Vox Populi – 11-16-2018

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Hey PPO!

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Seeya then!

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Here’s a Blue Wave right at you.

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It’s just the Blue Doggish Dogs mouthing off about Pelosi, they’ll get knocked out in 2020 and Pelosi will be leader…because no one else is running!

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Hey Murph!

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So Murph, the Blue Wave is drowning Trump now!

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PPO – I hope so, this is unimagineable, these monstrous fires.

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Hundreds missing…seeing the burned out cars is frightening.

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Murph – I’m sure he’s seen plenty of other footage that undermines his bullshit but he is a simple-minded hateful person who needs to see everything as a hammer to beat on his perceived enemies. And the state of CA has almost completely fumigated the GOP out so it is his enemy.

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There is no easy answer. Taking out trees raises CO2 and makes Climate Change worse, also destroys watershed.

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Arizona had huge fires, other states have in recennt years. Getting rid of trees won’t solve a climate issue, only make it worse.

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Murph – Yes, in fact Malibu and those hills that go quite a ways are supposed to have fires, they have since before people lived there, it’s a normal part of the cycle. A very big roblem now is that the over development of housing has put many hoes in natural burn areas. Couple that with the intensified fires due to Climate Change and you have massive disasters like this.

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The Woolsey fire was 15-20 miles away from me, on the first morning, I could see a massive plume of smoke from my backyard, like a nuclear bomb’s mushroom cloud. I’m in the city though so the fire can’t really grow and come this way but I’ve lived in the hills not very far from where it swept through.

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Hi Jenuwin!

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Murph – I’ve never seen fires as massive and deadly as these, never seen a potential of hundreds of people killed from them. Whole towns burned through. People caught in their cars driving through a neverending inferno, trying to get out and never making it. Horrible.

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And Trump has the gall to come out to CA while he’s still blaming the state today instead of showing nay humanity for the victims. We don’t want him here,.

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Hey Harleigh!

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Murph – It’s still an ongoing disaster, I don’t think many are ready to shift focus to preventative measures to avoid the next one. I think we’re pretty limited anyway, it’s like trying to prevent earthquakes from happening, fires are a natural occurence in forests.

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And most of the land that’s burning is national park land or privately owned, only a small percentage is owned by the state.

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Murph – It’s like the people who keep rebuilding in FL after their homes are repeatedly destroyed by hurricanes. The state would have to buy their land, I supose, and tell them they have to live somewhere else. But there are so many people living in fire-prone areas.

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Trump knows he was a big loser in the election but it took days to seep in through his thick brain and wall of denial. And he lost when Whitaker was exposed as a fraudster and loser, he lost when his own judge gave Acosta back his WH pass and he knows he’s about to lose big in days when Mueller drops another hammer of indictments.

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PPO – Very clever! “Orange County is the New Blue”! Brilliant!

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Murph – Right, the Feds should finance the purchase of land of disaster-prone homes, it would save a fortune but most importantly, save many lives.

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Harleigh – It seems obvious that Rick Scott is as crooked and a proven thief as Kemp is in GA. It was not a fair election in FL and it definitely won’t be under DeSantis in 2020. Dems shouldn’t count on FL being winnable until a Dem can win hugely enough to overcome the cheating in FL.

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Murph – I was thinking the same thing, Whitaker should be terrified of being caught up in obstruction charges if he follows through with what Trump hired him to do. He’s a Repub, I think he’d through Trump overboard in a second if he felt he might go to jail.

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PPO – And the momentum seems to be building against Repubs like McConnell along with Trump. And when the legit charges come out against Trump? Then what will Repubs do? Keep clinging to him as he sinks, I’ll bet. They’re to scared to let go.

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As for Mueller, apparently when he was in court today on Manafort sentencing, he said that Manafort’s contributions to his probe will be clearer within 10 days. So probably right after Thanksgiving Weekend…there will be big breaking news from Mueller.

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Murph – And as dumb as Whitaker seems, he may be smart enough to know that Trump would sell him out in a heartbeat.

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Gillum, Beto and Abrams are star politicians in America, they’re not going anywhere. I discussed this with glenn, Abrams should run for Sos of GA, use her time there to fix and protect elections then run for Gov on a fair playing field. She’d kick Kemp’s ass then.

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PPO – Just hope Whitaker’s fear of becoming an indicted crimnal keeps him away from Mueller long enough for the court challenges against the legality of Whitaker to kick him out.

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Murph – And beneath all these issues falling in on Trump…he has to have the realization that his lying, racism and whipping up his base…doesn’t work well enough anymore for him to win nationally. Dems win nationally by over 7%, if Trump actually thinks about it, never really rising above the low 40%s and never reaching 50%, how can he win in 2020 when the more he does to rally his base whips up more votes against him?

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PPO – Trump’s cronies are claiming Whitaker is legal under the Vacancies Act but that’s just wrong and they know it but won’t budge until a court kicks Whitaker out…and that will annoint Rosenstein solidly. I think Rosenstein knows that and is just biding his time.

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Murph – Much as I have to restrain my urges to support bar fights against Trump, that is pretty cool to hear! Don’t mess with Marines!

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Murph – Consider, in 2018 when employment is this good and the economy has been solid (though it seems to already be slowing down), Trump has been between 38% – 46%. He can’t even get to majority support now! And after Mueller’s nukes hit him and his cronies and the economy continues slowing, by 2020, he will be a dead weight but the GOP will be tied to him as he goes down…as they should be!

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Since Trump is moronic and single-minded, I don’t know if he’ll figure out that his obvious attempt to obstruct justice using Whitaker will be a long, painful destruction of WHitaker and him. Will he give up and cut Whitaker loose after a Dem House slices him up?

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Yes Murph, I think it was a singular and historic speech.

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Abrams called out this new Jim Crow for what it is and it was electric!

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But if Trump stays tied to Whitaker, and Whitaker is destroyed, Trump’s stock falls even farther.

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And if Mueller drops obstruction of justice charges against Trump in his report, and proof of conspiracy with the Russians? What will Repubs do? Trump’s base will stick with him, Repubs will have to go down with him.

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Murph – Good question, how do the Obamas fit into things today? I do think the fight against gerrymandering and Jim Crow garbage is a good fight for them to continue. And thankfully, with Dems grabbing Governorships in the Rust Belt and elsewhere, so many more states that are in play will have level playing fields for al offices including the WH.

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And Repubs are too cowardly to chew off a limb to get out of the Trump Trap. The GOP will go down in a massive way in 2020. I knew this blue wave would hit this year, I feel very confident Dems will bury Trump and the GOP in 2020.

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Obama and Holder were working together against gerrymandering. They had a couple of victories. Now that WI, PA, MI and even KS can be ungerrymandered, Dems chances of winning in 2020 go up.

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Romney is a coward and easy at betraying. He will continue to kneel at Trump’s feet until Trump looks like he’s going down, then he’ll turn on him and claim to have opposed him all along. He won’t be “independent” until it’s very safe for him to pull away from Trump. He is slimy.

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But the GOP that Trump has infected would never back Romney in a primary for President. Only an extremist could win in their next primary after Trump and that massive loss is what will either doom the GOP or get it purged.

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What opposition in The Senate?

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There is no Repub opposition. Flake is worthless, a concern troll. Collins is a fraud. There is no genuine opposition to Trump in the Senate and with Flake gone in Jan, Romney will be spineless.

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22 Repub Senate seats up in 2020, only 11 Dem seats. They only have to win 2 plus the WH.

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Murph – Repubs in The Senate are more like fish in the Trump net, they’re trapped because the Repub base will primary them if they aren’t Trump lovers.

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The GOP Senate only got more Trumpy after this election, same with the House, the Trumpier Repubs won. They have to go off the cliff with Trump befoe any will get off his crazy train.

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My theory is that Trump’s “winner” image has been very damaged by the results this year and while his faithful will remain racists and fearful, they will be less and less enthusiastic about him and voting in 2020. They won’t turn Dem but they won’t turn out in the numbers they did in 2016.

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And after the reality of ueller’s indictments of other Trump cromies and his report showing Trump is a criminal and traitor comes out, and the economy moves back to a less positive level, the enthusiasm for Trump voters will go down while anti-Trump voters will keep rising.

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After the 2020 election, once Trump is brought down, Repubs will try to change course but their base may not collaborate with them. Maybe they’ll draft Putin!

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And Trump can’t keep bribing farmers with billions and trillions.

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Heh! Maybe MBS will become naturalized and they can vote for a real dictator.

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Murderous dictator that is.

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Nope, midterms are too hard for Russia to meddle and with Dems going after Facebook in the House, their easy manipulation of FB, with FB’s knowledge, won’t happen so easily in 2020.

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Russia was so effective in 2016 because we didn’t know what they were doing. Now we know, they won’t have that kind of success again. They have to be hating the Dem House, no easing of sanctions now.

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How easy will it be for a Dem nominee to run on, “Unlike Trump, I will stand up to Putin and defend our democracy!”

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Trump is so hated here but more so, around the world! Not that I want foreign countries involved in our elections but you know the entire world, minus NK, Russia, SA and The hillipines, will be pulling for the Dem to trounce Trump and may contribute however they can through world events.

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The GOP IS the Russian party! And how about the Russian funded NRA losing all over the country and having money problems?!

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2021 may be the year that real gun control is finally passed. The trouncing of the NRA and rise of the #NeverAgain movement is only continuing.

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Trump’s asking around if Pence is still behind him. Wonder if he worries Pence may run against him in the 2020 primary if Mueller destroys Trump’s numbers?

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When you depend on Russian financing and the price of oil tanks…uh oh!

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I am hoping this slide in oil prices really grows, it will help regular folks here and elsewhere and pressure Putin intensely. He’s already increased the age for retirement in Russia, what’s next?

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Same here, have a great weekend and congrats! You worked hard this election season and while Claire lost, many good things happened!

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Should be fun! We’re on the rise!

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