| Title | Date | Im- press | En- gage | Ex- pand | URL- clicks | Like | Re- tweet | Link to Text | Link to Tweet |
| So much for respecting law and order! | 2024-11-11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1856064864885915909 | 1856064864885915909 |
| X and Truth Social will be the perfect echo chambers - | 2024-11-11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1856001235339588054 | 1856001235339588054 |
| Does Trumpism really need Truth Social AND X? Neither one | 2024-11-10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1855453536890605962 | 1855453536890605962 |
| Leonard Leo and the Federalist Society have been the | 2024-11-09 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1855068677135384608 | 1855068677135384608 |
| It's good to recognize when your time has passed! | 2024-11-09 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1855065029630214186 | 1855065029630214186 |
| That was the election that wasn't - | 2024-11-09 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1855041858139045973 | 1855041858139045973 |
| Higher production for lower prices is not necessarily what | 2024-11-08 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1855000457900658830 | 1855000457900658830 |
| Democracy increases as nation-states decline? | 2024-11-07 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1854377920862810431 | 1854377920862810431 |
| Why Vance won't end up like Pence - he has absolutely no | 2024-11-07 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1854376999881777657 | 1854376999881777657 |
| Aileen Cannon - our next Supreme Court Justice - or better | 2024-11-06 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1854203342374977848 | 1854203342374977848 |
| And the winners of the presidential election are - | 2024-11-06 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1854195294105382996 | 1854195294105382996 |
| So far 270towin's predictions have been pretty accurate - | 2024-11-06 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1854190592584216974 | 1854190592584216974 |
| Darkest before dawn? | 2024-11-06 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1854041818868171074 | 1854041818868171074 |
| You sure you want to move to Idaho? | 2024-11-06 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1854011798720262450 | 1854011798720262450 |
| Easy come, easy go - | 2024-11-06 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1854011398663336021 | 1854011398663336021 |
| Musk is 100% behind Trump for now - | 2024-11-06 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1854003591683666367 | 1854003591683666367 |
| Trumpism is basically about protecting the power and wealth | 2024-11-06 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1854003558963978464 | 1854003558963978464 |
| First race to be called on my watchlist - everybody agrees | 2024-11-06 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1853968076355875222 | 1853968076355875222 |
| It's short of a billion, but $75 million in protection | 2024-11-05 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1853934876392841727 | 1853934876392841727 |
| The brownshirts are organizing on Telegram - | 2024-11-05 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1853932829383782597 | 1853932829383782597 |
| The Chinese Communist Party has to figure out how to deal | 2024-11-05 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1853932222086353069 | 1853932222086353069 |
| If Trump wins, Democrats will blame voter suppression and | 2024-11-05 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1853877176833376536 | 1853877176833376536 |
| Qual notte di mistero! Una tempesta in cielo, in terra | 2024-11-05 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1853870042246775008 | 1853870042246775008 |
| Never fear! The NRA gun lobby stands ready to insure | 2024-11-05 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1853643768718868894 | 1853643768718868894 |
| Has Trump won the contest of ideas about trade? | 2024-11-05 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1853642983402606740 | 1853642983402606740 |
| Does Project 2025 have something about letting husbands | 2024-11-05 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1853618518803300732 | 1853618518803300732 |
| Think we won't need regional federalism? | 2024-11-05 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1853617974659428498 | 1853617974659428498 |
| Election eve update on close races, changed since 30 Oct - | 2024-11-05 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1853601398228951375 | 1853601398228951375 |
| The brownshirts are organized and ready for action. | 2024-11-04 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1853538355054862561 | 1853538355054862561 |
| May he cast confusion on his enemies! | 2024-11-04 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1853533346179281099 | 1853533346179281099 |
| If you're rich, you can change your story as often as | 2024-11-04 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1853530966461161616 | 1853530966461161616 |
| Rallying the faithful for mutual emotional support - | 2024-11-04 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1853455226365436277 | 1853455226365436277 |
| Another big election on Nov 13! | 2024-11-03 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1853062205702652019 | 1853062205702652019 |
| "The world forces us to the fringes, but Jesus invites us | 2024-11-03 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1852927018574430533 | 1852927018574430533 |
| Job #1 is looking out for #1 - the super-salesman's creed - | 2024-11-03 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1852923274033811634 | 1852923274033811634 |
| Witch doctors are good enough for other countries, so | 2024-11-03 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1852917848500478095 | 1852917848500478095 |
| Their preferred outcome - nobody wins - and nobody can | 2024-11-03 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1852876015108055336 | 1852876015108055336 |
| Joe McCarthy lives again - | 2024-11-03 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1852873297803051411 | 1852873297803051411 |
| The brownshirts are at it in Shasta County - | 2024-11-02 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1852758460552958231 | 1852758460552958231 |
| Trump knew he lost in 2020, and he knows he has an even | 2024-11-02 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1852722801498829270 | 1852722801498829270 |
| "Democracy survives only when it is rooted in the lives | 2024-11-02 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1852722028706668961 | 1852722028706668961 |
| Trump has studied dictatorship - | 2024-11-02 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1852718851009769865 | 1852718851009769865 |
| Why not just auction off the presidency to the highest | 2024-11-02 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1852716734014521797 | 1852716734014521797 |
| Putin is doubling down for the climax! | 2024-11-02 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1852526928647111052 | 1852526928647111052 |
| There's nothing new under the sun - | 2024-11-02 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1852525553435447480 | 1852525553435447480 |
| Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest? | 2024-11-02 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1852520700046885189 | 1852520700046885189 |
| Need $10 million for your presidential campaign? | 2024-11-01 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1852463300036227236 | 1852463300036227236 |
| Was Jan 6 just the warmup act? | 2024-11-01 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1852462109386535103 | 1852462109386535103 |
| Trump thinks everybody has a price, because they are just | 2024-11-01 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1852461743383196066 | 1852461743383196066 |
| Trump missed a few obvious single-issue constituencies. | 2024-11-01 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1852460841502937454 | 1852460841502937454 |
| Political texts invading your phone? | 2024-11-01 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1852456658393497649 | 1852456658393497649 |
| That was the election that wasn't - | 2024-11-01 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1852454644624359703 | 1852454644624359703 |
| "democracy is the worst form of Government except all | 2024-11-01 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1852138727612780881 | 1852138727612780881 |
| Further confirmation - Trump has given up on swing voters | 2024-10-31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1852134563721679155 | 1852134563721679155 |
| The electoral college wasn't just about protecting the | 2024-10-31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1852103998444310696 | 1852103998444310696 |
| Journalism is not a business. Entrepreneurs don't | 2024-10-31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1852101570328219737 | 1852101570328219737 |
| What's the purpose of political endorsements anyway? | 2024-10-31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1851809282611970420 | 1851809282611970420 |
| Trump the greatest liberator since Lincoln! | 2024-10-31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1851806570402996354 | 1851806570402996354 |
| No penitence from the penitentiary - | 2024-10-31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1851805026123157825 | 1851805026123157825 |
| It was a lovefest for Trump! And who cares about the | 2024-10-31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1851804069406609919 | 1851804069406609919 |
| Yet another sucker waiting in vain for his pardon from | 2024-10-31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1851802843210223812 | 1851802843210223812 |
| Regional federalism ahead? | 2024-10-30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1851773375875850449 | 1851773375875850449 |
| Wrong answer - | 2024-10-30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1851770538437537846 | 1851770538437537846 |
| And then there's the enemy within - | 2024-10-30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1851769197803741414 | 1851769197803741414 |
| Full scam ahead from Russia, China, N Korea, Iran, | 2024-10-30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1851767669726609781 | 1851767669726609781 |
| If a country has been assiduously acting to undermine | 2024-10-30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1851766977406390748 | 1851766977406390748 |
| The MAGA faithful accused the Democrats of what the MAGA | 2024-10-30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1851762453379772437 | 1851762453379772437 |
| Tossups remaining in 2024 election, along with links to | 2024-10-30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1851749610404090182 | 1851749610404090182 |
| No reconciliation or bipartisanship on this agenda! | 2024-10-30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1851480969112666422 | 1851480969112666422 |
| There are enough Puerto Ricans in the battleground states | 2024-10-29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1851153446860374231 | 1851153446860374231 |
| The Washington Post has lost about 200,000 subscriptions. | 2024-10-29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1851151388795158619 | 1851151388795158619 |
| Trump the champion of the middle class? He pretended | 2024-10-27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1850685670161014827 | 1850685670161014827 |
| Sometimes who you vote AGAINST is more important than who | 2024-10-27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1850680570738856164 | 1850680570738856164 |
| Consequential elections? 2024 is not the first nor | 2024-10-27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1850679749259170168 | 1850679749259170168 |
| It's a song we've heard before - | 2024-10-27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1850678703195599175 | 1850678703195599175 |
| Trump's value to Vance, DeSantis, Musk, and other wannabe | 2024-10-26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1850299521827537211 | 1850299521827537211 |
| Every year another plan to save social security - | 2024-10-26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1850208361708700101 | 1850208361708700101 |
| A match made in heaven? | 2024-10-26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1850058376161656959 | 1850058376161656959 |
| The upper crust isn't suffering much from inflation - | 2024-10-26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1850056574804558184 | 1850056574804558184 |
| Global free trade is anti-inflationary and optimizes global | 2024-10-26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1850054785589969322 | 1850054785589969322 |
| That was the election that wasn't - | 2024-10-26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1850050292298965032 | 1850050292298965032 |
| What's the point of being the richest man if you can't | 2024-10-23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1849230285529121186 | 1849230285529121186 |
| How a strong foreign leader uses traitorous propagandists | 2024-10-23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1849229719146999892 | 1849229719146999892 |
| Trump always admired strong leaders, and now he expects | 2024-10-23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1849227895853744618 | 1849227895853744618 |
| "The victor will never be asked if he told the truth" | 2024-10-19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1847438386107498700 | 1847438386107498700 |
| If Musk can't buy the election, maybe crypto can - | 2024-10-19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1847436700949369260 | 1847436700949369260 |
| Speaking of deficit spending and devaluation - | 2024-10-17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1847039339529974080 | 1847039339529974080 |
| How devaluation-inflation reduces deficits - | 2024-10-17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1847026772979950001 | 1847026772979950001 |
| Propagandists hate having their methods studied! | 2024-10-17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1846997897818394767 | 1846997897818394767 |
| One dollar one vote! | 2024-10-17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1846912310767767914 | 1846912310767767914 |
| Critical election races to consider - Senate seats that | 2024-10-17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1846782661790257157 | 1846782661790257157 |
| Trump supporters and Taliban supporters agree on a lot! | 2024-10-17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1846774916412330494 | 1846774916412330494 |
| Mendacious or ignorant? Tariffs have been tried before, | 2024-10-17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1846772357228384382 | 1846772357228384382 |
| Par for the Trump course! | 2024-10-17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1846770145332809854 | 1846770145332809854 |
| Chinese neo-neo-colonialism - | 2024-10-16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1846411839510663594 | 1846411839510663594 |
| Against all odds, Congress finally allowed the IRS to | 2024-10-16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1846411667590336673 | 1846411667590336673 |
| Don't believe it - Trump would never deport all illegal | 2024-10-16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1846411476355223971 | 1846411476355223971 |
| Most of us have very little to say about the presidential | 2024-10-16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1846411113791168954 | 1846411113791168954 |
| At least some insurrectionists are paying a price - | 2024-10-16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1846410961999327670 | 1846410961999327670 |
| Evidently Russia is running out of workers too - | 2024-10-16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1846410824908525661 | 1846410824908525661 |
| What happens when prosperous democracies exclude foreign | 2024-10-16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1846410698827747700 | 1846410698827747700 |
| Dictators and their wannabe fanboys have to stay in touch - | 2024-10-16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1846405777759564249 | 1846405777759564249 |
| What's the point of being ultra-wealthy if you can't buy | 2024-10-16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1846404963762876590 | 1846404963762876590 |
| Addicted to reading the polls? There's no point unless | 2024-10-15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1846301743367454782 | 1846301743367454782 |
| Want to make a difference in this election? These races | 2024-10-15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1846279098706153970 | 1846279098706153970 |
| Nothing is true and everything is possible - | 2024-10-12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1844910708892500346 | 1844910708892500346 |
| That was the storm that wasn't - | 2024-10-11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1844864421312733647 | 1844864421312733647 |
| Trump owes a lot to the rural bias in the Constitution - | 2024-10-08 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1843443473846022519 | 1843443473846022519 |
| Trump wants a mandate! | 2024-10-08 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1843442577703616531 | 1843442577703616531 |
| Time for a trial separation? | 2024-10-07 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1843125193981698356 | 1843125193981698356 |
| Nothing is true and everything is possible - | 2024-10-07 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1843123376443011386 | 1843123376443011386 |
| Fool me once, shame on you. | 2024-10-07 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1843121349189112149 | 1843121349189112149 |
| A better start would be to require all elected officials in | 2024-10-05 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1842382301927539142 | 1842382301927539142 |
| The rogue's gallery | 2024-10-04 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1842335771690504529 | 1842335771690504529 |
| That was the week that wasn't - | 2024-10-04 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1842326373056262523 | 1842326373056262523 |
| Who cares if it's true as long as you get in the headlines? | 2024-10-04 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1842323354625421595 | 1842323354625421595 |
| Thoughts for the political season - about Make Aristocracy | 2024-10-04 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1842225900714332289 | 1842225900714332289 |
| Just to know him is not to love him - | 2024-10-04 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1842218425692921935 | 1842218425692921935 |
| No candidate is too weird to help Make Aristocracy Great | 2024-10-04 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1842216163532751280 | 1842216163532751280 |
| People won't vote for election deniers? | 2024-10-04 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1842058849911767256 | 1842058849911767256 |
| Just about what you'd expect, now down in black and white - | 2024-10-04 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1842004457292497152 | 1842004457292497152 |
| And now for something completely different - an unexpected | 2024-10-02 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1841343716600234344 | 1841343716600234344 |
| Putin is still at it - | 2024-10-02 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1841342793941479447 | 1841342793941479447 |
| The biggest lie in the VP debate was that the VP can change | 2024-10-02 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1841341152881963132 | 1841341152881963132 |
| Jimmy Carter has made it to 100. Is being a one-term | 2024-10-02 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1841337098563129440 | 1841337098563129440 |
| That was the debate that wasn't - | 2024-10-02 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1841336024951329267 | 1841336024951329267 |
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========== 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 ===== editableUntil 2024-11-11T21:02:02.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/DWMPZNJoeL display_url apnews.com/article/pennsy… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-11-11 20:02 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1856064864885915909 ========== X and Truth Social will be the perfect echo chambers - citing each other as sources for their propaganda. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/09/technology/elon-musk-trump-x.html The 8 followers of political-scrapbook on Twitter/X should move - perhaps to https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet #PS1media ===== editableUntil 2024-11-11T16:49:11.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/YVrffpgWAb display_url nytimes.com/2024/11/09/tec… url https://t.co/gfBcFGxug7 display_url facebook.com/politicalscrap… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-11-11 15:49 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1856001235339588054 ========== Does Trumpism really need Truth Social AND X? Neither one is making money. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/09/technology/elon-musk-trump-x.html #PS1trumpism ===== editableUntil 2024-11-10T04:32:50.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/YVrffpgWAb display_url nytimes.com/2024/11/09/tec… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-11-10 03:32 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1855453536890605962 ========== Leonard Leo and the Federalist Society have been the pipeline for reactionary defenders of minority rule to get from law school to the Federal judiciary. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/11/08/trump-supreme-court-leonard-leo-mike-davis/ Now Trump's new team of loyalists want to pick their own judiciary based on loyalty. #PS1justice ===== editableUntil 2024-11-09T03:03:32.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/0cn2eG2jQv display_url washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-11-09 02:03 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1855068677135384608 ========== It's good to recognize when your time has passed! https://apnews.com/article/mitch-mcconnell-senate-republican-leader-stepping-down-ba478d570a4561aa7baf91a204d7e366 and you can still walk out on your own power. #PS1politics ===== editableUntil 2024-11-09T02:49:03.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/jZNIWccm1Q display_url apnews.com/article/mitch-… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-11-09 01:49 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1855065029630214186 ========== That was the election that wasn't - https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-20-million-missing-votes-election-2024-5c92a9b2530232fc8ac80968a1362518 #PS1media ===== editableUntil 2024-11-09T01:16:58.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/fKbLU0wIAp display_url apnews.com/article/fact-c… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-11-09 00:16 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1855041858139045973 ========== Higher production for lower prices is not necessarily what the oil industry wants. They paid their protection money, so "drill baby drill" might well mean "do whatever you want, wherever you want, whenever you want". De-regulation! https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/07/business/energy-environment/trump-oil-gas.html #ps1economics ===== editableUntil 2024-11-08T22:32:28.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/29mOCwuY3e display_url nytimes.com/2024/11/07/bus… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-11-08 21:32 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1855000457900658830 ========== Democracy increases as nation-states decline? https://www.democracy.community/stories/democracy-isnt-declining-nation-state #PS1theory ===== editableUntil 2024-11-07T05:18:43.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/RIdfiM6pBW display_url democracy.community/stories/democr… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-11-07 04:18 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1854377920862810431 ========== Why Vance won't end up like Pence - he has absolutely no scruples - a perfect fit for Trump - https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/02/opinion/vance-trump-maga-walz-vice-presidential-debate.html But like all self-serving opportunists in the Trump empire, his loyalty to Trump only lasts until he senses a better opportunity. #PS1trumpism ===== editableUntil 2024-11-07T05:15:04.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/YmmnaXLWI9 display_url nytimes.com/2024/10/02/opi… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-11-07 04:15 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1854376999881777657 ========== Aileen Cannon - our next Supreme Court Justice - or better yet - https://abcnews.go.com/US/judge-tossed-trumps-classified-docs-case-list-proposed/story?id=114997807 Trump never forgets his friends - as long as he thinks they will be useful in the future. And will he even bother to show up for his sentencing? https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/01/politics/what-happens-to-trumps-november-sentencing/index.html #PS1trump ===== editableUntil 2024-11-06T17:45:00.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/F0FT9LBdL2 display_url abcnews.go.com/US/judge-tosse… url https://t.co/4cWWwLloSA display_url cnn.com/2024/11/01/pol… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-11-06 16:45 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1854203342374977848 ========== And the winners of the presidential election are - Putin, Xi, and Netanyahu! Who are now free to pursue their dreams. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-enlightenment.html For the rest of us, it's time to think about how regional federalism might work - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-regional.html #PS1election ===== editableUntil 2024-11-06T17:13:02.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/7T8taXzXVI display_url political-scrapbook.net/2022-enlighten… url https://t.co/XbB2Nl8JbJ display_url political-scrapbook.net/2020-regional.… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-11-06 16:13 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1854195294105382996 ========== So far 270towin's predictions have been pretty accurate - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2024-tossups.html Some of the lucky donations that might have helped make a difference - MI-8 51-45 Rivet NY-19 50.5-49.5 Riley NM-2 52-48 Vasquez OH-13 51-49 Sykes TX-28 52.5-47.5 Cuellar #PS1election ===== editableUntil 2024-11-06T16:54:21.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/05RCxLgOUL display_url political-scrapbook.net/2024-tossups.h… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-11-06 15:54 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1854190592584216974 ========== Darkest before dawn? Bad news- NH gov called for Ayotte OH senate called for Moreno FL senate called for Scott TX senate called for Cruz Good news- MN-2 house called for Craig NY-18 house called for Ryan PA-17 called for Deluzio More- https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2024-tossups.html #PS1election ===== editableUntil 2024-11-06T07:03:10.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/05RCxLgOUL display_url political-scrapbook.net/2024-tossups.h… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-11-06 06:03 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1854041818868171074 ========== You sure you want to move to Idaho? https://apnews.com/article/covid19-vaccine-public-health-idaho-76f1c29bf3f07a2c029175bf6c2180c4 #PS1health ===== editableUntil 2024-11-06T05:03:53.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/DQg4X5fbm7 display_url apnews.com/article/covid1… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-11-06 04:03 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1854011798720262450 ========== Easy come, easy go - https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/01/investing/trump-stock-net-worth/index.html #PS1trump ===== editableUntil 2024-11-06T05:02:17.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/qBrNeFdE4J display_url cnn.com/2024/11/01/inv… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-11-06 04:02 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1854011398663336021 ========== Musk is 100% behind Trump for now - https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/05/us/politics/elon-musk-trump-x-election-day.html For the future? Trump is just a placeholder. #PS1trumpism ===== editableUntil 2024-11-06T04:31:16.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/hviWHGJNaR display_url nytimes.com/2024/11/05/us/… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-11-06 03:31 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1854003591683666367 ========== Trumpism is basically about protecting the power and wealth of rich old white men. Lately they've been coming right out and saying it - https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/05/us/politics/trump-nancy-pelosi-liz-cheney-women.html #PS1trumpism ===== editableUntil 2024-11-06T04:31:08.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/XvAh1PvEQ1 display_url nytimes.com/2024/11/05/us/… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-11-06 03:31 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1854003558963978464 ========== First race to be called on my watchlist - everybody agrees that Rick Scott of Florida is going back to the Senate to annoy his colleagues. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2024-tossups.html #PS1election ===== editableUntil 2024-11-06T02:10:09.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/05RCxLgOUL display_url political-scrapbook.net/2024-tossups.h… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-11-06 01:10 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1853968076355875222 ========== It's short of a billion, but $75 million in protection money is not chump change. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/01/climate/oil-gas-donations-trump.html #PS1trumpism ===== editableUntil 2024-11-05T23:58:13.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/8iDpAMqmBu display_url nytimes.com/2024/11/01/cli… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-11-05 22:58 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1853934876392841727 ========== The brownshirts are organizing on Telegram - https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/04/technology/telegram-right-wing-groups-election.html #PS1insurrection ===== editableUntil 2024-11-05T23:50:05.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/88DeK15mSY display_url nytimes.com/2024/11/04/tec… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-11-05 22:50 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1853932829383782597 ========== The Chinese Communist Party has to figure out how to deal with capitalist economic cycles. The only way to suppress busts is to suppress booms. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/04/business/china-foreclosures-mortgages.html The people accepted political repression in return for economic prosperity. So now what? #PS1china ===== editableUntil 2024-11-05T23:47:40.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/2L1JQhVZly display_url nytimes.com/2024/11/04/bus… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-11-05 22:47 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1853932222086353069 ========== If Trump wins, Democrats will blame voter suppression and foreign interference. If Harris wins, the Make Aristocracy Great Again team will blame election fraud, of course, amplified by their foreign collaborators. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iMy0969BTw #PS1election ===== editableUntil 2024-11-05T20:08:56.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/BElQj1ucAk display_url youtube.com/watch?v=9iMy09… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-11-05 19:08 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1853877176833376536 ========== Qual notte di mistero! Una tempesta in cielo, in terra un omicidio! - Rigoletto To fit tonight in California - What a night! A storm in the heavens, An election on the earth! https://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?site=MTR&issuedby=MTR&product=AFD&format=CI&version=1&glossary=1 https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/11/04/bay-area-police-election-unrest/ https://www.pge.com/en/newsroom/currents/safety/pg-e-calls-for-public-safety-power-shutoff.html #PS1election ===== editableUntil 2024-11-05T19:40:35.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/I71aJ7NmRD display_url forecast.weather.gov/product.php?si… url https://t.co/TAfLY1YsGK display_url mercurynews.com/2024/11/04/bay… url https://t.co/RAj5vp43Nb display_url pge.com/en/newsroom/cu… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-11-05 18:40 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1853870042246775008 ========== Never fear! The NRA gun lobby stands ready to insure that every disturbed adolescent has access to the tools he needs to express himself. https://apnews.com/article/missouri-orlando-harris-school-shooting-red-flag-dba891ceaec8d3881ef07e05eb966eb9 #PS1firearms ===== editableUntil 2024-11-05T04:41:28.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/iksapIVchM display_url apnews.com/article/missou… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-11-05 03:41 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1853643768718868894 ========== Has Trump won the contest of ideas about trade? https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/04/opinion/trump-trade-immigration-election.html When free trade becomes entangled with jockeying for global strategic advantage, it's potentially very expensive, leading to over-dependence on hostile regimes. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/26/business/china-critical-minerals-semiconductors.html #PS1china ===== editableUntil 2024-11-05T04:38:20.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/7Y71epWXiX display_url nytimes.com/2024/11/04/opi… url https://t.co/6gQIT3T7eH display_url nytimes.com/2024/10/26/bus… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-11-05 03:38 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1853642983402606740 ========== Does Project 2025 have something about letting husbands vote on behalf of their wives? https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/04/opinion/women-polls-trump-iowa.html Seems too many women don't know what's best for them. #PS1trumpism ===== editableUntil 2024-11-05T03:01:08.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/c2PWMWzDms display_url nytimes.com/2024/11/04/opi… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-11-05 02:01 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1853618518803300732 ========== Think we won't need regional federalism? https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-regional.html Maybe think again - https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/04/opinion/trump-cheney-kennedy-kelly.html Trump is just the beginning, not the end. #PS1trump ===== editableUntil 2024-11-05T02:58:58.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/XbB2Nl8JbJ display_url political-scrapbook.net/2020-regional.… url https://t.co/EM7zAerYij display_url nytimes.com/2024/11/04/opi… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-11-05 01:58 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1853617974659428498 ========== Election eve update on close races, changed since 30 Oct - CA-47 now leaning D - https://davemin.com/ NY-17 now learning R - https://www.mondaireforcongress.com/ Starting tomorrow, updates on results rather than predictions will be added to - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2024-tossups.html #PS1election ===== editableUntil 2024-11-05T01:53:06.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/WPwvsnmGZH display_url davemin.com url https://t.co/JygyyxCrnF display_url mondaireforcongress.com url https://t.co/05RCxLgOUL display_url political-scrapbook.net/2024-tossups.h… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-11-05 00:53 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1853601398228951375 ========== The brownshirts are organized and ready for action. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/11/04/election-deniers-were-aimless-now-with-musks-help-theyre-an-army/ With Musk bankrolling the effort, Putin can just sit back and applaud! #PS1trumpism ===== editableUntil 2024-11-04T21:42:35.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/V1ACkkmyKg display_url washingtonpost.com/technology/202… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-11-04 20:42 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1853538355054862561 ========== May he cast confusion on his enemies! https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/11/04/gop-health-election-strategy/ As he has already done to his friends! #PS1trump ===== editableUntil 2024-11-04T21:22:41.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/CnflYVEIdt display_url washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-11-04 20:22 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1853533346179281099 ========== If you're rich, you can change your story as often as you like! https://apnews.com/article/musk-million-sweepstakes-lottery-pennsylvania-krasner-4f683c48eb7dcc57f183e54ef16e7320 #PS1trumpism ===== editableUntil 2024-11-04T21:13:14.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/dbOfAJW78f display_url apnews.com/article/musk-m… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-11-04 20:13 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1853530966461161616 ========== Rallying the faithful for mutual emotional support - it's what a salesman does best and likes best. He's a salesman! https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-kamala-harris-presidential-election-a310fbc211ad8f0f5e290547ec284187 He's given up on the undecideds. Campaign rallies are so much moreexciting than actually delivering on the promises. #PS1trump ===== editableUntil 2024-11-04T16:12:16.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/2Jhk6odarL display_url apnews.com/article/donald… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-11-04 15:12 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1853455226365436277 ========== Another big election on Nov 13! https://apnews.com/article/senate-republicans-leadership-mcconnell-thune-cornyn-scott-d17b341874cb6627f1d75d7051feebe4 #PS1gop ===== editableUntil 2024-11-03T14:10:32.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/d1lX1FzQJG display_url apnews.com/article/senate… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-11-03 13:10 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1853062205702652019 ========== "The world forces us to the fringes, but Jesus invites us to the middle" https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/02/us/donald-trump-billy-graham-protestantism.html Charismatic dictators - Stalin, Hitler, Putin - have always found ambitious theologians who would supply theology to meet the political moment. #PS1politics ===== editableUntil 2024-11-03T05:13:21.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/ehWMqfRbPg display_url nytimes.com/2024/11/02/us/… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-11-03 04:13 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1852927018574430533 ========== Job #1 is looking out for #1 - the super-salesman's creed - https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/02/opinion/trump-madison-square-garden-private-life.html #PS1trump ===== editableUntil 2024-11-03T04:58:28.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/BqXuAJhaLC display_url nytimes.com/2024/11/02/opi… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-11-03 03:58 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1852923274033811634 ========== Witch doctors are good enough for other countries, so why not America? https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/02/us/politics/robert-f-kennedy-jr-trump-fluoride-water.html Vaccinations are one area where RFK Jr and Trump and the Taliban agree. #PS1health ===== editableUntil 2024-11-03T04:36:55.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/el46JuaIsA display_url nytimes.com/2024/11/02/us/… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-11-03 03:36 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1852917848500478095 ========== Their preferred outcome - nobody wins - and nobody can agree on what to do - https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/11/02/election-trump-harris-russia-china-iran/ The longer the uncertainty lasts, the better for America's foes. #PS1election ===== editableUntil 2024-11-03T01:50:41.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/zvxF0bZn16 display_url washingtonpost.com/national-secur… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-11-03 00:50 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1852876015108055336 ========== Joe McCarthy lives again - https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2024/11/02/federal-career-employees-watchlist-trump/ Stalin would be proud! As would Roy Cohn, McCarthy's counsel and Trump's mentor. #PS1trumpism ===== editableUntil 2024-11-03T01:39:53.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/wHcYfCj1cC display_url washingtonpost.com/investigations… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-11-03 00:39 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1852873297803051411 ========== The brownshirts are at it in Shasta County - https://calmatters.org/politics/2024/11/shasta-county-election-workers/ #PS1trumpism ===== editableUntil 2024-11-02T18:03:34.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/G9uP5Apnki display_url calmatters.org/politics/2024/… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-11-02 17:03 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1852758460552958231 ========== Trump knew he lost in 2020, and he knows he has an even chance of losing again. So now, as then, he declares victory in advance and will act accordingly. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/02/us/politics/donald-trump-kalama-harris-campaign.html #PS1insurrection ===== editableUntil 2024-11-02T15:41:52.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/M2j2EvpmD3 display_url nytimes.com/2024/11/02/us/… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-11-02 14:41 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1852722801498829270 ========== "Democracy survives only when it is rooted in the lives and expectations of its citizens" https://www.washingtonpost.com/.../trump-phoenix.../ America's founders thought if best if rich old white men made the decisions to benefit everybody. But their decisions mostly benefited themselves. #PS1theory ===== editableUntil 2024-06-10T07:30:10.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/s3aLDC66Nb display_url washingtonpost.com/.../trump-phoe… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-11-02 14:38 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1852722028706668961 ========== Trump has studied dictatorship - https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/02/opinion/trump-democracy-china-authoritarian.html Good thing he's not more competent and energetic. #PS1trump ===== editableUntil 2024-11-02T15:26:10.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/a7UeQG0rWZ display_url nytimes.com/2024/11/02/opi… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-11-02 14:26 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1852718851009769865 ========== Why not just auction off the presidency to the highest bidder? https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/02/us/elections/elon-musk-super-pac.html It would help with the Federal deficit. #PS1election ===== editableUntil 2024-11-02T15:17:45.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/0D2Z2tx92n display_url nytimes.com/2024/11/02/us/… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-11-02 14:17 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1852716734014521797 ========== Putin is doubling down for the climax! https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/01/us/politics/russia-election-misinformation.html Just like a strong leader should! No wonder Trump admires him. #PS1putin ===== editableUntil 2024-11-02T02:43:32.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/sZg6htt3ix display_url nytimes.com/2024/11/01/us/… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-11-02 01:43 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1852526928647111052 ========== There's nothing new under the sun - https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/01/us/politics/trump-immigration-rhetoric-history.html If you don't have any good ideas, recycle some old bad ideas. #ps1immigration ===== editableUntil 2024-11-02T02:38:04.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/AKgyE4DB0n display_url nytimes.com/2024/11/01/us/… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-11-02 01:38 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1852525553435447480 ========== Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest? Updated to 2024 - https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/11/01/liz-cheney-trump-guns-shooting/ Henry II - and Hitler - would be so proud! #PS1trump ===== editableUntil 2024-11-02T02:18:47.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/JSunZrN1al display_url washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-11-02 01:18 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1852520700046885189 ========== Need $10 million for your presidential campaign? https://rewardsforjustice.net/rewards/rybar/ #PS1putin ===== editableUntil 2024-11-01T22:30:42.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/H4Tvcpqf7u display_url rewardsforjustice.net/rewards/rybar/ truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-11-01 21:30 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1852463300036227236 ========== Was Jan 6 just the warmup act? https://apnews.com/article/capitol-riot-judges-election-ebb54ab9badccfcb2b1bc2fa0de5bf21 #PS1insurrection ===== editableUntil 2024-11-01T22:25:58.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/IrcV1ignCh display_url apnews.com/article/capito… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-11-01 21:25 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1852462109386535103 ========== Trump thinks everybody has a price, because they are just like him - https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/trumps-legal-team-tried-keep-stormy-daniels-quiet-ahead-2024-election-rcna175828 Sadly, he's often right. #PS1trump ===== editableUntil 2024-11-01T22:24:31.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/JOa8CisNsT display_url nbcnews.com/politics/2024-… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-11-01 21:24 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1852461743383196066 ========== Trump missed a few obvious single-issue constituencies. He just has to convince them to show up and vote. https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2024-10-15/column-can-stanford-tell-the-difference-between-scientific-fact-and-fiction-its-pandemic-conference-raises-doubts https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/31/health/trump-kennedy-health.html He could promise to put a moon-landing-denier in charge of NASA. A flat-earther in charge of DOD GPS. #PS1trumpism ===== editableUntil 2024-11-01T22:20:56.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/JV0vDoU0mQ display_url latimes.com/business/story… url https://t.co/QdcqUkSAtz display_url nytimes.com/2024/10/31/hea… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-11-01 21:20 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1852460841502937454 ========== Political texts invading your phone? https://www.gazettextra.com/news/nation_world/fed-up-with-political-text-messages-here-s-how-to-stop-the-madness-california/article_181e2cac-8078-525d-98ad-c64d43b4fdab.html Replying STOP helps. Voting early cuts down a bit of the volume. As with hit mailers, TV and radio ads, social media posts, and email, there is no penalty for lying in political campaign propaganda. #PS1media ===== editableUntil 2024-11-01T22:04:18.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/SP5YG39hDC display_url gazettextra.com/news/nation_wo… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-11-01 21:04 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1852456658393497649 ========== That was the election that wasn't - https://apnews.com/article/trump-election-lies-rogan-interview-ballots-voting-c8c06eb608c1b1ae8ca0e93ec1022b02 https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-misinformation-houston-rally-confrontation-99af1f80eb43d31966cae8e68dbc3415 If it sounds good, who cares if it's true? #PS1media ===== editableUntil 2024-11-01T21:56:18.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/iOzLnOLOMA display_url apnews.com/article/trump-… url https://t.co/P4D8B4imon display_url apnews.com/article/fact-c… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-11-01 20:56 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1852454644624359703 ========== "democracy is the worst form of Government except all those other forms" Trump has no interest in democracy but is fascinated by those other forms - https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/10/31/indigo-blob-liberals-trump/ He's rather rule by decree than by doing the hard work of forging bipartisan consensus. #PS1trump ===== editableUntil 2024-11-01T01:00:58.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/9lNKcOryjO display_url washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-11-01 00:00 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1852138727612780881 ========== Further confirmation - Trump has given up on swing voters and is completely focused on rallying his hard core base. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/31/trump-women-protector-harris/ #PS1trumpism ===== editableUntil 2024-11-01T00:44:25.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/OmupXQbLWX display_url washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-10-31 23:44 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1852134563721679155 ========== The electoral college wasn't just about protecting the southern slavery-based aristocracy. It more generally protected the ruling class from the masses. https://www.goskagit.com/the-u-s-alone-is-saddled-with-an-electoral-college-how-did-that-happen/article_5515e606-973e-11ef-ba2a-872f2611aac5.html Protecting the masses from the selfish whims of the ruling class came later. #PS1politics ===== editableUntil 2024-10-31T22:42:58.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/THoYIQ31bd display_url goskagit.com/the-u-s-alone-… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-10-31 21:42 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1852103998444310696 ========== Journalism is not a business. Entrepreneurs don't necessarily add anything to journalism. Journalists do. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/30/technology/jeff-bezos-elon-musk-election.html But every public company is for sale every day of the week. Anybody who can afford it can turn it to his own ends. #PS1journalism ===== editableUntil 2024-10-31T22:33:19.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/IZVJBpOIUo display_url nytimes.com/2024/10/30/tec… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-10-31 21:33 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1852101570328219737 ========== What's the purpose of political endorsements anyway? https://apnews.com/article/post-newspaper-endorsements-trump-harris-44efcb29d0b27c039a9b0b259ec255d7 Few people follow newspaper endorsements for president. But they do for down-ticket offices. But if a newspaper is going to offer opinion in addition to journalism - show courage. #PS1journalism ===== editableUntil 2024-10-31T03:11:52.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/xnPsUVydKx display_url apnews.com/article/post-n… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-10-31 02:11 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1851809282611970420 ========== Trump the greatest liberator since Lincoln! https://www.indianagazette.com/opinion/michelle-goldberg-maga-unchained-in-madison-square-garden/article_56cb730e-963e-11ef-bc37-e3ff9dc4add6.html He liberates his base from having to tell the truth about objective reality. All they have to do is tell the truth in their hearts that he put there. #PS1trumpism ===== editableUntil 2024-10-31T03:01:05.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/0gL0RMwrcM display_url indianagazette.com/opinion/michel… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-10-31 02:01 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1851806570402996354 ========== No penitence from the penitentiary - https://apnews.com/article/steve-bannon-prison-release-56f2f7a17ae2273a29a0829234f56fae Back to propaganda as usual. #PS1trumpism ===== editableUntil 2024-10-31T02:54:57.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/GGxOSfXBLb display_url apnews.com/article/steve-… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-10-31 01:54 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1851805026123157825 ========== It was a lovefest for Trump! And who cares about the PR's - https://apnews.com/article/trump-harris-lovefest-rally-puerto-rico-6e079e7894a7e1db5dd4be76cccb452a He found some self-serving opportunists among them willing to say he's a great guy. #PS1trump ===== editableUntil 2024-10-31T02:51:09.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/8TvlWTWEn4 display_url apnews.com/article/trump-… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-10-31 01:51 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1851804069406609919 ========== Yet another sucker waiting in vain for his pardon from Trump - https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/10/19/hamas-weapons-drones-submersible-missiles/ #PS1insurrection ===== editableUntil 2023-10-20T21:16:59.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/c7bBM5cg7K display_url washingtonpost.com/national-secur… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-10-31 01:46 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1851802843210223812 ========== Regional federalism ahead? https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-regional.html Would Trump punish California? Only the parts that oppose him! Corporate farmers, oil companies, and reactionary technologists will be fine - they've paid their protection money. https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2024-10-17/2024-election-barabak-column-donald-trump-threatens-vengeance-on-california-newsom-schiff #PS1trump ===== editableUntil 2024-10-31T00:49:11.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/XbB2Nl8JbJ display_url political-scrapbook.net/2020-regional.… url https://t.co/gadIcZTHzf display_url latimes.com/politics/story… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-10-30 23:49 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1851773375875850449 ========== Wrong answer - https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/26/us/politics/trump-democracy-threats.html "Make America Great Again" is EXACTLY like the 1930's - "Restore Germany to its Rightful Place Among Nations". And Trump's plan to appease Putin is EXACTLY like Neville Chamberlain's 1938 "Peace for our time." #PS1trumpism ===== editableUntil 2024-10-31T00:37:55.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/Ne0971Rjih display_url nytimes.com/2024/10/26/us/… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-10-30 23:37 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1851770538437537846 ========== And then there's the enemy within - https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/26/us/elections/election-security-luzerne-county.html Who knows what they will do. #PS1election ===== editableUntil 2024-10-31T00:32:35.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/PYv04yAS8W display_url nytimes.com/2024/10/26/us/… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-10-30 23:32 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1851769197803741414 ========== Full scam ahead from Russia, China, N Korea, Iran, Cuba, ... https://apnews.com/article/trump-harris-russia-iran-china-disinformation-election-6f4cb99be3facb08c58cecd11b2c5d41 Looks like enemy action to me. #PS1election ===== editableUntil 2024-10-31T00:26:31.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/sGUK37ER2Z display_url apnews.com/article/trump-… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-10-30 23:26 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1851767669726609781 ========== If a country has been assiduously acting to undermine the constitutional governments of western democracies, what useful distinction is there between "enemy" and "adversary". https://apnews.com/article/vance-putin-trump-enemy-adversary-nato-ukraine-01f8999d7d16ca08ab373d3c5f24c5ce #PS1putin ===== editableUntil 2024-10-31T00:23:46.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/I1InLPVCLd display_url apnews.com/article/vance-… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-10-30 23:23 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1851766977406390748 ========== The MAGA faithful accused the Democrats of what the MAGA faithful were doing. Now their only hope is a Trump pardon. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/30/they-tried-prove-trumps-fraud-claims-they-failed-got-trouble/ But they violated state laws, which Trump can't pardon. Unless he suspends the Constitution and rules by decree. #PS1election ===== editableUntil 2024-10-31T00:05:47.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/jDpzKUbZ9J display_url washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-10-30 23:05 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1851762453379772437 ========== Tossups remaining in 2024 election, along with links to interesting data - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2024-tossups.html #PS1election ===== editableUntil 2024-10-30T23:14:45.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/05RCxLgOUL display_url political-scrapbook.net/2024-tossups.h… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-10-30 22:14 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1851749610404090182 ========== No reconciliation or bipartisanship on this agenda! https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/29/us/puerto-ricans-trump-insult.html But Trump has switched, from trying to attract possibly mythical undecideds in tossup states, to rallying his hard-core base. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/27/us/trump-msg-rally.html #PS1trump ===== editableUntil 2024-10-30T05:27:16.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/1rKohi6IrZ display_url nytimes.com/2024/10/29/us/… url https://t.co/xpueHiKFPZ display_url nytimes.com/2024/10/27/us/… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-10-30 04:27 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1851480969112666422 ========== There are enough Puerto Ricans in the battleground states to turn the tide of the election if they choose to do so. They are typically conservative right-to-life Catholics that were the GOP's to lose - and the GOP might have lost them. https://www.newsweek.com/archbishop-san-juan-de-puerto-rico-donald-trump-apology-1976360 #PS1trumpism ===== editableUntil 2024-10-29T07:45:49.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/mMoSAUAQnh display_url newsweek.com/archbishop-san… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-10-29 06:45 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1851153446860374231 ========== The Washington Post has lost about 200,000 subscriptions. Is Bezos really neutral in the 2024 presidential election, when one candidate welcomes racists and does not disavow their racism. Can Bezos admit a mistake? Trump won't. https://apnews.com/article/washington-post-subscriptions-endorsement-07d752d987dbb64b68da63d9ac37b7e8 #PS1media ===== editableUntil 2024-10-29T07:37:38.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/fu71N34g8V display_url apnews.com/article/washin… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-10-29 06:37 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1851151388795158619 ========== Trump the champion of the middle class? He pretended in 2016 - https://www.one-flat-tax.net/ and he's pretending again - https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/24/us/politics/donald-trump-tax-policy.html A regressive national sales tax replacing a progressive income tax has been the dream of the megadonor class for a century. #PS1tax ===== editableUntil 2024-10-28T00:47:02.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/jLHMKoUIif display_url one-flat-tax.net url https://t.co/HPWUtQFX2T display_url nytimes.com/2024/10/24/us/… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-10-27 23:47 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1850685670161014827 ========== Sometimes who you vote AGAINST is more important than who you vote FOR - https://au.news.yahoo.com/leonard-greene-don-t-blame-124500589.html #PS1election ===== editableUntil 2024-10-28T00:26:46.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/62h1AEMEUh display_url au.news.yahoo.com/leonard-greene… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-10-27 23:26 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1850680570738856164 ========== Consequential elections? 2024 is not the first nor the last - https://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/Op-Ed/2024/10/25/leubsdorf-trump-harris-2024-election-history/stories/202410250041 The megadonor class will keep trying to maintain its wealth and power, and foreign interests will keep trying to help them. #PS1election ===== editableUntil 2024-10-28T00:23:30.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/K1Ba3ZyVCJ display_url post-gazette.com/opinion/Op-Ed/… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-10-27 23:23 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1850679749259170168 ========== It's a song we've heard before - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/16/us/politics/voter-fraud-claims.html and a song we'll hear again - https://cagle.com/cartoonist/zyglis/2024/10/24/289580/election-fraud The choir has been rehearsing for years! #PS1election ===== editableUntil 2024-10-28T00:19:21.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/PsbGUIxurw display_url nytimes.com/2020/11/16/us/… url https://t.co/kRJykPgEJ6 display_url cagle.com/cartoonist/zyg… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-10-27 23:19 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1850678703195599175 ========== Trump's value to Vance, DeSantis, Musk, and other wannabe successors is as a precedent-setting lawbreaker, that they can leverage when their time comes. Putin is helping them along- https://apnews.com/article/musk-putin-x-trump-tesla-election-russia-9cecb7cb0f23ccce49336771280ae179 Will Trump get what he wants? https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/25/never-trump-former-officials-back-kelly-warning-00185435 #PS1trumpism ===== editableUntil 2024-10-26T23:12:37.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/DwtCDoLYJO display_url apnews.com/article/musk-p… url https://t.co/DTKVijh37X display_url politico.com/news/2024/10/2… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-10-26 22:12 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1850299521827537211 ========== Every year another plan to save social security - https://www.ssa.gov/oact/solvency/list.html But no politician wants the blame for acting - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/controversial.html#defined%20benefit No matter what Trump or Harris promise, if somehow Congress passes something, they will sign - https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/21/politics/trump-social-security-cut/index.html #PS1tax ===== editableUntil 2024-10-26T17:10:23.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/lUavdtT8EP display_url ssa.gov/oact/solvency/… url https://t.co/MeRrTbElwi display_url political-scrapbook.net/controversial.… url https://t.co/YxMd2kEIFj display_url cnn.com/2024/10/21/pol… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-10-26 16:10 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1850208361708700101 ========== A match made in heaven? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/10/25/trump-putin-campaign-disinformation-2024-election/ One is a real brutal dictator, and the other a wannabe. #PS1putin ===== editableUntil 2024-10-26T07:14:23.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/fY9AbwAkdj display_url washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-10-26 06:14 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1850058376161656959 ========== The upper crust isn't suffering much from inflation - https://apnews.com/article/economy-consumers-inflation-retail-spending-growth-wealth-be68f97bba5970ed4ce4fc8b8c7333af So they wouldn't much mind across-the-board tariffs - it's just another regressive tax on the poor. https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/17/politics/janet-yellen-donald-trump-tariffs/index.html #PS1economics ===== editableUntil 2024-10-26T07:07:14.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/3dTsMEQbln display_url apnews.com/article/econom… url https://t.co/jcfgtZ33qQ display_url cnn.com/2024/10/17/pol… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-10-26 06:07 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1850056574804558184 ========== Global free trade is anti-inflationary and optimizes global prosperity - but it's an inherently unstable regime - and when it crashes, it crashes hard and fast, as during the pandemic. Thought about Taiwan Strait lately? Xi has. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/10/business/economy/global-trade-china-taiwan-middle-east.html #PS1trade ===== editableUntil 2024-10-26T07:00:07.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/jWKk4WMnKq display_url nytimes.com/2024/10/10/bus… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-10-26 06:00 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1850054785589969322 ========== That was the election that wasn't - https://nytimes.com/2023/07/17/us/politics/trump-plans-2025.html https://nytimes.com/2023/07/17/us/politics/trump-plans-2025.html https://nytimes.com/2023/07/17/us/politics/trump-plans-2025.html https://nytimes.com/2023/07/17/us/politics/trump-plans-2025.html and these were the endorsements that weren't - https://nytimes.com/2023/07/17/us/politics/trump-plans-2025.html #PS1media ===== editableUntil 2023-07-19T23:02:46.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/atmT6QUA3R display_url nytimes.com/2023/07/17/us/… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-10-26 05:42 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1850050292298965032 ========== What's the point of being the richest man if you can't bribe voters to win elections? https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ced0d1g5zyno #PS1trumpism ===== editableUntil 2024-10-24T00:23:51.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/7OC05RC6Ct display_url bbc.com/news/articles/… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-10-23 23:23 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1849230285529121186 ========== How a strong foreign leader uses traitorous propagandists elect weak leaders in enemy countries. The strong leader then flatter the weak leaders, pretending they are strong like him, to get them to do his bidding. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/10/23/dougan-russian-disinformation-harris/ #PS1putin ===== editableUntil 2024-10-24T00:21:36.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/TDi8NfIJG9 display_url washingtonpost.com/world/2024/10/… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-10-23 23:21 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1849229719146999892 ========== Trump always admired strong leaders, and now he expects to be one! https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2024/10/23/trump-kelly-fascist-dictator/ #PS1trump ===== editableUntil 2024-10-24T00:14:22.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/EpKJaCFTxP display_url washingtonpost.com/elections/2024… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-10-23 23:14 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1849227895853744618 ========== "The victor will never be asked if he told the truth" If you repeat a big lie over and over, some people will believe it - https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/10/18/trump-jan-6-delusional/ #PS1insurrection ===== editableUntil 2024-10-19T01:43:29.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/5wtQpiL3Ow display_url washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-10-19 00:43 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1847438386107498700 ========== If Musk can't buy the election, maybe crypto can - https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/interactive/2024/crypto-firms-candidates-house-senate-election-2024/ As befits "crypto", its ads seldom identify the funders or motivation. #PS1economics ===== editableUntil 2024-10-19T01:36:47.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/ur52LIVTBF display_url washingtonpost.com/business/inter… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-10-19 00:36 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1847436700949369260 ========== Speaking of deficit spending and devaluation - https://apnews.com/article/budget-deficit-trump-harris-kamala-debt-1ee3ff65e22ccf19d19b792ee22c46da Presidents sometimes get away with spending money without congressional authorization, but they don't have a lot of latitude on getting revenue - which is why Trump wants to impose tariffs. #PS1economics ===== editableUntil 2024-10-17T23:17:49.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/LeVBiwpTyw display_url apnews.com/article/budget… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-10-17 22:17 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1847039339529974080 ========== How devaluation-inflation reduces deficits - https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2024/10/08/opinion-will-federal-inquiry-into-airline-loyalty-programs-really-change-them/ It works the same way for governments and airlines! Make a dollar or an airline mile worth less, and your unfunded liability goes down! Is this how Trump intends to handle deficits? #PS1economics ===== editableUntil 2024-10-17T22:27:53.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/SkzHZ1yuLn display_url eastbaytimes.com/2024/10/08/opi… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-10-17 21:27 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1847026772979950001 ========== Propagandists hate having their methods studied! https://www.thedailynewsonline.com/opinion/f-d-flam-it-s-getting-harder-to-study-fake-news/article_17356a14-8bd6-11ef-88c3-9bc29dfe0696.html The only thing worse is having their dark money funding sources studied. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. #PS1media ===== editableUntil 2024-10-17T20:33:09.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/5ARHinNoTX display_url thedailynewsonline.com/opinion/f-d-fl… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-10-17 19:33 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1846997897818394767 ========== One dollar one vote! https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-trump-america-pac-1092522fb2abc6da346b441763e9ce04 It's the way the feudal Southern slaveowners among America's founders would have wanted it. #PS1election ===== editableUntil 2024-10-17T14:53:03.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/WaHivmjyUc display_url apnews.com/article/elon-m… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-10-17 13:53 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1846912310767767914 ========== Critical election races to consider - Senate seats that might be leaning Republican - FL https://www.debbieforflorida.com/ MT https://jontester.com/ TX https://colinallred.com/ Pundits don't agree - https://www.270towin.com/2024-senate-election-predictions/ #PS1election ===== editableUntil 2024-10-17T06:17:52.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/XAOnzJxBqz display_url debbieforflorida.com url https://t.co/MK3zfl1ICj display_url jontester.com url https://t.co/qHFt1jeXGE display_url colinallred.com url https://t.co/DUiAwiVibg display_url 270towin.com/2024-senate-el… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-10-17 05:17 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1846782661790257157 ========== Trump supporters and Taliban supporters agree on a lot! Democracy is bad, vaccines are bad, the Enlightenment was a mistake! https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/sep/17/taliban-curbs-women-risk-polio-outbreak-vaccination-campaign-health-officials-warn Who cares how many kids die as long as the regime is safe? https://www.indianagazette.com/opinion/lisa-jarvis-the-gops-new-anti-vaccine-laws-will-hurt-kids/article_7e8b6da2-7576-55f5-95e4-3ac64b9f0dc5.html #PS1health ===== editableUntil 2024-10-17T05:47:06.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/uv7Faax8Zk display_url theguardian.com/global-develop… url https://t.co/3gWdv8OnhZ display_url indianagazette.com/opinion/lisa-j… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-10-17 04:47 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1846774916412330494 ========== Mendacious or ignorant? Tariffs have been tried before, and led to a world trade war that everybody lost - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoot%E2%80%93Hawley_Tariff_Act Exporting unemployment doesn't work. Other countries can impose tariffs too! https://apnews.com/article/trump-tariffs-economics-plan-6a4b07be04e342bf657ad12ef7b6bbfa #PS1economics ===== editableUntil 2024-10-17T05:36:55.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/Nc0wSAGG4e display_url en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoot%E2%… url https://t.co/FzjOG2xKm7 display_url apnews.com/article/trump-… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-10-17 04:36 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1846772357228384382 ========== Par for the Trump course! https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trumps-wlfi-website-crashes-token-131805442.html Only "accredited investors" at first, meaning people qualified to be megadonors. Did they get a good return on their accredited investment? #PS1economics ===== editableUntil 2024-10-17T05:28:08.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/Y4kI15qAsJ display_url finance.yahoo.com/news/trumps-wl… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-10-17 04:28 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1846770145332809854 ========== Chinese neo-neo-colonialism - https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/24/business/china-trade-russia-north-korea.html #PS1china ===== editableUntil 2024-10-16T05:44:21.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/uzqJNehLaY display_url nytimes.com/2024/09/24/bus… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-10-16 04:44 +0000 favorited false lang it https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1846411839510663594 ========== Against all odds, Congress finally allowed the IRS to handle simple returns directly and automatically - just as in most western democracies. https://apnews.com/article/irs-tax-season-treasury-yellen-3c5e3ade465fcd4441f84e1c4edfcc6b The commercial computer tax preparation companies lobbied fiercely against it. #PS1tax ===== editableUntil 2024-10-16T05:43:40.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/oBBR3b5Ljr display_url apnews.com/article/irs-ta… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-10-16 04:43 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1846411667590336673 ========== Don't believe it - Trump would never deport all illegal aliens - https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/04/opinion/trump-vance-mass-deportation.html His megadonors would never stand for it, just as they would never stand for bipartisan comprehensive reform every time it's been tried. They need cheap exploitable labor. #ps1immigration ===== editableUntil 2024-10-16T05:42:55.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/5qTunWHyfI display_url nytimes.com/2024/10/04/opi… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-10-16 04:42 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1846411476355223971 ========== Most of us have very little to say about the presidential election - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2021-close-elections.html That's why it's important to focus on the races you CAN hope to influence. https://stateline.org/2024/09/23/the-deciders-the-issues-and-states-that-will-determine-who-wins-the-white-house #PS1election ===== editableUntil 2024-10-16T05:41:28.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/HwqtGKXuWN display_url political-scrapbook.net/2021-close-ele… url https://t.co/Asa9pbvuC9 display_url stateline.org/2024/09/23/the… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-10-16 04:41 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1846411113791168954 ========== At least some insurrectionists are paying a price - https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2024-10-08/trump-big-lie-tina-peters-colorado-sentenced-prison They'll rot in prison until Trump pardons them, to make room for everybody he doesn't like. #PS1insurrection ===== editableUntil 2024-10-16T05:40:52.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/tQ7g0171ly display_url latimes.com/politics/story… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-10-16 04:40 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1846410961999327670 ========== Evidently Russia is running out of workers too - https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-drones-shahed-africans-11602ab837f0ff4635926d884b422185 #PS1immigration ===== editableUntil 2024-10-16T05:40:19.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/BHSSa4HAhu display_url apnews.com/article/russia… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-10-16 04:40 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1846410824908525661 ========== What happens when prosperous democracies exclude foreign workers? https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/30/politics/ron-desantis-book-ban-fact-check/index.html And that's why they all end up needing foreign workers. #PS1immigration ===== editableUntil 2023-06-01T18:23:55.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/Y0sgDyjTtt display_url cnn.com/2023/05/30/pol… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-10-16 04:39 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1846410698827747700 ========== Dictators and their wannabe fanboys have to stay in touch - https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-biden-putin-war-ukraine-russia-zelenskyy-ce9c59f689d3f438264a64b2bfa0aa39 #PS1trump ===== editableUntil 2024-10-16T05:20:16.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/dNQVG39D7q display_url apnews.com/article/donald… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-10-16 04:20 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1846405777759564249 ========== What's the point of being ultra-wealthy if you can't buy any election you want? https://news.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20241013050177 Trump, and especially Vance, should think twice about their place in Musk's universe. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/11/us/politics/elon-musk-donald-trump-pennsylvania.html #PS1trumpism ===== editableUntil 2024-10-16T05:17:02.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/o7mpfhWlRD display_url news.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20… url https://t.co/LrxXBSVdZ5 display_url nytimes.com/2024/10/11/us/… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-10-16 04:17 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1846404963762876590 ========== Addicted to reading the polls? There's no point unless you plan to do something in response. https://secure.actblue.com/ In particular, the presidential race is likely to turn on a gnat's eyelash - https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/14/us/politics/presidential-election-third-party-candidates.html So act, or chill! https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/13/opinion/polls-harris-trump.html #PS1election ===== editableUntil 2024-10-15T22:26:52.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/wvEcWE3x79 display_url secure.actblue.com url https://t.co/BaiV3cnL6q display_url nytimes.com/2024/10/14/us/… url https://t.co/RZmK6vDRjA display_url nytimes.com/2024/10/13/opi… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-10-15 21:26 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1846301743367454782 ========== Want to make a difference in this election? These races are all tossups - OH https://www.sherrodbrown.com/ CA-13 https://www.adamgrayforcongress.com/ CA-22 https://www.rudysalas.com/ CA-27 https://www.georgewhitesides.com/ CA-45 https://www.derektranforcongress.com/ https://www.270towin.com/ #PS1election ===== editableUntil 2024-10-15T20:56:53.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/L1fjmASZOR display_url sherrodbrown.com url https://t.co/1Im7wZg8c9 display_url adamgrayforcongress.com url https://t.co/OEjqsoalah display_url rudysalas.com url https://t.co/N1dhSa1zer display_url georgewhitesides.com url https://t.co/x3ZnRkt6Oc display_url derektranforcongress.com url https://t.co/c0Xp0znD6c display_url 270towin.com truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-10-15 19:56 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1846279098706153970 ========== Nothing is true and everything is possible - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_Is_True_and_Everything_Is_Possible Just like in Putin's Russia! THAT was the storm that was - https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/10/11/trump-reading-pennsylvania-rally-disinformation-cyclone/ #PS1media ===== editableUntil 2024-10-12T02:19:24.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/USXMqF3lew display_url en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_I… url https://t.co/tj7yGAfJrw display_url washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-10-12 01:19 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1844910708892500346 ========== That was the storm that wasn't - https://apnews.com/article/trump-fema-hurricane-helene-conspiracy-theories-criswell-07d5b1f6968cb2af11b63357186a1a15 https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-helicopter-north-carolina-helene-d44fb04825337e8a7ca69e9f616621f7 https://apnews.com/article/election-hurricanes-false-info-helene-milton-a4c2df2463b69c1f2e3eb6846e3b37ae But it was all TRUE in the hearts of Trump and his base. Everybody else only has to deal with the external objective realities, which are bad enough. #PS1media ===== editableUntil 2024-10-11T23:15:28.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/ZVbQUhx7lo display_url apnews.com/article/trump-… url https://t.co/cZLl665nXo display_url apnews.com/article/fact-c… url https://t.co/C8NJCWkba7 display_url apnews.com/article/electi… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-10-11 22:15 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1844864421312733647 ========== Trump owes a lot to the rural bias in the Constitution - https://www.reduce-rural-bias.net He might be able to win the election in the House - home of the Corrupt Bargains - voting state by state - more rural bias - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrupt_bargain #PS1election ===== editableUntil 2024-10-08T01:09:08.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/rj6WEWXbyq display_url reduce-rural-bias.net url https://t.co/siHvqrDap7 display_url en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrupt_b… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-10-08 00:09 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1843443473846022519 ========== Trump wants a mandate! https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4918724-donald-trump-mandate-presidential-race/ He'll certainly lose the popular vote, probably by even more than in 2016 or 2020. He might just squeak by in the Electoral College due to its rural bias and due to voter suppression and winner-take-all. #PS1election ===== editableUntil 2024-10-08T01:05:34.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/GTAQbTeWYp display_url thehill.com/homenews/campa… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-10-08 00:05 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1843442577703616531 ========== Time for a trial separation? https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-regional.html Or maybe secession? https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/23/opinion/electoral-college-presidential-election.html #PS1politics ===== editableUntil 2024-10-07T04:04:24.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/XbB2Nl8JbJ display_url political-scrapbook.net/2020-regional.… url https://t.co/uFB86hkO9L display_url nytimes.com/2024/09/23/opi… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-10-07 03:04 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1843125193981698356 ========== Nothing is true and everything is possible - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_Is_True_and_Everything_Is_Possible Works for Putin, works for Vance - https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/10/06/vance-debate-trump-problems/ #PS1trumpism ===== editableUntil 2024-10-07T03:57:11.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/USXMqF3lew display_url en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_I… url https://t.co/DVFA7k8DfR display_url washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-10-07 02:57 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1843123376443011386 ========== Fool me once, shame on you. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/10/06/rfk-trump-health-job/ Fool me twice, shame on me. What it is about Make Aristocracy Great Again that RFK Jr doesn't get? Apparently, all of it. #PS1trumpism ===== editableUntil 2024-10-07T03:49:07.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/EEwfXd23Q9 display_url washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-10-07 02:49 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1843121349189112149 ========== A better start would be to require all elected officials in Oklahoma to teach Sunday School. They'd learn a lot. Might live to be 100. They could use any Bible. https://apnews.com/article/oklahoma-bible-schools-trump-endorsed-f8001269aadca5b41712c6ec80e34f69 #PS1trumpism ===== editableUntil 2024-10-05T02:52:25.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/siMFWB6HE2 display_url apnews.com/article/oklaho… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-10-05 01:52 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1842382301927539142 ========== The rogue's gallery https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/10/04/who-named-trump-election-interference-case-jack-smith/ Whatever presidential immunity Trump might be granted does not rub off on most of them. #PS1insurrection ===== editableUntil 2024-10-04T23:47:31.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/fG9a6W6Tci display_url washingtonpost.com/national-secur… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-10-04 22:47 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1842335771690504529 ========== That was the week that wasn't - sep 25 https://apnews.com/article/overseas-abroad-voting-election-false-trump-uocava-2405939da88948a5500a19a04324510c sep 30 https://apnews.com/article/kamala-harris-donald-trump-hurricane-helene-3097f1706455929adf5a4eb67f9cdf0f oct 1 https://apnews.com/article/debate-walz-vance-misinformation-fact-check-a3f67b1fdef425038dfac9267861247c oct 1 https://apnews.com/article/walz-china-tiananmen-square-protests-8d433bf7184e8c430aa31d1f5460fe87 oct 2 https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-misinformation-migrant-children-missing-7ab0cea2fd2238346197429e952baa8b #PS1media ===== editableUntil 2024-10-04T23:10:10.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/hbA63V0rMy display_url apnews.com/article/overse… url https://t.co/hceLdi35Rf display_url apnews.com/article/kamala… url https://t.co/1M1XDHm9L9 display_url apnews.com/article/debate… url https://t.co/HHNLxBfJun display_url apnews.com/article/walz-c… url https://t.co/w29wDxtLGR display_url apnews.com/article/fact-c… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-10-04 22:10 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1842326373056262523 ========== Who cares if it's true as long as you get in the headlines? https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/04/trump-hurricane-helene-fema-money-misinformation/ Politics as performance rather than policy. #PS1trump ===== editableUntil 2024-10-04T22:58:11.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/fCACMgaaLH display_url washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-10-04 21:58 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1842323354625421595 ========== Thoughts for the political season - about Make Aristocracy Great Again - Le secret des grandes fortunes sans cause apparente est un crime oublié, parce qu’il a été proprement fait. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/09/09/fortune-crime/ #PS1minority ===== editableUntil 2024-10-04T16:30:56.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/ccNAQOYO7i display_url quoteinvestigator.com/2013/09/09/for… likes 1 truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-10-04 15:30 +0000 favorited false lang fr engage 1 impress 4 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1842225900714332289 ========== Just to know him is not to love him - https://apnews.com/article/jan-6-trump-pence-jd-vance-prosecution-f78cf222187b271e0ba0bb684110455e Self-serving opportunists serve Trump, self-serving opportunist #1, until a better opportunity arises or the danger gets too great. Those who were too close seldom have anything good to say about Trump. #PS1trump ===== editableUntil 2024-10-04T16:01:14.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/8FasKRDeRi display_url apnews.com/article/jan-6-… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-10-04 15:01 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1842218425692921935 ========== No candidate is too weird to help Make Aristocracy Great Again! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/10/04/michele-morrow-superintendent-candidate-north-carolina-gop/ #PS1minority ===== editableUntil 2024-10-04T15:52:14.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/6j9C9sdPWF display_url washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-10-04 14:52 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1842216163532751280 ========== People won't vote for election deniers? https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/03/trump-jan-6-jack-smith-liz-cheney/ The presidency will be decided by a very few undecided voters in a very few swing states - and those voters don't follow politics. But for Congress, it might make a big difference. #PS1insurrection ===== editableUntil 2024-10-04T05:27:08.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/bmGRFO1eI1 display_url washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-10-04 04:27 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1842058849911767256 ========== Just about what you'd expect, now down in black and white - https://brennancenter.substack.com/p/supreme-courts-next-target-the-regulatory #PS1insurrection ===== editableUntil 2023-05-06T15:23:09.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/HKgxn0MRkG display_url brennancenter.substack.com/p/supreme-cour… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-10-04 00:51 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1842004457292497152 ========== And now for something completely different - an unexpected coupling between technology and art and civil disobedience - https://www.righto.com/2024/08/pentium-navajo-fairchild-shiprock.html #PS1technology ===== editableUntil 2024-10-02T06:05:27.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/PgFawKHusZ display_url righto.com/2024/08/pentiu… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-10-02 05:05 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1841343716600234344 ========== Putin is still at it - https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/09/16/russias-espionage-war-in-the-arctic But Trump will solve the problem in five minutes - https://apnews.com/article/russian-jet-f16-alaska-flight-e906bce6ef08637db03ca9e730e81d90 He'll just tell the USAF not to fly near Russian warplanes! After all, Alaska used to be part of Russia. Peace for our time! #PS1putin ===== editableUntil 2024-10-02T06:01:47.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/dSyPTToWKi display_url newyorker.com/magazine/2024/… url https://t.co/MrZUYneytJ display_url apnews.com/article/russia… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-10-02 05:01 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1841342793941479447 ========== The biggest lie in the VP debate was that the VP can change very much. The VP usually gets jobs like covid or the roots of migration - https://www.nbcnews.com/investigations/kamala-harris-border-policy-rcna163317 Most migrants flee countries run by corrupt violent strong men - the leaders Trump admires. #PS1election ===== editableUntil 2024-10-02T05:55:15.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/PTP8PGef8m display_url nbcnews.com/investigations… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-10-02 04:55 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1841341152881963132 ========== Jimmy Carter has made it to 100. Is being a one-term president due to an election loss is good for your health? Or is teaching Sunday School good for your health? Walz taught public school, while Trump mainly teaches by example - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_University #PS1politics ===== editableUntil 2024-10-02T05:39:09.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/jdY8dYsDmv display_url en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_Uni… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-10-02 04:39 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1841337098563129440 ========== That was the debate that wasn't - https://apnews.com/article/debate-walz-vance-misinformation-fact-check-a3f67b1fdef425038dfac9267861247c It probably didn't change the minds of any remaining swing voters in swing states. The hurricane catastrophe in swing state NC might have a more profound effect. #PS1election ===== editableUntil 2024-10-02T05:34:53.000Z editsRemaining 5 source https://t.co/1M1XDHm9L9 display_url apnews.com/article/debate… truncated false possibly_sensitive false time 2024-10-02 04:34 +0000 favorited false https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1841336024951329267