Vox Populi – 8-19-2016

Hi, Ad. Just heading out to see Fergie1 at the hospital. All went well and she is now recovering and has had her first few stwps as The Bionic Woman! Please pass on to the crew when thay log in and I’ll see you all next week.

pinkpantheroz

Cheers! Bye for now.

pinkpantheroz

Hi Ad, so glad to read PPO’s good news.

glenn

So…Ad, can you pass the trumpster’s extreme vetting test? Did you see where The Daily Show asked trump supporters some of the so-called questions? Hysterical!

glenn

You mean the trump who “apologized”, then got in the way in LA to help distribute boxes. Kinda like Paul Ryan washing the clean dishes at the soup kitchen.

glenn

Hey Harleigh! How goes it?

glenn

Hi guys!

Harleigh

Ad–and to answer your question, I think the “new trump” sucks more than the “old trump”. Pivot, my ass!

glenn

Ad–But, I thought the yachting blazer was a nice touch, didn’t you?

glenn

LOL!

glenn

Just following the drumph daily gaffes LOL Palin was not this stupid.

Harleigh

Harleigh–yes she was, and is. She just didn’t use twitter to twit out her stupidity.

glenn

Ad–Lovie was practicing her “acceptance” speech (plagarized from someone, I’m sure) for when Thurston wins. We haven’t seen much of “Lovie” lately. I wonder why?

glenn

Ad–If Hillary Clinton and the Democrats don’t keep reminding people of all of trump’s stupidity, then they are not the fighters I thought they were. I don’t think Elizabeth Warren, nor Joe Biden, nor President Obama will let them forget. And, I saw Hillary’s campaign manager on Rachel last night, and he is GOOD! And cute as a button, to boot!

glenn

Hey trouble makers! How goes it?

KillgoreTrout

she probably has bruises and black eye for embarrassing him so badly with plagiarizing and from Michelle Obama no less.

Harleigh

KT!!! We’re trying to make as much trouble as possible! Keeps life interesting!

glenn

Yes it does glenn!

KillgoreTrout

i agree Ad. Her ads are pretty devastating.

KillgoreTrout

Harleigh–I truly hope not. In a way, I have to feel sorry for her; not only is trump in way over his head, she has to be terrified!

glenn

causing trouble naturally

Harleigh

Trump’s playing to moderate republicans. He’s trying to look like he has “compassion.”

KillgoreTrout

Glad to hear it Harleigh! Keep up the good work!

KillgoreTrout

What’s up Ad?

KillgoreTrout

KT–I think bookies are taking bets on how long trump’s compassion will last. I give it till Monday! What say you?

glenn

i give it until noon tomorrow, providing he stays off of Twitter tonight.

KillgoreTrout

Tonite drumph said in 2020 he will get 95% of the black vote. He’s just a fucking loon. It is not really funny anymore.

Harleigh

He really is. Kelly Anne is working her “magic,” on him. Trump has looked into the void. Now he’s playing the Humble Guy act.

KillgoreTrout

he’s fired one rwnj after another and finally got some from under the barrel.

Harleigh

Ad–here’s what republicans don’t get. It’s not only trump that is a mess; so are their policies. So even if trump does “act presidential” and/or “stick to the script”, they don’t understand that Americans don’t like the “script.”

glenn

Au Contraire Harleigh. Now that I know he’s going to get his ass handed to him by Hillary, I see Trump as pure entertainment. Like some sort of weird political roadside attraction.

KillgoreTrout

No, I don’t Ad. I think Trump has all the supporters he’s going to get. Thank goodness for video, huh?

KillgoreTrout

Harleigh–OMG–you mean we’ll have to go through this again in 2020? How does he think that’s going to happen? What a delusional loon!

glenn

The whole campaign has been hysterical

Harleigh

It really has Harleigh. A real freak show. Or I should say SLEAZE show.

KillgoreTrout

Trump is slowly treading his way to the Elephant’s Graveyard.

KillgoreTrout

Ad–so what else can the come up with? HIllary is already responsible for 9/11/01, for ISIS, for losing jobs, and for the floods in LA. What else can they throw at her without sounding like complete idiots? Oops, scratch that last part. They don’t care if they look like complete idiots!

glenn

HIs trip to Louisiana is a farce.

KillgoreTrout

Wel as you all know I cruise the rw haven over at ‘the hill’. HRC has a brain diease now, has murdered over 100 enemies over the last 30 years and is a raging drunk. How crazy is that.

Harleigh

She also has syphillis! That’s what they’re saying. And dysphasia.

KillgoreTrout

Ad–exactly. But those aren’t only trump’s policies; those are the republican party’s policies. Trump has just lifted up the lid of “political correctness” and showed the repub sewer underneath.

glenn

I don’t either, Ad.

KillgoreTrout

Harleigh–IOW, the same old crap they’ve been peddling for 30 years, with the added “attractions” of syphillis, brain disease, and alcoholism. It’s a wonder the woman can get out of bed in the morning!

glenn

and now her and oblamma have signed into law the removal of ‘under gawd’ from the pledge that was inserted in 1956.

Harleigh

Damn that Hillary!

KillgoreTrout

Ad–oops, sorry. It’s so hard to keep track of all she’s done!

glenn

You mean prove, further.

KillgoreTrout

Harleigh–have they really removed it? Doesn’t that take an act of Congress? As if we could get Congress to “act”. Have they signed the law taking away everyone’s guns yet?

glenn

Trump’s trip to Louisiana was a total photo op. He was shown helping to unload a truck full of stuff for the people there. He did it for 49 seconds and quit when the cameras stopped rolling.

KillgoreTrout

glenn HRC and obummer have signed laws taking away everyone’s guns every year since 2009! Havn’t they come for yours yet? LOL

Harleigh

Howdy Ad, Glenn, Harleigh and KT

MurphTheSurf3

Good point Ad.

KillgoreTrout

Hey Murph.

KillgoreTrout

hi murph!

Harleigh

That would be a good ad. Trump is trying to shame Obama by going there. From what I’ve heard, him and his camp, plus SS agents and such have done nothing but get in the way of resucue and clean up.

KillgoreTrout

Gov. Edwards asked the President and the two candidates to please stay away as visits like this pull essential resources away from those who most need them……did you see how the SS dressed for the visit. Combat gear.

MurphTheSurf3

Exactly Murph. The president is going down there on this coming Tuesday.

KillgoreTrout

With the new RWNJ’s he just added it is going to get way way worse. He got the nom from out whackdodlin 20 other whackdoodles and thinks he can keep on thru the general election.

Harleigh

What do you all think of the theory being put forward that Trump and the Breitbart crowd are looking to launch another Fox and another Tea Party with both outside of the GOP stable.

MurphTheSurf3

Trump supplied water and “toys,” for the children. What a goof. When the president shows up, he’s going to have relief money for these people. That’s what they need, not toys.

KillgoreTrout

Wouldn’t surprise me Murph. I don’t think they’ll be very successful though.

KillgoreTrout

Both will be further to the right with a higher crazy factor….built on the claim that the election was stolen and now they must set up a permanent body to fight the corruption from both parties.

MurphTheSurf3

Hey Murph–I was gone for a minute, and you made your entrance. As for the theory of “trump tv”, it’s as plausible as any other theory about trump. Most of us have known from the beginning that he’s in this to benefit trump and no one else.

glenn

Exactly Ad. He’s such a doucebag.

KillgoreTrout

add it up… no minorities, women or educated whites really cuts down his chances don’t you think?

Harleigh

KT–President Obama has already supplied lots of relief money for LA.

glenn

To use a favorite Trumpism…Big Time, Harleigh.

KillgoreTrout

he is going to lose bigly, with the best words.

Harleigh

Harleigh– well we all know how difficult math is for republicans. Just ask Rove. From what I’ve been reading, trump will get about 30-40% and that’s about it!

glenn

Ad–or go bankrupt with trump making money off the bankruptcy somehow.

glenn

40% is the lowest any candidate on record has received, if I’m not mistaken.

KillgoreTrout

30-40% of the vote.

glenn

Ad……that could well happen….still it gives Trump a “graceful” exit…face saving.

MurphTheSurf3

Murph–I hope that the cameras are on that hateful face when he loses “bigly”.

glenn

they would do us all a favor, the repubs and the Kochsuckers that started this shit in 2009 will be greatly diminished and all the rw h8ers will be left on their own. win win for dems.

Harleigh

Trump was saying if he loses it’s because the election is rigged. Only a loser would make that claim. This way Trump can avoid being called a loser (something he dreads, I think) and he’ll simply say I was cheated.

KillgoreTrout

Glenn…I expect that a loss by Trump will be denied by all on his side including himself. I would not be at al surprised if he refused to concede.

MurphTheSurf3

oh man, could you imagine a Trump concession speech? HA!

KillgoreTrout

Murph–if he actually refuses to concede, would that change anything? Will he tie the courts up with his refusal?

glenn

I think the courts will just refuse to hear such cases glenn. If they can do that.

KillgoreTrout

I also happen to really fuckin hate his 2 asshole sons Bevis and Butthaid. They were out hunting endangered animals the past couple weeks. They really need killin. sorry… a mass hunting accident.

Harleigh

Hareigh, those two really creep me out. Evil spawn.

KillgoreTrout

Glenn..the concession is not required but it then requires an official announcement from the FEC after each state reports its official results.

MurphTheSurf3

KT–“Hillary may have gotten more votes than me, but I won the election. Just ask anyone who came to my rallies; they were HUUUGE! So you losers can say Hillary won a rigged election, but it doesn’t mean I lost.” Or something like that, if he actually does concede.

glenn

That’s pretty darn close to something he would actually say glenn.

KillgoreTrout

i think Ryan might just lose his seat before too long.

KillgoreTrout

i know he’s already lost his mind.

KillgoreTrout

Ad..I put “graceful” in quotations to indicate that he will consider has calling the results false because of cheating and a refusal to concede “graceful”….it is an out without being out.

MurphTheSurf3

Ad–and that’s as it should be–ryan should be tagged with his trump endorsement for the rest of his life.

glenn

KT…..Ryan is in a very safe district……..

MurphTheSurf3

Glenn….your non-concession speech sounds like Trump…

MurphTheSurf3

Murph–the President nailed it–how can you call cheating before an election even happens?

glenn

i really hope Hillary wins by the biggest landslide in US history. The GOP needs to be humiliated. Big Time!

KillgoreTrout

i wonder for how long, Murph?

KillgoreTrout

KT and Murph–It’s not hard to imitate him. On the other hand, I find it difficult to do the palindora’s word salad.

glenn

Beat poets are stumped by Sarah’s word salad.

KillgoreTrout

To rig a national election would take way too much as there are thousands of precincts run by county/state gubmints. no way I say… and the courts have demolished most of the suppression shit.

Harleigh

I think Eric actually LOOKS demonic.

KillgoreTrout

KT–I agree. Would 50-40% be considered a “landslide”? I hope trump gets less than 40% so he can brag about being the “biggest loser.”

glenn

Glenn….he pointed to the DNC and the treatment of Sanders; to the RNC’s efforts to push him out; to the myth of voter fraud; and to his dismissal of the polls (the new ones not the old ones that had him winning

MurphTheSurf3

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

KillgoreTrout

TRump has actually released an ad I hear. It is reported to be filled with fearmongering and hatred. Color me shocked!

KillgoreTrout

Ad–wasn’t it Breitbart that set out to prove that all the polls were wrong, then did their own poll, and still Hillary won? Now that the Breitbart head is in charge of the campaign, I wonder if the polls will “miraculously” change?

glenn

totally delusional. Now the dems need to shore up the downtickets in every race. seriously.

Harleigh

i fear there may be another Tim McVeigh among the Trump Chumps. I’m not worried about the majority of them. They’re WLBs.

KillgoreTrout

I do too.

KillgoreTrout

Ad….the Trump rally rooms are bubbles…

MurphTheSurf3

I think proven voter fraud is at about less than 1%

KillgoreTrout

Murph–when you stop to think about it, I think the DNC treated Sanders very well. After all, he only became a Democrat to run in the primaries. And, the DNC has adopted many of his ideas into the platform. And, as soon as Sanders lost the primary, he went back to being an “Independent” again. Big deal, the DNC had someone who has been a Democrat for over thirty years, and favored that candidate. That’s not “rigging” that’s reality. And, that’s why trump and his supporters don’t understand it; they don’t get reality.

glenn

well I gotta get to bed so I can work tomorrow. good seeing everybody. nite.

Harleigh

Take it easy H!

KillgoreTrout

Ad……I think he is looking to create a permanent Troop of Trumpistas with their own RWNJ news source…..what others think will not matter to him.

MurphTheSurf3

‘Nite Harleigh.Sleep well.

glenn

ailes will be in the mix somehow.

KillgoreTrout

Bye Harleigh.

MurphTheSurf3

Murph–yup. He already knows he’s losing; hence the “rigging” claims. As you say, he just wants to save face, and still be able to have adoring fans wherever he goes–in the rwnj world, that is.

glenn

Is that TRump’s tiny hand holding the pin?

KillgoreTrout

And racism no longer exists, so who needs voter protection laws?

KillgoreTrout

I continue to believe he came into the race to amp up his brand. Without the kind of stunt we are talking about here he exits the race with his brand in ruins.

MurphTheSurf3

AmIright?

KillgoreTrout

KT and Ad–and according to around 50% of men polled, sexism doesn’t exist any more, either.

glenn

Bitches!

KillgoreTrout

Murph–I truly think his brand was in ruins when he decided to run. That’s why we haven’t seen his taxes!

glenn

KT–yup! And I’m going to vote for the “head bitch”.

glenn

Me too glenn. That bitch don’t play!

KillgoreTrout

KT–this may surprise you, given my sunny personality and all, but I have a pin, given to me by one of my dearest friends, that says, “Bitch Goddess”. It’s one of my proudest possessions!

glenn

Glenn makes a good point….the tax returns holdout is a sign of how weak his brand is right now…AND Ad you are likely correct….the Not-So-Breit Barts will use Trump and then toss hi away as his luster fades.

MurphTheSurf3

LOL!

KillgoreTrout

Ad…but t may also be that he got in with a weakened brand and looked to this gambit to juice it up.

MurphTheSurf3

I think the weight of the job of president of the US would crush Trump in weeks.

KillgoreTrout

Murph–and Hillary should keep pounding about those tax returns. BTW, did you see where a couple of Dem lawmakers are trying to pass a law that says presidential candidates MUST release their tax returns?

glenn

KT and I think in his heart of hearts he knows that.

MurphTheSurf3

I do too, Murph. I don’t think he ever thought he’d get this far.

KillgoreTrout

Glenn…..

MurphTheSurf3

Murph and Ad–I’ve seen a couple of articles in the past few days that call for Hillary to close down the Clinton Family Foundation to remove all stain of funneling money into it. I think journalists should be asking both Hillary and trump what they plan to do with their businesses when they are president. Trump, especially, should have to account for his “holdings”, as should Hillary.

glenn

i would love to him become one of “the little people.”

KillgoreTrout

Murph–I thought that was Leona Helmsley’s saying.

glenn

Glenn…it is but it captures Trump well as well

MurphTheSurf3

KT–he is already one of the “little people”; one of the little, losing people.

glenn

Murph–point taken.

glenn

Oh, the chicken thing was hilarious.

KillgoreTrout

Glenn…the foundation is tricky..they have already announced that if Hillary is elected the foundation will shut down its fundraising from corporations and foreign countries.

MurphTheSurf3

Murph–that’s good to hear. I hadn’t heard that. There is a difference between the Clinton Global Initiative and the Foundation, right? What will happen with the CGI?

glenn

The Foundation is the CGI. I believe.

MurphTheSurf3

Murph–that’s why people are calling for her to shut it down, now, I guess.

glenn

I heard they might rename the CGI after another president.

KillgoreTrout

Murph–okay, but isn’t there something called the Clinton Family Foundation?

glenn

KT…..Nixon?

MurphTheSurf3

Ah, probably not!

KillgoreTrout

Job security Ad.

KillgoreTrout

Ad–I agree. Matthews is getting on my last nerve lately. I don’t watch his show but I do read about his antics online.

glenn

Ad…absolutely….as the race has progressed the newsers are seeing a decline in ratings— so time to even up the benches….

MurphTheSurf3

I think he admires Conway. I have no idea why. I saw her on Real Time a while back, and she was the dumbest guest on the whole show.

KillgoreTrout

KT–well how smart can she be if she works for trump?

glenn

Exactly. She’s chasing a new career and a big paycheck.

KillgoreTrout

Ad…I do know that there are a number of properties that have dropped their Trump branding as controversy swirled around him.

MurphTheSurf3

KT–well, I hope she gets her pay in cash, because I wouldn’t trust a check from trump for anything. I hope she has a contract and he pays her what’s in the contract. Although even if she has a contract, if (sorry, when) he loses the election, he will stiff her like he’s done to so many other people.

glenn

Cable news really has to be taken with a grain or two of salt.

KillgoreTrout

wouldn’t surprise.

KillgoreTrout

I Am The Leper King?

KillgoreTrout

Ad….I will be interested in poling in the next two weeks. If what you say is so, it will show up quickly…. The emperor has no clothes?

MurphTheSurf3

KT–good one.

glenn

Murph–did you say what the New York City Parks Dept. said when they took down the statue in NY?

glenn

I saw that earlier today and yesterday. It’s hilarious. Teeny weenie and no balls!

KillgoreTrout

Thanks glenn!

KillgoreTrout

One thing is obvious around here…the Trump signs have largely disappeared from lawns and so have the bumperstickers.

MurphTheSurf3

that’s a good omen, Murph.

KillgoreTrout

hey, Trump said he was sorry? HAHAHAHAHA! For what, he never said.

KillgoreTrout

Ad…that is a common characteristic of his spokespeople ……blather, stonewall, and filibuster…..

MurphTheSurf3

Murph–my neighbor across the street has one in her garage that I see only when she opens her garage door. In her defense, we are not allowed to put up yard signs in our neighborhood, so I guess she has to “make do”. I think she had several of them; so I think she distributed them somewhere. I am loving that trump and Hillary are now essentially tied in GA.

glenn

AND…I have read that the Clinton campaign has not even opened up its second level opposition research ….. ready to dump it…..

MurphTheSurf3

Matthews is kind of a strange guy. I’ve seen him go after other Trump surrogates, but then he gives Conway a pass.

KillgoreTrout

Glenn……….it is the same here…a dead heat which is giving the Dem state ticket a big boost.

MurphTheSurf3

Ad…goood description.

MurphTheSurf3

Murph–ain’t it great? Do you think Dems will be able to take the Senate back? I don’t think we can “flip the House”, but I think we can make some inroads into repub control. What do you think?

glenn

They don’t give the interviewer enough time to debunk their bullshit. It’s rapid fire.

KillgoreTrout

KT–watched Joy Reid interview a trump supporter, and she made him stay on topic. She kept interrupting him and asking him the question again, which he never really answered, but she was unrelenti

glenn

unrelenting. She is great!

glenn

yeah glenn I saw that. I can’t remember that guy’s name, but he’s a real assholian. I like Joy!

KillgoreTrout

Glenn….Senate, yes. Shrink the majority in the House and set sights on redistricting.

MurphTheSurf3

Abolish Gerrymandering.

KillgoreTrout

And they are, Ad!

KillgoreTrout

Ad–is Donna Brazile doing anything like Dean’s 50-state strategy?

glenn

Ad…and there are two others with Russian connections in the campaign and Gen Flynn who works for RT news.

MurphTheSurf3

glenn…I saw Joy as well….boom!

MurphTheSurf3

KT–beat me to it. They all look liars because they all are liars.

glenn

lies and the lying liars who tell them!

KillgoreTrout

I thought for a minute, Joy was going to kick him off the show.

KillgoreTrout

It sure would. Gerrymandering is sooo 18th century!

KillgoreTrout

Ad-if we don’t have gerrymandering, then how are Congressional districts determined? I think I need a civics lesson.

glenn

It should be done by population.

KillgoreTrout

Several states have the non and bi partisan commission model for redistricting and that seems to be a good way to go.

MurphTheSurf3

Well guys and gal, I’m going to mosey off into the sunset for now. Have a great weekend all.

KillgoreTrout

BTW ….. where is Bernie?

MurphTheSurf3

KT..take care….

MurphTheSurf3

Well….we few, we happy few…..about to be fewer… I am heading to bed….

MurphTheSurf3

Night Ad. I missed saying good night to Murph and KT.

glenn

You do the same.

glenn