The banality of the photographs at that link is enough to make a sensitive person swear off foreign travel forever. Sample caption: "Mallory Roelke traveled to the Greek island of Santorini in late October, just as the Election Day in the United States was approaching." Don't go to the link and look. You know exactly where Roelke is standing. Other Roelke photos include her standing in front of the Parthenon and a closeup of a glass of white wine held aloft in front of a vineyard in Sicily.
November 8, 2024
"It just seems to encompass literally everything. It bleeds into everyday life and every interaction you have with other people, and so that’s very stressful."
Said Mallory Roelke, 35, from Dallas, about presidential election politics, quoted in "Exhausted by the Election, Some Americans Are Catching Flights Abroad/For some voters, the campaign season has felt draining. Some are recharging by heading to Mexico City, Barbados or the English Cotswolds, to name a few," in the NYT, which seems to be ever on the alert for new ways to promote travel.
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I think your NYT link is broken anyway, so it's redundant to warn us against clicking.
If Politics bleeds into all your interactions, then you are the problem.
Is it my understanding this thirty something woman has the means and flexibility to take a long vacation lasting several days in October/November for the sole purpose of avoiding election stress? If so, I’m betting she brought her phone and looked at it the whole time…
mercifully…
It seems to encompass everything because you NEED it to encompass everything. If the government had not gotten out of hand it would not. All politics is local and it should be. Every level of government should always be doing the absolute minimum that it needs to. What that minimum is at the federal level is worthy of discussion BUT everyone should be able to agree it is too large and tries to do too much. The intent of the founders was that POTUS was the least important politician in your life and instead has become the most important. The most important should be your state Governor, followed by your Mayor, your representatives, and finally POTUS. We need to strive to get back to that!
"It just seems to encompass literally everything. It bleeds into everyday life and every interaction you have with other people, and so that’s very stressful."
When your politics has become your religion it sure does, Mallory..
And they probably all thought a vote for Harris was a vote for the Environment.
Talk about the Pauline Kael response to the election.
In the NYT, which seems to be ever on the alert for new ways to try to hoodwink their readers into thinking Americans are fleeing the country because of Donald Trump.
FTFY
You'll be less involved with government, and government will be less involved with you, in a conservative government model. Welcome to America.
They're not promoting travel. They're waving their passport stamps at the benighted.
More than any Trumpsterics, this affirms that the Left will never get it.
Which stage of grief would you say this is?
And yet, they won't stay away. Those sorry a$$ losers always come back.
I thought this was a funny experiment: I went to the Flux.1 AI image generator and just gave it the prompt "smug American woman posing for vacation photo on Greek island of Santorini." It generated almost the same photo that NYT ran, except for the smug American woman's clothes and hair.
https://r2.flux1.ai/result-66yOyKkkM4.png
(I am not suggesting that the NYT used an AI image generator, only that they chose to run a photo that looks like that sort of thing, and could have saved a lot of money if they did.)
I booked a trip out of the country next month too, but it had nothing to do with Presidential politics and everything to do with seeking warmer weather and doing some family celebrating. I must admit that I wish I had the money to travel the Med every election cycle just to cheer me up. I guess being a rich liberal is living the life, except they always seem to be talking about their problems with depression. Maybe I don't really wish for that lifestyle. I like being mentally stable more than travelling.
"Mallory", now there is a working-class name.
The English Cotswold! I'd do that just to visit Diddly Squat Farm and give the finger to the local town council.
Bullseye on the remark re NY Times mentioning overseas travel AGAIN. Perhaps on some far-flung island or country the traveler can wrestle with why the electorate largely seemed to have issues with the economy and inflation while simultaneously there are so many faraway places in which to find solace.
LOL!
"It just seems to encompass literally everything. It bleeds into everyday life and every interaction you have with other people, and so that’s very stressful."
That's funny. I had, I believe quite literally, no discussions about politics with strangers or acquaintances during the election season.
If you can't handle discussions about politics, don't do it. It's not difficult.
I always jet off to Santorni when I'm stressed.
BTW, who are these rich people who do all this international travel?
Hell, I'm in rural Ireland and Trump is all anyone seems to want to talk about. Three are far more supporters than I might have imagined, but I try to avoid the topic.
I'm recharging with a cup of coffee and a cinnamon crunch bagel at Panera. Screw those Libs...
Or maybe they are just taking advantage of low cost, off-season travel.
I don't think it has anything to do with elections. They get away because of their distress at paying $3 for eggs and $7 for butter.
I stopped watching cable news by early 2016 and had already stopped watching late night shows.
Politicians come and go, but elite self-regard is forever.
I talked with a (legal, green-card) immigrant on Wednesday. She was depressed and fearful. "It's not a good day to be an immigrant, when you don't know if you'll be allowed to stay." OMG. I blame the anti-Trump people for spreading the most ludicrous, obscene, nasty fear-inducing bullshit. Good God, don't they have any shame? I recommended to my acquaintance that she pay no attention to anything she hears - most of what Trump wants won't come to pass anyway, and almost none of what his opponents (pretend to) fear is going to happen.
Inherited wealth
Perhaps these people who travel to emotionally deal with an election will have time to reflect during their trip that while they are able to drop thousands of dollars to travel abroad other have problems buying their weekly groceries and maybe that has something to do with the election results.
In much of the West lots of people want to get to a culture where it is normal and good to love your country, want the best for your country, and have leaders that love and care for THEIR country and not some globalist worldview instead.
I visited Santorini back in 1974, at that time tourists usually stayed for a day at most, but I stayed for a couple of weeks with a family. It was a totally providential arrangement, I went with a guy I met at the ferry port to his family's home. I became part of the family: mom, grandmother, brothers, etc. They were really nice people, very poor. I really got into the local scene, shared meals with them, etc.
I'm glad I went before it was totally "gentrified" and spiffy, although it does look very nice in the photos. Still, it is shocking to see how much it has changed.
Perfection. LOL
Don't go to Norway. Apparently they suffer from TDS there, as well:
https://x.com/espenteigen/status/1854835903459467526
...I was thinking that's why they are headed to the Cotswolds...
It's as if there were a competition to see who could be more upset about the election.
A greencard holder is a legal, permanent resident. She can't be kicked out.
The best part of this retaking of America is putting Wine Karen back in her place.
and she's real good at juggling.
"Exhausted by the Election, Some Americans Are Catching Flights Abroad. Some are recharging by heading to Mexico City, Barbados or the English Cotswolds, to name a few."
Well, see now- that's the difference between the privileged left and the folks in flyover country whose taxes cover the left's paychecks. When those regular folks want to recharge, they get a beer out of the refrigerator and go out in the backyard to play with their dog.
"Two movies playing on one screen."
The New York Times is parody-proof.
Don't these selfish bastards know that the EARTH is BOILING! They need to stay at home with their AC off like the rest of us!
Mark (no, not that Mark)
Oh, so that's what they mean when they say "If he wins, I'm leaving the country."
There's a stark illustration of the gulf between New York times readers and Trump voters. Times readers can easily jet off to another country because they have The Sadz over an election they lost.
A significant percentage of Trump voters, instead of paying for travel, are scrambling to afford such luxury goods as "food" and "rent."
These people seem completely invisible to Times readers.
A transatlantic trip to Lesbos may offer a gay outing to settle the dissonance.
I am with those who point out the difference between those who can afford a therapy vacation and those who have to work for a living. And yet none of the big brains at the NYT can figure out the conundrum of Trump's support.
Selfies... I HATE SELFIES!!
"Mallory Roelke traveled to the Greek island of Santorini in late October, just as the Election Day in the United States was approaching."
Did she bring her cats?
I agree with Ficta: perfection
and she's real good at juggling.
I first scanned that as "... jiggling." I know, I am a very bad man.
The English Cotswold! I'd do that just to visit Diddly Squat Farm and give the finger to the local town council.
For a couple years I lived several miles from Diddly Squat. There's scarcely a prettier place on the planet. On a nice day.
I thought Ole and Lena were still trying to figure out what goes where.
Times readers are sad and hurting, so everything the paper usually publishes is getting repacked as ways to cheer yourself up.
Today it's books and travel. Tomorrow it will be cooking and fashion. Sunday, restaurants, music and movies.
How do you stay so brainwashed? NPR 24/7?
Yes. On one hand we have people who can take extended vacations abroad and on the other we have people who wonder how they're going to afford groceries.
I was hoping they would have a comment section on the article, but the NYT must not be as clueless as they are acting.
I remember that scene from one of my favorite films, Legends of the Fall, where Brad Pitt is depicted as suffering horribly over his memories of his brother's death - smoking hash on a boat to the Orient, wedged between two lovely women. Oh, the suffering, the pain, the torment!
I get the same sorta feels over this post and its contents. How can anyone suffer more than this person enjoying a trip to great tourist locations in the Med, while writing drivel and sending in a few selfies so it can be deducted from her income on taxes and perhaps also partially refunded under a Times travel expense account. If she double dips like that, who will ever know?
Ditto.
Not brainwashed. Just confused. Commented under wrong post.
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