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2020 Presidential election Get rid of the [mail-in] ballots and we'll have a very peaceful — there won't be a transfer, frankly. There'll be a continuation. Donald Trump © 2021 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election Just say we won. Rudy Giuliani's advice to Donald Trump, long before votes had been counted or winners announced in swing states like Michigan and Pennsylvania © 2021 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election Let's have a trial by combat. Rudy Giuliani, speaking at the Save America rally, January 6, 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election Today is the day American patriots start taking down names and kicking ass! Mo Brooks, speaking at the Save America rally, January 6, 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election Why aren't you guys fighting harder? Where's my Roy Cohn? Donald Trump, dissatisfied with his campaign managers and lawyers for failing to convince courts he lost because the election was stolen from him © 2021 Kwiple.com
Bullshitters say I think that the last person Russia wants to see in office is Donald Trump, because nobody's been tougher on Russia than I have, ever. Donald Trump © 2021 Kwiple.com
Bullshitters say I would venture to say it was the largest crowd I had ever spoken [to] before. It was a loving crowd, too, by the way. There was a lot of love. I've heard that from everybody. Many, many people have told me that was a loving crowd. Donald Trump, on his supporters who stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Cocks of the walk say I can't lose to this fucking guy. Donald Trump, expecting a different outcome in 2020 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Cocks of the walk say  With Trump, everybody becomes a star. I'm the greatest star-maker in history. Donald Trump © 2021 Kwiple.com
Elites Those searching for one-line lessons from history should take note: apparently, it is not the people who decide to be done with democracy; it is elites. Jan-Werner Müller, Democracy Rules © 2021 Kwiple.com
Growth Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. Edward Abbey, The Journey Home © 2021 Kwiple.com
Journalism Studiously mindful of traditional norms of objectivity and balance, they retreat from interpretation back to what seems more uncontentious information: the old “you write what the man says.” But symmetrical coverage in situations of asymmetrical polarization — where only one party has turned against fundamental democratic rules or is misleading the public systematically about basic facts — turns into distortion. The effects of a self-consciously neutral stance are not neutral. Jan-Werner Müller, Democracy Rules, on some journalists' reaction to incessant criticism for being anti-Trump © 2021 Kwiple.com
Judges All other presidents combined had endured a total of eighty-two filibusters against their [judicial] nominees. But from 2009 to 2013, President Obama alone faced eighty-six. Adam Jentleson, Kill Switch © 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
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
Profiles in courage As a student of history who loves the Constitution and its Framers, I do not believe that the Founders of our country intended to invest the Vice President with the unilateral authority to decide which electoral votes should be counted during the Joint Session of Congress, and no Vice President in American history has ever asserted such authority. Instead, Vice Presidents presiding over Joint  Sessions have uniformly followed the Electoral Count Act, conducting the proceedings in an orderly manner even when the count resulted in the defeat of their party or their own candidacy. Mike Pence's words that made Trump and his supporters want him hanged  © 2021 Kwiple.com
Psychopaths say That was a retweet. That was an opinion of somebody. And that was a retweet. I put it out there. People can decide for themselves. I don't take a position. Donald Trump, justifying retweeting a QAnon conspiracy theory to his 87 million followers that Barack Obama and Joe Biden had members of Navy SEAL Team 6 killed to cover up the fake death of Osama bin Laden © 2021 Kwiple.com
Punt returners say Well Kevin, I guess these people are more upset about the election than you are. Donald Trump, responding to Kevin McCarthy, Republican and minority leader of the House, who asked him to call off his supporters who were assaulting the Capitol © 2021 Kwiple.com
Punt returners say You're the president. Your're not, like, somebody's crazy uncle who can just retweet whatever. Savannah Guthrie, responding to Trump's defense for retweeting a QAnon theory that Obama and Biden had members of SEAL Team 6 killed to cover up the fake death of Osama bin Laden by saying, “That was a retweet. That was an opinion of somebody. And that was a retweet. I put it out there. People can decide for themselves. I don't take a position.” © 2021 Kwiple.com
Resisters say Did we just get fucking tear gas for a fucking photo op? Message sent by a seminarian to a priest at St. John's Episcopal Church on Lafayette Square in Washington DC after Trump's minions cleared out protesters protesting George Floyd's murder by police so that Trump could pose holding a Bible in front of the church; quoted by Caril Leonnig and Phil Rucker in I Alone Can Fix It © 2021 Kwiple.com
Selfie I know fucking krauts. I was raised by the biggest kraut of them all. Donald Trump, pointing to a picture of his father, Fred © 2021 Kwiple.com
Snapshot That fucking guy Jim Jordan. That son of a bitch. While these maniacs are going through the place, I'm standing in the aisle and he said, “We need to get the ladies away from the aisle. Let me help you.” I smashed his hand away and told him, “Get away from me. You fucking did this.” Jim Jordan during the assualt on the Capitol, portrayed by Liz Cheney © 2021 Kwiple.com
Snapshot The characteristics of Trump's leadership, blazingly evident during the first three years of his presidency, had deadly ramifications in his final year. He displayed his ignorance, his rash temper, his pettiness and pique, his malice and cruelty, his utter absence of empathy, his narcissism, his transgressive personality, his disloyalty, his sense of victmhood, his addiction to television, his suspicion and silencing of experts, and his deception and lies. Each trait thwarted the response of the world's most powerful nation to a lethal threat. Donald Trump portrayed by Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker in I Alone Can Fix It © 2021 Kwiple.com
Snapshot This wss one of the traits that had led Trump to the White House on full display: his extraordinary capacity to say things that were not true. He always seemed to to have complete conviction in whatever product he was selling or argument he was making. He had an uncanny ability to say with a straight face, things that are not as you've been told or even as you've seen with your own eyes. He could commit to a lie in the frame of his body and in the timbre of his voice so fully, despite all statistical and even video evidence to the contrary. Donald Trump portrayed by Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker in I Alone Can Fix It © 2021 Kwiple.com
Supreme Court Barack Obama, who won the popular vote by 9.5 million votes in 2008 and five million in 2012 and served eight years in office, was able to appoint only two Supreme Court justices. Donald, who lost  the popular vote to Hillary Clinton by almost three million votes and was in office only four years (and impeached twice), was able to appoint three. Mary Trump, The Reckoning  © 2021 Kwiple.com
Trees Like humans, forests have always migrated for their survival, with new trees growing in more hospitable directions and older trees  dying where they are no longer best suited to live. The problem now is that they simply can’t move fast enough. The average forest migrates at a rate of roughly 1,640 feet each year, but to outrun climate change, it must move approximately 9,800 to 16,000 feet — up to 10 times as fast. And in most habitats, the impact of highways, suburban sprawl, and megafarms prevents forests from expanding much at all. Forests simply cannot escape climate change by themselves. Laura Markham, Mother Jones, November/December 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
 
Trumpists say We are going to kill the Biden presidency in the crib. Steve Bannon, bragging to Donald Trump about the insurrection he and others were plotting © 2021 Kwiple.com