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2020 Presidential election The district court did not abuse its discretion in admitting portions of Congress's January 6 Report into evidence at trial. Anderson v. Griswold, majority decision, Supreme Court of the State of Colorado  © 2023 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election The district court did not err in concluding that the events at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, constituted an “insurrection.” The district court did not err in concluding that President Trump “engaged in” that insurrection through his personal actions. Anderson v. Griswold, majority decision, Supreme Court of the State of Colorado  © 2023 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election President Trump'a speech inciting the crowd that breached the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, was not protected by the First Amendment. Anderson v. Griswold, majority decision, Supreme Court of the State of Colorado  © 2023 Kwiple.com
2024 Presidential primaries The Election Code [of Colorado] allows  the Electors to challenge President Trump’s status as a qualified candidate based on Section Three [of the 14th Amendment]. Indeed, the Election Code provides the Electors their only viable means of litigating whether President Trump is disqualified from holding office under Section Three. Anderson v. Griswold, majority decision, Supreme Court of the State of Colorado  © 2023 Kwiple.com
2024 Presidential primaries A majority of the Court holds that President Trump is disqualified from holding the office of President under  Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Because he is disqualified, it would be a wrongful act under the Election Code for the Colorado Secretary of State to list him as a candidate on the presidential primary ballot. Anderson v. Griswold, majority decision, Supreme Court of the State of Colorado  © 2023 Kwiple.com
2024 Presidential primaries [N]othing about the district court's process suggests that President Trump was deprived of notice or opportunity to fully respond to the claim against him or to mount a vigorous defense. If any case suggests that it is not  impossible to “fully litigate a complex constitutional issue within days or weeks,” this is it. Anderson v. Griswold, majority decision, Supreme Court of the State of Colorado  © 2023 Kwiple.com
Autocrats say For my friends, everything. For my enemies, the law. Óscar Raymundo Benevides, Peruvian dictator, 1933-1939  © 2023 Kwiple.com
Electoral College  The Electroal College is one of the South's few remaining political safeguards. Let's keep it. Senator James Allen of Alabama, 1969 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Fraud Elizabeth Holmes of Theranos invented corporate fraud as a fancy-dress activity, with her deeply creepy Steve Jobs cosplay. After her conviction, you’d think  the strategy might have been abandoned. But along comes Bankman-Fried, sticking your billions in the pockets of his cargo shorts. Pro tip:  if you don’t plan on wearing it at the trial, don’t wear it while committing the crime. Robert Armstrong, Financial Times, December 22, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Ignorance Nothing in all the world  is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. Martin Luther King, Jr. Strength to Love  © 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
Lying Once the internet was a magical wonderland where everything was true and no one was accountable. Now it is just a place where your lies are indelibly recorded, usually in language a jury finds it very easy to understand. If you want to turn the truth on its head, for goodness’ sake use long words and jargon, and if you must write it down, put it somewhere harmless, like your company’s annual report. Robert Armstrong, Financial Times, December 22, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Lying The safest way to turn indifference to truth and decency into money and power is to be a part of a whole class of people like yourself, not a single big shot. A whole class of financial executives walked away clean from the 2008 crisis because so many other people were acting out the same greed-driven fantasy. Giuliani’s downfall was not in pushing Trump’s nonsense so much as in pushing himself to the front, where all the cameras were.  Robert Armstrong, Financial Times, December 22, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Lying Wherever possible lies should be told about classes of people (Republicans, elites, big business, the media, et al) not specific individuals. You start naming specific people and you are well into the territory of the provably untrue and, more to the point, concrete individuals are much more likely to sue your ass into the ground than are theoretical groups. Robert Armstrong, Financial Times, December 22, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Money in politics “Poor man wanna be rich, Rich man wanna be king” [sang Bruce Springsteen in “Badlands”]. If you are a creepy right-wing billionaire [like Barre Seid] and you know the public hates your view of the world, the only way to be king is to work your way around democratic processes, go clandestine, and find a scamp like Leonard Leo who knows how to move levers secretly. Sheldon Whitehouse © 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
Presidency Section Three [of the 14th Amendment] encompasses the office of the Presidency and someone who has taken an oath as President. On thie point, the district court committed a reversible error. Anderson v. Griswold, majority decision, Supreme Court of the State of Colorado  © 2023 Kwiple.com
Republican Party Donald Trump didn't hijack the G.O.P. He understood it. Ezra Klein, May 5, 2022 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Republican Party One reason the Republican party was so easy for Trump to pick off in the last decade was that it had the mental habits of the corporate C-suite and the Chamber of Commerce. Party grandees assumed that Trump was a rational actor who had a price: flattery, fame, a measure of influence. Pay it, and he’d be their creature. They had little concept of the zeal of his movement, because they had little concept of zeal. Janan Ganesh, Financial Times, December 12. 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Selfie I never read Mein Kampf. Donald Trump  [He listened to the audio book or he channels Adolf Hitler] © 2023 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Sam Bankman-Fried was convicted on all seven counts of fraud and money laundering after the jury deliberated just long enough to collect their full $40 per diem for their last day of work. Sam Bankman-Fried portrayed by Robert Armstrong, Financial Times, December 22, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say I don't think he meant what everybody is saying, being a dictatorship — and actually you know right now under Biden, that’s probably what we got because he does what he wants to do and he's not really listening to the voters. I think we need somebody that’s going to move forward fast to clean up everything, and I think that's what he meant. Leann Reed, a 66-yearold from Washington, Iowa, who attended Trump's speech in Iowa in which he doubled down on wanting to be a dictator, quoted in Washington Post, December 13, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say My kids call me a dictator, I thought my parents were dictators …  He said he was only going to do it for a day. Like if you had a home that was in disrepair and your parents came in and they were firm and they wanted to get it done, and when you got done you had this beautiful home, how could you be mad? “A woman in her 50s from northwest Iowa who spoke on the condition that she be identified only as Sue,” quoted in Washington Post, December 13, 2023, responding to Trump's speech in Iowa in which he parroted Hitler's speeches and doubled down on wanting to be a dictator © 2023 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say Of course he’s joking. He’s not going to be no dictator. You can’t be a dictator with a constitutional republic. John Russell, from Aurora, IL, quoted in Washington Post, December 13, 2023, after listening to Trump double down about wanting to be a dictator in a speech in Coralville, IA  © 2023 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say These folks [the Wisconsin Republicans who posed as fake electors in the 2020 election] did nothing different than what many Democrats have done in many states. It has happened repeatedly. Ron Johnson, valedictorian of his class at the  Goebbels Schule des öffentlichen Diskurses, in a typically evidence-free claim © 2023 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say We will go out and find the conspirators, not just in government but in the media. Yes, we’re going to come after the people in the media who lied about American citizens, who helped Joe Biden rig presidential elections — we’re going to come after you. Whether it’s criminally or civilly, we’ll figure that out. But yeah, we’re putting you all on notice. Kash Patel, December 5, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
 
Trumpists say You have some people in this town saying we need to cut social security and throw our grandparents into poverty. Why? So that one of Zelenskyy’s ministers can buy a bigger yacht? Mike Pence, Mamaw's proud Putinista © 2023 Kwiple.com