Vox Populi, our weekly live chat about the week’s events begins tonight at 7:00pm PT. Hope to see you then!
AdLib2 hours ago
Hey CL!
AdLiban hour ago
How are you feeling?
AdLiban hour ago
Hey – sorry to be so late. My little icon says there are three of us – you having a split personality?
choicelady
an hour ago
I’m LOADS better!! Thanks.
choicelady
an hour ago
Me, myself, and I.
AdLiban hour ago
Oh – that makes THREE of you! Well, welcome all!
choicelady
an hour ago
We three!
AdLiban hour ago
Talked to PPO on Bluesky and he said he hoped soon to be here. Moving into winter, yachting is over soon. Going on a sail to Sydney and back. Sounds fun!
choicelady
an hour ago
He sounds good. I’m happy for him being happy.
choicelady
an hour ago
He is very missed. Look forward to seeing him soon…since he won’t be meeting us in SFO.
AdLiban hour ago
Absolutely!
AdLiban hour ago
Did you hear about Trump’s losses in coursts today?
AdLiban hour ago
We talked about that. Even Hawaii is too risky. So we wait and hope for changes that would let him come here.
choicelady
an hour ago
It’s for the best for now.
AdLiban hour ago
No, not really – saw he has to take his name off the Kennedy Center so he’s going to mothball it. FINE WITH ME!
choicelady
an hour ago
What else happened?
choicelady
an hour ago
That judge also put a hold on shutting the Center down. Another judge put a stop on his $1.7B theft.
AdLiban hour ago
Alllll RIGHT!!!
choicelady
an hour ago
And Dems in the House and Senate are pushing bills to stop him along with a 100% tax on any amount anyone gets from it.
AdLiban hour ago
That slimey parvenue, jumped-up, no better than he should be POS deserves whatever the courts dish out.
choicelady
an hour ago
Meanwhile, his polling numbers are continuing to fall.
AdLiban hour ago
Wheeee!
choicelady
an hour ago
Also saw the last couple of public presentations Vance tried to make were roundly booed. Perfect!
choicelady
an hour ago
A video article from NYT says he’s below 38% now and sinking which is rare territory.
AdLiban hour ago
Oh – and the story goes Thiel has moved to Argentina where he will feel more at home and maybe get to implement his fantasies.
choicelady
an hour ago
Argentina, home of Eichmann and Mengele. Perfect fit.
choicelady
an hour ago
FWIW, Vance’s probability of being the 2028 GOP nom for president has nosedived to the 30s from 60 or more.
AdLiban hour ago
There is nobody in good graces w Trump who will be a fave 2028.
choicelady
an hour ago
I have a feeling that we will find out the evil Thiel has been up to when Dems take over the House and possibly the Senate and he is getting out before the hearings and prosecutions begin.
AdLiban hour ago
At this point the strongest GOP person may turn out to be Massie.
choicelady
an hour ago
I think Thiel gets credit for one thing: seeing the handwriting on the wall.
choicelady
an hour ago
Massie might be competitive in a GE but he’d never win the GOP nom. He lost in his primary because Trump still has the allegience of the MAGA cult.
AdLiban hour ago
Argentina does have an extradition treaty w the USA, but if a Dem is in charge, they will ignore it.
choicelady
an hour ago
When it becomes public, all the evil Theil has been doing with Palentir, he’ll have to go into hiding even in Argentina.
AdLiban hour ago
That could be. I pay scant attention to electoral politics outside of CA. I just don’t see ANY Republican popular among Republicans.
choicelady
an hour ago
Ad – with HIS money, he will be fine wherever he holes up.
choicelady
an hour ago
It’s a no-win situation. Trump is now despised by 2/3 of America and voters. No Repub candidate can win that primary without swearing fealty to Trump. They are doomed.
AdLiban hour ago
My biases are showing – how can ANY gay guy be that big of an asshat?
choicelady
an hour ago
I must say I shed NO tears for the demise of the GOP. “You broke it? You bought it.”
choicelady
an hour ago
I have met a couple of gay asshats.In both cases, they seemed incapable of caring about anyone but themselves, like many non-gay people too.
AdLiban hour ago
I live in a nice world where the gay people I know are kind and not jerks.
choicelady
an hour ago
Did you see, Trump is trying to have the USPS decide who can receive mail-in ballots and who can’t?
AdLiban hour ago
Yup. Only there IS no ‘national registry’. And they violate AGAIN every Constitutional principle known. Idiots.
choicelady
an hour ago
Most gay and straight people I’ve known have been generally good people. Straight people don’t have a monopoly on selfishness.
AdLiban hour ago
And where is the Constitutional power of the USPS of all agencies, to make rules for elections?
AdLiban hour ago
I can see from Thiel that’s true. But I’m always astonished at conservative LGBTQ people – do they think they get a pass from the religious right and GOP?
choicelady
an hour ago
Nothing give USPS that power.
choicelady
an hour ago
Log Cabin Republicans kind of represent that type of self-centered gay people, only caring about how they can prosper and stabbing 99% of LGBTQ people in the back.
AdLiban hour ago
I do know the LGBTQ community around here detest Log Cabins.
choicelady
an hour ago
Exactly! Trump will keep trying these wholly illegal plots because he knows Repubs will lose badly in a free and fair election. The irony is, many Repub voters use mail-in ballots, including the Orangutan in Chief.
AdLiban hour ago
Well, we have drop boxes, so there.
choicelady
44 minutes ago
And another judge ruled that the DoJ has to provide info on meetings and plans to put ICE and Feds at polling places on Election Day.
AdLib44 minutes ago
Cool. Not one excuse in the world justifies ICE at the polls.
choicelady
43 minutes ago
That’s what I did yesterday, dropped my ballot in a drop box. I had to stop my wife from mailing them, explained that the USPS is not to be used for ballots, can’t be trusted.
AdLib43 minutes ago
I’m glad you did. There is zero guarantee it would be postmarked before August!
choicelady
42 minutes ago
It’s against federal and may state laws for law enforcement to be at polling places.
AdLib42 minutes ago
Yup.
choicelady
42 minutes ago
Indeed! How about you, drop box for your ballot?
AdLib42 minutes ago
Yes. Ours is nearby at the library.
choicelady
41 minutes ago
Ours is at a nearby park. So easy and I like that they text you when they receive it and after it’s counted.
AdLib40 minutes ago
I’ve gotten multiple texts reminding me to send in my ballot. But I hear voting is very sparse right now.
AdLib39 minutes ago
Yup. Good system, works, and why I voted for Weber to continue as our SoS even as I HATE her web pages compared to earlier ones. I will forgive that.
choicelady
39 minutes ago
I think everyone is waiting on the last nanosecond since that’s often the way.
choicelady
39 minutes ago
Same here, voted for Weber.
AdLib39 minutes ago
Procrastination is a thing 
choicelady
38 minutes ago
Maybe so. I do expect Becerra to be in the GE.
AdLib38 minutes ago
I do think he will be. Polling at the top now.
choicelady
38 minutes ago
I’m a writer, it was my minor in college.
AdLib38 minutes ago
Well, of COURSE it was.
choicelady
38 minutes ago
Glad the news about Swallwell came out when it did instead of closer to the election.
AdLib37 minutes ago
My minor was Asian Studies, but I’m actually WAY better at procrastination.
choicelady
37 minutes ago
Same here.
choicelady
37 minutes ago
What a two-faced phony. I always felt something was off about him, I was not going to vote for him for Gov.
AdLib37 minutes ago
I know Steyer, think I told you we worked for him on Prop. 39, and I’ve met him, talked w him. But WOW am I disillusioned with him!
choicelady
36 minutes ago
I never got a bad feeling from or about him, but this was a shocker. And he deserves ignominy and penalties.
choicelady
36 minutes ago
Yes, seeing how dirty his campaigning has been, he deserves to be slipping in the polls.
AdLib36 minutes ago
All the ways he’s used his money in secret, to bribe influencers and media and hide it from the public, he is a weasel like so many billionaires. He just wants power and has determined that his path to it will be by feigning that he’s for “the little guy”. Another phony.
AdLib34 minutes ago
It’s stunning given what I’ve heard him say in the past. Oh, well – he’s toast.
choicelady
34 minutes ago
My instinct with billionaires is that they usually have a con they’re trying to pull off on the public.
AdLib33 minutes ago
Only one I wouldn’t say that about is Warren Buffet. He’s lived a life of pretty open rectitude. But he’s WAY older and a different ilk. Pity.
choicelady
32 minutes ago
It’s just been a game for him, he thought he had a fresh con that suckers would fall for. He had to make it look legit so he played that role very well, many people thought and still think of him as the Wealthy Savior.
AdLib31 minutes ago
My family are from Omaha. They and he were members of the Omaha Press Club where I have eaten many times. They all knew him. He lives in a modest stone house in Dundee, neighborhood in Omaha of older, more modest homes. WE could afford one. He is not a shark.
choicelady
31 minutes ago
True, Buffet, Cuban, and Bezos’ ex-wife are among the decent ones.
AdLib31 minutes ago
There you go. Steyer did his best con on Bernie. But I think OR endorsed him to make him their cash cow.
choicelady
30 minutes ago
I have never heard anything negative about Buffett…from anyone who isn’t a Repub liar.
AdLib30 minutes ago
Very true. I know some about him personally though never met him. My aunt and uncle worked for the Omaha World Herald and rubbed elbows with him fairly often. My uncle was a socialists always, and he like Buffet a lot. Thought him very principled.
choicelady
29 minutes ago
Yep! Bernie has so jumped the shark by endorsing him. He exposed his own dishonesty. I thought “millionaires and billionaires” were the enemy,Bernie boy?
AdLib28 minutes ago
he LIKE Buffet
choicelady
28 minutes ago
LIKED Buffet. Fumble fingers tonight.
choicelady
28 minutes ago
Bernie sees the open wallet.
choicelady
28 minutes ago
I’m surprised Bernie can see anything but his own reflection.
AdLib27 minutes ago
What are the odds Bern will back Steyer for President 2028?
choicelady
27 minutes ago
Bernie’s very prompt where money is concerned.
choicelady
27 minutes ago
Oh, I think 100% Bernie will back Steyer for president AND want to be his VP! It will all end in a spectacular Blue Origin explosion.
AdLib26 minutes ago
That will chap the hides of the AOC for President people.
choicelady
25 minutes ago
Every movement that has no real structure or ideals always ends w someone’s ego blowing it up.
choicelady
24 minutes ago
Indeed but I don’t think Steyer will escape the bad press he’s now created for himself. He is a documeted fraud and liar. We’re not going to let him buy his way out of that.
AdLib24 minutes ago
Maybe we can bring down MAGA with trump and DSA with Bernie.
choicelady
24 minutes ago
That may prove to be impossible to ignore, very true. But when was Bernie sensible?
choicelady
23 minutes ago
I think so! People want legit fighters and change. Bernie represents neither and same with Steyer.
AdLib23 minutes ago
And what can Bernie stand for anymore if he’s on the side of billionaires?
AdLib22 minutes ago
Mamdani won’t make it either – he actually isn’t doing anything. He jettisoned his signature promises on rent help and free transit 6 weeks in. All he HAS gotten is from “establishment Dems” in the state legislature. Not sure he can figure out how to pull off anything. Money’s not there. The DSA Seattle mayor really bit the dust dissing Starbucks that now is headquartered in Nashville. Said she thought everyone hated them. Ooops.
choicelady
21 minutes ago
And people like Rahm who think by attacking the Dem party and calling for reaching out to MAGAs in the mushy middle, like No Labels too, are all going to be left freezing in the wilderness.
AdLib21 minutes ago
Please tell me – who ARE the “No Labels” Dems? I’m very lost on them.
choicelady
20 minutes ago
I don’t see it that way with Mamdani, the people in NY have a very favorable opinion of him and the improvements, even if they’re smaller than hoped, that they’re seeing.
AdLib19 minutes ago
The perfect example of a No Labels Dem was Lieberman. Someone no one but his home state voters could like. And he eventually lost.
AdLib18 minutes ago
For now they do. But the improvements are from the state ONLY. He has done nothing, and now state resources are done. He has to come up with things for the ordinary person, and he’s not.
choicelady
18 minutes ago
OK – thanks. No clue who they were.
choicelady
18 minutes ago
Problem w the newbies is they actually have no relationship with the Council – that should be central – and no understanding of resources they can tap for projects. To build new housing he will have to go in with MAJOR financiers, and that undercuts EVERYTHING he has renounced.
choicelady
16 minutes ago
I have WAY more experience in community development and financing sources than HE does from my work in Buffalo on a community owned supermarket. It’s a tough fight to get stuff done. If he has not got the Council on his side, he’s toast.
choicelady
15 minutes ago
He hasn’t done the big things he listed when campaigning but NYers do see him as working towards them. If he doesn’t accomplish more after a while, they will turn on him but I hope he does succeed in making life better for NYers…we know Eric Adams did the opposite.
AdLib15 minutes ago
Rahm Emannuel is another No Labels weasel.
AdLib14 minutes ago
Oh, he was the best of a rotten slate, no doubt, but he’s not as good as he thinks. I KNOW NY politics, and saying you’ll do something doesn’t make it true. You have to have your resources lined up, and he doesn’t.
choicelady
14 minutes ago
Ohhh – I detest Emannuel.
choicelady
13 minutes ago
Right, that makes sense. But Cuomo would’ve been a far worse disaster for NYers.
AdLib13 minutes ago
It just horrifies me he made promises to renters in NYC for rent relief then, elected on that promise, he abandoned it in SIX WEEKS. That’s slimey.
choicelady
13 minutes ago
ANY of them would have been.
choicelady
12 minutes ago
We can look at it this way and agree, Mamdani has to make good on at least some of his big campaign promises and figure out how to do it before too long or he will be a one-termer.
AdLib12 minutes ago
i SO loved Mario Cuomo. His sons are so different and HUGE disappointments.
choicelady
12 minutes ago
You are correct – he has to produce something specifically by, of, for NYC.
choicelady
11 minutes ago
I liked Mario too. Like RFK Jr., the children of really good people who are successful often turn out pretty poorly. Being raised with a silver spoon in their mouths, thinking they are superior to others, is a fmiliar toxin.
AdLib10 minutes ago
And yet – look at the rest of the Kennedys – great people. The Rockefellers, too. A friend used to say of the ne’er do wells that they were the product of “tired loins”. I think RFK, Jr. hit the bad genetic lode.
choicelady
9 minutes ago
Who do you think the two GE Gov noms here in CA will be? Maybe Becerra and Hilton?
AdLib9 minutes ago
Looks that way. Hilton is a dork. And Dem voters outweigh GOP by far.
choicelady
8 minutes ago
RFK Jr. is the spiritual runt of the litter.
AdLib8 minutes ago
I met RFK, Jr. in 1973 at a small house party for the Dems. He was so weird then. We didn’t know he was on heroin, but it explains his “nods”. Just all around creepy even then.
choicelady
7 minutes ago
Yes but so many Dems in the race give Hilton a chance for the GE with only 21% or so. Becerra in the latest poll was 24 or 25 because Steyer is at like 19.
AdLib7 minutes ago
Steyer is dropping like a rock, yes. Wish Porter would drop out.
choicelady
6 minutes ago
You couldn’t have created a more insane collection of lunatics and weirdos than what Trump has put in charge of this country. A perfect reflection of that demented beast.
AdLib6 minutes ago
Although Betty Yee is on the ballot, she dropped out. Sad she endorsed Steyer though.
choicelady
6 minutes ago
I’ve gone from liking Porter years ago to really disliking her. She has a massive chip on her shoulder and was unproductive in Congress despite all her showboating.
AdLib5 minutes ago
Bondi was interviewed today. She refused to answer questions. Not under oath, so… But she is not off the hook for her role in the Epstein files. I do not, by the way, believe she has thyroid cancer.
choicelady
4 minutes ago
That’s the universal problem with the Lefties – all performance, no legislation. They are in the “Legislative Branch” doing NOTHING, and that’s taking working families’ tax money, giving back NOTHING.
choicelady
3 minutes ago
Apparently, everyone who openly commits crimes in the Trump Admin and are let go for their incompetence, either has cancer or has a spouse or family member who does. They lie so much, I believe nothing they say.
AdLib3 minutes ago
Either that or Karma is more vengeful than we knew.
choicelady
3 minutes ago
Someone on Bluesky was saying how feckless the Dems are in attacking the Repubs on their weirdness. Dems were doing it for a while in 2024 then just stopped, even though it was really hurting Repubs and Repubs were really upset about it.
AdLib2 minutes ago
‘Well, my dear friend – it’s cat eating time. I have the door closed, and miscellaneous paws are being slipped under hoping to snag me or some food. I’d best go tend to them. See you next week. On TIME I hope. I do think mocking the Trump Team is effective. All the “operatives” who said “NO” to Harris and Walz really blew it. They need to retire.
choicelady
a few seconds ago
See you next week!
choicelady
a few seconds ago
Well, I’m of the mind to give them a chance to do something and see if they can walk the walk or just talk the talk. There are some very good Progressive Dems out there but they don’t get leadership power in COngress.
AdLiba few seconds ago
See you then!
AdLiba few seconds ago
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