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Abortion In Ho’s legal analogy, then, patients undergoing abortion are akin to damaged natural landscapes or wildlife sanctuaries. Antiabortion doctors, meanwhile, play the role of disappointed tourists. Rhonda Garelick, Los Angeles Times, August 22, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Abortion To construe abortion as a crime against the privilege of looking inside women [as judge James Ho does in defending  standing for antiabortion doctors trying to reverse mifepristone’s federal approval] is to construe them as objects offered up for the visual consumption, pleasure and, of course, control of others. Rhonda Garelick, Los Angeles Times, August 22, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Abortion Unborn babies are a source of profound joy for those who view them. Expectant parents eagerly share ultrasound photos with loved ones. Friends and family cheer at the sight of an unborn child. Doctors delight in working with their unborn patients — and experience an aesthetic injury when they are aborted. James Ho — Federlist Society member, former clerk to Clarence Thomas, Trump-appointed judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit — affirming antiabortion doctors' standing to sue to reverse mifepristone’s federal approval because they're harmed by being denied jollies from peering into pregnant women's bodies © 2023 Kwiple.com
Change How does a nation make painful reforms when it is still richer, safer and freer than most? … It is precisely because enough people have enough to lose that change is provocative. Janan Ganesh, Financial Times, September 1, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Change The trick for individuals, and for larger entities, is to understand that malaise can be the worse fate. Crises often force change. Tolerable underperformance is, or can be, for keeps. … Cause and effect are hard to establish, but the record keeps throwing up these chronological proximities of crisis and profound innovation. Janan Ganesh, Financial Times, September 1, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Cocks of the walk say I'm intelligent. Some people would say I'm very, very, very intelligent. Donald Trump © 2023 Kwiple.com
Cocks of the walk say Look, if I were a liberal Democrat, people would say I'm  the super genius of all time. The super genius of all time.  Donald Trump © 2023 Kwiple.com
Food I eat whatever’s in front of me — usually ribs — and follow it with a martini. Modern medicine ensures  I won’t die straight away. It's a glorious time to be alive. Gary Scheiyngart, New York Times, August 27, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Global warming Every time you have that soil or rock, whatever it is, that is deposited into the seas, that forces the sea levels to rise because now you've got less space in those oceans because the bottom is moving up. Mo Brooks © 2023 Kwiple.com
Global warming Is there anything that the National forest Service or BLM can do to change the course of the moon's orbit or the Earth's orbit around the sun? Obviously, that would have a profound effect on our climate. Louie Gohmert, to a stunned Forest Service official during a live-streamed meeting of the House Committee on National Resources' Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands © 2023 Kwiple.com
Ignorance Our army manned the air, it rammed the ramparts, it took over the airports, it did everything it had to do, and at Fort McHenry, under the rockets' red glare, it had nothing but victory. Donald Trump on the War of 1812 © 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
Leftists There’s always a category of leftist who sees voting as a form of self-expression akin to writing a song, rather than the way to choose who gets power. These people often feel only a perfunctory animus against the right, which barely intrudes on their field of vision. They get much more het up about the centre-left, which they are always running up against in big cities, university campuses and, above all, on social media. In the US, the natural home for such people is the Green party, which functions as a vehicle for marginal narcissists to siphon votes from Democrats so that Republicans can win world-changing elections. Simon Kuper, Financial Times, August 31, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Liberalism The lesson of this decade so far is that liberalism isn’t tenable without hard power. Janan Ganesh, Financial Times, July 25, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Populist leaders Notice how many populist leaders are what might be called relative  outsiders. Privileged by almost all standards, these people feel shut out of what they regard as the true in-crowd. Nigel Farage: a former stockbroker, but also a non-graduate and much-mocked seven-time loser of elections to parliament. Boris Johnson: Etonian and Oxonian but neither posh nor rich. Marine Le Pen: a dynast, but not one who passed through France’s top school for technocrats. And then the ultimate case in point: Donald Trump, an outer-borough arriviste, ridiculed by the smart set for his ghastly taste and paprika tan. Janan Ganesh, Financial Time, August 22, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Post-2022 Senate shituation 15 states (Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Utah, Wyoming) 2020 population: 40,737,128 Senators: 30 Republicans 1 Senator per 1,357,904 people — 1 state (California) 2022 population: 39,995,077 Senators: 2 Democrats 1 Senator per 19,997,539 people 19,997,539 / 1,357,904 = 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) 2022 population = 579,495, therefore: 1 Senator per 289,748 Wyomians, a Wyomian's vote is worth 69 times a Californian's, a Californian's vote is worth 1.4% of a Wyomian's  © 2023 Kwiple.com
Republicans Party The contortions of Pence as he twisted himself into knots to try to justify the unjustifiable [promising to support Trump in 2024 after declaring him unfit for office] is symptomatic of a larger  discomfort gripping elders and sages of the Republican party now that the 15-month stagger-up to the election is under way.  Most simply expressed, the question is this:  are populism and conservatism reconcilable? Which of the two ideologies — for they are not only distinct but deeply contrary — constitutes the real Republican party?  Simon Schama, Financial Times, September 2, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Rule of law The west was law-governed before it was democratic.  (The universal franchise is about a century old.) And if the rule of law was earlier to arrive, it is also shaping up to be the first to go. It is hard to imagine a western nation ceasing outright to be democratic any time soon, if we understand this to mean that it would no longer have fair elections whose results are enforced. Chaos, though? Entropy? Those are easier destinies to picture, at times by just looking around. Janan Ganesh, Financial Times, Augusr 29, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Selfie I had fun at Yale. I got a lot of great friends out of Yale. And I didn't pay attention. George W. Bush © 2023 Kwiple.com
Selfie Some people are saying I prove that if you get a C average, you can end up being successful in life. George W. Bush © 2023 Kwiple.com
Selfie Whenever I’m at the airport, I like to do a little shopping at the Free Store. The Free Store is any establishment that  leaves its permanently price-gouged wares unsecured on shelves unattended by underpaid and overharried employees. I stroll in, select my items, then suddenly “receive a phone call” that “my flight is almost done boarding.” I’ve known people who get a rush from the act of stealing. Not me. What I love is having and using things I didn’t pay for. Thomas Morton, “writer, TV host and frequent flier” © 2023 Kwiple.com
Snapshot His name was Ronald Reagan, and it's in no small part thanks to him that today we can say: It's Moronic in America. Ronald Reagan portrayed by Andy Borowitz in Profiles in Ignorance © 2023 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Trump is no feeble martyr. He is something altogether more “based” — to borrow the internet slang-word for someone who is respected for paying no regard to political correctness or even basic morality. Trump is the ultimate American anti-hero. Donald Trump portrayed by Jemima Kelly, Financial Times, September 3, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say I came to realize: life is that gift from God that I think, even if life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that is something that God intended to happen. Richard Earl Mourdock © 2023 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say  Wannabe dictator speaks at the White House after having his political rival arrested Chryon appearing at the end of “Fox News Tonight”, hosted by Brian Kilmeade, below split-screen footage of Biden and Trump, following Trump's arraignment in Miami for mishandling classified documents and participating in a conspiracy to obstruct justice [Kilmeade introduced his coverage of Trump's response to being arraigned by calling Trump “the president of the United States”] © 2023 Kwiple.com
Water 0  Many of the aquifers that supply 90 percent of the nation’s water systems, and which have transformed vast stretches of America into some some of world’s most bountiful farmland, are being severely depleted. These declines are threatening irreversible harm to the American economy and society as a whole. … Of the nation’s 143,070 water systems, 128,362 rely primarily on groundwater, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. New York Times, August 28, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
 
Water  One study found that 88 percent of water in  17 Western states was used by agriculture. Only 7 percent was consumed by homes. Alfalfa fields single-handedly drank up al-  most three times as much as all households. California produces a bounty of almonds, which gulp about 3.2 gallons of water for each almond, according to a 2019 study. Researchers say that the Southwest is experiencing a megadrought that is the worst in at least 1,200 years. Wells have been drying up as far north as Oregon, and the Great Salt Lake in Utah has shrunk by two-thirds. Nicholas Kristof, New York Times, May 15, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com