Absurd. Pokemon are, and always will be, more important than anything trump has to say.
That implies trump has anything important to say.
After reading the title, I thought that his son was talking to Trump about Pokémon.
Turns out, it was Vance talking to Trump on the phone and his kid wanted to talk to his father about Pikachu.
Can someone explain what a Pokémon “phase” is?
Is he implying that you become less interested in Pokémon at some point?
🤔
My 14-year-old who had an Evee plushie and used to call our dog Charlie “Charmander” rolls her eyes when she sees Pokemon stuff now that she’s a “I’m too cool for this kids stuff” teenager.
Then she asks if I can get her some Hello Kitty stickers for her to put on her phone case.
I bet if his son was talking about this pokemon he wouldn’t have yelled at his kid.
https://hypebeast.com/2022/11/cellutane-pokemon-slowpoke-slowpoke-sofa-release-info
Blasphemy. That’s a chair, not a sofa. How tf is a chair gonna get him going?
Having sex with a chair is not natural, it is against god.
Dude, you threw your wife and your kids in front of the bus because of Trump? You’re never gonna recover from this, ever.
Dude is a scumbag, but I think it’s pretty easy to understand that what he says on a podcast, where he’s promoting himself, and what he said to his child are probably not verbatim. We use hyperbole all the time. I might describe to a coworker a conversation with a client where I say, “And I was like, what the fuck do you expect?!” I obviously didn’t use profanity in that exchange and I obviously wasn’t super sarcastic to the client.
This one is a clickbait headline framing something that has poor optics as though it is literal fact when it’s almost certainly paraphrasing. He probably said something more like, “Son, please be quiet,” and the “shut the hell up” bit is describing the intensity of his emotion (and not in a hostile way, even).
Fuck JD, but this is a bullshit story.
I shocked that such a good Christian would allow his children to play Pokemon. I was told by a pastor a few years back that Pokemon was evil, Satan’s cards, etc., and that no good Christian family would allow their children to play it.
I guess he’s a good political chameleon ! I mean he changed his stance on Trump.
If that little dude is as stoked about Pikachu as my dude was about Ninja Turtles then I feel his frustration. My dude one time spent an entire 5-hour car ride talking about Master Splinter. If I could have left him on the side of the road in New Mexico without his mother killing me, I would have lol.
It can be annoying, but I listen to my kid ramble about Minecraft for hours, and honestly I remember when I was a kid, I was never that comfortable with my parents. I’d rather sit through it and him really enjoy the time than him not feel comfortable sharing it with me.
Notably, I really didn’t develop this opinion until my wife and I separated. Now I really just enjoy listening to him talk about whatever he wants. I just enjoy time with him.
In a way, doesn’t that prove your parents were right? Because they raised a boy, maybe even a man, who feels empathy for their own children’s emotional attachments?
No. My empathy development was independent. My parents made changes in how they were raised to raising me. They taught me about being in someone else’s shoes, recognizing how things I did impacted others, the difference between privilege and right. They also denonstrated that empathy came from a place of courage rather than fear, and I knew at a very young age that courage was very valuable.
This was entirely unrelated to empathy. It was based on anxiety I developed very young for reasons that are still undiscovered. Probably just that I was a sensitive kid, and didnt want my parents angry or annoyed with me.
OK, so why then shit all over your parents’ legacy like you’re a dung beetle on laxative? I guess I was right assuming you’re mentally merely a little boy.
Woah, maybe read my comment again. Seem to be really upset that I disagreed with you.
It’s all just joking around, I can’t take internet discussions serious anymore.
That’s just little boys though, you can kindly redirect. My boy is 9 and he can talk forever about Pokémon, Minecraft or whatever he is fixated on today. Sometimes I just have to tell him I’m done now, sometimes I have to say it a few times but that’s ya know, parenting.
You didn’t drop him on the side of the road, but it was an idea to help you get through it.
It doesn’t matter what the topic is. Kids will always fixate on things. Depends on what they were exposed to and interested in, but that’s just kids being kids.
It’s never appropriate to talk to a kid like Vance did, even if we can understand how truly annoying kids fixated on a thing is.
Also, what kind of shitty parent exposes their kids to known pedos?
Yep, that’s a sign of being a serious person who has grown up right; that you can be a fan of things without it being a fixation and not feeling too bad about it. The opposite? Every subreddit.
God I know, the only thing worse than your kid talking to you for hours about what they love is them not.
I miss it, the little dude will be 26 going on 30 next year.
Edit: I hit send before I finished editing it.
Like, when they died?
Like when they give up.
Like, awwww…
5000000 upvotes to OP for using 12ft on the post link.
Wow! I didn’t know this existed. So it just turns JavaScript off to kill ads? I thought we could do that in our browsers ourselves.
It bypasses paywall too
Sadly the paywall bypass doesn’t work as good as it did in the beginning :( A lot of websites changed how they implement a paywall and I read some rumours a while back, that some news sites closed a deal with the developer/hoster of 12ft. Allegedly, 12ft would be paid to exclude certain news sites from the bypass - I don’t know whether those rumours have been confirmed or not
Money fucks up everything, doesn’t it?
“No Pikachu”
Dad we gotta
Later that night he punched his wife in the face
Did he sleep on the couch, or with it?
Yes
pokemon is stored in the balls
They’re both weird. Who isn’t into Pokemon?
Pika pika!
Spinda… b-
Me
But I’m not gonna tell a kid to shut up about it
Me also. I really do not like Pokemon.
That said, I was the one selected to take my kid to see Detective Pikachu and I have to admit it was a damn good movie. And really only took the skeleton of the Pokemon idea and did something interesting with it anyway.
Yeah, that movie was surprisingly good.
What is there to really dislike about Pokemon? I didn’t realize that it was intrusive enough on those that don’t play or watch it to trigger such strong feelings.
The cuteness mainly. And memories of what an annoying grind the original Gameboy game was when I tried it.
Pokemon go to the polls!
I’m just chilling in cedar rapids
Fuck I remember that one.
“I’m just… (slight awkward pause) chillin’ in Cedar Rapids!”
🫠
We found Hillary’s secret Lemmy account!
Trump and Vance are hella weird
I mean “weird” and “weaboo” are interchangeable so he might have a point.
Not that kinda weird
Makes sense. Only JD is allowed to talk Pokemon to Trump
