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Thursday 28th of March 2024

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2008 financial crisis Trump's rise, like Warren's and Sander's, wouldn't have happened without the 2008 financial crisis. They were all part of the political backlash that followed the crisis-like aftershocks from an earthquake. One thing Trump's victory made clear was that the Obama's administration's response was more costly than initially assumed. The decision to forgo what Tim Geithner called “Old Testament justice" and concentrate the government's firepower on recapitalizing disgraced banks might have kept the economy afloat, but it also bred a deep resentment. Trump won because he consciously evoked the disgust people had come to feel toward Wall Street and Washington and made himself into an instrument to strike back. Joshua Green, in Rebels © 2024 Kwiple.com
2024 Presidential election I think that we have to take Donald Trump very seriously. We have to take seriously the extent to which you have now got a Putin wing of the Republican Party. I believe the issue this election cycle is making sure the Putin wing of the Republican Party does not take over the West Wing of the White House. Liz Cheney © 2024 Kwiple.com
Artificial intelligence AI equipped with language processing and “personalities” become ever harder to distinguish from real people as they compete with each other and with us to  get our attention — and the successsful ones aren't necessarily the most benign. Even though we built this amazing digital world for our own purposes, once a digital replicator takes off, its products will inevitably evolve for its own benefit, not ours. Susan Blackmore, New Scientist, September 20, 2023 © 2024 Kwiple.com
DEI (Diversity, equity, & inclusion) Florida is where DEI goes to die. Ron Desantis, 2:41 PM – Mar 1, 2024, after the University of Florida fired all its DEI staff © 2024 Kwiple.com
Employment  Handmaids Tale called and you got the job @OutlawII to Katie Britt while watching her deliver the Republican's response to Biden's 2024 SOTU speech © 2024 Kwiple.com
Income growth Between 1979 and 2007, income growth in the United States — all of it! — went to the richest 10 percent of earners; the  remaining 90 percent saw their income fall. Examining the distribition of gains, the Congressional Budget Office found that the  income of the top 1 percent rose by 275 percent between 1979 and 2007, after federal taxes and government transfer payments such as Social Security. Over the same period, the incomes of the broad middle class — the 60 percent of the population in the middle of the income scale — grew by only 40 percent. And the bottom quintile fared the worst, rising by only 18 percent. Joshua Green, in Rebels © 2024 Kwiple.com
Kwiplers say Count votes in Congress by: 1. Calculating a Member's Proportional Vote (MPV) for each member, as follows: MPV = SPNP / NLRS where: SPNP = State's Percentage of the National Population NLRS = Number of Legislators Representing the State (in that legislature) 2. Totaling “yes” MPVs and “no” MPVs 3. Passing if total MPV is more than 50 OTHERWISE Abolish the Senate © 2019 Kwiple.com
Liberalism By the 1980s, you could be a liberal in good standing without holding a particularly liberal position on economics. Joshua Green, in Rebels © 2024 Kwiple.com
Neoliberalism I used to think that if there was reincarnation, I wanted to come back as the president or the pope or as a 400 baseball hitter. But now I would like to come back as the bond market. You can intimidate everybody. James Carville, 1981 © 2024 Kwiple.com
Post-2022 Senate shituation 15 states (Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Utah, Wyoming) 2020 population: 40,737,128 Senators: 30 Republicans 1 Senator per 1,357,904 people 1 state (California) 2022 population: 39,995,077 Senators: 2 Democrats 1 Senator per 19,997,539 people 19,997,539 / 1,357,904 = 14.7, therefore: average 15er's vote is worth nearly 15 times a Californian's, a Californian's vote is worth less than 7% of an average 15er's 1 state (Wyoming) 2022 population = 579,495, therefore: 1 Senator per 289,748 Wyomians, a Wyomian's vote is worth 69 times a Californian's, a Californian's vote is worth 1.4% of a Wyomian's  © 2023 Kwiple.com
Populism Populist politics exploits the double-ness of comedy — the way that  “only a joke” can easily become “no joke” —  to create a relationship of active connivance between the leader and his followers in which everything is permissible because nothing is serious. Fintan O'Toole, New York Review of Books, March 21, 2024 © 2024 Kwiple.com
Public discourse Blink twice if your not ok @marvinlee4887's advice to Katie Britt while watching her deliver the Republican's response to Biden's 2024 SOTU speech © 2024 Kwiple.com
Public discourse Humor … may be a way of telling us not to feel sorry for ourselves. But it is more often a way of telling us not to feel sorry for others. It creates an economy of compassion, limiting it to those who are laughing and excluding those who are being laughed at. It makes the polarization of humanity fun. Trump is America's biggest comedian.  His badinage is hardly Wildean, but his put-  downs, honed to the sharpness of stilettos, are many people's idea of fun. For them, he makes anger, fear and resentment entertaining. Fintan O'Toole, NY Rev. of Books, Mar. 21, 2024 © 2024 Kwiple.com
Segregation Courts, acting alone,  are unable to produce much desegregation but are effective at allowing resegregation to occur. Gerald N. Rosenberg, The Hollow Hope: Can Courts Bring About Social Change? © 2024 Kwiple.com
Snapshot if they award a cake for phony she should win the bakery Katie Britt portrayed by @busstop1100 after watching her deliver the Republican's response to Biden's 2024 SOTU speech © 2024 Kwiple.com
Snapshot I don't even know this woman but after watching this, I'm filing a restraining order. Katie Britt portrayed by @rainesalatte after watching her deliver the Republican's response to Biden's 2024 SOTU speech © 2024 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Warren was the first love interest of the [Democratic] party's grassroots since Obama. Elizabeth Warren portrayed by Joshua Green in Rebels © 2024 Kwiple.com
Social media Left unchecked, the presently evolving information environment must be expected to unmake our democratic constitutional systems. Perhap not imminently, but with certainty over time. Larry D. Kramer, former dean of Stanford Law School © 2024 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say Death to ALL traitors! Michele Morrow, 5:28 AM – 17 May 2020, responding to a fake Time magazine cover showing Barack Obama in an electric chair [She's the 2024 Republican candidate for superintendent of schools in North Caroilina] © 2024 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say  I absolutely want to go back to the America where women couldn’t vote. Mark Robinson, 2024 Republican candidate for governor of NC © 2024 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say I prefer a Pay Per View of him in front of the firing squad. I do not want to waste another dime on supporting his life. We could make some money back from televising his death. Michele Morrow, 7:01 PM – 13 May 2020, responding to a conspiracy theory about shipping Barack Obama to Guantanamo Bay detention camp [She's the 2024 Republican candidate for superintendent of schools in North Caroilina] © 2024 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say It's fun to blow stuff up. It's fun to shoot guns.  And it's fun to say ridiculous offensive shit. And if it offends you, so what? I don't care about your feelings and how you feel about words. Sorry! Barry Croft, wannabe kidnapper of Gretchen Whitmer © 2024 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say The notion of the so-called  independence of the Department of Justice needs to be consigned to the ash heap of history.  Paul Dans © 2024 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say  The number of white recruits has plummeted,  [It’s] a casualty of this cultural skirmish that  has left our Army beleaguered and besieged by “woke” ideologies. Paul Gosar © 2024 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say The only thing I regret, I misspelled “martial law.” Ralph Norman,  responding when asked by CNN's Kaitlin Collins if he regretted sending an email to Trump's chief of staff, Mark Meadows, telling him to urge Trump to overturn the 2020 election by invoking “Marshall Law” © 2024 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say The only thing worse than a woman who doesn’t know her place, is a man who doesn’t know his. Mark Robinson, 2024 Republican candidate for governor of NC © 2024 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say Putin won’t lose. He will not lose. He’s not gonna lose. Ron Johnson justifying voting against military aid to Ukraine © 2024 Kwiple.com