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Foreign relations c The driving force behind the Hamiltonian renewal is the rising importance of the interdependence of corporate success and state power. … This connection operates most strongly at the most advanced levels of tech and production: the information-finance-business-government complex is increasingly necessary to the prosperity and security of the American state and people. …  Washington is going to worry more about whether its leading tech companies are strong enough and well resourced enough to stay ahead of their Chinese rivals than about whether U.S. tech companies are becoming too big. Walter Russell Mead, Foreign Affairs, September/October 2024 © 2024 Kwiple.com
History  History is the graveyard of aristocracies. Vilfredo Pareto © 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
Law The life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. © 2021 Kwiple.com
Liberalism [T]he future of power-sharing liberalism depends on a project of democracy renovation that would reverse the dynamics of capture of our political system by small elites (wealth elites, radicalized MAGA acolytes, and hyperpolarized party bases). Democracy renovation requires a set of critical reforms to rebalance and spread the allocation of power in our political system. Danielle Allen, The New Republic, July/August 2024 © 2024 Kwiple.com
Liberalism There was also a near supermajority decision in Florida to restore voting rights to people with some past felony convictions. Similarly, robust majority coalitions resting on cross-  ideological alliances have protected reproductive freedom in states like Kansas and Ohio. Each of these decisions is about affirming not material well-being but core freedoms (personal and political) and inclusion in the political community.  This is liberalism. Twenty-first century liberalism. Power-sharing liberalism. … The commentariat perhaps fails to see this grassroots rebirth of liberalism because the rebirth is so much about political, personal, and civil rights and not economic rights. Danielle Allen, The New Republic, July/August 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
Presidential immunity from criminal prosecution As far as I can tell, the majority is mostly concerned that, without immunity, Presidents might “be chilled from taking the ‘bold and unhesitating action’ required of an independent Executive.” … Our Constitution’s “separation of powers was adopted by the Convention of 1787, not to promote efficiency but to preclude the exercise of arbitrary power. The purpose was, not to avoid friction, but . . . to save the people from autocracy.” Katanji Brown Jackson, dissent, Trump v. United States © 2024 Kwiple.com
Presidential immunity from criminal prosecution Effectively, the Court elbows out of the way  both Congress and prosecutorial authorities within the Executive Branch, making itself the indispensable player in all future attempts to hold former Presidents accountable to generally applicable criminal laws. Katanji Brown Jackson, dissent, Trump v. United States © 2024 Kwiple.com
Presidential immunity from criminal prosecution I worry that, after today’s ruling, our Nation will reap  what this Court has sown. Katanji Brown Jackson, dissent, Trump v. United States © 2024 Kwiple.com
Presidential immunity from criminal prosecution In the end, then, under the majority’s new paradigm, whether the President will be exempt from legal liability for murder, assault, theft, fraud, or any other reprehensible and outlawed criminal act will turn on whether he committed that act in his official capacity, such that the answer to the immunity question will always and inevitably be: It depends. Katanji Brown Jackson, dissent, Trump v. United States © 2024 Kwiple.com
Presidential immunity from criminal prosecution To fully appreciate the profound change the majority has wrought, one must first acknowledge what it means to have immunity from criminal prosecution. Put simply, immunity is “exemption” from the duties and liabilities imposed by law. … Thus, being immune is not like having a defense under  the law. Rather, it means that the law does not apply to the immunized person in the first place. Ketangi Brown Jackzon, dissent, Trump v. United States © 2024 Kwiple.com
Presidential immunity from criminal prosecution Under the individual accountability model, because everyone is subject to the law, the potential of criminal liability operates  as a constraint on the actions and decisions of everyone, including the President. After today, that reality is no more. Consequently, our Nation has lost a substantial check on Presidents who would use their official powers to  commit crimes with impunity while in office. Katanji Brown Jackson, dissent, Trump v. United States © 2024 Kwiple.com
Racists say I mean, would America buy a nigger winning? Donald Trump, on refusing to hire Kwame Jackson, the Black finalist on the first season of The Apprentice (2004) © 2024 Kwiple.com
Regulations The statute, read as written, gives the Secretary broad authority to relieve a national emergency’s effect on borrowers’ ability to repay their student loans. The Secretary did no more than use that lawfully delegated authority. So the majority applies a rule specially crafted to kill significant regulatory action, by requiring Congress to delegate not just clearly but also microspecifically.  Elena Kagan, dissent in Biden v. Nebraska, et. al. © 2023 Kwiple.com
Separation of powers Beyond the majority’s legal errors, its ruling reveals a far more fundamental problem: This Court’s repeated failure to appreciate that its decisions can threaten the separation of powers. Here, that threat comes from the Court’s mistaken conclusion that Congress cannot assign a certain public-rights matter for initial adjudication to the Executive because it must come only to the Judiciary. The majority today upends longstanding precedent and the established practice of its coequal partners in our tripartite system of government. Sonia Sotomayor, disSent in SEC v Jarkesy © 2024 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Palin was nothing if not prolific,  the Charles Dickens of the Age of Ignorance. Sarah Palin portrayed by Andy Borowitz in Profiles in Ignorance © 2023 Kwiple.com
Treason To betray, you must first belong. Kim Philby © 2024 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say Feminists need rape. John Goldman, podcastiing as Jack Murphy © 2024 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say We are in the process of  taking this country back. We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be. Kevin Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation, leader of Project 2025, creators of a plan for implementing authoritarian rule during a second Trump term, should there be one  © 2024 Kwiple.com
Veterans That's the highest award you can get as a civilian. It’s [The Presidential Medal of Freedom] the equivalent of the Congressional Medal of Honor, but civilian version. It’s actually much better because everyone [who] gets the Congressional Medal of Honor, they’re soldiers. They’re either in very bad shape because they’ve been hit so many times by bullets or they’re dead. She gets it and she's a healthy, beautiful woman. Donald Trump, awarding the Medal of Freedom to Miriam Adelson, one his billionaire donors © 2024 Kwiple.com
War Homo sapiens  was born armed. Alex Roland, War and Technology  © 2024 Kwiple.com
Warfare Future wars will no longer be about who can mass the most people or field the best jets, ships, and tanks. Instead, they will be dominated by increasingly autonomous weapons systems and powerful algorithms. … … as global urbanization draws more people into cities and nonstate actors pivot to urban guerrilla tactics, the decisive battlefields of the future will likely be  densely populated areas. Such fighting is far more deadly and far more resource- intensive. It will therefore require even more robotic weapons. Mark Milley and Eric Schmidt, Foreign Affairs, September/October 2024 © 2024 Kwiple.com
Warfare In the worst-case scenario, AI warfare could even endanger humanity. War games conducted with AI models from OpenAI, Meta, and Anthropic have found that AI models tend to suddenly escalate to kinetic war, including nuclear war, compared with games conducted by humans. Mark Milley and Eric Schmidt, Foreign Affairs, September/October 2024 © 2024 Kwiple.com
Warfare [T]he technologies of warfare are more effective than ever before, but there is less warfare in the world, based on casualties as a percentage of population, than ever before. Where this will lead is impossible to predict. Alex Roland, War and Technology  © 2024 Kwiple.com
Warfare  Technology can make war more efficient. But if both side have the technology, even a highly efficient war is likely to involve enormous costs in blood, metal and treasure. Armies without size and depth to absorb losses and  remain viable on the battlefield may find that no amount of digital wizardry or tactical nous can save them. The Economist, July 8-14, 2024 © 2024 Kwiple.com
 
Warfare You can't say civilization don't advance . . . for in every war they kill you in a new way. Will Rogers © 2024 Kwiple.com