Information for your Thanksgiving Dinner Conversation with your R family members =

[Tuesday Afternoon]

[progressoid]

1. Yeah,

And since then, their profits and stock are rising faster than the rest of the economy. woo hoo.


United Healthcare


http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-05/health-insurer-profit-rises-as-obama-s-health-law-supplies-revenue-boost.html

[woo me with science]

5. Thank you. nt

[LWolf]

2. We don't discuss politics at family get togethers.

I don't have any republican family members anyway, but the single libertarian and the rest of us don't bring up politics.

[ScreamingMeemie]

3. We don't either. We are Democrats of varying degrees, and my father's

girlfriend is a Republican who doesn't realize she's actually a Democrat.

We tend to keep it fixated on Lions vs. Packers at the table.

[Whiskeytide]

6. Alabama v. Auburn for us...

... I'm the only Dem at the table, but they are fairly reasonable over-all for Republicans. Some of them are Auburn fans, though, and I do despise them for that!!!

ROLL TIDE!

[Laelth]

4. k&r for the truth, however depressing it may be. n/t

-Laelth

[NightWatcher]

7. Obamacare saved my life. I'm sick and can't get insurance

That's going to be my opener (even if it's not 100% accurate). I'm dining with hardcore fundy, rw, teabagger rally attending (yet government depending) nutjobs.

I'm also going to round out my diatribe be repeatedly declaring my love for, and excuses for partaking in medical marijuana (even though the side effects from my meds have long since passed). I've been so looking forward to being able to proclaim my love for the weed to all my pukey family. The best thing is that they can't say a damned thing.

I'm not going to start anything, but if they do, I'll sure as hell finish it.

[BlueJazz]

9. Hi everybody...I made us some ...ah... Delicious Brownies for Thanksgiving.

"These are the best damn Brownies I've ever had...We might better send out for some more food !!"

[NightWatcher]

10. I like the way you think

They'd be suspicious if I had brownies though, I'd make it into butter and cook some big ol rolls or other breads that they'd slather with the stuff.

[MineralMan]

8. Political discussions are taboo at my family's gatherings.

There are so many other topics that are not divisive. Politics are not the sum of our lives.

[ScreamingMeemie]

12. In my family, even a friendly game of Thanksgiving Monopoly becomes divisive.

[MineralMan]

13. Yah, that can happen.

My wife's family is sort of like that. My family is pretty conflict-free at gatherings, although we often disagree on political issues. Conflict avoidance, though, is one of the things my parents, who are both 89 now, have always insisted on within the family. It has served us all pretty well, I think.

[Bluenorthwest]

11. No Republicans in my family, we are genetically predisposed to sanity

nt