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1,301	daddit	Tossing and turning all night. Just glad my son is only 1, so maybe he won't remember the next 4 years. (If it is that short...)
1,302	daddit	I woke up at 5:30 this morning and immediately checked the news. Rather than just be pissed I decided to get up and start working on finishing my grad school application. Trump isn't sleeping and I'll be damned if he catches me with my eyes closed ever again.
1,303	daddit	I named my dog mila.
1,304	daddit	This is better than my girlfriend's 8 year old cousin who told her she hoped Hillary died so Trump could be president. Sigh.
1,305	daddit	I support Trump and I still find this heart warming. I hope I'm like this when I'm a father.
1,306	daddit	Convictions, something Hillary hopefully has soon.
1,307	daddit	His name was Bernie Sanders and the DNC cheated him and us.
1,308	daddit	Holy cuck
1,309	daddit	Hopefully she'll be ok enough to make it down to Starbucks to start her shift.
1,310	daddit	I'm sure this little child was nervous about the election. The parents teach their children to be scared for no reason. Disgusting
1,311	daddit	What a fucking Cuck of a dad. Probably single cuz the mom left for a real man.
1,312	daddit	Way to push your political agenda on your kid, there, guy. If anyone made his daughter worried about the election it was your friend. A+ parenting.
1,313	daddit	If my dad wrote this to me if my candidate lost, I'd puke
1,314	daddit	The daughter is 24 and needs a safe place
1,315	daddit	/r/thatHappened or at the least, he's a bad parent.
1,316	daddit	Oh gawd. Can this be moved over to cringeworthy?
1,317	daddit	I was wondering how I was going to tell my kids (9 &12).... then they both got up and before I could even talk to them they were pulled into group chats with their friends discussing the results. One of my oldest son's friends actually set an alarm for 2am to get up and heck the results...
1,318	daddit	Sometimes in the darkest places, something simply like a note like this makes all the difference. Thanks.
1,319	daddit	Yeah but the country screwed up at the nominations. Last night was just inevitable.
1,320	daddit	Jezzzze, like no pressure or nothing.
1,321	daddit	Got dusty in here
1,322	daddit	He spelled Daddy wrong. And he's a Hillary supporter. But that was still adorable.
1,323	daddit	I definitely could have done better with my oldest (4yo) daughter this morning.
1,324	daddit	One day she'll be president and she'll post this picture and it will get so much karma.
1,325	daddit	Repost from 2012? ... I'm sorry that's not nice. =(
1,326	daddit	Beautiful
1,327	daddit	that's a strong dad reaction for marijuana law not passing in Arizona.
1,328	daddit	Dad-e. Wall-E
1,329	daddit	That made me teary eyed.
1,330	daddit	Jesus, my eyes are sweating!
1,331	daddit	I didn't have to do this for my son. He is 3. My wife and I both voted democrat. we are both independents(OMG the mail). When trump was going through the primaries we asked my son who was going to win and he said trump. The whole time he said that. I think I might have to have him pick out my lottery numbers.
1,332	daddit	That's retarded, because we clearly won.
1,333	daddit	I didn't think anything could make a difference for me today...this did. Thanks.
1,334	daddit	Wow. I love this.
1,335	daddit	This nearly brought a tear to my eye, a fine dad you are!
1,336	daddit	I've been angry since last night but with so many people saying they were crying yesterday and today because of the results, I just couldn't do it. Didn't feel it was cry worthy. I just burst into tears reading this.
1,337	daddit	[deleted]
1,338	daddit	This reminded me of [George WH Bush's letter to Bill Clinton](http://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2016-10-19/1993-letter-from-george-hw-bush-to-bill-clinton-resurfaces-goes-viral). The line, "Your success is our country's success." I'm scared and horrified, but as an American, I have to look for what's best for our nation (and by extension, because of our importance and influence, what's best for the world.)
1,339	daddit	Why aren't you taking sides? It's madness to not take sides at this point
1,340	daddit	Mila 2020
1,341	daddit	I adore this.
1,342	daddit	This hit me hard. I pray that our new government doesn't stifle or hinder progress and trends toward renewable energy. I pray they have a change of heart and take human influenced climate change seriously.
1,343	daddit	Thanks, Dad
1,344	daddit	Dad-a here, they'll never take me alive!
1,345	daddit	Nah, they're just operating system updates. Dad-f will have an even better pun and word play generation system.
1,346	daddit	Preparations A through G were a complete failure.
1,347	daddit	Just Dad..no bloody A, B, C, D, or E
1,348	daddit	With computer models we have to worry about dad-0 through dad-d. Hexadecimal you see.
1,349	daddit	Can we get a further upgrade to Dad-e.o?
1,350	daddit	I was going to go with a wall-e pun, but this is solid.
1,351	daddit	How about Dad-G
1,352	daddit	I thought dad(c) meant classified?
1,353	daddit	no, you don't understand, he is a rappa "to the D, to the A, to the double D hyphen E, there aint no-bo-dy rappin' like me, you kids might be sweet on yo' Ha-Ram-Bee but he aint N.U.T.I.N. next to the Da-D-D-D-E Let me hearya say .... " etc etc he is excellent rapps
1,354	daddit	* Dad-elect
1,355	daddit	Haha! Full disclosure...his missus shared it on facebook.
1,356	daddit	this comment deserves gold.
1,357	daddit	Completely agree with this. I hate that it's "we" lost rather than the Democrats lost. Makes it seem like the American people are in direct competition with each other. Which I think only creates a larger divide.
1,358	daddit	Far too early to definitive say if it was a "mess up" or not, we'll have a better idea in a few years... On an actual daddit-themed note: whichever your candidate supported, there's a great opportunity to model behavior in how you react to disappointment/success. Make it count!
1,359	daddit	THANK YOU! I've been saying this pretty much since it's been Hillary vs. Trump. No matter who wins, look at their positives and make sure to fight against their negatives.
1,360	daddit	Also the us vs. them mindset in the note is disgusting. Let's raise partisan, polarized people young, huh?
1,361	daddit	Yeah, all politics aside, I'm not a fan of this letter. You simply can't dismiss 50% of a country's viewpoint as invalid just because you don't agree with it. That just strikes at the heart of political discord in this country, and why nobody wants to compromise anymore. Furthermore, not sure of the age of the kid involved, but no child should be going to bed worried about the next president like that. Kids will be adults soon enough, and then have their entire life for politics. Let kids be kids - it's absolutely fine to teach them about politics, but don't start the "pick a side" fanaticism that early.
1,362	daddit	An absolutely fair comment.
1,363	daddit	Obviously my opinion is right and if you have a different opinion you are a bigoted racist idiot who makes bad decisions.
1,364	daddit	The country has messed up by giving 1 group all the power. The republicans have all 3 branches plus the Supreme Court... That shouldn't be allowed. They can now do literally anything they want. The top heads of the Republican Party now run the world.
1,365	daddit	I'm a bot, bleep, bloop. Someone has linked to this thread from another place on reddit: - [/r/circlebroke2] ["I think that framing this as the country has 'messed up' is unfortunate. People need to learn that people disagree with them and there is nothing wrong with that. Learn where they are coming from and try and find the common ground." \[+523\]](https://np.reddit.com/r/circlebroke2/comments/5capxk/i_think_that_framing_this_as_the_country_has/) - [/r/shitliberalssay] ["I think that framing this as the country has 'messed up' is unfortunate. People need to learn that people disagree with them and there is nothing wrong with that. Learn where they are coming from and try and find the common ground." (+523)](https://np.reddit.com/r/ShitLiberalsSay/comments/5c8r8t/i_think_that_framing_this_as_the_country_has/) - [/r/shitredditsays] ["I think that framing this as the country has 'messed up' is unfortunate. People need to learn that people disagree with them and there is nothing wrong with that. Learn where they are coming from and try and find the common ground." \[+523\]](https://np.reddit.com/r/ShitRedditSays/comments/5c8td2/i_think_that_framing_this_as_the_country_has/) [](#footer)^(If you follow any of the above links, please respect the rules of reddit and don't vote in the other threads.) ^\([Info](/r/TotesMessenger) ^/ ^[Contact](/message/compose?to=/r/TotesMessenger)) [](#bot)
1,366	daddit	For real...no matter who won someone somewhere is gonna disagree.
1,367	daddit	Agreed. The country didn't mess up. The country voted in civil and fair elections and voted this man into office. The country didn't mess up; this is what the country actually is.
1,368	daddit	No no no, see...your genitalia is far, far more important than your integrity... ^(^.^.^.)
1,369	daddit	There you go, it's stupid to teach your kids to have blind faith in politicians. Teach them to think critically not in a cultish fashion. Nobody needs a political messiah.
1,370	daddit	She's corrupt and indebted to the elite establishment. She was never for everyday people. If anything, at least with Trump you have someone that's more for the people (possibly at the detriment of America's worldwide relationships).
1,371	daddit	I agree.
1,372	daddit	My thoughts exactly. So they were in support of the candidate that had 100 Donald Trumps standing behind her?
1,373	daddit	Yeah well she's not on record saying that she doesn't respect women.
1,374	daddit	You don't understand, it is HER turn. /s
1,375	daddit	Exactly. I feel like would have been better leaving that note as soon as Clinton was announced as the candidate.
1,376	daddit	Yep, this dad is doing it wrong
1,377	daddit	If not then how else?
1,378	daddit	[deleted]
1,379	daddit	Well my daughter is 8 and is fully aware of the hateful things he's said. Unfortunately this isn't about "politics"... It's about the fact that a guy has said he doesn't respect women is in charge of a country.
1,380	daddit	I teach in elementary school and I had kids coming in bashing Trump and saying that they spent their morning crying. Its absolutely ridiculous.
1,381	daddit	It's not necessarily about pushing political beliefs. It's about teaching kids "don't be a bully", "don't be a bigot", "women deserve respect".
1,382	daddit	That's the positive thing for me is that my 2 kids are too young to remember this and assuming he doesn't get respected won't remember this happening at all.
1,383	daddit	Our daughter is too young too, but sent this to my wife who is really struggling today with how she would explain this. I think it's perfect.
1,384	daddit	Please don't brainwash your children
1,385	daddit	Absolutely. This post was meant to be about sentiment. Unavoidable bitterness on both sides, it seems.
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1,388	daddit	I think we should be able to look for faults on both sides and what I have seen a lot of today on Facebook/Twitter feeds are people who have said some variation of the following. "If you voted for Trump you are a sexist/bigot/asshole and need to be removed from my list so tell me now and we can be done with it." My biggest problem with these kinds of comments are the people who are not for a Trump presidency because of these various reasons are doing the exact same thing they claim to despise. Take a large sample group of unknown people and generalize them based on a common theme. One person even said that if you weren't able to support Trump in public but you voted for him in private how strong could your connection to the candidate be? The same people who said it was A-OK to have a "Public and Private" political stance on issues when it was convenient. I hear a lot about extreme Trump supporters but I haven't seen an issue with any of them like I have with the people who are in hysteria over his win. People who now want to rebuild entire friend circles and are taking their family members to task on social media over a simple vote. A vote for Trump was not a vote for "bigoted cruel assholes" to make a public comeback. This was a vote to change things for better or worse but to break up the political dynasty that was forming around the presidency. At the end of the day your comment > try to understand where people they disagree with are coming from. Is all anyone could hope for.
1,389	daddit	I agree, but I also think you still have a significant bias to you. I do not find Trump to be as horrible as the media makes him out to be. Has he said some monumentally idiotic things? Sure. Can he be cruel, and say things that don't sit well with me? Absolutely. But we are all human and we have all done similar. Why is this appealing to voters? Because Donald Trump is openly flawed. They see his flaws on display for the world to see. Hillary? When she speaks, it is measured. She is presented at conventions like she is a hero that all should rightly love. Let me tell you, if I believed the media's spin on Hillary and her well-choreographed performances, I would have voted for her. The fact of the matter is, a lot of people believe that the face that Hillary hides behind her media mask is worse than what Trump waves out in the open. A lot of people would rather take a chance on Trump and hoping for the best than wondering if the most recent actions of Hillary were influenced by Goldman Sachs or not. I would say that there is a significant portion of people who are very aware of both candidates' flaws, but had to make a bad choice between bad and bad. In my case, I chose the middle-school loudmouth over the corporate puppet because I genuinely believe that Trump will do a better job of serving the American people than Hillary. I don't like that I had to make a choice between them at all. I would have voted for Bernie in a heartbeat if he had been chosen as the democratic nominee.
1,390	daddit	> Trump's presidency Dude, it hasn't even started yet.
1,391	daddit	I guess you would rather throw your children to the wolves of the world and hope they make it out ok. Teaching kids your values is as natural as it gets. There is no "forcing" here.
1,392	daddit	I agree. OP calling Trump's victory a mess up because OP candidate didn't win is pretty wrong to do.
1,393	daddit	Agreed, someone wrote this just to get karma because they knew people would eat it up right now. Also, if it were real, why post it anywhere and not just keep it between you and your child?
1,394	daddit	Seriously, Jesus Christ.
1,395	daddit	If people were voting against the establishment, why did so many incumbents win?
1,396	daddit	This. Not too get too deep into the politics, but if it's Bernie vs Donald, Bernie is in the white House. The DNC played their little game to get Clinton and it blew up in their faces. My boys are both too young to understand, but it's still unnerving. And as someone who is currently serving in the military I was uneasy about both of them. I voted Johnson, not out of protest, but because I could not in good conscience vote for Trump/Clinton(I think I voted D for Congress and R for the House, did an absentee ballot for PA a month ago) and I will teach my boys to vote in what you believe.
1,397	daddit	Donald was nowhere near similar to Bernie in policies, but he was close to Bernie in the sense that they weren't a part of the establishment.
1,398	daddit	You do realize they talk about the election at school? My 1st grader heard about it almost every day this year. They even had a mock election. It's kind of hard to keep the whole idea out of a child's head nowadays.
1,399	daddit	That's exactly what I thought. That's just teaching your kid to be a bigot. When something big like this happens people are quick to blame stupid racist people but they never stop to consider that maybe they have things pretty good at the moment and some others do not and those others are so desperate for change they are willing to take huge risks. It must be nice to have worrying about your animal friends and the environment at the top your list when people in your own country have feeding their family at the top of theirs.
1,400	daddit	Fiancée teaches kindergarten aged children in public school. In Texas nonetheless. Half her class is terrified of Trump being president, the other half is laughing and chasing other kids trying to 'grab them by the pussy'. You tell me how worried we should be. Bc the kids from the latter group are being suspended, and the parents show up outraged for them being punished for their 'honest opinions'. Tell me again how sexual assault is 'boys will be boys'.

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Tossing and turning all night. Just glad my son is only 1, so maybe he won't remember the next 4 years. (If it is that short...)

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I woke up at 5:30 this morning and immediately checked the news. Rather than just be pissed I decided to get up and start working on finishing my grad school application. Trump isn't sleeping and I'll be damned if he catches me with my eyes closed ever again.

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I named my dog mila.

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This is better than my girlfriend's 8 year old cousin who told her she hoped Hillary died so Trump could be president. Sigh.

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I support Trump and I still find this heart warming. I hope I'm like this when I'm a father.

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Convictions, something Hillary hopefully has soon.

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His name was Bernie Sanders and the DNC cheated him and us.

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Holy cuck

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Hopefully she'll be ok enough to make it down to Starbucks to start her shift.

1,310

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I'm sure this little child was nervous about the election. The parents teach their children to be scared for no reason. Disgusting

1,311

daddit

What a fucking Cuck of a dad. Probably single cuz the mom left for a real man.

1,312

daddit

Way to push your political agenda on your kid, there, guy. If anyone made his daughter worried about the election it was your friend. A+ parenting.

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If my dad wrote this to me if my candidate lost, I'd puke

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The daughter is 24 and needs a safe place

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/r/thatHappened or at the least, he's a bad parent.

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Oh gawd. Can this be moved over to cringeworthy?

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I was wondering how I was going to tell my kids (9 &12).... then they both got up and before I could even talk to them they were pulled into group chats with their friends discussing the results. One of my oldest son's friends actually set an alarm for 2am to get up and heck the results...

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Sometimes in the darkest places, something simply like a note like this makes all the difference. Thanks.

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Yeah but the country screwed up at the nominations. Last night was just inevitable.

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Jezzzze, like no pressure or nothing.

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Got dusty in here

1,322

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He spelled Daddy wrong. And he's a Hillary supporter. But that was still adorable.

1,323

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I definitely could have done better with my oldest (4yo) daughter this morning.

1,324

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One day she'll be president and she'll post this picture and it will get so much karma.

1,325

daddit

Repost from 2012? ... I'm sorry that's not nice. =(

1,326

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Beautiful

1,327

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that's a strong dad reaction for marijuana law not passing in Arizona.

1,328

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Dad-e. Wall-E

1,329

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That made me teary eyed.

1,330

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Jesus, my eyes are sweating!

1,331

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I didn't have to do this for my son. He is 3. My wife and I both voted democrat. we are both independents(OMG the mail). When trump was going through the primaries we asked my son who was going to win and he said trump. The whole time he said that. I think I might have to have him pick out my lottery numbers.

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That's retarded, because we clearly won.

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I didn't think anything could make a difference for me today...this did. Thanks.

1,334

daddit

Wow. I love this.

1,335

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This nearly brought a tear to my eye, a fine dad you are!

1,336

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I've been angry since last night but with so many people saying they were crying yesterday and today because of the results, I just couldn't do it. Didn't feel it was cry worthy. I just burst into tears reading this.

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This reminded me of [George WH Bush's letter to Bill Clinton](http://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2016-10-19/1993-letter-from-george-hw-bush-to-bill-clinton-resurfaces-goes-viral). The line, "Your success is our country's success." I'm scared and horrified, but as an American, I have to look for what's best for our nation (and by extension, because of our importance and influence, what's best for the world.)

1,339

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Why aren't you taking sides? It's madness to not take sides at this point

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Mila 2020

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I adore this.

1,342

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This hit me hard. I pray that our new government doesn't stifle or hinder progress and trends toward renewable energy. I pray they have a change of heart and take human influenced climate change seriously.

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Thanks, Dad

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Dad-a here, they'll never take me alive!

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daddit

Nah, they're just operating system updates. Dad-f will have an even better pun and word play generation system.

1,346

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Preparations A through G were a complete failure.

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Just Dad..no bloody A, B, C, D, or E

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With computer models we have to worry about dad-0 through dad-d. Hexadecimal you see.

1,349

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Can we get a further upgrade to Dad-e.o?

1,350

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I was going to go with a wall-e pun, but this is solid.

1,351

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How about Dad-G

1,352

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I thought dad(c) meant classified?

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no, you don't understand, he is a rappa "to the D, to the A, to the double D hyphen E, there aint no-bo-dy rappin' like me, you kids might be sweet on yo' Ha-Ram-Bee but he aint N.U.T.I.N. next to the Da-D-D-D-E Let me hearya say .... " etc etc he is excellent rapps

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* Dad-elect

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Haha! Full disclosure...his missus shared it on facebook.

1,356

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this comment deserves gold.

1,357

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Completely agree with this. I hate that it's "we" lost rather than the Democrats lost. Makes it seem like the American people are in direct competition with each other. Which I think only creates a larger divide.

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Far too early to definitive say if it was a "mess up" or not, we'll have a better idea in a few years... On an actual daddit-themed note: whichever your candidate supported, there's a great opportunity to model behavior in how you react to disappointment/success. Make it count!

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THANK YOU! I've been saying this pretty much since it's been Hillary vs. Trump. No matter who wins, look at their positives and make sure to fight against their negatives.

1,360

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Also the us vs. them mindset in the note is disgusting. Let's raise partisan, polarized people young, huh?

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Yeah, all politics aside, I'm not a fan of this letter. You simply can't dismiss 50% of a country's viewpoint as invalid just because you don't agree with it. That just strikes at the heart of political discord in this country, and why nobody wants to compromise anymore. Furthermore, not sure of the age of the kid involved, but no child should be going to bed worried about the next president like that. Kids will be adults soon enough, and then have their entire life for politics. Let kids be kids - it's absolutely fine to teach them about politics, but don't start the "pick a side" fanaticism that early.

1,362

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An absolutely fair comment.

1,363

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Obviously my opinion is right and if you have a different opinion you are a bigoted racist idiot who makes bad decisions.

1,364

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The country has messed up by giving 1 group all the power. The republicans have all 3 branches plus the Supreme Court... That shouldn't be allowed. They can now do literally anything they want. The top heads of the Republican Party now run the world.

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I'm a bot, *bleep*, *bloop*. Someone has linked to this thread from another place on reddit: - [/r/circlebroke2] ["I think that framing this as the country has 'messed up' is unfortunate. People need to learn that people disagree with them and there is nothing wrong with that. Learn where they are coming from and try and find the common ground." \[+523\]](https://np.reddit.com/r/circlebroke2/comments/5capxk/i_think_that_framing_this_as_the_country_has/) - [/r/shitliberalssay] ["I think that framing this as the country has 'messed up' is unfortunate. People need to learn that people disagree with them and there is nothing wrong with that. Learn where they are coming from and try and find the common ground." (+523)](https://np.reddit.com/r/ShitLiberalsSay/comments/5c8r8t/i_think_that_framing_this_as_the_country_has/) - [/r/shitredditsays] ["I think that framing this as the country has 'messed up' is unfortunate. People need to learn that people disagree with them and there is nothing wrong with that. Learn where they are coming from and try and find the common ground." \[+523\]](https://np.reddit.com/r/ShitRedditSays/comments/5c8td2/i_think_that_framing_this_as_the_country_has/) [](#footer)*^(If you follow any of the above links, please respect the rules of reddit and don't vote in the other threads.) ^\([Info](/r/TotesMessenger) ^/ ^[Contact](/message/compose?to=/r/TotesMessenger))* [](#bot)

1,366

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For real...no matter who won someone somewhere is gonna disagree.

1,367

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Agreed. The country didn't mess up. The country voted in civil and fair elections and voted this man into office. The country didn't mess up; this is what the country actually is.

1,368

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No no no, see...your genitalia is far, far more important than your integrity... ^(^.^.^.)

1,369

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There you go, it's stupid to teach your kids to have blind faith in politicians. Teach them to think critically not in a cultish fashion. Nobody needs a political messiah.

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She's corrupt and indebted to the elite establishment. She was never for everyday people. If anything, at least with Trump you have someone that's more for the people (possibly at the detriment of America's worldwide relationships).

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I agree.

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My thoughts exactly. So they were in support of the candidate that had 100 Donald Trumps standing behind her?

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Yeah well she's not on record saying that she doesn't respect women.

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You don't understand, it is HER turn. /s

1,375

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Exactly. I feel like would have been better leaving that note as soon as Clinton was announced as the candidate.

1,376

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Yep, this dad is doing it wrong

1,377

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If not then how else?

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Well my daughter is 8 and is fully aware of the hateful things he's said. Unfortunately this isn't about "politics"... It's about the fact that a guy has said he doesn't respect women is in charge of a country.

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I teach in elementary school and I had kids coming in bashing Trump and saying that they spent their morning crying. Its absolutely ridiculous.

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It's not necessarily about pushing political beliefs. It's about teaching kids "don't be a bully", "don't be a bigot", "women deserve respect".

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That's the positive thing for me is that my 2 kids are too young to remember this and assuming he doesn't get respected won't remember this happening at all.

1,383

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Our daughter is too young too, but sent this to my wife who is really struggling today with how she would explain this. I think it's perfect.

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Please don't brainwash your children

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Absolutely. This post was meant to be about sentiment. Unavoidable bitterness on both sides, it seems.

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I think we should be able to look for faults on both sides and what I have seen a lot of today on Facebook/Twitter feeds are people who have said some variation of the following. "If you voted for Trump you are a sexist/bigot/asshole and need to be removed from my list so tell me now and we can be done with it." My biggest problem with these kinds of comments are the people who are not for a Trump presidency because of these various reasons are doing the exact same thing they claim to despise. Take a large sample group of unknown people and generalize them based on a common theme. One person even said that if you weren't able to support Trump in public but you voted for him in private how strong could your connection to the candidate be? The same people who said it was A-OK to have a "Public and Private" political stance on issues when it was convenient. I hear a lot about extreme Trump supporters but I haven't seen an issue with any of them like I have with the people who are in hysteria over his win. People who now want to rebuild entire friend circles and are taking their family members to task on social media over a simple vote. A vote for Trump was not a vote for "bigoted cruel assholes" to make a public comeback. This was a vote to change things for better or worse but to break up the political dynasty that was forming around the presidency. At the end of the day your comment > try to understand where people they disagree with are coming from. Is all anyone could hope for.

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I agree, but I also think you still have a significant bias to you. I do not find Trump to be as horrible as the media makes him out to be. Has he said some monumentally idiotic things? Sure. Can he be cruel, and say things that don't sit well with me? Absolutely. But we are all human and we have all done similar. Why is this appealing to voters? Because Donald Trump is openly flawed. They see his flaws on display for the world to see. Hillary? When she speaks, it is measured. She is presented at conventions like she is a hero that all should rightly love. Let me tell you, if I believed the media's spin on Hillary and her well-choreographed performances, I would have voted for her. The fact of the matter is, a lot of people believe that the face that Hillary hides behind her media mask is worse than what Trump waves out in the open. A lot of people would rather take a chance on Trump and hoping for the best than wondering if the most recent actions of Hillary were influenced by Goldman Sachs or not. I would say that there is a significant portion of people who are very aware of both candidates' flaws, but had to make a bad choice between bad and bad. In my case, I chose the middle-school loudmouth over the corporate puppet because I genuinely believe that Trump will do a better job of serving the American people than Hillary. I don't like that I had to make a choice between them at all. I would have voted for Bernie in a heartbeat if he had been chosen as the democratic nominee.

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> Trump's presidency Dude, it hasn't even started yet.

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I guess you would rather throw your children to the wolves of the world and hope they make it out ok. Teaching kids your values is as natural as it gets. There is no "forcing" here.

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I agree. OP calling Trump's victory a mess up because OP candidate didn't win is pretty wrong to do.

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Agreed, someone wrote this just to get karma because they knew people would eat it up right now. Also, if it were real, why post it anywhere and not just keep it between you and your child?

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Seriously, Jesus Christ.

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If people were voting against the establishment, why did so many incumbents win?

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This. Not too get too deep into the politics, but if it's Bernie vs Donald, Bernie is in the white House. The DNC played their little game to get Clinton and it blew up in their faces. My boys are both too young to understand, but it's still unnerving. And as someone who is currently serving in the military I was uneasy about both of them. I voted Johnson, not out of protest, but because I could not in good conscience vote for Trump/Clinton(I think I voted D for Congress and R for the House, did an absentee ballot for PA a month ago) and I will teach my boys to vote in what you believe.

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Donald was nowhere near similar to Bernie in policies, but he was close to Bernie in the sense that they weren't a part of the establishment.

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You do realize they talk about the election at school? My 1st grader heard about it almost every day this year. They even had a mock election. It's kind of hard to keep the whole idea out of a child's head nowadays.

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That's exactly what I thought. That's just teaching your kid to be a bigot. When something big like this happens people are quick to blame stupid racist people but they never stop to consider that maybe they have things pretty good at the moment and some others do not and those others are so desperate for change they are willing to take huge risks. It must be nice to have worrying about your animal friends and the environment at the top your list when people in your own country have feeding their family at the top of theirs.

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Fiancée teaches kindergarten aged children in public school. In Texas nonetheless. Half her class is terrified of Trump being president, the other half is laughing and chasing other kids trying to 'grab them by the pussy'. You tell me how worried we should be. Bc the kids from the latter group are being suspended, and the parents show up outraged for them being punished for their 'honest opinions'. Tell me again how sexual assault is 'boys will be boys'.