Texas GOP Official Threatens To Slap The Next Person Who Tells Him ‘Happy Holidays’

[dlwickham]

http://www.towleroad.com/2015/12/texas-gop-official-threatens-slap-next-person-tells-happy-holidays/?utm_content=buffer038e7&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

One bigoted Texas official just took his war against the “war on Christmas” to another level.

In a Facebook post Wednesday, Republican Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller threatened violence against anyone who wishes him “Happy Holidays.”

“If one more person says Happy Holidays to me I just might slap them,” Miller wrote. “Either tell me Merry Christmas or just don’t say anything.”

looks like he needs to slap a few thousand people

https://www.facebook.com/MillerForTexas/photos/a.1430872243801609.1073741828.1427314137490753/1773274972894666/?type=3&theater

[randys1]

1. I would give ANYTHING to be where he is so I could say this, get slapped, then own his house

Someone ask him why does he want to live in a country where a given religion is not supposed to have any power, at all.

Any acknowledgment beyond in his own home or church?

Ask him why does he hate America?

[DesertFlower]

13. i agree. nt

[BeyondGeography]

2. Well Merry Fucking Christmas then, Tex

[olddots]

3. Happy Holidays Sid !

oh and go fuck yourself too .

[Snobblevitch]

4. I don't mind if people wish me "Happy Holidays" in December,

with two exceptions, December 24 & 25.

[VanillaRhapsody]

7. What difference does that make?

Even on those two days?

[yeoman6987]

52. Cuz it's Christmas. I say happy Christmas Eve to everyone on the 24th

And merry Christmas on December 25th. I actually start saying merry Christmas to everyone on December 1st. It amazing how happy they all are to say it back so freely like without reservation. It really is a beautiful thing and the best time of the year. To be honest, I wish everyone was so nice all through the year. What a pleasant country we'd have.


Of course my Christmas party was December 12th this year at my home. 73 excited friends and neighbors getting together to just have a good time and forget all the nonsense for a nice evening. My Christmas party is the event of the year for most so I make it special.

[VanillaRhapsody]

54. You can say whatever YOU want

YOU dont get to force me to conform to your world view on any day.....I can and sure as shit now would say HAPPY HOLIDAYS to you and there is absofuckinglutely nothing you can do to stop me....

[yeoman6987]

56. You can but thankfully everyone I run into says merry Christmas back

Not a single person was grumpy at all. In fact I brought joy to their lives even if momentarily. It's absolutely amazing to change the moods of all of them. Some may be having a horrible day but then they run into me and instant change. I love it.

[VanillaRhapsody]

57. But you cannot make them do so

Damn why dont you understand this?

[yeoman6987]

59. Not once did I say I did. Not once.

In fact, I went back to Reread my beautifully written replies and made sure. Nope not once.

[VanillaRhapsody]

60. Yes you did....in the beggining....of this

[yeoman6987]

61. Enough. Merry Christmas! And no you don't have to return it.

I'm going to Publix now. More love there. I really do need to pick up a few things for making the cookies for the Christmas cookie exchange on Tuesday. I have to make 48 cookie from scratch for the exchange and 1dozen for eating at the event. Nope not at my house. My neighbor who named the event not me.

[VanillaRhapsody]

62. You said...

I don't mind if people wish me "Happy Holidays" in December,
with two exceptions, December 24 & 25.

So obvioualy since you "do mind" you are trying to dictate what OTHER people say...

[yeoman6987]

63. I am not replier number 4. I did not post that. You are confusing with that person.

[VanillaRhapsody]

65. Then dont defend them...

I had no idea you were even a different person......thats we ho I was talking to about this....you got in the middle of that and became colateral damage...

[VanillaRhapsody]

55. By the way...

December 25th....is a myth....its actually a pagan hol8day.. Jesus was not actually born that day...

[VanillaRhapsody]

8. Say whatever YOU want...

Don't dictate it to others....

[Snobblevitch]

10. I do.

And when did I 'dictate' anything? I provided my opinion on the subject of the OP.

[VanillaRhapsody]

17. Did you not say you didn't care if they said

Happy Holidays on any day other than the 24th and 25th?



How else was I to interpret that statement?

[Snobblevitch]

18. I wrote what I preferred to hear on those days.

I did not say that people had to say that to me on those days.

The local newspaper had a banner headline on the front page on December 25th "Happy Holidays". That is not factually correct as December 25th is Christmas Day.

[LanternWaste]

24. I think you're confusing accuracy with specificity.

" That is not factually correct as December..."

It is indeed accurate. Christmas is a subset of Holidays. A reference to either the set or the subset is accurate. I think you're simply confusing accuracy with specificity... regardless of what you want to hear.

[VanillaRhapsody]

31. You don't get to dictate that others MUST say to you what YOU want to hear...

Say whatever YOU want on those or any other days! But don't demand others say what "you want to hear"

You do understand those two days really marked a Pagan holiday right? And that much of the traditions at Christmas ARE Pagan to begin with.

[Snobblevitch]

44. "Dictate?" "Demand?"

[Demit]

35. It's a *season* that people are celebrating, not just one day.

Besides, using your logic, someone wishing you Merry Christmas on Christmas Eve would be wrong.

You're a trip.

[Person 2713]

37. Ah that's a holiday . christmas is a federal holiday

[Lochloosa]

15. Well, Happy Hanukkah to you then.

[Snobblevitch]

16. Didn't that end on Monday?

[Lochloosa]

19. Don't know...not Jewish

[Snobblevitch]

20. I am not Jewish either, but I am aware of the dates.

I have a Jewish co-worker.

[dhol82]

53. You will have a problem next year

Christmas and Chanukah come at exactly the same time.

What will do then?

[Snobblevitch]

66. I will accept any greeting I am offered,

just as I do now.

Jeez, is English that hard to comprehend these days...

(Although I have a Jewish co-worker, I do not encounter people wishing me Happy Hannukkah. I understand it is a fairly minor holiday in the Jewish calendar.)

[JoePhilly]

67. Get a life.

[Snobblevitch]

68. Seriously?

I happen to prefer to be greeted with Merry Christmas on Christmas? I also would prefer to be greeted with Happy Hannukkah during Hannukkah. (My co-worker actually did greet me that way, and I returned the greeting.)

[JoePhilly]

69. Oh ... well if that's what you "prefer" ...

... meh ... who cares what you "prefer".

If people happen to greet you in the way you "prefer", great ... if they do not ... too bad. Get over it.

I'd prefer that Christians NOT bring up Jesus when talking to me at Christmas, or at any other time of the year. But they feel free to show up on my porch and try to tell me how they can "save me".

If some one says what you want to hear this time of year, great. If not ... too bad, get over it, move on.

[Snobblevitch]

70. You certainly do not need to care what I prefer.

I find it quite humerous that you have a problem with somebody mentioning Jesus at Christmas.

[JoePhilly]

71. It depends where we are when they mention him ...

... if they mention him in a manner in which they want me to agree his was a deity, they should expect that I might question that.

Having said that ... I say nothing when we visit my RW relatives. They talk about Jesus a great deal. And if I wanted, I could ask some pretty difficult questions. But I do not.

You are the one who thinks people should talk mainly about your preferred God on certain days around Christmas.

I find that hilarious. Even if we believe Jesus lived, theologians also believe that his birthday was not Dec 24th / 25th, but probably sometime in June or July.

[Snobblevitch]

72. I thought the date od Jesus' birth was September 25th.

I understand that it was changed in order to get pagens to believe.

I never said anything about talking about Jesus. That's all from you.

I think it is good that you refrain from engaging your RW relatives in religeous talk. That would not not be productive.

[RKP5637]

5. Well, then, "Have a Miserable Christmas and a Shitty New Year!" n/t

[xocet]

6. Guess who his campaign's treasurer is?

Sid Miller is the Commissioner of Agriculture in the Great State of Texas. Paid political advertising by the Sid Miller Campaign, Ted Nugent, Treasurer

https://www.facebook.com/MillerForTexas/?fref=photo

[Mariana]

9. A fellow Republican, Abraham Lincoln, is supposed to have said

"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt." You, Sid, have removed all doubt.

You should take your own advice: "Just don't say anything."

[Renew Deal]

11. Why should people assume "Sid Miller" is Christian?

He could be Jewish or anything else.

[hobbit709]

26. He tells everyone he is.

How do you think he got elected here in TX.

[Mariana]

73. There's nothing to assume. He's a Christian.

"In October 2004 Sid and Debra Miller along with Wayne and Deb Shaw of Dublin, Texas and Pastor Charles Higgs founded the Cowboy Church of Erath County with the mission to reach out to cowboys, cowgirls and others in the western heritage culture with the gospel of Jesus Christ."

http://www.millerfortexas.com/

[mnhtnbb]

12. What a doofus. He can't control what other people say. He can always respond, "Merry Christmas"

This is a significant problem with Repubs--they just don't get that everyone does not have to do things THEIR way.

A$$hole.

[DesertFlower]

14. i wished my hairdresser "happy holidays" today

even though she's a devout christian. saying happy holidays also includes new year's day.

[liberal N proud]

29. Exactly!

[elehhhhna]

41. Holiday. Root words: holy, day. Happy. Holy. Days. Wth is the problem with these

illiterate "Christians"?!!

[Gothmog]

21. It is tough living in Texas at times

[JCMach1]

22. He wants you to like his page seeing as how he has put some, 'insite'

into it!

Seriously, check his FB page... total nutcase...

[tanyev]

23. You'll get no "Happy Holidays" from me, Sid.

But I hope you're OK with being told that you're an effing a$$hole.

[B Calm]

25. This made up war on Christmas cracks me up!

[smirkymonkey]

42. I know, it's like a bunch of little children having a temper-tantrum.

Seriously, who gives a shit. A warm greeting is a warm greeting, it's getting to the point of absurdity.

[Chan790]

27. I need to go find Sid Miller.

I'm going to wish him a "Happy Holidays" while accompanied by a friend in law-enforcement. I know it's TX but even TX I'm sure has laws and increased penalties for assaulting the disabled. He can go spend a year or so in prison to contemplate the meaning of Christmas.

[liberal N proud]

28. Who would Jesus slap?

This is just so very Christian of him.

[FrodosPet]

34. What did the five fingers say to the face?

I just figured it out. Sid Miller is really Rick James in disguise.

I knew Rick James faked his death and is undercover as a pink faced asshole. Now we have proofiness.

[Javaman]

30. I need to find this man and say that to his face...

I need the money.

[Paladin]

32. Even by Texas Republican standards, Sid Miller is a fuckhead. (nt)

[FrodosPet]

33. Sid Miller is a hypocrite

Is he going to slap himself now?

[pinboy3niner]

36. I know where Sid can get a great Christmas doormat for free

Just ring the door buzzard quietly because the guy giving it away is not the mat's owner. Shhhh!

[truegrit44]

49. It took you long enough.........

I wanted to do door buzzard reply so bad, but I held off waiting for you,

[pinboy3niner]

50. LOL!

The thread has been kicked back up. Now with more than 15,000 views!

[Cal Carpenter]

38. What's with this War on New Year's?

FFS. I grew up on 'Happy Holidays' and it had nothing to do with avoiding the C-word.

Happy Holidays

Seasons Greetings

These aren't new phrases. So much bullshit.

Joy to the fucking world, asshole.

[LiberalElite]

64. It seems to me it all started with Bing Crosby of all people -

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[Person 2713]

39. When did this song become annoying to hear on Xmas or wrong , or the devil's work?

or was it this guy ?

More than 1/2 the country is looking for a fight and to have Christmas their way or else get slapped by them

And why was the movie called Holiday Inn comrade Crosby??? Did it make people sick when it came out that it wasn't called Christmass Inn damnit
I don't think so although Birchers were big by the time Williams sang I guess

[dembotoz]

40. in texass if he assaults you can you stand your ground and fill him full of lead????

just sayin

[2naSalit]

43. What's this

sh*t-fer-brainz's address? I have a bunch of greeting cards that say 'Happy Holidays" on the front and that's it. Would be worth the stamps just to send them all to him to elevate his blood pressure. Maybe include a picture of Krampus inside.

[KamaAina]

45. Happy holidays, Mr. Miller!

(slap)

See you in court!

[tabasco]

46. Bring it, Sid.

I'll ruin your fucking holiday, asshole.

[lpbk2713]

47. Someone in a Texas State Cabinet position has fits of violence?

Who would have guessed?

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

48. He surely has the spirit of the season in his heart :P

Just like good ole Ebenezer Scrooge.

[RedCappedBandit]

51. Rofl. Such a hypocrite.

[Kalidurga]

58. I hope thousands more wish him Happy Holidays.

What a Scrooge.