Vox Populi, our weekly live chat about the week’s events begins tonight at 7:00 pm PT. Hope to see you then!
AdLib3 hours ago
Hey CL!
AdLiban hour ago
Good evening, Ad! How are you?
choicelady
an hour ago
Guess whose daughter graduated college today?
AdLiban hour ago
OMG!!! That’s spectacular!!!
choicelady
an hour ago
Thanks! We are just thrilled!
AdLiban hour ago
Are you home or down there?
choicelady
an hour ago
Down there, stayed over the night. She’s going out with her friends tonight but we’ll see her again tomorrow morning.
AdLiban hour ago
We did go out for a wonderful brunch today. I am just smiling.
AdLiban hour ago
Very happy!
AdLiban hour ago
Is she coming up with you tomorrow? I keep seeing her tied to you when NOPE she’s a full adult now!
choicelady
an hour ago
Did her BF graduate, too?
choicelady
an hour ago
All those optimistic, happy, young adults there so energized about moving into the real world really fired up my optimism.
AdLiban hour ago
I’m so excited for them all.
choicelady
an hour ago
No, her BF has a year to go but then…he goes to law school.
AdLiban hour ago
Oh wow – so is he in LA or staying down there? She has a job fairly near you if I’m remembering correctly?
choicelady
an hour ago
I’m already calling them the next big power couple.
AdLiban hour ago
AdLiban hour ago
LOL!!
choicelady
an hour ago
He lives in LA, she has been coming up some weekends and stays with him. Now, they’ll be together in LA where we can also see her and him more often.
AdLiban hour ago
This is good.
AdLiban hour ago
Oh that’s marvelous!
choicelady
an hour ago
His family is in or near Santa Barbara? My memory is thin these days.
choicelady
an hour ago
My big worry when she went to college in Boston is that she’d fall in love with a guy based out there and might not come back. This actual scenario couldn’t be better.
AdLiban hour ago
I remember your fear. All is GEOGRAPHICALLY good!
choicelady
an hour ago
I’m so glad you like him and that both of them are in a reasonable proximity.
choicelady
an hour ago
Yes, you have an amazing memory! His grandparents live up there, mom and dad aren’t together anymore but both also live in LA so it all works out great.
AdLiban hour ago
Yes, her boyfriend is such a good guy, so happy they’retogether, both are always so happy and smiling together.
AdLiban hour ago
Never seen her happier since she was 10 years old!
AdLiban hour ago
Oh – I knew Santa Barbara but not who. This is so cool. Our niece and husband have something of the same. His mother has become BFFs with her mom. His father remains close to his mother even though he remarried. They are in DC, Doug, Katie, and the boys are L.A. And everyone makes it work.
choicelady
an hour ago
This just makes my heart sing. I could not be happier for you all.
choicelady
an hour ago
And unlike many unfortunategrads right now, she has a job lined up with the business she’s been working for part time over the last 3 years.
AdLiban hour ago
This is such a relief in benighted world.
choicelady
an hour ago
Many articles about grads unable to find entry level jobs in their majors,
AdLiban hour ago
I had a yen to move back east. No WAY am I moving out of CA at this point.
choicelady
an hour ago
We may be the last fairly functional economy left in the USA
choicelady
an hour ago
That sounds like a happy situation too, with your niece.
AdLiban hour ago
Thank you so much! She always remembers you and the times we saw you together!
AdLiban hour ago
They are grand people. When we were there a year ago for the memorial for his brother, we met up with them all. Amazing family.
choicelady
an hour ago
D. is just a superb young woman, and I could not be happier for her!
choicelady
an hour ago
Indeed, CA may be like an island of sanity in a country and world gone crazy under the manipulations of a madman.
AdLiban hour ago
SO wonderful to hear! I think that’s something we may not think about as much but it helps heal our constantly assaulted souls to see people loving each other and happily living lives together.
AdLib44 minutes ago
Now, if can JUST get Becerra elected. I once really like Steyer – have met him at a Cal Labor Fed conference, but I’m very disappointed in his handling of the competition. I was for Yee whom I know (and her husband is a friend, too), but Becerra is just great.
choicelady
44 minutes ago
I agree – people living decently and well in these times? A revolutionary act.
choicelady
43 minutes ago
I disliked Steyer after he tried to run against Biden. An entitled opportunist who may speak on the right sides of issues but made his billions from the very same oil companies and bad corporate players he now claims to oppose. CA voters really don’t want a billionaire as Gov. I think Becerra will be the top vote getter in the primary but unfortunately, Hilton may be the other “winner”. I would prefer Steyer instead in such a situation.
AdLib41 minutes ago
I should say at the start – I had my COVID shot today and am feeling it. Hope the others sign on because I’m not sure how long I’ll last. It was Pfizer that only moderately makes me achey. Moderna? Knocked my OUT the two times I had it.
choicelady
41 minutes ago
It’s going to be a squeaker I think. Wish the other Dems would drop out NOW.
choicelady
40 minutes ago
Oh, sorry to hear thatbut glad to hear that. Don’t want you getting terribly ill from Covid but sorry you’re not feeling well. I know that post-shot feeling.
AdLib39 minutes ago
It’s pretty OK compared to the alternative!!
choicelady
39 minutes ago
Moderna is a real kick. One reason I’ve avoided the shingles vaccine. First shot is OK. Second? Mule kick.
choicelady
39 minutes ago
I have a feeling that people may just switch to Becerra in the vote, polls are different. When they see from the last polls that most could never win, people often would rather vote for the one more likely to win.
AdLib38 minutes ago
It just all makes me really tired and vaguely flu-ish.
choicelady
38 minutes ago
From your lips to voters’ ears!
choicelady
38 minutes ago
“Go with the winnah!”
choicelady
37 minutes ago
Yes, we began with Moderna and it kicked our asses. Latest ones have been Pfizer and still make you feel not so good but maybe not as much as Moderna.
AdLib37 minutes ago
Moderna is harsh. Both are effective, so pick the one that doesn’t make you miserable!
choicelady
36 minutes ago
I did it at CVS, and they now have ONLY Pfizer. Whew!
choicelady
36 minutes ago
Indeed! Voters are often like that! I can’t stand Villaraigosa or Porter, I’ve watched 2 debates and they annoy me as does the San Jose Mayor. But nowhere near Hilton and the MAGA Sheriff.
AdLib35 minutes ago
the Sheriff needs to be horsewhipped.
choicelady
35 minutes ago
Yes! We get ours at CVS too! Waiting for RFK Jr.to try again to outlaw the shots.
AdLib34 minutes ago
Porter I agree. Villaragosa just seems…annoying.
choicelady
34 minutes ago
Indeed! That Sheriff is such a MAGA ass, it’s insulting to the state that so many Dems are running that he’s even gotten to be in the debates.
AdLib33 minutes ago
RFK is now dissing POLIO vaccine and claiming it causes CANCER.
choicelady
33 minutes ago
We had to live with Villaraigosa for two terms in LA, he is corrupt and full of balogna.
AdLib33 minutes ago
When did America decide self-appointed jerks were worth listening to?
choicelady
33 minutes ago
I take local folks’ knowledge of Villaraigosa seriously. No thanks.
choicelady
32 minutes ago
That’s my question too! In the old days, like ten years ago, an obnoxious ass wouldn’t have a prayer of being elected. Now it’s a prerequisite for a Repub competitor.
AdLib31 minutes ago
He’s awful and the city was so done with him when his second term was over.
AdLib31 minutes ago
Extremists like extremists. Platner for the Left, MAGA all for the Right.
choicelady
31 minutes ago
Platner just panders to the public. no authenticity. But would Collins be better? Talk about the better of two evils.
AdLib30 minutes ago
We are living in a time when instant gratification and zero work for citizens is demanded.
choicelady
30 minutes ago
If Maine get Platner, aren’t we competing against TWO fascists? Creeps me out.
choicelady
29 minutes ago
Zero work for citizens is exactly what we’ll have if Trump and AI achieve their goals.
AdLib29 minutes ago
I do not think Platner is a Left person but a stalking horse for the Right.
choicelady
28 minutes ago
That is, the tech fascists behind AI achieve their goals.
AdLib28 minutes ago
Yup.
choicelady
28 minutes ago
Well, we don’t live in ME so I guess it’s up to them. Hope they use good sense.
choicelady
28 minutes ago
I think Platner is just a con man. We already see he has no genuine values but if he sees a profit in it, he may at least vote with Dems if elected. Collins absolutely won’t.
AdLib27 minutes ago
I think the AI tech bubble will collapse soon. Question is who they take down with themselves?
choicelady
27 minutes ago
Very well said!
AdLib26 minutes ago
Collins is cowardly. Platner is a grifter. NOT a good thing.
choicelady
26 minutes ago
Radical change of topic: you heard anything from PPO lately? I’ve not.
choicelady
25 minutes ago
With a majority of Americans including Repubs pushing back against data centers being built, the AI bubble will move faster towards bursting. Their impossible business model requires exponentially more data centers built year after year, never ending. They don’t know that’s impossible?
AdLib25 minutes ago
I cannot, for the life of me, see why they need all these hideous centers. Communities are winning more than losing on them. One of them in Utah, I think, is 2x the size of MANHATTAN. WTF?
choicelady
23 minutes ago
Greg’s daughter works for a HP subsidiary and they are NOT driving into AI much at all. They see the hazards as greater than the outcomes.
choicelady
22 minutes ago
My only argument for people in ME holding their noses and voting for Platner of Collins is that Collins empowers Trump like 97% of the time in Senate votes. I am guessing that percentage would be much lower for Platner…but it’s just a guess. Like Fetterman, he will end his political career if he betrays the people who voted for him to be a Progressive Dem.
AdLib22 minutes ago
True. And I never have a problem with a Bernie pick turning out to be a sham.
choicelady
22 minutes ago
Fetterman always had baggage. But his problems likely stem from his strokes. His staff and wife say he has radically changed since then. Platner is just…Platner.
choicelady
21 minutes ago
Steyer funds the group that picked Fetterman and now Platner. Something very weird going on there.
choicelady
20 minutes ago
Yes, the one in UT is insane! It will use more energy than the entire state of UT uses! How do they think that could possibly be harmless? I hear people are going crazy living in the vicinity of data centers, endless noise, the temperature in the area rises, and they are lit up, causing a constant light in the community throughout the night. Who the hell wants one of those being built next door to them?
AdLib19 minutes ago
Cynic that I am, I think Bernie endorsed Steyer to make him the Left’s ATM and cash cow.
choicelady
19 minutes ago
I can’t understand how they’re being built so FAST. Must be something happening we don’t yet see.
choicelady
18 minutes ago
Yes, a stroke can change your personality, could be that. But he is unfit then to be in the Senate.
AdLib18 minutes ago
Fetterman has to go. Absolutely.
choicelady
17 minutes ago
I think many billionaires, Steyer included, have obsessions with taking the power of this country into his own hands. He wants to be a beneficial elitist, I don’t know there is such a thing.
AdLib17 minutes ago
“Beneficial Elitist” is the perfect term. I know him a little, have met him at Cal Labor Fed events and we actually worked for him on Prop. 39 which I regret NOT at all. But he has turned out to be power mad, and that disappoints me. Even CA Labor Fed has NOT endorsed him.
choicelady
15 minutes ago
It was good for Bernie to endorse Steyer because it blew up his whole hustle. Is Bernie going to drone on about “the millionaires and billionaires” now without someone yelling from the crowd, “But you endorsed Steyer, you hypocrite!”
AdLib15 minutes ago
Yup. He showed his whole posterior there.
choicelady
15 minutes ago
Very interesting though it does affirm my take on him as power mad, no differently from the other billionaire sociopaths, he just has a different approach to taking power.
AdLib14 minutes ago
Remember I said if you see the “rich” as the “cash cow” for state-centered programs, you will tend to protect them. The threats to that money pool are raising wages, profit sharing, worker ownership, worker voices on policy. He will OPPOSE what takes money away from his pot o’ gold. He already IS.
choicelady
13 minutes ago
I do know that the public is so upset with what’s happening in this country under Trump and the Repubs, I am confident the election in Nov will be huge for Dems, it’s just the madness we have to endure for the next 6 months that annoys me.
AdLib12 minutes ago
Man, you nailed it!
AdLib12 minutes ago
I put people’s right to a VOICE as the primary good. Local control and all of the above win the day for me. Not for Bernie – he wants to be THE voice, the ‘decider’ for what he things best for us all.
choicelady
11 minutes ago
THINKS best
choicelady
11 minutes ago
He never has worked in blue collar jobs. I know WAY more about it than he does. I can see his ignorance and his disdain for the WWC he holds high. He won’t let even unions have a voice. It’s his and his ignorant peers.
choicelady
10 minutes ago
It really seems so obvious that the wealthy are such dangerous, greedy entities. And yet, people want to believe in Santa Claus, that the wealthy actually love them and want to take care of them…like pets. The problem is, the pets they see the public as are cows that they are seeking to turn into steak dinners foir themselves.
AdLib10 minutes ago
Ad – like the Twilight Zone arrival of aliens w the book, “To Serve Man”. A COOKBOOK.
choicelady
9 minutes ago
It is hard for someone who works their whole life to build power, like Bernie, to step back and properly let the people have the power…which is what he preaches but would be alarmed to see.
AdLib8 minutes ago
The TechBros are invested in a kind of fantasy that is mind boggling.
choicelady
8 minutes ago
Heh! I have to chat with you offline about a project I’m working on. I actually used that Twilight Zone reference in it!
AdLib7 minutes ago
Great minds think alike!
AdLib7 minutes ago
Was at a presentation in Berkeley w Reich. After his usual self-extolling talk that had ONE remedy – tax the rich – someone asked him about Mondragon and worker ownership, and he TOTALLY BLEW IT OFF.
choicelady
7 minutes ago
Cool – love to hear more! Anything tied to that amazing segment should be MOST interesting1
choicelady
6 minutes ago
The Tech Bros are Tech Fascists. They believe they’re smarter than anyone and they’re kind of Dominionists in the sense that they believe the purpose of other people and wealth is for them to own them.
AdLib6 minutes ago
Yes. Social Darwinism has risen again. And man, are THEY barking up the wrong tree! Superior genes here? Mmmmm – don’t think so.
choicelady
5 minutes ago
What? Reich blew off worker ownership? With what justification? Really disappointed in him, I generally like him but this changes things.
AdLib5 minutes ago
I’ve promised myself to keep this project under wraps for reasons I’ll explain when we chat but would enjoy sharing it with you.
AdLib4 minutes ago
The Left don’t want working people to have a say because they have contempt for them. They have their statist vision, and people having direction over themselves doesn’t fit it. How can the “unwashed” know more than the Nieman Marxists?
choicelady
3 minutes ago
Man, you keep touching issues in my project! Either you’re psychic or we’re just on the same page about many big things!
AdLib2 minutes ago
Let’s talk soon. But for now, I need to hit the sack with a lot of Tylenol. Pfizer is eating my comfort levels. It’s a good thing but exhausting, and I’m fading fast.
choicelady
2 minutes ago
Ok, totally understand! Rest and feel better, shall we chat midweek?
AdLib2 minutes ago
Well, we always HAVE been. I’ll let you know when I resurface. This is getting uncomfy fast. So I will let you know tomorrow if I’m better. Safe journey home dragging years of your daughters “stuff” as parents are wont to do. Please give her my love. I’m so happy for you all.
choicelady
a minute ago
Midweek would be EXCELLENT.
choicelady
a minute ago
Good night!
choicelady
a few seconds ago
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