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My 15 year old asked me my thoughts on Trump's COVID diagnosis
« on: October 07, 2020, 08:49:40 AM »
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My 15 year old asked me my thoughts on Trump's COVID diagnosis

Just now before my son left for school, he came over to me and said "Mom, I know you hate Trump but you don't want him to die because he got COVID, do you?"

Now how the hell am I supposed to answer that?? I didn't want to send the message to my kid that human life doesn't matter and that you should never wish harm on anyone and I would be a horrible human being if I was fine with someone dying and on and on with those types of thoughts

So I just said "No, I don't want him to die" and I left off the part that I don't want him to die because I want him to suffer with the damage that COVID can do to you if you survive, that I want him to see Biden win, that I want him to see Republicans down the ballot losing big time, that I want to see him prosecuted and go to jail, that I want him to see his family go to jail

How horrible of a mom would he think he had if I had said all those things, so I didn't!

I'm curious....how do you suggest I should have answered his question? Have any of you been in a similar predicament?
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1. I don't want him dead, I just want him voted out, broke, and in prison.   

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2. I didn't have that problem with my 24-year old son

He hates Trump more than I do!

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3. "I don't want him to die from covid. I want him to die from old age in prison."

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8. One of my youngest nieces will be that age in 4 months

They aren't stupid. She and most of her friends cried (literally - I was really surprised) when Hillary lost, and they were 11/12 at the time. I won't even detail how they feel about what is going on now. However my niece is also a little empath. She can't help it. She absorbs and internalizes all the pain that her friends may experience due to others who bully them. So it's a matter of how that child reacts to analogous situations and amazingly enough, that trait starts when they are little.

It will take years of "life" for them to understand the nuances of the complexities of the concept, but it also goes back to whether they are "hard-wired" for empathy or not. You can teach it and preach it but if their brain has no reaction to inflicting "pain" on others, whether physically or psychologically, there is not much you can do but try to guide them into another perspective.

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9. My 15 year old son and I talk about MF45 a lot.

The kiddo is well aware of my feelings about what a terrible person the pResident Our conversations center around telling the truth about what we see happening and doing the right thing even when you see so many others doing and saying things that hurt others. We talk about being patient and kind and sometimes we get righteously mad over our current circumstances with Covid and how it has caused such havoc in our lives with work and school. Specifically, when it comes to MF45’s Covid diagnosis, our conversations have been about consequences for our actions. tRump took risks and didn’t listen to science and he got sick. He may have gotten sick enough to die...time will tell. As my kiddo said...”tRump bought the ticket, now he’s got to take the ride.”

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Re: My 15 year old asked me my thoughts on Trump's COVID diagnosis
« Reply #1 on: October 07, 2020, 09:47:25 AM »
F*ck the Wuhan Flu.

They should all consider themselves lucky to be alive as there was no mention of how these "children" of liberal parents survived the most dangerous and deadly environment on planet earth.... a liberal mothers womb.
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Re: My 15 year old asked me my thoughts on Trump's COVID diagnosis
« Reply #2 on: October 07, 2020, 09:55:38 AM »
And your kid's opinion has as much bearing as carter's:

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Re: My 15 year old asked me my thoughts on Trump's COVID diagnosis
« Reply #3 on: October 07, 2020, 10:02:55 AM »
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How horrible of a mom would he think he had if I had said all those things, so I didn't!

That ship has already sailed when your 15 year old said he knows you already hate President Trump. 
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Re: My 15 year old asked me my thoughts on Trump's COVID diagnosis
« Reply #4 on: October 07, 2020, 11:19:20 AM »
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My 15 year old asked me my thoughts on Trump's COVID diagnosis

Just now before my son left for school, he came over to me and said "Mom, I know you hate Trump but you don't want him to die because he got COVID, do you?"

Now how the hell am I supposed to answer that?? ...

Two of my children were that age at different points in Clinton's MalAdministration. They wouldn't have used the word "Hate", because they knew I didn't hate Clinton, but that detail aside, had Clinton gotten sick with a potentially deadly disease I would have easily answered, "Of course I don't want Clinton to die of this!"

Hatred is the core of many/most DU-folks being.
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Re: My 15 year old asked me my thoughts on Trump's COVID diagnosis
« Reply #5 on: October 07, 2020, 11:20:37 AM »
Very clever DUmp op.

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Re: My 15 year old asked me my thoughts on Trump's COVID diagnosis
« Reply #6 on: October 07, 2020, 01:20:56 PM »
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I didn't want to send the message to my kid that human life doesn't matter and that you should never wish harm on anyone and I would be a horrible human being if I was fine with someone dying and on and on with those types of thoughts
And yet, that's exactly the message that your side sends. The left proclaims "words matter", but they don't practice what they preach. People are hurt when the left pathologizes Trump supporters, claims that the president is sympathetic to racists, that he claimed coronavirus is a hoax, that neo-NAZIs are hiding around every corner, that policemen are "klansmen in blue", that republicans are going to take your social security and health insurance, and so on.

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Re: My 15 year old asked me my thoughts on Trump's COVID diagnosis
« Reply #7 on: October 07, 2020, 02:30:06 PM »
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One of my youngest nieces will be that age in 4 months. She and most of her friends cried (literally - I was really surprised) when Hillary lost, and they were 11/12 at the time.

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Re: My 15 year old asked me my thoughts on Trump's COVID diagnosis
« Reply #8 on: October 07, 2020, 11:48:19 PM »
I would love to hear gNad's take on this.
I sure miss reading about the loud round mound schooling the
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Re: My 15 year old asked me my thoughts on Trump's COVID diagnosis
« Reply #9 on: October 08, 2020, 07:47:23 AM »
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8. One of my youngest nieces will be that age (15) in 4 months

They aren't stupid.
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Re: My 15 year old asked me my thoughts on Trump's COVID diagnosis
« Reply #10 on: October 08, 2020, 07:08:32 PM »
I would love to hear gNad's take on this.
I sure miss reading about the loud round mound schooling the
unwashed primitives on Skimmer's island.  :bawl:

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Re: My 15 year old asked me my thoughts on Trump's COVID diagnosis
« Reply #11 on: October 10, 2020, 09:20:10 AM »
Hatred is the core of many/most DU-folks being.

I find this behavior among the DUmpasses somewhat interesting, yet pitiful.
My boys are teenagers at this point. One of them wants to talk politics frequently, the other is mostly either uninterested, or just keeps things to himself as he tends to steer away from complex issues that may lead to arguing... he's mostly a passive type. I never engage with them regarding general politics, especially the "this candidate sucks because..." type of conversations or even casual comments.
We talk about ethics in general, explain this v/s that concepts, why some things work and others are pie in the sky dreams... etc.
No, kids this age aren't dumb, but they completely lack the wisdom that real life compiles for us, whether we like it or not, through time and experience. We don't talk republican v/s democrat or any other such nonsense. We focus on freedoms, rights, Constitution, law, and overall civility. And all of these topics, nearly without exception, build a solid, law-abiding, and civil conservative who recognizes the rights of others as being equal to his own.
We aren't into brainwashing our kids, even with religion... we want them informed about life, and we want them to make their own decisions eventually, but based on real life logic and reason. Only more time will tell if this is a proper approach, but in the end, we want them to be comfortable with what they believe and support, and not just "dad said so"... which eventually leads them to question everything later down the road.

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Re: My 15 year old asked me my thoughts on Trump's COVID diagnosis
« Reply #12 on: October 10, 2020, 11:57:10 AM »
As Nazi Germany, the USSR, and China (etc.) demonstrated and demonstrate, it's one thing to know you are being fed BS and another to know what is true. US MSM aren't government controlled, but they are world-view, mindset, and peer-dependency mono-vocal.
If, as anti-Covid-vaxxers claim, https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2021/robert-f-kennedy-jr-said-the-covid-19-vaccine-is-the-deadliest-vaccine-ever-made-thats-not-true/ , https://gospelnewsnetwork.org/2021/11/23/covid-shots-are-the-deadliest-vaccines-in-medical-history/ , The Vaccine is deadly, where in the US have Pfizer and Moderna hidden the millions of bodies of those who died of "vaccine injury"? Is reality a Big Pharma Shill?

Millions now living should have died. Anti-Covid-Vaxxer ghouls hardest hit.