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Vox Populi – 10-18-2025

AdLib

October 17, 2025

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

AdLiba day ago

Hey TW!

AdLiba day ago

Hey you getting ready for the big day??

twilson117

a day ago

Yep! Have my handheld flags, my t-shirt and will be adding my “I Voted” sticker to remind people to vote for Prop 50 to even up Reps after the TX redistricting.

AdLiba day ago

Sounds like you’re locked and loaded With rightful justification

twilson117

a day ago

I saw that No Kings said registrations to attend tripled after Johnson and other MAGA monsters called it “Hate America” and listed nasty types as the ATTENDEES.

AdLiba day ago

Oh yeah, I can’t wait to get out there!

AdLiba day ago

Well be safe it wouldn’t suprise if Numnuts Trump trys something

twilson117

a day ago

I think many feel the way I do. Taking day after day of fascism getting more violent and criminal, now finally able to join together in protest, tomorrow will be historic.

AdLiba day ago

We should be fine, don’t expect MAGA False Flag creatures to attend the protest I’ll be at, the main one is downtown and that’s where I’d expect it more but you never know so folks are prepared to surround anyone who tries it.

AdLiba day ago

Saw something today pepole are still floating the he would run again as the running mate, trying to say that constitution does’t say anything about running with someone, there is no end to the stupitdy of these people.

twilson117

a day ago

As much as it is best not to have any violence, I can at least fantasize a MAGA shows up to start trouble and I take him down.

AdLiba day ago

You’re too old to be going toe-to-toe with idiots

twilson117

a day ago

I’m really angry about this insanity and channel that away from physicality but the idea of being able to take that out on a deserving criminal MAGA is at least a nice thought.

AdLiba day ago

Besides you’ll never hear the end of it from you wife\

twilson117

a day ago

TW – It won’t happen and I oppose violence but if I saw a MAGA trying to hurt or cause others to be hurt, I wouldn’t be the only one in the crowd wanting to take him down.

AdLiba day ago

But to clear the decks, I expect it to be a passionate, immense, and peaceful event.

AdLiba day ago

Ad I know you won’t it’s not in your character to allow that. You know people in the industry do you think they would accept a co-authored editorial from us?

twilson117

a day ago

That’s the thing, since my wife is joining me, I couldn’t put her in any situation. Again, it’s just a fantasy. But I am so angry at this fascist overthrow.

AdLiba day ago

We can absolutely do that and put it out there. Publications are supposed to take editorials from anyone.

AdLiba day ago

Well let’s consider it.

twilson117

a day ago

Sure, would be a pleasure and an honor to write a piece with you.

AdLiba day ago

Ok let’s talk about it after the chat. Working on a piece now reguarding Trump crying about not getting the Nobel Peace Prize.

twilson117

a day ago

I think Trump and Miller have pushed this overthrow about as far as it can go before people really push back powerfully. It’s already starting. What do you think?

AdLiba day ago

Miller a class a idiot along with a few other things I will not say on this forum.

twilson117

a day ago

You are a man of class.

AdLiba day ago

I think anger against the Trump Reich is really bubbling now. As the shutdown continues, as people get their ACA massive increase notifications this month, as safety net programs can’t help MAGAs depending on them, I think a huge wave of anger will crash down on Trump and his fascist cronies.

AdLiba day ago

Even though I no longer adhere to attending certain religious meeting I try to be as good as my conscious will allow me …… but it’s stretch

twilson117

a day ago

And Trump can’t bribe farmers with the shutdown going on so they are getting hammered worse each day since they need to plant for next year shortly and with everything messed up, they’re in big trouble.

AdLiba day ago

Ad truthfully, I feel for the farmers, but there is some justification for my to say you get what you pay for.

twilson117

a day ago

It’s a victory for me that I’m not using a swear word in every sentence when I think about the Trump Reich.

AdLiba day ago

Yes, I don’t want anyone to suffer but if someone has to because people voted Trump in, I’d rather it be his voters.

AdLiba day ago

We have a society full of individuals that only live in the momement never considering what got them there in the first place. Not to mention they do not understand goverment at all, as history has shown they come and go and are essentially only as good as the people who support them hence they are stupid.

twilson117

a day ago

I hope and wouldn’t be surprised if tomorrow is a turning point for Dem politicians, especially governors, taking aggressive action against Trump and his monsters.

AdLiba day ago

Agreed and I think Trump and his beasts assume that will never change but as I say, when those people are suffering, even though they’re stupid, they turn against whoever is in power.

AdLiba day ago

Tomorrow and all the days going forward. As we have discussed numerous times, there are forces who do not want a democracy.

twilson117

a day ago

Just a note, CL was most worried about what would happen to the courts and SS during a shutdown. So far, there doesn’t appear to be any meaningful impact.

AdLiba day ago

I do not disagree with that at all

twilson117

a day ago

That being the case, I can’t see any motivation for Dems to agree to funding a continuing overthrow of our democracy.

AdLiba day ago

I understand about the SS concern I have the same but I believe, not sure, that those who have automatic deposit will see their checks

twilson117

a day ago

Dems are in the driver seat and many Repubs know that, they think they can overcome that with state-sponsored propaganda blaming Dems but it’s a total fail.

AdLiba day ago

So far, I haven’t heard of anyone getting SS whether by check or electronically, not getting their monthly payout.

AdLiba day ago

Ad as we’ve discuss before democracy as we know it, will indeed change some how, but only if we have the house and senate, and the presidency

twilson117

a day ago

So how is CL doing overall??

twilson117

a day ago

And the way we overthrow this fascist coup is simple, Dems need to rally the huge majority that dislikes Trump and his criminal acts in the WH. It’s not that complicated but with these Establishment Dems in charge of the party, it’s a lot of work for them to get out of their own way.

AdLiba day ago

CL was out of town last week with her hubby, he lost a relative so it’s been a difficult time for them.

AdLiba day ago

Sorry to hear that give her my best

twilson117

a day ago

Was hoping Murph would make it tonight, curious if he’s attending a No Kings rally.

AdLiba day ago

Will do.

AdLiba day ago

I have a feeling he will

twilson117

a day ago

So there were around 5 million protesters at the first No Kings rally, what amount would you guess will attend this one?

AdLiba day ago

I believe this on one will top that as to Murph I’m sure he will be there

twilson117

a day ago

No guess on the numbers?

AdLiba day ago

Ok I will give a guess, 7 million

twilson117

a day ago

Just so you know I can be talked into going higher

twilson117

a day ago

That’s what I was going to say! At least 50% more so 7 million or more sounds right to me.

AdLiba day ago

I would like to see 10 million though but I think that may be a bit ambitious.

AdLiba day ago

Trump is meeting with his two best buds, Vlad and Victor

twilson117

a day ago

George Floyd protests were estimated to be between 15-26 million people…I wonder if we’re lowballing the estimate on tomorrow?

AdLiba day ago

The question in the back of my mind is what will Miller and Trump try to do ti disrupt and use it as a false flag to justify the posse comitatus act

twilson117

a day ago

It’s disgusting but doesn’t change anything that Trump is snuggling up with Putin. Ukraine knows not to count on the US anymore, that it’s all about support from the EU now.

AdLiba day ago

Sadly you’re right on that.

twilson117

a day ago

I think it’s probable that there will be one or more false flag incidents tomorrow but I am confident, it will boomerang back on Trump.

AdLiba day ago

Especially if any of the false flag MAGAs are caught and arrested.

AdLiba day ago

Lots of police at these marches, any false flag MAGA who starts violence has a great chance of being caught and prosecuted.

AdLiba day ago

I see pure evil everyting I see that fat a-hole on TV or read about something incoherent he says

twilson117

a day ago

It’s contagious too, the hate is just erupting from all of Trump’s cabinet, Repubs in Congress, etc. But I also see fear in all of them, worry that the public is going to finally come together and come after them with pitchforks and torches.

AdLiba day ago

They be afraid, very afraid.

twilson117

a day ago

When you get MTG shouting at them about health care benefits, it’s a sign

twilson117

a day ago

Yes and they have good reason to be afraid. Dems need to keep government shutdown as the pain grows so big it can’t be ignored by the ignorant.

AdLiba day ago

MTG is freaking out, apparently because the Trump Regime has stolen her thunder and she’s lost her popularity and power. It would be funny if it wasn’t so horrible for the country.

AdLiba day ago

Trump is a user and abuser and MTG apparently is no longer of use to him for the moment

twilson117

a day ago

Yep, she has no purpose now that Trump’s fascism has blown her whiny tantrums out of relevance.

AdLiba day ago

Yes, it’s funny how she gets to see how her decisions, are affecting her children what’s that saying about trun about?

twilson117

a day ago

I’ve said this before but the more Trump pushes to be dictator, the greater the wave of anger and disgust towards him rises. He will be washed away by it. Then prosecuted!

AdLiba day ago

As to dictator, did you notice that he wants to build an arch of some sort supposedly in honor of country’s 250th we know what that is really about

twilson117

a day ago

As long as their destructiveness doesn’t hurt them, Repubs including MTG are thrilled to be hurting “the normies”. Then when reality slaps them in the face that they’re hit by the cruelty they force on the country, they suddenly howl, “I never expected after supporting the Face Eating Leopard Party that they’d eat my face!”

AdLiba day ago

Yes, saw about the arch but I would challenge the Dem next in the WH to tear down and erase all these monuments to Dictator Trump.

AdLiba day ago

But, but that’s what leopards do

twilson117

a day ago

Just like that’s what snakes do on Snake Island.

AdLiba day ago

We both know thatTrump is going to stick us with the ball room he is building and yes tha is what snakes on Snake Island do I think Trump should take a trip there to scout it out for whatever he wants.

twilson117

a day ago

Do you think Trump will be knocked back by the public as he tries to cement his dictatorship or do you think he’ll succeed?

AdLiba day ago

However, there is possibility they might welcome him home and ask what took him so long to get back to where he blongs.

twilson117

a day ago

That is a good and hard question. My money is he will fail but it will be close

twilson117

a day ago

I want the ballroom and arch torn down by a Dem president. They could auction off the rights to citizens to swing a sledgehammer on them!They’d be able to payoff the national debt!

AdLiba day ago

It will also depend on how he does it, I believe we can see him using the Obran playbook over the Putin one.

twilson117

a day ago

I think the snakes would send Snake ICE agents to grab him and put him in a snake-filled concentration camo.

AdLiba day ago

camp.

AdLiba day ago

But Hungary didn’t have a Constitution that was similar to ours so what worked for Orban won’t work here to the degree needed.

AdLiba day ago

Ad sadly the numbers of folke who fail to see what is happening to democracy will be the loudest to cry about losing it.

twilson117

a day ago

Yep, but I think those stupid people will be resonding more to the economic suffering than ever realize to what degree we’re in a tyranny.

AdLiba day ago

I don’t know if it matters if there is a constituion or not many countries have constitutions and the strongman just ignores it by putting people in jail.

twilson117

a day ago

Yes, it matters especially when courts are empowered and protected by a constitution. Look how the courts are blocking things Trump is trying as opposed to Orban who usurped the courts.

AdLiba day ago

Recently I’ve been asking myself why every Repug wants to dismantle the DOE well if you don’t have standards and report out on education levels and reduce education to propaganda you have edn up with an uneducated population who will go along with what ever their leader tells them

twilson117

a day ago

And I will say again, even if the SCOTUS does as expected and tears up the VRA so Repubs can draw racist districts, I think so many indies and Repubs will vote against Trump and Repubs that Dems could still have a Blue Tsunami next November.

AdLiba day ago

I agree the lower courts are doing their jobs, as we’ve discussed it’s the Supreme court that is screwing things up by overruling the lower courts.

twilson117

a day ago

Yes, they want Americans dumb which makes them easier to con AND they want to funnel education money into the hands of big business that doesn’t care about educating kids anyway.

AdLiba day ago

I will say the Trump and the SC are playing not with fire, but a hydrogen bomb

twilson117

a day ago

They are! I’m serious, I can see Dem governors supported by their citizens refusing to follow SCOTUS rulings on grounds that they are illegal.

AdLiba day ago

And in a way wouldn’t that be the justication Trump would use to invoke the insurrection act?

twilson117

a day ago

You want to talk?

twilson117

a day ago

Yes but if he wants to do it, he will anyway. I think Dem governors will need to coordinate first, activate their NG to be under their control so Trump can’t grab them THEN take the steps they need to in order to protect our democracy.

AdLiba day ago

Actually, watching the Dodger playoff game in the background, they can clinch playing in the World Series tonight and I’m a big Dodgers fan.

AdLiba day ago