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Friday 19th of April 2024

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Assimilation Convert, forget, pass, and be accepted. Philip J. Davis, summarizing the hopes of maskilim, Jewish advocates of the Enlightenment who tried assimilating in Eastern Europe © 2020 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say We've achieved all the different milestones that are needed. The federal government rose to the challenge and this is a great success story and I think that that's really what needs to be told. Jared Kushner, on the Trump administration's response to the COVID-19 coronusvirus pandemic  © 2020 Kwiple.com
Death Lfie is a hospice, never a hospital. Alain de Botton, New York Times, March 19, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Higher education  Bart, don't make fun of grad students. They just made a terrible life choice. Marge Simpson to her son, Bart, Home Away From Home episode, The Simpsons, 2005 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Journalism The problem in journalism is not that people are writing for free. It is that people are writing for free for companies that are making a profit. Sarah Kendzior, The View From Flyover Country  © 2020 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
Lame-ass excuse As vice president of the United States, I'm tested for the coronavirus on a regular basis, and everyone who is around me is tested for the coronavirus. Since I don't have the coronavirus, I thought it'd be a good opportunity for me to be here, to be able to speak to these researchers, these incredible health-care personnel, and look them in the eye and say thank you. Mike Pence, justifyinng sauntering through the Mayo Clinic talking to others about COVID-19 coronavirus without wearing a mask, in violation of CDC guidelines and the clinic's explicit instructions that everyone in the building must wear one © 2020 Kwiple.com
Never Trumpers Watch out for them. They are human scum.  Donald Trump © 2020 Kwiple.com
Politics I they throw a stone at you, you drop a boulder on them.  Mitch McConnell, on campaigning © 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
Poverty Poverty is a denial of rights sold as a character flaw. Sarah Kendzior, The View From Flyover Country  © 2020 Kwiple.com
Poverty When wealth is passed off as merit, bad luck is seen as bad character. This is how ideologues justify punishing the sick and poor. But poverty is neither a crime nor a character flaw. Stigmatize those who let people die, not those who struggle to live. Sarah Kendzior, The View From Flyover Country  © 2020 Kwiple.com
Public discourse The pronouns “we” and “they” are the most important of all political words. They demarcate who's within the sphere of moral responsibiity, and who's not. Someone within that sphere who's needy is one of “us” – an extension of our family, friends, community, tribe – and deserving of help. But people outside that sphere are “them,” presumed undeserving unless proved otherwise. The central political question for any na- tion or group is where the borders of this sphere of mutual responsibility are drawn. Robert Reich, Christian Science Monitor, February 15, 2014 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Public health The Trump administration is overseeing a new type of CDC where meat plants with gigantic public health disasters unfolding within them don't actually get told what to do to keep their employees alive any more. They just get some handy hints that they're free to disregard. I expect anything from the Trump administration. I do not expect this from the CDC. CDC, are you OK? Would you let us know if you're not? Rachel Maddow, April 28, 2020, on the CDC's mealy mouthed report about the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak at Smithfield's Sioux Falls plant © 2020 Kwiple.com
Punt returners say A final safety note here: If your mask obstructs your vision, you're doing it wrong. Brian Williams, The 11th Hour, April 28, 2020, responding to vice president – and chairman of the White House Coronavirus Task Force – Mike Pence's claim that he sauntered around the Mayo Clinic talking to doctors and COVID-19 coronavirus patients without wearing a mask because he wanted to “look them in the eye and say thank you” © 2020 Kwiple.com
Punt returners say Twenty-eight percent. John von Neumann, responding when asked how much of mathematics did he know © 2020 Kwiple.com
Republicans Party What's true of Republicans in Wisconsin is true of Republicans nationwide. There is no part of the Republican Party – not its president in the White House, not its leadership in Congress, not its conservative allies on the Supreme Court, not its interest groups or its affiliated media – that has an interest in or commitment to a fair, equal and expansive democracy. Jamelle Bouie, New York Times, April 10, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot They get paid like geniuses, and yet, every ten years, they need bailing out. Bankers portrayed by Nick Paumgarten in The New Yorker, April 20, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot He never had any core principles. He just wants to be  something. He doesn't want to do  anything.  Mitch McConnell portrayed by John Yarmouth, Democratic congressman from Louisville © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Ed Stone could draw anything except a sober breath. Edward Durrell Stone portrayed by a fellow architecture student at Harvard © 2020 Kwiple.com
State bankruptcy Of the 15 states least reliant on federal transfers, 11 are led by Democratic governors. Of the 15 states most reliant on federal transfers, 11 have Republican governors. … A state bankruptcy process would thus enable a Republican Party based in the poorer states to use its federal ascendany to impose its priorities upon the budgets of the richer states. … State bankruptcy is a project to shift hardship onto pensioners while protecting bondholders–and, even more than bondholders, taxpayers. David Frum, The Atlantic, April 25, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
State of the union America has a serious “We” problem – as in “Why should we  pay for them ? Robert Reich, Christian Science Monitor, February 15, 2014 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say xx Keep in mind where the coronavirus came from. It came from a country that Bernie Sanders wants to turn the United States into a mirror image of: Communist China. Rush Limbaugh © 2020 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say You remember the North Korean leader promised “a Christmas present for America” back in December? Could it be they got together with China and this is that present? Jerry Falwell, Jr., March 13, 2020, hypothesizing about the origins of COVID-19 coronavirus © 2020 Kwiple.com
Wealth inequality Being rich in today's America means not having to come across anyone who isn't. Exclusive prep schools, elite colleges, private jets, gated communities, tony resorts, symphony halls and opera houses, vacation homes in the Hamptons and other exclusive vacation sites all insulate them from the rabble. Robert Reich, Christian Science Monitor, February 15, 2014 © 2017 Kwiple.com
 
Winning Winning is great. Not good — great.  Jack Welch © 2020 Kwiple.com