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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Lydia sounds like she doesn’t take particularly good care of mom, but she’s more than happy to use her situation to make a attempt to make a lame political point.
“...by a slim but decisive margin...”
It was a slaughter. Nothing “slim” about it.
Panic on a plane leaving the USA, you wretch!
I saw a video of some dolt who is worried that she and her family will be deported.
Her mother emigrated decades ago, and did it the right way. She’s legal with all necessary papers.
The dolt was born here.
The dolt’s kids were born here.
But she’s terrified she’ll be lassoed by ICE and deported.
WHERE do they get this ridiculous ideas?
‘…slim but decisive margin?
This is considered good writing in most circles
‘It wasn’t even close.’
And if they ever release the real numbers won’t matter to the NYT they’ll continue to propagandize it like this. But no way it was slim margin.
“My mother hoped Kamala Harris’s promises to take on corporate landlords, to lower prescription drug prices and protect Medicare and Social Security would help her live a better life.”
Uh oh.
Lydia just outed her mother as a total moron.
You should, now that the fascists, Nazis, racists, homophobes, trans-haters and cannibals have taken over!
What a wasted space this clown is....Why not drive over to Maryland and take her to the Post Office you pussy.
Dear Lydia....YOU and YOUR MOM are DUMBASSES for BELIEVING DEMOCRATS!
“She lives in Maryland; I live in New York.”
You are screwed in a lot more ways than this.
Funny. I was just worried about the exact same thing!! Is there a vaccine?
I can’t believe the author would publish this. Plenty of ways of proof, no need to be so unstable.
Yep! Just ask the owners of that pet squirrel. It was a full-blown SWAT attack.
Thanks. The OP sent me a primer also.
If 2016 felt like a fluke, a bolt of lightning akin to a freak accident, this feels systemic.
2016 was a burglary, taking everything in the house and in the bank.
The grey lady is dead.
Television.
Sigh…….
Like a little bit pregnant?
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