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2008 financial crisis I've abandoned free-market principles to save the free-market system. George W. Bush © 2019 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential primaries It is said that Ms Warren's ideas would make life harder for finance, a warning that threatens to cost her literally tens of voters. Janan Ganesh, Financial Times, October 31, 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Asslickers Donald Trump could go to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and say, “Well, maybe if he'd done something, he wouldn't be so unknown,” and Republicans would be okay with that too. Bill Maher, Real Time with Bill Maher, February 17, 2017 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Asslickers I said, whatever you do, don't hire a 'yes man,' someone that won't tell you the truth. Don't do that, because if you do, I believe you'll be impeached. John F. Kelly, to Donald Trump, on leaving office as Trump's Chief of Staff © 2019 Kwiple.com
By the numbers [T]he odds of being killed by an immigrant terrorist of any kind, let alone a Muslim immigrant, are one in 3.6 million. Vox.com, October 27, 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Citizenship [For] the ancient Greeks political participation formed an intrinsic part of citizenship. To enjoy the promise of civic equality that the status of citizenship holds out, all citizens had to play their part in the political process. Otherwise, instead of a situation of ruling and being ruled in turn, a citizen would simply be ruled. Indeed, our word 'idiot' comes from the Greek idiotes , a term used to describe someone who concentrates entirely on their private affairs to the neglect of the public realm. Richard Bellamy, Citizenship: A Very Short Introduction © 2019 Kwiple.com
Cocks of the walk say Here's the thing. I don't have teams. Everyone's talking about teams. I'm the team. Donald Trump, dismissing the need for impeachment advisers © 2019 Kwiple.com
Democracy The two countries that saved liberal democracy in the 20th century have lost their moral compass. Many citizens no longer seem to care whether their leaders are scoundrels. Not long ago, people viewed these nations as models of successful democracy. Now the US is viewed as a bully and the UK as a fool. Messrs Trump and [Boris] Johnson [the expected next prime minister] are seen as contemptible, ludicrous or both. Martin Wolf, Financial Times, June 27, 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Democrats Twitter is not America. In most of America, all they want, is to vote for someone who is not weird. Play to them and stop worrying that you're going to lose social justice warriors to Donald Trump. Bill Maher, Real Time with Bill Mahar, Oct. 25, 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Income inequality … a coming trial in Deleware's Chancery Court. The defendants: Tesla's … board of directors, which in January 2018 voted co-founder and CEO Elon Musk a 10-year pay package that includes a minimum wage (which he gives to charity) and 12 levels of stock options tied to market value, potenitally worth $56 billion if Tesla hits a market cap of $650 billion. (The options vest on each $50 billion in growth). … The potential award is larger than the gross domestic product of 27 nations. Robert Teitelman, Barron's, October 28, 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Kwiplers say Calculate the minimum wage as follows: MW = CMHI / CMHS × WPY × HPW where: MW = Minimum Wage CMHI = Current Median Household Income, e.g., $65,000 CMHS = Current Median Household Size, e.g., 2.1 people WPY = Workdays Per Year, e.g., 240 HPW = Hours Per Workday, e.g., 8 [MW would be $16.12 using data above] © 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
Liars say And to this day, I get people coming up to me, and they said,“You know what one of the most amazing things I've ever seen about you? Is that you predicted that Osama bin Laden had to be killed before he knocked down the World Trade Center.” It's true. Now, most of the press don't want to write that, but you know – but it is true. If you go back, look at my book, I think it was “The America We Deserve,” I made that prediction. and I – let's put it this way: If they would have listened to me, a lot of things would have been different. Donald Trump © 2019 Kwiple.com
Liars say I don't need anybody's money. I'm using my own money. I'm not using donors. I don't care. I'm really rich. Donald Trump © 2019 Kwiple.com
Politics Instead of being viewed as a means of bringing citizens together in pursuit of those public interests from which they collectively benefit, politics has come to be seen as but an inefficient mechanism for individuals to pursue their private interests. Richard Bellamy, Citizenship: A Very Short Introduction © 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
Punt returners say But not on all four. Winston Churchill, responding to his private secretary, who said, in 1918, that he was so grateful for America's contributions to winning WWI that he would kiss Uncle Sam “on both cheeks” © 2019 Kwiple.com
Republicans The Never Trumper Republicans, though on respirators with not many left, are in certain ways worse and more dangerous for our Country than the Do Nothing Democrats. Watch out for them, they are human scum!  Donald Trump, 10:48 AM – 23 Oct 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Selfie My pronouns are she, her, and hers. Kamala Harris © 2019 Kwiple.com
Selfie If you really like Donald Trump, that's good. But if you don't, you have to vote for me anyway. Donald Trump © 2019 Kwiple.com
Selfie My whole life has been money. I want money. I want money. Greedy. I was greedy. Greedy. I want more money. Donald Trump © 2019 Kwiple.com
Selfie Sorry losers and haters, but my I.Q. is one of the highest – and you all know it! Please don’t feel so stupid or insecure, it's not your fault. Donald Trump © 2019 Kwiple.com
Selfie What are they talking about, if I wanted to do quid pro quo, I would've done the damn quid pro quo. Donald Trump objecting to a Wall Street Journal editorial suggesting he was too inept to execute a quid pro quo with Ukraine © 2019 Kwiple.com
Snapshot The only time corruption bothers Donald Trump is when he's not in on it. Donald Trump portrayed by Bill Maher © 2019 Kwiple.com
Suburbs To move to the suburbs is to express a preference for the private over the public. William Schneider, The Atlantic, June 1992 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say I worked with John Kelly, and he was totally unequipped to handle the genius of our great President. Stephanie Grisham, White House press secretary, responding to Kelly's statement that he warned Trump he would be impeached if he hired a 'yes man' to replace him © 2019 Kwiple.com
 
Trumpists say Intriguingly, Mr. [Bill] Taylor says in his statement that many people in the administration opposed the [Rudy] Giuliani effort, including some in senior positions at the White House. This matters because it may turn out that while Mr. Trump wanted a quid-pro-quo policy ultimatum toward Ukraine, he was too inept to execute it. Impeachment for incompetence would disqualify most of the government, and most presidents at some point or another in office. Wall Street Journal editorial, Oct. 23, 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com