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2020 Presidential election The only thing worse would be not charging him. Barbara McQuade, "United States v. Donald Trump," on the failure to criminally charge Trump with conspiracy to defraud the United States and obstruction of an official proceeding for pressuring Pence to overturn the election due to fears about potential negative consequences for the country, such as violent protests, civil unrest, loss of life, or an acquittal, which would embolden other domestic wannabe autocrats © 2022 Kwiple.com
Accountability While we have not concluded that the various financial statements,  as a whole, contain material discrepancies,  based upon the totality of the circumstances we believe our advice to you to no longer rely upon those financial statements is appropriate. From a Feb. 9, 2022, letter from Mazars USA, the Trump Organization's longtime auditors, to its chief legal officer notifying him that “Statements of Financial Condition for Donald J. Trump” for 2011 through 2020 cannot be relied on, and that it was dumping it as a client based on information gathered by the New York State Attorney General's investigation of possible fraud by it © 2022 Kwiple.com
Afghanistan War Fuck that we don’t have to worry about that. We did it in Vietnam; Nixon and Kissinger got away with it. citation Joe Biden, responding to a question about America's moral obligation to evacuate interpreters and other Afghans who trusted and worked for the U.S. government in Afghanistan, thereby delaying the government's planning for an evacuation for months © 2022 Kwiple.com
Afghanistan War More Americans cared about the country than the Biden administration had accounted for in its political calculations. Most of these Americans were in their 30s or 40s — the generation that came of age with the 9/11 wars, now reaching a calamitous end. Helping Afghans escape would become a way to avoid succumbing to a sense of waste and despair and helpless rage. citation George Packer, Atlantic Monthly, March 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Afghanistan War The paradox of being a refugee is that the more likely you are to have a valid claim for asylum in any given country, the less likely you are to be able to travel there: Afghanistan has the worst passport in the world when it comes to visa-free travel, a direct result of producing so many refugees. citation Matthieu Aikins, New York Times, February 14, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Afghanistan War “The State Department always insists that we we have to play by the rules,” Representative [Tom] Malinowski, who once served in it, told me. The department celebrates Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat who forged passports to save Hungarian Jews during the Holocaust. “But if any State Department employee tried to pull what Raoul Wallenberg did, he'd be fired in three seconds.” This was the thinking of the period before the August evacuation. “And then, for two glorious weeks, we threw out the rules.” Now the department is back to its risk-averse, pre-August thinking, with an obstacle for every human need. “Bureaucracy is killing more people than the Taliban,” Mary Beth Goodman, the State Department official, told me. citation George Packer, Atlantic Monthly, March 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Afghanistan War The VA augmented its mental-health hotline in case Afghanistan veterans began to see their interpreters beheaded on social media. citation George Packer, Atlantic Monthly, March 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Bullshitters say [Critical race theory] has really become the default ideology of the public education system. Christopher F. Rufo © 2022 Kwiple.com
Bullshitters say Let me tell you right now, critical race theory is bigoted, it is a lie and it is every bit as racist as the Klansmen in white sheets. Ted Cruz © 2022 Kwiple.com
Dreams It’s literally my dream come true. Serena Kerrigan, 27-year-old social media influencer, on being photographed lunching with her dolls at the American Girl Cafe in midtown Manhattan © 2022 Kwiple.com
Food The report [by the EAT-Lancet Commission on Healthy Diets From Sustainable Food Systems] suggested that a sustainable diet would include no more than 98g of red meat, 203g of poultry and 196g of fish per week. For someone on a low income in Asia or Africa, this would mean a lot more meat than before, but for the average person in the US it would mean a drop of about 85 per cent. Clearly, this is not good news for the meat industry. Bee Wilson, Financial Times, February 16, 2022 [98g = 3.46oz, 203g = 7.16oz, 196g = 6.91oz] © 2022 Kwiple.com
History History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives. Abba Eban, December 16, 1970, speech in London © 2022 Kwiple.com
History What we may be witnessing is not just the end of the Cold War but the end of history as such: that is, the end point of man's ideological evolution and the universalism of Western liberal democracy. Francis Fukuyama, The Independent, September 20, 1989 © 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
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 When it comes to critical race theory, think of it like Rihanna's pregnancy. Even if you think it has nothing to do with you, believe me, you're going to be hearing a lot about it this year. John Oliver, Last Week Tonight, February 20, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Rural America Since 2010 the amount of bad debt at rural hospitals has jumped 50%, according to the National Rural Health Association. It sets a vicious cycle in motion:  A depressed economy leads to unpaid bills; unpaid bills lead to hospital closures; the closures strip the local economy of higher-wage jobs; and the economy gets more depressed.  The National Institutes of Health estimates that when a rural hospital closes, per capita income in the surrounding county dips an average of 4%. BloombergBusinesswork, January 28, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Selfie I love loans. I love other people's money. Donald Trump © 2022 Kwiple.com
Snapshot She's not good at being full of shit. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez portrayed by Corbin Trent, co-founder of Justice Democrats and an early supporter © 2022 Kwiple.com
Social welfare If a benefit fails to reach the people it's designed for, it may as well not exist at all. Bryce Covert, New York Times, February 20, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Tech bros say It's better to buy than compete. Mark Zuckerberg © 2022 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say Every practicing Muslim is a radical Muslim. Brigitte Gabriel, founder of ACT! for America © 2022 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say The goal is to have the public read something crazy in the newspaper and immediately think “critical race theory.” We have decodified the term and will recodify it to annex the entire range of cultural constructions that are unpopular with Americans. Christopher F. Rufo, 3:17 PM – Mar 15, 2021 © 2022 Kwiple.com
< Trumpists say We have successfully frozen their brand — “critical race theory” — into the public conversation and are steadily driving up negative perceptions. We will eventually turn it toxic, as we put all of the various cultural insanities under that brand category. Christopher F. Rufo, 3:14 PM – Mar 15, 2021 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say You call it terrorism. I call it patriotism. Jeremy Joseph Christian, at his sentencing hearing for stabbing two people to death and wounding a third who tried to intervene when he was shouting racist and anti-Muslim slurs at two teenage girls © 2022 Kwiple.com
 
Ukraine I went in yesterday and there was a television screen, and I said, “This is genius.” Putin declares a big portion of the Ukraine — of Ukraine. Putin declares it as independent. Oh, that's wonderful.  So, Putin is now saying,  “It’s independent,” a large section of Ukraine. I said, “How smart is that?” And he's gonna go in and be a peacekeeper. That’s strongest peace force … We could use that on our southern border. That’s the strongest peace force I've ever seen. There were more army tanks than I've ever seen. They're gonna keep peace all right. No, but think of it. Here’s a guy who's very savvy … I know him very well. Very, very well. Donald Trump, February 22, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
 
World War II You jim crowed me Before hitler rose to power — And you're STILL jim crowing me Right now this very hour Yet you say we're fighting For democracy. Then why don't democracy Include me? I ask you this question Cause I want to know How long I got to fight BOTH HITLER — AND JIM CROW. from “Beaumont to Detroit: 1943” by Langston Hughes © 2017 Kwiple.com