| Title | Date | Im- press | En- gage | Ex- pand | URL- clicks | Like | Re- tweet | Link to Text | Link to Tweet |
| Minority rule | 2022-12-02 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1598577530881347586 | 1598577530881347586 |
| Right-to-lifers are not really about loving "the | 2022-11-22 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1594943446539722755 | 1594943446539722755 |
| Evangelicals are more reliable defenders of minority rule | 2022-11-12 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1591310276573663232 | 1591310276573663232 |
| The GOP megadonors, observing the basis of Trump's | 2022-11-08 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1590102226428923904 | 1590102226428923904 |
| Ukrainians would rather endure a winter without power or | 2022-11-07 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1589501043238645761 | 1589501043238645761 |
| The funders and propagandists of Jan will suffer little | 2022-11-01 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1587307209624387584 | 1587307209624387584 |
| There's nothing new about minority rule in America. The | 2022-10-29 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1586221639397580800 | 1586221639397580800 |
| Trump and Lindell are nothing new. Their antecedents | 2022-10-29 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1586208500027248640 | 1586208500027248640 |
| Bipartisanship is possible. | 2022-10-25 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1584745028261335040 | 1584745028261335040 |
| The "independent state legislatures" theory - another coup | 2022-10-13 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1580562429766815744 | 1580562429766815744 |
| America's leading defender of minority rule! Long the | 2022-10-13 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1580401935256997889 | 1580401935256997889 |
| The defenders of minority rule have chosen local school | 2022-10-11 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1579821905418149889 | 1579821905418149889 |
| It's the same in UK as in US - big tax cuts for "job | 2022-10-06 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1578034112010461184 | 1578034112010461184 |
| Everything you need to know about most politicians and | 2022-09-27 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1574629116543787008 | 1574629116543787008 |
| It's a habit - say one thing and do the opposite - | 2022-09-27 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1574626148067123200 | 1574626148067123200 |
| QAnons and all the other fringe single-issue constituencies | 2022-09-27 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1574623589478805504 | 1574623589478805504 |
| Minority rule | 2022-09-25 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1573878252703129600 | 1573878252703129600 |
| Newt Gingrich and the institutionalization of the GOP as | 2022-09-22 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1573082683575599104 | 1573082683575599104 |
| The Cavalier forebears of today's Trumpist Dixiecrat | 2022-08-29 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1564101777376419841 | 1564101777376419841 |
| The modern Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP's defense of minority | 2022-08-28 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1563767880302219264 | 1563767880302219264 |
| “there’s no way this party is going to stay together | 2022-08-19 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1560651208640978946 | 1560651208640978946 |
| Minority rule depends on keeping extremists on board | 2022-08-18 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1560265221108682752 | 1560265221108682752 |
| How the Dixiecrat Cavaliers took over the Republican Party | 2022-08-05 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1555553884659101696 | 1555553884659101696 |
| Minority rule depends on single-issue constituencies like | 2022-08-04 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1555022311190695936 | 1555022311190695936 |
| Mini-Trumps assault democracy in broad daylight. | 2022-08-02 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1554599245142904832 | 1554599245142904832 |
| "Majority of Americans disapprove of SCOTUS Roe v. Wade | 2022-06-28 | 14 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1541641158677254144 | 1541641158677254144 |
| How Mexico's abolition of slavery led to the Alamo, the | 2022-06-28 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1541619759078199297 | 1541619759078199297 |
| The "libertarian" billionaires are coming to reshape | 2022-06-25 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1540696772086943745 | 1540696772086943745 |
| 4% of the voters is enough to preserve minority rule | 2022-06-04 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1532956738013388805 | 1532956738013388805 |
| Black presidents? Female senior executives? Must be | 2022-06-04 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1532944111388332032 | 1532944111388332032 |
| Civil war or secession? There's a milder approach - | 2022-02-20 | 40 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1495428783850999809 | 1495428783850999809 |
| Florida wants schools to prevent “discomfort, guilt | 2022-02-10 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1491589340085907458 | 1491589340085907458 |
| The GOP program always includes union-busting. When | 2022-02-09 | 53 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1491290703447859201 | 1491290703447859201 |
| Don't give Newt too much credit for invention. He was | 2022-02-05 | 47 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1489754797121028096 | 1489754797121028096 |
| You thought majority rules? | 2022-01-23 | 57 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1485307842164768772 | 1485307842164768772 |
| While Trump stumbles on tactics and strategy, McConnell | 2022-01-21 | 56 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1484391513253507077 | 1484391513253507077 |
| Trumpist or not, they're all defending minority rule - | 2022-01-20 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1484176841023713288 | 1484176841023713288 |
| Bipartisanship is a lost cause. Democrats up and down | 2022-01-17 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1482912015060402177 | 1482912015060402177 |
| You can't achieve unity if the other side doesn't want it. | 2022-01-16 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1482753676796039168 | 1482753676796039168 |
| A caste society - the ultimate aim of minority rule. | 2022-01-08 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1479672554990149634 | 1479672554990149634 |
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========== Minority rule https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html is increasingly threatened by demographics and educated ideology, so its defenders embrace ever more extreme defenses. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/12/01/republicans-gay-marriage-senate-bill-culture-wars/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1817130161964828 #PS1minority ===== impress 6 time 2022-12-02 07:19 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1598577530881347586 ========== Right-to-lifers are not really about loving "the incomparable and inviolable worth of every human life.” They show that in their disregard for the born, by supporting Trumpist Dixiecrat minority rule. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/21/opinion/midterms-abortion-trump.html More at - https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1809543879390123 #PS1minority ===== impress 4 time 2022-11-22 06:38 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1594943446539722755 ========== Evangelicals are more reliable defenders of minority rule than American Catholics! https://apnews.com/article/christian-voter-trends-2022-midterm-elections-0377eed4eed23d5356c29b10af9f6f69 #PS1minority ===== engage 1 engage-rate 17% impress 6 time 2022-11-12 06:01 +0000 userclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1591310276573663232 ========== The GOP megadonors, observing the basis of Trump's success, CHOSE to permanently install minority rule. GOP politicians CHOSE to go along with the plan. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/08/opinion/midterms-republicans-election-denialism.html They all CHOSE - nobody was forced. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1798927963785048 #PS1minority ===== impress 4 time 2022-11-08 22:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1590102226428923904 ========== Ukrainians would rather endure a winter without power or heat, than submit to minority rule. https://www.kxxv.com/news/ukrainians-prepare-for-a-winter-with-no-heat-water-or-power But Americans would rather submit to minority rule, than endure high gas prices? https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/05/opinions/gop-midterm-election-messaging-economy-stewart/index.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1797663647244813 #PS1minority ===== impress 4 time 2022-11-07 06:12 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1589501043238645761 ========== The funders and propagandists of Jan will suffer little in the market or the courts. There's no downside to fanning divisiveness and violence in support of minority rule. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/30/paul-pelosi-attack-republican-bothsidesism-false-equivalence/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1792998487711329 #PS1minority ===== impress 3 time 2022-11-01 04:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1587307209624387584 ========== There's nothing new about minority rule in America. The feudal concept was imported with the English Cavaliers who became the Southern planter-slaveholder class, and ingrained in the Constitution. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/27/america-primaries-driving-polarization-radicalization/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1790691757942002 #PS1minority ===== engage 1 engage-rate 14% impress 7 time 2022-10-29 05:01 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1586221639397580800 ========== Trump and Lindell are nothing new. Their antecedents were in the McCarthy era - and even earlier, when the KKK ruled the South. https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/28/opinions/mike-lindell-funding-election-denialism-mccarthyism-zelizer/index.html Their common element is a passion to preserve and extend minority rule. #PS1minority ===== impress 7 time 2022-10-29 04:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1586208500027248640 ========== Bipartisanship is possible. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/10/24/murkowski-peltola-alaska/ Where there's a will, there's a way. But there's not much will in America overall - the propagandists of minority rule have done their best to suppress it. #PS1minority ===== engage 1 engage-rate 25% impress 4 time 2022-10-25 03:13 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1584745028261335040 ========== The "independent state legislatures" theory - another coup to support minority rule - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html needs a legal fig leaf. https://brennancenter.substack.com/p/spread-the-word-about-the-dangerous More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1777695182574993 #PS1minority ===== impress 6 time 2022-10-13 14:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1580562429766815744 ========== America's leading defender of minority rule! Long the leading groomer of reactionary Catholic Supreme Court nominees, he's branched out into funneling of dark money from GOP megadonors to GOP candidates. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/12/us/politics/leonard-leo-courts-dark-money.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1777337865944058 #PS1minority ===== impress 6 time 2022-10-13 03:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1580401935256997889 ========== The defenders of minority rule have chosen local school boards to groom obedient citizens who will vote about fantasy rather than fact. https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-elections-education-school-boards-teaching-059f2465829ab009394469b95c8cc94a How will fantasy school boards handle factual budgets, infrastructure, security, and teacher shortages? #PS1minority ===== impress 15 time 2022-10-11 13:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1579821905418149889 ========== It's the same in UK as in US - big tax cuts for "job creator" megadonors follow big campaign donations from megadonors. https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/06/uk/truss-campaign-donations-intl-gbr/index.html All to strengthen minority rule. #PS1minority ===== impress 1 time 2022-10-06 14:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1578034112010461184 ========== Everything you need to know about most politicians and minority rule! https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2022/09/25 #PS1minority ===== impress 6 time 2022-09-27 05:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1574629116543787008 ========== It's a habit - say one thing and do the opposite - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#gop And count on your voters to accept it - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#political%20ideology%20for%20the%20masses It's how you protect minority rule, your dark campaign money, and your re-election. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/26/opinion/gop-economic-policy.html #PS1minority ===== impress 12 time 2022-09-27 05:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1574626148067123200 ========== QAnons and all the other fringe single-issue constituencies are just cannon fodder for protecting minority rule - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html Not just for Trump, but for most of the GOP - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/26/opinion/politics/trump-election-qanon.html Who cares - there's plenty more where they came from! #PS1minority ===== impress 6 time 2022-09-27 04:54 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1574623589478805504 ========== Minority rule https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html is a system to protect both economic and political power of the ruling class, by dividing the masses - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#political%20ideology%20for%20the%20masses Strom Thurmond was a leader in both economic and political oppression - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/24/opinion/labor-union-racism-history.html #PS1minority ===== impress 12 time 2022-09-25 03:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1573878252703129600 ========== Newt Gingrich and the institutionalization of the GOP as the party of minority rule - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/22/opinion/moderate-republicans-gingrich-trump-new-england.html Republicans who don't fit Trumpism have to go elsewhere, but a third party is not the answer - that would mostly empower Trumpism. #PS1minority ===== impress 5 time 2022-09-22 22:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1573082683575599104 ========== The Cavalier forebears of today's Trumpist Dixiecrat leadership had no use for public education, and little use for private education of their own sons. The point was to keep things the same, not to consider new ways of thinking. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/08/25/conservatives-education-college-threat-real/ #PS1minority ===== impress 2 time 2022-08-29 04:04 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1564101777376419841 ========== The modern Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP's defense of minority rule - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html began when the Nixon administration harvested what Bilbo and Thurmond and Wallace had sown - and that's when the Old South finally rose again! https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/31/opinion/richard-nixon-america-trump.html #PS1minority ===== engage 1 engage-rate 14% expands 1 impress 7 time 2022-08-28 05:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1563767880302219264 ========== “there’s no way this party is going to stay together without President Trump and his supporters” https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/08/19/trump-cult-of-personality-democracy-erosion-united-states/ It's true - minority rule has always depended on cultivating the nut cases as reliable single-issue constituencies. Trump made it explicit. #PS1minority ===== impress 5 time 2022-08-19 15:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1560651208640978946 ========== Minority rule depends on keeping extremists on board without turning off swing voters. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html Concede too much to the extremists to win the primary - you lose the general election. https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-abortion-us-supreme-court-government-and-politics-legislature-48279e8a14816377032b491157c72062 More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1733415947002917 #PS1minority ===== impress 3 time 2022-08-18 13:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1560265221108682752 ========== How the Dixiecrat Cavaliers took over the Republican Party and turned it to their traditional interests of protecting minority rule. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/08/04/dana-milbank-republican-destructionists-book-excerpt/ Same old strategy - convince poor people that their enemy is each other rather than rich people. #PS1minority ===== impress 4 time 2022-08-05 13:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1555553884659101696 ========== Minority rule depends on single-issue constituencies like the right-to-lifers - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html And the right-to-lifers depend on minority rule - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/03/opinion/anti-abortion-kansas.html #PS1minority ===== impress 5 time 2022-08-04 02:46 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1555022311190695936 ========== Mini-Trumps assault democracy in broad daylight. With impunity. And little news media coverage. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/08/02/gop-anti-democracy-movement/ #PS1minority ===== impress 5 time 2022-08-02 22:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1554599245142904832 ========== "Majority of Americans disapprove of SCOTUS Roe v. Wade reversal" https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/27/politics/americans-disapprove-supreme-court-abortion-poll/index.html So what? The majority of major GOP donors approve, because keeping the single-issue right-to-lifers enthusiastically voting GOP is a pillar of Dixiecrat GOP minority rule. #PS1minority ===== engage 2 engage-rate 14% impress 14 likes 2 time 2022-06-28 04:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1541641158677254144 ========== How Mexico's abolition of slavery led to the Alamo, the Mexican War, and the American Civil War. Minority rule depended on a balance of power in the Senate, and when that was threatened, war ensued. https://www.keyreporter.org/book-reviews/2022/south-to-freedom-runaway-slaves-to-mexico-and-the-road-to-the-civil-war/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/pfbid09xvKC52qAVNMiUFiz2JHcTYsL2b9zowHvbVkn9YM7NTLxsvuDfxK5jUrWsrxELPAl #PS1minority ===== impress 12 time 2022-06-28 03:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1541619759078199297 ========== The "libertarian" billionaires are coming to reshape society. Into the same reactionary form as their forebears - the anti-Enlightenment form that America's founders rejected. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/06/19/peter-thiel-facebook-new-right/ #PS1minority ===== impress 8 time 2022-06-25 14:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1540696772086943745 ========== 4% of the voters is enough to preserve minority rule in Texas. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/03/opinion/texas-republicans-abbott.html #PS1minority ===== impress 6 time 2022-06-04 05:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1532956738013388805 ========== Black presidents? Female senior executives? Must be bugs in the system of minority rule. https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/03/opinions/sheryl-sandberg-step-down-facebook-coo/index.html Minority rule is striking back to return to its traditional values. #PS1minority ===== engage 1 engage-rate 20% impress 5 likes 1 time 2022-06-04 04:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1532944111388332032 ========== Civil war or secession? There's a milder approach - regional federalism. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-regional.html In 1860, it was yes or no on slavery, and conflict was inevitable, though King Cotton was doomed eventually due to soil exhaustion. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/15/opinion/second-civil-war.html #PS1minority ===== engage 2 engage-rate 5% impress 40 likes 1 time 2022-02-20 16:03 +0000 userclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1495428783850999809 ========== Florida wants schools to prevent “discomfort, guilt or anguish” for rich white kids, the future heirs of minority rule. https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2022/02/09/florida-history-discomfort/ Everybody else gets plenty of “discomfort, guilt or anguish” just by reading the news every day. #PS1minority ===== impress 23 time 2022-02-10 01:46 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1491589340085907458 ========== The GOP program always includes union-busting. When GOP talks about supporting labor, they mean right-to-work laws and company unions - all to benefit GOP donors, not GOP voters. Voters get culture wars that donors don't care about. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/08/opinion/marco-rubio-republicans-working-class.html #PS1minority ===== impress 53 time 2022-02-09 05:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1491290703447859201 ========== Don't give Newt too much credit for invention. He was only following in the footsteps of Strom Thurmond and the other Dixiecrats to perfect minority rule. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/02/04/newt-gingrich-started-us-road-ruin-now-hes-back-finish-job/ #PS1minority ===== impress 47 time 2022-02-05 00:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1489754797121028096 ========== You thought majority rules? https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/21/politics/cnn-poll-abortion-roe-v-wade/index.html Right-to-lifers are an essential single-issue consistency supporting minority rule. GOP judicial nominees know they are expected to keep anti-abortion and pro-firearms voters happy in GOP. #PS1minority ===== impress 57 time 2022-01-23 17:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1485307842164768772 ========== While Trump stumbles on tactics and strategy, McConnell uses the same old tactics and strategy to defend minority rule - fortifying it in Congress, the federal judiciary, and red state legislatures. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/01/20/mitch-mcconnell-filibuster-brutal-biden-polls/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1584700481874465 #PS1minority ===== impress 56 time 2022-01-21 05:04 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1484391513253507077 ========== Trumpist or not, they're all defending minority rule - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html Don't be fooled by superficial differences - https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/20/opinions/ron-desantis-glenn-youngkin-gop-future-hemmer/index.html #PS1minority ===== impress 23 time 2022-01-20 14:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1484176841023713288 ========== Bipartisanship is a lost cause. Democrats up and down the line must call out cult of personality for what it is - a threat to the American idea - to defend minority rule. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/01/16/if-democrats-want-win-they-must-change-venue/ #PS1minority ===== impress 30 time 2022-01-17 03:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1482912015060402177 ========== You can't achieve unity if the other side doesn't want it. And sowing disunity among the masses is how minority rule works. Trump helped the ruling class overcome its shyness about fortifying minority rule. https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/16/opinions/promise-biden-couldnt-fulfill-opinion-column-galant/index.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1581658348845345 #PS1minority ===== impress 22 time 2022-01-16 16:36 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1482753676796039168 ========== A caste society - the ultimate aim of minority rule. https://www.arcamax.com/politics/opeds/s-2616401 #PS1minority ===== impress 31 time 2022-01-08 04:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1479672554990149634