Posted on 11/20/2024 1:38:33 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
For over a month now, my mother has been pestering me about her missing passport. It was in her closet, she said, and suddenly it was gone. It was expired, and renewing would be easier if she had the old one. She had no immediate travel plans, just a vague desire to visit Ethiopia, the country where she was born and raised, at some point in the future.
As we often do with our elders, I gently brushed off her increasingly insistent requests for help. She lives in Maryland; I live in New York. It hardly felt urgent. She is forgetful. She misplaces things all the time. It would turn up, I was sure.
When I woke up the morning after Donald Trump had been swept back to the presidency by a slim but decisive margin, I was seized by a sudden, cold panic with the thought ‘Where is Mom’s passport?’ What if Trump’s administration made good on its deportation promises and she suddenly needed to prove that she is, indeed, a naturalized citizen of this country? Did my frail, 73-year-old mother have her papers in order should the knock come on her door?
This feeling caught me completely by surprise, much more so than Trump’s victory, which, after all, was a very likely possibility. I am not given to panic. I think catastrophic thinking is almost always overblown. Panic and alarm: These are feelings that a lifetime of observing the world from a sanguine, journalistic remove, always taking the long view, had taught me to extinguish the moment they flared. What good can come from such strong emotion?
After all, we’ve been here before, haven’t we? Trump was president once before, and even though he managed to enact a great deal of cruelty and bungle a pandemic, most of...
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I am not going to give the NY Times my email address to read the article.
Yep.
Leave. Please. Never come back and vote.
Sadly, it’s not going to happen.
If you had to travel to Subsaharan Africa, Ethiopia would not actually be a bad option.
To any BREAKING BAD fan, Lydia chose poorly and suffered greatly.
Yep, created fear BS. This is why Dems are in panic all the time. They get fed these lies every day.
Lydia was also in The Fisher King. 🤡
No, some at the NY Times are also bedwetters.
“If you had to travel to Subsaharan Africa, Ethiopia would not actually be a bad option.”
I know, they’re actually doing quite well, and will do great once the dam is filled up.
I steal NY Slimes articles all the time.
Here is how you do it:
1. Go to this website:
2. In the “saved from” box type in the url of the article.
You and your mom need to scram before it’s too late.
To do otherwise would be irresponsible.
You’re not irresponsible, are you Lydia?
It’s not real panic.
It’s attention whore panic.
REPEATING: THE SKY IS FALLING!
INSERT HEAD INTO A DARK PLACE
I would add that people like Lydia are so G’D gullible that they’re easy to fool by the democrats that they love to vote for. Republicans have nothing to do with their feelings of insecurity and the democrats have everything to do with it, because they are the cause of them.
Lesbian leftist......
Fisher King——
One of many Favorites!
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Robin at one of his Best and for him
Probably the Closest to ‘REALITY’
Mine too. Haven't watched it for many years. Have to add it to the list.
These losers are snowflakes.
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