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Saturday 27th of April 2024

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2020 Presidential election I said, “Mike, you have a chance to be Thomas Jefferson or you can be Mike Pence.” He chose to be Mike Pence.  Donald Trump © 2022 Kwiple.com
Assholes say I had other priorities in the 60s than military service. Dick Cheney © 2022 Kwiple.com
Autocrats say Better the lie that keeps the peace than the truth that disrupts. Sa'di of Shiraz, The Gulistan (Rose Garden) of Sa'di © 2022 Kwiple.com
Cities If a city is not borderline unlivable, I question its greatness. Janan Ganesh, Financial Times, October 7, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Cocks of the walk say When I run for president in 2024, we would have created so many jobs that I'm not going to run; I'm going to walk. Kanye West, a.k.a Ye a.k.a Yeezus a.k.a. Louis Vuitton Don a.k.a. Yeezy a.k.a. Saint Pablo a.k.a. Christian Billionaire Genius, on opening a shoe manufacturing facility for his shoe brand in Cody, Wyoming © 2022 Kwiple.com
The Constitution of the United States It would be easier to convert America into a French-speaking country than amend its constitution. Edward Luce, Financial Times, October 6, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Consumerism There was a time when we were able and motivated to maintain and look after products. Beyond just buying something, we were caring for it, which is obviously better than recycling. Jony Ive, Financial Times, May 6, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say I had a small number of boxes in storage. There is no crime. They should give me immediately back everything they have taken from me because it's mine. Donald Trump,  talking about 11,000+ government documents he took to Mar-a-Lago after leaving office, includng hundreds of classified documents  © 2022 Kwiple.com
Entrepreneurs Between 2012 and 2017 the number of tech start-ups that received initial funding fell 22 per cent. As one investor put it, “90 per cent of the start-ups I see are built for sale, not for scale”. Many of those businesses end up in the tech giants’ waste bin. Susan Holmberg, Financial Times, February 15, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Government  As long as there is plenty, poverty is evil. Government belongs wherever evil needs an adversary and there are people in distress. Robert F. Kennedy © 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
Nukes I don’t think there’s any such thing as the ability to easily use a tactical nuclear weapon and not end up with Armageddon. Joe Biden, October 6, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Political parties If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all. Thomas Jefferson © 2021 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
Regulations Requiring legislative authorization for regulation that address “major questions” is tantamount to shelving it. That means the US government’s ability to address novel policy issues has been badly hamstrung. Brooke Masters, Fianncial Times, July 6, 2022, on the anti-government Supreme Court's ruling in West Virginia v. EPA, which prioritized protecting fossil fuel companies' profits over protecting the planet from warming and which will undoubtedly be the basis for forthcoming rulings shielding all businesses from any regulation whatsoever © 2022 Kwiple.com
Snapshot You know Roger is crazy. He really believes that stuff. Roger Ailes portrayed by Rupert Murdoch © 2022 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Look at those losers. Poker players at Trump's Taj Mahal casino portrayed by Donald Trump © 2022 Kwiple.com
Snapshot They're fucking crazy. Trump's supporters portrayed by Donald Trump © 2022 Kwiple.com
Surveillance Modern surveillance technology means that tailor-made wages are coming to all workplaces. The mass-produced, nonunionized depressed wages of the late twentieth century were already alarming, but the new specially commissioned AI wages of the twenty-first century enable a new level of authoritarianism. Zephyr Teachout, New York Review of Books, Augsut 18, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say I don't believe in anything. I’m just here for the violence. slogan on patch worn by Kelly Meggs, one of the Oath Keepers on trial for seditious conspiracy for their role in the January 6 attack on the Capitol © 2022 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say It's not whether a woman should be forced to bring a child to term;  it’s whether a child should be allowed to live even though the circumstances of that child's birth are somehow inconvenient or a problem to the society. J. D. Vance, talking about abortion in cases of rape or incest © 2022 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say My only regret is that they should have brought rifles [to the Capitol on January 6]. We could have fixed it right there and then. Stewart Rhodes, leader of the Oath Keepers © 2022 Kwiple.com
< Trumpists say So what? They're Muslim. Katrina Pierson, Trump spokeswoman, dismissing concerns about Trump's ban on Muslims © 2022 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say We aren’t getting through this without a civil war. Stewart Rhodes, leader of the Oath Keepers, two days after the 2020 election © 2022 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say When I'm secretary of state of Nevada, we are going to fix it, and when my coalition of secretary of state candidates around the country get elected, we're going to fix the whole country, and President Trump is going to be president again in 2024. Jim Marchant, Republican candidate for Secretary of State in Nevada in 2022 and head of a coalition of election deniers running for secretary of state in key battleground states © 2022 Kwiple.com
War We [you] may not be interested in war, but it is interested in us [you]. Attributed to Fannie Hurst [Leon Trotsky] © 2022 Kwiple.com
 
Work The logical conclusion of workplace surveillance is that  the private sphere ceases to exist at home because it ceases to exist at work, where visibility into the worker's life is unrestrained. Zephyr Teachout, New York Review of Books, Augsut 18, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com