For many American families, Thanksgiving is the time for turkey. 

A couple of turkeys may get pardoned at the White House, although Joe Biden's effort to pardon them went a bit awry earlier in the week as he spewed in confusion and then beat it out of there in a rush at the end. But yes, he did manage to pardon Liberty and Bell. 

However, most turkeys around this time are landing on the holiday dinner table. 

Nice and gorgeous, roasted right out of the oven, with crispy skin, surrounded by all the traditional sides. It's something that's a feature of the holiday, to which many look forward with great anticipation. I, along with many others, was sitting down to such a fine dinner on Thursday. 

But the killjoys at PETA were at it again this Thanksgiving, trying to make you feel guilty about eating turkey. They never seem to quite make it, though. They post funny things that Americans laugh at, and then the people go back to the table to gobble down some more turkey. 

While most of us were enjoying our feasts, PETA was making a post on X, flipping the roles of the turkeys and human beings, with the human as the featured "meal," surrounded by a family of turkeys around the table for the holiday. "We’re lucky turkeys would never do this to us—you don’t have to do it to them, either," the X caption proclaims. 

We’re lucky turkeys would never do this to us—you don’t have to do it to them, either.

Art by @freebison pic.twitter.com/StSJlbxgte

— PETA (@peta) November 22, 2023

Thank God Elon Musk brought in Community Notes because they've been so helpful. It makes it much harder for people to spin narratives and push propaganda. PETA is always trying to preach to us, but they got the Community Note of all time on this post. 

The note explains: 

Turkeys are not vegetarians. Turkeys eat mice, lizards, frogs, and just about anything they can fit in their mouth. If turkeys were larger or had the technological means to farm and eat humans, their current diet reveals they likely would.

Oh. Whoops. Talk about an owning there. That might just be the best Note ever; it's certainly in the running. Sounds like maybe we should be eating more of them before they get to us.

If the post wasn't already going to go viral because the cartoon was funny, that Note guaranteed it. As of this moment, it has 26.3 million views. I laughed my head off when I saw it, and I'm sure many others did as well. What a perfect response. 

I'm thinking this didn't exactly go as the scolds at PETA would have liked it to go. 

People loved it. 

A hall-of-fame community note: https://t.co/cNkRTCz3Xn

— Michael Knowles (@michaeljknowles) November 24, 2023

This picture is fake .

Turkeys don’t celebrate Thanksgiving sitting around a table. They sit on a table resting on a platter.

— Dr. Tororu (@DrTororu) November 23, 2023

Do you ever post about how many birds are killed by wind turbines?

— #ThePersistence (@ScottPresler) November 24, 2023