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American plutocrats The Democratic party has been put on notice. If it picks a pro-tax candidate to take on Donald Trump next year, a billionaire will probably enter the US presidential race as a spoiler. Whether that is Howard Schultz, the former chief executive of Starbucks, or someone else, is secondary. Any third-party plutocrat would have the means to split the vote and enable Mr Trump's re-election. The inference is clear: a large chunk of America's plutocracy would risk a second Trump term to keep their taxes low. Edward Luce, Financial Times, Jan. 31, 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Car culture If we dont have barriers, walls – call them what you want – but if we don't have very strong barriers, where people can not any longer drive right across – they have unbelievable vehicles; they make a lot of money. They have the best vehicles you can buy. They have stronger, bigger, and faster vehicles than our police have, and than ICE has, and than Border Patrol has. So they're pretty good at that. Donald Trump on migrants crossing the southern border © 2019 Kwiple.com
Cocks of the walk say Howard Schultz doesn't have the “guts” to run for President! Watched him on @60Minutes last night and I agree with him that he is not the “smartest person.” Besides, America already has that! I only hope that Starbucks is still paying me their rent in Trump Tower! Donald Trump, 5:41 AM – 28 Jan 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Cocks of the walk say I am seriously thinking of running for president. Howard Schultz, January 27, 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Cocks of the walk say Worry? I don't worry. I make other people worry. Roger Stone, when asked if he was worried about Mueller's investigation into links between Trump's campaign and Russia © 2019 Kwiple.com
Institutions Is it better to be outside the organisation, without any power to change, or to try to reform it from within? But this is what I want you to remember: sometimes institutions are better at reforming the people they hire, than the people they hire are at reforming them. This was the case at the CIA, this was the case at NSA, at Google, at Facebook. Edward Snowden © 2019 Kwiple.com
Kwiplers say Count votes in Congress by: 1. Calculating a Member's Proportional Vote (MPV) for each voting 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 © 2019 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
Meritocracy American meritocracy has become precisely what it was invented to combat: a mechanism for the dynastic transmission of wealth and privilege across generations. Daniel Markovits © 2019 Kwiple.com
Politics The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and liberty. John Maynard Keynes © 2019 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
Power Nobody gives you power. You have to take it from them. Nancy Pelosi © 2019 Kwiple.com
Privacy Anne Longfield, England's children's commissioner, has calculated that by the time the average child is 18, 70,000 posts about them will have appeared online, starting with ultrasound pictures from the womb. Simon Kuper, Financial Times, January 24, 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Punt returners say I'm concerned about one thing – that he doesn't know that's two things. Stephen Colbert, The Late Show, January 29, 2019, responding to Howard Schultz, who said, in announcing he's considering running for president in 2020, “I'm concerned about one thing: Doing everthing I can to help families who have been left behind, and to restore dignity and honor in the Oval Office.” © 2019 Kwiple.com
Resisters say Public trust 24% 27% Trump Gas Station Sushi   Placard, Washington, DC, Women's March 2019, January 19, 2019  © 2019 Kwiple.com
Selfie There's no proof at all that I take too much alcohol. Rudy Giuliani © 2019 Kwiple.com
Snapshot I have trouble dealing with people who are slovenly. If you want to know what Steve Bannon had for lunch, just look at the front of his shirt. Steve Bannon portrayed by Roger Stone © 2019 Kwiple.com
Snapshot The range of emotion Brown displayed on the screen was no wider than a mail slot. Jim Brown portrayed by James Wolcott © 2019 Kwiple.com
Snapshot He never hated anyone. He knew what his mother and my mother always knew: hatred corrodes the container it's carried in. George H. W. Bush portrayed by Alan Simpson © 2019 Kwiple.com
Snapshot There was no room for two in that apartment — or in that life. Edward Gorey portrayed by Jason Epstein © 2019 Kwiple.com
Southern border wall We're not doing a wall. Does anybody have any doubt about that? We are not doing a wall. So that's that. … It has nothing to do with politics. It has to do with: The wall is an immorality between countries. It's an old way of thinking It isn't cost-effective. Nancy Pelosi © 2019 Kwiple.com
Starbucks Fun fact – Their coffee is Trump's only black tenant. Stephen Colbert, The Late Show, January 29, 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Trumpism In 2016, after several counties in North Carolina suffered severe flooding, the state tried to distribute federal disaster-relief food-benefit cards on the day of the presidential election, to give poor people a choice between eating and voting. Michael Lewis, The Fifth Risk © 2019 Kwiple.com
Trumpism It is not as though Mr Trump lacks business friends. But they differ from the traditional crowd. Almost none run publicly listed com- panies. They tend to be property developers, private equity billionaires, casino magnates, and heads of family-owned companies. They swim in different water to C-suite executives. Many are based in middle America and cater to a purely domestic market. They are little affected by the tariff wars Mr Trump has unleashed. Nor do they worry about public relations. Apple and Nike may oppose a US state when it bans transgender bathrooms, or restricts gay rights. Their stakeholder reputation demands it. America's multinational companies remain staunch internationalists. Mr Trump's friends are nationalist-populists. Edward Luce, Financial Times, Jan. 6, 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say The FBI is the crime family. Jeanine Pirro © 2018 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say I think God calls all of us to fill different roles at different times and I think that he wanted Donald Trump to become president, and that's why he's there. Sarah Huckabee Sanders © 2019 Kwiple.com
Work When reporters write about Google, they write about it as if it was inevitable. The actual experience was more like, “Could you work 130 hours in a week?” The answer is yes, if you're strategic about when you sleep, when you shower, and how often you go to the bathroom. Marissa Mayer, Google's first female engineer Gizmodo's article about Mayer's speech including this statement was entitled, “Marissa Mayer: You, Too, Can Work 130 Hours a Week If You Plan When to Take a Shit” © 2015 Kwiple.com