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Friday 29th of March 2024

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Civil rights movement Rosa sat down, Martin stood up, and then white folks saw the light and saved the day. Julian Bond, bitterly © 2020 Kwiple.com
Cocks of the walk say I am smarter than anybody. Donald Trump © 2020 Kwiple.com
Cocks of the walk say What if he's a loser? Donald Trump, responding to Ivana Trump, his first wife, who she said whe wanted to name her first born child after his father  © 2020 Kwiple.com
Conspiracy theories  Suspciion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society. Thomas Paine, Common Sense  © 2020 Kwiple.com
Death  The vanity and presumption of governing  beyond the grave, is the most ridiculous and insolent of all tyrannies. Man has no property in man; neither has any generation a property in the generations which are to follow. Thomas Paine, Rights of Man  © 2020 Kwiple.com
Democracy Given the right conditions, any society can turn against democracy. Indeed, if history is anything to go by, all societies eventually will. Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, October 2018 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Economics Their [Janet Yellin and George Akerlof's] paper showed that salaries can be far higher than expected when human emotions are valued. Rational Mom and Dad, it turns out, may behave quite differently from Rational Man. Rana Foroohar, Financial Times, November 29, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Energy  I know of no energy source that equals the desire to get out of somewhere. Janan Ganesh, Financial Times, November 28, 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
Lies Lying is the message.   It's not just that both Putin and Trump lie, it is that they lie in the same way and for the same purpose: blatantly, to assert power over truth itself. Mascha Gessen, New York Review of Books, December 13, 2016 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Nationalism  … proposals for an advanced welfare state and a redistribution of wealth must rest on national boundaries. They must recognize that in order for a citizen to accept, for instance, “Medicare for All,” they must be willing to pay high taxes to achieve coverage not only for themselves but for people they don't know and my never meet. If that latter group is not clearly defined, and limited to a nation's citizens … then  many people won't support such proposals.  Why should they pay their taxes to support people who don't share a common social and economic obligation to the nation? John B. Judis, The Socialist Awakening © 2020 Kwiple.com
Polarization Here we return to the lesson that Trump has to teach Biden about life in hyperpolarized politics. To wit: blitz. Do everything at once. No matter what the Biden administration does, it will be accused of socialism and corruption by the right. The only thing Biden will have real control  over is his administration and what it does.  And his North Star, his organizing principle, should be doing as much good on as many fronts as fast as possible. Blitz. David Roberts, Vox, December 1, 2020, advocating a flurry of executive orders  © 2020 Kwiple.com
Polarization Winners make policy, and losers go home.  Mitch McConnell © 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
Power  With great power comes great publicity. Indeed, in many cases great publicity is a prerequisite for gaining great power. Yuval Noah Harari, New York Times, November 20, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Racism Racism in this nation's gone from latent to blatant Sonny in In the Heights, music and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda, book by Quiara Alegría Hudes © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot I wouldn't have had my nostril on the same straw as that pig. Roy Cohn portrayed by John Waters © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Gingrich's career can perhaps be best understood as a grand exercise in devolution – an effort to strip American politics of the civilizing traits it had developed over time and return it to its most primal essence. Newt Gingrich portrayed by McKay Coppins © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Trump truly is something new – the first president whose entire political existence hinges on the fact of a black president. And so it will not suffice to say that Trump is a white man like all the others who rose to become president. He must be called by his rightful honorific – America's first white president. Donald Trump portrayed by Ta-Nehisi Coates © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Just like me, she wants no credit. Ivanka Trump portrayed by Donald Trump © 2020 Kwiple.com
Socialism Socialism is coming back in a form that is different not only from the Soviet Union's or Cuba's communism, but from what socialists who consider themselves to be “Marxists” have envisioned. John B. Judis, The Socialist Awakening © 2020 Kwiple.com
Socialism Strange as it may seem, a viable socialism must be nationalist. Its fundamental framework must be the nation and its citizens. For a democracy to function, its citizens must be clearly defined, their common commitment to the nation assumed. But socialists can be oblivious to this simple idea. At the Labour Conference in Brighton, the “remain” faction proposed that tem- porary residents from other EU countries be allowed to vote in its national elections. That would be subversive to democracy. John B. Judis, The Socialist Awakening © 2020 Kwiple.com
Surely you jest  Calling used stuff “pre-owned” or “pre-loved” © 2020 Kwiple.com
Time Time makes more converts than reason. Thomas Paine, Common Sense  © 2020 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say CASES!!!!! OMG CASES!!!!! THERE ARE CASES!!! MORE CASES!!!! CASES ARE GOING UP!!!!!!!! CASESESESESESES!!!! CASES WENT UP!!!!! OMG!!!!!! THERES MORE CASES!!!!!!!! CASES!!!!!!!!!!! CASES INCREASED!!! THERE ARE CASES!!!! CASES CASES CASES–WOW CASES WENT UP!!!!! SCARY CASES! WOW Anthony Sabatini, State Representative, Florida House District 32, University of Florida graduate, Captain, Army National Guuard, 9:40 PM   Dec 3, 2020 a day where there were 217,000 new cases and 2,857 deaths from COVID in the US © 2020 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say It's just like God to use a young Jewish couple to help Christians. David Jeremiah, pastor of a Southern Baptist megachurch in El Cajon, California, comparing Jared and Ivanka to Joseph and Mary © 2020 Kwiple.com