anybody have any Thanksgiving table political battles?

[samintx]

hal wrote:
not one deplorable in my family - YAY!

DITTO here

[S. Pupp]

FIL complained about the "socialist news" available on most news outlets, and talked at length about how great our current President is. He complained about millions of illegal aliens flowing into our country and living off welfare, contributing nothing, aided by our former socialist president.

This was followed by a claim that Guilliani made NYC the safest nation in the world, but that crime rates under the socialist Bloomberg returned the city to 1970's crime levels (not per city-data.com).

Despite a good, strong, amicable relationship, I came frighteningly close to suggesting that being raised in Italy under Mussolini has given him strong fascist tendencies. Nonetheless, I may have gone as overboard as he did - my recollections are a bit hazy, since the rapid-fire boIIocks aimed at my head gave me a concussion.

[bazookaman]

My cousin-in-law and my uncle got into it. Which was odd, b/c I had them both pegged as dyed in the wool conservatives. Turns out my Uncle has become more liberal in his old age. And my cousin-in-law. Well, he's the type that makes sure his tank is full when he drives into California. You know. Just in case he's got to make a quick getaway.