Abulsme.com: Saturday, January 6th, 2018

Curmudgeon’s Corner: 2017 Predictions Review

This week on Curmudgeon’s Corner Sam and Ivan review the predictions they made a year and a week ago for 2017. They covered politics, economics, technology, international issues, and a variety of other things for good measure. What did they get wrong? What did they get right? Did they do better or worse than in the year before? Which topics did they excel in? Where did they fail completely? This week, you’ll find out!

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Recorded 2018-01-06
Length this week – 2:03:58

(0:01:13-0:22:21) Intro
(0:23:29-1:05:38) Politics
(1:06:18-1:15:05) Economics
(1:15:50-1:24:08) Technology
(1:25:51-1:43:58) International
(1:45:14-1:53:09) Hodgepodge
(1:55:11-2:03:37) Final Results

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@abulsme tweets from 2018-01-05 (UTC)

00:17:26 Retweeted @erinbiba 2018-01-04 21:31:12 Super common thing reporters see:
Women: вЂњI’m not an expert, here’s someone who is for you to talk to.вЂќ
Men: вЂњI’mвЂ¦ https://t.co/WW1qx6D7Po
00:17:32 Retweeted @scottlincicome 00:15:44 The guy had essentially unlimited access to the west wing and the stories perfectly mirror what we see in public anвЂ¦ https://t.co/fVNCYFT2h2
01:45:37 Reading – Obstruction Inquiry Shows Trump’s Struggle to Keep Grip on Russia Investigation (Michael S. Schmidt) https://t.co/7uEjdCzint
01:48:19 Retweeted @m67smith 01:45:32 No, they said their latest OS updates have already fixed the biggest issue faced by literally every PC using intelвЂ¦ https://t.co/p3KF3v2GfM
01:51:49 What could go wrong? https://t.co/4uygFeN4Oc
03:30:06 Oops https://t.co/NMHR89GEZQ
03:34:10 Retweeted @JuddLegum 03:02:05 As the White House descends into chaos, liberals get excited. I think this is based on the idea that things are getвЂ¦ https://t.co/BMBhTO6NUc
03:36:08 Party pooper. https://t.co/vERxrDv2YH
04:12:02 Reading – Paul Ryan backed Nunes in spat with Justice Department over Russia documents, sources say (CNN) https://t.co/Xb7zvcbCQ8
04:16:45 Get well soon. https://t.co/B6fngtdJjc
04:19:01 Who is tracking time of day for Trump tweets? It seems the frequency of late night tweets vs early morning tweets iвЂ¦ https://t.co/GqjxW3vmvB
05:15:01 Retweeted @MichaelWolffNYC 2018-01-04 21:01:51 Here we go. You can buy it (and read it) tomorrow. Thank you, Mr. President.
05:15:17 Retweeted @bterris 04:52:32 The books can’t be sold yet but they are being handed out to people in line (I can’t believe I am live tweeting thiвЂ¦ https://t.co/o5xPLmr71U in reply to bterris
06:14:48 Retweeted @janicemin 2018-01-04 15:03:21 Incredulous, I often asked Michael about his near-weekly visits to roam the White House unsupervised:Me: ‘So whaвЂ¦ https://t.co/7jR9MNCOxl in reply to janicemin
06:23:10 Retweeted @cwarzel 02:52:24 Wolff just kinda hanging around the white house combined w/ this detail from the Daily Beast’s Omarosa profile makeвЂ¦ https://t.co/HaMtnYQZOf
06:26:58 How about peanut butter? That is the only condiment I will eat on hot dogs. I think it is great. But I have learnedвЂ¦ https://t.co/3Jk6oorwO4
06:35:22 Retweeted @JohnWDean 04:03:00 Pix sent me from Fire & Fury. Delighted I trouble Trump when comparing his presidency to Watergate. Getting him toвЂ¦ https://t.co/GEQZxlCq43
06:55:18 Retweeted @nycsouthpaw 06:47:05 Ah cool, record margin debt. That always turns out well. https://t.co/kihSY3Yc5d
07:19:33 Retweeted @lauraolin 2018-01-04 21:13:18 whoa: https://t.co/hOadTcPUaN
16:16:59 Retweeted @btitus 11:24:27 @abulsme Solitary confinement. in reply to abulsme
16:49:48 Reading – The Wolff lines on Trump that ring unambiguously true (Axios) https://t.co/krZEMUlTX3
17:06:24 I dunno. There has to be some level of appeal just from the place and perceived power. The witness to history thingвЂ¦ https://t.co/PcZylOjMTH
17:42:44 At this point I feel like if I just keep reading all the excerpts and highlighted passages from the Wolff book I seвЂ¦ https://t.co/JAo4HxDRhZ
17:52:09 Well, once you are in, I imagine many feel somewhat trapped. Like it or not, their reputations are now tied to TrumвЂ¦ https://t.co/iXR2fg6iA1
18:05:25 Very true. My impression is that anybody who has been paying attention had already heard almost everything we are sвЂ¦ https://t.co/pd3D3tButV
18:39:45 I find all the journalistic distinctions between different types of background and off the record and such somewhatвЂ¦ https://t.co/ALfNyYwSip
18:46:43 These are rarely if ever codified in any sort of legally binding way like an NDA. It is just a matter of norms andвЂ¦ https://t.co/f6gxb4otUP
18:51:48 Retweeted @NatashaBertrand 18:40:36 Just in: Grassley and Graham have made a criminal referral to DOJ about Chris Steele. Legal experts tell me this loвЂ¦ https://t.co/byejKWfmzb
19:04:17 Thread. https://t.co/stoPl6A0ZD
22:04:43 Reading – Michael Wolff: Trump had little interest in repealing Obamacare, floated ‘Medicare for All’ (Kimberly LeoвЂ¦ https://t.co/hwXTfCrXId
22:09:39 This shouldn’t be unthinkable. This should be normal. There should never be any such thing as an uncontested electiвЂ¦ https://t.co/rjD7OAfMP0
22:10:39 Retweeted @baratunde 22:05:21 Here’s something Jeff Sessions can crack down on that causes more harm that legalized marijuana: SIGNING PEOPLE UPвЂ¦ https://t.co/Wd3RIpxOkW
22:56:31 Retweeted @MattGlassman312 12:42:45 A great, quick visual explanation of why sorting, not gerrymandering, is the main culprit in House district polarizвЂ¦ https://t.co/ZQU3d1k4Ow

@abulsme tweets from 2018-01-04 (UTC)

01:14:00 Retweeted @KatyTurNBC 2018-01-03 23:40:55 A note of caution on Fire and Fury https://t.co/o9OzV7ltWm
03:59:02 Reading – Trump slams Bannon: вЂWhen he was fired, he not only lost his job, he lost his mind’ (Dawsey/Parker) https://t.co/uI6ZlHISIL
04:31:24 Retweeted @Bencjacobs 03:52:00 This correction is just remarkable (and it’s a great, well reported story too) https://t.co/Bh1UgbTdSB https://t.co/dysNtdeYv1
04:36:36 Retweeted @nedprice 04:24:43 The timing of this announcement makes this crystal clear, but, again, this isn’t about security. It’s meant to cutвЂ¦ https://t.co/Ku6tToHzeM
05:03:02 About the end of that election commissionвЂ¦ https://t.co/jia2RqGVuA
05:25:39 Retweeted @leolaporte 05:02:13 We finally know the details on the Intel bugs: Meltdown and Spectre. Oh, and by the way Spectre affects AMD and ARMвЂ¦ https://t.co/D73DMzjIkX
06:20:14 Retweeted @joshtpm 05:59:36 Oh, fuck that Gallup https://t.co/WKqbFYW5jX
21:05:39 Oops. https://t.co/TdKwYORsIf
22:18:04 Reading – “You Can’t Make This S— Up”: My Year Inside Trump’s Insane White House (Michael Wolff) https://t.co/CazmnRVCrU
22:35:23 Retweeted @AuthorLMendez 22:19:41 The ketchup on Steak in that illustration is triggering me https://t.co/jH5s8BIOct
23:11:58 Reading – It’s Been an Open Secret All Along (James Fallows) https://t.co/6fGe6URN83

@abulsme tweets from 2018-01-03 (UTC)

00:23:15 Retweeted @Karoli 00:20:02 Yes, well I think it would be hilarious if a NY Senate seat opened and HRC ran for it, winning in a landslide and sвЂ¦ https://t.co/5NNj8cBenl
00:25:33 Retweeted @bpolitics 00:07:49 Mitt Romney changes location on Twitter as Utah Senate seat opens https://t.co/RQiOVrXXMU https://t.co/0Fcw7Houdl
00:53:26 Oh FFS. https://t.co/p0H3LOXJoH
02:21:36 Retweeted @Zeddary 01:02:13 If the 25th Amendment wasn’t created to stop a sundowning rageaholic currently jerking off in public to visions ofвЂ¦ https://t.co/jym8vNiT5k
02:58:37 Reading – The Republicans’ Fake Investigations (Simpson/Fritsch) https://t.co/PkQuJ5v0L0
03:58:57 Reading – White House aides already anxious about 2018 (Politico) https://t.co/0vCcBqxgti
04:00:23 Retweeted @RHFontaine 03:07:27 I recently asked former SecDef Bill Perry if he’d have interrupted an unprovoked Nixon launch order. He would haveвЂ¦ https://t.co/McWeEYBx1N
04:07:54 Retweeted @BillKristol 02:41:20 A few hours ago I was reading up on possible Iran sanctions. Now I’m reading up on Section 4 of the Twenty-fifth Amendment.
16:11:39 Reading – Trump Tower meeting with Russians ‘treasonous’, Steve Bannon says in explosive book (David Smith) https://t.co/KzI2WYtTfZ
16:34:30 Retweeted @mtomasky 2017-12-29 12:59:46 I’ve been waiting for someone to conduct this poll, and I knew exactly what it would find. Minnesotans don’t wantвЂ¦ https://t.co/mjWQNqKAG8
17:55:36 Reading – Donald Trump Didn’t Want to Be President (Michael Wolff) https://t.co/zTvOvrCYHL
18:05:31 Retweeted @dylanlscott 18:02:09 a useful reminder as we all (myself included!) gobble up the Wolff excerpts
https://t.co/EfrPFv97bg
18:06:45 Retweeted @fcain 18:02:07 You knew this day was coming. Alien megastructures ruled out for Tabby’s star. Dust is the culprit -вЂ¦ https://t.co/9i3LkNl5DN
22:11:50 Retweeted @KatyTurNBC 22:06:23 From Fire and Fury, here’s Trump on his friends’ wives –> https://t.co/9imNBaSqm1

@abulsme tweets from 2018-01-02 (UTC)

06:49:46 Retweeted @JonErlichman 2018-01-01 19:15:50 Here’s how old these companies will be turning in 2018:Snapchat: 7 years
Uber: 9 years
Twitter: 12 years
FacebookвЂ¦ https://t.co/BJQOzUWxFw
19:26:29 This article is so depressing. -> Donald Trump’s Year of Living Dangerously (Susan Glasser) https://t.co/qUPFFtBMNQ
19:37:07 Retweeted @BNONews 19:12:04 U.S. Senator Al Franken has resigned, effective immediately; he previously said he would step down over allegations of sexual misconduct
20:42:01 Retweeted @jwpetersNYT 19:26:23 If Romney runs, it’s hard to overstate how quickly Utah will become the epicenter in the war between the pro-TrumpвЂ¦ https://t.co/qBYNHOMQFZ
22:36:22 Reading – вЂњOh my god, this is so fвЂ”ed upвЂќ: Inside Silicon Valley’s Secretive, Orgiastic Dark Side (Emily Chang) https://t.co/p4uQkLknNA

@abulsme tweets from 2018-01-01 (UTC)

00:00:02 Happy New Year! In UTC. The only time anybody should be paying attention to. Woo! 2018! Woo! Everyone excited now?вЂ¦ https://t.co/ogVO6oWCfd
00:14:53 OK, watched the London fireworks and such. Now done, right?
01:00:29 Retweeted @mattblaze 2017-12-31 18:10:08 I’m apparently in a tiny minority because I believe both that it is wrong to call police SWAT teams on gaming rivalвЂ¦ https://t.co/E3O6QVbQzl
01:01:10 Oh goody. https://t.co/bbYHTrlItT
01:02:58 Retweeted @michaelbd 2017-12-31 22:26:14 As 2017 closes, I still have a question. Why did that guy shoot hundreds of people in Vegas?
02:45:54 Retweeted @sarahbennetto 2017-12-31 13:56:49 Citizens of Earth, I have grave news from the future here in Melbourne, Australia.
We did the Phil Collins 11:56:40вЂ¦ https://t.co/0NpRHZcyIg
04:48:04 New Year’s Moon Halo https://t.co/cVnQEHr1y5 https://t.co/C4BNgQmu2c
05:10:02 Retweeted @CandiceAiston 05:08:57 LOL, reminds me of the casino of terrible people on The Last Jedi. <symbol> https://t.co/q6v8nQvvPw
05:24:36 @B_M_Finnigan Will fix. Must have misread your later tweets…. in reply to B_M_Finnigan
05:25:13 Thread. 2017 was the first year since 1957 with no fatalities from the crash of a regularly scheduled commercial jeвЂ¦ https://t.co/QDZptkyoi8

@abulsme tweets from 2017-12-31 (UTC)

00:32:53 Reading – Why I’m Still a NeverTrumper (Bret Stephens) https://t.co/k3QuQ3JWJT
07:36:01 Retweeted @find_evil 2017-12-26 17:03:49 TIL there’s a community called “dwitter” where people compose 140 character JavaScript programs that produce intereвЂ¦ https://t.co/DSfYyhn6Dw
12:26:27 Retweeted @dandrezner 05:27:45 Thread. https://t.co/43NUImg2J7

@abulsme tweets from 2017-12-30 (UTC)

00:38:28 Retweeted @yashar 2017-12-29 23:57:03 Sleep well tonight https://t.co/FYrYLfZk81
05:14:59 Retweeted @Peter_Wehner 2017-12-29 20:13:26 Read this short, devastating piece by Yuval Levin on Trump. Then recall that this man of staggering ignorance is thвЂ¦ https://t.co/o0a9BVtq6Y
11:17:54 Thread https://t.co/0tYXT3QHn1
15:45:42 Retweeted @Vallmeister 2017-12-26 23:52:03 The undisputed highlight of 2017: https://t.co/QbelGIEDTS
18:10:44 Retweeted @dog_rates 2017-12-29 19:15:58 The Dogs of 2017 https://t.co/X1du1d59gC
19:22:55 Thread https://t.co/DnWZK6qG3C
19:25:02 Reading – How the Russia Inquiry Began: A Campaign Aide, Drinks and Talk of Political Dirt (NYT) https://t.co/tumbOBI3Ce
20:04:28 Retweeted @moorehn 20:03:32 Can someone explain why a full-on investigation of Trump had to be kept quiet but half-baked theories on Hillary maвЂ¦ https://t.co/UTFNo11ecE
20:46:40 Retweeted @MaxBoot 20:44:48 Thoughtful thread https://t.co/x8HDW5VSsm
21:53:29 Reading – Here’s What’s Behind Iran’s Biggest Protests In Seven Years (Borzou Daragahi) https://t.co/Fabk0GamXP
21:55:51 Retweeted @PollsAndVotes 21:54:09 Presidential approval for first 12 months. since Eisenhower, elected presidents only, Gallup data for compatibilityвЂ¦ https://t.co/UgT9egPTXq
22:24:01 Curmudgeon’s Corner: 2018 Predictions Show https://t.co/XSIARLnCcb https://t.co/XvaxpncZoy

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