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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Both he and his mom come from Kennedy wealth and entitlement. To quote Lisa Barlow, they get presents just for breathing. Arnold had to prove his worth his entire life. I have very little respect for Kennedys.[/quote]

This. Arnold is a self-made person who has to be ambitious in order to survive. Patrick has the extreme privilege doing whatever he wants and still living in luxury. Of course they'll have different outlooks. But one hopes that father and son would be able to empathize with each other.[/quote]

Please.

He would not gave had a political career without his wife and like most men he fumbled the ball at the goal line.
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You mean his wife’s family, not his wife. You’re also forgetting decades of work and success before that. [/quote]

Yeah, I'm coming down pretty hard on Arnold's side. He came to a new country with nothing and a heavy accent. He made something of himself. Maria wouldn't have given him a second look had he not already made it. I don't condone the Nanny Affair, at all. But I have zero respect for a beyond privileged kid throwing any shade at his dad who had to work a zillion times harder than the son--who has had it all handed to him.[/quote]

So he should worship his dad? He is entitled to his opinions and feelings about his father. You can be extremely successful and be a shitty parent. They are not mutually exclusive. [/quote]

I get it. But I look down on an entitled kid who throws shade at someone who had to work far (beyond measure) harder than him to succeed. If he has a problem with his dad, take it to therapy. [/quote]
He credits his dad for working very hard and building tremendous success. He just doesn’t like that dad knocked up the housekeeper. His point is that he wants to be successful in his personal and familial relationships as well, not just his career. That seems commendable. Let’s check back in when he’s 55 or so and see if he has succeeded in that.[/quote]

But still, I just don't respect people who throw shade at people who didn't have it as easy as they have it -- especially one of the people who made his life so easy! No respect. He could have just said I want to have a good career and be a good family man. Leave it to the reader to figure it out. I don't care what the point was, no respect for PS.[/quote]
His dad’s indiscretion blew up their lives as a family. His mother was deeply hurt. That would be very difficult for any child, but because of his parents’ fame, it was also fodder for the tabloids and late night comedy shows. Patrick is a nepo baby who has enjoyed immense privilege his whole life, but even that kind of privilege doesn’t shield you from devastation over the demise of your parents’ marriage and the humiliation of [i]everyone[/i] knowing all about it. He is entitled to say he wants to be different from his dad in that way. He barely threw any shade, and let’s face it, Arnold deserves shade for that particular chapter of his life. [/quote]

This is more or less where I land as well. Arnold does deserve credit for making something of himself, but the particular way in which he broke up his family and humiliated his wife was shameful. He could have retired at any point once he was a-list and lived a perfectly lovely life with his family. But he had ambition for more, and emotionally distanced himself from his family to the point of having an affair with the housekeeper and fathering a child with her - a huge betrayal. Perhaps the kids are privileged in that they don’t have to worry about money, professional opportunities come easy to them and they can seek more balance in life… but at least he’s not trying to prove his worth to his dad by heading down a similar path.[/quote]

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