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Tuesday 14th of May 2024

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2016 Presidential election That's right – lock her up! Damn right.  And you know why we're saying that? We're saying that because, if I, a guy who knows this business, if I did a tenth – a tenth – of what she did, I would be in jail today. Michael Flynn, responding to the audience when it began chanting “Lock her up!” after he mentioned Hillary Clinton in his speech at the Republican National Convention  © 2018 Kwiple.com
Aging Who wants to live to be a hundred? A guy who's ninety-nine. old joke © 2018 Kwiple.com
Amazon.com Amazon.com Inc. picked New York City and Northern Virginia for its two new headquarters, taking advantage of some of the most-extensive incentives U.S. cities and states have ever offered, totaling $5.5 billion–more than the $5 billion the online retailer has promised to invest. Wall Street Journal, November 14, 2018  © 2018 Kwiple.com
Anti-science I don't believe it. Donald Trump, explaining why the 2018 National Climate Assessment report, which was prepared by 300 scientists in 13 federal agencies and predicts dire economic consequences of global warming, was released on Black Friday, when few people would hear about it © 2018 Kwiple.com
Authoritarianism The fascist movements of [the 1930s] prided themselves on being overtly antidemocratic, and those that came to power in Italy and Germany boasted that their regimes were totalitarian. The most original revelation of the current wave of authoritarians is that the construction of overtly antidemocratic dictatorships aspiring to totalitarianism is unnecessary for holding power. Perhaps the most apt designation of this new authoritarianism is the insidious term “illiberal democracy.” Christopher R. Browning, “The Suffocation of Democracy” © 2018 Kwiple.com
Bullshitters say Totally clears the President. Thank you! Donald Trump, 3:00 PM – 7 Dec 2018, commenting on the US Attorney's Office multi-year sentencing recommendations for Michael Cohen, which says Cohen committed two felonies by paying hush money to ex-Trump mistresses in a scheme Trump coordinated and directed © 2018 Kwiple.com
Bullshitters say We do not have Obama judges or Trump judges, Bush judges or Clinton judges. What we have is an extraordinary group of dedicated judges doing their level best to do equal right to those appearing before them. John Roberts, criticizing Trump for calling a federal judge who ruled against his administration an “Obama judge” and ignoring decades during which courts at every level were packed with members of the right-wing Federalist Society, including Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch,, Brett Kavanaugh, Clarence Thomas and himself  © 2018 Kwiple.com
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Death The wise man will live as long as he ought, not as long as he can. Seneca, Moral Letters to Lucilious, Letter 70 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Democrats say How we explain that when someone is cruel or acts like a bully, you don't stoop to their level. No, our motto is, when they go low, we go high. Michelle Obama © 2018 Kwiple.com
Democrats say No, no. When they go low, we kick them. That's what this new Democratic Party is about. We're proud as hell to be Democrats. We're going to fight for the ideals of the Democratic Party. We're proud of our history. We're proud of our present. And we're proud of the future we can create for this country. Eric Holder © 2018 Kwiple.com
Freedom of the press When you look at history, the first thing that dictators do is shut down the press. I'm not saying that President Trump is trying to be a dictator. I'm just saying we need to learn the lessons of history. John McCain © 2018 Kwiple.com
Global warming Two centuries ago, the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere was two hundred and seventy-five parts per million; it has now topped four hundred parts per million and is rising more than two parts per million each year. The extra heat that we trap near the planet every day is equivalent to the heat from four hundred thousand bombs the size of the one that was dropped on Hiroshima. Bill McKibben, New Yorker, November 26, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Judges Sorry Chief Justice John Roberts, but you do indeed have "Obama judges,” and they have a much different point of view than the people who are charged with the safey of our country. Donaldl Trump, 12:51 PM – 21 Nov 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Kwiplers say Enhance America's infrastructure (1) without privatizing it (2) without giving tax breaks and windfall profits to private investors (3) without issuing government bonds, which increases government debt and income inequality resulting from paying interest to bondholders by (1) contracting to build or improve assets of long-lasting public value, like roads, schools, parks, housing (2) printing money and paying for work as it's done © 2017 Kwiple.com
0 What about Republicans? © 2016 Kwiple.com
Political inequality By my calculation every currently serving Democratic senator represents roughly 3.65 million people; every Republican roughly 2.51 million. Put another way, the fifty senators from the twenty-five least populous states – twenty-nine of them Republicans – represent just over 16 percent of the American population, and thirty-four Republican senators – enough to block conviction  on impeachment charges – represent states with a total of 21 percent of the American population. Christopher R. Browning, “The Suffocation of Democracy” © 2018 Kwiple.com
Post-2014 Senate shituation 13 states (Alaska, Alabama, Arkansas, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Wyoming) 2014 population: 35,432,696 Senators: 26 Republicans 1 Senator per 1,362,796 people — 1 state (California) 2014 population: 38,332,521 Senators: 2 Democrats 1 Senator per 19,166,261 people 19,166,261 / 1,362,796 = 14, therefore: average 13er's vote is worth 14 times a Californian's, a Californian's vote is worth 7% of an average 13er's — 1 state (Wyoming) 2014 population = 582,658, therefore: 1 Senator per 291,329 Wyomians, a Wyomian's vote is worth 66 times a Californian's, a Californian's vote is worth 1.5% of a Wyomian's © 2015 Kwiple.com
Post-2016 Senate shituation 14 states (Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah, Wyoming) 2016 population: 38,597,448 Senators: 28 Republicans 1 Senator per 1,378,480 people — 1 state (California) 2016 population: 38,802,500 Senators: 2 Democrats 1 Senator per 19,401,250 people 19,401,250 / 1,378,480 = 14, therefore: average 14er's vote is worth 14 times a Californian's, a Californian's vote is worth 7% of an average 14er's — 1 state (Wyoming) 2016 population = 584,153, therefore: 1 Senator per 292,077 Wyomians, a Wyomian's vote is worth 66 times a Californian's, a Californian's vote is worth 1.5% of a Wyomian's © 2016 Kwiple.com
Post-2018 Senate shituation 15 states (Alaska, Arkansas, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah, Wyoming) 2018 population: 40,056,961 Senators: 30 Republicans 1 Senator per 1,335,232 people — 1 state (California) 2018 population: 39,776,830 Senators: 2 Democrats 1 Senator per 19,888,415 people 19,888,415 / 1,335,232 = 16, therefore: average 15er's vote is worth 16 times a Californian's, a Californian's vote is worth 6% of an average 15er's — 1 state (Wyoming) 2018 population = 573,720, therefore: 1 Senator per 286,860 Wyomians, a Wyomian's vote is worth 69 times a Californian's, a Californian's vote is worth 1.4% of a Wyomian's © 2016 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Voters believe that there is no consensus about global warming within the scientific community. Should the public come to believe that the scientific issues are settled, their views about global warming will change accordingly. Therefore, you need to continue to make the lack of scientific certainty a primary issue in the debate. Frank Luntz, Republican pollster and strategist and consultant to George W. Bush, recommedning adoption of a strategy originated by the Global Climate Coalition, an oil industry lobby group © 2018 Kwiple.com
Selfie I am a Leninist. … Lenin wanted to destroy the state, and that's my goal too. I want to  bring everything crashing down and destroy all of today's establishment. Steve Bannon © 2018 Kwiple.com
Selfie We are all worms, but I believe that I am a glow-worm. Winston Churchill © 2018 Kwiple.com
0 What about the Constitution? © 2016 Kwiple.com
Selfie  I know things I don't want to know – like how small a body gets when it is burned to death. Marie Colvin, war correspondent  © 2018 Kwiple.com
Selfie I am a Tariff Man. Donald Trump, 7:03 AM – 4 Dec 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Selfie I have a gut and my gut tells me more sometimes than anybody else's brain can ever tell me. Donald Trump © 2018 Kwiple.com
Selfie One of the problems that a lot of people like myself – we have very high levels of intelligence,  but we're not necessarily such believers. You look at our air and our water, and it's right now at a record clean. Donald Trump, responding to the 2018 National Climate Assessment report, which predicts dire economic consequences of global warming © 2018 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say And then they remind me that there's a lot of liberal folks in those other schools who maybe we don't want to vote. Maybe we want to make it just a little more difficult. And I think that's a great idea. Cindy Hyde-Smith, 2018 Republican candidate  for Senator from Mississippi, home to many historically black colleges, speaking in Starkville, Mississippi, home to Mississippi State University © 2018 Kwiple.com
Wannabe autocrats say I do it to discredit you all, and demean you all, so that when you write negative stories about me, no one will believe you. Donald Trump, answering Lesley Stahl, who asked him why he kept attacking the press © 2018 Kwiple.com
Wannabe autocrats say The saddest thing is that because I'm the President of the United States, I am not supposed to be involved with the Justice Department. I am not supposed to be involved with the FBI. … I am not supposed to be doing the kind of things that I would love to be doing. And I am very frustrated by it. Donald Trump © 2018 Kwiple.com