Scrooge, ala President Trump from the liberal's perspective

[ken a.k.a OMK]

BTW the OP's premise that Trump replaced happy holidays with Merry Christmas is bogus. His card says Merry Christmas and Obama's card said Happy Holidays. Trump didn't replace anything. Anyone see Trump following Christ's teachings? 

[ken a.k.a OMK]

счастливого Рождества  weltschmerz

[weltschmerz]

Спасибо, ken!

[ken a.k.a OMK]

January 7 is the Russian Orthodox Christmas but many of us celebrate December 25. 

[Gardening Grandma]

Dec 23, 2017 14:29:17 GMT -5 steff said:

I've gone out of my way this year to only say Happy Holidays to people this year.  

I used to say Merry Christmas, but feel inclined to say "Happy Holidays" just to annoy the fundies.

[steff]

Dec 23, 2017 14:58:15 GMT -5 Gardening Grandma said:

Dec 23, 2017 14:29:17 GMT -5 steff said:

I've gone out of my way this year to only say Happy Holidays to people this year.  

I used to say Merry Christmas, but feel inclined to say "Happy Holidays" just to annoy the fundies.

Same here.  Before I just said back whatever was said to me.  But now, just to be a pain in the ass, I say Happy Holidays to everyone. 

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Bitter clingers

[b2r]

Trigger Warning: i.pinimg.com/originals/8a/19/30/8a1930ebb6a50d952357be24da6cfe9d.jpg

[weltschmerz]

Dec 23, 2017 16:20:00 GMT -5 b2r said:

Trigger Warning: i.pinimg.com/originals/8a/19/30/8a1930ebb6a50d952357be24da6cfe9d.jpg

Santa carrying  an American flag? I didn't know Santa is American!

[weltschmerz]

Santa is actually Turkish. So, you stole that, too, along with Motherhood, Hot Dogs and Apple pie.

[Value Buy]

Dec 23, 2017 14:29:17 GMT -5 steff said:

I've gone out of my way this year to only say Happy Holidays to people this year.  

Are we surprised by this?

[steff]

no one has been offended  by it yet, so not a big deal.   My goal isn't to offend anyone either.  I just think the "war on Christmas" is bullshit & no one was ever denied the right to say either Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays.   I made the choice to say Happy Holidays.   Are the Christmas police gonna come and give me a ticket or something?   Does it really bother anyone to be told Happy Holidays?   If it does, sounds like it's their problem not mine. 

[Tennesseer]

Dec 23, 2017 14:17:27 GMT -5 weltschmerz said:

Dec 23, 2017 10:38:41 GMT -5 Tennesseer said:

The fence sitter:




Breitbart: Donald Trump’s Christmas Wish To America: ‘I Love You All’

Where is the rest of his family?

Wife #1 was in New York. Wife #2 was in southern California. Wife #3 was probably too embarrassed to be seen in that picture.

[Tennesseer]

Dec 23, 2017 14:18:04 GMT -5 ken a.k.a OMK said:

Taking Christ out of Christmas is frowned upon by many.

Yea. I am getting so tired of the Mas season.

[tallguy]

Dec 23, 2017 14:46:27 GMT -5 @anne81 said:

I have friends who are Russian Orthodox. They celebrate Christmas in January. I feel like Happy Holidays just covers all the celebrations in this season from Chanukah to New Year's.

A lot of my friends and family celebrate New Year in February - they don't get offended if you say it January first.

Exactly. 

Saying "Happy Holidays" does not denigrate Christmas at all.  It is more than a bit presumptuous for one to assume that everyone either does or should celebrate the same holidays as you do.  Celebrate whatever and whenever you want, for whatever reason you want.  But even for those who do the same holidays as you, "Happy Holidays" is fine.  You have multiple holidays anyway.  Christmas and New Year's.  Sure, everyone could say, "We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year" but it takes longer, and really goes better with the music.   

If the biggest concern people have at this time of year is whether someone says "Happy Holidays" or "Merry Christmas" they should think seriously about what Christmas is supposed to mean.  Seems they must have forgotten....

[Tennesseer]

Dec 23, 2017 16:33:18 GMT -5 Value Buy said:

Dec 23, 2017 14:29:17 GMT -5 steff said:

I've gone out of my way this year to only say Happy Holidays to people this year.  

Are we surprised by this?

No. Just as we are not surprised you started this thread.

[dezii]

Dec 23, 2017 14:34:31 GMT -5 ken a.k.a OMK said:

BTW the OP's premise that Trump replaced happy holidays with Merry Christmas is bogus. His card says Merry Christmas and Obama's card said Happy Holidays. Trump didn't replace anything. Anyone see Trump following Christ's teachings? 

I heard he tried the "walking on the water one " once..............he sank

[dezii]

Just caught the following on cancelled government programs from another blog....understand from their own mouths the GOP  first order of business is entitlements, social programs for those on the bottom of the citizenery...seems they have gotten a jump on their cutting.
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Are they suggesting that few of those who support them...the Donald's base, are recipients of any of these programs...I am thinking that the Democrats will have to spend a good part of the year educating those who use such programs how to register to vote as their votes will be needed to reinstate such social programs..

I have never had to use such programs and have never begrudged my tax $ , what ever they are, that some funds go into these programs...would love to know from some here who are not happy with such social programs...why? I grant u there might be some waste and even some abuse but where is there not..there are only so many Mother Teresa's out there...and these are only a few of the Social programs with no funds..
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Meals on Wheels. Temporary Assistance for Needy Families. Farm aid. National Flood Insurance. The Women, Infants and Children program.

All left with none or almost no funding under the tax bill President Trump made law this morning.

And that's to say nothing of possible future cuts to Medicare and Social Security.

[b2r]

Happy Holidays From The LEFT! Obama aide fantasizes about deaths of Pence, Ryan, McConnell
Read more at www.wnd.com/2017/12/obama-aide-fantasizes-about-deaths-of-pence-ryan-mcconnell/#I4Up6BsErAM5YOPm.99

[Cookies Galore]

I've just resorted to letting other people speak first and respond with "you as well." Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays/have a nice day/fuck off - it all works!

[Tennesseer]

Dec 23, 2017 20:56:55 GMT -5 b2r said:

Happy Holidays From The LEFT! Obama aide fantasizes about deaths of Pence, Ryan, McConnell
Read more at www.wnd.com/2017/12/obama-aide-fantasizes-about-deaths-of-pence-ryan-mcconnell/#I4Up6BsErAM5YOPm.99

Conservatives are just as pure as the driven slush as liberals.

Trump ally wishes Mad Cow disease death for Obama

Washington (CNN)A New York Republican who served as Donald Trump's campaign co-chair in the state is under fire for saying he hopes President Barack Obama will die of Mad Cow disease and making racist comments about first lady Michelle Obama.

Carl Paladino, an ally of Trump who recently visited Trump Tower, told a weekly paper in Buffalo that Michelle Obama was the person whom he would "most like to see go in 2017."

"I'd like her to return to being a male and let loose in the outback of Zimbabwe where she lives comfortably in a cave with Maxie, the gorilla," Paladino said.

Of Barack Obama, Paladino said in response to the question of what he would most like to see happen next year, "Obama catches mad cow disease after being caught having relations with a Herford. He dies before his trial and is buried in a cow pasture next to Valerie Jarret, who died weeks prior, after being convicted of sedition and treason, when a Jihady cell mate mistook her for being a nice person and decapitated her."

trump ally wishes Mad Cow disease death for Obama

[weltschmerz]

"Happy Holidays From The LEFT! Obama aide fantasizes about deaths of Pence, Ryan, McConnell

Read more at www.wnd.com/2017/12/obama-aide-fantasizes-about-deaths-of-pence-ryan-mcconnell/#I4Up6BsErAM5YOPm.99"


Lol! World Net Daily?


WND (formerly WorldNetDaily or, as it was affectionately known to its fans, WingNutDaily or WhirledNutDaily) is a far-right website and publisher founded by the ridiculously impressively mustachioed Joseph Farah in 1997, as a project of his Western Center for Journalism.[1][2] WND espouses a fundamentalist Christian, creationist world view, with a healthy dose of jingoism. WND's coverage provides multiple sides of the issues: the very conservative viewpoint and the ultra-conservative viewpoint. WND makes Fox News look positively moonbatty in comparison. Managing Editor David Kupelian claims that WND "serves as your watchdog on government 365 days a year. We guard your priceless freedoms by aggressively exposing corruption and evil everywhere, and by championing good."[3]
While they present themselves as news, WND is a tabloid for radical right-wingers. Their publishing standards are rock-bottom, and they have run stories from extremely questionable sources on many, many occasions.[4][5] WND are one of the earliest and longest running publishers of Ann Coulter's insipid columns, as well as editorials from such august political analysts as Chuck Norris, Pat Boone, Andy Schlafly, and Charlie Daniels. The addition of editorials by disgraced baseball bigot John Rocker[6] and an obsession with so-called "black mob violence" marked a shift from their less than subtle dog whistles into more overt racism.

rationalwiki.org/wiki/WND

[Deleted]

I was just discussing the obituaries of conversations yesterday. 

Physical death is not the only way in which obituary is used... it’s a great metaphor. Political demise is also covered under an obituary. As is an election. 

[NastyWoman]

Dec 23, 2017 17:08:32 GMT -5 Tennesseer said:

Dec 23, 2017 14:18:04 GMT -5 ken a.k.a OMK said:

Taking Christ out of Christmas is frowned upon by many.

Yea. I am getting so tired of the Mas season.

Your house must be in danger of being overrun by toddlers who always want mas, until they collapse from a sugar overdose 

[Tennesseer]

Dec 25, 2017 0:39:03 GMT -5 NastyWoman said:

Dec 23, 2017 17:08:32 GMT -5 Tennesseer said:

Yea. I am getting so tired of the Mas season.

Your house must be in danger of being overrun by toddlers who always want mas, until they collapse from a sugar overdose 

Felines are like toddlers, so yes.

[Tennesseer]

[Opti]

Dec 24, 2017 8:23:34 GMT -5 oped said:

I was just discussing the obituaries of conversations yesterday. 

Physical death is not the only way in which obituary is used... it’s a great metaphor. Political demise is also covered under an obituary. As is an election. 

That's what I was thinking, that they would be considered politically dead if Trump is indicted.

[Opti]

Dec 23, 2017 23:43:29 GMT -5 Tennesseer said:

Dec 23, 2017 20:56:55 GMT -5 b2r said:

Happy Holidays From The LEFT! Obama aide fantasizes about deaths of Pence, Ryan, McConnell
Read more at www.wnd.com/2017/12/obama-aide-fantasizes-about-deaths-of-pence-ryan-mcconnell/#I4Up6BsErAM5YOPm.99

Conservatives are just as pure as the driven slush as liberals.

Trump ally wishes Mad Cow disease death for Obama

Washington (CNN)A New York Republican who served as Donald Trump's campaign co-chair in the state is under fire for saying he hopes President Barack Obama will die of Mad Cow disease and making racist comments about first lady Michelle Obama.

Carl Paladino, an ally of Trump who recently visited Trump Tower, told a weekly paper in Buffalo that Michelle Obama was the person whom he would "most like to see go in 2017."

"I'd like her to return to being a male and let loose in the outback of Zimbabwe where she lives comfortably in a cave with Maxie, the gorilla," Paladino said.

Of Barack Obama, Paladino said in response to the question of what he would most like to see happen next year, "Obama catches mad cow disease after being caught having relations with a Herford. He dies before his trial and is buried in a cow pasture next to Valerie Jarret, who died weeks prior, after being convicted of sedition and treason, when a Jihady cell mate mistook her for being a nice person and decapitated her."

Trump ally wishes Mad Cow disease death for Obama

I have no desire to read this, but apparently this guy has issues with sex. Big ones. Doesn't everyone remember the way to get mad cow disease is to eat meat from diseased cows? Obviously not this guy.

[thyme4change]

News flash - no one gives a shit about this Happy Holidays vs. Merry Christmas thing. Wish me a sturdy Kwanza for all I care. I swear this crap is made up by conservatives. I haven't seen any liberals raging against the phrase "Merry Christmas."

Second news flash - Christmas hasn't been a Christian holiday for a long time, if ever. First off, Jesus was born in October, or June, or something. We celebrate because the Christians co-opted the pagan festival of the returning sun. So, I, as a pagan, would like my fucking holiday back. Take your God elsewhere please. Second, the best Christmas celebrations are by Jews and Atheists. Christians have long boring church services, and everyone else drinks and eats and stuff. Third, Santa is the most anti-Christian symbol there could possibly be. Christmas has nothing to do with Jesus. Pretend all you want, and celebrate whatever you want, but stop telling me that you own Christmas because of Jesus. You stole Christmas in a judgemental power trip.

[Tennesseer]

A History of the War on Christmas