It’s Thanksgiving! Time for us to count our blessings and tuck into some dry turkey smeared with cranberry sauce to make it taste better!

It’s also the time to have uncomfortable conversations about politics with Uncle Pete and Cousin Sally. My peeps on social media are bracing themselves for the inevitable pronouncements about politics and the economy from relatives. How do  you respond when they say something so completely stupid? Snark? Eye roll? Whip out a PowerPoint presentation on your iPad?

I usually go for the gritted teeth approach and some passive aggressive mumbled response that nobody hears because I have a mouth full of turkey.

Dan Drezner provides some retorts for foreign policy matters.

I like to pull out Pope Francis right now as a response to all social matters right now. My uber-Catholic family doesn’t like to fight with a Pope, so I use the Pope card whenever I can.