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Curmudgeon’s Corner: Bubbles of Exasperation

This week on Curmudgeon’s Corner, Sam and Ivan’s three main topics are the USA’s alliances and the strains Trump is putting on them, the upcoming North Korean summit, and a hodgepodge of legal related stuff like last week’s SCOTUS cases, the Obamacare lawsuit, the new Manafort charges, and the Trump legal team’s letter to Mueller. Before all that though, they mark an anniversary, discuss Ivan’s recent trip to China, talk about the destruction of Sam’s son’s iPad, and more!

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Recorded 2018-06-09
Length this week – 1:59:30

(0:01:45-0:37:04) But First
- Agenda
- Anniversary
- Ivan in China
- Ivan book: Understanding Air France 447 (2013)
- Alex iPad destruction
- Macron handshake
(0:37:43-1:01:30) Alliances
- Anthony Bourdain suicide
- G7 Summit
- What is Trump’s plan?
- Are Canada and the EU really screwing the US?
- Fed up allies, happy Putin
- Rules are for suckers
(1:02:15-1:19:19) North Korea
- All about the attitude
- Giving things for free?
- Path to opening?
- Predictions
- Parkland again
(1:21:01-1:59:09) Legal Stuff
- Gay wedding cake case
- Abortion case
- Obamacare lawsuit
- New Manafort charges
- Trump letter to Mueller

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@abulsme tweets from 2018-06-09 (UTC)

02:25:46 Thread https://t.co/34ZZANX5Pl
02:31:20 Retweeted @NuclearAnthro 2018-06-08 06:06:09 Iran is in compliance with the JCPOA.The United States isn’t. https://t.co/ggw3GbDFDh
02:49:27 Retweeted @NatashaBertrand 2018-06-08 00:23:09 To sum up: Vekselberg was allegedly bankrolling the promotion of a plan that involved lifting RU sanctions. MichaelвЂ¦ https://t.co/anuHCGHX8K
14:47:59 The responses to this from people saying this isn’t a problem and just suck it up are depressing. https://t.co/nClIoDZMa5
14:50:58 Retweeted @andrewjgregor 00:12:51 At a gas station, a guy comes up after seeing my “FUCK TRUMP” sign:Him: You know why we love Trump so much?
Me:вЂ¦ https://t.co/4kM8hjBhhT
16:02:08 Retweeted @alexandraerin 15:59:50 You can’t run on the issues and not Trump when Trump and his government are the biggest issues, the worst issues, tвЂ¦ https://t.co/NeX8EYCcfe in reply to alexandraerin
16:09:32 Retweeted @glassbottommeg 15:59:32 Ok apparently I made two tacos. Sorry everyone, science is science. https://t.co/RZ3rI6aLpD in reply to glassbottommeg
16:10:29 Retweeted @scottlincicome 13:33:11 Just an astonishing lack of recognition that there are over *40-times* more US manufacturing jobs in metals-consumiвЂ¦ https://t.co/pk6T7khGGc
16:25:06 This is awful. https://t.co/1aJJNhRW1J
16:31:36 Retweeted @rezaaslan 16:27:28 At this point I just assume the pee pee tape is in 3D. https://t.co/IikpjcPKOD
21:23:07 Retweeted @chrisinsilico 20:54:46 First part of story now up on Guardian. Was LeaveEU part of a Russian influence operation? https://t.co/8jUYbSCkR4 in reply to chrisinsilico

@abulsme tweets from 2018-06-08 (UTC)

02:27:05 Retweeted @chrisgeidner 01:23:00 NYT: DOJ seized years of phone and email records of a journalist, @AliWatkins, in a leak investigation вЂ” without inвЂ¦ https://t.co/PXveVgRCyL
02:30:51 Retweeted @ericgeller 02:23:55 And now James Wolfe, former head of security for the Senate Intelligence Committee, has been arrested and charged wвЂ¦ https://t.co/r4qCncUtD4 in reply to ericgeller
18:33:46 Reading – Special counsel Robert Mueller files witness tampering indictment against Paul Manafort and Russian citizвЂ¦ https://t.co/siRmpdWxD0
18:35:59 Reading – New Horizons Spacecraft Wakes Up to Prepare for Historic Flyby of Distant Object (Chelsea Gohd) https://t.co/MxqhRQUPjN
18:38:18 Reading – NASA confirms its $1 billion Jupiter mission will cheat death for at least 3 more years (Dave Mosher) https://t.co/3Ej59KBVfq
18:57:48 Retweeted @joshgerstein 18:47:58 Here’s how Manafort indictment went down today…reporters saw Weissmann early in morning…he and an FBI agent werвЂ¦ https://t.co/OmxsHlXthM
19:01:54 Retweeted @aedwardslevy 18:08:42 PS: Do not be the person who replies to this to inform me that it’s not true, because you and all the people you knвЂ¦ https://t.co/xyd9EaTuCp
23:04:19 Thread https://t.co/euLYdfvdoe

@abulsme tweets from 2018-06-07 (UTC)

02:53:23 Retweeted @Green_Footballs 02:26:52 There’s a very creepy End Times feel about the Trump gang right now. Like they’re all scrambling and lying, and tryвЂ¦ https://t.co/sFfQSQsQUY
02:55:26 Retweeted @leahmcelrath 02:31:55 These are lyrics to be sung to the tune of вЂњTwinkle, Twinkle, Little StarвЂќ by 4 year old children.The lyrics areвЂ¦ https://t.co/ndiQkVAQh3
03:09:02 <symbol> https://t.co/bMKJG6QCNq
03:59:11 Retweeted @jdawsey1 01:49:41 Hannity suggests that Mueller witnesses, targets etc. destroy evidence. https://t.co/9TqCWZmaE2
04:26:15 Retweeted @HoarseWisperer 04:01:48 Who the F*** puts a 10-year old in handcuffs?As a parent, this is agonizing. That poor kid. https://t.co/0omvmRLQ1c
17:54:59 I’ve said many times that trying to fundamentally change consumption habits is not going to be enough and we shouldвЂ¦ https://t.co/hVZbgEQGUO
18:12:59 Thread on NK https://t.co/KJ8f4bT11S
18:16:44 Retweeted @K8brannen 18:09:18 Pruitt’s on a roll … https://t.co/cEzOx0GdQ0
18:18:51 Retweeted @JasonSchwartz 2018-06-06 21:10:27 There is now Anderson Cooper 360 and Anderson Cooper Full Circle. Looking forward to Anderson Cooper 2ПЂr. https://t.co/RCaorMhalS
19:54:33 Duh. https://t.co/sbSjgoB9xM
19:55:46 Uh…. https://t.co/LfemSJh1mU
22:01:31 Listening to Fresh Air How A Former FBI Agent Uses Twitter To Fight Terrorism https://t.co/kH3wUOkFaP

@abulsme tweets from 2018-06-06 (UTC)

03:37:13 Um… https://t.co/olvlDIvVct
04:19:39 Retweeted @NickBaumann 03:57:31 This piece gets at Trump’s greatest strength as a politician: He’s a fantastic marketer who knows how to come up wiвЂ¦ https://t.co/y3BoP6STgV
04:44:06 Retweeted @KrangTNelson 04:00:17 it’s pretty funny that scott pruitt tried to use his position to get his wife a chick-fil-a franchise but it’s ExtrвЂ¦ https://t.co/gLxOMsAL3N
17:22:04 Retweeted @vplus 17:19:40 CNN: According to sources, Trudeau pressed Trump on how he could justify the tariffs as a “national security” issueвЂ¦ https://t.co/AXA4LtjXgf
17:59:20 Retweeted @elakdawalla 17:48:53 This is cool. A mysterious warming of the Moon in the 1970s was actually just the warming of the little bits of theвЂ¦ https://t.co/RutqYLi7Lv
18:56:45 <symbol> https://t.co/tz94qV3LGX
18:59:38 Retweeted @_ElizabethMay 17:56:56 I’m always dismayed by the people that ask, “How has Donald Trump’s presidency affected you, personally, in a negatвЂ¦ https://t.co/LW1Hz6NCP8
18:59:55 Retweeted @MEPFuller 18:48:06 LOL he just loves Chick-fil-A!It’s cool. It’s all good. He’s just using his government position to influence busiвЂ¦ https://t.co/nLwMND9A8z
19:10:20 Retweeted @benjaminwittes 16:26:08 Boom
https://t.co/Y6n0uEXzxz https://t.co/FVuHFEUKzE
20:37:26 Thread https://t.co/f4d0dnyv7H
20:54:46 Retweeted @maddow 20:40:14 Manafort’s lawyer gets a lawyer.https://t.co/guVrpd11LR
22:44:34 Retweeted @mathewi 22:39:17 After more than a decade, one of the most high profile fair use cases could be coming to an end вЂ” a case that startвЂ¦ https://t.co/5ybvJyhMS4

@abulsme tweets from 2018-06-05 (UTC)

00:51:40 Time for some jail time! Uh… or a pardon maybe. :-) https://t.co/g0FKeCoqPF
00:51:44 Retweeted @BradMossEsq 00:48:22 I’m going to go out on a limb and say Manafort was not acting on the advice of his attorneys when he tried to coordвЂ¦ https://t.co/BsSDZuPUSr
01:15:46 Retweeted @jimsciutto 00:47:32 So in the last 24 hours:
-Trump’s fmr campaign Chmn accused of witness tampering.
– WH story of Trump Tower stateвЂ¦ https://t.co/ORf3VRaMpK
02:50:00 This is going out on a limb a bit. I wouldn’t call the circumstantial evidence overwhelming. But it is does lead toвЂ¦ https://t.co/ohZt9RIXFK
17:52:36 Reading – The 10 best new iOS 12 features that Apple didn’t announce at WWDC 2018 (Zach Epstein) https://t.co/hqCjRoU4lK
17:56:11 Reading – 21 game-changing announcements Apple made at its biggest conference of the year (Dave Smith) https://t.co/LRgOitVOVU
18:12:29 Retweeted @TPM 17:55:43 McConnell cancels August Senate recess to push through more Trump appointees https://t.co/YCzJibzhxW https://t.co/EKp15uakS2
20:35:31 Retweeted @newrepublic 19:40:05 Trump’s Saturday Night Massacre has already begun @ElizabethDrewOH https://t.co/mavjXZhLmC https://t.co/O0fejYeMX6
21:09:24 Uh, OK. https://t.co/GhvOZZXRL2
22:26:35 Wut https://t.co/UGUDPtvvY9

@abulsme tweets from 2018-06-04 (UTC)

00:48:55 Retweeted @IsaacDovere 2018-06-03 15:51:26 Actual progression:
-there was no mtg
-there was a mtg, but about adoption
-mtg wasn’t about adoption
-nothing wasвЂ¦ https://t.co/EctnPzheVr
00:50:55 Retweeted @JMilesColeman 00:04:20 If we could get 1K more people (not even that) to follow @DecisionDeskHQ on Tuesday, that would be really nice.
03:17:16 Retweeted @joncoopertweets 03:05:53 Rudy Giuliani: Donald Trump Could Have Shot FBI Director James Comey And Still Couldn’t Be Indicted For It https://t.co/VFXwOL2n9G
05:47:59 Retweeted @OpinionToday 2018-06-03 18:35:17 CBS News/YouGov Battleground Tracker: The House is a toss-up (CBS News) details: https://t.co/Iqu0E3KWaX https://t.co/J1Ndu30XnL
14:43:27 Will be waiting for analysis on how broad or narrow this is before having an opinion. Very narrow вЂњcan’t make him bвЂ¦ https://t.co/ikgiycdl3C
15:22:54 Sounds like it was neither. More like вЂњThe process used to arrive at the earlier decision was flawed. Go do it agaiвЂ¦ https://t.co/y2gJ7PPNjs in reply to abulsme
15:31:48 Thread on cake case. https://t.co/DZ50I9S64h
16:03:52 More on the cake case. https://t.co/tiyx3Fm89M
17:58:31 Reading – Supreme Court sides with Trump admin in undocumented pregnant teen case (Pete Williams) https://t.co/a7NP4xrVc4

@abulsme tweets from 2018-06-03 (UTC)

00:18:43 Grrr… https://t.co/iUhAVipfKZ
02:42:28 Please just go ahead and leave. https://t.co/hoy65qMFCz
07:25:29 Thread https://t.co/BgWBJWCJbU
15:11:55 Retweeted @bpmehlman 13:20:23 President Trump has 2nd highest “own party” job approval rating since World War II at day ~500, only behind Bush43вЂ¦ https://t.co/qbaMzEGJOh
16:56:38 Retweeted @page88 15:21:40 Good, non-hysterical analysis of The Letter. (Though hysteria may shortly be warranted.) https://t.co/KGGisQ2dZj

@abulsme tweets from 2018-06-02 (UTC)

01:48:57 Retweeted @drvox 2018-06-01 17:42:06 Again: other than Trump appointees & the corporations that will benefit from this welfare, NO ONE thinks this is wiвЂ¦ https://t.co/6xqYbgaCmp
02:02:39 Retweeted @marcaross 2018-06-01 19:54:02 NYT: How Trump’s election shook Obama: вЂWhat if we were wrong?’вЂњMaybe this is what people want. I’ve got the econвЂ¦ https://t.co/clWwPZ4ARW
17:04:10 Curmudgeon’s Corner: Light and Frothy https://t.co/SK7Ch4IOzy https://t.co/BCI57dzGmu
18:33:13 Retweeted @jrxlv 2018-05-31 10:26:04 Its 3am and this is the greatest thing I’ve ever seen in my life https://t.co/ZkW2fcVpab
18:34:33 Retweeted @sjredmond 05:26:07 This just in…Canada, Mexico and the EU have decided to enter into a new trade partnership. They call it the FU.
19:44:15 Retweeted @BreakingNews 18:55:23 .@nytimes: In a confidential 20-page memo sent to the special counsel in January, President Trump’s lawyers made brвЂ¦ https://t.co/L2B1yibePg
20:38:55 Retweeted @OfficialJonZal 20:36:25 At last, an answer to the age-old question of вЂњWhat if Richard Nixon had committed crimes far more serious than WatвЂ¦ https://t.co/0AJXPRFbH9

Curmudgeon’s Corner: Light and Frothy

On this week’s Curmudgeon’s Corner podcast, the two big topics are Trump’s pardons and the Economy. Specifically Sam and Ivan talk about the grand plan, or lack thereof, surrounding the pardons and what messages that sends. On the economy, the questions are how much credit Trump should get for good unemployment numbers, does it matter that he tweeted about those results before they came out, and what’s up with the big trade war that seems to be getting started? Along the way, they also cover a health issue in Sam’s family, the Puerto Rican death toll, a little on the Trump/Cohen investigations, and the general trend toward US isolation.

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Recorded 2018-06-02
Length this week – 1:17:12

(0:00:15-0:16:32) Into
- Where is Ivan
- Agenda
- Sam’s Family Medical Issue
- Puerto Rican Death Toll
(0:17:11-0:50:30) Pardons and Commutations and Stuff
- Answering Machine Messages
- Recent and Proposed Pardons
- Eating the Pieces
- Kardashian Summit
- Pardoning Trump cronies?
- Rudy’s Strategy
- Trump Tapes
- Investigation Speed
(0:51:06-1:16:52) Economic Stuff
- Where is the Economic Collapse?
- Should Trump get credit for good numbers?
- Trump unemployment pre-announcement
- Trade War!
- US becoming isolated

The Curmudgeon’s Corner theme music is generously provided by Ray Lynch.

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