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Subject: Re: Awfully quiet in here...
Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2024 08:40:59 -0800
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On Thu, 7 Nov 2024 08:18:52 -0800, Bobbie Sellers
<bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> wrote:

>On 11/7/24 05:08, James Nicoll wrote:
>> In article <lp3qduFb8jqU1@mid.individual.net>,
>> Gary R. Schmidt <grschmidt@acm.org> wrote:
>>> Hey!
>>>
>>> Is anybody else out there?
>>>
>>> Or has the disaster that is the USA meant that they've already =
started
>>> trucking people off to the ovens???
>>>
>>> Only a few message from James and one from Lynn - well, apart from =
the
>>> people/bots that I filter, that is.
>>=20
>> I imagine the American posters are either updating their passports
>> or making lists of which neighbours to inform on and the rest of us
>> are trying to work out if we're Austria or Poland.
>>=20
>> (if you have to ask, you're always Poland)
>
>	As for me I will stay here in San Francisco as long as I can.
>The Darn Old Fart shortly to be in charge but as yet impotent to
>act may fume noxiously but he does not smoke. And he could die before
>he does anything too terrible aside from successfully dividing the
>nation.

Assuming you mean while actually in Office, then Vance would take
over.=20

And /that/ would be pretty terrible, IMHO.

>	I have no neighbors to inform on nor passport to update
>nor funds to flee. Not so many years ago I tried to find a
>better place for me to be than in San Francisco and not even
>Seattle tempted me.

Seattle doesn't want you. We are actually considering reviving the
Lesser Seattle movement of the past.

Remember, it always rains in Seattle.
--=20
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"