Saturday, November 25, 2023

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First, you have to be this old to recognize the face in that picture. Once the scourge of all non-FoxNews viewers and a symbol of the decline and fall of American democracy, not even a punchline anymore.

Sic transit gloria.

Hell, even Newt Gingrich pops up now and again to remind us of what he isn’t…

But the War on Xmas is back: because, Thanksgiving is over.*


Or maybe it isn’t:
There’s a cease-fire on the battlefields of Gaza. But the War on Christmas is still raging in the parking lots of our nation’s big box retailers.
I do wonder who is still shopping in big box stores (the last time I was in one the skeleton crew staff out-numbered customers 10 to 1; well, if you don’t count Costco). But maybe that marks me as an elitist:
Probably the biggest political gap between the highly educated policy class & the less educated public, is on the War on Christmas 
That’s because the public has to deal with being told “Happy Holidays” at brick-and-mortar retailers while elites do Christmas shopping online
Still, political pundits want to know:
Has the War on Christmas become Biden's Vietnam?
Guess we’ll have to first decide if there still is one. 🤷🏻‍♂️

*The non-sarcastic truth is, Newsmax tried to revive it because…Newsmax. They need the views. And some random guy warming up the crowd for Trump a few weeks back. Which probably inspired Newsmax.

And, of course, NYT Pitchbot. Because satire is never seasonal.

1 comment:

  1. How can anyone hope to win when they just keep lying up crap like that? The media is pretty much entirely complicit.

    Reading Brueggemann's An Unsettled God during Advent, since I can't get through his Theology of the Old Testament. I'm planning on buying nothing that I can't help buying, that's my war on American Christmas. I was thinking of reposting some of the Magnificat Advent postings I did seven or eight years back. If the videos are still up. I can't believe I had that much energy so recently.

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