🎄❶ /⓫
✶ ʀᴇᴍᴇᴍʙᴇʀ ᴡʜᴇɴ ᴡᴇ sᴀɪᴅ "ᴄʜʀɪsᴛᴍᴀs?" ➔ ᴀ ᴛʜʀᴇᴀᴅ

Conservatives long wistfully for a past era when Americans always said "MERRY CHRISTMAS" & remembered the Baby Jesus.

But when WAS that era, exactly...?🤔

I researched history to find out.
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🎄❷ Christians invented "Xmas" & WWII troops loved the pinups...
🎄❸ Of Bing & Berlin...
🎄❹ 42 seconds for the Baby Jesus! ...
🎄❺ POTUS holiday cards...
🎄❻ A drunk angel and faith in Santa...
🎄❼ Secular greetings as far as the eye could see...
🎄❽ Ah-HA! Someone DID outlaw Christmas!

Oh, wait. It was Christians.

...
🎄➒ "Merry Christmas" and "Bah Humbug" were gifts from Charles Dickens...
🎄➓ But Americans DO use the word "Christmas!" Really! We do!
🎄⓫ ᴇɴᴅ ᴛʜʀᴇᴀᴅ

THERE'S NO WAR ON CHRISTMAS, DAMMIT

⚛🐦ʀᴇᴛᴡᴇᴇᴛ & ғᴏʟʟᴏᴡ ᴍᴇ

Montage: The Obamas saying MERRY CHRISTMAS again and again. Enjoy! 😊
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