I spent Thanksgiving reading “How Evil Works: Understanding and Overcoming the Destructive Forces That Are Transforming America” by David Kupelian.
I cannot say enough good things about this book. Most eloquent logical case for conservative positions I have ever read. It truly presents a good case for liberals being mentally ill.
I knew what she meant: The Collected Works of Karl Marx, or some other asinine "literature".
So I praised her for wanting to read beyond the college curriculum and made a mental note to send her half a dozen of Donald Trump's books!
Who knows? They just might change her life! (The idea of sending them to her has already changed mine, heh.)
I informed my little brother that the cast of Hamilton was extremely crass, and in response he told me it was justified.
Glad he doesn’t vote.
We were all pro-Trump. We all talked about experiences with firearms.
I adore those granddaughters and even paid their tuition to private Christian schools but they've been tainted by the culture and their dad's leftist family, though I doubt if he even bothered to register, much less vote!
We had the post-election “talk” right afterwards. Nothing left to say. Not one political word or sentence was uttered. I did, however, keep my car keys handy lest a rapid exit was required.
No, the family we spent Thanksgiving with was the smart ones lol!
I have a very, very large extended family and they all come to my home in the Philadelphia suburbs for Thanksgiving - some even from SF and LA.
I’m happy to report that none of the liberals were obnoxious or outspokenly anti Trump and we returned the favor, although there were a few “happy Trumps-giving” greetings.
We had one gay cousin in law kid from NYC theatre scene that might have made one of those passive aggressive comments about “everyone having a tough couple of weeks”. Everyone ignored him.
I had a great one-on-one conversation with my step son from SF who is bombarded with FB and real life friends who are rabidly anti Trump. He is amazingly open minded considering who he is surrounded by. He asked me how he is supposed to rebut things like “this video of one of Trump’s cabinet picks who is an alt right leader - it shows him making white supremacist comments and people are saying hiel hitler and hail trump.”
I said - let me see that video. Turns out it was Richard Spencer, so I explained he is not a Trump staff pick, and Trump has zero to do with the guy. My step son was really appreciative of the chance to see how the fake news is fabricated. I really appreciated the rate opportunity to set the record straight.
I also have some kids who will never vote for anyone unless his name is Ron Paul. They are very, very well informed and articulate about Liberty, the constitution and their conservative principles - which they learned from me - I don’t agree with their conclusion not to cite for Trump, but they are never disrespectful, always a pleasure to debate with and to their credit, they were happy for me that my guy won - brought tears to my eyes.
There were a couple young daughter-in-laws who I think voted Clinton for the stupidest reason of all - to break the glass ceiling - but they kept their mouths shut.
Last but not least my wife and my siblings who were solid Trump fans all along. We had s few quiet toasts.
All in all very nice Thanksgiving.
This year it was just my immediate family. No political discussions whatsoever. My husband put on our own little Simpsons marathon while I cooked and started off dinner with a wonderful prayer. Discussions were just about how delicious everything was.
I don’t slow communists in my house period. Liberals, progressives, communists, tree huggers .... they get the boot. Life is short so leve them out. No quarter no prisoners no invite. If there were any at the house they kept their mouth shut. I have no problem sayin get the hell out. I will say we did only have 16 people this year.
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Everyone at the table was a Trumper. It was happy, soft and easy.
The discussions kept sliding into political talk. My wife, my youngest son and I are conservative. My eldest son sort of is, but he has been corrupted by his bleeding heart wife. She is a sweetheart, but she quietly thinks Trump is a horrible, horrible person. She talked my son into not voting at all.
Every time the election came up, one of my sons would say, “hey, no political talk!”
It seemed that no matter what I said it was being interpreted as political talk.
Finally, after being chastised for the umpteenth time, I growled...
“I don’t see any of your names on the mortgage bill. Or the electric bill. Or the water bill. When you start paying those, you can tell me what I can talk about in my house.”
No problems after that.
Lots of Trump-bumps and
Trump wine at our Trumpsgiving. The two #crookedhillary and naive Gary Johnson voters never mentioned it. We tried to keep our Trump conversations among our own 'tribe' so as not to appear boorish to the young skulls full of mush.