Vox Populi – 1-6-2017

A very Happy New year to all.

pinkpantheroz

Ta very much!

pinkpantheroz

Just listened to the classiest First Lady’s final speech. Wonderful.

pinkpantheroz

Very quiet. Did a lot of skype calls to friends and family overseas. It is hard to get into the Christmas spirit when it is 100F, like today!

pinkpantheroz

Hey glenn!

pinkpantheroz

Hey PPO and Ad

glenn

It’s snowing here in Ga, mixed with sleet! YUK!

glenn

I see Trump is still denying that he was advantaged by the hacking ffrom Moscow. He is missing the point. Because he is so self-jusifying, he is ignoring the fact that Russia HACKED THE USA’ electoral system!

pinkpantheroz

I mught set up an AirBnB room for Planeteers visiting!

pinkpantheroz

PPO–It’s funny you should say that about getting in the Christmas spirit when it’s warm outside. I was raised in NJ, and my husband was born and raised in FL. The first year we were married, he said, “I hope it’s warm for Christmas.” I looked at him as if he were crazy, but warm weather at Christmas was what he was used to, so that’s what he wanted. It’s all in your perspective!

glenn

Ad–Yup–a vacation in Australia is just what I need!

glenn

PPO–Let us know when you set up your AirBnB!

glenn

glenn, the Aussies are slowly changing the food they eat, from the stodge of Turkey, Ham and Christmas Pudding to seafood and salads.

pinkpantheroz

PPO–much better food for the warm weather!

glenn

took ’em long enough, like 200 years!

pinkpantheroz

Better late than never, right?

glenn

Ad, he’ll never admit it

pinkpantheroz

the best stuffing for Turduckens IMO is a stick of gelignite and a lit fuse!

pinkpantheroz

Ad–yeah. My son’s-in-law “go to” Christmas food is Italian….lasagna, meatballs, and eggplant parmesan–all homemade, of course.

glenn

Oooooh, with you on that one, Ad!

pinkpantheroz

Ad–I like that recipe. Too bad the Dems are probably not going to use it.

glenn

grabbing a coffee – BRB

pinkpantheroz

What’s up, peeps?

Fuzzy Dunlop

Hey Fuzzy!

glenn

How are ya glenn?

Fuzzy Dunlop

Hey Ad.

Fuzzy Dunlop

Freezing. We are having snow and sleet tonight here.

glenn

How are you?

glenn

It’s about 2 degrees here in central Ohio.

Fuzzy Dunlop

Yeah, I imagine rain is pretty welcome in your parts, Ad.

Fuzzy Dunlop

Fuzzy–Yeah, but it’s supposed to be that cold in Ohio. This is not right for GA, not mention too early in the year. We usually have these storms in Feb.

glenn

Ad–Glad to hear you’re having rain.

glenn

Our weather has been crazy. It will be in the low 50s for a few days, then drop to just single digits, then back to the 40s and 50s. Crazy.

Fuzzy Dunlop

Back again. Hiya Fuzz!

pinkpantheroz

Hey Pink! Mmmm, coffee sounds pretty good right now.

Fuzzy Dunlop

Ad–yeah, last week at this time, I was in FL where the temps were in the 60’s at night and 70’s and 80’s during the day! Glorious!

glenn

glenn, our overnight temp in Melbourne will be 80F!

pinkpantheroz

I wonder what the weather will be like in ten years. I wouldn’t want to live in any coastal cities or towns.

Fuzzy Dunlop

PPO–I know that’s a little high; but I like warm weather!

glenn

Fuzzy, there is a report that a ginormous iceberg is about to separate from the Antarctic. I better get my Speedos out of the cupboard

pinkpantheroz

Fuzzy–what are you talking about? There is no global warming–it’s snowing here in GA, and you’re having single-digit temps.

glenn

LOL!

Fuzzy Dunlop

Oh yeah glenn, I forgot. Silly me.

Fuzzy Dunlop

Ad–yeah, your weather is nice, too. Does the rain bring the temp down?

glenn

wow, a brand new year, eh? Oh yeah, Fuck 2016! Good riddance!

Fuzzy Dunlop

PPO–sorry to be so forgetful, but refresh my memory. Melbourne is right on the coast, right?

glenn

Are you near the water?

glenn

Fuzzy–Once the trumplethinskin is in office, we may be looking back at 2016 with fondness!

glenn

That’s a horrible thought.

Fuzzy Dunlop

Yes, glenn, down the southern coast, above Tasmania. Luckily, while Melbourne is flat mostly, I live on one of the few bumps about 150’AGL

pinkpantheroz

Fuzzy-I know, but I’m not very optimistic about our new president.

glenn

To say the least, glenn. I wonder how long it will be before Trump loses his mind. I think the job has far too much pressure and demand than Trump can handle.

Fuzzy Dunlop

well, glenn, we’re stuck with him for a while. Just hope someone on his team has more than one brain cell to keep him from destroying the planet.

pinkpantheroz

anyone got some polonium? Oh, yes, his little Russian Mate.

pinkpantheroz

Fuzzy–a friend of mine has a pool going on when trump is going to be impeached.

glenn

Ad, I spent about 2 months in the Mojave desert many years ago. 115 in the day and about 40 degrees at night. Takes some getting used to.

Fuzzy Dunlop

PPO–Not too many on his team with any brain cells, as far as I can see.

glenn

I think most of them are criminals.

Fuzzy Dunlop

Fuzzy–yeah, I lived in Iran in the 70’s and Saudi Arabia in the 8′

glenn

I see that the workforce in Trump Wash. are suing for being stiffed, yet again!

pinkpantheroz

Wow, how’d that come about? Job?

Fuzzy Dunlop

oops–in Saudi Arabia in the 80’s. Quite a difference in temps between day and night in the desert.

glenn

My brother has been living in Oman for the last ten years. He has to stay for one more year. Job.

Fuzzy Dunlop

PPO–Yeah, and this time, we, the taxpayers are probably going to have to pay those contractors if they win the suit. The man is a walking disaster!

glenn

Wonder what will happen when he stops payment to White House Staff

pinkpantheroz

BRB

Fuzzy Dunlop

Fuzzy–yeah, my husband’s job.

glenn

The GOP is already trying to reduce government workers pay to 1 dollar an hour. Some old rule from the mid 1880s. No kidding. How stupid can these cretins get?

Fuzzy Dunlop

PPO–Don’t know that he actually pays the staff. And, supposedly, he’s not going to take a paycheck, so don’t know how he’d pay them anyway. He’s raising money to pay his transition team. Good ole Kellyanne is out having fundraisers to get paid!

glenn

Fuzzy–it’s not stupid; it’s cruel and vindictive! From what I understand, if the workers don’t do work on what they want, then their pay is reduced.

glenn

I’d love to dropkick that woman off the Washington Monument!

pinkpantheroz

PPO–Now that would be a great fund raiser! I’d pay to see you do that!

glenn

I’d pay to do it!

pinkpantheroz

PPO–LOL!

glenn

The GOP still has nothing to replace the ACA with. Nothing good for the people anyway.

Fuzzy Dunlop

Ad–Yeah, I saw that. Those trump voters really are idiots. They made sure our government was majority republican, but they want the Dems to keep trump in check. How the hell do they think Dems are going to do that with a republican majority?

glenn

What really sucks is that people are going to die because of the GOP.

Fuzzy Dunlop

Yes, Ad! What a debacle for her. Cringeworthy big time. Like you, I think a lot of folk are looking at each other and saying ‘What have we done?’

pinkpantheroz

Oh yeah Ad. I loved it though, once I got used to it. It was like being on some other planet.

Fuzzy Dunlop

PPO and Ad–not so sure it really has sunk in yet with a lot of trump voters. My neighbor across the street, who otherwise is a nice person, is excited to see trump inaguarated. So much so that she’s having a party in our clubhouse so a bunch of people can watch it together. She knows my politics, so needless to say, I was not invited.

glenn

I bet that made you really sad, eh glenn?

Fuzzy Dunlop

Ad–the best thing about living in desert climates is you save on washing towels, because you dry off the minute you step out of the shower. Of course, then you have to spend a fortune on mosturizer so your elbows don’t look like camel’s knees!

glenn

glenn, get a few like-minded folk and hold a wake at the same time!

pinkpantheroz

Fuzzy–Yeah, I was really upset! NOT! She did say I could come if I wanted to, and I told her I wouldn’t want to see that if she paid me.

glenn

Good for you, glenn. I’m not going to watch it. My stomach just isn’t that strong any more.

Fuzzy Dunlop

PPO–Unfortunately, I live in a republican neighborhood, don’t know that many people here, and I don’t want to acknowledge his “big day” in any way, shape, or form.

glenn

Fuzzy–my patience isn’t that strong either. I don’t want to throw things at my TV, and I”m afraid that’s what I’d end up doing!

glenn

My mother said that she just can’t accept Trump as her president. I feel exactly the same. I strongly disliked W, but at least I could acknowledge him being president. Barely.

Fuzzy Dunlop

brb

pinkpantheroz

Ad–I haven’t had many conversations with my neighbor about it, because she knows how I feel, but she did say to me, that she was sick of politicians! And that’s why she voted for trump. I really don’t think many of these people thought this through; don’t know why, but they seemed to have a visceral reaction to trump that just made them follow him like lemmings, no matter what he says or does. It just blows my mind. I wish I could say it’s something in the air or water, but I breathe the same air and drink the same water, so I don’t get it either.

glenn

Fuzzy–exactly. I go back and forth about this. On one hand, I have to acknowledge that this cretin is actually president, but I don’t have to like it.

glenn

glenn, I am amazed that so many people couldn’t see Trump for the real con man he is and always has been.

Fuzzy Dunlop

Fuzzy–me too. And these are adults! They have just been fed such a diet of right wing nonsense that real facts just don’t seem to penetrate.

glenn

I just refuse to call him “my president.” Hillary won the popular vote by nearly three million people. The oligarchs won, for sure. The rest of us? Nope.

Fuzzy Dunlop

Fuzzy–that’s the only way most of us can handle it; we have to reluctantly acknowledge that he is being sworn in as president, but he will never be “my president”. He doesn’t represent me or my values.

glenn

Ad–that seems to be the only explanation that makes sense. They’re drunk on something, I just can’t figure out what it is.

glenn

I really believe that Trump won’t last 4 years. I’m not sure what will transpire, but I don’t think he can handle such a heavy weight job.

Fuzzy Dunlop

Maybe Trump will tweet himself out of the job?

Fuzzy Dunlop

Fuzzy–don’t know how he’s going to “bow out”. Other than impeachment, and I truly don’t see the repulicans impeaching him. They’re still supporting him even with the russian hacking, so I don’t know how he’s going to get out of it. Don’t know if there’s an option in the Constitution for the president to quit. Not to mention, then we get Pence, who’s even worse!

glenn

You got that right, Ad. Also a bit of a superiority complex.

Fuzzy Dunlop

Ad–that seems to be about right. Years of right wing propaganda have made them bloated with both!

glenn

Trump eventually turns on everybody, and he’ll do something the GOP won’t tolerate.

Fuzzy Dunlop

Nixon once said, “When the president does it, it’s not illegal. I have no doubt that Trump thinks the same.

Fuzzy Dunlop

Fuzzy–maybe. We can hope, but if the russians hacking our election haven’t made them turn on him, I can’t think of anything that will make them turn on him. So far, the GOP has tolerated every bit of his nonsense, despite their “pretty speeches” that deounce him. When push comes to shove, he still has an “R” next to his name, and politics trumps country every time for repubs!

glenn

Fuzzy–they’ve even changed their opinion of putin, from a negative one to a positive one, according to polls I’ve read.

glenn

I Trump will do something reallly, really stupid and dangerous, and the GOP will have to deal with him.

Fuzzy Dunlop

Trump has the potential to start a war somewhere where there isn’t one yet.

Fuzzy Dunlop

Shades of Nixon, without Nixon’s political cunning

pinkpantheroz

I don’t see him quitting voluntarily. I think he’s dangerous, even for the GOP. They’ll have to save their party, because that’s all they care about. Right now, they must think they can control him. I don’t think they can.

Fuzzy Dunlop

Fuzzy–trump has been doing really stupid things for the past year and a half, and all the repubs have done is talk. Probably the only thing that would do trump in is if he wants to save Social Security, Medicare, or Obamacare. They’ll turn on him quickly then! But I don’t see that happening either!

glenn

BRB

glenn

True glenn, but he didn’t have executive power. He could be very, very dangerous, in a myriad of ways.

Fuzzy Dunlop

They definitely cannot handle someone who is more of a con artist than they are. I can’t see any good happening for the next few years.

pinkpantheroz

I think you’re right P. Trump is truly a loose cannon.

Fuzzy Dunlop

Wonder how the Loony religious are justifying a sex predator and cheating liar… oh, wait a minute! He’s just like them!

pinkpantheroz

Well folks, just wanted to pop in for a bit to say Hi. Take care all.

Fuzzy Dunlop

See ya, Fuzzy. Keep warm!

pinkpantheroz

well, I think I’ll say cheerio as well, Ad and glenn. Take care and see you next week.

pinkpantheroz

Well, I leave for a few minutes, and everyone else leaves. Oh well, guess I’ll say good night too. Ad, I think we’re going to spend the next four years trying to figure out what trump will do next, which is part of his appeal to his supporters. Seems to me that the opposite should be true, especially for people who call themselves conservatives, but I’ve given up trying to figure them out. I do know that the republican politicians in DC are giddy with anticipation in shredding our social safety net, so I don’t think anything good is going to come along in the next four years. I truly don’t think the Dems are going to be able to stop them.

glenn

Yeah, I do see signs of some repubs–Cotton, of all people–re-thinking this repeal of Obamacare until they have a replacement. From what I’ve read, it will only take three repubs to vote against the repeal and it won’t happen. But ryan and mcconnell are sneaky, and are going to try to sneak the repeal or at least the de-funding into other bills and get it repealed one way or another. It definitely will be interesting to see the contortions they perform in their zeal to “punish” Dems.

glenn

To punish Dems, and to negate President Obama’s legacy.

glenn

And therein lies the problem. We are going to have to hit rock bottom; many people are going to be hurt, and perhaps even die before the trump idjits realize what they have done. As I said, it ought to be interesting (read puke-worthy) to listen to mcconnell and ryan justify what they are doing.

glenn

Yup, no shame, no sense of irony, and no sense of hypocrisy. With that, I’m really leaving now. Always nice chatting with you, Ad. Hope you have a good week. See you next week.

glenn