Who here is fortunate enough to not have to deal with MAGA family today?

[liberal N proud]

We will be with our adult children for the day and they are like minded.

Fortunate!

[ColoringFool]

1. Moi! But Then, I Have No Family, HaHa!......

I'm 76, and my one blood-relative Aunt is a good Democrat!

[soldierant]

87. Moi aussi

I'm 80. But if my mother were alive (she'd be 119) and not demented (she wasn't when she died at 93) she'd not be MAGA.

[ColoringFool]

147. My Mother Would Be 101, and At 91 Was Still Tack-Sharp!....

And rock-solid Democrat!

Both my parents were, Depression, FDR, and all that. Even with Bethlehem Steel in Management, my father favored the unions. I think because he first worked in the coal mines of Carbon and Schuylkill counties. And my mother worked in retail and as a waitress all her life.

[wcmagumba]

102. Happy Thanksgiving, I'm 68 and in a similar situation and enjoy it very much...

I made my own TG meal and it was fine.....

[ColoringFool]

148. I Hope Your Day Went Well! I Had Store-Bought Lasagna and Played NYT...

Word games! ✌

[sinkingfeeling]

2. I won't be with 3300 miles of my family.

[Ocelot II]

3. Me. Actually I'm not dealing with anybody today.

What little family I have left are mostly out of state, and I see them so rarely that I have no idea of their politics. The few that are local have plans to be with their grandchildren, who couldn't pick me out of a lineup. For me it's just another Thursday, but at least I don't have to deal with MAGA lunatics.

[AZJonnie]

83. Awww ... wish you were in Phoenix, we'd invite ya over for the feast!

[Ocelot II]

85. Thanks!

[llmart]

112. I love your line "couldn't pick me out of a lineup".

I was reading an article online today that was talking about how there is a trend today of young adults who are being influenced by social media to distance themselves from their parents because "they add stress to my life and it's already stressed enough." They act like theirs is the first generation to ever have to raise a child/children and hold a job and pay bills, and they are "sooooo busy".

[Hotler]

4. Me. Family all dead and gone. Just me and two cats. nt

[Bettie]

5. At home with husband and

two of three sons.

Third son and partner have to work as they are both in new jobs this year. So, we'll do a combined Thanksgiving/Christmas when they are available.

[Ritabert]

6. I only have one suspected MAGA family group and they're 1200 miles away.

[CousinIT]

7. ME!

I am spending a blissful day at home alone. JUST how I like it. All of my family are MAGA/Republican/Libertarian (Republican light), and I quit speaking to them after November 2024. They are TOXIC and I'm happier for it.

I have to protect myself from toxic people.

[Ritabert]

11. I'm too old to put up with toxic people too.

[CousinIT]

80. Same here. I wasted too much time on 'em in my younger days.

NO more! I'm very protective of the time I have left.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

76. Smart move!!

[MarineCombatEngineer]

8. I'm at my grand daughters house in Las Vegas, NV due to my truck getting her B service

and a deep cleaning at the N. Las Vegas Peterbilt dealership and her and her husband are of a like mind, so I don't have to deal with any MAGAt relates.

Happy Thanksgiving to you, your family and our DU family.

[malaise]

9. I am actually having a great time

With a sibling, her hubby, her kids, their spouses and their grandkids and a fiancé,😀
They thought I needed to escape the post/Melissa sadness for a week
Add - no MAGAts here😀

[demosincebirth]

122. Same here, no magats. Thank God!

[mucholderthandirt]

10. Me! One son is a Republican, but not MAGA (I know, I tried). Everyone else is a good liberal.

If my other son's girlfriend and his sister come, they're likely Republican (I don't ask), but they are very sweet, smart ladies and wouldn't dream of acting improperly anywhere.

The younger son, who married into a Trumper family (my greatest sorrow, though my DIL is awesome), and his wife and my grandson aren't coming, but her family never discusses politics or religion outside of family. I don't know about elsewhere, but here in the South, polite company doesn't discuss politics or religion outside of their own group. My granny would have whipped our asses if we devolved into that. LOL

I do hope everyone has the very best day they can. I'm going to eat a lot and collapse in the recliner!

[H2O Man]

12. Me.

I'll be with three of my four adult children, daughter-in-law, and grandson. And I've communicated with my daughter and son-in-law and granddaughter who live in Europe.

[Fil1957]

13. Don't have any Maga family or friends, period.

[Grumpy Old Guy]

14. I don't have much contact with my maga family.

I can't be around that much stupid. Fortunately most of them live in other states

[Prairie Gates]

15. Only MAGA relative is my brother...we haven't talked in almost a year

And it's been very spotty when not totally no-contact since 2016.

I don't know that we'll ever really speak again, if I'm honest. He's chosen who he wants to be around and so have I.

[haele]

16. Here. However, we will get some blowback from the ex in-laws

Of our daughter's.
Grandkids were supposed to be with them today - the 14 year old declared to her father Tuesday she wasn't going to go because she refused to spend Thanksgiving around racists and bigots telling her about "their real white middle-class property owner world" and how she's going to go to hell because she's currently exploring herself and what she's comfortable being, instead of straightening up and being what God means her to be.
The youngest is there now. She's a chatterbox, so they're going to hear how we don't like Trump, and other stuff they won't understand or approve of.
Our fault, and I guess her Dad's, in extension, for indulging "her teenage tantrum" instead of forcing the proper sense of family loyalty into her, I guess.
Hopefully, he told her she was feeling sick.
We're going to hear all about it.

[KT2000]

17. A neighborhood Thanksgiving

and we are like minded though I am not sure about some of the people they are bringing with them. Just in case I live next door.

[NNadir]

18. I can't say I even know Magats.

[SheltieLover]

19. Me!

Just gs & I & we are both of like mind.

Def a dynamic to give thanks for!

No way could I sit down to a meal with magats.

[RobertDevereaux]

20. Hope and I are blessed in that way.

[Turbineguy]

21. Us

Our MAGAt relatives live on the opposite side of the country as well as not being invited.

Wife and I expect to have a nice dinner with the adult children.

[LoisB]

22. No MAGAts in my family.

[popsdenver]

23. NO Problem here............

I PERMANENTLY dis-owned most of my family, friends, and even aquaintences, by the end of the WBush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld years.
The few remaining, precious few......... I dis-owned the first month of Trump's first occupation of the White House...

[yaesu]

24. I've parted ways with my maga family members years ago though I don't celebrate any US holidays anyway

only Canadian being the wannabe Canadian that I am.

[angrychair]

25. Thankfully me

Just my spouse and I this year.

That said, I will have to spend 12 days during Christmas with a relative I know voted for the pedo and rapist when he has two daughters and 4 granddaughters. I am still trying to work out a strategy to avoid being in the same room with him and his wife because, outside of work, I have a strict "no biting my tongue" rule. No longer allowing these maga types the privilege of unchallenged monologuing.

[Nanuke]

26. No MAGAs allowed in my home. We're hosting and celebrating with true patriots -- all strong minded DEMs.

I’ll be wearing my cherished Wellstone campaign button on my dress.

[RandySF]

27. Me

I’m on the West Coast and they’re back East.

[tanyev]

28. Me. Just staying home and eating leftover Panda Express.

It’s awesome.

[Moostache]

29. I do not socialize with my sister any longer, so that problem is avoided today

(and every other day as well)...

[FarPoint]

30. My grand daughter's husband/family are MAGA....

She , my grand daughter is not....amazingly well compartmentalized thinking for her... So, I dealt with this holiday by purchasing a prepared ham which so sooooo delicious...Dorothy Lane Market Heavenly Ham.... https://www.dorothylane.com/

So, I dropped it off last night....grand daughter and her husband making all the rest....So, they will box up two dinners with pie for me....Taking to a dear friend to eat/share who just divorced her husband last year...Her son is out of state....So, we can chill out, eat good and watch football without MAGA....

[Nikossitti]

129. Dayton?

Loved that market when my daughter was at UD.

[Tree Lady]

31. We are alone with dog

At beach for 4 days. Sitting watching the waves. Very relaxing. Family video chat soon one daughter is maga but she never talks politics and only votes maga because of her boyfriend, thankfully in CA where it doesn't matter.

[usonian]

32. Daughter is coming tomorrow.

Something about a steak and lobster "turkey day" drew them to the other side of the family's feast today.

She's a fighter for equity and justice.

JUST LIKE HER DAD!

[Omaha Steve]

33. ALL 6 of us are D's

[Wednesdays]

34. EVERY one of my family are Democrats!

And the visiting friends today are all Democrats, too.

That's one thing for me to be thankful for!

[ProfessorGAC]

35. Raising Hand

Just my wife & I.
We call today Thursday.
I'm making a nice meal but not T'giving fare.
That, football, and Ken Burns' Baseball to watch.

[Grim Chieftain]

36. No MAGAs in my life

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My husband and I cut off all family who support the orange felon. My husband even cut off people he had been friends with for over forty-five years. If you support Trump, it tells me all I need to know about your morals and values. Pfft!

[sakabatou]

37. No one in my immediate family is MAGA

[Dave Id]

38. Any MAGA relatives are not a problem for me

I've self exiled years ago and have been happy with the decision ever since.

[Ritabert]

50. Same here.

[GB_RN]

39. Here!

Despite the fact I’m not going anywhere this year due to a work-related back injury, there are no MAGAts in my (immediate) family (anyway). So, that’s one good thing about those times we all get together. At least there are none in my immediate family. Cousins might be a different story, though.

I have (way more than) enough contact with MAGAts at the hospital: Far too often I go to get a patient and the damned TV is on Faux Nuz. OT, I know (and apologize, but IMO, the hospital shouldn’t be subsidizing that shit: seeing and Faux wants to bankrupt us by killing the ACA (and its subsidies), Medicare & Medicaid, it’s like slitting our own throats.🤷‍♂️🙄🤦‍♂️

[niyad]

46. A friend was in a coma for ten days before she died. I walked in the second

day, and that crap was on. I looked at the nurse and said, "Well, if anything were going to bring her out of the coma, that would be it. Please put on a gardening or cooking channel, not that crap." The cooking channel remained on the rest of the time she was there.

[NewHendoLib]

40. Us! Only MAGA is my brother in FL - we are somewhat estranged, so no fear of a visit.

[twodogsbarking]

41. Us too. I am wearing my dress sweat pants. Have a great one.I keep thinking maybe people will wise up but then, reality.

[AllaN01Bear]

49. i am going in my usual santa all red motif.

[niyad]

42. Me!!! I will be spending the day with friends who are just as warped as I am!

And we are all good cooks!

[Hope22]

125. Perfect combination!😁 nt

[murielm99]

43. We don't have any of those in our family.

[greatauntoftriplets]

44. Today I'm on my own because we're celebrating as a family tomorrow.

One of the triplets has to work today, so we put off the big dinner until tomorrow when he's off. There are no MAGAts among us.

[Escape]

45. 1 have one sister and four brothers....

Every one of them GOOD LIFELONG DEMOCRATS! As were my parents and all four grandparents.

And we grew up in Red rural Kansas. But, Republicans were just a nuisance when we were kids. Now they are a menace.

Three of my sibs live behind enemy lines out there but Republicans have learned to keep their mouths shut around them.

Happy Thanksgiving to all!

[MineralMan]

47. I have outlived all of the MAGA relatives I have.

Except one, and he never contacts me - a brother in law. My sister, his wife, died last year.. He is certain that I am a Communist Socialist who is trying to corrupt America. Meanwhile, he lives on Social Security, Medicare, and a government pension. He stopped communicating with me when I told him he should cancel all those socialist income sources. Instead of cancelling them, he canceled communications with me. Ha!

[barbtries]

64. you stirred up that cognizant dissonance

in him. good on you

[AllaN01Bear]

48. cusins with a STRICT no politics or religion policy. both on the other side .

[Blumancru]

51. Me!

Mrs. Blumancru and I are visiting our son and his gf and there are no MAGATs in sight.
My 93 year old MAGA father passed last year, the last MAGAt in the family.

[Augiedog]

52. And me

[pfitz59]

53. Charlie Kirk did it for me.

Cut off 10 MAGA family members. Reached my limit of their BS. Most of the rest of my kin are like-minded. 2 are Q-Anon freaks, but they too have been disinvited from all family gatherings.

[Beacool]

54. Me!!!

I'm about to leave to go to a friend's house. Later in the evening I've been invited to my neighbor's place. No MAGATS in sight!!

Happy Thanksgiving to all of you, and your loved ones!!

[Dorothy V]

55. I started cutting off that side of the family back in the Tea Party days. Now there's just me and my friends.

Happy Tday all y'all!

[The Polack MSgt]

56. No Maga in my life. Not anymore.

That is especially important on the Hollidays.

Happy Thanksgiving all

[RussBLib]

57. 6.75 for dinner, no MAGA

6 adults, a 3-yr old and a 3-month old, and everyone, except the kids, trashing the GOP and the Orange Parasite and his sycophants. Did a round of gratitude and it was very nice.

[sunflowerseed]

58. We are not currently talking, its nice.

[barbtries]

59. Me,

but that came with a price.

[bif]

60. Entertaining 20 of my wife's relatives toady

And they're all loyal Dems. The only religious whack jobs live in N.Y. and they never come to town. Thank god!

[Delmette2.0]

61. I have wonderful group of people

Coming for dinner
My son has terrific friends. My sister and her grandson round out the group.

Good food and good people.

[mvd]

62. Me

Just me and my mom and we are both strong Democrats.

[Old Crank]

63. I don't think we have Magas in our family.

In either case we have no family here in Munich.
But we will be having a small dinner this Saturday.

[Mad_Dem_X]

65. My husband and I are going by ourselves to a restaurant for dinner

And the family that we have left aren't MAGA, thank goodness.

[mvd]

68. Have a good dinner!

And hope everyone at DU has a good Thanksgiving.

Most of the relatives I was close to have died. Some MAGAs left but I never see them.

[homegirl]

66. I come from

a long line of liberal Democrats and the following generations continue the lineage.

Happy turkey Day to All!!!

[Iggo]

67. HERE!!!

[Celerity]

69. Zero MAGAts in my fam, zero MAGAts in my even remotely close friend cohort.

Not allowed. Never. Ever.

If a family member or a close friend went insane and joined the Trumpian RW Death Cult, they would be instantly disowned by all the rest. EOS.

PS - No one over here (Sweden and London) in my immediate family does Thanksgiving, so that is also avoided.

[meow2u3]

70. I'm one who's lucky enough not to have MAGA family members AFAIK

But then, my family is halfway across the country. I live alone with my 19-year-old cat.

[OldBaldy1701E]

71. Yeah, I am around 1300 miles from my MAGA family members.

As well as the same amount for any other ones (as far as I know).

I am certainly loving it.

[Emile]

72. We had a house full of democrats. Uncle Gary explained

to the grandkids the story behind the paperclip on his shirt at the dinner table.

[moose65]

73. Me!!

Thankfully all of my family are flaming liberals. And we’re Southern 😝😝

[BH liberal]

74. Feeling only slightly guilty...

for abandoning my liberal sister to the cacklin' MAGA mob that makes up the rest of her extended family. Don't think they are finding much to be thankful for this year as the Orange Menace torches the economy.

[Ilsa]

75. Only via a few texts! nt

[Martin Eden]

77. Just my wife, her daughter, and four grandchildren 7 - 15

Zero MAGA, including the two dogs.

[RedWhiteBlueIsRacist]

78. Wife and I don't do religion, religious holidays, and we don't wrap ourselves in the flag, so MAGA family fear us!

[DFW]

131. We don't do any of that either

Sometimes I am forced to take a religious holiday when predominantly Catholic countries close (France, Spain, Belgium, the southern German states, e.g.). But that is mostly it. My wife and I are already of two different nationalities, and we don’t even speak English at home. No big flag waving here, either.

[RedWhiteBlueIsRacist]

146. Thanks for your comment!

[regnaD kciN]

79. Depends on how you define "fortunate"...

…both my parents (who would definitely not have been MAGA) are gone, along with, I suspect, every other family member of that generation. I have no siblings, and lost all track of the only first cousin I had decades ago. Same with most of the extended family, except for one third cousin who’s definitely a Christian nationalist and who lives far away. At this point, our Thanksgiving consists of myself, my wife, and our adult son, all of whom are on the left, but it makes for a pretty small family gathering.

[Mblaze]

81. I self-deported from my Republican family.

I can't handle the 800 lb gorilla in the room. Instead, I'm cozying up at home with my wife and kids.

Happy happy everybody! 😀

[AZJonnie]

82. It's a small group, my partner and their mom and son is all we have around this year

But they're all *very* solid liberals.

If I were back "home" w/my mom and stepdad, it would be the same. The closest to a wingnut I have is my half-cousin (his dad was my dad's half-brother) but he lives in Idaho so I rarely see him. Oh, and one of his 2 sons. My half brothers (also back in the "home" region) are both reasonably liberal but neither is that "into" politics. My two 1st cousins on my mom's side, also flaming liberals, along with all their 6 kids.

Got the turkey on the Weber with hardwood lump charcoal, looking forward to good times and deliciousness, and gratitude that I never really have to hang out with wingnuts at the holidays

Hope all my DU friends are having a delightful day, as free of cultists as possible (or if they're there, they STFU about it)

[Cha]

84. Not one in my extended Family Across

the Mainland or on Kauai!💙

Aloha~💙 Happy Thanksgiving

[WVGIRL]

86. NO MAGA AT OUR DINNER!

[synni]

88. 4th generation Democrat here!

There has never been a Repuke in my bloodline. 😊

[ZDU]

89. Me!

I flew solo today. JOY

[markodochartaigh]

90. Our family is fortunate enough

not to have any Republicans in it. The bad news is that it is just a couple of cousins, my sister, a niece and her husband, and my nephew, and me left. And we are scattered from California to Texas to Florida to France. But Zoom works fine.

[._.]

91. Me!

All my relatives but one live far away. The one that lives local don't do poor relations..
So I spent an enjoyable day with my care giver watching foot ball and enjoying the peace..

[doc03]

92. I don't have any MAGA family. nt

[yardwork]

93. I feel very fortunate indeed.

My wife and I (two married women) were blessed to gather with our three adult children, one of them's spouse, and my 90-year old MIL.

All of us lifelong Democrats. Sure, if you get down in the weeds we could argue about plenty of things but none of us is MAGA.

Very blessed.

[usedtobedemgurl]

94. No maggots here.

[TBF]

95. Just me & my hubby this year - flying our children in for Xmas

one is away in college, the other just out of college - they are sort of "semi-adult" at this point. We'll see them in a few weeks! We have had a really nice, low stress day, with food we got carry-out and heated up here at home

No way I was dealing with O'Hare airport and Trumpy relatives. When I do visit back in the midwest it's usually summer so it's an easier trip and none of this "talk about politics at dinner".

[Six117]

96. Not a one in the immediate bunch.

Fortunate we are, indeed. Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

97. ..

[idahoblue]

98. We are hosting the orphan thanksgiving dinner

A mix of singles and couples without extended family nearby. Not everyone knows each other yet but they will by dinner time. All like minded.
I love these people, they are my family

[broiles]

99. Me. My family are all left wing.

Just lucky I guess or maybe just raised right or maybe raised left.

[Deep State Witch]

100. My Aunt

She's as pissed off about the situation as I am! This is the one that cancelled two long-time Kennedy Center subscriptions when Taco Tits took it over.

[FalloutShelter]

101. Me too... heaven.

First time in forty years we didn’t spend five hours on the highways also.

Ahhhhhhhhhh….. perfect day.

Thankful.

[mgardener]

103. I had a wonderful Thanksgiving

I hope others did/do too!

[Ms. Toad]

104. I'll be with my adult parents.

And my adult daughter. None of whom would not shed a tear if Trump, et al, just vanished

[drmeow]

105. Very happy

neither direct family or in-laws are even right let alone MAGA!

[dem4decades]

106. Me! One of the things I'm thankful for today.

[IzzaNuDay]

107. Yes, and loving it!

It would take a plane ride to see this relative. I feel sad for their mom though!

[CaptainTruth]

108. Not a MAGAt in sight here!

[EuterpeThelo]

109. MAGAless and happy!

My adult daughter and her friend are joining and are VERY like-minded. SO grateful for all we have, although, it can and does co-exist with...

Missing my soulmate of 20+ years and my beautiful mama today; both were staunch anti-fascists (he was raised in post-WW2 England and lived the aftermath of Hitler there, and my mom's dad bled on the fields of the Argonne Forest in WW1). The only silver lining is not having to see how badly both of their hearts would be shattered by what is happening now.

I dumped most of my MAGA cousins when they had the NERVE to criticize my mom for writing postcards to voters in the couple last years of her life.

The last straw was in early 2021 when most of them couldn't even be bothered to show up (even on ZOOM!) for the memorial of the woman who gave up her entire life at age 18 to move to California and help her sister raise all six of their wh!te, privileged asses. Even worse, they went on to have about thirteen kids among them, and both my mom and I were the designated family babysitters for nearly ALL of my second cousins, and I mean sometimes for WEEKS at a time.

Out of six cousins, just two showed up along with four of their thirteen children. I told one of the second cousins (the one to whom I'm closest) that it was like the trash took itself out that day because I know which ones I NEVER need to speak to again.

[OnionPatch]

110. I don't live near my MAGA relatives.

They’re all cousins anyway. My immediate family are all liberals. For that I’m truly thankful!

[Xavier Breath]

111. Did not have that problem today, fortunately.

Just a lot of laughs and no politics.

[hamsterjill]

113. Fortunate by design.

I cut ties in 2016, and have not regretted it. We had a full table today with like minded individuals. We all shared that we are stressed by what's going on in the world, but we are grateful NOT to be a part of the insanity.

[MLAA]

114. I had dinner with friends and all were like minded. Thankfully my MAGA brother lives far away.

[mdbl]

115. I don't deal with them on any day. Holiday or not.

[HappyLarge]

116. We got kicked out of the extended family Thanksgiving in 2020.

And it has been glorious. I don’t have to listen to those brown immigrant catholics and shake my head at the sheer stupidness.

[oldmanlynn]

117. Actually i am visiting my sister and brother in law

They are maga but not crazy maga. Just like all other Maga it’s Fox News that has done. My sister defends trump and is religious but she has a big heart like our mom and dealing with a husband having aggressive stage 4 work a low paying job and stress. My other sister was there as well. Less maga but religious conservative catholic. They are all good people but just with different programming skewed by fox news. We have way more in common than we have differences.

[HeartsCanHope]

118. I spent the day with just my husband and son.

I am truly thankful to have them both in my life. They make this world a better and happier place. They are by my side when we protest, and are committed to making this country a safe, fair, and healthy place for everyone. I, too, am fortunate!

[bluescribbler]

119. I am very lucky.

Everyone I was with today is totally antifa. That goes double for family members who weren't there. I am thankful that I have no MAGA relatives that I know of.

[Upthevibe]

120. liberal N proud............

My remaining family members are all very progressive: My Sister (Chicago) and my two nephews (Austin). I'm not that close to my nephews and since my sis lives a long way from L.A. (where I am) we haven't spent the holidays together for years.

I just got back from a wonderful evening at a laid back but still very nice restaurant in Marina Del Rey. I was with four very close friends. Politics didn't even come up.

[timvrip]

121. Moi. J'habite en France

We had a MAGA in my ville a couple of years ago. She didn’t last very long. Sold out and moved back to be with Donald I suppose.

[jfz9580m]

123. Oooo that sounds like fun

I envy you. France is a place I would love to visit for work before returning to my home in the global south.

[JHB]

124. Here! Foods eaten, places visited, movies were topics. No politics by natural conversation flow...

...with no need to shush anybody. Nobody went in that direction.

[marble falls]

126. Only had to remind my SiL once about the ban on politics. It was a very pleasant dinner.

[RockRaven]

127. We were "fortunate" in that vein, in a way, in that my extended family developed a rift

a few years before The Dotard started running the first time. As it so happened the ones who became MAGA (i.e. the Repugs/cons) were all on the other side of the rift, so for other reasons we had stopped spending holidays with them before MAGA became an issue.

The rift had nothing to do with politics, explicitly, but in hindsight the factions did happen to fall along political party lines. It was an elder care (or rather elder neglect-ish) issue. There were certainly differences in values/priorities between the groups.

[buzzycrumbhunger]

128. I bailed on my family decades ago...

Left Iowa in about 1990, back when Rush Limbaugh became a thing and Iowa started getting stupid, and what glimpses I’ve had of my remaining siblings and their kids leads me to believe they all became MAGAt fools, so no great loss there.

Just learned my younger brother just died (Sunday?) from our great family tradition of alcoholism (Scots…), and can’t find it in me to even feel sad about it.

Sadly, my daughter is in NC and having a tough time of it—safe but struggling after leaving an abusive spouse—so it’s just me and my grown son down in Sarasota. Low-key vegan dinner today—er… tonight because we didn’t even start cooking until almost 9 pm—but politics-free. Very, VERY happy not to have close family with right-wing tendencies to cast a pall on this day or any other. Note the ones who are basically okay are also heavily Catholic, which is equally bothersome, heathens that we are.

[Collimator]

132. It was interesting to read about everyone's different situations.

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I was alone and my feelings about my own situation are mixed. I struggle with feelings of self-loathing because of culturally-ingrained ideas that say being alone on holidays means that you are worthless and/or you really screwed up your life.

On the other hand, due to my mental health issues, I can't handle intense human interaction anymore. If I had been invited to dinner with my MAGA-adjacent brother's family, the stress would have exhausted me.

To keep self-pity at bay, (because I believe that character and attitudes matter even when you do have legitimate mental health problems), I puttered around with little projects in my apartment. I shifted some shelves that I had set up the day before, and that led me to re-do my gallery wall.

What you are looking at, (I hope)*, is a collection of photocopies of small abstract paintings that I have done. The "someday" Big Project will involve having the original paintings framed. Then, I will install picture ledges on the wall so I can switch out the paintings, because I have a lot of them.

Doing little things to bring order and beauty to my immediate environment brings comfort and a sense of control-- something that I don't feel in crowded, intense social situations with loud people who see the world in very different ways. It's not about being intolerant towards people who don't agree with me; the sensory stimulation wears away at my nerves and I start to fall apart.

Sometimes, it is hard being alone. But often it really is the better option.


* Editing this because I can't figure out how to post a personal picture from my computer. My attempts to do so end up with a lengthy link that I don't want to annoy anyone with. Sorry for the "tease", but I didn't want to self-delete the entire post as I did before, because I worry that the self-delete message on the screen makes it seem like I originally posted something terribly offensive and then chickened out. (Yeah, I know. I think too much. But that's what it's like inside my head. Be grateful that you don't have to live there.)

Anyway, Happy belated Thanksgiving everyone. Stay safe during the holidays.

[deurbano]

136. Happy belated Thanksgiving!

I rarely post photos, and always have to look up (again) how to post them when I do. But even then, I'm not always successful.

Character and attitudes do matter, and kudos to you for prioritizing them even in very challenging moments.

[Stacey Grove]

133. I found

that after living through a catastrophic illness that you weren't supposed to survive, everyone goes away.

They do their "act" in the ICU (I was in an induced coma on life support for one month), but when you come out of it worse for wear, everyone leaves.

Going on 9 years after the "incident."

Fuck the holidays, this is the absolute worst time of year.

[Siwsan]

134. My family is overwhelmingly Democratic

That wasn't always the case. When it was, there was a strict 'no political discussions' rule.

[lark]

135. Me! I'm not sure if our daughters' new partner (1-1/2 years) is a Democrat but he's not MAGA.

Rest of the family always votes blue and hate krasnov. Son has been clean for a year and working for 6 months and loves his job and actually will have decent affordable insurance starting Jan. ACA is obviously not an option this year. Daughter and partner both have good jobs and my 70 year old sister is still working more than full time hours and is about to move into her house that's 7 houses away from us. I had my shoulder surgery and it turned out well and my back surgery will happen next year so hopefully end that particular pain. Life is good!

[Niagara]

137. Belated Happy Thanksgiving, liberal N proud

We hosted a Thanksgiving Day meal yesterday like normal for the non-MAGA in our family.


I have a sil, bil, mil and fil who are MAGA. They have their own holiday gatherings and stopped inviting us to gatherings in 2018. They started doing this when they discovered that my daughter is gay.


We also now host our own holiday gatherings without the MAGA's and it's absolutely a good time.



My fil use to yell and shout about politics at birthday gatherings, Easter, Thanksgiving and Christmas family gatherings. And now no one does that at all since we separated the holiday.


It's a pleasant family gathering while breaking bread with non- MAGA's.


Don't ever be sorry about having peaceful holiday gatherings if anyone else is in the same boat.

[mountain grammy]

138. Great thread..

A belated Happy Thanksgiving to all!

We had a lovely dinner with my son and his Kansas City born and raised partner... not a maga in sight. Only Chiefs fans and they were bummed.

All our maga family and ex'es live in Texas..

[Picaro]

139. No Trumpers at my table

Have two nieces (sisters) that crossed over to the dark side. My dear departed eldest sister would have been appalled.

But we no longer live near them and so no shared Thanksgivings for decades.

And for that I’m thankful.

[Picaro]

140. No Trumpers at my table

Have two nieces (sisters) that crossed over to the dark side. My dear departed eldest sister (their mother) would have been appalled.

But we no longer live near them and so no shared Thanksgivings for decades.

And for that I’m thankful.

[obamanut2012]

141. Me, thank goodnesd

[IbogaProject]

142. One of the only good things now that my Mom is gone

She was a third generation union member and absolutely not a GOP supporter. But her best friend from church raised loyal christian kids who are all pro GOP. Both my parents were single kids so my Mom always got us invited to friend's. Later on it became that extended family, whom I've known since sunday school 50 some years ago. They all drifted fromt he Episcopal church over into those "Fellowship churches" and just enclosed into a bubble of disreality. None were MAGA but I am sure they all voted for that nonsense. Their kids were all "home schooled" and that is an easy path for the MAGA social media disinfo. So sad as they are pleasant people, one in an active firefighter, they all do charaity work. But they are voting to make these billionaires rich and don't realize the GOP has been actively working against their class interestes and blame out party instead.

[wcmagumba]

149. Happy Post Thanksgiving Day IP. Mine was fine, spent with myself and my invisible friends...

even though I am a total heathen unbeliever I have attended a local Progressive Episcopal Church a couple of times and it was fine (other than a lot of up and downs which are hard on my old knees). I also have been to an area Unitarian Universalist Church a few times and enjoy their view of the world too...I was raised and baptized in a small American Baptist Church while in middle school, not out of any strong beliefs but to join my all baptized friends before going to summer church camp...the AB Church was a bit more liberal than the Southern Baptist Church, we could dance and play cards (ha ha). Anyway, "you be careful out there among the English", "Witness", the film...

[evilhime]

143. ME!!!!

Fortunately my family is like minded so very little political conversation and what there was had more to with laughing at memes about it.

[YoshidaYui]

144. No MAGA in my family

None at all.

[beaglelover]

145. I'm fortunate that the Republicans in my family are not MAGA. But I spent Thanksgiving with my chosen family.

And a great time was had by all!

[karynnj]

150. I am among that fortunate group

What is remarkable is that I define my family as my parents, who died a few years ago at 93, and ALL their 9 kids, their spouses, all their 20 grandkids, and any great grand kid old enough to have options. Not one is a Trumper.

To this I credit my parents, who raised us to value family, education and accepting everyone as we made our choices.

[Aviation Pro]

151. Me!

Blissfully MAGAt free.

[yellowdogintexas]

152. they were there but no discussion of anything which might become nt

[Clouds Passing]

153. No magats at my table, makes for peaceful happy conversation.