Vox Populi – 04-06-2018

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

AdLib 5 hours ago

Hey all!

AdLib 2 hours ago

Murph – I moved our retirement savings out of stocks and into bonds as soon as Trump mentioned the tariffs the first time. Not bragging, just saying that Trump is a time bomb and as soon as you hear the ticking of another explosion, it’s time to get out of the way.

AdLib 2 hours ago

Trump has destroyed just about everything he’s touched and it was only a matter of time until he wreaked havoc on the stock market. And the employment numbers tanked, were about half of what was projected. The US has lost billions in tourism and thousands of jobs because of Trump. Now tariffs. And the tax cuts will cause a budget crisis next year. The economy will have the rug pulled out from under it by Trump. His next bankruptcy in a series of many.

AdLib 2 hours ago

PPO – Trump has lost so many cabinet members, he seems desperate not to lose Pruitt who is the most corrupt of them all…after Trump.

AdLib 2 hours ago

Repubs are going down even bigger in Nov as they’ve tied themselves like cult members to Trump and Trump is getting buried by his criminal behavior.

AdLib an hour ago

PPO – My guess is that it’s fear. Fear is one of the few things that can lead to such a sustained subserviency. They are all afraid because Trump is the leader of what is now a GOP cult and staying in office is all that matters to them.

AdLib an hour ago

Murph – Unfortunately, not until 2020. Even if Trump tries to suspend the election which isn’t beyond imagining.

AdLib an hour ago

And he’s followed by Trump Chumps?

AdLib an hour ago

PPO – Fear blinds and paralyzes, those seem to be the main traits of all other Repub pols.

AdLib an hour ago

I think the economy has nowhere to go but down from here anyway. As the deficit skyrockets and all the phony “estimates” of increased tax income from the tax cuts are proven to be lies, the economic hammer is going to come down. Makes it more important to have Dems controlling at least one house of Congress.

AdLib an hour ago

Murph – How are farmers in MO feeling about Trump pushing China to slap tariffs on agricuture exports?

AdLib an hour ago

Not completely but Dems in Congress can stop legislation and most importantly, tie him up with investigations, prosecutions and even impeachment.

AdLib an hour ago

Hannity might be on Mueller’s radar!

AdLib an hour ago

Apparently, almost half of the audience from the debut bailed on Roseanne. We get enough disgustingness out of Trump, who needs more unnecessary garbage from Roseanne?

AdLib an hour ago

I think most Americans are on overload with the hatefulness of Trump and his followers. Roseanne was a curiosity I think at first but like Trump and Repubs, she will be rejected.

AdLib an hour ago

It’s kind of amazing to me, how much horribleness and destruction Trump does week to week and day to day. And Repubs just sit by and nod.

AdLib an hour ago

Why should anyone vote for Repubs in Nov? What do they offer but being lackeys for Trump and smother checks and balances? Who but the minority of Trump supporters would vote for that?

AdLib an hour ago

Hey CL! How are you feeling?

AdLib an hour ago

Murph – It’s really a pity that those farmers, who supported Trump while he campaigned to put tariffs on China, Mexico, etc., couldn’t put aside their hatreds long enough to consider how they would be harmed by what they voted for. It was plain as day.

AdLib an hour ago

CL – Glad to hear you’re better but sorry to hear it’s hanging in there!

AdLib an hour ago

PPO – Absolutely! These are all outrages that Trump is committing, along with crimes and we can’t start grading on a curve. Each must be recognized and remembered as horrible.

AdLib an hour ago

Murph – Hatred is corrosive, those who don’t understand that become victims of their own hatred. Trump is the embodiment of that dynamic. Hatred destroys.

AdLib an hour ago

CL – More likely, the shot didn’t cover the strain of flu you got. I heard it was only like 25% effective. They have to guess which strains will be most prevelant in the upcoming Winter, they didn’t guess well this year.

AdLib 43 minutes ago

Murph – And it takes folks like the ones here to make the conversations at Vox as special as they are.

AdLib 42 minutes ago

Thanks Murph, seems to be more blatant than ever under Trump. Hatred led to his winning and it is destroying everything it touches.

AdLib 39 minutes ago

CL – Maybe not designer flu but a flu they didn’t predict would be going around.

AdLib 38 minutes ago

Same here Murph!

AdLib 38 minutes ago

We said this throughout the campaign, how could these rural Repubs vote for taking away their health care, their income and their business? But Cambridge Analytica figured out that if you got them hateful enough, they would stampede to vote against their own interests. And now the obvious is happening and some are slowly realizing it but as if it’s a surprise.

AdLib 33 minutes ago

CL – That’s pretty bad, to last 3 weeks. Just want you to feel better!!!

AdLib 32 minutes ago

Let’s face it, the less educated and frankly, ignorant are easiest to manipulate. Using their religion, their hatreds and fears against them, they can be stampeded like cattle into the direction those with money and power order. This is why Repubs can be so lockstep and successful some years, Dems don’t operate out of fears and hatreds like that and it’s not elitist to observe the facts, Dems are in more urban areas and are more broadly better educated. Makes a huge difference and explains why Repubs are always trying to decimate schools.

AdLib 28 minutes ago

Zuckerberg is such an immoral, white collar criminal. His business model is stealing people’s personal information to sell it AND he helped the most evil entities out there including Russians and CA, put Trump in the WH because of course he wanted his tax cuts. Zuckerberg is such a fraud and liar too but his PR has done their job in positioning him as a “good guy”. He’s not. Facebook needs to be broken up.

AdLib 25 minutes ago

Murph – I don’t think they’re equivalent. Minorities are never voting for policies that are anti-minority and labor croups are never voting for policies that are anti-union when they vote Dem. Have they been let down along the way? Yes but that is not the same as voting for someone who tells you upfrint they are going to harm you.

AdLib 22 minutes ago

PPO – But when is Farenthold paying back the taxpayers’ money he used to pay his settlement?

AdLib 21 minutes ago

CL – Do ou think Mueller would go after the RR for taking Russian and other foreign money?

AdLib 20 minutes ago

CL – I expect Zuckerberg to duck and weave any responsibillity for all the lies and fraud he and Facebook have been invollved in. He always plays the innocent victim, such BS, he knows exactly what he’s doing when he accepts rubles to put pro-Trump ads on Facebook.

AdLib 18 minutes ago

CL – There were some union people, especially in the Rust Belt who voted for Trump…who hates unions but pandered to them. But for the most part, I do think most voted for Hillary and will be a lot more aggressive in voting Dem this year and in 2020.

AdLib 17 minutes ago

Murph – No argument that many Obama voters may have been energized just based on his charisma and that he made them feel good. But I doubt any of them disagreed seriously with his policies. Some may have just assumed his policies would reflect the thoughtfulness and compassion that projected from him and they were right.

AdLib 14 minutes ago

CL – On the other hand, the RR have so destroyed respect and credibility for themselves. maybe now is the time to strike.

AdLib 13 minutes ago

CL – And the ethics hearings were about to begin for Farenthold, I think he wanted to slither out before the public heard all the details on what a sleazebag he is.

AdLib 12 minutes ago

CL – That is so cool to hear! Panetta I have mixed feelings about but Reiner is fantastic and both names lend a lot of credibility.

AdLib 11 minutes ago

Don’t know where glenn is, she was here last week. Hope she’s feeling okay.

AdLib 10 minutes ago

Night CL, sleep well and get better!

AdLib 10 minutes ago

Murph, well, I do think there’s a clear difference between not being as informed as one could be when they support a candidate and voting for someone who has explicitly said they will make your life worse.

AdLib 8 minutes ago

This is very bad news, hope farmers of both parties get together and drive their tractors to the WH to stop this growing trade war.

AdLib 7 minutes ago

Can’t disagree about Chicago but very different in much of the Dem states and certainly notin national politics. Can’t think of a Dem president who threatened his voters. Okay, best of luck!

AdLib 5 minutes ago

See you next Friday night!

AdLib 4 minutes ago

The thing is many promises are made to minorities by Dems to change things but they don’t perform in some cases. Very different from pursuing new policies that are damaging.

AdLib 2 minutes ago

Sounds good! Take care, Murph!

AdLib a minute ago