Vox Populi – 01-19-2018

STORMy weather ahead!

pinkpantheroz

De poor uggums may miss his party. Bet he’s spitting chips right now

pinkpantheroz

all the poor suckers who shelled out all that dosh will want their mney bck. Good Luck to that!

pinkpantheroz

yes! The equivalent of declaring bankruptcy!

pinkpantheroz

now if only he would just walk away

pinkpantheroz

in fluffy handcuffs so he thinks its a kniky game

pinkpantheroz

… and he is introduced to Bubba and Skull, his party pals!

pinkpantheroz

and not a Forbes mag in sight

pinkpantheroz

pinkpantheroz

How is your weather? Did you hed muddy?

pinkpantheroz

get muddy?

pinkpantheroz

Good. that was scary to watch.

pinkpantheroz

still an hour or so to go? Dems standing firm?

pinkpantheroz

yes. and now is the area bare and prone to mudslides?

pinkpantheroz

Running around like chickens with no heads, I bet

pinkpantheroz

Getting a bit bewildered now!

pinkpantheroz

Hey gents, how is everyone tonight?

glenn

So, Ad, any news on the shutdown? Still looking like we’ll have one?

glenn

hi glenn, Stormy night!

pinkpantheroz

Hey PPO–stormy as in your weather; or stormy in the Senate?

glenn

Ad–oooh duh! That went right over my head; sitting low in my seat tonight!

glenn

Ad–glad to hear you missed the fires and mud slides!

glenn

Ad, finally, yes! 107 Wed, 110 yesterday, but change in and now mid-80s

pinkpantheroz

Don’t worry, glenn, we’re all a bit bewildered these days

pinkpantheroz

Ad–so let me see if I have repub “logic” correct. Trump signs an EO to end DACA; then trump and the repubs want the Dems to do something for the Dreamers, but won’t reinstate DACA until trump gets funding for the border wall; then blames Dems for not doing what repubs want, even though repubs control all three branches of government. Is that about right?

glenn

Ooooh shit! Is Shithole on his way to Mar a lingus yet?

pinkpantheroz

Yea! Glad to hear Dems stood strong; it’s about time!

glenn

Ad–Do you know how Flake voted? After all his talk against trump, did he actually “walk the walk”?

glenn

What will Trump be tweeting? as if we didn’t know!

pinkpantheroz

Hey Planet peeps! Que pasa?

Fuzzy Dunlop

Ad–Wow! Rand Paul, too. Oh, yeah, it blew up in trump’s face, but he isn’t going to take responsibility for it. I can practically write the tweet now. Dems don’t want to fund the military, and will put illegal immigrants over American citizens. Sad!

glenn

Hey Fuzzy–long time no “see”.

glenn

Hey Glenn. Time doth pass! Just ask Ad!

Fuzzy Dunlop

HI stranger! LTNS how are you?

pinkpantheroz

Hey P! how ave you been?

Fuzzy Dunlop

Fuzzy–yeah, time doth pass, and passes much more quickly when you get to be my age.

glenn

Ad, good strategy for them. Still happy the blackmail attempt failed.

pinkpantheroz

Kudos, Ad.

Fuzzy Dunlop

Awww!

Fuzzy Dunlop

FD, Up and Down, like all of us. Health probs as usual, but others have it worse, so nnot complaining. Yourself>

pinkpantheroz

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pinkpantheroz

Ad–doesn’t matter to trump or repubs how many Dems voted “aye” and how many repubs voted “nay”; it’s still going to be the Dems’ fault in the stable genius bizarro world.

glenn

Hopefully the twitter and FB world is pushing tht its a GOP failure, bigly!

pinkpantheroz

i’ve been rather reveling in a once scattered family slowly converging….Local wise. Geography makes a difference!

Fuzzy Dunlop

PPO–latest polls I saw today say that 48% of Americans say repubs would be to blame for shutdown as opposed to 28% who say Dems. That about squares up with the size of trump’s base–about 30%.

glenn

That’s OK Ad. The GOP is self destructing…before our very eyes.

Fuzzy Dunlop

Good for you, FD.

pinkpantheroz

Waiting for Hillary to get a mention!

pinkpantheroz

Fuzzy–nice to hear that your family is coming together.

glenn

PPO–Hillary getting a mention as in it’s her fault the repubs shut the government down?

glenn

glenn, I don’t care one lick about who gets blamed for any coming shutdown. Any shutdown won’t really last and it will accomplish nothing for the American people, nor will it cause any lasting harm. It’s just a childish, “Where’s my Captain Crunch,” screaming in the cereal isle.

Fuzzy Dunlop

Yeah Glenn, it is. We’ve always been “close,” but not in any way, geographically.

Fuzzy Dunlop

FD–true as to who gets blamed for the shutdown; but repubs have to have their alternative facts and I just want to make sure that people know real facts.

glenn

DEms should just say to the American people, blame who you will. We have legislation that could solve our problems, and we have 6th grade partisan bickering. What’s the choice?

Fuzzy Dunlop

FD–yeah, that geography works against you sometimes.

glenn

Fiendish plan, crested in the basement of that Pizza joint

pinkpantheroz

Ad, …. until the next scandal braks and no one remembers anymore, there being so many

pinkpantheroz

Oh sure, Ad, but this is not the first shutdown. Imitation, is not art.

Fuzzy Dunlop

FD–sounds so simple, doesn’t it?

glenn

It really is. All the rest is theater.

Fuzzy Dunlop

Theater for the rubes!

Fuzzy Dunlop

FD–and people did make the choice in Nov., even with the plans being there then.

glenn

The problem Dems have is two-fold, IMO. They keep trying to respond to all of the repubs’ lies, and they don’t push their progressive policies enough. Part of that, is when they get on tv, they’re asked about the repubs’ lies, instead of policy.

glenn

Absolutely Ad. The dems leaders need to be reminded of the promises made in the pre-amble to our constitution! The repubs just don’t give a fuck about the preamble or the constitution itself.

Fuzzy Dunlop

true, glenn. Problem with HRC was she overdid policy stuff, trying to rise above the crap flying

pinkpantheroz

Ad–do you think voters’ short term memory will kick in if the repubs finally pass something on DACA? Then they’ll (repubs) say how they “saved” it, and voters will forget all about this, as PPO says.

glenn

Hopefully, Ad, the rage and current enthusiasm of the Resist mob will maintain to Nov.

pinkpantheroz

People on both side complain about the length of the Meuller investigation, but me thinks there is much method to Meuller’s seeming lack of haste.

Fuzzy Dunlop

It’s about frickin time, Ad!

Fuzzy Dunlop

Ad–agree 100%. As you know, that’s been my “mantra” for a while now. That’s what Dems need to do. However, if they pull a kellyanne, and just start talking over the hosts, then they just sound like repubs. Because you can be sure the hosts aren’t going to ask about policy, they’re going to ask about trump’s lies.

glenn

Maybe whacky Susan Sarandon wasn’t completely wrong in her predictions. Ouch, did I just type that?

Fuzzy Dunlop

Ad and FD–Amen! It’s about frickin’ time!

glenn

amen glenn!

Fuzzy Dunlop

So there ARE still a couple of moralistic Republicans

pinkpantheroz

FD–I thought wacky Susan Sarandon’s predictions were that trump would be a huge success, and that HIllary would be the failure?

glenn

Well P, com se, comme si comme ca!

Fuzzy Dunlop

Watergate didn’t happen auickly. Mueller is painstaking to get it right first time and cut off any fiddling

pinkpantheroz

PPO–it’s not morality–it’s finally putting country above party.

glenn

I agree P. He is dotting all the Is and crossing all the Ts.

Fuzzy Dunlop

Maybe the wrong word, glenn, but they did vote against Trump.

pinkpantheroz

Ad–Yeah, I loved it when Joy Reid told that one trumper, “This is not Fox News, this is not the way we do things here.”

glenn

I love Joy Reid!

glenn

PPO–yup–and it’s about time they voted against him. Up until now, they just went along; even though Flake made a couple of nice speeches.

glenn

Would this be a good time to indict Trump for Sex offences?

pinkpantheroz

glenn, I think putting country over party IS a fine example of morality, or what I call the difference between incorrect and correct.

Fuzzy Dunlop

Oh, clearly by default. I think he definition of a revolution was a bit different from what we’re seeing now. I don’t know, but that’s my reading.

Fuzzy Dunlop

FD–yeah, I didn’t mean to argue semantics with PPO; he’s right it’s the moral thing to do. Nice also that they finally did it on the eve of trump’s one-year anniversary as prez.

glenn

her

Fuzzy Dunlop

For sure, glenn, for sure. Sweet irony!

Fuzzy Dunlop

I said earlier that those folk at the Party will go nuts if the man doesn’t turn up. All that money wasted (I think it’s wasted already!)

pinkpantheroz

Oh man, it’s grueling to have to wait for the outcome of all this. I do think that TRump’s goose is thoroughly cooked. He’s just been so stupid.

Fuzzy Dunlop

Does trump have to wait around now ?

pinkpantheroz

The American news media, or should I make a differentiation, the Cable News industry has been a bit slow to catch up. They were quite complicit in the rise of Trump.

Fuzzy Dunlop

PPO–well, now that the vote’s been taken and the government has been shut down, trump still can make it to the party, which I believe is tomorrow night. Too bad the government shutdown doesn’t include the shutdown of AF1, so trump couldn’t go anywhere. The pilot of AF1 should say, “Sorry, the government is shut down, so I can’t work.”

glenn

glenn, sorry, yes. It’s already saturday Afternoon here! My bad!

pinkpantheroz

Ad–yeah, I saw that one with the Uranium One BS too. Joy knows her stuff!

glenn

I’d howl if the AirForce told him, Sorry, no fuel for AF1, Pilots are furloughed and the guy who inflates the tires is off sick

pinkpantheroz

Love me some Joy. She’s smart, and tough. She’s a shining example for women everywhere, regardless of race.

Fuzzy Dunlop

PPO–No problem, it seems Australia is ahead of the US in much more than just time!

glenn

I am really, really, really looking forward to seeing the Orange Menace, in an orange jumpsuit. Probably won’t actually happen, but man, if there where any justice in this world…………..(:

Fuzzy Dunlop

Cardiology may be our best hope!

Fuzzy Dunlop

Ad–The money laundering is the biggie, I think. That’s why trump has been hiding his taxes.

glenn

Ad, so it’s not a shutdown yet?

pinkpantheroz

FD–agree about Joy.

glenn

No doubt, glenn! He’s awful afraid to make those public.

Fuzzy Dunlop

Joy has balls! OK I know, I went there!

Fuzzy Dunlop

FD–I think trump should have to wear the same thing the prisoners had to wear in arapaio’s jail in AZ.

glenn

Oh glenn, pink would really clash with that orange rust proofing Trump insists on wearing.

Fuzzy Dunlop

Well, the fittest guy in the whole USA has lousy LDL bad Chol. numbers. How come? Puppet Doc, that’s how

pinkpantheroz

FD–sorry to argue semantics again, but Joy doesn’t have balls; she doesn’t need them; she has brains!

glenn

FD–yeah, I can’t imagine what color trump actually is under all that pancake!

glenn

glenn, from the sound of things, Trump might actually enjoy wearing pink undies!

pinkpantheroz

Ouch! I half expected that! It was actually a compliment! guys often refer to courage as “having balls.” I’m not all that politically correct!

Fuzzy Dunlop

Ad, RICO could make the whole family paupers. Please!

pinkpantheroz

FD–I know you meant it as a compliment, and I’m not trying to make you politically correct. I’m trying to show you that the “default” for courage isn’t masculine; both genders can have brains, no balls needed.

glenn

Well, gotta fly, usual Sat shopping to do. Take care and stay away from that flu! Chers to all

pinkpantheroz

Cheerio to you, too PPO.

glenn

Yes glenn, I thought that went without saying.

Fuzzy Dunlop

pinkpantheroz

Well folks, it seems my next door neighbor has a question for me. Take care peeps!

Fuzzy Dunlop

FD–I’m not explaining myself very well; and maybe you can say I’m trying to be politically correct, but what I’m trying to say, is that the “shortcuts” we use to express things sometimes need to be “updated”, or at least “refined” so that the ideal isn’t always masculine. As in, being courageous means you have balls.

glenn

‘Nite FD, nice chatting with you again.

glenn

Thanks, Ad.

glenn

So, are they going to have another vote at 11:59?

glenn

Ad–Will be interesting to see what happens. If the Senate votes down the House bill, then they have to start all over again,right?

glenn

I was typing my question while you were typing your response.

glenn

Yeah, what deal did trump make? To shut down the government?

glenn

Okay, Ad, my turn to say Goodnight. Take care, have a good weekend, and see you next week, I hope!

glenn