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Aging Higher voting rates by older people make the ballot box a “time machine”: it reflects the US of a decade ago. Simon Kuper, Financial Times, February 27, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Bullshitters say I onky ask for fairness, especially when it comes to decisions made by the United States Supreme Court! Donald Trump © 2020 Kwiple.com
Citizens United The day before Citizens United  was decided, our democracy was already broken. Citizens United  may have shot the body, but the body was already cold. Lawrence Lessig © 2020 Kwiple.com
Corporations All laws on corporations, on taxation, on trusts, wills, descent, and the like, need examination and extensive change. This is a government of the people, by the people, and for the people no longer. It is a government of corporations, by corporations, and for corporations. Rutherford B. Hayes (1822-1893) © 2020 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say It looks like the coronavirus is being weaponized as yet another element to bring down Donald Trump. Now, I want to tell you the truth about the coronavirus. I'm dead right on this. The coronavirus is the common cold, folks. Rush Limbaugh © 2020 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say There's a very good chance you're not going to die. Donald Trump, consoling the nation about coronavirus © 2020 Kwiple.com
Demagogues The peculiar office of a demagogue is to advance his own interests, by affecting deep devotion to the interests of the people. James Fenimoe Cooper, The American Democrat  © 2020 Kwiple.com
Democrats Even the party’s most progressive field for a generation or two does not contemplate taxes that are European in breadth and depth. Pressed on this point, Democrats invoke the sage that was Willie Sutton. The criminal of yore targeted banks because, he said, with unanswerable logic, “That’s where the money is.” In a country with America’s titanic inequalities, the top 1 per cent is where the money is. It is the obvious percentile to press for revenue. Janan Ganesh, Financial Times, February 26, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Democrats In targeting just the richest [1% for tax increases], Democrats rather imply that a welfare state is only worthwhile insofar as someone else pays for it. It is not an inherent good. It is not a nation's binding agent. In this sense, the Sanders and especially the Warren platform is a tacit concession to the Republican view of the world, with tax as a burden, not what the jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes defined as “what we pay for civilised society.” The Democratic appeal is less to Nordic universalism and solidarity than to the noblesse oblige of a remote overclass who will not miss the money. Janan Ganesh, Financial Times, Feb. 26, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Democrats State parties elect Democrats, plain and simple. Jane Kleeb, Harvest the Vote © 2020 Kwiple.com
Democrats What the US left appears to want is social democracy as understood by Robin Hood. It would tax astronomical wealth to fund popular programmes. It would not ask much more of the middle or even the upper middle classes. … This does, however, put them at some odds with the social democrats of Europe, who tax more citizens more heavily. Janan Ganesh, Financial Times, February 26, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Impeachment Only if a future impeachment case plays out like Johnson's, in which senators are called to consider their consciences as well as their constituents, and at the same time like Nixon's with conclusive evidence strong enough to justify lawmakers' breaking party discipline, should a president truly fear impeachment. Jeffrey A. Engel, in Impeachment: An American History © 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
Making money the new-fashioned way Salvaging and recycling ocean trash © 2019 Kwiple.com
Making money the new-fashioned way Writing fraudulent product reviews for ecommerce sites © 2019 Kwiple.com
Polarization The identity battle is especially intense because multiple identities stack up on top of each other. Most Republicans are simultaneously white, rural, older and Christian, and so are their neighbours. Democrats are their opposites. It's now possible simply to look at photo- graphs of people and predict with some confidence which party they support. Once Americans join one of these tribes, they generally adopt all of its views so as not to be ostracised. Simon Kuper, Financial Times, February 27, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Polarization Many voters dislike their own party, but detest the other one. For Republicans, there's something else driving their radicalisation: they are a white tribe that fears demographic extinction. “A majority of infants born [in the US] today, are non-white,” notes [Ezra] Klein [author of Why We're Polarized ]. The most common age for white Americans is 58; for Hispanics, it's 11, says economist Jed Kolko. Many Republican regions are depopulating. Simon Kuper, Financial Times, February 27, 2020 © 2020 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
Profits Where the most profit is made, the public is best served. Limit the profit, and you limit the exertion of ingenuity in a thousand ways. James Wilson, The Economist, July 6, 1844 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Public health Since the great influenza epidemic of 1918, the United States has been spared terrifying epidemics. Americans now are epidemic voyeurs. Laurie Garrett, Foreign Policy, January 31, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Public health We are in contact with everyone and all relevant countries. CDC and World Health have been working hard and very smart. Stock market starting to look very good to me! Donald Trump consoling the nation about the coronavirus © 2020 Kwiple.com
Punt returners say Because she's too ugly to kiss goodbye. Bum Phillips responding to Bob Costas, who asked him why he took his wife on all his team's road trips © 2019 Kwiple.com
Selfie I love eminent domain, it's how I built my hotels. Donald Trump © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot On my honor I will do my best To serve myself And screw the rest. Donald Trump's Boy Scout Oath portrayed by cartoonist Tom Toles, February 23, 2020 © 2016 Kwiple.com
State of the union The truth of the first decades of the 21st century, a truth that helped give us the Trump presidency, but will still be an important truth when he is gone, is that we aren't entering a 1930-style crisis for Western liberalism or hurtling forward toward transhumanism or extinction. Instead, we are aging, comfortable and stuck, cut off from the past and no longer optimistic about the future, spurning both memory and ambition while we await some saving innovation or revelation, growing old unhappily together in the light of tiny screens. Ross Douthat © 2020 Kwiple.com
 
Taxes But policymaking through the tax code is comparatively ineffective and exceedingly complicated It means people have to know to take advantage of the credit at tax time, they actually have to take the credit, and in the process, it makes filing taxes more complicated and frustrating (which, in turn, doesn't inspire a fondness for government). But with simple and direct public programs out of favor, policymaking through the tax code became the new normal. Ganesh Sitaraman, The Great Democracy © 2020 Kwiple.com