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Curmudgeon’s Corner: Slosh Back

On this week’s Curmudgeon’s Corner, Sam and Ivan talk about politics in the US, UK, and Israel. They also riff on Julian Assange, Mexican tariffs, and Social Media disinformation. Plus some feedback and an Election Graphs update!

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Recorded 2019-05-31
Length this week – 1:50:22

(0:00:25-0:27:22) Round 1
- Ivan: New Israeli Elections
- Sam: New Assange Indictments
(0:27:58-0:59:48) Round 2
- Ivan: Mueller Statement
- Sam: Teresa May Resignation
(1:00:27-1:40:46) Round 3
- Ivan: Mexico Tariffs
- Sam: Social Media Disinformation
(1:44:29-1:50:01) Round 4
- Ivan: Feedback
- Sam: Election Graphs Update

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@abulsme tweets from 2019-05-31 (UTC)

00:11:21 Retweeted @vin_jc 00:06:17 Ah yes, suppressing domestic Mexican economic activity will surely stop Mexican jobseekers from pursuing employment in neighboring economies. https://t.co/vzka7jzdaM
03:23:25 Retweeted @ElectionGraphs 03:21:46 New Charts for State Odds
https://t.co/we0elAGf6P
#Election2020 https://t.co/xmz5V6F4yn
05:50:38 Retweeted @OhNoSheTwitnt 05:49:06 https://t.co/1LZOkya5B0
13:16:28 Retweeted @ewarren 13:00:19 The Mueller report details crimes by the president that would lead to the indictment of any other citizen. But Mueller couldn’t bring charges because a Justice Department policy says you can’t charge a sitting president. That policy is wrong and needs to go. Here’s how and why.
18:15:45 Retweeted @realDonaldTrump 18:08:33 Saddened to hear about the loss of John Pinto, a Navajo Code Talker in World War II, over the Memorial Day Weekend. The Code Talkers are true American HEROES and John never stopped serving his fellow citizens as a longtime New Mexico State Senator. John, Rest In Peace!
19:15:00 Retweeted @CommodoreBTC 18:57:35 no idea how the incentives would play out, but this is a fascinating idea https://t.co/0YSDsK709e
21:14:10 Retweeted @johnastoehr 21:07:29 Amazing how the GOP is now the party of tax increases. Never thought I’d see the day. https://t.co/L9kCIzDUMR
21:34:52 Retweeted @qjurecic 20:00:16 The Democrats genuinely do not seem to have grasped this concept https://t.co/iSe5TOr7uF
23:04:27 Retweeted @LeahLitman 18:50:59 obsessed with this @NewYorker cartoon https://t.co/dmRICM3CMP
23:13:27 Retweeted @pithywidow 20:56:29 I’m sure this will play well with Judge Emmet Sullivan, who, upon reading the unredacted documents, was moved to ask prosecutors why they didn’t charge Flynn with treason https://t.co/bXsk80MUTN
23:46:13 Retweeted @smotus 21:59:59 Me: It’s an embarrassing time to be a political scientist.Lawyers: https://t.co/oR3jxhyaSO

@ElectionGraphs tweets from 2019-05-31 (UTC)

03:21:46 New Charts for State Odds
https://t.co/we0elAGf6P
#Election2020 https://t.co/xmz5V6F4yn

@ElecCollPolls tweets from 2019-05-31 (UTC)

03:23:45 Retweeted @ElectionGraphs 03:21:46 New Charts for State Odds
https://t.co/we0elAGf6P
#Election2020 https://t.co/xmz5V6F4yn

@abulsme tweets from 2019-05-30 (UTC)

00:21:42 Mueller didn’t say anything today that wasn’t already in black and white in his report. The fact that people are responding strongly to it and some Dems are changing positions today is a testament to the power of someone with authority speaking as opposed to 400+ pages of text.
04:29:51 I wish I could. I wish I could. https://t.co/9nq7vBAQph
18:58:30 Retweeted @DLind 18:53:46 The Supreme Court was already in a weird evidentiary position before this, with this case, given how much of the smokingest-gunniest evidence was in internal emails which wouldn’t’ve been revealed under less scrutiny. The procedural stuff in Rick’s thread is essential. https://t.co/qYdY4xXIrh
18:59:19 Retweeted @jwcglaser 14:03:45 This is basically everything. https://t.co/39ma74yDaK https://t.co/02Sa8IsXcW
19:26:18 There are 41 members on the Committee. Assuming no Republicans defect, that means you need 21 of the 24 Democrats to push forward. So 9 more to go. (And presumably Nadler needs to be one of them. ) https://t.co/yDGbO72Nyp
20:02:49 Retweeted @PollsAndVotes 2019-05-19 15:10:02 The path of Nixon approval during Watergate keeps coming up. I posted this last August on partisan differences and the events during 1973 when virtually all changes in approval took place.https://t.co/0vFipTgkZ3 https://t.co/sySasf6B74
20:13:38 Retweeted @GeeDee215 17:30:02 This thread tho. <symbol> https://t.co/MJCb44SYRs
20:21:42 Thread https://t.co/uvuTijbb72

@abulsme tweets from 2019-05-29 (UTC)

03:51:48 Reading: GOP impeachment champion gets a hero’s welcome back home – POLITICO https://t.co/kovyYBdsj6
06:24:08 Retweeted @NicholsUprising 06:02:15 Democrats who are reluctant to impeach might want to take note of the reaction from voters in Republican @justinamash‘s district to the congressman’s embrace of the constitutional remedy: a boisterous and sustained standing ovation. https://t.co/VHRSGFCFRn
06:29:15 Retweeted @BillKristol 01:12:21 Probably the most important political news of the day. https://t.co/22w5oMeDgk
06:49:22 Retweeted @JesseCharlesLee 2019-05-28 17:36:31 Brutal CRS Report on Trump’s only major accomplishment:1) GOP tax bill did almost nothing for growth
2) Rather than вЂњpay for itself,вЂќ it paid for ~5% of itself
3) Almost all the corporate tax cuts went to buybacks etc, virtually nothing to wages, especially for middle class https://t.co/MhQ5EO3z0F
14:52:58 Listening to Poll Hub Evolution https://t.co/2zckm8xvAK
17:23:08 Retweeted @ryanjreilly 16:41:25 вЂњWhat Mueller did Wednesday was essentially hold up the report and point at it, telling America what it contained.вЂќ https://t.co/rqF0d9onRr
19:41:29 Retweeted @markos 19:40:03 Oh my fucking god. https://t.co/DkVOBRMR9t
19:41:41 Retweeted @Mikel_Jollett 15:08:28 Mueller (shorter): Trump obstructed justice but the law won’t let us charge him with a federal crime because he is president so if you want to deal with this prick, impeach him.
20:04:51 Retweeted @chrislhayes 18:10:11 Nadler straining *extremely hard* not to undercut Pelosi or get out ahead of her, but the exertion is palpable.
20:07:40 Retweeted @tuckerhiggins 20:04:12 Cory Booker and Kamala Harris in sync https://t.co/q2FRsLodSC
20:44:14 Retweeted @petridishes 20:39:25 Someone spoke to me at length about how they loved the report and the green things that were cut out and the red things and the yellow things, and it slowly dawned on me that they had mixed up my report and вЂњThe Very Hungry Caterpillar.вЂќ https://t.co/QJjf7P25wW
20:47:49 They should take him up on this, but not one impeachment with multiple counts. Do an impeachment with one count, wait for the Senate to acquit, then do it again on another count. Start with non-Mueller-related things. Repeat over & over again straight through until the election. https://t.co/V4vw0Ral84
22:07:54 Retweeted @clairenjax 17:48:22 Trump claiming “no collusion” is akin to OJ looking for the “real killer”
23:50:29 Retweeted @daringfireball 23:15:02 iOS Apps Grossly Abusing Background App Refresh for Tracking Purposes: https://t.co/L9ZYnn9gsn

@abulsme tweets from 2019-05-28 (UTC)

06:10:18 Retweeted @RadarOmega_WX 04:09:34 Unfortunately we are dealing with a major disaster situation in the Dayton Ohio area as a long track tornado has impacted a heavily populated area. Here is a very preliminary look at the track of the tornado.. #Tornado #Dayton #OHwx https://t.co/Lfa1eSPKvR
13:38:27 Retweeted @Susan_Hennessey 13:05:48 Proceed with extreme caution on this one. The idea of Mueller getting a “draft indictment” doesn’t make much sense, the documents as described in this article don’t actually sound like a draft indictment, and even fragments of quoted language doesn’t sound like a DOJ legal memo. https://t.co/x2tBuJGDoF
19:30:44 Retweeted @AstroKatie 18:33:42 [decades of research and data showing incontrovertibly that the Earth is warming]
“Ehhhh… I’m not convinced; maybe we should wait and see”

[pilots get confused about weird dots on radar]
“OMG THE ALIENS ARE HERE”
19:33:19 Retweeted @AstroKatie 19:28:35 Hypotheses to try before aliens:
* balloons
* drones
* hallucinations due to stress & hypoxia
* instrumental glitches
* various kinds of accidents & debris
* experimental aircraft made by humans
* dunno, look, people make stuff up sometimes
* combinations of all of the above in reply to AstroKatie
19:41:50 Retweeted @MEPFuller 19:34:49 To summarize this thread on the CRS report about the GOP tax cuts:вЂў Little, вЂњif any,вЂќ effect on GDP
вЂў Growth is paying for about 5% of the lost revenue from the tax cuts
вЂў Very little wage growth
вЂў Skepticism that the tax cuts are even boosting capital investment https://t.co/Tk2zyHQlbX
23:17:35 Listening to Amanpour : Angela Merkel, Ron Howard and Stacey Cunningham https://t.co/Dk5HsNdB0f
23:56:00 Listening to Alyssa Milano: Sorry Not Sorry Trans Rights are Human Rights: Charlotte Clymer https://t.co/sY8Dc5CyH9
23:57:57 Is anybody even slightly surprised? https://t.co/YAnj5w3LWa

@abulsme tweets from 2019-05-27 (UTC)

00:31:43 Retweeted @EuropeElects 00:27:36 UK: 99% counted.Remain parties: 40.4%
Hard Brexit parties: 34.9%
Conservatives/Labour: 23.2%

#EP2019 #Brexit #EuropeanElections2019 #EUelections2019 https://t.co/D9CgBtYmNd
01:29:39 Retweeted @cwarzel 2019-05-26 19:12:59 New from me: I wrote about the Pelosi fakes, Facebook, the media, and how all our distribution systems are working just as intended. They just weren’t designed for our current political moment. https://t.co/aB44ycvPLw https://t.co/HGEVDTDgUm
06:59:30 Retweeted @McFaul 06:49:33 This: https://t.co/DdKCqDJFmn
16:59:40 Reading: European Election Results Show Growing Split Over Union’s Future – The New York Times https://t.co/BAILQ70YRC
17:00:33 Retweeted @cbouzy 16:40:59 “I honestly don’t care if I’m breaking federal law” should be the campaign slogan of the Trump 2020 campaign. https://t.co/KDEww8Ok8c
17:07:31 Retweeted @king_kaufman 16:35:17 Thread. https://t.co/C678wXexvl
17:17:27 <symbol>: вЂWow, What Is That?’ Navy Pilots Report Unexplained Flying Objects – The New York Times https://t.co/zVnNstrsSc
20:31:58 Retweeted @EdOverbeek 18:51:14 NYT and the Washington Post: We’re here to defend democracy!Also NYT and the Washington Post: https://t.co/48Xn46fYZg

@abulsme tweets from 2019-05-26 (UTC)

00:45:29 Retweeted @speechboy71 00:43:59 Calling someone a low IQ individual while misspelling their name is the Most Donald Trump Thing Ever https://t.co/tAsdZdPAnq
02:07:19 Retweeted @PoliticalKel 01:48:32 It would be “an existential question”, if Democrats had spines and actually upheld the consequences of failing to comply with Congressional subpoenas. https://t.co/wARyymp5oD
16:56:53 Retweeted @Green_Footballs 16:20:58 Marcy Wheeler lays out the many reasons why the NYT puff profile of Hope Hicks is very, very bad. https://t.co/3wY13mXajV
22:36:47 Retweeted @alexbloor 2019-05-24 20:35:06 The loudness of the “FUUUUCCCKKKK” shouted by the astronomer who figured this out, coincidentally, *was* heard by alien life on another planet.#aliens https://t.co/dhRFtnv7qR
22:36:51 Retweeted @ebpetroff 22:23:00 @alexbloor I was the astronomer who figured this out. Didn’t swear, but was definitely wasn’t quiet when the data came through <symbol> in reply to alexbloor
23:19:05 Retweeted @nycsouthpaw 20:48:18 That Liz Cheney clip reminded me that we’ve gotten pretty much every text message Strzok and Page sent to each other, an IG report about them, and their congressional testimony but virtually no factual development of what was going on in the FBI NY office in 2016 whatsoever.

@abulsme tweets from 2019-05-25 (UTC)

01:12:10 Retweeted @drvox 2019-05-24 21:51:23 Good lord, the replies to this are a punch in the gut. https://t.co/8HLHTpPKOE
01:59:52 Retweeted @WalshFreedom 2019-05-24 10:34:16 So people defending Trump because he only retweeted an edited video of Pelosi which makes her seem incoherent, and not the doctored video which makes Pelosi seem drunk.Cut it out. The President retweeting EITHER video is beneath the dignity of the office. But you all know that.
08:05:44 Curmudgeon’s Corner: March of Icons https://t.co/BWYQzAoMlN https://t.co/CovL99AVqY
08:38:59 Listening to Sidedoor Aloha, Y’all https://t.co/WW5d5U9gAH
08:55:14 Retweeted @13sarahmurphy 2019-05-24 13:57:08 Brexit is basically such a toxically shit idea that just talking about it for 3 years has brought our politics to its knees and our country to a standstill. It’s got nothing to do with who’s doing it or how they voted. It’s just a shit idea. And no-one can make it not shit.
16:43:36 Retweeted @ImpeachmentHour 2019-05-22 12:44:34 The photographer was lying on the ground, trying to shoot this ceiling. The pigeons were concerned. https://t.co/kAXDbwE3Qx
18:53:24 Retweeted @HeerJeet 18:33:54 This excellent passage supports my “Burn After Reading” theory of Russia-gate: a bunch of grifters, dumb-asses & blowhards stupidly tried their hands at spy stuff, triggering intelligence community investigation, ending in farce. https://t.co/8TvfuiQ06Q
19:03:50 Retweeted @MichaelGalanin 2019-05-24 22:44:26 Samsung Deepfake AI makes Mona Lisa talk https://t.co/xmpeLC8M7y
19:12:22 Retweeted @BuckCKong 2019-05-24 21:34:17 The Noble Bush Dog, The Finest of The Canines, The Classic Dog-Otter Lookin’ Thing https://t.co/BGXDsBCOLm
19:22:52 Retweeted @PoliticsWolf 18:54:31 Every state should adopt this. Likely nothing short of compulsory voting would do more to increase turnout in most local elections, it saves money on the cost of administering elections, & it often makes local election turnout more demographically representative of the citizenry https://t.co/LWbgQORO1b in reply to PoliticsWolf
19:35:59 Retweeted @stevesilberman 18:54:04 Another alpha member of the master race meets his match [via @paulfeig] https://t.co/8BNdyLXYSA
20:19:33 Retweeted @Will_Bunch 10:51:05 Sadly, it’s not a stretch to say this article is relevant to America’s current situation https://t.co/n4DRoP05c9

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