Abulsme.com: Saturday, May 26th, 2018

Curmudgeon’s Corner: Puppies or Penguins or Something

This week on Curmudgeon’s Corner, Sam and Ivan start out talking about talking about politics at parties, and how news junkies are different from normal people. But the main topics are the mess surrounding the possible North Korean summit, and the shameful policy of separating kids from their parents at the border.

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Recorded 2018-05-26
Length this week – 1:16:46

(0:00:15-0:21:30) Intro
- Agenda
- Politics at Parties
- Mueller finding crimes?
- Normals vs News Junkies
(0:24:07-0:52:32) North Korea
- What happened?
- Where are we now?
- Impact on allies
- Can the next president fix it?
(0:53:52-1:16:26) Immigration Kids
- New separation policy
- Cruelty for nothing
- Immigration history
- Genealogical hypocrisy
- Shame shame shame

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@abulsme tweets from 2018-05-25 (UTC)

01:28:47 Retweeted @ddale8 2018-05-24 15:12:02 Transcript of my exclusive interview with @ArmsControlWonk https://t.co/OtZSo7MrV5
02:14:32 Good list https://t.co/UT52w6rxIq
02:51:50 Retweeted @KSoltisAnderson 2018-05-24 22:15:22 I would like to point out that this is also how Battlestar Galactica begins. https://t.co/BFWqBPMhr9
02:58:05 Retweeted @ibogost 02:39:27 WHAT THE HELL MY LIFE IS A LIE https://t.co/fu7UJ8vOf3
03:02:26 This is evil. https://t.co/MzlrnL3xnm
03:03:23 Retweeted @OfficialJonZal 2018-05-24 20:41:14 Wait, that can’t be right. If true, it would mean the President of the United States is launching false & baselessвЂ¦ https://t.co/leoqMX3BXe
03:05:54 Retweeted @20committee 2018-05-24 15:06:59 So, to sum up: DPRK, rightfully a global pariah:- Got DC to treat it as an equal & peer
– “POTUS” gloats about aвЂ¦ https://t.co/pteMU1BXyx
03:09:57 And they are вЂњlosing trackвЂќ of the kids too. https://t.co/VfcrfLX5PT
06:47:48 Retweeted @waltshaub 00:36:19 Seems history shouldвЂve thought us something about slapping yellow symbols on people and carting them off to undiscвЂ¦ https://t.co/F8hcoZD5vC
15:06:00 About the moves toward the R’s in generic ballot… and improvement in Trump approval. https://t.co/8Q0KSE6yn6
16:08:14 Retweeted @joereid 15:26:58 My favorite ‘Star Wars’ movie turns 35 years old today, and y’all can EAT IT! https://t.co/K3EO1FpZcZ https://t.co/gNgLMSChha
17:56:17 Listening to Katie Couric 64. Julianna Margulies on #MeToo, Trump, and вЂњDietlandвЂќ https://t.co/XI6Mq7I1Ly
20:08:19 Ha Ha Ha Ha! (It is GDPR, not anything these two did.) https://t.co/tNHXIysxKI
20:16:25 Thread with charts on GOP evolutionвЂ¦ https://t.co/ujPw6kyH2b
20:21:47 @btitus I’m pretty sure I have gotten hundreds of the things myself. in reply to btitus
20:32:47 Retweeted @EFF 17:46:04 A big happy GDPR day to all our amazing allies, members and readers in the EU!(By reading this tweet, you assertвЂ¦ https://t.co/fqIrUKvfOo
23:30:32 Retweeted @xkcdComic 19:17:58 GDPR https://t.co/MNXsdwuUDQ https://t.co/NWruph6EJi https://t.co/g0hxNTFz9t

@abulsme tweets from 2018-05-24 (UTC)

00:35:52 This is going well. https://t.co/NYKpeNnnMf
01:13:44 Retweeted @TheRickWilson 00:55:30 When the con man shows you the con, believe him. https://t.co/wYROHz8Adn
02:18:16 Interesting adjustment. https://t.co/wzhW6tbuLo
04:08:51 Article & thread responding to it. Put me solidly on the вЂњnormsвЂќ side of this. I’m more left than not, but it is viвЂ¦ https://t.co/R7uwMxEZZG
06:03:08 This is depressing. https://t.co/yAa7GQnM3S
06:51:08 Retweeted @nytimes 06:41:12 Deep inside your cells, there’s a blob with an important function: It seems to decide how long you live https://t.co/UDOW3F9Dsm
06:56:48 Retweeted @washingtonpost 06:36:03 Review: The biggest surprise of “Solo”? How well it works. https://t.co/MirxEiHC7y
14:07:51 Nobody could have seen this coming. https://t.co/QycTuHWORu
14:48:12 Retweeted @mattyglesias 14:43:35 Really impressed by the seamless media pivot from вЂњliberals aren’t giving Trump enough credit for his North Korea bвЂ¦ https://t.co/zVJoeGtRDg
14:58:08 Retweeted @mattyglesias 14:41:33 A lot of Trump-era reporting is kind of like the guy from Memento, endlessly rediscovering that he’s a bullshiter wвЂ¦ https://t.co/t68UdvTKMK
16:17:30 Thread https://t.co/2ebyqg6stD
16:19:45 Retweeted @gelliottmorris 16:10:39 Model update combining special election swings and generic ballot polls in national forecast:▪Projected Nov. DemвЂ¦ https://t.co/WVDoSYGtOC
16:42:42 Interesting article and thread on the nature of the advantages college gives, and how they apply differently to difвЂ¦ https://t.co/9pgl7Pq0G4
16:46:02 Retweeted @NPRinskeep 14:46:21 The news seems also to have surprised much of the administration, too. Admin. officials were tracking the NK statemвЂ¦ https://t.co/HuITIYrBOF
17:11:27 Retweeted @AbeDenmark 16:26:41 This letter is very strange, and its implications are significant. Some thoughts: <THREAD> https://t.co/8p4EO76M5c
18:18:29 There is no legitimate reason for Flood to be present. Not that there is a legitimate reason for any of this. https://t.co/pvI45AKgMB
18:22:44 Retweeted @TPM 18:07:48 Marshall: “The problem with almost everything President Trump is doing today is not that he’s violating norms. TheвЂ¦ https://t.co/2RiTHyvUCT
20:26:34 Retweeted @pwnallthethings 20:09:49 Yet another nunesence fauxtroversy fails the reality test https://t.co/T649100jul
22:20:40 Retweeted @natsecHeather 21:54:04 Whatever you thought of the Summit prospects, today’s events leave the US worse off in important ways. (With bonusвЂ¦ https://t.co/2XknCJDg6m

@abulsme tweets from 2018-05-23 (UTC)

01:20:34 Thread and article. https://t.co/0NK3FXuUQB
05:19:31 Retweeted @hinxminx 2018-05-21 19:55:55 вЂњEveryone dies one day. Everyone. Even wolves. But not books. Not words. Words don’t die.вЂќ
–my son, 3, who is a lot smarter than I am
06:15:26 Retweeted @Ugarles 2018-05-22 16:34:07 why don’t you just hunt in zoos you cowards https://t.co/VQ5O1dmsu4
22:30:29 Retweeted @NumbersMuncher 22:12:14 The most amazing thing about approval for same sex marriages isn’t just that it hit an all time high of 67%, but thвЂ¦ https://t.co/ry2ieCDlQV
22:33:57 Hmmm. https://t.co/HIT4hQBYkH
22:50:08 Retweeted @NateSilver538 21:23:23 Crowdsourcing is a <symbol><symbol><symbol> idea. I think we should also invite random members of the public to participate on the TeslaвЂ¦ https://t.co/Nq8gE37LWO
23:15:16 D’s not at 50% yet, but all the growth is on the D side. But R’s dropping. https://t.co/ejpvK6MUWP

@abulsme tweets from 2018-05-22 (UTC)

00:35:11 Additional fun stuff. Not directly in the administration. But adjacent. https://t.co/I7duhmyeoS
00:39:42 Retweeted @PollsAndVotes 2018-05-21 19:42:21 Thanks to @sbmitche for asking of Trump “Is this the least dynamic approval in history?вЂќYes. Yes it is. For the fвЂ¦ https://t.co/hOTfNBJU9e
00:41:46 This is an important dynamic. Everybody is dug in. Very few people are changing their minds. You get news stories wвЂ¦ https://t.co/24i9MvGjG6
00:42:37 Hmmm. https://t.co/IfhlIGEuq8
00:58:54 Retweeted @CNNJason 00:30:20 Jeff Flake just told CNN off cam of Trump’s demand for a DOJ investigation:вЂњIt’s not appropriate. It really isn’вЂ¦ https://t.co/PtQtaVQYEl
02:34:12 The typos in other official communications from this administrative are probably on purpose too. https://t.co/CjmPNjr2PC
02:36:03 Retweeted @chrislhayes 2018-05-21 23:22:24 Gonna be wild when the WH cancels the North Korea summit and NK responds by uploading sound files of every phone coвЂ¦ https://t.co/JszzlaYyy0
03:38:14 Retweeted @AndyRichter 03:36:52 Any parent of a difficult child will tell you that you have to pick your battles; to stave off a tantrum sometimesвЂ¦ https://t.co/zOfOAUHrqj
03:49:28 Retweeted @mattyglesias 01:47:32 Shouldn’t at least one of the reporters who pretended to believe Republicans when they pretended to be fanatical abвЂ¦ https://t.co/sKD20waWSM
04:33:00 :-( https://t.co/vVsB91TEX1
04:42:29 This is looking more plausible. But still just speculation. https://t.co/YpBbb5DFJ7
04:43:50 Retweeted @fordm 04:32:53 So this the next bogus claim we’re going to spend the next week or so discussing? If so, it’s right on schedule. https://t.co/LLtlPj6tLu
14:50:44 <symbol> https://t.co/L3uCCRX8S9
15:36:12 Retweeted @brianklaas 12:09:53 If you think a вЂњConstitutional CrisisвЂќ will announce itself with a marching band & parade, you’re wrongвЂ”we’re alreaвЂ¦ https://t.co/DLMfhNm3oO

@abulsme tweets from 2018-05-21 (UTC)

03:24:58 This is going well. https://t.co/nRtYg7RDoa
12:49:50 Thread https://t.co/OxwCpVCnl3
15:36:24 Thread https://t.co/15iic99zcl
15:38:29 Retweeted @trevornoren 14:55:11 Visualizing two centuries of U.S. immigration https://t.co/EjiJrt7aOo https://t.co/pSJLpMOIWY
17:52:35 I had completely forgotten about WWDC until I saw this article. Contrast to years past when I would have been breatвЂ¦ https://t.co/QZlk98Y1l8
23:51:11 Nice. https://t.co/2RKEcNV603
23:56:22 Yay. :-/ https://t.co/Gk1WAgLPUd

@abulsme tweets from 2018-05-20 (UTC)

02:39:32 Retweeted @studentactivism 02:00:51 Update: New reporting clarifies the early victim wasn’t his ex-girlfriend. He pursued her, she rejected him, he kilвЂ¦ https://t.co/GimBJXBJm3 in reply to studentactivism
03:25:42 My 8 year old son Alex is live-streaming Minecraft again. Tune in! -> ALeXMXeLA \/ Alex the Diamond Dog the Live StвЂ¦ https://t.co/YzmZoYP8cZ
19:19:44 Thread https://t.co/NJF4I6gEzh
19:33:16 @btitus Maybe. Or it could just be bluster. Guess we will find out soon enough. in reply to btitus
20:57:38 More Alex Minecraft live streaming. With bonus me looking sleepy in the background! -> https://t.co/gT9KkssU3Q via @YouTube
23:45:41 Ha Ha Ha https://t.co/MhvdZUTXJ0

@abulsme tweets from 2018-05-19 (UTC)

01:00:20 @shelleyaw123 Sigh in reply to shelleyaw123
01:10:29 Retweeted @brittny_mejia 2018-05-17 19:45:40 Definitely teared up writing this one: She found a baby buried alive while out for a jog. Twenty years later, theyвЂ¦ https://t.co/aiRb2pkelP
01:28:21 Needed some facts on this. -> Lord Of The Rings: Facts About The NazgГ»l | ScreenRant https://t.co/CCveRDStqP
02:13:49 FFS, two in one day?
02:22:14 @btitus Referring to this: https://t.co/VM8pTqaP22 in reply to btitus
02:29:48 Hmmm. -> Secret FBI source for Russia investigation met with three Trump advisers during campaign – The WashingtonвЂ¦ https://t.co/E5cJrIohlE
03:02:43 Well, at least there were only two shot this time. :-( https://t.co/tGM8XfPf06
14:32:01 Retweeted @studentactivism 03:30:00 One of the first kids shot today at Santa Fe was the killer’s ex-girlfriend. We see this over and over, and it’s alвЂ¦ https://t.co/1hLF7nSuc9
14:44:13 This is exaggerated. But there is some truth in it. And I think it is very true that one reason nobody seems to wanвЂ¦ https://t.co/qvxqRWMiDG
15:09:59 Retweeted @retroist 15:00:03 Murphy Brown will be on CBS this fall. They put together this first look teaser video. I am curious to see how thвЂ¦ https://t.co/18nwAxPSJY
19:14:54 Not just Russia. Everybody recognized the Trumps as easily manipulatable in a вЂњtransactionalвЂќ way, and they set outвЂ¦ https://t.co/p09fTQFiiH
21:40:21 Retweeted @Ali_H_Soufan 20:23:26 So far, the Mueller probe looks like a vast espionage inquiry intersecting with multiple corruption investigationsвЂ¦ https://t.co/zGSTTnheOg
22:26:26 Retweeted @shelleyaw123 22:23:39 @abulsme I’m so tired of children slaughtering children. I don’t expect an answer. I just wanted to say it. in reply to abulsme
22:59:26 Curmudgeon’s Corner: Figure the Angle https://t.co/HUb2Zd4rHG https://t.co/euktDYCzrC

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