Dear Eddie,
Thanks for coming to Family Weekend to surprise Gideon. He loved having you here and being able to talk to you about his classes.
I love that we can still spend time together like regular people/parents even though we are divorced. It’s good for us and for our kids.
Gideon and Mikayla even ditched a Halloween party with their friends to hang out with us and play cards.
(And no, you are not the reigning Uno champ in anyone’s record book. Ask Uncle Pat.)
I was glad you were here this weekend for another reason: I got to see your reaction in person to this:
“Comedy” at its finest, amirite?!
(To all people defending him and the rally in general: Explain the joke. Tell me like I’m five how it’s funny and not offensive. And if it’s that he’s a “shock comic” that took aim at everyone, tell me why there weren’t any jokes about white people. Seriously.)
I could almost see the blood boiling beneath your skin.
One thing Trump didn’t do at the rally, surprisingly, was repeat his stupid claim that children go to school for gender reassignment surgery.
Me: Can you imagine? The school wouldn’t even give Gideon a Tylenol for a headache without a note from me!
You: But yet they have surgery suites with doctors and nurses in one of the classrooms. Sure.
Me: And all within a school day! When teachers are buying supplies out of their own pockets. Right.
You: How can anyone believe this?
It was just like old times.
The good news is that Gideon is just like us.
After I texted him what I said to a high-school “friend” who called the MSG rally “patriotic” (the same rally that one of the speakers — radio host Sid Rosenberg — called “a Nazi rally“), he texted the following. (We all curse like sailors so I sanitized it for publication.)
Thought I’m a fan of his POV, I’d love some punctuation.
By the way, did I tell you that he sent in his request for an absentee ballot back in September and Georgia (specifically Chatham County) STILL hasn’t sent it? Same for Mikayla. He’s been calling to no avail. It’s maddening. And Georgia is a swing state too. SIGH.
Anyway, thanks again for coming. It was good to see you.
Beth
*Now you’ll be singing this all day.
Observe and report 
When my dad was in the army in WW II he was stationed in CA at the Salton Sea where there was (is still) an enormous radio transmission and receiving station. Most of the other people in his outfit were from Puerto Rico. That was my dad’s first exposure to Spanish beyond a school subject and he loved it. In the cover of his precious Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam he transcribed all the songs he learned from his “Puerto Rican outfit.” IMO these fascist racist phucs have no idea of their own humanity let alone that of everyone else’s. I’m very happy your family is family. ❤️
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I have a love for the island, the culture, food and people. The “joke” wasn’t/isn’t funny. Why can’t people just stop saying stupid racist things? It shouldn’t be hard.
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I don’t know. I don’t understand much these days. 😦
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It’s just my sense of humor that I noticed Gideon’s call to action is to publish a paper. Very civilized! 🙂 On second thought, maybe you’ll make it onto the enemies list of a certain someone by publishing a critique of sorts of said someone. (Yeah, I know how tricky comedy and humor can be.)
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He’s spiteful. Maybe he would threaten to shoot me in the face.
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