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Energy So what is Dr Copper's message for the energy transition? Unless solutions are found quickly, which will be challenging, insufficient supply of minerals risks short-circuiting the drive to achieve net zero by 2050. Daniel Yergin, Financial Times, July 14, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Guns In the past decade, the volume of private firearms has jumped more than a third to 120 guns per hundred Americans. The US now accounts for 46 per cent of all private gun ownership worldwide — more than ten times its share of the global population. … In the last generation, the share of American homes that own guns has actually fallen. … That means there are more guns owned by fewer people. Some homes have caches that could qualify as their own mini-militias. Edward Luce, Financial Times, July 6, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
History When historians abandon the study of the nation, when scholars stop trying to write a common history for a people, nationalism doesn't die. It eats liberalism. Jill Lepore, Foreign Affairs, March/April 2019 © 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
Leadership If leaders believe the future  looks unfavorable, they will be tempted to  take risky actions in the present to forestall further decline, which can lead to  arms races and brinkmanship during crises. In contrast, optimistic leaders foresee a brighter future ahead for their country which tends to produce investments in global governance. Daniel W. Drezner, Foreign Affairs, July/Augsut 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Myths in politics To review: a nation is a people with common origins, and a state is a political community governed by law. A nation-state is a political community governed by laws that unites a people with a supposedly common ancestry When nation-states arose out of city-states and kingdoms and empires, they explained themselves by telling stories about their origins — stories meant to suggest that every- one in, say “the French nation” had common ancestors, when they of course did not. As I wrote in my book These Truths, “Very often, histories of nation-states are little more than myths that hide the seams that stitch the nation to the state.” Jill Lepore, Foreign Affairs, March/April 2019 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Neoliberalism Neoliberalism has … been both antidemocratic and anti-Democratic. Robert Kuttner. New York Review of Books, July 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
Rights Can citizens exercise their basic political rights in a way that gives them a voice and not just a vote? In practice, that often comes down to the question, How many voices are already audible? How many choruses are there that you might choose to join (in particular, ones that don't sing with an upper-class accent)? How many representations of different ideas, interests, and, for that matter, identities? Jan-Werner Müller, Democracy Rules © 2021 Kwiple.com
Selfie I ain't evolvin'. Clarence Thomas  © 2022 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Garland could be Mueller’s heir. He is a public servant who goes by the book in an America that has given up reading. Merrick Garland portrayed by Edward Luce, Financial Times, June 22, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Sports Every kid at Alabama is better than Nick Saban at football. He just knows how to win better than anyone on the planet. Will Frazer, coach of Gainesville, Florida's Buchholz High School math team, winner of 13 of the last 14 national high school math championships, noting that some of his students are better at math than he is © 2022 Kwiple.com
State of the union All of this raises a larger question currently being discussed by some investors. When it comes to issues of political risk and volatility terms, is the US starting to more closely resemble an emerging market than a developed economy? Rana Foroohar, Financial Times, February 21, 2022 [“All this” includes overturnig Roe v. Wade, curbing federal agencies' ability to apply rules nationwide, mass shootings, making it easier to carry concealed weapons, rampant inflation, armed insurrection] © 2022 Kwiple.com
State of the union  There is cheering and distressing news here.  Even if a tyrant could seize power in a coup, no country so fractious and ornery would remain under his or her thumb for long. The far more plausible future is an ungovernable America. Janan Ganesh, Financial Times, June 21, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
State of the union  The United States is coming to an end. The question is how. … Trump is far less meaningful than either side understands. The smartest thing he himelf ever said about his political career was in a 2017 press conference: “I didn't come along and divide the country. The county was already divided before I got here.” Trump is, at most, a sympton. Stephen Marche, The Next Civil War  © 2022 Kwiple.com
State of the union While US political risk in global comparisons is still relatively low (it ranks 85 out of the 127 countries tracked by [Mark] Rosenberg) [who has been tracking political risk on a daily basis since 2013], it is now by far the highest of any developed market. Only countries such as Turkey, Colombia, Mexico and Israel look anything like the US within the OECD nations. Even more worrisome is the fact that the change and volatility of key metrics, including the risks of social and government instability, political violence and even the risk to democracy, make the US look much more like a developing nation than a developed one — let alone the supposed leader of the free world. Rana Foroohar, Financial Times, July 10, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Supreme Court [T]rust is built on consistent adherence to the rule of law. The recent, radical rulings by the Supreme Court, which itself reflects political polarisation, have made clear that the law won't be applied  in the same way everywhere. The legal framework that binds you will depend on who you are, and where you live. Rana Foroohar, Financial Times, July 10, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Supreme Court  We are now dealing with the Thomas court. Jill Abramson, Financial Times, July 9, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Terrorism In the CSIS [Center for Strategic and International Studies] study of 893 terrorist incidents on US soil between January 1994 and May 2020,  only 22 of the 3,086 deaths due to terrorism were caused by left-wing groups. Stephen Marche, The Next Civil War  © 2022 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say Cops don't have “standing” if they're laying on the ground in a pool of their own blood. Contribution to a discussion about planning for the January 6 rally posted to Donald.win, a self-described “never-ending rally dedicated to the 45th President of the United States, Donald J. Trump,” which generated a million visits a day before its owner shut it down following the January 6 insurrection; displayed during the public hearing held on July 12, 2022, by the House committee investigating events of January 6 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say Fuck everything about you, you motherfucking asshole. Fuck you you lousy Marxist traitor, you Pelosi cock. You and Liz Cheney can both go to hell. Fuck you you big baby, you rotten pile of dog shit. Fuck you you asshole. Fuck you. I hope you get terminal cancer you motherfucking pig. Fuck you, you pig asshole. Phone message received by interns for Adam Kinzinger, one of the two Republicans on the House's select committee investigating the January 6 attack on the Capitol © 2022 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say Hey you little cocksucker. Are you Liz Cheney's fag hag? You two cocksucking little bitches. We're going to get you. Coming to your house son. Gonna get you and Liz Chency. Going to get you two little cocksuckers. Ha, ha, ha. Phone message received by interns for Adam Kinzinger, one of the two Republicans on the House's select committee investigating the January 6 attack on the Capitol © 2022 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say If you are pregnant, God made you completely capable to be a mother, and he will provide for you, as you strive in life and become a mother. Motherhood will be the most incredible journey of your entire life, bringing you continuous joy you’ve never known. Marjorie Taylor Greene, 9:06 AM – Jun 28, 2022  © 2022 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say “The left in the media — they're  all about democracy?” he ranted to me one day. “On November 8, the War Room  and the War Room  posse and all the little people at the school boards and things — we're gonna give you democracy shoved up your ass. Okay? We're gonna give you a democracy suppository.  Steve Bannon, quoted by Jennifer Senior, in The Atlantic, June 6, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say President Trump, on behalf of all the MAGA patriots in America, I want to thank you for the historic victory for white life in the Supreme Court yesterday. Mary Miller, Trump-endorsed candidate for election to the House of Representatives from Illinois's 15th Congressional District, celebrating overturning of Roe v. Wade at a June 25, 2022, Mendon, Illinois rally attended by Trump © 2022 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say You are one stupid cunt! That pimp you married not only broke his oath, he sold his soul. Yours and christian's too!  Adam's activities have not only hurt this country but countless patriotic and God Fearing families. Therefore, although it might Take time, he will be executed. But don't worry! You and Christian will be joining Adam in hell too! We find it blasphemous that you name the son of the devil Christian! Letter sent to the wife of Adam Kinzinger, the only Republican other than Liz Cheney serving on the select committee investigating the January 6 attack on the Capitol © 2022 Kwiple.com
 
Ukraine War There is no doubt that attacks on healthcare are central to the Russian military’s way of waging war. On February 24, the first day of the invasion, Russian forces hit three hospitals. Since then, attacks have damaged more than six hundred others, according to Ukraine's health ministry. Annie Sparrow, Financial Times, July 5, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com