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Happy Thanksgiving. I hope you have a good day Thursday and enjoy a wonderful start to this year's holiday season.

In honor of the day, here is a list of things for which certain prominent folks in our midst could be thankful:

• Mitt Romney — That he might have a possible position in the Cabinet of the politician he called a "con man" and a "phony." Everyone deserves a second chance. Right?

• Gov. Gary Herbert ­­— That he has espoused enough alternative public positions on Donald Trump that he can point to whichever one makes him look best, depending on how Trump does as president.

• Rep. Mia Love — That she finally can be bipartisan and magnanimous now that the Republicans control everything and the Democrats have no say.

• Rep. Rob Bishop: Drill, baby, drill.

• House Speaker Greg Hughes — That he was the first prominent Utah politician to endorse Trump. You may now kiss his ring.

• Salt Lake City Mayor Jackie Biskupski — That she has three years to make voters forget her first year in office before she has to run for re-election.

• The Patrick Henry Caucus — That nobody remembers who you are or that you named your group after a patriot who opposed the U.S. Constitution.

• Utah football coach Kyle Whittingham — That there is always next year.

• Rep. Jason Chaffetz — Having Hillary Clinton to kick around for another four years. (Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain in the White House.)

• David Duke — Finally! A president who understands.

• Sen. Jim Dabakis — Being the only Democrat in the Senate who doesn't have to worry about leadership responsibilities.

• Rust Belt voters — That Trump will clear out the immigrants and open up all those jobs they took at McDonald's, Wendy's and Burger King.

• Rep. Chris Stewart — Mussolini.

• The Koch brothers — It's payback time.

• Utah Democratic Chairman Peter Corroon — No partisan elections for two years.

• Utah Republican Chairman James Evans — Gerrymandering.

• Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson — No more Aleppo questions.

• Presidential candidate Evan McMullin — Newfound name recognition in Utah.

• Attorney General Sean Reyes — Having predecessors like John Swallow and Mark Shurtleff.

• Sen. Howard Stephenson — His very own state school board.

• Salt Lake County Mayor Ben McAdams — Somebody has to be the token Democrat.

• Newly elected Rep. Mike Winder — No more Richard Burwash.

• Utah Athletic Director Chris Hill — Rescheduled basketball games with BYU to get the Legislature off his back.

• BYU basketball coach Dave Rose — That sucker punches are not mentioned in the honor code.

• Sen. Mike Lee — Democratic candidate recruiters.

• Sen. Orrin Hatch — Immortality (But what's the trade-off?).

• Rep. LaVar Christensen — That his come-from-behind victory gives him two more years to have a captive audience in the House for his two-hour morality lectures.

• Fox News executives — That Trump's election means they won't have to worry about him forming a competing Trump Network.

• Davillier law firm — That Trump's election will give Utah lawmakers new hope they can win a lawsuit to transfer federally controlled land to the state, so the checks will keep rolling in.

• State Auditor John Dougall — Having so much working material.

• Me — Having so much working material.