Vox Populi – 08-31-2018

Vox Populi, our weekly live chat about the week’s events begins tonight at 7:00pm PDT. Hope to see you then!

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Hey PPO!

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Ok, see you then!

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Hey Harleigh!

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Hallelujah!

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The walls are really closing in on Trump now! Did you see the new ABC News poll?

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He is truly going nuts! ABC News poll: A record 60% of Americans disapprove of Trump, only 36% approve! And 49% want impeachment hearings on Trump, only 46% don’t.

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And 63% of Americans support the Mueller investigation, only 29% don’t.

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Here’s a link:

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66% doesn’t want Manafort pardoned. And not in the poll but also this week, Trump’s dissing of McCain’s death has permanently turned some vets and military who supported him against him. And with Trump trying to screw federal workers by killing their annual raises, hundreds of thousands of fed workers now are pissed at him, who may have supported him. Trump is going to be buried! And that doesn’t even address all the investigations happening now and coming his way when Dems win the House.

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Hey CL!

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Only 66 days until we can vote Dems into power in Congress!!!

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How are things with you CL?

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Hey FD!

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CL – The more the walls close in on Trump, the more he acts out on his fear and spite. His diss of McCain and fed workers will make a real difference I think this Nov.

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CL – Excellent! Thanks for the wonderful work you do!

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Hi Jenuwin!

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PPO – Very cool, it sounds like a wonderful send off and remembrance of her!

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Hey Murph! I’ll set a round up for the house!

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CL – You saw the ABC News poll, that a plurality of Americans want impeachment hearings on Trump?

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A record 53% strongly disapprove of Trump. That’s a very important category and number.

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Murph – I mentioned above that Trump’s infantile diss of McCain seems to have hurt him with some supporters. Do you think that may be the case with some out your way?

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CL – This is facist dictatorship stuff and Repubs in Congress just sit on their hands nodding. Refusing passports for American citizens because they’re not white? The Hitler and USSR comparisons are almost not strong enough anymore. The GOP has lost all loyalty to our democracy, it’s sickening and scary.

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Okay, I am getting Beto O’Rourke optimism. Realy think he might pull out a win over Cruz and even be a strong 2020 possibility.

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FD – Yes, Trump has lived his miserabe life as a petulant, greedy, insecure 8 year old and assumed he can use the power of the WH in the same way. And Repubs have mostly let him. When Dems get control in Congress, he will learn what it means to be slapped down. And I want that monster prosecuted when he’s out of office, take away his crooked money and his freedom. Separate him from his family, see how he likes it.

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CL – I know there may be a degree of protest exhaustion but it would be meaningful if Latinos held a march on DC (that all could join). The vicious racism and state-sponsored torture and abuse that segment of our nation has been suffering is way past the point of acceptance.

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FB doesn’t like Nazis being called out, they just like them posting Nazi propaganda because it creates more traffic and more revenue.

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Murph – As for Beto’s skeletons, any Dem should be compared to Trump’s skeletons and theirs will fade away into insignificance.

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Harleigh – First poll out for FL Gov shows Gillum ahead of the racist DeSantis by 5%. I think Gillum will win.

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CL – Where are the court cases for violating the Constitutional rights of US Citizens who are only guilty of not being white? The ACLU has to have its hands full but the suit has to be on its way. This is obscene.

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You decide who will win the “cool” contest. Ted Cruz:

or Beto:

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Whoops! Let me try that again: Beto:

or Cruz:

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Hey glenn!!!

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Nixon had better numbers than Trump when he was impeached. The Idiot-In-A-Bubble has no clue how hated he really is across the country and hos much cheering on there will be to impeach him once the Mueller report comes out…let alone, how much there already is. Imagine what a failure Trump will feel like, his greatest fear of being humiliated around the world, when he is impeached and if not removed, reduced back to a criminal citizen in 2021.

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Photo from the future – Trump’s Funeral:

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glenn – That’s messed up, sorry you got double whammied like that.

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That’s the chair rental guy in the doorway coming in to remove the chairs because the Trump family stiffed him on the bill.

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Oh yeah…with the Trump Org now connected to crime, Jared, Don Jr. and Ivanka could go to prison! Maybe Trump can pay to put the Trump name on the prisons they go to?

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Thanks FD and Murph!

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How much has Trump have to be stewing in his hatred juices seeing how McCain is being honored? And tomorrow, Bush and Obama will honor McCain. Even though I have mixed feelings about McCain, I love how this is crushing Trump!

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glenn – The problem for Trump in prison is that he may run into some of the minorities he’s attacked, one may even be his roommate. Whoops!

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Murph – I think that’s his aides trying to keep Trump from watching Obama and Bush at McCain’s memorial…but does Trump really have the self-restraint not to watch Fox News or hear about what was said? I don’t think so.

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FD – Or Trump telling his Latino cellmate, “I didn’t say you were ALL rapists…oh…you really are?”

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Murph – I think you’re right, Trump will claim he didn’t see it but we’ll be able to see from his angry tweets tomorrow and Saturday morning that it made him go nuts.

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FD – McCain knew what a mistake Palin was, he knew he opened the door for racist Trump by making that desperate move. And her absence proves that.

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glenn – Why don’t those same people say Stormy or McDougal are “classy”? You can put their nude pics up alongside Melania’s and not see a “classy” difference.

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So with the events of the latest week, how optimistic are folks here about Dems being able to take back at least The House and win the WH in 2020?\

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glenn – So true, Plain proved what a phony and a hack she was by quitting in Alaska then putting on a phony “exploration” to run in 2012 just to grab cash. And her famiy, shooting each other and getting pregnant here and there was so typical of the phony family values types.

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CL – I would say McCain had the power to say no and lose respectfully but he had a track record of throwing away principles when he got worried about losing so he’s ultimately to blame for agreeing to Palin. But no doubt, Kristol and others hammered into him that he had already lost unless he took Palin on as a last resort “game changer”.

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FD – I agree with you, the majority of voters, a combo of Dems, Indies and some Repubs, will have had enough of Trump at this point, don’t want to see him with no checks and balances as he is under a Repub COngress and by 2020, will opt for a return to sanity in 2020.

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glenn – To me, it’s a choice all three of them made, to use their bodies how they chose to in order to make a living. It’s America, freedom of choice and all but just becaause one of them is married to Trump, she doesn’t magically become classy, no matter how much of his money she uses to buy clothes or plastic surgery. She’s the worst on the three because she also went out publicly attacking Obama with that Birtherism. Frankly, I have no sympathy for her, she’s a miserable, selfish and racist person too. And her “Be Kind” BS is insulting, treats the country like their idiots while her husband spews hatred constantly. She’s awful.

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Murph – Yes, indirectly I think the upcoming Manafort trial will be the most damaging to Trump, tying Manafort to collusion and conspiracy with Russia and Russian agents. Trump’s whole “witch hunt” BS will be so destroyed. He’ll keep repeating it but he’ll sound like Bgart in The Caine Mutiny going mental about the strawberries.

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CL – That sign says what I’m thinking, people want to be able to wake up in the morning without flinching when they check the news and have their relaxing weekends back. And they’d like their health care, SS, Medicare, public services, Veterans benefits, Constitutional protections, etc. Trump’s got nothing to campaign on, no one buys that his BS taxcuts helped anyone but the wealthy.

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And Trump’s kicked inflation up with his dumb tariffs, emboldened NK, Iran and Russia and gave up a lot to get nothing in return from any of them…what a great, stable genius of a dealmaker.

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glenn – They’re just parroting what they hear from Trump and Fox News but as their healthcare becomes unaffordable next year (big increases on the way thanks to Trump) and inflation squeezes them tighter, they may spout the propaganda but they’ll become discouraged at what’s actually happening to them because of Trump. They just won’t ever admit it.

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Murph – From NBC News in Jan: Tourism to U.S. under Trump is down, costing $4.6B and 40,000 jobs

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Murph – And did you hear about the latest plea deal today of Manafort’s partner? He’s telling all about money laundering to the Trump Inauguration fund, Russian oligarchs, etc. That will destroy Manafort’s chances of a pardon that won’t cripple Trump and will damage Trump badly too!

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CL – No surprise, we’ve seen how phony the racst excuse is that immigrants are taking jobs Americans will take. Farmers are getting crushed in a vise, tariffs on one side and a gutted workforce on the other.

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CL – This is why I say that Trump will have nothing to run on in 2020 but the same racist fear mongering, no accomplishments or policies that have helped Americans aside from a few coal miners maybe. But will all those seniors who supported him in 2016 vote for him after he tries to gut SS and Medicare? Some cult members will but his base can only shrink.

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CL and Murph – It’s just a matter of time, 1-2 years before the economy stalls and the financial damage Trump is doing becomes very evident. Then, all he’ll have is fear mongering and racism to run on. Americans may have become a bit desensitized to Trump’s horribleness but they will also have become de-sensitized to his fear mongering after 5 years of it.

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Night FD!

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CL – Trump suporters are the very definition of cult members. I’m not being insulting, just analytical. Cult members can be convinced to harm themselves because their leader orders it. Trump is a Jim Jones to them, his word is the word of God to many of them who believe he was chosen by God to lead them. Their numbers will dwindle along the way but not by a lot. They are lost causes, we shouldn’t waste any energy on trying to win them over.

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G’day PPO!

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Murph – We’re in a record-long recovery, everything was maxed out this year with these horrible tax cuts to goose the economy to help Repubs in Nov but the greed of the wealthy kept it from making a big difference for 99% of Americans. The economy has pretty much exhausted its recovery. Interest rates will continue t rise with inflation over the next year and jobs will begin to go back in the red. But in a Trump recession, we won’t have the tools of cutting taxes that we’ve always had in the past so it could be pretty long and sustained.

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glenn – But that’s why I think by 2020, only the worst of the cultists will be left standing strongly with Trump. He says the same things and scare tactics and victimization crap for 5 years, it just can’t have the same impact as it did when it was new.

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glenn – But fiscal conservatives are such a small sliver of voters at this point, they too are lost causes, just greedy SOBs who would gladly give the US to Russia if it made them more money.

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CL – Absolutely, Trump purposely courted the Evangeical/Phony Christians to be the Dominionist leader. And that mindless cult embraced and adopted him. But they are a minority and the tide is really turning against all of them. I remember when Falwell and The Moral Majority seemed so powerful, they fell quickly as these phonies and cultists will.

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Night CL!

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Murph – Of course Trump will blame Dems for the economy falling but it will all ring hollow to all but his cultists.

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Night glenn, sleep well! You earned it!

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Thanks Murph! Have a great weekend!

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That sounds like a lot of fun! WHich movies?

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Cool! That will be a lot of fun! Wow, 25 options? That’s amazing!

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Haven’t done that for a while, having a movie day. Very fun!

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Multiple movies in one day, that is.

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Rest up, enjoy and recharge. Only 66 days left.

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Nice!!!

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That’s going in style!

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Night Jenuwin!

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