| Title | Date | Im- press | En- gage | Ex- pand | URL- clicks | Like | Re- tweet | Link to Text | Link to Tweet |
| The first domino falls in Georgia. How many more will | 2023-09-30 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1707919294741553372 | 1707919294741553372 |
| That was the week that wasn't - | 2023-09-29 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1707813965269708825 | 1707813965269708825 |
| The perfect platform for defending minority rule. | 2023-09-26 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1706512553030119478 | 1706512553030119478 |
| We already know the answer for shouting fire in a crowded | 2023-09-26 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1706502184739999800 | 1706502184739999800 |
| Trump's got it locked up? | 2023-09-25 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1706154709915169250 | 1706154709915169250 |
| McCarthy thought he could pull the tar baby out of the | 2023-09-25 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1706151451633066270 | 1706151451633066270 |
| 120000 Armenians lost in the noise of larger crises. | 2023-09-22 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1705363259946365023 | 1705363259946365023 |
| McCarthy doesn't have a majority, just a plurality. | 2023-09-22 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1705361662356922713 | 1705361662356922713 |
| That was the week that wasn't - | 2023-09-22 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1705305980815409251 | 1705305980815409251 |
| "it’s going to get even uglier” | 2023-09-22 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1705270945815069171 | 1705270945815069171 |
| Shutting down the Federal government is not a policy | 2023-09-22 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1705258688095928501 | 1705258688095928501 |
| Trumpist brown-shirt practice in Missouri! | 2023-09-22 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1705254408060350923 | 1705254408060350923 |
| It's very expensive to embrace the Trump tar baby. | 2023-09-22 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1705039990219325497 | 1705039990219325497 |
| How can a fake elector be a Federal official? | 2023-09-22 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1705039547615330756 | 1705039547615330756 |
| "I got the job done" | 2023-09-22 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1705038288393019531 | 1705038288393019531 |
| There are worse fates than death in battle. | 2023-09-22 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1705035083328176407 | 1705035083328176407 |
| Think it's easy to translate? | 2023-09-22 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1705029632825975028 | 1705029632825975028 |
| When the Federal Supreme Court is mostly stuck on | 2023-09-22 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1705027097318838333 | 1705027097318838333 |
| Another take on Murdoch - | 2023-09-22 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1705017877743706294 | 1705017877743706294 |
| Is it going to cost Trump $250 million in lawyer fees to | 2023-09-22 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1705016901167132923 | 1705016901167132923 |
| Not just tilting at windmills! | 2023-09-22 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1705014262845120588 | 1705014262845120588 |
| "He did nothing to support organized labor except lip | 2023-09-22 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1705012331816866064 | 1705012331816866064 |
| “open contempt for those who are not members of their | 2023-09-22 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1705009765129265496 | 1705009765129265496 |
| Where've you been Mr Speaker? | 2023-09-21 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1705006430498275363 | 1705006430498275363 |
| That was the week that wasn't - | 2023-09-15 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1702719138635141517 | 1702719138635141517 |
| All the megadonors' horses and all of their men, not | 2023-09-13 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1701991976554602536 | 1701991976554602536 |
| Score one for Pence! | 2023-09-13 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1701990811418947898 | 1701990811418947898 |
| IRS targets max tax evaders - | 2023-09-12 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1701747350291775752 | 1701747350291775752 |
| Nobody has any real evidence - the main point is to keep | 2023-09-12 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1701702380939833739 | 1701702380939833739 |
| To fulfill their duty to protect minority rule, Freischütz | 2023-09-11 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1701252155515301910 | 1701252155515301910 |
| Students are revolting! | 2023-09-10 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1700991878597120174 | 1700991878597120174 |
| The latest scam to protect minority rule. | 2023-09-09 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1700305199917838660 | 1700305199917838660 |
| That was the week that wasn't - | 2023-09-08 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1700284558426395033 | 1700284558426395033 |
| Ranked-choice voting plus multimember districts would | 2023-09-07 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1699801471250997379 | 1699801471250997379 |
| The insurrectionists are trying to run run down the clock | 2023-09-07 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1699799669776462004 | 1699799669776462004 |
| GOP was born in 1854 as a radical assault on minority rule, | 2023-09-07 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1699798739911839971 | 1699798739911839971 |
| Trump admits it - you can't believe anything he says, | 2023-09-07 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1699790831144882680 | 1699790831144882680 |
| State constitutions are a lot longer than the Federal - | 2023-09-04 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1698487517090045992 | 1698487517090045992 |
| "He is not a candidate. He is the leader of a mass | 2023-09-03 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1698470708962046010 | 1698470708962046010 |
| That was the week that wasn't - | 2023-09-03 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1698337364991762613 | 1698337364991762613 |
| Eastman is in the same sinking boat as Chesebro. | 2023-08-29 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1696411082712285656 | 1696411082712285656 |
| Is Trump hoping that a mob will rescue him from trial | 2023-08-29 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1696410091627708529 | 1696410091627708529 |
| Chesebro wants a prompt trial in state court. He could be | 2023-08-29 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1696407294161170716 | 1696407294161170716 |
| "the real goal of GOP efforts is to “tamper with the | 2023-08-29 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1696404541858865265 | 1696404541858865265 |
| More for Ukraine or not? | 2023-08-29 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1696403411439346114 | 1696403411439346114 |
| "Meadows saw “no distinction” between his White House | 2023-08-29 | 48 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1696401888269541612 | 1696401888269541612 |
| Just because it's a pack of lies doesn't keep Trump and | 2023-08-29 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1696393245679620588 | 1696393245679620588 |
| Abolish the existing Federal government and replace it with | 2023-08-29 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1696391388588544145 | 1696391388588544145 |
| Some Trump defendants want trial ASAP because they | 2023-08-28 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1696249690411717030 | 1696249690411717030 |
| Another point of view on the Ukrainian attack. Every | 2023-08-27 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1695651179060199430 | 1695651179060199430 |
| No safe ground for GOP candidates! They must say one | 2023-08-27 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1695649816439853475 | 1695649816439853475 |
| If the political leaders reject authority and rules and | 2023-08-27 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1695647969390027071 | 1695647969390027071 |
| Causes of dysfunctional Federal government - | 2023-08-26 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1695314230336160102 | 1695314230336160102 |
| Of course people want answers to unanswerable questions. | 2023-08-26 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1695310921068171566 | 1695310921068171566 |
| So much for the rule of law! | 2023-08-26 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1695302476864594224 | 1695302476864594224 |
| They were already dividing up his empire before he was | 2023-08-26 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1695301036867752296 | 1695301036867752296 |
| More of the week that wasn't - | 2023-08-25 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1695192147157471638 | 1695192147157471638 |
| As usual, the Freischutz caucus is in no mood to | 2023-08-25 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1695162177056104719 | 1695162177056104719 |
| That was the week that wasn't - | 2023-08-25 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1695153179409973480 | 1695153179409973480 |
| Some hope for vice-president or a cabinet office, so said | 2023-08-24 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1694592123214102634 | 1694592123214102634 |
| In Russia, Nothing is True and Everything is Possible - | 2023-08-24 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1694587344060633276 | 1694587344060633276 |
| That was the week that wasn't - | 2023-08-21 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1693657020971598282 | 1693657020971598282 |
| A Second Amendment for food? Nobody saw this coming! | 2023-08-18 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1692379245295861854 | 1692379245295861854 |
| Trump was right! People WERE trying to rig the election! | 2023-08-18 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1692335419420234173 | 1692335419420234173 |
| Ranked-choice voting - | 2023-08-17 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1692308643407118477 | 1692308643407118477 |
| That was the week that wasn't - | 2023-08-13 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1690733871850205184 | 1690733871850205184 |
| More important than Marbury v Madison or Dred Scott? | 2023-08-08 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1689037774370783232 | 1689037774370783232 |
| That was the week that wasn't - | 2023-08-04 | 21 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1687554986119729152 | 1687554986119729152 |
| Give Pence credit for keeping calm and doing the right | 2023-08-03 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1687166809399832576 | 1687166809399832576 |
| Us Against Them is the Dixiecrat battle cry of minority | 2023-08-03 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1686965338246950912 | 1686965338246950912 |
| Democracy works by making sausage, in the light or dark, | 2023-08-03 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1686963570549133312 | 1686963570549133312 |
| Powerball seems to have better odds than a politician | 2023-08-03 | 17 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1686960943623008257 | 1686960943623008257 |
| The net is tightening around higher levels of the | 2023-08-03 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1686959620680781824 | 1686959620680781824 |
| I've known more people who got covid in the last three | 2023-08-03 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1686958784869208064 | 1686958784869208064 |
| Social media influencers thought they were completely | 2023-08-03 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1686937360469241856 | 1686937360469241856 |
| How billionaires deal with complaints from poor people - | 2023-08-03 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1686936379987730432 | 1686936379987730432 |
| If twitter is that easy to imitate for meta, then it's | 2023-08-03 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1686935812825559040 | 1686935812825559040 |
| Mad Men are justifiably concerned about being replaced | 2023-08-03 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1686934627783753728 | 1686934627783753728 |
| Every technological advance creates winners and losers. | 2023-08-03 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1686933495875342336 | 1686933495875342336 |
| Everything apps are great! One stop shopping for | 2023-08-03 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1686932536222679040 | 1686932536222679040 |
| More on being a billionaire - you don't have to obey the | 2023-08-03 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1686931832120729600 | 1686931832120729600 |
| A true Trumpist explains the facts of life - the law is | 2023-08-03 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1686931291667943425 | 1686931291667943425 |
| Another indictment. Trump needs the publicity to raise | 2023-08-02 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1686800994758483968 | 1686800994758483968 |
| Trumpists only cite history when it supports their aims. | 2023-08-02 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1686583638383890432 | 1686583638383890432 |
| Cruel and unusual OR Cruel or unusual? | 2023-08-02 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1686583089412370432 | 1686583089412370432 |
| That was the week that wasn't | 2023-07-29 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1685082265683173376 | 1685082265683173376 |
| Why the defenders of minority rule really don't like | 2023-07-27 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1684711610664058880 | 1684711610664058880 |
| Technologists would often clean up their messes - more | 2023-07-27 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1684709819515842560 | 1684709819515842560 |
| "Free speech" is not absolute - it's always been | 2023-07-27 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1684707349532139520 | 1684707349532139520 |
| Some people don't think much about abstractions and have | 2023-07-27 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1684706377955225603 | 1684706377955225603 |
| I got New Math in 1960. | 2023-07-27 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1684705671865118721 | 1684705671865118721 |
| Likely elements of the case against Trump. | 2023-07-27 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1684422407749259264 | 1684422407749259264 |
| Think there's a political angle to Barbie and Swifties? | 2023-07-27 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1684405319781474306 | 1684405319781474306 |
| The people who profit from oil and gas should pay the | 2023-07-27 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1684404594049429504 | 1684404594049429504 |
| Looks like a little embroidery here - | 2023-07-27 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1684403891709022210 | 1684403891709022210 |
| Trump 2.0. | 2023-07-27 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1684402282253930496 | 1684402282253930496 |
| Giuliani admits he was just making stuff up. | 2023-07-27 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1684388192416591873 | 1684388192416591873 |
| How to get things done in Congress - | 2023-07-27 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1684387352368791552 | 1684387352368791552 |
| What do you know about nondebtor releases? | 2023-07-27 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1684386118782046208 | 1684386118782046208 |
| Specific plausible proposals for the FBI? How does that | 2023-07-27 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1684385113499639808 | 1684385113499639808 |
| Is it 1914 all over again? | 2023-07-27 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1684384416272097280 | 1684384416272097280 |
| Might be a TIA - | 2023-07-27 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1684382417732395008 | 1684382417732395008 |
| If this has been going on for decades, why didn't Trump | 2023-07-27 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1684381130521464832 | 1684381130521464832 |
| The McCarthy House might well impeach Biden - for the high | 2023-07-27 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1684378866142580737 | 1684378866142580737 |
| Are you confused about the cause of the Civil War? | 2023-07-26 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1684209636679749633 | 1684209636679749633 |
| Scammers and right-wing terrorists lead IRS to cancel | 2023-07-25 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1683934433970393089 | 1683934433970393089 |
| What you can learn from visiting Ukraine. | 2023-07-24 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1683339138274304001 | 1683339138274304001 |
| Nothing lasts forever in Chinese foreign relations. | 2023-07-24 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1683338327213363200 | 1683338327213363200 |
| The cost of Trumpist mischief. | 2023-07-24 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1683337431200968705 | 1683337431200968705 |
| The horrible legacy of Putin's war - | 2023-07-23 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1683001715568807936 | 1683001715568807936 |
| Why would Trump bother if he can't control the questioning? | 2023-07-23 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1683000081233121280 | 1683000081233121280 |
| Arctic warming opens a new cold war front. | 2023-07-23 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1682997245875200000 | 1682997245875200000 |
| China becomes more like North Korea | 2023-07-23 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1682990314016108544 | 1682990314016108544 |
| Neo-fascists are on the rise in Europe. | 2023-07-23 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1682989303876694016 | 1682989303876694016 |
| Everybody knew it was a joke but nobody told the voters. | 2023-07-23 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1682987300408668160 | 1682987300408668160 |
| Does DeSantis believe it's good to be convicted of a | 2023-07-23 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1682919884790050816 | 1682919884790050816 |
| Everybody knows it's going to be reduced benefits or | 2023-07-23 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1682918842224508931 | 1682918842224508931 |
| “The embrace of Trump is really, finally a cynical | 2023-07-23 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1682916351072178176 | 1682916351072178176 |
| Good for one thing - killing a crowd of unarmed civilians | 2023-07-23 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1682911366095728640 | 1682911366095728640 |
| Tough choice for GOP - go down with Trump, or go down | 2023-07-23 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1682909964174766081 | 1682909964174766081 |
| That was the week that was in McCarthy's House - | 2023-07-22 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1682557590289657856 | 1682557590289657856 |
| Good news for Trump, bad news for GOP. | 2023-07-22 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1682551781291859968 | 1682551781291859968 |
| That was the week that wasn't - | 2023-07-22 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1682548308873728000 | 1682548308873728000 |
| A few nice words for Mike Pence. | 2023-07-21 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1682372196591882240 | 1682372196591882240 |
| What's worse than nuclear weapons launched from foreign | 2023-07-21 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1682237352398430210 | 1682237352398430210 |
| Sure to be featured at Trump and DeSantis campaign rallies. | 2023-07-21 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1682235967565107200 | 1682235967565107200 |
| A Trumpist to the core - she tells every audience what | 2023-07-21 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1682195903631998977 | 1682195903631998977 |
| It takes more than a Carlson propaganda show to get you | 2023-07-21 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1682193315259875328 | 1682193315259875328 |
| “They’re not really doing constitutional law at | 2023-07-21 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1682191528687702016 | 1682191528687702016 |
| The closer you look, the worse he looks. | 2023-07-21 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1682190379389685760 | 1682190379389685760 |
| No US rational immigration policy because too many | 2023-07-20 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1682143523414626304 | 1682143523414626304 |
| Putin is no Peter the Great. | 2023-07-20 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1682128789957124098 | 1682128789957124098 |
| "prepare for a Russian invasion, which many consider | 2023-07-20 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1682127749975252996 | 1682127749975252996 |
| The Trump classified document charges might be on more | 2023-07-20 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1682056598645256195 | 1682056598645256195 |
| How the reactionary judiciary is groomed and maintained | 2023-07-20 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1682054787884519425 | 1682054787884519425 |
| In 2024, third parties will not draw any votes from the | 2023-07-20 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1682032428142174208 | 1682032428142174208 |
| The feudal Southern planters among America's founders | 2023-07-20 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1682027375767457793 | 1682027375767457793 |
| Parts of the cure for partisanship - a larger House and | 2023-07-20 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1682025226593517575 | 1682025226593517575 |
| How to eliminate incorrect thought - | 2023-07-20 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1682022462941437952 | 1682022462941437952 |
| How the outsiders become insiders and part of the | 2023-07-20 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1681854174043181057 | 1681854174043181057 |
| "Trump is like a drug dealer who thrives in a broken | 2023-07-20 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1681842005037678592 | 1681842005037678592 |
| "Trump needs the nomination more than DeSantis wants it" | 2023-07-20 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1681841046966403077 | 1681841046966403077 |
| Manchin's not going to pull any votes from the Trump base, | 2023-07-20 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1681839645041229824 | 1681839645041229824 |
| The Heritage Foundation plan to dismantle the Federal | 2023-07-19 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1681786683262652417 | 1681786683262652417 |
| McConnell's proudest achievement was to build a reactionary | 2023-07-19 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1681774976511401985 | 1681774976511401985 |
| Isolationism - we've been here before. | 2023-07-19 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1681773878333566976 | 1681773878333566976 |
| Why can't we agree to take care of children and families? | 2023-07-19 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1681767629734952960 | 1681767629734952960 |
| "starting with conclusions and then trying — and mostly | 2023-07-19 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1681761310936281089 | 1681761310936281089 |
| "Politics is organized conflict" | 2023-07-19 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1681759901364920320 | 1681759901364920320 |
| The core Trump base will never abandon him because he gives | 2023-07-19 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1681756595183837186 | 1681756595183837186 |
| House GOP eager to cut spending in every district but | 2023-07-19 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1681750570477195264 | 1681750570477195264 |
| The events of 1619 have haunted America for centuries. | 2023-07-19 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1681745566844465164 | 1681745566844465164 |
| When Trump leads by example, his followers follow - | 2023-07-19 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1681743876145688582 | 1681743876145688582 |
| Who's got your tax returns? | 2023-07-19 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1681741392538914816 | 1681741392538914816 |
| Who is subsidizing whom in Ukraine? | 2023-07-19 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1681739514686091264 | 1681739514686091264 |
| Where your Trump donations go - | 2023-07-19 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1681737248440741888 | 1681737248440741888 |
| There's a handy role model for Trumpists - | 2023-07-19 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1681733418869227522 | 1681733418869227522 |
| Tucker Carlson has big plans - | 2023-07-19 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1681727069154344961 | 1681727069154344961 |
| Shut down the government and blame the other party - | 2023-07-19 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1681719892582735874 | 1681719892582735874 |
| Will June 24 be a red-letter day in Russian history? | 2023-07-19 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1681696684383043589 | 1681696684383043589 |
| It doesn't matter who GOP nominates for president - | 2023-07-19 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1681695096155279361 | 1681695096155279361 |
| Traditional conservatives don't understand the Trumpist | 2023-07-19 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1681691101835722753 | 1681691101835722753 |
| Putin shows Trump how to conduct a war - ensure loyalty | 2023-07-19 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1681686462813839361 | 1681686462813839361 |
| More on the Michigan fake electors. | 2023-07-19 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1681685502070788097 | 1681685502070788097 |
| Trumpism in action - it's feelings, not facts, that matter. | 2023-07-19 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1681684115148652545 | 1681684115148652545 |
| GOP candidates vow that Supreme Court's job is to | 2023-07-19 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1681683223791935490 | 1681683223791935490 |
| Federal Supreme Court affirms that state supreme courts | 2023-07-19 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1681681150878838785 | 1681681150878838785 |
| Independent civil service? | 2023-07-19 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1681675694189993984 | 1681675694189993984 |
| The Z's are coming! And the boomers are going. | 2023-07-19 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1681672065252827138 | 1681672065252827138 |
| It's all just a joke and an opportunity to raise funds | 2023-07-19 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1681670010354188289 | 1681670010354188289 |
| Some fake electors will get their day in court. | 2023-07-19 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1681669070519762945 | 1681669070519762945 |
| House GOP wants to increase confidence in elections - | 2023-07-19 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1681662312674107392 | 1681662312674107392 |
| Why do people pay attention to Elon Musk? | 2023-07-18 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1681393448665088001 | 1681393448665088001 |
| Poor Ron can't get a word in edgewise - | 2023-07-18 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1681380329431633921 | 1681380329431633921 |
| "he just has not ignited the way we thought he would" | 2023-07-17 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1680815481257861120 | 1680815481257861120 |
| Russians are a lot better at defense than offense. | 2023-07-16 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1680617804821835779 | 1680617804821835779 |
| Rich countries tend to get older as the cost of children | 2023-07-16 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1680616102530027520 | 1680616102530027520 |
| Nobody who's been conquered by Russia wants to repeat the | 2023-07-16 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1680614102887190529 | 1680614102887190529 |
| You can't always get what you want. Bold decisive | 2023-07-16 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1680612692703457280 | 1680612692703457280 |
| Why Ukrainians want cluster munitions. | 2023-07-16 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1680601119821819904 | 1680601119821819904 |
| How real influencers try to work. | 2023-07-16 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1680598637909516290 | 1680598637909516290 |
| “Will DeSantis sink and fade out?” | 2023-07-16 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1680593443960279040 | 1680593443960279040 |
| RFK Jr alienates the Jewish vote. | 2023-07-16 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1680414391026724864 | 1680414391026724864 |
| Maybe Musk is not as smart as he thinks! | 2023-07-16 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1680413204311347200 | 1680413204311347200 |
| Santos has money problems. | 2023-07-16 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1680412747060891648 | 1680412747060891648 |
| Look what unlimited dark money can buy! | 2023-07-15 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1680263894412193792 | 1680263894412193792 |
| "The only way you'd solve this war in a day is if you gave | 2023-07-15 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1680262162261090305 | 1680262162261090305 |
| If inflation declines without causing a recession, it will | 2023-07-15 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1680260559055495168 | 1680260559055495168 |
| Most voters don't understand American democracy. It's | 2023-07-15 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1680079475927846913 | 1680079475927846913 |
| The Trump-Putin plan to undermine American democracy is | 2023-07-15 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1680078208073629696 | 1680078208073629696 |
| Trump and his base still believe they are the majority | 2023-07-15 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1680077057836081152 | 1680077057836081152 |
| Freischütz Caucus leads shift of DOD mission from defense | 2023-07-14 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1679934390103670784 | 1679934390103670784 |
| We know who Putin supports in Congress! | 2023-07-14 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1679923425585029120 | 1679923425585029120 |
| No Labels centrist split-ticket - the right idea at the | 2023-07-14 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1679922593057628160 | 1679922593057628160 |
| "It would be so much easier just to tell the truth" | 2023-07-14 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1679917829603356673 | 1679917829603356673 |
| Trump is not inevitable on his merits - | 2023-07-14 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1679915231651459074 | 1679915231651459074 |
| Another year at the Supreme Court - mostly defending | 2023-07-14 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1679907912981020672 | 1679907912981020672 |
| That was the week that wasn't - | 2023-07-14 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1679906988661284864 | 1679906988661284864 |
| Will General Armageddon be first casualty of Wagner | 2023-07-14 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1679866438520274945 | 1679866438520274945 |
| Nothing is true and everything is possible - | 2023-07-14 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1679658724443688960 | 1679658724443688960 |
| Like Georgia, Arizona is tired of waiting for the Feds. | 2023-07-14 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1679657687385255938 | 1679657687385255938 |
| Steve Dallas Rule #1 - you don't sue poor people. | 2023-07-14 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1679656518575362049 | 1679656518575362049 |
| Some insurrectionists are penitent, at least in court. | 2023-07-14 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1679655108978839552 | 1679655108978839552 |
| Evidently you can have very bad judgment and still be a | 2023-07-14 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1679654254125150210 | 1679654254125150210 |
| Amazing that ordinary people still think that Trump has | 2023-07-14 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1679653140516474881 | 1679653140516474881 |
| Just when you thought it couldn't possibly get more | 2023-07-14 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1679649822058643456 | 1679649822058643456 |
| Social media disease infects in less than a week. | 2023-07-09 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1678048716819947525 | 1678048716819947525 |
| Speaking in contradictions comes naturally to many GOP | 2023-07-08 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1677558034523127808 | 1677558034523127808 |
| How do Trumpists and Federalists differ? | 2023-07-08 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1677556669403000832 | 1677556669403000832 |
| Who is Lindsey Graham? | 2023-07-08 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1677552893581471745 | 1677552893581471745 |
| Erasing reality by rewriting history - the insurrectionists | 2023-07-08 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1677551281018408960 | 1677551281018408960 |
| If you ignore the first clause of the 2nd amendment, | 2023-07-08 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1677549804040376320 | 1677549804040376320 |
| Like Stalin, like Putin. | 2023-07-08 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1677548213522534400 | 1677548213522534400 |
| "Twitter is the place where us boomers talk about what | 2023-07-08 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1677546748426981378 | 1677546748426981378 |
| Odd that Musk didn't sue Trump for copying Twitter! | 2023-07-08 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1677543645992611840 | 1677543645992611840 |
| The desire to debate Trump - who probably won't be there - | 2023-07-08 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1677542740241059840 | 1677542740241059840 |
| That was the week that wasn't - | 2023-07-08 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1677517812544462848 | 1677517812544462848 |
| Can regional federalism be far behind? | 2023-07-07 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1677175838087995403 | 1677175838087995403 |
| Most voters don't follow politics and don't want to. | 2023-07-07 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1677174971674800128 | 1677174971674800128 |
| Minority rule might be losing some of its stoutest | 2023-07-07 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1677171935615270913 | 1677171935615270913 |
| We've had hotlines to Russia for generations. It's time | 2023-07-07 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1677171190748844032 | 1677171190748844032 |
| The case for more political parties - and the election | 2023-07-07 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1677169627900821507 | 1677169627900821507 |
| Competence is not in demand in the GOP. | 2023-07-07 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1677168277708218369 | 1677168277708218369 |
| Why even bipartisan initiatives in Congress usually fail. | 2023-07-07 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1677167052052926464 | 1677167052052926464 |
| Russia's strategic ambiguity about nuclear weapons - | 2023-07-07 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1677161701714837505 | 1677161701714837505 |
| How to make money in social media! | 2023-07-07 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1677160318601138176 | 1677160318601138176 |
| Can you imagine a GOP presidential candidate with any | 2023-07-07 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1677158007103459329 | 1677158007103459329 |
| GOP voters giving up on democracy? | 2023-07-07 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1677156515663462400 | 1677156515663462400 |
| Judges don't necessarily bother to check facts | 2023-07-07 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1677155532778668034 | 1677155532778668034 |
| Unimportant white men can be convinced that their | 2023-07-07 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1677153796659777536 | 1677153796659777536 |
| The Trump way - get others to do the dirty work, while | 2023-07-07 | 89 | 14 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 1677152039300927490 | 1677152039300927490 |
| Who's involved in the attempts to rig the 2020 election? | 2023-07-07 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1677151212536467466 | 1677151212536467466 |
| Will Threads replace Twitter? If enough real people | 2023-07-07 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1677149770203406337 | 1677149770203406337 |
| For maximum results, hit them when they're reeling. | 2023-07-07 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1677148284207656961 | 1677148284207656961 |
| The Russian ruling class, having run the Russian internet | 2023-07-07 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1677146858643402755 | 1677146858643402755 |
| Some Trumpists still threaten authority. | 2023-07-07 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1677145836688650240 | 1677145836688650240 |
| New definitions for a new age - Patriot - somebody who | 2023-07-07 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1677130735835287552 | 1677130735835287552 |
| First Amendment says "Congress shall make no law." Since | 2023-07-07 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1677129018272006144 | 1677129018272006144 |
| Trump supporters take his hints and act. | 2023-07-07 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1677128155088420864 | 1677128155088420864 |
| Counting on a Trump pardon? | 2023-07-07 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1677127682017067008 | 1677127682017067008 |
| Can ANYbody explain what's going on? | 2023-07-07 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1677127170945323010 | 1677127170945323010 |
| Playing to win vs playing to win air time on Fox - | 2023-07-04 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1676089184396926977 | 1676089184396926977 |
| “The highest court in the land should not have the lowest | 2023-07-04 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1676086289425371137 | 1676086289425371137 |
| California Reparations Report | 2023-07-04 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1676084954143539200 | 1676084954143539200 |
| Why Biden gets no credit - | 2023-07-04 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1676081675611275267 | 1676081675611275267 |
| Another third-world country in desperate straits with | 2023-07-04 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1676078635344863232 | 1676078635344863232 |
| The new doing-the-limbo - how far right can you go? | 2023-07-02 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1675609904403603456 | 1675609904403603456 |
| Just as the Baptists split into northern and southern | 2023-07-02 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1675608801054162944 | 1675608801054162944 |
| Centrist GOP are on notice - the Freischütz Caucus would | 2023-07-02 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1675606486553354240 | 1675606486553354240 |
| Why the surprise? There are way more homophobes in the | 2023-07-02 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1675604887391064064 | 1675604887391064064 |
| Guantanamo is a national disgrace - | 2023-07-02 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1675376781170454528 | 1675376781170454528 |
| Finding the way out of conflict - | 2023-07-02 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1675373323923132416 | 1675373323923132416 |
| The epistemological crisis in political campaigns is | 2023-07-01 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1675187239410872320 | 1675187239410872320 |
| Another way of thinking about the Biden family. | 2023-07-01 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1675185198215081985 | 1675185198215081985 |
| The fake electors scheme is unraveling - | 2023-07-01 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1675184157620850688 | 1675184157620850688 |
| "Dictators are unreliable partners" | 2023-07-01 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1674954418691919874 | 1674954418691919874 |
| The price of being surrounded by yes-men - you don't know | 2023-07-01 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1674936394375135232 | 1674936394375135232 |
| Conspirituality? | 2023-07-01 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1674935065158258689 | 1674935065158258689 |
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========== The first domino falls in Georgia. How many more will he knock over? https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/09/29/judge-denies-jeffrey-clark-request-move-his-case-federal-court/ #PS1insurrection ===== impress 3 time 2023-09-30 00:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1707919294741553372 ========== That was the week that wasn't - https://apnews.com/ap-fact-check Just the lowlights - https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-fema-hydroxychloroquine-rand-paul-ukraine-cf1d1adb0f179593b64d92be0a5d5507 #PS1media ===== engage 1 engage-rate 14% impress 7 likes 1 time 2023-09-29 17:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1707813965269708825 ========== The perfect platform for defending minority rule. No wonder GOP latched onto it. https://apnews.com/article/republican-debate-livestream-rumble-disinformation-extremism-a6e627ac88463f9f83ada062ea83c6db #PS1media ===== impress 9 time 2023-09-26 03:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1706512553030119478 ========== We already know the answer for shouting fire in a crowded theater - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shouting_fire_in_a_crowded_theater Trump thinks criminal kingpins can never be charged with crimes, because they only TALK about what they want, and somebody else does the job - https://apnews.com/article/trump-insurrection-14th-amendment-speech-colorado-9626b6ae8479e6a4ce34c3391f207426 #PS1insurrection ===== impress 7 time 2023-09-26 02:53 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1706502184739999800 ========== Trump's got it locked up? https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/09/24/trump-republicans-presidential-primary/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/09/24/trump-confident-primary-general-election/ Or have his rivals just given him the key? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/09/24/trump-skip-debate-weak-rivals/ In 2024, it's going to be either Trump or Biden, and GOP that don't like Trump, had better start acting accordingly. #PS1gop ===== impress 7 time 2023-09-25 03:52 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1706154709915169250 ========== McCarthy thought he could pull the tar baby out of the tar pits. But the pulling is going the other way. https://apnews.com/article/shutdown-mccarthy-congress-house-republicans-biden-249d83636e9d61cdd2aabdf34a129514 "Speaker McCarthy is giving hard-right Republicans what they want. But it never seems to be enough." https://apnews.com/article/government-shutdown-congress-mccarthy-gaetz-republicans-dd94770223f697c1c68229133f031df4 #PS1gop ===== impress 1 time 2023-09-25 03:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1706151451633066270 ========== 120000 Armenians lost in the noise of larger crises. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/09/22/azerbaijan-armenia-nagorno-karabakh-attack/ Azerbaijan took its cue from Putin and settled things by force - apparently killing one of Putin's "peacekeepers" in the process. Like Kurdistan, Karabakh is geopolitically impossible. #PS1mideast ===== impress 5 time 2023-09-22 23:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1705363259946365023 ========== McCarthy doesn't have a majority, just a plurality. The only way to avoid a Federal shutdown constitutional crisis is to pass a bipartisan continuing resolution - followed by a different crisis after the Freischütz Caucus fires McCarthy. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/09/22/government-shutdown-deal/ #PS1gop ===== impress 1 time 2023-09-22 23:21 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1705361662356922713 ========== That was the week that wasn't - https://apnews.com/ap-fact-check Just the lowlights - https://apnews.com/article/misinformation-fact-check-book-ban-lgbtq-jan-6-wildfires-410ee06bff62758c8432f3752f080994 #PS1media ===== impress 3 time 2023-09-22 19:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1705305980815409251 ========== "it’s going to get even uglier” https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/09/22/gaetz-mccarthy-shutdown-house-gop-deadlock/ Sounds like a safe bet! Freischütz Caucus has their eyes on the prize. #PS1gop ===== impress 1 time 2023-09-22 17:20 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1705270945815069171 ========== Shutting down the Federal government is not a policy failure! https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/09/22/us-braces-calamitous-costly-government-shutdown-eight-days/ It's the long-sought dream of the Freischütz Caucus and their anonymous megadonors, who find that it's cheaper and easier to manage state governments than Federal. #PS1gop ===== impress 2 time 2023-09-22 16:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1705258688095928501 ========== Trumpist brown-shirt practice in Missouri! https://apnews.com/article/flamethrower-missouri-governor-candidate-violent-6055f2c73bc10c8c58fae1d161c9c91e How much longer until Kristallnacht practice? #PS1trumpism ===== impress 2 time 2023-09-22 16:15 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1705254408060350923 ========== It's very expensive to embrace the Trump tar baby. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/09/19/rudy-giuliani-sued-lawyer-robert-costello/ Especially for lawyers who don't get sufficient retainers in advance. #PS1insurrection ===== impress 2 time 2023-09-22 02:03 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1705039990219325497 ========== How can a fake elector be a Federal official? https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/09/20/georgia-trump-electors-federal-court/ Only in Trump-fantasy-land! #PS1insurrection ===== impress 2 time 2023-09-22 02:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1705039547615330756 ========== "I got the job done" Wrong! Leonard Leo and Mitch McConnell and their anonymous megadonors got the job done. The most Trump can claim is that he didn't get in the way. https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2023/09/20/trump-abortion-republicans-presidential/ #PS1gop ===== impress 4 time 2023-09-22 01:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1705038288393019531 ========== There are worse fates than death in battle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor Being absorbed into Russia to face Putin's wrath is among them. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/09/20/zelensky-visit-washington-aiding-ukraine/ #PS1ukraine ===== impress 2 time 2023-09-22 01:43 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1705035083328176407 ========== Think it's easy to translate? https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2023/09/20/emily-wilson-iliad-translation-terms/ How best to replicate the impression received by listeners almost 3000 years ago? That's why we need only a few - very good - classicists. #PS1other ===== impress 5 time 2023-09-22 01:21 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1705029632825975028 ========== When the Federal Supreme Court is mostly stuck on protecting minority rule, the action moves to state courts - about which most of us know very little. https://statecourtreport.substack.com/p/welcome-to-state-court-report #PS1justice ===== impress 1 time 2023-09-22 01:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1705027097318838333 ========== Another take on Murdoch - https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/09/21/murdoch-resigns-fox-changes/ Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public! #PS1media ===== impress 3 time 2023-09-22 00:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1705017877743706294 ========== Is it going to cost Trump $250 million in lawyer fees to defend against a $250 million lawsuit? https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/09/21/new-york-trump-fraud-trial/ #PS1trump ===== impress 2 time 2023-09-22 00:31 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1705016901167132923 ========== Not just tilting at windmills! https://apnews.com/article/no-labels-spoiler-2024-ballots-biden-trump-91dd36375a83a67f8969af8ac511fbf0 ANY third-party presidential campaign is a boost to Trump, because there's no ranked-choice voting for president. No Labels should stick to campaigns for legislators in places with ranked-choice voting. #PS1election ===== impress 2 time 2023-09-22 00:20 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1705014262845120588 ========== "He did nothing to support organized labor except lip service” Trump is the SALESMAN who takes your money. Delivering your goods is not his problem. https://apnews.com/article/labor-union-auto-workers-trump-strike-dfcb805fd4e749b13aaf827e1463da73 But in every way he's a stalwart defender of minority rule, like most of the GOP candidates. #PS1gop ===== impress 1 time 2023-09-22 00:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1705012331816866064 ========== “open contempt for those who are not members of their rarified class” Which rarified class would that be, rich old white man? Let the Succession games begin! https://apnews.com/article/murdoch-fox-quit-emeritus-30286a4a3107b7bde612adbfc7891958 Rupert Murdoch will be fondly remembered as an energetic defender of minority rule. #PS1media ===== impress 11 time 2023-09-22 00:03 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1705009765129265496 ========== Where've you been Mr Speaker? “a whole new concept to burn the place down” It's the whole old concept of the Gingrich Contract on America and the Freischütz Caucus. "giving in to the conservatives is emboldening them" Peace For Our Time! https://apnews.com/article/government-shutdown-mccarthy-house-republicans-spending-cuts-deff84c0e2ff7d3bd076b8c38e14cca4 #PS1gop ===== engage 2 engage-rate 67% impress 3 time 2023-09-21 23:49 +0000 urlclicks 2 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1705006430498275363 ========== That was the week that wasn't - https://apnews.com/ap-fact-check Just the lowlights - https://apnews.com/article/misinformation-fact-check-covid19-vaccines-ukraine-climate-change-c286b4f164c3582fdbdf7820e07a229d #PS1media ===== impress 8 time 2023-09-15 16:20 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1702719138635141517 ========== All the megadonors' horses and all of their men, not to mention all of their dark money donations, can't seem to convince young people to support minority rule. Why is that? https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/09/13/potemkin-politics-house-freedom-caucus/ Freischütz Caucus demands answers! #PS1gop ===== impress 9 time 2023-09-13 16:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1701991976554602536 ========== Score one for Pence! “Putin should be more concerned about how quickly his military went from being the second most powerful in the world to the second most powerful in Ukraine.” Putin, Kim, and Trump - three peas in a pod! https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2023/09/13/trump-putin-election-interfence/ #PS1trump ===== impress 10 time 2023-09-13 16:06 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1701990811418947898 ========== IRS targets max tax evaders - https://gizmodo.com/irs-using-ai-to-target-ultra-wealthy-for-tax-violations-1850819707 Freischütz Caucus will no doubt include abolishing or emasculating the IRS in its next demands on McCarthy, now that he's yielded on Biden impeachment. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/08/us/politics/irs-deploys-artificial-intelligence-to-target-rich-partnerships.html #PS1tax ===== impress 9 time 2023-09-12 23:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1701747350291775752 ========== Nobody has any real evidence - the main point is to keep a Biden investigation going through the election AS IF there were serious crimes comparable to those of Trump. https://apnews.com/article/hunter-biden-congress-oversight-republicans-impeachment-57c5b1b40d19ede4ecf7fde08c027cee The other main point is to save McCarthy from the Freischütz Caucus. #PS1gop ===== impress 6 time 2023-09-12 21:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1701702380939833739 ========== To fulfill their duty to protect minority rule, Freischütz Caucus is gearing up for their next battle in their war against government. https://apnews.com/article/mccarthy-speaker-biden-impeachment-republicans-shutdown-4d8c314763252429a6f87e7d13ad2b43 We've known this was coming since November. #PS1gop ===== impress 2 time 2023-09-11 15:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1701252155515301910 ========== Students are revolting! https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/07/21/gop-college-towns-00106974 Against minority rule, in cities, counties, and now states, and the GOP doesn't know what to do. Is there no single-issue approach that would attract students without repelling other GOP single-issue constituencies? #PS1gop ===== impress 4 time 2023-09-10 21:57 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1700991878597120174 ========== The latest scam to protect minority rule. https://brennancenter.substack.com/p/eagleai-isnt-so-intelligent Lynch mobs next? Worked great for 200 years in the slave states. #PS1democracy ===== impress 2 time 2023-09-09 00:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1700305199917838660 ========== That was the week that wasn't - https://apnews.com/ap-fact-check Just the lowlights - https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-misinformation-burning-man-vaccines-voting-elections-ff8c433e6184e9f37a87fa0a45b71263 #PS1media ===== impress 5 time 2023-09-08 23:06 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1700284558426395033 ========== Ranked-choice voting plus multimember districts would eliminate much of the gerrymandering circus. That's why the defenders of minority rule - and political kingmakers - hate them so much. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#redistricting Shut down the circus! https://apnews.com/article/congress-redistricting-gerrymandering-elections-75e2764f2cc7c8a2e7e0a0e2848d90e9 #PS1democracy ===== impress 8 time 2023-09-07 15:07 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1699801471250997379 ========== The insurrectionists are trying to run run down the clock with endless legal maneuvers https://apnews.com/article/trump-georgia-fulton-county-election-indictment-9221ddaed203695015ddd5615337fb4e If some of them do get the prompt quick trial they say they want, it will provide an interesting test run for the main event. #PS1insurrection ===== impress 4 time 2023-09-07 14:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1699799669776462004 ========== GOP was born in 1854 as a radical assault on minority rule, reborn in 1877 as the conservative defender of minority rule, reborn again in 2015 as a cult-of-personality defender of minority rule.Trump never changed; Pence can't blame him for that. https://apnews.com/article/pence-conservatism-populism-trump-2024-republican-primary-90b437952693ec00e378411be8393499 #PS1gop ===== impress 6 time 2023-09-07 14:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1699798739911839971 ========== Trump admits it - you can't believe anything he says, or writes. https://apnews.com/article/trump-deposition-attorney-general-new-york-63f4708b27a52a1e544e3caa6f63fa3b Especially about finances! #PS1trump ===== impress 5 time 2023-09-07 14:24 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1699790831144882680 ========== State constitutions are a lot longer than the Federal - so state courts spend more time interpreting them. https://statecourtreport.substack.com/p/catching-up-with-state-courts #PS1justice ===== impress 1 time 2023-09-04 00:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1698487517090045992 ========== "He is not a candidate. He is the leader of a mass movement" https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2023/09/02/trump-republicans-dominates-campaign/ The GOP embraced a personality cult when they thought they would benefit. Now they're stuck. For the megadonors, the issue now is how to minimize GOP losses in Congress and states. #PS1gop ===== impress 6 time 2023-09-03 22:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1698470708962046010 ========== That was the week that wasn't - https://apnews.com/ap-fact-check Just the lowlights - https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-misinformation-covid19-joe-biden-bill-gates-wildfires-e55026082b46625f918d211f02f04d74 #PS1media ===== impress 3 time 2023-09-03 14:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1698337364991762613 ========== Eastman is in the same sinking boat as Chesebro. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/08/28/eastman-state-bar-defense/ #PS1insurrection ===== impress 9 time 2023-08-29 06:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1696411082712285656 ========== Is Trump hoping that a mob will rescue him from trial or prison? Or just that his brown shirts will terrorize the courts, witnesses, and jurors? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/08/24/trump-georgia-surrender-republican-impact/ The only truth that matters is the truth about how you feel! #PS1trumpism ===== impress 10 time 2023-08-29 06:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1696410091627708529 ========== Chesebro wants a prompt trial in state court. He could be the first of the Atlanta 19 to be convicted - which might complicate the defense of the other 18, or might make it easy for them to blame him - "just acting on advice of counsel". https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/08/27/chesebro-early-fani-willis-trial-trump/ #PS1insurrection ===== impress 11 time 2023-08-29 06:19 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1696407294161170716 ========== "the real goal of GOP efforts is to “tamper with the jury before they’re seated” https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/08/28/jim-jordan-investigation-fani-willis-indictment-of-trump/ #PS1trumpism ===== impress 3 time 2023-08-29 06:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1696404541858865265 ========== More for Ukraine or not? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/08/28/ukraine-russia-red-lines-putin-biden/ It all depends on whether you think Putin can be counted on to act rationally - think Hitler in his bunker. And whether he has the political support to back down - or he has painted himself into the do or die spot. #PS1putin ===== engage 3 engage-rate 33% impress 9 replies 1 time 2023-08-29 06:04 +0000 urlclicks 2 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1696403411439346114 ========== "Meadows saw “no distinction” between his White House work and the Trump campaign" Sure! Trump employee duty is to Trump, and to minority rule. So what if taxpayers pay them and the Hatch Act prohibits official interference in elections? https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/08/28/mark-meadows-federal-court-georgia-testify/ #PS1trumpism ===== engage 5 engage-rate 10% impress 48 likes 1 time 2023-08-29 05:58 +0000 urlclicks 4 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1696401888269541612 ========== Just because it's a pack of lies doesn't keep Trump and most of the GOP from repeating them over and over, and the Trump base crying Amen! https://apnews.com/article/trump-2020-election-lies-debunked-4fc26546b07962fdbf9d66e739fbb50d Hitler and Stalin would be so proud. Putin is proud - what more can he do to help? #PS1trumpism ===== impress 2 time 2023-08-29 05:24 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1696393245679620588 ========== Abolish the existing Federal government and replace it with political appointees who promise to protect minority rule! To heck with Constitution, Congress, laws, and norms! The president makes the decisions! Or his Heritage henchmen. https://apnews.com/article/election-2024-conservatives-trump-heritage-857eb794e505f1c6710eb03fd5b58981 #PS1trumpism ===== impress 2 time 2023-08-29 05:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1696391388588544145 ========== Some Trump defendants want trial ASAP because they aren't rich. Trump wants to delay as long as possible. Others want the case moved to Federal court, for a better chance of a hung jury, and a pardon by Trump if re-elected. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/26/us/trump-georgia-trial.html #PS1insurrection ===== engage 1 engage-rate 17% expands 1 impress 6 time 2023-08-28 19:53 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1696249690411717030 ========== Another point of view on the Ukrainian attack. Every Ukrainian soldier knows he is defending his country, but many Russian conscripts have no idea what they're invading for. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/08/24/ukraine-counteroffensive-victory-breakout/ #PS1ukraine ===== impress 12 time 2023-08-27 04:15 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1695651179060199430 ========== No safe ground for GOP candidates! They must say one thing to the Trump base, something quite different to swing voters, and something completely opposite, in private, to their megadonors. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/08/26/democracy-elections-republican-debate/ So they avoid real issues in favor of fantasy. #PS1gop ===== impress 4 time 2023-08-27 04:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1695649816439853475 ========== If the political leaders reject authority and rules and norms, facts and logic, in favor or "how they feel", why shouldn't children follow their example? https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/08/26/teacher-fears-violence-censorship/ #PS1trumpism ===== impress 4 time 2023-08-27 04:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1695647969390027071 ========== Causes of dysfunctional Federal government - https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/08/18/american-democracy-political-system-failures/ It all comes down to the current system is very effective at preserving minority rule, so the megadonors who pay for politics have no incentive to change. #PS1democracy ===== impress 4 time 2023-08-26 05:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1695314230336160102 ========== Of course people want answers to unanswerable questions. Who could predict the Prigozhin revolt, guess the redistribution of his empire, or know the future state of Putin's health? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/08/25/two-crises-stoked-american-populism/ Answers are easy until you risk being blamed for the outcome. #PS1gop ===== impress 34 time 2023-08-26 05:43 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1695310921068171566 ========== So much for the rule of law! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/08/25/gop-candidates-trash-jury-trials/ But if you don't get elected, it doesn't matter what you believe, right? #PS1trumpism ===== impress 3 time 2023-08-26 05:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1695302476864594224 ========== They were already dividing up his empire before he was even dead, and he knew it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/08/25/wagner-group-successors-mercenary-companies/ #PS1putin ===== impress 3 time 2023-08-26 05:03 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1695301036867752296 ========== More of the week that wasn't - https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/08/24/fact-checking-first-republican-primary-debate/ Ramaswamy proves he is the logical successor to Trump - he'll say anything to make the sale. Who cares about facts or logic? Not the Trump base! It's all about feelings. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/08/25/vivek-ramaswamy-says-hoax-agenda-kills-more-people-than-climate-change/ #PS1gop ===== impress 8 time 2023-08-25 21:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1695192147157471638 ========== As usual, the Freischutz caucus is in no mood to compromise. https://apnews.com/article/congress-budget-shutdown-freedom-caucus-mccarthy-8d2d2296cb1680dc1bf945d726da178f They'd be happy to shut down the government, then blame Biden and McCarthy. #PS1deficit ===== impress 2 time 2023-08-25 19:52 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1695162177056104719 ========== That was the week that wasn't - https://apnews.com/ap-fact-check Just the lowlights - https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-misinformation-climate-change-donald-trump-joe-biden-covid19-c6a87aa75d8474816a2f822e7e01e235 #PS1media ===== impress 6 time 2023-08-25 19:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1695153179409973480 ========== Some hope for vice-president or a cabinet office, so said nothing bad about Trump. Haley pointed out that Trump has no support outside his base, and can't win. The rest have no hope of getting the Trump base, and so no hope of winning either. https://apnews.com/article/debate-republican-takeaways-president-gop-trump-ramaswamy-christie-f38e0aa189ad85f347f97b1b6bea4c53 #PS1gop ===== impress 9 time 2023-08-24 06:07 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1694592123214102634 ========== In Russia, Nothing is True and Everything is Possible - and sad accident is old Russian tradition. Let those with ears, hear; those with eyes, see. And remember Ernst Röhm, and "will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?" https://apnews.com/article/russia-wagner-prigozhin-jet-crash-a7859e4e57f2efa2547dfbe5bdbaa1b2 #PS1putin ===== impress 19 time 2023-08-24 05:48 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1694587344060633276 ========== That was the week that wasn't - https://apnews.com/ap-fact-check Just the lowlights - https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-misinformation-trump-maui-wildfires-1f4d017e161a17d7deff2366daa93e70 #PS1media ===== impress 5 time 2023-08-21 16:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1693657020971598282 ========== A Second Amendment for food? Nobody saw this coming! https://statecourtreport.substack.com/p/in-maine-a-second-amendment-for-food #PS1justice ===== impress 1 time 2023-08-18 03:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1692379245295861854 ========== Trump was right! People WERE trying to rig the election! His people, trying to turn his true defeat into fake victory. https://brennancenter.substack.com/p/fani-willis-springs-surprise-in-trump Easy to tell what a crook or a dictator is up to - they accuse the other side of the same thing they're doing. #PS1insurrection ===== impress 1 time 2023-08-18 00:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1692335419420234173 ========== Ranked-choice voting - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#preferential is getting a lot of favorable press - https://fairvote.org/news-and-analysis/editorial-support/ but no so much support from party bosses. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/08/11/dc-open-primaries-democratic-party/ #PS1democracy ===== impress 8 time 2023-08-17 22:53 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1692308643407118477 ========== That was the week that wasn't - https://apnews.com/ap-fact-check Just the lowlights - https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-misinformation-dominion-desantis-biden-ukraine-888a8b03dca9d9ddecc4c45ef8640000 #PS1media ===== impress 11 time 2023-08-13 14:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1690733871850205184 ========== More important than Marbury v Madison or Dred Scott? https://brennancenter.substack.com/p/the-stakes-in-us-v-trump #PS1insurrection ===== impress 4 time 2023-08-08 22:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1689037774370783232 ========== That was the week that wasn't - https://apnews.com/ap-fact-check Just the lowlights - https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-misinformation-barbie-desantis-obama-737478aaa9f5ee9545b7ee8598bcf3f0 #PS1media ===== engage 1 engage-rate 5% expands 1 impress 21 time 2023-08-04 20:03 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1687554986119729152 ========== Give Pence credit for keeping calm and doing the right thing in the moment of crisis. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/02/us/politics/mike-pence-trump-indictment.html His contemporaneous notes look to be the most critical basis for Trump's indictment. #PS1insurrection ===== impress 8 time 2023-08-03 18:21 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1687166809399832576 ========== Us Against Them is the Dixiecrat battle cry of minority rule - hear what I say, don't watch what I do! https://www.twincities.com/2023/08/02/stephen-l-carter-indicted-populists-have-a-history-of-staying-in-office/ Trump might well get at least a third of the votes, no matter what. They'll vote for what he says, not what he does. #PS1minority ===== impress 18 time 2023-08-03 05:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1686965338246950912 ========== Democracy works by making sausage, in the light or dark, and the result is never perfect. https://www.arcamax.com/politics/opeds/s-2858738 But there are unreasonable uncompromising folks. "All progress depends on the unreasonable man" - Shaw - but it can be backward as well as forward. #PS1democracy ===== impress 7 time 2023-08-03 04:53 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1686963570549133312 ========== Powerball seems to have better odds than a politician who thinks he can out-Trump Trump! https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/01/us/politics/desantis-campaign-finance-donation-super-pac.html But betting on Trump is no sure thing either - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/31/us/politics/trump-pac-filing.html Unless you love his lawyers. They always win, as long as they get cash in advance! #PS1gop ===== engage 1 engage-rate 6% expands 1 impress 17 time 2023-08-03 04:43 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1686960943623008257 ========== The net is tightening around higher levels of the insurrection, with more to come. https://apnews.com/article/matthew-deperno-michigan-trump-voting-machines-a58c4a58de84d432815ec1be39c19b90?mibextid=Zxz2cZ #PS1insurrection ===== impress 1 time 2023-08-03 04:38 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1686959620680781824 ========== I've known more people who got covid in the last three months than over the three years before. https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/we-may-be-the-last-maskers-california-covid-cases-are-rising-here-s-why-health-experts-are-masking-indoors/ar-AA1eGSIo You might not die - only 100,000 Americans are expected to die from covid over the next year. But can you afford to miss a week of work? #PS1virus ===== impress 4 time 2023-08-03 04:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1686958784869208064 ========== Social media influencers thought they were completely independent and entirely self-limited. https://bangkokpost.pressreader.com/article/282123526012448 The economy is more interdependent than that. #PS1media ===== impress 5 time 2023-08-03 03:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1686937360469241856 ========== How billionaires deal with complaints from poor people - https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/tesla-batteries-range/ They just ignore them and say everything's fine. #PS1technology ===== impress 3 time 2023-08-03 03:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1686936379987730432 ========== If twitter is that easy to imitate for meta, then it's just as easy for tiktok. https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/technology/meta-has-a-rare-opportunity-to-seize-momentum-with-threads/ar-AA1erRUD As Scott McNealy once told us at Sun, email used to be a product; now it's just a feature. Short texts seem destined to be the same. #PS1media ===== impress 2 time 2023-08-03 03:03 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1686935812825559040 ========== Mad Men are justifiably concerned about being replaced by machines. After all, there isn't much really new in advertising. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/18/business/media/ai-advertising.html #PS1media ===== impress 4 time 2023-08-03 02:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1686934627783753728 ========== Every technological advance creates winners and losers. Have winners have ever cared much about the losers? https://finance.yahoo.com/news/energy-transition-underway-fossil-fuel-113911143.html But Luddites can get guns and fight back, for any reactionary who offers unrealistic promises to restore the past. #PS1technology ===== impress 3 time 2023-08-03 02:54 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1686933495875342336 ========== Everything apps are great! One stop shopping for government, foreign, and private snoops, to learn everything about you. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/jul/29/elon-musk-wechat-twitter-rebranding-everything-app-for-west They are mandatory in China. The government wants to compute your social credit. #PS1media ===== impress 5 time 2023-08-03 02:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1686932536222679040 ========== More on being a billionaire - you don't have to obey the laws for poor people. https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/brightly-flashing-x-sign-removed-from-the-former-twitter-s-san-francisco-headquarters/ar-AA1eBLrX #PS1media ===== impress 6 time 2023-08-03 02:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1686931832120729600 ========== A true Trumpist explains the facts of life - the law is something the rich use against the poor, NOT vice versa. Same for free speech! https://apnews.com/article/x-twitter-elon-musk-lawsuit-decline-millions-advertisers-hate-speech-cchd-1ca41944fdf58529d1fa280725a510da #PS1media ===== impress 2 time 2023-08-03 02:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1686931291667943425 ========== Another indictment. Trump needs the publicity to raise money to pay for all his lawyers, who would be wise to ask for cash in advance. https://apnews.com/article/trump-indicted-jan-6-investigation-special-counsel-debb59bb7a4d9f93f7e2dace01feccdc https://apnews.com/article/explain-charges-trump-indictment-jan-6-investigation-7efd7577e41f0cbf9c697fa4613f93a3 https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-indictment-takeways-2020-election-4b5fea593f3684241a64650798aa598e #PS1insurrection ===== impress 4 time 2023-08-02 18:07 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1686800994758483968 ========== Trumpists only cite history when it supports their aims. https://brennancenter.substack.com/p/alito-vs-history-again #PS1justice ===== impress 1 time 2023-08-02 03:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1686583638383890432 ========== Cruel and unusual OR Cruel or unusual? https://statecourtreport.substack.com/p/protecting-against-extreme-punishments #PS1justice ===== impress 1 time 2023-08-02 03:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1686583089412370432 ========== That was the week that wasn't https://apnews.com/ap-fact-check Just the lowlights - https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-misinformation-obama-borax-euthanasia-credit-d03202a17082aea7c1424ba3f1b28acd #PS1media ===== engage 1 engage-rate 9% expands 1 impress 11 time 2023-07-29 00:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1685082265683173376 ========== Why the defenders of minority rule really don't like progress and economic growth - https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2023-07-23/how-democrats-won-the-west-and-reshaped-presidential-politics-new-mexico New people bring new ideas. It was so even in Hamilton's day - Southern planters could see that his ideas for industrialization were not in their interest. #PS1politics ===== impress 11 time 2023-07-27 23:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1684711610664058880 ========== Technologists would often clean up their messes - more than the organizations that hire them. https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/article/opinion-clendaniel-oppenheimer-hanford-and-unintended-consequences/ar-AA1erXxa Nuclear fission could help fight global warming, but the politics of waste disposal seem unsolvable. Generative AI might be just as hard. #PS1technology ===== engage 1 engage-rate 10% expands 1 impress 10 time 2023-07-27 23:38 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1684709819515842560 ========== "Free speech" is not absolute - it's always been understood to exclude shouting Fire! in a crowded theatre. Or handing a megaphone to a guy who wants to shout Fire! https://calmatters.org/commentary/2023/07/supreme-court-regulate-social-media/ And why should it apply to chatbot outputs? #PS1media ===== impress 8 time 2023-07-27 23:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1684707349532139520 ========== Some people don't think much about abstractions and have to learn by doing. https://apnews.com/article/bruno-cua-youngest-sentencing-capitol-riot-senate-chair-d64490eeb176b6204ecd503593c8f0d3 Sometimes that means doing time. #PS1insurrection ===== impress 2 time 2023-07-27 23:24 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1684706377955225603 ========== I got New Math in 1960. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41186557 When talented teachers and students tackled it, they learned a lot. Every generation has a new New Math - https://www.dailynews.com/2023/07/27/california-has-adopted-a-new-plan-to-teach-math-why-are-people-so-riled-up/ But some people are more comfortable than others in thinking in abstractions. #PS1other ===== engage 2 engage-rate 67% impress 3 time 2023-07-27 23:21 +0000 urlclicks 2 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1684705671865118721 ========== Likely elements of the case against Trump. https://brennancenter.substack.com/p/how-to-prosecute-trump #PS1insurrection ===== impress 1 time 2023-07-27 04:36 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1684422407749259264 ========== Think there's a political angle to Barbie and Swifties? The far right does! https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/op-ed/bs-ed-op-mgoldberg-barbieswift-20230725-xefsihrd4jb5jmj7fo6sjj2cyq-story.html But for Hollywood it's just mostly about going where the money is. #PS1other ===== impress 17 time 2023-07-27 03:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1684405319781474306 ========== The people who profit from oil and gas should pay the cleanup. https://calmatters.org/commentary/2023/07/idle-oil-wells-taxpayer-cleanup/ #PS1capolitics ===== impress 6 time 2023-07-27 03:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1684404594049429504 ========== Looks like a little embroidery here - https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/26/tubervilles-tales-about-his-father-world-war-ii-have-false-elements/ #PS1trumpism ===== impress 5 time 2023-07-27 03:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1684403891709022210 ========== Trump 2.0. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/26/vivek-ramaswamy-2024-presidential-campaign/ He'd really put the "emperor" in "president"! The way Trump always wanted but didn't dare. #PS1gop ===== impress 5 time 2023-07-27 03:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1684402282253930496 ========== Giuliani admits he was just making stuff up. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/26/rudy-giuliani-false-statements-georgia/ #PS1insurrection ===== impress 5 time 2023-07-27 02:20 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1684388192416591873 ========== How to get things done in Congress - https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/26/patty-murray-senate-appropriations-funding/ You have to work around the ones that only want to make noise. #PS1politics ===== impress 5 time 2023-07-27 02:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1684387352368791552 ========== What do you know about nondebtor releases? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/26/sackler-opioid-purdue-pharma-oxycontin-immunity/ #PS1justice ===== impress 1 time 2023-07-27 02:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1684386118782046208 ========== Specific plausible proposals for the FBI? How does that fit in the 2024 GOP? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/26/asa-hutchinson-fbi-reforms-trump/ #PS1justice ===== impress 2 time 2023-07-27 02:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1684385113499639808 ========== Is it 1914 all over again? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/26/ukraine-counteroffensive-negotiations-milley-biden/ #PS1ukraine ===== impress 14 time 2023-07-27 02:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1684384416272097280 ========== Might be a TIA - https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/transient-ischemic-attack/symptoms-causes/syc-20355679 Could happen to anybody aged 81. https://apnews.com/article/mcconnell-freeze-senate-fall-republican-leader-f18008b314c5907ba0111f6891c9a0d3 #PS1health ===== impress 4 time 2023-07-27 01:57 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1684382417732395008 ========== If this has been going on for decades, why didn't Trump say anything while he was president? Keeping secrets is not his forte. https://apnews.com/article/ufos-uaps-congress-whistleblower-spy-aliens-ba8a8cfba353d7b9de29c3d906a69ba7 #PS1other ===== impress 2 time 2023-07-27 01:52 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1684381130521464832 ========== The McCarthy House might well impeach Biden - for the high crime and misdemeanor of being Hunter's father? https://apnews.com/article/biden-impeachment-trump-hunter-biden-mccarthy-597dc12919381fe32572e9a19862f393 #PS1impeachment ===== impress 9 time 2023-07-27 01:43 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1684378866142580737 ========== Are you confused about the cause of the Civil War? Alexander Stephens wasn't - "the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery subordination to the superior race is his natural and normal condition" https://www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-sources/cornerstone-speech #PS1minority ===== impress 7 time 2023-07-26 14:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1684209636679749633 ========== Scammers and right-wing terrorists lead IRS to cancel unannounced home visits. https://apnews.com/article/irs-tax-scams-revenue-service-treasury-8d4129b20366eedb828abd80c404834d #PS1tax ===== impress 3 time 2023-07-25 20:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1683934433970393089 ========== What you can learn from visiting Ukraine. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/23/opinion/ukraine-war-russia.html #PS1ukraine ===== impress 12 time 2023-07-24 04:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1683339138274304001 ========== Nothing lasts forever in Chinese foreign relations. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/23/opinion/china-russia-us-cold-war.html It's strictly transactional. Putin and Trump should understand that. #PS1china ===== impress 9 time 2023-07-24 04:48 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1683338327213363200 ========== The cost of Trumpist mischief. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/23/us/politics/trump-investigations-jack-smith-justice-department.html #PS1trump ===== impress 4 time 2023-07-24 04:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1683337431200968705 ========== The horrible legacy of Putin's war - https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/07/22/ukraine-is-now-most-mined-country-it-will-take-decades-make-safe/ #PS1ukraine ===== impress 7 time 2023-07-23 06:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1683001715568807936 ========== Why would Trump bother if he can't control the questioning? https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2023/07/22/fox-news-hosts-are-pushing-trump-join-fox-news-gop-debate/ And in any case he'd never commit to supporting a GOP candidate who's not him, as the RNC requires. #PS1trump ===== impress 4 time 2023-07-23 06:24 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1683000081233121280 ========== Arctic warming opens a new cold war front. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/07/17/an-arctic-great-game-nato-allies-russia-face-off-far-north/ #PS1putin ===== impress 3 time 2023-07-23 06:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1682997245875200000 ========== China becomes more like North Korea https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/21/qin-gang-china-minister-secrecy/ and expects its client countries to adopt its model. #PS1china ===== impress 3 time 2023-07-23 05:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1682990314016108544 ========== Neo-fascists are on the rise in Europe. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/21/populism-trump-italy-spain-germany/ Immigration seems to be their big issue. Like their American counterparts, they don't have a plan for maintaining the standard of living for an aging population without immigration. #PS1immigration ===== impress 3 time 2023-07-23 05:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1682989303876694016 ========== Everybody knew it was a joke but nobody told the voters. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/07/22/mark-meadows-georgia-election-results-2020-fraud-claims/ #PS1insurrection ===== impress 2 time 2023-07-23 05:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1682987300408668160 ========== Does DeSantis believe it's good to be convicted of a felony, because you might learn a useful trade in jail? https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/22/desantis-slavery-curriculum/ Endorsing slavery is not going to get him the Trump base, and it certainly will repel everybody else. #PS1gop ===== engage 1 engage-rate 13% impress 8 time 2023-07-23 01:05 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1682919884790050816 ========== Everybody knows it's going to be reduced benefits or increased taxes. And GOP is never for increased taxes on megadonors. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/07/22/gop-social-security-trump-rivals-cuts/ Instead they talk about "solutions" that solve nothing, hoping to blame Democrats for benefit cuts. #PS1gop ===== engage 1 engage-rate 13% expands 1 impress 8 time 2023-07-23 01:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1682918842224508931 ========== “The embrace of Trump is really, finally a cynical calculation concerned with power" https://apnews.com/article/trump-evangelicals-christians-politics-jesus-2024-election-2850284ccf3e7155273131b7344a0dd0 And thus the devil recruits those who should know better. #PS1trump ===== impress 4 time 2023-07-23 00:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1682916351072178176 ========== Good for one thing - killing a crowd of unarmed civilians faster. https://apnews.com/article/binary-triggers-fargo-shooting-08391f506b264bc3de25ce7b4efd52b1 #PS1firearms ===== impress 9 time 2023-07-23 00:31 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1682911366095728640 ========== Tough choice for GOP - go down with Trump, or go down against Trump. Democrats will make sure it's Biden vs Trump either way. https://apnews.com/article/new-hampshire-republican-president-2024-pence-trump-cee250b2171b68c2da79b1bbb8454deb Which choice hurts GOP less in Congress and states? #PS1gop ===== impress 4 time 2023-07-23 00:26 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1682909964174766081 ========== That was the week that was in McCarthy's House - https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/21/house-gop-lgbtq-bigotry-discrimination Long on feelings, short on facts. #PS1gop ===== impress 4 time 2023-07-22 01:06 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1682557590289657856 ========== Good news for Trump, bad news for GOP. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/21/trumps-trial-date-conjures-gops-nightmare-scenario/ #PS1gop ===== impress 3 time 2023-07-22 00:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1682551781291859968 ========== That was the week that wasn't - https://apnews.com/ap-fact-check Just the lowlights - https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-misinformation-pfizer-mosquitoes-covid19-human-trafficking-a64fd180732aa3405691681f3d6c80e7 #PS1media ===== impress 2 time 2023-07-22 00:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1682548308873728000 ========== A few nice words for Mike Pence. https://www.indianagazette.com/opinion/lynn-schmidt-mike-pence-a-man-of-character-and-integrity/article_a30e0979-56f1-53cd-8cff-a45e1a7b171c.html But if GOP nominates him, Trump will run against him in a three-way race, and Pence won't get a single vote from the core Trump base. #PS1gop ===== impress 8 time 2023-07-21 12:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1682372196591882240 ========== What's worse than nuclear weapons launched from foreign countries? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/20/china-united-states-space-competition/ Nuclear weapons launched from space! And there are lesser attacks too. Where would you be without GPS? #PS1china ===== impress 3 time 2023-07-21 03:53 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1682237352398430210 ========== Sure to be featured at Trump and DeSantis campaign rallies. https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/2023/07/20/jason-aldean-song-video-pulled-cmt-controversy/ It doesn't have to be explicit. Everybody knows what it implies. That's the Trumpist Dixiecrat plausible deniability way. In Nixon's day, it was Okie from Muskogee. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 9 time 2023-07-21 03:48 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1682235967565107200 ========== A Trumpist to the core - she tells every audience what they want to hear. Who cares if it's factual? https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2023/07/16/yeonmi-park-conservative-defector-stories-questioned/ North Korean defectors don't have any other saleable skills except story-telling. #PS1media ===== impress 11 time 2023-07-21 01:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1682195903631998977 ========== It takes more than a Carlson propaganda show to get you out of a guilty plea. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/07/20/qanon-shaman-plea-withdraw-rejected/ Judge now questions sincerity of repentance and would be harsher on retrial. #PS1insurrection ===== impress 2 time 2023-07-21 00:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1682193315259875328 ========== “They’re not really doing constitutional law at all. They’re just making stuff up.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/20/mccarthy-trump-impeachment-expunge/ It's the Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP way! #PS1gop ===== impress 3 time 2023-07-21 00:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1682191528687702016 ========== The closer you look, the worse he looks. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/20/robert-kennedy-jr-polls/ GOP would drop him like a hot potato if he announced he would switch to GOP. #PS1gop ===== impress 7 time 2023-07-21 00:46 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1682190379389685760 ========== No US rational immigration policy because too many megadonors like the current broken system's bounty of cheap exploitable unskilled labor. Canada, meanwhile, reaps highly skilled labor - the fruits of uncertainty. https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/article/h-1b-visa-canada-s-program-to-poach-silicon-valley-talent-off-to-a-booming-start/ar-AA1e3HmD Who's winning? #PS1immigration ===== impress 8 time 2023-07-20 21:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1682143523414626304 ========== Putin is no Peter the Great. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/06/30/putin-russia-war-modernization/ He doesn't want to make Russia great and modern, he just wants to make Putin great and traditional. #PS1putin ===== impress 6 time 2023-07-20 20:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1682128789957124098 ========== "prepare for a Russian invasion, which many consider plausible within three to five years" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/20/baltics-nato-russia-ukraine-defense/ The Baltic states are doing their part. They aren't sure of the rest of NATO - especially if Trump is re-elected. Putin is counting on that. #PS1putin ===== impress 10 time 2023-07-20 20:38 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1682127749975252996 ========== The Trump classified document charges might be on more solid legal ground than the likely insurrection-related charges. The latter might well end up before the Supreme Court. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/20/trump-jan-6-indictment-legal-theories/ #PS1insurrection ===== impress 9 time 2023-07-20 15:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1682056598645256195 ========== How the reactionary judiciary is groomed and maintained to defend minority rule. https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2023/07/20/leonard-leo-clarence-thomas-paoletta/ There's plenty of money in it for everybody. #PS1justice ===== impress 5 time 2023-07-20 15:48 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1682054787884519425 ========== In 2024, third parties will not draw any votes from the Trump base, nor draw much dark money from the Trumpist megadonors, making it more likely that Trump will either win outright or push the election into the House - for a corrupt bargain. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/20/no-labels-ruining-independent-meaning-centrist/ #PS1election ===== impress 5 time 2023-07-20 14:19 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1682032428142174208 ========== The feudal Southern planters among America's founders rightly feared industrialization as a threat to their way of life. Their spiritual heirs are losing the same battle - https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/20/bidenomics-rust-belt-trump-2024-sun-belt/ Economic development brings all kinds of changes. #PS1economics ===== impress 3 time 2023-07-20 13:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1682027375767457793 ========== Parts of the cure for partisanship - a larger House and multi-member districts elected by ranked choice. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/20/gerrymandering-electoral-college-solution-democracy/ Getting rid of state sore-loser laws would be a good first step. #PS1democracy ===== impress 1 time 2023-07-20 13:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1682025226593517575 ========== How to eliminate incorrect thought - https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/19/hong-kong-song-ban-national-security-law-repression/?wpisrc=nl_opinions China is a role model for DeSantis and his ilk. #PS1gop ===== impress 2 time 2023-07-20 13:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1682022462941437952 ========== How the outsiders become insiders and part of the establishment. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/15/marjorie-taylor-greene-congress Be part of the Freischütz caucus or part of the conference committee? After a while the answer becomes clear. #PS1politics ===== impress 5 time 2023-07-20 02:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1681854174043181057 ========== "Trump is like a drug dealer who thrives in a broken neighborhood, getting everyone hooked on his warped values" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/13/opinion/trump-indictment-presidency.html #PS1trump ===== impress 3 time 2023-07-20 01:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1681842005037678592 ========== "Trump needs the nomination more than DeSantis wants it" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/19/opinion/trump-indictment.html #PS1trump ===== impress 4 time 2023-07-20 01:38 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1681841046966403077 ========== Manchin's not going to pull any votes from the Trump base, even if he runs on a coal platform. The best Manchin can do is cause the election to go to the House, so Trump can make a corrupt bargain. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/19/opinion/joe-manchin-no-labels.html #PS1politics ===== impress 5 time 2023-07-20 01:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1681839645041229824 ========== The Heritage Foundation plan to dismantle the Federal government, to make the country safe for their megadonors. https://nytimes.com/2023/07/17/us/politics/trump-plans-2025.html They sold it Trump that he'd have complete authority over all Federal employees - to treat as his personal servants. #PS1minority ===== impress 5 time 2023-07-19 22:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1681786683262652417 ========== McConnell's proudest achievement was to build a reactionary judiciary to defend minority rule. GOP megadonors think about that all the time. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/11/mcconnell-supreme-court-op-ed-reaction But he wants voters to think about something else. #PS1judiciary ===== impress 3 time 2023-07-19 21:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1681774976511401985 ========== Isolationism - we've been here before. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/14/republican-isolationism-foreign-policy-ukraine It didn't work. Lindbergh threw away his reputation on it. #PS1foreign ===== impress 3 time 2023-07-19 21:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1681773878333566976 ========== Why can't we agree to take care of children and families? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/16/political-polarization-solution-ej-dionne But the job-creator megadonors - who pay for most politics - oppose taxes to support improvident poor families. That won't change as long as politics runs on unlimited dark money. #PS1minority ===== impress 1 time 2023-07-19 20:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1681767629734952960 ========== "starting with conclusions and then trying — and mostly failing — to find facts to support them" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/17/jim-jordan-weaponization-hearing-wray-fbi-trump-maga But “the victor will never be asked if he told the truth” #PS1trumpism ===== impress 2 time 2023-07-19 20:21 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1681761310936281089 ========== "Politics is organized conflict" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/17/no-labels-manchin-common-sense And the essence of democratic politics is coming up with unpalatable compromises - that can pass. The sausage making is not pretty or easy and the results never please everybody, and often nobody. #PS1democracy ===== impress 1 time 2023-07-19 20:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1681759901364920320 ========== The core Trump base will never abandon him because he gives them permission to ignore facts and logic - and just act out their emotions. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/17/donald-trump-gop-voters-2024-race/ The larger Trump base might notice that he TALKS to them - but ACTS on behalf of the ruling class. #PS1trump ===== impress 3 time 2023-07-19 20:03 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1681756595183837186 ========== House GOP eager to cut spending in every district but their own. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/07/18/republican-spending-bills-infrastructure-cuts And then blame the other party when the bridge collapses. #PS1deficit ===== impress 2 time 2023-07-19 19:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1681750570477195264 ========== The events of 1619 have haunted America for centuries. Hopefully the Jan 6 2021 events will only last for decades. But Trump has planted the seeds that will grow long after he's gone. https://news.yahoo.com/opinion-lasting-threat-not-next-103017529.html #PS1trumpism ===== impress 5 time 2023-07-19 19:19 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1681745566844465164 ========== When Trump leads by example, his followers follow - https://www.gocomics.com/mikeluckovich/2023/07/12 #PS1trump ===== impress 6 time 2023-07-19 19:12 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1681743876145688582 ========== Who's got your tax returns? https://apnews.com/article/irs-taxpayer-tax-preparation-meta-congress-9315cfca7a0942ab89f765d183fbf822 #PS1media ===== impress 1 time 2023-07-19 19:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1681741392538914816 ========== Who is subsidizing whom in Ukraine? https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/12/opinion/nato-putin-ukraine-baltics.html #PS1ukraine ===== impress 6 time 2023-07-19 18:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1681739514686091264 ========== Where your Trump donations go - https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/a-maga-super-pac-gave-melania-trump-an-unusual-155000-payment-for-a-2021-speaking-engagement-report/ar-AA1dRGF8 #PS1trump ===== impress 1 time 2023-07-19 18:46 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1681737248440741888 ========== There's a handy role model for Trumpists - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huey_Long#Louisiana_governorship_(1928%E2%80%931932) So now we have hurricane disaster relief - or DeSantis' private army? https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/15/ron-desantis-florida-state-guard-militia-veterans-quit Not what some recruits were expecting. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 4 time 2023-07-19 18:31 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1681733418869227522 ========== Tucker Carlson has big plans - https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/tucker-carlson-is-creating-new-media-company-wsj-2023-07-14/ #PS1media ===== impress 3 time 2023-07-19 18:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1681727069154344961 ========== Shut down the government and blame the other party - Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP at its finest - https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/18/house-republicans-defense-bill-amendments #PS1trumpism ===== impress 1 time 2023-07-19 17:37 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1681719892582735874 ========== Will June 24 be a red-letter day in Russian history? https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/19/europe/mi6-putin-wagner-rare-speech-intl/index.html Never have so many tea leaves pointed in so many different directions! #PS1putin ===== impress 1 time 2023-07-19 16:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1681696684383043589 ========== It doesn't matter who GOP nominates for president - https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/18/desantis-campaign-republican-alternative/ If Trump, only the Trump base will vote GOP; that's 1/3 at best. If not Trump, he will run as a third party (hoping to defer prosecution), leaving the GOP candidate with less than 1/3. #PS1gop ===== impress 2 time 2023-07-19 15:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1681695096155279361 ========== Traditional conservatives don't understand the Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP. It's about cult of personality as a means to defend minority rule - which means libertarianism for billionaire megadonors and everybody else doing what they're told. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/18/freedomfest-libertarian-values-trump/ #PS1minority ===== impress 5 time 2023-07-19 15:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1681691101835722753 ========== Putin shows Trump how to conduct a war - ensure loyalty above competence. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/19/opinion/putin-prigozhin-military-russia.html #PS1putin ===== impress 7 time 2023-07-19 15:24 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1681686462813839361 ========== More on the Michigan fake electors. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/18/opinion/trump-false-electors-michigan.html It was wrong, and they knew it, but they did it anyway. And lied about it. #PS1insurrection ===== impress 7 time 2023-07-19 15:20 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1681685502070788097 ========== Trumpism in action - it's feelings, not facts, that matter. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/19/tommy-tuberville-veterans-fact-checker/ #PS1trumpism ===== impress 2 time 2023-07-19 15:15 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1681684115148652545 ========== GOP candidates vow that Supreme Court's job is to protect minority rule - by protecting the single-issue constituencies that can reliably vote GOP - so a GOP Congress can stick to its assigned task of protecting its megadonors. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/18/vivek-ramaswamy-supreme-court-nomination-stunt/ #PS1minority ===== impress 1 time 2023-07-19 15:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1681683223791935490 ========== Federal Supreme Court affirms that state supreme courts have normal overview authority over state election law. https://statecourtreport.substack.com/p/the-supreme-court-and-the-states #PS1justice ===== impress 2 time 2023-07-19 15:03 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1681681150878838785 ========== Independent civil service? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pendleton_Civil_Service_Reform_Act You can't count on them to defend minority rule! But Trump's backers have a plan - https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/19/trump-plan-federal-takeover/ A self-serving opportunist at the top attracts self-serving opportunists all the way down. #PS1minority ===== impress 4 time 2023-07-19 14:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1681675694189993984 ========== The Z's are coming! And the boomers are going. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/19/gen-z-voters-2024/ So there are GOP proposals to raise the voting age to 25. Why not respect the traditions of America's founders and go back to limiting voting to old Protestant male landowners? #PS1democracy ===== impress 13 time 2023-07-19 14:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1681672065252827138 ========== It's all just a joke and an opportunity to raise funds for Trump's legal defense. https://apnews.com/article/trump-iowa-target-letter-indictment-january-6-13afe5fa279e277aa6a11da46cd1821d #PS1insurrection ===== impress 4 time 2023-07-19 14:19 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1681670010354188289 ========== Some fake electors will get their day in court. In other states, no consequences, so maybe they'll try it again. https://apnews.com/article/fake-elector-michigan-republican-df7803fca3862be713d9d6d29fb77e81 #PS1insurrection ===== impress 1 time 2023-07-19 14:15 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1681669070519762945 ========== House GOP wants to increase confidence in elections - https://washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/11/house-republican-confidence-elections-dc/ meaning confidence that elections will protect unlimited dark money and minority rule. So it's time for another try for Freedom to Vote - https://brennancenter.substack.com/p/the-freedom-to-vote #PS1democracy ===== impress 2 time 2023-07-19 13:48 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1681662312674107392 ========== Why do people pay attention to Elon Musk? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/17/elon-musk-technology-leaders-influence/ Success in some things doesn't imply wisdom in all things. Especially if luck played a big part in the successes. #PS1other ===== impress 4 time 2023-07-18 20:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1681393448665088001 ========== Poor Ron can't get a word in edgewise - https://apnews.com/article/ron-desantis-south-carolina-presidential-primary-739eac048707187fd6fc551a4a49be78 And that's just how Trump likes it - another opportunity to dun his loyal supporters to pay his legal fees, and force the rest of the GOP wannabes to fall in line behind Trump. https://apnews.com/article/trump-jan-6-investigation-2020-election-7caa4d45b9dc287af868aa12f87fe254 #PS1trump ===== impress 4 time 2023-07-18 19:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1681380329431633921 ========== "he just has not ignited the way we thought he would" https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/bleeding-money-desantis-fires-portion-171650474.html #PS1gop ===== impress 4 time 2023-07-17 05:43 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1680815481257861120 ========== Russians are a lot better at defense than offense. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/15/us/politics/ukraine-leopards-bradleys-counteroffensive.html Maybe that's why nobody has successfully invaded Russia since Genghis Khan. #PS1ukraine ===== impress 14 time 2023-07-16 16:38 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1680617804821835779 ========== Rich countries tend to get older as the cost of children rises - then young countries tend to get richer - if they have the right social and governmental structures. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/07/16/world/world-demographics.html #PS1other ===== impress 4 time 2023-07-16 16:31 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1680616102530027520 ========== Nobody who's been conquered by Russia wants to repeat the experience. And now Russians living in former parts of the empire are assimilating to their new cultures faster. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/15/opinion/russian-speakers-ukraine-putin.html #PS1putin ===== impress 3 time 2023-07-16 16:23 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1680614102887190529 ========== You can't always get what you want. Bold decisive actions always create winners and losers. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/16/opinion/climate-change-biden-building-investment.html #PS1climate ===== impress 12 time 2023-07-16 16:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1680612692703457280 ========== Why Ukrainians want cluster munitions. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/16/world/europe/ukraine-russia-land-mines.html #PS1ukraine ===== impress 7 time 2023-07-16 15:31 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1680601119821819904 ========== How real influencers try to work. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/15/indictment-paints-tale-chinese-interests-2016-trump-campaign/ Why would foreign corrupt interests behave differently from domestic corrupt interests? #PS1china ===== impress 4 time 2023-07-16 15:21 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1680598637909516290 ========== “Will DeSantis sink and fade out?” https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/15/desantis-campaign-2024-presidential/ #PS1gop ===== impress 6 time 2023-07-16 15:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1680593443960279040 ========== RFK Jr alienates the Jewish vote. https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/15/politics/rfk-jr-covid-jewish-groups/index.html It's hard to see who would fund him, except perhaps Putin. #PS1politics ===== impress 18 time 2023-07-16 03:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1680414391026724864 ========== Maybe Musk is not as smart as he thinks! https://apnews.com/article/twitter-elon-musk-debt-advertising-70f526c407d4c68107f9d1ec4b4e3151 #PS1media ===== engage 1 engage-rate 10% expands 1 impress 10 time 2023-07-16 03:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1680413204311347200 ========== Santos has money problems. https://apnews.com/article/george-santos-congress-campaign-finance-a634ccca4653d34ea648c03428e42d43 Evidently there's a limit to what the GOP dark moneybags will contribute. Who knew? Santos is such a loyal Trumpist! #PS1gop ===== impress 2 time 2023-07-16 03:03 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1680412747060891648 ========== Look what unlimited dark money can buy! https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/14/desantis-never-back-down-canvassers/ Do you want to talk about politics to ANY stranger who comes to your door? ESPECIALLY a paid salesman from out of state? All paid political operators should be required to wear a scarlet letter. #PS1politics ===== impress 11 time 2023-07-15 17:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1680263894412193792 ========== "The only way you'd solve this war in a day is if you gave Vladimir Putin what he wanted" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/14/biden-trump-helsinki-nato-isolationism/ "the very prospect that Trump could return to office encourages Putin to prolong the conflict" #PS1ukraine ===== impress 10 time 2023-07-15 17:04 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1680262162261090305 ========== If inflation declines without causing a recession, it will be because Biden did nothing - about the Fed. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/14/inflation-reduction-credit-traditional-biden/ Neither the left nor the right want to give Biden, or the Fed, due credit. #PS1inflation ===== engage 1 engage-rate 11% impress 9 replies 1 time 2023-07-15 16:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1680260559055495168 ========== Most voters don't understand American democracy. It's based on one-dollar-one-vote. Nothing else changes until that changes. https://apnews.com/article/poll-democracy-partisanship-trump-biden-trust-221f2b4f6cf9805f766c9a8395b9539d The defenders of minority rule will insure that unlimited dark money will continue to decide elections. #PS1democracy ===== impress 4 time 2023-07-15 04:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1680079475927846913 ========== The Trump-Putin plan to undermine American democracy is working. Their propaganda is convincing increasing numbers of Americans that elections are rigged. No facts need apply! https://apnews.com/article/election-2024-voting-misinformation-ai-c21c051a667cc93df75b08501870e90c #PS1democracy ===== impress 8 time 2023-07-15 04:53 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1680078208073629696 ========== Trump and his base still believe they are the majority in the country. And Trump believes that mounting a campaign, as GOP or third-party nominee, is his best get-out-of-jail-free card. The non-Trump GOP has no good choices. https://apnews.com/article/trump-gop-primary-republicans-d4d2099f63dd7192c9e025483bcb526a #PS1trump ===== impress 5 time 2023-07-15 04:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1680077057836081152 ========== Freischütz Caucus leads shift of DOD mission from defense against foreign enemies to defense of reactionary political correctness. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/14/us/politics/defense-bill-house-ndaa.html Putin was no doubt thrilled. #PS1gop ===== impress 3 time 2023-07-14 19:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1679934390103670784 ========== We know who Putin supports in Congress! https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/14/what-gops-sizable-defections-ukraine-portend/ Whether they know it or not. #PS1ukraine ===== engage 2 engage-rate 40% impress 5 time 2023-07-14 18:38 +0000 urlclicks 2 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1679923425585029120 ========== No Labels centrist split-ticket - the right idea at the wrong time. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/14/no-labels-presidential-election-2024/ In 2024, a third party candidate might well result in an outright Trump victory or cause the election to go to the House - leading to another Corrupt Bargain at best. #PS1politics ===== engage 1 engage-rate 14% impress 7 time 2023-07-14 18:35 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1679922593057628160 ========== "It would be so much easier just to tell the truth" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/14/fbi-conspiracy-theories-house-gop-wray-hearing/ But shooting straight is not the Freischütz way - "the victor will never be asked if he told the truth" #PS1trumpism ===== impress 6 time 2023-07-14 18:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1679917829603356673 ========== Trump is not inevitable on his merits - https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/14/trump-desantis-not-inevitable/ But he has an ace in the hole - he would run as a third party if not the GOP nominee - dooming the GOP nominee to defeat. So they might as well nominate Trump. #PS1trump ===== impress 4 time 2023-07-14 18:06 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1679915231651459074 ========== Another year at the Supreme Court - mostly defending minority rule, but one curve ball that must have given their reactionary groomers conniptions. https://brennancenter.substack.com/p/supreme-court-term-in-review #PS1justice ===== impress 2 time 2023-07-14 17:37 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1679907912981020672 ========== That was the week that wasn't - https://apnews.com/ap-fact-check Just the lowlights - https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-misinformation-biden-impeachment-desantis-yearbook-greene-2baf781e4a9898e2edaddbac12037007 #PS1media ===== impress 2 time 2023-07-14 17:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1679906988661284864 ========== Will General Armageddon be first casualty of Wagner rebellion? https://cnn.com/2023/06/30/europe/russian-general-sergey-surovikin-wagner-vip-intl-hnk/index.html SOMEbody has to pay the price! Has Surovikin no strong allies in the Putin empire? #PS1putin ===== impress 16 time 2023-07-14 14:52 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1679866438520274945 ========== Nothing is true and everything is possible - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/27/opinion/russia-putin-prigozhin-ukraine.html And that's the source of the "aggressive apathy" of most of the Russian people. #PS1putin ===== impress 6 time 2023-07-14 01:07 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1679658724443688960 ========== Like Georgia, Arizona is tired of waiting for the Feds. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/07/13/investigation-2020-election-results-arizona-trump/ #PS1insurrection ===== impress 1 time 2023-07-14 01:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1679657687385255938 ========== Steve Dallas Rule #1 - you don't sue poor people. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/13/tucker-carlson-ray-epps-fox/ But rich corporations with something to hide are fair game! #PS1media ===== impress 4 time 2023-07-14 00:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1679656518575362049 ========== Some insurrectionists are penitent, at least in court. https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/07/13/kyle-fitzsimons-sentenced-jan6/ #PS1insurrection ===== impress 1 time 2023-07-14 00:52 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1679655108978839552 ========== Evidently you can have very bad judgment and still be a chief of police! https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/07/13/former-police-chief-convicted-after-defending-self-with-jan-6-claims/ #PS1insurrection ===== impress 2 time 2023-07-14 00:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1679654254125150210 ========== Amazing that ordinary people still think that Trump has something in common with them! https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/13/donald-trump-financial-disclosure/ But if they believe the only truth is how they feel, and facts don't matter, then that's a point in common. #PS1trump ===== impress 4 time 2023-07-14 00:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1679653140516474881 ========== Just when you thought it couldn't possibly get more confusing - https://apnews.com/article/russian-general-dismissed-wagner-prigozhin-8320113aa0a4d1a71ed290a766aa8244 Politicians are justifiably wary of commanders who have earned great personal loyalty from their troops. #PS1putin ===== impress 4 time 2023-07-14 00:31 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1679649822058643456 ========== Social media disease infects in less than a week. https://uk.news.yahoo.com/meta-threads-app-positive-vibe-204259604.html The spammers, scammers, and propagandists could stay on Truth Social and Twitter where they are welcome, but it's no fun preaching to the choir. #PS1media ===== engage 3 engage-rate 33% impress 9 time 2023-07-09 14:29 +0000 urlclicks 3 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1678048716819947525 ========== Speaking in contradictions comes naturally to many GOP politicians. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/07/bizarre-contradiction-republican-america/ After all, they have to say one thing to the Trump base, a different thing to the persuadables, and something else to the megadonors that buy their campaigns. #PS1gop ===== engage 1 engage-rate 9% expands 1 impress 11 time 2023-07-08 05:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1677558034523127808 ========== How do Trumpists and Federalists differ? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/07/maga-john-eastman-lin-wood-trump-impeachment-mayorkas/ Trumpist legal fantasies got nowhere in court, but got on Fox for process, not results. Meanwhile Leo and McConnell groomed real change in the judiciary. And got on Fox for results, not process. #PS1justice ===== impress 7 time 2023-07-08 05:54 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1677556669403000832 ========== Who is Lindsey Graham? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/07/lindsey-graham-south-carolina-donald-trump/ Nobody is sure. #PS1gop ===== impress 8 time 2023-07-08 05:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1677552893581471745 ========== Erasing reality by rewriting history - the insurrectionists thus channel stalinism. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/07/insurrection-jan6-defendants/ #PS1insurrection ===== impress 2 time 2023-07-08 05:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1677551281018408960 ========== If you ignore the first clause of the 2nd amendment, https://www.political-scrapbook.net/controversial.html#second%20amendment why wouldn't you allow felons and children to own and carry assault weapons? They're part of "the people" too. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/07/originalism-supreme-court-second-amendment-reeves/ #PS1firearms ===== engage 4 engage-rate 44% expands 1 impress 9 time 2023-07-08 05:26 +0000 urlclicks 3 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1677549804040376320 ========== Like Stalin, like Putin. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/07/08/yevgeny-prigozhin-wagner-discredit-putin/ Except now we have video and social media! #PS1putin ===== impress 10 time 2023-07-08 05:20 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1677548213522534400 ========== "Twitter is the place where us boomers talk about what the kids are up to on TikTok" https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/07/twitter-dead-musk-tiktok-public-square/ Text was good enough for America's founders so it's good enough for political scrapbook. That doesn't mean that Twitter is still good enough. #PS1media ===== impress 4 time 2023-07-08 05:14 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1677546748426981378 ========== Odd that Musk didn't sue Trump for copying Twitter! https://apnews.com/article/twitter-meta-threads-lawsuit-6a56a5d35a8d54cbcf834fc061ae8ffd In any event, there's nothing about Twitter that is too mysterious to quickly reverse-engineer. #PS1media ===== impress 3 time 2023-07-08 05:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1677543645992611840 ========== The desire to debate Trump - who probably won't be there - vs having to pledge to support the eventual GOP nominee, who will probably be Trump. https://apnews.com/article/election-2024-republican-presidential-debate-1e4d65a395f83ac078139d14e41d4b63 It's not completely pointless if you're auditioning for a cabinet job. #PS1gop ===== impress 3 time 2023-07-08 04:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1677542740241059840 ========== That was the week that wasn't - https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-news Just the lowlights - https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-misinformation-france-protest-oregon-voters-ukraine-ebc280eae0b6659fca06e0416300fc19 #PS1media ===== impress 2 time 2023-07-08 03:19 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1677517812544462848 ========== Can regional federalism be far behind? https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-regional.html The country is sorting by politics and culture - https://apnews.com/article/polarization-republicans-democrats-abortion-gender-colorado-idaho-406b5a841d4d47c8a08cf054c38bb2a0 #PS1democracy ===== impress 2 time 2023-07-07 04:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1677175838087995403 ========== Most voters don't follow politics and don't want to. Especially independents! https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/it-s-useful-to-remember-how-little-a-lot-of-americans-know-about-politics/ar-AA1dtvue #PS1democracy ===== impress 2 time 2023-07-07 04:37 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1677174971674800128 ========== Minority rule might be losing some of its stoutest defenders. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/03/republican-party-mormon-church-decline It'll have to make up for it with Latinos - or else with more lunatic fringe groups. #PS1gop ===== impress 3 time 2023-07-07 04:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1677171935615270913 ========== We've had hotlines to Russia for generations. It's time for China to step up to great-power behavior. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/05/opinion-china-crisis-hotline #PS1china ===== impress 7 time 2023-07-07 04:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1677171190748844032 ========== The case for more political parties - and the election law changes that would help them thrive. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/05/more-political-parties-democracy/?wpisrc=nl_opinions #PS1democracy ===== impress 4 time 2023-07-07 04:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1677169627900821507 ========== Competence is not in demand in the GOP. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/06/kemp-trump-youngkin-2024-republicans/?wpisrc=nl_most Governors who have been successful at home don't seem to see any credible path to a non-Trump presidential nominee. Maybe they are just resigned to the collateral damage on down the ticket. #PS1gop ===== impress 2 time 2023-07-07 04:10 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1677168277708218369 ========== Why even bipartisan initiatives in Congress usually fail. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/06/congress-facebook-google-amazon-apple-regulation-failure Money talks. Politicians listen. Too many will do ANYthing to get re-elected. #PS1democracy ===== impress 5 time 2023-07-07 04:06 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1677167052052926464 ========== Russia's strategic ambiguity about nuclear weapons - https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/07/05/russia-putin-nuclear-strike-nato/ Would Putin use them to save his regime? #PS1putin ===== impress 15 time 2023-07-07 03:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1677161701714837505 ========== How to make money in social media! https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/04/twitter-erica-marsh-suspended/ #PS1media ===== engage 3 engage-rate 1 impress 3 time 2023-07-07 03:39 +0000 urlclicks 2 userclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1677160318601138176 ========== Can you imagine a GOP presidential candidate with any technical credentials at all? https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/06/an-interview-with-cyber-focused-presidential-candidate-will-hurd/ Nobody else can either. He can't attract the Trump base, and so can't get the GOP nomination. #PS1gop ===== impress 4 time 2023-07-07 03:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1677158007103459329 ========== GOP voters giving up on democracy? https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/06/republicans-democracy-polling/ They've followed the lead of the megadonors in accepting that democracy will lead to the end of everything they hold dear - minority rule by rich old white men. #PS1minority ===== impress 6 time 2023-07-07 03:24 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1677156515663462400 ========== Judges don't necessarily bother to check facts https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/06/judges-decision-key-misinformation-case-is-latest-botch-facts/ Like other people, many just accept claims that strike an emotional chord. #PS1justice ===== impress 1 time 2023-07-07 03:20 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1677155532778668034 ========== Unimportant white men can be convinced that their chances of becoming important white men are being stolen by... everybody else. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/06/desantis-lgbtq-insecure-men/ Under minority rule, they never had any chances to steal, but they've been told otherwise for 400 years. #PS1minority ===== impress 4 time 2023-07-07 03:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1677153796659777536 ========== The Trump way - get others to do the dirty work, while maintaining plausible deniability. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/06/trump-truth-social-obama/ Nobody can censor him on Truth Social! #PS1trump ===== engage 14 engage-rate 16% expands 1 impress 89 likes 2 replies 1 time 2023-07-07 03:06 +0000 urlclicks 8 userclicks 2 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1677152039300927490 ========== Who's involved in the attempts to rig the 2020 election? https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/06/election-investigation-smith-trump/ Just about everybody, it seems. The examples set by the Jan 6 insurrectionists prosecutions probably helped some witnesses talk sooner rather than later. #PS1insurrection ===== impress 5 time 2023-07-07 03:03 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1677151212536467466 ========== Will Threads replace Twitter? If enough real people sign up, as opposed to corporates and bots. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/06/threads-instagram-app-zuckerberg-twitter/ politicalscrapbook will move if and when most of its audience does. #PS1media ===== impress 15 time 2023-07-07 02:57 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1677149770203406337 ========== For maximum results, hit them when they're reeling. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/06/fox-news-producer-settlement-grossberg-12-million/ Apparently Fox can afford it, thanks to their advertisers and their advertisters' loyal viewers. #PS1media ===== impress 5 time 2023-07-07 02:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1677148284207656961 ========== The Russian ruling class, having run the Russian internet the way they like, would like the entire world to adopt their model - where every government runs it own private censored internet. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/06/russia-internet-governance-united-nations/ #PS1technology ===== impress 5 time 2023-07-07 02:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1677146858643402755 ========== Some Trumpists still threaten authority. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/07/06/trump-documents-case-prosecutor-threats/ Most have learned from the Jan 6 prosecutions that the risk of hard time is very real and Trump won't do much to save them. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 3 time 2023-07-07 02:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1677145836688650240 ========== New definitions for a new age - Patriot - somebody who agrees with you. Woke - somebody who does not agree with you. https://apnews.com/article/patriot-patriotism-meaning-independence-day-july-4-844de9b626ac6565cc64b723816080f3 Those who most emphatically call themselves patriots now are far removed from the Enlightenment ideals of America's founders. #PS1other ===== impress 1 time 2023-07-07 01:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1677130735835287552 ========== First Amendment says "Congress shall make no law." Since Congress wasn't involved, there's no first amendment issue. https://apnews.com/article/social-media-protected-speech-lawsuit-injunction-148c1cd43f88a0284d5a3c53fd333727 But mere facts never stopped Trumpists. #PS1media ===== impress 1 time 2023-07-07 01:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1677129018272006144 ========== Trump supporters take his hints and act. https://apnews.com/article/jan-6-obama-justice-department-capitol-mccarthy-27934bbd095111e7eb2bac5b5bb24e06 Maybe he'll pardon them, if they seem to have future value. #PS1insurrection ===== impress 2 time 2023-07-07 01:31 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1677128155088420864 ========== Counting on a Trump pardon? https://apnews.com/article/trump-maralago-justice-department-classified-f5a7b87bbb0234d5504d1c1f92bc857e Trump might not be able to pardon himself, but maybe Nauta - if Trump thinks he'll be useful in the future. #PS1trump ===== impress 11 time 2023-07-07 01:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1677127682017067008 ========== Can ANYbody explain what's going on? https://apnews.com/article/russia-wagner-mutiny-belarus-d7134f34ccea592e52e1dcb39f4aeb94 Evidently not! #PS1putin ===== impress 3 time 2023-07-07 01:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1677127170945323010 ========== Playing to win vs playing to win air time on Fox - https://www.bakersfield.com/opinion/joe-mathews-anaheim-not-florida-is-the-best-disney-fighter/article_6c288cc4-113c-11ee-94c8-2323fe974d9f.html #PS1capolitics ===== impress 8 time 2023-07-04 04:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1676089184396926977 ========== “The highest court in the land should not have the lowest ethical standards” https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-06-28/conflict-of-interest-ethics-code-supreme-court-samuel-alito-clarence-thomas #PS1justice ===== impress 6 time 2023-07-04 04:31 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1676086289425371137 ========== California Reparations Report https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/reparations-task-force-gives-recommendations-on-how-california-can-atone-for-slavery/ar-AA1dlHxJ A guaranteed basic income for all seems the most direct and politically palatable way to move toward more equal opportunity for all. #PS1other ===== impress 8 time 2023-07-04 04:26 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1676084954143539200 ========== Why Biden gets no credit - https://www.twincities.com/2023/07/01/david-brooks-why-biden-isnt-getting-the-credit-he-deserves/ For many people, feelings are immune to mere facts. #PS1biden ===== impress 7 time 2023-07-04 04:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1676081675611275267 ========== Another third-world country in desperate straits with little sympathy from China. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/26/business/suriname-china-imf.html #PS1china ===== impress 5 time 2023-07-04 04:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1676078635344863232 ========== The new doing-the-limbo - how far right can you go? https://news.yahoo.com/trump-crossing-paths-desantis-tries-141445345.html Are they forgetting that the Trump base is not a national majority? They'll need some other votes. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 4 time 2023-07-02 20:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1675609904403603456 ========== Just as the Baptists split into northern and southern denominations over slavery 150 years ago, now the SBC seems to be splitting over patriarchalism. https://apnews.com/article/north-carolina-megachurch-leaves-southern-baptist-convention-f21a86e67c713765b9ace02f609e24c0 Such fracturing has been Protestant history all along. #PS1other ===== impress 8 time 2023-07-02 20:54 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1675608801054162944 ========== Centrist GOP are on notice - the Freischütz Caucus would consider losing the House majority a small price to pay for purging moderates and pragmatists from THEIR party. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/02/house-republicans-agenda-moderate-swing-districts/ #PS1gop ===== engage 1 engage-rate 14% impress 7 retweets 1 time 2023-07-02 20:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1675606486553354240 ========== Why the surprise? There are way more homophobes in the Trump base than LGBTQ's. And the name of the primary game is to capture as much of the Trump base as possible, as early as possible, and thus appear inevitable by convention time. https://apnews.com/article/desantis-trump-lgbtq-transgender-homophobia-republicans-campaign-d6ec4cd13c8859ea7fbc352706373952 #PS1trumpism ===== engage 1 engage-rate 6% impress 16 time 2023-07-02 20:38 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1675604887391064064 ========== Guantanamo is a national disgrace - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/controversial.html#guantanamo "19 of the 30 men remaining at Guantanamo have never been charged with a single crime, some after 20 years in U.S. custody" https://apnews.com/article/us-guantanamo-detainees-un-investigator-cruel-treatment-bfae732732c7a3f596bb01e106f6fbca But Congress refuses to allow any change. #PS1justice ===== engage 1 engage-rate 33% impress 3 time 2023-07-02 05:32 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1675376781170454528 ========== Finding the way out of conflict - https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/06/07/tucker-carlson-fox-conflict/ It only works 1% of the time. But it's worth it. And sincere repentance merits sincere forgiveness. #PS1other ===== impress 1 time 2023-07-02 05:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1675373323923132416 ========== The epistemological crisis in political campaigns is already here. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/25/technology/ai-elections-disinformation-guardrails.html #PS1technology ===== impress 3 time 2023-07-01 16:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1675187239410872320 ========== Another way of thinking about the Biden family. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/24/opinion/hunter-biden-addiction.html Think Betty Ford. #PS1health ===== impress 3 time 2023-07-01 16:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1675185198215081985 ========== The fake electors scheme is unraveling - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/23/us/politics/michael-roman-trump-jan-6-jack-smith.html #PS1insurrection ===== impress 6 time 2023-07-01 16:46 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1675184157620850688 ========== "Dictators are unreliable partners" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/28/opinion/putin-mbs-saudi-arabia-biden.html #PS1mideast ===== impress 10 time 2023-07-01 01:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1674954418691919874 ========== The price of being surrounded by yes-men - you don't know what's really going on. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/30/opinion/putin-prigozhin-russia.html #PS1putin ===== impress 9 time 2023-07-01 00:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1674936394375135232 ========== Conspirituality? https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/30/opinion/robert-f-kennedy-jr-coalition-supporters.html A minority attempting to rule a majority by lies did not start in 1963. It's been with us as long as we've had social classes - which start when social groups become large enough (1000-10000) to have division of labor. #PS1theory ===== impress 6 time 2023-07-01 00:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1674935065158258689