A standard, thumbsucker piece found in many magazines and newspapers is the “What I am thankful for this year” where columnists can simply punt, get in a sneer at their opponents disguised as being thankful, and make sure everyone knows about their kids/grandkids or whatever else they are under pressure to publicize.

Everyone is checking glibertarians.com!

Why should Glibertarians be any different?

So we have invited the Glibs to put in a brief “what they are thankful for”, and you, our commentariat, should use the comments section to put in yours.

I full expect multiple entries in the following categories – alcohol, weed, thicc, porn, meat, manly/bear/otterness, deep dish pizza and favorite sports teams not sucking (does not apply to Swiss Servator) Do not disappoint us!

NOTE: Not an actual depiction of Swiss Servator from the 2003-2009 timeframe.

Swiss Servator:

I am grateful the Swiss keep giving me a paycheck twice a month, my kids manage to move forward in life, my wife hasn’t had enough of me and put strychnine in my coffee. Oh and for all of you rustlers, cut throats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswogglers, horse thieves, bull dykes, train robbers, bank robbers, ass-kickers, shit-kickers and Methodists.

When Reason’s Hit & Run went a swirling around the bowl, I thought I was going to lose the community of all you. That would have been double plus ungood. So proschtli to all of you.

 

STEVE SMITH:

STEVE SMITH GRATEFUL FOR FAMILY – ESPECIALLY COUSIN SEA SMITH AND UNCLE MAPINGUARI. FRIENDS – THE JERSEY DEVIL, LOCH NESS MONSTER AND WENDIGO. ALSO GRATEFUL FOR FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN PEOPLE, WHO GET LINKS. BUT MOST OF ALL, STEVE SMITH GRATEFUL FOR TIME WITH HIKERS, CAMPERS, LOST PEOPLE AND PARK RANGERS. BY TIME WITH, MEAN RAPE.

 

Riven

I guess there’s really a lot to be grateful for: my health and ability to be productive, Mr. Riven and our pup and the home we’ve made together, my family who has always given me unconditional support in my endeavors, just living in a nation that values individual liberty and property rights, this place and all of you (yes, seriously, you. You might think I don’t mean you, personally, but I do), the other founders who I consider some of the best friends I’ve ever had or will have, the free market that allows me my favorite “vice” despite its questionable legal status, plus all the other wondrous things that only capitalism makes possible.

Lastly, I am grateful for this post; I’ve recently had a slew of unforeseen, high-dollar expenses and, overall, just wasn’t feeling that grateful or thankful until I stopped to think about the blessings and truly fortunate circumstances I have in my life.

 

Sloopyinca:

I am grateful for a benevolent God that granted me free will. I am grateful for a loving wife and children that make every day on this earth a blessing. I am grateful for my parents and siblings who have been supportive of me and my sometimes curious behavior. I am grateful for the friends that I have, who have filled the voids in my life that my family cannot fill. I am grateful for all of the people that came together to set up and run this site, as well as those who frequent it. You guys are the absolute best people anywhere on the internet and my life would be less full without you.  I’m also grateful for the golf course superintendent and pro at my club for doing a bang-up job of getting it back together in the aftermath of Harvey. And lastly, I’m thankful for The Ohio State Buckeyes, who better beat the piss out of that team up north in two days and five minutes after this is posted. O-H…

Happy Thanksgiving, SIV!

SP:

I’m most thankful for OMWC, who always believes. Everything else is (tasty, vegetarian) gravy.

ZARDOZ:

ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. ZARDOZ HAS LIFTED YOU UP FROM COMMENTING BRUTALITY. ZARDOZ HAD A SHITSTORM OF A YEAR – FIRST THERE WAS LABOR TROUBLE WITH THE TABERNACLE, THEN AFTER FINDING NEW WORK AS A DRUG MULE, ZARDOZ GOT HOOKED – HAD TO QUIT AND DRY OUT. THEN ZARDOZ LOST THE DREAMS OF STOCK RACING AND COUNTRY MUSIC. BUT ZARDOZ MADE NEW FRIENDS; STEVE SMITH, THE SERVER SQUIRRELS, HIS CHOSEN ONES AND THE BRUTALS DOWN AT THE GRAIN ELEVATOR ZARDOZ DELIVERS TO. ALL IN ALL, ZARDOZ IS PLEASED. ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.

 

Old Man With Candy:

Not surprisingly, I am most thankful for SP. After two disastrous marriages, it was a complete revelation to have found a life partner who was actually hyper-intelligent, honest, resourceful, kind, protective, creative, talented, thoughtful, and… well… she’s an actual libertarian and built this site (which I will note is remarkably squirrel-free). She puts up with me, my not-easy-to-live-with hobbies, my friends, and my penis. After ten years together, I have not been strangled in my sleep, which says much about her tolerance.

I am thankful for all of you, who turned the Glibertarians from a goofy idea to a real community, where I can always count on getting laughs, find interesting insights, and meet wonderful people who share my values. I am, for once, not being sarcastic when I say that we have the most interesting, intelligent, articulate, and widest-ranging comments section on the internet. The in-jokes and memes are terrific, and you’ve been amazingly supportive. You folks are wonderful, and I think of all of you as my friends, not just random strangers banging away on keyboards.

Heroic Mulatto

I do not experience “gratitude”. “Thankfulness” is merely a way weaklings and parasites assuage the cognitive dissonance they experience from the realization that they are incapable of earning the right to their continued existence through a combination of their own strength and wits and thus must depend on the mercy of other more capable beings.

Brett L

I am grateful for my family and kids, learning how hard it is to write a weekly feature, and the shit-lords and -ladies who don’t read my links. And also for the community built here. You may all be reprobates who would never get elected dogcatcher, but I love the community.