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Friday 19th of April 2024

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2022 midterm elections It's crystal, crystal, crystal clear.  We lose with Trump if we stick with Trump. If we dump Trump, we start winning. Paul Ryan, retired Republican Speaker of the House © 2023 Kwiple.com
Books Book publishers exist to make newspaper publishers look generous. Robert Armstrong, Financial Times, December 23, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Books It's true: the point of writing a book no one will ever read is getting paid for giving speeches no one will ever listen to. Robert Armstrong, Financial Times, December 23, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
House of Representatives In the House, if you have a majority of the votes, you can do anything you want. If you don’t, you can’t do much of anything. Brendan Buck, New York Times, January 2, 2023 © 2023 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
Populism Before it is anything else — divisive, inept, sometimes perceptive and necessary — populism is exhausting. It generates too much noise and scandal in government for all but the most news-hungry citizens to bear for long. … It would be nice to think that Americans were making a Jeffersonian statement about the importance of civic standards when they evicted [Trump] from the White House in 2020. “Enough, already,” was more like it. Janan Ganesh, Financial Times, December 27, 2022 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Populism Put another way, fascism is about winning and doing. Populism is about losing, and cocking a snook at the winners. As a movement, it is at its happiest as a large minority of the electorate:  enough to sustain its own media ecosystem, provide earning opportunities for grifters and perhaps sway the official policy of the day. But not enough to have to govern. Janan Ganesh, Financial Times, December 27, 2022 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Populism  … this is a movement that lives on spectacle. This is why, among other reasons, it was always daft to compare the likes of Johnson and Trump with the strongmen of the 1930s. What obsessed Mussolini and Franco was control of the governmental machine (with the view to, you know, doing things), not just the circus of politics. Whatever an interwar dictator was upon attaining power, he wasn't the dog that caught the car. He had all too clear a plan for the vehicle. Janan Ganesh, Financial Times, December 27, 2022 © 2023 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
Selfie The people that don’t like me are the rich people. It’s a funny thing. They can't stand me. I sort of love it. Donald Trump, 1995 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Snapshot I must confess a certain perverse admiration. To lie in the way that Santos has requires reserves of audacity, creativity and nerve that most people can scarcely imagine. And where but New York could someone lie about being Jewish to gain political advantage? George Santos portrayed by Joshua Chaffin, Financial Times, January 6, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Spies To be a spy, you need first to know what you think about the world, whom you would like to help, whom to frustrate. Also, you have to decide how much you are prepared to do by dishonest means. John le Carré' response to a 10-year-old who asked for advice on becoming a spy  © 2022 Kwiple.com
State of the union The greatest threat to the United States today is not the rise of the hard right. It is the general decline in legitimacy of government that underlies the rise of the hard right. Stephen Marche, The Next Civil War  © 2022 Kwiple.com
Trade More and more of our imports come from overseas. George W. Bush © 2022 Kwiple.com
Trumpism If Trump did not exist, you might describe DeSantis's philosophy as fossil fuel Christian nationalism. Its enemies are amoral tech oligarchs, Big Pharma, ESG-endorsing finance,  the corporate media and elite universities.  Since Trump does exist, we call it Trumpism. The difference lies in the competence of its execution. Edward Luce, Financial Times, December 21, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say Hey Rick, 234 years ago the founding caucasion fathers of America gave us the Second Amendment. Time's running out, Richard. We're coming after you and every motherfucker that stole this election with our Second Amendment. Subpoenas be dammed! You're going to be served lead, you fucking, fuckng enemy communist. Phone message received by Richard Barron, Fulton County, Georgia, election administrator, after Biden narrowly won Georgia in 2020 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say I can’t believe I’m going to jail for an nft salesman. @bakedalaska (Anthime Joseph Gionet), 2:42 PM – Dec 15, 2022, white supremacist who livestreamed his participation in the January 6 insurrection and his occupation of Nancy Pelosi's office, reacting to Trump's “major announcement” that he's launching a series of $99 NFTs (non-fungible tokens/digital images) of himself in various superhero roles, complete with chiselled abs and eyes emitting laser beams © 2022 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say I'm a bit sleepy tonight but when I wake up I'm going death con 3 On JEWISH PEOPLE The funny thing is I actually can't be Anti Semitic because black people are actually Jew also 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, 3:55 AM – Oct 9, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say I made a mistake and I think humans are flawed and we all make mistakes, Tulsi. I think we can all look ourselves in the mirror and admit that once in our life we have all made a mistake. I'm having to admit this on national television for all the country to see and I have the courage to do so because, in order to move past this and to move forward and be an effective member of Congress, I have to face my mistakes. … I'm not a fraud. I'm not a fake. I didn't materialize from thin air. I worked damn hard to get where I am my entire life. Congressman-elect George Santos, to Tulsi  Gabbard about lying during his campaign about  his grandarents being Holocaust survivors, being  Jewish, having worked for Goldman Sachs & Citi- bank, having graduated college, owning 13 pro- perties, his income, mother's death, residence … © 2023 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say I want to tell you something. If Steve Bannon and I had organized that, we would have won. Not to mention, we would’ve been armed, Marjorie Taylor Greene, December 10, 2022, speaking to guests at a dinner hosted by the New York Young Republican Club about the January 6th insurrection © 2022 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say In fact, quite frankly, every election since, I think, George Washington, there's been some kind of a defect in the system. Mark Finchem, Oath Keeper and 2022 Republican candidate for Arizona secretary of state © 2022 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say It actually puts an exclamation point on the fact that we have a two-tiered justice system. If you're a Republican, you can't even lie to Congress or lie to an FBI agent or they’re coming after you. They're gonna bury you. They're gonna put you in the D.C. jail and terrorize and torture you and not live up to the Constitution there. Louie Gohmert, complaining about the FBI's arrest of Peter Navarro for refusing to respond to a subpoena to testify before the January 6 committee days after a grand jury acquitted a Democrat accused of lying to the FBI © 2022 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say Joe Biden's five million illegal aliens are on the verge of replacing you, replacing your jobs, and replacing your kids in school, and coming from all over the world, they're also replacing your culture. Marjorie Taylor Greene © 2022 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say Our elections are a circus, run by clowns. Kari Lake © 2022 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say There's going to be MAGA in the room counting votes because only MAGA can count fair. Steve Bannon © 2022 Kwiple.com
Ukraine Do prove that you are with us. Do prove that you will not let us go. Do prove that you are indeed Europeans, and that life will win over death, and light will win over darkness.  Volodymyr Zelensky, speech to European Parliament, March 1, 2022 © 2023 Kwiple.com
 
Ukraine This year can be called a year of losses for Ukraine, for the whole of Europe and the whole world. But it's wrong. We shouldn't say that. We haven't lost anything. It was taken from us. Ukraine did not lose its sons and daughters – they were taken away by murderers. We did not lose our lands – they were occupied by invaders. The world did not lose peace – Russia destroyed it. … It's impossible to forget and it's impossible to forgive, but it's possible to win. Volodymyr Zelensky, December 31, 2022 © 2023 Kwiple.com