Wishing Our Readers a VERY Happy and Peaceful Thanksgiving!

Of all the things we here at Hot Air are grateful for, our readers are near the top of the list. 

Sorry, but I, for one, am more thankful to be married to my wife, to live in the greatest country on Earth, and to be loved by God despite my many flaws than to be blessed to write for you, but I can’t think of another blessing that ranks higher on my list. 

This is the greatest job on this fine planet, and we couldn’t do it without you. So THANK YOU for being loyal readers and commenters. We don’t write to put out a “product” or salable “content;” we write because we enjoy partnering with you in a shared mission to save this country for our posterity. 

I am not much of a fan of Turkey, so Prime Rib made the menu instead. That isn’t just un-American, I know, but an affront to my state of Minnesota, which is the #1 turkey producer in the world. We love turkey so much that we even elect them to political offices, including our governors. 

Many of you and yours have traveled for this special holiday to visit friends and family, and unfortunately, more than a few of you will be drawn into contentious political discussions. If you need topics to keep the conversations flowing, suggestions abound.

Good conversation topics for the Thanksgiving tablepic.twitter.com/k82GpYxnCT

— Autism Capital 🧩 (@AutismCapital) November 26, 2025

If you prefer to avoid political discussions, Jim Geraghty has some suggestions for alternative topics of conversation. No need for Bad Orange Man to ruin your Thanksgiving when there are so many alternative things to fight about. 

It is horrific to see so many American families pulling apart over political differences. Particularly when there are so many perfectly valid non-political reasons to get angry with your relatives — like how they’re always telling you how to live your life, and how they’re always… pic.twitter.com/LXgiaoLTnX

— Jim Geraghty (@jimgeraghty) November 26, 2025

t is horrific to see so many American families pulling apart over political differences. Particularly when there are so many perfectly valid non-political reasons to get angry with your relatives — like how they’re always telling you how to live your life, and how they’re always judging you, and how they always tell the same stories and no, I do not want another serving of your abominable corn casserole, I just scooped a small portion on my plate and pushed it around with my fork to be polite.

Hey! I love corn pudding! Mmmm. Stuffing, too. It’s even on the menu to accompany my Prime Rib.

Geraghty is trying to fill the Dave Barry role for conservatives, and is doing a pretty good job of it. Not that Dave has left this mortal coil, or has revealed some secret woke self, but there is always room for more humor. 

Last year, a lefty columnist apparently earnestly called upon President Biden to cancel Thanksgiving because, “I’m not interested in breaking bread with people who don’t share my values.” First, pal, federal holidays are set by acts of Congress, so that’s calling for something…

— Jim Geraghty (@jimgeraghty) November 26, 2025

Last year, a lefty columnist apparently earnestly called upon President Biden to cancel Thanksgiving because, “I’m not interested in breaking bread with people who don’t share my values.” First, pal, federal holidays are set by acts of Congress, so that’s calling for something that violates the U.S. Constitution.

Second, the last thing you want to do is give the current president the idea that he has the power to cancel or alter holidays, or else next year he’s going to try to get all of us to celebrate “Trumpmas.”

Someday I hope to be funnier, or at least as good a headline writer as Beege, but even if neither ever happens, I feel infinitely blessed to celebrate another Thanksgiving. For all the world’s ills, we live in the best country at the best time in world history, and if we can manage to keep things together, our descendants will have it even better. 

When I need a reminder that we all must commit ourselves to the fight to sustain and improve America, I think of Reagan’s great words:

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it on to our children in the bloodstream. The only way they can inherit the freedom we have known is if we fight for it, protect it, defend it, and then hand it to them with the well fought lessons of how they in their lifetime must do the same. And if you and I don’t do this, then you and I may well spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it once was like in America when men were free.

That was sixty-five years ago, and those words rang true then and even more so today. 

Among the many things we should be thankful for this holiday, let’s remember that preserving America’s greatness is not a burden we must bear but rather a blessing handed to us by our ancestors. If we fulfill our responsibilities, we will have been a blessing to those who live today and follow in our footsteps. 

Even if we remain anonymous in the effort, we will leave this mortal coil having been part of something truly great, and people will be thanking us for our efforts as they sit down to that turkey (or Prime Rib) dinner a hundred years from now. 

I hope it’s not lab-grown. 

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