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2020 Presidential election I hope he comes. I want to punch him out. This is my moment. I’ve been waiting for this. For trespassing on the Capitol grounds. I want to punch him out, and I’m going to go to jail, and I’m going to be happy. Nancy Pelosi, January 6, 2021, while sequestered underground and after being told the Secret Service dissuaded Trump from going to the Capitol to personally lead the insurrection © 2022 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election In short, you were at the center of the first and only effort by any U.S. President to overturnn an election and obstruct the peaceful transfer of power, ultimately culminating in a bloody attack on our own Capitol and on Congress itself. The evidence demonstrates that you knew this activity was illegal and unconstitutional, and also knew that your assertions of fraud were false. But to be clear, even if you now claim that you actually believed your own false election claims, that is not a defense; your subjective belief could not render this conduct justified, execusable, or legal. Subpoena to Trump from the Select Committee © 2022 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election United States House of Representatives Reso- lution 503 instructs the Select Committee to  Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol ("Select Committee") to investi- gate the facts, circumstances, and causes of the January 6th attack and issues relating to the peaceful transfer of power. Pursuant to that directive, we have interviewed thousands of wit- nesses, reviewed over a million documents, con- ducted public hearings, and vindicated our right in court against those who have tried to keep relevant information from the Select Committee. As demonstrated in our hearings, we have assembled overwhelming evidence, including from dozens of your former appointees and staff, that you personally orchestrated and oversaw a multi-part effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election and to obstruct the peaceful transfer of power. Subpoena to Trump from the Select Committee © 2022 Kwiple.com
Authoritarianism Ain't nothing as agile as authoritarian regimes. Jon Stewart, Financial Times, October 28, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Authoritarianism Durable despotisms are systems of voluntary servitude. As Thomas Paine long ago spotted, despotisms turn their subjects into carriers of despotic ideas, ways of speech, and other symbolic practices that serve to lubricate the machinery of arbitrary power. John Keane, The New Despotism © 2022 Kwiple.com
Authoritarianism A new species of top-down rule marked by recombinant qualities, these despotisms are systems of state-regulated capitalism in which wide gaps between rich and poor are bridged by top-to-bottom patron-client connections, middle class loyalty, staged elections, and a great deal of officially sanctioned talk of the people as the veritable source of political order. John Keane, The New Despotism © 2022 Kwiple.com
Bullshitters say I'm not a politician. Marjorie Taylor Greene  © 2022 Kwiple.com
Impeachment Already there is enormous demand for impeachment. A University of Massachusetts Amherst poll in May found that 68 percent of Republican voters think the House should impeach Biden.  A majority expect that it will  impeach him. Thwarting those expectations would be dangerous for any House Republican. Barton Gellman, The Atlantic, October 26, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Impeachment Sometime next year, after an interval of perfor- mative investigations, Republicans in the House  are going to impeach Joe Biden. This may not be  their present plan, but they will work themselves up to it by degrees. The pressure from the MAGA base will build. A triggering event will burst all restraints. Eventually, Republicans will leave themselves little choice. This prediction rests, of course, on the assumption that Republicans will win control of the House next month, which seems likely: Impeachment is the corollary of election denial — the invincible certainty that Biden cheated in  2020 and Donald Trump won. If you truly believe that and haven't joined a militia, impeachment is the least of the remidies you will accept. Barton Gellman, The Atlantic, Oct. 26, 2002 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Jews No President has done more for Israel than I have. Somewhat surprisingly, however, our wonderful Evangelicals are far more appreciative of this than the people of the Jewish faith, especially those living in the U.S. Those living in Israel, though, are a different story — Highest approval rating in the World, could easily be P.M.! U.S. Jews have to get their act together and appreciate what they have in Israel — Before it is too late! Donald Trump, 9:29 AM – Oct 16, 2022 © 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
Lotteries  According to the consumer financial company Bankrate, players making more than fifty thousand dollars per year spend, on average, one per cent of their annual income on lottery tickets; those making less than thirty thousand dollars spend thirteen per cent. That means someone making twenty-seven thousand dollars loses some thirty-five hundred dollars to the lottery every year. To put that number in context, nearly sixty per cent of Americans have less than a thousand dollars in savings. Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, October 17, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Lotteries … adventurers would as leave lose  altogether as acquire trifling prizes and would prefer a small chance of winning a great deal to a great chance of winning little. Alexander Hamilton, 1793 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Lotteries  Many white voters, [Jonathan] Cohen writes [in For a Dollar and a Dream ], supported legalization because they thought state-run gambling would primarily attract Black numbers players, who would then foot the bill for services that those white voters didn't  want to pay for anyway, such as better schools in the urban areas they had lately fled.  (In reality, the oft-repeated claim that legalizing the lottery would merely decriminalize current gamblers rather than create new ones of all races proved dramatically wrong.) Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, October 17, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Lotteries Today, according to the National Conference of  State Legislatures, lotteries bring in, on average, about one per cent of state revenue per year. Like all money, it matters, but whatever difference it makes is offset by two problems. The first is that lotteries have made it harder than ever to pass much-needed tax increases, because, thanks to years of noisy campaigning followed by decades of heavy promotion, the public wrongly believes that schools and other vital services are lavishly supported by gambling funds.  The second is that the money raised by lotteries comes largely from the people who can least afford to part with it. Every state lottery is regressive, meaning that it takes a dispro- portionate toll on low-income citizens. Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, Oct. 17, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Middle class It turns out that the middle classes of the new despotisms defy modern social science predictions. Their educaction, occupations and assets incline them to be loyal to the system: they show few of the signs of wanting to walk in the footsteps of the independent- minded, property-owning citizens of the early modern period. When it comes to democracy, the fickleness of these middle classes is remarkable. John Keane, The New Despotism © 2022 Kwiple.com
Middle class One lesson the new despotism is that the middle classes have no instinctual love of open power-sharing. Guided by a mixture of motives, including greed, professional and family honor, respectability, and anxiety about about the future, they seem happy to be kidnapped by state rulers, willing (as per the Stockholm syndrome) to be bought off with lavish services, cash payments, and invisible benefits such as being left alone to live their lives. … [They] definitely have a taste for regime stability plus private comforts. John Keane, The New Despotism © 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
Punt returners say I'm not sure whether I even have any gay friends, to be honest with you. Greg Norman, CEO of LIV, an organization created by Saudia Arabia to launder its reputation for murdering its opponents and critics, reponding to a reporter's question about persecution of gay people in Saudi Arabia  © 2022 Kwiple.com
Selfie I really want to address the elephant in the room. This is what I look like now. I'm not happy about it either. Very few people would be happy about looking like an anti-smoking poster. Jon Stewart, The Problem with Jon Stewart, 2021 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say The climate has always changed,  and no amount of taxes and no government can do anything to stop climate change. Marjorie Taylor Greene © 2022 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say I didn't even know there was a history with that phrase. Marjorie Taylor Greene on calling herself a “Christian nationalist” © 2022 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say I don’t back down. I don’t apologize. Marjorie Taylor Greene © 2022 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say If MLK, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. were alive today, if JFK were alive today, if our founding fathers were alive today, they would be America-first Republicans. I really believe that. Kari Lake, October 19, 2022, Republican candidate for governor of Arizona and election denier © 2022 Kwiple.com
< Trumpists say Kanye. Elon. Trump. House Judiciary GOP@JudiciaryGOP 8:05 PM – Oct 6, 2022 Meaning what?  Tweedledee, Tweededum, and Tweedledumbest? The Holy Trinity of Trumpism? The Three Little Pigs? The Three Stooges?  © 2022 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say There should not be involvement from the federal government in how states decide their abortion decisions. As a physician, I've been in the room when there’s some difficult conversations happening. I don’t want the federal government involved with that at all. I want women, doctors, local political leaders, letting the democracy that's always allowed our nation to thrive to put the best ideas forward so states can decide for themselves. Mehmet Oz  [imaging states are the best protectors of rights and "local political leaders" are impartial] © 2022 Kwiple.com