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Nov 25 • 8 tweets • 5 min read
Its a drab dreary morning in Arkansas, most of us are still bloated from yesterday. To my non-American friends yesterday was Thanksgiving in the US and it is our biggest feast day of the year. A people already known for over eating and indulgence go all out for this one. However
what follows that Thursday of Gluttony is a Friday of miserly yet riotous shopping. Right now at 7AM local time there are people who were running as if zombies were chasing them to be the first to lay hands on the gigazised TV hours ago. Black Friday store shopping horror stories
are epic. Thankfully now we have Amazon so that shoppers who don't want to throw elbows to buy their grandkid a toy can still throw dollars at consumerism like a lotto winner at a strip club. <--- Thats me by the way. Not the Lotto winner the person who doesn't want to throw
elbows at Wal Mart. Today is my nation's biggest shopping day followed by Monday which is a day devoted to online shopping. Hundreds of millions of us will be buying billions of gifts of which about 1 dozen will be truly used. Now however there is a great opportunity to buy
gifts that will be used, or to fund them anyway. @MriyaAid, @UkraineAidOps, @U24_gov_ua, @3xR_team and @Teoyaomiquu's new fund raiser all have stockings up. What can you shove in them?
The @georgian_legion and @belwarriors have been especially good this year, can you be their Santa? Please give something today that will help more #Ukrainains make it through the winter or that fewer Russian invaders do so. Thats it, that is the message for today. Of course I
need to tag @JohnBoozman, @SenTomCotton, and @RepFrenchHill so they know my votes, time and my dollars both support Ukraine. I am sure I will be back later to bash those spreading dis-info, a #FELLAS work is never done. I probably won't be on @MriyaReport before Monday. It is a
long 4 day weekend of rest for me. Until Ukraine Wins On Ukraine's Terms: Slava Ukraini! #UkraineWillWin @mfa_russia <--- still losing and you have nothing to be thankful for your goose is cooked.

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