Abulsme.com: November 2017

Curmudgeon’s Corner: No End to the Stupid

This week on Curmudgeon’s Corner, Sam and Ivan try to keep it short, but still go over 90 minutes. With no big huge central stories this week, it is an all lightning round show. Topics include Trump’s master plan, Flynn cooperating with Mueller, the Uber data breach, Plume Wifi, the Allison Mack sex cult, Star Trek and Star Wars, Trump being stupid again, initial iPhone X impressions, and much more. Those were only about half of the topics, so tune in to hear everything else they talked about too!

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Recorded 2017-11-25
Length this week – 1:31:58

(0:00:30-0:07:45) But First
- Slow News Week?
- Agenda
- Feedback
- Ivan travel
(0:08:54-0:38:29) Lightning Round #1
- Ivan: Trump Fed Chair appointment
- Sam: Trump judicial appointments
- Ivan: Uber data breach and payoff
- Sam: Movie: The Princess Bride (1987)
- Ivan: Star Trek and Star Wars movies and TV
- Sam: Allison Mack sex cult
- Ivan: Nude Barton pics
(0:40:12-1:31:38) Lightning Round #2
- Sam: Rogue Twitter employee
- Ivan: iPhone X impressions
- Sam: Plume WiFi
- Ivan: Flynn Cooperating
- Sam: Stupid Trump Family
- Ivan: Trump master plan
- Sam: AT&T / Time Warner merger
- Ivan: Stupid Trump

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@abulsme tweets from 2017-11-24 (UTC)

00:20:44 Retweeted @AstroKatie 2017-11-23 17:28:05 вЂњOh hey I’ll check out this nice planetary system over here and see what’s goinвЂ”NOPE!nopenopenopenopeвЂ¦вЂќ #Oumuamua https://t.co/BDn3ko22Xt
05:05:40 Retweeted @NGrossman81 2017-11-22 14:30:31 TO AMERICANS WHO OPPOSED THE TPP FROM THE LEFT:
The 11 other countries are moving forward, but scrapped labor and eвЂ¦ https://t.co/JIFUfGcN2M
05:07:18 Excellent responses here. https://t.co/C2nDC0s9s3

@abulsme tweets from 2017-11-23 (UTC)

04:11:30 Retweeted @jbarro 03:26:40 I still don’t see how Rep. Barton is supposed to have done anything wrong here. Threatening to call the cops if somвЂ¦ https://t.co/dXrpSMF1wa
05:15:02 Retweeted @isteintraum 05:13:30 Bernie refused to endorse Doug Jones because apparently choosing between a racist child molester and a good man whoвЂ¦ https://t.co/LMsQnRWhOd
06:48:12 More Franken. https://t.co/G0y4LMptBc
07:09:57 Reading – What Trump Really Told Kislyak After Comey Was Canned (Howard Blum) https://t.co/bpklCsKVrd
07:34:08 Reading – U.S. moves toward open-ended presence in Syria after Islamic State is routed (WaPo) https://t.co/x07XkY2JP6
07:59:28 Thread on flat earth people. https://t.co/mfF9n4I8Sn
08:00:59 Retweeted @peterdaou 2017-11-22 16:12:42 I’m afraid that ship sailed. https://t.co/Lfi0Pumj2p
20:21:46 Watching for the 54th – The Doctor Who Title Sequences – Doctor Who – BBC https://t.co/muCfqmUIjg

@abulsme tweets from 2017-11-22 (UTC)

00:15:00 Retweeted @cspan 2017-11-21 21:04:38 Ready for it?C-SPAN Road to the White House 2020 https://t.co/Ftu0Bywado
01:22:36 :-/ https://t.co/RmZW6KBYBu
03:21:58 Retweeted @BNONews 02:26:22 WATCH: Dramatic video shows North Korean soldier’s escape as he defects to the South while being shot at; he is nowвЂ¦ https://t.co/JYnk2fA4nF
03:45:31 This will work out well. https://t.co/LcKP5x9SgD
03:48:03 Retweeted @kimmieg56 03:34:50 @washingtonpost I’m afraid he will only prove that the earth is hard. in reply to washingtonpost
04:30:32 Retweeted @BenjySarlin 2017-11-21 17:04:15 Both parties are about to be hit with a flood of harassment investigations. That gives both reason to be wary aboutвЂ¦ https://t.co/pTUQQKF09o
04:32:23 Retweeted @qikipedia 2017-11-14 20:00:04 8 Earth years is equivalent to roughly 13 years on Venus. When you model the orbits of the two planets and draw a lвЂ¦ https://t.co/vghmzFjF0y
06:12:05 Reading – The sexual-harassment epidemic has been diagnosed. What’s the cure? (Monica Hesse) – with cameos fromвЂ¦ https://t.co/IgOS2OCHQG
06:13:06 Retweeted @KristiCCoulter 2017-11-21 22:29:27 Also, either Bob Newhart–who I cite in this piece as the name that would finally break me if he turned out to be aвЂ¦ https://t.co/V1tDZQJrnb in reply to KristiCCoulter
06:53:03 Retweeted @irwin 03:31:26 I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Gopher, Netscape with frames, the first Browser Wars. Searching for pвЂ¦ https://t.co/dBEnF36k7U
07:21:19 Retweeted @muckrakery 07:18:22 Yesterday the @FCC claimed the Internet “thrived” before net neutrality. I called propaganda. Here’s my data to bacвЂ¦ https://t.co/H1DIqU6H4R
07:28:14 Reading – Conservatives have a breathtaking plan for Trump to pack the courts (Ronald Klain) https://t.co/sOY3oTP8sJ
07:29:52 Retweeted @Sifill_LDF 2017-11-21 14:18:27 For those “learning” and finally “seeing” the reality of sexual harassment suffered by women in the workplace, askвЂ¦ https://t.co/pkMAS7hY1Q
17:28:10 Retweeted @LanaDelRaytheon 03:37:12 i always liked the older name for trickle-down economics, just because of its honesty https://t.co/YnTY6NDwGV
17:29:47 Retweeted @RawStory 16:44:33 White House adviser Gary Cohn faked bad connection in conference call to get Trump to stop talking https://t.co/jEp0xrXnk1
19:22:51 This sounds like it was fully consensual, unless something else comes out. If true, there should be no apology, orвЂ¦ https://t.co/fBzZEGj8ye
20:51:51 Donald Trump is President. https://t.co/dAUizYb5wm

@abulsme tweets from 2017-11-21 (UTC)

00:00:44 Reading – McMaster Mocked Trump’s Intelligence At A Private Dinner (Joseph Bernstein) https://t.co/TNjsC2ORmV
04:51:23 Retweeted @sethmnookin 04:45:21 This is so much weirder than I could ever have imagined. This thread is amazing. https://t.co/9PeS58EfzV
04:51:59 Retweeted @keithboykin 2017-11-20 22:52:37 Anthony Weiner is in prison. Bill Clinton was impeached. Bill O’Reilly, Roger Ailes, Harvey Weinstein, Kevin SpaceyвЂ¦ https://t.co/qtDbvKcMRr
05:05:21 Retweeted @TrumperTrolling 04:39:07 @shreec Word. <symbol><symbol> https://t.co/0kbmjCLGD0 in reply to shreec
06:41:23 Retweeted @ajc 2017-11-20 18:33:20 The most Atlanta thing to ever happen? MARTA bus parks right in front of The Weather Channel’s Dome implosion shotвЂ¦ https://t.co/WrAB4stCYO
07:05:14 Retweeted @RadioFreeTom 06:36:45 Seriously, the stupidity oozes out of the people in this story. Self-delusion, yes, but also staggering ignorance. https://t.co/xNzaPQVe0y
16:24:51 Reading – I Didn’t Know (pptsapper) https://t.co/JgU3dP8OD3
16:31:19 Retweeted @MaxFosterCNN 16:20:55 Epic scenes breaking out on international networks as news spreads across Zimbabwe that Mugabe has resigned https://t.co/YBU2DMijxQ
17:31:35 Retweeted @rebliv 17:28:12 As wretched as 2017 has been, I’m in no rush to welcome 2018. We’re still on the downward slide & the bottom is not yet in sight.
17:33:35 Retweeted @koblin 17:24:59 BREAK: CBS has fired Charlie Rose. Memo that just went out to CBS News staffers https://t.co/Db9NpKDv2l
17:37:15 Thread. This is the end of it. Go there and scroll up to the beginning. https://t.co/vk8P2GEGlM
17:39:24 Retweeted @dangillmor 17:31:14 Understand: He is proposing to let the oligopoly of carriers decide what bits of information will get to your devicвЂ¦ https://t.co/efu84un7sg
21:14:29 Regardless of parties, this kind of disparity is unhealthy. There really should be large scale efforts ongoing to dвЂ¦ https://t.co/Og6qIWz5Fc
21:32:44 Retweeted @yashar 20:23:18 Lasseter, like Charlie Rose, was one of the first names I heard after the Weinstein scandal broke. I don’t know whoвЂ¦ https://t.co/14hfk0fKHS
21:35:48 Retweeted @BillKristol 20:46:41 The GOP tax bill’s bringing out my inner socialist. The sex scandals are bringing out my inner feminist. Donald TruвЂ¦ https://t.co/9HLSTYUVWc
21:54:39 Retweeted @dseetharaman 21:37:20 “If you reached out to an Apple engineer and they gave you information about the new iPhone, would you run it? No,вЂ¦ https://t.co/Nhe9Ww0NfB
22:19:29 Retweeted @katie_robertson 22:01:02 MASSIVE scoop from @EricNewcomer: Hackers stole the personal data of 57 million customers and drivers from Uber, aвЂ¦ https://t.co/sjut8s1aka

@abulsme tweets from 2017-11-20 (UTC)

00:04:58 Retweeted @ScottSKOMO 2017-11-19 19:03:01 Happy Wettest Day of the Year in #Seattle Day! November 19th has had rain on 92 of past 123 years (today will makeвЂ¦ https://t.co/DESK5R6caY
02:42:50 Retweeted @Oprah 01:30:02 Here it is! The brand-new #WrinkleInTime trailer. See you in theaters, March 9th. With love, Mrs. Which <symbol> https://t.co/RHia4jFXx3
03:33:25 Retweeted @natsecHeather 03:32:50 Could we please not demonize meds? For all the people who need meds, or are scared about them, or take them as a maвЂ¦ https://t.co/PzkT59CFBD
05:39:01 Uh…. https://t.co/wkfYaQc5RU
05:56:07 Retweeted @stevesilberman 2017-11-19 23:58:36 This is a truly glorious exchange. [via @SaltedJosh] https://t.co/5kGQ8A8DsV

@abulsme tweets from 2017-11-19 (UTC)

00:09:52 Curmudgeon’s Corner: We Need Unicorns https://t.co/FNnAYqZYZK https://t.co/a3IbgGhtKE
00:53:52 Retweeted @mikeyface 00:41:58 This is the nicest, nicest thing. Wow. I am smiling so big right now. Brockrin pulled a me вЂ¦ on me. https://t.co/E7grgDceKg
07:16:12 Important thread on that Google bro and autism -> https://t.co/MsI4GpiKn7
19:17:36 Reading – In historic move, Christopher Tolkien resigns as director of Tolkien Estate (MrCere) https://t.co/blR0W733t7
19:19:54 Retweeted @alexburnsNYT 19:19:27 In historic move, Alex Burns to beg for that job https://t.co/bNPJOvUP5r
20:16:59 Retweeted @LoganJames 20:07:55 The incompetence of Buchanan, the bigotry of Jackson, and the corruption of Harding all rolled into one https://t.co/rac9lmVPVl
22:05:53 Retweeted @randygdub 05:50:56 my favorite genre of conservative threads is people talking about how much their whole family and friends hate themвЂ¦ https://t.co/tG3Q4BJi3N
23:10:45 Retweeted @imbou 22:42:44 @abulsme Oh I want to punch him so bad now!!! in reply to abulsme
23:48:48 Reading – вЂA long winter’: White House aides divided over scope, risks of Russia probe (Parker/Leonnig) https://t.co/EYUe0lCnCZ
23:53:39 Retweeted @MatthewJDalby 00:24:39 I love these character studies of Neanderthals by the artist Tom BjГ¶rklund. So rarely are they pictured as if theyвЂ¦ https://t.co/BkGBAflBBb

@abulsme tweets from 2017-11-18 (UTC)

05:02:15 Reading – There’s a Digital Media Crash. But No One Will Say It (Josh Marshall) https://t.co/MUEl9TlNfP
06:00:26 Retweeted @JayCostTWS 05:02:09 My brother @CostEric sent this to me. Anybody who was a teenager in the 90s will know what we’re talking about. https://t.co/pS5RdW21dV
12:52:49 Retweeted @rebeccaballhaus 04:19:42 Full Kushner lawyer response to Senate Judiciary Committee letter calling Kushner’s document production вЂњincompleteвЂќ https://t.co/xSKqf3tIhl
14:22:04 Retweeted @AlexMLeo 13:23:38 Jared and Don Jr are gonna be disappointed when they find out they meant the actual birds https://t.co/bWiXFexphe
18:45:03 Retweeted @Disney 15:44:06 The #Incredibles2 trailer is here. See the film in theatres June 15, 2018. https://t.co/cTZIkWeDK5
18:53:48 Watching – The First Doctor Enters The Twelfth Doctor’s TARDIS – Christmas Special Preview (Doctor Who) https://t.co/tXfBqj76ct
21:41:12 Retweeted @SethHanlon 21:02:26 WOW. We knew the Senate Republican tax bill was bad but these graphs from the Institute for Taxation and Economic PвЂ¦ https://t.co/1Mp7tLUYVM
22:07:01 Retweeted @eclecticbrotha 22:05:46 There IS NO fucking Pence Rule. There’s an old pseudo-religious prude admitting he has no self control and a bunchвЂ¦ https://t.co/w2TVluYuAe

Curmudgeon’s Corner: We Need Unicorns

On this week’s Curmudgeon’s Corner, Sam and Ivan start out talking about travel things again. Ivan talks about “mileage runs”. Sam talks about the dramatic end to his DC vacation. But then they move on to the news. The travails of Flynn, Page, Sessions, Don Jr, and Kushner with Turkey, Russia, Russia, Russia, and Russia respectively. Then the GOP tax plan. Then of course the mounting evidence that all men are scum, and what should be done about it.

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Recorded 2017-11-17
Length this week – 2:27:00

(0:00:45-0:37:58) Travel adventures
(0:40:35-1:20:18) Turkey Russia Russia Russia Russia
(1:22:18-1:42:25) GOP tax plan
(1:44:09-2:26:38) All men are scum

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

Our intro is “The Oh of Pleasure” (Amazon MP3 link)

Our outro is “Celestial Soda Pop” (Amazon MP3 link)

Both are from the album “Deep Breakfast” (iTunes link)

Please buy his music and support his GoFundMe.

@abulsme tweets from 2017-11-17 (UTC)

01:09:03 Reading – Al Franken and all the others (Jennifer Rubin) https://t.co/lelaTzQEPi
16:54:29 Retweeted @gelliottmorris 16:52:38 The probability distribution for 2018 is really, really bad for Republicans. 90% confidence interval is anywhere beвЂ¦ https://t.co/k4uZNgFRm8 in reply to gelliottmorris
19:30:32 Reading – A Chess Novice Challenged Magnus Carlsen. He Had One Month to Train (Ben Cohen) https://t.co/743ZGP0ls3
21:12:29 Retweeted @Mikel_Jollett 20:46:32 Just gonna leave this here, in case you didn’t know. https://t.co/MZEXnuCnYz in reply to Mikel_Jollett
22:29:58 Retweeted @everywhereist 21:59:43 This thread is brave as hell and a reminder that we’re not alone in our depression. Our friends and loved ones andвЂ¦ https://t.co/45C3TPe1hn
23:39:37 Retweeted @ByRosenberg 06:48:00 This 10-year-old reporter is my new hero https://t.co/Y8J1MDrJ0n
23:40:06 The 10 year-old reporter’s website is https://t.co/i3QgCGMviZ – Very nice.
23:43:03 Retweeted @AuthorLMendez 23:40:39 Holy crap, what was I doing with my life at 10? https://t.co/wOxx6uhnWD

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