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

AdLib3 hours ago

Sacramento is checking in! Hi, y’all!!!

choicelady

2 hours ago

Hey CL! Yo Sac!

AdLib2 hours ago

How are you doing? It’s a hot one down here today.

AdLib2 hours ago

Yo wonderful daughter!!! I am still floating on cloud nine over their Western Regional Championship.

choicelady

2 hours ago

Thanks so much!!!

AdLib2 hours ago

She and her team were incredible!

AdLib2 hours ago

Hot up here, Ad – 101. Summer always sucks. I remember around Sept. 2002 it was 112 here. You could NOT breathe.

choicelady

2 hours ago

Thank god and the Carrier family for AC.

choicelady

2 hours ago

No kidding. I was just thinking about the explanation for the population boom in the South many years ago, it was due to the proliferation of air conditioning!

AdLib2 hours ago

I’ve already started “summer utility hours” – raise AC temp at 4, hold your breath and don’t use energy until 8. Keeps blackouts and brownouts to a minimum’

choicelady

2 hours ago

So if we could sabotage all the AC in the South?

AdLib2 hours ago

Ad – AC was invented in Buffalo, NY. All of CA depends now on a gizmo made in the Rust Belt.

choicelady

2 hours ago

We’ve got solar so we contribute back about as much as we use.

AdLib2 hours ago

Ad – BLACK people would survive in the South. Had a long discussion w those who moved north. They don’t use it. White people do.

choicelady

2 hours ago

Ad – that’s the good way to go. But Southern whites would wilt. Southern Black people would carry on.

choicelady

2 hours ago

Then the solution to our nation’s problems is simple, Destroy all AC in The South.

AdLib2 hours ago

Ad – works for me!

choicelady

2 hours ago

Hey, they don’t even believe in science so they could just pray to Trump and it would stop being hot down there, right?

AdLib2 hours ago

Take it from me here? I move north. I’m not good w hot weather AT ALL.

choicelady

2 hours ago

You saw about Musk being a heavy drug addict?

AdLib2 hours ago

Ad – he’s supposed to be reincarnated, so if he doesn’t cool things off, maybe – MAYBE – they’d see him for the false prophet he is.

choicelady

2 hours ago

As far as extremes, I’d pick hot weather over cold weather.

AdLib2 hours ago

Ad – not a surprise about Musk. Now – where’d he get that black eye?

choicelady

2 hours ago

Ad – I’d do the opposite. I know how to exist in cold weather, but you strip down to your skin in hot weather? As good as it gets.

choicelady

2 hours ago

I think everyone in the South should take a clue from indigenous people and build UNDERGROUND. Only way to survive.

choicelady

2 hours ago

I wish I had given it to him but someone clearly smacked him.

AdLib2 hours ago

I’d sure like the backstory on that shiner.

choicelady

2 hours ago

Both extremes are tough but my preference is based on what would happen if electricity went out. Hot is bad, freezing to death I classify as worse.

AdLib2 hours ago

My take, especially from losing power here, is that w fireplaces and other resources, you can survive cold but not heat unless you have underground resources,

choicelady

2 hours ago

If Trump’s Big Bad Budget passes, those in the South won’t be able to afford AC anyway.

AdLib2 hours ago

Ad – SERIOUSLY

choicelady

2 hours ago

MOST of the homeless folks who die in the streets do so from heat, not cold.

choicelady

an hour ago

It’s coming. I think the drop in shipping from the original ‘Liberation Day” should be hitting stores and shops now, increased prices and less product. And the economic numbers came out, employment is of course down and so are corporate profits.

AdLiban hour ago

Change of subject – did PPO send you the photo of him and his lady friend at the Yacht Club gala? Our beloved PPO does clean up nice. She is gorgeous!

choicelady

an hour ago

Ad -life is going to suck a wad soon.

choicelady

an hour ago

I haven’t seen the photo. If he sent it on Twitter, I left there for good.

AdLiban hour ago

It sounds fantastic though, so happy for PPO!

AdLiban hour ago

I will send it. It’s a stunnign photo of two very nice people.

choicelady

an hour ago

I like nice people…if I hadn’t mentioned that before.

AdLiban hour ago

If Trump is blocked on tariffs, adding to Putin humiliating him, I think Trump will look weak and as such a loser to the rest of the world he’s been threatening with tariffs.

AdLiban hour ago

Ad – we knew that. I just forwarded it.

choicelady

an hour ago

Thanks!

AdLiban hour ago

That is why the TACO – Trump Always Chickens Out – meme is so popular. He’s a weenie.

choicelady

an hour ago

I can’t think of a greater humiliation, aside from impeachments, that any president has suffered that a sidelining of Trump and his tariffs would be.

AdLiban hour ago

Someone, forget who, said derision and mocking are the two best weapons against Trump.

choicelady

an hour ago

It’s no longer just TACO Tuesday, it’s TACO Today and Every Day!

AdLiban hour ago

Hooray for TACOs!!! Trump is a loser, a scaredy cat.

choicelady

an hour ago

Yes, I’ve heard that too and it makes sense. Tyrants rule by fear and humiliation undoes that.

AdLiban hour ago

Now Trump has turned on the Federalist Society because judges aren’t letting him be king.

AdLiban hour ago

He can’t survive with derision.

choicelady

an hour ago

How pitiful is it that the leader of the once most powerful nation is such a fragile little wuss?

choicelady

an hour ago

Even the Federalists draw the line at self-anointed royalty.

choicelady

an hour ago

What’sjust as pitiful is how newspapers, law firms, universities, etc. are all bowing to him despite that.

AdLiban hour ago

Three cheers for Harvard telling him to stick it.

choicelady

an hour ago

I can only imagine how huge and intense the SS protection of Trump is as so many in the country and world despise him now.

AdLiban hour ago

Poor baby – he brought it on himself.

choicelady

an hour ago

My wife thinks the odds are equal on whether Trump dies of poor health or is assassinated. Again, I do not wish death on anyone, just a discussion of odds.

AdLiban hour ago

Hey Murph!

AdLiban hour ago

Took me a while to get signed in.

MurphTheSurf3

an hour ago

BTW, TW reached out to say he wouldn’t make it tonight.

AdLiban hour ago

MURPH!!! – I think you were “Guest 474” for a time.

choicelady

an hour ago

Murph – Glad you made it…if this really is Murph!

AdLiban hour ago

Oh – sorry to miss TW!!

choicelady

an hour ago

Any news from the home front in MO, Murph?

AdLiban hour ago

Murph – how are YOU and how are things?

choicelady

an hour ago

Murph and Ad – the test yesterday for hub’s condition did NOT succeed. We are looking at surgery. Sigh.

choicelady

an hour ago

Murph’s taking a break.

AdLiban hour ago

Oh no!

AdLiban hour ago

Well, it’s probably good.

choicelady

an hour ago

Why is that?

AdLiban hour ago

Yeah. Enlarged prostate. No really good alternative, Surgery will fix it. Side effects not known.

choicelady

an hour ago

Is it an outpatient procedure?

AdLiban hour ago

Life on catheters is painful and ups the potential for infection.

choicelady

an hour ago

Ad – you know, I am not sure. I will find out.

choicelady

an hour ago

No kidding! If this can solve the issue, that would be great.

AdLiban hour ago

Biggest issue for us is his horrid reaction to anesthesia of all types.

choicelady

an hour ago

But if he never has this happen again, it’s worth it.

choicelady

an hour ago

That is a concern then. I’ve always asked in surgeries, mine or family members, that anesthesia be just enough and to be watched closely.

AdLiban hour ago

Did you see this part of the NYT article on drug addict Musk? “Mr. Musk’s drug consumption went well beyond occasional use. He told people he was taking so much ketamine, a powerful anesthetic, that it was affecting his bladder, a known effect of chronic use. He took Ecstasy and psychedelic mushrooms. And he traveled with a daily medication box that held about 20 pills, including ones with the markings of the stimulant Adderall, according to a photo of the box and people who have seen it.”

AdLiban hour ago

Murph just texted – he can’t sign in. Can you help him?

choicelady

an hour ago

I will try!

AdLiban hour ago

I will wait. I’m totally cool.

choicelady

an hour ago

He’s here!!

choicelady

an hour ago

Hi Murph – you’re here!!!

choicelady

an hour ago

Hey Murph! You’re back!

AdLiban hour ago

Well…I am back…..screen kept freezing and then I had to log out and then log back in. Let’s see if I get to stay this time.

MurphTheSurf3

an hour ago

Hopefully all will be well now, Murph.

AdLiban hour ago

Ad…tried to text you as well but discovered that my contact list no longer has your phone number. This is clearly a plot by the techarchs

MurphTheSurf3

an hour ago

Remember when tech was hailed as the time saving answer to all our problems?

choicelady

an hour ago

Yeah. Right.

choicelady

an hour ago

What are you talking about?

MurphTheSurf3

an hour ago

The futility of technology.

choicelady

an hour ago

HaH!

MurphTheSurf3

an hour ago

Murph – This is Musk and Thiel’s handiwork! I will text you my phone number. You should have it from our conference call too.

AdLiban hour ago

Yeah – that is what I thought…..will be happy to have it back in my list.

MurphTheSurf3

an hour ago

Musk is a drug addict. Trump is a drug addict. RFK Jr. has been a drug addict. And Vance sounds like a drug addict.

AdLiban hour ago

My British friends are speaking of the “late, great American Empire” a lot recently.

MurphTheSurf3

an hour ago

The only pleasure I’m getting out of tech is “Anonymous” who, I believe, is Liz Salandar come to life and screwing with the RW technoterrorists.

choicelady

an hour ago

Murph – Much as I understand, I’d suggest Brits commenting on America as a late empire may not be in the best position to make that declaration.

AdLiban hour ago

Ad – how is the party of Nancy Reagan’s “Just Say No” now the big druggies of the Western World?

choicelady

an hour ago

I am not sure what any of that means but since both of you leave me in dust in matters tech I am not surprised.

MurphTheSurf3

an hour ago

Ad – Maybe the Brits are in the BEST position. Been there. Lost that.

choicelady

an hour ago

How ao Ad?

MurphTheSurf3

an hour ago

CL – I was wondering about what Anonymous was up to since they declared war on tyrants and Trump.

AdLiban hour ago

Murph – if *I* leave you behind on tech, you need a quill pen. I know NOTHING.

choicelady

an hour ago

CL – With Trump and his fellow druggies, it’s now, “Just say no to just say no.”

AdLiban hour ago

Ad – they have been amazing. They have shut Musk down time and again.

choicelady

an hour ago

Ad, are you aware of CL’s role as my housing coach…she is brilliant

MurphTheSurf3

an hour ago

Ad – well THAT makes sense!

choicelady

an hour ago

Murph – not at all. just practical.’

choicelady

an hour ago

Murph – Just saying, Brits know quite a bit about fallen empires.

AdLiban hour ago

Murph – we have very different circumstances, so I HOPE what I am saying is useful.

choicelady

an hour ago

Murph – That is great news and you are one lucky guy! CL is brilliant!

AdLiban hour ago

I had a meeting today of my steering committee….and we spent the whole time looking at my notes….taken while CL and I were speaking.

MurphTheSurf3

an hour ago

I’d love to claim I’m brilliant, but what I turn out to be is RESILLIANT. Every situation is new and requires different responses.

choicelady

an hour ago

Murph – hope they’re useful!

choicelady

an hour ago

So, do either of you think that the US can be repaired after Trump is gone? Maybe not back to where it was but mostly repaired? Or will the damage be too profound?

AdLiban hour ago

Ad – I do think we can repair things AND learn from the weaknesses in law and policy what needs to be shored up.

choicelady

an hour ago

Ad…the Brits are a people well aware of the legacy of empire and they have paid a price but in the process have become stalwart in their defense of representative government and of globalism.

MurphTheSurf3

an hour ago

CL – Being brilliant is one of the few benefits of living for a while on this planet. Some never learn, others become brilliant from their many life experiences and insights gathered.

AdLiban hour ago

I spent a month in England 1978. I carried a 1960s Britcom vision of them. It wasn’t like that, although there WERE moments of great delight. I don’t know where they are now. Can’t read them. But no one seems to laugh much anymore, a great loss, IMHO.

choicelady

an hour ago

CL – A huge disappointment for me was when Biden and Dems were in power in 2021, they did nothing to install or strengthen guard rails after seeing Trump’s criminality in his first term including the attempted coup on 1/6.

AdLiban hour ago

Living in a red state I am quite taken by how little is spoken about the man in positive terms. The governor here, is emerging as a reformer and unifier. The tornado devastation here and the lack of meaningful fed response has resulted in a shift.

MurphTheSurf3

an hour ago

Ad – we didn’t have the votes for real change. Senate still had too few.If people ever want REAL change they have to vote in 60 or more Dems.

choicelady

an hour ago

Murph – I like your Gov. Reality bites, and this is when the WH occupant is revealed. He will not find favor.

choicelady

an hour ago

Murph – Some Brits, yes. But let’s not forget Brexit, Tory control for many years, and many other massive mistakes in their sovereignty over many years.

AdLiban hour ago

In 1978 much in the UK was unsettled.

MurphTheSurf3

an hour ago

CL – The Brits were kings of comedy in those years.

AdLiban hour ago

Murph – it was. But pockets were still “old style” fun. Was there 1996, and it was much more glitzy, but it was too ‘American” for me.

choicelady

an hour ago

America has been a poor role model.

choicelady

an hour ago

Murph – What do you think that shift and reformism will mean to MO?

AdLiban hour ago

Yes the Brexit years were a throwback and the suffering that ensued seems to have set the shift to a modern representative system that is thornily engaged with the Continent

MurphTheSurf3

an hour ago

CL – In a practical sense, you’re right of course but I didn’t see any bills even being attempted to be passed that would have built guard rails against a tyrant being in the WH.

AdLiban hour ago

Never quite recovered from being in a Bath pub next to two men having a lovely, engaging conversation – and undersanding not ONE word they said. That is my family origin, and whoa, Nelly locked OUT.

choicelady

an hour ago

Ad – nobody puts up bills in either house that absolutely cannot pass. NO TIME for symbolic anything.

choicelady

an hour ago

Ad…..Kehoe appears to be a “only results count” kid of guy and as a result he appears committed to a functioning two part state government allied with the cities (all of them) and the country.

MurphTheSurf3

an hour ago

Murph – Well, it kind of makes a difference that the fallout from Brexit crushed the UK economy. Hard to keep embracing a massive mistake after it proves it was a mistake.

AdLiban hour ago

Ad…..precisely..,live and learn.

MurphTheSurf3

an hour ago

OK, dear friends – I’m fading fast. Long night last night, no sleep. I am dropping away. Love you both. See you next week! I hope REFRESHED!!

choicelady

an hour ago

CL – From watching all the wonderful Brit shows, comedies in the 70s and dramas more recently, I am pretty good at understanding Brits but some accents are way beyond me.

AdLiban hour ago

And I need to attend to tomorrow planning. ….. Ad…..looks like an early night for us.

MurphTheSurf3

44 minutes ago

Oh okay, if you need to get some sleep, rest well!

AdLib44 minutes ago

Good to hear your Gov seems to be reasonable.

AdLib43 minutes ago

Oh Ad you are still here

MurphTheSurf3

43 minutes ago

Unusual for a MO Gov.

AdLib43 minutes ago

I voted for him because the Dems put up a crazy person and she was crushed…even in the Dem areas.

MurphTheSurf3

42 minutes ago

Of course, I can’t stand our Gov now here in CA. He is awful on the whole. CL doesn’t like him either. I’m with her on being a fan of Pritzker who may run in 2028.

AdLib42 minutes ago

Was that Dem the Repub stalking horse you’ve mentioned?

AdLib42 minutes ago

What is wrong with your Gov….he appears to be a media sweetheart

MurphTheSurf3

41 minutes ago

No…..a legit candidate but a foolish idealist and doctrinaire

MurphTheSurf3

41 minutes ago

Newsom revealed who he really is, an unprincipled opportunist, by post-election, embracing Steve Bannon and other MAGAs claiming that we need to be able to talk with each other. Used to be, Americans didn’t chat with Nazis, they defeated them.

AdLib40 minutes ago

I am the only person showing in the chat list…odd….Oh my, Newsom has struck me as an opportunist and shallow. But what you say hear sinks his boat in my mind.

MurphTheSurf3

39 minutes ago

Foolish idealists don’t fare well in politics while Foolish Authoritarians do.

AdLib39 minutes ago

Good observation and frightening.

MurphTheSurf3

38 minutes ago

Murph – I liked Newsom for some time, even while CL didn’t but after the election, when he decided that his path to the WH was to position himself as appealing to MAGA as well as Dems, he lost me. You don’t try to buddy up with zombies to co-opt them, they’ll just eat your brain in the end.

AdLib36 minutes ago

As always you are a pithy word smith. Skewered.

MurphTheSurf3

36 minutes ago

Heh! Thank you my friend!

AdLib36 minutes ago

Well earned……

MurphTheSurf3

35 minutes ago

A new Trump gag has shown up hear. President Mayhem. I like it…captures it all.

MurphTheSurf3

35 minutes ago

I do think Pritzker will be a top tier candidate. And I do like Buttgieg but after Kamala losing, I think the Dem establishment will want a straight white male as the candidate.

AdLib34 minutes ago

Ad….yes playing it safe may be the only way to be able to focus the campaign on bringing down a traitorous autocrat.

MurphTheSurf3

33 minutes ago

Ah, like the Allstate commercial guy named Mayhem? Dems could make a very funny commercial parodying that kind of ad but using Trump instead.

AdLib33 minutes ago

They could but I would rather they present Mayhem as Very Seriously Destructive. Dangerous.

MurphTheSurf3

32 minutes ago

I am not happy that we are being reduced to having to pander to racists and sexists but we lost the most important election in our lifetimes because they abandoned the Dem Party. It’s very messed up but we have to take back power from these madmen.

AdLib32 minutes ago

Completely agree. I have become very unpopular in Dem circles because I blame the grass roots Dems for their failure to understand what you say very clearly.

MurphTheSurf3

31 minutes ago

As CL and I were discussing earlier in the chat, ridicule is one of the strongest weapons against tyrants. Apparently, voters discount when they’re told that someone like Trump is an existential threat to our country and democracy, they ignore it as exaggeration even though it wasn’t.

AdLib30 minutes ago

The dumbing down of the American electorate has us paying a terrible price.

MurphTheSurf3

29 minutes ago

I need to take a call here….next week…..I will be happy to have your phone number again.

MurphTheSurf3

28 minutes ago

Take care.

MurphTheSurf3

28 minutes ago

I’m very much on the Left but I am still pissed off at the Purist Leftists who attacked Biden and Harris during the campaign on Gaza, boasting about being the resistance and refusing to vote for either of them and now they’ve got what they voted for, the growing extermination of Palestinians in Gaza by a Trump supported genocidal maniac in Netanyahu. And Trump wants to open a resort on top of two million dead Palestinians.

AdLib28 minutes ago

Night Murph!

AdLib27 minutes ago

What you write is painful to read and horribly true.

MurphTheSurf3

27 minutes ago

It guts me.

AdLib26 minutes ago

The nighmare remains.

MurphTheSurf3

26 minutes ago

When they were doing that, disrupting Biden and Kamala events and NEVER protesting at Trump rallies, I got so pissed off.

AdLib26 minutes ago

True. I am just as angry with Dems I know who failed to vote at all….and others who chose Trump.

MurphTheSurf3

25 minutes ago

“Don’t you know that Kamala wants to help end the genocide? She said so in the ways she could so as not to whip up charges of anti-Semitism.” Yet those fools were so self-righteous, look what they’ve done to themselves.

AdLib25 minutes ago

Yes! Same here!

AdLib25 minutes ago

Yeah…I have had some very hard conversations with past political partners and friends. This is one of the reasons I got interested in creating a housing alternative here.

MurphTheSurf3

24 minutes ago

As TW wrote, People Are Stupid. And the selfishness and stupidity it took to ignore that he was a criminal/rapist/fraudster/sociopath because he promised to wave a magic wand and make egg prices lower, infuriates me. Those idiots won’t understand what electing Trump has meant until they are suffering.

AdLib23 minutes ago

So my proposition remains, we just have to wait patiently until all these idiots who voted for Trump to get lower egg prices have lost their jobs, homes, nest eggs, health care, etc. and are suffering in their own lives, then is when they will turn on Trump.

AdLib21 minutes ago

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