Five Creative Ways to Survive Thanksgiving Dinner This Year
Make it a “no gloating” zone
It’s time again for my annual “how to make it through Thanksgiving dinner” article, a tradition that began in 2022 with “Five Creative Ways to Change the Subject at Thanksgiving Dinner” and continued in 2023 with “Five Creative Ways to Ignite the Conversation During Thanksgiving Dinner.” The first was designed to keep the peace for the few hours you were thrown together with relatives you would not speak to if mom hadn’t begged you to come, while the second was decidedly more combative, giving you ideas for how to pick a fight before someone else did. You may find both useful again this year, depending on your state of mind come Thursday afternoon.
This year’s installment is, by necessity, a bit different. In 2022 and 2023, your relatives who wear MAGA hats and use “OwningLibsIsMyHobby2024” as their Netflix password had a narrow majority in the House of Representatives and not much else. With their savior exiled to Mar-A-Lago and various courtrooms, they had to spend their time banning books and devising new and better conspiracy theories.
Not so this Thanksgiving. This year it’s the Dems who are frantically searching for the easiest countries to immigrate to, lamenting the end of civilization, and wondering if Kid Rock is going to be named…
