Maybe they’re onto something. What if, instead of voting for people based on their ideals and record, we just passed leadership down through bloodline? Has anyone tried that before?
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Based on primogeniture, wouldn’t that mean Don Jr is taking over? Then Eric? Clearly, the girls would be skipped…
So does this mean Barron is going to kill his brothers to ascend the throne?
Well, Don jr. will die from congenital gonnorea, and Eric is fated to drown in a bathroom after clogging a toilet with unshredded documents.
So does this mean Barron is going to kill his brothers to ascend the throne?
I mean, we can only hope...
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UK here just saying that if you want a monarchy, we've got a decent one (as monarchies go) that won't try to financially rape the peasants to death, we've moved past that now.
What say you Americans, ready to become Canada 2: Empire Boogaloo?
"You'll be back..."🎶
I think we were a bit too hasty in declining George III's declaration of love.
"He's a guy you can have drinks with".... Uh no? He's 18. You cannot have drinks with him unless your a piece of tra... Well that guy can, but that's more like peer pressuring someone you really out age
I was very confused by your comment until I googled the drinking age in the US, and found it's 21. I guess I assumed it was 18 like most countries
You are responsible enough for your own decisions at 18 that you can join the military and die for your country, but you can't buy a drink for another 3 years.
That's because in the 1980s when we looked into drunk driving deaths we found most involved 16-21 year olds. The nations that have better public transport or are more densely populated dont have these issues.
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I wouldn't expect the son of a sociopath to be terribly well-adjusted.
TWO sociopaths.
"The douche doesn't fall far from the bag."
The turd doesn’t fall far from the asshole
Don't belittle douches like that, at least they have a purpose on this planet.
Nah, they've been pretty obsolete for the last couple of decades. They're unhealthy for female reproductive organs, much like anyone with the last name "Trump". It's a fair comparison, IMO.
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This is shit journalism. Yeah, his name is Trump so he's probably an asshole, but he's living his life, which has no impact on your life or mine. He's a private citizen, and his alleged assholery is not a public matter.
What? His 'living life' that's 'not a public matter' includes standing behind the president of the United States as he's sworn in. He deserves the utmost public scrutiny, especially considering three of trumps other children already take an active role in his presidency. They meet world leaders, but you just want to avoid looking at whatever sketchy shit this one might be up to. He had the option to avoid the public and decided to be another gremlin like his clown ass brothers.
Next time don't get on the stage if you don't want the limelight.
You're telling me your parents never dragged you around to stupid shit and expected you to pretend you weren't pissed about being there?
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I used to believe in the whole private citizen but then seeing News really blew it up like "Obama's daughters eat provolone cheese instead of American cheese!".
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I hope that Kaya takes this opportunity to open her damn eyes.
Not surprised this happened, though.
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Weird, is something most people can be called, I'm more concerned with the other linked article in the story, citing a former behavioral specialist of barron's recounting stories of animal, physical, and sexual abuse...
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Poor kid, he's only 18 still, that's gotta be a really tough way to grow up.
It didn't help my kids growing up to have Trump in the Whitehouse either.
He is pretty rich kid, with close to zero possible problems in the future, and potential to become new US god-king after trump. Not that bad of a life.
On the one hand, you're right.
But also, there's a chance that Barron opens his eyes and sees how sheltered he is from everything, and that his only friends are people slightly less rich, and much older, than he is.
I know it's not likely, so far all the trump progeny have been less useful than human shit, but I think there's still a chance that Barron gets depressed because he "has it all" and can't even play basketball with a potential new friend his own age.
ETA: damn, I guess Lemmy thinks a child should always pay for the sins of their father, huh?
You do have a point that he can one day change his life and become a monk. but.
It's not that child should pay for the sins of a father it's more that he is: not a child - 18 is considered adult almost everywhere, not a victim by any metric imaginable, is from extremely priveleged background. Why would you or anyone should feel pity for him when he is doing great actually?
I said nothing about taking pity on him, and definitely didn't take it anywhere near becoming a monk. I didn't even claim Barron would be a good person if he deviated from his father's bullshit, I'm just putting out food for thought that he may have the potential to deviate.
And yea, laws consider him an adult at 18, but the body and brain are not finished developing.
Any way, my edited point was more about immediately suppressing an opinion that isn't even all that controversial or impossible to occur. It's reddit behavior, I said something incongruent with the hivemind, therefor it must not be discussed. If it was misinformation or just a straight up lie, then I get it. But that isn't so.
Like I mentioned in the post, considering his brothers it's not likely he will make a change, any way. However, he does have a different mom than the others, and growing up with a much different type of publicity. I have two half-siblings (we share a mom, diff dads). Just because we're related doesn't mean we have the exact same beliefs, or comprehend our parents' words in the same way. My siblings live for money, I live in a forest and don't talk to them at all.
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On campus, nobody really knows what’s up with that guy, other than that he’s not like any of the other students. “He’s sort of like an oddity on campus,” says Kaya Walker, the president of the NYU Republicans. “He goes to class, he goes home.”
That seems like a pretty kind assessment for what must be a super weird experience for everyone else on campus. A constant Secret Service presence seems like it must disrupt the other students’ lives, as well as the professors at the school. In fact, Walker quoted one of her own professors as saying “he doesn’t really belong here.”
I might be projecting here, but sounds to me like he just wants to be left alone. Like, no matter where he stands politically, being the son of the president alone (let alone this one) must be pretty difficult for an adolescent.
I say let's leave him be and not judge him based on his family. If he if he joins the others, that's different. But don't treat him as an extension of his father, no matter how much of a dipshit that father may be.
I believe he tweeted something about the government stealing your money. He's taken his stand.
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I know a kid who went to his last school. He said Barron was nice and well liked. He's 18 so there's little chance he isn't having a rough time adjusting to adulthood especially considering being Trump's son. Weird subject for a story though
MAGAs are weird
From the article:
Of course he’s famous and sought-after — he’s a Trump. People would book Eric as a clown at their kid’s birthday party if he wasn’t so afraid of being his true self. Everyone wants to be close to a famous person, and people who want to curry favor with Donald Trump will say any manner of sweet nothings about his children.
ETA: although I chuckled at the above statement, this author is biased as shit. All his articles are nothing but Reddit-style fan service and exhaustively regurgitated comments. He even perpetuates the couch fucker lie in other articles. Everything reads like he's trying to make the best joke in order to get his karma numbers up.
Even though I lean left, I wouldn't trust anything this guy has to say and would do extra research before I took it seriously.
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I'd like to give him the benefit of the doubt, but his last name is Trump, so the odds of him being a cesspool of a human being are astronomically high.
Shit apples don’t fall far from the shit tree, Randy.
I love the fact that it's turning out that he's just like his brothers and fathers--empty.
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The non-existent value of weirdly comparing his profile to a Greek statue aside, it's not even a good comparison. He has a way more prominent nasal ridge, a higher, more angled and sharp jawline, lower cheek bones, and a much flatter brow/forehead. What exactly is meant to look similar here except that they are both white guys?
I see it more from the "Mythological" aspect. Less face simular and more both are legends and should be immortalized as statues.
Edit: To be clear I am not supporting the comparison. I am just explaining my take on the attempted symbolism of the image.
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These have no lives.
Is a behavioral specialist not bound by HIPAA rules? Revealing this stuff would seem to be a problem if they are.
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Weirdo