| Title | Date | Im- press | En- gage | Ex- pand | URL- clicks | Like | Re- tweet | Link to Text | Link to Tweet |
| Two views of June 6 - | 2024-06-10 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1800052822274359732 | 1800052822274359732 |
| "populism, polarization and post-truth" | 2024-06-10 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1800014420057416123 | 1800014420057416123 |
| Is victory in Ukraine possible? | 2024-06-10 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1800011192825716901 | 1800011192825716901 |
| Trump would like to rule by decree, like emperors and | 2024-06-07 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1799220275772633104 | 1799220275772633104 |
| So much for respecting law and order! | 2024-06-07 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1799172453048193455 | 1799172453048193455 |
| It's only fair that the defenders of megadonor power get | 2024-06-07 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1799167120946958814 | 1799167120946958814 |
| "Atherton billionaire Doug Leone, who renounced Trump after | 2024-06-07 | 13 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1799145018588012722 | 1799145018588012722 |
| The Federalist Society has been a primary force in | 2024-06-07 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1799134186118541354 | 1799134186118541354 |
| That was the week that wasn't - | 2024-06-07 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1799123411630956599 | 1799123411630956599 |
| Power vs Liberty - | 2024-06-07 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1798951845550817693 | 1798951845550817693 |
| "In 1941, Roosevelt justified a belated increase in | 2024-06-07 | 255 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1798949202233565475 | 1798949202233565475 |
| Liquid natural gas as an economic weapon against Putinism. | 2024-06-07 | 20 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1798943902734684543 | 1798943902734684543 |
| Things were worse in the 1930's than they are today. | 2024-06-07 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1798941625802223796 | 1798941625802223796 |
| Upping the pressure - | 2024-06-07 | 20 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1798940640811892929 | 1798940640811892929 |
| “The election is now bigger than Donald Trump," a | 2024-06-07 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1798895914150707374 | 1798895914150707374 |
| So much for respecting law and order! | 2024-06-07 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1798883519579488496 | 1798883519579488496 |
| It took Donald Trump to make Richard Nixon look like a | 2024-06-06 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1798803170019430738 | 1798803170019430738 |
| Falun Gong, Shen Yun, Epoch Times - and Donald Trump | 2024-06-06 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1798719863688659396 | 1798719863688659396 |
| Life under a strong leader - | 2024-06-06 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1798539583485092060 | 1798539583485092060 |
| Arizona, Michigan, Nevada, Georgia - and now Wisconsin. | 2024-06-06 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1798538173322342910 | 1798538173322342910 |
| Trump has friends in high places! | 2024-06-06 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1798537208326230519 | 1798537208326230519 |
| The one and only principle of Trumpism is - look out | 2024-06-06 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1798536563800064304 | 1798536563800064304 |
| Trump cuts both ways - | 2024-06-05 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1798465857716371645 | 1798465857716371645 |
| An arena-full of deplorables! What's not to enjoy? | 2024-06-03 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1797504970444689562 | 1797504970444689562 |
| What's going to happen on election day? | 2024-06-03 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1797503453692113175 | 1797503453692113175 |
| That was the week that wasn't - | 2024-05-31 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1796682115473666375 | 1796682115473666375 |
| More from the week that wasn't - | 2024-05-31 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1796573669587833093 | 1796573669587833093 |
| It's not a crime to undermine confidence in American | 2024-05-31 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1796559092074594759 | 1796559092074594759 |
| What if this is the last real election? | 2024-05-31 | 16 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1796404386186608776 | 1796404386186608776 |
| How Trump's team blew it by following Trump's tactics - | 2024-05-31 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1796401444012351494 | 1796401444012351494 |
| That was the week that wasn't - | 2024-05-27 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1795163151454908720 | 1795163151454908720 |
| Another new face of Trumpism! | 2024-05-25 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1794160399623086497 | 1794160399623086497 |
| American Nazis have been working toward power for over | 2024-05-24 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1793838073404641558 | 1793838073404641558 |
| We don't often think of ayatollahs as our friends, but we | 2024-05-24 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1793835389876310512 | 1793835389876310512 |
| Karma WILL be conserved. | 2024-05-24 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1793833856535310569 | 1793833856535310569 |
| After a career in politics, right or wrong means winning | 2024-05-24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1793822021425791133 | 1793822021425791133 |
| At least the people left holding the tulip bag could plant | 2024-05-24 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1793803599082033458 | 1793803599082033458 |
| Once you hug the tar baby, it's hard to let go - until | 2024-05-24 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1793800522371321979 | 1793800522371321979 |
| Cryptobros United! | 2024-05-24 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1793797966526070848 | 1793797966526070848 |
| What will future generations ever do for ME? | 2024-05-22 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1793346851674194026 | 1793346851674194026 |
| "Unified Reich" ? | 2024-05-22 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1793328353933701548 | 1793328353933701548 |
| That was the week that wasn't - | 2024-05-22 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1793324721381298398 | 1793324721381298398 |
| That was the week that wasn't - | 2024-05-16 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1791113190170148963 | 1791113190170148963 |
| Birds of a feather flock together - | 2024-05-15 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1790822588681486673 | 1790822588681486673 |
| Look who's back! | 2024-05-10 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1789021542082629704 | 1789021542082629704 |
| The Supreme Court is not in a hurry to end civil | 2024-05-10 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1789017899354685932 | 1789017899354685932 |
| One of the trademarks of a Putinist-Trumpist - they always | 2024-05-10 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1789016604778602548 | 1789016604778602548 |
| Another small success for MTG! | 2024-05-10 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1789015403517329645 | 1789015403517329645 |
| That explains a lot! | 2024-05-10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1789014647510847850 | 1789014647510847850 |
| Why Trump likes having lots of competing VP candidates - | 2024-05-08 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1788234271473455245 | 1788234271473455245 |
| What if Trump had been born a woman? | 2024-05-08 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1788231451160588497 | 1788231451160588497 |
| "Conservative" once encompassed self-restraint and the | 2024-05-08 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1788073547266719959 | 1788073547266719959 |
| For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole | 2024-05-08 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1788043015971287231 | 1788043015971287231 |
| That was the week that wasn't - | 2024-05-04 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1786551614805045443 | 1786551614805045443 |
| Still trying to have it both ways - | 2024-04-29 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1784933947828494608 | 1784933947828494608 |
| America's Founders knew all about kings and emperors - | 2024-04-27 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1784045760805564468 | 1784045760805564468 |
| Who would you pick? | 2024-04-27 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1784042046917140621 | 1784042046917140621 |
| How empires collapse - | 2024-04-27 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1784040275960295821 | 1784040275960295821 |
| Want to make a small fortune? | 2024-04-27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1784032705681989973 | 1784032705681989973 |
| Can't tell the players without a scorecard! | 2024-04-26 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1783891784835473551 | 1783891784835473551 |
| Hamas talks "cease-fire" meaning "pause to regroup, | 2024-04-26 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1783651760567197971 | 1783651760567197971 |
| You probably never heard of or cared about Moldova, | 2024-04-26 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1783649111033720976 | 1783649111033720976 |
| “I don’t care if the speaker’s office becomes a | 2024-04-19 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1781351078791184888 | 1781351078791184888 |
| Where the Putinist-Trumpist-Dixiecrat GOP can get its | 2024-04-19 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1781338536698081495 | 1781338536698081495 |
| That was the week that wasn't - | 2024-04-19 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1781336025920651515 | 1781336025920651515 |
| Getting a pardon or commutation from Trump is pretty much | 2024-04-18 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1780934933021962328 | 1780934933021962328 |
| They were against labor then - | 2024-04-17 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1780413494862762391 | 1780413494862762391 |
| You don't know about the election until you've heard from | 2024-04-17 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1780406746571587780 | 1780406746571587780 |
| GOP megadonors cater to the reactionary religious right | 2024-04-16 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1780367949246927156 | 1780367949246927156 |
| Can Johnson lead the Putinist-Trumpist-Dixiecrat GOP, | 2024-04-16 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1780362388459659304 | 1780362388459659304 |
| Why is the GOP is so opposed to abortion? Some care | 2024-04-16 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1780269977347727625 | 1780269977347727625 |
| Devaluing the dollar - as good an idea as unilateral | 2024-04-16 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1780254056063369356 | 1780254056063369356 |
| Inflation is real, but not bad compared to the stagflation | 2024-04-16 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1780040438738764230 | 1780040438738764230 |
| Sacrifice is for little people, not Trump! The little | 2024-04-16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1780035870067990633 | 1780035870067990633 |
| You can't be a Putinist-Trumpist-Dixiecrat GOP without | 2024-04-07 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1776983692927521017 | 1776983692927521017 |
| Party caucuses are a joke. Replace them with | 2024-04-07 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1776982834844147748 | 1776982834844147748 |
| Freischütz Caucus greatest accomplishment - driving out | 2024-04-07 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1776977798068109562 | 1776977798068109562 |
| Who's going to make money on Truth Social? It won't | 2024-04-07 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1776973019535306931 | 1776973019535306931 |
| No peace for our time! | 2024-04-07 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1776970246353834086 | 1776970246353834086 |
| Third-party centrism just doesn't work unless it's combined | 2024-04-07 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1776966295025856766 | 1776966295025856766 |
| In Trumpworld, loyalty or the illusion of loyalty always | 2024-04-06 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1776651237603360994 | 1776651237603360994 |
| How Putin, Xi, Kim, and the Ayatollah use social media to | 2024-04-06 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1776646519560770030 | 1776646519560770030 |
| Trump assumed that in 2016 he was elected emperor for life. | 2024-04-05 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1776384860170674205 | 1776384860170674205 |
| A win for rule of law. But how long can it stand? | 2024-04-05 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1776383861393670456 | 1776383861393670456 |
| What happened when the defenders of minority rule realized | 2024-04-05 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1776383137318371742 | 1776383137318371742 |
| Violence is still as American as cherry pie - | 2024-04-05 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1776382469736169499 | 1776382469736169499 |
| Money is not speech. Democracy is not about one | 2024-04-05 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1776380795336503807 | 1776380795336503807 |
| What the Alabama IVF decision did and didn't decide - | 2024-04-05 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1776379360351785284 | 1776379360351785284 |
| Why stick to boring old facts when you can weave exciting | 2024-04-05 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1776322765865492509 | 1776322765865492509 |
| That was the week that wasn't - | 2024-04-05 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1776321286379388998 | 1776321286379388998 |
| More than one way to interpret an old text! | 2024-04-05 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1776318805448573130 | 1776318805448573130 |
The table above has these entries:
========== Two views of June 6 - https://www.washingtonpost.com/.../trump-phoenix.../ Job #1 is taking care of #1! #PS1trump ===== impress 2 time 2024-06-10 06:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1800052822274359732 ========== "populism, polarization and post-truth" Sound familiar? Add to that "post-Constitutional"! https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/08/russ-vought-trump-second-term-radical-constitutional/ If it's good enough for Mexico, it's good enough for Trumpism! https://www.dominionpost.com/2024/06/09/mexicos-election-of-sheinbaum-is-historic-but-should-we-be-celebrating/ #PS1trumpism ===== impress 7 time 2024-06-10 03:57 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1800014420057416123 ========== Is victory in Ukraine possible? https://themercury.com/commentary-when-is-the-right-time-to-talk-about-peace-in-ukraine/article_527ef50a-33ec-570f-a839-5903afb436aa.html Maybe not. The West can't afford to let Putin think he can negotiate a cease-fire and then use it to rearm for the next phase of invasion. Putin can't afford to lose the war. #PS1ukraine ===== impress 16 time 2024-06-10 03:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1800011192825716901 ========== Trump would like to rule by decree, like emperors and other strong leaders. The Heritage Foundation is hard at work on the details. https://www.thenation.com/article/society/project-2025-trump-heritage-foundation-maga/ The hard work of forging bipartisan consensus is too boring for Trump. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/06/07/trump-budget-impoundment-congress/ #PS1trumpism ===== impress 3 time 2024-06-07 23:21 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1799220275772633104 ========== So much for respecting law and order! https://apnews.com/article/pennsylvania-house-capitol-riot-officers-booed-0456d13bdb631cbe01468819bc2a8d2e Perhaps they meant, they only supported MAGA law and order. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 2 time 2024-06-07 20:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1799172453048193455 ========== It's only fair that the defenders of megadonor power get a cut. Call it "carried interest". https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-financial-disclosures-gifts-travel-d0873c92792f6c0791c9269fe05ed937 #PS1justice ===== engage 1 engage-rate 17% impress 6 likes 1 time 2024-06-07 19:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1799167120946958814 ========== "Atherton billionaire Doug Leone, who renounced Trump after the Jan. 6 riot, tweeted Monday that he will be supporting Trump after all." https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/trump-heads-to-san-francisco-for-fundraiser-but-this-bay-area-city-has-already-donated-more/ar-BB1nLp5G Perhaps he remembered that defending the megadonor class was more important than rule of law. #PS1insurrection ===== engage 3 engage-rate 23% expands 2 impress 13 time 2024-06-07 18:22 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1799145018588012722 ========== The Federalist Society has been a primary force in stacking the Federal judiciary to defend minority rule. Leonard Leo suggested and Mitch McConnell got it done. https://washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/06/federalist-society-leader-retires/ But now Trump thinks courts should have been taking orders from HIM. #PS1justice ===== impress 6 time 2024-06-07 17:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1799134186118541354 ========== That was the week that wasn't - https://apnews.com/ap-fact-check Just the lowlights - https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-misinformation-biden-dday-abortion-pride-ca69fc399480d54105ab01ab637aff3f #PS1media ===== impress 3 time 2024-06-07 16:57 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1799123411630956599 ========== Power vs Liberty - https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/06/opinion/maga-constitution-trump.html The ruling class considers gains in liberty to be a poor tradeoff for loss of power. So they will do whatever they can to win it back. The Putinist-Trumpist-Dixiecrat GOP mostly stands ready to help them do just that. #PS1trumpism ===== engage 1 engage-rate 14% impress 7 likes 1 time 2024-06-07 05:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1798951845550817693 ========== "In 1941, Roosevelt justified a belated increase in military spending to 5.5 percent of gross domestic product. On the road to victory, that figure would reach 37 percent. Deterring conflict today costs less than fighting it tomorrow." https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/06/opinion/mcconnell-military-spending-d-day.html #PS1trumpism ===== impress 255 time 2024-06-07 05:24 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1798949202233565475 ========== Liquid natural gas as an economic weapon against Putinism. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/06/russia-economy-ukraine-war-gazprom-putin/ Where LNG replaces coal, it's an important tactical win in the long term war against warming. But would Trump honor his promises to Putin, or to our own oil oligarchs? #PS1ukraine ===== engage 1 engage-rate 5% impress 20 likes 1 time 2024-06-07 05:03 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1798943902734684543 ========== Things were worse in the 1930's than they are today. But the gap is closing. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/06/biden-dday-anniversary-normandy/ #PS1trumpism ===== impress 2 time 2024-06-07 04:54 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1798941625802223796 ========== Upping the pressure - https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/06/kevin-rudd-china-taiwan-deterrence/ The CCP has never ruled Taiwan but believes it should. They observe American politics and conclude that as long as the Putinist-Trumpist-Dixiecrat GOP is in power, China has nothing to fear. #PS1china ===== engage 1 engage-rate 5% expands 1 impress 20 time 2024-06-07 04:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1798940640811892929 ========== “The election is now bigger than Donald Trump," a “class struggle between the ruling class and you.” He's got that right! https://apnews.com/article/trump-arizona-speech-conviction-turning-point-c4c2de44823c2fbf9cb9dec105e92a22 Vote for Trumpism to insure the power of the ruling class of megadonors! Just ask any oil baron. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 9 time 2024-06-07 01:53 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1798895914150707374 ========== So much for respecting law and order! https://apnews.com/article/pennsylvania-house-capitol-riot-officers-booed-0456d13bdb631cbe01468819bc2a8d2e Perhaps they meant, they only supported MAGA law and order. #PS1tumpism ===== engage 3 engage-rate 1 expands 3 impress 3 time 2024-06-07 01:03 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1798883519579488496 ========== It took Donald Trump to make Richard Nixon look like a statesman - https://www.hastingstribune.com/opinion/nixon-understood-what-trump-wont-acknowledge/article_f5c5873a-cb3d-5f36-936c-93475629c077.html #PS1trump ===== impress 2 time 2024-06-06 19:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1798803170019430738 ========== Falun Gong, Shen Yun, Epoch Times - and Donald Trump https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/what-is-Epoch-Times-Falun-Gong-15839640.php Birds of a feather flock together! https://apnews.com/article/epoch-times-cfo-indictment-money-laundering-caad358778bb6b73e32e9f989f3b9665 Perhaps they are counting on a future pardon from Trump. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 7 time 2024-06-06 14:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1798719863688659396 ========== Life under a strong leader - https://apnews.com/article/china-beijing-tiananmen-crackdown-e5dcd3454ecb7e0ce558681da020afe0 Trump admires strong leaders and plans to join the club!He has plenty of enablers supporting him now while planning to succeed him as soon as possible. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 4 time 2024-06-06 02:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1798539583485092060 ========== Arizona, Michigan, Nevada, Georgia - and now Wisconsin. https://apnews.com/article/wisconsin-fake-electors-trump-2020-charges-77d00919fc8d8e07438076610090a9b1 Fake electors are confident Trump will pardon them, even if he has no constitutional power to pardon state crimes. #PS1insurrection ===== impress 11 time 2024-06-06 02:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1798538173322342910 ========== Trump has friends in high places! https://apnews.com/article/russia-trump-putin-us-election-2828902db670e00af3b1ac871938b96e In Russia, China, Hungary - anywhere that American democracy is seen as a threat. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 11 time 2024-06-06 02:07 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1798537208326230519 ========== The one and only principle of Trumpism is - look out for #1! https://apnews.com/article/trump-tiktok-ufc-hush-money-trial-df3fdbc5634940bc57efa1c733a87a11 #PS1trumpism ===== impress 1 time 2024-06-06 02:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1798536563800064304 ========== Trump cuts both ways - https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2024/jun/02/charles-m-blow-how-a-coterie-of-rappers-became-tru/ denouncing minority crime in front of white voters, and cutting deals with minority criminals for favorable comment in front of minority voters. Got something Trump wants? What's it worth to you, and him? #PS1justice ===== engage 4 engage-rate 80% expands 4 impress 5 time 2024-06-05 21:24 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1798465857716371645 ========== An arena-full of deplorables! What's not to enjoy? https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/02/us/politics/donald-trump-ufc-newark-dana-white.html #PS1trumpism ===== impress 5 time 2024-06-03 05:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1797504970444689562 ========== What's going to happen on election day? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/05/30/misinformation-interference-artificial-intelligence-2024-election/ Will more trouble be caused by foreign or domestic sources? What's certain is that technologists are rarely insightful about all the ways their wonderful inventions can be used for evil. #PS1media ===== impress 7 time 2024-06-03 05:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1797503453692113175 ========== That was the week that wasn't - https://apnews.com/ap-fact-check Just the lowlights - https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-misinformation-trump-trial-9cb4d53c5b0cc344aa779b1bf229d799 #PS1media ===== impress 3 time 2024-05-31 23:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1796682115473666375 ========== More from the week that wasn't - https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/fact-checker/ #PS1media ===== impress 2 time 2024-05-31 16:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1796573669587833093 ========== It's not a crime to undermine confidence in American government. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/30/even-judicial-system-finds-trump-guilty-his-attacks-take-toll/ But if will be if Trump and MAGA take over, just like it is in Russia, China, or North Korea. #PS1trumpism ===== engage 1 engage-rate 13% impress 8 time 2024-05-31 15:07 +0000 userclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1796559092074594759 ========== What if this is the last real election? https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/30/opinion/biden-trump-election.html It happened in Germany, in Russia, in Argentina, in .... Don't think it can't happen here. "Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing" #PS1democracy ===== engage 1 engage-rate 6% expands 1 impress 16 time 2024-05-31 04:52 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1796404386186608776 ========== How Trump's team blew it by following Trump's tactics - https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/30/opinion/trump-trial-defense.html #PS1trump ===== impress 6 time 2024-05-31 04:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1796401444012351494 ========== That was the week that wasn't - https://apnews.com/ap-fact-check Just the lowlights - https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-misinformation-trump-trial-icc-134ba5e53bcfd857f5cd3e4de62d9032 #PS1media ===== impress 1 time 2024-05-27 18:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1795163151454908720 ========== Another new face of Trumpism! https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/24/opinion/royce-white-senate-maga.html What they don't get is that Trump talks anti-establishment but there's nothing he wants more than to be accepted as part of the establishment, with the money and power that comes with it. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 4 time 2024-05-25 00:15 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1794160399623086497 ========== American Nazis have been working toward power for over 70 years. Now, with the aid of Trump and the Heritage Foundation, their goal is in sight. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/23/opinion/trump-unified-reich.html Trump is the only candidate ever to have been endorsed by the KKK and the KGB! #PS1trumpism ===== impress 7 time 2024-05-24 02:54 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1793838073404641558 ========== We don't often think of ayatollahs as our friends, but we might regret their losing power to the Revolutionary Guard. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/23/opinion/iran-nuclear-president.html #PS1mideast ===== impress 1 time 2024-05-24 02:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1793835389876310512 ========== Karma WILL be conserved. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/23/opinion/russia-oil-mining-permafrost.html But why would Putin care? He'll be long gone by the time the worst happens. #PS1climate ===== impress 3 time 2024-05-24 02:38 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1793833856535310569 ========== After a career in politics, right or wrong means winning or losing. Forget your voters and megadonors and you're soon out of a job. https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-05-21/daniel-perry-garrett-foster-pardon-greg-abbott-texas Abbott has more white racist supporters than black activist supporters. https://apnews.com/article/texas-protest-shooting-pardon-abbott-perry-5b6d07d3f06c0b9c51c2d4b76ff3485c #PS1politics ===== engage-rate NaN time 2024-05-24 01:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1793822021425791133 ========== At least the people left holding the tulip bag could plant some nice flowers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania Investors in Trump Media, not so much. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/21/business/donald-trump-wealth-trump-media.html There's nothing underneath social media to hold up its price, except hot air. Ask Elon Musk. #PS1media ===== engage 1 engage-rate 7% impress 15 time 2024-05-24 00:37 +0000 userclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1793803599082033458 ========== Once you hug the tar baby, it's hard to let go - until you need to plea bargain. https://apnews.com/article/nikki-haley-endorses-trump-election-2024-president-72cd80b03d0cd6f69601a0c6166194a5 Nikki Haley proves that she's no better than MTG. Maybe she's hoping for a cabinet post, but Trump has a long memory for slights. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 4 time 2024-05-24 00:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1793800522371321979 ========== Cryptobros United! https://www.citizen.org/article/cryptobros-united-fairshake-super-pac-2024-elections/ When it comes to government, you get what you pay for! Money is the mother's milk of politics #PS1democracy ===== impress 4 time 2024-05-24 00:15 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1793797966526070848 ========== What will future generations ever do for ME? To a narcissistic personality, the only reality is that in your own mind. When you're gone, the world's gone. But right now, the future is for sale to the highest bidder. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/09/trump-oil-industry-campaign-money/ #PS1trump ===== impress 3 time 2024-05-22 18:23 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1793346851674194026 ========== "Unified Reich" ? Trump shouldn't need to encourage his Nazi supporters; they are in his camp along with the KKK and their pals. It certainly doesn't seem to help with the swing voters in swing states that Trump so desperately needs. https://apnews.com/article/trump-election-2024-rhetoric-germany-antisemitism-31002afb91b642c0314223d19e51f427 #PS1trumpism ===== engage 1 engage-rate 10% impress 10 retweets 1 time 2024-05-22 17:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1793328353933701548 ========== That was the week that wasn't - https://apnews.com/ap-fact-check Just the lowlights - https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-misinformation-elections-1715b8d0a9a65d7bd4a383b934881f09 #PS1media ===== impress 1 time 2024-05-22 16:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1793324721381298398 ========== That was the week that wasn't - https://apnews.com/ap-fact-check Just the lowlights - https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-misinformation-france-ukraine-brandenburg-gate-275b7d639fc4e08818fa8fa3943bc298 And there's much more to come from the Putinist-Trumpist disinformation machine! https://apnews.com/article/election-interference-facebook-tiktok-russia-putin-china-1b5e5ce56d64dc356c2ad332068e2f8c #PS1media ===== impress 4 time 2024-05-16 14:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1791113190170148963 ========== Birds of a feather flock together - https://www.aol.com/news/calmes-trump-promises-subvert-law-100241853.html Of course he will pardon those that remained loyal and might be useful in future action. Who else is going to spring him out of jail? #PS1trump ===== impress 3 time 2024-05-15 19:12 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1790822588681486673 ========== Look who's back! https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/02/magazine/russiagate-paul-manafort-ukraine-war.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/10/paul-manafort-pardon-donald-trump-china/ Trump likes guys that are just like him, but that don't try to take his spotlight. Manafort, Page, and Stone kept Trump in the front pages in 2016, and again as the Russia investigation proceeded. #PS1trump ===== impress 6 time 2024-05-10 19:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1789021542082629704 ========== The Supreme Court is not in a hurry to end civil forfeiture. After all, it's an important law enforcement income source in many rural red jurisdictions. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/the-supreme-court-rules-that-cops-can-steal-your-stuff-as-they-always-have/ar-BB1magie It's been illegal in California for years. #PS1justice ===== engage 1 engage-rate 13% impress 8 time 2024-05-10 19:41 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1789017899354685932 ========== One of the trademarks of a Putinist-Trumpist - they always accuse the other side of being like them. https://apnews.com/article/russia-world-war-victory-putin-ba00d11cdc76ad243921329d7742600c #PS1putin ===== impress 3 time 2024-05-10 19:36 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1789016604778602548 ========== Another small success for MTG! https://apnews.com/article/speaker-johnson-oust-motion-to-vacate-marjorie-taylor-greene-482da113f542b62ee00b5f1692f58a5b She didn't make the front page of the Mercury News, but she was right there on the second page next to the RFKJr Worm story. #PS1gop ===== impress 7 time 2024-05-10 19:31 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1789015403517329645 ========== That explains a lot! https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/09/politics/rfk-jr-parastic-worm-brain/index.html #PS1election ===== impress 1 time 2024-05-10 19:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1789014647510847850 ========== Why Trump likes having lots of competing VP candidates - they're free publicity machines while he's in court! https://apnews.com/article/trump-vp-veepstakes-dog-noem-21d1dc4da5933fdb8af187004f9f1733 He SAYS the most important thing is if they'd make a good president - but what's his criterion? Trump-like? Megadonor-friendly? #PS1trump ===== impress 5 time 2024-05-08 15:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1788234271473455245 ========== What if Trump had been born a woman? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/05/08/stormy-daniels-donald-trump-hush-money/ #PS1trump ===== impress 2 time 2024-05-08 15:36 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1788231451160588497 ========== "Conservative" once encompassed self-restraint and the rule of law. The modern Putinist-Trumpist-Dixiecrat GOP now uses "conservative" to mean embracing personality cult defenders of the ruling class - and winning by any means. https://www.news-journal.com/hungary-s-orban-loves-china-why-do-cpac-and-heritage-love-him/article_30962532-0bb8-11ef-8e12-972deb3f30b9.html #PS1trumpism ===== impress 10 time 2024-05-08 05:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1788073547266719959 ========== For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? But for Wales? https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/05/05/us/biden-trump-campaign#trumps-vp-contenders-defend-and-audition-for-the-former-president Surely becoming the successor to Mike Pence profit less than becoming Attorney General of Wales! #PS1trumpism ===== engage 2 engage-rate 40% impress 5 time 2024-05-08 03:07 +0000 urlclicks 2 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1788043015971287231 ========== That was the week that wasn't - https://apnews.com/ap-fact-check Just the lowlights - https://apnews.com/article/false-news-misinformation-protests-israel-da697c588ba2dd9865790b66cce8c833 #PS1media ===== impress 1 time 2024-05-04 00:21 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1786551614805045443 ========== Still trying to have it both ways - "Trump said there is a lot you can do in terms of entitlements, in terms of cutting.” "Trump’s campaign said that Trump will continue to strongly protect Social Security and Medicare in his second term.” https://apnews.com/article/aarp-older-adults-retirement-savings-prices-c4f1353d97e8c0a9973c9c67a8eab800 #PS1deficit ===== impress 1 time 2024-04-29 13:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1784933947828494608 ========== America's Founders knew all about kings and emperors - and wanted none of it. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/26/opinion/trump-immunity-supreme-court.html The Supreme Court isn't sure they meant it. #PS1trump ===== impress 38 time 2024-04-27 02:23 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1784045760805564468 ========== Who would you pick? https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2024/vice-president-candidates-donald-trump/ Trying to think like Trump, I came up with MTG. She's as loyal to him as he to her, which is to say, until something better comes along. #PS1trump ===== impress 6 time 2024-04-27 02:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1784042046917140621 ========== How empires collapse - https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/04/26/david-ignatius-rand-study-us-forecast-decline/ Or not! Where is our Theodore Roosevelt? #PS1theory ===== impress 1 time 2024-04-27 02:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1784040275960295821 ========== Want to make a small fortune? https://apnews.com/article/trump-investing-stocks-truth-social-short-politics-986566b8b876cd5ddae909029fd410c9 Start with a large fortune. #PS1trump ===== engage-rate NaN time 2024-04-27 01:31 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1784032705681989973 ========== Can't tell the players without a scorecard! https://apnews.com/article/trump-election-interference-indictments-giuliani-meadows-8137b90da8c3a971316e0cfa3acfd6a9 Several have already cut plea deals. #PS1insurrection ===== impress 2 time 2024-04-26 16:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1783891784835473551 ========== Hamas talks "cease-fire" meaning "pause to regroup, recruit, and rearm for the next invasion." Netanyahu's coalition depends on a minority as fanatical as Hamas. But that minority is not the Hamas target - all of Israel is. https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-gaza-war-f756cc054732eb3f7e0c49a9987560a0 #PS1mideast ===== impress 13 time 2024-04-26 00:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1783651760567197971 ========== You probably never heard of or cared about Moldova, just as your great-grand-parents about the Sudetenland. Putin talks "peace" and "cease-fire" but he means "pause while Russia regroups, recruits, and rearms for the next invasion." https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/04/25/moldova-russian-politics-ukraine-invasion-europe/ #PS1ukraine ===== impress 20 time 2024-04-26 00:07 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1783649111033720976 ========== “I don’t care if the speaker’s office becomes a revolving door" There you have it - Putinist-Trumpist-Dixiecrat politics in its purist form - shut the Federal government down! https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/04/19/israel-ukraine-aid-house-speaker-mike-johnson/ #PS1gop ===== impress 2 time 2024-04-19 15:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1781351078791184888 ========== Where the Putinist-Trumpist-Dixiecrat GOP can get its orders - https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/04/17/russia-foreign-policy-us-weaken/ Though most seem to know what to do without being told. #PS1putin ===== impress 1 time 2024-04-19 15:06 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1781338536698081495 ========== That was the week that wasn't - https://apnews.com/ap-fact-check Just the lowlights - https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-misinformation-trump-trial-migrants-264c620a7ee973d26d869cbec57ad7ec #PS1media ===== impress 1 time 2024-04-19 14:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1781336025920651515 ========== Getting a pardon or commutation from Trump is pretty much a guarantee of criminal behavior! https://washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/10/13/trump-pardon-philip-esformes-biden-justice-department/ That's why so many criminals are hoping Trump gets re-elected and helping any way they can. Here's how that one turned out - https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article285778766.html #PS1justice ===== engage 1 engage-rate 20% expands 1 impress 5 time 2024-04-18 12:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1780934933021962328 ========== They were against labor then - https://www.facingsouth.org/2021/03/pro-act-would-undo-decades-southern-anti-union-laws-rooted-racism and they're against labor now - https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/04/16/republican-governors-uaw/ Interesting how only Putinist-Trumpist-Dixiecrat GOP governors are interested in protecting black folks' rights to be exploited. #PS1economics ===== impress 2 time 2024-04-17 01:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1780413494862762391 ========== You don't know about the election until you've heard from Dave Barry! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/04/16/election-postcards-2024/ #PS1election ===== impress 1 time 2024-04-17 01:23 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1780406746571587780 ========== GOP megadonors cater to the reactionary religious right for the same reason they cater to the gun lobby - it's a cheap source of reliable GOP votes in favor of candidates that will protect and enhance minority rule economic and political power. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/04/16/religion-politics-republicans-abortion-trump/ #PS1gop ===== engage 2 engage-rate 67% impress 3 likes 1 retweets 1 time 2024-04-16 22:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1780367949246927156 ========== Can Johnson lead the Putinist-Trumpist-Dixiecrat GOP, which is only barely a majority if you add up all its feuding contradictory factions? https://apnews.com/article/ukraine-israel-house-republicans-3f6f6af81c860eb8ce4104e61728a0fb Boehner, Ryan, and McCarthy couldn't. Can ANYBODY? #PS1gop ===== impress 1 time 2024-04-16 22:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1780362388459659304 ========== Why is the GOP is so opposed to abortion? Some care deeply, and some just pretend - anything to win the election. Its megadonors finance the GOP to protect and expand minority rule and the economic and political power of the ruling class. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/16/opinion/arizona-abortion-supreme-court.html #PS1gop ===== impress 1 time 2024-04-16 16:20 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1780269977347727625 ========== Devaluing the dollar - as good an idea as unilateral nuclear disarmament. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/04/16/trump-devalue-dollar-inflation-economy/ #PS1economics ===== impress 3 time 2024-04-16 15:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1780254056063369356 ========== Inflation is real, but not bad compared to the stagflation of the 1970's. But swing voters that don't follow politics closely usually just vote their pocketbook feelings, whether based on fact or fantasy. https://www.columbian.com/news/2024/apr/13/why-biden-is-getting-little-credit-for-the-economy-especially-in-california/ #PS1economics ===== impress 3 time 2024-04-16 01:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1780040438738764230 ========== Sacrifice is for little people, not Trump! The little people can't say they weren't warned. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/03/25/trump-truth-social-stock-2024/ https://apnews.com/article/trump-media-truth-social-nasdaq-stock-106d7c423174ca1d7cc3cc9a3f3897a0 https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/04/14/truth-social-investors-faith-trump/ Maybe they'll remember what "pump and dump" means next time, if they ever get to have a next time. #PS1trump ===== engage-rate NaN time 2024-04-16 00:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1780035870067990633 ========== You can't be a Putinist-Trumpist-Dixiecrat GOP without being an election denier. Fortunately, there's more than one way to qualify. https://brennancenter.substack.com/p/speaker-johnson-denies-being-an-election #PS1gop ===== engage-rate NaN time 2024-04-07 14:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1776983692927521017 ========== Party caucuses are a joke. Replace them with ranked-choice voting. Our campaign finance laws are another joke. End unlimited dark money! https://brennancenter.substack.com/p/decoding-the-iowa-caucuses #PS1democracy ===== impress 3 time 2024-04-07 14:38 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1776982834844147748 ========== Freischütz Caucus greatest accomplishment - driving out GOP who want to solve problems. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/04/07/house-republicans-retirements-mike-johnson-majority-elections/ "Congress was built to make incremental changes, but that lawmakers often promise immediate, large-scale reforms to voters in an effort to get elected." #PS1gop ===== impress 4 time 2024-04-07 14:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1776977798068109562 ========== Who's going to make money on Truth Social? It won't be the little investors that bid up the stock price! https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/04/07/trump-media-truth-social-payout/ What's sure is a gold mine for lawyers! #PS1media ===== impress 3 time 2024-04-07 13:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1776973019535306931 ========== No peace for our time! It didn't work for Chamberlain with Hitler https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_for_our_time And it won't work for Trump with Putin https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/04/05/trump-ukraine-secret-plan/ #PS1ukraine ===== impress 5 time 2024-04-07 13:48 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1776970246353834086 ========== Third-party centrism just doesn't work unless it's combined with ranked-choice voting. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/04/06/no-labels-trump-biden-election/ And there's no ranked-choice voting for president. #PS1democracy ===== impress 1 time 2024-04-07 13:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1776966295025856766 ========== In Trumpworld, loyalty or the illusion of loyalty always trumps competence or the illusion of competence. https://ncnewsline.com/2024/03/29/in-gubernatorial-race-mark-robinson-exposes-republican-fault-lines/ #PS1trump ===== engage-rate NaN time 2024-04-06 16:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1776651237603360994 ========== How Putin, Xi, Kim, and the Ayatollah use social media to weaken America - https://apnews.com/article/misinformation-anonymous-accounts-social-media-2024-election-8a6b0f8d727734200902d96a59b84bf7 And then there are all the Americans using social media to stir up blind rage - for big bucks, or to protect minority rule. #PS1media ===== impress 2 time 2024-04-06 16:21 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1776646519560770030 ========== Trump assumed that in 2016 he was elected emperor for life. Same as Putin, Xi, Kim, and the Ayatollah! https://brennancenter.substack.com/p/a-president-is-not-a-king But he was, is, and will be... wrong. That won't keep him from trying. #PS1democracy ===== impress 2 time 2024-04-05 23:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1776384860170674205 ========== A win for rule of law. But how long can it stand? https://brennancenter.substack.com/p/breaking-trumps-immunity-claim-rejected Rule of law just gets in the way of strong leaders. #PS1justice ===== engage-rate NaN time 2024-04-05 22:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1776383861393670456 ========== What happened when the defenders of minority rule realized that a reactionary judiciary could be bought too - https://statecourtreport.substack.com/p/state-court-report-post-dobbs-state #PS1justice ===== engage-rate NaN time 2024-04-05 22:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1776383137318371742 ========== Violence is still as American as cherry pie - https://brennancenter.substack.com/p/threats-and-intimidation-are-distorting Strong leaders love to incite violent mobs to shortcircuit the rule of law. #PS1democracy ===== impress 24 time 2024-04-05 22:52 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1776382469736169499 ========== Money is not speech. Democracy is not about one dollar = one vote. While American Promise has been laboring toward a bipartisan Federal solution, New York has already acted - https://brennancenter.substack.com/p/the-answer-to-citizens-united-is #PS1democracy ===== impress 13 time 2024-04-05 22:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1776380795336503807 ========== What the Alabama IVF decision did and didn't decide - https://statecourtreport.substack.com/p/state-court-report-how-the-alabama #PS1health ===== impress 3 time 2024-04-05 22:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1776379360351785284 ========== Why stick to boring old facts when you can weave exciting new fantasies? https://brennancenter.substack.com/p/fact-checking-trumps-speech-on-crime #PS1trump ===== engage-rate NaN time 2024-04-05 18:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1776322765865492509 ========== That was the week that wasn't - https://apnews.com/ap-fact-check Just the lowlights - https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-misinformation-voter-registration-e3a7f5f7d3e68120395b05065d051c80 #PS1media ===== impress 1 time 2024-04-05 18:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1776321286379388998 ========== More than one way to interpret an old text! https://statecourtreport.substack.com/p/state-court-report-the-thing-about #PS1firearms ===== engage-rate NaN time 2024-04-05 18:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1776318805448573130