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Vox Populi – 07-17-2026

AdLib

July 17, 2026

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

AdLib2 hours ago

Hey CL!

AdLiban hour ago

Howdy, Ad – the chatbox didn’t pop up, and I thought all life as I’ve known it had ended. GREAT to see you!

choicelady

an hour ago

Never. life, the universe and Vox Populi just go on and on.

AdLiban hour ago

Have you had ANY word from Murph? I’ve written but NO reply which is most unlike him. Very worried.

choicelady

an hour ago

Is Vox kind of like those Siberian viruses buried in the permafrost?

choicelady

an hour ago

No, haven’t heard from Murph since he was last here. I had texted him prior to that and didn’t get replies but then he showed up here. I have no idea what’s going on with him.

AdLiban hour ago

I love it! Yes, maybe I should rename it Planet Permafrost?

AdLiban hour ago

There were terrible floods in his GENERAL area, but I think farther southeast. Hope he’s OK.

choicelady

an hour ago

Well, the older we get, the more appropriate “Permafrost” becomes.

choicelady

an hour ago

He’s been very busy and hard to get a hold of prior to that so I hope that’s what’s going on.

AdLiban hour ago

I do, too.

choicelady

an hour ago

So how is life in Southern CA?

choicelady

an hour ago

I thought that Trump’s BS speech would blow up in his nasty face and it did. Even Fox News, afraid of more lawsuits, has tried to discount and ignore it.

AdLiban hour ago

The heat wave knocked out many of my poor plants but I’m just fine and the heat wave is over. How are things up your way?

AdLiban hour ago

Barri Weiss directed CBS to have – and they punked out it was that bad.

choicelady

an hour ago

We are OK – steady 90s, not much worse. Garden’s OK. The city, however, has done sweeps, and I now have 7 people in the back. Had 8, but one left to be indoors. It’s a mess.

choicelady

an hour ago

I’ll bet their lawyers warned her if Trump strayed into his lies and propoganda and slander, that they could be sued like Fox was so they had to bail. I did see video of Mark Warner on CBS that night smacking them down for airing it.

AdLiban hour ago

Suddenly, the worm has turned. People are finally realizing he’s a toxic liability.

choicelady

an hour ago

So it’s the city displacing the homeless folks? Some new push?

AdLiban hour ago

Seems to be. Our new council member who sat in MY livingroom and promised to help the homeless won’t even return my emails.

choicelady

an hour ago

The combo of Dems taking The House, maybe The Senate, and Trump’s official lame duck status coming around the same time will be fascinating to watch. Do you think he’ll attack any Repubs running for president because he’ll see them as trying to take “his” WH away from him?

AdLiban hour ago

We are out of compliance on housing. WAREHOUSING, sure. Not housing. And yet thanks to “Grants Pass” they can bulldoze camps, take everything, and not be out of compliance.

choicelady

an hour ago

Oh, sure – any GOP who runs is his enemy.

choicelady

an hour ago

There are good pols out there but the council member you’re describing sounds like the BS type.

AdLiban hour ago

He’s the Cornelius Vanderbilt of our day. “Law? Law? What do I care about the LAW? H’ain’t I got the POWER?”

choicelady

an hour ago

We had a good council member, but the upscale lefties didn’t like her help to homeless. Mind you, they don’t HAVE homeless in East Sac, but they quashed projects in Midtown because they might have to LOOK at them.

choicelady

44 minutes ago

So what do you think will happen after Nov with Dems going to take over the House and block his power and Repubs running past him to win the nom in 2028?

AdLib44 minutes ago

The cornelius Vanderbilt is TRUMP, not our city council member

choicelady

44 minutes ago

I find Trump more like fictional villains than any real human being. He is an atrocity.

AdLib43 minutes ago

I honestly have no clue 26-28. I’m not that good at fed law and practices to know their power. It SO depends on whether we have enough votes in the SENATE to convict on impeachment. 67. If we don’t, everything remains a holding action.

choicelady

42 minutes ago

He is demented AND evil. NOT a good combo.

choicelady

41 minutes ago

That’s terrible to hear. So those types are happily drinking their martinis to other human beings being treated like inferiors and rousted out of having a place to sleep?

AdLib41 minutes ago

I found even Bernie supporters place property values over human lives.

choicelady

40 minutes ago

I have relatives like that. Vote liberal, act like a jerk.

choicelady

40 minutes ago

TW (who let me know he couldn’t make it tonight but no doubt would want me to say hi to you for him) and I have a bet, I am confident Dems will impeach him under many of his crimes when they takeover the House, TW thinks he could be convicted in The Senate. I cn’t imagine that happening. He’s a proven rapist, racist, murderer, and of course guilty of treason and trying to overthrow our democracy. That’s not enough for them, I don’t think anything would be.

AdLib39 minutes ago

Bernie Bros have no resemblance to actual liberals and Progressives. They are self-centered little brats for the most part.

AdLib37 minutes ago

I kind of lean TW’s way because the GOP Senators know how massively unpopular they will be if they support Trump. Oh, the true believers – Lee and his ilk – will never forswear Trump, but a LOT of them are watching the polls.

choicelady

37 minutes ago

Totally agree about BernieBros! They abound here, but they’re useless on actual LIFE issues, as you might imagine.

choicelady

36 minutes ago

BTW – hi right back to TW.

choicelady

36 minutes ago

I hope both of you are right. But if he is still alive then of course, I think Repubs will still be afraid of him supporting primary challengers against them if they vote to convict him and it is true that MAGA is a cult, they are loyal to Trump, not the GOP.

AdLib36 minutes ago

If they impeach and convict, he has no power against them.

choicelady

35 minutes ago

JD, raging asshat that he is, is slowly moving away from Trump.

choicelady

35 minutes ago

Sure he does, the MAGA voters will still be his cult followers and Trump will go nuts trying to stay relevant and attacking “RINOS” if he is dragged out of the ballroom bunker. Then again, the US military may have to drop a bunker buster on him to get him out after his term is over.

AdLib34 minutes ago

Trump will still control the GOP via MAGAs even after he is dragged out of the WH in 2029. The threat he poses to any Repubs who stand against him is legit.

AdLib33 minutes ago

A convicted and removed president doesn’t have the same BROAD power Trump has now. His cult, sure. But I think people would be so relieved to have him gone, he will be left flailing at windmills to not much avail.

choicelady

32 minutes ago

I don’t think if he’s removed the GOP will give him house room. Party might split.

choicelady

32 minutes ago

He kept his MAGA following even after Jan 6th and being out of power for 4 years, this won’t be any different. He wants to choose who gets power and have them under his thumb as a kind of stealth president/dictator. So any Repub that votes to remove him will be on his vengeance list.

AdLib31 minutes ago

It’s MASSIVELY different now because he’s pissed off SO MANY people with his idiotic “policies”. When he was re-elected it was not that good, but it’s gotten HUGELY worse. He’s lost so many of his supporters. They are furious, and he will NOT be forgiven for his crass dismissal of people’s problems – problems HE created.

choicelady

30 minutes ago

And as you know, cult members follow the leader, not the organization. They will march behind him, I don’t see them supporting Repubs who removed him from the WH.

AdLib29 minutes ago

The cult sure – but it’s down in the 20s as a support.

choicelady

29 minutes ago

Agree with all you say but his support still remains in the 30s which is most all MAGAs. They are not going to suddenly see Vance or Rubio as better than Trump. They wear his name, have it tattoted, it is so much a part of their identity and Vnace and Rubio can’t come close to being as attractive to them.

AdLib27 minutes ago

No MAGAs are tattooing an image or name of JD Vance on their neck as they have with Trump.

AdLib26 minutes ago

That might be true, but I think IF he’s convicted and removed, his time is done. I also don’t think he will live that long.

choicelady

26 minutes ago

Ad – LOL – no, nobody’s tattooing JD. But nobody then has to be on SM asking HOW TO REMOVE the Trump tattoos!

choicelady

24 minutes ago

That would always be The Great Sigh that most of the country and world will join. I do hope he passes on sooner than later because I have no doubt that the GOP would become a wild cage match after that and all the different fascists and racists would be tearing the party and each other apart.

AdLib23 minutes ago

Yup.

choicelady

23 minutes ago

I guess seeing the GOP self destruct might not be the worst thing.

choicelady

22 minutes ago

I’ve heard that the quickest way to remove a Trump tattoo is to stand on active railroad tracks.

AdLib22 minutes ago

That would work.

choicelady

22 minutes ago

It has multiple benefits.

AdLib21 minutes ago

I’ve also heard that injecting bleach may erase unwanted Trump tattoos.

AdLib21 minutes ago

There is a young woman who had his name tatted across her forehead who is now begging for help getting it removed.

choicelady

21 minutes ago

I think injecting bleach removes quite a lot of problems.

choicelady

20 minutes ago

She definitely needs help. More than she knows.

AdLib20 minutes ago

Yes. We ALL agree on that.

choicelady

20 minutes ago

Did you see Mullin is now threatening that if any illegal voting happens and if they don’t follow Trump’s unconstitutional election orders, state election officials could be imprisoned?

AdLib19 minutes ago

Yup – and he has ZERO authority to do that making him ripe for indictment at the state level if he tries.

choicelady

18 minutes ago

Do none of these Trump morons not realize that they can absolutely be prosecuted for all the crimes they’re comitting and cooperating on?

AdLib18 minutes ago

Does ANY criminal ever think about the consequences – or do they delude themselves they will weasel out of it all? John Gotti believed he was untouchable. Hah!

choicelady

17 minutes ago

Yes, The House should absolutely impeach all of those in Trump’s admin who have been committing crimes and violating the Constitution. Kind of too obvious now that the Repub whining about the “weaponization of government” was just a setup for them to do it and claim they have to because Biden did it.\

AdLib16 minutes ago

It’s one thing to hold people to the law. It’s quite another to pursue them against the law, zero evidence. And people are seeing that.

choicelady

15 minutes ago

You’re right, Trump has already announced he plans a mass pardon of people in his Admin but…if he dies before he does that? Or if the next Dem appointed AG is happy to challenge the validity of a pardon being given by someone involved in committing that crime, they may not be sleeping as soundly as they are now.

AdLib14 minutes ago

I do think it’s plowing new ground we could win that a criminal can’t pardon co-conspirators.

choicelady

13 minutes ago

Does anyone including Repubs think the DoJ is anything other than a corrupt tool for Trump to get whatever he wants and persecute whoever he sees as his enemy?

AdLib13 minutes ago

By making his henchmen fed officials, he has weakened himself. They are all getting overturned, sanctioned daily.

choicelady

13 minutes ago

Makes you wonder how any of them passed the bar.

choicelady

12 minutes ago

Yes, we need to expand the SCOTUS first but the whole purpose of a pardon is destroyed if it’s used for a criminal to prevent justice against his co-conspirators. Nixon would’ve loved to have done that.

AdLib12 minutes ago

Yup. We have to pin things down so this CANNOT happen again.

choicelady

10 minutes ago

Consider that his AG nom has had a court refer his malpractice and abuse to a case against him and his law license! And Repubs are going to just put this plainly crooked lawyer in the AG seat?

AdLib10 minutes ago

Yes indeed and setting the precedent that a president acting as a mob boss can’t pardon his gang who are committing crimes under his direction, along with establishing that a president can’t pardon himself, would be a powerful guardrail against another Trump-like monster in the WH.

AdLib8 minutes ago

Would seem basic, but nobody ever thought we’d have a Cappo instead of a president.

choicelady

8 minutes ago

And all of his DoJ people and Federal prosecutors who have been lying to courts and ignoring court orders, all need to be disbarred to put the fear of God in any lawyers who think they could come into DC and do the same as these rodents.

AdLib7 minutes ago

We’ve never had to have courts decide such things because we’ve never had a criminal kingpin in the WH before. Yes, we’ve had corrupt presidents but Trump is a cheap mobster and is using all the power of the president to commit obvious crimes.

AdLib5 minutes ago

Someone pointed out that we cease to be outraged by what he does because there are SO MANY CRIMES.

choicelady

3 minutes ago

And he’s built this ICE secret police force anserable only to him, to use against Americans opposing him. The Founders never imagined such a situation. Along with a congress that is volutarily handing all its power and checks and balances to that crime boss.

AdLib3 minutes ago

How about all the ways he’s taking bribes and stealing money from the Treasury? And now he’s selling advance info about his decisions to Wall Street via his crap SM company?

AdLib2 minutes ago

It is horrific, and I think it needs to be handed over to ICC. We don’t need to be signatories to send him there.

choicelady

2 minutes ago

It’s easier to say what he has NOT done that’s illegal.

choicelady

2 minutes ago

Really? The US doesn’t need to be a signatory to send him, Miller, Rubio, etc. to the ICC?

AdLiba minute ago

Well, sorry to say – I have a knock at the front door, people in the back I need to tend. Hope to see you and TW next week.

choicelady

a minute ago