Donald Trump is our Ex-President(whew)

[El Dingo]

I have my appointment and documents for Italian citizenship in March 2017.

'Nuff said.

[Drunk Monk]

What about Diane?

[cranefly]

Don't forget to set your clocks back 40 years tonight.

[cranefly]

[cranefly]

Well, Lady Cranefly got up very early this morning to join a friend heading to Sacramento.

They'll be protesting the new requirement that all electrons must get a four-year college degree before they can travel through circuits.

I know some electrons revolted down around where Greg lives and caused a blackout.

Anyway, Lady Cranefly and her friend will be protesting.

They're driving a Nissan Rogue, by the way.  A red one.

[Drunk Monk]

Remember - remedies for chemical mace:

Flush skin and eyes with water, soap and water or saline solution (for eyes).  If it's pepper spray, water is contraindicated and milk is better (but usually riot police use CS or CN). Flushing will increase pain, but only for a moment.  

Remove any clothing that might have chemical residue.

Stay calm.

[Drunk Monk]

[cranefly]

Well, a friend of ours and his family have cemented plans to move to Canada, probably by July.  It's not easy to do.  Canada doesn't want older people who will become a burden on their health system, etc., before having contributed something.  But he and his wife have worked out jobs and schooling that should make it a permanent move.  I'm wishing them the best.

And yes, it appears the motivation is the Horror Clown and his posse.

Anyway, Yeti (anyone else) will recognize of whom I speak: Jeff Powell.

[Dr. Ivor Yeti]

Good for Jeff. He's practically a Canadian anyway (smart, educated, polite, kind) Exactly the kind of person that is not wanted here any more.

[Greg]

Little did we know.

[Dr. Ivor Yeti]

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I add this sentence because one symbol responses are deemed too short.

[Greg]

Well, this thread hasn't had a post in 18 months and yet quite a few things have happened since then.

I remembered being horrified when he was elected. I realize now I should have been exponentially more horrified.

[cranefly]

Won't be long now.

Soon he will outlive us all and then we won't have to put up with him anymore.

[Drunk Monk]

I really want to see an impeachment go the distance once in my lifetime.

[cranefly]

In our palatial palace, famous for redundancy as well as very tight quarters, if you turn on our TV, you'll discover that is is tuned to channel 36.3: CGTN (China Global Television Network).  The TV hardly ever wavers from there, at least for over the air viewing.  Sure, we stream and watch stuff through our internet connection, mostly Youtube, Criterion.com, Netflix, Hoopla, and Kanopy.  But the home base, before venturing to one of them, is CGTN.

As a result, we pick up bits and pieces of the news from a more Chinese perspective.

Recently we detected a change on their channel.  It took us a while to notice, as it's very subtle -- just a big red warning banner permanently plastered across the top of the screen announcing that CGTN has been declared "a foreign mission" of the Chinese government.

What it boils down to is a declaration that CGTN is propaganda.

Shocked by the sheer measure of our gullibility, we have dutifully switched our TV to a more credible home base: 2.1 (Fox).

P.S.  This has been an attempt at humor.  Granted, a very labored attempt, so feel free not to laugh (I'm not).

https://america.cgtn.com/2020/03/04/u-s-actions-wont-deter-cgtn-america-from-reporting-the-news

The U.S. State Department recently announced that it will cap the number of Chinese citizens permitted to work for the five Chinese media entities including CGTN, CRI, China Daily, Hai Tian Development (People’s Daily) and Xinhua News Agency.

The decision comes after the U.S. designated these five news organizations as “foreign missions” and then restricted the number of Chinese personnel working for them.