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Bullshitters say To elevate the world's consciousness. WeWork's mission statement © 2019 Kwiple.com
By the numbers Average percentage by which U.S. military spouses earn less than their professional counterparts married to civilians: 27 Harper's Index, August 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say What if we went back through all the family trees and just pulled those people out that were products of rape or incest? Would there be any population of the world left if we did that? Steve King, defending an anti-aborionb bill that provided no exemptions for rape or incest © 2019 Kwiple.com
Democrats The question is always, 'How are you gonna pay for that?' We never sound credible as Democrats on that, and it shrinks up our ambitions. So our ambitions keep narrowing. 'Well, can we have just a little bit of child care? How about a tiny bit? Could we give a little help on student loans?' Let me make this pitch: Who's gonna show up to reduce student loan debt by 2%? I'm serious! Who's gonna show up on our side to fight for that? Elizabeth Warren © 2019 Kwiple.com
Dreams HE WHOM a dream hath possessed knoweth no more of doubting Padraic Collum, “He Whom a Dream Hath Possessed” © 2019 Kwiple.com
Facial recognition software In May, San Francisco outlawed the use of facial recognition by police and city agencies. The city that's exporting advances in face-finding all over the world knows not to allow the technology on its home turf. Joel Stein, Bloomberg Businessweek, August 12, 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Fashion BORN TO BE WIDE  Slogan on T-shirt for endomorphs © 2019 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
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
Lies The point of challenging a lie is not to convince the liar, who is likely to be too far gone in his or her dark purpose to be rehabilitated. But because ever liar has an audience, there may still be time to do some good for others.  Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth © 2019 Kwiple.com
Making money the new-fashioned way Creating campaign launch videos © 2019 Kwiple.com
Making money the new-fashioned way Making masks to thwart facial recognition software © 2019 Kwiple.com
Money in politics In order to achieve the widest possible distribution of political power, financial contributions to political campaigns should be made by individuals alone. I see no reason for labor unions – or corporations – to participate in politics. Barry Goldwater, Conscience of a Conservative © 2019 Kwiple.com
Money in politics Money can “buy time” from legislators –win their attention and get them to to step up their activity– but it seldom pushes them into switching sides. Instead, the big effects of money giving mostly involve getting friendly officials elected  and getting access  to officials once they are in office. Benjamin Page and Martin Gilens, Democracy in America? © 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
Post-truth [P]ost-truth amounts to a form of ideological supremacy, whereby its practitioners are tying to compel someone to believe in something whether there is good evidence for or not. And this a recipe for political domination. Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth © 2019 Kwiple.com
Public discourse Images of small men usually arise and persist widely only because big men find good use for them. C. Wright Mills, White Collar © 2019 Kwiple.com
Public discourse The paranoid spokesman sees the fate of conspiracy in apocalyptic terms – he traffics in the birth and death of whole worlds. Richard Hofstadter © 2019 Kwiple.com
Selfie  That minimum wage job saved our house – and more important, it saved our family. Elizabeth Warren, on her mother's first job, at Sears, after her father could no longer work due to a heart attack © 2019 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Even when he was running, I don't think anybody thought he would be as bad as he is. Donald Trump portrayed by Joe Biden in 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Snapshot The only thing he knows  is being in the mosh pit. He's been there his whole life. Donald Trump portrayed by Joe Biden © 2019 Kwiple.com
Snapshot I seldom feel sorry for President Trump – O.K., I never  do – but if I were going to it would be on account of his spawn and spawn-in-law. He has given them celebrity, fancy government titles, security clearances and entry into circles they'd never penetrate otherwise. They have given him humiliating headlines to go along with the mortifying ones that he already had in abundance. Talk about a trade imbalance. Donald Trump portrayed by Frank Bruni © 2019 Kwiple.com
Socio-economic mobility Canada, in fact, is the most socially mobile developed country, says the OECD: nearly three-quarters of Canadians aged 25 to 64 were in a different social class than their parents between 2002 and 2014. Simon Kuper, Financial Times, August 1, 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Technology Nobody writing a love note with a quill ever said, “Why can't I send a dick pic?” Bill Maher, Real Time with Bill Maher, August 9, 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say I'm not going to let Democrats and their water carriers in the media use Russia's attack on our democracy as a Trojan horse for partisan wish-list items that would not actually make our elections safer. Mitch McConnell, refusing to let the Senate vote on election security bills, leading to him being nicknamed “Moscow Mitch” © 2019 Kwiple.com
Wealth inequality The fortunate man is seldom satisfied with the fact of being fortunate. Beyond this, he needs to know that he has a right to his good fortune. He wants to be convinced that he “deserves” it, and above all, that he deserves it in comparison with others. … Good fortune thus wants to be “legitimate fortune.” Max Weber, “The Social Psychology of the World Religions” © 2019 Kwiple.com
 
Wealth inequality [W]ealthy Americans wield a lot of influence. By investing money in politics, they can turn economic power into political power. Thus the United States suffers from what can be called “unequal democracy.” Benjamin Page and Martin Gilens, Democracy in America? © 2019 Kwiple.com