One of the many unfortunate aspects of the Trump reign is that it has me more meanspirited. I find I take special delight when something bad happens to any of his supporters who, of course, are legion. This is obviously bad for the soul, but I nonetheless revel in such occurrences.
Take, for example, the case of Cynthia Olivera, a Canadian living in the United States and married to an American. To hear Cynthia's version, she has been ill-used, having been brought to the U.S. by her parents "without permission" when she was 10 years old. She married an American and has three children, and both she and husband Francisco were cheerful advocates of Trump's deportation policies until they affected Cynthia.
The family of a Canadian national who supported Donald Trump’s plans for mass deportations of immigrants say they are feeling betrayed after federal agents recently detained the woman in California while she interviewed for permanent US residency – and began working to expel her from the country.
“We feel totally blindsided,” Cynthia Olivera’s husband – US citizen and self-identified Trump voter Francisco Olivera – told the California news station KGTV. “I want my vote back.”
By 1999, when she was about 19, US immigration officials at the Buffalo border crossing had determined Olivera was living in the country without legal status and obtained an expedited order to deport her. But, after being removed, she was able to return to the US by driving to San Diego from Mexico within a few months.
In 2024, toward the end of his presidency, Joe Biden’s administration granted her a permit allowing her to work legally in the US. She had also been navigating the process to obtain legal permanent US residency, colloquially referred to as a green card, for years.
Apparently, the generosity of the Biden presidency was not appreciated, the family putting their full support behind Trump. Despite living and working for 25 years in the United States, Cynthia was soon to fall victim to the very policy she ardently supported, a spokesperson saying in a statement that Cynthia was “an illegal alien from Canada”.
Olivera had been “previously deported and chose to ignore our law and again illegally entered the country”, said the spokesperson’s statement, as reported by Newsweek. The statement noted that re-entering the US without permission after being deported is a felony, and it said Olivera would remain in Ice’s custody “pending removal to Canada”.
For some it is a sobering experience when they learn they are not so special, and the rules they thought applied only to others come knocking on their door.
Karma does, indeed, bite.
The German word for happiness at the misfortune of others is Schadenfreude. It's a combination of "Schaden" (damage, harm) and "Freude" (joy).
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Leopards Eating People's Faces Party
From an October 2015 tweet by Adrian Bott (@cavalorn): "'I never thought leopards would eat MY face,' sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party."
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Leopards_Eating_People%27s_Faces_Party
Morality is your agreement with yourself to abide by your own rules. robert heinlein
The traditional adherence to play by the political "Queensberry" rules and expectation of decency was certainly overwhelmed by the Maga hats.
Donny has already toyed with “He who saves his Country does not violate any Law.”
After we feel our feelings it might be time to think the same way; to go dog warrior; (tying yourself to a stake pounded in the ground and fighting til the end). Fun times.
Thanks for the information and references, lungta. I must confess that the world, as it exists now, is quickly slipping beyond my grasp. I'm not sure that when the train comes for me, I will be sad to board it.
DeleteAnd the nonsense from south of the border continues.....
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Rural
Thanks, Rural. it almost sounds like something one would find in The Onion or The Beaverton, doesn't it?
DeleteRegarding "Schadenfreude", I once heard a joke where someone pronounced it "Skoo'-den-fru-de", rhyming somewhat with Tutti-frutti, as the ice cream, and now the running joke in our house when we hear someone who gets what is coming to them, we say, "Ah, 2 scoops!" Sometimes "with sprinkles" if the misfortune was extremely deserving.
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Sounds better than the real pronunciation, Anon!
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