Vox Populi, our weekly live chats about the week’s events begins tonight at 7:00pm PST. Hope to see you then!
AdLib2 hours ago
Hey PPO!
AdLib2 hours ago
Hi, ad! Happy New Year.
pinkpantheroz
2 hours ago
Thanks! Happy New Year to you! How’s the new home coming along?
AdLib2 hours ago
You there, PPO?
AdLiban hour ago
Fine, thank you. still have lots of boxes to unpack, but ok with the position and ease of shopping etc.
pinkpantheroz
an hour ago
Working currently on dates for July. Pity that July 4 is a Thursday! Will probably book for the following week. Of course I’ll let you know when i lock in the dates.
pinkpantheroz
an hour ago
That’s a nice benefit. While there is a lot to be said for having more nature around, I prefer being in town and having so much nearby.
AdLiban hour ago
Hey Murph!
AdLiban hour ago
Murph! Happy New Year.
pinkpantheroz
an hour ago
Hello….PPO! and AD!
MurphTheSurf3
an hour ago
PPO – Please do let me know when you firm up SFO plans, looking forward to it!
AdLiban hour ago
CL!
pinkpantheroz
an hour ago
Happy New Year
pinkpantheroz
an hour ago
Happy New Year….yes, indeed…I do hope it will be……there is much that is going well and very much that is not….so…..
MurphTheSurf3
an hour ago
Hey!!! Everyone’s here but TW – this is lovely! Hi, Happy New Year indeed!
choicelady
an hour ago
Hello Chioice
MurphTheSurf3
an hour ago
Hey Murph! Hi PPO, Ad – this is nice.
choicelady
an hour ago
PPO are you coming in around July 4th again?
choicelady
an hour ago
So Trump sure looks like he only hurt himself in the NY case and will be hammered with hundreds of millions in fines and have his business dissolved, the judgement whould be in before the end of the month. Then he’ll lose the latest E. Jean Carroll suit and owe many millions there too. He is going down.
AdLiban hour ago
Hi CL!
AdLiban hour ago
Ad – LOVE your analysis of Trump’s “shooting himself in the foot, then reloading” spectacle. The bad news is he is vile. The good news is that he is stupid.
choicelady
an hour ago
And the 2nd Circuit looks pretty clearly like its about to bury Trump’s immunity motion so the Jack Smith trial will still probably start in March.
AdLiban hour ago
Cool – March doesn’t have a lot going for it until Spring, so a lovely Trump trial would liven the day.
choicelady
an hour ago
We are heading into subzero temps here tomorrow with single digits for the next several days….prep for this has worn me down so I do not know how long I will stay …..we shall see.
MurphTheSurf3
an hour ago
Good evening everyone
twilson117
an hour ago
CL, 4th is a Thursday, so planning on the following week if thats ok. Trying to firm up visits to Cousins and nephews.
pinkpantheroz
an hour ago
OMG – I thought all that was going north of you, Murph. I am so sorry. Hope you have alternative heat sources and lanterns, etc.
choicelady
an hour ago
TW!!!
choicelady
an hour ago
Hi, TW!
pinkpantheroz
an hour ago
CL – Seemed to me that Trump’s attacks on the judge and his aide were intended to rile up the judge and get him to do something to help in an appeal but the judge saw it all coming and even let Trump humiliate himself with his “closing statement”. Trump has never experienced real consequences for his crimes, part of me thinks he doesn’t believe it will happen. But it’s happening.
AdLiban hour ago
PPO – that’s all fine.
choicelady
an hour ago
Hey TW!
AdLiban hour ago
So much of this Trump Drama is headed into Scotus (to decide if they will take up cases and if they do, decide.). What’s our read on the court?
MurphTheSurf3
an hour ago
Happy New Year to everyone
twilson117
an hour ago
Murph – SCOTUS has never yet voted on Trump’s side. Do not think they will now. Maybe two – Thomas and Alito – not the majority.
choicelady
an hour ago
All the best for 2024, TW
pinkpantheroz
an hour ago
Hey Murph, hope you’re all prepped to stay warm! And that you can stay a bit, I can start a fire in the Vox fireplace.
AdLiban hour ago
TW – Happiest of new years to you.
choicelady
an hour ago
CLl….I have alternative heat, water sources, battery powered lighting but frozen pipes require a lot of prep and many of my neighbors, and they still are my neighbors, are not as well prepared as I am….so I help out
MurphTheSurf3
an hour ago
Ad never a dull moment with the great Orange One, now he has to fork over $400,000 to the NYT.
twilson117
an hour ago
Good for you – had water pipes burst in Buffalo. Good to prevent that!
choicelady
an hour ago
CL from your typing fingers to God Almighty…..please.
MurphTheSurf3
an hour ago
Vox fireplace….Ad…love it.
MurphTheSurf3
an hour ago
TW – I am LOVING the NY Times payout.
choicelady
an hour ago
Murph – I think SCOTUS may be open to helping Trump on being thrown off the ballot but no way will they uphold immunity and they might just decline to hear it at all.
AdLiban hour ago
I would love, for once to see Yambo being found guilty of something which will put him in prison immediately, pending his endless an dumb appeals. He’s trying to wear us out.
pinkpantheroz
an hour ago
CL as am I. Love the fact that he is getting hammer from every way one can image.
twilson117
an hour ago
Murph – Don’t you have to keep water running in the pipes so they don’t freeze up?
AdLiban hour ago
Murph – hope your neighbors all know their in house and outside water shut offs. Best wishes to everyone getting through this.
choicelady
an hour ago
PPO his appeal process is all part of his MO
twilson117
an hour ago
TW – Missed the story about the NYT getting $400k from Trump. Why does he have to pay them?
AdLiban hour ago
Ad – I found, to my horror, that doesn’t always help. One really needs warming cables wrapped around pipes. Life in the REAL world of below freezing as a norm is quite the challenge.
choicelady
an hour ago
PPO but I’m with you I wish this blimp would just go far away.
twilson117
an hour ago
Ad it has to do with the tax fraud case they uncovered and he sued the reports and lost now he has to pay their legal fees
twilson117
an hour ago
I want him to go the way of Huey Long – shot down in public by a disgruntled supporter. Removes the conspiracy theories.
choicelady
an hour ago
Ad…..the state by state tossing of or keeping on the ballot is another of those examples of how rickety our constitutional structure is…..the Constitution of 1789 was meant to be worked with over a series of conventions…..Constitution 2.0 etc….Never happened because of the emergence of parties and ultra hot issues that all feared handling…..leading to the Civil War among other crises.
MurphTheSurf3
an hour ago
Murph – agreed on the “Con Con” that never has found a moment to be done well and safely.
choicelady
an hour ago
PPO – I think Trump will be found guilty in the Jack Smith 1/6 trial, that’s the big one aside from GA (and I have no idea what’s going on with the story about Fani Willis’ affair with the lawyer so I am a little concerned there). But Trump won’t go to prison immediately…unless he makes more and more direct threats to unleashing violence. Then I could imagine Smith and Chutkin throwing his orange mug in jail.
AdLiban hour ago
Ad – I think Chutkin would have no problem remanding Trump upon conviction. He can appeal from a cell.
choicelady
an hour ago
CL – That’s quite a complicated thing to have to do. I’ve never lived in freezing weather. This can be really dire for those who aren’t properly prepared.
AdLiban hour ago
You turn off water lines that are not needed. You use drip runs on all faucets to move icing along and you use thermal wrap on the most important lines and on any in locations of high exposure.
MurphTheSurf3
an hour ago
She and Smith will provide NO reversable error.
choicelady
an hour ago