684033 ========== Goebbels - or Stalin - or Putin - would be so proud! Perverting language for political gain. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/04/07/mickey-mouse-is-a-groomer-conservative-talking-point/ #PS1media ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 35 time 2022-04-10 20:26 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1513252126868185091 ========== Putin puts experienced professional civilian murderer in command of next Ukraine campaign. No more amateur murder! https://apnews.com/article/russia-appoints-new-ukraine-war-commander-dvornikov-225f976f9abfb5aff6154ac3b77c21e6 #PS1ukraine ===== engage 2 engage-rate 4% impress 55 likes 1 time 2022-04-10 20:08 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1513247536311463937 ========== Serbian fascists have always admired Russian nationalists. Maybe they'll start a nationalist war too. They've got plenty of veterans with experience murdering civilians. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-europe-china-serbia-nato-682ab79c4239f14ecc1133ff5c7addc9 Russia and China are happy to encourage them to disrupt NATO and EU. #PS1foreign ===== impress 53 time 2022-04-10 20:03 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1513246386053033987 ========== Putin disinformation for dissension continues, so far with minor effect in Poland. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-business-poland-warsaw-migration-21f689271ed8c85da1fc6310a0cdcd3c #PS1russian ===== impress 29 time 2022-04-10 13:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1513149806734032899 ========== Trump repeats promise to pardon some Jan 6 insurrectionists. https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-rally-north-carolina-speech-jan-6-prisoners-mike-lindell-1696701 Presumably, the ones he has time for, who he thinks will benefit him. #PS1insurrection ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 39 retweets 1 time 2022-04-10 13:26 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1513146393505898506 ========== The most honest human being God ever created! https://www.businessinsider.com/north-carolina-selma-rally-trump-most-honest-human-god-created-2022-4 If you're going to lie, why bother with small lies? #PS1trump ===== impress 23 time 2022-04-10 13:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1513145281159774208 ========== Trump-Cawthorn love fest. https://www.businessinsider.com/watch-madison-cawthorn-stands-from-wheelchair-at-trump-rally-2022-4 Of course, Trump is a fickle lover. #PS1trumpism ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 30 time 2022-04-10 13:19 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1513144565041049601 ========== Then it was Stalin's job to defend eastern Europe from murderous Hitler. Now it's Germany's job to defend eastern Europe from murderous Putin. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/04/08/germany-crucial-to-resistance-against-putin-fascism/ #PS1foreign ===== impress 36 time 2022-04-10 06:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1513045188041588737 ========== Like father, like son. https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/04/09/fox-news-lachlan-murdoch-attacks-1619-project-covid-measures/ How much money can you make feeding reactionary fables to gullible viewers? #PS1media ===== impress 29 time 2022-04-10 06:38 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1513043618122010626 ========== The detailed insurrection strategy might well have been developed months before the election, as soon as Trump started spouting nonsense about election fraud. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/09/opinions/trump-jr-text-messages-coup-obeidallah/index.html #PS1insurrection ===== impress 29 time 2022-04-10 06:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1513042272463454209 ========== Trump endorses Dr Oz. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/09/politics/trump-mehmet-oz-endorsement-pennsylvania/index.html If he's loyal, that's good enough for Trump. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 86 time 2022-04-10 06:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1513041241428045824 ========== Russia captures Ukrainian hostages for future use. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/07/europe/ukraine-mariupol-russia-deportation-cmd-intl/index.html #PS1ukraine ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 36 time 2022-04-10 06:26 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1513040752598654977 ========== Treason? https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-arrives-for-north-carolina-rally-amid-treason-accusations/ar-AAW2UyZ Somebody had been planning this for a while before the election results were known, and Don Jr forwarded it, even if he didn't make it up himself, so everybody was in on it. #PS1insurrection ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 38 time 2022-04-10 06:13 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1513037431896911873 ========== It used to be GOP candidates never talked about policy - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html Now another Rick Scott Republican tells the truth - GOP plans to lower taxes on billionaires and raise them on everybody else. https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-business-florida-ohio-personal-taxes-7cb1d1085bb9a3cf9a82ed2a23297df7 More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1638711569806689 #PS1gop ===== impress 33 time 2022-04-09 13:36 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1512786510529003523 ========== Nunes' seat likely to remain GOP for a few months. https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-devin-nunes-california-campaign-2016-election-2020-d081dfa7bd955ef64b18603f24a85b7b #PS1election ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 37 time 2022-04-09 13:27 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1512784236914216960 ========== On May 17 we'll see if a Trump endorsement has retained its value. https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-donald-trump-north-carolina-raleigh-congress-db146ddf43d6825b8695742d9c05baf9 #PS1trumpism ===== impress 42 time 2022-04-09 13:24 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1512783568891645954 ========== Election year? All partisan all the time. https://apnews.com/article/immigration-ketanji-brown-jackson-us-supreme-court-covid-business-f5a7b68b0a4e0c17792de15412c87e8e As opposed to non-election years, mostly partisan most of the time. #PS1election ===== impress 37 time 2022-04-09 13:19 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1512782142417170435 ========== Putin will be back - spreading dissension and disinformation! https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-putin-2022-midterm-elections-congress-presidential-elections-7d24ef5ab29a74fb26eb1742982da133 #PS1russian ===== impress 47 time 2022-04-09 12:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1512771126316855303 ========== Putin's gift to Russian soldiers - pointless exposure to high radiation. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/08/world/europe/ukraine-chernobyl.html Putin's gift to Ukraine - diabolical land mines and unexploded ordnance. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/08/world/europe/ukraine-russia-land-mines.html #PS1ukraine ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% impress 94 time 2022-04-09 03:59 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1512641243611758592 ========== All politics is personal? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/04/08/conservatives-liberals-personal-is-political/ Swing voters don't follow politics much and usually vote their pocketbooks. That's going to be bad for any party in power during rising inflation, even if it's global. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1638448956499617 #PS1theory ===== impress 34 time 2022-04-09 03:46 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1512638112719015941 ========== Traditional Democrats and Republicans dream of things that never were and never will be. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/04/08/democrats-conservatives-history/ #PS1theory ===== impress 37 time 2022-04-09 03:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1512637083214487556 ========== Putin's mistakes in Ukraine. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/04/08/how-russia-botched-ukraine-invasion/ Result - NATO strengthened, despite apparent uselessness of Russian military for anything except murdering civilians, which they've raised to an art form. #PS1ukraine ===== engage 3 engage-rate 5% impress 60 likes 2 time 2022-04-09 03:38 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1512636129387839488 ========== Give Putin credit for expanding NATO, by proving that what Stalin did to Finland in 1939 could easily happen again. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/08/politics/finland-sweden-nato-membership/index.html Ukraine, Moldova, and Georgia might like to join too, when they are qualified. #PS1foreign ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% impress 106 likes 1 time 2022-04-09 03:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1512635341345157124 ========== Federal judge sympathetic to disqualifying insurrectionist Greene. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/08/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-candidacy-challenge-lawsuit/index.html #PS1insurrection ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 33 time 2022-04-09 03:30 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1512634088439513093 ========== Ali Alexander agrees to cooperate - to a degree. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/08/politics/ali-alexander-stop-the-steal-cooperating-doj-january-6/index.html #PS1insurrection ===== impress 96 time 2022-04-09 03:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1512633175125622787 ========== Two days after the election, Don Jr was already plotting insurrection. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/08/politics/donald-trump-jr-meadows-text/index.html #PS1insurrection ===== impress 62 time 2022-04-09 03:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1512632657414279169 ========== How media influencers make their money. https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-technology-business-sports-travel-ebd23980015ffa35b60dbb0348e9ca62 By selling advertising disguised as editorial content. Too many print newpapers are slipping down the same slope. #PS1media ===== impress 52 time 2022-04-09 03:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1512629245670948864 ========== Laws are for poor people! https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2022/04/07/elon-musks-missed-twitter-deadline-made-him-millions-experts-say/ Elon Musk is just a smarter, and thus more dangerous, Trump. The government should get out of the way of rich people getting richer! #PS1economics ===== impress 45 time 2022-04-09 03:06 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1512627886158536706 ========== robocalls - the Feds don't seem to be able to stop them. https://www.connectsafely.org/despite-laws-and-fcc-rules-robocalls-remain-a-problem/ Many are offshore. #PS1technology ===== impress 33 time 2022-04-09 03:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1512626973947817985 ========== That was the week that wasn't. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-covid-technology-science-entertainment-3ecce7bfdcc4ae637e0eb7e74254bd1d #PS1media ===== impress 29 time 2022-04-08 17:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1512477831267495940 ========== The new McConnell rule. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/08/politics/mitch-mcconnell-supreme-court-nominee/index.html A GOP Senate will not even consider a Supreme Court nominee by a Democratic president. Maybe no judicial nominees at all. #PS1justice ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 31 time 2022-04-08 15:16 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1512449392174804994 ========== What would life be like if Trump had been politically competent? Vote for DeSantis to find out! https://msn.com/en-us/news/politics/charles-m-blow-desantis-is-trump-20/ar-AAVBv7l Trump's greatest contribution might be lowering the expectations of political leadership so anybody can play. No moral requirements whatever! #PS1trumpism ===== impress 34 time 2022-04-08 13:54 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1512428554390179843 ========== Did Putin really miscalculate? Or is he progressing well toward his real goal? https://www.twincities.com/2022/03/31/bret-stephens-what-if-putin-didnt-miscalculate/ #PS1putin ===== impress 31 time 2022-04-08 13:26 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1512421695197351945 ========== Putin has to go sooner or later. Otherwise he'll keep regrouping and coming back, while repressing Russia and sowing dissent within the western alliance. https://www.twincities.com/2022/04/07/bret-stephens-biden-is-still-right-putin-has-to-go/ #PS1putin ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 32 time 2022-04-08 13:22 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1512420686454661121 ========== View from the porch! https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/editorial-cartoons/jack-ohman/article260140740.html #PS1gop ===== impress 28 time 2022-04-08 13:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1512419623609667585 ========== Global ripple effects - https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-business-janet-yellen-eastern-europe-europe-81dff914f79f22c6839cf262fa79523c As global inflation and shortages lead unstable governments to topple or look for external enemies to blame and punish, the global impacts of the Ukraine invasion might indeed compound into WWIII. #PS1ukraine ===== impress 49 time 2022-04-08 12:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1512411412148076545 ========== How China is exploiting Ukraine. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-business-china-europe-beijing-32a35d62c98c1b109f95408140337a12 A weakened Russia makes a more reliable partner. India might be anxious about friendly Russia and hostile China acting together. #PS1china ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% expands 1 impress 108 time 2022-04-08 12:38 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1512409630520995840 ========== The German ruling class was enjoying the benefits of globalization of energy resources. Just as the American ruling class was enjoying the benefits of globalization of manufacturing. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/07/opinion/germany-russia-ukraine-energy.html Until it all ended! More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1637743956570117 #PS1inflation ===== impress 29 time 2022-04-08 03:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1512271565596946433 ========== Trump recites a fable that his supporters can memorize and repeat. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/04/07/trump-interview-jan6/ What's certain is that he never intended to be anywhere near where anything "wild" was happening. That's for expendable foot soldiers. #PS1insurrection ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 35 likes 1 time 2022-04-08 02:57 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1512263300452524033 ========== Expulsion of spy-diplomats reduces espionage and reduces communication. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/04/07/russis-spies-expulsions-europe/ #PS1putin ===== impress 30 time 2022-04-08 02:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1512261875936886785 ========== Increased military spending means lower standard of living in Europe. https://www.yahoo.com/news/war-reshaping-europe-spends-115225865.html Putin's invasion casts a long shadow. #PS1inflation ===== impress 31 time 2022-04-08 01:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1512248555402014722 ========== The globalization party is over. Thank Putin for that. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-covid-business-health-inflation-9a197020ce3424589d8d4cc1ff5a82ea We can expect higher prices for almost everything and a consequent decline in standard of living. GOP will blame Biden but it's a global phenomenon. #PS1inflation ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 37 likes 1 time 2022-04-08 01:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1512246461269889024 ========== Know about the San Patricios? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Patrick's_Battalion Now you can read a historical novel - https://www.ocregister.com/2022/03/16/novelist-reyna-grande-was-never-going-to-write-about-war-until-she-did/ #PS1other ===== impress 29 time 2022-04-08 01:31 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1512241815830732808 ========== McConnell is fine if GOP nominates Trump again, even though Trump was resposible for Jan 6. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/07/politics/mcconnell-trump-2024-comments/index.html If there's one thing McConnell is an expert on, it's what it takes to keep his job. #PS1gop ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 33 likes 1 time 2022-04-08 00:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1512225974972153859 ========== Trump investigations continue. https://apnews.com/article/business-donald-trump-new-york-subpoenas-249ef309da3dbf739b3005d9ba2ceef4 Unfortunately, even if re-elected, Trump can't pardon himself for civil or state criminal matters. #PS1trump ===== impress 27 time 2022-04-08 00:20 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1512223795678904323 ========== Why bother with formalities - just pretend! Fake it til you make it! https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/07/politics/federal-officer-impersonation-case-weapons-seized/index.html What they were trying to make is not yet revealed. #PS1other ===== impress 27 time 2022-04-08 00:12 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1512221932908781569 ========== Need a machine gun? Got a 3D printer? https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/04/07/we-have-a-problem-on-our-hands-handguns-turned-automatic-weapons-a-growing-concern/ #PS1firearms ===== engage 3 engage-rate 11% impress 28 time 2022-04-08 00:03 +0000 urlclicks 3 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1512219605661495303 ========== Russia's social media war in India and elsewhere. https://bdnews24.com/neighbours/2022/03/30/pro-russia-sentiment-on-indian-twitter-draws-scrutiny Some people are willing to overlook distant war crimes to protect their weapons supply against local foes. #PS1media ===== engage 2 engage-rate 3% impress 73 time 2022-04-07 13:30 +0000 urlclicks 2 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1512060209752989699 ========== To save the environment from climate change and protect national security from hostile suppliers, we'll have to dig it up. https://apnews.com/article/climate-technology-science-business-environment-a1382f938e201c14aec782322c9782f2 #PS1climate ===== impress 38 time 2022-04-07 13:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1512059446003830795 ========== New and used car prices are not going to get better after all. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-technology-business-europe-prices-865e3be7979d828c1fbd06743434d619 GOP will blame Biden for inflation, while also blaming him for not being tough enough on Russia, or for being too tough, depending on which GOP faction. #PS1inflation ===== impress 39 time 2022-04-07 13:24 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1512058749246054404 ========== What's his goal? https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-twitter-6539434c8f583ee432dd22121bcbbd8a Probably to insure free speech - for Elon Musk. Anybody who doesn't like his free speech rules can buy or build their own social media platform. But if they add an Edit button then fixing typos will be easier. #PS1media ===== impress 33 time 2022-04-07 13:21 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1512058057945075716 ========== Repealing the Enlightenment of America's founders by eliminating any distinction between church and state. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/06/us/christian-right-wing-politics.html #PS1trumpism ===== engage 2 engage-rate 6% expands 1 impress 32 replies 1 time 2022-04-07 05:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1511934676654460929 ========== The advance of technology for murder and maiming. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/06/us/politics/russia-ukraine-land-mines.html #PS1technology ===== impress 31 time 2022-04-07 05:03 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1511932692429873153 ========== AB 2808 would prohibit ranked-choice voting. https://a70.asmdc.org/press-releases/20220228-assemblymember-odonnell-introduces-legislation-ban-ranked-choice-voting The current system discourages third-party and independent candidates. https://calmatters.org/commentary/2022/04/ranked-choice-voting-is-under-threat/ Tell your legislators that you support ranked-choice voting. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1636999226644590 #PS1capolitics ===== impress 38 time 2022-04-07 04:38 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1511926292039430145 ========== Murdering civilians doesn't work. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/04/05/putin-indiscriminate-bombing-ukraine-plain-bad-strategy/ But Putin will keep trying. Nobody's going to stop him. #PS1putin ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 32 likes 1 time 2022-04-07 01:48 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1511883632675221507 ========== Technology is making it harder to conceal some facts. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/06/europe/ukraine-russia-war-technology-intl-cmd/index.html But Putin will deny and lie just as he always does. #PS1technology ===== impress 32 time 2022-04-07 01:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1511879594067914755 ========== 5000 murdered in Mariupol? https://www.denverpost.com/2022/04/06/mariupols-dead-put-at-5000-as-ukraine-braces-in-the-east/ #PS1ukraine ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% impress 72 time 2022-04-07 01:24 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1511877614356480002 ========== Sarah Palin gets Trump endorsement but mixed reaction from actual Alaskans. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/06/politics/sarah-palin-congressional-campaign-republican-reaction/index.html The good news is if she were elected to anything, she wouldn't accomplish anything except maybe getting on Fox, and she'd quit before her term was up. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 44 time 2022-04-07 01:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1511875881509298179 ========== Hacking to undermine legitimate sources. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/05/us/politics/ukraine-russia-hackers.html Maybe it doesn't matter whether anybody believes you, as long as they come to disbelieve everything - nothing is true and everything is possible. #PS1media ===== impress 19 time 2022-04-06 05:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1511576381968183296 ========== Wyoming is the smallest state in population, but it's the biggest in pampering international criminal fortunes. There's a lot of money in that business - for a few people. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/interactive/2022/tax-havens-wyoming-pandora-papers/ #PS1economics ===== engage 1 engage-rate 6% impress 18 likes 1 time 2022-04-06 05:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1511572848090918912 ========== 46 months for Capitol cocktails. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/01/politics/lonnie-coffman-capitol-riot/index.html Maybe he hopes Trump will pardon him. #PS1insurrection ===== impress 17 time 2022-04-06 05:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1511571818783543299 ========== How much is Trump worth? https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/05/politics/donald-trump-net-worth-forbes-billionaire/index.html Depends on how much he can get out of his SPAC before it crashes like Trump Social! #PS1trump ===== impress 19 time 2022-04-06 05:07 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1511571194671079433 ========== More Trumpist women governors? Like Greene and Boebert? https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/06/politics/right-direction-women-launch-elect-gop-governors/index.html #PS1trumpism ===== impress 16 time 2022-04-06 05:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1511569680154050560 ========== Bad times ahead for future generations. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/05/politics/mark-milley-ukraine-reaction-international-conflict/index.html And that's not even talking about climate change. #PS1foreign ===== impress 14 time 2022-04-06 04:57 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1511568849442729992 ========== What liberation by Russian Army is like - https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/05/europe/borodianka-ukraine-deaths-destruction-intl/index.html Not so different from liberation by Hitler or Stalin. #PS1ukraine ===== impress 19 time 2022-04-06 04:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1511565499003408384 ========== Trumpists try to overcome Federal powers. https://apnews.com/article/immigration-covid-health-texas-congress-5980efee00f615ffa57cd04d80e77b7e #PS1immigration ===== impress 13 time 2022-04-06 04:36 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1511563400093966340 ========== Truth Social growing pains! https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/04/politics/truth-social-app-trump/index.html #PS1media ===== impress 30 time 2022-04-05 13:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1511332416920571906 ========== If Trump were as rich as Musk he might have bought Twitter instead of building a poor imitation. Now Musk has a platform in case he wants to run for president. https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-twitter-6539434c8f583ee432dd22121bcbbd8a Will somebody create an imitation that really rejects hate speech and propaganda? #PS1media ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 40 likes 1 time 2022-04-05 13:12 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1511330818349625346 ========== Cops on the wrong side of the law. https://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-business-virginia-police-riots-0613248c4944749620cad4521853e8c7 One cuts deals, another goes to jury trial. #PS1insurrection ===== impress 21 time 2022-04-05 13:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1511329199268642821 ========== Whenever you look for real election fraud - you start and end with Republicans! https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-chris-christie-new-jersey-new-hampshire-congress-734e2b2722c66883eab85bfca96fbc8c #PS1election ===== impress 29 time 2022-04-05 13:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1511328373238161411 ========== Saying out loud what everybody knows. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/03/media/reliable-sources-biden-murdoch-fox-news/index.html #PS1media ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 33 time 2022-04-04 00:53 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1510782642504962052 ========== Now nobody can claim any doubt where Orban's and Hungary's sentiments lie. Evidently they have forgotten 1956 - or don't care. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/03/europe/hungary-election-results-viktor-orban-intl/index.html No doubt Trump has already sent congratulations. #PS1foreign ===== impress 65 time 2022-04-04 00:48 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1510781336495157253 ========== Sanctions rarely solve anything by themselves. They reinforce dictators in power. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/02/opinion/putin-ukraine-russia.html They do function as a multiplier to military force. #PS1putin ===== engage 3 engage-rate 6% expands 1 impress 50 likes 1 time 2022-04-03 15:36 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1510642498175004678 ========== World War Wired - globalization means everybody is involved. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/03/opinion/ukraine-russia-wired.html #PS1ukraine ===== impress 29 time 2022-04-03 15:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1510640581923336198 ========== Putin has failed in Ukraine before. But he can never admit it. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/02/world/europe/putin-ukraine-failure.html #PS1ukraine ===== impress 37 time 2022-04-03 15:24 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1510639270452629504 ========== Putin missed the most important lesson of competitive sports. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/03/30/putin-does-not-understand-hockey/ To be your greatest self, you must respect your able honorable worthy opponents. #PS1putin ===== impress 28 time 2022-04-03 15:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1510636727752278019 ========== Commodities - a good way to lose a nickel. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/02/investing/nickel-short-squeeze/index.html #PS1economics ===== impress 23 time 2022-04-03 15:07 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1510635095819911174 ========== No end in sight - Putin can't win but he doesn't dare lose. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/02/opinions/russian-military-invasion-has-peaked-repass-bergen/index.html #PS1ukraine ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 37 replies 1 time 2022-04-03 14:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1510621575816437762 ========== Democrats seek key to appeal to persuadable Trump voters. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/03/politics/ohio-democrats-midterms-economic-message/index.html #PS1election ===== impress 25 time 2022-04-03 14:04 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1510619339946266632 ========== Putin isn't channeling Stalin after all. It's Hitler. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/02/world/putin-invasion-mistakes-hitler-blake-cec/index.html #PS1putin ===== engage 2 engage-rate 6% impress 33 likes 1 time 2022-04-03 13:50 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1510615704298393601 ========== Taliban bans poppies and drugs. https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-business-taliban-flowers-1645cbd08660c6115e2d7d4cb6ac0183 This might be their downfall. It was the last productive sector left of the economy, and might alienate the warlords who supported the Taliban takeover. #PS1afghanistan ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 31 likes 1 time 2022-04-03 13:37 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1510612580389167115 ========== The Falklands war - a perfect example of a war fought not for NATIONAL security against another nation, but for ADMINISTRATION security against the domestic political opposition. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#political%20ideology%20for%20the%20masses https://apnews.com/article/argentina-south-america-europe-b543a53553521ca53318cfd49a07ee5e #PS1theory ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% expands 1 impress 34 time 2022-04-03 03:53 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1510465510642577409 ========== What happens when the unthinkable becomes thinkable? https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-putin-nato-europe-6d1e374e77504838ba9ca78dd8bce46c Putin's invasion of Ukraine has already convinced other leaders that they are safer with nukes than without. True - until somebody becomes desperate or makes a mistake. #PS1other ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% impress 58 likes 1 time 2022-04-03 03:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1510464005998985217 ========== Afghanistan and Ukraine. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/04/02/ukraine-afghanistan-russia-parallels-quagmire/ #PS1ukraine ===== impress 48 time 2022-04-02 13:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1510254922238861314 ========== Life for small business in Russia today. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/04/02/russia-economy-small-business/ #PS1putin ===== impress 34 time 2022-04-02 13:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1510253503461015556 ========== DeSantis displacing Trump at Fox? https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/01/politics/ron-desantis-fox-news-candidate/index.html Trump never forgives disloyalty, like Fox's calling Arizona for Biden. #PS1trumpism ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 35 time 2022-04-02 13:45 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1510252089464610825 ========== Sarah Palin thinks she has something more to contribute! https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-don-young-alaska-elections-special-elections-548bc4594cabccb3017e60bfae35b8dc #PS1gop ===== impress 40 time 2022-04-02 04:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1510109115267182597 ========== “Be there, will be wild!” What exactly did Trump mean? Many people had no doubts. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/29/us/politics/trump-tweet-jan-6.html #PS1insurrection ===== impress 36 time 2022-04-02 02:07 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1510076401830965250 ========== The smarter you are, the easier it is to fool yourself. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/03/28/ginni-thomas-republicans-psychology-conspiracy-theories/ #PS1other ===== impress 32 time 2022-04-02 02:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1510074753586925568 ========== Sometimes pound-wise and penny-foolish is best. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/03/29/paycheck-protection-program-ppp-was-worth-fraud-cost/ #PS1recovery ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 36 time 2022-04-02 01:57 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1510073906350067713 ========== Life under the USSR. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/interactive/2022/soviet-photographs-arthur-grace/ No wonder Eastern Europeans are so supportive of Ukraine. #PS1other ===== impress 44 time 2022-04-02 01:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1510059437687394306 ========== Putinist-Trumpist Americans - long on criticism of Biden, short on constructive suggestions aside from channeling Charles Lindbergh and Neville Chamberlain. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/04/01/too-many-conservatives-oppose-aid-for-ukraine-russia-war/ #PS1trumpism ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 40 likes 1 time 2022-04-02 00:54 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1510058141135777794 ========== Life on Truth Social. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/04/01/truth-social-trump-network-propaganda/ Doesn't seem likely to displace Twitter. #PS1media ===== impress 37 time 2022-04-02 00:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1510057049450713089 ========== Life in the USSR - resurrected. https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/29/europe/ukraine-war-russia-occupation-disappearances-detention-cmd-intl/index.html It only gets worse. #PS1putin ===== impress 32 time 2022-04-02 00:46 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1510055986693771266 ========== Molotov man gets 46 months. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/01/politics/lonnie-coffman-capitol-riot/index.html #PS1insurrection ===== impress 32 time 2022-04-02 00:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1510054289615441922 ========== Deepfakes coming to a company near you! https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/01/perspectives/zelensky-deepfake-disinformation-businesses/index.html #PS1media ===== impress 46 time 2022-04-02 00:36 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1510053517968363522 ========== Possible ways Trump MIGHT be prosecuted. https://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-crime-donald-trump-united-states-presidential-elections-3f6f8dea5de6ffd563a77e97fa37529b So far, he's always beaten the rap. #PS1insurrection ===== impress 35 time 2022-04-02 00:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1510051313681256453 ========== Cubans suffer from Ukraine invasion. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-business-europe-lifestyle-cuba-069cb5152efc535e3a001af7a79a0a81 #PS1ukraine ===== impress 58 time 2022-04-02 00:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1510050056572837893 ========== Not every Russian wants to die for Putin. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-russian-youth-draft-fears-0553c8ac5981758826f973e2103348e0 #PS1ukraine ===== engage 2 engage-rate 6% impress 34 likes 1 replies 1 time 2022-04-02 00:19 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1510049309638635522 ========== That was the week that wasn't. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-oscars-chris-rock-jada-pinkett-smith-covid-b6b9888a2a6b5075e29c34bded23b425 #PS1media ===== impress 30 time 2022-04-02 00:12 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1510047580926873600 ========== Apple and Meta easily tricked by hackers. https://news.yahoo.com/hackers-pretending-cops-tricked-apple-210201429.html #PS1technology ===== impress 20 time 2022-04-01 12:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1509878113966067713 ========== Inflation no problem if you can pass it on to consumers! https://apnews.com/article/covid-business-health-prices-corporate-profits-d9e73bedbf926e804764804a2ab83b4d #PS1inflation ===== impress 16 time 2022-04-01 12:52 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1509876421446946816 ========== Russia's neighbors know what to expect. They want to fight back now rather than later. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/25/opinion/nato-russia-poland-europe.html #PS1putin ===== impress 30 time 2022-04-01 03:43 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1509738101169541121 ========== The only sanctions that matter to the Russian oligarchs are those that affect oil and gas, and those that affect military technology - economic and military power are all that matter in Russia. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/25/opinion/russia-ukraine-putin-sanctions-oligarchs.html #PS1putin ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% impress 47 time 2022-04-01 03:39 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1509737171401408517 ========== “Republicans could not help themselves” https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/03/27/by-trashing-jackson-gop-magnified-right-wing-courts-legitimacy-problem/ #PS1justice ===== impress 17 time 2022-04-01 03:23 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1509733251295813632 ========== "Good politics makes for bad policy" https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/26/opinions/states-surging-revenues-inflation-governors-mccaffery/index.html #PS1tax ===== impress 17 time 2022-04-01 03:15 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1509731211438043139 ========== Putin and Potter https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/28/opinions/putin-harry-potter-jk-rowling-borenstein/index.html He seems to get very bad intelligence advice. #PS1putin ===== engage 1 engage-rate 6% impress 17 time 2022-04-01 03:12 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1509730458069704706 ========== Taking Swiss banking secrecy too far? https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/28/business/credit-suisse-oligarch-probe/index.html #PS1putin ===== engage 1 engage-rate 6% impress 17 likes 1 time 2022-04-01 03:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1509729353004838917 ========== Trump has learned that there are no consequences from frightened GOP senators or House leadership. https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/31/politics/donald-trump-vladimir-putin-hunter-biden/index.html #PS1trump ===== engage 1 engage-rate 5% impress 20 time 2022-04-01 02:12 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1509715279139336193 ========== If anybody acts to remove Putin, it will be in their own self interest, but proclaimed to be for the salvation of Russia. Those with the power to act have no interest in western democratic ideals - and Biden's statements are unhelpful. https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/31/opinions/russia-elite-putin-opinion-london/index.html #PS1putin ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 31 likes 1 time 2022-04-01 02:07 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1509714084014436355 ========== If they finally have to testify - they'll just plead the 5th like most of the top Trumpists, counting on Trump to be re-elected and pardon them. https://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-steve-bannon-subpoenas-dan-scavino-peter-navarro-3247f6b7a644ff3e2c6f14d41f6cd0c8 #PS1insurrection ===== impress 21 time 2022-04-01 01:57 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1509711513405190146 ========== It's the same old Taliban after all. https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-taliban-70bf3af0a3ee5d7e876b1f1e35f71682 #PS1afghanistan ===== impress 18 time 2022-04-01 01:54 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1509710752436826116 ========== Putin divides and conquers - first eastern and southern Ukraine, then the rest, when his army is ready. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-shift-in-strategy-7386a5893a3b43bad7e438cfe45468c2 It's time for democracies neighboring Ukraine to contribute air and land support in Ukraine, without invoking NATO protection in Ukraine. #PS1ukraine ===== impress 55 time 2022-04-01 01:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1509709003873431558 ========== Timeline for the 8 hour gap. https://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-elections-donald-trump-presidential-elections-election-2020-3315609c4152b4429930a17191b5a217 #PS1insurrection ===== impress 18 time 2022-04-01 01:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1509704386028597250