I'll be the one dining amongst the reds this year. Most of my family is content with just casual bigotry, but my brother is more outspoken and knows how to push my buttons (obviously, he's the youngest). My plan is to get drunk, quickly, so that I don't feel any guilt or shame about speaking my mind right back at him.
You should learn the facts and numbers well. Maybe even listen to some Shapiro to ready yourself for the flavor of points they'll try and make
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OspMIhmbn8Q
You might find this helpful. There will likely be another this year (fyi Beau took a sabbatical for workaholism and his wife Belle and collaborators are doing an excellent job of carrying it forward)
Trump won the popular vote.
We're the ones that are not invited.
Friendsgiving is the better holiday anyway
Promise?
Thank god
No-thanks giving™
I'm not going to Thanksgiving this year. I'd rather celebrate with my cats than my crazy family
My tradition (ever since I moved away from my irl friends) is to stock up on one of every type of turkey TV dinner at the grocery store, then feast on that over the course of the 5-day weekend (thank you, Union!). It's super chill. I play video games and knit. My pup and I will hang out at the dog park.
This is the first time I have ever had a good (medical) excuse to not attend my wife's conservative family's Thanksgiving. The problem is they're evangelicals and this is Indiana, so they always vote red.
To their credit, they are very warm and welcome people. They accepted my daughter is queer the moment my wife told them (whereas my supposedly left-wing mother poorly hides her distaste) and they welcomed me into their family despite knowing I was Jewish. They have never once tried to convert me.
I don't really get it, but it won't be an issue for much longer anyway because we're emigrating ASAP.
Credit to @lukeymcgarry on Instagram.
Surprised they don't watermark
My parents are pulling almost exactly this from my aunt and uncle because they're Trump voters.
Looking at the inverse here. My entire family except for one of my brothers, my wife, and myself are chuds. If I didn't have/want a good relationship with my parents I'd stay home
Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers?
Never saw it but I can see the VHS cover in my head now. It was always on the shelf but I never did rent it. Watched all kinds of other stuff but never did manage to see CHUD.
Any idiot who says, "your body, my choice" at Thanksgiving is going to get force fed a drumstick the hard way. It is long past time to stop being polite with them. Women are dying because of this.
That's the point where I'd politely ask them to come outside with me, then beat the shit out of them while repeating "Your body (punch), my choice (punch)" until I felt they got the point.
Yes, but no, wait, let's not ruin the drumstick. Let's use these salad tongs!
People who enjoy it when others are unhappy bother me so much.
I don't enjoy it when Republicans are unhappy. Sometimes I think they deserve to be unhappy, but I do not enjoy it.
I'm in the opposite boat. My inlaws are all MAGA whereas my wife and I are very much liberal. This is 'her' year for visiting family and she does want to go, but I've already warned her that her entire family is on the THINNEST of ice. It's going to take a miracle for us to actually stay. I'm sort of looking forward to the first comment from them where we can simply scoop up the kids and head out.
My wife and I both posted images on Facebook about how we don't feel safe around people who voted Trump and don't consider them friends. Not even really decided if we'd say anything to family yet. Their parents sent them a message basically saying "so logically you don't consider us friends or feel safe around us." So that was the last straw. We aren't going.
Yeah. Last time I saw them they had a screaming fit in front of my kids about how much they hate black people. Unprovoked. They are SHOCKED we blocked them on socials. Like idk what you expect, but I'm not going to find out.
I haven't spoken to one of my trucker cousins since 2016. Used to talk every family gathering, shoot the shit and catch up, talk about whatever until it was time to leave.
Now I actively ignore that he has even spoken if we're at the same family gathering that I didn't set up or host. Hasn't been invited to any that I do.
And apparently, he "doesn't know why"
they/them nieces 'n' nephews
I guess it would be asking too much of the average MAGAt to know the word "nibling".
Sounds like something you do before Thanksgiving dinner while nobody is looking.
Yumyumyum
Edit: was meant as a reply to someone who is getting ready to endure sitting at the table with red hats; and had accidentally instead replied to OP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OspMIhmbn8Q
You might find this helpful. There will likely be another this year (fyi Beau took a sabbatical for workaholism and his wife Belle and collaborators are doing an excellent job of carrying it forward)
Fuck, we're felons.
