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#95: Quality Control, or: We're Laughing Actually (2020/2/6)


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Day 4 of the Iowa caucus, and they might have given Bernie his win now?
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Timestamps:
0:00: Intro & Iowa Caucus 2020 Audio Montage
2:46: We get into it
35:59: Max Blumenthal's Grayzone article on Iowa
49:55: Libby Watson's New Republic article on Iowa
1:05:05: Lee Fang's Intercept article on Iowa
1:10:17: Callback to an old article we read
1:17:41: Bloomberg & endgames
Links:
Bernie watching Sailor Moon
https://twitter.com/CarlBeijer/status/1224479872849973249
Max Blumenthal: "Billionaire pro-Israel Buttigieg backer Seth Klarman funds group behind Iowa’s disastrous voting app"
https://thegrayzone.com/2020/02/04/pro-israel-buttigieg-seth-klarman-iowas-voting-app/
Lee Fang: "New Details Show How Deeply Iowa Caucus App Developer Was Embedded In Democratic Establishment"
https://theintercept.com/2020/02/04/iowa-caucus-app-shadow-acronym/
NYT on the Shadow app
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/04/us/politics/iowa-caucus-shadow-app.html
ACRONYM & Higher Ground Labs scrubbing their relationship with Shadow from the internet
https://www.thedailybeast.com/investors-rush-to-downplay-ties-to-shadow-the-firm-behind-iowa-caucus-clusterfuck
"quality control" CBS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tl0V39a71FY
"quality checks" MSNBC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBjArar_S_k
"quality control" NBC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVgvD5-_8Uk
"It's Sanders country!" (Starts around 2:00:00)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0plYByqf14
They had to move the Biden section out of the way of the Bernie surge in Grinell, IA
https://twitter.com/TombStoneWyatt/status/1224536395294957569
https://twitter.com/FlowersAreR3d/status/1224498611645558784
Hang up on precinct captain
https://www.forbes.com/sites/markjoyella/2020/02/03/cnn-produces-viral-moment-with-live-iowa-caucus-interview-they-hung-up-on-me/#53e4df953a3f
Kornacki: 'There is now a chance' Sanders will overtake Buttigieg and win the Iowa caucuses
https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/kornacki-there-is-now-a-chance-sanders-will-overtake-buttigieg-and-win-the-iowa-caucuses-78212165887
Steve Kornacki trying to justify Pete's "lead" on the fly
https://twitter.com/_mattboswell/status/1224864615684878336?s=21
Coin toss 1
https://twitter.com/MichaelCoudrey/status/1224543593802555392
Coin toss 2
https://twitter.com/awzurcher/status/1224533900946485250
Pete pledging to withdraw military aid to Israel over annexation (36:00)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pE-r_4x9DFQ
Pete: "Just kidding!!!"
https://twitter.com/IfNotNowOrg/status/1222888022292750336
Isolated results
https://twitter.com/FlowersAreR3d/status/1224498611645558784
Robby Mook's denial from Blumenthal's article
https://twitter.com/franklinleonard/status/1224563451558649857
Libby Watson in New Republic on ACRONYM
bit.ly/385bNF1
Jonathan Martin: "‘Stop Sanders’ Democrats Are Agonizing Over His Momentum"
nyti.ms/2UuC37T
Tara McGowan on Pod Save America
bit.ly/3bblaoN
Tara McGowan on PSA again
bit.ly/2H2luYW
David Plouffe claims no Shadow knowledge
bit.ly/2Ssavxe
Obama's Iowa victory speech
bit.ly/388qAic
Bernie's Iowa victory speech
bit.ly/2OxDU8d
Bloomberg at the 2004 RNC
cs.pn/385b2vF
Bloomberg's press conference announcing plans to appeal the court decision on Stop & Frisk
bit.ly/388TFdu
Alex Kotch on ACRONYM
bit.ly/2SmdxTW
"The IA Comms Director for @PeteButtigieg that was tweeting worksheet with the login pins visible, is literally [brother-in-law] to the CEO of the company that made SHADOW"
bit.ly/2OzD76N
Tara McGowan's bday party
bit.ly/2UuQKrB
Tara McGowan is openly anti-Bernie pro-Pete
bit.ly/2vOq9eG
Delayed satellite caucus counts
bit.ly/2S3pDCb
Bernie hasn't read Harry Potter
bit.ly/3beVNSV
Theme song credit: "Robobozo" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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