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Sunday 19th of May 2024

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2020 Presidential election The 2020 presidential election was not stolen. Anyone who claims it was  is spreading THE BIG LIE, turning their back on the rule of law, and poisoning our democratic system. Liz Cheney, 10:27 AM – May 3, 202 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Aging People talk about the aging management at Berkshire. I always assume they're talking about Charlie, when they say that. But I would like to point out that in three more years, Charlie will be aging at 1 per cent a year. No one is aging less than Charlie. Warren Buffett, 91-year-old chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, talking about Charlie Munger, its 97-year-old vice chairman, on Saturday, May 1, 2021  © 2021 Kwiple.com
The American West The American West began with war but concluded with parks. David Treuer, The Atlantic, May 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Books It should be used to keep tables from wobbling. That is the only use for that book. John McWhorter, on Robin DiAngelo's bestseller, White Fragility © 2021 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say Your response when you see children wearing masks as they play should be no different from your response to seeing someone beat a kid at Walmart. Call the police immediately. Contact child protective services. Keep calling until someone arrives. What you're looking at is abuse. It's child abuse. Tucker Carlson © 2021 Kwiple.com
Democracy This is what the death of American democracy looks like. It's time to acknowledge that we no longer have a democracy, but a plutocracy: Government of the rich, by the rich, for the rich, brought to you by Citizens United and the Supreme Court. Stephen Wolf, “Just 158 families account for nearly half of all presidential campaign donations,” Daily Kos, October 12, 2015 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Government Government by organized wealth is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob. Franklin Delano Roosevelt © 2021 Kwiple.com
Guns What? Do you think deer are wearing Kevlar vests? Joe Biden, on using military assault weapons to hunt © 2021 Kwiple.com
Immigration … though the United States  accepts more immigrants each year than any other country, the percentage of its population that is foreign-born is lower than in countries like Norway, Gabon, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates — none of which considers itself “a nation of immigrants.” Caitlin Dickerson, The Atlantic, May 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Immigration To call America a nation of immigrants  is not wrong, either as a factual statement or an evocation of American myth. But that fact coexists with this one: Over the past century, the United States has deported more immigrants than it has allowed in. Since 1882, it has deported more than 57 million people, most of them Latino, according to Adam Goodman, a historian at the University of Illinois at Chicago. No other country has carried out this many deportations. Caitlin Dickerson, The Atlantic, May 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Income growth Average weekly wages for America's production workers were actually lower in December 2020 ($860) than they had been, after adjusting for inflation, in December 1972 ($902 in today’s money). Nicholas Kristof, New York Times, May 1, 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Knowledge It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so. Mark Twain © 2021 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
Life expectancy A baby born in Washington, D.C., has a shorter life expectancy (78 years) than a baby born in Beijing (82 years). Newborns in 10 counties in Mississippi have a shorter life expectancy than newborns in Bangladesh. Nicholas Kristof, New York Times, May 1, 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Money in politics If you've got the money I've got the time We'll go honky tonkin' and we'll have a time We'll make all the night spots dance drink beer and wine If you've got the money honey I've got the time … But if you run short of money I'll run short of time Cause you with no more money honey I've no more time Lefty Frizzell, “If You've Got the Money I've Got the Time” © 2021 Kwiple.com
Money in politics Money is like water; it will follow whatever path is open to it. Ganesh Sitaraman, The Crisis of the Middle-Class Constitution © 2021 Kwiple.com
Native Americans As the efforts to assimilate us largely failed and we remained, mostly, in our homelands, Americans have gradually assimilated to our  cultures, and our  worldview, and our  modes of connecting to nature. The parks enshrine places, but they also emphasize and prioritize a particular way of interacting with the land. In the nation's mythic past, the wilderness may have been a dangerous environment, some- thing to be tamed, plowed under, cut down. But that way of relating to the land is no longer in vogue. For many Americans, our wildplaces are a solace, a refuge — cathedrals, indeed. America has succeeded in becoming more Indian over the past 245 years than the other way around. David Treuer, The Atlantic, May 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Parks All 85 million acres of national-park sites should be turned over to a consortium of federally recognized tribes in the United States. (A few areas run by the National Park Service, such as the National Mall, would be excepted.) The total acreage would not quite make up for the General Allotment Act [1887], which robbed us [Native Americans] of 90 million acres, but it would ensure that we have unfettered access to our tribal homelands. And it would restore dignity that was rightfully ours. To be entrusted with the stewardship of America's most precious landscapes would be a deeply meaningful form of restitution. Alongside the feelings of awe that Americans  experience while contemplating the god-rock of  Yosemite and other places like it, we could take inspiration in having done right by one another. David Treuer, The Atlantic, May 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Parks  Viewed from the perspective of history, Yellowstone is a crime scene. David Treuer, The Atlantic, May 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Post-2020 Senate shituation 15 states (Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Utah, Wyoming) 2020 population: 40,085,414 Senators: 30 Republicans 1 Senator per 1,336,180 people — 1 state (California) 2020 population: 39,368,075 Senators: 2 Democrats 1 Senator per 19,684,037 people 19,684,037 / 1,336,180 = 14.7, therefore: average 15er's vote is worth nearly 15 times a Californian's, a Californian's vote is worth less than 7% of an average 15er's — 1 state (Wyoming) 2020 population = 582,328, therefore: 1 Senator per 291,164 Wyomians, a Wyomian's vote is worth 68 times a Californian's, a Californian's vote is worth 1.5% of a Wyomian's  © 2021 Kwiple.com
Power If you're not at the table, you're on the menu.  Adage © 2021 Kwiple.com
Public discourse Wokeness is a problem and everybody knows it. It's hard to talk to anybody today —  and I talk to lots of people in the Democratic Party — who doesn't say this. But they don't want to say it out loud. James Carville, April 27, 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Public discourse You ever get the sense that people in faculty lounges in fancy colleges use a different language than ordinary people? They come up with a word like “Latinx” that no one else uses. Or they use a phrase like “communities of color.” I don't know anyone who speaks like that. I don't know anyone who lives in a “community of color.” I know lots of white and black and brown people and they all live in … neighborhoods. There's nothing inherently wrong with these phrases. But this is not how people talk. This is not how voters talk. And doing it anyway is a signal that you're talking one language and the people you want to vote for you are speaking another language. This stuff is harmless in one sense, but in another sense it's not. James Carville, April 27, 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Aren't you embarrassed? Mitt Romney, to Trumpists booing him at a May, 2021, Utah GOP convention © 2021 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Both market bullying as bravery. Donald Trump and Tucker Carlson portrayed by Frank Bruni © 2021 Kwiple.com
State of the union In 2011, only 8 per cent of Americans believed “there are other countries that are better than the US”, according to the Pew Research Center. But that proportion rose to 21 per cent in 2019, says Pew, and it is even higher – 36 per cent – among 18 to 29-year-olds (up from 12 per cent in 2011). For young voters on the left, it rises to 47 per cent. (The two surveys were conducted by different methods so might not be directly comparable.) Katrina Manson, Financial Times, May 7, 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
 
Work Hard work is damn near as overrated as monogamy. attributed to Huey Long © 2021 Kwiple.com