Abulsme.com: Thursday, January 19th, 2017

Curmudgeon’s Corner: Sitting on my Porch

This week on Curmudgeon’s Corner Sam and Ivan’s main topics are the debate on Donald Trump’s “legitimacy”, the fun of the final week of the transition, and the Chelsea Manning commutation. In addition though, they discuss reviving old computers, the “wet foot, dry foot” policy, Joe Biden, an odd Presidential succession edge case, and more!

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Show Details:

Recorded 2017-01-19
Length this week – 1:57:57

(0:00:10-0:20:34) But First
- 2017
- Agenda
- Reviving old computers
(0:21:13-0:45:08) Legitimacy
- Trump “legitimate”?
- Comey, Dirty Tricks, Fairness
- Voters made their choice
- Unfollowing Trump?
- Skipping the Inauguration?
- Anti-Trump Protests
(0:45:56-1:04:56) Transition
- Cabinet not talking to Trump
- Cabinet incompetence
- Cabinet Hodgepodge
- Unstaffed positions
- Normal policy disputes vs Crazy/Unqualified
(1:05:41-1:25:11) Manning
- Why this release date?
- Manning vs Snowden
- Consistency on leaks?
(1:25:50-1:56:37) Lightning Round
- Wet Foot Dry Foot
- Book: 2001 (1968)
- Old Postcard from Sam
- Movie: Rogue One (2016)
- Biden for President
- Succession Edge Cases

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@abulsme tweets from 2017-01-18 (UTC)

02:38:14 Retweeted @Publici 00:19:14 Here's @realDonaldTrump's education secretary Betsy DeVos talking money-in-politics back in 1997.вЂ¦ https://t.co/2MqLGP00Y4
04:22:14 Wait, DeVos said we need guns in schools to defend against bears? This happened?
04:25:41 Reading – Is Trump ready for a national security crisis? (Michael Crowley) https://t.co/l5GVfri1h4
04:32:31 Not the right way to protest. Hope they recover. https://t.co/frgpe8kbwP
04:36:22 Retweeted @mattmfm 02:05:14 Stunning: Maggie Hassan (who has a disabled son) realizes that DeVos doesn't know the Individuals with DisabilitiesвЂ¦ https://t.co/ycslg2mfWS
04:43:06 Retweeted @BrianByrdman 02:50:08 "No one could be more unqualified than Ben Carson"
DeVos: "hold my beer"
Me: "that's a Tonka trunk"
DeVos: "I don't know the difference"
04:47:50 Retweeted @SenSchumer 02:53:02 Betsy DeVos fails @timkaine's test at Senate hearing: https://t.co/qnyFZgc52X
06:33:54 Reading – Hard Brexit It Is (Joshua Keating) https://t.co/sIuQkPE3AB
06:37:51 Retweeted @IanARegan 05:48:31 <symbol>Tiny ring moon Daphnis, embedded in the Keeler Gap, caught by #Cassini last night! (<symbol>2017 JAN 16th) https://t.co/sbjOYW8NRf
07:22:58 Retweeted @BNONews 07:22:39 Former U.S. President George H.W. Bush has been hospitalized in Houston, aide says https://t.co/1bDs4b59Ki https://t.co/w081RVCkT1
13:29:03 Reading – Reality bites: Trump's wake-up call (Allen/VandeHei) https://t.co/iMiGRqBHBk
18:20:21 Both of them! :-( https://t.co/WXMlbkjg9X
18:39:36 Retweeted @CNN 17:33:02 Days before being hospitalized, former president George H.W. Bush told Trump he could not attend his inaugurationвЂ¦ https://t.co/JQ4RahciW3
19:25:32 Retweeted @BNONews 19:24:35 WATCH LIVE: President Obama holds final press conference before leaving the White House https://t.co/OrRvRJ9kF8 https://t.co/hhfvF5nDxp
20:13:18 Reading – FBI, 5 other agencies investigating Kremlin aid in hacking, sources say (Stone/Gordon) https://t.co/fzJlfOkfdb
20:15:04 Retweeted @DavidNakamura 20:05:54 .@potus making statement with his selection of reporters — Head of #WHCA, Fox News, Latino reporter, foreign press, LGBT press, Af Am press
20:22:56 Retweeted @ChloeAngyal 20:01:43 The subtext of most of these questions seems to be, "So, just how fucked do you think we are?"
20:24:22 Retweeted @ThePlumLineGS 20:23:36 Obama's final words to the press: "Good luck."
What he left out: "You're gonna need it!"
20:25:36 Retweeted @thegarance 20:23:16 Obama is so crushingly optimistic.
21:49:15 Thread -> https://t.co/HDcv9XvNZ0
22:04:57 Reading – I voted for Donald Trump, and I already regret it (Sherri Underwood) https://t.co/LvoSRclN9H
22:26:14 Retweeted @billclinton 20:09:05 41 and BarbaraвЂ”thinking about you both and sending wishes for a speedy recovery. Love, 42.
22:34:10 Reading – The Empty Trump Administration (Jonathan Bernstein) https://t.co/AANQTqZcC6
22:36:50 Retweeted @jbouie 15:30:53 No one cares because narratives are more enjoyable than facts, but the typical Trump voter isn't actually a downtrodden white person.
22:44:32 Retweeted @nancyayoussef 2017-01-17 14:47:39 Overheard at the Pentagon: "Mattis will save us. Mattis will save us. Mattis will save us. Mattis will save…."
22:44:48 Retweeted @OwensDamien 21:22:22 In keeping with a tradition as old as the presidency itself, Trump just paid out $25m to people he defrauded by running a fake university.
23:12:39 Reading – Gambia Prepares For Showdown As Foreign Troops Threaten Intervention (Merrit Kennedy) https://t.co/ytWj1xgaW9
23:32:09 Reading – Trump Disrupts World (Robin Wright) https://t.co/43Gt6LFy80

@abulsme tweets from 2017-01-17 (UTC)

01:12:26 Listening to Powerhouse Politics 1/12/17: Chaos President?
via iCatcher! https://t.co/fFRby07tcG
01:33:51 Retweeted @KatzOnEarth 01:29:11 The thing about the supposed electoral price for repealing ACA without replacing it is idiots have short memories and dead people can’t vote
01:49:35 Retweeted @jrovner 00:22:56 That was fast. Kellyanne Conway (on MSNBC) just walked back most of what Trump told the Washington Post on ACA.
02:22:51 Retweeted @Atul_Gawande 01:51:29 Trump camp: He didn't mean it literally when he vowed "insurance for everybody." Did he mean anything? Who knows? https://t.co/28bZ6VDyLj
02:27:25 Yup -> The Case for Not Being Crybabies (Josh Marshall) https://t.co/GLOAKvlzSc
02:38:22 Retweeted @dandrezner 02:36:14 I don't agree with all of Kirshner's arguments, but these two paragraphs will haunt me for the rest of my days:вЂ¦ https://t.co/Dk17dH5mET
02:45:02 Reading – Rogue One's reshoots show how Disney saved the first standalone Star Wars movie (Andrew Liptak) https://t.co/MgvQ9riymZ
05:49:07 Retweeted @Attervar 2017-01-16 19:19:10 If you feel like you're in the wrong universe, remember all this weird crap only started after they turned on the Large Hadron Collider.
05:54:31 Retweeted @davepell 05:28:35 Trump can’t divulge the details of his health care plan otherwise the diseases will know exactly what’s coming.
16:26:03 Retweeted @ChristopherJM 15:03:24 Putin Says Doesn't Believe Trump Met Prostitutes in Russia. "Although ours are undoubtedly the best in the world." https://t.co/SUOFAlZMu3
17:25:35 The super pessimistic view. Horrifyingly resonant. -> America, America (Jonathan Kirshner) https://t.co/nARftMbzaj
17:27:49 After long silence, my wife @scatterbrandy has picked up Twitter again and can't put it down. Follow her! :-)
17:34:09 Retweeted @Scatterbrandy 17:33:52 @abulsme is this a coded plea to STAHP???? in reply to abulsme
17:34:24 .@Scatterbrandy Nope. Never. in reply to Scatterbrandy
17:44:28 Retweeted @peterb 17:44:03 @abulsme "Could you really say with much certainty that AmericaвЂ¦will last as long as…the frog?" -Catch-22 in reply to abulsme
17:50:03 Reading – Donald Trump waits in his tower вЂ” accessible yet isolated (Parker/Rucker) https://t.co/APkWVJ9a03
18:04:29 Once again, head desk. -> I voted for Trump, not against Planned Parenthood (Melody Forbes) https://t.co/lF7lhowvoM
18:17:10 Retweeted @SeanTrende 2017-01-16 14:23:43 So @davidbylerRCP and I mapped Democratic strength in the South over ~30 yrs. The results are . . . striking (cc:вЂ¦ https://t.co/eOQ1bXJivU
18:20:40 Retweeted @williamjordann 17:53:55 Funny thing about ongoing Brexit comparisons is that all of the pro-Brexit politicians won & then promptly resigned deeply unpopular
18:57:00 Reading – Obama’s Flawed Foreign Policy (@natsecHeather) https://t.co/o4Vy4L1SCe
21:19:39 Retweeted @BNONews 21:19:24 BREAKING: President Obama grants commutation of sentence for Chelsea Manning, who sent classified material to WikiLeaks – NYTimes
21:22:57 Reading – Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning’s Sentence (Charlie Savage) https://t.co/SeA1NmEEbo
22:35:53 Retweeted @jaketapper 22:14:44 From Jan 12 https://t.co/jLNbqm7a9Z
23:34:38 Retweeted @ComfortablySmug 23:15:33 Here's the video!
https://t.co/WXZLZXcDgX in reply to ComfortablySmug

@abulsme tweets from 2017-01-16 (UTC)

00:01:39 Retweeted @girlyfiedgirl 2017-01-15 23:37:14 I'm expecting Friday to be like the scene from The Lion King when Scar takes over and the hyenas emerge from the shadows. @summerbrennan in reply to summerbrennan
01:40:33 Reading – Trump vows вЂinsurance for everybody’ in Obamacare replacement plan (Robert Costa) https://t.co/xtckQGRQJY
01:44:48 Retweeted @imbou 01:41:36 @abulsme @washingtonpost great! If he can pull this off that's awesome! in reply to abulsme
01:49:39 Retweeted @IvoHDaalder 00:04:39 Gen Mattis last week: "If we did not have NATO today, we would need to create it"
Pres-Elect Trump today: "NATO is obsolete"
02:04:58 Retweeted @gelliottmorris 02:04:37 Tweets from @realDonaldTrump have gotten increasingly negative since he's been elected, especially in 2017.вЂ¦ https://t.co/SS71yZZpNW
02:29:18 Retweeted @elerianm 2017-01-15 21:42:40 H/T @mikeallen : @businessinsider on the @OUPEconomics analysis on #populist movements, including prospects for 201вЂ¦ https://t.co/w1wzTPYJEE
03:28:58 Retweeted @shelleyaw123 03:21:53 @abulsme @washingtonpost For T1Ds the ACA was a milestone achievement. If he can improve on it, Great! But don't let the GOP gut it. in reply to abulsme
03:42:57 Retweeted @davidfrum 03:17:02 вЂ¦ bottom line is that the future of the free world is in the hands of somebody you would not hire to watch your dog. in reply to davidfrum
07:54:27 Retweeted @teenagesleuth 2017-01-14 20:21:00 Once or twice in every generation a line is crossed so egregiously that where you stood on the issue will forever define you.
08:05:40 Retweeted @SimonMaloy 02:15:56 RYAN: it's about ideas; one idea I've idea'ed is guaranteed *access* to coverage, which makes more s-
TRUMP: COVER EVERYONE FOR NO MONEY
08:32:16 Reading – Saturn’s вЂDeath Star’ Moon Looks Spooky as Hell in New Cassini Photo (George Dvorsky) https://t.co/Go6zPnO1vy
08:43:59 Reading – Why Are the Trump Allegations Hanging Around When They Haven’t Been Substantiated? (Hennessey/Wittes) https://t.co/NlHWTzaC1F
15:41:57 Retweeted @dangillmor 15:12:19 Increasingly looks like best-case scenario is Trump impeachment and President Pence…
15:44:09 Retweeted @BraddJaffy 14:17:46 вЂњIt sends a signal we're trying to hide things from them.вЂќ https://t.co/gJBo2ImeVf
16:06:38 Retweeted @studentactivism 16:04:06 Trump, inaugurated on Friday at noon, tells the Times of London he's going to take the rest of that day and the weeвЂ¦ https://t.co/ZU7m772k7D
17:34:36 Reading – Donald Trump may have just destroyed the Republican effort to repeal Obamacare (Paul Waldman) https://t.co/elrcqsYXRw
17:37:32 Retweeted @maitlis 10:39:32 I know it's classified n everything but did anyone understand this paragraph from #trump @thetimes transcript ? https://t.co/QOtujAEAM9
17:46:21 Retweeted @bungdan 16:49:50 Trump's inability to provide a coherent, structured answer to *any* question (Times transcript a typical meandering horror) is terrifying.
21:25:34 Retweeted @studentactivism 21:21:25 As of today, only six people remain alive who have walked on the moon. The youngest is 81 years old.
22:30:15 Retweeted @BoingBoing 21:46:20 A @NewYorker cartoon by @PaulNoth https://t.co/giBv9yIUJt
22:59:52 Good read -> The Music Donald Trump Can’t Hear (Adam Gopnik) https://t.co/tsFEHwU7Gy
23:03:08 Good thread prompted by that last article I tweeted. https://t.co/zgRLYdsL5F

@abulsme tweets from 2017-01-15 (UTC)

01:28:16 Retweeted @JoyAnnReid 2017-01-14 22:24:12 As I predicted, Trump's attack on John Lewis has pushed the number of Dems skipping the inaugural from 2 pre-tweer (including Lewis) to 16.
01:28:20 Retweeted @normative 01:16:58 What's the tipping point at which attending the Orange One's coronation becomes a mark of shame and cravenness?
01:31:52 Retweeted @justinamash 00:36:55 Dude, just stop. https://t.co/UCIqhqGnXu
01:37:47 Retweeted @soledadobrien 00:02:15 You, sir, are literally a moron. https://t.co/Gx2PPxlmjn
01:46:14 Retweeted @mindyfinn 01:40:24 Pres-elect Trump has many critics but carefully chooses the attacks that will divide us further. It's pure evil.
03:36:44 Reading – Without Obamacare, I Will Get Sicker, Faster, Until I Die (Cameron Ziegler) https://t.co/xGYt0qGt42
04:05:33 Retweeted @BNONews 03:17:51 BREAKING: Ringling Bros. circus to close in May after 146 years, company says, citing fall in ticket sales – AP
04:05:35 Retweeted @BNONews 03:34:26 President-elect Trump is considering to remove the press corps from the White House; spokesman says no decision made yet – Esquire
04:11:12 Reading – The Trump Administration May Evict the Press from the White House (Peter Boyer) https://t.co/3CL4UPHDKK
04:18:48 Reading – Man arrested after Bellevue mosque damaged in suspected arson (Seattle Times) https://t.co/pmJ0OEXnwU
04:44:07 Retweeted @AlexSteffen 00:11:51 Arctic sea ice collapse.
We areвЂ”right nowвЂ”in a rapidly worsening planetary crisis, one unparalleled in human histoвЂ¦ https://t.co/VcnN6W2YvX
04:44:31 Retweeted @Scatterbrandy 04:44:07 I think if they do, they should stop reporting him entirely. Never mention his name. https://t.co/KwgXrTzfBZ
04:48:09 Retweeted @isaach 04:26:45 evening reading https://t.co/z1a6DjvgbV https://t.co/TbNB486O4l
04:51:50 Reading – Ex-Miss Hungary claims Trump invited her to his Moscow hotel room (Chris Sommerfeldt) https://t.co/4MmGaYESSx
04:53:37 Retweeted @ywxwy 04:23:18 Republican reaction to Democratic POTUS: panic buying guns/ammo
Democratic reaction to Republican: panic buying birth control
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05:10:07 Retweeted @KameronHurley 2017-01-14 15:38:07 Listen. The arc of history doesn't bend toward justice. Sorry. It bends toward tyranny. It takes active work to bend it toward justice.
05:15:08 Retweeted @BassoonJokes 2017-01-13 21:19:29 the new healthcare plan is everybody gets 50 tylenol at birth. those are your tylenol. use them whenever or however you want.
05:22:39 Retweeted @dandrezner 2017-01-14 20:15:55 A year from now, I hope I look back at what I've written recently and conclude that I overreacted to Trump. I really do.
05:36:33 Retweeted @ianbremmer 2017-01-14 19:58:04 Why the End of Pax Americana? More this than Trump: https://t.co/UUn9pZ0SWm
05:57:18 Retweeted @TheRickWilson 05:46:49 Expect a golden stream of tweets from Trump after this SNL cold open. https://t.co/x2WGA5HBGL
09:26:56 Retweeted @thehill 2017-01-14 20:41:04 Trump listed as threat to human rights by Human Rights Watch
https://t.co/YBOSnekhCu https://t.co/EcSe6AEKnQ
15:04:53 Retweeted @staceyNYCDC 14:46:58 Never forget Chaffetz saying he couldn't support Trump and also look his daughter in the eye then voted for him anyвЂ¦ https://t.co/ZfBccdQuy3
15:09:48 Retweeted @20committee 14:25:37 Yes, things really are this bad. Our closest intel partner is worried Trump will expose its operatives to Putin.
https://t.co/ZQCGIVcrim
15:22:28 Retweeted @ChrisCJackson 13:19:33 "scheduling issues" = finding out John Lewis has his own section there https://t.co/CuxG8Y1JzW
15:48:29 Watching – What Darth Vader Did in His Free Time (Fact Free) https://t.co/ncaBm5sR8y
19:45:51 Retweeted @pierre 19:43:28 The Clinton letter means he can't be accused of playing for Democrats during the Russia counterintel investigation. https://t.co/CYj0hw1qxm
20:47:09 Retweeted @Scatterbrandy 20:23:41 But he can be accused of playing for GOP. Which he was. https://t.co/U1dfnHsBG7
21:42:47 Retweeted @summerbrennan 21:41:18 I get trolled the most when I try to encourage people to come together for common goals. Wonder why that is.
21:42:57 Retweeted @AdamParkhomenko 17:55:25 We must fight for automatic voter registration. No more opting in to vote. OREGON leads the way – proud of the hard work of @KateBrownForOR
22:24:02 Yes! -> Trump Wants to Ban the Press from the WH That Might Actually Be a Good Thing for Journalism. (David Atkins) https://t.co/IakZuanlm7
23:19:08 Retweeted @poniewozik 23:05:56 You can tell he's devoting himself to the rigors of the office when he doesn't get around to tweeting about SNL untвЂ¦ https://t.co/VR8ks2qADW
23:23:44 Sigh -> Trump Calls NATO Obsolete and Dismisses EU in German Interview (Rainer Buergin) https://t.co/KVzi8tNh3C
23:23:57 Retweeted @carlbildt 22:22:59 We might have to live, at least for a while, with a US President openly hostile to the European Union. Against true US strategic interest.
23:24:29 Retweeted @Kasparov63 23:04:04 Every FP position Trump takes, starting from total ignorance around year ago, is on Putin's wish list. Brexit, Ukraine, NATO, EU, Merkel. in reply to Kasparov63
23:28:24 Retweeted @Kasparov63 23:01:31 I'm still waiting for Trump to say something about global affairs that hasn't literally been said first by the KremвЂ¦ https://t.co/op0WtuHJ4L
23:55:05 Retweeted @jaketapper 22:42:39 If all these Russian trolls got off Twitter and got to work maybe they'd finally have an economy bigger than Italy'вЂ¦ https://t.co/RkbzciWA7X
23:57:03 Retweeted @maggieNYT 19:37:29 The WH briefing room issue is a classic Trump maneuver – float an extreme and bargain back from there.
23:59:39 Retweeted @bergopolis 19:16:41 Scotland's Sunday Herald wins the internet, not just today but for the next four years. https://t.co/XFvA3aBvc0

@abulsme tweets from 2017-01-14 (UTC)

00:59:09 Reading – How Putin Played the Far Left (Casey Michel) https://t.co/OvS9YHs8Ft
01:40:24 Retweeted @Khanoisseur 01:39:10 Rosneft President offers Trump aides 19% stake for getting sanctions lifted andвЂ¦
Oh look, Rosneft President's ChieвЂ¦ https://t.co/YlewgQMCJC in reply to Khanoisseur
01:44:32 Retweeted @kurteichenwald 2017-01-13 22:50:00 Just watch: When insurance industry goes into chaos and millions lose their jobs, the GOP will blame Obama.
04:02:34 Retweeted @20committee 2017-01-13 12:02:57 Biggest deal about last night's Flynn story is that as career MI he surely knows calls to the RUEMBDC are intercepted. He didn't care.
04:08:52 Retweeted @20committee 00:01:06 So Trump will enter the White House under Senate investigation. For espionage.
Get the inauguration party started!

https://t.co/IEeWBSL94O
04:10:54 Retweeted @McFaul 02:54:43 No it is unusual for transition teams to have contact with foreign governments. # of calls to Kislyak during ObamaвЂ¦ https://t.co/M5NXDu7Oh4
04:18:04 Reading – Trump adviser had five calls with Russian envoy on day of sanctions: sources (Landay/Mohammed) https://t.co/DNpuknMJcN
04:32:36 Ruh roh -> Former MI6 agent Steele's frustration as FBI sat on Donald Trump Russia file for months (Kim Sengupta) https://t.co/5ygUpTVoS3
04:33:05 Retweeted @notacroc 2017-01-13 01:30:23 Biden: am i an avenger now?
Obama: sure Joe

Biden: https://t.co/fNAy5Xwte2
04:38:08 Reading – Penthouse may have proof of Trump’s вЂgolden shower’ tryst at Moscow hotel (Greg Price) https://t.co/5mW1lSeaTu
05:10:18 Retweeted @leahmcelrath 04:41:14 A full-fledged Constitutional crisis is unfortunately the best case scenario at this point. https://t.co/MFJNv6jea7
07:41:46 Retweeted @DanteAtkins 2017-01-13 19:44:45 What the hell did Comey tell people anyway? it is soul-crushing to walk the halls with so many people who know and can't tell.
08:15:39 Retweeted @EmmaKennedy 08:05:07 Every journalist worth their salt is now actively trying to join up the dots on Russia and Trump. It’s the Cannonball Run to the Pulitzer.
08:28:26 Retweeted @DavidOAtkins 08:27:48 Are there really Republicans who think Trump will be anything other than a disaster? Forget policy. The guy is a walking basketcase.
13:31:21 Wake up in the middle of the night. Trump is freaking out on Twitter again. :-/
13:31:27 Retweeted @nycjim 13:26:10 The more @realDonaldTrump tries these weak ploys to discredit intel dossier, the more credible he makes its allegations. #maga in reply to nycjim
13:34:55 Some intrepid reporters are doing the dangerous work of searching the streets and morgues of Moscow for those prostitutes, right?
13:42:41 I can overlook Johnson voters. Even Stein voters & non-voters. But Trump voters… every single one of you… You own this mess. All of it.
13:45:36 Reading – Trump officials might be expecting E.U. to fall apart this year, U.S. envoy says (Michael Burnbaum) https://t.co/6VrUMKxcFG
13:54:31 Reading – Donald Trump has persuaded Republicans to doubt the intelligence on Russia’s hacking (Aaron Blake) https://t.co/hd8B4fDSLl
13:57:42 Reading – Trump suggests US sanctions against Russia are unnecessary if Moscow is 'really helping us' (Bryan Logan) https://t.co/dDjX27t7AT
14:00:49 Retweeted @20committee 13:19:32 Gosh, if only someone had the transcripts to those 5 calls….
https://t.co/8l7PbB57HA
14:05:39 Retweeted @dandrezner 13:54:13 That moment when you wake up, check your Twitter feed, realize that Trump has tweeted something egregious, and tense up before reading it.
16:38:28 Retweeted @shelleyaw123 15:58:50 @abulsme Intellects are marked as snowflakes. We traded in our predator/prey gene for compassion/empathy. Not "unprecedented", evolutionary. in reply to abulsme
16:40:25 Retweeted @jaketapper 16:14:59 On Fri some Dems worried Lewis comments would force them to defend PEOTUS Trump legitimacy. Not anymore. Now they rally around Lewis.
16:47:37 Retweeted @thegarance 16:32:34 Trump on protestors during campaign: вЂњIn the good old days…they used to treat them very, very rough." https://t.co/ZEr2hYMmyT
16:48:30 Retweeted @peterdaou 13:14:34 As the first black POTUS leaves office with honor, a new president supported by white nationalists fights with John Lewis on MLK weekend.
16:49:05 Retweeted @NormOrnstein 00:53:35 But, but… Sean Spicer said it was to wish him a Merry Christmas! https://t.co/p5KfvhJNvR
16:52:13 Reading – First sign of enhanced U.S.-Russia relations under Trump: An invite to Syria talks (DeYoung/Miller) https://t.co/dbvCroeE84
17:01:00 It seems @repjohnlewis got exactly what he wanted. Baited Trump into an intemperate response, moved a few Dems further in his direction.
17:01:49 Retweeted @AlexMLeo 16:26:48 Can we just be honest here? Trump won in large part because he told people they didn't have to feel bad about their basest instincts.
17:01:52 Retweeted @AlexMLeo 16:27:49 That just because "the elites" said it was the right thing to do to embrace immigrants, diversity and inclusion they didn't have to like it in reply to AlexMLeo
17:02:03 Retweeted @RadioFreeTom 16:27:27 In fact, he told them to celebrate those baser instincts as a way of expressing their authenticity as the "real" AmвЂ¦ https://t.co/46IIzisAPu
17:09:34 Retweeted @GideonResnick 16:57:20 this dynamic has in no way changed and if it doesn't shift, Trump will absolutely be in office for 8 years.вЂ¦ https://t.co/yKzIx5RWnK
17:12:58 Retweeted @EricHolthaus 11:48:30 There is, right now (as of Jan 12th), the least area of sea ice on our planet that we've ever measuredвЂ”probably theвЂ¦ https://t.co/qITen3u8Y0
17:20:47 Retweeted @CassiniSaturn 16:55:42 OTD in 2005, #Huygens landed on Titan. In this video, sound represents its motion, signal and instruments during deвЂ¦ https://t.co/rHGj98XfxF
17:22:40 Retweeted @jeremyscahill 15:12:03 Clearly John Lewis is unfamiliar with Trump's seminal civil rights missive: "Tweet from a Manhattan Penthouse."
17:24:28 Retweeted @sarahkendzior 16:53:48 There is some variation within the papers. But generally they're being timid while foreign news is treating it as oвЂ¦ https://t.co/Ql62amhUwJ
17:37:29 Retweeted @WhiteHouse 17:34:56 Watch @POTUS deliver his final weekly address to the American people. https://t.co/K5jqIAtlUd #ObamaFarewell https://t.co/MeylVmpAKu
18:07:57 Retweeted @adamjohnsonNYC 2017-01-13 22:54:25 tfw your Russian experts don't speak Russian https://t.co/p7z93YRLBK
18:18:23 Reading – This is why Republicans can't find a replacement for Obamacare (Michael Buxbaum) https://t.co/9QYQTvLFpm
18:32:35 Reading – As WhatsApp becomes latest victim, are any messaging apps truly secure? (Nathaniel Mott) https://t.co/pSZgZrqHt7
18:33:37 Retweeted @mattyglesias 16:20:33 "Trump criticizes Lewis but not Putin because Putin doesn't criticize Trump" is both accurate and exactly the problвЂ¦ https://t.co/gjsEa5FWZ8
18:38:06 Retweeted @greggiroux 17:51:27 10. Hatch, who briefly ran for president 2000, with a funny & self-deprecating sketch of the Senate as incubator ofвЂ¦ https://t.co/LHuDigvZrJ in reply to greggiroux
19:10:53 Retweeted @jaketapper 14:02:29 Congressional tweetstorm on yesterday's vote — worth a read — https://t.co/003az4qaHu
19:33:13 Reading – Back on the Mekong Delta, John Kerry finds a man who once tried to kill him and exoneration (Morello) https://t.co/18GdZG1J6s
19:48:20 Retweeted @imillhiser 16:37:51 Don't forget to piss off Trump by buying enough copies of John Lewis' memoir to put it on the bestsellers lists. https://t.co/Gxdew18Zhz
19:48:23 Retweeted @imillhiser 19:31:27 If you already have a copy, order another one and ship it to:
Donald J. Trump
Trump Tower
721 Fifth Avenue
New YorвЂ¦ https://t.co/FPT1Lw9HvD
19:48:29 Retweeted @KristineBrite 19:33:01 @imillhiser it is now saying out of stock on Amazon. Which is awesome. https://t.co/JkFU9lwZiM in reply to imillhiser
19:50:15 Retweeted @stevesilberman 17:59:23 Next 4 years will be the world watching King Cheeto attempt to ritually humiliate anyone who defies him. It's who he is. It's all he's got.
20:14:11 Retweeted @benschwartzy 20:08:44 Of course Trump knows who Lewis is. Trump went after McCain for being a pris. of war. It never sinks in on liberals that this works for him.
20:14:15 Retweeted @JeffSharlet 20:10:04 Exactly. See my previous RTs: attacking "losers" like Lewis or McCain isn't a Trump stumble; it is, to his believerвЂ¦ https://t.co/eIumzpHejB
21:11:31 Reading – Don’t treat Donald Trump as if he’s a normal president. He’s not. (Jonathan Freedland) https://t.co/uKzFxppcXp
21:33:11 Retweeted @HamillHimself 20:26:56 Am I the ONLY one man enough to confront this #OverratedFlunkyLoser without resorting to an ad hominem assault?вЂ¦ https://t.co/Hx7Op9Hggt
21:55:24 Retweeted @zengerle 14:33:28 Unfortunately, people who think that attacking John Lewis will hurt Trump must have slept through the last 18 months.
22:12:09 Retweeted @ComfortablySmug 22:11:52 This will end in tears https://t.co/sgb5TczAya
22:14:18 Retweeted @imillhiser 22:14:00 Boom! John Lewis' graphic novel is now the #1 book on Amazon. https://t.co/CVeUYbvESP https://t.co/qQ9RSwQhEH
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