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Thursday 28th of March 2024

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2020 Presidential election If the Republicans don't win in this election, I think we are officially at the end of the country as we know it. We may not survive even if we win, but we definitely don't if the Republicans lose with Donald Trump. Glenn Beck © 2020 Kwiple.com
Asslickers  With millions of lives at stake, he [Trump] takes accusations about the federal government's failure to provide ventila- tors personally, threatening to withhold funding and lifesaving equipment from states whose governors don't pay sufficient homage to him. That doesn't surprise me. The deafening silence in response to such a display of sociopathic disregard for human life or the consequences for one's actions, on the other hand, fills me with despair and reminds me that Donald isn't really the problem at all. Mary Trump, Too Much and Never Enough  © 2020 Kwiple.com
COVID-19 coronavirus More people died in the US in three months than during the entire Vietnam War (there were 58,318 US soldiers killed in action in Vietnam between 1955 and 1975; deaths from COVID-19 exceeded that figure on 28 April 2020). Richard Horton, The COVID-19 Catastrophe  © 2020 Kwiple.com
COVID-19 coronavirus The simple fact is that Donald is fundamentally incapable of acknowledging the suffering of others. Telling the stories of those we've lost would bore  him Mary Trump, Too Much and Never Enough  © 2020 Kwiple.com
COVID-19 coronavirus A superpower — or its reputation at least — had been slain by a virus. Richard Horton, The COVID-19 Coronavirus  © 2020 Kwiple.com
COVID-19 coronavirus They are dying, that's true. And you have – it is what it is. But that doesn't mean we aren't doing everything we can. It's under control as much as you can control it. Donald Trump, August 4, 2020, bullshitting about doing everything we can as the US averages about 65,000 new cases and a 1,000 deaths per day from COVID-19  © 2020 Kwiple.com
COVID-19 coronavirus Woke nativism will prove a more durable pathogen than Covid-19. Edward Luce, Financial Times, August 13, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
A death in the family For the most part, in ways both oblique and and direct, the emphasis was on my grandfather's material success, his “killer” instinct, and his talent for saving a buck. Donald was the only one  to deviate from the script. In a cringe-inducing turn, his eulogy de- volved into a paean to his own greatness. It was so embarrassing that Maryanne [Trump's older sister] later told her son not to allow any of her siblings to speak at her funeral. Mary Trump, recalling the eulogy Donald Trump delivered at his father's funeral © 2020 Kwiple.com
Families Someone once compared the Trumps to the Borgias. But at least the Borgias supported the arts. Mary Trump, Financial Times, August 7, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Foreign relations If you have an American president at foreign summits eating with his mouth closed and not throwing cutlery around, the world will give him a standing ovation. Unnamed Biden adviser quoted by Edward Luce, Financial Times, August 13, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Good news But the incentive to go soft on Mr Trump is shrinking. He probably won't be president in six months. He is not so much lame duck as a clay pigeon, there to help journalists prove their marksmanship. Henry Mance, Financial Times, August 7, 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
Making money the old-fashioned way Manufacturing hat stretchers © 2020 Kwiple.com
Millennials The St Louis Fed estimates as many as 16 per cent of US millennials do not have the immediate means to cover an emergency expense of $400. For black millennials in particular, that figure rises to 32 per cent. Financial Times, July 9, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Pandemics If you've seen one pandemic, you've seen … one pandemic.  Adam Kucharski, The Rules of Contagion  © 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
Punt returners say Oh my God, I am so ready to go to work. Kamala Harris, responding to Joe Biden, who made her his running mate by asking, “You ready to go to work?” © 2017 Kwiple.com
Racists say I don't see that as promoting it, but look, at the end of the day, it's something that's out there. I have not studied it. Jared Kushner, commenting on his father-in-law's repeating a right-wing conspiracy theorist's claim that Kamala Harris is ineligible to run  for vice president because her parents  weren't citizens when she was born  © 2020 Kwiple.com
Racists say I heard today that she doesn't meet the requirements. Donald Trump, repeating a right-wing conspiracy theory that Kamala Harris is ineligible to run for vice president because her parents weren't citizens when she was born © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot It's not that they like him, or care if he goes to jail. They are getting so much power out of this and they don't want it to stop. William Barr, Mike Pompeo and Mitch McConnell portrayed by Mary Trump, Financial Times, August 7, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Some politicians don't answer the question. Mr. Trump can't answer the question. Henry Mance, Financial Times, August 7, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Donald today is much as he was at three years old:  incapable of growing, learning, or evolving, unable to regulate his emotions, moderate his responses, or take in and synthesize information. Donald Trump portrayed by Mary Trump in Too Much and Never Enough  [2020] © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot The only thing that matters to him is saving his own skin. He is the kind of man who, if he feels he is going down, he's going to take all of us down with him. Donald Trump portrayed by Mary Trump, Financial Times, August 7, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Holy shit, Mary. You're stacked. Mary L. Trump, then aged 29, portrayed by her uncle Donald, then aged 48 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say I no longer believe freedom and democracy are compatible. Peter Thiel © 2020 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say People realize that no one on TV is under oath. Kellyanne Conway  © 2020 Kwiple.com