Vox Populi – 11-25-2016

Everybody must be still digesting their Thanksgiving Dinners!

pinkpantheroz

pinkpantheroz

Reasonable, for once. Our Prime Minister wanted to call Trump early, so got his phone number from Greg Norman!

pinkpantheroz

I just thought I would pop in…exhausted. Let’s see how long I last.

MurphTheSurf3

Hi Murph!

pinkpantheroz

Fergie’s new cousins will be happy that the steelers won!

pinkpantheroz

I had 46 people for Thanksgiving dinner at my ranch house….I have a “great room” that used to be small barn…and the coop I helped to form and still help lead holds a big dinner here.

MurphTheSurf3

Sorry, Murph, what’s a coop?

pinkpantheroz

We had smoked turkey, and butterball roasted with all the trimmings……and there were lost of trimmings.

MurphTheSurf3

Hope noboby had to drive home afterwards!

pinkpantheroz

PPO…a coop (short for cooperative) is a way for small farmers to buy wholesale, to sell as a group and to share resources. I and two others started it.

MurphTheSurf3

Got it, Murph, thanks. we spell it co-op here

pinkpantheroz

more like hangovers, ad

pinkpantheroz

hi guys, t-day was cool.

Harleigh

I see bully Trump is insisting that Romney groivel and apologize, or he won’t get a cabinet post. Patrhetic, the lot of ’em

pinkpantheroz

Now I know that almost all of them voted Trump and it was interesting to overhear the beginnings of doubt……especially as some of the realities are setting in (lots of these people have health insurance for the first time in their adult lives thanks to ACA and they were fooled by the GOP claims that it was ACA that was the problem and not those who blocked all the necessary, and usual, fixes). Now they are worried. Others see his closest associates as movers and shakers, elites. AND his life style is sinking in. Miro Lago. Really.

MurphTheSurf3

PPO..yes it is co-op here too.

MurphTheSurf3

Hi Harley!

MurphTheSurf3

Ad, maybe, but what can they do to undo the disaster? Very little, I fear. Train wreck in slow motion comes to mind

pinkpantheroz

Ad…and then what happens?

MurphTheSurf3

headless chickens will be scrambling, ‘cos they won’t have Dems or Obama to blame anymore. their negative regime now has to do positive shit, and I don’t think they’re capable of the 180.

pinkpantheroz

I have been saying little….they know where I stand…..but when I asked I tell them to call our Congressman and our two Senators and make clear what they are expecting and that they are watching them to see who they are really for.

MurphTheSurf3

Wow, but I wonder will they have the cojones to vote against the mob?

pinkpantheroz

Maybe steins recount will change the EC? LOL…. never mind.

Harleigh

MID TERMS!!!!!!

pinkpantheroz

Fundamentally, I regard all of this as another sign of how badly constructed our government is – the bold revolution of the constitutional generation began to melton within a decade of its ratification and we have had a series of crisis without deep remedy…..think national territorial expansion, slavery, post Civil War reconstruction, the rule of the robber barons in the gilded age, and the Great Depression created such stress on the system that it nearl collapsed.

MurphTheSurf3

Harleigh….Stein was and is and will be an opportunist above all.

MurphTheSurf3

Murph – yet for all its flaws and fumbles in the world, the USA still stands out as a great country.

pinkpantheroz

stein is a POS

Harleigh

And Ad, with that power comes absolute accountability especially with Obama leaving office on a high.

MurphTheSurf3

Ad….those flaws were meant to be corrected by regular Conventions…not one so far.

MurphTheSurf3

I hope no one EVER pardons the Turkeys on Capital hill. quite the contrary!

pinkpantheroz

The EC was supposed to prevent a drumpf, it won’t

Harleigh

The whole last year has been weird as shit

Harleigh

PPO…..yes, the U.S. is a great country but our government is one that sets the stage for crisis because it is so inflexible, is based on a fiction about non-partisanship, and puts walls between the legislative and executive that makes them rivals. None of it god.

MurphTheSurf3

Harleigh, something is a bit haywire if HRC got 2 million more votes, but lost the EC. Some rearrangement needs to be done.

pinkpantheroz

Ad…Stein is doing now what she always does…rob resources for the Democratic party- money, energy, time.

MurphTheSurf3

Good one, Ad!

pinkpantheroz

I doubt that a constitutional amendment to make murikkka a democracy would ever pass or get ratified.

Harleigh

Ad….Last week he claimed HE got Ford to call off a plant move…..and they said NOPE! And now he making promises about Carrier.

MurphTheSurf3

Harleigh….the embedded interests would block any real progress.

MurphTheSurf3

Ad…. or rejigging the Supreme Court

pinkpantheroz

Ad….I agree…the mess is at the core of the instruments of government.

MurphTheSurf3

the SC is going down the tubes

Harleigh

Well, I gotta go do my afternoon chores. Glad you all enjoyed the holiday. See you around!

pinkpantheroz

later ppo

Harleigh

PPO….thanks for joining us…

MurphTheSurf3

bedtime for me guys. have a great weekend.

Harleigh

Ad…as you know I went to school in the UK from 11 to 16 and then became a Anglo-American academic…..I agree….Obama as Prime Minister…

MurphTheSurf3

Nite Harleigh.

MurphTheSurf3

ad….I think I will drag myself to bed……Ad, reality will shake Trump from the tree, but what next? Well, good night.

MurphTheSurf3

Ad….my reading as well. Good night.

MurphTheSurf3