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Ask Polly: How Do I Deal With My Trump-Voter Dad?
New York Magazine ^ | 11/23 | Heather Havrilesky

Posted on 11/23/2016 2:26:56 PM PST by nickcarraway

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To: nickcarraway

Every family has a bad seed. AAARRRGGG, you’re it.


21 posted on 11/23/2016 2:47:10 PM PST by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: nickcarraway

Leave. Try supporting yourself, you might be voting for Trump in four years.


22 posted on 11/23/2016 2:47:39 PM PST by Huskrrrr
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To: nickcarraway
Dear AAAAAARRRRGGGG:

Shut your lib trap and listen. Your father has forgotten more about life than you'll ever know. Set aside your self-righteous arrogance for a minute and you might learn something.

But since you're a lib, you're probably not interested in learning. So I'd recommend that instead of eating turkey for Thanksgiving, you swallow a .38 Special.

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Dear Polly:

You have to be about the most ignorant, ill-informed, bigoted individual I've ever seen give "advice." Your reader(s) would be better off consulting a Magic 8-Ball or Madame Zenga at the next carnival. Not only do you simply barf back the same tired lib talking points your fellow travelers used during the election (which you LOST, by the way), you offer them as useful advice, which will simply get your reader ostracized, laughed at, and tied to the tracks when the Trump train tears through the station. You're doing her a disservice, and making yourself look like an idiot. But I'm sure you're used to that.

23 posted on 11/23/2016 2:49:01 PM PST by IronJack
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To: nickcarraway

Just remember AAAAARRRGGG!!!!! - as disgusted as you are with your dad? It ain’t 1/10th of how he regards you.


24 posted on 11/23/2016 2:50:49 PM PST by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: nickcarraway

Polly should be taken out back and shot. (With a water gun, NSA!)

I can’t read her drivel. Kid needs to accept that dad votes differently. Hillary Clinton hurt a lot more people than Trump. How could she vote for her? She may have even raped underaged girls, and she may have approved of many poor underaged girls (and boys, if that matters to this feminist) being taken away from their countries for abuse purposes. But that is ok?


25 posted on 11/23/2016 2:55:05 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: nickcarraway
Instead of demanding that others see things from your perspective, how about trying to see things from THEIR perspective without assigning causes and motives specifically designed to celebrate your conceited myopia.

As I told my wife in those rocky early years "you do not get to unilaterally define reality."

26 posted on 11/23/2016 3:01:53 PM PST by papertyger (The semantics define how we think.)
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To: nickcarraway

Sit down and listen to your father so you can learn something.


27 posted on 11/23/2016 3:02:45 PM PST by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: nickcarraway

This...is...the most priceless Schadenfreude...that I have known since Election Night!!

Got to read the entire screed & feel this liberal bleed!

;^)


28 posted on 11/23/2016 3:11:29 PM PST by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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To: alstewartfan
The hardest thing in the world for a kid to accept is that your parent(s) are often much, much, much smarter than you are. I say that the dad should offer Polly a cracker.

"When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years."
- Mark Twain

29 posted on 11/23/2016 3:13:28 PM PST by COBOL2Java (1 Tim 2:1-3)
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To: nickcarraway

Why do liberals love Muslims so much?

Because they both hate Western Civ, Christianity, and Israel?


30 posted on 11/23/2016 3:19:22 PM PST by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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To: nickcarraway

I’m not falling for click bait, to see if this is true, a parody, a humor piece, so can you tell me if this is an article written with a straight face or some kind of parody/satire/humor piece, please.


31 posted on 11/23/2016 3:24:11 PM PST by nopardons
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To: lafroste
Good Grief! WHY are libs so bloody long winded?

They're not working...they got plenty of time to "express" themselves online..duh...;)

32 posted on 11/23/2016 3:29:06 PM PST by jsanders2001
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To: nickcarraway

That is a BS story meant to be published, the incident did not happen to this lady as reported. It probably has never happened in this country. I disbelieve this story from A to Z.


33 posted on 11/23/2016 3:35:08 PM PST by Glad2bnuts (If Republicans are not prepared to carry on the Revolution of 1776, prepare for a communist takeover)
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To: nickcarraway

Dear AAAAARRRGGG!!!!!,

You better put some ice on that.


34 posted on 11/23/2016 3:42:54 PM PST by outofsalt ( If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything)
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To: nickcarraway

I tried to get through that liberal gobbledygook. I really did, but I failed miserably.

Reading the ramblings of these people forces you down the twisted pathways of their minds, which have been distorted by their cockamamie, liberal world view.

It’s enough to give you a headache.


35 posted on 11/23/2016 4:05:26 PM PST by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: nickcarraway

The Bard, William Shakespeare, has a good quote (amongst many) on faithless children; “How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is / To have a thankless child!” (King Lear). In the 10 Commandments (I know, she is an atheist), we have “Honor thy Father and they Mother!”

In perspective, it would be perceptive to bring forward the ABSENCE of such breast-beating and angst at the election of Barrack Obama over the War Hero and POW, John McCain. Where was their apologia for electing a community organizer over a paid-in-blood hero? By-the-bye dear Arghhh, you do KNOW that your preferred Presidential Candidate was an ENABLER of a PROVEN PERVERT and attacker of a female intern in the Oval Office, so your protestations lack more than a bit!

Dear Arghhh, your actions REEK of Wrack and Ruination of logic and probity! Again to go to the Bard, “The Lady protesteth too much!”


36 posted on 11/23/2016 4:15:03 PM PST by SES1066 (Quality, Speed or Economical - Any 2 of 3 except in government - 1 at best but never #3!)
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I am appalled that my father could vote for this man. How do I mesh the man I loved and respected with the man who voted for Trump? How do I stay friends with people who voted Trump? Please help me. I’m really struggling with how to move forward.

When you read some books and learn something about philosophy, economics, psychology, history, and science, you will understand.

37 posted on 11/23/2016 4:26:59 PM PST by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: GotMojo

I would give him a hug too. It sounds like he needs one.


38 posted on 11/23/2016 4:27:44 PM PST by Trillian
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To: nickcarraway

Stamp your little footsies, cry, yell, call him a racist bigot homophobe, complain there is no vegan tofurkey, whine about non-fair trade carbon neutral potatoes, and don’t forget to call him a nazi.


39 posted on 11/23/2016 4:28:48 PM PST by Organic Panic (Gentrification in America. Rich White Man Evicts Poor Black Family - MSNBCPBSCNNNYTABC)
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To: nickcarraway

Thank him for not aborting you.


40 posted on 11/23/2016 4:30:47 PM PST by Organic Panic (Gentrification in America. Rich White Man Evicts Poor Black Family - MSNBCPBSCNNNYTABC)
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