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2020 Presidential election Chance of a Biden Electoral college win if he wins the popular vote by X points: 0-1 points: just 6%! 1-2 points: 22% 2-3 points: 46% 3-4 points: 74% 4-5 points: 89% 5-6 points: 98% 6-7 points: 99% Nate Silver, 12:11 PM - Sep 2, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election The problem … is not Mr Biden's failure to kindle passion in people. It is our psychic need for such a person in the first place. His election might reacquaint the US with politics as it should be and has been: a machine for the arbitration of conflicting claims, and not as the basis of one's whole identity. Janan Ganesh, Financial Times, September 16, 2020 © 2019 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election Turnout projections are running at around 150 million this year (137 million voted in 2016), which would mean that if [Nate] Silver is right, Biden could win by 3 million to 4.5 million votes and still have less than a 50 percent chance of becoming president.  If Biden won by 4 percent to 5 percent, or 6 million to 7.5 million votes, Trump would still have a one-in-ten shot of prevailing. Paul Waldman, Washington Post, September 2, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
COVID-19 coronavirus Because you know why, I'm on a stage, it's very far away, so I'm not at all concerned. Donald Trump, explaining why he's not afraid of catching coronavirus at his indoor superspreader rallies [He wasn't asked why people in crowds packed like sardines shouldn't be afraid of catching it] © 2020 Kwiple.com
COVID-19 coronavirus Maybe this COVID thing is a good thing. I don't like shaking hands with people. I don't have to shake hands with these disgusting people. Donald Trump [The “disgusting people” are people attending his rallies] © 2020 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say Claiming COVID-19 coronavirus “affects virtually nobody" on the very day America surpassed 200,000 deaths Donald Trump, the claimant © 2020 Kwiple.com
Electoral College I'll keep raging against the electoral college. Because we could have a different future. To see what it's like, all you have to do is look at how things work in every other democracy in the world. Pay close attention, because it gets pretty complicated: People vote. The votes are counted. The person with the most votes wins. Weird, huh? Paul Waldman,, Washington Post, September 2, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Financial crises What probability do you give that there might be a new financial crisis? This month, the number crunchers at Oxford Economics, a research group, asked 162 global businesses this question. Their average answer was 20 per cent over the next two years. That is twice as high as the perceived risk of a second global wave of the Covid-19 pandemic and also, sadly, the probability of an early effective vaccine arriving.  Gillian Tett, Financial Times, September 24, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Higher education Among boomers [born 1946-1964], more men than women have degrees. Among millennials [born 1981-1996], 43% of women have degrees, seven points more than men. The Economist, September 12, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Healthcare Obamacare will be replaced with a MUCH better, and FAR cheaper, alternative if it is terminated in the Supreme Court. Would be a big WIN for the USA! Donald Trump, 10:09 AM – Sep 27, 2020, instructing Amy Coney Barrett and sitting Republican justices on the Court to kill Obamacare during a pandemic and in a transition period between administrations  © 2020 Kwiple.com
Healthcare Then the agreement collapsed. Mark Meadows, Mr. Trump’s chief of staff, insisted the drugmakers pay for $100 cash cards that would be mailed to  seniors before November – “Trump Cards,” some in the industry called them. Some of the drugmakers bridled at being  party to what they feared would be seen as  an 11th-hour political boost for Mr. Trump, the people familiar with the matter said. New York Times, September 18, 2020, on why attempts to make a deal with pharmaceutical companies to lower drug prices failed  © 2020 Kwiple.com
Healthcare Trump says Obamacare will be terminated after November poll Headline, print edition, Financial Times, September 28, 2020 [Headline in the online edition was, Trump raises prospect of Supreme Court striking down health law] © 2017 Kwiple.com
Hypocrisy Of course, Democrats are screaming now about Republican hypocrisy over Trump filling the Ginsburg seat in an election year. “They said one thing when it was Obama and now they're saying  the complete opposite. How can they sleep at night?” I'll tell you how. Like babies.  Because, like babies, they have no morals. Bill Maher, Real Time with Bill Maher, Sept. 25, 2020 © 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
Law and order It was the most beautiful thing. It's called law and order. Punchline to the tale Donald Trump tells attendees at his rallies about how Minneapolis police shot an MSNBC reporter covering protests of George Floyd's murder in the knee with a rubber bullet while fleeing marauding police, which tale invariably ignites Day-of-the-Locust-worthy cackling and blood lust © 2020 Kwiple.com
Liars say Nothing more could have been done. Donald Trump, summarizing his administrations's response to the COVID-19 pandemic © 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 Being poor is like trying to climb out of a pit while roped together with your family. Simon Kuper, Financial Times, September 24, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Power That theme – that power begets power – should be on everyone's mind right now: the idea that when you lose power, you've not only lost that fight,  you've made it harder to win the next one. That's how power works. Bill Maher, Real Time with Bill Maher, Sept. 25, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Public discourse A thing is funny when – in some way that is not actually offensive or frightening – it upsets the established order. Every joke is a tiny revolution.  George Orwell, “Funny, but not Vulgar” © 2020 Kwiple.com
Resisters say Honor her wish! Honor her wish! Honor her wish! Honor her wish! Honor her wish! Honor her wish! Honor her wish! Honor her wish!  Chant when Trump appeared at memorial servie for Ruth Bader Ginsburg © 2020 Kwiple.com
Resisters say Trump lied 200,000 died  Placard, protests on and after September 21, 2020, when the 200,000th death from COVID-19 was recorded in the US © 2020 Kwiple.com
Resisters say Vote him out! Vote him out! Vote him out! Vote him out! Vote him out! Vote him out! Vote him out! Vote him out!  Chant when Trump appeared at memorial servie for Ruth Bader Ginsburg © 2020 Kwiple.com
Selfie My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed. Ruth Bader Ginsburg, days before her death on September 18, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say Yes, Trump is worse than imperfect. So what? Michael Anton, “The Flight 93 Election” © 2020 Kwiple.com
 
Wannabe autocrats say We'll have to see what happens. You know that I've been complaining very strongly about the [mail-in] ballots, and the ballots are a disaster. Get rid of the ballots and you'll have a very transfer, we'll have a very peaceful. There won't be a transfer, frankly, there'll be a continuation. Donald Trump, when asked if he would commit to a peaceful transfer of power if he loses his reelection bid  © 2020 Kwiple.com