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Curmudgeon’s Corner: Punching Customers

This week on Curmudgeon’s Corner, Sam and Ivan do indeed talk about Trump/Russia. But they also talk about a lot of other things. On the newsy side, they talk about the Paris Agreement, special elections, the healthcare bill, the Portland attacks, Clinton’s latest comment about the elections, potential 2020 candidates, Kathy Griffin, and of course covfefe. In other sorts of topics they hit on kids developing accents, the perils of fast food, Plume wifi, and taking big life jumps. All good stuff!

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Recorded 2017-06-01
Length this week – 1:52:57

(0:00:12-0:34:13) But First
- Agenda
- Ivan Vacation Accents
- Fast Food Travails
- Plume WiFi
- Big Life Jumps
(0:34:49-1:02:00) Trump/Russia
- Returning the compounds
- Aligned Interests
- Liking dictators
- Not a global community?
- Investigative progress
- Just dumb
- Comey testifying
- Trump tweets
(1:03:20-1:52:37) Other Stuff
- Covfefe
- Kathy Griffin
- Paris Agreement
- Special Elections
- Healthcare bill
- Portland Attack
- Clinton comments
- Trump worst case
- 2020 Candidates

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@abulsme tweets from 2017-06-02 (UTC)

00:30:47 Listening to Ctrl-Walt-Delete Walt and Nilay make tech vanish
via iCatcher! https://t.co/qpRFSt87Ae
01:48:42 Reading – How the U.S. Superpower Experience Wrecked the Paris Climate Agreement (Heather Hurlburt) https://t.co/96iDgiWtiO
02:29:39 Reading – How the Trump administration’s secret efforts to ease Russia sanctions fell short (Michael Isikoff) https://t.co/n0gx96iJKO
02:37:46 Reading – Explanations for Kushner’s meeting with head of Kremlin-linked bank don’t match up (WaPo) https://t.co/Qz0vfnph12
13:10:27 Reading – I can’t stop laughing at the Trump administration. That’s not a good thing. (Dan Drezner) https://t.co/C3RtxlIOeE
14:42:39 Listening to Slate’s Political Gabfest The вЂњJared Went to HimвЂќ Edition
via iCatcher! https://t.co/4NKHeWOiAC
17:34:19 Reading – Supreme Court could rule within days on lifting temporary stay on travel ban (Bill Mears) https://t.co/hZkASQr5vx
17:35:24 Retweeted @matthewamiller 14:37:34 This would be politically suicidal and would likely be quickly rejected by a court. In other words, Trump will probвЂ¦ https://t.co/BGpK5zjj7m
18:03:06 Reading – In Rejecting Popular Paris Accord, Trump Bets on His Base (Peter Baker) https://t.co/3UMG3i0Etw
19:44:38 Interesting thread on conservative approach to climate change. For conservatives who don’t want to pretend it doesвЂ¦ https://t.co/amkkLXFL0Y
19:57:14 Retweeted @accidentalflyer 19:56:57 @abulsme @alex @NW_Horadam 1. Interesting? More like dishonest obfuscation. Remember US is the OUTLIER among develoвЂ¦ https://t.co/9OzSMX68mx in reply to abulsme
20:00:09 @accidentalflyer @alex @NW_Horadam Very true. But latter parts of thread point toward helpful actions that many conвЂ¦ https://t.co/63FyDeqPVr in reply to accidentalflyer
20:00:20 Retweeted @accidentalflyer 19:58:38 @abulsme @alex @NW_Horadam 2. Climate Science is universal & global. Other developed countries also mostly have demвЂ¦ https://t.co/XB5VfuFgEY in reply to accidentalflyer
20:03:10 @accidentalflyer @alex @NW_Horadam I think the difference is primarily because the issue got defined as R vs D. AtвЂ¦ https://t.co/wLvwUwurwi in reply to accidentalflyer
20:04:37 @accidentalflyer @alex @NW_Horadam Also, usually “solutions” presented highly regulatory, so rubs against basic conвЂ¦ https://t.co/qS5AOPJCHV in reply to accidentalflyer
20:05:25 Retweeted @accidentalflyer 20:01:16 @abulsme @alex @NW_Horadam 3. US population more religious, which leads to lower science literacy. In fact perfectвЂ¦ https://t.co/zcyLRdu08T in reply to accidentalflyer
20:05:40 Retweeted @accidentalflyer 20:03:20 @abulsme @alex @NW_Horadam @washingtonpost 4. Virtually lack of campaign finance regulations in US politics, and foвЂ¦ https://t.co/EvD18ancwV in reply to accidentalflyer
20:05:54 Retweeted @accidentalflyer 20:04:22 @abulsme @alex @NW_Horadam @GOP politicians can’t budge because it’s against their money daddies’ interest. 22 GOPвЂ¦ https://t.co/U3rCB0cUtS in reply to abulsme
20:07:07 @accidentalflyer @alex @NW_Horadam @GOP That too. All of these reasons contrib. The thread highlighted that there AвЂ¦ https://t.co/m9viPPFoms in reply to accidentalflyer
20:07:21 Retweeted @accidentalflyer 20:06:31 @abulsme @alex @NW_Horadam Point is how it became a partisan issue in the US but not other countries. Money and lowвЂ¦ https://t.co/wXGIwpJKFj in reply to abulsme
20:10:12 @accidentalflyer @alex @NW_Horadam I think those are big parts of it to be sure. Question now though is finding posвЂ¦ https://t.co/wKSIafC59R in reply to accidentalflyer
20:12:32 @accidentalflyer @alex @NW_Horadam Thread suggests reframing. Less “we’re killing the world make huge changes!”, moвЂ¦ https://t.co/QQpRDqOqvZ in reply to abulsme
20:34:37 Reading – Parabola? Half a hyperbola? What is that curve? (VisualizingMath) https://t.co/CEJKJtkGnj
20:49:07 Retweeted @JayWCobb 20:28:27 UK election polls from brexit to now.Or: how to blow a 20 point lead
Or maybe: early polls are stupid and misleaвЂ¦ https://t.co/DW0XzFgODx
20:51:24 Retweeted @mckaycoppins 18:36:13 Incredible. Of 559 key positions requiring senate confirmation, only 39 have been confirmedвЂ”and 442 have no nomineeвЂ¦ https://t.co/UmwmhKxfql
21:26:15 Retweeted @imbou 21:24:43 @abulsme This is preposterous. Conservatives aren’t debating wether the scientific estimates are accurate they keeвЂ¦ https://t.co/WNqoRDJ4VZ in reply to abulsme
21:27:58 @imbou Lots yes. But there are some that do believe the science. We should encourage honest debate on “So what do wвЂ¦ https://t.co/6ljRKh71RF in reply to imbou
22:05:04 Woo! https://t.co/udH6pAW0WV
22:13:50 Retweeted @NBCNews 21:56:25 JUST IN: SCOTUS asks challengers in travel ban case for a response to the government’s appeal and the request for a stay in next 10 days
22:17:44 Retweeted @jdawsey1 21:49:43 CNN chyron: “President’s spokesman says he can’t speak for president”
22:34:20 Since this is donut day or whatnot, all I have had to eat so far today is four donuts. Going in for my fifth now. #HealthyDonutLiving
22:45:35 Retweeted @JonyIveParody 22:39:54 Ever wonder how your iPhone stays powered on even when it’s not plugged into the fucking wall, Rick?вЂ¦ https://t.co/Tgq29Sl8Fz
23:13:52 Retweeted @imbou 23:01:53 @abulsme I don’t think there are reasonable scientists rejecting debate. Once you mix politics with the science you are a demagogue in reply to abulsme
23:15:46 @imbou Not talking about scientists. Point of thread was that if you reframe the debate slightly you could get usefвЂ¦ https://t.co/u4krZmGYNH in reply to imbou
23:22:39 Retweeted @imbou 23:21:12 @abulsme We are the only damn country where this issue is politics, so no I don’t blame a scientist that rolls hisвЂ¦ https://t.co/vUvBzIRDbe in reply to abulsme
23:22:40 Retweeted @imbou 23:22:12 @abulsme The war on facts in this country had also turned into a war on science by the right I don’t want to hear hвЂ¦ https://t.co/mi2p85WQMi in reply to abulsme
23:25:39 @imbou Missing point. I roll my eyes too. But by giving OTHER REASONS to do things, might get helpful things done bвЂ¦ https://t.co/Mz2KKTvGe0 in reply to imbou
23:26:18 Retweeted @imbou 23:23:03 @abulsme When republicans run government such as the state of Florida and the govern forbids the discussion of climвЂ¦ https://t.co/RxrvvUKict in reply to abulsme
23:28:31 @imbou Ex: Invest in solar cause it creates jobs, not because better than coal or saves planet. Plant trees cause pвЂ¦ https://t.co/18Y1Kf1sVl in reply to abulsme
23:29:57 @imbou By avoiding framing things in terms of the polarized issue, you are more likely to get consensus on actual actions that help problem. in reply to abulsme
23:31:40 @imbou If you make it about climate change, the environment, etc, agreeing to the action makes people have to admitвЂ¦ https://t.co/ccOtDy4v0Q in reply to abulsme
23:34:10 @imbou If goal is improving things rather than making other folks change, you find a way to frame it so they can suвЂ¦ https://t.co/X5zyQb26xr in reply to abulsme
23:34:13 Retweeted @imbou 23:33:03 @abulsme It’s an adult thing to admit being wrong. And being the only fucking country where some political leadersвЂ¦ https://t.co/oA6KweFL4y in reply to abulsme
23:34:21 Retweeted @imbou 23:33:13 @abulsme Is fucking bullshit. in reply to imbou
23:36:15 @imbou There was a really good article on this framing stuff last year some time. Of course I won’t be able to find it. :-) in reply to imbou
23:37:21 @imbou Lots of places where you might actually be able to get R’s and D’s support the same policy… in reply to abulsme
23:38:37 @imbou But you have to describe and frame it very differently to the two groups… and keep both sides from feelingвЂ¦ https://t.co/apJRO9llDM in reply to abulsme
23:43:28 Retweeted @imbou 23:37:47 @abulsme I am exhausted about having to “frame” to people that the earth is not flat. Fucking respect science damnвЂ¦ https://t.co/tIrNxhE0rq in reply to abulsme
23:43:31 Retweeted @imbou 23:38:15 @abulsme People too and the autism vaccine assholes! in reply to imbou
23:43:42 Retweeted @imbou 23:39:43 @abulsme It’s not a win/lose thing it’s science damn it! Since when did saying that water is composed of hydrogenвЂ¦ https://t.co/Zpt4eehrtP in reply to abulsme
23:43:46 Retweeted @imbou 23:40:28 @abulsme Ohh ever since Roger Ailes started Fox News that’s right… in reply to abulsme
23:51:07 Just texted this to my wife. How did my life lead to this? —> “Do we actually need a duck to have fun?”

@abulsme tweets from 2017-06-01 (UTC)

01:34:05 Retweeted @TheCrosstab 01:22:45 #GE2017 Polling Average:
Conservative 42.1%
Labour 37.5%
LibDem 8.2%
UKIP 4.1%
SNP 4.1%
Green 2.2%вЂ¦ https://t.co/8hMu0Y613Y
13:18:20 Alarm: Ring ring ring. Mind: Oops, I forgot to reset you. I don’t have to be up for a couple more hours! Body: Too bad, you’re up now! Woo!!
16:33:15 Reading – Did Trump, Kushner, Sessions Have An Undisclosed Meeting With Russian? (Ken Dilanian) https://t.co/4jefAKvNE4
16:36:56 Retweeted @CillizzaCNN 16:34:38 “No. Question. In. The. Least.” — D strategist on Biden eyeing 2020https://t.co/lvJzpVQINz https://t.co/tphAOATUTG
18:52:11 Reading – The Language of Gender Violence (Robert Keren) https://t.co/Y7pSnkRRSr

@abulsme tweets from 2017-05-31 (UTC)

08:58:12 My webcam had been down since Oct. It still isn’t fully functional, but it does have a live shot of my office again! https://t.co/oZLZHBe1f2
17:11:33 Retweeted @steven_pifer 2017-05-30 17:42:22 Interesting question, Mike. When I served in USG, we sometimes spoke to Washington on open line precisely because wвЂ¦ https://t.co/1UK2fvtYqj
17:14:16 Retweeted @drvox 16:58:22 ANALYSIS: TELLING LITERALLY EVERY OTHER COUNTRY IN THE WORLD TO FUCK OFF WILL PROBABLY CREATE PROBLEMS DOWN THE ROAD in reply to drvox
17:16:45 Retweeted @cominer 06:44:47 Years of research and billions of dollars were spent to bring us this Internet and this is what we getвЂ¦ https://t.co/YUXyyYUuWt
17:21:48 Retweeted @kylegriffin1 14:49:57 Reminder: As with all deleted tweets, Trump may have violated the 1978 Presidential Records Act by deleting covfefeвЂ¦ https://t.co/0J0vruZeCs
17:23:05 Retweeted @ezlusztig 17:08:58 Reminder: In Iran, women vote. And two weeks ago they voted for moderation, denuclearization, and deescalation withвЂ¦ https://t.co/s91Ea6DKnl
17:28:24 Retweeted @dandrezner 03:25:09 This is an extraordinary paragraph from McMaster and Cohn’s op-ed, and I don’t mean “extraordinary” in a good way.вЂ¦ https://t.co/6cflyffDoB
17:28:30 Retweeted @CER_IanBond 08:44:12 Re-emergence of Hobbesian world is what West has spent last 70 yrs building institutions to prevent. Now #Trump isвЂ¦ https://t.co/MynzjOhKS5
19:15:08 Wut? https://t.co/amyDtm4Xe3
19:59:42 My eyes are rolling every time I see new quotes from that new Clinton interview. Sigh.
20:01:18 Retweeted @hunterw 19:39:49 This is exactly what was said about “covfefe” in today’s press briefing. https://t.co/QMheAGWUbs
21:44:23 Reading – Programmer Puts $50,000 On Stock Market, Lets Twitch Decide What To Do (Cecilia D’Anastasio) https://t.co/kCxdkal4F3
21:47:31 Reading – Touching the Sun: NASA Mission Renamed ‘Parker Solar Probe’ (Mike Wall) https://t.co/wxzUa5rDGs
21:54:51 Listening to Reveal The kids aren’t all right
via iCatcher! https://t.co/5ShHYNNr8H
22:07:31 Listening to Slate’s The Gist Donald Trump, Body Snatcher
via iCatcher! https://t.co/VeNk00TUOf
22:28:52 Retweeted @bpolitics 22:20:10 How a photo of a Swiss border post might influence Brexit talks https://t.co/PCTIkY5AGX https://t.co/bYdigTJTxP
22:59:16 Retweeted @GlennKesslerWP 22:31:06 So Andrew Weissmann, Mueller’s most senior hire, specializes in international financial fraud –> https://t.co/tshI1aPTTa

@abulsme tweets from 2017-05-30 (UTC)

00:35:21 Reading from December – Roman dodecahedrons (David Goran) https://t.co/fGInLEF42S
14:35:31 Important from @politicalmath. Read it. -> The Homeless Conservative https://t.co/yenOt7VFmN
18:25:03 Retweeted @GoogleTrends 16:03:49 America’s most misspelled words – it’s #spellingbee week and we mapped top “how to spell” searches by stateвЂ¦ https://t.co/huSdKazdrl
19:30:20 Reading – Congress expands Russia investigation to include Trump’s personal attorney (Ross/Mosk) https://t.co/ZoYfCGl2Vc
19:41:29 Retweeted @speechboy71 17:34:17 A bit late to this, but I’m hard pressed to think of a tweet that more accurately describes the modern conservativeвЂ¦ https://t.co/lrQwyYe4Iy
22:07:17 Retweeted @AlexanderEmmons 20:19:45 Watch as Stuart Jones, a high-level acting official in the State Dept, is asked why they criticize Iranian electionвЂ¦ https://t.co/TANpGiQEFe

@abulsme tweets from 2017-05-29 (UTC)

02:34:04 Watching – VOLDEMORT: Origins of the Heir TEASER #1 (Tryangle Films) https://t.co/4BtYVXPqnO
13:14:29 Retweeted @owillis 12:50:34 all this alpha male handshake nonsense = why we need more women leaders https://t.co/E8gGZHSMkl
16:17:52 Retweeted @_cingraham 16:17:36 Train maker: We’ve got normal trains, and self-driving ones that always manage to fuck things up
Sir Topham Hatt: I’ll take 50 of the latter
16:23:19 Reading – Infant To Harborview After Crash At 112th Park and Ride (Leland Dart) https://t.co/2vpBGhlSj7
20:53:24 Thread https://t.co/MxLhAMxCct
22:00:06 Retweeted @natsecHeather 21:18:21 Trial balloon. Let’s see. “@thehill: JUST IN: Trump to reverse Obama Cuba policies: report https://t.co/i2hNGEux1n https://t.co/CiqsRs0RhOвЂќ in reply to thehill
22:32:11 Reading – Snubs and slights are part of the job in Trump’s White House (Ashley Parker) https://t.co/xvY3yICOTl
22:49:08 Retweeted @tef_ebooks 2017-05-28 16:31:37 it turns out the two hardest problems in computer science are paying women the same amount of money and showing posts in chronological order
23:36:47 Retweeted @Mike_Hixenbaugh 02:34:48 I was dispatched to Sam Houston National Forest today, expecting to write a story about a dead child. Instead …
https://t.co/rNSJ94k7iG

@abulsme tweets from 2017-05-28 (UTC)

00:21:43 May 2017 Update: A look at Trump favorability vs job approval https://t.co/bUVOPXRXVd https://t.co/17JyJv7BPP
02:49:04 Reading – We Have More Details on the Outermost Trappist-1 Planet! (Matt Williams) https://t.co/MboymFLQgK
02:53:23 Retweeted @campuscodi 2017-05-27 17:29:07 Tweet of the day #britishairways https://t.co/CokcN5UHu6
02:57:32 Retweeted @PostScottWilson 2017-05-27 17:46:25 We talked to these “people” too. We would not publish their account unless we could signal they were speaking for KвЂ¦ https://t.co/rZYB4Uc67w
02:57:44 Retweeted @NateSilver538 00:04:12 This is why I trust the Washington Post on White House coverage. It’s clear about establishing what’s a fact and whвЂ¦ https://t.co/598QdofR5W
02:59:28 Retweeted @nadabakos 2017-05-27 00:45:53 At the CIA, if I arranged comms w/ Russia outside official channels & set up secret meeting in a 3rd country, I would be tried for espionage
04:35:38 Retweeted @kylegriffin1 2017-05-26 23:29:51 Reminder: WaPo reported in April Blackwater’s founder held a secret meeting to establish Trump-Putin back channel.
https://t.co/14m0ZLqqhZ
05:00:07 Retweeted @rebliv 04:59:40 C after a few drinks: “I’m a time continuum idiot. A time continuum moron. Tweet that shit!”
14:57:09 Retweeted @BraddJaffy 14:48:46 This is stunning from Merkel
https://t.co/etxfJghYLn https://t.co/QCKirU0pxf
15:00:35 Retweeted @AdamBlickstein 15:00:22 Trump trip accomplished only one thing: delivering Russia its biggest foreign policy win in decades by cleaving theвЂ¦ https://t.co/3RhIuqVWn8
15:13:19 Retweeted @GaryLegum 15:06:05 The thing about gleefully blowing up 70-y.o. postwar order is you really have very little say in what replaces it. in reply to GaryLegum
16:56:52 Reading – Thanks to Trump, Germany says it can’t rely on the United States. What does that mean? (Henry Farrell) https://t.co/FHzA2PtEcr
16:57:05 Retweeted @davidfrum 14:38:25 Since 1945, the supreme strategic goal in Europe of the USSR and then Russia was the severing of the US-German alliance. Trump delivered.
17:14:38 Watching – Domino Chain Reaction (short version) [Stephen Morris] https://t.co/3nY2FcLARK
17:59:01 Retweeted @Evan_McMullin 17:46:20 In our Trumpian era, is there any longer a traditional right and left? Or are there only those who fight for liberty and those against it.
22:52:54 Reading – the-movemnt: 6th-grader Xavier Davis was threatened with… (Wil Wheaton) https://t.co/A0edEOAvOE

@ElectionGraphs tweets from 2017-05-28 (UTC)

00:23:40 Retweeted @abulsme 00:21:43 May 2017 Update: A look at Trump favorability vs job approval https://t.co/bUVOPXRXVd https://t.co/17JyJv7BPP

@ElecCollPolls tweets from 2017-05-28 (UTC)

00:23:28 Retweeted @abulsme 00:21:43 May 2017 Update: A look at Trump favorability vs job approval https://t.co/bUVOPXRXVd https://t.co/17JyJv7BPP

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