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

[Anonymous]

I never thought once to talk politics at any family gathering until 10 years ago, when it became practically impossible to avoid it.

Then that resulted in my slowly looking around the room at the different things that were coming out of people’s mouths and realized that I possibly didn’t really know them at all as well as I once thought I did.

It was kind of a deal breaker

[Anonymous]

Trumpers are not invited.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Trumpers are not invited.

NO republicans are invited!!

[Anonymous]

For your MAGA guests, I recommend making placemats out of pictures of Trump with Epstein.

[Anonymous]

I didn’t vote for Trump and have never voted for a Republican except Hogan, but the most annoying people at Thanksgiving are my brainwashed boomer liberal in laws who literally believe every single thing they hear on MSNBC. They have zero opinions that conflict with MSNBC orthodoxy on any issues and are extremely boring, trite conversationalists because of it. I’ll take my socialist / anarchist cousins any day over them because at least I can’t telegraph everything they’re going to say 100% of the time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For your MAGA guests, I recommend making placemats out of pictures of Trump with Epstein.

And for your liberal guests I recommend printing out this press release from ICE on 2015 when Obama was president:

https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ero-ead-thomas-homan-receives-2015-presidential-rank-award

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For your MAGA guests, I recommend making placemats out of pictures of Trump with Epstein.

And for your liberal guests I recommend printing out this press release from ICE on 2015 when Obama was president:

https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ero-ead-thomas-homan-receives-2015-presidential-rank-award

Yes. Homan was very good at deporting criminals who were in the country under Obama. As you’ll recall, Obama deported more people than any other POTUS: with due process and without cosplaying a video game.

Unfortunately, in the interim, Homan seems to have lost his way.

[Anonymous]

Of course you don't talk about politics in mixed company! Tell your daughter to control herself and tell your brother no hats at thanksgiving.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For your MAGA guests, I recommend making placemats out of pictures of Trump with Epstein.

And for your liberal guests I recommend printing out this press release from ICE on 2015 when Obama was president:

https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ero-ead-thomas-homan-receives-2015-presidential-rank-award

Yes. Homan was very good at deporting criminals who were in the country under Obama. As you’ll recall, Obama deported more people than any other POTUS: with due process and without cosplaying a video game.

Unfortunately, in the interim, Homan seems to have lost his way.

It’s cute that you think Homan and Obama were only deporting criminals. Latino groups had issues with Obama because he was deporting thousands of illegal immigrants, not just criminals.

[Anonymous]

You should not even be still speaking to a friend or relative if they are MAGA.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Of course you don't talk about politics in mixed company! Tell your daughter to control herself and tell your brother no hats at thanksgiving.

You need to talk politics to find out it's mixed company. I would have never known some of the ugly thoughts hiding inside people's brains if they didn't open their mouth to talk about politics.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For your MAGA guests, I recommend making placemats out of pictures of Trump with Epstein.

And for your liberal guests I recommend printing out this press release from ICE on 2015 when Obama was president:

https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ero-ead-thomas-homan-receives-2015-presidential-rank-award

Yes. Homan was very good at deporting criminals who were in the country under Obama. As you’ll recall, Obama deported more people than any other POTUS: with due process and without cosplaying a video game.

Unfortunately, in the interim, Homan seems to have lost his way.

It’s cute that you think Homan and Obama were only deporting criminals. Latino groups had issues with Obama because he was deporting thousands of illegal immigrants, not just criminals.

This is not a purity test (NP). You can be critical of what Trump is doing while also not having agreed with Obama (who has been out of office 10 years now). But, Obama at least didn't disappear people with a masked gestapo force and terrorize local communities. There is no both sides to that.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For your MAGA guests, I recommend making placemats out of pictures of Trump with Epstein.

And for your liberal guests I recommend printing out this press release from ICE on 2015 when Obama was president:

https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ero-ead-thomas-homan-receives-2015-presidential-rank-award

Yes. Homan was very good at deporting criminals who were in the country under Obama. As you’ll recall, Obama deported more people than any other POTUS: with due process and without cosplaying a video game.

Unfortunately, in the interim, Homan seems to have lost his way.

It’s cute that you think Homan and Obama were only deporting criminals. Latino groups had issues with Obama because he was deporting thousands of illegal immigrants, not just criminals.

This is not a purity test (NP). You can be critical of what Trump is doing while also not having agreed with Obama (who has been out of office 10 years now). But, Obama at least didn't disappear people with a masked gestapo force and terrorize local communities. There is no both sides to that.

Cell phone cameras weren’t as prevalent then, so you literally have no idea if Obama was terrorizing communities or not. And Obama should have rightly been deporting illegal immigrants. It’s one of the reasons why he’s the best president in the past 50 years!

Nations have a right and duty to deport people who enter their countries illegally. If countries who deport illegal immigrants are “fascist” literally every country in the world would qualify as a fascist country

This is from an article in 2014, so this 2 million figure is surely less than the final number.

https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/new-reports-undermine-obama-administrations-claims-about-deportations/

The principal finding of the Times investigation is a damning indictment of an administration that has claimed repeatedly to be targeting the worst of the worst violent, foreign-born criminals. In reality, according to the Times analysis, “two-thirds of the nearly two million deportation cases involve people who had committed minor infractions, including traffic violations, or had no criminal record at all.” In contrast, only “twenty percent—or about 394,000—of the cases involved people convicted of serious crimes, including drug-related offenses, the records show.”

The point is unless you were raising concerns 10 years ago about deporting non criminals - most liberals on this board weren’t - you have no moral standing to act like deporting non criminals is an issue now.

[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.

OP said her brother will likely show up in a Trump hat, so this is not your situation.

I think many people don't understand a family member like this or one who badgers you. It's not a polite "Let's stop talking politics" and everything is hunky dory for all families.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Ok. I'm a very politically active Democrat, married to someone who voted for Trump this last time. (But not the first two times!).

Here's how I see it. I love my husband, and I love my relatives who voted for the person I detest and totally lack respect for. #47 has cost me plenty already, because I think he has greatly weakened my country. (And I love America! even though I don't put flags all over myself).

We won't talk politics, at all. We will appreciate being together, the kids being a year older, the good food, the traditions. Geez, some of these people may not be alive next year. (We're getting up there).

I don't understand how anyone could vote for Trump, and I loathe him, but I also love people I have known for years, and I hope they'll figure out how wrong their vote was. But we're not talking about that on Turkey Day.

Sorry, but I would consider divorce. Voting for Trump in 2024 is inexcusable. And I'm friends with someone who voted for Trump. I draw the line at being married to one.

DP. I wouldn't want someone like you in my house. No extremists, and you are most definitely an extremist.

The irony here is delicious as turkey.