When faced with being the family punching bag this Thanksgiving for uncles with harrowing takes on immigration, Aiden McMahon, Peace Studies ‘24  decided to skip the horrors of it all and “pass” on today. “Hard pass,” McMahon clarified. “You could not pay me.”

This comes as a disappointment to his fiscally conservative, socially liberal cousin Maggie, who was looking forward to debating “Should people without a bachelor’s degree be able to vote?” with him and Aunt Sarah, who was hoping to enter the ring with her belief that books written by gay people should be banned from every school.

McMahon instead opted to stay at the airport this break and pretend that his flight from John Wayne got perpetually canceled. “Instead of having to talk about the humanitarian crisis in Gaza with my dad, I can just send a selfie of me sitting at my gate everyday in the family group chat with the caption ‘ughhhh canceled again :(,’” he said while eating his 11th Carl’s Jr. Beyond Burger this week. 

We commend McMahon for his avoidance of difficult but necessary conversations about current international tragedies and making everything about himself instead. The true spirit of Thanksgiving!