"I did a number of hallucinogens when I was younger to prepare me for any eventual reality. I have to say, I didn’t see this one coming.” – Lewis Black

Not bad, Jim! You should have posted it in metrical, just to stir the pot.

I'm not a Trump supporter, but I find the comparisons to Hitler particularly silly. If he starts systematically herding and murdering innocent people, then we can start with the Hitler comparisons. It looks to me that he's probably heading for impeachment at some point.

Very sorry to be the bad cop, Jim, but you're not allowed to post your own poem in a GT thread.

Jayne

But it wasn't me! It was someone else whose shoes I put on!

Oops! That fact slipped my mind Jayne, sorry! I guess I was just so thrilled to have coughed out a metric poem I forgot about the fences we put in place to make this a good place : )

Thanks

Jayne,

May I ask why it's against the rules to post our own poems in GT threads without bringing out more of the bad cop in ya? :D

I can understand why that would be frowned on in the workshop fora, but I don't (yet) understand why it's wrong here. Are we allowed to link to one of our poems? I did that in the last thread I started here in GD. I've just deleted the link. Ian quoted me, however, so the link is still in the thread.

I found that my poem (which was workshopped on the Sphere) was a better—and perhaps the best, given the thread's subject—explanation of my thoughts than anything else I might have written.

Apologies for going off topic. :o

No problem, William.
The rule is there to prevent people promoting their own work in a discussion thread (not that Jim was doing any promoting).

Here is Alex's explanation.

People forget, and occasionally post amusing little ditties to emphasise a point they want to make, which is not a big deal in the great scheme of things, but we all agree to abide by the rules when we sign up. The staff are there to make sure everyone does! :)

Jayne

Isn't Trump's list actually Obama's list? That's what the media say over here. Even the Beeb.

It's complicated. But all the fact-checkers whose reports I could find remained unpersuaded that this is basically Obama's list, or Obama's immigration policy.

Snopes.com rates the following claim as a "Mixture" of true and false:

PolitiFact's rates the following statement by Trump "Mostly False":

The Public Broadcasting System (which, by the way, Trump's advisors want to defund or privatize) calls Trump's statement "a big stretch" because "There are a number of key differences" [Evaluation here--scroll down to the third and fourth fact-checked claims on the webpage].

And of course Obama himself has broken his silence to say he disapproves of the ban. Here's the assessment at the end of yesterday's New York Times article:

More importantly, the temporary halt to immigration or travel was because several of those countries named had little to no form of organized government or had/has a government hostile to the U.S. which seems perfectly reasonable to me. National security seems to be a legit reason. CIC's try to do that since that's what they've sworn under oath to do.

Maybe he could be impounded. Like they do in the NHL ... two weeks in the penalty box, perhaps?