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Cyrano

(15,343 posts)
Tue Dec 24, 2024, 02:10 PM Tuesday

Should Santa stop at Mar-a-Lago?

Well, if we go by that "naughty or nice" concept, probably not.

Then again, passing up the home of "The Most Powerful Man in the World" requires some serious thought. After all, this is a guy who wants to own Canada, Greenland, the Panama Canal, and who knows what else? What if he decides he wants to own the North Pole? Who's going to stop him from claiming it? The elves? The reindeer? Mrs. Claus?

Add to this Santa's costs. He's got to feed the elves and reindeer, and the costs of the raw materials for all those toys is, like everything else, getting more expensive. Can The Jolly One really afford to offend the King of Mar-a-Lago? Hmmm. Not stopping at Mar-a-Lago could be a big mistake.

On the other hand, there's the security issue. The guards are super highly sensitive these days. Can Santa let Dancer, Prancer or Rudolph get shot at on his busiest night of the year? After all, he's got a few billion stops to make.

Compared to all the world's other woes, this may seem like a trivial issue. But there's the tiny chance that the media may cover Santa's passing up Mar-a-Lago. And the last thing he needs, with all the letters he gets every year, is more mail from crazed MAGAs. Not to mention bad coverage from Fox "news."

What to do? What to do? Santa has not yet decided. And one can only hope that this dilemma doesn't distract him from his round-the-globe trip tonight.What do you think he should do?

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Cyrano

(15,343 posts)
3. That would put him in a law suit that
Tue Dec 24, 2024, 02:30 PM
Tuesday

would go on for years. It's tough enough being Santa without that kind of distraction.

0rganism

(24,762 posts)
6. Of course he should, there's a lot of stocking coal to drop off
Tue Dec 24, 2024, 02:46 PM
Tuesday

Toting that much undelivered coal around would put extra wear on his rig.

kimbutgar

(23,615 posts)
7. Santa should drop thousands of pounds of coal on mar a lago
Tue Dec 24, 2024, 02:52 PM
Tuesday

And make sure his reindeers relieve themselves on his property.

Maeve

(43,046 posts)
8. Send Krampus
Tue Dec 24, 2024, 02:52 PM
Tuesday
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krampus

Krampus is usually featured as a man with horns with one grotesque human foot and one foot of a goat. He is typically covered in black hair and has a very long snake or dragon-like tongue. These qualities have increasingly made Krampus a character for horror costumes and films.[5]

In the 17th century Krampus was paired with St. Nicholas as a helper. Because Nicholas is a saint, it wasn’t logical or deemed saintly behavior for Nicholas to deliver punishments. Therefore a helper was assigned to St Nicholas; such as Farmhand Rupert, Schmutzli, or Père Fouettard who would go down the chimney or punish the naughty children. Krampus served St Nicholas in the same role.[6]
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