Sunday, November 23, 2025

Thanksgiving in the Age of Authoritarianism

Mersault: Three Letters to Keep Your Moral Center When MAGA Relatives Try to Colonize Your Conscience

Posted by A_Friend at 08:33 PM | 9 COMMENTS | permalink

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Download your free pocket Constitution and give to your MAGA relatives at the start of Thanksgiving!

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-- Cheri Jacobus (@cherijacobus.bsky.social) Nov 15, 2025 at 10:03 AM

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The holiday table has become a miniature stage for the country's ongoing psychodrama. Cranberry sauce mixes with conspiracy theories, and relatives arrive carrying both a side dish and a storyline pulled straight from the MAGA content mill.

Many of you are not just prepping a meal. You are bracing for impact. You are about to sit across from relatives who do not merely disagree with you but who have stepped off the shared map of reality altogether. You are speaking English and they are speaking the dialect you get after forty hours a week inside a grievance factory calibrated to keep them furious and certain. Even the most basic exchange can feel less like a conversation and more like trying to catch smoke with your bare hands.

#1 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-11-23 03:19 PM

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That is why I created three letters you can use at any point, whether it is before the holiday, in the middle of the gathering, or at the exact moment you feel the table start to tilt. Each one carries a distinct tone and strategy, giving you messaging you can offer to your relatives or keep as an internal anchor:

#2 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-11-23 03:20 PM

Who stays in touch with ---- ups and psychos because "the holidays"?

As Otto would say, ---- That.

#3 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-11-23 04:26 PM

@#1 ... The holiday table has become a miniature stage for the country's ongoing psychodrama. Cranberry sauce mixes with conspiracy theories, and relatives arrive carrying both a side dish and a storyline pulled straight from the MAGA content mill. ...

I remember a Thanksgiving dinner at my parents' house a couple decades or so ago.

An in-law was a southern Republican (pre-MAGA).

During Thanksgiving dinner the in-law just started saying, with no provocation... ~the reason why n****s in the US are so stupid is because the are the ones who could not outrun or hide from being brought the the US.~

There was a silence at the table. An aghast silence.

Finally, that in-law's spouse said, ~let's change the subject...~

Oddly, no one went back for second helpings that Thanksgiving.



#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-23 06:39 PM

From the sub-summary ...

... Download your free pocket Constitution and give to your MAGA relatives at the start of Thanksgiving! ...

Will that help?



Or is the MAGA cult so enamored of Pres Trump that reality does not phase them?

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#5 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-23 09:20 PM

This is some serious projection.

#6 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-11-24 12:07 PM

"Will that help?"

No. I doubt it.

They would have to be able to read it and understand it. Figure the odds.

I think would be better and more effective if you can sit with them and watch some good American history like "The American Revolution" by Ken Burns together.

It's important to know and understand where we came from and how we got here.

#7 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-11-24 12:16 PM

#7. I like it! Well said.

#8 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-11-24 12:34 PM

Just before travel begins for the Thanksgiving Day weekend, empty-head US Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy bleated: "It honors our country ... don't take your shoes off and put your feet on the chair ahead of you." x.com

And the idiot brayed his inane demands to economy class passengers at Newark Intl Airport (EWR), the epicenter of America's failing aviation sector thanks to him and the incompetent Trumpf junta.

#9 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-11-25 07:30 AM

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