Do any of you make a point to avoid politics at Thanksgiving dinner? I’m really hoping for a peaceful holiday this year.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I have relatives on both sides of the political spectrum, and they are all welcome at my (moderate) table. I don’t want political talk, and I’m confident nobody else does either.

I see people as more than their political leanings and this world has enough hate in it already. I’m not going to add to it.

You do you but I refuse to embrace family members who vote for someone like Trump. It’s like turning a blind eye to people in the South who threw rocks at Black children integrating schools or Black people sitting at Whites Only lunch counters. Nope

DP.

Ironically, this means that you would exclude from your table my BIPOC FIL who was not allowed to attend integrated schools until high school. He voted for Trump.

Seems your lunch counter is exclusionary.

+1
The PP is a complete simpleton.

This Board is getting less intelligent the longer Trump is in office.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have relatives on both sides of the political spectrum, and they are all welcome at my (moderate) table. I don’t want political talk, and I’m confident nobody else does either.

I see people as more than their political leanings and this world has enough hate in it already. I’m not going to add to it.

You do you but I refuse to embrace family members who vote for someone like Trump. It’s like turning a blind eye to people in the South who threw rocks at Black children integrating schools or Black people sitting at Whites Only lunch counters. Nope

DP.

Ironically, this means that you would exclude from your table my BIPOC FIL who was not allowed to attend integrated schools until high school. He voted for Trump.

Seems your lunch counter is exclusionary.

People vote against their own interests all if the time. If they also voted for Trump, I’m not serving them dinner.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have relatives on both sides of the political spectrum, and they are all welcome at my (moderate) table. I don’t want political talk, and I’m confident nobody else does either.

I see people as more than their political leanings and this world has enough hate in it already. I’m not going to add to it.

You do you but I refuse to embrace family members who vote for someone like Trump. It’s like turning a blind eye to people in the South who threw rocks at Black children integrating schools or Black people sitting at Whites Only lunch counters. Nope

DP.

Ironically, this means that you would exclude from your table my BIPOC FIL who was not allowed to attend integrated schools until high school. He voted for Trump.

Seems your lunch counter is exclusionary.

People vote against their own interests all if the time. If they also voted for Trump, I’m not serving them dinner.

Your lunch counter, your rules. Just pointing out that broader application of your rules produces some ugly results.

[Anonymous]

My family runs the gamut from religious conservative to communist. But we know better than to talk politics when we get together - even my uncle who occasionally spouts certain opinions does so without getting too aggressive. No one "hates" anyone else, so there's no anti-immigrant (or anti-anything else) rhetoric, or us vs them sort of mindset.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have relatives on both sides of the political spectrum, and they are all welcome at my (moderate) table. I don’t want political talk, and I’m confident nobody else does either.

I see people as more than their political leanings and this world has enough hate in it already. I’m not going to add to it.

But if they voted for t-rump, then how can you invite them into your home? Seriously, known MAGAs??

HOW could you do that OP??!?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My daughter likes to joke about Trump and even cracks jokes about Charlie Kirk, and my brother is most likely showing up in his Trump hat. I’m just trying to prevent any tension or arguments at the table.

If you’ve dealt with mixed political views in the family, how do you keep things respectful and drama-free during the holidays?

We have a rule NO POLITICS, NO RELIGION,

So no thanks to God?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No Trumpers at our table, but if my brother showed up in MAGA hat (and he's just the kind of @sshole to do that) I would definitely not be peaceful. In fact, I'd probably go out beforehand and have a custom table cloth made devoted to my gratitude of feminism and have it adorned with Hillary, Kamala, Elizabeth, and Michelle.

My indivisible group has been selling No Kings bandanas to raise money, it was suggested to use them as Thanksgiving napkins

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I have relatives on both sides of the political spectrum, and they are all welcome at my (moderate) table. I don’t want political talk, and I’m confident nobody else does either.

I see people as more than their political leanings and this world has enough hate in it already. I’m not going to add to it.

You do you but I refuse to embrace family members who vote for someone like Trump. It’s like turning a blind eye to people in the South who threw rocks at Black children integrating schools or Black people sitting at Whites Only lunch counters. Nope

Your grotesque hyperbole is doing you no favors. Don't forget to compare him to Hitler and throw in a few "concentration camps" for good measure.
DP

DP. You can eyeroll and gaslight all you want, but Trump truly is next level evil/awful. The criticism of him is not hyperbole. This is about core values, decency, ethics, and morality at this point. These are not discussions about basic fiscal policies. This is about constant lying from this administration, human rights violations in the name of immigration enforcement, blatant corruption by Trump and his cronies while they are gleefully firing hardworking feds, destruction of a fair and independent DOJ, attempts to undermine fair elections and democracy itself. On and on. And that isn't even scratching the surface of the repugnant personal actions of Trump outside of the times he's been POTUS.

If you find these things to be excusable or unimportant, people like those of us on this thread have zero interest in spending time with you. Why would we want to spend Thanksgiving with morally bankrupt people? Who cares if they are relations or not?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thankfully it won’t be an issue for us. I 100% respect that people can have different opinions but I could not host a Trump suppporting family member right now given what he and his cult are doing to our country. I will support your right to vote for a racist, grifting fascist but I will not serve you dinner.

I love this response.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have relatives on both sides of the political spectrum, and they are all welcome at my (moderate) table. I don’t want political talk, and I’m confident nobody else does either.

I see people as more than their political leanings and this world has enough hate in it already. I’m not going to add to it.

You do you but I refuse to embrace family members who vote for someone like Trump. It’s like turning a blind eye to people in the South who threw rocks at Black children integrating schools or Black people sitting at Whites Only lunch counters. Nope

Your grotesque hyperbole is doing you no favors. Don't forget to compare him to Hitler and throw in a few "concentration camps" for good measure.
DP

Masked men abducting people off the street and sending them to foreign countries without due process is not hyperbole. You’re the obe who mentioned Hitler. Maybe try some anti-cult therapy. Seems like it could help.

But that's not what you said, is it? You claim that voting for Trump is the same as "turning a blind eye" to segregation and to people throwing rocks at black children. That is indeed disgusting hyperbole. You seem to have no concept of reality, the reality being that NONE of that is occurring, or even close to it.

And I have no idea what an "obe" is, nor do I care.

Obe is a typo for “one”. Maybe look up the term simile and then seek help. The fact that you don’t know that Noem and Trump and Miller are allowing ICE to abduct people off the street and send them to foreign countries without due process is VERY disturbing.

Bless your heart. I truly feel for anyone who has to spend their Thanksgiving with you - it's clear what an unpleasant day is in store for them.

You bring as much joy to the world as a wet sock.

[Anonymous]

Say “Quiet Piggy” to your brother if he says any stupid MAGA shit

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The only people who start arguments in our extended family are libs. They can F’ anything up. Very on-brand for them.

First rule of being a lib is to let everyone else know you’re a lib.

[Anonymous]

We no longer get together with Trumper family members for holidays.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We no longer get together with Trumper family members for holidays.

Especially if you have children in the house.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have relatives on both sides of the political spectrum, and they are all welcome at my (moderate) table. I don’t want political talk, and I’m confident nobody else does either.

I see people as more than their political leanings and this world has enough hate in it already. I’m not going to add to it.

You do you but I refuse to embrace family members who vote for someone like Trump. It’s like turning a blind eye to people in the South who threw rocks at Black children integrating schools or Black people sitting at Whites Only lunch counters. Nope

Your grotesque hyperbole is doing you no favors. Don't forget to compare him to Hitler and throw in a few "concentration camps" for good measure.
DP

DP. You can eyeroll and gaslight all you want, but Trump truly is next level evil/awful. The criticism of him is not hyperbole. This is about core values, decency, ethics, and morality at this point. These are not discussions about basic fiscal policies. This is about constant lying from this administration, human rights violations in the name of immigration enforcement, blatant corruption by Trump and his cronies while they are gleefully firing hardworking feds, destruction of a fair and independent DOJ, attempts to undermine fair elections and democracy itself. On and on. And that isn't even scratching the surface of the repugnant personal actions of Trump outside of the times he's been POTUS.

If you find these things to be excusable or unimportant, people like those of us on this thread have zero interest in spending time with you. Why would we want to spend Thanksgiving with morally bankrupt people? Who cares if they are relations or not?

They have no morals or systems of ethics. It’s beyond them that you would.

At the same time that they will swallow the awful actions of the administration they will sit around and talk about “the illegals,” AND at the same time pretending to be Christian.