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2020 Presidential election Fee-fi-fo-fum, Jack stalks Trump to see if he did something dumb. Maureen Dowd, New York Times, Novwember 19, 2022, on the appointment of Jack Smith as special counsel to investigate Trump's role in the January 6 attack on the Capitol and in taking classifed documents to Mar-a-Lago © 2022 Kwiple.com
Books What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye  © 2022 Kwiple.com
Christianity Better sleep wiih a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian. Ishmael in Moby Dick © 2022 Kwiple.com
Conspiracy theorists say Infamy, infamy, they’ve all got it in for me! Kenneth Williams as Julius Caesar in the British film Carry on Cleo © 2022 Kwiple.com
Democracy Key to the smooth running of democracy is the indifference of much of the population, much of the time. Voters are crucial as an eye on things, as a righter of the ship of state when it lists. That requires a measure of knowledge. Round-the-clock absorption is something else. It causes politics to take place in too loud a setting, laws to be made in too hot a smithy. Janan Ganesh, Financial Times, November 25, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Hatred Our age is indeed the age of the intellectual organization of political hatreds. It will be one of its chief claims to notice in the moral history of humanity. Julian Benda, The Treason of the Intellectuals  [1927] © 2022 Kwiple.com
Hypocrisy A report that came out at CNN says Republicans call Biden infrastructure program socialism, and then they ask for the money. And it goes through all of the Republicans, those who call it socialism and how they’re asking. [names several identified in the report] I can go down the list. Look it up. Socialism. I didn't know there were that many socialist Republicans. Joe Biden, October 14, 2022 [CNN named: Mark Amodei (NV), Andy Barr (KY), Marsha Blackburn (TN), Lauren Boebert (CO), Larry Bucshon (IN), Jerry Carl (IN), Jim Comer (KY), Tom Emmer (MN), Joni Ernst (IA), Randy Feenstra (IA), Michelle Fisch- bach (MN), Carlos Giménez (FL), Paul Gosar (AZ), Vicky Hartzler (MO),  Ashley Hinson (IA), Cindy Hyde-Smith (MS), Jim Inhofe (OK), John Joyce (PA), Trent Kelly (MS), Darin LaHood (IL), Debbie Lesko (AZ), Julia Letlow (LA), Nancy Mace (SC), Tom McClintock (CA), Mariannette Miller-Meeks (IA), Markwayne Mullin (OK), Rand Paul (KY), Cathy McMorris Rodgers (WA), Mike Rounds (SD), John Rutherford (FL), María Elvira Salazar (FL), Richard Shelby (AL), John Thune (SD), Pat Toomey (PA), Tommy Tuberville (AL), David Valadao (CA) © 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
Liars say I LOVE TRUTH! Donald Trump, @realDonaldTrump : Oct 28, 2022, 9:10 AM © 2022 Kwiple.com
Lies If I ever thought of these as lies, I soon came to see them as part of the etiquette of poverty — a means of getting by for the poor and also a gift we give to the rich, a practice that lets us avoid talking about the uncomfortable differences between us. Over time, it becomes second nature. Observing this etiquette doesn't feel dishonest because its falsehoods recognize the deeper truth that many of society's institutions are hostile to the poor. Lying to the landlord keeps a roof over our heads. Lying to the social worker keeps our family together. Lying to ourselves allows us to believe it's all going to be OK, somehow, someday. Joshua Hunt, New York Times, July 13, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Patriotism You can't love your country only when you win. Joe Biden © 2022 Kwiple.com
Peace I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully. George W. Bush © 2022 Kwiple.com
Polarization I find this statistic shocking, and perhaps you will, too: In 1952, only 50 percent of voters said they saw a big difference between the Democratic and Republican Parties. By 1984, it was 62 percent. In 2004, it was 76 percent. By 2020, it was 90 percent.  The yawning differences between the parties have made swing voters not just an endangered species, but a bizarre one. How muddled must your beliefs about politics be to shift regularly between Republican and Democratic Parties that agree on so little? Ezra Klein, New York Times, November 12, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Polarization This is the key to the future of the United States as a political entity. The polarization is geographical. Americans with different politics are moving farther away from each other physically as well as ideologically. The separation feeds back into the political system. More states become single-party states, like California and Texas. Ideological unity replaces open debates. The geography of the national government, and  the way it apportions power, becomes distorted. Huge geographical inequalities are baked into the system of government, which is, after all, nearly 250 years old. Sixty-two senators  represent one quarter of the American population. Six senators represent another quarter. Stephen Marche, The Next Civil War  [2022] © 2022 Kwiple.com
Politics We should never interrupt the enemy while he is making a mistake. Edward Luce, Financial Times, October 14, 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
Schools  Unless our children begin to learn together, there is little hope that our people will ever learn to live together. Thurgood Marhall, dissent in Milliken v. Bradley © 2022 Kwiple.com
Schools When I graduated from high school in 1973, less than two-thirds of black students  attended predominantly non-white schools; by 2018, 81 per cent did. Moreover, the percentage of black students in majority white schools almost halved between 1991 and 2018, from 34.5 to 19.1 per cent. Patti Waldmeir, Financial Times, November 14, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Alpha dogs never die. Never. Anthony Quinn had a baby out of wedlock at 78. His wife was very mad at him. And then he did it again at 81. Anthony Quinn portrayed by Bill Maher, Real Time with Bill Maher, November 11, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Snapshot He would rather blow up our democracy than admit he's a loser, and that makes him a traitor. Donald Trump portrayed by Maureen Dowd, New York Times, November 19, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Snapshot I wouldn't be surprised if you nicknamed your penis Mike Pence because it's not hung like it should be. Donald Trump portrayed by Bill Maher Real Time with Bill Maher, November 11, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say Trump’s the president. He runs the country, but he’s also the king. There’s no other president that will be the king. A Mar-a-Lago club member who agreed to be quoted in the November 24, 2022, Financial Times, but refused to reveal his name because “Some readers won’t like that.  Some readers don't like royalty. The world is changing a lot.” © 2022 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say You can say Biden won the presidency kind of like O. J. is innocent. Kari Lake © 2022 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say You could fly around the world on the energy in here tonight. Toni Hunt Kramer, founder of Trumpettes, a superfan group, on Trump's speech at Mar-Lago announcing he's running again in 2024 in a speech lasting more than an hour and that was charitably described by others as “lackluster” © 2022 Kwiple.com
Ukraine Ukraine’s resistance to Russia's genocidal invasion does more for American security than any American policy does — or could do. It has changed the global balance in a way that makes peace more likely in decades to come. 2/ … My concerns about the Russian invasion of Ukraine are the prevention of genocide and the defense of democracy. But those who think first of U.S. interests should acknowledge what Ukrainians are doing for American security. The least we can do is be on our own side 13/13 Timothy Snyder, 9:15 AM — Nov 6, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Ukraine What animates Ukrainians, and should animate Americans and West Europeans, is the brutality with which Russia wages war. There are lots of complicated issues in international relations, but this is stark: Russia has tried to annex part of a sovereign country and persistently commits crimes against humanity. Nicholas Kristof, New York Times, November 16, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
 
Wealth inequality The top 0.1 percent and the bottom 90 percent of American households hold close to the same amount of wealth. That's one of the statistics most frequently cited to describe the problem of economic inequality in the United States today. Here are some others: Nearly two-thirds of Americans are now living paycheck to paycheck. An estimated 41 percent — 135 million people — are considered either poor or low-income. Eighteen percent of households earn less than $25,000 a year. Even before the pandemic hit, one in four Black families had a net worth of zero. New York Times, July 13, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com