A little kid came up to me today and asked me why Santa Claus always brings the rich kids nicer presents at Christmas than the poor kids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I just told her the truth that it\u2019s because Santa Claus is a Republican.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In The Future the Christmas shopping season begins the day after New Year\u2019s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The reason for this is because over the years and the decades it just kept getting pushed further and further backwards through the calendar months in order to further boost the economy.\u00a0 Even as I write this it is not uncommon to see Christmas displays starting to go up as early as Halloween.\u00a0 It used to be it wasn\u2019t until after Thanksgiving.\u00a0 So you can easily see the trend.\u00a0 Before long we\u2019ll be seeing Christmas displays going up around Labor Day, and after that The Fourth of July.\u00a0 Then before you know it they\u2019ll start popping up around Memorial Day, and then Valentine\u2019s Day, and eventually, Groundhog\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The only reason it doesn\u2019t start until after New Year\u2019s in The Future is because everybody finally got together and decided that starting it any earlier than that would be just plain ridiculous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Which to be fair I guess means they at least still have some<\/em> sense of what that word means left.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A little kid came up to me today and asked me why Santa Claus always brings the rich kids nicer presents at Christmas than the poor kids. I just told her the truth that it\u2019s because Santa Claus is a Republican. In The Future the Christmas shopping season begins the day after New Year\u2019s. The…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spamrider.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spamrider.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spamrider.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spamrider.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spamrider.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spamrider.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":438,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spamrider.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions\/438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spamrider.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spamrider.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spamrider.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}