Posted on 11/20/2020 5:30:45 AM PST by Kaslin
Centuries ago, our ancestors endured unimaginable challenges and hardships in the new world, not yet called America. A group of 100 pilgrims sought a new world where they could enjoy religious and political freedom. This new world was cold, barren, and desolate. Many died that first winter but eventually they grew and thrived. Thanksgiving was a day when they thanked God for their blessings.
Today as we approach another Thanksgiving, our elected leaders, of both parties, seek to reverse time, sending those they represent, back to a cold, barren, desolate world with death and misery, the world of COVID lockdowns.
A holiday thanking God for abundance, freedom, and liberty will this year will instead rub everyone’s noses in what those brave pilgrims sought to escape back in the 1600s, namely persecution and tyranny.
A group of seven US governors, five Democrats and two Republicans, wrote an op-ed for the Washington Post proclaiming, “Americans need to stay home this Thanksgiving.” For the past nine months, we have been following guidelines and mandates from these governors to slow or stop the spread of COVID. It started with “15 days to slow the spread” back in March.
Americans dutifully stayed home and washed our hands, as government experts told us. Did we slow the spread or exacerbate it? A recent study in the New England Journal of Medicine found that draconian quarantine measures with strict social distancing and constant mask wearing did not stop the spread of COVID in their study population of Marine recruits. These measures may have actually exacerbated the spread of COVID as the control group of non-participants had almost half the rate of COVID positivity at the end of the study compared to those under strict rules.
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Fine. Don’t call it Thanksgiving. Call it an Honorary Gavin Newsome Birthday Party.
I saw elsewhere that they are canceling it so people can’t talk about the facts of the election for hours and hours... seems plausible.
Yes. Which was precisely the goal. To drag it out to Election Day. And beyond!
There was no effort to STOP it because they knew and continue to know that it cannot be stopped. It can only be prolonged.
If that doesn’t work, call it a BLM protest.
we are having 17 people over our house for Thanksgiving here in NY. We are calling it a BLM rally in case we get a knock on our door.
Governor’s can’t cancel Thanksgiving. Their orders are just so much unenforceable hot air
Real Americans will disregard the gubernatorial blather and gather with families and give thanks
Just to be safe, you should draw straws to decide who (whom?) you will place a MAGA cap on and beat to a pulp if the cops aks you to prove it’s a BLM protest.
“Governor’s can’t cancel Thanksgiving.”
Governors doing this are getting the attention of SCOTUS Alito, who is not happy about this. Go ahead, govs, continue doing it and piss off one of the guys who has the future of your party in his hands.
Our overlords want us as miserable as they are..........
I live in California and our wannabe Dictator/Governor can “cancel” the holidays all he wants. He can’t dictate what I do and who I have as guests in my own home.
People have to resist this insanity. I read that there are several sheriffs’ departments that are refusing to enforce the anti-Thanksgiving orders that have come from Cuomo and Newsom, to name just two.
Kind of ironic considering the name of the holiday.
Exactly it's like the "Committee for the Defense of the Revolution" in Cuba.
Bkmk
We’ve made the difficult decision of skipping Thanksgiving next Thursday.
We’re doing it tomorrow instead and two of our kids are coming in tonight to spread the virus
This is a classic example of what democrats do:
Destroy joy and happiness.
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