Vox Populi, our weekly live chat about the weeks events begins tonight at 7 PM PDT. Hope to see you then!
AdLib5 hours ago
Hey TW!
AdLiban hour ago
Hey I hear early
twilson117
an hour ago
Two minutes early. You get first dibs on the snacks.
AdLiban hour ago
The TexMex eggrolls are tasty.
AdLiban hour ago
Well what do you think of Merchan’s decision to push out sentenceing, Rove thinks its a good idea it doesn’t give Trump and October surprise.
twilson117
an hour ago
Egg rolls
twilson117
an hour ago
I love thos mini egg rolls
twilson117
an hour ago
I’ve been reading a lot of opinions on Merchan’s ruling. Some say that it was smart because it prevents the SCOTUS from making a pro-Trump ruling before the election. Others claim that if Merchan is intending to sentence Trump to prison, this makes more sense and some say that he may intend to send him to prison immediately and appeal from prison but I doubt that. I read Merchan’s statement and while I found it reasonable, if it doesn’t result in a prison sentence, Merchan will have betrayed his position IMO.
AdLiban hour ago
What do you think?
AdLiban hour ago
Me too. First had TexMex eggrolls at Cheesecake Factory and have had them elsewhere too, damn tasty!
AdLiban hour ago
Honestly I don’t know what to think but I would like to read those opinions you just cited send me the links later so I can check them out.
twilson117
an hour ago
Will do!
AdLiban hour ago
Evening, gentlemen!
choicelady
an hour ago
CL is in the house
twilson117
an hour ago
Hay, TW – Hi, AD!
choicelady
an hour ago
CL good to see you as always
twilson117
an hour ago
Hey CL!
AdLiban hour ago
TW – Here’s one from a great source, Angry Staffer who is a professional staffer in DC:
AdLiban hour ago
That was “hey”, not “hay”. Sorry!
choicelady
an hour ago
Andrew Weissmann:
AdLiban hour ago
TW – I follow Angry Staffer and saw that. I think it was wise, though some have said he should have sentenced and deferred showing up to Rikers. But keeping SCOTUS out of it is wise.
choicelady
an hour ago
I saw Weissman and agree
choicelady
an hour ago
Glenn Kirschner:
AdLiban hour ago
Agree with Kirschner, too.
choicelady
an hour ago
Ad I know I want to see Trump in gray jump suit not orange because it would match his makeup but jumpsuit none the less with a number on it. But, if getting sentence would become fodder for people to vote for him maybe it makes sense so reading those other opinons will help. Are we talking the meidas touch site?
twilson117
an hour ago
Anything that keeps Trump from promoting his victimhood is good now.
choicelady
an hour ago
DID YOU SEE that he ADMITTED yesterday he lost the election! His closest followers – Nick Fuentes, Charlie Kirk – are FURIOUS.
choicelady
an hour ago
CL – Yes, these propositions supporting Merchan’s delay make sense but I have to say, my expectation now is that he must sentence Trump to prison in Nov or it will be a huge betrayal of the public and justice. I think Merchan is principled so my bet is that he will do so. Far less happy with any house arrest sentence but incarceration is necessary or all of this is a farce.
AdLiban hour ago
The two I read seem to make sense,why give the Trump fools something to work with, let him stew for a little longer, he’s going to jail.
twilson117
an hour ago
I don’t think he would have delayed if he was NOT sending Trump to prison.
choicelady
an hour ago
Cl saw that why isn’t MSM playing that up?
twilson117
an hour ago
TW – I read another legit Twitterer who said Merchan just robbed Trump of huge fundraising by delaying the sentence.
AdLiban hour ago
CL do you think his lawyers might be telling Trump that?
twilson117
an hour ago
Now that Trump admitted in public he lost, the sentence is even more powerful. And despite everything, Judge Chutkan soldiers on. She rather acerbically told Trump’s attorneys she wasn’t interested in the election. Whooo – slice and dice.
choicelady
an hour ago
CL – Yes, I saw that and chuckled at Fuentes throwing a tantrum over Trump admitting he lost! Pretty funny!
AdLiban hour ago
Ad – yes, he certainly did lose on fund raising!
choicelady
an hour ago
I doubt his attorney tell him anything, TW. I think he blurts the truth now and then, and we need to be there for it. MSM is NOT writing such things.
choicelady
an hour ago
How about Dick Cheney endorsing Kamala? I despise the man but if Bernie AND Dick Cheney are supporting the Dem candidate, doesn’t that pretty much cement Kamala as the “Save America Candidate” vs. the “Destroy America Candidate”?
AdLiban hour ago
Fuentes was trying to rein it in at the end of the tirade. Too late.
choicelady
an hour ago
Ad now I wondering if what the folks saying is a form of dealing with the grief on not seeing him walked out in cuffs to a jail are we in the bargining stage here? 
twilson117
an hour ago
TW – They do make sense even though I am disappointed that Trump isn’t sentenced before Election Day, I do appreciate the logic though.
AdLiban hour ago
Can’t tell you the name of the guy who just said it this afternoon that Obama said they were going to sit their “fat ass” plunk in the middle of some issues. And the commentators agreed that is what works., 100 CEOs of major companies endorsed Harris. This is big – she’s plunk in the middle which is the centerpoint from which things change.
choicelady
an hour ago
Ad as said a sec ago, some of what I’m reading makes sense, I guess I’m just a bit disappointed he didn’t get hammered. But, what you and CL are pointing out maked sense, don’t give him anything he can use to rally his base and get him back behind the Resolute Desk.
twilson117
an hour ago
TW – if we win WH and both houses, we can get things done including making sure the courts can lock him up.
choicelady
an hour ago
CL I agree, it’s funny the idiot running the House thinks they will both the House and Senate.
twilson117
an hour ago
Mike Johnson does not seem to realize his term ends Dec. 30. If Dems take the House, he’s out as Speaker. He can’t take that in.
choicelady
an hour ago
CL – You point out a huge problem for Trump now. Jack Smith’s case is predicated on Trump knowing he lost the election, thus all his efforts to overturn the election were knowingly criminal acts. I have to think Smith is popping the champagne corks now, after revising his filing for Chutkin that will now be able to use Trump’s own admission that he knew he lost. Such a brief and fleeting statement could be a pivotal tool to lock Trump away for many years.
AdLiban hour ago
Yup – a lot of good comes from his lack of self control. He just handed Smith a HUGE bit of evidence.
choicelady
an hour ago
Ad I hope they kept that clip. It seems to me that is clear proof he knew he lost even if it was by a whisker he admitted he lost.
twilson117
an hour ago
TW – You have a great point there, I’ll bet a whole Trump-supporting industry was prepped and ready to launch on Trump being sentenced and now, Trump and his cult have to be perversely angered that he wasn’t sentenced to prison!
AdLiban hour ago
CL – Good point, those 100 CEOs coming out to back Kamala while Dick Cheney does on the same day is a real 1-2 punch into Trump’s distended gut.
AdLiban hour ago
The institutional Right (Heritage et al.) know Trump’s insane and not long for this world. They pushed him to pick JD who would shiv Trump in a nanosecond, invoke the 25th and implement P. 2025 fully. They know Trump falters, is declining in the polls, and this is where the Russian disinformation program is so important. AND Garland and DOJ just blew that up. Sites are coming down like dominoes. Everything they planned is failing. And I am here for it.
choicelady
an hour ago
I am a little annoyed at Nate Silver’s propaganda project, as he works for Thiel, happily using RW phony polls so he can declare that Trump has stopped Kamala’s momentum and is ahead of her. Such prostitution should be illegal in politics.
AdLiban hour ago
People are paying less and less attention to polling because of such things. They see locally the disconnect between polls and outcomes. Silver shot his wad years ago. He’s often wrong. People don’t trust him anyway, and now being on a leash to Thiel, he has NO cred.
choicelady
an hour ago