{"id":46084,"date":"2025-11-27T07:43:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T12:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=46084"},"modified":"2025-11-27T07:50:46","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T12:50:46","slug":"the-thanksgiving-prayer-updated-for-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=46084","title":{"rendered":"The Thanksgiving Prayer, updated for 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good day all and a happy Thanksgiving to you all. Each year, Tom Kratman, a noted author, retired U.S. Army Colonel and recovering attorney, writes a prayer on what we are thankful for. He has asked that it be reposted far and wide.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/messenger_angel.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-17463\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/messenger_angel.jpg?resize=243%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"243\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dear Lord, as You know, from 2008 to 2015, and 2020 up to just last year, though I tried to update this special prayer for this special day to account for changed circumstances, I just never could. Sorry, God, but, as I am sure You know and understand, I kept hanging up on the obvious opening line, \u201cMy Lord, my God, why have you forsaken us?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Well, You sure came through for us in 2024. So, God, in humble gratitude to you, and in honor of this special day that marks the unique covenant between you and the United States, I offer this prayer.<\/p>\n<p>We thank You, Lord, for the 2024 election. We thank You that we are now unburdened by what has been.<\/p>\n<p>Lord, we thank you for the ponds, lakes, rivers, and oceans of tears shed by liberals and lefties all over the world, but especially here. Yes, Lord, we know it\u2019s not nice to gloat, either\u2026but, again, we think that suffering is good for the soul and, You know, there are some souls that desperately need some suffering.<\/p>\n<p>We thank You, God, that most of the pollsters have been shown to be the untrustworthy, lying, partisan hacks we\u2019ve long suspected they were.<\/p>\n<p>And Lord, thank You, too, for the little things; that the Epstein files were released, that the investigation of the criminal money laundering machine that is the Clinton Foundation may recommence, unimpeded, and that we can stop denuding our own defense on behalf of the Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>We ask You, too, O Lord, to ensure that our president, Donald Trump, has remembered and keeps his promises to us, to build the wall, to deport the illegals, to stop further infiltration by unvetted Muslim terrorists, and Chinese SOF, to continue to change the trade agreements that have impoverished our working class, and to purge the Deep State with fire and steel. And, Lord? Double kudos on that last one.<\/p>\n<p>We could in our vanity and arrogance ask for more, O Lord, that the three most left-leaning members of the Supreme Court go down in the same fiery plane crash, for example, or that California secede so that we can recognize it, mobilize against it, invade it, conquer it, crush it, and then restructure it as a territory sin suffragio en perpetua, but that would be terribly presumptuous of us.<\/p>\n<p>Besides, that\u2019s what Christmas is for.<\/p>\n<p>Amen.<\/p>\n<span id=\"post-ratings-46084\" class=\"post-ratings\" data-nonce=\"306a1ce25d\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"rating_46084_1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-postratings\/images\/stars_crystal\/rating_on.gif?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"1 Star\" title=\"1 Star\" onmouseover=\"current_rating(46084, 1, '1 Star');\" onmouseout=\"ratings_off(5, 0, 0);\" onclick=\"rate_post();\" onkeypress=\"rate_post();\" style=\"cursor: pointer; border: 0px;\" \/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"rating_46084_2\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-postratings\/images\/stars_crystal\/rating_on.gif?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"2 Stars\" title=\"2 Stars\" onmouseover=\"current_rating(46084, 2, '2 Stars');\" onmouseout=\"ratings_off(5, 0, 0);\" onclick=\"rate_post();\" onkeypress=\"rate_post();\" style=\"cursor: pointer; border: 0px;\" \/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"rating_46084_3\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-postratings\/images\/stars_crystal\/rating_on.gif?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"3 Stars\" title=\"3 Stars\" onmouseover=\"current_rating(46084, 3, '3 Stars');\" onmouseout=\"ratings_off(5, 0, 0);\" onclick=\"rate_post();\" onkeypress=\"rate_post();\" style=\"cursor: pointer; border: 0px;\" \/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"rating_46084_4\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-postratings\/images\/stars_crystal\/rating_on.gif?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"4 Stars\" title=\"4 Stars\" onmouseover=\"current_rating(46084, 4, '4 Stars');\" onmouseout=\"ratings_off(5, 0, 0);\" onclick=\"rate_post();\" onkeypress=\"rate_post();\" style=\"cursor: pointer; border: 0px;\" \/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"rating_46084_5\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-postratings\/images\/stars_crystal\/rating_on.gif?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"5 Stars\" title=\"5 Stars\" onmouseover=\"current_rating(46084, 5, '5 Stars');\" onmouseout=\"ratings_off(5, 0, 0);\" onclick=\"rate_post();\" onkeypress=\"rate_post();\" style=\"cursor: pointer; border: 0px;\" \/> (<strong>3<\/strong> votes, average: <strong>5.00<\/strong> out of 5)<br \/><span class=\"post-ratings-text\" id=\"ratings_46084_text\"><\/span><\/span><span id=\"post-ratings-46084-loading\" class=\"post-ratings-loading\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-postratings\/images\/loading.gif?resize=16%2C16&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" class=\"post-ratings-image\" \/>Loading...<\/span>\n<p><i><b>~The Angry Webmaster~<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good day all and a happy Thanksgiving to you all. Each year, Tom Kratman, a noted author, retired U.S. Army Colonel and recovering attorney, writes a prayer on what we are thankful for. He has asked that it be reposted &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=46084\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[181,37,750,71],"tags":[11,303,12,17,377,314,563,28],"class_list":["post-46084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hero","category-liberty-politics","category-maga","category-news-of-the-day","tag-america","tag-donald-trump","tag-freedom","tag-liberty","tag-maga","tag-thanksgiving","tag-tom-kratman","tag-united-states"],"views":112,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":27528,"url":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=27528","url_meta":{"origin":46084,"position":0},"title":"A Thanksgiving prayer","author":"Angry Webmaster","date":"November 22, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Good day all and happy Thanksgiving. 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