00:17:47 I’ve been in a meeting, but the last 30 minutes of news alerts has been wild. And that after Manafort and healthcar… https://t.co/VWfPPExLxv
00:19:46 Remember that hearing last month when everybody was wondering what was wrong with McCain? Yup. Best wishes for him.
01:50:13 Reading – Citing Recusal, Trump Says He Wouldn’t Have Hired Sessions (Baker/Schmidt/Haberman) https://t.co/xwubXQ6Osz
01:54:46 Reading – Trump ends covert CIA program to arm anti-Assad rebels in Syria, a move sought by Moscow (Jaffe/Entous) https://t.co/5X0Gk7pQID
01:55:20 Retweeted @JamilSmith01:31:44 Trump threatened to fire Mueller, backed the bus over Sessions, and just told Wray he expects him to serve at his pleasure. Massacre coming. in reply to JamilSmith
02:00:04 Retweeted @RyanLizza00:01:57 My takeaway from the NYT interview, in which he mows down Sessions–Sessions!–is that Putin remains the only ally Trump has never betrayed.
00:42:25 Retweeted @Julie_C_Smith00:13:41 I’ve helped two SecDefs and one VP manage “pull asides.” Trump mtg Putin for an hour w/out staff and US translator is NOT a pull aside.
04:24:59 Retweeted @ktumulty04:08:37 Basic question that Republicans were never able to answer with their bill: How does this make your health care better?
20:57:11 Retweeted @benjaminwittes20:56:05 Hey folks, this is serious: stop making factual claims that are false. And stop trying to support false statements by adding “sources say.”
20:57:39 Retweeted @burgessev19:26:54 NEWS: GOP calls emergency meeting tonight to save healthcare bill. All skeptical Rs senators will gather and try and hash it out. Story tk
21:09:57 Right approach is probably NOT to take live. Instead ignore completely except for statements verified factual via i… https://t.co/udzTkhOnxv
01:23:12 Retweeted @ppppolls2017-07-17 20:13:28 Nugget from our national poll coming out tomorrow- only 45% of Trump voters believe Donald Trump Jr. had a meeting with Russians…
03:59:22 Retweeted @RadioFreeTom03:28:41 Americans constantly demand contradictory things, with no sense of cost or complexity. Then they get angry when no one can do magic.
04:14:08 Retweeted @paulwaldman103:24:30 Just throwing this out there but maybe Mitch McConnell is a genius at opposition but not at actual legislating which is not the same thing.
17:32:19 Retweeted @AmyNotAmy16:36:17 There is one single chicken in my neighborhood making tons of noise… where are his friends? Maybe his calls are being he is so lonely
21:30:51 Retweeted @MattBinder19:05:07 me before reading the comments: oh cool the new Doctor Who is a womanme after reading the comments: i hope Doctor Who is never a man again
23:26:52 Retweeted @TrueFactsStated20:27:01 Trump voters are not a monolith. Forget the MAGA assholes. Separate the reachable from the unreachable. Get him to 25%. It is doable.
02:27:33 Retweeted @jfeckstein2017-07-14 16:40:14 Only one Russian entered the meeting, concealing a series of five progressively smaller Russians within its brightly painted shell
03:40:30 Retweeted @yarbro2017-07-14 14:38:34 The Constitution anticipates a President like this. It does not anticipate a Congress so indifferent to a President like this.
19:29:25 Retweeted @Blatherscribe19:29:05 Dear @googlemaps,Your directions brim
with madness
(at times).
Parked at my hotel,
you order
a five-minute meander
to get to
where I am.
The official voters’ pamphlets dropped a few days ago for the local primary elections on August 1st, two weeks from today. The ballots have been delivered as well. People are already voting.
The above is my wife Brandy’s section of the voter’s pamphlet. I’m very proud of her. She’s been getting lots of very positive reactions at various local events, and we keep hearing from more supporters. Win or lose, this has been a great experience. But of course we want Brandy to win, right? There are five people running for Snohomish County Fire District 1 Commissioner Position 3, and the top two from the primaries move on to the general election.
So if you haven’t yet, it would be great if you took a few minutes to help out by doing a few things… ESPECIALLY if you live in Snohomish County… but even if you don’t.
If you have something to say or ask about the campaign, leave a message on her Facebook page as well
And finally, of course, if you actually live in Snohomish County Fire District 1 (map below), VOTE for Brandy!
Don’t wait, do it now! :-)
Thanks all!
And here is that map. Fire District 1 is actually three discontinuous pieces. Odd. But there you go. The areas surrounded by blue lines are all in Fire District 1. I think. :-)
This week on Curmudgeon’s Corner, Sam and Ivan focus on the “nothingburger” of the Donald Trump Jr meeting everybody has been talking about. Nothing to see there, right? But before that, they do manage to get in some conversation on Trump’s performance at the G20, and on completely non-Trump matters, they talk about unlimited data plans, kids and YouTube, and revisit the minimum wage. Lots of meat in that nothingburger!
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Recorded 2017-07-14
Length this week – 2:08:38
(0:01:30-0:38:35) But First
Andy Pandy
Agenda
Unlimited Followup
Kids and YouTube
Christmas Drone
Feedback
Minimum Wage/Income
(0:39:55-1:01:24) Trump at the G20
Godfather
Trump Isolation
Micromanager or Disengaged?
Cooperating with the world?
Ivanka’s participation
Nobody resigning
(1:04:53-2:08:18) Donald Trump Jr
Background
Back to the dossier
The dangle
Digital operations
Conspiracy theories
Crimes this week
Treason?
State vs Federal
What about DNC/Ukraine?
All the crimes
Do Republicans ever bail?
Peter Smith suicide
Back to the primaries?
How much more is there?
Bernie Bros
Bring on Gen X
McMullin 2020
The Curmudgeon’s Corner theme music is generously provided by Ray Lynch.
15:14:43 OMFG -> Trump Team Met Russian Accused of International Hacking Conspiracy (Poulsen/Hines/Zavadski) https://t.co/JyAUeoHhmr
15:19:05 Retweeted @mindyfinn2017-07-13 20:41:14 It’s amazing how quickly the Trump defense devolves from “fake news” “don’t recall” to “we did it, so what?”
15:20:21 Retweeted @JStein_Vox2017-07-13 20:37:05 If you oppose the GOP health bill, this was a very scary day.Only 2 GOP Senators are clear nos. And McConnell still has room, time 2 work.
15:30:23 Retweeted @Jason15:22:13 I wonder what would happen if we put the stupidest kids in high school in charge of our future? <symbol><symbol><symbol><symbol><symbol><symbol>
15:33:33 Retweeted @ChrisJansing12:54:59 Trump Jr’s lawyer now tells NBC that in addition to an ex-Soviet intel officer meeting with Manafort, Jr & Kushner, there was a 6th person
15:38:57 Reading – Donald Trump Jr. Appears to Have Identified 6th Attendee at Russian Collusion Meeting (Tommy Christopher) https://t.co/UHNcJtRRFL
15:45:52 Retweeted @KT_So_It_Goes15:15:42 DON JR: …and that’s everything that happened
EVERYONE: Really?
JR: Yep
E: You sure?
JR: Yep
E: Ok
JR: Ok so maybe a GRU agent was there
20:08:52 Retweeted @Spicerlies20:05:22 <symbol><symbol>Bio of Ty Cobb<symbol><symbol>THREAD
From Mic’s personal knowledge, Cobb is a fixer.
He comes in and cleans up epic fubars. He… https://t.co/DcFlVGa29Y
05:02:05 Reading – Trump intervenes to grant rejected Afghan girls entry to U.S. for robotics contest (Nahal Toosi) https://t.co/oWeYazz8rp
05:05:17 Retweeted @SethAbramson2017-07-12 23:49:51 Almost EVERY fact in Steele’s dossier that is confirmable has been confirmed. Far-right media hitting Steele HARD today. They’re TERRIFIED.
05:22:21 Importantly, state crimes also not pardonable by the President. If there are indictments, expect both federal and s… https://t.co/iFw3naBIB1
09:48:18 Retweeted @GlennThrush09:33:09 Uneventful flight on AF1. Except for the 70-minute Trump off-the-record with fake news reporters.
12:55:31 Retweeted @Stonekettle12:37:11 I repeat for the slow conservatives in the back: THE KREMLIN DIDN’T WANT TRUMP OVER CLINTON BECAUSE IT BENEFITED AMERICA, YOU DOLTS.
13:04:42 Reading – With Glare on Trump Children, Political Gets Personal for President (Landler/Haberman) https://t.co/JdPglkzBWX
16:42:56 Reading – Trump is wrong. When Democrats were offered secret help by the Soviets, they refused. (Richard Moss) https://t.co/0SePld93dJ
16:47:14 Retweeted @WilliamAder2017-07-11 22:07:01 NYT should tell Don Jr. they’re running a story about “that other thing,” then wait to see what new incriminating docs he tweets.
17:01:08 Reading – Trump speaks to White House reporters off the record, then wonders why it wasn’t published (Erik Wemple) https://t.co/avM076mwBx