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OBOB's avatar

Families are hard. I heard somewhere all sons (kids?) are ready for their dad to die when he does. Seems like the value of the nuclear family is pushed so hard when your a child only to find when you grow up it was never supposed to last, that your family will start their own families and your not the most important ‘fam’ anymore. There could be sex differences here. So much pain and trauma from families. do see some traditional families still work (no divorce, no kids out of wedlock), seems to take major sacrifice, truly on the parents (and maybe everyone else’s) sacrificing your own happiness and desires and maybe what makes sense for you to keep a family as healthy as possible. Also seem families where the kids wish the parents would have gotten divorced earlier because the relationship or one of the parties was so toxic. Classic story of the kids grew up to slaughter and eat the parents. Feel like a lot of kids end up becoming disappointed in parents. While most parents seem to (or think they/or try and act like they) love their kids more than anything. Definitely interested in ways to make the continuance of human life more pleasant…ways to make life for people not in traditional nuclear families better. Think a lot of that comes with population ethics, we think of quality over quantity in a lot of things except people. And everyone’s “quality” line is going to be drawn somewhere different. Right now maybe the majority of subsidized pregnancies are to parents who are soo likely to cause trauma to these new people about to come to earth. Feel like if public money is going to bringing a new person it should be to a ‘good’ situation. Because even good families are typically complicated. Recently watched a long way around and it was showing these families in Mongolia who just abandoned their children around age of 5 because they didn’t have enough food for them all and now they were living in sewers. Birth control I think is the way to make families and the world a better place. It’s so funny how we like to talk about politics when we can’t even manage relations in our own smallest sphere.

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Today is Saturday. Yesterday was Friday, a day I assume TFP writers work.

Could they not update the Somalia Learing Center thefts, update the number of illegal immigrants here to steal, rape, torture, and murder children who've been arrested, and any other accomplishments ICE has made?

Maybe a random update from AOC and when climate change will end the world?

How about an economic report from Davos highlighting the US economy projected to grow at 4-5% this year while inflation remains low? No good news to report.....anywhere?

MFE's avatar

Opened TFP page just now and saw 3 headline references to Beckhams. Read your comment and now I am closing the site.

Jesse Owens's avatar

Much ado about who cares!

Barry Stagg's avatar

All Beckhams and the like are dimestore comic figures, animated annoyingly by audio-video.

Robert  Hill's avatar

Form some reason I am now eagerly looking forward to this ice storm that is about to envelope NC.

Alastair Gordon's avatar

Sorry, I thought this was the Free Press. Seems I stumbled on People or Hello. Squealing gossiping Lilliputians with a gloss of phony intellectual detachment. Bari, whither art thou?

Steve G's avatar

Bari was shuffling to the kitchen this morning when a pallet of cash shifted and fell on her.

Middle's avatar

What is a “Beckham”? Is it important that we know?

p Boyd's avatar

Re: the Beckhams. It has to be hard when Dad is the prettiest one.

John Clifton's avatar

My wife already subscribes to People. Why should I be paying TFP for this additional garbage?

Kevin Durant?'s avatar

So that you and your wife can have dinner conversations about topics that make you want to frisbee your plate into the wall.

John Montgomery's avatar

In its entirety, this issue of THE WEEKEND PRESS is a damning indictment of the total decay of current society OR , perhaps, it is a useful roadmap of how to be “successful” in our current cesspool of influencer society.

Either way……

Steve G's avatar

Either way…..IDGAF.

Michael Karg's avatar

The headline is a total turn off, for me. I didn't give a shit about Beckham the first time I saw his name and certainly don't give a shit about him today. Borrow a Trump bashing headline from Associated Press, they've got tons of them. You Press people live awful lives, I think.

JK P's avatar

Exactly! He’s a good - ok great - athlete tatted head to toe. His wife’s a pop singer. Who cares??

Steve's avatar

Last but not least, feast your eyes on this cheeky 20th-century rendering of the Boston Tea Party, by Ralph Cahoon, which Suzy mentions in her column this week—it just sold for $69,850 at Christie’s.

Thee are some Really STUPID people out there!!!

Lanny's avatar
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Kamala, Hillary, & I Got It…. A Tad "Not Right!"

OK, OK, OK

ICE didn’t technically “arrest” 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos.

Sheesh you MAGA Commenters are off your meds!

As America’s Governor Tim Walz has said, ICE is “The Gestapo.”

Is it really so hard to believe that we might think that, when it is clear ICE never even read this boy his Miranda Rights?

The NYT, The View, Ayanna Pressley and a litany of other fair-minded folks may have gotten it a tad “not right” if you insist on getting nitpicky.

BUT…

“My Truth” tells me that the latest report that ICE agents are randomly pulling children out of kindergarten classrooms, lining them against a wall, and executing them is a serious allegation that MUST be investigated.

This time we’ve got the FACTS on our side!

Prove Me Wrong!

No Justice! No Peace!

P.S. Bill Clinton’s compassionate deportation of Elian Gonzales set the bar by which all children should be treated.

😉😉😉😉😉

Marlene's avatar

I forgot about Elian.

Lanny's avatar

And yet the very folks who loved Clinton hate Trump.

Go figure.

Kevin Durant?'s avatar

“Several months ago, I stumbled across a song called “Be Happy” from the official cast recording of the musical Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York). It was captivating. The lyrics, in all their simplicity, capture every elusive quality of youth: naivety, loneliness,”

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Nothing compares to Democrats who attended college singing ‘We Shall Overcome’ like they have to take a slave ship to get to their job at an NGO that doesn’t do anything

Steve G's avatar

Hold up Kev. Those NGO’s move more of our money to the “deserving” (abet a hefty surcharge) than a Brinks truck.

David Chinitz's avatar

Can I be Bari’s sister or wife?