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I'm soooo getting this bumper sticker! (Original Post) Heartstrings Nov 2019 OP
I love it. ❤ dewsgirl Nov 2019 #1
Teaching hatred and profanity to their children pintobean Nov 2019 #2
The wording could be better Butterflylady Nov 2019 #3
The "sentiment" of hate is never fine. mahannah Nov 2019 #8
As darkness is merely the absence of light LanternWaste Nov 2019 #28
+1. Child associated with profanity California_Republic Nov 2019 #16
How about "I fucking hate Trump" and leaving kids out of it? Hortensis Nov 2019 #26
Yeah, not a good look. cwydro Nov 2019 #5
Well, my child is a grown-up who actually says that, so.... Silver Gaia Nov 2019 #21
You bet! ChazInAz Nov 2019 #24
Almost as much to be proud of as an irrelevant literalism LanternWaste Nov 2019 #27
Be aware, lots of cops love trump. Not all but here in Chicago a dem city lots of them are mucifer Nov 2019 #4
I used to get stopped a lot in a nearby city murielm99 Nov 2019 #9
I was surprised even in liberal Massachusetts, how many blue collar people are pro Trump AdamGG Nov 2019 #13
They are probably racists FakeNoose Nov 2019 #18
I don't think most of them are racists AdamGG Nov 2019 #20
... and let us not forget in liberal New York City well dressed wall st. types.... negromiconomics Nov 2019 #29
Yeah, that's my first thought too. Especially since they can stop and write you for whatever excuse. TheBlackAdder Nov 2019 #14
Yep, all my immediate family feels that way - I'm lucky. lark Nov 2019 #6
I'm going to get one SCantiGOP Nov 2019 #7
Hate is a normal, human emotion. StarryNite Nov 2019 #10
Thank you! Duppers Nov 2019 #22
Love that! calimary Nov 2019 #11
I understand and get the sentiment, however.. notKeith Nov 2019 #12
Sadly, I'm not so brave. I still live in the former Confederacy, and it can have repercussions... Tarheel_Dem Nov 2019 #15
Great sticker- Another idea; trump CAUGHT for BRIBERY! Smith Jack Nov 2019 #17
That is energy you can feel! bucolic_frolic Nov 2019 #19
I have a different bumper sticker in mind Fritz Walter Nov 2019 #23
I wish I could find I_UndergroundPanther Nov 2019 #25
 

LanternWaste

(37,748 posts)
28. As darkness is merely the absence of light
Mon Nov 18, 2019, 02:01 PM
Nov 2019

Hatred is simply the absence of love.

Which then begs the question, how much should we love Trump, and on what objective measure is that based?

Or does self-righteousness allow for such nuance?

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
26. How about "I fucking hate Trump" and leaving kids out of it?
Mon Nov 18, 2019, 01:55 PM
Nov 2019

Just occurred to me that it might also be unwise to drop children off at school in any vehicle that ascribed hate speech to them.

Silver Gaia

(4,514 posts)
21. Well, my child is a grown-up who actually says that, so....
Sun Nov 17, 2019, 05:54 PM
Nov 2019

I could proudly sport that sticker on my car.

ChazInAz

(2,534 posts)
24. You bet!
Mon Nov 18, 2019, 11:51 AM
Nov 2019

My son and daughter are both in their forties, swear like longshoremen and detest Trump.
They also never fail to vote.

mucifer

(23,370 posts)
4. Be aware, lots of cops love trump. Not all but here in Chicago a dem city lots of them are
Sun Nov 17, 2019, 03:13 PM
Nov 2019

trumpsters. You might be more likely to get speeding tickets etc.

murielm99

(30,655 posts)
9. I used to get stopped a lot in a nearby city
Sun Nov 17, 2019, 03:56 PM
Nov 2019

because of my Democratic bumper stickers. Now I have a new car and only one sticker. It says, "The Democrat 2020." They have not started bothering me yet.

AdamGG

(1,275 posts)
13. I was surprised even in liberal Massachusetts, how many blue collar people are pro Trump
Sun Nov 17, 2019, 04:18 PM
Nov 2019

I see it all the time, right in a liberal town near Boston. From the landlord who owns the triple decker house I live in, to when I work on my laptop in a nearby McDonald's that runs Fox 24/7 and the comments of the DPW/blue collarish people who sit around the tv and watch it, and the political forum on the 'Patriotsplanet' message board, which is indistinguishable from a FoxNews message board.

Even in a state like Mass., 40% voted for Trump and they tend to be the types who see themselves as separate from and sometimes take issue with "the elites". I'd think that a fair percentage (not all) of law enforcement falls in that category.

AdamGG

(1,275 posts)
20. I don't think most of them are racists
Sun Nov 17, 2019, 05:38 PM
Nov 2019

They're just not that educated, get all their news from Faux, and have a lot of resentment over this being a majority liberal state, with "out of touch leftist elites."

I can't tell you how many posts I've seen on the patriotsplanet website carrying on about how people at Harvard can't screw in a light bulb and don't know anything and that they went to Framingham State or UMass Lowell. The political forum there is more hardcare angry right wing than NFL message boards in more conservative areas.

negromiconomics

(20 posts)
29. ... and let us not forget in liberal New York City well dressed wall st. types....
Mon Nov 18, 2019, 02:53 PM
Nov 2019

... with Brooke Brothers suits and fine leather shoes on the train platform in the suburbs and on the trains going into Manhattan having coffee klatch conversations about their support for Trump and finding common cause with Trump supporters of diverse economic backgrounds. I can remember in October of 2016 going into work and hearing a woman who was babysitting in Riverdale for wealthy families in the area who sounded just like Jean Stapleton's Edith Bunker accosting three young prosperous men as they got on the train. "Excuse me but I couldn't help but overhear you guys and how you support Trump? Where I work you can't even mention him but I can't wait to vote for him!... Listen I get off here but but..we just gotta get him in...that's what's important" as they all nodded and agreed like folks after church! One of those nights on my return I heard a young professional woman... blazing drunk on the late night train back home ..this time a Bernie supporter angrily screaming "I don't care I hope that ***** LOSES I'd never vote for her she's a ******* WARMONGER!". Another night in an empty subway car in Brooklyn me half asleep, another guy half asleep, a nurse gets on and just start unburdening maybe two days after the election " can you believe this news. I couldn't vote for her I never trusted her. Didn't make a difference in this state. I voted for someone else though.". I remember being spooked enough by those earlier convos to comment about them to friends. I didn't have that sense of doom but right before those last weeks when Hillary was said to be 3- 5% ahead of Trump I said "I remember 1980 ..I'm not going to relax until she's polling 10% ahead!"

TheBlackAdder

(28,070 posts)
14. Yeah, that's my first thought too. Especially since they can stop and write you for whatever excuse.
Sun Nov 17, 2019, 04:19 PM
Nov 2019

lark

(22,994 posts)
6. Yep, all my immediate family feels that way - I'm lucky.
Sun Nov 17, 2019, 03:27 PM
Nov 2019

My son and daughter aren't as far left as me, but they are Democrats and have brains which means they hate drumpf.

SCantiGOP

(13,855 posts)
7. I'm going to get one
Sun Nov 17, 2019, 03:38 PM
Nov 2019

My 15 year old grandson is probably more activist and leftist than I am. He lives with his Dem Mom, but his Dad is a Trumper and an evangelical, has even told him that evolution is a fake and God put Trump in office.
It will be worth the money to get this for him, and an extra to give my grandson. I live in SC so I won't be putting one on my car because I don't want to get 1) shot, or 2) arrested on a trumped up (pun intentional) charge.

StarryNite

(9,363 posts)
10. Hate is a normal, human emotion.
Sun Nov 17, 2019, 03:59 PM
Nov 2019

And I cannot think of too many people who deserve hate more than tRump. We don't want our kids to be absorbed by the feeling of hate but we also don't want them to feel guilty for feeling it at times either. Like most other things in life, there is a balance.

Why Feeling Anger and Hate Is Good
March 12, 2014 • By Beverly Amsel, PhD, Individuation Topic Expert Contributor


“I hate you!” 4-year-old Carly screams at her mother. Some moms might react by grabbing their daughter and spanking her on the bottom, or screaming, “You are a bad girl!” or telling her, “That’s a bad word, we don’t say things like that,” or starting to cry and admonishing, “You hurt Mommy’s feelings.” There are many ways children learn to think of their angry or hateful feelings as bad even though anger and hate are normal human feelings. Too frequently, families don’t differentiate between expressing these feelings through words and acting on them. When families succeed in outlawing feelings of anger and hate and don’t teach their children appropriate ways of expressing their feelings, they limit the child’s ability to be aware that he or she has these feelings and to use them successfully. These limitations seriously interfere with the ability to become a person who can navigate life and relationships with a full range of feelings and self states."

~snip~

"Many children grow up in families where they learn, consciously and/or unconsciously, that feelings of anger and hate are bad. They may be unaware that they are fighting within themselves not to feel these feelings. As they mature, they are handicapped. They can’t know themselves or be themselves or use these feelings to help make choices. For example, they won’t be clear that they are being treated badly, or that it’s OK to compete to get what they want, or, like Frank, that it’s necessary to say “no” to help a child learn to accept “no” and limits.

Children who grow up believing that anger and hate are bad usually believe that if they have these feelings they will DO something bad or act in a hateful or rageful manner. But feelings do not have to be acted upon, or can be acted upon in appropriate and nondestructive ways. If we don’t have a full range of feelings available to us, we are at risk of not knowing what we want and who we are—and of having limited lives and relationships."

[link:https://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/why-feeling-anger-and-hate-is-all-good-0312144|

notKeith

(137 posts)
12. I understand and get the sentiment, however..
Sun Nov 17, 2019, 04:10 PM
Nov 2019

..I would never consider putting something like this on my car. The rabid trumpites don't play by the same rules. These are possible outcomes:
• nothing happens, or
• car gets keyed
• car gets dinged
• driver gets pulled over
• who knows? rabid trumpites can be creative.

Point being - why do this? it's like daring someone to abuse your car.

Tarheel_Dem

(31,207 posts)
15. Sadly, I'm not so brave. I still live in the former Confederacy, and it can have repercussions...
Sun Nov 17, 2019, 04:29 PM
Nov 2019

on where you live & work.

 

Smith Jack

(48 posts)
17. Great sticker- Another idea; trump CAUGHT for BRIBERY!
Sun Nov 17, 2019, 04:48 PM
Nov 2019

Another sticker could read....

trump CAUGHT for BRIBERY!

trump tried to steal the 2020 election!
RUSSIA stole the 2016 election for trump!

Fritz Walter

(4,281 posts)
23. I have a different bumper sticker in mind
Mon Nov 18, 2019, 11:01 AM
Nov 2019

While in traffic yesterday, I was stopped behind a big-ass pick-up truck that had a bumper (tailgate?) sticker that read:
He Won. Get Over It. Sorry, didn't have my phone ready to snap a photo - and I'd rather not waste precious memory on that message.

What I'd like to see is one that reads:
We're Impeaching Him. Get Over It.

I_UndergroundPanther

(12,450 posts)
25. I wish I could find
Mon Nov 18, 2019, 01:48 PM
Nov 2019

One that sez
proud cat dad
Of a cat that hates Donald trump.

Don't have kids or want kids childfree,here.

Either way the bumper sticker rocks!

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