Abulsme.com: Sunday, October 14th, 2018

Curmudgeon’s Corner: Better than Garbage

This week on Curmudgeon’s Corner, Sam and Ivan talk the most about voter suppression and Jamal Khashoggi. But they also talk about movies, climate change, that Alpha Bank thing, TV, the space program, using airline miles, upgrading home broadband, and Rosenstein… You know, the usual hodgepodge. They kind of couldn’t stop talking this week. Long show warning!

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Recorded 2018-10-13
Length this week – 2:26:27

(0:00:20-0:35:00) But First
- Agenda
- Miles and points
- Broadband upgrade
- TV: Star Trek: The Animated Series (1973-1974)
- Sam Movie: The Blair Witch Project (1999)
- Bad Movies
(0:35:40-1:04:46) Voter Suppression
- VRA Background
- Georgia
- Texas
- North Dakota
- Florida
(1:07:21-1:28:35) Jamal Khashoggi
- Background
- Trump reaction
- Financial connections?
- Congressional reaction
- Saudi reputation
- MBS backlash?
(1:29:14-2:26:07) Lightning Round
- Ivan: Soyuz Emergency Landing
- Sam: What the hell is going on with Rosenstein?
- Ivan: Alpha Bank and Trump
- Sam: IPCC Climate Report

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@abulsme tweets from 2018-10-13 (UTC)

00:47:35 Retweeted @smotus 2018-10-12 23:54:38 A white Southern politician preventing black people from voting and then blaming вЂњoutside agitatorsвЂќ when controverвЂ¦ https://t.co/jZDBiu14Se
01:16:11 Retweeted @gelliottmorris 2018-10-12 14:40:10 Periodic reminder that the Republicans are virtually guaranteed to lose the House popular vote in November but haveвЂ¦ https://t.co/6gbYcEA8Wa
02:13:09 Retweeted @MSNBC 2018-10-12 23:21:32 NEW: Turkish media reports that missing Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi used his Apple Watch to record evвЂ¦ https://t.co/BzwKn4sMj4
17:44:07 To any ducks reading my feed: Lay low, stay safe! https://t.co/g9BeZ2Vsrh
18:58:22 Why claims Khashoggi’s Apple Watch recorded alleged murder are unlikely – CNN https://t.co/43IK12PJHi
19:16:29 Thread https://t.co/R62rINRMek
19:54:30 Oops https://t.co/4qUZZQMG4s
20:28:49 Retweeted @B_Azevedo24 19:46:03 Me and Matt are no longer allowed in @IHOP https://t.co/b2PbEm6gya
22:19:23 Retweeted @Aviation_Intel 22:06:32 Setting the record straight on why fighter jets can’t all simply fly away to escape storms:
https://t.co/GvpWrkv3J1
22:53:16 @McFaul I have no objections to the day off for voting, but would 100% vote by mail like Oregon, Washington, and CoвЂ¦ https://t.co/gJvZwEYLjS in reply to McFaul

@abulsme tweets from 2018-10-12 (UTC)

00:13:27 Retweeted @edbott 00:04:13 So, the implication is that the Turks have live audio and video feeds in the Saudi embassy and are not afraid to buвЂ¦ https://t.co/m2eZaiNYi7
04:38:10 Retweeted @mattmfm 02:24:25 Trump officials repeatedly commit perjury but congressional Republicans refuse to hold them accountable. https://t.co/nN21fvyEKy
04:39:32 Retweeted @HillaryClinton 2018-10-11 11:24:28 Eleven weeks ago, the administration was supposed to finish reunifying families it separated at the border. ElevenвЂ¦ https://t.co/AxsgLYA2jo
04:42:52 Retweeted @steve_watt1 2018-10-11 23:19:58 There you go little (big) fellow. Hurricane’s over. #HurricaneMichael #hurricanemichael2018 https://t.co/VcN3VNKHC8
04:54:06 Thread https://t.co/T3z5i1n2lS
13:36:49 @pkcapitol Serious question, people are talking about diminishing returns from things like buying ads. With this kiвЂ¦ https://t.co/Aht8MhBdvT in reply to pkcapitol
13:51:08 Retweeted @fawfulfan 13:36:10 Hell, with this kind of money @BetoORourke should be able to rent fleets of buses to go into poor, minority neighboвЂ¦ https://t.co/v7iXsT3yXw in reply to fawfulfan
15:01:37 Retweeted @natsecHeather 13:54:49 One could argue that the diversity theory AMS lays out below is one of the key axes along which Americans are polarвЂ¦ https://t.co/ndKZAaqu54
18:38:47 Retweeted @drvox 18:09:28 The most disturbing revelation of the Trump years is that an American slide to fascism does not need to be kept hidвЂ¦ https://t.co/002gkP9n0r
18:45:02 Retweeted @EricHolthaus 17:38:30 Yep, there’s a hurricane headed toward Portugal. In centuries of record keeping, there’s never been a hurricane lanвЂ¦ https://t.co/yyDwFuvyAO
21:49:39 Thread https://t.co/7DVPtoj3wI

@abulsme tweets from 2018-10-11 (UTC)

00:08:15 Retweeted @kylegriffin1 2018-10-10 14:50:17 This whole 4-minute clip is worth watching. Kamala Harris grills FBI Director Chris Wray on the Kavanaugh supplemenвЂ¦ https://t.co/vQtcU45yPP
00:13:29 I liked a @YouTube video https://t.co/T2zysM4KSp Potatoes In Video Games Offend Me
00:21:10 Retweeted @ThePlumLineGS 2018-10-10 20:07:01 I just watched McConnell’s AP interview.McConnell is directly asked whether Trump’s tax returns & biz dealings arвЂ¦ https://t.co/h2OXzzcu5v
01:13:30 Retweeted @dandrezner 2018-10-10 22:08:05 What in the ever-loving f**k… https://t.co/R64KcnjbEF
01:14:44 Retweeted @Olivianuzzi 01:13:22 Here are the papers Donald Trump gave me yesterday, by the way: https://t.co/k57cX5G2LF in reply to Olivianuzzi
01:16:22 Retweeted @peterbakernyt 00:03:22 At his rally in Erie, Trump claims again that he won 52 percent of women in 2016. That’s true only of white women.вЂ¦ https://t.co/C8TAJM0TBl
01:17:17 Retweeted @Susan_Hennessey 2018-10-10 23:02:03 As we weigh the complex and consequential question of how the US should respond to the alleged murder of Jamal KhasвЂ¦ https://t.co/B675aYkhza
01:28:54 Retweeted @Taniel 2018-10-10 17:49:55 Georgia’s Secretary of State Brian Kemp (now running for Gov) has purged voter rolls & is now freezing tens thousanвЂ¦ https://t.co/YSsPstGEOq
01:31:35 Sometimes, every once in awhile, Rand Paul is right about something. https://t.co/WxohIFt3cs
01:32:44 Retweeted @MaggieJordanACN 01:09:41 For your use when you get вЂњthatвЂќ person https://t.co/F70vhBQ3Mn
01:38:42 Retweeted @Scout_Finch 00:20:51 What would you do if you won the $548 million you’ll never win it lottery?I’d prolly buy a few Republicans, tbh.
01:45:26 Retweeted @ReaganMatt 2018-10-10 17:52:43 LISTEN: A sink in a hotel on Panama City Beach seems to be whistling from the wind. Extremely creepy. I don’t thinkвЂ¦ https://t.co/La0xUBeDcF
04:06:15 The leaks from a couple weeks ago didn’t succeed in getting Rosenstein fired, so looks like it is time to try again. https://t.co/0a3W3X5z3S
04:09:23 Reading – Rosenstein-McCabe feud dates back to angry standoff in front of Mueller – The Washington Post https://t.co/bZGCQJak1b
04:10:42 Retweeted @chrislhayes 03:01:17 Would be nice to definitively rule out that the Saudis are paying the president massive bribes in exchange for taciвЂ¦ https://t.co/7UICLHB967
04:19:37 Retweeted @BuzzFeedNews 04:04:54 The viral story about a competitive barefoot runner demanding people sweep up acorns is a hoax ❌вЂ¦ https://t.co/ZWSWPBqiP8
04:23:19 Retweeted @sahilkapur 04:00:47 O’Rourke allies have been fretting about his Latino # for months. As one Dem put it, landing in the 50s is вЂњnot gonвЂ¦ https://t.co/h3hDi7hQ0K
04:26:45 Retweeted @nhannahjones 00:03:01 I found this passage in book of slave codes in the section on prohibitions against black people being taught to reaвЂ¦ https://t.co/358gOHTcgn
04:58:54 Retweeted @HoarseWisperer 2018-10-10 21:51:19 I believe something happened to him. I just think he’s confused about who did it. It could have been anyone. https://t.co/gQ2S6pI1I0
05:13:16 Retweeted @tomgara 03:37:29 I love that American spooks see the pattern of the flights by the Saudis and are like “ahhh yes, the classic renditвЂ¦ https://t.co/ZNleRvxobz
05:16:28 Retweeted @ZonePhysics 2018-10-10 03:00:35 A tribute to his grandmother turning 100 years old, Chinese artist builds ‘sky ladder’ firework. https://t.co/cmvlcr5zgX
15:02:10 Retweeted @prchovanec 14:53:49 This is not the argument you make when you didn’t do it. https://t.co/efTIOjv3Yo
15:07:22 Thread https://t.co/Z6sSUD6x6r
15:31:03 PIVOT!! https://t.co/rTeCEBm7pS
16:07:21 Retweeted @alexburnsNYT 13:15:18 Short of Michelle herself running, it’s really hard to see the Dems of 2019 embracing вЂњwhen they go low, we go highвЂќ https://t.co/5Iq2VETtJJ
17:57:54 Retweeted @BadAstronomer 17:42:18 A Soyuz rocket failed after launch today with two crew on board; both men are safe but there are lots of questions.вЂ¦ https://t.co/FVu6EcOeFo
19:50:54 Retweeted @ianbremmer 18:54:07 If Khashoggi murdered, Trump notes:
вЂў In Turkey, not in US.
вЂў US resident, not US citizen.
вЂў Saudis spend $110B onвЂ¦ https://t.co/E52onBKMjf
20:24:47 Retweeted @MaxBoot 2018-10-10 19:53:01 Trump said he is in вЂњloveвЂќ with Kim Jong Un, and had little to say when Saudi Arabia was accused of murdering PostвЂ¦ https://t.co/OOjuXueOMq
20:38:48 Retweeted @HillaryClinton 20:13:30 Seriously, you asked Russia to hack me on national television. https://t.co/YPktJyQ7Gx
20:41:02 Retweeted @GarettJones 2018-10-03 22:16:35 How did election betting markets do in 2016?Very well according to @maximlott
and @JohnStossel.

Among candidatesвЂ¦ https://t.co/mO4DW2d6Xe
21:59:50 Retweeted @jbendery 21:39:05 Translated: Democrats caved on giving Trump piles of lifetime federal judges so they could go home. Again. https://t.co/ScXdcUWlJV
22:25:29 The fact that judges at this level don’t get almost as much attention and scrutiny as SCOTUS appointments is maddenвЂ¦ https://t.co/14t6zjlEMd
23:06:55 As it turns out, 3 days into this experiment I have only muted 5 people. 4 on the right, 1 on the left. And even wiвЂ¦ https://t.co/mefVeupGFX in reply to abulsme
23:55:18 She was reunited, but the fact this ever happened in the first place is inexcusable. This is STILL going on. https://t.co/hRkjpsX3MH

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

03:45:00 Retweeted @nedprice 02:02:10 The Intelligence Community has a вЂњduty to warnвЂќ potential victims of impending threats, per Directive 191. If thisвЂ¦ https://t.co/q06tDoIFYn
03:52:49 Retweeted @RadioFreeTom 03:09:48 This is not what “Never Trump” means, at least to me. To me it means: rejecting the basis of how Trump governs, eveвЂ¦ https://t.co/Epykm8lk6p
04:23:38 Retweeted @KarenAttiah 01:35:40 Waiting to see how the Saudi apologists in D.C. and New York will continue to spin thisвЂ” that U.S. intelligence ofвЂ¦ https://t.co/pajxDccA30
04:42:22 Retweeted @JustinRWalton 04:27:54 Thread https://t.co/MrA8DpPTFq
04:44:53 Retweeted @profmusgrave 2018-10-09 20:23:41 Students. You don’t have to be well-informed to vote. Approximately nobody is. You just have to be well-informed *eвЂ¦ https://t.co/cTSvnUk02f
04:57:07 Retweeted @MichelleBarish 04:28:55 That time tonight at the Polo Bar when a table full of finance bros sit next to you-fist bump and shout “Our Man KaвЂ¦ https://t.co/UgTOe6UdlQ
04:57:25 Retweeted @andmichaelgreen 2018-10-09 17:16:06 EXPERIMENTStep 1) Drastically cut education funding
Step 2) Wait 35 years

Step 3) Observe voting population wilвЂ¦ https://t.co/70znAXWL1J
05:16:15 Retweeted @nytimes 2018-10-09 14:16:05 The Turkish authorities were looking into the possibility that the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi had been abductвЂ¦ https://t.co/NVHwWahrbW
16:22:55 Retweeted @DanielLarison 04:07:37 This dog is innocent https://t.co/jzLRXbTWfu

@abulsme tweets from 2018-10-09 (UTC)

02:17:38 Retweeted @Robeno 02:00:30 This chart from RCP on House races changed from toss up to GOP post Ford/Kav testimony is shocking. https://t.co/R2cxY6ryNo
04:10:54 Retweeted @MaxBoot 00:08:34 As I look back with the clarity of hindsight, I am convinced that coded racial appeals had at least as much, if notвЂ¦ https://t.co/IbCk9EzIzN
14:18:53 Retweeted @SJGrunewald 05:13:20 Sometimes Twitter is amazing.#MeToo #HimToo #IBelieveSurvivors https://t.co/KnrCkIJqlO
14:22:01 Hmmm https://t.co/Bvr32bGZyh
14:23:28 Was Nikki Anonymous?
15:49:30 Hmmm https://t.co/FNsMjXhPwx
16:06:08 Retweeted @Zathras3 03:24:02 I’m out, too. After more than 40 years, I’m leaving the Republican Party. <thread — I’m afraid it’s a long one. Sorry.>
16:07:27 Retweeted @Fahrenthold 16:02:39 Thanks to everyone who wrote w/suggestions about what this “Chicago Unit Acquisition LLC” loan is, and whyвЂ¦ https://t.co/zdBPzG4tEI
16:37:57 Retweeted @MoElleithee 16:33:35 Predictions are worthless these days, but what the hell…- Graham to DOJ after midterms.
– Haley fills Graham UвЂ¦ https://t.co/SI6QwRY2pS
16:38:57 Retweeted @EmmyA2 16:33:23 Thirty. Point. Gender gap.Send this link to every woman you know and make sure she’s going to vote for DemocratsвЂ¦ https://t.co/7hUcHp1OZk
16:39:11 Retweeted @guypbenson 15:33:14 I’m still a bit puzzled on the timing & exact reasons, BUT…it would appear Nikki Haley just managed to depart theвЂ¦ https://t.co/EEJkOCslm5
17:40:42 Retweeted @michaelianblack 15:13:27 He’s going to make Ivanka UN Ambassador. Then he’ll run her as VP in 2020. Then she’ll be president, life will finaвЂ¦ https://t.co/eHk177FWNY
18:02:39 Retweeted @gelliottmorris 17:29:17 The gender gap in the generic ballot grew from 35 to 45 pts (!!) among college-educated voters in our polling fromвЂ¦ https://t.co/vh7fpmpaZA
21:08:53 <symbol> https://t.co/tE8IwrN1wU

@abulsme tweets from 2018-10-08 (UTC)

02:04:20 Retweeted @DavidNeiwert 2018-10-07 21:25:14 1) There’s been a lot of handwringing in the media pundit corps and centrist politicians these days about the lossвЂ¦ https://t.co/XaB3sEp3IB
02:06:25 Retweeted @drvox 01:57:37 We are slouching toward somewhere around 3 or 3.5C. That’s probably not extinction-level, but it will cause enormouвЂ¦ https://t.co/LriZ8zPajF in reply to drvox
02:47:16 Thread https://t.co/Z10J8OQHkv
04:09:55 Retweeted @dcwoodruff 02:28:12 The IPCC report is the only thing anyone in the media should talk about for a week. It should be the defining issueвЂ¦ https://t.co/diqqlkX1uk
04:53:46 In the wake of the latest climate report, seeing the usual wave of idiots posting examples of it being cold somewheвЂ¦ https://t.co/ogv6hlzY5t
04:58:24 Retweeted @KatzOnEarth 04:03:01 Right-wingers have been taught for 40 years that tax money just goes to black people and immigrants. So when they hвЂ¦ https://t.co/uwVdIPz7aH
04:58:37 Retweeted @KatzOnEarth 04:07:02 Or better said, they think tax money is money stolen from good white people and given to undeserving minorities. SoвЂ¦ https://t.co/MytgZxZgIr in reply to KatzOnEarth
05:10:03 Retweeted @NateSilver538 02:47:44 Definitely a lot of folks who can’t shake the instinct to round 70% or 80% probabilities up to 100%. Thought thereвЂ¦ https://t.co/jhABe0WjGc
05:30:08 Retweeted @profmusgrave 02:25:20 Nobody is talking about the climate change report for the same reason that nobody’s talking about the NYT tax-cheatвЂ¦ https://t.co/eFQXHhuPXW
05:34:44 Retweeted @fred_guttenberg 01:43:00 Certain to vote in ’18, based on late-Sept. Gallup poll:65+ 82%
50-64 69%
30-49 55%
18-29 26% ‼️‼️

ThвЂ¦ https://t.co/3djIB8GCu1
12:33:34 Retweeted @NewDay 12:27:21 “People around the President … described what happened with Kavanaugh … as almost a dress rehearsal for an impeвЂ¦ https://t.co/gJCeWW4Y4E
14:47:20 I follow lots of people who I disagree with on Twitter just to make sure I understand вЂњwhere the other side is comiвЂ¦ https://t.co/Qs49Sf4x3E
14:51:52 Retweeted @ThePlumLineGS 14:10:49 Depressing.A senior Dem strategist tells me Trump’s attacks on Blasey Ford *helped* Republicans in red state SenaвЂ¦ https://t.co/BqZxlRrpyU
15:04:14 Thread and article. Remember not to round 70/30 odds to 100/0. There is LOTS of uncertainty here. https://t.co/OHS3awWCuG
15:05:33 Retweeted @dylanmatt 14:27:35 Here’s some guy named, uh, James Madison arguing that equal representation of states in the Senate, regardless of pвЂ¦ https://t.co/3aioQ9HFkx
15:07:09 Retweeted @AdamWeinstein 15:05:08 Hey remember when conservatives argued that a 2016 presidential candidate facing DOJ investigation and the DOJ’s prвЂ¦ https://t.co/PweaXVDc2w
15:47:26 Retweeted @sdkstl 01:53:47 ⚠️ This #RegisterToVote deadline chart making the rounds via @MarkRuffalo and others has a lot of errors. Don’t relвЂ¦ https://t.co/MkcI6G9KcT
18:05:28 Reading – New justice on the bench: Kavanaugh’s first Supreme Court cases (Pete Williams – NBC) https://t.co/e1UvNed3WE
18:14:30 Oops -> Google+ to shut down after coverup of data breach (Josh Constine – TechCrunch) https://t.co/Riu67o0coI
18:17:40 Reading – Hubble Space Telescope is in trouble after gyroscope failure (Swapna Krishna, Engadget) https://t.co/H8FdqY21M0
19:09:10 Retweeted @snocounty 16:52:35 We broke our single day voter registration record on National Voter Registration Day! If you have not registered toвЂ¦ https://t.co/xGjiI2rLFv
21:15:50 Retweeted @TimOBrien 20:19:58 In which вЃ¦@FahrentholdвЃ© and вЃ¦@OConnellPostbizвЃ© revisit a central question about the president’s finances: Where diвЂ¦ https://t.co/TMQNqpkHNS
22:30:14 WTF on leaving her outside. But also WTF on gender separation during an active shooter situation at all. FFS вЂњcloseвЂ¦ https://t.co/7pTlY1663r

@abulsme tweets from 2018-10-07 (UTC)

00:23:10 Retweeted @natsecHeather 00:19:21 This is the only post-vote piece you want to read. https://t.co/8nxIZT1n0z
00:38:04 Retweeted @notcapnamerica 00:36:08 He’s voting in the midterms. Are you? https://t.co/OnxEC1piPX in reply to notcapnamerica
00:56:59 Retweeted @dandrezner 2018-10-06 21:14:44 In the past few days, China has disappeared two prominent citizens, Russia has killed a prosecutor, and Saudi ArabiвЂ¦ https://t.co/n9qmWfhvU1
06:15:33 Curmudgeon’s Corner: Itself a Problem https://t.co/P1MmS42i62 https://t.co/yUHVGjufC8
07:16:02 Retweeted @omgShutUpDon 2018-10-03 12:39:45 Okay this is a quality meme https://t.co/AaXXa67GRl
15:33:29 Retweeted @peterbakernyt 12:49:16 For anyone who missed it last week, the вЃ¦@nytimesвЃ© reprints the extraordinary journalistic investigation of Trump’sвЂ¦ https://t.co/FQAJPainr5
15:45:38 Retweeted @kyledcheney 2018-10-06 23:22:32 Don McGahn blew off the president to try to save the Kavanaugh nomination, according to the Times:вЂ¦ https://t.co/OMZfzZ3oC0
15:52:57 Retweeted @davidfrum 15:24:21 The NYT story on Trump finances stops in 2004. Does anybody imagine that Trump’s tax practices improved thereafter?вЂ¦ https://t.co/rD7BAmDjcM
15:53:03 Retweeted @ssrac 10:52:58 @IAmSophiaNelson @NBCNewsTHINK That part <symbol><symbol><symbol> https://t.co/1fgylhH3JQ in reply to IAmSophiaNelson
20:41:56 Retweeted @AniketVijayShi5 15:43:21 Increadible close up view of planet size tornadoes on the sun….The TRACE ( Transition Region and Coronal ExplorerвЂ¦ https://t.co/ycvwto8igE
20:43:18 Retweeted @pashulman 17:38:39 Props to the guy who answered вЂњPangaea.вЂќ https://t.co/siwppS41lI
20:51:36 Retweeted @Statistikhengst 20:27:16 A project I have been working on for 3 months now: the prep work for comparing the 2018 HOR results (when they areвЂ¦ https://t.co/sydpyEhcU0
21:08:15 Retweeted @RadioFreeTom 18:12:42 You’re not surprised, I know, but here it is. | “The Republican Party…is now the party of situational ethics andвЂ¦ https://t.co/m4WUejG6Rb
23:27:54 Thread https://t.co/k2q5eM0GJJ
23:49:07 Retweeted @Rainmaker1973 15:54:19 This machine is called HappyCow and it actually makes cows happy. Any cow can boot this device by making a slight pвЂ¦ https://t.co/HvPEp6XC0L
23:51:57 Retweeted @peterjukes 23:21:58 Er… @thehill. That’s not Susan Rice. That’s Condoleezza. https://t.co/I1yNjlLx8n

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