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Tuesday 7th of May 2024

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2020 Presidential election I don't fucking care that they have weapons. They’re not here to hurt me. Take the fucking mags away. Let my people in. They can march to the Capitol from here. Let the people in. Take the fucking mags away. Donald Trump, on January 6, 2021, in the tent before going on stage to speak at his rally in the Ellipse park between the White House and Constitution Avenue, angry at learning the park was half empty because many supporters refused to enter it after learning that Secret Service agents were scanning for weapons using magnetometers and confiscating those they found © 2022 Kwiple.com
Bullshit TREATMENT ROOM For Curated Facials and Massages One of nine "wellness" amenities touted in a full-page advertisement for 200 Amsterdam, a new 55-floor “perfectly composed” condominium "At the nexus of Lincoln Center and Central Park," in New York City © 2022 Kwiple.com
Cities According to a 2018 United Nations report, the number of people living in the world's urban areas is forecast to grow by 2.5bn by 2050 — to two out of every three people on the planet. Financial Times, June 26, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Cities Modern “megacities” (defined as places with at least 10 million inhabitants) are the biggest human settlements in history, and growing every day. The world had ten megacities in 1990, 33 in 2018 and will have 43 by 2030, says the United Nations. Over a third of their population growth will be in India, China and Nigeria. Simon Kuper, Financial Times, June 2, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Cocks of the walk say You know, nobody has done more for Christianity, nobody has done more for religion of all types, than me. Donald Trump, May 4, 2022, to CBN News, an evangelical network © 2022 Kwiple.com
Gerrymandering If your job is to get and hold a majority of the legislature, and the law allows you to play as dirty as you like,  then dirty is your duty.   … If you don't want kids to shoplift, maybe don't leave so many candy bars so close to the front door. Jordan Ellenberg, Shape © 2022 Kwiple.com
Global warming We know the maximum heat at which human beings can survive, the so-called wet bulb temperature of 35C [95F], which is calculated depending on the local mix of heat and humidity. Currently, fewer than one million people live in areas that average 38-45C [100.4-113F] in the shade during the hottest month, estimates the Inter-  national Organization for Migration (IOM). That number will reach 30 to 60 million by 2100, even if we limit average global temperature rises to 1.5C [2.7F]. Simon Kuper, Financial Times, June 23, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
History We forget most of our past but embody all of it. John Updike, Introduction to Rabbit Angstrom: The Four Novels © 2022 Kwiple.com
Income inequality All of the 10 highest-paid executives [in 2021] had compensation over $100 million, a first. Their average compensation was $330 million, the highest ever. But it's not just a few executives at the top enjoying the spoils. Underscoring how widespread the pay increases were last year, the median chief executive made $32.1 million in 2021, up 27 percent from $25.3 million in 2020 and far higher than in prepandemic years. New York Times, June 25, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Income inequality The largest gap between chief executive and workers in the survey was at Amazon, where this spring a union won a battle to organize a warehouse for the first time. Andrew Jassy, who took over from Jeff Bezos as Amazon’s chief executive last year, had pay that was 6,474 times that of the company's median employee. His compensation last year, $213 million, was the eighth highest, according to Equilar [a compensation consulting firm]. New York Times, June 25, 2022 [$213,000,000 divided by 6,474 means that the median income of an Amazon employee in 2021 was just short of $32,901] © 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
Politics Guilt is a weak political emotion. Moira Weigel, New York Times, April 21, 2022 © 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 Use slides or videos to give people a break from looking at your face. But don’t fill the slides with large slabs of text. Your mouth is for words, and slides are for pictures. Simon Kuper, Financial Times, April 28, 2022, some advice to presenters at conferences © 2022 Kwiple.com
Remote work If you can do it in Tahoe, you can do it in India. Unnamed American executive attending the 2022 Davos World Economic Forum quoted by Rana Foroohar, Financial Times, May 29, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Republican Party motto Rule or ruin. citation Suggested by Jamie Raskin, April 27, 2022, © 2022 Kwiple.com
Republicans Republicans do not cover up. Republicans do not go ahead and threaten. Republicans do not go ahead and commit illegal acts. And, God knows, Republicans don't view their fellow Americans as enemies to be harassed. Republicans look upon their fellow Americans as human beings to be loved and wanted. Lowell Weicker, 1973, expressing dismay at discovering during the Watergate hearings that Republicans were doing what he imagined they weren't © 2022 Kwiple.com
Russia The borders of Russia never end. Vladimir Putin, in his role as chairman of the Russian Geographic Society, telling young geographers being honored at a ceremony in 2016, two years before invading Ukraine, the correct answer to the question, Where do Russia's borders end? © 2022 Kwiple.com
Russia Half the bricks would get stolen. Russian writer Vladimir Sorokin, responding to a question about what would happen if Russia were to build a wall to seal itself off from the west, as he imagined in his novel, Oprichnik  © 2022 Kwiple.com
Selfie As a Russian of Asian extraction I am aware I'm not democracy material: I rarely go to vote and never to protest. And that psyche is widespread in the former Mongol empire territories: Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, China and North Korea. Mergen Mongush, letter to the editor, Financial Times, June 22, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Socio-economic mobility To be clear, white Americans don't resent growing poorer. They resent losing their comparative superiority to non-white Americans. Stephen Marche, The Next Civil War  © 2022 Kwiple.com
State of the union c  America survives its chronic apocalypses. John Updike, Introduction to Rabbit Angstrom: The Four Novels © 2022 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say [I take] The Fifth. Michael Flynn, retired United States Army lieutenant general and Trump's U.S National Security Advisor who's sworn many oaths of allegiance to the Constitution of the United States and who Trump pardoned after he twice pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI, responding to Liz Cheney, who asked him, during his deposition to the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol, “Do you believe in the peaceful transfer of power in the United States of America?” © 2022 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say If he [Trump] is the nominee, if he was up against Biden [in 2024], I'd vote for him again. Simply because what he did the first time, before COVID, was so good for the country. … [Even though] I think this man does not have the character to lead the country again. Rusty Bowers, the Arizona House Speaker who testified before the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol about Trump's pressures to violate his oath to the Consitution by appointing fake electors from Arizona © 2022 Kwiple.com
< Trumpists say Substantive due process … has harmed our country in many ways.  Accordingly, we should eliminate it from our  jurisprudence at the earliest opportunity. Clarence Thomas, in his concurring opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, the case the Supreme Court used to overturn Roe v. Wade [Substantive due process refers to rights that are not specifically mentioned in the Fourteenth Amendment, but nevertheless have been the basis on which the Court has affirmed various privacy rights, such as the rights to use contraceptives, engage in homosexual acts, and marry someone of the same sex] © 2022 Kwiple.com
Ukraine Who told you that Ukraine will remain on the map of the world in two years’ time? Dimitry Medvedev, 2020, former Russian president and prime minister, now head of the ruling United Russia party © 2022 Kwiple.com
 
Whites White Republicans have become more intolerant about the country's growing diversity. White Democrats haven't. That's the big change. Stephen Marche, The Next Civil War  © 2022 Kwiple.com