Does anyone else feel like the wingnuts have hijacked the holidays?

[Carni]

I have now been in THREE stores where the holiday crap is already up and there has been Christmas music playing...

But here's the topper of all things weird and stupid IMO...

TODAY there were two rather large women in Costco with a brood of small children and they were singing "Silent Night" (quite loudly)
to their toddlers next to where the Christmas decorations were displayed (I mean the stuff the store is selling...not store decorations because Costco doesn't decorate)

They looked simply giddy with joy (and they made me want to puke)

I stopped blinked and thought WTF is THIS?

Why do I get the impression that these were wing nuts celebrating in Bush's so called "win"???

I have never seen the Christmas decorations out this early and I sure as hell have never heard Christmas music blaring in stores almost three weeks before Thanksgiving...are the retailers so desperate that they are hawking the buying cycle early this year?

Or are the wingnuts celebrating early because they think God brought them *their Bush* again?

I think I'm going insane...

(Please carry on with whatever you were doing and don't mind the blatherings of a crazy person on your monitors!)

[DebJ]

1. naaah...I'd feel the same way. The Christmas stuff is very

depressing to me...soon we will be in 1930's Christmas mode, making paper-mache gifts for everyone.

[Carni]

7. It is VERY freaking depressing

The last thing I need right now is all this "holy this" and "holy that" stuff blaring at me from numerous corporate sound systems.

[girl gone mad]

10. We're making gifts..

and buying resale this year.

I still haven't decided whether to give my GOP relatives presents or just give them cards with notes explaining that we're too concerned about the Bush economy to spend money on them this year.

[RubyDuby in GA]

2. I think retailers are trying very hard to present a rosy image

The feds have raised the interest rate again and the economy still isn't doing well (no matter what Dubya et al tell us). Retailers are trying very hard to present an 'everything is okay, spend away' image to make people spend the money they don't have.

All I want for Christmas is a bullhorn so I can get busy taking this country back :evilgrin:

[Carni]

4. LOL! A bullhorn!

Thanks I needed that levity! :)

[goddess40]

3. They're even bolder now because they know they stole the election

and no one is going to stop them - I hope they're wrong but they are positive that no one will.

The right wing including the religious wackos adhere to the ends always justify the means. As long as they win anything goes, and if they win by cheating it seems to be even better. Like some people think sex is better if they are cheating on someone.

[calico1]

5. That could be part of it.

But I think that retailers are starting earlier and earlier each year because sales just haven't met expectations. They want to make the Holiday shopping season as long as possible. By the time bush leaves in 4 years, the season will probably begin right after Memorial Day!

[Shoeempress]

6. The crappier the retail market the earlier xmas starts. I figure next year

the xmas decorations will be up around 7/4.

[miss_kitty]

8. How annoying but I say

let them have 'em. Let them be the ones spending themselves inside out to keep the artificially puffed-up, barely-afloat economy hardly bouyant. Let them find out first-hand what it's like to be without a pot to piss in. In the cheney bush junta's regime.

That's the only thing that'll wake them up.

:evilgrin:

[starroute]

9. One year my town had Xmas decorations up before Labor Day

But someone must have noticed they'd made a mistake, because they came down again the next week. :wtf:

It isn't all that unusual for Christmas stuff to be put out right after Halloween, though.