Curmudgeon's Corner Episode 540

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[Ep 540] Locked In [1:58:02]
Recorded: Sat, 2017-Oct-14 UTC
Published: Sat, 2017-Oct-14 23:56 UTC

On this week's Curmudgeon's Corner, Sam and Ivan talk about Hong Kong, the Republicans who are starting to worry about Trump, Trump's executive actions on healthcare and Iran, and Harvey Weinstein. Oh. And Sam gets locked in his office. Fun times!

(0:01:05-0:23:08) But First
- Agenda
- Ivan in Hong Kong
- Trump Puerto Rico comments
(0:24:24-1:03:55) Worried Republicans
- Trump-Tillerson IQ challenge
- Corker comments
- Alex Interlude #1
- Republicans containing Trump
- Robert Reich post
- Roy Moore
- Breaking the wall
- Trump understanding things
- Downward spiral
- Trump attacks on the press
- Pence alternative
- Fitness for duty
- Alex Interlude #2
(1:05:04-1:32:44) Executive Actions
- Birth control requirements
- ACA Subsidies
- Expanding low quality plans
- 3 in Three Interlude
- Tradeoffs
- Alex Interlude #3
- Iran false start
- Locking the door
- Iran Deal
(1:35:28-1:52:31) Weinstein
- More and more stories
- Blaming the victim
- Blocking the story
- Impact of Trump
- The Pence rule
- Locked in

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