07:01:16 Retweeted @AtticusGF06:26:50 I enjoy dragging Biden as much as anyone, but he just succeeded in making Trump and his defenders talk about Charlottesville all day long. That’s a pretty damn good first day.
16:24:01 Retweeted @Mikel_Jollett2019-04-26 13:58:15 Robert E. Lee owned 200 slaves (which he famously tortured) then led a rebellion to extend slavery which killed 620,000 people.Saying you’re not a racist, you just love Robert E. Lee is like saying you’re not an antisemite, you just love Hitler. https://t.co/K3jEHpZFSD
23:54:17 Retweeted @SeattleFire23:49:14 The incident at Fairview Ave N and involved a crane that fell into traffic. 5 cars were crushed. There are a total of 4 fatalities, and 3 injured patients that have been transferred to the hospital. https://t.co/HM3PBZ5Udt
23:14:44 Retweeted @ThePlumLineGS19:26:32 Exactly. Dems can’t keep acting like they’ve lost the argument before it has even begun. If anything, WaPo poll shows ground is fertile for winning the argument. https://t.co/AbSZYgBgXr
This week on Curmudgeon’s Corner, Sam and Ivan go lightning round style again. This time they cover Joe Biden’s launch, the hollowing out of DHS, Trump’s efforts to resist congressional investigations, the question of if the women running for president (specifically Harris and Warren) are getting enough attention, the failure of the Galaxy Fold, some feedback on previous Assange comments, and finally spam, of both the phone and email varieties.
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Recorded 2019-04-26 Length this week – 2:06:20
(0:01:48-1:15:40) Lighting Round #1
Ivan: Joe Biden
Sam: Clearing out DHS
Ivan: Trump resisting investigations
Sam: Shortchanging the women running for president?
(1:17:00-2:06:00) Lightning Round #2
Ivan: The Galaxy Fold
Sam: Feedback on Assange
Ivan: Random foreign calls
Sam: Creative spam
The Curmudgeon’s Corner theme music is generously provided by Ray Lynch.
03:15:47 Retweeted @owillis03:15:14 Obviously impeaching a president without a Senate conviction is a political disaster1998 GOP impeaches Clinton
1998 midterms GOP loses seats, retains control of House
2000 Bush “wins”
2002 midterms GOP takes Senate
2002-2007 complete GOP control of government
15:15:07 Listening to The Scott Horton Show from The Libertarian Institute 4/19/19 Max Blumenthal on Assange, Manning, and Venezuela https://t.co/HdPShpmYo6
17:29:07 Retweeted @ThePlumLineGS14:24:16 Trump may be strengthening the case for his own impeachment.If WH keeps stonewalling, legal case of House Dems may be *strengthened* by impeachment inquiry, legal experts tell me.
This forces Dems to choose: Impeachment, or neuter themselves.
21:39:59 Retweeted @gtconway3d21:06:01 “Obviously, this is personal for me, and some may say that I’m not the right messenger.”Perhaps so. Probably so. But if she’s with the Constitution, I’m with her. https://t.co/aAV02H7c0o
22:07:16 It may not be all of it, but so much trouble seems to come from using one umbrella term to cover so much. And some of the push to lump everything into one bucket seems to come from how our health care systems link definitions and official diagnoses into access to services. https://t.co/esCi3IHYQe
22:35:59 Retweeted @nwarikoo22:27:44 “Stabbing a defenseless teenage captive to death. Picking off a school-age girl and an old man from a sniper’s roost. Indiscriminately spraying neighborhoods with rockets and machine-gun fire…highly decorated platoon chief commit shocking acts in Iraq.” https://t.co/5dVRXx6Apy
00:29:42 Retweeted @Celeste_pewter00:22:27 Warren just explained when she ran for senate, part of her daily goal was to meet young girls, and tell them: “my name is Elizabeth and I’m running for Senate, because that’s what girls do.” And she’d pinky swear with them. Me: <symbol> #WarrenTownHallin reply to Celeste_pewter
17:41:58 Retweeted @DrewLinzer17:41:28 Democratic voters support impeachment 76% to 10%. Believe it or not, the trend in Democratic support is *down* since last year, but the latest results show it may be ticking back up again.Overall support for impeachment is 41% support – 49% oppose. https://t.co/HryYXiHSkXhttps://t.co/zaaLwYYEmc
17:51:39 Retweeted @revmagdalen17:36:14 Trump is exposing that for 243 years we basically secured our Republic using the honor system, instead of a system of explicit laws based on the idea that sooner or later someone will come along intent on exploiting the system for personal gain.
18:19:35 Retweeted @tcwittes14:16:59 ”I never considered joining the Never Trump Republican efforts. Their criticisms of President Trump’s lack of character and unfitness for office were spot-on, of course, but they didn’t seem very pragmatic.” This says so much. https://t.co/5YWddthJJD
18:22:40 Retweeted @jbouie16:36:44 between the citizenship question, extreme partisan gerrymandering, and voter suppression, the apparent long game for conservatives is durable minority rule https://t.co/XHilTgEx54
18:27:40 Retweeted @Dr_Ulrichsen17:12:54 “Saudi Arabia on Tuesday beheaded 37 Saudi citizens in a mass execution across the country for what it described as terrorism-related crimes, publicly pinning one of the bodies and its severed head to a pole as a warning to others.” https://t.co/M7MNslGNSd
19:01:07 Retweeted @RonBrownstein18:23:58 A growing story through the 2020s will be rising tension between increasingly diverse younger generations and a Republican SCOTUS majority nominated & confirmed by the parts of America least touched by demographic & cultural change. Explosions loom ahead. https://t.co/IDknVAOfeWhttps://t.co/ivY9zMnruX
19:05:19 Retweeted @ibogost18:39:05 This is a fascinating case.On the one hand, it’s difficult to overstate how impressive it is to get SMB running on a C64.
On the other hand, there’s almost no question that the result, an audio-visual experience that completely replicates the original game, is an infringement. https://t.co/ee6rOnMxXb
19:18:17 Retweeted @seattletimes19:14:23 BREAKING: Permanent daylight saving time has passed the Washington state House 90-6. But even if Gov. Jay Inslee signs it, the measure will still have hurdles to clear. https://t.co/sKqq2VmbNX
19:40:59 Retweeted @jkarsh19:15:21 It’s kind of stunning how hard you have to work to ignore the really well-run campaigns of Warren and Harris just so you can write about a dude instead.
00:43:19 Retweeted @RadioFreeTom2019-04-21 22:53:53 Volume 1 is a nightmare, and I’m so engrossed in it that I barely looked at Volume 2. The shills trying to wave this away are despicable. Especially those who know better – which is most of them. Beneath contempt. https://t.co/2FwEaOMV1y
04:09:06 Retweeted @SallyAlbright00:58:04 I called it.Bernie ran the exact same scam that lost Jim Wright his Speakership and cost Newt Gingrich $400k in fines, but from campaign donations, not from lobbyists.
05:37:27 Retweeted @RonaldKlain02:46:35 I really feel like Dems are making the “impeachment question” complicated, when it’s simple:
“We will hold hearings on what Trump did wrong–including things Mueller didn’t even consider (like corruption). At the end of the hearings, we will decide what punishment we support.”
15:46:46 Retweeted @MikeDrucker12:23:31 ELIZABETH WARREN: “…and that is why I’ve created a sustainable plant-based fuel that will allow is to colonize Mars and prevent any future wars over-”*media bursts in*
MEDIA: “Hey everyone! Quick! There’s a dog on a skateboard running for President!”
*everyone runs out*
18:20:56 Mayor Pete now solidly in 3rd in both IA & NH in the RCP avgs.IA: Biden 24% Sanders 20% Buttigieg 11% Harris 8% Warren 7%
19:04:57 Retweeted @smotus18:58:42 A lot of folks frame impeachment as something that would cost Democrats votes in 2020. I have a piece up at @pacificstand addressing this and other issues related to impeachment. (1/4) https://t.co/wP1fbcQIhD
20:46:35 Retweeted @vermontgmg20:15:15 THREAD: Assuming you didn’t spend the whole weekend reading the Mueller Report (but you really should!), I broke down for @WIRED 14 overlooked takeaways hidden in its 448 pages….: https://t.co/UoAecw4lNf
23:05:39 Retweeted @ezralevin15:08:27 The most “radical” impeachment position in Congress right now is that a committee should consider whether the House should consider whether a discussion should take place in the Senate to consider whether Trump should be removed from office for crimes he clearly committed.