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Tuesday 30th of July 2024

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2020 Presidential election President Trump is wrong: I had no right to overturn the election. The presidency belongs to the American people and the American people alone. And, frankly, there is no idea more un-American than the notion that any one person can choose the American president. Under the Constitution, I had no right to change the outcome of the election. Mike Pence, February 4, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
American exceptionalism The one thing I want my child to know when they get out of school about America is that the worst day in America beats the best day in any other country. A Texas parent, now probably a school board member, testifying at a 2010 review of Texas's standards for teaching history © 2022 Kwiple.com
Car culture Analysis from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has shown that pedestrians who are hit by pickups or S.U.V.s are two to three times more likely to die than those who are hit by cars. In fact, the number of pedestrians killed by vehicles rose forty-six per cent between 2010 and 2019. John Seabrook, The New Yorker, January 24, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say The Canadian trucker convoy is the single most successful human rights protest in a generation. Tucker Carlson, February 10, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say Now think about it. Before COVID did anyone go out and seek testing to determine if they were sick? It's usually you feel like you're sick and you get tested to determine what you maybe have come down with. Ron DeSantis, who either never heard of preventive healthcare or doesn't believe in it © 2022 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say Now we have Pelosi’s gazpacho police spying on members of Congress, spying on the legislative work that we do, spying on our staff and spying on American citizens that want to come talk to their representatives. Marjorie Taylor Greene, February 8, 2022, conjuring up supposed soup Nazis while defending Rep. Troy E. Nehls's (R-Tex.) slanderous allegation that Capitol Police were illegally investigating him when they they followed standard security protocols and entered his office when they saw its door was wide open and no one was there; photographed its condition at the time, and reported the incident to him and his staff  © 2022 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say Over 70% of Americans who died with COVID, died on Medicare, and some people want #MedicareForAll ? Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), 1:00 AM – Feb 9, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Death Covid-19 has left the same proportion of the population dead — about 0.3% — as did World War II, and in less time. … One study, published in the scientific journal PLOS One last September estimates that roughly 7.4 million years of life were lost in the U.S. in 2020 alone, with 73% of them attributable directly to Covid-19. … There are fears these losses will be forgotten on a broad scale, beyond those directly affected. Wall Street Journal, January 31, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Democracy This will always remain one of the best jokes of democracy, that it gave its deadly enemies the means by which it was destroyed. Joseph Goebbels © 2022 Kwiple.com
Fascism Although many regimes and movements imitated aspects of fascism, explicitly fascist movements generally struggled to become regimes. There is no straightforward reason for this failure, for economic crisis and  fear of communism were very widespread, even where actual communists were rare. The most convincing explanation is that fascism did best where it combined leverage in parliament with street action, as it had in Italy and Germany, and to a lesser extent in Hungary. Kevin Passmore, A Very Short Introduction to Fascism © 2022 Kwiple.com
Fascism The first truth [about the liberty of a democratic people] is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself.  That, in its essence, is fascism — ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, April 29, 1938, Message to Congress on Curbing Monopolies © 2022 Kwiple.com
History He didn’t want a record of anything. He never stopped ripping things up. Do you really think Trump is going to care about the records act? Come on. A "former senior Trump official" quoted in Washington Post, February 5, 2022, on Trump's habit of repeatedly and knowingly tearing up official White House documents in violation of the Presidential Records Act © 2022 Kwiple.com
History What a nation believes about its past is as least as important as what the past actually was.  Benjamin Carter Hett, The Death of Democracy © 2022 Kwiple.com
History Who controls the past, controls the future. Who controls the present, controls the past. George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four © 2022 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
Nazism We are dealing here with a political system which, essentially, does not appeal to rational forces of self-interest, but which arouses and mobilizes diabolitical forces in man which we had believed to be nonexistent, or at least to have died out long ago. Erich Fromm, Escape from Freedon © 2022 Kwiple.com
Politics From politics, it was an easy step to silence. Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey  © 2022 Kwiple.com
Politics Politics as a spectator sport has rarely been more popular. Its mixture of entertainment value with real consequences produces massive audience engagement. Yet at the same time, we're living in an era in which politicians, parliaments and whole political systems are being vilifed in ways they haven't been in decades. … The result is that the most prominent actors on the political stage today are those who cast themselves as non-politican politicians. The era we're living through isn't charact- erized simply by post-truth and populism. It's also, increasingly, an era of anti-politics. Or, at least, the rhetoric of anti-politics. Philip Seargeant, The Art of Political Storytelling © 2022 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
Public discourse The receptive ability of the masses is  very limited, and their understanding small; on the other hand, they have a great power of forgetting. This being so, all effectve propaganda must be confined to very few points which must be brought in the form of slogans. Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf © 2022 Kwiple.com
Reich wingers say Do we even know they're Nazis? Christina Pushaw, 8:30 PM – 1/30/22 Gov. Ron DeSantis's press secretary, who also suggested demonstrators in various Florida cities in late January were Democrats who dressed up as Nazis to cast aspersion on Florida and/or DeSantis © 2022 Kwiple.com
Reich wingers say So, what I'm going to say is, these people, these Democrats who are trying to use this as some type of political issue to try to smear me as if I had something to do with it, we're not going to be playing their game. Ron DeSantis, January 31, 2022, refusing to condemn Nazi demonstrators in Florida who saluted Hitler, waved Nazi flags, shouted anti-semitic oaths at passersby and beat up a Jewish student, and implying that criticism of him for not commenting or condeming the events for days afterward was partisan sniping © 2022 Kwiple.com
Selfie A lot of people don’t want that. They don’t want to hear negativity toward me. Donald Trump © 2022 Kwiple.com
State of the union There is a clear and present danger that American democracy will not withstand the destructive forces that are now converging on it. Our two-party system has only one party left that is willing to lose an election. The other is willing to win at the cost of breaking things that a democracy cannot live without. Barton Gellman, The Atlantic, January/February 2022 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say  May we all  have guns and concealed carry to handle what’s coming! Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court judge Clarence Thomas © 2022 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say Science has become a home for displaced socialists and communists. Rush Limbaugh © 2022 Kwiple.com
 
Trumpists say We got elected on Drain the Swamp, Lock Her Up, Build the Wall. … This was pure anger. Anger and fear is what gets people to the polls. Steve Bannon © 2020 Kwiple.com