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
Hey TW!
AdLiban hour ago
Hey
twilson117
an hour ago
I’m really starting to wonder if Trump might be…racist?
AdLiban hour ago
I’m a bit early
twilson117
an hour ago
Always welcome early.
AdLiban hour ago
Trump racist, not him he loves everyone, so would you like to buy a bridge?
twilson117
an hour ago
Only if it might be…racist.
AdLiban hour ago
Well I believe we can confirm that.
twilson117
an hour ago
How insane are the people still supporting him?
AdLiban hour ago
It’s bad but he is losing people I saw a clip of a person voted for him three times but when the killing the nurse happened and he witnessed he said he was done with Trump. So that begs the question how many people have to die in the streets before people finally get the message?
twilson117
an hour ago
Yes, I saw that C-SPAN call, the guy was in tears over it. It’s devastating to folks who aren’t bad people to admit they supported such evil.
AdLiban hour ago
Trump’s dementia is clearly showing staying up all hours sending out his racist comments, enough is enough.
twilson117
an hour ago
I think Repubs who aren’t rabid MAGAs are getting it finally. Which explains the horrible polls for Trump and his aggressiveness to sabotage the elections this year. But he will fail.
AdLiban hour ago
The thing that galls me is these people knew who he was, how he acted, and still supported him so I a bit short on forgiveness.
twilson117
an hour ago
Yep,one of the signs of dementia is losing self-control and he clearly is getting worse at that day after day. FWIW, this racist post was a bridge too far for a number of his supporters.
AdLiban hour ago
I am coming the conclusion for people who cling to the concept they have to support someone like him because he is a repugilan are just plain stupid.
twilson117
an hour ago
Good evening, gentlemen!
choicelady
an hour ago
They were fine with his racism because they accepted it as part of a package deal with hurting the people they wanted hurt. But as Trump gladly takes on the mantle of “evil”, they are finally realizing that they will now be identified as being a supporter of evil.
AdLiban hour ago
Hey CL!
AdLiban hour ago
CL how are you?
twilson117
an hour ago
I’m fine – how are the two of you?
choicelady
an hour ago
Doing okay
twilson117
an hour ago
Doing okay here. Getting over a cold that hung on for several days.
AdLiban hour ago
TW – I agree that people knew who he was.
choicelady
an hour ago
Oh damn – doorbell BRB
choicelady
an hour ago
Ok.
AdLiban hour ago
Just discussing Trump’s total lack of control and pushing his concept of supreme leader fetish.
twilson117
an hour ago
Kind of funny how Trump is avoiding the Superbowl after getting booed last year. The boos would be deafening this year and he’d have to walk out for Bad Bunny.
AdLiban hour ago
When did the concept of democracy become a bad thing?
twilson117
an hour ago
I’m back
choicelady
an hour ago
TW – It’s more of the idea of dominating the people in the country that racists see as their enemies, they’ll accept any kind of dictatorship as long as it means whites and men can dominate.
AdLiban hour ago
Welcome back!
AdLiban hour ago
TW – elites hate democracy. Left and Right, they think they are so vastly superior to the rest of us that we should not have a voice. Thiel says it’s the ‘enemy of freedom’ meaning HIS unfettered right to rape and pillage the world. Disgusting.
choicelady
an hour ago
That is someone with a very fragile ego
twilson117
an hour ago
Ad – what MAGA are now seeing is that being white and male don’t even matter. Being white, male, and in the right CIRCLES is the ticket. Everyone else needs to go.
choicelady
an hour ago
Recently finish a book on Thiel by Max Chafkin – The Contrarian Thiel is a piece of work and not in the good way.
twilson117
an hour ago
The Epstein files are really defining the true evil of the “elites”. They are pedophiles, theives, rapists, murderers, all kind of in it together to rule over the many who they despise as being beneath them. There needs to be a kind of French Revolution, in a political way, against Billionairesand the elite. They should follow in the footsteps of Marie Antoinette.
AdLiban hour ago
TW – I cannot abide that man. The white South African immigrants – all of them – are destroying our country.
choicelady
an hour ago
My question about the files, will the release result in the women who were exploited by those two reprobates get the compensation they are due?
twilson117
an hour ago
The utter corruption of the powerful is as old as the hills. But in the US that corruption exists everywhere. The reason? RW fundamentalist economics and religion. Social Darwinism is back. How we let this happen I do not know.
choicelady
an hour ago
TW – that is a huge question to which so far there is no answer.
choicelady
an hour ago
Historically those who posit they are the “chosen” with “good genes” and other variables are almost always the LEAST contributive to society.
choicelady
an hour ago
CL – Right with you on that. Now MAGAs are hearing that Trump and the elite DON’T want you to have a legal right to a gun or they could be executed on the street for it, want to force even white men to have to prove they’re not illegal immigrants to be able to vote, and they’re destroying the lives of farmers, rural whites, and other MAGAs without a care to rob the Treasury and the American people to enrich the elite and themselves. You do have to be really ignorant and stupid not to see what MTG announced, that Trump’s MAGA is a fraud.
AdLiban hour ago
That is what bothers me about it. The files are released, we see how bad these people were but the women who are the victims have to live this all over again. That cannot be easy for them.
twilson117
an hour ago
In every autocracy, the leaders disarm the populace. It never was Dems. It’s always been the RW that gun toters needed to fear.
choicelady
an hour ago
Ad you know that is going to cost him the gun lobby.
twilson117
an hour ago
Tw – the women are gutted by this, yes.
choicelady
an hour ago
TW – the gun lobby is afraid of him. Even the NRA was only mildly chiding.
choicelady
an hour ago
It’s not fair for people like us to blame themselves. We didn’t allow this to happen, we’ve been doing the right thing as so many morons in this country were easily manipulated to serve the interests of the elite. Their lack of critical thinking isn’t on us and the social media society we’re in now is perfect from propagating lies and manipulating fools.
AdLiban hour ago
CL it’s taking a lot of courage for them to step forward and subject themselves to having to relive that trauma all over again.
twilson117
an hour ago
Ad – I agree. But we are NOT listened to. I do not know why. America in particular is in search of the newest shiny bauble to claim. We have become obsessed with defining ourselves in terms of our latest ideology. Not most of us. Just too freaking many of the “rest of us”, Left and Right.
choicelady
an hour ago
TW – I agree. And they are angry, frustrated, and hurt over the lack of justice.
choicelady
an hour ago
CL critical thinking is becoming a lost art among many
twilson117
an hour ago
Look at all the institutions shivering in fear at Trump. So many we would never have expected to bend the knee, such spineless cowards. Tim Cook, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, universities, law firms, network news, on and on. We used to think bravery was widespread, now we can see those who are capable of bravery are the people, in MN and elsewhere, regular people have far more courage than any elite because all they worry about, all the really care about is keeping what they have.
AdLiban hour ago
Ad – may Harvard be the banner for all other institutions of higher learning. A big Eff Off to Trump? He caved.
choicelady
an hour ago
MN is the power of community. Midwesterners were the source of the Grange Movement and progressivism in the late 19th C. It is a state built on community. The only other group that solidary is Black people. COMMUNITY is everything.
choicelady
an hour ago
I watch and interview Ben Meiselas did with one of the victims she was strong but you could see her tense up from time to time but she got through it.
twilson117
an hour ago
Oh TW – I have saved that interview to watch later. She seemed amazing.
choicelady
44 minutes ago
CL – I have a view of many disengaged Americans as being so easy to manipulate by these cynical, lying Repubs whose strings are pulled by the Elite when times are okay. But now, as madness, chaos, economic downturns, radical losses of civil rights and security are plaguing 99%of us, now they seem to recognize they have to start caring about what’s happening.
AdLib44 minutes ago
If we don’t rally as community, we will not win this. It’s what can stop aggression in its tracks.
choicelady
44 minutes ago
Ad – absolutely true.
choicelady
43 minutes ago
CL – That’s how it seemed but deranged Trump came back yesterday saying he changed his mind and now wants $1 Billion from Harvard.
AdLib43 minutes ago
And Harvard will tell him to go jump.
choicelady
42 minutes ago
CL – So true! The one thing that the Elite can’t defeat is unity. If we come together, as those wonderful folks in MN are, even the heavily armed fascists can’t win. There are hundreds of millions of us, they can’t win if we stand together.
AdLib41 minutes ago
Ad you just pointed what Trump game is, it’s not about governing its about grifting plan and simple.
twilson117
40 minutes ago
CL – At a big wrestling match, the young audience broke out in a loud chant of “FUCK ICE!”. At tonight’s Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony, JD Vance was drowned in “BOO!”s and even the NBC commentator had to acknowledge it. The movement is growing, nationally and globally against Trump and The Elites. Many countries have opened inquiries over their citizens who are in the Epstein Files. Trump is going more insane partly because the walls are closing in. That’s why he’s so blunt about trying to take over the election this year, he knows we’re coming for him.
AdLib38 minutes ago
Someone watching said the crown cheered the US athletes and booed JD then, once he was off the screen, immediately cheered the team. THEY get the difference between the people and the rancid leaders
choicelady
36 minutes ago
JD got booed at the Winter Games not that is precious.
twilson117
35 minutes ago
Even his BS “Trump RX” is a fraud, it doesn’t save anyone money on prescriptions, in fact drugs cost more than buying them with Pharma coupons! Everything is a crooked fraud. And that racist video today has really shaken off support for Trump. He will only get meaner and uglier with each day and it will become clear that he is on an island of disgust by himself, and not a huge majority of the American people.
AdLib35 minutes ago
CL – Yes, the people of the world see that it is the American people protesting Trump and being beaten and murdered by him. They understand that we are not their enemy, Trump is the enemy for all of us together.
AdLib33 minutes ago
I meant to say now that is justice for JD
twilson117
33 minutes ago
TW – totally agree! No clue if JD is self aware enough to care.
choicelady
32 minutes ago
Trump has brought the country down
twilson117
32 minutes ago
CL – I saw the video at the Olympics and it’s just as you described. BTW, everybody despises Vance including MAGAs. Trump was asked if Vance would be his successor and he wouldn’t answer. I’ll bet Trump wants his family to “reign” over America, not Vance. But they’re just as despised.
AdLib32 minutes ago
What is fascinating to me is how many “second tier” nations have jettisoned the USA and made alliances w one another leaving us in the dust.
choicelady
31 minutes ago
CL – It actually encourages me that other countries are turning elsewhere instead of kneeling to The Mad King. That does hurt our country but it weakens the would-be dictator more.
AdLib30 minutes ago
There is nothing logical in this nation’s “leadership” now. We will be brough low because of them. We have stockpiled cash in small bills because I think we will enter a DEPRESSION soon. We have food stockpiled and a garden in. We support ourselves and many others. It’s what we can do.
choicelady
30 minutes ago
All I can say is that Schumer and Jeffreis have the wind at their back now to neuter ICE, I like their conditions on reigning ICE in, I hope they stand firm and even add to their demands, let DHS lose its funding for as long as necessary, this must be stopped now and I am rooting on those two to make it happen.
AdLib28 minutes ago
We will exit this much less influential, but both Obama and Biden realized it was wrong to see the USA as the “leader” of the free world. It’s essential that as many countries as possible are autonomous and engaged in mutual aid not mutual destruction.
choicelady
28 minutes ago
Here is an example of someone using their brain, I was watching roofers clean snow of one of the apartment building in my complex he was start at the peak and push the snow down with his shovel and go back up repeat the process while his workmates would stand in one place and shovel throwing the snow every which way he was clearing a good path and getting the job done a lot faster in spite of having to walk back up to the peak, that is someone using their brains. Trump supporters are just stupid.
twilson117
26 minutes ago
Did you see that crypto is crashing? It’s lost half its value since its high last year and continuing to decline. The dollar is weakening, investors are pulling out of AI companies, and job losses are the highest since The Great Recession in 2009. If the AI bubble bursts as most think it will, no doubt there will be a Great Depression.
AdLib26 minutes ago
Well, they will lose only NEW funding in ICE. The BBB (BUB) is still funding them. HOWEVER, those media interviewing ICE report they are FURIOUS because they are NOT being paid even their basic pay, no health care, no bonuses. Trump has always done this – stiffed his contractors. But this is an INSANE dodge. He will lose many operatives by shorting them. He’s irrational.
choicelady
26 minutes ago
The ONLY reason I’m pissed about crypto crashing is that I’m suing that rancid attorney who took money and stiffed us on the CPS case. I won the Bar complaint, am suing him for offsets. His money is in crypto so losing value means I can’t recover as much if he wasn’t insured.
choicelady
24 minutes ago
TW – I remember seeing a Laurel and Hardy or Three Stooges where one shovels snow or digs and tosses soil in front of the other who does the same back to them, neither recognizing their foolishness. A MAGA recruitment video now.
AdLib24 minutes ago
LOL!!! That’s a Laurel and Hardy I don’t know! I will say, apropos of them, I once helped friends move into the TOP apartment of the building where “The Piano Movers” was filmed, and it was one of the worst experiences of my life!!! No piano though.
choicelady
22 minutes ago
I want to know where those two murders are who pumped 10 bullets into Alex Pretti they need to be behind bars now.
twilson117
22 minutes ago
CL – As you say, not giving ICE more money now is not a victory, their funded a ridiculous amount of money for years. It’s the restrictions that need to be enforced against them to stop this reign of terror. Masks off, no arrests without judicial warrants, no attacks on peaceful protesters, working with local police on charges of criminality by ICE, etc.
AdLib21 minutes ago
TW – both of them have now been ID’d. They are both Latinos. It’s utterly sickening. How does one get that vile? Not just to kill him but to kill him while he’s defending their OWN PEOPLE? It’s the nature of fascism that even the oppressed can be coopted by it.
choicelady
21 minutes ago
I agree that the terms of the bill are good. But courts and states are probably going to have to do this on their own.
choicelady
20 minutes ago
Hey, even Red State Govs are fighting to keep Trump’s concentration camps out of their states. This is now a bipartisan pushback against mass incarceration of law abiding immigrants. Maybe for different reasons but what matters is that Govs are not going along with this insanity.
AdLib20 minutes ago
CL they need to be in jail for murder. Period.
twilson117
20 minutes ago
Ad – I SAW that. Rising up on NIMBY is pretty good.
choicelady
19 minutes ago
TW – I agree. Cold blooded murder
choicelady
19 minutes ago
CL – That sucks, hope whatever he does have left he loses in your suit though!
AdLib19 minutes ago
Did you see that ICE agents mooned protesters outside their hotels? Flabby ass. I want signs saying, “You moon us, we DEMAND toned tush!”
choicelady
18 minutes ago
ICE seems to be buying up empty warehouse to covert to holding facilities getting more and more like 1984 and Nazi Germany
twilson117
18 minutes ago
CL – I love it! That long stairway up to the home at the top where Laurel and Hardy are moving the piano is so famous! But I wouldn’t want to be moving even a lamp up there!
AdLib17 minutes ago
Well the attorney is back in CA. He is not answering our service and in another month, he will be in default. We will get a subpoena to demand insurance companies say if they covered him and then go after them.
choicelady
17 minutes ago
TW – I think Ellison in MN will build a prosecution against those ICE murderers. He’s not playing around.
AdLib16 minutes ago
Ad – I was a LOT younger and still was decimated by that move.
choicelady
16 minutes ago
No – both Ross and the two guys from Pretti’s murder are not getting off.
choicelady
16 minutes ago
Ad I agree Ellison is not playing around and if anyone can get a conviction it’s him.
twilson117
15 minutes ago
TW – I agree.
choicelady
15 minutes ago
CL – Agreed, judges will have to enforce the restrictions but it sure would be smart if Dems included serious charges and penalties against any ICE who defied the restrictions AND to Noem and Bondi if they didn’t enforce them and hold ICE violators responsible.
AdLib14 minutes ago
Trump won’t save them and Noem well what can one say about her, just don’t let your dog near her.
twilson117
14 minutes ago
Trump already threw Noem and Bondi under various buses this week. They better realize they are 100% expendable to Trump.
choicelady
13 minutes ago
CL – Yes, saw the ICE asses showing their best sides. Saw a photo of one with a skull mask that is associated with Neo-Nazis too.
AdLib13 minutes ago
We should start a pool to see which of them (Noem, Bondi, and Miller) get the boot first.
twilson117
13 minutes ago
I admit I did not scrutinize ICE ass very closely. Ick.
choicelady
12 minutes ago
TW – It appears that this whole spread of concentration camps is also part of Trump’s scheme to rob the Treasury to put hands in big corporations who are being paid billions to operate these death camps.
AdLib11 minutes ago
I think Miller will stay. Noem first, then Bondi. But remember – Bondi has the Epstein receipts. This could be interesting…
choicelady
11 minutes ago
CL – Good to hear, that attorney is a criminal (what legit lawyer puts all his money in crypto?) and needs to be held responsible.
AdLib10 minutes ago
CL I realize Miller is a long shot, but he has a way of getting under people’s skin, I don’t think he is that well liked, and as far as Trump is concerned everyone is expendable
twilson117
9 minutes ago
Ad – I think we will get this attorney BUT if he wasn’t insured (sleaze that he is) then we go after the crypto.
choicelady
9 minutes ago
TW – I hope you’re right about Miller. He’s utterly vile.
choicelady
9 minutes ago
CL – Can’t wait to see that attorney crushed!
AdLib9 minutes ago
Same here!
choicelady
9 minutes ago
CL yes he is I believe most members of his family have essentially disowned him not sure on that howerver.
twilson117
8 minutes ago
TW – you ARE correct. Every single member of his family has disowned him.
choicelady
8 minutes ago
The other person I loathe is Lee of Utah – and he’s in the BAD part of the Epstein files!
choicelady
6 minutes ago
So, doesn’t it seem that the only end game Trump is pursuing now is completing his takeover of the country before or during the election in Nov? There is no way back from being despised by a large majority in this country before Nov. What do you think he is planning to prevent a fair election? He did say that if Dems win The House, he will not accept the results. What does he think he can do to prevent the results and Dems from taking over the House?
AdLib6 minutes ago
Malignant libertarianism and fundamentalism have unleashed the worst of the worst in America. When people now say they are “born again”, it means they have been told they can do ANYTHING THEY WANT. God will forgive them. So they DO.
choicelady
5 minutes ago
Ad his push to get GA ballots is a clear indication of that.
twilson117
4 minutes ago
He can try, but states jealously guard their control of voting. It’s IN the Constitution. He doesn’t have to accept it – it’s not up to him.
choicelady
4 minutes ago
TW – Yes but Trump has no power to nullify election results that states declare. None. Even if he wants to sieze the ballots, there is no legal path for him to declare elections null and void. Even the corrupt SCOTUS won’t go along with that. What is his plan, I wonder?
AdLib3 minutes ago
I read today that he is wildly disappointed in the GA files. ZERO evidence of fraud. He has NO say over elections. If he sends ICE to the polls, so what? MOST people vote by mail.
choicelady
3 minutes ago
Well folks I have to bug out early I have some work I need to tackle on the project I have been working on so I will bid you ado for the moment and with this encouragement GO PATS!
twilson117
3 minutes ago
We can KILL the SAVE Act. Did it in 2024. Can do it again.
choicelady
3 minutes ago
Good night, TW. Best wishes on the Pats even if the owner is a Trumper. Best wishes on the weather, too! See you next week.
choicelady
2 minutes ago
TW – Okay, have a great weekend but I must say, NO PATS, GO SEAHAWKS!
AdLib2 minutes ago
Same to you, CL! Have a nice Superbowl Weekend!
AdLiba minute ago
So I think I’m bugging out. Been very tired today even though I’m over the cold at last. Good talk, and I stand neutral on all things football.
choicelady
a minute ago
Take care. Love to D and D.
choicelady
a minute ago
Thanks so much, best to Hubby!
AdLiba minute ago
Will convey your best. See you next week.
choicelady
a few seconds ago
Thanks! Night!
AdLiba few seconds ago
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