| Title | Date | Im- press | En- gage | Ex- pand | URL- clicks | Like | Re- tweet | Link to Text | Link to Tweet |
| Empires fall when ordinary citizens no longer believe | 2022-12-31 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1609082160396521474 | 1609082160396521474 |
| The Gregorian calendar politics - England took 150 years to | 2022-12-31 | 14 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1609077841492316160 | 1609077841492316160 |
| How Trumpist candidates missed the independent vote by | 2022-12-31 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1609074769516957699 | 1609074769516957699 |
| What goes up must come down. | 2022-12-31 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1609066021134143489 | 1609066021134143489 |
| That was the week that wasn't. | 2022-12-31 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1609059609213554694 | 1609059609213554694 |
| If you're rich enough you don't have to pay much in taxes - | 2022-12-30 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1608906983364775936 | 1608906983364775936 |
| How Silicon Valley technologists retire | 2022-12-30 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1608905031549620224 | 1608905031549620224 |
| Signs of the times | 2022-12-30 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1608903959271608321 | 1608903959271608321 |
| You don't know much about a new technology until you see | 2022-12-30 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1608850068215599104 | 1608850068215599104 |
| Disinformation in local school board races in wealthy | 2022-12-30 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1608843082581303300 | 1608843082581303300 |
| Your data lives forever - and who knows, it might pop up | 2022-12-30 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1608667651328606208 | 1608667651328606208 |
| Focus on good news for a change! | 2022-12-30 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1608650072245534721 | 1608650072245534721 |
| It's a crime for a politician to lie? A prerequisite | 2022-12-29 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1608531437782962176 | 1608531437782962176 |
| There is such a thing as free will! And repentance - | 2022-12-24 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1606650411745968129 | 1606650411745968129 |
| What's next for Belarus? | 2022-12-24 | 45 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1606529641371815936 | 1606529641371815936 |
| Medicare Advantage? | 2022-12-24 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1606516622717784065 | 1606516622717784065 |
| Presidential election results and Congressional power do | 2022-12-24 | 26 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1606515512070262784 | 1606515512070262784 |
| The fine line between initiative and insubordination - | 2022-12-23 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1606325400954511365 | 1606325400954511365 |
| That was the week that wasn't. | 2022-12-23 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1606320649592401927 | 1606320649592401927 |
| Dixiecrat Trumpists remind us of all the taxpayer money | 2022-12-23 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1606318774701133830 | 1606318774701133830 |
| The Russian way of war. | 2022-12-23 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1606174625984978944 | 1606174625984978944 |
| More about how the sausage gets made. | 2022-12-23 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1606166241088897026 | 1606166241088897026 |
| More about Stefan Passantino - | 2022-12-23 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1606165224393826305 | 1606165224393826305 |
| And here's the Jan 6 committee's summary of its full | 2022-12-23 | 30 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1606164213335855104 | 1606164213335855104 |
| What's in the final Jan 6 report. | 2022-12-23 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1606162487887335424 | 1606162487887335424 |
| How the Zelenskyy visit happened. | 2022-12-23 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1606156871039008769 | 1606156871039008769 |
| Of course the devil prefers to start at the top. | 2022-12-23 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1606156105624604672 | 1606156105624604672 |
| Even the GOP - and some Democrats - that don't care about | 2022-12-23 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1606154769139056642 | 1606154769139056642 |
| Putin gets whatever help he can, wherever he can, and | 2022-12-23 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1606153859600027648 | 1606153859600027648 |
| The Taliban shows its true colors. | 2022-12-23 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1606152972756402178 | 1606152972756402178 |
| How the sausage gets made. | 2022-12-23 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1606151164738670594 | 1606151164738670594 |
| "hearsay, speculation and theatrics" | 2022-12-23 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1606150118918393856 | 1606150118918393856 |
| Trumpists deliver a graduate course in witness tampering. | 2022-12-23 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1606149107009011714 | 1606149107009011714 |
| It can be helpful to have rich parents. | 2022-12-23 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1606147729607888896 | 1606147729607888896 |
| Trump's lucky break - his business interests and tax | 2022-12-23 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1606105046382350336 | 1606105046382350336 |
| Beginnings of understanding long-term covid. | 2022-12-23 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1606101959148048384 | 1606101959148048384 |
| State courts and constitutions matter too! | 2022-12-22 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1605831055008616448 | 1605831055008616448 |
| The necessary tasks ahead to protect and strengthen | 2022-12-21 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1605569361737093120 | 1605569361737093120 |
| Did he really mean it when he said he'd step down? | 2022-12-19 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1604854729271496704 | 1604854729271496704 |
| Last Jan 6 committee hearing begins in five hours. | 2022-12-19 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1604820588782006272 | 1604820588782006272 |
| Market timing not Trump's forte. | 2022-12-18 | 13 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1604307989053087744 | 1604307989053087744 |
| A lesson for Putin. | 2022-12-18 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1604307514568253441 | 1604307514568253441 |
| "don’t seem to have any constructive reason to oppose | 2022-12-18 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1604305564904738816 | 1604305564904738816 |
| Trump thought it was enough to say something. He didn't | 2022-12-18 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1604304475019022336 | 1604304475019022336 |
| "Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others | 2022-12-18 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1604303147140231168 | 1604303147140231168 |
| DeSantis is bolder, more focused, and more competent | 2022-12-18 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1604301702852591617 | 1604301702852591617 |
| Money is the mother's milk. | 2022-12-17 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1604163166010609664 | 1604163166010609664 |
| New Congress, new drama. | 2022-12-17 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1604162403691683848 | 1604162403691683848 |
| "tech workers and journalists who have lost their jobs | 2022-12-17 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1603943915693842433 | 1603943915693842433 |
| All he ever cared about was the money! | 2022-12-17 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1603943397240107009 | 1603943397240107009 |
| "Now that more Republicans, like Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, | 2022-12-17 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1603942006337572864 | 1603942006337572864 |
| A new state with a Democratic majority? Not while Mitch | 2022-12-17 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1603939790734258177 | 1603939790734258177 |
| Leader of the pack? New pack in prison. | 2022-12-17 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1603938846567038976 | 1603938846567038976 |
| It's not just Speaker - the RNC chair contest exposes | 2022-12-17 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1603938473974435840 | 1603938473974435840 |
| That was the week that wasn't. | 2022-12-16 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1603849213997039616 | 1603849213997039616 |
| History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes! | 2022-12-15 | 17 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1603486906238390274 | 1603486906238390274 |
| Some people have an interest in insecure, unverifiable | 2022-12-15 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1603245989455765505 | 1603245989455765505 |
| Christian Nationalism is a political ideology, not a | 2022-12-15 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1603237839365234689 | 1603237839365234689 |
| Why did Japan surrender? | 2022-12-15 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1603235714061115393 | 1603235714061115393 |
| California's prison disaster. | 2022-12-14 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1603149088676978688 | 1603149088676978688 |
| DeSantis already sees Trump in his rear-view mirror. | 2022-12-14 | 16 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1603061832578568192 | 1603061832578568192 |
| Can GOP make a deal on immigration? | 2022-12-14 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1602893295339720704 | 1602893295339720704 |
| It's best not to over-commit. | 2022-12-14 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1602853001961431040 | 1602853001961431040 |
| Will the Electoral Count Act be fixed after all? Not if | 2022-12-14 | 32 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1602852410958848000 | 1602852410958848000 |
| "some Republicans believe McCarthy is privately rooting | 2022-12-14 | 30 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1602846970468397056 | 1602846970468397056 |
| McCarthy stands against serious bipartisan government | 2022-12-14 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1602845476742520832 | 1602845476742520832 |
| When you get right down to fundamentals, there are two | 2022-12-14 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1602844822775005184 | 1602844822775005184 |
| Prisoner exchange deals encourage hostage-taking. | 2022-12-14 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1602842988937240576 | 1602842988937240576 |
| If Greene had been in charge, the insurrection would | 2022-12-14 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1602841728699944960 | 1602841728699944960 |
| Trump's the worst possible choice but he'd support him | 2022-12-14 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1602840845698244608 | 1602840845698244608 |
| Middle-east problems never go away, they just get more | 2022-12-13 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1602723970045792256 | 1602723970045792256 |
| Who are the low-information voters on climate? Always the | 2022-12-13 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1602723021780701184 | 1602723021780701184 |
| The election is over! The final House race has been | 2022-12-13 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1602721954280181765 | 1602721954280181765 |
| If Arizona adopted ranked-choice voting, then no matter | 2022-12-13 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1602721060725497856 | 1602721060725497856 |
| It just gets worse for SBF - | 2022-12-13 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1602694765736525824 | 1602694765736525824 |
| Nuclear fusion - is it finally on the road to feasibility? | 2022-12-13 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1602693836798447617 | 1602693836798447617 |
| What are the major conclusions after reading and writing | 2022-12-13 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1602685306162987008 | 1602685306162987008 |
| At least he will probably always be welcome on Twitter - | 2022-12-13 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1602504857633464326 | 1602504857633464326 |
| How can you make a small fortune in social media?? | 2022-12-13 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1602504197479374848 | 1602504197479374848 |
| That was the week that wasn't. | 2022-12-09 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1601272398287753216 | 1601272398287753216 |
| Maybe Putin isn't behind THIS fake news - | 2022-12-09 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1601263384652980224 | 1601263384652980224 |
| Like Trump, Netanyahu is embracing the most extreme | 2022-12-08 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1600742808717230080 | 1600742808717230080 |
| Trumpist insurrectionists can be found in lots of places. | 2022-12-07 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1600524792993501187 | 1600524792993501187 |
| More on "independent state legislatures". | 2022-12-07 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1600520340773691392 | 1600520340773691392 |
| Is this the week that most GOP legislators finally find | 2022-12-07 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1600518580780806150 | 1600518580780806150 |
| Is the president immune from civil damages for inciting | 2022-12-07 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1600517226322223107 | 1600517226322223107 |
| Youngkin in 2024? He's better than Trump or DeSantis | 2022-12-07 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1600516543606947840 | 1600516543606947840 |
| "Independent state legislatures" theory goes to the | 2022-12-07 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1600511180770279426 | 1600511180770279426 |
| Is there a Speaker in the House? | 2022-12-06 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1599947587964239872 | 1599947587964239872 |
| After seven years of cheerleading for Trump, one pundit | 2022-12-06 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1599945600967258112 | 1599945600967258112 |
| Leaders are supposed to lead. But some just follow. | 2022-12-06 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1599939381544259584 | 1599939381544259584 |
| Who knew that contributions to a Political Action Committee | 2022-12-06 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1599931449146478592 | 1599931449146478592 |
| The new face of Twitter. | 2022-12-06 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1599930229556137984 | 1599930229556137984 |
| Has Trump run out of energy or is he just pacing himself | 2022-12-06 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1599927488297472000 | 1599927488297472000 |
| Nothing like a little recession talk to motivate layoffs! | 2022-12-05 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1599912648736636928 | 1599912648736636928 |
| What happens when lawyers go off the rails - | 2022-12-05 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1599911439162306562 | 1599911439162306562 |
| "termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, | 2022-12-05 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1599772962357669888 | 1599772962357669888 |
| That was the week that wasn't. | 2022-12-02 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1598718919443107840 | 1598718919443107840 |
| Minority rule | 2022-12-02 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1598577530881347586 | 1598577530881347586 |
| One of the tricky skills needed to be a GOP leader is | 2022-12-02 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1598574297874063362 | 1598574297874063362 |
| During covid, some people made out like bandits! | 2022-12-02 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1598571814909005825 | 1598571814909005825 |
| Woke Florida GOP cancel BlackRock. | 2022-12-02 | 42 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1598569962943045633 | 1598569962943045633 |
| Arizona judges have had enough cowboy foolishness. | 2022-12-02 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1598569345298620417 | 1598569345298620417 |
| “Kanye. Elon. Trump.” - House Judiciary GOP | 2022-12-02 | 59 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1598568088668364802 | 1598568088668364802 |
| What is the essential strength of democracy? That | 2022-12-02 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1598566586373136384 | 1598566586373136384 |
| People who never admit error never learn anything new. | 2022-12-02 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1598565488438972418 | 1598565488438972418 |
| When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers - | 2022-12-02 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1598564530149199874 | 1598564530149199874 |
| It's looking less likely that Trump can stay out of court | 2022-12-02 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1598560742713987072 | 1598560742713987072 |
| You really need to pay attention to the recycling rules. | 2022-12-02 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1598557742637408257 | 1598557742637408257 |
| Why police reform is so hard - | 2022-12-02 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1598548152520704002 | 1598548152520704002 |
| The pros and cons of indicting and trying a president - | 2022-12-02 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1598538907158990848 | 1598538907158990848 |
| Every high school graduate should expect to go to college. | 2022-12-02 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1598537700088258560 | 1598537700088258560 |
| Democrats don't even bother campaigning in statewide races. | 2022-12-02 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1598533579541475330 | 1598533579541475330 |
| Ever seen the Stoppard play Leopoldstadt? | 2022-12-02 | 38 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1598532449759526914 | 1598532449759526914 |
| "manifestly without merit" | 2022-12-02 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1598529785256296453 | 1598529785256296453 |
| Another attempt to figure out why California gasoline | 2022-12-02 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1598528171875655680 | 1598528171875655680 |
| If anybody can freely read your website, they can't copy | 2022-12-02 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1598526802703486976 | 1598526802703486976 |
| Tim Cook and Jim Jordan - now that's what you call an | 2022-12-02 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1598525206725025793 | 1598525206725025793 |
| Recount for Boebert and Frisch. | 2022-12-02 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1598476957494444032 | 1598476957494444032 |
| Do you think they could have made it any more complicated? | 2022-12-02 | 65 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1598468231173636096 | 1598468231173636096 |
| Channeling Roy Cohn, Trump never backs down. And he | 2022-12-01 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1598344024741810176 | 1598344024741810176 |
| Now is the time to fix the Electoral Count Act. | 2022-12-01 | 27 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1598223965515677696 | 1598223965515677696 |
| Georgia voters are not easily suppressed. | 2022-12-01 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1598195996223483905 | 1598195996223483905 |
| Preserving strategic advantages is important. But so | 2022-12-01 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1598176231052017664 | 1598176231052017664 |
| "With sufficient funding, IRS can enforce tax laws, | 2022-12-01 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1598174387039252481 | 1598174387039252481 |
| “the Democrats can end up picking who the speaker is” | 2022-12-01 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1598172437010862081 | 1598172437010862081 |
| The price of gasoline is down, for the time being. | 2022-12-01 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1598168590758203393 | 1598168590758203393 |
| It's not about what Ye and Fuentes believe or not. | 2022-12-01 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1598167321352151040 | 1598167321352151040 |
| Ukraine war won't be settled by negotiation - only | 2022-12-01 | 72 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1598163567605592064 | 1598163567605592064 |
| The GOP may be turning a corner away from Trump, but many | 2022-12-01 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1598162193077313537 | 1598162193077313537 |
| Political acts are not subject to executive immunity. | 2022-12-01 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1598160733745082368 | 1598160733745082368 |
| Competent leadership does make a difference. | 2022-12-01 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1598159667368075265 | 1598159667368075265 |
| McCarthy has NO PROBLEM with Trump meeting with any of | 2022-12-01 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1598157986404651008 | 1598157986404651008 |
| 300 Americans still dying EVERY DAY from covid - but Musk | 2022-12-01 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1598155052262494208 | 1598155052262494208 |
| Yes you can be convicted of seditious conspiracy, | 2022-12-01 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1598151237698228224 | 1598151237698228224 |
| Rupert Murdoch and Alex Jones triumph - convincing people | 2022-12-01 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1598149896787611648 | 1598149896787611648 |
| Election deniers are unfazed by rejection in 2022. | 2022-12-01 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1598146273051176961 | 1598146273051176961 |
| FTX disease spreads! | 2022-12-01 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1598144850754695168 | 1598144850754695168 |
| Congress now has Trump's tax returns. He'll never | 2022-12-01 | 32 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1598143074064297984 | 1598143074064297984 |
| Universal basic income may be an idea whose time is | 2022-12-01 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1598139477964500998 | 1598139477964500998 |
| Tiktok is still hiring! | 2022-12-01 | 59 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1598136517498572805 | 1598136517498572805 |
| Who wants our billionaires to live forever? | 2022-12-01 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1598135015497695233 | 1598135015497695233 |
| Politics - in the Nutcracker??? | 2022-12-01 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1598132239157841920 | 1598132239157841920 |
| Hospice was a wonderful idea to ease the last days of life | 2022-12-01 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1598130022040018944 | 1598130022040018944 |
| GOP propaganda set up the Pelosi attack, knowing it would | 2022-11-29 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1597584771403874304 | 1597584771403874304 |
| The lunatic fringe in Arizona can't be dissuaded by facts. | 2022-11-29 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1597469096995860480 | 1597469096995860480 |
| GOP set up the Pelosi attacl, knowing it would motivate | 2022-11-29 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1597454382529855488 | 1597454382529855488 |
| Getting private equity and hedge funds out of the | 2022-11-29 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1597451606517088256 | 1597451606517088256 |
| Getting money out of politics is more complicated than | 2022-11-29 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1597450869762830336 | 1597450869762830336 |
| Like all binges, over-hiring always comes to the same | 2022-11-26 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1596513402959953920 | 1596513402959953920 |
| Mental health benefits of a strict Twitter diet! | 2022-11-26 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1596510815980748801 | 1596510815980748801 |
| Maybe multitaskers aren't really as effective as they | 2022-11-26 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1596510097693233157 | 1596510097693233157 |
| Make final plans well ahead of final moments. | 2022-11-26 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1596494193257435136 | 1596494193257435136 |
| You can make a living off political divisiveness! | 2022-11-26 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1596381481760616449 | 1596381481760616449 |
| Fewer and fewer people matter in presidential elections. | 2022-11-26 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1596380096427806720 | 1596380096427806720 |
| Rich people think they are smart, but sometimes they | 2022-11-26 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1596345284887719936 | 1596345284887719936 |
| Fast fashion - fast trashing. | 2022-11-26 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1596336870325358592 | 1596336870325358592 |
| It's the same old same old from the same old guy. | 2022-11-26 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1596335809619075073 | 1596335809619075073 |
| Calling all scammers! | 2022-11-26 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1596330674167828480 | 1596330674167828480 |
| Getting on Fox with outlandish talk is a lot easier than | 2022-11-26 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1596314288943411200 | 1596314288943411200 |
| The future of human space travel - | 2022-11-26 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1596311316725379072 | 1596311316725379072 |
| The reactionary Supreme Court doesn't always defend | 2022-11-25 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1596292585303445505 | 1596292585303445505 |
| Palin's legacy - building on the legacy of Thurmond and | 2022-11-25 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1596291629903925248 | 1596291629903925248 |
| Is Congress going to DO anything effective this time? | 2022-11-25 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1596287118619594753 | 1596287118619594753 |
| Birds of a feather flock together! | 2022-11-25 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1596276976159195136 | 1596276976159195136 |
| Maybe he was just kidding the first time. Or maybe he | 2022-11-25 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1595998043383681026 | 1595998043383681026 |
| The case for Section 3. | 2022-11-24 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1595866570609528833 | 1595866570609528833 |
| The sad fate of little island nations that let foreigners | 2022-11-24 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1595863510939901952 | 1595863510939901952 |
| Taiwan's difficult past and difficult future. | 2022-11-24 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1595860583605096450 | 1595860583605096450 |
| BQ? XBB? And that's not even counting RSV and flu. | 2022-11-24 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1595857707197960192 | 1595857707197960192 |
| What Palin doesn't understand about ranked-choice voting - | 2022-11-24 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1595852194192199680 | 1595852194192199680 |
| Like Putin, like DeSantis! | 2022-11-24 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1595850313205919744 | 1595850313205919744 |
| Best Democratic attack ad against Walker - just quote | 2022-11-24 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1595827033258409984 | 1595827033258409984 |
| Trump won a big - but no longer growing - minority of | 2022-11-24 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1595604021124878338 | 1595604021124878338 |
| Differences of opinion about how to report the results of | 2022-11-24 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1595576556025708544 | 1595576556025708544 |
| Some Republicans want to keep rerunning elections until | 2022-11-24 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1595574635814264833 | 1595574635814264833 |
| Personality cultists stick together - Bolsanaros consult | 2022-11-24 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1595572634942464000 | 1595572634942464000 |
| Implications of the Trump court decisions. | 2022-11-24 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1595572066430095362 | 1595572066430095362 |
| It took some effort to get him there, but Graham finally | 2022-11-24 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1595570887998156801 | 1595570887998156801 |
| What if there is no route for ANY GOP member to get to 218 | 2022-11-24 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1595570264892243968 | 1595570264892243968 |
| Pence wouldn't talk to Jan 6 but he might to DOJ. | 2022-11-24 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1595568429951422464 | 1595568429951422464 |
| Trump loses bid to run down clock on tax return request. | 2022-11-23 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1595311050592702465 | 1595311050592702465 |
| Trumpism works the same way in Brazil! | 2022-11-23 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1595309724462764034 | 1595309724462764034 |
| Senate rules - why the majority would prefer 51 votes | 2022-11-22 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1595062407629512704 | 1595062407629512704 |
| Right-to-lifers are not really about loving "the | 2022-11-22 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1594943446539722755 | 1594943446539722755 |
| "you couldn’t be a know-it-all and run a company that | 2022-11-22 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1594935976144605185 | 1594935976144605185 |
| "collapses like these were already priced in" | 2022-11-22 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1594934318941769728 | 1594934318941769728 |
| Arizona GOP declares war on Maricopa County. It's the | 2022-11-22 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1594932727371137025 | 1594932727371137025 |
| The debt limit should be repealed completely. And if | 2022-11-22 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1594930916895633408 | 1594930916895633408 |
| Can Biden, or anybody, keep a cold war cool? | 2022-11-22 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1594929763386376192 | 1594929763386376192 |
| The shell games that rich people play to avoid justice. | 2022-11-22 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1594927280312053760 | 1594927280312053760 |
| Two years of nonstop investigations ahead. Which will | 2022-11-22 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1594921995082559488 | 1594921995082559488 |
| Races are equal before the law - at least in theory. | 2022-11-22 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1594915481223593985 | 1594915481223593985 |
| Lucky girl - mistrial on the more serious counts. | 2022-11-22 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1594914171644043264 | 1594914171644043264 |
| We might rue the day that Trump lost - | 2022-11-22 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1594911473142272000 | 1594911473142272000 |
| "check out the scoreboard" | 2022-11-22 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1594911046535634944 | 1594911046535634944 |
| They really should have instituted ranked-choice voting | 2022-11-22 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1594910396577550336 | 1594910396577550336 |
| Musk welcomes another kindred spirit back to Twitter. | 2022-11-22 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1594904489386835968 | 1594904489386835968 |
| Who needs Comcast? You and your neighbors can do it | 2022-11-22 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1594898928742400001 | 1594898928742400001 |
| There are steps you could take - | 2022-11-22 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1594897806182862848 | 1594897806182862848 |
| Safe if you use it safely! But what adolescent male | 2022-11-22 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1594896928030220288 | 1594896928030220288 |
| Lost your retirement on a speculative gamble? Who do | 2022-11-22 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1594895794317930496 | 1594895794317930496 |
| Democrats outdid Republicans in fund-raising! That has | 2022-11-21 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1594581302652669953 | 1594581302652669953 |
| Nobody is safe while Putin is in charge! | 2022-11-21 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1594579091310510081 | 1594579091310510081 |
| Reality leaks back from the front lines | 2022-11-21 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1594484825716465664 | 1594484825716465664 |
| The GOP House agenda - | 2022-11-20 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1594447971223220225 | 1594447971223220225 |
| The GOP House agenda - | 2022-11-20 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1594446506676736000 | 1594446506676736000 |
| Know your why!!! | 2022-11-20 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1594440162359926784 | 1594440162359926784 |
| "Republican officials seem to be hoping that their voters | 2022-11-20 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1594414452098486272 | 1594414452098486272 |
| How Trumpists threaten public officials - and try to | 2022-11-20 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1594408026655498240 | 1594408026655498240 |
| Another very bad winter to get sick. You might just | 2022-11-20 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1594405423829856257 | 1594405423829856257 |
| Split the vote? Parties wouldn't have to worry | 2022-11-20 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1594393849073238016 | 1594393849073238016 |
| The pandemic was the icing on the cake. | 2022-11-20 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1594363542064738305 | 1594363542064738305 |
| "The price of parenthood is the ultimate economic issue | 2022-11-20 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1594240359638237184 | 1594240359638237184 |
| No doubt some GOP will call it a Democratic plot to defund | 2022-11-20 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1594234275301568513 | 1594234275301568513 |
| Musk's latest victims - government agencies. | 2022-11-20 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1594233244513206272 | 1594233244513206272 |
| Did he just do it for fun, to see who would freak out? | 2022-11-20 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1594232552130478081 | 1594232552130478081 |
| Fake freedom fighters | 2022-11-19 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1593983130011959298 | 1593983130011959298 |
| So did EVERYBODY in Ohio want to be like Silicon Valley? | 2022-11-19 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1593979608533151744 | 1593979608533151744 |
| Revisionist Trumpists stump for megadonors in Sin City. | 2022-11-19 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1593840768170749952 | 1593840768170749952 |
| Election denial didn't work. So far. | 2022-11-19 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1593838413811437568 | 1593838413811437568 |
| The crypto industry has succeeded in re-inventing | 2022-11-19 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1593825499054497792 | 1593825499054497792 |
| Trumpism - it's all about getting on Fox to rile up | 2022-11-19 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1593824384694640640 | 1593824384694640640 |
| "Even if he wins the job, he might soon wish he hadn’t" | 2022-11-19 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1593766502729072640 | 1593766502729072640 |
| Surely Josh Hawley knows that working people don't fund | 2022-11-19 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1593758947613167617 | 1593758947613167617 |
| GOP Plan A: convince voters that Democratic investigations | 2022-11-18 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1593755591276519424 | 1593755591276519424 |
| Frisch concedes - doesn't expect automatic recount to | 2022-11-18 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1593751520553889792 | 1593751520553889792 |
| Trump likes special treatment - now he gets it with a | 2022-11-18 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1593750187117137921 | 1593750187117137921 |
| The Rust Belt used to have layoffs. In an economic | 2022-11-18 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1593736362775093248 | 1593736362775093248 |
| That was the week that wasn't. | 2022-11-18 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1593660375928475648 | 1593660375928475648 |
| Spoken like a true Trumpist - blaming underperformance on | 2022-11-18 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1593641997851832320 | 1593641997851832320 |
| Putin did interfere with the 2016 election and plenty of | 2022-11-18 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1593640588246937600 | 1593640588246937600 |
| Putin wing of GOP announces no more aid for Ukraine. | 2022-11-18 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1593494968529625089 | 1593494968529625089 |
| How to reduce payroll expense overnight! | 2022-11-18 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1593464977624428544 | 1593464977624428544 |
| The last time schools turned into politics. | 2022-11-18 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1593410970696572928 | 1593410970696572928 |
| Not everybody is willing to sign up for long hours and | 2022-11-18 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1593407503504531456 | 1593407503504531456 |
| The Biden administration is getting ready for the Trumpist | 2022-11-18 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1593401596007718912 | 1593401596007718912 |
| The history of the radical GOP fringe in the House should | 2022-11-18 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1593398299771273216 | 1593398299771273216 |
| How slavery, starting in 1619, perverted economics, | 2022-11-18 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1593394464571023360 | 1593394464571023360 |
| If you couldn't pass any legislation if you wanted to, | 2022-11-17 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1593393471020072960 | 1593393471020072960 |
| Counting votes - the essential Speaker skill, because | 2022-11-17 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1593391975360626688 | 1593391975360626688 |
| Tweet first, check facts later - if ever! | 2022-11-17 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1593390516141367297 | 1593390516141367297 |
| 1619 - an eventful year for Virginia | 2022-11-17 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1593300289649405954 | 1593300289649405954 |
| 1619 - an eventful year for America | 2022-11-17 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1593300107348148225 | 1593300107348148225 |
| GOP "is now more populist, working class and performative" | 2022-11-17 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1593273081279041536 | 1593273081279041536 |
| A million unsecured creditors? | 2022-11-17 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1593268259939237888 | 1593268259939237888 |
| Other crypto companies wouldn't do these things, right? | 2022-11-17 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1593257122451496961 | 1593257122451496961 |
| Talking about something else is par for GOP - | 2022-11-17 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1593256464381972482 | 1593256464381972482 |
| Collateral damage of Ukraine war. | 2022-11-17 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1593125701531873281 | 1593125701531873281 |
| Rationale for Rick Scott vs McConnell. | 2022-11-17 | 39 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1593125033165324288 | 1593125033165324288 |
| Money is the mother's milk - here's where Trump gets his. | 2022-11-17 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1593124449318211584 | 1593124449318211584 |
| Public confession of stupidity. | 2022-11-17 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1593120926350311424 | 1593120926350311424 |
| Pence implies he only had one big issue with Trump - | 2022-11-17 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1593119682156167169 | 1593119682156167169 |
| GOP can't pass anything, so they'll keep investigating as | 2022-11-17 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1593113565686534150 | 1593113565686534150 |
| Maybe crypto isn't a guaranteed safe money maker. | 2022-11-17 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1593052342118944769 | 1593052342118944769 |
| Murdoch lets him have it. | 2022-11-16 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1593001181974233088 | 1593001181974233088 |
| The recession is over! | 2022-11-16 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1592999202677985280 | 1592999202677985280 |
| Trying to beat the rap again! He hopes that by announcing | 2022-11-16 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1592788714123849728 | 1592788714123849728 |
| "We must start saying what we are for" | 2022-11-16 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1592785458744160257 | 1592785458744160257 |
| Why popular vote doesn't necessarily match seats won. | 2022-11-15 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1592394999509176320 | 1592394999509176320 |
| Heading toward regional federalism? | 2022-11-15 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1592393318952230912 | 1592393318952230912 |
| Trump isn't the LEADER of the Republican Party. He IS | 2022-11-15 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1592389322212536321 | 1592389322212536321 |
| Pence testing the waters by releasing his book the same | 2022-11-15 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1592388240547647488 | 1592388240547647488 |
| It doesn't seem to be hard to find a cool reception to | 2022-11-15 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1592387651696746496 | 1592387651696746496 |
| Andy Biggs is going to challenge McCarthy. He can't | 2022-11-15 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1592386526264332290 | 1592386526264332290 |
| Are we back to normal yet? | 2022-11-15 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1592384110982725632 | 1592384110982725632 |
| Most of the country prefers non-partisan school boards. | 2022-11-15 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1592382680548913152 | 1592382680548913152 |
| It's hard to define good boundaries between different | 2022-11-14 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1592238017645019136 | 1592238017645019136 |
| Mine is a vision but yours is a hallucination! | 2022-11-14 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1592237494850170880 | 1592237494850170880 |
| How a Boebert-Frisch recount would work. | 2022-11-14 | 147 | 13 | 2 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 1592196402125606912 | 1592196402125606912 |
| GOP megadonors trying to figure out what happens next. | 2022-11-14 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1592064322683170816 | 1592064322683170816 |
| "No one wants to be the last loyalist of a doomed regime" | 2022-11-14 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1592062467609591808 | 1592062467609591808 |
| Trump always wanted the Federal government to be his own | 2022-11-14 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1592060624032235520 | 1592060624032235520 |
| Lame-duck agenda - way more than Congress can accomplish | 2022-11-14 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1592054493453381632 | 1592054493453381632 |
| The last thing anybody expected - a quiet election so far. | 2022-11-14 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1592053382889771010 | 1592053382889771010 |
| How about Fitzpatrick and Gottheimer for Speaker? | 2022-11-14 | 25 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1592025486938763265 | 1592025486938763265 |
| McCarthy believes in "harnessing the power of our entire | 2022-11-14 | 13 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1591958514133782529 | 1591958514133782529 |
| "Republicans are asking why he insisted on holding a | 2022-11-13 | 19 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1591909881648672768 | 1591909881648672768 |
| Everybody in the GOP knows the answer. The problem is | 2022-11-13 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1591906545033531394 | 1591906545033531394 |
| Twitter alternatives - | 2022-11-13 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1591901055390027777 | 1591901055390027777 |
| "Many voiced disbelief that the two men would ever run | 2022-11-13 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1591883148316770304 | 1591883148316770304 |
| Initiative, referendum, and recall were instituted to | 2022-11-13 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1591876602694365185 | 1591876602694365185 |
| The end of tech companies' freedom from government | 2022-11-13 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1591807036966244352 | 1591807036966244352 |
| Not everybody wants four more years of subpoenas and | 2022-11-13 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1591802533365809155 | 1591802533365809155 |
| Liz Cheney for Speaker? | 2022-11-12 | 13 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1591448393196634113 | 1591448393196634113 |
| Who does this guy think he is? Donald Trump? | 2022-11-12 | 21 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1591434764636295173 | 1591434764636295173 |
| "God save us from seeing a Russian revolt, senseless | 2022-11-12 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1591322236107239424 | 1591322236107239424 |
| The Freischütz-macht-Freiheit caucus's list of | 2022-11-12 | 17 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1591317110059257856 | 1591317110059257856 |
| "When the music's over Turn out the lights" | 2022-11-12 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1591316072858542080 | 1591316072858542080 |
| Some Coloradans are getting tired of Boebert's antics. | 2022-11-12 | 73 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1591315177789861888 | 1591315177789861888 |
| Think they can get rid of McConnell? Not as long as he | 2022-11-12 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1591314024217870336 | 1591314024217870336 |
| Evangelicals are more reliable defenders of minority rule | 2022-11-12 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1591310276573663232 | 1591310276573663232 |
| Federalist Society congratulates reactionary wing of | 2022-11-12 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1591309276722925570 | 1591309276722925570 |
| There was no there, there. | 2022-11-12 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1591307505585786880 | 1591307505585786880 |
| It seems that all sorts of lowlifes can come up with | 2022-11-12 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1591306604523421697 | 1591306604523421697 |
| GOP complained when Democrats voted for and funded fringe | 2022-11-12 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1591305666299596800 | 1591305666299596800 |
| Still trying to run down the clock. | 2022-11-12 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1591301502316187648 | 1591301502316187648 |
| That was the election that wasn't. | 2022-11-12 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1591244598017667073 | 1591244598017667073 |
| The tossups NV-1,3,4 were just called for Democrats. | 2022-11-12 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1591235991767248896 | 1591235991767248896 |
| Full speed ahead for Trump! | 2022-11-11 | 17 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1591216614556733440 | 1591216614556733440 |
| Trumpists can't wait to block or cripple McCarthy. | 2022-11-11 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1591151854653968385 | 1591151854653968385 |
| That was the election that wasn't. | 2022-11-11 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1591113590433808385 | 1591113590433808385 |
| Five ways the lame-duck Congress COULD act to avoid | 2022-11-11 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1590889011677401090 | 1590889011677401090 |
| Yael Roth goes and the FTC - and the EU - want to know | 2022-11-11 | 657 | 23 | 2 | 17 | 2 | 0 | 1590887530391830529 | 1590887530391830529 |
| The good news is that Trump, is his mercy, decided not to | 2022-11-11 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1590884310399455233 | 1590884310399455233 |
| Have the Murdochs resolved the equation Trumpism = X - | 2022-11-11 | 23 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1590882040366641152 | 1590882040366641152 |
| Did you vote against inflation? Inflation must have | 2022-11-11 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1590880652433711104 | 1590880652433711104 |
| Is the Chef angling for a promotion? | 2022-11-11 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1590879823081373696 | 1590879823081373696 |
| No libertarianism for people at the bottom! | 2022-11-11 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1590868975705296896 | 1590868975705296896 |
| Instagram influencer will have plenty of time to repent. | 2022-11-10 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1590598027890544640 | 1590598027890544640 |
| Fox touts DeSantis, per Murdoch decision. | 2022-11-10 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1590595919111946240 | 1590595919111946240 |
| DeSantis was sent by God | 2022-11-10 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1590591462110277632 | 1590591462110277632 |
| There's only room for one megalomaniac. Which one was | 2022-11-10 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1590587156116144128 | 1590587156116144128 |
| Along with Trump, Putin and Xi and the ayatollahs were | 2022-11-10 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1590582424354066432 | 1590582424354066432 |
| "Republicans are simply out of touch with the values of | 2022-11-10 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1590580615954706432 | 1590580615954706432 |
| Libertarians strike again! forcing the Georgia Senate | 2022-11-10 | 35 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1590575908519555072 | 1590575908519555072 |
| If GOP don't like these shenanigans - they indulge in them | 2022-11-10 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1590571966062546944 | 1590571966062546944 |
| Withdrawal or trap? And another "accident" claiming | 2022-11-10 | 17 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1590570495367581697 | 1590570495367581697 |
| Can McCarthy avoid the fate of Boehner and Ryan? | 2022-11-10 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1590568574036611073 | 1590568574036611073 |
| GOP Speakers of the House have short careers.The fighting | 2022-11-10 | 18 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1590568219546628097 | 1590568219546628097 |
| A lot of people think they are smart when they are really | 2022-11-10 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1590562168461983744 | 1590562168461983744 |
| Why the anticipated election problems tide seems to have | 2022-11-10 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1590556628310700032 | 1590556628310700032 |
| Pollsters doing better this time? | 2022-11-10 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1590554670480912385 | 1590554670480912385 |
| Mastodon instead of Twitter? | 2022-11-10 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1590553948079128582 | 1590553948079128582 |
| 2022 midterm election result: Fox declares for DeSantis- | 2022-11-10 | 29 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1590498058558926849 | 1590498058558926849 |
| That was the election that wasn't. | 2022-11-09 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1590488943560380418 | 1590488943560380418 |
| More calls on close races - | 2022-11-09 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1590232859759239169 | 1590232859759239169 |
| Early calls on close races - | 2022-11-09 | 20 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1590206888570155008 | 1590206888570155008 |
| Campaigning is easy in a gerrymadered district! | 2022-11-09 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1590193594639740929 | 1590193594639740929 |
| Trump wasn't chosen by God after all! | 2022-11-09 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1590192527571054593 | 1590192527571054593 |
| Job #1 seems to be making the Capitol easier for | 2022-11-09 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1590188859782238208 | 1590188859782238208 |
| Gingrich works hard to avoid a trip to Georgia. What does | 2022-11-09 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1590186678639292416 | 1590186678639292416 |
| North Korea aligns decisively with Russia and China. | 2022-11-09 | 32 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1590185774917771264 | 1590185774917771264 |
| "Election night" is a confusing holdover from the past. | 2022-11-09 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1590184841030819840 | 1590184841030819840 |
| That was the day that wasn't. | 2022-11-09 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1590181977554292736 | 1590181977554292736 |
| You can make big bucks repeating lies! | 2022-11-09 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1590177690589724673 | 1590177690589724673 |
| Polls are still open in the West. | 2022-11-09 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1590173091757723648 | 1590173091757723648 |
| Polling places are starting to close. | 2022-11-09 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1590149929569484801 | 1590149929569484801 |
| The GOP megadonors, observing the basis of Trump's | 2022-11-08 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1590102226428923904 | 1590102226428923904 |
| “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - | 2022-11-08 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1590097414241005568 | 1590097414241005568 |
| No outside observers wanted - they might observe the | 2022-11-08 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1590095349129310208 | 1590095349129310208 |
| Following the plans devised years ago, the propaganda | 2022-11-08 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1590093996885676032 | 1590093996885676032 |
| November could be a good month for the Putin wing of | 2022-11-08 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1590088413717626880 | 1590088413717626880 |
| Is Hungary the Trumpist model for the future? | 2022-11-08 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1590086303240327169 | 1590086303240327169 |
| America's founders counted on citizen virtue as well | 2022-11-08 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1590084782326951937 | 1590084782326951937 |
| Today's ratings in close races trend GOP. Many have | 2022-11-08 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1590032251370471424 | 1590032251370471424 |
| "Republicans are running in 2022 promising a return to | 2022-11-08 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1589875638995161088 | 1589875638995161088 |
| Planning in advance to dispute every election they lose. | 2022-11-08 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1589870297943248896 | 1589870297943248896 |
| Trump was talked into waiting another week. | 2022-11-08 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1589866572335943680 | 1589866572335943680 |
| To get his majority and speakership - | 2022-11-08 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1589858692476043265 | 1589858692476043265 |
| The Chef brags about cooking up trouble in other countries, | 2022-11-08 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1589854211717894144 | 1589854211717894144 |
| "like pushing the button for the walk sign at the stop | 2022-11-08 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1589852931293315072 | 1589852931293315072 |
| "more like an oligarchy approach" | 2022-11-08 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1589851640764706816 | 1589851640764706816 |
| "Gravity still exists” | 2022-11-08 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1589847822169669632 | 1589847822169669632 |
| The end result of a fake populist cult of personality - | 2022-11-08 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1589846836495683584 | 1589846836495683584 |
| "People say to me, What can I do to make you feel better? I | 2022-11-08 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1589846200161034243 | 1589846200161034243 |
| Musk - “I recommend voting for a Republican Congress, | 2022-11-08 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1589845897667825664 | 1589845897667825664 |
| The classic rural dilemma - you can't have suburban | 2022-11-08 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1589842658784333824 | 1589842658784333824 |
| DOING something about inflation and housing - GOP is | 2022-11-08 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1589839922227449858 | 1589839922227449858 |
| Is it higher incomes, higher education levels, | 2022-11-07 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1589521550566625280 | 1589521550566625280 |
| Everybody's worried about recession! | 2022-11-07 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1589519461450928128 | 1589519461450928128 |
| What's theory of swing voters? Most plausible -many | 2022-11-07 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1589512439162626050 | 1589512439162626050 |
| Busy holiday season! Trump is expected to announce | 2022-11-07 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1589508446487212036 | 1589508446487212036 |
| No absolute freedom of speech for Musk impersonators! | 2022-11-07 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1589504482148495360 | 1589504482148495360 |
| Ukrainians would rather endure a winter without power or | 2022-11-07 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1589501043238645761 | 1589501043238645761 |
| Regional federalism - | 2022-11-07 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1589494755251326977 | 1589494755251326977 |
| Election security threats - physical threats to workers, | 2022-11-07 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1589485628764606464 | 1589485628764606464 |
| Vote fraud propaganda got into high gear well before | 2022-11-06 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1589406921454686209 | 1589406921454686209 |
| It's a rite of passage in cult of personality - getting | 2022-11-06 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1589405006012493825 | 1589405006012493825 |
| Medicare Advantage plans must be really profitable - | 2022-11-06 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1589393052925591552 | 1589393052925591552 |
| Musk "received congratulations from Dimitry Medvedev, | 2022-11-06 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1589387780928733184 | 1589387780928733184 |
| All we need to know about climate change - | 2022-11-06 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1589385688868610048 | 1589385688868610048 |
| That was the week that wasn't. | 2022-11-05 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1588737246039269376 | 1588737246039269376 |
| Facts about provisional ballots. | 2022-11-05 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1588735853756809217 | 1588735853756809217 |
| Nothing new about violent political attacks - a tradition | 2022-11-04 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1588621011184136193 | 1588621011184136193 |
| Look out, Trump, DeSantis, not to mention Pence, Pompeo, | 2022-11-04 | 18 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1588547012009811970 | 1588547012009811970 |
| Independent state legislatures - the latest fake theory for | 2022-11-03 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1588316302938341376 | 1588316302938341376 |
| “Republicans will never lose another election in | 2022-11-03 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1588311902207123456 | 1588311902207123456 |
| Don't be swept away by political advertising and | 2022-11-03 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1588235959547572224 | 1588235959547572224 |
| "opposed by China’s many inland provinces, dominated | 2022-11-02 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1587930716418887680 | 1587930716418887680 |
| You can't have it both ways. Advertisers don't want to | 2022-11-02 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1587926209580527616 | 1587926209580527616 |
| Rhodes tried to convince Trump that violence would work | 2022-11-02 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1587924999611895808 | 1587924999611895808 |
| Who knew! Justice Thomas was the key to the insurrection | 2022-11-02 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1587923784568537088 | 1587923784568537088 |
| Vastly different notions of truth lead to converging crises | 2022-11-02 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1587923448411537409 | 1587923448411537409 |
| We thought Truth Social wants to be Twitter. But the | 2022-11-02 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1587918084995567616 | 1587918084995567616 |
| An interesting enhancement to ranked-choice voting. | 2022-11-02 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1587911901388103680 | 1587911901388103680 |
| There are a lot of tossup races that will decide control | 2022-11-02 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1587896403585511425 | 1587896403585511425 |
| Reactionary Supreme Court does its duty to protect | 2022-11-02 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1587812061572042754 | 1587812061572042754 |
| How many people with an unfavorable view of the president | 2022-11-02 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1587689201507500034 | 1587689201507500034 |
| Not good for Democrats if voters vote against high grocery | 2022-11-02 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1587686656252923905 | 1587686656252923905 |
| Trump and DeSantis are duking it out subtly but soon | 2022-11-02 | 18 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1587685110207291392 | 1587685110207291392 |
| If people can't agree on the methods of determining truth, | 2022-11-02 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1587682598133768194 | 1587682598133768194 |
| GOP response styles to violence - | 2022-11-02 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1587680150522511360 | 1587680150522511360 |
| The funders and propagandists of Jan will suffer little | 2022-11-01 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1587307209624387584 | 1587307209624387584 |
| What's the social media business model? Get free | 2022-11-01 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1587283842976448514 | 1587283842976448514 |
| Hard at working reconstructing Twitter to be - a platform | 2022-11-01 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1587281435399843840 | 1587281435399843840 |
| The Trumpist Dixiecrats have schooled the whole GOP and | 2022-11-01 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1587277614640558080 | 1587277614640558080 |
| Five reasons Trump wants to keep his tax returns secret. | 2022-11-01 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1587243280109948928 | 1587243280109948928 |
| GOP seizes on any issue it can to avoid talking about | 2022-11-01 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1587237903822114818 | 1587237903822114818 |
| Monetizing the asset by selling premium status! Not very | 2022-11-01 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1587236947004571648 | 1587236947004571648 |
| Trump still trying to protect his secrets. They must | 2022-11-01 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1587235272042770433 | 1587235272042770433 |
| Only one way out for former Afghan allies. | 2022-11-01 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1587234731791220736 | 1587234731791220736 |
| A reactionary Supreme Court signals that it has no more use | 2022-11-01 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1587233680480534528 | 1587233680480534528 |
| Although many election workers quit because of violent | 2022-11-01 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1587233008708304898 | 1587233008708304898 |
| Who knew! Bald-faced liars in Texas CAN go to jail! | 2022-10-31 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1587231173851303936 | 1587231173851303936 |
| Wondering which races are close? | 2022-10-31 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1587229569483882496 | 1587229569483882496 |
| Pelosi attacker had big plans - | 2022-10-31 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1587227308976312320 | 1587227308976312320 |
| The rich and powerful of all times and places like the | 2022-10-31 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1586964313847177216 | 1586964313847177216 |
| The desire for immortality is immortal. Roman emperors | 2022-10-31 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1586950449936052224 | 1586950449936052224 |
| "violence is as American as cherry pie" | 2022-10-31 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1586936045043560448 | 1586936045043560448 |
| "soldiers be content with your wages" | 2022-10-31 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1586929827860258817 | 1586929827860258817 |
| Second time was not the charm. | 2022-10-31 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1586917021442224130 | 1586917021442224130 |
| Bad news for Trumpists everywhere. | 2022-10-31 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1586914273304883201 | 1586914273304883201 |
| Who's going to be the first Trumpist who qualifies his | 2022-10-31 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1586913292697497600 | 1586913292697497600 |
| Why Democrats want to strengthen the IRS against wealthy | 2022-10-31 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1586911154948800512 | 1586911154948800512 |
| It's getting hard to believe that inflation can be stopped | 2022-10-31 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1586909324856545281 | 1586909324856545281 |
| High oil prices aren't bad for everybody! | 2022-10-29 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1586350544481763329 | 1586350544481763329 |
| The Jan 6 committee showed how Trump tried to overthrow | 2022-10-29 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1586230004244918272 | 1586230004244918272 |
| Lots of Trump pals sought pardons. | 2022-10-29 | 14 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1586224845250998272 | 1586224845250998272 |
| Procedural objections? | 2022-10-29 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1586222643866308608 | 1586222643866308608 |
| There's nothing new about minority rule in America. The | 2022-10-29 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1586221639397580800 | 1586221639397580800 |
| "We’d have done far better to only report on the tweets | 2022-10-29 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1586217800699256832 | 1586217800699256832 |
| There are a lot more anti-semites than Jews in America. | 2022-10-29 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1586215443571699712 | 1586215443571699712 |
| The usual suspects aim to find out what Musk really means | 2022-10-29 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1586211509520064513 | 1586211509520064513 |
| Bringing in the outside efficiency experts to Mar-a-Lago. | 2022-10-29 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1586210884703035394 | 1586210884703035394 |
| Trump and Lindell are nothing new. Their antecedents | 2022-10-29 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1586208500027248640 | 1586208500027248640 |
| The media are reacting as if there is something abnormal | 2022-10-29 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1586207094205689857 | 1586207094205689857 |
| Youngkin sounds very unpresidential. But he stuck to | 2022-10-29 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1586206104345661442 | 1586206104345661442 |
| They are only fulfilling the wishes of their leader | 2022-10-29 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1586200901076729857 | 1586200901076729857 |
| Musk is in charge now | 2022-10-29 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1586196653622452224 | 1586196653622452224 |
| Everybody's trying to find out what the new Twitter | 2022-10-29 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1586195227202551808 | 1586195227202551808 |
| Just another typical Trumpist foot soldier. He believed | 2022-10-29 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1586194213879758848 | 1586194213879758848 |
| There are differing opinions on the contestable House | 2022-10-28 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1586139631996657664 | 1586139631996657664 |
| Trump won by 78000 votes in 2016, Biden by 43000 in 2020. | 2022-10-28 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1586135786268655616 | 1586135786268655616 |
| Putin's propaganda is also aimed at Russians, to convince | 2022-10-28 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1586109108184264704 | 1586109108184264704 |
| Considering political donations? | 2022-10-28 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1586107038605578240 | 1586107038605578240 |
| Striving toward enlightenment language - when is it too | 2022-10-28 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1586104628193636352 | 1586104628193636352 |
| For swing voters, is democracy a critical election issue | 2022-10-28 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1586043916993716225 | 1586043916993716225 |
| That was the week that wasn't. | 2022-10-28 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1586035763820433408 | 1586035763820433408 |
| What happens to damaged ballots? | 2022-10-28 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1586034171830337536 | 1586034171830337536 |
| Why won't the Democrats stop the horror show before we | 2022-10-28 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1585855718535573504 | 1585855718535573504 |
| Trump supporters can expect continuing appeals for funds | 2022-10-28 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1585852782996688896 | 1585852782996688896 |
| Trump admits that the Stolen Election lie is an essential | 2022-10-28 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1585851267582087169 | 1585851267582087169 |
| Trump continues to run down the clock hoping a GOP | 2022-10-28 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1585844049386229762 | 1585844049386229762 |
| Putin is marketing Putinism to Trumpists and their allies | 2022-10-28 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1585843019340578817 | 1585843019340578817 |
| Trump country has a lot in common. As in 1800, the | 2022-10-28 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1585841913650851840 | 1585841913650851840 |
| The GOP plan is to blame Biden for inflation and recession, | 2022-10-28 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1585832685951279104 | 1585832685951279104 |
| Increasing numbers of GOP leaders and voters believe that | 2022-10-28 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1585831694598230016 | 1585831694598230016 |
| Rising wealth inequality and income inequality, and now - | 2022-10-28 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1585830584139382785 | 1585830584139382785 |
| Cult of personality transition plan. | 2022-10-28 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1585828450933219329 | 1585828450933219329 |
| The ones who are going to vote GOP anyway cite inflation. | 2022-10-28 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1585826897186869248 | 1585826897186869248 |
| Nobody knows exactly what's ahead for Twitter, except that | 2022-10-28 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1585825068860379137 | 1585825068860379137 |
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| Traditional GOP say one thing and do the opposite. | 2022-10-27 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1585724695889948672 | 1585724695889948672 |
| DeSantis springs his trap! 20 (mostly black) ex-felons | 2022-10-27 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1585723208824602625 | 1585723208824602625 |
| Maybe Trump shouldn't lose too much sleep over DeSantis. | 2022-10-27 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1585719916694368257 | 1585719916694368257 |
| Straight answers or Trumpist evasion? | 2022-10-27 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1585716113995796482 | 1585716113995796482 |
| The desire for a hereditary nobility has been in America | 2022-10-27 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1585714028608778240 | 1585714028608778240 |
| What do GOP WANT to talk about ? Inflation, crime, and - | 2022-10-27 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1585700959925067776 | 1585700959925067776 |
| GOP seems to be gaining ground in some close races - | 2022-10-27 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1585687419050860544 | 1585687419050860544 |
| Minority rule | 2022-10-27 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1585633953901264896 | 1585633953901264896 |
| Arizona to take action against voter intimidation. | 2022-10-27 | 16 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1585493395903873025 | 1585493395903873025 |
| 30 years of success for the KGB and failure for the CIA. | 2022-10-27 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1585480477120471040 | 1585480477120471040 |
| Crypto-currencies - a major climate change threat. | 2022-10-27 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1585478863550697472 | 1585478863550697472 |
| What a tragic lost opportunity! Kannye West would have | 2022-10-27 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1585459461778337793 | 1585459461778337793 |
| Belarus became a Russian puppet state years ago. Its | 2022-10-26 | 47 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1585333288901623808 | 1585333288901623808 |
| Happy days are here again in the Kremlin! Putin watches | 2022-10-26 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1585329724322037761 | 1585329724322037761 |
| If he's finally forced to testify, will he plead the 5th? | 2022-10-26 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1585327446491963392 | 1585327446491963392 |
| Throw unlimited cannon fodder at the enemy - another point | 2022-10-26 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1585326797285076993 | 1585326797285076993 |
| Unclear on the concept! | 2022-10-26 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1585325547193741312 | 1585325547193741312 |
| Murder, rape, pillage, destruction - it's how the Russian | 2022-10-26 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1585323297998135296 | 1585323297998135296 |
| Always check the facts before writing or reading a rumor. | 2022-10-26 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1585322372034269184 | 1585322372034269184 |
| What a tragic lost opportunity! Kannye West would have | 2022-10-26 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1585285396551725056 | 1585285396551725056 |
| "party loyalty trumps everything else" | 2022-10-26 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1585282890996142082 | 1585282890996142082 |
| Political donors soon discover that fundraising email IS | 2022-10-26 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1585279110728667137 | 1585279110728667137 |
| Hazards of unfunded defined-benefit pensions - | 2022-10-26 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1585274782907396096 | 1585274782907396096 |
| In recent poll consensus, | 2022-10-26 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1585253739245359104 | 1585253739245359104 |
| You could have learned about 1619, 57 years ago. Hardly a | 2022-10-26 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1585133652056641536 | 1585133652056641536 |
| Gaming platforms get serious attention from hackers and | 2022-10-25 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1584900331183697920 | 1584900331183697920 |
| Global oil prices - there's very little we can do that | 2022-10-25 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1584779861117177856 | 1584779861117177856 |
| "The president and Congress don’t have the same job, | 2022-10-25 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1584776037862236160 | 1584776037862236160 |
| The carton of salt to accompany political poll results. | 2022-10-25 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1584773974084329477 | 1584773974084329477 |
| Crime is rising everywhere. Whose fault is that? | 2022-10-25 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1584769533952241665 | 1584769533952241665 |
| The way you take down crime kingpins is by starting at | 2022-10-25 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1584768585510969344 | 1584768585510969344 |
| Who are the radicals? The Supreme Court that reversed | 2022-10-25 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1584767382400413696 | 1584767382400413696 |
| In a cult of personality, succession is seldom smooth. | 2022-10-25 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1584765705731596289 | 1584765705731596289 |
| Beware of sharing! | 2022-10-25 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1584764451051315200 | 1584764451051315200 |
| Confusion reigns at Twitter - but perhaps not for long. | 2022-10-25 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1584763327582203904 | 1584763327582203904 |
| Youngkin takes pains to prove he was a Trumpist all along. | 2022-10-25 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1584754594659213313 | 1584754594659213313 |
| "a deliberate, constitutionally conservative workhorse" | 2022-10-25 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1584753700098125824 | 1584753700098125824 |
| Trump and DeSantis and - O'Dea? | 2022-10-25 | 33 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1584752809228259330 | 1584752809228259330 |
| Ted Cruz - a man of flexible ideology. | 2022-10-25 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1584750106380681218 | 1584750106380681218 |
| Want to know who's paying for your next Congress? | 2022-10-25 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1584749103137067008 | 1584749103137067008 |
| Bipartisanship is possible. | 2022-10-25 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1584745028261335040 | 1584745028261335040 |
| The fate of Ukraine is the fate of America. | 2022-10-25 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1584744325325328384 | 1584744325325328384 |
| Putin will not negotiate a solution that is not a win, | 2022-10-25 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1584741778564882432 | 1584741778564882432 |
| Personal brands? | 2022-10-24 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1584410395615191040 | 1584410395615191040 |
| Simpler user interface? Less privatization of public | 2022-10-24 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1584401084570664961 | 1584401084570664961 |
| Claiming a heritage they oppose, that their ancestors | 2022-10-24 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1584399713972809729 | 1584399713972809729 |
| Extreme rhetoric is leading to extreme actions. The | 2022-10-24 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1584398232527900673 | 1584398232527900673 |
| Got loyalty cards? Think how much you save! | 2022-10-24 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1584394685404966915 | 1584394685404966915 |
| Who's the real threat to democracy? Why - the other | 2022-10-24 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1584391765523501056 | 1584391765523501056 |
| A narrative of Biden's first 21 months - successes and | 2022-10-24 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1584386232586338306 | 1584386232586338306 |
| A distant ancestor, told that he was unfit to preach the | 2022-10-24 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1584381406402138114 | 1584381406402138114 |
| Do you believe ANY political advertising? Why?? | 2022-10-24 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1584367518298185731 | 1584367518298185731 |
| Cheney expects a new party to arise for rule-of-law | 2022-10-23 | 19 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1584330152485363717 | 1584330152485363717 |
| "Tennessee has yet to expand Medicaid" | 2022-10-23 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1584329050620710912 | 1584329050620710912 |
| In hoc signo vinces! | 2022-10-23 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1584322310500032512 | 1584322310500032512 |
| Democrats must keep focus on GOP's real agenda - which | 2022-10-23 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1584320968461197312 | 1584320968461197312 |
| "The new reporting was evidence of Trump’s abdication | 2022-10-23 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1584319999988023297 | 1584319999988023297 |
| If Putin isn't stopped in Ukraine, maybe we'll get another | 2022-10-23 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1584315234268766208 | 1584315234268766208 |
| Vance tries to explain to Ukrainian Americans why he wants | 2022-10-23 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1584314200150589441 | 1584314200150589441 |
| Cults of personality seldom adapt or change on their own. | 2022-10-23 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1584311754137358338 | 1584311754137358338 |
| Intelligence cues missed again. | 2022-10-23 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1584309412042223618 | 1584309412042223618 |
| Trump Org goes to trial. | 2022-10-23 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1584308591195889664 | 1584308591195889664 |
| “If Russia calls and says that Ukraine is allegedly | 2022-10-23 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1584306813981204481 | 1584306813981204481 |
| Every Trump appearance is a circus, because he is a showman | 2022-10-23 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1584302424449114112 | 1584302424449114112 |
| Democrats strengthening since Oct 20 - 270towin has | 2022-10-23 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1584186685624963073 | 1584186685624963073 |
| Outlawing slavery is harder than you'd think. | 2022-10-23 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1584069445823053824 | 1584069445823053824 |
| Californians losing population to Texas? It's more | 2022-10-23 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1584067999887024128 | 1584067999887024128 |
| GOP promises to protect its megadonors from annoying | 2022-10-22 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1583812267652501504 | 1583812267652501504 |
| More evil aliens have landed in Georgia, but they come from | 2022-10-22 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1583810345910403072 | 1583810345910403072 |
| The aliens have arrived in the Nevada desert and are | 2022-10-22 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1583795876954132480 | 1583795876954132480 |
| America has seen this movie before! | 2022-10-22 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1583679659752857600 | 1583679659752857600 |
| You can make billions peddling lies that your audience | 2022-10-21 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1583593597495934976 | 1583593597495934976 |
| Sentiments you'll never hear from GOP megadonors! | 2022-10-21 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1583592160682594304 | 1583592160682594304 |
| Who can beat Trump's luck? Covid paralyzing the global | 2022-10-21 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1583590286961172480 | 1583590286961172480 |
| Minority rule? | 2022-10-21 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1583586149993308160 | 1583586149993308160 |
| So much for free trade with China. | 2022-10-21 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1583584879916163073 | 1583584879916163073 |
| An approach to regaining the industrial midwest. | 2022-10-21 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1583583621620805633 | 1583583621620805633 |
| GOP's long game to flip south Texas. | 2022-10-21 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1583581713975779328 | 1583581713975779328 |
| Pence was a good team player for four years and turned | 2022-10-21 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1583579687216762880 | 1583579687216762880 |
| It's time to abolish the debt ceiling and assure the world | 2022-10-21 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1583578767292710912 | 1583578767292710912 |
| Somebody will have to re-create Twitter. | 2022-10-21 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1583577765432856579 | 1583577765432856579 |
| GOP means Trumpist Dixiecrat Party now. It might | 2022-10-21 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1583575125806325760 | 1583575125806325760 |
| Bannon got what he wanted, not what he deserved. | 2022-10-21 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1583573400940748801 | 1583573400940748801 |
| Elected senator investigating election claims immunity to | 2022-10-21 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1583572960576647168 | 1583572960576647168 |
| Twas ever thus! | 2022-10-21 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1583571524526579713 | 1583571524526579713 |
| GOP running statewide in California can say anything | 2022-10-21 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1583568351623663616 | 1583568351623663616 |
| You might have thought Youngkin and Lake were opposites. | 2022-10-21 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1583553093056155648 | 1583553093056155648 |
| GOP voter integrity in action - harassing voters. | 2022-10-21 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1583551529310572544 | 1583551529310572544 |
| Will Trump try cooperating, to get the FBI out of his hair, | 2022-10-21 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1583551114246385671 | 1583551114246385671 |
| Evidently Putin admires American military technology. | 2022-10-21 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1583549960527544320 | 1583549960527544320 |
| General Armageddon now in charge. | 2022-10-21 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1583549297437511680 | 1583549297437511680 |
| Try to have it all ways and you might not win any way! | 2022-10-21 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1583548104426475522 | 1583548104426475522 |
| Getting rid of all those people impeding free speech! | 2022-10-21 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1583546723938406402 | 1583546723938406402 |
| Future Fascists of America are cultivating doubt | 2022-10-21 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1583546073808719872 | 1583546073808719872 |
| Jan 6 committee wants Trump to speak in his own defense. | 2022-10-21 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1583537006176481280 | 1583537006176481280 |
| How to run down the clock, page by page. | 2022-10-21 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1583536282088505344 | 1583536282088505344 |
| Getting ready for the big announcement! | 2022-10-21 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1583535834464022528 | 1583535834464022528 |
| Got virus? RSV is coming on strong and early. | 2022-10-21 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1583534861402243072 | 1583534861402243072 |
| Some friends of Putin have changed their minds. Others | 2022-10-21 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1583533976521539584 | 1583533976521539584 |
| The Black Death haunts us today - in a completely different | 2022-10-21 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1583532786597519360 | 1583532786597519360 |
| Jungle primary - another was to reduce the power of party | 2022-10-21 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1583532093862051840 | 1583532093862051840 |
| Trump intentionally lied to another court. That's | 2022-10-21 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1583531114211160065 | 1583531114211160065 |
| No point wasting more money on voters who vote strictly | 2022-10-21 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1583529502474264577 | 1583529502474264577 |
| Partisan judges are bad enough - | 2022-10-21 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1583528450538672129 | 1583528450538672129 |
| 2022 Election - revenge of the X's? | 2022-10-21 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1583525289644019712 | 1583525289644019712 |
| Many GOP candidates need to seem more rational in the | 2022-10-21 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1583521973849640960 | 1583521973849640960 |
| "In 2016, Russia’s covert campaign to spread false and | 2022-10-21 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1583519860440506368 | 1583519860440506368 |
| That was the week that wasn't - | 2022-10-21 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1583502356909465613 | 1583502356909465613 |
| This isn't Richard Daley's Chicago any more - | 2022-10-21 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1583500950345375746 | 1583500950345375746 |
| Bannon gets 4 months. Some places you can do more time | 2022-10-21 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1583492294929285127 | 1583492294929285127 |
| Not fake news - many actors propagandize to promote | 2022-10-21 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1583483899220414464 | 1583483899220414464 |
| States set vaccine requirements for schools, not the CDC. | 2022-10-21 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1583479863423381504 | 1583479863423381504 |
| Ranked-choice voting on ballots - | 2022-10-21 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1583439778501910528 | 1583439778501910528 |
| Now the United States is for sale to the highest bidder. | 2022-10-21 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1583439333297512451 | 1583439333297512451 |
| When studying the Enlightenment and Freemasonry - | 2022-10-21 | 18 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1583304452840169472 | 1583304452840169472 |
| GOP leaders are getting SPECIFIC about plans, including | 2022-10-21 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1583302236318244865 | 1583302236318244865 |
| Honesty is the best policy - but it doesn't work for | 2022-10-21 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1583298728835751942 | 1583298728835751942 |
| Chosen by God - Christian Nationalism has no use for | 2022-10-21 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1583296298597261313 | 1583296298597261313 |
| It's true! Trump was chosen by God to save America! | 2022-10-21 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1583295259131248641 | 1583295259131248641 |
| Medieval rejection of Enlightenment ideals infects India, | 2022-10-21 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1583281019729301505 | 1583281019729301505 |
| Based on Ukraine, Xi hopes a GOP Congress won't be able | 2022-10-21 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1583255901237936128 | 1583255901237936128 |
| An unsung diplomatic achievement. | 2022-10-20 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1583241339923181568 | 1583241339923181568 |
| We've been asking for trouble for years by electing judges | 2022-10-20 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1583240396498354177 | 1583240396498354177 |
| Covid isn't done with us. If we are lucky, it will | 2022-10-20 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1583239559806009344 | 1583239559806009344 |
| Over-hyped as usual! | 2022-10-20 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1583239082901000194 | 1583239082901000194 |
| Which elections are close enough to be affected by small | 2022-10-20 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1583147666837422082 | 1583147666837422082 |
| Pence is helping Trumpists who were election deniers in | 2022-10-16 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1581710539599671296 | 1581710539599671296 |
| Ryan predicts Trump won't be GOP nominee in 2024. | 2022-10-16 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1581707923729707008 | 1581707923729707008 |
| Noxious lies about little people might be more hazardous | 2022-10-15 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1581156521529917441 | 1581156521529917441 |
| The dictator trap - the end state of personality cults. | 2022-10-15 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1581154832764715008 | 1581154832764715008 |
| Section 230 and the future of social media. | 2022-10-15 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1581152485393125377 | 1581152485393125377 |
| What do six years of Political Scrapbook show? | 2022-10-15 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1581147844559314944 | 1581147844559314944 |
| Distract and delay - it's the Donald way. | 2022-10-15 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1581123553151229953 | 1581123553151229953 |
| You'd think the world's richest man could pay his own way. | 2022-10-15 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1581121998188470272 | 1581121998188470272 |
| Cults of personality seldom end well. Stable succession | 2022-10-15 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1581078199110279168 | 1581078199110279168 |
| That was the week that wasn't. | 2022-10-14 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1580964111189389314 | 1580964111189389314 |
| Kim has studied and profited by Putin's example. | 2022-10-14 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1580726783812333568 | 1580726783812333568 |
| How child abduction works in Ukraine. | 2022-10-14 | 19 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1580724978969739265 | 1580724978969739265 |
| "What's wrong with Trump and Trumpism?" it's not just | 2022-10-14 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1580712292936605696 | 1580712292936605696 |
| So the Jan 6 committee will subpoena Trump. Will his | 2022-10-13 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1580651069608108033 | 1580651069608108033 |
| The GOP lost Liz Cheney and most of their other rule-of-law | 2022-10-13 | 18 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1580590823548211200 | 1580590823548211200 |
| Can there possibly be any more surprising details to | 2022-10-13 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1580588404055560193 | 1580588404055560193 |
| The "independent state legislatures" theory - another coup | 2022-10-13 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1580562429766815744 | 1580562429766815744 |
| Fortunately we can make some sense of the world at the | 2022-10-13 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1580419832335343617 | 1580419832335343617 |
| More on what might be revealed at last Jan 6 hearing. | 2022-10-13 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1580414793210425344 | 1580414793210425344 |
| "The countermajoritarian part of the political system | 2022-10-13 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1580412055688867840 | 1580412055688867840 |
| We've closed the racial mortality gap, and are making | 2022-10-13 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1580404039753162752 | 1580404039753162752 |
| America's leading defender of minority rule! Long the | 2022-10-13 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1580401935256997889 | 1580401935256997889 |
| What happens when you choose loyalty over competence. | 2022-10-13 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1580387701215281152 | 1580387701215281152 |
| Just the man for the job! | 2022-10-13 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1580384175378468864 | 1580384175378468864 |
| DeSantis continues to flaunt his inner fascist, hoping | 2022-10-13 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1580381511349465088 | 1580381511349465088 |
| What it's like when the Republican Party becomes the | 2022-10-13 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1580380325112295424 | 1580380325112295424 |
| Greatest hits from the Jan 6 hearings. Probably the | 2022-10-13 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1580378519837634560 | 1580378519837634560 |
| Trump knew all about the violent plots and looked forward | 2022-10-13 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1580359055968587776 | 1580359055968587776 |
| Some of these threats are idle. Not all, especially | 2022-10-13 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1580357881966174208 | 1580357881966174208 |
| Lukashenko needs all his soldiers at home to protect him | 2022-10-13 | 38 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1580350759505301506 | 1580350759505301506 |
| A billion from Alex Jones? Don't worry, he won't | 2022-10-13 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1580349314643111936 | 1580349314643111936 |
| What were they going to do with all that firepower? | 2022-10-13 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1580348817576058881 | 1580348817576058881 |
| False statements all around. If Trump lies to law | 2022-10-12 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1580346758705528832 | 1580346758705528832 |
| Everybody says that 2022 is the most consequential election | 2022-10-12 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1580342309702410240 | 1580342309702410240 |
| Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot Fighting in the captain's | 2022-10-12 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1580209181868449792 | 1580209181868449792 |
| Appeasement doesn't work with narcissistic dictators. | 2022-10-12 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1580100329986674689 | 1580100329986674689 |
| Does Madison Cawthorn have a future? What does it | 2022-10-12 | 39 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1580098518395412480 | 1580098518395412480 |
| How do politicians sell their souls? | 2022-10-12 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1580095295735463936 | 1580095295735463936 |
| Donate to Trump! Trump is better off, his lawyers are | 2022-10-12 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1580092053148442631 | 1580092053148442631 |
| If you don't have the facts, just make them up. | 2022-10-12 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1580090121193259009 | 1580090121193259009 |
| 2022 like 1866? The resemblance is stronger than you | 2022-10-12 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1580088976441954306 | 1580088976441954306 |
| McConnell is secure in his Senate seat and leadership | 2022-10-12 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1580087346191441920 | 1580087346191441920 |
| Next and perhaps last Jan 6 hearing - Thursday at 1300 EDT, | 2022-10-12 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1580081939846832130 | 1580081939846832130 |
| The Biden strategy - let Trump and Trumpists do the talking | 2022-10-11 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1579823109892251648 | 1579823109892251648 |
| The defenders of minority rule have chosen local school | 2022-10-11 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1579821905418149889 | 1579821905418149889 |
| The Jewish megadonors supporting Trumpism need to consider | 2022-10-11 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1579691691065626624 | 1579691691065626624 |
| Putin finally and publicly declares war on civilians, to | 2022-10-11 | 55 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1579687310761037825 | 1579687310761037825 |
| How many people did Tucker Carlson's propaganda kill? | 2022-10-11 | 596 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1579682068807979009 | 1579682068807979009 |
| Ukraine is already worried about GOP control of the House | 2022-10-11 | 39 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1579680891256774656 | 1579680891256774656 |
| Will Sasse really protect the university from DeSantis? | 2022-10-11 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1579679080815136768 | 1579679080815136768 |
| “If Trump won reelection in 2024, how long until | 2022-10-11 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1579678323923648512 | 1579678323923648512 |
| Career politicians can get to feel entitled. Usually | 2022-10-11 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1579675434442436609 | 1579675434442436609 |
| If you don't like the facts, just make stuff up - part 2. | 2022-10-11 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1579669331595567104 | 1579669331595567104 |
| If you don't like the facts - just make stuff up! | 2022-10-11 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1579667919285366784 | 1579667919285366784 |
| MTG is the future of the Trumpist Dixiecrat Party! | 2022-10-11 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1579665948700995584 | 1579665948700995584 |
| Debating Trumpists seems to be a waste of time. | 2022-10-11 | 185 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1579663717213802497 | 1579663717213802497 |
| Doing nothing is an excellent qualification for a GOP | 2022-10-10 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1579331870508318720 | 1579331870508318720 |
| Apparently it's all up to educated suburban middle-class | 2022-10-10 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1579325918195384320 | 1579325918195384320 |
| Russian refugees flood Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. | 2022-10-10 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1579317131183026176 | 1579317131183026176 |
| Did Noem telegraph too many ambitions too soon? | 2022-10-10 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1579314339521044486 | 1579314339521044486 |
| Four years for assaulting cops and journalist. | 2022-10-10 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1579313212239273985 | 1579313212239273985 |
| No change of tune in Michigan! | 2022-10-10 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1579311270641434624 | 1579311270641434624 |
| Well of course, if you're a white Trumpist senator from | 2022-10-10 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1579309907782033409 | 1579309907782033409 |
| "you have to deal with it at the source" | 2022-10-09 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1579256408549519360 | 1579256408549519360 |
| Often only the dominant party primary election matters. | 2022-10-09 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1579209687572316161 | 1579209687572316161 |
| Controlling climate change once seemed possible. "Gingrich | 2022-10-09 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1579007444402917376 | 1579007444402917376 |
| “Where’s my Roy Cohn?” | 2022-10-09 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1579003798529658881 | 1579003798529658881 |
| Saved by Hurricane Ian! | 2022-10-09 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1578997053015064576 | 1578997053015064576 |
| Scott won't say anything to alienate violent | 2022-10-09 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1578995063136260098 | 1578995063136260098 |
| Can trials of politicians help? | 2022-10-09 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1578990286826401792 | 1578990286826401792 |
| Trump knows nothing about rural life. And rural people | 2022-10-09 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1578988375037526016 | 1578988375037526016 |
| "It brings forward by a number of weeks the strategic | 2022-10-09 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1578986513114619904 | 1578986513114619904 |
| Yet another way that climate change is inflationary. | 2022-10-08 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1578746698024701953 | 1578746698024701953 |
| What Putin's opposition is calling for - an even more | 2022-10-08 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1578745146425823234 | 1578745146425823234 |
| Building a cult of personality - by learning from the | 2022-10-08 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1578599325474885632 | 1578599325474885632 |
| When does prejudice merit recusal? | 2022-10-08 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1578597854150463489 | 1578597854150463489 |
| Armenia and Turkey are finding ways to talk to each other | 2022-10-08 | 32 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1578595808617775105 | 1578595808617775105 |
| Parody and democracy. | 2022-10-08 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1578591961480503298 | 1578591961480503298 |
| The special grand jury in Georgia might get to hear from | 2022-10-08 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1578590122198515712 | 1578590122198515712 |
| Maybe it's true, maybe it's not, but NOBODY says it | 2022-10-08 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1578588398771920896 | 1578588398771920896 |
| How is Iran like a Trumpist paradise? | 2022-10-07 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1578531740129206272 | 1578531740129206272 |
| "a constitution that subverts majority rule, fuels | 2022-10-07 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1578527286512320512 | 1578527286512320512 |
| Rewriting history became popular in the American South | 2022-10-07 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1578522665777627136 | 1578522665777627136 |
| Wondering if you should donate to politicians in 2022? | 2022-10-07 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1578520853498671104 | 1578520853498671104 |
| GOP talks about culture wars in elections, in order to | 2022-10-07 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1578518953151762433 | 1578518953151762433 |
| Legalized gambling - just say no. Or no more, since | 2022-10-07 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1578502681655578625 | 1578502681655578625 |
| Corporations don't donate to politicians, they invest, | 2022-10-07 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1578501007448821761 | 1578501007448821761 |
| A traditional Republican unclear about Trumpism. | 2022-10-07 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1578472919516053504 | 1578472919516053504 |
| That was the week that wasn't. | 2022-10-07 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1578456021076361216 | 1578456021076361216 |
| In the 2022 election, vote and donate against Trumpist | 2022-10-07 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1578452864652914690 | 1578452864652914690 |
| Although none mentioned in the article are in "Tossup" | 2022-10-07 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1578443470116569088 | 1578443470116569088 |
| Lots of Arizona voters have noticed the Trumpist candidate | 2022-10-07 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1578439435640721409 | 1578439435640721409 |
| Even Wagner Group is having trouble in Ukraine. | 2022-10-07 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1578437316619644932 | 1578437316619644932 |
| Lots of moving parts to this deal. The last thing Musk | 2022-10-07 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1578434196778848256 | 1578434196778848256 |
| Making money off the gullible! | 2022-10-07 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1578433344013881346 | 1578433344013881346 |
| What happens on Twitter happens to you! | 2022-10-07 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1578430312119353345 | 1578430312119353345 |
| Is there an off-ramp for Trump? Would he take it if | 2022-10-07 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1578423796255424513 | 1578423796255424513 |
| Russia no longer can help Armenia and Azerbaijan. | 2022-10-07 | 588 | 37 | 2 | 16 | 8 | 3 | 1578422162955698177 | 1578422162955698177 |
| Endorsed by Trump! | 2022-10-07 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1578421332022132748 | 1578421332022132748 |
| The Declaration of Independence is "aspirational, debuting | 2022-10-07 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1578419666162024454 | 1578419666162024454 |
| It's hard to be too cynical about the motivations of | 2022-10-07 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1578416984240271360 | 1578416984240271360 |
| "There is only one cardinal sin in the energy business: | 2022-10-07 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1578415539730292736 | 1578415539730292736 |
| "The purpose of executive privilege is to benefit the | 2022-10-07 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1578413815087013889 | 1578413815087013889 |
| A dishonor roll of insurrectionist candidates. How many | 2022-10-07 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1578391780608745472 | 1578391780608745472 |
| "many lawmakers plan to shill for dictators after leaving | 2022-10-07 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1578386546872311808 | 1578386546872311808 |
| In order to fortify THEIR regime of minority rule - | 2022-10-07 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1578385554231549959 | 1578385554231549959 |
| "Money is the mother's milk of politics" - want to do | 2022-10-07 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1578234205116387328 | 1578234205116387328 |
| Trying to come up with a viable alternative to Trumpism | 2022-10-07 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1578231553443782657 | 1578231553443782657 |
| Liberal nationalism - not an oxymoron. | 2022-10-07 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1578229854800998400 | 1578229854800998400 |
| Twitter is much better at stoking tribalism than promoting | 2022-10-07 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1578228237632618496 | 1578228237632618496 |
| Putin had a bad month in Ukraine — but a good month in | 2022-10-07 | 18 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1578226955488370689 | 1578226955488370689 |
| Strains among the oligarchs might eventually threaten | 2022-10-07 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1578223252995903490 | 1578223252995903490 |
| The present was foreseen in detail in 1933. Along with | 2022-10-07 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1578221944683384832 | 1578221944683384832 |
| What's the secret of the QAnon anthem? And what does | 2022-10-07 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1578220172959105024 | 1578220172959105024 |
| Morality is only an issue for the other party. | 2022-10-07 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1578214950627000321 | 1578214950627000321 |
| GOP candidates REALLY don't want to answer questions about | 2022-10-07 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1578213991595200513 | 1578213991595200513 |
| People will vote for their tribe, no matter how bad the | 2022-10-07 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1578212986082074626 | 1578212986082074626 |
| Which is worse - politicians or spammers? Obviously the | 2022-10-07 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1578209996893929472 | 1578209996893929472 |
| How Xi has become a cult of personality. | 2022-10-07 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1578208253950930945 | 1578208253950930945 |
| “What we have seen now is the return of America as the | 2022-10-07 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1578201715139936256 | 1578201715139936256 |
| How covid changed Canada - | 2022-10-07 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1578200846117937152 | 1578200846117937152 |
| Regional federalism - freedom for red states - | 2022-10-07 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1578199861828079617 | 1578199861828079617 |
| The Electoral Count Reform Act would reduce the impact of | 2022-10-07 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1578188058616209409 | 1578188058616209409 |
| "Former president George W. Bush, former GOP governors | 2022-10-07 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1578183805130547200 | 1578183805130547200 |
| Originalism cuts both ways! | 2022-10-07 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1578182799764246528 | 1578182799764246528 |
| Of course Putin wants GOP to win in November. Does MBS | 2022-10-07 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1578181214971645953 | 1578181214971645953 |
| What a real leader sounds like - | 2022-10-07 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1578179909872066562 | 1578179909872066562 |
| The Feds are going after terrorists targeting election | 2022-10-07 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1578177818420162561 | 1578177818420162561 |
| This trip is a bigger challenge than a summer cruise from | 2022-10-06 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1578173129393811457 | 1578173129393811457 |
| Another chance to purify the GOP by getting rid of a | 2022-10-06 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1578172451879415809 | 1578172451879415809 |
| Gresham's other law - Bad tweets drive out good! | 2022-10-06 | 43 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1578171080518209536 | 1578171080518209536 |
| No deep state in Russia! | 2022-10-06 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1578169702748024832 | 1578169702748024832 |
| GOP candidates need to keep immigration a live issue, | 2022-10-06 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1578168666629160960 | 1578168666629160960 |
| Proud Boy pleads guilty to seditious conspiracy and agrees | 2022-10-06 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1578162436862984194 | 1578162436862984194 |
| Regional federalism - | 2022-10-06 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1578160191173894144 | 1578160191173894144 |
| How soon could Trump get back on Twitter? | 2022-10-06 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1578036430030270465 | 1578036430030270465 |
| It's the same in UK as in US - big tax cuts for "job | 2022-10-06 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1578034112010461184 | 1578034112010461184 |
| Putin's pals continue to play with US government websites. | 2022-10-06 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1578033472651739139 | 1578033472651739139 |
| Putin propaganda is good enough for Truth Social! | 2022-10-06 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1578019484094210049 | 1578019484094210049 |
| Russians discover problems with leadership of self-serving | 2022-10-06 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1578006555957395458 | 1578006555957395458 |
| The great California gasoline price mystery continues. | 2022-10-05 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1577665174730788865 | 1577665174730788865 |
| Low interest rates might be "natural" for an aging | 2022-10-05 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1577533711607689216 | 1577533711607689216 |
| There are only two men in the world who can affect oil | 2022-10-05 | 165 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1577530666027057152 | 1577530666027057152 |
| Coal miner's politicians should have 1% of the personal | 2022-10-05 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1577528732889145344 | 1577528732889145344 |
| This is news? That the Arizona GOP chair has something | 2022-10-05 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1577527468264542208 | 1577527468264542208 |
| Promote minority representation by a combination of 1) | 2022-10-05 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1577526190285283328 | 1577526190285283328 |
| Beware celebrities talking about things they know nothing | 2022-10-04 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1577181410300874752 | 1577181410300874752 |
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========== Empires fall when ordinary citizens no longer believe in them. https://apnews.com/article/putin-mikhail-gorbachev-politics-soviet-union-russia-government-4dd71e5923e46720a1abc768b3a5993c #PS1other ===== impress 4 time 2022-12-31 07:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1609082160396521474 ========== The Gregorian calendar politics - England took 150 years to accept that a pope might have been right about something. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adoption_of_the_Gregorian_calendar Now one Ukrainian church joins civil Ukrainian society in looking west rather than east. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-religion-orthodox-church-c8b84fad9dfe93554b2d28b08ec21ada #PS1ukraine ===== engage 2 engage-rate 14% expands 1 impress 14 time 2022-12-31 06:43 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1609077841492316160 ========== How Trumpist candidates missed the independent vote by campaigning for the Trumpist base. https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-biden-angie-craig-2dfdaffd5b634a1bcf8eba73ea9980da They supposed that Trump campaign rally crowds reflected all American voters - but they only reflected Trumpist voters. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 5 time 2022-12-31 06:31 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1609074769516957699 ========== What goes up must come down. https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/30/tech/silicon-valley-falls-back-to-earth/index.html Some of it will go up again, just as it did after 2008 and 2000 and other recessions. But some of it is down for good. #PS1economics ===== engage 1 engage-rate 50% impress 2 time 2022-12-31 05:56 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1609066021134143489 ========== That was the week that wasn't. https://apnews.com/article/health-covid-19-pandemic-flu-ap-fact-check-43cfaf18f1927cefd975438b4c799136 #PS1media ===== impress 2 time 2022-12-31 05:31 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1609059609213554694 ========== If you're rich enough you don't have to pay much in taxes - https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-federal-tax-returns-updates-290dd5b563d8d829ee8b89ab4471d2e2 Fox of course thinks the story is about the Democrats in Congress - https://www.foxnews.com/politics/democrats-release-former-president-donald-trump-tax-returns But draw your own conclusions - https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/12/30/trump-tax-returns-congress/ https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-federal-tax-returns-updates-290dd5b563d8d829ee8b89ab4471d2e2 #PS1tax ===== engage 1 engage-rate 17% expands 1 impress 6 time 2022-12-30 19:24 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1608906983364775936 ========== How Silicon Valley technologists retire https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/12/29/lawsuit-claims-oracle-fired-bay-area-man-because-of-his-age/ Somebody gets credit for "driving cost out of the system" by replacing expensive workers with cheaper ones. #PS1economics ===== impress 2 time 2022-12-30 19:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1608905031549620224 ========== Signs of the times https://news.yahoo.com/world-using-fewer-cardboard-boxes-150000421.html Good sign for inflation, bad sign for recession. #PS1economics ===== impress 3 time 2022-12-30 19:12 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1608903959271608321 ========== You don't know much about a new technology until you see how criminal minds learn to exploit it! https://buffalonews.com/new-chatbots-could-change-the-world-can-you-trust-them/article_43ec7af2-a582-58bd-9d15-3c80f2f0f2be.html #PS1technology ===== impress 8 time 2022-12-30 15:38 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1608850068215599104 ========== Disinformation in local school board races in wealthy suburbs? Why not? There's nobody to check and nobody to enforce any rules. So if you think that winning is the only thing - https://www.union-bulletin.com/opinion/opinion_columns/commentary-its-not-just-russia-and-china-targeting-washington-disinformation-is-a-problem-in-local/article_2933c344-87c0-11ed-8659-2385b3b3c07b.html #PS1trumpism ===== impress 2 time 2022-12-30 15:10 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1608843082581303300 ========== Your data lives forever - and who knows, it might pop up on eBay! https://www.boston.com/news/technology/2022/12/27/for-sale-on-ebay-a-military-database-of-fingerprints-and-iris-scans/ #PS1technology ===== impress 3 time 2022-12-30 03:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1608667651328606208 ========== Focus on good news for a change! https://brennancenter.substack.com/p/2022-democracy-rises #PS1democracy ===== impress 3 time 2022-12-30 02:23 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1608650072245534721 ========== It's a crime for a politician to lie? A prerequisite for Trumpism - https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/post-interviews-trump-on-santos-satire/ which Santos embraces - https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/07/republican-house-candidates-2022-crazy/ Now everybody is looking closer - https://www.foxnews.com/politics/new-york-republicans-speak-against-george-santos-lies-call-investigation https://apnews.com/article/Republican-George-Santos-Investigation-New-York-d783ca654dc08aba892f694ef2584af7 More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1840376319640212 #PS1trumpism ===== impress 4 time 2022-12-29 18:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1608531437782962176 ========== There is such a thing as free will! And repentance - turning away from the devil's work - https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/12/23/cassidy-hutchinson-trump-jan-6-perjury/ And for Passantino and the others who embraced the devil's tar baby of their own free will - FBI and disbarment? More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1836181176726393 #PS1other ===== engage 2 engage-rate 29% impress 7 time 2022-12-24 13:58 +0000 urlclicks 2 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1606650411745968129 ========== What's next for Belarus? https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/12/01/suspicion-swirls-over-russias-plans-belarus-after-ministers-death/ It's not easy being friends with Putin. #PS1ukraine ===== engage 3 engage-rate 7% impress 45 time 2022-12-24 05:58 +0000 urlclicks 3 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1606529641371815936 ========== Medicare Advantage? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/11/30/medicare-advantage-seniors-health-care/ #PS1health ===== impress 5 time 2022-12-24 05:06 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1606516622717784065 ========== Presidential election results and Congressional power do not reflect American voters. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html https://www.reduce-rural-bias.net/ But there's still a counter-argument to make. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/12/01/midterm-elections-minority-rule-republicans-myth/ But it's not a very good one. #PS1democracy ===== engage 1 engage-rate 4% impress 26 time 2022-12-24 05:02 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1606515512070262784 ========== The fine line between initiative and insubordination - https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/23/politics/january-6-national-guard/index.html American military doctrine emphasizes commanders taking the initiative for tactical advantage. Russian doctrine forbids it, lest military initiative turn into political initiative! #PS1ukraine ===== impress 14 time 2022-12-23 16:26 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1606325400954511365 ========== That was the week that wasn't. https://apnews.com/article/health-business-ap-fact-check-bb144a204427b372402c109f0e79313d #PS1media ===== impress 3 time 2022-12-23 16:07 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1606320649592401927 ========== Dixiecrat Trumpists remind us of all the taxpayer money that could be saved if Zelenskyy "negotiated" with Putin - meaning unconditional surrender, or a cease-fire until the aggressor can resume the war. https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/us-elections-government/ny-maga-republicans-slam-ukraine-president-zelenskyy-20221221-gaem32revnd4vgom6jis74sncq-story.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1835445143466663 #PS1trumpism ===== impress 4 time 2022-12-23 16:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1606318774701133830 ========== The Russian way of war. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-erasing-mariupol-499dceae43ed77f2ebfe750ea99b9ad9 #PS1ukraine ===== impress 5 time 2022-12-23 06:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1606174625984978944 ========== More about how the sausage gets made. https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/23/politics/government-funding-bill-analysis/index.html It's not pretty, but that's how it works. The miracle is that they pass anything at all. #PS1democracy ===== impress 2 time 2022-12-23 05:54 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1606166241088897026 ========== More about Stefan Passantino - https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/22/politics/cassidy-hutchinson-jan-6-testimony-trump-pressure/index.html #PS1insurrection ===== impress 8 time 2022-12-23 05:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1606165224393826305 ========== And here's the Jan 6 committee's summary of its full report - https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/19/politics/what-is-in-jan-6-committee-report-summary/index.html Ken Klukowski - another name you'll come to know. #PS1insurrection ===== engage 2 engage-rate 7% impress 30 time 2022-12-23 05:46 +0000 urlclicks 2 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1606164213335855104 ========== What's in the final Jan 6 report. https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/22/politics/jan-6-committee-final-report/index.html You'll be hearing more about Kenneth Chesebro. #PS1insurrection ===== impress 26 time 2022-12-23 05:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1606162487887335424 ========== How the Zelenskyy visit happened. https://apnews.com/article/putin-zelenskyy-politics-nancy-pelosi-zagreb-48d6e3aa3e13b0a9a677522260d61ba3 #PS1ukraine ===== impress 3 time 2022-12-23 05:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1606156871039008769 ========== Of course the devil prefers to start at the top. https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1722010971476748 It's so much more efficient! https://apnews.com/article/pope-francis-religion-vatican-city-a14a52f3d3300330acfd13b5bffb0144 #PS1theory ===== impress 1 time 2022-12-23 05:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1606156105624604672 ========== Even the GOP - and some Democrats - that don't care about Trump are anxious about IRS enforcement against their megadonors. https://apnews.com/article/politics-business-donald-trump-86ec33d75573cdfc634f3532c6fdd989 #PS1tax ===== impress 5 time 2022-12-23 05:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1606154769139056642 ========== Putin gets whatever help he can, wherever he can, and denies it as much as he can. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-business-north-korea-e6a068d91bc9828ecadfb67c929a4162 #PS1ukraine ===== impress 8 time 2022-12-23 05:04 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1606153859600027648 ========== The Taliban shows its true colors. https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-turkey-saudi-arabia-kabul-taliban-5d45634d0c8f530ccbbf0823fea16a33 That's what happens when patriarchalism takes over. Fears about that in America were relieved for the time being by the 2022 election results. #PS1afghanistan ===== impress 14 time 2022-12-23 05:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1606152972756402178 ========== How the sausage gets made. https://apnews.com/article/biden-business-4ce3cf1ee887747b13fe8d007b8ffd75 Wouldn't it be better to focus on one issue in one bill at a time? Sure, except Congress would run out of time and never pass anything. #PS1democracy ===== impress 3 time 2022-12-23 04:54 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1606151164738670594 ========== "hearsay, speculation and theatrics" https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-politics-arizona-katie-hobbs-d5d05d7359698db2c166909467d719f8 Of course! That's what Trumpists do! Who cares if it's factually true if it polls well with their base! #PS1trumpism ===== impress 2 time 2022-12-23 04:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1606150118918393856 ========== Trumpists deliver a graduate course in witness tampering. https://apnews.com/article/politics-3e7524f9bf2adb9aa9b064bf8ea5d98c Passantino can expect an uncomfortable interview with the FBI soon, if not already. And perhaps a disbarment hearing. #PS1insurrection ===== impress 6 time 2022-12-23 04:46 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1606149107009011714 ========== It can be helpful to have rich parents. https://apnews.com/article/ftx-sam-bankman-fried-ny-court-updates-e51c72c60cd76d242a48b19b16fd9998 #PS1justice ===== impress 3 time 2022-12-23 04:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1606147729607888896 ========== Trump's lucky break - his business interests and tax returns are so complicated, by design, that the IRS doesn't have the manpower to audit them. And other megadonors are even worse. GOP solution - cut back IRS audit capability even further. https://apnews.com/article/business-donald-trump-195e3d06db7c396fea69c2111a5cb98f #PS1tax ===== impress 8 time 2022-12-23 01:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1606105046382350336 ========== Beginnings of understanding long-term covid. https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/12/21/researchers-may-have-cracked-why-some-people-have-long-term-smell-loss-from-covid-19/ #PS1virus ===== impress 2 time 2022-12-23 01:38 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1606101959148048384 ========== State courts and constitutions matter too! https://statecourtreport.substack.com/p/introducing-state-court-report #PS1justice ===== impress 4 time 2022-12-22 07:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1605831055008616448 ========== The necessary tasks ahead to protect and strengthen democracy. https://brennancenter.substack.com/p/how-to-prevent-another-january-6 #PS1democracy ===== engage 2 engage-rate 25% expands 2 impress 8 time 2022-12-21 14:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1605569361737093120 ========== Did he really mean it when he said he'd step down? https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-twitter-inc-technology-business-8dac8ae023444ef9c37ca1d8fe1c14df Not likely! What competent manager would take that job, reporting to Musk, who would still be owner and not shy about meddling? #PS1media ===== impress 7 time 2022-12-19 15:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1604854729271496704 ========== Last Jan 6 committee hearing begins in five hours. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/january-6-committee-holds-final-meeting-expected-take-action-trump-allies https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/how-to-watch-the-jan-6-committees-final-public-meeting https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-live-jan-6-committee-hearings-the-final-report #PS1insurrection ===== engage 1 engage-rate 11% expands 1 impress 9 time 2022-12-19 12:46 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1604820588782006272 ========== Market timing not Trump's forte. https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/16/investing/donald-trump-nft-trading/index.html #PS1economics ===== engage 5 engage-rate 38% expands 1 impress 13 time 2022-12-18 02:50 +0000 urlclicks 4 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1604307989053087744 ========== A lesson for Putin. https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/17/asia/operation-linebacker-ii-50th-anniversary-intl-hnk-ml-dst/index.html #PS1other ===== impress 10 time 2022-12-18 02:48 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1604307514568253441 ========== "don’t seem to have any constructive reason to oppose Mr. McCarthy beyond a desire to grab the media spotlight or blow everything up" https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/17/politics/trump-mccarthy-speaker-breitbart-interview/index.html But isn't that what Trumpism is all about? #PS1trumpism ===== impress 5 time 2022-12-18 02:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1604305564904738816 ========== Trump thought it was enough to say something. He didn't bother to propose anything specific to Congress or get it passed. Biden has done the hard work Trump wouldn't, but gets no credit for it. https://apnews.com/article/inflation-biden-politics-economy-business-e3f4d51b28d1c2ceab4766147406cf4c #PS1biden ===== impress 6 time 2022-12-18 02:36 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1604304475019022336 ========== "Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful" https://apnews.com/article/tampa-bay-buccaneers-golden-state-warriors-miami-heat-carolina-panthers-sports-b85ddda713abbb7cc4acce36c56dfd3e #PS1economics ===== impress 3 time 2022-12-18 02:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1604303147140231168 ========== DeSantis is bolder, more focused, and more competent than Trump. That makes him more dangerous, not less. https://www.nwaonline.com/news/2022/dec/17/paul-krugman-will-2024-be-a-vaccine-election/ Trumpism can get along fine without Trump. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 9 time 2022-12-18 02:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1604301702852591617 ========== Money is the mother's milk. https://apnews.com/article/nebraska-omaha-pete-ricketts-ben-sasse-ec19501e5c57a677505118c6dae9e820 #PS1democracy ===== impress 3 time 2022-12-17 17:14 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1604163166010609664 ========== New Congress, new drama. https://apnews.com/article/politics-kevin-mccarthy-bakersfield-af3c403b3cbd4cc26940718f55fb4d55 If you thought the current Congress was "do-nothing", just wait! #PS1gop ===== impress 1 time 2022-12-17 17:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1604162403691683848 ========== "tech workers and journalists who have lost their jobs in the past few weeks should come together to create non-profit social networks designed to serve the public interest" https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/16/opinions/elon-musk-twitter-journalists-alaimo/index.html #PS1media ===== impress 5 time 2022-12-17 02:43 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1603943915693842433 ========== All he ever cared about was the money! https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/16/politics/donald-trump-allies-trading-cards-2024/index.html Why is anybody surprised? #PS1trump ===== impress 2 time 2022-12-17 02:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1603943397240107009 ========== "Now that more Republicans, like Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, could possibly do Trumpism in more effective fashion, the former president’s standing within the party inevitably becomes more precarious." https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/08/opinions/trump-terrible-week-message-republican-zelizer/index.html Trumpism doesn't need Trump. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 4 time 2022-12-17 02:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1603942006337572864 ========== A new state with a Democratic majority? Not while Mitch McConnell is in the Senate! https://apnews.com/article/politics-california-los-angeles-san-bernardino-5452ca0d1a3d06387dbb3e05305ca011 As in 1820, no new free states without corresponding new slave states. #PS1democracy ===== impress 2 time 2022-12-17 02:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1603939790734258177 ========== Leader of the pack? New pack in prison. https://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-prisons-riots-timothy-kelly-7ed9626a6ace2e2bf51c6bd70ae9e272 #PS1insurrection ===== impress 2 time 2022-12-17 02:23 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1603938846567038976 ========== It's not just Speaker - the RNC chair contest exposes the fundamental fissures in the GOP. Rule-of-law vs cult-of-personality, and multiple personalities contending for GOP support of their cults. https://apnews.com/article/politics-donald-trump-ad24a08c75b87773bfdc02b0e885cfec Voters get no say; how about megadonors? #PS1gop ===== impress 4 time 2022-12-17 02:21 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1603938473974435840 ========== That was the week that wasn't. https://apnews.com/article/health-covid-ap-fact-check-518712d954194b8fff1a78bce7d47fa0 #PS1media ===== impress 4 time 2022-12-16 20:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1603849213997039616 ========== History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes! https://getpocket.com/explore/item/dorothy-thompson-the-journalist-who-warned-the-world-about-adolf-hitler "those driven by fear, resentment, insecurity, or self-loathing? They would always fall for fascism" So the Germans fell for "Hitler is a Messiah sent by God to save the German people". #PS1theory ===== engage 1 engage-rate 6% impress 17 time 2022-12-15 20:27 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1603486906238390274 ========== Some people have an interest in insecure, unverifiable elections - they're an excuse for "independent state legislatures" to intervene. Everybody else has the opposite interest. https://brennancenter.substack.com/p/congress-must-fund-election-security #PS1democracy ===== impress 4 time 2022-12-15 04:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1603245989455765505 ========== Christian Nationalism is a political ideology, not a religious one. It was embraced by Hitler, Stalin, and Putin. https://ffrf.org/news/news-releases/item/41716-ffrf-lauds-historic-congressional-testimony-on-christian-nationalism #PS1other ===== impress 21 time 2022-12-15 03:57 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1603237839365234689 ========== Why did Japan surrender? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_invasion_of_Manchuria In just days, the Soviets conquered an area the size of Western Europe. https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-bomb-didn-t-beat-japan-stalin-did The Japanese endured incinerated cities, but an imminent Soviet invasion of the home islands forced the issue. #PS1other ===== impress 8 time 2022-12-15 03:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1603235714061115393 ========== California's prison disaster. https://calmatters.org/justice/2022/12/california-prisons-reform/ #PS1justice ===== impress 4 time 2022-12-14 22:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1603149088676978688 ========== DeSantis already sees Trump in his rear-view mirror. https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/13/politics/desantis-covid-vaccine-manufacturers/index.html Florida Trumpists agree. What about the rest of the country? A bold and competent Trump replacement - that's something to worry about! #PS1trumpism ===== engage 3 engage-rate 19% expands 3 impress 16 time 2022-12-14 16:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1603061832578568192 ========== Can GOP make a deal on immigration? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/12/06/immigration-senate-deal-republicans-compromise/ Not likely. Many megadonors like cheap exploitable labor and want to keep illegal immigration difficult and dangerous but possible. Bipartisan deals on immigration have come and gone - nowhere. #PS1immigration ===== impress 9 time 2022-12-14 05:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1602893295339720704 ========== It's best not to over-commit. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/12/13/elon-musk-twitter-tesla-antisemitism-problems/ #PS1media ===== impress 4 time 2022-12-14 02:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1602853001961431040 ========== Will the Electoral Count Act be fixed after all? Not if the House Trumpists have their way - voting against the omnibus appropriations bill. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/12/13/electoral-count-act-reform-trump-2024-coup-maga/ #PS1democracy ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 32 time 2022-12-14 02:26 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1602852410958848000 ========== "some Republicans believe McCarthy is privately rooting for the omnibus bill to pass, even though he plans to vote against it publicly" https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/13/politics/kevin-mccarthy-mitch-mcconnell-collision-course/index.html Saying one thing and doing the opposite is essential GOP minority rule. #PS1gop ===== engage 5 engage-rate 17% expands 1 impress 30 time 2022-12-14 02:04 +0000 urlclicks 4 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1602846970468397056 ========== McCarthy stands against serious bipartisan government problem solving. How could that possibly be more important than his getting elected Speaker? https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/13/politics/government-funding-shutdown-latest/index.html #PS1gop ===== impress 5 time 2022-12-14 01:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1602845476742520832 ========== When you get right down to fundamentals, there are two diametrically opposed GOP factions - the rule-of-law believers and the cult-of-personality believers. No telling who will win, but the leading candidate is the Democrats. https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/13/politics/house-speaker-gop-motion-to-vacate/index.html #PS1gop ===== engage 1 engage-rate 33% impress 3 time 2022-12-14 01:55 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1602844822775005184 ========== Prisoner exchange deals encourage hostage-taking. Tourists beware! https://apnews.com/article/brittney-griner-middle-east-united-states-government-and-politics-5b4736d2428014066683605731affa8a #PS1foreign ===== impress 2 time 2022-12-14 01:48 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1602842988937240576 ========== If Greene had been in charge, the insurrection would have succeeded! Or so she claims. https://abc17news.org/news/2022/12/12/greene-again-downplays-capitol-riot-and-says-it-would-have-been-armed-if-she-led-it-2/ Of course if the insurrectionists had started shooting, the police and national guard would have shot back. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 10 time 2022-12-14 01:43 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1602841728699944960 ========== Trump's the worst possible choice but he'd support him anyway? That's not the unleadership the GOP needs. https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/12/13/ap-interview-hutchinson-says-trump-worst-choice-for-gop/ For rule of law or for cult of personality? It's on or the other, full time, not depending on which way the wind is blowing. #PS1gop ===== impress 2 time 2022-12-14 01:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1602840845698244608 ========== Middle-east problems never go away, they just get more complicated! https://apnews.com/article/syria-turkey-recep-tayyip-erdogan-government-a61fd4140fa1e2355f158a56f8fa98fb #PS1mideast ===== impress 3 time 2022-12-13 17:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1602723970045792256 ========== Who are the low-information voters on climate? Always the other guys! https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-science-us-department-of-agriculture-climate-and-environment-government-politics-c3b2d4e7b8dbe9891e8a1cf37030fe04 #PS1climate ===== impress 3 time 2022-12-13 17:52 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1602723021780701184 ========== The election is over! The final House race has been decided after a recount. https://news.yahoo.com/recount-confirms-boebert-win-colorado-145722901.html Too bad for McCarthy or whoever becomes Speaker - she'll be one more problem for him to deal with. #PS1election ===== impress 5 time 2022-12-13 17:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1602721954280181765 ========== If Arizona adopted ranked-choice voting, then no matter how many candidates ran, electing one acceptable only to a minority would be unlikely. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#preferential Does Sinema have the voters? She seems to have the donors. https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-politics-arizona-kyrsten-sinema-us-republican-party-074c53a0ed0be3baaa80eeaefe21f3f6 #PS1election ===== engage 2 engage-rate 17% impress 12 time 2022-12-13 17:44 +0000 userclicks 2 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1602721060725497856 ========== It just gets worse for SBF - https://www.aol.com/sec-charges-former-ftx-ceo-150848057.html not to mention his investors. #PS1economics ===== impress 7 time 2022-12-13 15:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1602694765736525824 ========== Nuclear fusion - is it finally on the road to feasibility? https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/12/politics/nuclear-fusion-energy-us-scientists-climate/index.html #PS1climate ===== engage 1 engage-rate 11% impress 9 time 2022-12-13 15:56 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1602693836798447617 ========== What are the major conclusions after reading and writing about American political and economic democracy through four elections? How can we uphold the Enlightenment ideals of America's founders? == https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-lessons.html == More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1826577227686788 #PS1democracy ===== impress 4 time 2022-12-13 15:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1602685306162987008 ========== At least he will probably always be welcome on Twitter - https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-bahamas-united-states-government-1de16cdf7e6956b401e998c34ad1fd11 #PS1economics ===== impress 4 time 2022-12-13 03:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1602504857633464326 ========== How can you make a small fortune in social media?? Start out with a large fortune!! It's an old joke come back to life - https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/12/12/twitter-disbands-trust-and-safety-council/ https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/12/08/the-mass-unbanning-of-suspended-twitter-users-is-underway/ https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/12/08/elon-musk-is-no-longer-the-richest-man-on-the-planet-according-to-forbes/ https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/12/12/former-twitter-official-flees-home-after-threats/ #PS1media ===== impress 3 time 2022-12-13 03:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1602504197479374848 ========== That was the week that wasn't. https://apnews.com/article/health-arizona-ap-fact-check-3a1a53970066536ebab1a065fa87f83a #PS1media ===== impress 6 time 2022-12-09 17:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1601272398287753216 ========== Maybe Putin isn't behind THIS fake news - https://apnews.com/article/golden-state-warriors-nba-sports-stephen-curry-social-media-a1e24bb02108746055d5c35b203a477d #PS1media ===== impress 7 time 2022-12-09 17:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1601263384652980224 ========== Like Trump, Netanyahu is embracing the most extreme right wing. https://apnews.com/article/middle-east-religion-jerusalem-israel-united-states-75263223ded4e8899c9a657e37e759ff #PS1mideast ===== impress 6 time 2022-12-08 06:43 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1600742808717230080 ========== Trumpist insurrectionists can be found in lots of places. https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/07/europe/germany-far-right-arrests-grm-intl/index.html #PS1insurrection ===== impress 6 time 2022-12-07 16:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1600524792993501187 ========== More on "independent state legislatures". https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/07/politics/supreme-court-independent-state-legislature-trump/index.html #PS1democracy ===== impress 4 time 2022-12-07 15:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1600520340773691392 ========== Is this the week that most GOP legislators finally find the donors and polls to justify moving away from Trump? https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/07/politics/trump-bad-week-analysis/index.html #PS1trump ===== impress 6 time 2022-12-07 15:52 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1600518580780806150 ========== Is the president immune from civil damages for inciting insurrection? https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/07/politics/trump-immunity-lawsuits-appeal-january-6/index.html #PS1insurrection ===== impress 2 time 2022-12-07 15:46 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1600517226322223107 ========== Youngkin in 2024? He's better than Trump or DeSantis or Cruz - but that's a pretty low bar. https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-donald-trump-virginia-777765c6894f5277d91f055648c6b856 The GOP's Gordian knot is figuring out how to appeal to the Trumpist base AND never-Trumpists, independents, and swing voters. #PS1gop ===== impress 17 time 2022-12-07 15:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1600516543606947840 ========== "Independent state legislatures" theory goes to the Supreme Court. https://brennancenter.substack.com/p/moore-v-harper-heads-to-the-high If this theory is upheld, then state legislatures may decide election results without considering the actual vote. #PS1democracy ===== engage 1 engage-rate 20% impress 5 time 2022-12-07 15:22 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1600511180770279426 ========== Is there a Speaker in the House? https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-speaker.html No Democrat would ever vote for McCarthy or for any of the reprobates he's courting. But if some reasonable Republican offered a way forward? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/12/05/mccarthy-clyburn-speaker-house-desperate-democrats/ #PS1gop ===== engage 1 engage-rate 13% impress 8 time 2022-12-06 02:03 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1599947587964239872 ========== After seven years of cheerleading for Trump, one pundit has finally had enough. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/12/05/trump-constitution-termination-rant-crazy/ IF the GOP leadership ever abandons Trump, it might happen almost overnight and be almost universal. Herd immunity! Trumpism doesn't need Trump. #PS1trump ===== impress 5 time 2022-12-06 01:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1599945600967258112 ========== Leaders are supposed to lead. But some just follow. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/05/opinion/trump-evangelical-leaders.html #PS1trumpism ===== impress 8 time 2022-12-06 01:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1599939381544259584 ========== Who knew that contributions to a Political Action Committee can be used to pay criminal defense lawyers? https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/12/05/trump-witnesses-legal-bills-pac/ #PS1trump ===== impress 2 time 2022-12-06 00:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1599931449146478592 ========== The new face of Twitter. https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/05/opinions/elon-musk-twitter-obeidallah/index.html #PS1media ===== impress 3 time 2022-12-06 00:54 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1599930229556137984 ========== Has Trump run out of energy or is he just pacing himself for a long race? https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/05/politics/trump-2024-presidential-campaign/index.html #PS1trump ===== engage 1 engage-rate 17% impress 6 time 2022-12-06 00:43 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1599927488297472000 ========== Nothing like a little recession talk to motivate layoffs! https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/12/05/tech-workers-react-to-layoff-axes-with-shock-and-more-pain-is-coming/ Maybe the execs are hoping that tightening financials will improve the value of their stock options. It happens every time the economy appears likely to slow down. #PS1economics ===== impress 18 time 2022-12-05 23:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1599912648736636928 ========== What happens when lawyers go off the rails - https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/05/politics/rudy-giuliani-ethics-hearing/index.html Worse, the lawyers he was working with won't testify on his behalf - on advice of their counsel. Surely a former Federal prosecutor remembers the difference between evidence and hearsay! #PS1insurrection ===== engage 1 engage-rate 25% impress 4 time 2022-12-05 23:39 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1599911439162306562 ========== "termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/04/us/politics/trump-constitution-republicans.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/12/04/ruth-marcus-donald-trump-latest-outrage-is-too-dangerous-ignore/ Most GOP leaders couldn't find words to respond - can't risk getting primaried! https://apnews.com/article/social-media-donald-trump-8e6e2f0a092135428c82c0cfa6598444 #PS1insurrection ===== impress 11 time 2022-12-05 14:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1599772962357669888 ========== That was the week that wasn't. https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-business-middle-east-europe-1787f50cc9b538ee73435d30307c6075 #PS1media ===== impress 5 time 2022-12-02 16:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1598718919443107840 ========== Minority rule https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html is increasingly threatened by demographics and educated ideology, so its defenders embrace ever more extreme defenses. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/12/01/republicans-gay-marriage-senate-bill-culture-wars/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1817130161964828 #PS1minority ===== impress 6 time 2022-12-02 07:19 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1598577530881347586 ========== One of the tricky skills needed to be a GOP leader is saying one thing in public to the voters and the opposite in private to the megadonors, and then voting their way. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#gop But it's a skill honed by steady practice. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/12/01/republicans-railroad-strike-workers-party/ #PS1gop ===== impress 3 time 2022-12-02 07:06 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1598574297874063362 ========== During covid, some people made out like bandits! https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/12/01/fintech-covid-relief-fraud/ #PS1recovery ===== impress 1 time 2022-12-02 06:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1598571814909005825 ========== Woke Florida GOP cancel BlackRock. https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/12/01/blackrock-florida-climate-policies/ #PS1trumpism ===== impress 42 time 2022-12-02 06:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1598569962943045633 ========== Arizona judges have had enough cowboy foolishness. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/12/01/arizona-cochise-county-kari-lake-sanctions/ Lawyers who get involved must watch their steps. #PS1election ===== impress 4 time 2022-12-02 06:46 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1598569345298620417 ========== “Kanye. Elon. Trump.” - House Judiciary GOP https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/12/01/kanye-west-alex-jones-hilter-interview/ #PS1trumpism ===== engage 3 engage-rate 5% expands 1 impress 59 time 2022-12-02 06:41 +0000 urlclicks 2 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1598568088668364802 ========== What is the essential strength of democracy? That mistakes can be rectified. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/12/01/global-protests-democracy-autocracy-weakness/ Inability to adapt to change doomed the dinosaurs and dooms the dictators. Eventually. #PS1democracy ===== impress 1 time 2022-12-02 06:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1598566586373136384 ========== People who never admit error never learn anything new. Progress depends on people who admit error rather than hiding it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/12/01/powell-admits-wrong-interest-rates-federal-reserve/ #PS1other ===== impress 2 time 2022-12-02 06:31 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1598565488438972418 ========== When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers - so GOP should beware the "independent state legislatures" doctrine. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/12/01/gop-argument-redistricting-backfire/ In the meantime - for Federal elections - California should abandon fair districting until Texas adopts it. #PS1democracy ===== impress 19 time 2022-12-02 06:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1598564530149199874 ========== It's looking less likely that Trump can stay out of court until he can pardon himself. https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/02/politics/trump-legal-strategy-analysis/index.html #PS1trump ===== impress 6 time 2022-12-02 06:12 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1598560742713987072 ========== You really need to pay attention to the recycling rules. https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/12/01/south-bay-recycling-company-fined-after-improper-lithium-battery-disposals-start-multiple-garbage-truck-fires/ Lithium is so eager to react, it can explode into flames. #PS1other ===== impress 3 time 2022-12-02 06:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1598557742637408257 ========== Why police reform is so hard - https://www.mcall.com/opinion/mc-opi-law-enforcement-reform-20221130-5ctjzxo7tjfx3kzzg6vn2l2fva-story.html The bad apple cops have bad apple politicians supporting them. #PS1justice ===== impress 1 time 2022-12-02 05:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1598548152520704002 ========== The pros and cons of indicting and trying a president - and do they apply to a presidential candidate? https://www.lowellsun.com/2022/11/26/noah-feldman-new-trump-special-prosecutor-isnt-the-mueller-sequel/ #PS1trump ===== impress 12 time 2022-12-02 04:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1598538907158990848 ========== Every high school graduate should expect to go to college. But not everybody should go to the same kind of college. Demand for skills like automotive technology and dental hygiene will increase. Two years at community college should suffice. https://calmatters.org/commentary/2022/11/california-high-schools-need-a-mission-overhaul/ #PS1other ===== impress 23 time 2022-12-02 04:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1598537700088258560 ========== Democrats don't even bother campaigning in statewide races. The California GOP will deliver as usual. Unfortunately, it's different in more regional races, and that might have cost the Democrats a Congressional majority. Just barely. https://calmatters.org/commentary/2022/11/california-congress-democrat-election-midterm/ #PS1capolitics ===== impress 2 time 2022-12-02 04:24 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1598533579541475330 ========== Ever seen the Stoppard play Leopoldstadt? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopoldstadt_(play) If you're a Jewish megadonor for Trump or Trumpism, maybe you should. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/michelle-goldberg-antisemitism-is-going-mainstream-trumps-helping/ar-AA14IqNS https://www.gocomics.com/jackohman/2022/11/30 #PS1trumpism ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% expands 1 impress 38 time 2022-12-02 04:20 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1598532449759526914 ========== "manifestly without merit" https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/mark-meadows-ordered-to-testify-in-trump-investigation/ar-AA14I7b5 Poor Mark Meadows - he gets no slack even on his home court in SC! He'll have to testify under oath and penalty of perjury. #PS1insurrection ===== impress 26 time 2022-12-02 04:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1598529785256296453 ========== Another attempt to figure out why California gasoline costs so much more than other states. None of the usual excuses add up. https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/11/29/should-california-tax-oil-profits-gas-spike-hearing-sets-stage-for-contentious-debate/ #PS1capolitics ===== impress 1 time 2022-12-02 04:03 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1598528171875655680 ========== If anybody can freely read your website, they can't copy it, but do you have any rights over conclusions they draw? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/23/technology/copilot-microsoft-ai-lawsuit.html Most machine learning looks at vast amounts of data to extract useful patterns. Like human learning, except for scale. #PS1technology ===== impress 8 time 2022-12-02 03:57 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1598526802703486976 ========== Tim Cook and Jim Jordan - now that's what you call an unpleasant interview. https://macdailynews.com/2022/11/30/apple-ceo-tim-cook-goes-to-washington-d-c-to-meet-with-top-republican-lawmakers/ A friend of the devil is a friend of Jordan! And Musk, and Trump. #PS1technology ===== impress 6 time 2022-12-02 03:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1598525206725025793 ========== Recount for Boebert and Frisch. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/colorado-election-officials-order-recount-rep-boebert-projected-defeat-dem-challenger-adam-frisch Due by Dec 13. #PS1democracy ===== impress 3 time 2022-12-02 00:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1598476957494444032 ========== Do you think they could have made it any more complicated? https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/11/30/how-to-cash-californias-middle-class-tax-refund-debit-card/ No doubt the scammers will figure out a way soon enough. #PS1tax ===== engage 6 engage-rate 9% expands 1 impress 65 time 2022-12-02 00:04 +0000 urlclicks 5 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1598468231173636096 ========== Channeling Roy Cohn, Trump never backs down. And he likes to please his most loyal supporters - who have no other home. https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-entertainment-racial-injustice-government-and-politics-1d5fc88833c418b39550a77502e5bcc3 But now his handlers have to control him, 24x7, though his moment might be past. Most GOP leaders are looking elsewhere. #PS1trump ===== engage 1 engage-rate 10% expands 1 impress 10 time 2022-12-01 15:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1598344024741810176 ========== Now is the time to fix the Electoral Count Act. https://brennancenter.substack.com/p/dont-let-future-presidents-do-what #PS1democracy ===== engage 1 engage-rate 4% expands 1 impress 27 time 2022-12-01 07:54 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1598223965515677696 ========== Georgia voters are not easily suppressed. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/30/opinion/georgia-runoff-voter-suppression.html In California, even before universal mail-in voting, it was pretty rate to wait more than a few minutes before voting in person. #PS1election ===== engage 1 engage-rate 10% impress 10 time 2022-12-01 06:03 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1598195996223483905 ========== Preserving strategic advantages is important. But so is maintaining unity with our allies. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/11/30/biden-china-trade-policy-trump/ International trade is tricky - almost every move hurts some Americans and benefits others. #PS1trade ===== impress 6 time 2022-12-01 04:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1598176231052017664 ========== "With sufficient funding, IRS can enforce tax laws, deliver benefits to small businesses and provide fast, efficient service" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/11/30/irs-funding-republicans-technology-rubin-lew/ That's the point! The LAST thing GOP megadonors want is enforcement of tax laws against them, instead of poor people. #PS1tax ===== impress 6 time 2022-12-01 04:37 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1598174387039252481 ========== “the Democrats can end up picking who the speaker is” https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-speaker.html Excellent idea, Mr McCarthy! Democrats can certainly support Republicans interested in serving the country rather than their personal ambitions. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/11/30/mccarthy-trump-fuentes-ye-mar-a-lago-dinner-comments/ #PS1gop ===== impress 3 time 2022-12-01 04:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1598172437010862081 ========== The price of gasoline is down, for the time being. No thanks to Biden or any other Democrat - or Republican. The oil producing countries don't care what Americans think. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/11/30/gas-prices-drop-russia-oil/ #PS1inflation ===== impress 4 time 2022-12-01 04:14 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1598168590758203393 ========== It's not about what Ye and Fuentes believe or not. Why would Trump care? It's about keeping their fellow travelers in his coalition, and about testing the rest of the GOP to see who is really with him to the end, and who is against him. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/30/trump-kanye-fuentes-antisemitism/ #PS1trump ===== impress 21 time 2022-12-01 04:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1598167321352151040 ========== Ukraine war won't be settled by negotiation - only postponed while Russia regroups and rearms and waits for the West to cave. https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/24/opinions/russia-ukraine-truce-negotiations-war-andelman/index.html #PS1ukraine ===== engage 5 engage-rate 7% expands 2 impress 72 time 2022-12-01 03:54 +0000 urlclicks 3 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1598163567605592064 ========== The GOP may be turning a corner away from Trump, but many "leaders" are being careful to follow the herd. https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/29/politics/republican-reaction-trump-fuentes-analysis/index.html #PS1trump ===== impress 6 time 2022-12-01 03:48 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1598162193077313537 ========== Political acts are not subject to executive immunity. https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/28/politics/trump-absolute-immunity-judge-emmet-sullivan/index.html #PS1trump ===== impress 2 time 2022-12-01 03:43 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1598160733745082368 ========== Competent leadership does make a difference. https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/29/business/sears-last-christmas/index.html #PS1economics ===== impress 2 time 2022-12-01 03:38 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1598159667368075265 ========== McCarthy has NO PROBLEM with Trump meeting with any of his supporters - he is counting on supporters of Trump becoming supporters of McCarthy. And he never said he'd rather be right than Speaker. https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/30/politics/kevin-mccarthy-donald-trump-oath-keepers-analysis/index.html #PS1trumpism ===== impress 5 time 2022-12-01 03:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1598157986404651008 ========== 300 Americans still dying EVERY DAY from covid - but Musk has washed his hands of their problems. https://apnews.com/article/twitter-ends-covid-misinformation-policy-cc232c9ce0f193c505bbc63bf57ecad6 He thinks the lunatic fringe will be more profitable. So how has that worked out at Truth Social? #PS1media ===== impress 10 time 2022-12-01 03:20 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1598155052262494208 ========== Yes you can be convicted of seditious conspiracy, especially if you conspire seditiously. Maximum sentence is 20 years. https://apnews.com/article/oath-keepers-founder-guilty-of-seditious-conspiracy-42affe1614425c6820f7cbe8fd18ba96 Don't count on Trump getting elected and pardoning you. #PS1insurrection ===== impress 7 time 2022-12-01 03:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1598151237698228224 ========== Rupert Murdoch and Alex Jones triumph - convincing people that don't listen to anybody else, that they are threatened by - something. https://apnews.com/article/religion-wisconsin-democracy-congress-government-and-politics-00be67663d600418cf10d112b1314f4a As long as they keep voting Republican - the propaganda will keep telling them that they are threatened. #PS1media ===== engage 1 engage-rate 11% impress 9 time 2022-12-01 03:00 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1598149896787611648 ========== Election deniers are unfazed by rejection in 2022. They're rehearsing for 2024. https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-pennsylvania-arizona-donald-trump-ee204f17ac9128a7952f6e0c2678d500 #PS1trumpism ===== impress 1 time 2022-12-01 02:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1598146273051176961 ========== FTX disease spreads! https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/28/blockfi-files-for-bankruptcy-as-ftx-fallout-spreads.html It was all a house of cards. #PS1economics ===== impress 3 time 2022-12-01 02:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1598144850754695168 ========== Congress now has Trump's tax returns. He'll never forgive the Supreme Court members he nominated for turning against him. https://apnews.com/article/us-supreme-court-business-donald-trump-personal-taxes-congress-7cc1a1a0d10de7bdfc1252603f53ab69 #PS1trump ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 32 likes 1 time 2022-12-01 02:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1598143074064297984 ========== Universal basic income may be an idea whose time is coming - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-ubi.html It's getting another try, this time in Silicon Valley. #PS1economics ===== impress 3 time 2022-12-01 02:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1598139477964500998 ========== Tiktok is still hiring! https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/11/22/as-meta-and-twitter-slash-staff-tiktok-plans-to-keep-hiring/ But lots of other tech companies are laying off leaf nodes to protect the bottom line - and the root nodes' stock compensation. https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/11/29/layoff-tech-biotech-job-twitter-west-digital-thermo-fisher-cisco-meta/ It's frontier gold-rush boom and bust redux. #PS1media ===== engage 3 engage-rate 5% impress 59 time 2022-12-01 02:06 +0000 urlclicks 1 userclicks 2 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1598136517498572805 ========== Who wants our billionaires to live forever? https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/11/16/1063300/billion-dollar-mega-rich-live-forever There are certainly plenty of opportunists hoping to make money from billionaires wanting to live forever. But if everybody lived forever, why would children ever grow up? Why even have children? #PS1other ===== impress 3 time 2022-12-01 02:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1598135015497695233 ========== Politics - in the Nutcracker??? https://www.washingtonpost.com/theater-dance/2022/11/25/nutcracker-history-russian-imperialism/ Alas yes - not much happens in imperial courts without political calculation. Just ask Salieri! #PS1other ===== impress 5 time 2022-12-01 01:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1598132239157841920 ========== Hospice was a wonderful idea to ease the last days of life - and then private equity funds got involved. https://www.propublica.org/article/hospice-healthcare-aseracare-medicare When too much loose change is floating around, you get the wrong kinds of people. What kind of people get the other end of the stick? #PS1health ===== impress 11 time 2022-12-01 01:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1598130022040018944 ========== GOP propaganda set up the Pelosi attack, knowing it would motivate the more gullible Trumpists. https://aol.com/news/gop-campaign-ads-demonized-pelosi-153005667.html "RNC Chair McDaniel rejected the notion that Republican ads are responsible in any way for the attack on Paul Pelosi" Plausible deniability? #PS1trumpism ===== impress 13 time 2022-11-29 13:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1597584771403874304 ========== The lunatic fringe in Arizona can't be dissuaded by facts. https://apnews.com/article/arizona-deadline-2022-midterms-certification-d6a1ea4020c26313a3124931c14b79fb They have a much bigger goal - to persuade their voters that any election they don't win is fraudulent. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 10 time 2022-11-29 05:54 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1597469096995860480 ========== GOP set up the Pelosi attacl, knowing it would motivate the more gullible Trumpists. https://www.aol.com/news/gop-campaign-ads-demonized-pelosi-153005667.html "RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel rejected the notion that Republican ads are responsible in any way for the attack on Paul Pelosi" Plausible deniability! #PS1trumpism ===== impress 12 time 2022-11-29 04:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1597454382529855488 ========== Getting private equity and hedge funds out of the residential real estate markets. https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/11/05/bill-from-silicon-valley-rep-ro-khanna-would-crack-down-on-corporate-landlords/ #PS1economics ===== impress 9 time 2022-11-29 04:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1597451606517088256 ========== Getting money out of politics is more complicated than you might think. https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/11/04/california-campaign-finance-law-could-lead-to-big-change-for-local-politics/ The problem is really DARK money . If contributions are publicly known, then lots of funny business retreats. #PS1capolitics ===== impress 5 time 2022-11-29 04:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1597450869762830336 ========== Like all binges, over-hiring always comes to the same layoff end. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/10/technology/big-tech-layoffs.html At the height of the 2000 dot-com binge, tech firms were hiring English majors to train to program. That didn't last either. #PS1economics ===== impress 15 time 2022-11-26 14:37 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1596513402959953920 ========== Mental health benefits of a strict Twitter diet! https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/op-ed/bs-ed-op-1127-blow-twitter-cutback-20221122-67lm4b77mndjdb67oxlaoc6nku-story.html #PS1media ===== impress 7 time 2022-11-26 14:26 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1596510815980748801 ========== Maybe multitaskers aren't really as effective as they think. And maybe boards of directors should manage executives, not vice versa. https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2022/nov/22/musks-twitter-role-puts-tesla-board-under-new-scru/ #PS1economics ===== impress 5 time 2022-11-26 14:24 +0000 views 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1596510097693233157 ========== Make final plans well ahead of final moments. https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2022/11/20/death-red-tape-bureaucracy-finances/ Financial institutions want you to do everything online. They drive out cost - for them - by disinvesting in in-person and telephone service. #PS1other ===== impress 5 time 2022-11-26 13:20 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1596494193257435136 ========== You can make a living off political divisiveness! https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/22/politics/political-tensions-wrestling/index.html But it can get dangerous. #PS1other ===== impress 4 time 2022-11-26 05:52 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1596381481760616449 ========== Fewer and fewer people matter in presidential elections. https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/22/politics/2022-preview-2024-presidential-election/index.html #PS1politics ===== impress 4 time 2022-11-26 05:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1596380096427806720 ========== Rich people think they are smart, but sometimes they are just lucky. And sometimes they are just good at taking credit for others' successes and blaming others for their failures. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/19/business/media/att-time-warner-deal.html Too bad for the shareholders, employees, and customers. #PS1economics ===== impress 7 time 2022-11-26 03:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1596345284887719936 ========== Fast fashion - fast trashing. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/25/opinion/warehouse-fastfashion-return.html #PS1economics ===== impress 5 time 2022-11-26 02:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1596336870325358592 ========== It's the same old same old from the same old guy. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/21/technology/elon-musk-twitter-management.html But not many people are gluttons for punishment enough to work for him twice. #PS1other ===== impress 4 time 2022-11-26 02:51 +0000 views 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1596335809619075073 ========== Calling all scammers! https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/11/25/long-covid-treatments-unproven-brain-fog/ Long covid sufferers are desperate and will try anything. To determine safe AND effective takes a long time. And for any given treatment, including placebos, some patients will improve. #PS1health ===== impress 10 time 2022-11-26 02:31 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1596330674167828480 ========== Getting on Fox with outlandish talk is a lot easier than actually accomplishing anything for your constituents in a closely-divided highly-partisan Congress. Trumpists had mostly given up on the latter - but maybe they overplayed that hand. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/11/25/boebert-colorado-republicans-limits-of-outrage-politics/ #PS1trumpism ===== impress 6 time 2022-11-26 01:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1596314288943411200 ========== The future of human space travel - https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/11/25/artemis-moon-mission-nasa-humans-robotics/ might be reserved for robots. No atmosphere or water or magnetic field? Human reproduction seems very unlikely. Just as there are no permanent human habitations above 17000'. https://www.insider.com/living-in-la-rinconada-the-highest-habitable-place-on-earth-2016-12 #PS1other ===== engage 1 engage-rate 13% impress 8 time 2022-11-26 01:14 +0000 urlclicks 1 views 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1596311316725379072 ========== The reactionary Supreme Court doesn't always defend minority rule over traditional conservative rule of law. Just most of the time! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/11/24/supreme-court-ideology-partisanship-trump/ #PS1justice ===== impress 4 time 2022-11-25 23:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1596292585303445505 ========== Palin's legacy - building on the legacy of Thurmond and Gingrich, to make straight in the desert a highway for our Trump. to take minority rule to a whole new level! https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/25/opinions/palin-legacy-politics-election-defeat-2022-zelizer/index.html #PS1trumpism ===== impress 5 time 2022-11-25 23:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1596291629903925248 ========== Is Congress going to DO anything effective this time? https://www.political-scrapbook.net/controversial.html#second%20amendment Seems doubtful - the Freischütz-macht-Freiheit megadonors control too many GOP senators, and not a few Democrats. https://apnews.com/article/biden-gun-violence-colorado-shootings-f85b4b9a59e3852868950d797f79a351 #PS1firearms ===== impress 4 time 2022-11-25 23:38 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1596287118619594753 ========== Birds of a feather flock together! https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/11/25/trump-hosts-west-holocaust-denier-fuentes-at-mar-a-lago/ If they support Trump, they must be fine people! #PS1trump ===== impress 2 time 2022-11-25 22:57 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1596276976159195136 ========== Maybe he was just kidding the first time. Or maybe he is just kidding this time. https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-technology-donald-trump-business-misinformation-c60bc41229339eaec5008188fa6d057c #PS1media ===== impress 7 time 2022-11-25 04:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1595998043383681026 ========== The case for Section 3. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/24/opinion/trump-14th-amendment.html #PS1insurrection ===== impress 5 time 2022-11-24 19:46 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1595866570609528833 ========== The sad fate of little island nations that let foreigners run fast and loose with other people's money. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/11/24/ftx-bahamas-albany-fried/ #PS1economics ===== impress 2 time 2022-11-24 19:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1595863510939901952 ========== Taiwan's difficult past and difficult future. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/11/23/china-tests-taiwan-nationalism/ Who is going to fight for it? And to what end? #PS1foreign ===== engage 2 engage-rate 22% impress 9 time 2022-11-24 19:23 +0000 userclicks 2 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1595860583605096450 ========== BQ? XBB? And that's not even counting RSV and flu. https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/24/health/covid-19-thanksgiving-bq/index.html Covid is still killing 300 Americans a day. Shoot up and mask up! #PS1health ===== impress 15 time 2022-11-24 19:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1595857707197960192 ========== What Palin doesn't understand about ranked-choice voting - she is NOBODY's second choice. https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-sarah-palin-donald-trump-4d8a0ed7845288d67adb3970a67e9ff9 Palin never “really understood and recognized the high percentage of voters who just don’t like her." Like Trump, who also hates ranked-choice. #PS1democracy ===== impress 14 time 2022-11-24 18:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1595852194192199680 ========== Like Putin, like DeSantis! https://apnews.com/article/putin-europe-gay-rights-e518bbdddd9d2af2b7a1e1b7008aa5d1 #PS1putin ===== impress 8 time 2022-11-24 18:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1595850313205919744 ========== Best Democratic attack ad against Walker - just quote Trump! https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/quite-astonishinmsstate%20football%20rosterg-cnn-s-chris-wallace-stunned-by-trump-endorsement-being-used-as-attack-ad-against-herschel-walker/ar-AA14hiGE #PS1election ===== engage 1 engage-rate 8% expands 1 impress 12 time 2022-11-24 17:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1595827033258409984 ========== Trump won a big - but no longer growing - minority of voters by setting the example of being bad and giving those voters permission to be bad too - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/trump.html#Second%20Trump%20Constituency “Here you come again" https://triblive.com/opinion/leonard-pitts-jr-here-comes-trump-again/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1810951625916015 #PS1trumpism ===== impress 3 time 2022-11-24 02:23 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1595604021124878338 ========== Differences of opinion about how to report the results of the Jan 6 committee. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/23/liz-cheney-jan-6-committee/ It's all good if it all gets out eventually. But the sharpest focus should be on the one person who could have prevented or stopped the attack. #PS1insurrection ===== impress 3 time 2022-11-24 00:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1595576556025708544 ========== Some Republicans want to keep rerunning elections until they win. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/23/arizona-abe-hamadeh-lawsuit-kari-lake-maricopa/ Do they think Gore should have done the same in 2000? #PS1trumpism ===== impress 10 time 2022-11-24 00:26 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1595574635814264833 ========== Personality cultists stick together - Bolsanaros consult with Bannon and Miller. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/trump-aides-bannon-miller-advising-the-bolsonaros-on-next-steps/ar-AA14tvjf #PS1trumpism ===== impress 4 time 2022-11-24 00:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1595572634942464000 ========== Implications of the Trump court decisions. https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/23/politics/donald-trump-rough-day-in-court-analysis/index.html Main implication - the GOP should nominate somebody else. #PS1trump ===== impress 2 time 2022-11-24 00:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1595572066430095362 ========== It took some effort to get him there, but Graham finally testified to the Atlanta special grand jury. https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/22/politics/lindsey-graham-fulton-county-grand-jury-2020-election #PS1insurrection ===== impress 3 time 2022-11-24 00:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1595570887998156801 ========== What if there is no route for ANY GOP member to get to 218 GOP votes? Then the Democrats can help them decide! https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-speaker.html Flexible McCarthy has never painted himself into a corner by saying he'd rather be right than Speaker. https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/23/politics/kevin-mccarthy-pro-trump-threat-house-speaker/index.html #PS1gop ===== impress 9 time 2022-11-24 00:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1595570264892243968 ========== Pence wouldn't talk to Jan 6 but he might to DOJ. https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/23/politics/mike-pence-testimony-justice-department-january-6-investigation/index.html #PS1insurrection ===== impress 2 time 2022-11-24 00:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1595568429951422464 ========== Trump loses bid to run down clock on tax return request. https://apnews.com/article/us-supreme-court-donald-trump-business-john-roberts-congress-8ea516dace48875ad7c5dd472dd16dcf He seems surprised to learn that the Supreme Court doesn't work for him, despite all the nominations that he dutifully transmitted from Leo to McConnell for confirmation. #PS1tax ===== impress 10 time 2022-11-23 06:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1595311050592702465 ========== Trumpism works the same way in Brazil! https://apnews.com/article/jair-bolsonaro-caribbean-brazil-c03ec4f0e1d65fc81c02a2d90181cf48 #PS1trumpism ===== impress 4 time 2022-11-23 06:54 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1595309724462764034 ========== Senate rules - why the majority would prefer 51 votes to 50. https://apnews.com/article/herschel-walker-georgia-kamala-harris-congress-government-and-politics-0f6cc74d575921e13c19d7569e4e5382 #PS1politics ===== impress 6 time 2022-11-22 14:31 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1595062407629512704 ========== Right-to-lifers are not really about loving "the incomparable and inviolable worth of every human life.” They show that in their disregard for the born, by supporting Trumpist Dixiecrat minority rule. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/21/opinion/midterms-abortion-trump.html More at - https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1809543879390123 #PS1minority ===== impress 4 time 2022-11-22 06:38 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1594943446539722755 ========== "you couldn’t be a know-it-all and run a company that size" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/21/opinion/jack-welch-ge-jeff-immelt.html You don't know anything unless you know what you don't know! #PS1other ===== impress 4 time 2022-11-22 06:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1594935976144605185 ========== "collapses like these were already priced in" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/21/opinion/business-economics/sam-bankman-fried-ftx-effective-altruism.html Can you really afford to play in this game? #PS1economics ===== impress 6 time 2022-11-22 06:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1594934318941769728 ========== Arizona GOP declares war on Maricopa County. It's the rural-urban cleavage taking place nationally. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/21/arizona-elections-maricopa-county-republicans/ #PS1trumpism ===== engage 1 engage-rate 11% impress 9 time 2022-11-22 05:56 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1594932727371137025 ========== The debt limit should be repealed completely. And if that's not possible, it should be raised enough to carry America through the next two years. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/11/21/republicans-house-debt-ceiling-treasurys/ #PS1economics ===== impress 4 time 2022-11-22 05:48 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1594930916895633408 ========== Can Biden, or anybody, keep a cold war cool? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/11/21/biden-xi-china-cold-war-not-hot/ #PS1china ===== impress 6 time 2022-11-22 05:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1594929763386376192 ========== The shell games that rich people play to avoid justice. https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2022/11/21/alex-jones-sandy-hook-lawsuit/ They can afford more lawyers than you. #PS1media ===== impress 2 time 2022-11-22 05:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1594927280312053760 ========== Two years of nonstop investigations ahead. Which will bear fruit? https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/21/politics/trump-biden-probes-2024-analysis/index.html Of course, political fruit is not the same thing as legal fruit - as in Benghazi. #PS1politics ===== impress 2 time 2022-11-22 05:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1594921995082559488 ========== Races are equal before the law - at least in theory. But not in the doctor's office - https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/11/21/study-pulse-oximeter-may-lead-to-4-5-hour-treatment-delays-for-black-patients/ https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/21/health/hdl-cholesterol-study/index.html Genetics counts for something. #PS1health ===== impress 3 time 2022-11-22 04:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1594915481223593985 ========== Lucky girl - mistrial on the more serious counts. But still she's in the jailhouse starting now, for at least a couple of years. https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/21/politics/riley-williams-capitol-riot-pelosi-office/index.html It's that age-old desire to gain immortality, instead of being a completely forgotten loser. #PS1insurrection ===== impress 3 time 2022-11-22 04:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1594914171644043264 ========== We might rue the day that Trump lost - https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/11/21/desantis-republican-free-speech-trump/ DeSantis is smarter, bolder, more vigorous, more strategic, and has more momentum and less baggage. He dares to go where Trump fears to tread! More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1809487959395715 #PS1trumpism ===== impress 6 time 2022-11-22 04:31 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1594911473142272000 ========== "check out the scoreboard" https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/21/politics/paul-ryan-never-again-trump-2024/index.html If they can convince the megadonors not to make another losing bet, they can convince the voters. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1809487959395715 #PS1trumpism ===== impress 1 time 2022-11-22 04:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1594911046535634944 ========== They really should have instituted ranked-choice voting in party primaries! https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/21/politics/trump-crowded-republican-primary-2024/index.html Now they're stuck, since they'd most assuredly rather hang separately than hang together. #PS1gop ===== impress 3 time 2022-11-22 04:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1594910396577550336 ========== Musk welcomes another kindred spirit back to Twitter. https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-technology-donald-trump-marjorie-taylor-greene-misinformation-cb7b71a78b7b8e3516711e287457806c But what's the point of creating another unprofitable Truth Social? At least Musk says he won't let Alex Jones return. Maybe he should conduct a poll about that - he might be surprised. #PS1media ===== impress 12 time 2022-11-22 04:03 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1594904489386835968 ========== Who needs Comcast? You and your neighbors can do it yourselves - if they can afford it - and if there's a nearby "local school with a spare fiber optic internet connection" https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/11/21/he-rallied-41-neighbors-to-build-lightning-fast-fiber-optic-community/ #PS1technology ===== impress 13 time 2022-11-22 03:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1594898928742400001 ========== There are steps you could take - https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/11/21/will-covid-be-an-uninvited-guest-at-your-thanksgiving-table/ But that would be yielding to the libs. Better to risk getting sick or making other people sick! #PS1health ===== impress 4 time 2022-11-22 03:37 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1594897806182862848 ========== Safe if you use it safely! But what adolescent male wants to use things safely? https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/11/21/federal-regulator-issues-warning-for-santa-cruz-based-onewheel/ #PS1technology ===== impress 3 time 2022-11-22 03:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1594896928030220288 ========== Lost your retirement on a speculative gamble? Who do you sue? Whoever has money! https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/11/21/warriors-face-second-lawsuit-in-wake-of-ftx-collapse/ "You don't sue poor people" - Steve Dallas. #PS1economics ===== impress 2 time 2022-11-22 03:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1594895794317930496 ========== Democrats outdid Republicans in fund-raising! That has numerous implications. Particularly that GOP megadonors do not feel generous about wasting money on low-quality candidates. https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-mitch-mcconnell-tucker-carlson-government-and-politics-3c7479c6bd7abf922dcc3aae2e3ae16c In true Trumpist fashion, GOP factions blame each other. #PS1gop ===== impress 10 time 2022-11-21 06:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1594581302652669953 ========== Nobody is safe while Putin is in charge! https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/11/20/kazakhstan-vote-sets-stage-for-putin-ally-to-move-past-riots-3/ #PS1putin ===== impress 6 time 2022-11-21 06:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1594579091310510081 ========== Reality leaks back from the front lines https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/11/20/russia-military-families-conscripts-ukraine/ But nobody blames Putin! #PS1ukraine ===== impress 16 time 2022-11-21 00:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1594484825716465664 ========== The GOP House agenda - https://washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/11/18/congress-republicans-investigations-hunter-biden/ It boils down to getting on Fox, early and often. Just like Benghazi. They don't need to actually find anything, just pretend that they are ABOUT to find something. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1808550712822773 #PS1trumpism ===== engage 1 engage-rate 25% impress 4 time 2022-11-20 21:49 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1594447971223220225 ========== The GOP House agenda - https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/11/18/congress-republicans-investigations-hunter-biden/ It boils down to get on Fox, early and often. Just like Benghazi. They don't need to actually find anything, just pretend that they are ABOUT to find some confirmation of something they read on the internet. #PS1trumpism ===== engage 1 engage-rate 33% expands 1 impress 3 time 2022-11-20 21:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1594446506676736000 ========== Know your why!!! https://washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/11/20/nancy-pelosi-lessons-advice-kevin-mccarthy/ Get elected is not the goal. It's just a means to a goal. How many career politicians forget, or lose sight of their goal? Or never had one to begin with, except getting elected? More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1808534319491079 #PS1politics ===== engage 1 engage-rate 25% expands 1 impress 4 time 2022-11-20 21:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1594440162359926784 ========== "Republican officials seem to be hoping that their voters will deliver them from Trump" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/11/17/republican-leaders-must-purge-trump-extremism/ American politics is "defined by primaries, money, social media and celebrity" More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1808466852831159 #PS1trumpism ===== impress 5 time 2022-11-20 19:36 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1594414452098486272 ========== How Trumpists threaten public officials - and try to maintain plausible deniability. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/19/kari-lake-maricopa-county-arizona/ #PS1trumpism ===== impress 6 time 2022-11-20 19:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1594408026655498240 ========== Another very bad winter to get sick. You might just have to get over it, or die, on your own. But at least nobody made you, or the person who infected you, wear a mask, or get a shot, or stop abusing health-care workers! https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/11/20/hospital-capacity-rsv-flu-covid/ #PS1virus ===== impress 3 time 2022-11-20 19:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1594405423829856257 ========== Split the vote? Parties wouldn't have to worry about that if they elected convention delegates with ranked-choice or proportional voting, instead of plurality-take-all. Then it wouldn't matter how many challengers Trump or Biden had. https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-las-vegas-donald-trump-2a4caff793c65878204d210bc740cadf #PS1gop ===== impress 6 time 2022-11-20 18:14 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1594393849073238016 ========== The pandemic was the icing on the cake. https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/11/20/doomsday-scenario-for-sinking-bay-area-transit-no-weekend-bart-bus-lines-cancelled-or-a-taxpayer-bailout/ But the main mass transit issue is older - it can break even during the morning and evening rush. But mid-day and weekend service has to be subsidized by taxpayers. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1808330879511423 #PS1other ===== impress 11 time 2022-11-20 16:14 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1594363542064738305 ========== "The price of parenthood is the ultimate economic issue – and only one party is doing something about it." https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/19/opinions/whitmer-midterms-democrats-abortion-economy-saujani/index.html #PS1economics ===== impress 3 time 2022-11-20 08:04 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1594240359638237184 ========== No doubt some GOP will call it a Democratic plot to defund the police. https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/19/us/west-virginia-sinkhole-police-department-trnd/index.html #PS1politics ===== impress 2 time 2022-11-20 07:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1594234275301568513 ========== Musk's latest victims - government agencies. https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-c3190e0920677e905fe0952dffb96185 If anybody can impersonate a public safety agency, they can create all sorts of mischief. Free speech! #PS1media ===== impress 3 time 2022-11-20 07:36 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1594233244513206272 ========== Did he just do it for fun, to see who would freak out? Or to get more advertising revenue? Or to please Trump? Or to promote his own future political ambitions? https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-biden-twitter-inc-technology-congress-d88e3de4b3cc095926dc133f53dc3320 #PS1media ===== impress 9 time 2022-11-20 07:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1594232552130478081 ========== Fake freedom fighters https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-previews-gop-house-efforts-with-ukraine-resolution/ar-AA14hh4v Real freedom fighters https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/11/18/kherson-resistance-partisans-russia-occupation/ https://recentlyheard.com/2022/11/18/nicholas-kristof-i-went-to-ukraine-and-saw-a-resolve-we-should-learn-from/ #PS1trumpism ===== impress 4 time 2022-11-19 15:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1593983130011959298 ========== So did EVERYBODY in Ohio want to be like Silicon Valley? When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers! https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-washington-columbus-f6fd8fc1c9210b1650cfc8cbad891f75 Jobs come with cars on the roads and rising real estate prices. And demand for better schools, and different politics. #PS1economics ===== impress 7 time 2022-11-19 14:48 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1593979608533151744 ========== Revisionist Trumpists stump for megadonors in Sin City. https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-ron-desantis-florida-donald-trump-6758f3ff09388507f3d7dd7e5ac4ee58 #PS1trumpism ===== impress 7 time 2022-11-19 05:37 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1593840768170749952 ========== Election denial didn't work. So far. https://brennancenter.substack.com/p/election-denial-is-a-losing-strategy #PS1election ===== impress 6 time 2022-11-19 05:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1593838413811437568 ========== The crypto industry has succeeded in re-inventing conventional banking - as it was before government regulation. Caveat emptor! https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/17/opinion/crypto-banks-regulation-ftx.html #PS1economics ===== impress 6 time 2022-11-19 04:36 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1593825499054497792 ========== Trumpism - it's all about getting on Fox to rile up the base. Doesn't matter if it's true or logical if it excites the base. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/18/fox-news-republicans-house-hunter-biden/ Murdoch is all for it, although it's Trumpism without Trump. #PS1media ===== impress 10 time 2022-11-19 04:31 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1593824384694640640 ========== "Even if he wins the job, he might soon wish he hadn’t" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/11/18/republican-house-majority-crazy-demands/ #PS1trumpism ===== impress 3 time 2022-11-19 00:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1593766502729072640 ========== Surely Josh Hawley knows that working people don't fund the GOP, megadonors do! "A reborn Republican Party must look very different. It must offer good jobs and good lives, not just higher stock prices" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/11/18/josh-hawley-oped-republican-party-working-people/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1807027849641726 #PS1trumpism ===== impress 13 time 2022-11-19 00:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1593758947613167617 ========== GOP Plan A: convince voters that Democratic investigations are just political witch-hunts, and Republicans' are not. GOP Plan B: convince voters that ALL investigations are just political witch-hunts. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/11/18/marjorie-taylor-greene-house-gop-investigations-maga-trump/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1807022976308880 #PS1trumpism ===== impress 1 time 2022-11-18 23:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1593755591276519424 ========== Frisch concedes - doesn't expect automatic recount to change outcome by 551 votes. https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/18/politics/lauren-boebert-recount-colorado-adam-frisch/index.html And by declining to ask for donations to support recount, shows who's really got the people's interests at heart. #PS1election ===== impress 3 time 2022-11-18 23:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1593751520553889792 ========== Trump likes special treatment - now he gets it with a special counsel. https://apnews.com/article/politics-donald-trump-merrick-garland-government-and-550c01de053c08db4d53ca57f315feb6 #PS1trump ===== impress 1 time 2022-11-18 23:37 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1593750187117137921 ========== The Rust Belt used to have layoffs. In an economic downturn, layoffs were in order of seniority. In a recovery, laid-off workers were rehired in order of seniority. https://www.firstpost.com/world/its-the-season-of-layoffs-in-silicon-valley-45000-employees-gone-and-its-not-over-yet-11595071.html Now "layoffs" just mean mass firings. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1806953216315856 #PS1economics ===== impress 17 time 2022-11-18 22:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1593736362775093248 ========== That was the week that wasn't. https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-europe-82c5a01a36db694b429c11eddaa1f8a5 "No evidence has been presented to support the claims. Still, they have been shared by U.S. lawmakers, prominent Republicans and Russian accounts." As usual! No need to collaborate if they think the same! #PS1media ===== impress 3 time 2022-11-18 17:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1593660375928475648 ========== Spoken like a true Trumpist - blaming underperformance on somebody else! https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/18/politics/lauren-boebert-recount-colorado-adam-frisch/index.html #PS1trumpism ===== engage 1 engage-rate 17% impress 6 time 2022-11-18 16:27 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1593641997851832320 ========== Putin did interfere with the 2016 election and plenty of GOP were happy to help. https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/18/politics/jesse-benton-gop-operative-russia-trump/index.html #PS1russian ===== impress 6 time 2022-11-18 16:21 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1593640588246937600 ========== Putin wing of GOP announces no more aid for Ukraine. They'd rather fight in Alaska? https://www.cnn.com/europe/live-news/russia-ukraine-war-news-11-17-22/h_d2025cea3fa6bd2fb2f295211148a750 McCarthy can't do anything about it and still get elected Speaker. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 22 time 2022-11-18 06:43 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1593494968529625089 ========== How to reduce payroll expense overnight! https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/17/technology/twitter-elon-musk-ftc.html #PS1media ===== impress 7 time 2022-11-18 04:43 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1593464977624428544 ========== The last time schools turned into politics. https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/17/us/school-boards-historian-assignment-podcast/index.html Same issues as now. Same opportunities for fake populist politicians and violent extremists. #PS1other ===== impress 3 time 2022-11-18 01:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1593410970696572928 ========== Not everybody is willing to sign up for long hours and no security. https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/17/tech/twitter-employees-ultimatum-deadline/index.html #PS1media ===== impress 5 time 2022-11-18 00:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1593407503504531456 ========== The Biden administration is getting ready for the Trumpist investigations - https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/17/politics/biden-white-house-preparations-republican-investigations/index.html #PS1biden ===== engage 1 engage-rate 14% impress 7 time 2022-11-18 00:31 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1593401596007718912 ========== The history of the radical GOP fringe in the House should bring no comfort to McCarthy. https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/17/opinions/gop-house-majority-midterm-election-2022-dent/index.html They are just not interested in the good of the party or the country. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 3 time 2022-11-18 00:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1593398299771273216 ========== How slavery, starting in 1619, perverted economics, religion, and politics - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/1619/lomax.html #PS1other ===== engage 3 engage-rate 3 impress 1 media-engage 3 time 2022-11-18 00:03 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1593394464571023360 ========== If you couldn't pass any legislation if you wanted to, what can you do instead? https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/17/politics/house-republicans-white-house-hunter-biden/index.html It doesn't matter whether they have any actual evidence or whether they ever find anything. It's all about getting on Fox. #PS1gop ===== engage 2 engage-rate 40% impress 5 time 2022-11-17 23:59 +0000 userclicks 2 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1593393471020072960 ========== Counting votes - the essential Speaker skill, because politics is the art of the possible. https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/17/politics/counting-votes-nancy-pelosi-house-speaker/index.html #PS1politics ===== impress 2 time 2022-11-17 23:53 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1593391975360626688 ========== Tweet first, check facts later - if ever! https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-social-media-maggie-hassan-c747682dc21f9a8da7a32aaf2e4df9a6 #PS1media ===== impress 2 time 2022-11-17 23:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1593390516141367297 ========== 1619 - an eventful year for Virginia https://www.political-scrapbook.net/1619/virginia.html #PS1other ===== impress 4 time 2022-11-17 17:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1593300289649405954 ========== 1619 - an eventful year for America https://www.political-scrapbook.net/1619/ #PS1other ===== impress 5 time 2022-11-17 17:48 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1593300107348148225 ========== GOP "is now more populist, working class and performative" - https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/17/politics/republican-party-2024-identity-crisis-analysis/index.html But money talks in private - "some big GOP donors are already voting with their wallets" - toward their traditional goals. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1805942789750232 #PS1trump ===== impress 5 time 2022-11-17 16:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1593273081279041536 ========== A million unsecured creditors? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/nov/15/crypto-exchange-ftx-creditors-bankruptcy-filing-sam-bankman-fried #PS1economics ===== engage 1 engage-rate 20% impress 5 replies 1 time 2022-11-17 15:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1593268259939237888 ========== Other crypto companies wouldn't do these things, right? https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-d2c2b881dc0eb0ec37b454674f446b52 #PS1economics ===== impress 5 time 2022-11-17 14:57 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1593257122451496961 ========== Talking about something else is par for GOP - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#gop That's how you get voters to vote for a subpar candidate. Talk about something - anything - else! https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-herschel-walker-georgia-e70f3a80b2af5d23bad4bff65a274dd5 #PS1gop ===== impress 5 time 2022-11-17 14:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1593256464381972482 ========== Collateral damage of Ukraine war. https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/16/uk/mi5-chief-russia-spying-iran-china-threats-intl/index.html #PS1putin ===== impress 28 time 2022-11-17 06:15 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1593125701531873281 ========== Rationale for Rick Scott vs McConnell. https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/15/politics/scott-mcconnell-senate-republican-leader-analysis/index.html #PS1trumpism ===== engage 2 engage-rate 5% impress 39 time 2022-11-17 06:13 +0000 urlclicks 2 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1593125033165324288 ========== Money is the mother's milk - here's where Trump gets his. https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/16/politics/donald-trump-war-chest-presidential-campaign/index.html #PS1trump ===== impress 5 time 2022-11-17 06:10 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1593124449318211584 ========== Public confession of stupidity. https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/16/politics/jessica-watkins-oath-keepers-testifies/index.html Personality cults rely on such as these to do the dirty work and take the blame. But that's no excuse. #PS1insurrection ===== impress 10 time 2022-11-17 05:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1593120926350311424 ========== Pence implies he only had one big issue with Trump - the 2020 election - and none with the personality cult. Why did he go along with it for four years, and then object at its logical culmination on Jan 6? https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/15/politics/mike-pence-book-trump-january-6/index.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1805565433121301 #PS1trumpism ===== impress 3 time 2022-11-17 05:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1593119682156167169 ========== GOP can't pass anything, so they'll keep investigating as long as the cameras keep showing up. https://cnn.com/2022/11/16/politics/house-majority-republican-plans/index.html A do-nothing Congress is OK with GOP megadonors. They can wait to get their tax cuts, deregulation, and union busting. https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/16/opinions/biden-roadblocks-house-under-gop-control-zelizer/index.html #PS1gop ===== impress 6 time 2022-11-17 05:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1593113565686534150 ========== Maybe crypto isn't a guaranteed safe money maker. Maybe celebrity endorsements aren't a guaranteed safe money maker either. https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/11/16/ftx-and-star-backers-including-brady-curry-sued-by-investor/ #PS1media ===== impress 6 time 2022-11-17 01:24 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1593052342118944769 ========== Murdoch lets him have it. https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/16/politics/new-york-post-trump-2024-announcement/index.html Look like they are all in for DeSantis. #PS1media ===== engage 1 engage-rate 10% impress 10 time 2022-11-16 22:00 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1593001181974233088 ========== The recession is over! Full time employment opportunities for Trump propagandists to dig up old claims or make up new claims. Full time employment for reputable journalists to check them out and report the truth. https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/15/politics/fact-check-trump-announcement-speech-2024/index.html #PS1journalism ===== impress 12 time 2022-11-16 21:53 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1592999202677985280 ========== Trying to beat the rap again! He hopes that by announcing now he won't be indicted. https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-2024-updates-cd5339d48064a149527e8f9a1aa7614e But he hasn't been president for 2 years and can't be president for 2 years - plenty of time for trial and conviction. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1804701569874354 #PS1trump ===== impress 1 time 2022-11-16 07:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1592788714123849728 ========== "We must start saying what we are for" As in "tax increase for many of the lowest-paid Americans" and "cutting Social Security and Medicare"? And who preserved the Democrats' Senate majority? https://apnews.com/article/florida-mitch-mcconnell-congress-3592c4d35d125619d935f09b1d00dc5e More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1804695269874984 #PS1gop ===== engage 1 engage-rate 20% expands 1 impress 5 time 2022-11-16 07:43 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1592785458744160257 ========== Why popular vote doesn't necessarily match seats won. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/14/republican-popular-vote-seats/ Lots of voters don't bother with uncontested elections. #PS1election ===== impress 8 time 2022-11-15 05:52 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1592394999509176320 ========== Heading toward regional federalism? https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-regional.html Is it that or oppressive minority rule? https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html Maybe the lesson of 2022, like 2016, is that voters don't always share their true inclinations with pollsters. https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/14/politics/abortion-midterm-voters-politics-democrats-republicans-fault-lines/index.html #PS1democracy ===== impress 6 time 2022-11-15 05:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1592393318952230912 ========== Trump isn't the LEADER of the Republican Party. He IS the Republican Party. So what's good for him is good for the party. Basic Cult of Personality! https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/14/politics/trump-republican-party-2024-bid/index.html #PS1trump ===== impress 7 time 2022-11-15 05:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1592389322212536321 ========== Pence testing the waters by releasing his book the same day Trump announces. https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/14/politics/pence-trump-2024/index.html #PS1gop ===== impress 8 time 2022-11-15 05:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1592388240547647488 ========== It doesn't seem to be hard to find a cool reception to Trump in Congress, even among Trumpists - many of whom like other options. https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/14/politics/trump-2024-harsh-reaction-capitol-hill-republicans/index.html #PS1trump ===== engage 2 engage-rate 17% impress 12 time 2022-11-15 05:22 +0000 urlclicks 2 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1592387651696746496 ========== Andy Biggs is going to challenge McCarthy. He can't be elected but he can keep McCarthy from being elected. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-speaker.html And Hawley says he opposes McConnell. How much is hot air? https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/14/politics/kevin-mccarthy-trump-support/index.html #PS1gop ===== impress 5 time 2022-11-15 05:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1592386526264332290 ========== Are we back to normal yet? https://apnews.com/article/022-midterm-elections-return-to-order-8d5981499d6f74950e7f77a28ffa41b9 Probably not until the leadership of the House is settled. #PS1election ===== impress 2 time 2022-11-15 05:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1592384110982725632 ========== Most of the country prefers non-partisan school boards. https://apnews.com/article/school-boards-politics-parents-rights-2bed4680bdedd4c866e046136630a9e8 #PS1trumpism ===== impress 3 time 2022-11-15 05:03 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1592382680548913152 ========== It's hard to define good boundaries between different feelings, different theories, and "different facts". https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/11/14/doctors-sue-to-block-california-covid-disinformation-law/ #PS1health ===== impress 3 time 2022-11-14 19:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1592238017645019136 ========== Mine is a vision but yours is a hallucination! https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/11/14/billionaires-gone-wild-musk-zuckerberg-slash-jobs-roll-dice-with-future-of-bay-area-tech-icons/ "That’s what Silicon Valley is made of. It’s people having hunches, taking risks, making bets” and announcing layoffs and bankruptcies! #PS1media ===== impress 11 time 2022-11-14 19:26 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1592237494850170880 ========== How a Boebert-Frisch recount would work. https://www.denverpost.com/2022/11/10/lauren-boebert-colorado-election-results-adam-frisch-recount-possible/ #PS1election ===== engage 13 engage-rate 9% expands 2 impress 147 time 2022-11-14 16:42 +0000 urlclicks 11 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1592196402125606912 ========== GOP megadonors trying to figure out what happens next. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/13/trump-republicans-rivals-2024/ #PS1gop ===== impress 6 time 2022-11-14 07:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1592064322683170816 ========== "No one wants to be the last loyalist of a doomed regime" https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/11/opinions/after-putin-power-health-regime-galeotti/index.html When a personality cult falls, it tends to happen almost overnight. #PS1putin ===== engage 3 engage-rate 50% expands 2 impress 6 time 2022-11-14 07:50 +0000 userclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1592062467609591808 ========== Trump always wanted the Federal government to be his own private army of enforcers. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/13/us/politics/trump-irs-investigations.html https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/13/politics/trump-irs-audits-kelly-mccabe-comey/index.html Kelly says he, at least, resisted. #PS1trump ===== impress 14 time 2022-11-14 07:43 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1592060624032235520 ========== Lame-duck agenda - way more than Congress can accomplish in a month. https://apnews.com/article/europe-kevin-mccarthy-gay-rights-marriage-912f937b8653b85d62d5c5a876161f36 #PS1politics ===== impress 3 time 2022-11-14 07:19 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1592054493453381632 ========== The last thing anybody expected - a quiet election so far. https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-donald-trump-democracy-8d5981499d6f74950e7f77a28ffa41b9 All Trump's horses and all Trump's men Couldn't undo an election again! #PS1election ===== impress 9 time 2022-11-14 07:14 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1592053382889771010 ========== How about Fitzpatrick and Gottheimer for Speaker? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_Solvers_Caucus They were able to co-chair the Problem Solvers effectively - could they agree on a way to share responsibility if Fitzpatrick were Speaker? https://political-scrapbook.net/2022-speaker.html #PS1politics ===== engage 9 engage-rate 36% expands 8 impress 25 time 2022-11-14 05:23 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1592025486938763265 ========== McCarthy believes in "harnessing the power of our entire conference". QAnons and insurrectionists too? https://www.foxnews.com/politics/mccarthy-faces-tough-math-problem-house-speakers-race-gop-wins-majority Pelosi piles on too - https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pelosi-says-she-doesnt-believe-kevin-mccarthy-takes-house-speaker #PS1gop ===== engage 2 engage-rate 15% expands 1 impress 13 time 2022-11-14 00:57 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1591958514133782529 ========== "Republicans are asking why he insisted on holding a rally and teasing his own 2024 campaign announcement, putting the focus on him in the final days" Why? Because it's all about Trump, all the time! https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/11/trump-criticism-midterms-republicans/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1802834346727743 #PS1trump ===== engage 1 engage-rate 5% impress 19 time 2022-11-13 21:44 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1591909881648672768 ========== Everybody in the GOP knows the answer. The problem is that everybody knows a DIFFERENT answer. And since they can't agree on basic facts, they don't even agree on what the question is. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/11/senate-republicans-mcconnell-midterms/ #PS1gop ===== impress 5 time 2022-11-13 21:31 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1591906545033531394 ========== Twitter alternatives - https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-twitter-inc-business-6e8bff97bb33d53b87c3d9a7c6a509cf Does political scrapbook fit any of them? #PS1media ===== impress 5 time 2022-11-13 21:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1591901055390027777 ========== "Many voiced disbelief that the two men would ever run against each other because they seem so closely aligned" The bitterness of the contest is INVERSELY proportional to the similarity of the contestants. https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-ron-desantis-donald-trump-c8a3a7e58d35061f8662ead819861005 More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1802766766734501 #PS1trumpism ===== impress 2 time 2022-11-13 19:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1591883148316770304 ========== Initiative, referendum, and recall were instituted to allow the people to overcome entrenched interests in the legislature. Now they allow such interests to overcome the legislature. https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/11/13/this-failed-california-ballot-prop-spent-50-times-more-for-each-yes-vote-than-the-abortion-measure/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1802751616736016 #PS1democracy ===== impress 2 time 2022-11-13 19:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1591876602694365185 ========== The end of tech companies' freedom from government regulation? https://washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/11/10/twitter-security-resignations/ https://apnews.com/article/cryptocurrency-technology-business-d866be4d1b3b9b88a6e774543a2b6a14 If they can't or won't regulate themselves... #PS1technology ===== impress 4 time 2022-11-13 14:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1591807036966244352 ========== Not everybody wants four more years of subpoenas and depositions! https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/11/politics/tiffany-trump-wedding/index.html #PS1trump ===== impress 26 time 2022-11-13 14:37 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1591802533365809155 ========== Liz Cheney for Speaker? https://liberalandlovingit.substack.com/p/liz-cheney-for-speaker Why not? Anybody can be Speaker. She couldn't keep all her supporters singing the same tune but maybe she could keep them talking to each other. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1801841883493656 #PS1gop ===== engage 2 engage-rate 15% expands 1 impress 13 time 2022-11-12 15:10 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1591448393196634113 ========== Who does this guy think he is? Donald Trump? https://apnews.com/article/technology-religion-arrests-race-and-ethnicity-racial-injustice-712adca6c327a2ceb2a21507e1f4697f You can't completely ignore the judicial system forever. Just ask Alex Jones. #PS1media ===== engage 5 engage-rate 24% expands 2 impress 21 time 2022-11-12 14:16 +0000 urlclicks 1 userclicks 2 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1591434764636295173 ========== "God save us from seeing a Russian revolt, senseless and merciless” https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/10/opinion/putin-russian-military-ukraine.html #PS1putin ===== engage 1 engage-rate 11% expands 1 impress 9 time 2022-11-12 06:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1591322236107239424 ========== The Freischütz-macht-Freiheit caucus's list of non-negotiable demands sound like the 60's! https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/11/politics/kevin-mccarthy-speakership-race-house-freedom-caucus/index.html They want non-stop investigations of everything and Biden impeachment proceedings. No time for anything else! #PS1trumpism ===== engage 2 engage-rate 12% expands 2 impress 17 time 2022-11-12 06:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1591317110059257856 ========== "When the music's over Turn out the lights" https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/11/business/sbf-wealth/index.html #PS1economics ===== engage 1 engage-rate 14% impress 7 time 2022-11-12 06:24 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1591316072858542080 ========== Some Coloradans are getting tired of Boebert's antics. https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/11/opinions/colorado-race-boebert-frisch-lenti/index.html She might win anyway - barely. This time. #PS1trumpism ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% expands 1 impress 73 time 2022-11-12 06:21 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1591315177789861888 ========== Think they can get rid of McConnell? Not as long as he keeps the pipeline open from donors to candidates. https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/11/politics/trump-republican-senate-leadership-elections/index.html Money talks. #PS1gop ===== impress 13 time 2022-11-12 06:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1591314024217870336 ========== Evangelicals are more reliable defenders of minority rule than American Catholics! https://apnews.com/article/christian-voter-trends-2022-midterm-elections-0377eed4eed23d5356c29b10af9f6f69 #PS1minority ===== engage 1 engage-rate 17% impress 6 time 2022-11-12 06:01 +0000 userclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1591310276573663232 ========== Federalist Society congratulates reactionary wing of Supreme Court for defending minority rule - as they'd been groomed to do. https://apnews.com/article/abortion-voting-rights-us-supreme-court-samuel-alito-donald-trump-f0926d7b4a8bbaf7b698ada1a791ab25 #PS1justice ===== impress 7 time 2022-11-12 05:57 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1591309276722925570 ========== There was no there, there. https://apnews.com/article/ftx-crypto-bankruptcy-filing-ed0f06c5db468e285f58af2d8766b51a #PS1economics ===== impress 6 time 2022-11-12 05:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1591307505585786880 ========== It seems that all sorts of lowlifes can come up with $8/month. https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-twitter-inc-business-0047fe1730d70277484634a6ec9b7a91 Back to the drawing board! #PS1media ===== impress 5 time 2022-11-12 05:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1591306604523421697 ========== GOP complained when Democrats voted for and funded fringe candidates in GOP primarys. https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2022/07/democrats-spend-millions-on-republican-primaries It's an old tactic - https://www.latimes.com/archives/blogs/top-of-the-ticket/story/2008-04-29/opinion-rush-limbaugh-directs-his-operation-chaos-against-clinton-and-obama preventable by repealing sore-loser laws. But the more likely red-state solution is to ban such voting. #PS1democracy ===== engage 1 engage-rate 8% impress 12 time 2022-11-12 05:43 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1591305666299596800 ========== Still trying to run down the clock. https://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-donald-trump-lawsuits-subpoenas-congress-d4318c5a2622f8f973b966e834a5631e This might be why he's so eager to announce on Tuesday. #PS1trump ===== impress 6 time 2022-11-12 05:26 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1591301502316187648 ========== That was the election that wasn't. https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-voting-rights-ap-fact-check-michigan-ann-arbor-e5ba97ae44f8038159c28ecd59810e3f #PS1election ===== impress 4 time 2022-11-12 01:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1591244598017667073 ========== The tossups NV-1,3,4 were just called for Democrats. At this point, it sounds like McCarthy's best bet is to hope to have one LESS than a majority. Then nobody will bother trying to replace him as (minority) leader. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/group-staffed-by-ex-trump-officials-working-to-block-mccarthys-speaker-bid #PS1gop ===== engage 4 engage-rate 57% expands 4 impress 7 time 2022-11-12 01:06 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1591235991767248896 ========== Full speed ahead for Trump! https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/3731337-jason-miller-trump-wants-people-to-know-that-of-course-hes-running-in-2024/ Does he need a head start against indictments? He announced his requirements on McCarthy - https://politicalwire.com/2022/11/11/trump-sets-his-conditions-for-kevin-mccarthy/ Meaning no praise for DeSantis and no bipartisanship? More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1801337160210795 #PS1trumpism ===== engage 3 engage-rate 18% expands 3 impress 17 time 2022-11-11 23:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1591216614556733440 ========== Trumpists can't wait to block or cripple McCarthy. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/group-staffed-by-ex-trump-officials-working-to-block-mccarthys-speaker-bid but even the Freischütz-macht-Freiheit caucus can't agree. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 11 time 2022-11-11 19:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1591151854653968385 ========== That was the election that wasn't. https://apnews.com/article/technology-social-media-arizona-3a9b1c4cd72b5109aa32468f3dd2e8b5 #PS1media ===== impress 4 time 2022-11-11 17:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1591113590433808385 ========== Five ways the lame-duck Congress COULD act to avoid future constitutional crises. But they only have about a month. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/11/10/republicans-house-democrats-lame-duck-trump-ukraine/ #PS1democracy ===== impress 8 time 2022-11-11 02:07 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1590889011677401090 ========== Yael Roth goes and the FTC - and the EU - want to know what happens next. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/11/10/twitter-security-resignations/ Is Musk running a business or an expensive hobby? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/11/10/elon-musk-twitter-failure/ #PS1media ===== engage 23 engage-rate 4% expands 2 impress 657 likes 2 time 2022-11-11 02:01 +0000 urlclicks 17 userclicks 2 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1590887530391830529 ========== The good news is that Trump, is his mercy, decided not to make Americans sick from winning after all. https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/10/politics/trump-midterm-election-wsj-oped/index.html #PS1trump ===== impress 11 time 2022-11-11 01:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1590884310399455233 ========== Have the Murdochs resolved the equation Trumpism = X - to find that X is DeSantis? How soon will all their Fox stars and other outlets fall into line? https://apnews.com/article/mehmet-oz-donald-trump-bb9e93ccec3cac96f40105034d6705df Will Trump hold back his campaign announcement until after the Georgia runoff? #PS1media ===== engage 1 engage-rate 4% impress 23 time 2022-11-11 01:40 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1590882040366641152 ========== Did you vote against inflation? Inflation must have heard, even in advance of the election. Now the stock market is - inflated! https://apnews.com/article/wall-street-stock-market-nov-10-494028e39775d83629ee4c08db50feb4 #PS1inflation ===== impress 8 time 2022-11-11 01:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1590880652433711104 ========== Is the Chef angling for a promotion? https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-putin-2cd23245b4bd5251db9c3677fcb49dad #PS1putin ===== impress 3 time 2022-11-11 01:31 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1590879823081373696 ========== No libertarianism for people at the bottom! https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-10/musk-s-first-email-to-twitter-staff-ends-remote-work #PS1media ===== engage 1 engage-rate 9% expands 1 impress 11 time 2022-11-11 00:48 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1590868975705296896 ========== Instagram influencer will have plenty of time to repent. https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/08/us/instagram-star-ray-hushpuppi-sentenced-cec/index.html #PS1media ===== engage 1 engage-rate 10% impress 10 time 2022-11-10 06:51 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1590598027890544640 ========== Fox touts DeSantis, per Murdoch decision. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/conservative-twitter-ready-crown-desantis-head-party-decisive-election-win #PS1trumpism ===== impress 7 time 2022-11-10 06:43 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1590595919111946240 ========== DeSantis was sent by God https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/09/opinion/ron-desantis-god-complex.html and so God prepared the perfect political storm to make him look good - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/09/opinion/ron-desantis-midterms.html so DeSantis and Trumpism would become one and the same. It was God, wasn't it? By their fruits shall ye know them. #PS1trumpism ===== engage 2 engage-rate 22% impress 9 time 2022-11-10 06:25 +0000 userclicks 2 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1590591462110277632 ========== There's only room for one megalomaniac. Which one was chosen by God - or was it Satan? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/09/opinion/ron-desantis-god-complex.html #PS1trumpism ===== impress 3 time 2022-11-10 06:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1590587156116144128 ========== Along with Trump, Putin and Xi and the ayatollahs were losers yesterday. But victory is never permanent or guaranteed. DeSantis is coming next. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/09/opinion/midterms-election-america-arrow.html #PS1democracy ===== impress 12 time 2022-11-10 05:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1590582424354066432 ========== "Republicans are simply out of touch with the values of a significant part of the electorate" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/09/opinion/republicans-midterms-abortion.html Did GOP, depending on single-issue pro-lifer voters, miscalculate how many pro-choice voters are also single-issue? More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1799887257022452 #PS1gop ===== impress 5 time 2022-11-10 05:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1590580615954706432 ========== Libertarians strike again! forcing the Georgia Senate runoff, quite plausibly determining Senate control. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/09/us/elections/georgia-runoff-chase-oliver.html Ranked-choice voting would reduce third parties' negative influence and enhance their positive. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1799879603689884 #PS1democracy ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 35 time 2022-11-10 05:23 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1590575908519555072 ========== If GOP don't like these shenanigans - they indulge in them too - all they have to do is repeal sore loser laws and institute ranked-choice voting. Then it's not possible to knock viable candidates out in the primary. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/11/09/democrats-cynical-primary-strategy-worked/ #PS1democracy ===== impress 14 time 2022-11-10 05:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1590571966062546944 ========== Withdrawal or trap? And another "accident" claiming a critic of the Russian military leadership. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/11/09/russia-withdraws-kherson-ukraine/ #PS1ukraine ===== engage 1 engage-rate 6% impress 17 time 2022-11-10 05:02 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1590570495367581697 ========== Can McCarthy avoid the fate of Boehner and Ryan? https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/09/kevin-mccarthy-republicans-house-speaker/ #PS1gop ===== engage 1 engage-rate 11% expands 1 impress 9 time 2022-11-10 04:54 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1590568574036611073 ========== GOP Speakers of the House have short careers.The fighting between the lunatic fringe, the traditional GOP, and the problem solvers wears the Speaker down and out. https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-congress-nov-9-0b3b0a547265e5bfa6fd4382b43e0e7f But McCarthy and McConnell can work with megadonors, and $hare with their members. #PS1gop ===== engage 1 engage-rate 6% expands 1 impress 18 time 2022-11-10 04:53 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1590568219546628097 ========== A lot of people think they are smart when they are really just lucky. Intelligence doesn't change, but luck does. https://apnews.com/article/cryptocurrency-technology-business-bitcoin-3b94bc0656a60a7b65fe532112c3279f If you don't understand what a Dutch tulip bulb is intrinsically worth, maybe you shouldn't speculate in them. #PS1economics ===== impress 4 time 2022-11-10 04:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1590562168461983744 ========== Why the anticipated election problems tide seems to have washed out with the anticipated red tide. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/09/republicans-election-fraud-claims-midterms/ #PS1election ===== impress 2 time 2022-11-10 04:07 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1590556628310700032 ========== Pollsters doing better this time? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/11/09/polls-early-midterms-verdict-improvement/ #PS1election ===== impress 2 time 2022-11-10 03:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1590554670480912385 ========== Mastodon instead of Twitter? https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/11/05/twitter-replacement-mastodon-social-reviews/ #PS1media ===== engage 1 engage-rate 17% impress 6 time 2022-11-10 03:56 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1590553948079128582 ========== 2022 midterm election result: Fox declares for DeSantis- https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/09/media/fox-news-desantis-celebration/index.html Full steam ahead - https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/09/politics/ron-desantis-2024-president-trump-florida/index.html Smarter, bolder, more strategic than Trump- https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/09/desantis-trump-2024-presidential-election/ It's looking worse for democracy. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1799725180371993 #PS1trumpism ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 29 time 2022-11-10 00:14 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1590498058558926849 ========== That was the election that wasn't. https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-technology-arizona-d52d42bcceb05f430bde58d262b162e0 The propaganda machine kicked into high gear on schedule from Mar-a-Lago to Moscow, to undermine confidence in the election results no matter what they turned out to be. #PS1media ===== impress 22 time 2022-11-09 23:38 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1590488943560380418 ========== More calls on close races - Unexpected D PA Fetterman TX-34 Gonzalez NC-13 Nickel OH-1 Landsman OH-13 Sykes Expected D ME Mills MI Whitmer NM Grisham MN-2 Craig TX-28 Cuellar https://political-scrapbook.net/2022-tossups.html #PS1election ===== impress 40 time 2022-11-09 06:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1590232859759239169 ========== Early calls on close races - Unexpected D RI-2 Magaziner Expected D NH Hassan PA Shapiro KS-3 Davids Expected R NC Budd OH Vance GA Kemp VA-2 Kiggins https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-tossups.html #PS1election ===== engage 2 engage-rate 10% expands 2 impress 20 time 2022-11-09 04:57 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1590206888570155008 ========== Campaigning is easy in a gerrymadered district! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/11/07/partisan-politics-age-gerrymandering/ #PS1democracy ===== impress 3 time 2022-11-09 04:04 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1590193594639740929 ========== Trump wasn't chosen by God after all! https://salon.com/2019/08/22/evangelicals-told-trump-he-was-chosen-by-god-now-he-says-it-himself/ It was DeSantis all along! Sorry for the confusion! And the inevitable ugly showdown. https://washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/11/07/donald-trump-ron-desantis-feud-christian-nationalism/ #PS1trumpism ===== impress 10 time 2022-11-09 04:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1590192527571054593 ========== Job #1 seems to be making the Capitol easier for insurrectionists to enter, and even harder for the IRS to audit GOP megadonors. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/11/07/day-one-republican-majority-house-mccarthy/ #PS1gop ===== impress 8 time 2022-11-09 03:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1590188859782238208 ========== Gingrich works hard to avoid a trip to Georgia. What does he have to hide? https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/11/08/gingrich-testimony-georgia-election-probe/ #PS1insurrection ===== impress 33 time 2022-11-09 03:37 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1590186678639292416 ========== North Korea aligns decisively with Russia and China. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/11/08/china-russia-north-korea-realignment-nuclear-weapons/ #PS1foreign ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 32 time 2022-11-09 03:33 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1590185774917771264 ========== "Election night" is a confusing holdover from the past. It could mean something if all states allowed mail ballots to be counted in advance, but GOP wants to maintain the status quo to help fuel its "stolen election" mythology. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/11/08/cancel-election-night-democracy-news-media/ #PS1election ===== impress 12 time 2022-11-09 03:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1590184841030819840 ========== That was the day that wasn't. https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/08/politics/fact-check-election-voter-fraud-conspiracies/index.html #PS1media ===== impress 2 time 2022-11-09 03:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1590181977554292736 ========== You can make big bucks repeating lies! https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/09/20/social-media-influencers-election-fraud/ You don't even have to make them up yourself, but you can if you want. The people who'd retweet or send you money don't care if it's true. Thanks to the pioneers Rush Limbaugh and Tucker Carlson! #PS1media ===== impress 9 time 2022-11-09 03:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1590177690589724673 ========== Polls are still open in the West. https://brennancenter.substack.com/p/send-election-deniers-a-message #PS1election ===== impress 5 time 2022-11-09 02:43 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1590173091757723648 ========== Polling places are starting to close. May all losing candidates graciously concede. May all candidates repent who campaigned on lies. Some close races will be tracked here - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-tossups.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1799014907109687 #PS1election ===== impress 4 time 2022-11-09 01:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1590149929569484801 ========== The GOP megadonors, observing the basis of Trump's success, CHOSE to permanently install minority rule. GOP politicians CHOSE to go along with the plan. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/08/opinion/midterms-republicans-election-denialism.html They all CHOSE - nobody was forced. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1798927963785048 #PS1minority ===== impress 4 time 2022-11-08 22:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1590102226428923904 ========== “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/11/08/elections-fdr-four-freedoms-democracy-future/ #PS1theory ===== impress 4 time 2022-11-08 21:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1590097414241005568 ========== No outside observers wanted - they might observe the wrong things. Only DeSantis's observers who have been trained on what to observe and what not to observe. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/08/justice-department-monitors-florida-desantis/ #PS1election ===== impress 8 time 2022-11-08 21:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1590095349129310208 ========== Following the plans devised years ago, the propaganda machines ramped up early to undermine confidence in the election, and were mostly unhindered on social media. https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2022/11/08/election-day-disinformation/ #PS1media ===== impress 7 time 2022-11-08 21:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1590093996885676032 ========== November could be a good month for the Putin wing of the Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP. More advocates going to Congress, and Trump announcing in a week. Putin says it's music to his ears. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/07/briefing/republican-party-putin-wing.html #PS1trumpism ===== impress 6 time 2022-11-08 21:06 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1590088413717626880 ========== Is Hungary the Trumpist model for the future? We should be so lucky! A more likely model is the KKK Dixiecrat South that ruled for almost a century by terrorizing black and white alike. https://nytimes.com/2022/11/07/opinion/midterms-election-maga-america.html #PS1trumpism ===== impress 10 time 2022-11-08 20:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1590086303240327169 ========== America's founders counted on citizen virtue as well as institutions. “To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea” - Madison https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/04/opinion/paul-pelosi-youngkin-lake.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1798899567121221 #PS1other ===== engage 3 engage-rate 43% expands 2 impress 7 time 2022-11-08 20:52 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1590084782326951937 ========== Today's ratings in close races trend GOP. Many have changed several times and could go either way. It's still important to vote! Trending blue - Senate AZ Gov KS OR Trending red - Senate PA Gov AZ NV WI https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-tossups.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1798788917132286 #PS1election ===== impress 27 time 2022-11-08 17:23 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1590032251370471424 ========== "Republicans are running in 2022 promising a return to calamity" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/06/opinion/republican-congress-agenda-mccarthy.html GOP donors will be happy cultivating the lunatic base, shutting down the government, defaulting on the debt, burning more hydrocarbons, doing without Social Security or Medicare. #PS1gop ===== impress 5 time 2022-11-08 07:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1589875638995161088 ========== Planning in advance to dispute every election they lose. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/07/us/politics/michigan-elections-group.html #PS1election ===== impress 3 time 2022-11-08 06:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1589870297943248896 ========== Trump was talked into waiting another week. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/07/trump-spooks-republicans-with-talk-presidential-launch-eve-vote/ He wants to get ahead of DeSantis and the grand juries and find out which of his supporters will do ANYthing for him. So he announced tonight with a tiny fig leaf of plausible deniability. #PS1trump ===== engage 1 engage-rate 10% impress 10 time 2022-11-08 06:25 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1589866572335943680 ========== To get his majority and speakership - https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/08/politics/midterm-fractious-political-environment-analysis/index.html McCarthy promises to do nothing specific about any of the problems he ran against. Endless investigations aren't DOing. https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/07/politics/kevin-mccarthy-interview-border-security/index.html Thus he plans to avoid a debt default, without saying how. #PS1gop ===== impress 2 time 2022-11-08 05:53 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1589858692476043265 ========== The Chef brags about cooking up trouble in other countries, using social media to sabotage elections and violent mercenaries to take down governments. https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-business-social-media-7fefa7ab0491b653f6094a4d090155fe #PS1russian ===== impress 4 time 2022-11-08 05:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1589854211717894144 ========== "like pushing the button for the walk sign at the stop light, and nothing is happening” https://apnews.com/article/voting-rights-elon-musk-twitter-inc-technology-dd4273dbda5b15343753f56c1f43a659 #PS1media ===== impress 1 time 2022-11-08 05:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1589852931293315072 ========== "more like an oligarchy approach" https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-twitter-inc-technology-cbd873f1bd81fa4356b81f89c4c5ebed Putin can give lessons on that! #PS1media ===== impress 3 time 2022-11-08 05:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1589851640764706816 ========== "Gravity still exists” https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/11/07/tech-biotech-job-layoff-facebook-twitter-lyft-oracle-bay-area-economy/ When enough companies start planning for recession - recession happens. Same as inflation. #PS1economics ===== impress 4 time 2022-11-08 05:10 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1589847822169669632 ========== The end result of a fake populist cult of personality - https://apnews.com/article/caribbean-municipal-elections-nicaragua-daniel-ortega-464e47a48a56c5dbc765f2e37608bfd8 Coming soon to a state near you? #PS1trumpism ===== impress 1 time 2022-11-08 05:06 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1589846836495683584 ========== "People say to me, What can I do to make you feel better? I say: Vote!” https://apnews.com/article/nancy-pelosi-government-and-politics-ef64738a18e3fbd2f3c3b12a3b18e30a #PS1election ===== impress 3 time 2022-11-08 05:04 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1589846200161034243 ========== Musk - “I recommend voting for a Republican Congress, given that the Presidency is Democratic.” https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-biden-donald-trump-congress-81685e6030f13360727420eaa1882a02 A paralyzed government is an ideal setting for libertarian billionaires to do as they please. Many GOP are eager to shut it down entirely. #PS1election ===== impress 10 time 2022-11-08 05:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1589845897667825664 ========== The classic rural dilemma - you can't have suburban money AND rural lifestyles. GOP is generally in favor of development, as are construction trades unions. https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/11/07/voters-to-decide-hotly-contested-measure-to-limit-growth-on-silicon-valleys-rural-edges/ Bumper stickers from the 1970's - "Don't Californicate Oregon" "Don't Oregonize Idaho" #PS1other ===== impress 12 time 2022-11-08 04:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1589842658784333824 ========== DOING something about inflation and housing - GOP is opposed. https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/11/05/bill-from-silicon-valley-rep-ro-khanna-would-crack-down-on-corporate-landlords/ #PS1inflation ===== impress 3 time 2022-11-08 04:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1589839922227449858 ========== Is it higher incomes, higher education levels, self-destruction by California GOP, or something else? https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/11/06/battle-for-congress-not-here-bay-area-dems-on-average-serve-even-longer-than-supreme-court-justices/ #PS1election ===== impress 5 time 2022-11-07 07:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1589521550566625280 ========== Everybody's worried about recession! https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/11/06/facebook-meta-reportedly-to-start-laying-off-thousands-of-staff-this-week/ Inflation might not look so bad in another year, unless we get both at once - stagflation, as in the 1970's. #PS1economics ===== impress 4 time 2022-11-07 07:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1589519461450928128 ========== What's theory of swing voters? Most plausible -many don't follow politics closely and vote their pocketbooks or against incumbents. Voters with intellectual attachments to policy or emotional attachments to personalities don't swing. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/11/06/swing-voters-are-unpredictable-powerhouse/ #PS1election ===== impress 8 time 2022-11-07 06:57 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1589512439162626050 ========== Busy holiday season! Trump is expected to announce for 2024 in Nov 14, the DOJ has been quietly ramping up its investigations, and the Georgia special grand jury and the Jan 6 commission hope to finish up before January. https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/03/politics/doj-trump-investigation-expansion-special-counsel/index.html #PS1insurrection ===== impress 9 time 2022-11-07 06:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1589508446487212036 ========== No absolute freedom of speech for Musk impersonators! https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/06/tech/twitter-verification-delay-midterms/index.html #PS1media ===== impress 4 time 2022-11-07 06:26 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1589504482148495360 ========== Ukrainians would rather endure a winter without power or heat, than submit to minority rule. https://www.kxxv.com/news/ukrainians-prepare-for-a-winter-with-no-heat-water-or-power But Americans would rather submit to minority rule, than endure high gas prices? https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/05/opinions/gop-midterm-election-messaging-economy-stewart/index.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1797663647244813 #PS1minority ===== impress 4 time 2022-11-07 06:12 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1589501043238645761 ========== Regional federalism - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-enlightenment.html A response to the worst-case scenario - https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/07/politics/democrats-nightmare-scenario-election-eve-analysis/index.html There's no reason for the majority to subsidize a tyrannical minority that embodies the worst fears of America's founders. #PS1democracy ===== impress 3 time 2022-11-07 05:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1589494755251326977 ========== Election security threats - physical threats to workers, propaganda, and denial-of-service attacks on election day. https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-technology-d6bf92f594343d7a489d40394e56e2a1 #PS1election ===== impress 5 time 2022-11-07 05:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1589485628764606464 ========== Vote fraud propaganda got into high gear well before election day. https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/06/politics/trump-midterms-casting-doubt-pennsylvania/index.html Just as in 2020, "vote fraud" is not discerned by observation during or after the election, but is a propaganda plan put in place before the first ballot was cast. #PS1election ===== impress 4 time 2022-11-06 23:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1589406921454686209 ========== It's a rite of passage in cult of personality - getting rid of the rivals any way you can. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Long_Knives In the fights to come between Trump and DeSantis, nobody will notice Biden! https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/06/politics/trump-desantis-dueling-florida-rallies-2022-2024/index.html #PS1trumpism ===== impress 7 time 2022-11-06 23:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1589405006012493825 ========== Medicare Advantage plans must be really profitable - if they can afford lots of expensive direct mail and media advertising. https://apnews.com/article/health-business-medicare-government-and-politics-1b77c8584602a1abaaa3dfd297f0dbe7 #PS1health ===== engage 1 engage-rate 20% impress 5 time 2022-11-06 23:03 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1589393052925591552 ========== Musk "received congratulations from Dimitry Medvedev, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s top associate" - thanking Musk for doing Putin's work? That's an endorsement! Let free speech reign - in the West! Don't even think about it in Russia! https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-spacex-twitter-inc-technology-europe-30b55f9c3cbe64c0b98d0cfbe7ab5a9f #PS1media ===== impress 21 time 2022-11-06 22:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1589387780928733184 ========== All we need to know about climate change - https://apnews.com/article/science-climate-and-environment-9bf0d2b407ee6d06e67d8c25a9e29fd8 https://apnews.com/article/science-climate-and-environment-7190588fe4c05ed5f044ec6aa31d2f64 https://apnews.com/article/science-climate-and-environment-4623787847f1f4b2357c389d7b9f1758 https://apnews.com/article/science-climate-and-environment-099266b36d6e637d405dead6f0914a0f https://apnews.com/article/science-climate-and-environment-chemistry-a18f859ff7b149c81306504bc7737f7b https://apnews.com/article/science-climate-and-environment-cefd6c94f01dc07dcb8905ee0f59cb82 #PS1climate ===== impress 3 time 2022-11-06 22:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1589385688868610048 ========== That was the week that wasn't. https://apnews.com/article/sports-baseball-social-media-288da491ea8f7481cce329466dbfbebd #PS1media ===== impress 4 time 2022-11-05 03:37 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1588737246039269376 ========== Facts about provisional ballots. https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-government-and-politics-8a2b4fcc3a18df8d93fe222105561c98 #PS1election ===== impress 3 time 2022-11-05 03:31 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1588735853756809217 ========== Nothing new about violent political attacks - a tradition GOP inherited when it was taken over by Dixiecrats. https://www.history.com/news/charles-sumner-caning-cilley-duel-congressional-violence Can physical violence among legislators once again become normal? More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1792196294458215 #PS1insurrection ===== impress 3 time 2022-11-04 19:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1588621011184136193 ========== Look out, Trump, DeSantis, not to mention Pence, Pompeo, Cruz, Hawley - Musk has more money AND a bigger, more rabid fan base! But the good news is he has Palin's attention span. https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/11/03/meet-the-silicon-valley-dad-who-has-elon-musks-ear-his-gushing-tweets-prove-it/ #PS1trumpism ===== engage 1 engage-rate 6% expands 1 impress 18 time 2022-11-04 15:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1588547012009811970 ========== Independent state legislatures - the latest fake theory for strengthening minority rule by dictating election results - https://brennancenter.substack.com/p/how-the-independent-state-legislature What will the reactionary Supreme Court majority decide? They know what their Federalist Society groomers want. #PS1democracy ===== impress 6 time 2022-11-03 23:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1588316302938341376 ========== “Republicans will never lose another election in Wisconsin after I’m elected governor” https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/republicans-rig-elections-never-lose/ It's been the Trumpist plan all along! A strong ruler like Putin or Xi never loses an election! Any rule-of-law Republicans who are silent are enablers. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 14 time 2022-11-03 23:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1588311902207123456 ========== Don't be swept away by political advertising and propaganda - https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-misinformation-219762637bacf49bf7ec723546b46fb3 Vote and make yourself heard, and let every other registered voter do the same. Even losing votes count - a tight margin might warn a winning candidate to not get too extreme. #PS1media ===== impress 4 time 2022-11-03 18:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1588235959547572224 ========== "opposed by China’s many inland provinces, dominated by state-owned Chinese industries that had no interest or ability to compete globally the way China’s coastal provinces could." Sound familiar? Flyover country resentful of coastal elites? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/01/opinion/china-united-states-trade-economy.html #PS1china ===== impress 5 time 2022-11-02 22:12 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1587930716418887680 ========== You can't have it both ways. Advertisers don't want to be associated with violent conspiracy fantasists. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/11/02/musk-twitter-bans-trump/ #PS1media ===== engage 1 engage-rate 10% expands 1 impress 10 time 2022-11-02 21:54 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1587926209580527616 ========== Rhodes tried to convince Trump that violence would work where legal maneuvers failed. Fortunately, Trump didn't hear, didn't agree, or was afraid to try. https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/11/02/rhodes-trump-oathkeepers-trial/ #PS1insurrection ===== engage 1 engage-rate 11% impress 9 time 2022-11-02 21:49 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1587924999611895808 ========== Who knew! Justice Thomas was the key to the insurrection all along! https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/02/trump-clarence-thomas-emails/ #PS1insurrection ===== engage 1 engage-rate 14% impress 7 replies 1 time 2022-11-02 21:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1587923784568537088 ========== Vastly different notions of truth lead to converging crises and diverging consensus. But blaming an intractable foe is a pillar of fake populism and cult of personality - and wouldn't be given up easily. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/11/01/polycrisis-midterms-biden-administration-progressive/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1794353220909189 #PS1democracy ===== impress 5 time 2022-11-02 21:43 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1587923448411537409 ========== We thought Truth Social wants to be Twitter. But the reality is that Twitter wants to be Truth Social. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/11/01/twitter-musk-trump-racism/ #PS1media ===== impress 3 time 2022-11-02 21:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1587918084995567616 ========== An interesting enhancement to ranked-choice voting. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/11/01/alaska-final-four-primary-begich-palin-peltola/ It eliminates candidates based on their least total votes, rather than their least first-place votes, and so rewards candidates with broader appeal. #PS1democracy ===== impress 5 time 2022-11-02 20:57 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1587911901388103680 ========== There are a lot of tossup races that will decide control of the House and Senate. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-tossups.html == Here's one close to Silicon Valley - https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/11/02/just-an-hour-from-silicon-valley-this-tight-race-could-tilt-congress/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1794291750915336 #PS1election ===== impress 5 time 2022-11-02 19:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1587896403585511425 ========== Reactionary Supreme Court does its duty to protect minority rule. https://apnews.com/article/us-supreme-court-donald-trump-business-john-roberts-congress-1b2241b1ddae3c9bbc7af28f372fe8a0 Trump's tax dirt, if it ever comes out, will be after the 2022 election. That gives a GOP Congress time to try to repeal the law that allows Congress to examine tax returns. #PS1trump ===== impress 5 time 2022-11-02 14:21 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1587812061572042754 ========== How many people with an unfavorable view of the president will vote for a candidate of the same party? https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/01/politics/senate-control-biden-polling-fault-lines/index.html Polls turn up a lot of conflicting evidence - what does it mean? #PS1election ===== impress 1 time 2022-11-02 06:12 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1587689201507500034 ========== Not good for Democrats if voters vote against high grocery prices. https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/01/politics/democratic-seats-jeopardy-gallup-polling/index.html What goes around comes around - GOP has no different plans for dealing with inflation. In 2024, most voters will be just as unhappy, either with inflation or recession. #PS1election ===== impress 12 time 2022-11-02 06:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1587686656252923905 ========== Trump and DeSantis are duking it out subtly but soon more openly. Like California, "no party preference" is the fastest growing party. But overall, for now, Florida seems to be a lost cause of Democrats. https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/01/politics/florida-midterms-2022/index.html #PS1election ===== engage 1 engage-rate 6% impress 18 time 2022-11-02 05:56 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1587685110207291392 ========== If people can't agree on the methods of determining truth, how can they agree on anything else? Of course the country is divided - between fact and fantasy. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/10/31/early-voters-lament-high-prices-disunity-yet-vote-opposite-sides/ #PS1election ===== impress 1 time 2022-11-02 05:46 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1587682598133768194 ========== GOP response styles to violence - Old - https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/31/pelosi-attack-gop-strategist-condemn/ Future - https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/31/politics/donald-trump-jr-paul-pelosi-reaction/index.html Current - https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/01/politics/donald-trump-paul-pelosi-reaction/index.html Let no fact inhibit a fantasy! Could Trumpists just be shameless self-serving opportunists? Just raising the question! #PS1trumpism ===== impress 1 time 2022-11-02 05:37 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1587680150522511360 ========== The funders and propagandists of Jan will suffer little in the market or the courts. There's no downside to fanning divisiveness and violence in support of minority rule. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/30/paul-pelosi-attack-republican-bothsidesism-false-equivalence/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1792998487711329 #PS1minority ===== impress 3 time 2022-11-01 04:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1587307209624387584 ========== What's the social media business model? Get free content from users, and sell advertising and data about your users to advertisers. If Twitter is going to have Musk and Trump, does it need any more content? https://www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/2022/10/31/nibel-twitter-elon-musk/ #PS1media ===== engage 1 engage-rate 8% impress 12 time 2022-11-01 03:22 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1587283842976448514 ========== Hard at working reconstructing Twitter to be - a platform for Musk! https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/10/31/elon-musk-twitter-layoffs/ #PS1media ===== impress 5 time 2022-11-01 03:12 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1587281435399843840 ========== The Trumpist Dixiecrats have schooled the whole GOP and most of their megadonors - that fueling divisive talk at the top and violent action at the bottom protects minority rule. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/31/pelosi-attack-gop-strategist-condemn/ And if the GOP is not for minority rule, what are they for? #PS1gop ===== impress 3 time 2022-11-01 02:57 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1587277614640558080 ========== Five reasons Trump wants to keep his tax returns secret. https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/31/politics/donald-trump-tax-returns/index.html What's he worried about? His supporters know he lies and cheats about everything, and they don't mind because he licenses them to do the same. #PS1trump ===== engage 1 engage-rate 17% impress 6 time 2022-11-01 00:41 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1587243280109948928 ========== GOP seizes on any issue it can to avoid talking about their real agenda. https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-biden-technology-283e27fb609f7227cb3f499547e13fbd #PS1climate ===== impress 2 time 2022-11-01 00:19 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1587237903822114818 ========== Monetizing the asset by selling premium status! Not very original. https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-twitter-inc-business-bd2d48331db2d8f702664864a70d5e71 #PS1media ===== impress 2 time 2022-11-01 00:15 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1587236947004571648 ========== Trump still trying to protect his secrets. They must be pretty incriminating. https://apnews.com/article/us-supreme-court-donald-trump-mar-a-lago-business-personal-taxes-76fea2bf34654d7ec854d5f9fd2836c2 #PS1trump ===== impress 1 time 2022-11-01 00:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1587235272042770433 ========== Only one way out for former Afghan allies. https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-russia-ukraine-iran-europe-taliban-30e2b1ffc7c5ecf2847b654f862723b8 #PS1afghanistan ===== impress 1 time 2022-11-01 00:07 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1587234731791220736 ========== A reactionary Supreme Court signals that it has no more use for affirmative action than for reproductive rights - or any other "right to privacy" or "equal protection" issues. https://apnews.com/article/voting-rights-ketanji-brown-jackson-us-supreme-court-college-admissions-affirmative-action-196ab930c799bcdc8b2a4a220641dd48 They're doing their duty to reinforce minority rule. #PS1justice ===== impress 11 time 2022-11-01 00:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1587233680480534528 ========== Although many election workers quit because of violent threats, others hang in there to do their part for democracy and the Enlightenment ideals of America's founders. https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-voting-milwaukee-voter-registration-23fcceb35dd767013f3ecc7c9c26d5b8 #PS1election ===== impress 1 time 2022-11-01 00:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1587233008708304898 ========== Who knew! Bald-faced liars in Texas CAN go to jail! https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-science-technology-texas-ad885acb1a1e3073eb02c2b3c2fbc51f Usually they just get elected to higher office. #PS1election ===== impress 1 time 2022-10-31 23:52 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1587231173851303936 ========== Wondering which races are close? https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-tossups.html GOP is catching up, by talking about problems instead of their solutions, which will make them worse. https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-abortion-inflation-da6c2b57c47c2cfa077bd5df6484ee11 #PS1election ===== impress 2 time 2022-10-31 23:46 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1587229569483882496 ========== Pelosi attacker had big plans - https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/10/31/feds-suspected-paul-pelosi-attacker-had-zip-ties-rope-with-him-during-break-in/ Looks like he'll spend the rest of his days indoors. #PS1insurrection ===== impress 5 time 2022-10-31 23:37 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1587227308976312320 ========== The rich and powerful of all times and places like the religion of Job's friends - God rewards the good and punishes the bad. If I am rich and you are poor, then you are a bad person. It would be against God's will to help you. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1792247641119747 #PS1theory ===== impress 3 time 2022-10-31 06:12 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1586964313847177216 ========== The desire for immortality is immortal. Roman emperors announced that they were immortal gods - and then died. Our secular culture embraces celebrity. So some of the losers pick up guns. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/07/opinion/mass-shooters-motive.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1792223161122195 #PS1theory ===== impress 3 time 2022-10-31 05:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1586950449936052224 ========== "violence is as American as cherry pie" Was H Rap Brown being historic or prophetic at the time? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._Rap_Brown Both - looking back to Judge Lynch of the American Revolution - and forward to the Capitol Insurrection. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1792196294458215 #PS1theory ===== impress 9 time 2022-10-31 04:20 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1586936045043560448 ========== "soldiers be content with your wages" John the Baptist likely referred to an implicit motivation for military service - in most times and places - freedom to murder, rape, pillage, and burn. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marocchinate More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1792183051126206 #PS1theory ===== impress 9 time 2022-10-31 03:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1586929827860258817 ========== Second time was not the charm. https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2022/oct/28/man-who-helped-run-border-wall-charity-convicted-i/ Looks like he'll go to jail and hope Trump pardons him like he did for Bannon. #PS1justice ===== impress 2 time 2022-10-31 03:04 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1586917021442224130 ========== Bad news for Trumpists everywhere. https://apnews.com/article/jair-bolsonaro-religion-caribbean-voting-ed2130a095ca42ff1be324a3dea9f355 Eventually a majority sees through the lies. #PS1foreign ===== impress 1 time 2022-10-31 02:53 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1586914273304883201 ========== Who's going to be the first Trumpist who qualifies his condolences with - - blaming Nancy Pelosi for the attack - classifying the attacker as a "patriot" and "political prisoner" https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/10/30/elon-musk-tweets-unfounded-claims-about-paul-pelosi-attack/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1792153081129203 #PS1trumpism ===== impress 9 time 2022-10-31 02:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1586913292697497600 ========== Why Democrats want to strengthen the IRS against wealthy tax cheats. GOP opposes, since many of those wealthy are megadonors. But GOP have to campaign as if it were about working class and middle class taxpayers. https://apnews.com/article/business-government-and-politics-ba556299145218216d60790457482c3f #PS1tax ===== impress 3 time 2022-10-31 02:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1586911154948800512 ========== It's getting hard to believe that inflation can be stopped without a recession. People have to be too poor to bid up prices, and unemployment has to be too high for employees to bid up wages. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/28/business/fedeal-reserve-inflation-wages.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1792145167796661 #PS1economics ===== impress 2 time 2022-10-31 02:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1586909324856545281 ========== High oil prices aren't bad for everybody! https://www.msn.com/en-ca/money/topstories/oil-giants-massive-profits-revive-calls-for-windfall-taxes/ar-AA13u867 Happy megadonors make happy legislators! #PS1inflation ===== impress 4 time 2022-10-29 13:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1586350544481763329 ========== The Jan 6 committee showed how Trump tried to overthrow the American government. Somebody is always trying to overthrow the government - yet Trump almost succeeded! Watch the last public hearing! https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2022/10/13/watch_live_january_6_investigation_committee_final_public_hearing.html More at - https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1790705371273974 #PS1insurrection ===== impress 15 time 2022-10-29 05:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1586230004244918272 ========== Lots of Trump pals sought pardons. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-pressure-us-justice-department-be-focus-jan-6-hearing-2022-06-23/ https://news.yahoo.com/trump-ally-dozens-associates-sought-211221826.html They must have done a lot of criminal acts! But they learned that loyalty is a one-way street with Trump. #PS1trump ===== engage 3 engage-rate 21% expands 2 impress 14 time 2022-10-29 05:14 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1586224845250998272 ========== Procedural objections? https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/10/28/seized-russian-asset-forfeiture-ndaa-republicans/ Looks more like running down the clock in pursuit of some other goal. #PS1ukraine ===== impress 5 time 2022-10-29 05:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1586222643866308608 ========== There's nothing new about minority rule in America. The feudal concept was imported with the English Cavaliers who became the Southern planter-slaveholder class, and ingrained in the Constitution. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/27/america-primaries-driving-polarization-radicalization/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1790691757942002 #PS1minority ===== engage 1 engage-rate 14% impress 7 time 2022-10-29 05:01 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1586221639397580800 ========== "We’d have done far better to only report on the tweets that actually conveyed new information — which is what we should do now" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/28/elon-musk-trump-twitter-return/ That's new INFORMATION, not new provocations. #PS1media ===== impress 4 time 2022-10-29 04:46 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1586217800699256832 ========== There are a lot more anti-semites than Jews in America. And even more gentile politicians who won't say or do anything substantial about it. Just as in Germany in the 1930's. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/28/american-jews-exile-fears/ #PS1trumpism ===== impress 6 time 2022-10-29 04:36 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1586215443571699712 ========== The usual suspects aim to find out what Musk really means about absolute free speech. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/28/technology/musk-twitter-antisemitism.html #PS1media ===== impress 5 time 2022-10-29 04:21 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1586211509520064513 ========== Bringing in the outside efficiency experts to Mar-a-Lago. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/10/28/raskin-mar-a-lago-trump-documents/ #PS1trump ===== impress 5 time 2022-10-29 04:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1586210884703035394 ========== Trump and Lindell are nothing new. Their antecedents were in the McCarthy era - and even earlier, when the KKK ruled the South. https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/28/opinions/mike-lindell-funding-election-denialism-mccarthyism-zelizer/index.html Their common element is a passion to preserve and extend minority rule. #PS1minority ===== impress 7 time 2022-10-29 04:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1586208500027248640 ========== The media are reacting as if there is something abnormal about physical attacks on politicians. It was completely normal, and encouraged by the leaders, in Germany in the 1930's. https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/28/opinions/paul-pelosi-attack-not-an-isolated-incident-alaimo/index.html #PS1trumpism ===== impress 4 time 2022-10-29 04:03 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1586207094205689857 ========== Youngkin sounds very unpresidential. But he stuck to his theme. He'll go far in Trumpism. https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/28/politics/glenn-youngkin-virginia-paul-pelosi/index.html #PS1trumpism ===== engage 1 engage-rate 9% impress 11 time 2022-10-29 03:59 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1586206104345661442 ========== They are only fulfilling the wishes of their leader Trump! Even though they know he won't do anything for them in return. https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-san-francisco-nancy-pelosi-congress-government-and-politics-b8a3fb8b3e6f491fcfb16e155b877427 It takes much courage to serve in Congress. That's exactly what the megadonors supporting minority rule want. #PS1trumpism ===== engage 2 engage-rate 18% expands 1 impress 11 time 2022-10-29 03:38 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1586200901076729857 ========== Musk is in charge now https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/10/28/elon-musk-takes-over-twitter-but-where-will-he-go-from-here-2/ Vengeance is expensive, but he can afford it! https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/10/28/elon-musk-will-have-to-pay-three-fired-twitter-executives-nearly-200-million/ #PS1media ===== impress 3 time 2022-10-29 03:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1586196653622452224 ========== Everybody's trying to find out what the new Twitter will be like. Musk as usual doesn't give a consistent straight answer. https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/10/28/after-musk-took-over-some-users-tested-twitters-boundaries/ #PS1media ===== impress 4 time 2022-10-29 03:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1586195227202551808 ========== Just another typical Trumpist foot soldier. He believed what he was told. But he shouldn't expect anything from Trump in return. https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/10/28/who-is-paul-pelosi-attacker-berkeley-man-tied-to-nude-activism-far-right-conspiracy-theories-suspected-in-assault/ #PS1trumpism ===== impress 14 time 2022-10-29 03:12 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1586194213879758848 ========== There are differing opinions on the contestable House races this year. Here's 270towin - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-tossups.html and here's CNN - https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/28/politics/midterm-elections-gop-us-house-races/index.html #PS1election ===== impress 3 time 2022-10-28 23:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1586139631996657664 ========== Trump won by 78000 votes in 2016, Biden by 43000 in 2020. "Such big change resting on such small shifts is not healthy for democracy.” https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2022/10/politics-stress-swing-states-elections/671729/ That instability is an irresistible temptation to do anything to win. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1790517421292769 #PS1theory ===== impress 4 time 2022-10-28 23:20 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1586135786268655616 ========== Putin's propaganda is also aimed at Russians, to convince them that they have a stake in his invasion of Ukraine. https://insidetrackindia.com/russia-intensifies-its-propaganda-campaign-against-ukraine/ #PS1ukraine ===== impress 5 time 2022-10-28 21:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1586109108184264704 ========== Considering political donations? https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-tossups.html Beware of extrapolation from the past! Nobody knows what will happen in the midterms, but the polls are trending GOP overall. Is that real? If so, cause or effect? https://herald-review.com/opinion/columnists/kurt-bardella-who-knows-what-will-happen-in-election/article_1b7d31b2-555d-11ed-8282-b727f8a624ee.html #PS1election ===== impress 21 time 2022-10-28 21:26 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1586107038605578240 ========== Striving toward enlightenment language - when is it too much, and when not enough? https://www.sunjournal.com/2022/10/28/leonard-pitts-jr-we-strive-toward-enlightenment-and-language-follows-suit/ If you're trying to converse with another person with a different background, you'll get further speaking in terms he understands, than in terms he doesn't. #PS1other ===== impress 3 time 2022-10-28 21:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1586104628193636352 ========== For swing voters, is democracy a critical election issue compared to gas prices? https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-capitol-siege-tim-ryan-inflation-donald-trump-6fec0170deef3f55a7aa6f04f4e425a1 We can do something NOW toward preventing future insurrections. There is nothing feasible NOW to reduce global oil prices. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1790332274644617 #PS1inflation ===== engage 2 engage-rate 40% expands 2 impress 5 time 2022-10-28 17:15 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1586043916993716225 ========== That was the week that wasn't. https://apnews.com/article/health-canada-12a0b318cc1226ea983bfed0fbd9d619 #PS1media ===== impress 3 time 2022-10-28 16:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1586035763820433408 ========== What happens to damaged ballots? https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-government-and-politics-3ccd3f86998bd55b9693dd13c95c89e8 Just what you'd want, if you wanted as many ballots as possible to be counted fairly. #PS1election ===== impress 2 time 2022-10-28 16:36 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1586034171830337536 ========== Why won't the Democrats stop the horror show before we all find out how it turns out? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/27/republican-debt-ceiling-threat-neutralize/ #PS1economics ===== impress 6 time 2022-10-28 04:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1585855718535573504 ========== Trump supporters can expect continuing appeals for funds to "fight for them in court," meaning "fight for Trump in court." https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/27/trump-courts-legal-system-working/ #PS1trump ===== engage 1 engage-rate 17% impress 6 time 2022-10-28 04:35 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1585852782996688896 ========== Trump admits that the Stolen Election lie is an essential tool for mobilizing the Trumpist base. No news there - Big Lies have always been essential for minority rule, to keep the masses distracted and diverted from what's really going on. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/26/trump-lets-truth-slip-about-maga-base-todays-gop/ #PS1trumpism ===== impress 8 time 2022-10-28 04:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1585851267582087169 ========== Trump continues to run down the clock hoping a GOP Congress will save him - that's his way of dealing with legal situations. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/27/us/trump-tax-returns-appeals-court.html But Trump is not essential to Trumpism. #PS1tax ===== impress 7 time 2022-10-28 04:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1585844049386229762 ========== Putin is marketing Putinism to Trumpists and their allies worldwide. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/27/world/europe/ukraine-russia-war-putin.html It's still Putinism - dedicated to nobody's interests except Putin. #PS1putin ===== engage 1 engage-rate 17% impress 6 time 2022-10-28 03:56 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1585843019340578817 ========== Trump country has a lot in common. As in 1800, the local elites have recruited the discontented to defend minority rule. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/23/us/politics/republican-election-objectors-demographics.html #PS1trumpism ===== impress 3 time 2022-10-28 03:52 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1585841913650851840 ========== The GOP plan is to blame Biden for inflation and recession, even when they are in charge. They have to blame somebody, since their megadonor tax cuts are definitely inflationary. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/27/opinion/columnists/republicans-biden-inflation-policy.html #PS1inflation ===== impress 4 time 2022-10-28 03:15 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1585832685951279104 ========== Increasing numbers of GOP leaders and voters believe that they can only lose rigged elections. And GOP megadonors, hesitant at first, now fully endorse the myth. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/27/opinion/republicans-midterms-kari-lake.html Losing fair and square? That's so - 18th century Enlightenment thinking. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 3 time 2022-10-28 03:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1585831694598230016 ========== Rising wealth inequality and income inequality, and now - rising emotional inequality! https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/27/opinion/global-sadness-rising.html How will this play out? #PS1other ===== impress 4 time 2022-10-28 03:07 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1585830584139382785 ========== Cult of personality transition plan. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/10/27/world/asia/hu-jintao-congress-videos.html Who knows what happens if you don't go along quietly? #PS1china ===== impress 4 time 2022-10-28 02:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1585828450933219329 ========== The ones who are going to vote GOP anyway cite inflation. The ones who are going to vote Democratic anyway cite abortion. If there are any truly persuadable voters left - nobody knows for sure how to reach them. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/27/us/politics/polls-swing-district-house-republicans-democrats.html #PS1election ===== impress 5 time 2022-10-28 02:52 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1585826897186869248 ========== Nobody knows exactly what's ahead for Twitter, except that it will serve the interests of the world's richest man. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/27/technology/elon-musk-twitter-deal-complete.html #PS1media ===== impress 1 time 2022-10-28 02:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1585825068860379137 ========== The richest man in the world can f*** up any situation in the world, and let other people suffer the consequences. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/26/technology/elon-musk-geopolitics-china-ukraine.html #PS1other ===== impress 2 time 2022-10-28 02:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1585824709282697217 ========== Traditional GOP say one thing and do the opposite. Trumpists say two different things and do the opposite. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#gop Democrats aren't pushing hard enough on that and it shows. https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2022/10/26/democrats-midterms-blue-states/ #PS1election ===== impress 1 time 2022-10-27 20:06 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1585724695889948672 ========== DeSantis springs his trap! 20 (mostly black) ex-felons were allowed to register and vote, and THEN arrested. He got his photo-ops, and who cares how many poor people he messed up? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/26/desantis-florida-voter-fraud-law-confusion/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1789566454721199 #PS1election ===== impress 3 time 2022-10-27 20:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1585723208824602625 ========== Maybe Trump shouldn't lose too much sleep over DeSantis. DeSantis might be smarter and bolder, but he seems to lack the stage presence of a reality-TV star like Trump, and that might matter to the Trumpist base when they go head to head. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/26/desantis-2024-debate-not-presidential/ #PS1trumpism ===== engage 1 engage-rate 13% impress 8 time 2022-10-27 19:47 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1585719916694368257 ========== Straight answers or Trumpist evasion? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/26/elaine-luria-jan-6-committee-midterm-jen-kiggans/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/10/27/cheney-slotkin-democrats-house-trump/ Swing district voters have their choice. #PS1election ===== impress 1 time 2022-10-27 19:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1585716113995796482 ========== The desire for a hereditary nobility has been in America from the beginning. The opposing desire for an elite based on merit, rather than inherited wealth, was just as hot an issue for Sam and John Adams. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/26/john-samuel-adams-thomas-hutchinson-elites/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1789546461389865 #PS1theory ===== impress 2 time 2022-10-27 19:24 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1585714028608778240 ========== What do GOP WANT to talk about ? Inflation, crime, and - the one thing they know how - for rich, cut taxes. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2022/political-ads/ "Entitlement reform" for the rest of us - cut Social Security, Medicare, etc. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/27/republican-midterm-debates-abortion-trump/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1789515298059648 #PS1gop ===== impress 1 time 2022-10-27 18:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1585700959925067776 ========== GOP seems to be gaining ground in some close races - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-tossups.html but there are still lots of ways the Senate could go - https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/10/27/scenarios-senate-2022-midterms/ #PS1election ===== impress 2 time 2022-10-27 17:38 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1585687419050860544 ========== Minority rule https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html depends on a misinformed electorate. https://www.arcamax.com/politics/opeds/s-2741441 To that end, there is no penalty for blatant lies in political advertising, and no way to find out who's paying for those lies. #PS1election ===== impress 3 time 2022-10-27 14:06 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1585633953901264896 ========== Arizona to take action against voter intimidation. https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-arizona-race-and-ethnicity-phoenix-fb2254ac13ca7f9153c3a802737ea6a1 Bullet holes are not legal methods for marking ballots. https://brennancenter.substack.com/p/guns-dont-belong-at-polling-locations #PS1firearms ===== engage 2 engage-rate 13% expands 1 impress 16 time 2022-10-27 04:47 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1585493395903873025 ========== 30 years of success for the KGB and failure for the CIA. https://www.keyreporter.org/book-reviews/2022/the-fourth-man-the-hunt-for-a-kgb-spy-at-the-top-of-the-cia-and-the-rise-of-putins-russia/ #PS1other ===== impress 2 time 2022-10-27 03:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1585480477120471040 ========== Crypto-currencies - a major climate change threat. https://earthjustice.org/blog/2022-october/cleaning-up-crypto But think of all the money you can make! Or SOMEbody MIGHT make. #PS1climate ===== impress 2 time 2022-10-27 03:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1585478863550697472 ========== What a tragic lost opportunity! Kannye West would have made a great Trumpist Dixiecrat candidate for senator or governor, but he was noticed too late. Nightly he'd have thrilled the Trumpist base on Fox. https://apnews.com/article/adidas-ends-kanye-west-partnership-7425f65ea39f7bbdd02d0e033d9be4b8 More at https://facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1788567528154425 #PS1media ===== impress 2 time 2022-10-27 02:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1585459461778337793 ========== Belarus became a Russian puppet state years ago. Its leadership forces its people to support Putin in Ukraine. They'll eventually have to send soldiers. https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2022/10/europe/belarus-hospitals-russian-soldiers-ukraine/index.html #PS1ukraine ===== engage 4 engage-rate 9% expands 1 impress 47 time 2022-10-26 18:11 +0000 urlclicks 3 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1585333288901623808 ========== Happy days are here again in the Kremlin! Putin watches with glee as American legislators fight his war for him. He knew they would eventually. He didn't invest so heavily to support them for nothing. https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/26/politics/us-ukraine-aid-skepticism-putin-analysis/index.html #PS1putin ===== impress 19 time 2022-10-26 17:57 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1585329724322037761 ========== If he's finally forced to testify, will he plead the 5th? https://apnews.com/article/mark-meadows-georgia-ordered-to-testify-698723852274be361fd7b427c13d1752 #PS1insurrection ===== impress 2 time 2022-10-26 17:48 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1585327446491963392 ========== Throw unlimited cannon fodder at the enemy - another point of Russian military doctrine. "Quantity has a quality of its own" according to Stalin. https://apnews.com/article/putin-europe-moscow-government-and-politics-d73e6f1e3ac1632953278e8ff179de65 #PS1ukraine ===== impress 10 time 2022-10-26 17:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1585326797285076993 ========== Unclear on the concept! "more pressure should be applied on conservative states to strengthen policies around parental leave and child care" That's the LAST thing red states would do! https://apnews.com/article/abortion-health-business-religion-texas-8a0e8965908750ac9e3f43f1765ebd62 More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1788711641473347 #PS1health ===== impress 4 time 2022-10-26 17:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1585325547193741312 ========== Murder, rape, pillage, destruction - it's how the Russian army rolls. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-kyiv-europe-middle-east-government-and-politics-e3756976cf33cf5de29aa62d61ea7eb6 It's not an accident but a doctrine. #PS1ukraine ===== impress 18 time 2022-10-26 17:31 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1585323297998135296 ========== Always check the facts before writing or reading a rumor. Election laws vary from state to state. https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-ohio-voting-machines-da6823968e47d7f8c623815f01c3f9c6 But if a bunch of gullible GOP voters get their votes rejected on election day, the goals of the rumor-mongers will be accomplished. #PS1election ===== impress 8 time 2022-10-26 17:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1585322372034269184 ========== What a tragic lost opportunity! Kannye West would have make a great Trumpist Dixiecrat candidate for senator or governor, but he was noticed too late. Nightly he'd have thrilled the Trumpist base on Fox. https://apnews.com/article/adidas-ends-kanye-west-partnership-7425f65ea39f7bbdd02d0e033d9be4b8 More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1788567528154425 #PS1media ===== impress 3 time 2022-10-26 15:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1585285396551725056 ========== "party loyalty trumps everything else" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/23/business/china-gdp-economy.html Loyalty driving out competence is a hazard of cults of personality, as Putin and Trump have so amply demonstrated. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1788564064821438 #PS1china ===== impress 4 time 2022-10-26 14:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1585282890996142082 ========== Political donors soon discover that fundraising email IS spam - and that's just from the Democrats that I support! Worse is from Trump and the GOP that I haven't had a kind word for in 30 years! https://apnews.com/article/technology-presidential-elections-midterm-government-and-politics-26d755827b930d8c8d51d2aeb176e044 More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1788552138155964 #PS1politics ===== impress 13 time 2022-10-26 14:36 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1585279110728667137 ========== Hazards of unfunded defined-benefit pensions - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/controversial.html#defined%20benefit If there still unfunded when you retire, you might not get what you expected! https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2022/10/23/these-bay-area-cities-are-facing-the-greatest-financial-risk-state-auditor-says/ Local governments can go bankrupt to get out of those unpayable pension liabilities. #PS1economics ===== impress 4 time 2022-10-26 14:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1585274782907396096 ========== In recent poll consensus, https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-tossups.html In KS-3, Sharice Davids moves from "Tossup" to "Tilt Democratic". https://shariceforcongress.com/ #PS1election ===== engage 1 engage-rate 7% impress 14 time 2022-10-26 12:55 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1585253739245359104 ========== You could have learned about 1619, 57 years ago. Hardly a word needs to be changed. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/1619/lomax.html #PS1other ===== impress 2 time 2022-10-26 04:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1585133652056641536 ========== Gaming platforms get serious attention from hackers and scammers. https://dnyuz.com/2022/10/13/gaming-is-booming-thats-catnip-for-cybercriminals/ #PS1technology ===== impress 7 time 2022-10-25 13:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1584900331183697920 ========== Global oil prices - there's very little we can do that doesn't hurt us more than the Saudis. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/24/opinion/saudi-arabia-opec-oil-cut.html Even if the US avoids recession, the rest of the world will probably have to endure one, and oil prices will fall. #PS1inflation ===== impress 14 time 2022-10-25 05:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1584779861117177856 ========== "The president and Congress don’t have the same job, and the weakness of one does not make the other stronger" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/24/opinion/biden-trump-weak-presidents.html #PS1theory ===== impress 7 time 2022-10-25 05:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1584776037862236160 ========== The carton of salt to accompany political poll results. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/10/24/opinion/frustrated-with-polling-pollsters-are-too.html #PS1politics ===== impress 10 time 2022-10-25 05:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1584773974084329477 ========== Crime is rising everywhere. Whose fault is that? And it's worse in rural then urban areas. Whose fault is that? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/24/opinion/rising-crime-democrats.html #PS1justice ===== impress 5 time 2022-10-25 04:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1584769533952241665 ========== The way you take down crime kingpins is by starting at the bottom and squeezing upwards. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/24/us/politics/justice-department-trump-documents.html #PS1trump ===== impress 6 time 2022-10-25 04:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1584768585510969344 ========== Who are the radicals? The Supreme Court that reversed a decision after 60 years, and the GOP megadonors that financed the grooming and selection of those justices. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/10/24/gops-attempt-flip-abortion-issue/ #PS1gop ===== impress 6 time 2022-10-25 04:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1584767382400413696 ========== In a cult of personality, succession is seldom smooth. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/10/24/mao-zedong-xi-jinping-china-leaders/ If you're lucky, the violence is contained within the ruling class. #PS1china ===== impress 5 time 2022-10-25 04:36 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1584765705731596289 ========== Beware of sharing! https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/10/21/sign-in-google-facebook/ #PS1media ===== engage 1 engage-rate 20% impress 5 time 2022-10-25 04:31 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1584764451051315200 ========== Confusion reigns at Twitter - but perhaps not for long. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/10/20/musk-twitter-acquisition-staff-cuts/ #PS1media ===== impress 4 time 2022-10-25 04:26 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1584763327582203904 ========== Youngkin takes pains to prove he was a Trumpist all along. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/24/youngkin-won-pragmatic-trump-alternative-hes-showing-his-cards/ That's what it takes to succeed in the Dixiecrat Trumpist personality cult. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 5 time 2022-10-25 03:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1584754594659213313 ========== "a deliberate, constitutionally conservative workhorse" That's no prescription for success in the Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP! https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/10/24/texas-abbott-reelection-trump/ #PS1trumpism ===== impress 7 time 2022-10-25 03:48 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1584753700098125824 ========== Trump and DeSantis and - O'Dea? https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/10/24/trump-desantis-2024-election-colorado/ "Distancing himself from Trump means being able to run against both Trump and Biden, which Bennet can’t do." Trumpism doesn't need Trump! #PS1trumpism ===== engage 5 engage-rate 15% expands 1 impress 33 time 2022-10-25 03:44 +0000 userclicks 4 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1584752809228259330 ========== Ted Cruz - a man of flexible ideology. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/10/24/cruz-2020-elkec/ Flexibility is a requirement for survival within the Trumpist Dixiecrat cult of personality. #PS1insurrection ===== impress 6 time 2022-10-25 03:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1584750106380681218 ========== Want to know who's paying for your next Congress? https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2022/top-election-donors-2022/ #PS1democracy ===== impress 6 time 2022-10-25 03:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1584749103137067008 ========== Bipartisanship is possible. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/10/24/murkowski-peltola-alaska/ Where there's a will, there's a way. But there's not much will in America overall - the propagandists of minority rule have done their best to suppress it. #PS1minority ===== engage 1 engage-rate 25% impress 4 time 2022-10-25 03:13 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1584745028261335040 ========== The fate of Ukraine is the fate of America. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/24/election-deniers-ukraine-war-assistance/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1787305154947329 #PS1ukraine ===== impress 12 time 2022-10-25 03:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1584744325325328384 ========== Putin will not negotiate a solution that is not a win, since anything else might be fatal. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/10/24/biden-ukraine-liberals/ The far right wants to appease Putin. The far left thinks America can cut a lasting deal directly with Russia. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1787305154947329 #PS1ukraine ===== impress 12 time 2022-10-25 03:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1584741778564882432 ========== Personal brands? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/20/business/influencer-burn-out-jobs.html “Use social media, but you have to have something to talk about.” Besides yourself! #PS1media ===== impress 5 time 2022-10-24 05:04 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1584410395615191040 ========== Simpler user interface? Less privatization of public functions? Don't expect those from a GOP Congress - they WANT to make government assistance hard to get - except for megadonors. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/23/opinion/student-loan-debt-relief-application-process.html #PS1other ===== impress 4 time 2022-10-24 04:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1584401084570664961 ========== Claiming a heritage they oppose, that their ancestors opposed while King was alive. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/23/opinion/kari-lake-martin-luther-king.html But if people want to believe that King or Kennedy would support a Dixiecrat Trumpist cult of personality today - no fact will convince them otherwise. #PS1media ===== impress 3 time 2022-10-24 04:21 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1584399713972809729 ========== Extreme rhetoric is leading to extreme actions. The crazies have always talked that way. What's new is that "leaders" who know better are silent or actively enable the crazies and their ideas. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/22/us/politics/republican-election-objectors-rhetoric.html Little different from Nazi rhetoric. #PS1media ===== impress 4 time 2022-10-24 04:15 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1584398232527900673 ========== Got loyalty cards? Think how much you save! Then think how much you lose! "Such details can be purchased from data aggregators from customers’ loyalty-card records" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/23/technology/voter-targeting-trump-score.html So you can be "saying different things to different people.” #PS1election ===== impress 4 time 2022-10-24 04:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1584394685404966915 ========== Who's the real threat to democracy? Why - the other party of course! But don't be discouraged - do what you can - vote anyway! https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/23/us/politics/voting-democracy-wisconsin-senate.html #PS1election ===== impress 2 time 2022-10-24 03:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1584391765523501056 ========== A narrative of Biden's first 21 months - successes and failures. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/10/22/joe-biden-presidency/ Much accomplished with a narrow margin in Congress - but in November, many voters will just vote against high gas prices, even though Putin and MBS are not on the ballot. #PS1biden ===== impress 16 time 2022-10-24 03:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1584386232586338306 ========== A distant ancestor, told that he was unfit to preach the gospel, replied - "There's damn good money in preaching!" Prosperity gospel, no doubt - https://www.gotquestions.org/prosperity-gospel.html His sons in spirit thrive today - https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/10/23/right-wing-election-turnout/ Every speaker has something for sale! #PS1other ===== impress 2 time 2022-10-24 03:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1584381406402138114 ========== Do you believe ANY political advertising? Why?? https://mercurynews.com/2022/10/23/race-for-san-jose-mayor-moneyed-interests-from-49ers-to-realtors-wage-shadow-campaigns/ The worst of it is paid for by unlimited dark money, thanks to the Supreme Court's opinion that money is speech. #PS1democracy ===== impress 4 time 2022-10-24 02:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1584367518298185731 ========== Cheney expects a new party to arise for rule-of-law conservatives - leaving the Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP to the reactionaries, personality cultists, violent insurrectionists, and their enablers. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/10/23/cheney-trump-gop-midterms/ #PS1gop ===== engage 2 engage-rate 11% expands 2 impress 19 time 2022-10-23 23:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1584330152485363717 ========== "Tennessee has yet to expand Medicaid" "no way I want my tax dollars paying for Mexicans or welfare queens” - another voter who learned his lessons from the ruling class, to better protect its minority rule. https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/10/19/covid-deaths-us-race/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1786308465046998 #PS1virus ===== impress 8 time 2022-10-23 23:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1584329050620710912 ========== In hoc signo vinces! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/23/midterms-republican-evangelicals-black-protestants-religion/ When politicians talk about religion, it's not really about religion, it's about political power. Same as it ever was. #PS1theory ===== impress 22 time 2022-10-23 23:14 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1584322310500032512 ========== Democrats must keep focus on GOP's real agenda - which they used to hide - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#gop But not any more! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/23/biden-democrats-midterms-economy/ #PS1gop ===== impress 1 time 2022-10-23 23:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1584320968461197312 ========== "The new reporting was evidence of Trump’s abdication of presidential responsibility. His self-focus was crippling. The absence of leadership at the top was contributing to the nation’s inability to respond." https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/interactive/2022/trump-tapes-bob-woodward-interviews-audiobook/ That's how personality cults work! #PS1trump ===== impress 5 time 2022-10-23 23:04 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1584319999988023297 ========== If Putin isn't stopped in Ukraine, maybe we'll get another chance in Alaska. https://www.newsweek.com/alaska-ours-billboards-appear-russia-after-threat-reclaim-state-1722761 It will be a lot more expensive there. #PS1putin ===== impress 11 time 2022-10-23 22:46 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1584315234268766208 ========== Vance tries to explain to Ukrainian Americans why he wants to appease Putin. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/10/23/vance-ukraine-war-ohio-senate/ Most aren't buying it. #PS1trumpism ===== engage 1 engage-rate 11% expands 1 impress 9 time 2022-10-23 22:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1584314200150589441 ========== Cults of personality seldom adapt or change on their own. They have to be forced by external events. https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/12/opinions/china-communist-party-congress-xi-power-johnson/index.html #PS1china ===== impress 1 time 2022-10-23 22:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1584311754137358338 ========== Intelligence cues missed again. https://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-donald-trump-united-states-presidential-elections-ba89f0a9f734396f9b3616930f00f9da At least the violent insurrectionists know they are being taken seriously now. Seriously to court. #PS1insurrection ===== impress 1 time 2022-10-23 22:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1584309412042223618 ========== Trump Org goes to trial. https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-new-york-manhattan-business-government-and-politics-82c904637467a9eb4c3a834eb6065837 #PS1trump ===== impress 2 time 2022-10-23 22:19 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1584308591195889664 ========== “If Russia calls and says that Ukraine is allegedly preparing something, it means only one thing: that Russia has already prepared all of it,” https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-putin-europe-think-tanks-business-deb83a49c24736928a010b0a449f308c Like Hitler, like Putin, like Trump. #PS1ukraine ===== impress 40 time 2022-10-23 22:12 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1584306813981204481 ========== Every Trump appearance is a circus, because he is a showman and a salesman - not a statesman. How can the Jan 6 committee expect anything more? https://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-donald-trump-liz-cheney-congress-subpoenas-3431b6eadd87abf14111e02c91145e86 #PS1insurrection ===== impress 5 time 2022-10-23 21:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1584302424449114112 ========== Democrats strengthening since Oct 20 - 270towin has upgraded these House candidates from "Tossup" to "Tilt Democratic". Peltola - Alaska https://www.marypeltola.com/ Golden - Maine 2 https://jaredgoldenforcongress.com/ https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-tossups.html #PS1election ===== engage 1 engage-rate 17% impress 6 likes 1 time 2022-10-23 14:15 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1584186685624963073 ========== Outlawing slavery is harder than you'd think. https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterms-13th-amendment-slavery-4a0341cf82fa33942bda6a5d17ac4348 It's hard to make legal language so clear that it can't be accidentally or willingly misinterpreted. #PS1other ===== impress 3 time 2022-10-23 06:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1584069445823053824 ========== Californians losing population to Texas? It's more of a trade - and California is getting the better deal. https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/10/22/opinion-are-californians-fleeing-to-texas-the-reality-is-complicated/ #PS1economics ===== impress 3 time 2022-10-23 06:23 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1584067999887024128 ========== GOP promises to protect its megadonors from annoying audits! https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-congress-business-government-and-politics-0f645387cac1ebbe1551f95524cf3ce1 Why don't they just admit they want to abolish taxes on billionaire megadonors and regress to regressive taxes on everybody else? #PS1tax ===== impress 5 time 2022-10-22 13:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1583812267652501504 ========== More evil aliens have landed in Georgia, but they come from different fantasy dimensions and work at cross purposes. https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-health-government-and-politics-election-2020-55f4744b484919cd20d4d5e8d72e444e #PS1election ===== impress 3 time 2022-10-22 13:19 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1583810345910403072 ========== The aliens have arrived in the Nevada desert and are destroying the election system in order to save it! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/21/nevada-republicans-election-denier-sabotage-midterms/ Save it from what? Evil aliens? #PS1election ===== impress 3 time 2022-10-22 12:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1583795876954132480 ========== America has seen this movie before! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Reform_Association_(chartered_1864) Christian Nationalists have tried to make the Constitution a Christian Nationalist document - for 150 years. They convinced the WCTU - and not many others. Now Trumpists aim to keep them voting GOP. #PS1other ===== impress 5 time 2022-10-22 04:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1583679659752857600 ========== You can make billions peddling lies that your audience wants to hear. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/19/business/media/fox-news-suzanne-scott.html Can you actually lose those billions in court? #PS1media ===== impress 4 time 2022-10-21 22:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1583593597495934976 ========== Sentiments you'll never hear from GOP megadonors! https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/21/world/europe/marlene-engelhorn-wealth-tax.html Why is the US so eager to create a hereditary nobility like that in the old world? #PS1tax ===== impress 6 time 2022-10-21 22:52 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1583592160682594304 ========== Who can beat Trump's luck? Covid paralyzing the global economy and forcing gas prices down meant voters associated low prices with Trump. When the economy and gas prices recovered, Biden got the blame. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/20/opinion/will-gas-prices-doom-democracy.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1784588931885618 #PS1inflation ===== impress 6 time 2022-10-21 22:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1583590286961172480 ========== Minority rule? https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html Or majority? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/21/opinion/minority-rule-majoritarian-democracy.html Majority rule is mob rule. Democracy is majority rule plus enumerated rights of minorities that can't be voted away by the majority. #PS1democracy ===== impress 2 time 2022-10-21 22:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1583586149993308160 ========== So much for free trade with China. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/20/opinion/biden-china-semiconductor-chip.html Good move strategically - unless it provokes a war - but bad for inflation. There are good economic reasons for globalization - as long as everybody is more interested in peaceful trade than war. #PS1china ===== impress 10 time 2022-10-21 22:23 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1583584879916163073 ========== An approach to regaining the industrial midwest. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/21/opinion/tim-ryan-democrats-midterms-ohio.html So much for free trade. Everybody benefits a little from it, but some people are hurt very badly. #PS1election ===== impress 2 time 2022-10-21 22:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1583583621620805633 ========== GOP's long game to flip south Texas. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/21/opinion/texas-democrats-republicans.html #PS1gop ===== impress 8 time 2022-10-21 22:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1583581713975779328 ========== Pence was a good team player for four years and turned off rule-of-law Republicans. Then for one day he was not on the team and turned off Trumpists. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/21/pence-2024-jan-6-poll-numbers-byler/ He's still popular with traditional Republicans and their megadonors - the few remaining. #PS1gop ===== impress 4 time 2022-10-21 22:03 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1583579687216762880 ========== It's time to abolish the debt ceiling and assure the world that the United States pays its bills. https://get-to-sixty.net/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/21/kevin-mccarthy-debt-limit-trump-maga-house-democrats/ Biden isn't there yet, but he vows not to give in to the Freischütz-macht-Freiheit Caucus. https://cnn.com/2022/10/21/politics/biden-debt-ceiling/index.html #PS1biden ===== impress 6 time 2022-10-21 21:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1583578767292710912 ========== Somebody will have to re-create Twitter. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/21/twitter-elon-musk-purchase-job-cuts/ #PS1media ===== impress 1 time 2022-10-21 21:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1583577765432856579 ========== GOP means Trumpist Dixiecrat Party now. It might thrive or shrivel, with or without Trump himself, but it seems likely to remain the party of Strom Thurmond and Newt Gingrich rather than Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Eisenhower, or Reagan. https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/20/opinions/trumpism-midterm-elections-gop-1978-zelizer/index.html #PS1trumpism ===== impress 5 time 2022-10-21 21:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1583575125806325760 ========== Bannon got what he wanted, not what he deserved. https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/21/politics/steve-bannon-sentencing-deep-state-defiance/index.html #PS1insurrection ===== impress 1 time 2022-10-21 21:38 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1583573400940748801 ========== Elected senator investigating election claims immunity to election investigation interference! https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/21/politics/lindsey-graham-supreme-court-appeal/index.html #PS1insurrection ===== impress 1 time 2022-10-21 21:36 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1583572960576647168 ========== Twas ever thus! 4 months for the big shots that waved the bait - https://cnn.com/politics/live-news/steve-bannon-sentencing-10-20-22/index.html 3-5 years for the little shots that took the bait - https://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-government-and-politics-prisons-journalists-d9d80376eb250f3d4a2855882d96cbdd https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/21/politics/january-6-capitol-rioter-guns-sentenced/index.html #PS1insurrection ===== impress 1 time 2022-10-21 21:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1583571524526579713 ========== GOP running statewide in California can say anything - third-party candidates outnumbered by "No Party Preference." https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/10/21/california-republican-likens-u-s-senate-run-to-christian-mission-in-dark-continent-of-africa/ Here's "a Christian missionary spreading the gospel of Republicanism in the dark continent of Africa." Few NPP converts. #PS1capolitics ===== impress 26 time 2022-10-21 21:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1583568351623663616 ========== You might have thought Youngkin and Lake were opposites. https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/20/politics/kari-lake-glenn-youngkin-republicans-trump/index.html Wrong - they are alike - Trumpists winning any way they can. "The party’s single-minded pursuit of power is not new. It’s the key feature of the last decades of Washington politics." #PS1gop ===== impress 6 time 2022-10-21 20:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1583553093056155648 ========== GOP voter integrity in action - harassing voters. https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/20/politics/arizona-voter-intimidation-report-justice-department/index.html #PS1election ===== impress 1 time 2022-10-21 20:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1583551529310572544 ========== Will Trump try cooperating, to get the FBI out of his hair, so he can launch his re-election campaign? https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/19/politics/trump-mar-a-lago-second-search/index.html Cooperation is not his usual approach! #PS1trump ===== impress 3 time 2022-10-21 20:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1583551114246385671 ========== Evidently Putin admires American military technology. https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/19/politics/russia-justice-department-foreign-nationals-military-technology/index.html Russian technology doesn't seem to meet even Iranian standards. #PS1putin ===== impress 5 time 2022-10-21 20:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1583549960527544320 ========== General Armageddon now in charge. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-putin-mikhail-gorbachev-syria-middle-east-c2582dabed6158f058e58d2e2bc0d4cf Civilians can expect murder, rape, pillage, and destruction, until Ukraine surrenders or is wiped out. #PS1ukraine ===== impress 15 time 2022-10-21 20:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1583549297437511680 ========== Try to have it all ways and you might not win any way! https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-biden-congress-donald-trump-3c315861315cdb483fe4c72560dac909 The genius of the GOP is to tell everybody what they want to hear, to get them on board and keep them. It's tricky when the message reverses between primary and general. #PS1gop ===== impress 2 time 2022-10-21 19:57 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1583548104426475522 ========== Getting rid of all those people impeding free speech! https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-twitter-inc-technology-social-media-1a9005b6653b07b5764ed61053554d1f Free speech for billionaires, that is. Everybody else can toe Musk's line. #PS1media ===== impress 3 time 2022-10-21 19:52 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1583546723938406402 ========== Future Fascists of America are cultivating doubt in the accuracy and fairness of election processes. Their ultimate goal - to make sure the vote matches their predetermined outcome. https://apnews.com/article/new-mexico-election-security-besieged-county-5e084e84cf25f96364f5afa445968455 #PS1democracy ===== impress 2 time 2022-10-21 19:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1583546073808719872 ========== Jan 6 committee wants Trump to speak in his own defense. Or offense. https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-subpoena-jan-6-committee-2d63a2ba74c1874ef6ef0d8ae6d788c1 #PS1insurrection ===== impress 4 time 2022-10-21 19:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1583537006176481280 ========== How to run down the clock, page by page. https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/21/politics/trump-mar-a-lago-documents-personal-property/index.html #PS1trump ===== impress 1 time 2022-10-21 19:10 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1583536282088505344 ========== Getting ready for the big announcement! https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/21/politics/trump-force-one-west-palm-beach/index.html Or a quick getaway. #PS1trump ===== impress 7 time 2022-10-21 19:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1583535834464022528 ========== Got virus? RSV is coming on strong and early. https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/21/health/rsv-hospitals-what-to-know-wellness/index.html #PS1virus ===== impress 5 time 2022-10-21 19:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1583534861402243072 ========== Some friends of Putin have changed their minds. Others have just pretended to. https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/13/opinions/putin-far-right-fans-west-europe-ghitis/index.html They could forgive him for being a dictator, but not for being an incompetent one. #PS1putin ===== impress 2 time 2022-10-21 19:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1583533976521539584 ========== The Black Death haunts us today - in a completely different way. https://apnews.com/article/oddities-science-health-plague-bubonic-04349f994460d01c56fe5a57960b6ce8 #PS1health ===== impress 1 time 2022-10-21 18:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1583532786597519360 ========== Jungle primary - another was to reduce the power of party boss kingmakers. https://apnews.com/article/what-is-louisiana-jungle-primary-43362b7289ff8993635e835af66aa2eb But it would be better to use ranked-choice voting so no runoff would be necessary. #PS1democracy ===== impress 2 time 2022-10-21 18:54 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1583532093862051840 ========== Trump intentionally lied to another court. That's news? It IS a crime. https://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-donald-trump-georgia-crime-congress-e285497c6a96f82ed08a0d561316029c #PS1insurrection ===== engage 1 engage-rate 33% impress 3 time 2022-10-21 18:50 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1583531114211160065 ========== No point wasting more money on voters who vote strictly against gas prices. https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-presidential-washington-election-2020-donald-trump-35be0e64d964726eacad5c4eda20d422 Not that the GOP can do anything different about global oil prices. #PS1election ===== impress 3 time 2022-10-21 18:43 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1583529502474264577 ========== Partisan judges are bad enough - https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/18/judicial-elections-time-bomb-democracy/ Partisan election officials are worse - https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-arizona-government-and-politics-voting-donald-trump-2b8dfac3c8352dd589b220921052017c There's a lot at stake, so there's a lot of dark money flowing. #PS1democracy ===== impress 2 time 2022-10-21 18:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1583528450538672129 ========== 2022 Election - revenge of the X's? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/17/generation-x-midterms-republican-lead/ #PS1election ===== impress 1 time 2022-10-21 18:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1583525289644019712 ========== Many GOP candidates need to seem more rational in the general election, after being election deniers in the primary. Pence is trying to rescue them. https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-donald-trump-campaigns-presidential-election-2020-497f7d79a175c4a7ade6fc0b8a1d2adf There was no "Trump-Pence agenda" - just Trump's agenda. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1784453631899148 #PS1trumpism ===== impress 2 time 2022-10-21 18:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1583521973849640960 ========== "In 2016, Russia’s covert campaign to spread false and divisive posts seemed like an aberration in the American political system. Today disinformation, from enemies, foreign and domestic, has become a feature of it." https://jacklimpert.com/2022/10/how-disinformation-splintered-and-became-more-intractable/ #PS1media ===== impress 5 time 2022-10-21 18:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1583519860440506368 ========== That was the week that wasn't - https://apnews.com/article/voting-rights-science-nancy-pelosi-climate-and-environment-donald-trump-2a20444535cfc33dc605be44fcef9e1b #PS1media ===== impress 2 time 2022-10-21 16:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1583502356909465613 ========== This isn't Richard Daley's Chicago any more - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_J._Daley the dead don't vote very much. Not enough to change any elections. https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-voting-government-and-politics-presidential-299b03156144b12c0298184498f07958 #PS1democracy ===== impress 8 time 2022-10-21 16:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1583500950345375746 ========== Bannon gets 4 months. Some places you can do more time for jaywalking. https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/steve-bannon-sentencing-10-20-22/index.html #PS1insurrection ===== impress 6 time 2022-10-21 16:15 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1583492294929285127 ========== Not fake news - many actors propagandize to promote distrust of democratic elections, toward a goal of Soviet-style elections with predetermined outcomes. https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-government-and-politics-8eaf001732ac25976f0560a3e49ed500 https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-noncitizens-voting-question-d720a6d02e066700d86812dc717906e5 https://www.foxnews.com/us/us-warns-foreign-efforts-sway-american-voters More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1784365048574673 #PS1democracy ===== impress 6 time 2022-10-21 15:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1583483899220414464 ========== States set vaccine requirements for schools, not the CDC. https://apnews.com/article/health-centers-for-disease-control-and-prevention-immunizations-covid-90a3da9675913fcd339181d7ad8d52c4 #PS1media ===== impress 4 time 2022-10-21 15:26 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1583479863423381504 ========== Ranked-choice voting on ballots - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#preferential Do your part if it's on yours! https://fairvoteaction.org/get-involved/ballot-measures/ Politicians don't like ranked-choice voting, because it transfers power from them to the voters. More at https://facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1783810081963503 #PS1democracy ===== impress 3 time 2022-10-21 12:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1583439778501910528 ========== Now the United States is for sale to the highest bidder. Or at least its politicians. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/oct/15/peter-thiel-who-is-he-republican-donor-tech-entrepreneur Thiel is done with democracy and intends to remake the US into even more of a libertarian paradise - for billionaires. https://brennancenter.substack.com/p/politics-for-sale #PS1democracy ===== impress 2 time 2022-10-21 12:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1583439333297512451 ========== When studying the Enlightenment and Freemasonry - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-enlightenment.html a recurring theme is confusion between the essence of a tradition and its historical accidents. Modern American politics reflects a similar confusion. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1783912065286638 #PS1other ===== engage 1 engage-rate 6% impress 18 likes 1 time 2022-10-21 03:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1583304452840169472 ========== GOP leaders are getting SPECIFIC about plans, including "entitlement reform" - GOP-speak for privatizing, eliminating, or shrinking Social Security and Medicare - or else shutting down the global economy! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/18/gop-debt-ceiling-plan-financial-crisis-recession/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1783888135289031 #PS1gop ===== impress 4 time 2022-10-21 03:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1583302236318244865 ========== Honesty is the best policy - but it doesn't work for GOP candidates. They have to say different things to their megadonors - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#gop and for the primary - and to swing voters. https://www.salon.com/2022/09/24/maga-candidates-scrub-references-to-stolen_partner/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1783888135289031 #PS1gop ===== impress 4 time 2022-10-21 03:26 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1583298728835751942 ========== Chosen by God - Christian Nationalism has no use for reason, democracy, inclusiveness, separation of church and state, or any other Enlightenment ideals of America's founders. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-enlightenment.html https://www.denverpost.com/2022/09/14/lauren-boebert-christian-nationalist-republican-colorado/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1783504508660727 #PS1trumpism ===== impress 5 time 2022-10-21 03:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1583296298597261313 ========== It's true! Trump was chosen by God to save America! https://www.salon.com/2019/08/22/evangelicals-told-trump-he-was-chosen-by-god-now-he-says-it-himself/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1779416145736230 #PS1gop ===== impress 4 time 2022-10-21 03:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1583295259131248641 ========== Medieval rejection of Enlightenment ideals infects India, and now it's reinfecting America. https://apnews.com/article/religion-india-holidays-nationalism-d851b8fcabb9eb0f3946275fdf596322 Is America, or India, based upon a universal idea and ideal? Or based on accidents of birth and creed? More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1783896718621506 #PS1foreign ===== impress 6 time 2022-10-21 02:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1583281019729301505 ========== Based on Ukraine, Xi hopes a GOP Congress won't be able to agree to oppose his plans to dominate Taiwan and the Pacific. https://news.yahoo.com/mccarthy-no-blank-check-ukraine-201152336.html So he wants more military capability to make the most of the opportunity. https://apnews.com/article/china-beijing-xi-jinping-mao-zedong-government-and-politics-58c5232aaa6a578b24f7345700460de3 #PS1china ===== impress 19 time 2022-10-21 00:36 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1583255901237936128 ========== An unsung diplomatic achievement. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/17/biden-lebanon-israel-diplomatic-victory/ Denounced by Netanyahu and Trumpists, of course, since they couldn't have done it. #PS1mideast ===== impress 2 time 2022-10-20 23:38 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1583241339923181568 ========== We've been asking for trouble for years by electing judges on a partisan basis. Now we're getting it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/18/judicial-elections-time-bomb-democracy/ #PS1justice ===== impress 5 time 2022-10-20 23:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1583240396498354177 ========== Covid isn't done with us. If we are lucky, it will be like the flu, with a different flu shot every year. https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/10/18/covid-variants-xbb-bq1-bq11/ #PS1virus ===== impress 10 time 2022-10-20 23:31 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1583239559806009344 ========== Over-hyped as usual! https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-john-durham-donald-trump-merrick-garland-william-barr-e1577021ffa81541df04cc9a9511fc3f #PS1trump ===== impress 3 time 2022-10-20 23:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1583239082901000194 ========== Which elections are close enough to be affected by small donations of time or money? Senate - GA, NV, PA Governor - AZ, KS, NV, OR, WI House - AK, CA-22, CA-27, KS-3, ME-2, NM-2, NY-19, NY-22, OR-5, PA-7, PA-8, PA-17, RI-2, VA-2 More at https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-tossups.html #PS1election ===== impress 20 time 2022-10-20 17:26 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1583147666837422082 ========== Pence is helping Trumpists who were election deniers in the primary, pretend to be more centrist and rational in the general. Who knows what any of them REALLY believe, except that they should be elected? https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-donald-trump-campaigns-presidential-election-2020-497f7d79a175c4a7ade6fc0b8a1d2adf More at https://facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1780416955636149 #PS1trump ===== impress 7 time 2022-10-16 18:15 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1581710539599671296 ========== Ryan predicts Trump won't be GOP nominee in 2024. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/paul-ryan-predicts-trump-not-2024-republican-nominee He is correct that GOP leaders believe in herd mentality - if a critical few reject Trump in 2024, the dam will break. https://news.yahoo.com/paul-ryan-trump-unelectability-palpable-175626015.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1780416955636149 #PS1trump ===== engage 2 engage-rate 22% expands 2 impress 9 time 2022-10-16 18:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1581707923729707008 ========== Noxious lies about little people might be more hazardous than noxious lies about big shots. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/14/opinion/alex-jones-sandy-hook-trial.html Will other media predators with assets take note and leave the noxious lies to predators too poor to be worth suing? #PS1media ===== engage 1 engage-rate 17% impress 6 time 2022-10-15 05:34 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1581156521529917441 ========== The dictator trap - the end state of personality cults. They then have a problem with an orderly succession. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/14/opinion/international-world/china-politics-xi.html #PS1china ===== impress 9 time 2022-10-15 05:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1581154832764715008 ========== Section 230 and the future of social media. https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2022/10/6/23389028/supreme-court-section-230-google-gonzalez-youtube-twitter-facebook-harry-styles #PS1media ===== impress 9 time 2022-10-15 05:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1581152485393125377 ========== What do six years of Political Scrapbook show? The challenge is Minority Rule and the tools that protect minority political and economic power. Responses to that challenge enhance equal political and economic opportunity. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-lessons.html #PS1democracy ===== impress 4 time 2022-10-15 04:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1581147844559314944 ========== Distract and delay - it's the Donald way. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/14/trump-jan-6-committee-subpoena-justice-department/ #PS1trump ===== impress 6 time 2022-10-15 03:23 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1581123553151229953 ========== You'd think the world's richest man could pay his own way. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/10/14/ukraine-elon-musk-starlink-ambassador-andrij-melnyk/ Maybe he thinks Russia is a bigger market. #PS1other ===== impress 2 time 2022-10-15 03:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1581121998188470272 ========== Cults of personality seldom end well. Stable succession is almost impossible to manage. https://apnews.com/article/china-beijing-xi-jinping-congress-government-and-politics-274ca67943b353ef9183724592a06cd9 #PS1china ===== impress 4 time 2022-10-15 00:23 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1581078199110279168 ========== That was the week that wasn't. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-zelenskyy-kyiv-mlb-sports-a0655af50c0ade448e470089c56e5205 Note that the Home Depot PAC donated to both the GOP and Democratic Senate Campaign Committees, as large corporations often to do preserve access. But more to GOP. #PS1media ===== impress 7 time 2022-10-14 16:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1580964111189389314 ========== Kim has studied and profited by Putin's example. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-putin-seoul-united-nations-nuclear-weapons-ab71f575cf671bb4661368d8633b1234 #PS1foreign ===== impress 9 time 2022-10-14 01:06 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1580726783812333568 ========== How child abduction works in Ukraine. https://apnews.com/article/ukrainian-children-russia-7493cb22c9086c6293c1ac7986d85ef6 #PS1ukraine ===== engage 1 engage-rate 5% impress 19 time 2022-10-14 00:59 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1580724978969739265 ========== "What's wrong with Trump and Trumpism?" it's not just high crimes and misdemeanors, or violent insurrection against the Capitol, but also mortal sins betraying the Enlightenment ideals of America's founders. https://political-scrapbook.net/2022-enlightenment.html #PS1theory ===== engage 1 engage-rate 11% impress 9 time 2022-10-14 00:09 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1580712292936605696 ========== So the Jan 6 committee will subpoena Trump. Will his lawyers be able to keep him from talking? 30 Trumpists pled the 5th to the committee - but they only showed Stone, Flynn, Eastman, Clark. https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/jan-6-hearing-livestream-10-13-2022/index.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1777913735886471 #PS1insurrection ===== impress 14 time 2022-10-13 20:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1580651069608108033 ========== The GOP lost Liz Cheney and most of their other rule-of-law members. But hey, they got Tulsi Gabbard! https://www.foxnews.com/media/tulsi-gabbard-democratic-leaders-foment-culture-fear-keep-people-line Such a deal! Such a career ahead on Fox! #PS1trumpism ===== engage 1 engage-rate 6% impress 18 likes 1 time 2022-10-13 16:06 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1580590823548211200 ========== Can there possibly be any more surprising details to reveal? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mhhCNqsrc Tune in today at 1300 EDT, 1000 PDT! https://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-donald-trump-presidential-elections-election-2020-congress-43c97dd8db5ce460e051204f91aa6cd1 #PS1insurrection ===== impress 4 time 2022-10-13 15:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1580588404055560193 ========== The "independent state legislatures" theory - another coup to support minority rule - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html needs a legal fig leaf. https://brennancenter.substack.com/p/spread-the-word-about-the-dangerous More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1777695182574993 #PS1minority ===== impress 6 time 2022-10-13 14:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1580562429766815744 ========== Fortunately we can make some sense of the world at the human scale and planetary scale. At the quantum scale and the cosmological scale - which might end up being the same thing! - we're very much in the dark. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/10/science/black-holes-cosmology-hologram.html #PS1other ===== impress 3 time 2022-10-13 04:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1580419832335343617 ========== More on what might be revealed at last Jan 6 hearing. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/12/us/politics/house-jan-6-panel-final-hearing.html #PS1insurrection ===== impress 3 time 2022-10-13 04:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1580414793210425344 ========== "The countermajoritarian part of the political system conflicts with Americans' democratic assumptions. GOP politicians have the ability to prevent things from spiraling out of control. They choose not to." https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/12/opinion/the-argument-america-civil-war.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1777356932608818 #PS1trumpism ===== impress 3 time 2022-10-13 04:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1580412055688867840 ========== We've closed the racial mortality gap, and are making progress on the racial immunization gap, but are getting nowhere on closing the partisan immunization gap. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/12/opinion/health/covid-pandemic-data.html #PS1virus ===== impress 4 time 2022-10-13 03:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1580404039753162752 ========== America's leading defender of minority rule! Long the leading groomer of reactionary Catholic Supreme Court nominees, he's branched out into funneling of dark money from GOP megadonors to GOP candidates. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/12/us/politics/leonard-leo-courts-dark-money.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1777337865944058 #PS1minority ===== impress 6 time 2022-10-13 03:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1580401935256997889 ========== What happens when you choose loyalty over competence. https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/10/11/florida-surgeon-general-ladapo-covid-vaccines/ #PS1virus ===== impress 2 time 2022-10-13 02:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1580387701215281152 ========== Just the man for the job! https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/10/12/sergei-surovikin-russia-ukraine-war/ Russian military doctrine is based on throwing unlimited cannon fodder on the enemy forces until they are overwhelmed, while treating civilians to murder, rape, pillage, and destruction. It's worked before! #PS1ukraine ===== impress 11 time 2022-10-13 02:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1580384175378468864 ========== DeSantis continues to flaunt his inner fascist, hoping for a chance for it to come out completely. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/12/ron-desantis-migrant-marthas-vineyard-treasury-department-probe/ #PS1trumpism ===== impress 2 time 2022-10-13 02:14 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1580381511349465088 ========== What it's like when the Republican Party becomes the Trumpist Dixiecrat personality cult and leaves you behind. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/12/liz-cheney-rubicon-republican-authoritarianism/ #PS1trumpism ===== impress 2 time 2022-10-13 02:10 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1580380325112295424 ========== Greatest hits from the Jan 6 hearings. Probably the last one is tomorrow, 13 Oct. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/07/21/january-6-hearings-guide/ #PS1insurrection ===== impress 4 time 2022-10-13 02:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1580378519837634560 ========== Trump knew all about the violent plots and looked forward to their success. He only backed off when they failed. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/10/12/new-evidence-show-trump-was-warned-violence-jan-6/ #PS1insurrection ===== impress 3 time 2022-10-13 00:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1580359055968587776 ========== Some of these threats are idle. Not all, especially from those thinking they are following orders from Trump. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/10/12/online-threats-insurrection-witnesses-/ #PS1insurrection ===== impress 7 time 2022-10-13 00:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1580357881966174208 ========== Lukashenko needs all his soldiers at home to protect him from his citizens. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-putin-estonia-moscow-belarus-ee8b2557d1c1cfc031261bc282a96e6b Ukraine has nothing to fear from that, but worries Putin will attack Ukraine through Belarus, with or without their help. #PS1ukraine ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 38 time 2022-10-13 00:12 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1580350759505301506 ========== A billion from Alex Jones? Don't worry, he won't end up in a homeless camp - he must have known this day was coming. https://apnews.com/article/shootings-school-connecticut-conspiracy-alex-jones-3f579380515fdd6eb59f5bf0e3e1c08f But it's a good lesson for the other propaganda media channels. #PS1media ===== impress 16 time 2022-10-13 00:06 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1580349314643111936 ========== What were they going to do with all that firepower? They certainly didn't need it for antifa. https://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-florida-virginia-conspiracy-government-and-politics-6ac80882e8cf61af36be6c46252ac24c #PS1insurrection ===== impress 3 time 2022-10-13 00:04 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1580348817576058881 ========== False statements all around. If Trump lies to law enforcement, his employees have to as well. https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/12/politics/trump-employee-fbi-mar-a-lago-boxes/index.html But as Trump must know, they take down crime kingpins by starting at the bottom and squeezing up. #PS1trump ===== impress 8 time 2022-10-12 23:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1580346758705528832 ========== Everybody says that 2022 is the most consequential election in American history. Of course they said that in 2016, 2018, and 2022, and will say it again in 2024. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/10/02/house-senate-control-2022-outcomes/ What have YOU got to lose? More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1777185825959262 #PS1election ===== engage 1 engage-rate 14% impress 7 time 2022-10-12 23:39 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1580342309702410240 ========== Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot Fighting in the captain's tower While calypso singers laugh at them And fishermen hold flowers https://washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/11/ts-eliot-waste-land-100-years-old/ https://newyorker.com/magazine/2022/10/03/the-shock-and-aftershocks-of-the-waste-land More read about than read or understood, The Waste Land is now 100 years old. Still Modern? #PS1other ===== impress 7 time 2022-10-12 14:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1580209181868449792 ========== Appeasement doesn't work with narcissistic dictators. It just increases their appetites. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/10/12/baltics-poland-russia-warnings-nato/ #PS1putin ===== impress 6 time 2022-10-12 07:37 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1580100329986674689 ========== Does Madison Cawthorn have a future? What does it take to get McCarthy mad at you, and what might you do to restart your career? https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2022/10/11/madison-cawthorn-future/ Trump still likes him. #PS1trumpism ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 39 time 2022-10-12 07:30 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1580098518395412480 ========== How do politicians sell their souls? Speaker Henry Clay would rather be right than President. Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy would rather be Speaker than right. It might work if he can keep the dark money flowing from megadonors to candidates. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/10/11/kevin-mccarthy-jan-6-trump-book/ #PS1gop ===== impress 9 time 2022-10-12 07:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1580095295735463936 ========== Donate to Trump! Trump is better off, his lawyers are better off, and two out of three isn't bad! https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/10/11/trump-legal-fees-donor-funds-rnc/ #PS1trump ===== impress 9 time 2022-10-12 07:04 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1580092053148442631 ========== If you don't have the facts, just make them up. Fox will treat fantasies it likes the same as facts. https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/10/politics/fact-check-trump-documents-george-hw-bush-bowling-chinese-clinton/index.html #PS1trump ===== impress 2 time 2022-10-12 06:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1580090121193259009 ========== 2022 like 1866? The resemblance is stronger than you might think. https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/11/opinions/2022-midterm-elections-1866-sinha/index.html But a reactionary minority is still doing its best to impose its will on the majority, by any available means. #PS1insurrection ===== engage 2 engage-rate 50% impress 4 time 2022-10-12 06:52 +0000 urlclicks 2 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1580088976441954306 ========== McConnell is secure in his Senate seat and leadership position. He lines up the donors to support his GOP colleagues. And he knows nobody ever got in trouble for keeping his mouth shut. He just wishes that Trump and the Trumpists knew that. https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/11/politics/mitch-mcconnell-interview-midterm-cliffhanger/index.html #PS1gop ===== impress 7 time 2022-10-12 06:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1580087346191441920 ========== Next and perhaps last Jan 6 hearing - Thursday at 1300 EDT, 1000 PDT. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/11/jan-6-trump-riot-house-probe-next-hearing-to-show-new-material.html #PS1insurrection ===== engage 1 engage-rate 14% expands 1 impress 7 time 2022-10-12 06:24 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1580081939846832130 ========== The Biden strategy - let Trump and Trumpists do the talking to convince persuadable voters to vote against them. So far they're doing a great job! They've turned a red wave into a ripple at best. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/09/opinion/biden-trump-midterms.html #PS1biden ===== impress 33 time 2022-10-11 13:15 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1579823109892251648 ========== The defenders of minority rule have chosen local school boards to groom obedient citizens who will vote about fantasy rather than fact. https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-elections-education-school-boards-teaching-059f2465829ab009394469b95c8cc94a How will fantasy school boards handle factual budgets, infrastructure, security, and teacher shortages? #PS1minority ===== impress 15 time 2022-10-11 13:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1579821905418149889 ========== The Jewish megadonors supporting Trumpism need to consider the end game of Christian Nationalism. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/10/us/politics/mastriano-shapiro-antisemitism.html NSDAP obtained power in 1933 but die Endlösung der Judenfrage wasn't finalized until 1942. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 16 time 2022-10-11 04:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1579691691065626624 ========== Putin finally and publicly declares war on civilians, to appease his right wing. It's the Russian way of crushing resistance. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/10/world/europe/russia-putin-ukraine-strikes.html #PS1ukraine ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 55 time 2022-10-11 04:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1579687310761037825 ========== How many people did Tucker Carlson's propaganda kill? https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/10/10/vaccines-coronavirus-fox-news/ Who cares? The survivors love him. #PS1media ===== engage 9 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 596 likes 1 time 2022-10-11 03:55 +0000 urlclicks 4 userclicks 3 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1579682068807979009 ========== Ukraine is already worried about GOP control of the House in 2023 - https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/10/10/republicans-ukraine-putin-russia-midterms/ Plenty of GOP are opposed to further support. Putin encourages them all at every opportunity. #PS1ukraine ===== engage 2 engage-rate 5% impress 39 time 2022-10-11 03:50 +0000 userclicks 2 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1579680891256774656 ========== Will Sasse really protect the university from DeSantis? Some people are skeptical. https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/10/10/sasse-university-florida-protests/ #PS1other ===== engage 1 engage-rate 6% impress 16 time 2022-10-11 03:43 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1579679080815136768 ========== “If Trump won reelection in 2024, how long until California says, Why are we sending more in taxes for every federal dollar we’re getting back” https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2022/10/10/country-after-second-trump-term/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1775675809443597 #PS1trumpism ===== impress 9 time 2022-10-11 03:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1579678323923648512 ========== Career politicians can get to feel entitled. Usually they've cultivated enough megadonors to justify the feeling. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/10/demings-challenges-rubio-florida/ #PS1election ===== impress 3 time 2022-10-11 03:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1579675434442436609 ========== If you don't like the facts, just make stuff up - part 2. https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/10/politics/trump-documents-shipping-gsa/index.html Trump was too busy indulging victory fantasies to actually plan in a timely way for his defeat. #PS1trump ===== impress 10 time 2022-10-11 03:04 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1579669331595567104 ========== If you don't like the facts - just make stuff up! The only truth that matters is whether it polls well with your base. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/10/10/trump-classified-documents-bush-clinton/ https://apnews.com/article/sports-donald-trump-arkansas-bill-clinton-business-d33251cf69d1e7a17b9cbfc18ae08cbe #PS1trumpism ===== impress 2 time 2022-10-11 02:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1579667919285366784 ========== MTG is the future of the Trumpist Dixiecrat Party! https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/10/10/greene-mccarthy-house-republicans-trump/ https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-donald-trump-marjorie-taylor-greene-congress-ed7fb114dbe45d0cd703d8800c21bfa3 May it follow the Whigs into well-deserved oblivion. #PS1gop ===== impress 6 time 2022-10-11 02:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1579665948700995584 ========== Debating Trumpists seems to be a waste of time. https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-ohio-donald-trump-rob-portman-cleveland-4e6027437b2632eb244c805de200dda6 Is anybody going to be convinced now by facts and logic that wasn't before? #PS1trumpism ===== engage 4 engage-rate 2% impress 185 likes 1 time 2022-10-11 02:42 +0000 urlclicks 3 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1579663717213802497 ========== Doing nothing is an excellent qualification for a GOP senator! It's what they do best! https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/08/us/politics/jd-vance-ohio-senate-nonprofit.html Vance will learn how to cut taxes for billionaires and privatize social security and medicare like a good GOP senator. #PS1gop ===== impress 5 time 2022-10-10 04:43 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1579331870508318720 ========== Apparently it's all up to educated suburban middle-class women! https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/08/us/politics/senate-midterm-elections.html Though they pretend, nobody's really sure what will happen. #PS1election ===== impress 4 time 2022-10-10 04:20 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1579325918195384320 ========== Russian refugees flood Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. Rents are rising! https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/09/europe/russia-draft-dodgers-kazakhstan-intl-hnk/index.html #PS1putin ===== impress 24 time 2022-10-10 03:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1579317131183026176 ========== Did Noem telegraph too many ambitions too soon? https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-arizona-presidential-kristi-noem-58b49f034f7d137d0e422f994ad01c0b A self-serving Trumpist opportunist serves herself at every opportunity! #PS1trumpism ===== impress 4 time 2022-10-10 03:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1579314339521044486 ========== Four years for assaulting cops and journalist. https://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-prisons-journalists-sentencing-b14b7d2b44abe37d5b0b34fcf1a9dff6 #PS1insurrection ===== impress 3 time 2022-10-10 03:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1579313212239273985 ========== No change of tune in Michigan! https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-voting-donald-trump-0ee9afeb304662dcec28e8af0f18bc1d Trumpists offer the same lines for the general election as for the primary. Will it work? Most other Trumpists have changed their tune for the general. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 12 time 2022-10-10 03:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1579311270641434624 ========== Well of course, if you're a white Trumpist senator from Alabama, crime = black. That's what your grandfathers said, and their grandfathers before them! https://apnews.com/article/tuberville-comments-reparations-19d58a87c23b57c1e9a6c8ca7f8fcb70 Amazing that there are still black Trumpists. They can't say they weren't warned. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 4 time 2022-10-10 03:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1579309907782033409 ========== "you have to deal with it at the source" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/10/08/ron-desantis-migrant-flights-marthas-vineyard/ So let DeSantis and Abbott redeploy their election fraud cops right to the source of immigration fraud - to arrest any EMPLOYER with illegal employees! More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1774625046215340 #PS1immigration ===== impress 8 time 2022-10-09 23:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1579256408549519360 ========== Often only the dominant party primary election matters. That winner is sure to win the general election. Can open primaries, where everybody can choose which primary to vote, reduce one-party rule? https://www.yakimaherald.com/opinion/commentary-the-threat-to-democracy-that-no-one-s-talking-about/article_14208ca2-45d6-11ed-afa2-c707a4c10fe7.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1774525489558629 #PS1democracy ===== impress 8 time 2022-10-09 20:38 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1579209687572316161 ========== Controlling climate change once seemed possible. "Gingrich later reversed himself, calling the ad probably the dumbest single thing I’ve done in recent years.” Did he not check first with his megadonors? https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2022/10/06/petroleum-papers-dembicki-review/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1774022712942240 #PS1climate ===== impress 9 time 2022-10-09 07:14 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1579007444402917376 ========== “Where’s my Roy Cohn?” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Cohn "Cohn was disbarred weeks before he died of AIDS, abandoned by Trump" https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2022/10/03/confidence-man-maggie-haberman-review-trump/ "social, political, media and moral breakdown overtook New York beginning in the 1970s" More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1774006019610576 #PS1trump ===== impress 11 time 2022-10-09 07:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1579003798529658881 ========== Saved by Hurricane Ian! DeSantis is too busy right now to answer questions about the legality of using Florida taxpayer dollars to transport migrants from Texas to Massachusetts. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/10/08/ron-desantis-migrant-flights-marthas-vineyard/ #PS1immigration ===== impress 10 time 2022-10-09 06:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1578997053015064576 ========== Scott won't say anything to alienate violent insurrectionists before an election. https://www.axios.com/2022/10/02/rick-scott-trump-mcconnell And Trump won't stop dropping n-word hints, to maintain racist enthusiasm before an election. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/08/trump-n-word-rally-dangerous/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1773992392945272 #PS1trumpism ===== impress 8 time 2022-10-09 06:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1578995063136260098 ========== Can trials of politicians help? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/08/trump-prosecution-reconciliation-hunter-biden/ #PS1justice ===== impress 5 time 2022-10-09 06:06 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1578990286826401792 ========== Trump knows nothing about rural life. And rural people know nothing about Mar-a-Lago llife. Is that why they get along so well? https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/08/politics/nevada-republicans-rural-voters-trump-laxalt/index.html So far, he's gotten the better end of the deal. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 6 time 2022-10-09 05:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1578988375037526016 ========== "It brings forward by a number of weeks the strategic choices he must make about Russia’s occupation of southern Ukraine" https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/08/europe/crimea-bridge-putin-ukraine-analysis-intl/index.html #PS1ukraine ===== engage 1 engage-rate 11% impress 9 time 2022-10-09 05:51 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1578986513114619904 ========== Yet another way that climate change is inflationary. https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/07/business/mississippi-river-closures-grounded-barges-drought-climate/index.html #PS1inflation ===== impress 6 time 2022-10-08 13:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1578746698024701953 ========== What Putin's opposition is calling for - an even more brutal war. Putin is allowing, if not encouraging, them to speak. https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/08/europe/russia-war-criticism-analysis-intl-cmd/index.html #PS1putin ===== impress 16 time 2022-10-08 13:52 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1578745146425823234 ========== Building a cult of personality - by learning from the expert. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/07/opinion/xi-jinping-mao-zedong.html #PS1china ===== engage 1 engage-rate 9% impress 11 likes 1 time 2022-10-08 04:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1578599325474885632 ========== When does prejudice merit recusal? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/07/justice-thomas-recuse-mar-a-lago-documents-case/ #PS1justice ===== impress 3 time 2022-10-08 04:07 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1578597854150463489 ========== Armenia and Turkey are finding ways to talk to each other about the future. In time Turkey might admit that 1915 happened, and Armenia might admit that nobody n Turkey today had anything to do with it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/07/turkey-armenia-erdogan-pashinyan-meeting/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1773085766369268 #PS1mideast ===== engage 3 engage-rate 9% impress 32 replies 2 time 2022-10-08 03:59 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1578595808617775105 ========== Parody and democracy. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/07/onion-amicus-brief-supreme-court-satire-essential/ Who knew they were so closely related? #PS1other ===== impress 2 time 2022-10-08 03:43 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1578591961480503298 ========== The special grand jury in Georgia might get to hear from Flynn and Gingrich. https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-donald-trump-georgia-presidential-atlanta-6f0b2c52a8315e7a61d4d8604bb3c53f #PS1insurrection ===== impress 2 time 2022-10-08 03:36 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1578590122198515712 ========== Maybe it's true, maybe it's not, but NOBODY says it couldn't possibly be true. https://edition.cnn.com/2022/10/07/politics/herschel-walker-second-abortion-allegation-georgia #PS1election ===== impress 3 time 2022-10-08 03:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1578588398771920896 ========== How is Iran like a Trumpist paradise? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/07/opinion/iran-women-protests.html The laws only apply to poor people! #PS1mideast ===== impress 17 time 2022-10-07 23:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1578531740129206272 ========== "a constitution that subverts majority rule, fuels authoritarian movements and renders popular sovereignty inert is not a constitution that can be said to protect, secure or even enable American democracy" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/07/opinion/constitution-democracy-biden-trump.html #PS1democracy ===== impress 4 time 2022-10-07 23:26 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1578527286512320512 ========== Rewriting history became popular in the American South after Reconstruction. But it's always been popular with Russian dictators, and Putin won't change that. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/10/07/world/nobel-peace-prize#for-years-memorial-has-fought-efforts-to-rewrite-russias-history There is no way to rehabilitate Stalin by facts - so Putin has to do it by decree. #PS1putin ===== engage 1 engage-rate 7% impress 15 time 2022-10-07 23:08 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1578522665777627136 ========== Wondering if you should donate to politicians in 2022? https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-tossups.html Here's one in particular - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/07/opinion/nevada-democrats-catherine-cortez-masto.html The epitome of the blue-urban/red-rural divide in America. #PS1election ===== impress 4 time 2022-10-07 23:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1578520853498671104 ========== GOP talks about culture wars in elections, in order to preserve the power of the megadonors. But 30 years ago Obama worked out a plan for racial justice as a byproduct of economic justice. https://nytimes.com/2022/10/07/opinion/obama-lost-book-manuscript.html How can it be done? More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1772901026387742 #PS1theory ===== impress 10 time 2022-10-07 22:53 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1578518953151762433 ========== Legalized gambling - just say no. Or no more, since it's impossible to get rid of once infected. https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/10/04/poll-shows-sports-betting-measures-tanking-climate-tax-struggling/ Both propositions claim every possible benefit to every possible group - except the MAIN benefits going to big gambling corporations. #PS1capolitics ===== impress 4 time 2022-10-07 21:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1578502681655578625 ========== Corporations don't donate to politicians, they invest, and expect return on their investment, or at least access. What do the Niners expect from San Jose? They are next door in Santa Clara. https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/09/29/49ers-shell-out-more-for-cindy-chavez-santa-clara-elections/ #PS1capolitics ===== impress 21 time 2022-10-07 21:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1578501007448821761 ========== A traditional Republican unclear about Trumpism. "We need candidates the public should take seriously. That goes beyond celebrity. It requires a conservative vision for governing." https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/06/opinions/herschel-walker-scandal-georgia-senate-gop-duncan/index.html Now it's ALL about celebrity. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1772799476397897 #PS1gop ===== impress 4 time 2022-10-07 19:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1578472919516053504 ========== That was the week that wasn't. https://apnews.com/article/inflation-womens-soccer-technology-health-sports-509fb65ce0ebb34c2258f4ff38a6fc95 #PS1media ===== impress 3 time 2022-10-07 18:43 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1578456021076361216 ========== In the 2022 election, vote and donate against Trumpist election deniers. Here are some of the closest races - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-tossups.html Here's a more complete list of election deniers. https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/interactive/2022/election-deniers-running-for-office-elections-2022/ #PS1trumpism ===== impress 4 time 2022-10-07 18:31 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1578452864652914690 ========== Although none mentioned in the article are in "Tossup" races now - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-tossups.html Many remarkable Trumpist candidates are running for the House! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/07/republican-house-candidates-2022-crazy/ Some are in safe districts and will be elected, then will give McCarthy migraines. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 6 time 2022-10-07 17:53 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1578443470116569088 ========== Lots of Arizona voters have noticed the Trumpist candidate flip-flops on issue between the primary and the general, and wonder what they really believe. https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/07/politics/arizona-ticket-splitters-senate-governors-race/index.html #PS1trumpism ===== impress 2 time 2022-10-07 17:37 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1578439435640721409 ========== Even Wagner Group is having trouble in Ukraine. https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/06/europe/wagner-ukraine-struggles-marat-gabidullin-cmd-intl/index.html #PS1ukraine ===== engage 2 engage-rate 17% impress 12 time 2022-10-07 17:29 +0000 urlclicks 2 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1578437316619644932 ========== Lots of moving parts to this deal. The last thing Musk wants is to pay for Twitter himself. https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-twitter-inc-business-social-media-8f56dba15a484628e67ede4ee346cee0 #PS1media ===== impress 4 time 2022-10-07 17:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1578434196778848256 ========== Making money off the gullible! https://apnews.com/article/reawaken-america-tour-michael-flynn-910e83b515185751be82868b227ca22e The Christian Nationalists should take a closer look at the beliefs of some of the men on their money - Jefferson and Franklin for starters. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 5 time 2022-10-07 17:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1578433344013881346 ========== What happens on Twitter happens to you! https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/10/06/larry-magid-how-elon-musk-might-impact-twitter-and-democracy/ #PS1media ===== impress 4 time 2022-10-07 17:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1578430312119353345 ========== Is there an off-ramp for Trump? Would he take it if there were? His political and legal advisers seem to be giving him conflicting advice. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/09/30/trump-lawyers-kise-corcoran-bobb/ #PS1trump ===== impress 7 time 2022-10-07 16:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1578423796255424513 ========== Russia no longer can help Armenia and Azerbaijan. America is stepping in. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/09/30/armenia-azerbaijan-conflict-putin-control/ Armenia is a democracy but has historically aligned with Russia. #PS1foreign ===== engage 37 engage-rate 6% expands 2 impress 588 likes 8 retweets 3 time 2022-10-07 16:29 +0000 urlclicks 16 userclicks 8 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1578422162955698177 ========== Endorsed by Trump! https://ballotpedia.org/Endorsements_by_Donald_Trump And so a Trumpist trademark - trying to have it both ways. Encourage the fringe and cultivate their support in private, but denounce them vaguely and half-heartedly in public. https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/30/politics/kfile-joe-kent-ties-to-white-nationalists-nazi-sympathizer/index.html #PS1trumpism ===== impress 5 time 2022-10-07 16:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1578421332022132748 ========== The Declaration of Independence is "aspirational, debuting a uniquely American theory: that government exists to secure people’s inborn, individual, inalienable rights." Both sides suppose these Enlightenment ideals to be under attack. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/09/16/constitution-day-suggestions/ #PS1politics ===== impress 1 time 2022-10-07 16:19 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1578419666162024454 ========== It's hard to be too cynical about the motivations of politicians writing tax law. Time for something different? https://www.one-flat-tax.net/ For now, renew the R&D tax credit in exchange for renewing the child tax credit. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/09/15/democrats-child-tax-credit-deal/ #PS1tax ===== impress 1 time 2022-10-07 16:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1578416984240271360 ========== "There is only one cardinal sin in the energy business: Never, ever make yourself an unreliable supplier. No one will ever trust you again." https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/30/opinion/putin-russia-ukraine.html In this big game of chicken, will Putin swerve or will Europe? Can Russia become a North Korea? #PS1putin ===== impress 23 time 2022-10-07 16:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1578415539730292736 ========== "The purpose of executive privilege is to benefit the country as a whole — not to benefit presidents as individuals" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/30/us/politics/trump-executive-privilege.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1772648463079665 #PS1justice ===== impress 2 time 2022-10-07 15:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1578413815087013889 ========== A dishonor roll of insurrectionist candidates. How many are going to be elected? https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-tossups.html Claiming a legitimate election was stolen arouses and provides cover for violent insurrection. https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/us-election-risk-index/2022-candidates-challenge-presidential-election-results/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1772587186419126 #PS1insurrection ===== impress 2 time 2022-10-07 14:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1578391780608745472 ========== "many lawmakers plan to shill for dictators after leaving office" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/05/stop-foreign-dictator-lobbying-racket/ After leaving office, many lawmakers have forgotten how to make an honest living, so what else CAN they do? #PS1democracy ===== impress 10 time 2022-10-07 14:07 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1578386546872311808 ========== In order to fortify THEIR regime of minority rule - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html Trumpists want to overthrow "the regime" - the rule of law - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/05/us/politics/civil-war-social-media-trump.html to replace it with a cult of personality - https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/05/marjorie-taylor-greene-political-violence-trump-jan-6/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1772567399754438 #PS1trumpism ===== impress 5 time 2022-10-07 14:03 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1578385554231549959 ========== "Money is the mother's milk of politics" - want to do something about it? https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-tossups.html#dark "I just send all my fund-raising emails to junk" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/06/opinion/small-dollar-donations-online.html There's not much difference between red and blue fund-raising appeals by email or text. #PS1democracy ===== impress 4 time 2022-10-07 04:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1578234205116387328 ========== Trying to come up with a viable alternative to Trumpism in Montana. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/06/opinion/democrats-independents-montana.html Hint: it's not far-left liberalism. It's going to be conservative - but rule of law instead of cult of personality. #PS1politics ===== impress 3 time 2022-10-07 03:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1578231553443782657 ========== Liberal nationalism - not an oxymoron. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/06/opinion/ukraine-liberal-nationalism.html "Blut und Boden" nationalism looks backwards, but the nationalism of the Enlightenment ideals of America's founders looks forward. #PS1theory ===== impress 8 time 2022-10-07 03:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1578229854800998400 ========== Twitter is much better at stoking tribalism than promoting progress. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/06/opinion/elon-musk-twitter.html #PS1media ===== impress 6 time 2022-10-07 03:38 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1578228237632618496 ========== Putin had a bad month in Ukraine — but a good month in the U.S. Congress. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/06/opinion/opec-putin-mbs.html MBS did OK too. #PS1climate ===== engage 2 engage-rate 11% impress 18 time 2022-10-07 03:33 +0000 urlclicks 2 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1578226955488370689 ========== Strains among the oligarchs might eventually threaten Putin. If some criticism is allowed, where will it end? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/06/world/europe/putin-russia-army-criticism.html #PS1putin ===== impress 5 time 2022-10-07 03:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1578223252995903490 ========== The present was foreseen in detail in 1933. Along with the lies that people told themselves. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/06/opinion/the-oppermanns-feuchtwanger.html #PS1trumpism ===== impress 4 time 2022-10-07 03:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1578221944683384832 ========== What's the secret of the QAnon anthem? And what does it have to do with QAnon mythology? https://soundcloud.com/will-van-de-crommert/mirrors The composer certainly didn't intend it for QAnon or for Trump. https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2022/10/05/qanon-trump-rallies-anthem/ #PS1qanon ===== impress 5 time 2022-10-07 03:06 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1578220172959105024 ========== Morality is only an issue for the other party. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/10/05/walker-republican-moral-politicians/ #PS1gop ===== impress 2 time 2022-10-07 02:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1578214950627000321 ========== GOP candidates REALLY don't want to answer questions about abortion. Either they lose votes from the base or lose votes from the middle. Their HONEST answer would be "I'll say, or not say, anything it takes to get elected." https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/10/05/maine-governor-lepage-mills-abortion/ #PS1gop ===== impress 3 time 2022-10-07 02:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1578213991595200513 ========== People will vote for their tribe, no matter how bad the candidates. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/10/05/arizona-poll-republican-candidates/ And more voters can tell you how much they paid for gas last time, than what their candidate will do if elected. #PS1democracy ===== impress 3 time 2022-10-07 02:37 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1578212986082074626 ========== Which is worse - politicians or spammers? Obviously the answer is - politician spammers! https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/10/05/stop-political-spam-gmail/ #PS1media ===== engage 1 engage-rate 17% impress 6 likes 1 time 2022-10-07 02:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1578209996893929472 ========== How Xi has become a cult of personality. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/10/05/china-xi-jinping-party-congress/ #PS1china ===== engage 2 engage-rate 18% impress 11 time 2022-10-07 02:19 +0000 urlclicks 1 userclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1578208253950930945 ========== “What we have seen now is the return of America as the essential factor in European security” https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/05/ukraine-war-changed-europe-nato-russia/ #PS1foreign ===== impress 3 time 2022-10-07 01:53 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1578201715139936256 ========== How covid changed Canada - https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/05/canada-covid-legacy-right-wing-populism/ What will the Canadian right do now that covid restrictions are lifted? #PS1other ===== impress 5 time 2022-10-07 01:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1578200846117937152 ========== Regional federalism - freedom for red states - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-regional.html Also means freedom for blue states to NOT subsidize red states - https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/06/florida-hurricane-ian-democrats-aid/ Maybe red states can petition the UN for disaster relief. #PS1democracy ===== impress 6 time 2022-10-07 01:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1578199861828079617 ========== The Electoral Count Reform Act would reduce the impact of election deniers. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/06/election-deniers-republicans-count-congress/ The GOP is now the Trumpist Dixiecrat Party and predominately election denier candidates. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/10/06/elections-deniers-midterm-elections-2022/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1772081869802991 #PS1trumpism ===== impress 8 time 2022-10-07 00:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1578188058616209409 ========== "Former president George W. Bush, former GOP governors and other former Republican senators and House members have not lined up to call out deniers" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/06/cheney-election-deniers-republicans-arizona/ #PS1gop ===== impress 4 time 2022-10-07 00:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1578183805130547200 ========== Originalism cuts both ways! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/06/ketanji-brown-jackson-supreme-court-alabama-originalism/ #PS1justice ===== impress 1 time 2022-10-07 00:37 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1578182799764246528 ========== Of course Putin wants GOP to win in November. Does MBS as well? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/06/saudis-snub-biden-cut-oil-production-2022-midterms/ We can't as much about Putin, but the Saudis need us against Iran. #PS1mideast ===== impress 17 time 2022-10-07 00:31 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1578181214971645953 ========== What a real leader sounds like - https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/06/moldova-president-interview-eu-integration/ Not in it for the money or the glory. #PS1other ===== impress 2 time 2022-10-07 00:26 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1578179909872066562 ========== The Feds are going after terrorists targeting election officials. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/10/06/election-threats-hickman-ford-rissi/ #PS1insurrection ===== impress 1 time 2022-10-07 00:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1578177818420162561 ========== This trip is a bigger challenge than a summer cruise from Cuba to Florida. The Russians will probably make sure it doesn't happen again. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-immigration-coast-guard-lisa-murkowski-alaska-d6df61f70056645283b0b384087d7486 #PS1putin ===== impress 9 time 2022-10-06 23:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1578173129393811457 ========== Another chance to purify the GOP by getting rid of a non-Trumpist senator! https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/06/politics/ben-sasse-resigning-senate/index.html #PS1gop ===== impress 3 time 2022-10-06 23:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1578172451879415809 ========== Gresham's other law - Bad tweets drive out good! https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/05/tech/elon-musk-twitter-donald-trump/index.html But rest assured that Musk won't allow Twitter to become a free-fire, free-speech zone. Criticism of Musk won't be allowed any more than criticism of Trump on Truth Social. #PS1media ===== impress 43 time 2022-10-06 23:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1578171080518209536 ========== No deep state in Russia! "Autocrats who put their cronies into key positions, control the media to crowd out discordant voices are able to command their subordinates to follow the most foolish orders.” https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/06/opinions/putin-make-russia-weak-history-bergen/index.html #PS1putin ===== impress 13 time 2022-10-06 23:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1578169702748024832 ========== GOP candidates need to keep immigration a live issue, and GOP megadonors need a steady supply of cheap labor. https://apnews.com/article/biden-immigration-congress-government-and-politics-a6b7a3f19297e9d6675fd625634dd41f But Freischütz-macht-Freiheit Caucus ready to impeach Mayorkas - https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/06/politics/kevin-mccarthy-alejandro-mayorkas-republican-impeachment-effort/index.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1772040669807111 #PS1immigration ===== impress 12 time 2022-10-06 23:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1578168666629160960 ========== Proud Boy pleads guilty to seditious conspiracy and agrees to cooperate. https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-conspiracy-timothy-kelly-proud-boys-95c354fdfed5257c0e16743f6234c829 #PS1insurrection ===== impress 5 time 2022-10-06 23:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1578162436862984194 ========== Regional federalism - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-regional.html starting to take shape? https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/10/06/gavin-newsom-west-coast-governors-sign-climate-change-agreement/ #PS1climate ===== impress 1 time 2022-10-06 23:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1578160191173894144 ========== How soon could Trump get back on Twitter? https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/05/tech/elon-musk-twitter-donald-trump/index.html Would Musk really finish the deal? Would he really reinstate Trump? Would Trump take the bait? Why does Musk want to restore media parity between truth and falsehood. #PS1media ===== impress 7 time 2022-10-06 14:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1578036430030270465 ========== It's the same in UK as in US - big tax cuts for "job creator" megadonors follow big campaign donations from megadonors. https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/06/uk/truss-campaign-donations-intl-gbr/index.html All to strengthen minority rule. #PS1minority ===== impress 1 time 2022-10-06 14:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1578034112010461184 ========== Putin's pals continue to play with US government websites. https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/05/politics/russian-hackers-state-government-websites/index.html Their goal is to support the Trumpist narrative that elections are insecure and unreliable - especially if Democrats win. #PS1russian ===== impress 4 time 2022-10-06 14:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1578033472651739139 ========== Putin propaganda is good enough for Truth Social! https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-technology-misinformation-0da59f7a72705c5f3fcdb59af1fc7af0 #PS1media ===== impress 38 time 2022-10-06 13:48 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1578019484094210049 ========== Russians discover problems with leadership of self-serving opportunists selected for professed loyalty rather than competence. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-putin-6ef2407371c67f0736459378833fab7a The knives are out for the Russian military leadership. Putin has to keep the focus there rather than on himself. #PS1putin ===== impress 15 time 2022-10-06 12:57 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1578006555957395458 ========== The great California gasoline price mystery continues. https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/10/05/california-gas-prices-shrouded-in-secrecy-amid-historic-cost-spike/ None of the known issues account for a dollar increase in two weeks. #PS1capolitics ===== impress 10 time 2022-10-05 14:21 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1577665174730788865 ========== Low interest rates might be "natural" for an aging population - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/04/opinion/interest-rates-inflation.html but it might take global coordination of interest rates to get back there - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/04/opinion/the-all-too-real-risk-of-a-global-recession.html #PS1inflation ===== impress 5 time 2022-10-05 05:38 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1577533711607689216 ========== There are only two men in the world who can affect oil prices significantly before the election - Putin and MBS. And both want higher prices. https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/04/politics/white-house-lobby-opec-oil-production-cuts-gasoline-prices-midterms/index.html #PS1inflation ===== engage 2 engage-rate 1% impress 165 time 2022-10-05 05:26 +0000 urlclicks 2 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1577530666027057152 ========== Coal miner's politicians should have 1% of the personal integrity of this coal miner's daughter. https://apnews.com/article/loretta-lynn-dies-5f1545e60e37e482faa42cbb25ae61e8 #PS1other ===== impress 4 time 2022-10-05 05:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1577528732889145344 ========== This is news? That the Arizona GOP chair has something criminal to hide and so pled the 5th? Who would have expected anything else from a fake elector? https://apnews.com/article/arizona-phoenix-subpoenas-congress-government-and-politics-00e9d0f70d8dd6aeef9453f9bcb7e8b9 #PS1insurrection ===== impress 3 time 2022-10-05 05:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1577527468264542208 ========== Promote minority representation by a combination of 1) ranked-choice voting 2) multi-member districts 3) no sore-loser laws. These make gerrymandering pointless. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#redistricting Otherwise endless redistricting battles. https://apnews.com/article/voting-rights-ketanji-brown-jackson-us-supreme-court-race-and-ethnicity-f274ce05a19da4a3d48648f82df174e2 #PS1democracy ===== impress 4 time 2022-10-05 05:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1577526190285283328 ========== Beware celebrities talking about things they know nothing about! https://apnews.com/article/kim-kardashian-sec-settlement-dec4c8351551c669335cfc7a1874c3fd #PS1media ===== impress 5 time 2022-10-04 06:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1577181410300874752