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2022 midterm elections

Friday 26th of April 2024

2022 midterm elections Ben Franklin said our country was a republic, if you can keep it. Well, we can't.  And unless a miracle happens on Tuesday, we didn't. Democracy is  on the ballot, and, unfortunately, it's going to lose. And once it's gone, it's gone. It's not somethng you can change your mind about and reverse. That's gender. Bill Maher. Real Time with Bill Maher, June 3, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
2022 midterm elections Biden will be a crippled duck when he goes up against the 2024 Trump-Kari Lake ticket. And even if Trump loses, it doesn't matter. On inauguration day 2025, he's going to show up, And this time he's not going to take no for an answer because this time he will have behind him the army of election deniers that is being elected in four days. There are almost 300 candidates on the ballot this year who don't believe in ballots, and they'll be the ones writing the rules and monitoring how votes are counted in 2024. Bill Maher, Real Time with Bill Maher, November 4, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
2022 midterm elections  The Democrats averted a midterm catastrophe, yes, but it is rather startling to consider that Republicans spent the past two years defending a corrupt demagogue, attacking the democratic process, banning abortion across much of the land, offering few considered policy ideas of their own — and having taken the House, come so close ot claiming the Senate too. Given all this, Democrats would be wise to treat the 2022 elections not as a vindication but as a stay of execution. Alexander Burns, New York Review of Books, January 19, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
2022 midterm elections The good news is, we are going to get the House back. We are going to get the House back. That is a done deal. … We have everything working in our favor right now. We have redistricting coming up and the Republicans control most of that process in most of the states around the country.  That alone should get us the majority back.  Ronny Jackson, once Physician to the President, now a House member from Texas, admitting Republicans will rely on gerrymandering to win in 2022 © 2021 Kwiple.com
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
2022 modterm election Plausible theories about why Republicans fared so badly in 2022 abound. … The economy? … Abortion? … Attacks on democracy? … All of these factors clearly played a role. But don't under-weight the impact of the performative obnoxiousness that now pervades Republican messaging. Conservatives have built career paths for young people that start on extremist message boards and lead to jobs on Republican campaigns, then jobs in state and federal offices, and then jobs in conservative media. Dsvid Frum, The Atlantic, March 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
2022 midterm elections Roughly half the Republicans running for federal or statewide office believe the presidency was stolen from Donald Trump in 2020. That means America’s system itself is on the ballot next Tuesday. Edward Luce, Financial Times, November 2, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
2022 midterm elections There is an entire species of political ads on the Right where the candidate just shoots something they don't like. A lot of these ads make no mention of policy at all. It's just: Truck. Gun. Me like these things you like. VOTE ME! Bill Maher. Real Time with Bill Maher, June 3, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
2022 midterm elections This really is the crossing the Rubicon moment when the election deniers are elected, which is often how countries  slide into authoritarianism — not with tanks in the street, but by electing the people who then have no intention of ever giving it back. Bill Maher, Real Time with Bill Maher, November 4, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Democracy It couldn’t be more simple. A vote for Republicans is a vote to destroy Democracy. Rob Reiner, 8:03 AM – Apr 20, 2022, on the Republicans during the Trump era © 2022 Kwiple.com
Democracy The remarkable thing about American democracy is this: Just enough of us, on just enough occasions, have chosen not to dismantle democracy but to preserve democracy. Joe Biden, November 2, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Impeachment Sometime next year, after an interval of perfor- mative investigations, Republicans in the House  are going to impeach Joe Biden. This may not be  their present plan, but they will work themselves up to it by degrees. The pressure from the MAGA base will build. A triggering event will burst all restraints. Eventually, Republicans will leave themselves little choice. This prediction rests, of course, on the assumption that Republicans will win control of the House next month, which seems likely: … Impeachment is the corollary of election denial — the invincible certainty that Biden cheated in  2020 and Donald Trump won. If you truly believe that and haven't joined a militia, impeachment is the least of the remidies you will accept. Barton Gellman, The Atlantic, Oct. 26, 2002 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Politial inequality In the age of Trump, Democrats have developed a great sense of pride in their role protecting America's frayed democratic norms.  But there may come  a moment when the euphoria of a better-than-expected midterm election is only a memory and the sense of righteous virtue that comes from defending democracy begins to wear thin. When that day arrives, many of the voters who who make up the party's base and a majority of the country … might find that it is no longer tolerable to be ruled by a dwindling and overempowered minority. There is only so much satisfaction to be drawn from being the sole party with an unblemished record of dutifully surrendering power. Alexander Burns, New York Review of Books, January 19, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Politics Remember the phrase, “It's the economy, stupid?” It was coined by James Carville, strategist of US President Bill Clinton's successful 1992 campaign against George H W Bush. … Yet it doesn't appear to be working for Joe Biden, even though many of the top economic indicators … have been in his favour. … I suspect if Carville was on Biden’s team today, he might come up with a different phrase for the next election cycle: “It's geopolitics, stupid.” Rana Foroohar, Financial Times, February 21, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Republicans say  » All federal legislation sunsets in 5 years. If a law is worth keeping, Congress can pass it again. A subpoint of Point 6 of Rick Scott's “An 11 Point Plan to Rescue America”, written, he said, because “Americans deserve to know what we [Republicans] will do when given the chance to govern” after the 2022 midterm elections  [Social Security, Medicare, and veterans benefits are all federal legislation they would sunset/end, most likely forever] © 2023 Kwiple.com
Snapshot The new crop [of Republicans] are such foamimg-at-the-mouth Kraken releasers  that Clarence Thomas wants to marry them. Republicans running for office in 2022 portrayed by Bill Maher, April 1, 2022  © 2022 Kwiple.com
State of the union c If you were looking for a three-sentence  summary of American politics in recent years, I think you could do worse than this:  The parties are so different that even seismic events don't change many American minds.  The parties are so closely matched that even minuscule shifts in the electoral winds can blow the country onto a wildly different course. And even in a time of profound economic dislocation, American politics has become  less about which party is good for your wallet  and more about whether the cultural changes of the past 50 years delight or dismay you. Ezra Klein, New York Times, November 12, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
< Trumpists say God loves it when I try to talk in my spirit language. He thinks it's so cute that the only person in the world who can understand me is him. When I'm praying in tongues, my brain oftentimes is active. That's just because I've got this high-powered brain that never stops and drives me crazy, and so what I'll often do is I will send it on another assignment. Kelly Tshibaka, Trump-endorsed candidate to become a new Republican Senator from Alaska in 2022 to rerplace Lisa Murkowski, who's too sane © 2018 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say “The left in the media — they're  all about democracy?” he ranted to me one day. “On November 8, the War Room  and the War Room  posse and all the little people at the school boards and things — we're gonna give you democracy shoved up your ass. Okay? We're gonna give you a democracy suppository.  Steve Bannon, quoted by Jennifer Senior, in The Atlantic, June 6, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say Republicans will never lose another election in Wisconsin after I'm elected governor. Tim Michels, 2022 Republican candidate for governor, who also said he'd consider decertifying Biden's win in Wisconsin in 2020, promising to make Wisconsin “voter proof,” like Putin's Russia and Xi Jinping's China © 2022 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say When I'm secretary of state of Nevada, we are going to fix it, and when my coalition of secretary of state candidates around the country get elected, we're going to fix the whole country, and President Trump is going to be president again in 2024. Jim Marchant, Republican candidate for Secretary of State in Nevada in 2022 and head of a coalition of election deniers running for secretary of state in key battleground states © 2022 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say Will Republicans use power? This is my question. Will they wield power, because if you have a single takeaway as the result stands right now, it is that what the Republican electorate wants is a strong executive who utilizes and wields power over his enemies and then destroys his enemies and makes them grovel — makes molten, salty tears flow from their faces, as Ron DeSantis did with Disney. Benny Johnson, the "Godfather of Conservative internet," Nov. 8, 2022, when Republicans won a slim majority in the House in the midterm elections © 2023 Kwiple.com
 
Trumpists say Yeah, I do think there's a chance of that [impeaching Biden after the 2022 midterms]. And whether it's justified or not, as we talked about when [my podcast] Verdict [With Ted Cruz] launched, the Democrats weaponized impeachment. They used it for partisan purposes to go after Trump because they disagreed with him. And one of the real disadvantages of doing that is the more you weaponize it and turn it into a partisan cudgel, your know, what's good for the goose is good for the gander. Ted “Cancún” Cruz, Harvard Law School graduate, solicitor general of Texas from 2003 to 2008, who thinks Trump was impeached over policy disputes and believes in impeaching opponents “whether it's justified or not” © 2022 Kwiple.com