Today is Wednesday, November 27, 2024. As we face another Thanksgiving after a disastrous Election Day (not those who voted for the Orange Menace), you might be wondering how to approach those family members who did vote for the destruction of America (oh, we mean here your Aunt Doris who voted for Donald Trump on November 5), there is an online article that lays out what you should do tomorrow, which is not to make nice with your Trump-supporting family members. The article appears in Betches and it’s written by Kaitlin Byrd entitled “You Don’t Need To Make Nice With Your Trump-Supporting Family Members.”

Byrd recognizes that there will be guides to avoid conflict on such a communal day, minimize discussions, and embrace each other across political divides and cranberry sauce. But, she advises, this is not one of them. She believes we should not make nice with people whose politics are diametrically opposite to ours. She writes, “Politics determines who gets safe passage through the world and who will face fear and danger.”

The writer here feels “it is frankly absurd to pretend that we can set that aside after a campaign that so clearly marked some of us for oppression [migrants, women, members of the trans community, LGBTQ individuals, nonwhite people] and left the rest gloating over the pain they will inflict.” Dump supporters “have asked for our suffering; we do not owe them our forgiveness.”

Overall, the writer feels that it’s not incumbent upon us to accept people with differing politics across the dinner table this Thanksgiving. “Families are not about who claims us, but who we claim in return.” She advises us not to ditch the politics for a meal. She urges us to have a meal that reflects our politics.

As for our own plans tomorrow, thank God we are not breaking bread with avowed Dump supporters. We are having a nice Thanksgiving lunch with our friend “Patricia” with whom we traveled cross country with last year at her country club, The West Side Tennis Club, located right here in Forest Hills. In fact, Patricia has announced a Dump ban during dinner tomorrow. She doesn’t want either one of us to discuss the election, the results, or Donald Drumpf. My response to that is that I’ll try to maintain decorum during our meal, but I wonder if any one of us will betray that ban and begin discussing that verboten topic. Only time will tell. I’ll let you know on Friday since I won’t be writing the blog tomorrow for obvious reasons.

To that end, I wish you all a problem-free Thanksgiving if you indeed have to eat turkey with Dump supporters who might gloat over their win and thrust it in your face tomorrow. Don’t fall for it and retort with a quote from Kamala Harris – and be proud!

Happy Thanksgiving!

And so it went!

Here is the stage at the end of Drag, the Musical.

Here is more of the same. So if you want to enjoy yourself before drag is banned under Dump, go “drag” yourself to this show.