This is now all our kids know

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Anonymous wrote:My kid jokingly said “shut up piggy” the other day and defended himself by saying Trump says it. I reminded him he was born under President Obama and we expect him to behave better.

Things that didn't happen for $1,000 Ken

You might want to see a medical professional about your belief that you can know what has happened in the lives of anonymous people posting on the internet.

FWIW-I wrote the above and it did happen, much to my dismay.

+1 not sure why someone would find the story above unbelievable. my kid called another kid a loser and defended himself by saying Trump says it all the time. do you think kids are immune to the bad behavior of the most famous/powerful person in their country?

I miss the days when Republicans were outraged by Obama’s tan suit and we had a president we could be proud of.

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My kids were born in 2009 and 2011. They have no memory of pre-Trump politics. I've told them that things were relatively boring when I was their age during the Reagan-Bush era. They have a hard time believing me.

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Anonymous wrote:Are our kids and their generation somehow so special that they should be exempt from the effects of their time? How do you think parents felt in 1939? 1968?

Thank you! You should be so lucky that your “crisis” is having Trump as president. Watch some documentaries about trench warfare in WW1 or the effects of having a canon ball rip through your body on the front lines of the Civil War. Get some historical context and talk to a shrink while you’re at it. Jeez.

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Anonymous wrote:Are our kids and their generation somehow so special that they should be exempt from the effects of their time? How do you think parents felt in 1939? 1968?

Thank you! You should be so lucky that your “crisis” is having Trump as president. Watch some documentaries about trench warfare in WW1 or the effects of having a canon ball rip through your body on the front lines of the Civil War. Get some historical context and talk to a shrink while you’re at it. Jeez.

What does that have to do with anything? This is such a weak attempt at deflection.

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Anonymous wrote:I am by turns furious and despairing that these utterly dysfunctional, chaotic political times are now "normal" America for our kids. How will we ever get back to a functional democratic process? They've never known anything else but the crap we have now.

My kids think it's funny

OP here. So does my teenager. Hence my despair. I have not raised him this way but such is our culture.

Huh, my kids are disgusted by the things potus does and says.

My two teens are horrified by Trump and his corrupt, lying, idiot minions.

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Anonymous wrote:Are our kids and their generation somehow so special that they should be exempt from the effects of their time? How do you think parents felt in 1939? 1968?

Thank you! You should be so lucky that your “crisis” is having Trump as president. Watch some documentaries about trench warfare in WW1 or the effects of having a canon ball rip through your body on the front lines of the Civil War. Get some historical context and talk to a shrink while you’re at it. Jeez.

Go away gaslighter. Trump is threatening military action against nations we have been allies with since WWII. He is clearly demented and gets more outrageous by the day. Take your "this is no big deal" and shove it hard where the sun don't shine.

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Anonymous wrote:I am by turns furious and despairing that these utterly dysfunctional, chaotic political times are now "normal" America for our kids. How will we ever get back to a functional democratic process? They've never known anything else but the crap we have now.

My kids think it's funny

It is funny.

Suggesting it's not funny is a lie. Of course it's perversion and funny in the darkest way as he's bringing the country down and overall just a wreck of biblical proportions but at the same time come on.. you cannot make this up in comedy. Greenland? Not allowing people from TOGO in the country? "Board of Peace?" Tariffs on French champagne? $1B buy in for becoming a permanent pseudo UN with Trump as the head even post presidency? I mean it's a total joke. A nightmarish one but still. Every day you wake up with a joke.

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Anonymous wrote:Are our kids and their generation somehow so special that they should be exempt from the effects of their time? How do you think parents felt in 1939? 1968?

Thank you! You should be so lucky that your “crisis” is having Trump as president. Watch some documentaries about trench warfare in WW1 or the effects of having a canon ball rip through your body on the front lines of the Civil War. Get some historical context and talk to a shrink while you’re at it. Jeez.

Excuse me. Why are you acting like people in 1918 living a luxurious, post-industrial life with electricity and plumbing had anything to complain about? Barely any of them had to fight in trenches anyway. WWI was no big deal compared to what other people went through. Paleolithic humans lived in caves and barely had tools to hunt with. They’d go out foraging for berries and just get gored by a wild boar.

Get some historical context. Obviously nothing bad has ever happened since then and no one can remark negatively about anything without it being a sign they need a psychiatrist. Jeez.

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Anonymous wrote:Are our kids and their generation somehow so special that they should be exempt from the effects of their time? How do you think parents felt in 1939? 1968?

Thank you! You should be so lucky that your “crisis” is having Trump as president. Watch some documentaries about trench warfare in WW1 or the effects of having a canon ball rip through your body on the front lines of the Civil War. Get some historical context and talk to a shrink while you’re at it. Jeez.

It’s because I studied history (real history that required me to study primary sources, not just watch documentaries) that I am so concerned for my children.

Did you think WWI or the Civil War just happened in a vacuum? That one day people stood up and said hey we’re bored let’s fight? No, that’s not how it works. It started long before.

Trump is laying the groundwork for a future that will have my boys in a trench getting blown apart by canons. And you’d think with all the world’s knowledge at our fingertips that we could see the glaringly obvious patterns by now, and you’d be completely wrong.

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Anonymous wrote:Are our kids and their generation somehow so special that they should be exempt from the effects of their time? How do you think parents felt in 1939? 1968?

Thank you! You should be so lucky that your “crisis” is having Trump as president. Watch some documentaries about trench warfare in WW1 or the effects of having a canon ball rip through your body on the front lines of the Civil War. Get some historical context and talk to a shrink while you’re at it. Jeez.

And you need to learn what a thought terminating cliche is. “Things could be worse, so you have no right to complain” doesn’t add anything substantive to the discussion. That could be said about anything, anywhere. It’s meaningless. Things always can be worse.

That doesn’t mean people shouldn’t voice their concerns, especially when history starts to rhyme.