Is anyone going to boycott Thanksgiving with their repuke family?

I decided I would this year. I usually drive 100 miles to my Aunt's house for Thanksgiving. The majority of my family is a bunch of uninformed repugs that vote against their priorities. I've tried and tried to explain the difference between the parties to them but it didn't work. They nod their head like the understand but then change the TV to FAUX news right after. I've finally got sick of it and stopped interacting with them.

So this year, the wife and I will happily have a nice Thanksgiving dinner by ourselves.

Anyone else feel this way?




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I will be celebrating and trying to cheer up my Democratic family members. At least I have them to be thankful for.

Well, my immediate family anyways...

he is a fascist a**hole. I feel sorry for my sister-in law and her family, they have no choice.

I'm sure we can find an 'all you can eat' Thanksgiving Buffet!

Call Hubby's family and when they get annoying, we hang up.

After the election was stolen, I took a quick inventory and decided that, though I will miss democracy and the high hopes I once had for this country, I still have my health, my job, my home, my family, my friends, and my interests. Politics may be ruined, but don't let ruined politics take away any of the other things on your list.

Besides, people on both sides need to talk to people who don't automatically agree with them.

or at least not call it Thanksgiving. We call it either "Thanks-for-nothing day" or "Horray for bad Indian immigration policy day"

In celebration of Union military victories, President Lincoln in 1863 declared the last Thursday of November would be an annual day of national thanksgiving. On Thursday, November 24, 1864, Colonel John Chivington of the Colordado Volunteers celebrated second annual Thanksgiving holiday by marching his troops out of Denver headed for Sand Creek.

Black Kettle's band of Cheyenne, having earlier surendered to, and allied themselves with, the US Army, were camped by the Army's instruction at Sand Creek. Colonel Chivington, had given a speech in Denver a few months prior were he was quoted as saying in relation to Indians, "kill and scalp all, big and little, nits make lice".

His Volunteers found Black Kettle's band on the frosty morning of November 29 at day break. Most of the young men of the band were out on a buffalo hunt. Seeing the soldiers, Black Kettle raised up the American Flag given to him by the soldiers at Fort Lyon as a gesture of good faith. Along with it, he raised a white flag, and he gathered his family around him.

Chivington and his soldiers attacked and murdered Black Kettle and about 150 members of his band in cold blood that morning. Afterwards Chivington's soldiers cut off the women's genitals and used them to decorate thier hats and their saddle horns. They scalped and mutilate every single person who was killed. This event Teddy Roosevelt later reffered to as "as righteous and beneficial a deed as ever took place on the frontier."

We are not celebrating anything on "thanksgiving" although we will have a big meal (not turkey, not ham) on the day after calling it Forgivenessasking Day to pay homage to the Native Americans that offered strangers peace and friendship and only got death in return.

I once tried to pay a native American neighbor with a $20 bill, but he wouldn't take it. I had to get him two $10s. This was years ago and I just recently found out it was because of the atrocities committed by Andrew Jackson - they won't have a picture of Old Hickory.
I don't blame them.
I'll be damned if I'll ever use a Reagan stamp.

I get your point, but your use of the derogatory term "Inj**ns" is highly offensive. Do you not know that the term is like using the N-word when referring to an African-American? Please refrain from such injurious and abusive language in the future.

I'm part Blanket Ass myself. Blackfoot. I'm also part Mick, Limey and Kraut. . . and I have a Frog last name.

but I decided I really don't want to be alone on a holiday. So I'm going to go and ask that nobdy talk politics over dinner.

giving praise to US cultural genocide of Native Americans.

Gobble Gobble

I don't think I'll boycott them forever. I'm just not in the mood this year.

i thought i was going to have to say something about them voting for bush, as they have two gay sons. didnt know how i was going to keep mouth shut with that one. i didnt see a way

my husband told me yesterday, they didnt vote for the first time in their lives, because they have two gay sons.

i have been having some ugly conversations in my head the last week with them, before this little piece of info. told husband, good that he shared...............go figure

if all repukes got woken up at 4 a.m., had to stand around until 6:30 or so, and have a pic taken holding a plastic turkey. And made to "act thankful" for this.

I see no reason to be attacked by the senseless sickos that are my brothers and in-laws. I am pushing to get an free-range turkey and stay home. Gas prices and the 240 mile round trip may tip the scales my way. I can see no good coming from hanging with the Red Staters.

14 Republicans and me and I'm looking forward to sharing great food and fellowship with people who don't agree with me politically but who I still have a great time being around.

That's where I usually go.

I love to argue, I'm right, and I love them. so I will lovingly let 'em have it.

I don't miss it a bit. Instead, I have fun with my family of choice.

well, actually my wifes family, she can go but I won't. She has the lowest form of freeper for a brother and her daddy got to shake old snarlin dicks claw.
So I'll just stay here see whats in the fridge and post on DU.

My inlaws voted for * and I don't want to hear them brag about how great he is. Of course my MIL works for Vinsin & Elkins so maybe that will tell you what kind of a person she is.

For years my husband and I have been putting on our own FAT holiday.

For years my family drove me nuts and I wanted at least one holiday where I felt safe and calm and happy. So I made up my own. The Saturday after Thanksgiving proper we hold a FAT. Everybody who wants to come together in the joy and spirit of the holiday is welcome.

In graduate school we invited all the folks who couldn't go home (lots of grad students and foreign students/teachers) and now we just invite anybody we can think of. I make all the "weird" food I want to make and play all the "weird" music I want to play and have all the "weird" conversations I want to have.

It's the best decision we've ever made.

This year, I invite each of you to hold your own FAT. FAT across America! No longer be held hostage to the whims of genetic ties! Break free of the slurred but incessant retelling of drunken Uncle Frank's favorite hour long story about his most recent deer season! Shed the expectations of Mothers who want you to hurry and get married so "I can have me some grand-babies to play with!"

Imagine....real conversations with like-minded folk. No shouting, no guilt, no recriminations!!!! Imagine....Imagine FAT.


FAT yourself! FAT forever!!!

Talibornagains. Only two among the lot, so as long as we can not mention one word of Politics or religion, I should be okay. If anything comes up, though, I will explode.

Please, please, please let them just cram their pie holes with their dead bird and STFU on other matters.

david

I am just not up for listening to them sing Bush's praises
and try to convert me to their brand of lunacy.

yes

I'm part of a very progressive staunchly Democratic family.

Even if my whole family was republican I'd still sit and have dinner with 'em.

i don't have your problem though, most of my family is predominantly liberal. but if i did have your problem i'd drop them faster than a bad habit -- no wait, scratch that, faster than a *good habit*!

After 35 years of straddling two increasingly disconnected worlds - normal happy oblivious American life and the ugly truth that lurks behind the happy face - I have decided to boycott everything that contributes to the ongoing denial and self-delusion.

The country has become a gigantic insanity machine where you make nicey-nice at one end and it translates to making war and enslavement at the other. It isn't tanks and bombs that do the killing, it is the "have a nice day" superficial fantasy world we are all living in, desperate to avoid anything that will disturb our beautiful minds. We are losing our minds as we strive to protect them from unpleasantness, and in our attempts to adjust to and accomodate a country gone mad we, too, will go mad.

Soon families will be split and normal, happy, healthy life will be impossible in any case. To deny that is to deny that there are any consequences in the real world for our thoughts, words, actions and decisions. To ignore that is to ignore what we know to be happening. The sooner we act on the truth, the less painful and the more constructive it will be.

The America I grew up in and believed in, the America that the founders envisioned, the America of hope and courage, has died. Maintaining the illusion that it still exists prevents the work of restoration from beginning, let alone succeeding.

The death of democracy and freedom will not share equal time in my conversations anymore with the latest football score. Discussing it will no longer be treated as a curiousity, or as a figment of my imagination, or an odd personality quirk. That will mean, and already has meant over the last few days, many profound changes in my relationships with others, and may well cost me family members, friends, and customers.

I have decided to say "no more!" and to stop participating in and contributing to the illusion, and to boycott everything. From now on, everything and everyone is presumed guilty until proven innocent of supporting the death of freedom and democracy and never ending immoral and unjustified war. It is in the banal daily "go along to get along" that we are losing our freedom, while others are detained, tortured and murdered in our names.

I am finding that there is tremendous peace and a sense of freedom in taking this stance. There is no more tension, no more anxiety, no struggle to convince people, and no more of that terrible and debilitating conflict and screeching dissonance in my mind.

We are one of those all blue families in a red state.

and it looks like it's gonna last at least 4 more years.

so there was a bright side to the election after all.