Sunday, November 26, 2017

O Paradeisbaum, O Paradeisbaum! (Redux)

Just put up one of these and call it good (I've got two of them this year!)

Um, okay.  Maybe there's a reason FoxNews is not shown internationally, after all:

On Sunday’s edition of Fox & Friends, co-host Pete Hegseth noted that the there was a shortage of Christmas trees because fewer had been planted after the economic crisis that occurred at the end of Bush’s second term.

“There is a nationwide Christmas tree shortage,” Hegseth explained. “Apparently, 10 years ago during the financial crisis, during the downturn, there were less trees planted. It takes about 10 years for a tree to be chopped down and put in your living room. Because of that shortage — basic supply and demand tells us that if you have less of it, it’s going to cost you a little bit more. You might be shelling out another 10, 15 bucks.”

“You can’t put a price tag on Christmas,” Boothe chimed in.

Hegseth suggested that the cost of Christmas trees could be averted by going to “middle America” and chopping down a tree, which he said he had done “many, many times.”

The President's favorite FoxNews show, y'all.


Because, ya know "You can't put a price tag on Christmas."  And wandering onto someone's property and chopping down their trees is A-OK in "middle America."

6 comments:

  1. I remember people walking onto our property and cutting Christmas trees without permission, it's the reason there are none of several species in our woods.

    So FOX is advocating theft as a part of Christmas, how in keeping with their kleptocratic values.

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  2. Oh, and there's a Tardis on that thing.

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  3. Oh hell yeah! My other tree is topped with a weeping Angel!

    Don't blink!

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  4. And yeah, people should read their Robert Frost.

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  5. I wouldn't have noticed the Tardis except that I've had to go to a huuuugge monitor so I can read text.

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  6. I should do that, too.

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