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Friday 26th of April 2024

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Activism Thirty years ago, anti-Vietnam War protesters presented themselves to those in Washington as authentic individuals bent on challenging a state gone off the rails. Today, their place has been taken by Donald Trump. Fred Turner, 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Capitalism In capitalism, the progressive is the one who slows down the rate at which you get poorer. Ted Rall, September 2, 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Change Change doesn't come from people having tea at the Ritz. It comes from people storming the Ritz. Jeremy Corbyn © 2019 Kwiple.com
Change [P]ublic opinion and policy do mostly tend to move together. Policy is more likely to change when majorities of citizens favor a change than when majorities oppose it. Average citizens fairly often get what they want. … This could be called “democracy by coincidence.” It occurs even though ordinary citizens have little or no influence on their own, becauss those citizens fairly often agree with the policies that are also favored (and won) by their affluent fellow citizens who do  have a lot of clout. Benjamin Page and Martin Gilens, Democracy in America? © 2019 Kwiple.com
Cities Urban renewal means Negro removal. James Baldwin © 2019 Kwiple.com
Drugs Marijuana causes white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers and any others. Henry J. Anslinger, first commissioner of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics later the Drug Enforcement Agency © 2019 Kwiple.com
Gerrymandering [O]ur main point is that “natural” one-party districts, even more than gerrymandered districts, contribute to noncompetitivemess and party polarization. Gerrymandering should be easy to fix, by entrusting the drawing of district boundaries to independent commissions rather than partisan state legislatures — as several states have begun doing. … however, the probem of “natural” one-party districts is much knottier and harder to solve. Benjamin Page and Martin Gilens, Democracy in America? © 2019 Kwiple.com
Institutions Institutions get the behaviors they reward. James Mattis © 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
Leftists Sooner or later, the Left is going to have to adopt a platform that ties environmental justice and economic justice together in a single movement. That platform must be rooted in reinvestment, not just regulation.  Michelle Wilde Anderson © 2019 Kwiple.com
Loneliness What is it that has made people so lonely? It's their stupid phone, which was supposed to connect people, but which studies have found has made them more lonely. It's like a vibrator designed by Mike Pence. Bill Maher, Real Time with Bill Maher, August 16, 2019 © 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
Poverty One must always have in mind one simple fact – there is no literate population in the world that is poor, and there is no illiterate population that is anything but poor. John Kenneth Galbraith © 2019 Kwiple.com
Public broadcasting Unlike its counterparts around the world, the United States has never developed a strong public media sector, and it remains unique among democracies in its underfunding of public broadcasting – the United States today spends only about the price of a latte per capita per year on public media institutions. By comparison, Canada spends over thiry dollars per person, and northern European countries spend over one hundred dollars per person. Victor Pickard © 2019 Kwiple.com
Selfie I did as well as I could for as long as I could. When my concrete solutions and strategic advice, especially keeping faith with our allies, no longer resonated, it was time to resign. James Mattis, Trump's former Secretary of Defense © 2019 Kwiple.com
Selfie For many people, they may not know the details of my plans, but they'e sure glad to know that the plans are there – that somebody has worked through this that they can trust, and who has their interests at heart, and will be in that fight and win that fight. Elizabeth Warren © 2019 Kwiple.com
Snapshot He'll sit there, and he'll say, “Do this! Do that!” And nothing will happen.  Dwight Eisenhower portrayed by Harry Truman, his predecessor as president  © 2019 Kwiple.com
Snapshot The big idea about Trump was that he was talking plain and telling it like it is, even though he was lying all the time. It was authentic lying. Donald Trump portrayed by Robby Mook, Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign manager © 2019 Kwiple.com
Snapshot I hit her too hard, too early. Now it looks like she's finished. Elizabeth Warren portrayed by Donald Trump, March, 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
State of the union What concerns me most as a military man is not our external adversaries, it is our internal divisiveness. James Mattis, 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Trumpism The president manufactures a crisis, galvanizes his base around the challenge, leaves the definition of success undefined, pretends to play hardball, and, lo and behold, finds a solution that entails little more than window-dressing, if that. For Trump, it's a win-win. The loser tends to be the American people, oftentimes Trump's base, first and foremost. Ned Price © 2019 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say Islam is wrong. It is a heresy from the pit of hell. Mormonism is wrong. It is a heresy from the pit of hell. Judaism – you can't be saved being a Jew. You know who said that, by the way? The three greatest Jews in the New Testament: Peter, Paul and Jesus Christ. Robert Jeffress, pastor of First Baptist Church in Dallas © 2018 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say  You know the good lord used King David. The best I can tell, King David wasn't perfect either. But he was the chosen man of God. Let's go make America great again.  Rick Perry © 2019 Kwiple.com
Tweeting Much as mid-century authoritarians could use radio to broadcast their voices into the intimacy of the family living room, so now Trump can use Twitter to insert himself in the company of a user's chosen conversation partners. Trump also works hard to suggest that his intimate circle – and through Twitter, yours – includes the rich and powerful. “Great meeting with a wonderful woman today, former Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice!” he tweets. Fred Turner © 2019 Kwiple.com
Tweeting When Trump tweeted, he demonstrated that the faith of a generation of liberal theorists – as well as their digital descendents – are misplaced: decentralization does not necessarily increase democracy, in the public sphere or in the state. Fred Turner © 2019 Kwiple.com
 
Tweeting  Why does Donald Trump tweet so much? Why do his supporters love it when he does? It is because a tweet gives the illusion of a direct relationship between leader and follower. For the follower, the tweet is addressed just to him- or herself with no intermediary. The follower imagines a personal relationship with the president. The pretense of presence and the person- alization of power go hand in hand.  Albert Weale, The Will of the People  © 2019 Kwiple.com