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2020 Presidential election You have the hostages, the J6 hostages, I call them. Nobody has been treated ever in history so badly as those people. [Not even John McCain?] You know what they ought to do? They ought to release the J6 hostages; they've suffered enough. Donald Trump © 2024 Kwiple.com
2024 Presidential election [I]f Donald Trump becomes the nominee of this party, the moment that it happened was when Nikki Haley, and Ron DeSantis, and Tim Scott and Mike Pence and Doug Burgum and Vivek Ramaswamy stood on that stage in Milwaukee in August, and when we were asked would you support someone who is a convicted felon to be President of the United States, they raised their hands. Give Ron credit. He had to look at everybody  else first to see if he wanted to raise his hand, but then he raised his hand. Kind of like  cheating off somebody’s paper in high school.  They raised their hands and I did not and will not and I cannot countenance that behavior. Chris Christie, Windham, NH, January 10, 2024 © 2024 Kwiple.com
2024 Presidential primaries Rapist Republican Frontrunner Heads Straight to Court After Iowa Win headline, article in The New Republic, January 16, 2024, about Trump flying to New York City after winning the Iowa caucuses to attend a trial to set damages after a jury unanimously decided he had sexually assaulted E. Jean Carroll in the mid-1990s and defamed her in 2019, and the judge declared him to be a “rapist” as the term is “commonly understood by most people,” instead of flying to New Hampshire, the site of 2024's second presidential primary © 2024 Kwiple.com
Economic growth We have an economy that’s so fragile, and the only reason it’s running now  is it’s running off the fumes of what we did. It’s just running off the fumes. And when there’s a crash — I hope  it’s going to be during this next 12 months  because I don’t want to be Herbert Hoover. Donald Trump, January 8, 2024, hoping for an economic disaster for millions because he thinks it's good for him politically [Trump and Hoover are the only presidents to leave office with fewer people employed  than when they entered —  2 million in his case. He didn't leave fumes behind; he left odors.] © 2024 Kwiple.com
Israel-Hamas war In the first three weeks alone, following 7 October, Israel deployed 6,000 bombs per week. At least 200 times it has deployed 2000 pound bombs in southern areas of Palestine designated as safe. These bombs have also decimated the north, including refugee camps. Two thousand pound bombs are some of the biggest and most destructive bombs available. Adila Hassim, lawyer representing South Africa at the International Court of Justice © 2024 Kwiple.com
Israel-Hamas war On the basis of the current figures, on average, 247 Palestinians are being killed and are at risk of being killed each day, many of them literally blown to pieces. They include 48 mothers each day, two every hour. And over 117 children each day. Leading UNICEF to call Israel’s actions a war on children. Entire multigenerational families will be obliterated and yet more children will become WCNSF — wounded child, no surviving family — the terrible new acronym born out of Israel’s genocidal assault on the Palestinian population in Gaza. Blinne Ni Ghralaigh, January 11, 2024, lawyer representing South Africa at the International Court of Justice © 2024 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
Loyalty I don't want loyalty. I want loyalty. I want him to kiss my ass in Macy's window at high noon and tell me it smells like roses. I want his pecker in my pocket. Lyndon Johnson on the desirable qualities of an assistant © 2024 Kwiple.com
Politics Personal ambition is a necessary element for any political candidate. You got to get out of bed in the morning and be able to really believe in your heart that you have something to offer to folks that’s better and different. I have no argument with people who are involved in politics being ambitious. You need to have it, but it can’t be  what governs your decision-making. Ambition can’t be what makes you decide how to do things as a public figure. Chris Christie, Windham, NH, January 10, 2024 © 2024 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 Imagine just for a moment, if 9-11 had happened with Donald Trump behind the desk. The first thing he would’ve done was run to the bunker to protect himself. He would’ve put himself first, before the country. And anyone who is unwilling to say that he is unfit to be President of the United States is unfit themselves to be President of the United States. Chris Christie, Windham, NH, January 10, 2024 © 2024 Kwiple.com
Presidential immunity from criminal prosecution I think it’s paradoxical to say that his constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed allows him to violate criminal law. Karen LeCraft Henderson, a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, responding to a claim by Trump's lawyers that presidents cannot be criminally prosecuted for official acts performed while they were in office once they have left it, unless they had been impeached and convicted for the acts before leaving it © 2024 Kwiple.com
Republican Party As a party, we need to be willing to take the responsibility for the part we’ve played in getting here. Our country is angry. It’s divided. It’s accomplishing little, and it is  leading our citizens to be exhausted. Chris Christie, Windham, NH, January 10, 2024 © 2024 Kwiple.com
Republican Party In Wall Street and NBC News polling, the share of the party held by white voters with a college education dropped from 40% to 25% over the last decade or so —  still a significant faction but less influentisl. Wall Street Journal, January 20-21, 2024 © 2024 Kwiple.com
Selfie I made a political decision eight years ago when I dropped out of the race in 2016. I looked at the polls and I decided that Donald Trump was going to be the nominee  and that since I'd known him for fifteen years, that I could make him a better candidate and if he won, maybe a better president. I knew his flaws, but I also knew he was going to win the noimination, so I decided I could get behind him and support him. I let the ambition get ahead of and in control of the decision-making, and after I figured that out, I promised myself and I promised  my wife that I would never, ever do that again. And I'm not going to. Chris Christie, Windham, NH, January 10, 2024 © 2024 Kwiple.com
Snapshot The Ohioian, who combines an extreme lack of interest in governing with a governing interest in extremism, would be the perfect leader of this lapsed party. Jim Jordan portrayed by Matt Ford, in New Republic, October 17, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Snapshot  He’s a whoremonger. A real whoremonger. He loves the titty bars. The only people he likes go to the titty bars with him. Those are the only people he trusts. He also goes out to Vegas all the time. He goes to the high-end titty bars. He’s always getting the private upstairs rooms, champagne, the works. David D. Smith, CEO of Sinclair Broadcast Group, new owner of the Baltimore Sun newspaper, and renowned advocate of “family values,” portrayed by a friend © 2024 Kwiple.com
Snapshot To a great extent, though, and starting with Brexit, he rode the tiger that now devours him. If he has an excuse, it is that Stanford business school, Goldman Sachs and the hedge fund world were the worst possible places in which to learn a central lesson of politics: some people have no price, or at least no price that it is conscionable to pay. Rishi Sunak portrayed by Janan Ganesh, Financial Times, December 12, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Donald Trump wants you to be angry every day because he’s angry. He wants you to be angry so that you’ll relate to his anger and then to vote for him. Please understand this. I have known him well for 22 years, more  than anybody else in this race has known him, and I can promise you this. If you put him back behind the desk in the Oval Office and the choice comes and the decision is needed to be made as to whether he puts himself first or he puts you first, how much more evidence do you need that he will pick himself? Donald Trump portrayed by Chris Christie Windham, NH, January 10, 2024 © 2024 Kwiple.com
Surely you jest It is a “‘fundamental principle of our  representative democracy,’ embodied in the  Constitution, that ‘the people should choose whom they please to govern them.’”  First sentence in Trump's petition to the Supreme Court to overturn the Colorado Supreme Court's decision to prevent him from appearing on its primary ballot because he violated Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment by engaging in an insurrection intended to keep himself in power  and prevent the duly elected winner of the 2020 presidential election from taking office, after  having sworn an oath to defend the Constitution,  an irony lost on the petition's authors: Scott E. Gessler of Gessler Blue LLC, and Harmeet K. Dhillon, David A. Warrington, Jonathan M. Shaw, and Gary M. Lawkowski of Dhillon Law Group © 2024 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say I agree with a lot of his policies, but the truth is, rightly or wrongly, chaos follows him. Nikki Haley's mantra about Trump © 2024 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say I believe that Joe Biden will be found to be the most corrupt president in our nation's history. Elise Stefanik © 2024 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say I have concerns about the treatment of January 6 hostages. I have concerns. We have a role in Congress of oversight over our treatments of prisoners. And I believe that we're seeing the weaponization of the federal government against not just President Trump, but we're seeing it against conservatives. Elise Stefanik, a Trump echo chamber © 2024 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say It’s time to do it. Let’s go find [Eric] Swalwell. It’s time to do it.  Then we’ll see how brave the rest of the are. It’s time to do it. It’s either [Jerry] Nadler or Swalwell has to die before the election. They need to get the message.  Let’s go find Swalwell and get this over with.  I’m just not putting up with this shit anymore. Roger Stone to one of his bodyguards after the House Judiciary Committee including Nadler and Swalwell announced that it would investigate Trump's commutation of his prison sentence just days before he was to report to prison in 2019 for lying to Congress, witness tampering and obstruction © 2024 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say  To authorize the prosecution of a president  for official acts would open a Pandora’s box from which this nation may never recover. D. John Sauer, a lawyer for Trump, who told the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit that a president cannot be criminally prosecuted after leaving office for any official act he performed while in it unless s/he had been impeached and convicted while in it, even if the act was to order a Seal team to assassinate her/his political rivals [Presumably, Sauer would argue that the Seal team members could not be tried or convicted for obeying an illegal order if the president had pardoned them while s/he was still in office] © 2024 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say We’re not a racist country, Brian. We never have been. Nikki Haley to Fox News’s Brian Kilmeade, despite recounting tales of the racism she experienced growing up in Bamberg, SC, in her autobiography, Can't Is Not An Option © 2024 Kwiple.com
 
Trumpists say Yes. Elise Stefanik, responding when asked if she stood by Trump's claims that immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our counttry” [“Stefanik” is not an Iroquois name; it's a Czechoslovakian name.] © 2024 Kwiple.com