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Thursday 2nd of October 2025

Asslickers say Ivanka Trump embodies the collaborative spirit and relentless drive needed to solve manufacturers' most pressing challenge – the workforce crisis. Like no one in government has ever done, she has provided singular leadership and shown an unwavering commitment to modern manufacturing in America. From the February 1, 2020, National Association of Manufacturers' press release announcing that “Advisor to the President Ivanka Trump will be the inaugural recipient of the association's Alexander Hamilton Award.” © 2020 Kwiple.com
Filibusters Indeed, most often, the real effect of the filibuster is to enable big donors in big cities to buy influence with veto-wielding senators in tiny states for much less than  the cost of persuading their own senators. Once the filibuster is gone, not only will nobody except the crassest interest groups miss it.  Nobody except the crassest interest groups will ever understand how or why it could have existed in the first place. David Frum, Trumpocalypse  © 2020 Kwiple.com
Gun lobbyists say Control attorneys general, control judgeships, control the courts  © 2018 Kwiple.com
Gun lobbyists say Don't tread on us © 2018 Kwiple.com
Gun lobbyists say Extremism in the defense of gun rights is no vice Moderation in the pursuit of gun controllers is no virtue © 2018 Kwiple.com
Gun lobbyists say Fear justifies homicide © 2018 Kwiple.com
Gun lobbyists say  Forbid the Centers of Disease Control from studying gun violence © 2018 Kwiple.com
Gun lobbyists say Good guns make good neighbours © 2018 Kwiple.com
Gun lobbyists say Government workers who publicly support gun controls should be fired for failing to defend constitutional rights  © 2018 Kwiple.com
Gun lobbyists say Gun control advocates are traitors to the Constitution © 2018 Kwiple.com
Gun lobbyists say Gun control is also sexist, because women are the ones who are most greatly disenfranchised when they are disarmed. Dana Loesch © 2018 Kwiple.com
Gun lobbyists say Gun-free zones kill people © 2018 Kwiple.com
Gun lobbyists say If teachers were armed, fewer students would be killed © 2018 Kwiple.com
Gun lobbyists say If you came at me, and I felt that my life was in danger or that I was going to be injured, I wouldn't hesitate to shoot you. Marion Hammer, NRA's Florida lobbyist and originator of shoot-first-ask-questions-later laws (Stand Your Ground self-defense laws) © 2018 Kwiple.com
Gun lobbyists say In Guns we trust © 2018 Kwiple.com
Gun lobbyists say Liberals want to take away your guns © 2018 Kwiple.com
Gun lobbyists say Loading magazines is better than reading them © 2018 Kwiple.com
Gun lobbyists say Love your guns more than their children © 2018 Kwiple.com
Gun lobbyists say Make them take your guns from your cold dead hands  © 2018 Kwiple.com
Gun lobbyists say Mass shootings mean not enough people carry guns © 2018 Kwiple.com
Gun lobbyists say People need guns to kill things Sometimes, but not often, the things killed are schoolchildren, usually other people's That's a small price to pay for freedom © 2018 Kwiple.com
Gun lobbyists say People, not guns, kill people More popular than “Soldiers, not weapons, kill combatants” © 2018 Kwiple.com
Gun lobbyists say Police should be required to justify every shooting incident Shooters claiming self-defense should be presumed to be innocent and immune from prosecution © 2018 Kwiple.com
Gun lobbyists say Political power in America comes from owning guns, not from having wealth  © 2018 Kwiple.com
Gun lobbyists say Spilt blood purifies © 2018 Kwiple.com
Gun lobbyists say State legislatures are for rubber-stamping bills we've written © 2018 Kwiple.com
Gun lobbyists say You guys love it. Now, I'm not saying that you love the tragedy.  But I am saying that you love the ratings. Crying white mothers are ratings gold to you and many in the legacy media in the back. Dana Loesch, NRA's national spokesperson, addressing reporters at the 2018 CPAC [Conservative Political Action Conference] shortly after 17 were killed and 14 wounded at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida © 2018 Kwiple.com
Gun lobbyists say Your castle is anywhere you're allowed to be © 2018 Kwiple.com
Gun lobbyists say to Republican legislators  We paid for you and don't you ever forget it © 2018 Kwiple.com
Lobbyists In 2006 … more than half of all registered lobbying organizations represented corporations or business associations, while a bare 1 percent each represented labor unions and poor people. Benjamin Page and Martin Gilens, Democracy in America? © 2019 Kwiple.com
Lobbyists Less than 1 percent of organizations represent the poor. Although blue-collar workers are 24 percent of the population, they are only 1 percent of economic organizations in Washington. White-collar workers make up less than 10 percent of the public, but they are represented by almost 74 percent of economic organizations in DC. Ganesh Sitaraman, The Great Democracy © 2070 Kwiple.com
Lobbyists The number of workers in the Congressional Research Service, Congressional Budget Office and Government Accountability Office, the internal information services that provide unbiased reports to members, has dropped by 40% since 1979 even as legislation has grown more complex. Paid influencers, including those without the word “lobbyist” on their business cards, fill the gap. The Economist, September 2, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Lobbyists We had a hierarchy in my office in Congress. If you're a lobbyist who never gave us money, I didn't talk to you. If you're a lobbyist who gave us money, I might talk to you.  Mick Mulvaney, pimp for payday lenders, telling traditional bankers his pay-to-play rules © 2018 Kwiple.com
Money in politics The disappearance of labor's countervailing power can readily be seen in the 2015-16 election cycle, when corporations and Wall Street contributed $34 to candidates from both parties for every $1 donated by unions and all public interest organizations combined. [34:1] Business outspent labor $3.4 billion to $213 million. [16:1] All of the nation's unions together spend about $48 million annually on lobbying in Washington. Corporate America spends $3 billion. [62:1] Robert B. Reich, The System © 2021 Kwiple.com
Out-of-step legislators A group facing an out-of-step legislator [someone with different goals/priorities] may not be able to do much with the standard tools of lobbying and issue advocacy; interest groups are better at mobilizing their friends than converting their enemies, and elections seem to be more useful for replacing out-of-step legislators than changing their minds. The group's only option may be to try to replace the legislator with another candidate who shares its goals. Nicholas Carnes, White-Collar Government © 2019 Kwiple.com
Republican Party motto Perfecting minority rule since 1971 citation 1971 is the year Lewis Powell was appointed to the Supreme Court after authoring the Powell Manifesto encouraging business executives to strangle progtressivism by creating front organizations to infiltrate and capture campuses, Congress, courts, government and the media © 2015 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Passing laws by rubber-stamping bills written for us by corporate lobbyists is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Staff top positions in government with businessmen too rich for lobbyists to buy © 2017 Kwiple.com
Sleepers at the wheel say The gun lobby may hold Congress hostage, but they cannot hold America hostage. Barack Obama © 2015 Kwiple.com
 
Snapshot  The apex predator of corporate influence, red in tooth and claw. United States Chamber of Commerce portrayed by Sheldon Whitehouse © 2021 Kwiple.com