Here post your "after action" reports of Thanksgiving interaction with moonbat relatives/friends

11/28/05 | Various deluded libs

[dukeman]

I personally had no interactions with moonbats on Thanksgiving Day. It was a fine occasion, topped off with my assuming the traditional post-meal position-- asleep in the recliner with a belly full of turkey and stuffing. But I know some of you did have close encounters with moonbats. To loosen you up, here are some moonbat accounts from DU:

CornField (1000+ posts) Mon Nov-28-05 11:13 AM
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I need to bitch -- Thanksgiving prayer was political

I'm so happy to be home and logged on so I can finally launch a rant about the Thanksgiving prayer offered by my Bush-lovin' brother. (And, Cam, if you're reading, I'll be phoning you to rant in person - LOL!)

There we are, gathered around the mega-abundance of the day, and two youngest (age 5 and 3) begin to eat. An aunt tells them to stop because the food has not been blessed. They look at me and I figure we should abide by the rules of the house we are in. I tell them to wait until after the prayer. Several minutes later, everyone (over 40 of us) are in the room and the prayer begins. It starts off nice enough... "bless the food... nurishment for our bodies... bless those who cannot be with their families today... keep everyone safe as they travel back to their homes... "

Then 3-4 lines of the prayer were for the "liberals" (me & my family) that our souls might be opened up and the Holy Spirit poured in so that we might know the errors of our ways. In addition, it was requested that God not condemn us to hell immediately, but allow us more time on earth to change our ways.

Just when I thought I might walk out, the prayer turned to the NFL (for the Cowboys, of course) and then began once again on "those who have abandoned what they were taught about God's love" (also my family - pagans).

I never realized that prayer could incite me to violence. Crappy family.

elehhhhna (1000+ posts) Mon Nov-28-05 11:14 AM
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1. "I pray for you" is the new F.U. nice.

Dances with Cats (161 posts) Mon Nov-28-05 11:14 AM
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2. I am judged by my own family on a minute to minute, NO! second to second basis...

ET Awful (1000+ posts) Mon Nov-28-05 11:15 AM
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3. I would have walked out.

I'm not patient or gracious enough to tolerate that crap.

MarsThe Cat (968 posts) Mon Nov-28-05 11:17 AM
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7. same here.

and i have walked out of a thanksgiving family dinner (turkey day 2000 was NOT pretty).

lumberjack_jeff (428 posts) Mon Nov-28-05 11:43 AM
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35. Not me...

I'd have sat down and started eating their chow - mid prayer.

I wouldn't have picked up my dishes either.

Rude? Of course. When in Rome do as the romans do.

If I were feeling especially cranky, I would have offered my own prayer at the end of the political rant:

"In the name of the father, the son and the holy ghost: F*** the Cowboys. Amen."

Bike Punk (21 posts) Mon Nov-28-05 11:18 AM
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8. While shopping with my mom in TX this past spring, I was pleasantly surprised when I said "Thanks! Have a nice day." to her [the sales clerk], only to receive a "God Bless You!" in return.

I wasn't sure if she was a fundie in Abercrombie clothing, or saying "F-U and get out of my store, you godless, america-hating scumbag."

Still creeps me out.

wtbymark (764 posts) Mon Nov-28-05 11:39 AM
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31. I didn't........

I didn't eat any turkey, I didn't visit with any family (especially an evening with the fundies)I didn't rejoice in the diseases that the pilgrims brought to this land or the genocide that followed, I didn't do any shopping (except for some cat food and milk for coffee). I had a calm day off from work, sat on the couch, watched football and napped through most of it - who played again? Oh well, it was a relaxing thursday. Friday night I played an acoustic gig, and saturday night I ran saound for another band. In other words, I did what I normally do - not buy into any religo/politico dogma and I'm not going shopping because some corperation tells me I "should".

Just another manic monday-

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orpupilofnature57 (1000+ posts) Fri Nov-25-05 07:33 PM
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4. My sister's girlfriend was sticking up for Bono, who I **** on for hanging with the likes Rep. Sweeney and other Repukers, but don't get me wrong, the only person annoyed by the conversation, ( my sister ) asked us to shut up and listen to the new Madonna album, to which we laughed.

Mika (1000+ posts) Fri Nov-25-05 07:35 PM
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5. I was called "part of the blame America first crowd"..

.. by a lifelong Dem in-law. (During the saying of grace at the table I said thanks for the phosphorous bombing of civilians in Fallujah - sarcastically.)

I was shocked and awed (and visibly upset).

wellstone dem (1000+ posts) Fri Nov-25-05 08:16 PM
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10. We had a great meal and then all sat around watching a recording of the recent Michael Moore speech and then all applauded at the end and then ate more food.

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AND HERE'S A NICE SENTIMENT FOR A CHRISTMAS PREVIEW:

toddaa (666 posts) Sat Nov-12-05 12:31 PM
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F*** Christmas

Just weighing in on where *I* stand on the upcoming war against Christmas. I hate the holiday, and yes, as a matter of fact I don't really want the day off. I'd much rather save it for a nice spring day. Now, if they decided to change the greeting to "Merry Shopping Mall Day," I might go along with that change, as it is the day we celebrate the birth of wanton consumption and excessive capitalism run amok.

So in response to anyone who criticizes me for not joying in with the plastic Christian holiday, I say to you, "F*** Christmas!"

[dukeman]

Does any of this sound familiar?

[Semper Paratus]

I said "Thanks! Have a nice day." to her [the sales clerk], only to receive a "God Bless You!" in return.

She should have thrown garlic at him.

[TWohlford]

I got off lite... just had to remind my father that Bush didn't cut the FEMA budget. In fact, I rememded him that Bush had never veto'd ANY bill, much less a spending bill.

So much for that Dem talking point.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

My Thanksgivings always involve interactions with moonbat in-laws and relatives. Mercifully this year they were silent for some reason.

[randog]

Then 3-4 lines of the prayer were for the "liberals" (me & my family) that our souls might be opened up and the Holy Spirit poured in so that we might know the errors of our ways. In addition, it was requested that God not condemn us to hell immediately, but allow us more time on earth to change our ways.

Just when I thought I might walk out, the prayer turned to the NFL (for the Cowboys, of course) and then began once again on "those who have abandoned what they were taught about God's love" (also my family - pagans).

I wonder if the prayer was really like that or if it was what he heard instead. If it was really like that then I'd say it was out of line.

[cvq3842]

I actually make it a policy to generally not discuss politics - at the workplace especially, but also with friends and relatives where I know it will become contentious. They know it too, and abide by the same rule with me. Maybe some will consider it "not courageous," but I'd rather just enjoy a holiday meal, a casual phone call, etc. without the bickering. I save my commentary for you fine folks. :)

[nuconvert]

Nice to hear that the liberals seem to be in the minority in their families. lol

[mlbford2]

Not this Thanksgiving but last, my way liberal sister from Boulder, got drunk and was yelling in my back yard how she "luvs abortions". I kid you not. It was quite bizzare and embarrassing. I'm sure all my neighbors heard. Also she said something about how Carter was one of our Best Presidents. Again, not exaggerating.

I luv her dearly, but crimmony, she is a major moonbat.

[SteveMcKing]

"Just when I thought I might walk out,"

... I realized that we liberals haven't the nuts to act upon supposed convictions and actually do it...

[SoftballMominVA]

The liberals in my family and the conservatives all agreed before hand to agree to disagree this Thanksgiving and focus on the blessings of good health. In the past three years, our family has suffered through 2 heart attacks to my dad and childhood melanoma to my daughter and a premature birth to a nephew. We all agreed that allowing politics to spoil a day where no one was hospitalized would be a crime.

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving.

[Spiff]

Pre-Thanksgiving, I got into an email battle with my brother-in-law. He sent me the petition for clemency for quadruple murderer and Crips founder Stanley 'Tookie' Williams. He was swayed by viewing the propaganda pic 'Redemption' starring Jaimie Foxx. We were able to widely avoid the topic on Thanksgiving when I visited his home.

My Democrat father went into the whole Bush lied to get us into the war thing and the discussion grew a little heated the day after Thanksgiving. We finally ended the discussion agreeing on one thing and that is that Bush is misusing the National Guard who should be kept here, where they belong, guarding our borders.

[confederate_infidel]

Lucky to have an pretty much all-conservative family. ARgh, I can't imagine having to deal with one of those wackos at Thanksgiving and Christmas every year.

[loreldan]

Gosh. It's good to be a conservative. I had a great Thanksgiving! And I can't wait for Christmas. How can people be so unhappy on days that celebrate happiness, family, etc. Liberals are walking barrels of misery, I guess.

[Texas_Jarhead]

Those people got some serious freakin problems.

[Paradox]

I found a topic my liberal dad and I both agreed on. We are both against intelligent design being forced into the science curriculum in schools. A refuge that, where we could finally agree on something. Well that and the local sports teams, of course.

[cripplecreek]

I knew my liberal cousins would think they had found an ally in our Russian roomate and I wasn't disappointed but they were LOL.

[absolootezer0]

only problem i had was my thug mexican wannabe cousin (irish-german heritage, looks really irish with red hair and pale skin) who kept trying to tell me how he liked that bush was so conservative.
i believe i made a post before thanksgiving that rather than having the conservative/ liberal debate at my house, we have the conservative/ ultra-conservative debates, with one moderate that is usually smart enough to keep her mouth shut.

[dukeman]

Good going and all the best to your family!

[princess leah]

I had a wonderful thanksgiving and all the relatives at the table were Republicans! Yahoo - we talked politics and slammed the main stream media until we got past the dessert and then started in on how the original pilgrims threw out the first agreement (which Rush went over last week) on how everyone gave to the general property fund and Gov'r Bradford wrote how the men weren't driven to prosper without the right incentive of self-ownership. So, our early pilgrim forefathers tried and rejected socialism and we need to remind Hillary and her ilk that it DOESN'T work!

[wideawake]

Like most personal anecdotes on DU, this is one is mostly, if not completely, fiction.