Our third Thanksgiving for endless genocide.

The origins of American Thanksgiving. From then until now. Our big beautiful genocide.

Front view of the next generation Israeli bulldozer blade. Manufactured under license from Caterpillar using all American components. The Gaza Bulldozer Model X. Claims to move 1000 tons per load including human remains.

This thanksgiving piece is about the origins of American Thanksgiving. Why patriotic Christian nationalists give thanks by way of Christian celebration that includes excess consumption, reckless frivolous spending and wholesale holocaust denial during an active genocide at a time when we see billions spent cheerfully funding Apartheid baby murder Terrorism for the 76th year running instead of feeding the 42 million hungry Americans on SNAP benefits who would otherwise be able to give thanks to Jesus on this day with a full belly.

That’s not the case though. Billions for Israel and the oligarchy doesn’t leave enough for Americas poor. Not tonight Josephine.

Days of thanksgiving have been common in Christendom for hundreds of years before the European colonization of North America gave us American Thanksgiving.

In the United States Thanksgiving Day is an annual national holiday intended for celebrating the harvest and other blessings of the past year. In September 1789, President George Washington issued a proclamation naming Thursday, November 26, 1789 as a “Day of Publick Thanksgivin”.

Where it began

It is generally believed that American Thanksgiving is modeled on a 1621 harvest feast shared by the English colonists, the Pilgrims of Plymouth and their hosts, the Wampanoag Indian people.

This day for ‘thanksgiving’ occurred one year after the British Colonists arrival in the American Colony in 1620. These hardy travelers were giving thanks for having survived a whole year in this wild frontier when that outcome was far from certain after landing on this potentially hostile shore. Losing some 50% of their number in the harsh winter of 1620/21.

The English colonists who started this annual holiday were refugees, fleeing Christian persecution. Immigrants who traveled across an ocean fleeing the Authoritarian mass child-murdering British Royal Reich who dominated the world at that time; a Christian empire genociding at will, killing by the million, mass murdering children in land grabs for God, King and Country that few Terrorizing regimes have managed to equal since, funded by the auction sale of Africa’s Black gold.

Who were these first English Colonists. How and why did they wind up giving thanks in the American Colony

The kingdom of England was a Roman Catholic nation until 1534, when King Henry VIII, who reigned 1509-1547, declared himself head of a new national church called the Church of England. The King of England decided to not send English money to Rome when he could form his own Church to collect English money for the English Royal Family and their circle of rich friends.

Although King Henry ‘the beheader’ and his daughter, Queen Elizabeth I, who reigned 1558-1603, changed aspects of The Church of England from the Roman Catholic Church, many Religious Englishmen felt the Monarchs greed motivated approach to Jesus was too similar to Roman Catholicism. These religious Brits wanted a purer version of Christianity, a simplified version of dogmatic scriptural Christianity without the foreign sounding Latin phraseology. These soon to be designated heretics came to be known as the Puritans.

There was another sect of super Christian Puritans who decided the new Church of England sucked beyond repair. They wanted out. This schismatic sect were called the Separatists.

The separatists demanded the formation of new, separate church congregation. However the problem these separatists faced was similar to a gang who pay protection money to a mafia boss deciding they no longer wanted to pay that money.

Control of the rights to represent Jesus by taxing the supplicant majority was vested in the Monarchy. Those who challenged the Monarchs version of Jesus representation were subject to persecution most foul, that often included beheading or being buried alive.

In England in the 1600’s it was illegal to praise any account of Jesus other than the Kings own Church of England version. These were the years of the Religion Wars, as monarchs battled to seize their piece of the Catholic Jesus Market.

Our American puritan pilgrims, unlike most of New England’s puritans, were a separatist group, who established the Plymouth Colony in 1620.

The puritan separatists had had enough of the Kings revisionist Bible. They sought a new opportunity to raise up their own version of Jesus and his Good Book. These Christians followed scripture according to the Geneva Bible.

In the 1500s, the “Geneva Bible” was widely used, particularly among Protestants. For three generations prior to the departure on the Mayflower, the Geneva Bible held sway in the homes of the English people.

While Great Bibles and Bishops’ Bibles were read out in the churches run by the Monarch who controlled the Religion business, Geneva Bibles were read by the firesides, well before and after the gay King James version was issued.

The Geneva Bible was the Bible of William Shakespeare, John Bunyan, and Oliver Cromwell. This is the version that Pilgrims and Puritans brought with them to America.

The Separatist church congregation that would go onto establish the Plymouth Colony in New England was originally centered around the town of Scrooby in Nottinghamshire. Members included the two Wiliam’s, William Bradford and William Brewster. Like others who refused to follow the Church of England’s teachings, they invited persecution led by the Monarchy.

The monarchy depended on enforcing religious submission to maintain their leader class position. They were first in line to God, entitled to the best of everything by birthright. The chosen few, maintaining their position of power by persecution of separatists that included harassment, fines and prison time. And when necessary, beheading or being buried alive in a public show. The Monarchy’s use of religion to subjugate the meek and fleece them by way of taxes formed the model for future Mafia families.

Extreme violence ensured dissidents would cease and desist any efforts to muscle in on the Monarchs Religion Racket. Some examples include;

~ Thomas Cromwell English statesman and lawyer who served as chief minister to King Henry VIII from 1534 to 1540, was beheaded on orders of the king.

~ Mary, Queen of Scots, murdered for religious reasons in 1587 by Queen Elizabeth I. Mary had abdicated the Scottish crown 20 years earlier. Mary’s execution was necessary to protect the Queen of England and the country’s rights to control the Religion market.

~ In 1649, King Charles I was executed for religious reasons. Charles had married Henrietta Maria, a Catholic, which offended many English Protestants.

~ Syphilis stricken serial beheader, King Henry the VIII’th had a daughter who went on to succeed him as Monarch. Mary I (18 February 1516 – 17 November 1558) was the first woman crowned queen in her own right in English history.

Mary ruled for five years, where she was known as Mary Tudor, and as “Bloody Mary“. Mary became a devoted Roman Catholic who set out to overturn her Father’s anti Catholic agenda by restoring Catholicism as England’s State Religion. The newly coronated Mary I released all imprisoned Catholics, appointed what Catholics she could to positions of importance, abolished all of Edward’s religious laws, and married a fellow Catholic. In July 1554, she married her first cousin once-removed on her mother’s side, Prince Philip of Spain, becoming queen consort of Habsburg Spain on his accession in 1556. Now the Catholics could reverse the loss of the English market with a spree of mass killings, favoring the spectacle of showing offenders being burned alive. Religious rule by terror.

In 1555, the pope approved a deal to have England brought back into Catholic jurisdiction and effectively reinstated the Heresy Acts. When voluntary submission to the Crown’s version of Catholic Jesus failed, Mary had her Governments Royal Religious Elites issue death warrants for hundreds of Protestant dissenters, leading to hundreds of executions for heresy.

Anyone who hadn’t fled England and continued to publicly practice Protestantism became targets of these laws, with executions by burning at the stake commencing soon thereafter. Some 283 people were executed in this manner for this reason. Sending a strong message to those who did not embrace Jesus Mercy in the Catholic style. Many historians argue that Marys religious persecutions were modest by comparison with many other Royals ruling by Religious decree. She didn’t execute nearly as many people as her father, Henry VIII. The beheader.

Our future American Colonists were British subjects who lived with this tyranny of evil men, denied their rights to practice their version on Scripture.

When the soon to be first group of Pilgrims to the American Colony could no longer stomach this religious persecution in England, they chose to flee. First they went to the Dutch Netherlands, but found life there was tough. Opportunities were scarce. After more than a decade of struggle, the congregation decided to leave the Netherlands to establish a farming village in the northern part of the Virginia Colony.

What they needed was a land of plenty with opportunities and no competition from the locals.

At that time, 1620, Virginia extended from Jamestown in the south to the mouth of the Hudson River in the north. The Pilgrims planned to settle near present-day New York City. There they hoped to live under the Laws and protection of English government, but with the right to worship in their own, separate church. Separatists just wanna be separate to praise their version of Jesus. They made a deal.

Because they were too poor to afford international travel and finance the establishment of their freedom village in the American colony, our religious refugees entered into an agreement with financial investors who enjoyed legitimate status with the King.

The company of investors would provide passage for the colonists and supply them with tools, clothing and other necessities for community development. The colonists in turn would work for the company, sending natural resources known to be abundant in the area; such as fish, timber and furs back to England.

All assets, including the land and the Pilgrims houses, would belong to the company until the end of seven years when all Company assets would be divided among each of the investors and colonists. The colonists and investors negotiated the terms of this capitalist investment for several years before reaching agreement.

Now the Pilgrims had the sponsors to finance their hazardous journey to start their new business in the American Colony; working for the Investors benefit knowing they would be free to follow their own version of Jesus law without the risk of being beheaded or burned at the stake by the Kings forces. Their payment, if they survived, would be the freedom to praise Jesus the way they chose to.

Before the Pilgrims left England the company obtained permission from the King of England to settle on land farther to the south near the mouth of the Hudson River; in present-day New York. The deal allowed them freedom of religion in exchange for sending an agreed amount of the proceeds of their work back to England.

The Kings blessing on this commercial agreement was the subject of extensive legal authority. When the Pilgrims landed in an area not exactly as identified in the original agreement, they were required to make another agreement.

The wording of this Mayflower Compact agreement is interesting.

In the name of God, Amen. We whose names are underwritten, the loyal subjects of our dread Sovereign Lord King James, by the Grace of God of Great Britain, France, and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, etc.

Having undertaken for the Glory of God and advancement of the Christian Faith and Honour of our King and Country, a Voyage to plant the First Colony in the Northern Parts of Virginia, do by these presents solemnly and mutually in the presence of God and one of another, Covenant and Combine ourselves together in a Civil Body Politic, for our better ordering and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute and frame such just and equal Laws, Ordinances, Acts, Constitutions and Offices from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the Colony, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience. In witness whereof we have hereunder subscribed our names at Cape Cod, the 11th of November, in the year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord King James, of England, France and Ireland the eighteenth, and of Scotland the fifty-fourth.

Anno Domini 1620.

For reasons of economy, the entire congregation of Separatists included in this agreement to establish a free Christian Community in the American Colony could not come to America together. Those who could settle their affairs in Leiden went first while the greater number, including their pastor John Robinson, remained behind.

John Robinson (1576–1625) was the pastor of the “Pilgrim Fathers” before they left on the Mayflower. He became one of the early leaders of the English Separatists called Brownists, and is regarded, along with Robert Browne and Henry Barrow, as one of the founders of the Congregational Church.

The investors financed the purchase of a small ship, the optimistically named Speedwell, to transport them across the Atlantic where it could then be used for fishing and trading in America. At Southampton, a port in England, they were joined by a group of English colonists who had been gathered by the investors. Speedwell and Mayflower, a ship rented by the investors, departed for America together.

After twice turning back to England because Speedwell leaked, they were forced to leave the Speedwell. As a result, some families were divided when some passengers had to be turned back for lack of space. A month after first leaving England, on September 6, 1620, Mayflower set out alone with 102 passengers.

On the Mayflower were the chosen few, chosen by the Company. Some 102 people, their belongings, possibly some farm animals, many copies of The Geneva Bible, several muzzle loading guns and their unshakeable faith in the Virgin birth of God’s only son, Jesus. At sea in challenging conditions for a wooden boat for 66 days. That’s what the Pilgrims did in the year 1620, on a leaky rented wooden ship called Mayflower.

Wampanoag high chief Massasoit meeting English Puritan Separatist Christian settlers

After more than two months at sea the Puritan Separatist Christian Pilgrims finally arrived at Cape Cod on November 11, 1620. It wasn’t all they had hoped for and so few weeks later, they sailed up the coast to Plymouth. This was the territory of the Wampanoag Native People.

Wampanoag, means ‘People of the First Light’. In the 1600s, there were as many as 40,000 Wampanoag people in the 67 villages that made up the Wampanoag Nation. These villages covered the territory along the east coast as far as Wessagusset, today called Weymouth, all of what is now Cape Cod and the islands of Natocket and Noepe, now called Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard. And southeast as far as Pokanocket, now Bristol and Warren, Rhode Island.

Wampanoag have been living on this part of Turtle Island for over fifteen thousand years. An established culture with an established way of living in harmony with nature.

The Wampanoag Homeland provided bountiful food for fulfillment of all their needs. It was up to the People to keep the balance and respect for all living beings. Wampanoag were seasonal people, hunter gatherers, living in the forest and valleys during winter. During the summer, spring, and fall, they migrated to the rivers, ponds, and ocean to plant crops, fish and gather foods from the forests.

Our 102 Christian Pilgrims arrived in Wampanoag territory where they started to build the town where they could house churches to pray in their version of what being a Christian meant. The Pilgrims lived on the ship while the works progressed, rowing ashore to build houses during the day, and returning to the ship at night. In the chill of winter, December 1620, people began to get sick from the cold and the damp in their leaky old rental accommodation.

About half the people on Mayflower died that first winter from what they described as a “general sickness” of colds, coughs and fevers.

Finally, in March 1621, they had built enough homes for the Company to enable everyone who survived that deadly winter to live on land. After that long hard voyage, and an even harder winter as a residential houseboat, the Mayflower left Plymouth to return to England on April 5, 1621, leaving 53 Pilgrims to survive in their newly built community, two of whom were infants.

Six months later, in the fall of 1621 they saw their labors rewarded with a bountiful harvest coming after a year of sickness and scarcity. The Christians Pilgrims decided to give thanks to God and the Company who invested in their dream of freedom from religious oppression. They celebrated their bounty with a tradition called the Harvest Home. In a letter to a friend in England, Pilgrim Edward Winslow, E.W., wrote the only record of the celebration that survives:

“Our harvest being gotten in, our governor sent four men on fowling, that we might after a more special manner rejoice together, after we had gathered the fruits of our labors. They four in one day killed as much fowl as, with a little help beside, served the Company almost a week. At which time, amongst other recreations, we exercised our arms, many of the Indians coming amongst us, and among the rest their greatest king Massasoit, with some 90 men, whom for three days we entertained and feasted, and they went out and killed five deer, which they brought to the plantation and bestowed on our governor, and upon the captain and others. And although it be not always so plentiful as it was at this time with us, yet by the goodness of God, we are so far from want that we often wish you partakers of our plenty.”

The people they celebrated with on the first Thanksgiving feast, the local Wampanoag tribe of Algonquian-speaking North American Indians, were not yet the subject of the subsequent mass murder genocide land grab that would follow soon after.

Some of the grateful Pilgrims still remembered Wampanoag leader Massasoit had given them food when supplies brought from England proved insufficient. During the celebration, Massasoit, an important sachem (leader) of the Wampanoag People, along with 90 of his men, joined the English for three days of entertainment and feasting. The celebration occurred sometime between September 21 and November 9, 1621.

At this point, the original thanksgiving celebration, White Colonists and native Wampanoag People broke bread and gave thanks together. Sharing the land and its opportunities on an equal footing with the gratitude they showed for this good fortune. Being in a land of abundance capable of providing for all.

Perhaps, had a time traveler gone back to that day and told Massasoit what these Pilgrims would do next, his sharing kindness may have taken a different turn.

The only four women left after the first deadly winter that killed half of Plymouth Colony, including 14 women. Remarkably, these four women managed to feed 143 people without kitchens, ovens, wheat, spices or butter.

Who prepared that first thanksgiving feast

We learn in Civics class that the first Pilgrim feast was cooked by four adult Pilgrim women who survived their first winter in the New World. These hardy British lasses were Eleanor Billington, Mary Brewster, Susanna White, and Elizabeth Hopkins; who famously gave birth to her first son, appropriately named Oceanus, on Mayflower during that dangerous ocean crossing.

Very sensibly the partying Pilgrims decided to welcome the Wampanoag to join the celebration, aware that their farming and hunting techniques had produced much of the bounty for the Pilgrims. So the first Thanksgiving began with the immigrant religious refugees in that 50% of lucky survivors of the first winter, and kindly disposed native people, breaking bread together in a shared celebration of good fortune in a land not yet segregated as ‘One Nation Under White God.’

While the 1621 Pilgrim story did not itself create the modern Thanksgiving holiday, it did become inextricably linked with it in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This was largely due to the introduction in U.S. schools of “an annual sequence of classroom holiday activities through which civic education and American religious patriotism were indoctrinated.

Thanksgiving and nationalist recruitment

The late 19th and early 20th century were a time of massive immigration to the U.S. The changing demographics prompted not only xenophobic responses in the form of restrictive immigration measures, but also a greater push towards the Americanization of newcomers and the conscious formulation of a shared cultural heritage.

Holiday observances in classrooms, including those for Washington’s birthday, Memorial Day, and Flag Day “introduced youngsters to the central themes of American History intended to strengthen their character, motivating their patriotism and preparing them to become loyal citizens.” The rise of the Christian Nationalist American.

Thanksgiving, with its non-denominational character, colonial harvest themes and images of Pilgrims and ‘Indians’ breaking bread together peacefully, allowed the country’s leader class to frame the narrative of its origins. Ambitious courageous White people leaving far off lands, struggling under harsh conditions and ultimately, with the advent of Manifest Destiny, being welcomed to dominion over America’s bounty. A simple narrative pitched at 3rd grade reading age that children, particularly immigrant children, could easily understand and share with their families.

Get em while they’re young knowing we are not born as genocidal mass murderers. That requires educational training.

Thanksgiving pageants were popular forms of “edutainment” in the early to mid 20th century. The holiday materials were often disseminated in the form of booklets containing poetry and songs and crafts. With drawings of smiling Indian warriors with feathers holding their hands out at young white girls bearing gifts. Thanksgiving pageants at schools often involved a recreation of the imagined “First Thanksgiving” to reinforce the Pilgrim narrative and the importance of the story to an understanding of U.S. history. These pageants continue in some parts of the U.S. to this day.

What these materials usually elide, gloss over or ignore altogether is what has brought controversy to the holiday in recent years. Don’t mention the genocide, the ethnic cleanse or the absence of thanks being given for the life supporting welcome the Indian locals gave the struggling new immigrants. Or the slave labor they brought in for four hundred years. Or the dirt poor underclass serving the ever growing needs of the 1% mega rich who give thanks for Goebbels Ministry of Propaganda handbook and the Zionist behavioral analysts for perfecting the Americanized version.

This year for the third time, we can add Holocaust denial to the list of reasons to give thanks. Thank God we are not an empire of genocidal monsters starving babies to death.

In 1777 the US War of Liberation was well underway as American designated terrorists attacked their Leader class, the English Kings Men. Unwilling to continue the contractual agreement with the King by which they were paid to establish a free Religious community on the Kings Land in exchange for rendering to the King what was rightfully his. According to God’s will.

The First National Proclamation of Thanksgiving was given by the Continental Congress in 1777 from its temporary location in York, Pennsylvania, while the British occupied the national capital at Philadelphia. Delegate Samuel Adams created the first draft. Congress then adopted the final version. Thanksgiving as a patriotic Christian Nationalist obligation:

For as much as it is the indispensable Duty of all Men to adore the superintending Providence of Almighty God; to acknowledge with Gratitude their Obligation to him for Benefits received, and to implore such farther Blessings as they stand in Need of: And it had pleased him in his abundant Mercy, not only to continue to us the innumerable Bounties of his common Providence; but also to smile upon us in the Prosecution of a just and necessary war, for the Defense and Establishment of our unalienable Rights and Liberties; particularly in that he hath been pleased, in so great a Measure, to prosper the Means used for the Support of our Troops, and to crown our Arms with most signal success:

It is therefore recommended to the legislative or executive Powers of these United States to set apart Thursday, the eighteenth Day of December next, for Solemn Thanksgiving and Praise: That at one Time and with one Voice, the good People may express the grateful Feelings of their Hearts, and consecrate themselves to the Service of their Divine Benefactor; and that, together with their sincere Acknowledgments and Offerings, they may join the penitent Confession of their manifold Sins, whereby they had forfeited every Favor; and their humble and earnest Supplication that it may please God through the Merits of Jesus Christ, mercifully to forgive and blot them out of Remembrance; That it may please him graciously to afford his Blessing on the Governments of these States respectively, and prosper the public Council of the whole:

To inspire our Commanders, both by Land and Sea, and all under them, with that Wisdom and Fortitude which may render them fit Instruments, under the Providence of Almighty God, to secure for these United States, the greatest of all human Blessings, Independence and Peace: That it may please him, to prosper the Trade and Manufactures of the People, and the Labor of the Husbandman, that our Land may yield its Increase: To take Schools and Seminaries of Education, so necessary for cultivating the Principles of true Liberty, Virtue and Piety, under his nurturing Hand; and to prosper the Means of Religion, for the promotion and enlargement of that Kingdom, which consisteth “in Righteousness, Peace and Joy in the Holy Ghost.

And it is further recommended, That servile Labor, and such Recreation, as, though at other Times innocent, may be unbecoming the Purpose of this Appointment, be omitted on so solemn an Occasion.

The author of this Christian Nationalist Legislation, Samuel Adams (1722 – 1803), was a second cousin to his fellow Founding Father, President John Adams.

Samuel Adams was a Christian Founding Father of the United States; a politician in colonial Massachusetts, a leader of the movement that became the American Revolution, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, and one of the architects of the principles of American republicanism that shaped the political culture of the United States.

How many founding fathers were Christian

The question of the religious faith of the Founding Fathers has generated a culture war in the United States. Scholars trained in research universities have generally argued that the majority of the Founders were religious rationalists or Unitarians. Pastors and other writers who identify themselves as Evangelicals have claimed not only that most of the Founders held orthodox beliefs but also that some were born-again Christians.

Whatever their beliefs, the Founders came from similar religious backgrounds. Most were Protestants. The largest number were raised in the three largest Christian traditions of colonial America; Anglicanism, as in the cases of John Jay, George Washington, and Edward Rutledge; Presbyterianism, as in the cases of Richard Stockton and the Rev. John Witherspoon; and Congregationalism, as in the cases of John Adams and Samuel Adams.

Other Protestant groups included the Society of Friends, Quakers, the Lutherans, and the Dutch Reformed. Three Founders; Charles Carroll and Daniel Carroll of Maryland and Thomas Fitzsimmons of Pennsylvania, were of Roman Catholic heritage.

The sweeping disagreement over the religious faiths of the Founders arises from a question of discrepancy. Did their private beliefs differ from the orthodox teachings of their churches.

On the surface, most Founders appear to have been orthodox, or “right-believing” Christians. Most were baptized, listed on church rolls, married to practicing Christians, and frequent or at least sporadic attenders of services of Christian worship. In public statements, most invoked divine assistance.

But the widespread existence in 18th-century America of a school of religious thought called Deism complicates the actual beliefs of the Founders. Drawing from the scientific and philosophical work of such figures as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Isaac Newton, and John Locke, Deists argued that human experience and rationality, rather than religious dogma and mystery, determine the validity of human beliefs.

In his widely read The Age of Reason, Thomas Paine, the principal American exponent of Deism, called Christianity “a fable.” Paine, the protégé of Benjamin Franklin who invited him to join the American experiment, denied “that the Almighty ever did communicate anything to man, by…speech,…language, or…vision.” Postulating a distant deity whom he called “Nature’s God”, a term also used in the Declaration of Independence, Paine declared in a “profession of faith”:

I believe in one God, and no more; and I hope for happiness beyond this life. I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and in endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.

Thus, Deism inevitably subverted orthodox Christianity. Persons influenced by the movement had little reason to read the Bible, to pray, to attend church, or to participate in such rites as baptism, Holy Communion, and the laying on of hands (confirmation) by bishops. With the notable exceptions of Abigail Adams and Dolley Madison, Deism seems to have had little effect on women. For example, Martha Washington, the daughters of Thomas Jefferson, and Elizabeth Kortright Monroe and her daughters seem to have held orthodox Christian beliefs.

This annual tradition of Religious former Colonists turned Genocidal ethnic cleanse occupiers, turned Christian Nationalist Americans getting together to pig out on traditional New England fare of Turkey and Cranberry stuffing caught on.

Every year Thanksgiving Day, a legal holiday, is observed on the fourth Thursday in November

Thanksgiving was federally formalized by an 1863 by presidential proclamation by Abraham Lincoln. This happened in the middle of the civil war. For its value in creating patriotic zeal from which to harvest more conscripts into war

What Americans call the “Holiday Season” generally begins with Thanksgiving. The first day after Thanksgiving Day, Black Friday, marks the start of the Christmas shopping season.

This is when the nationalist Christian indoctrination into gluttonous consumer spending finds many Americans overweight and in debt in advance of the holiday season.

An annual orgy of unregulated capitalism in which the right to profiteer from cultural associations between being American, patriotic, and ‘never giving a sucker an even break’ when it comes to exploiting the adage ‘a fool and his money are easily parted’. All of which join the holy celebration in blissful awareness that these ‘Black Friday’ sales are neither Sales nor limited to Friday. But do depend on two external factors. A willingness to deny the Holocaust happening at the same time that we enjoy our thanksgiving excess, and even more importantly, willingness to ignore the hungry 42 million poor Americans by keeping up the billions paid to Israel, who give thanks for being chosen in this way.

Our third Thanksgiving as Zionist oppressors funding an active genocide by new version of manifest destiny in which we have the right and the obligation to ignore the consequences of being a genocide apartheid state criminalizing international law to ensure no interruption to this genocide entitlement.

Thanksgiving is usually celebrated with a family meal in which excess is represented in many layers. Gluttony and overspending on food, drink, gifts and travel to be with families that exist in stark contrast to the paucity in mindful thinking as to why Americans continue this celebration that depends on suppressing all actual news reporting of the Governments genocidal profiteering that only ever benefits the few billionaires and not the vast majority, many of whom join together in giving thanks for entirely different reasons to each other.

In a country built on the premise of equality, how equal is the amount each American has to give thanks for.

The image of American voters pigging out on Turkey and spending countless billions on frivolous luxury items making Bezos richer still while millions of children starve to death in tents under American bombs and Christian silence is not going to feature in the vast majority of prayers said this thanksgiving at the tables of Americans who give thanks. Thanks for the right to kill countless numbers of babies and children in Gods Name, with assured immunity.

But what you gonna do. 2.5 billion Christians cant all be wrong. Give thanks to Jesus and keep on voting for Christian Zionist leaders to keep monetizing endless genocide for the billionaires. It’s in His hands. He decides if we will still be giving thanks for our endless abundance at next years thanksgiving.

May your thanks be given every day.

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