how ’bout that Sequim, Washington, eh?
I was a bit wary when I heard that there would be Trump protests across the U.S. Saturday. Meager turnouts might buoy Trump’s belief that he was yet again right, I posited, and might bring out his goon squads. Fortunately I was wrong for the (largest number possible here) time.
Aerial photos of major cities showed massive crowds. The Bay Area, always up for some rowdy dissent, drew huge responses in San Francisco AND Oakland. There were also several “Elbows Up!” rallies in Canada, including one in Victoria, B.C., attended by friends-of-the-blog Judith and Peter. They were two of about a thousand who rallied on the provincial capital grounds. As they did so, another thousand protested in Port Angeles, Washington — just 25 miles south of Victoria across the Juan de Fuca Strait.
Impressive, yes? Well, get this: 15 miles east of Port Angeles, on legendary highway U.S. 101, is the town of Sequim, population 8800 or so folks. It drew from 1298 to 1393 malcontents, depending on the clicker count. Five to ten Trump supporters attended. One merchant yelled at the crowd for driving away business.
I’ve driven through Sequim many times. Jude and I had a really funny thing happen to us there at a Popeyes’ Chicken. We struck up a conversation with an elderly couple and their probably grandson, about 8. He was interested in the eyepatch over my right eye. He asked how I got hurt. “I got whacked by a bungee cord,” I said. “You see!” his grandparents exclaimed as one, “We told you that happens!”
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Anchor Struck 
That is something for Sequim to have so many turn out for the “Hands Off” protest. No one in our family in the US protested!!!! Peter’s daughters 52 and 46, brought up by us professional protestors, didn’t know there was one. They live in Sonoma County for God’s sake!!!! They received our pictures from our “Elbows Up:” rally here and I told them about Port Angeles. They admitted they were ashamed. They had somewhat of a turnout in Santa Rosa. One of the daughters is a teacher so you would have thought she would have heard about it. We have put in our paperwork to renounce our US citizenship. I might have told you that before. It isn’t because of Trump although that would be reason enough. We are trying to tighten up our affairs so it won’t be so difficult for our heirs. I will be 80 in May. So many things happening every day it is hard to keep up. I fall under the WEP SS act and am waiting for my retro pay. I am in the last 20 % who have yet to be processed.
W
Good luck with all that contact with bureaucrats. Jude and I have dual citizenship now, which makes border crossings easier even though we may never go below the 49th again. We went to several demonstrations in Santa Rosa and were always cheered by the turnouts.