Abulsme.com: October 2018

Curmudgeon’s Corner: Surprise vs Shock

This week on Curmudgeon’s Corner, Sam and Ivan talk MAGAbomber, the caravan, and Election 2018. But not before some shorter notes on credit cards, books, and movies. Enjoy!

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Recorded 2018-10-27
Length this week – 2:00:06

(0:00:30-0:31:19) But First
- Agenda
- Cutting Cards
- Sam Book: A Study in Scarlet (1887)
- Sam Movie: North by Northwest (1959)
- Ivan Movie: Sicario: Day of the Soldado (2018)
- Correction
(0:31:55-0:54:15) MAGAbomber
- Background
- False flag?
- Intent to murder? Or just scare?
- Equivalencies and responses
- Motivations and responsibility
- Stupid bomber
(0:54:54-1:27:16) Caravan
- Paid for by Dems?
- Fear and Lies vs reality
- Racism against immigrants
- Melting pot
- Port-truth persuasion
- Root causes
(1:28:32-1:59:45) Election 2018
- Odds summary
- Prognostications
- Turnout and enthusiasm
- Lies as campaign strategy
- Dem strategy
- Normalization

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@abulsme tweets from 2018-10-27 (UTC)

00:24:15 Thread https://t.co/FaAG4Coi5X
01:26:29 Retweeted @dataandpolitics 01:15:16 This is a bald faced lie. https://t.co/uXigoTtSQb
02:42:08 Thread https://t.co/nRUD5DTFhS
15:11:38 As a CMU alum, this is a neighborhood Invisited regularly. Every few minutes I’m seeing reports of more casualties.вЂ¦ https://t.co/N1K8jWzDuW
15:31:08 Hmm. I wonder what his motive might be. <symbol> https://t.co/3KRFX4lW3h
19:45:26 Retweeted @myknownalias 19:37:44 @erinbiba I just found the “Jewish History”educational pamphlet HIAS gave us when we arrived in the US as Jewish reвЂ¦ https://t.co/lGWQ5d3IAY in reply to erinbiba
19:51:21 Retweeted @pblest 19:33:31 this week a white supremacist slaughtered Jews at a synagogue, another killed black people at a grocery store, andвЂ¦ https://t.co/cM8HbrSLBU

@abulsme tweets from 2018-10-26 (UTC)

04:34:33 FFS https://t.co/nsz7IEh5AP
05:14:01 Retweeted @cd_hooks 04:34:04 lotta stuff going viral today about potentially “rigged” texas voting machines вЂ” it’s a known issue with our garbagвЂ¦ https://t.co/z5bu6Xq1X5
07:41:01 Paid Off, Cut Up, and Done! https://t.co/ZzlhFfgj6L https://t.co/nVz9CBSSqW
18:38:58 Retweeted @JeremyAllenMoss 2018-10-25 23:50:06 Asked again today, as I often am during this #BlueWave election: вЂњJeremy, why are your signs red?вЂќMy response, asвЂ¦ https://t.co/50ahRrtano
18:41:01 Retweeted @Redistrict 18:11:34 Tbh, when I wrote this back in April, I didn’t think we’d be as close to this degree of House/Sen divergence as weвЂ¦ https://t.co/O9mRrPeAhq
19:55:51 @Nate_Cohn WA-8 in reply to Nate_Cohn
20:15:53 Oops https://t.co/9sHOt7jBOw
20:30:56 Retweeted @danhett 06:58:17 this poor guy dressed himself and his kids as historical figures for halloween and got a load abuse. unbelievable,вЂ¦ https://t.co/fohQ4YqZjw

@abulsme tweets from 2018-10-25 (UTC)

04:54:28 Retweeted @xxlfunny1 2018-10-24 11:00:51 Moon footage, sped up. https://t.co/HxBLVKMhPe
04:58:14 Retweeted @joshgerstein 04:27:03 NEW: If you’re still up, some Mueller news: special counsel appears to be embroiled in a mystery grand jury fight aвЂ¦ https://t.co/miQsDsxyGt
14:19:11 Retweeted @brennanmgilmore 14:07:28 I know there’s a lot going on, but I still can’t get over this. https://t.co/P4I23MarHZ
18:37:53 Retweeted @ianbremmer 18:35:00 Accurate. https://t.co/RGfqT66ukS
19:07:55 @Scatterbrandy @WALeXMXeLAW We need to discuss with him. in reply to Scatterbrandy
19:38:25 Retweeted @ElGliko 01:58:23 Trump: Hillary Clinton should be locked up for using an external email serverAlso Trump: I use a pre paid WalmarвЂ¦ https://t.co/hjPix37XeY
19:38:57 Retweeted @ScottHech 19:07:57 Public Service Announcement: The *only way to apply for asylum is by going thru a port-of-entry & starting applicatвЂ¦ https://t.co/6pSgiWJTxf
19:39:22 Retweeted @ddale8 19:35:28 The most sobering thing about talking-to-average-people midterms reporting is the number of average people who eithвЂ¦ https://t.co/kYGAp6pWa0

@abulsme tweets from 2018-10-24 (UTC)

05:14:31 Retweeted @kevinmgill 2018-10-22 17:21:19 People seemed to like the Europa/Io/Titan gifs, so as an experiment I went and made a short video of them. The VoyaвЂ¦ https://t.co/qMOOIPUr28
05:38:38 Thread https://t.co/53UChavfsy
07:08:11 Retweeted @sigmas 2018-10-23 16:05:35 #spaceneedle and #smithtower rising above the glorious fog layer in #Seattle last night… https://t.co/zpK4RYsJmY
16:32:08 Retweeted @chrislhayes 2018-10-23 20:36:52 Presenting oneself at the border and asking for asylum is legal under both US and international law. https://t.co/5z3qqB92PF
16:52:01 Retweeted @TheRickWilson 14:15:58 “These bombs targeting Hillary and Obama are a fake news stunt,” say people who thought Hillary ran a child sex rinвЂ¦ https://t.co/YfFdqzMIFe
17:00:04 Retweeted @ABCPolitics 16:57:51 JUST IN: Photo obtained by @ABC shows device recovered from CNN by the NYPD bomb squad. https://t.co/qxxB6Hu54g https://t.co/kRLd36A3EG
17:05:07 Retweeted @intelwire 14:34:18 OK, we’re fully into a news cycle, so time to re-up the @onthemedia guidelines, which I myself have been guilty ofвЂ¦ https://t.co/dPO5LJvNFa
17:14:13 Especially as I see reports of new targets seemingly once an hour, keep in mind that there USUALLY are at least somвЂ¦ https://t.co/CNXBEb91IR
17:19:09 Retweeted @mattyglesias 16:55:33 Republicans’ closing argument for 2018 is that people who know what Republicans’ policies are wouldn’t vote RepubliвЂ¦ https://t.co/jPQWYQt4qx
20:42:03 Retweeted @jonswaine 19:12:30 Trump backers who have suggested the bombs are a liberal hoax:Ann Coulter
Rush Limbaugh
Michael Savage
James WoodвЂ¦ https://t.co/uKRpmU3Dsf
22:52:14 Retweeted @ddale8 13:14:31 Here is the updated chart of Trump’s false claims by week. Look at that right side. https://t.co/fkFd3ELUVf in reply to ddale8
23:06:29 Retweeted @maggieNYT 21:54:40 On the vexing problem Trump, his cell phones, and the Russian and Chinese ears on his conversations @AllMattNYT andвЂ¦ https://t.co/In5iAOE2B0
23:08:22 Retweeted @tomscocca 22:40:27 The key secure airgap is the empty void between the president’s ears https://t.co/3EFfmcY69S

@abulsme tweets from 2018-10-23 (UTC)

03:31:19 Retweeted @realMatMolina 2018-10-19 20:54:17 Bush Sr. left office w/ $269 billion deficitClinton turned tht into $127 billion surplus
Bush Jr. turned tht intвЂ¦ https://t.co/hdrrrrnU90
04:13:25 Retweeted @jonfavs 2018-10-22 18:58:28 Television news outlets are, once again, acting as (mostly) unwitting propaganda agents for Trump in the final weekвЂ¦ https://t.co/k7r8n70sRQ
04:15:24 Thread https://t.co/yLYHoH7j6g
14:11:45 Retweeted @mattyglesias 12:45:41 Why the media narrative chases an endless series of dumb right-wing shiny objects.https://t.co/A9kW6QRdta

@abulsme tweets from 2018-10-22 (UTC)

15:32:46 Retweeted @gelliottmorris 15:30:04 The race for the House is a lot closer than it might seem to people. At the same time, Dems also have a solid shotвЂ¦ https://t.co/bYj9xjL1EC
15:33:00 Retweeted @gelliottmorris 15:31:21 A very @ForecasterEnten-y way of saying this… “Republicans are a normal polling error away from holding the HouseвЂ¦ https://t.co/6u74VdEcri
17:32:29 Oops https://t.co/BoVRKhdZOG
18:36:39 Retweeted @aedwardslevy 15:45:38 Hello, please allow me to join the throng of pollsters, forecasters and the like reminding you that some outcomes oвЂ¦ https://t.co/5yQtSJ5ear

@abulsme tweets from 2018-10-21 (UTC)

06:34:38 Retweeted @kiley__wolf 2018-10-19 03:49:50 I babysit a girl named Eileen and I absentmindedly called her for dinner by yelling вЂњcome on EileenвЂќ and she appearвЂ¦ https://t.co/b2IvXz5cxi
14:46:01 Retweeted @mattyglesias 2018-10-20 22:03:36 Trump lost the popular vote by two percentage points and for citizens unhappy with his rule to get a meaningful cheвЂ¦ https://t.co/kOCvcdMRiN in reply to mattyglesias
16:55:09 Retweeted @jesseengel 2018-10-12 23:37:38 I’ve started mentally replacing “AI”, “Neural Network”, and other buzz terms with “Predictive model”. It removes aвЂ¦ https://t.co/kkh7pkhF8r
17:45:34 Retweeted @JYSexton 15:11:00 Meet The Press ended up asking about the Khashoggi murder, but it was secondary to the horserace. We’re fundamentalвЂ¦ https://t.co/EkcN5tnqgC
18:10:16 Retweeted @vermontgmg 11:30:41 MBS is learning the high cost of silencing Kashoggi: US journalists now inclined to dig into all of Saudi’s dirty lвЂ¦ https://t.co/do4ayFLlM9
19:43:29 Curmudgeon’s Corner: Intentional Set https://t.co/PGDZBoBkSe https://t.co/liCkM40iTv
19:51:48 @iDudeness Hmm. This show actually seemed a bit light on being offended. We’ll have to work on that next week. in reply to iDudeness
20:26:20 Retweeted @IHLaking 12:44:49 anyway here’s a gallery of dolphins observing some squirrels <symbol> <symbol> <symbol> https://t.co/apQecYaRC8
20:53:19 I can see reducing the speed limit, but what they really need is an additional crosswalk and signals for pedestrianвЂ¦ https://t.co/IubbEuhfSO

Paid Off, Cut Up, and Done!

Refinanced the house to do it, but we just wiped out a ton of super high interest debt in a single evening on the credit card websites hitting the “pay full balance” buttons. Then we cut them all up. (Except one, just in case.) This has been a monkey on our backs seemingly forever. Some of these cards haven’t had a zero balance since I was in college nearly 30 years ago. The monthly savings on interest will be huge. It is like being able to breathe again after having been under water too long. Yay!

Curmudgeon’s Corner: Intentional Set

On this week’s Curmudgeon’s Corner, Ed joins Sam to talk about the many forms of disinformation, a congressional debate Ed attended, and they revisit the healthcare debate. Before that though, a welcome to a new patron, a movie review, a couple book reviews, and more!

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Recorded 2018-10-20
Length this week – 2:07:05

(0:00:20-0:42:39) But First
- Agenda
- New patron
- New review
- Sam Movie: A Shot in the Dark (1964)
- Sam Book: The Brethren (1979)
- Ed Book: One Person, No Vote (2018)
(0:43:55-1:13:41) Disinformation
- The new election meddling arrest
- Trump strategy of provocation
- Everybody doing it
- Saudi Arabia and Turkey
- Different types of attacks
- Example WaPo error
- Careful vs sloppy vs intention deceit
(1:18:45-1:45:44) A Congressional Debate
- Pennsylvania District 1 profile
- The candidates in PA-1
- In person experience
- Local vs national issues
- Trump influence on debate?
- Wallace energy plan
- Nothing on voting rights
(1:46:24-2:06:44) Healthcare
- Costs for Medicare for All
- Gradualism
- Impact on individuals
- Types of costs and savings
- Other countries
- Mitch McConnell

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

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

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