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The position as an at-large delegate for the Florida Republican Party will be the highest-profile political role thus far for Barron, former President Donald Trump's youngest son.

It will soon be Barron Trump’s time to step into the political spotlight.

Trump, former President Donald Trump’s youngest child, who will graduate from high school next week and has largely been kept out of the political spotlight, was picked by the Republican Party of Florida on Wednesday night as one of the state’s at-large delegates to the Republican National Convention, according to a list of delegates obtained by NBC News.

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In a family full of politically involved children, Barron Trump, who turned 18 in March, has retained much more of a private life than his older brothers, Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr., both of whom will also be Florida at-large RNC delegates, along with Trump’s daughter Tiffany.

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[-] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 181 points 6 months ago

“We have a great delegation of grassroots leaders, elected officials and even Trump family members,” Florida GOP chairman Evan Power said.

This is absolutely disgusting. What a bunch of cucks.

Your founding fathers would be sick.

[-] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Your founding fathers would be sick.

No, actually I'm pretty sure the guys who only wanted white, land-owning men to vote would probably be okay with this.

I mean, they purposefully designed this system to be broken and easily corruptible to begin with. Many of them owned slaves and had zero issues with slave ownership. Pretty sure Jefferson fucked a bunch of his slaves and had kids with them that grew up as slaves, too.

Let's stop pretending they didn't know what they were doing. They knew exactly what they were doing. This system was set up like this on purpose.

This land was populated by people who "escaped" Europe because of "religious persecution" which actually meant Europe was getting all progressive and deeply philosophical so you couldn't just shove your bullshit religion down other people's throats anymore with impunity.

Are we really shocked this is the very kind of people who populate the USA today? Let's stop pretending the founding fathers were any better, or that they didn't make the constitution easily corruptible on purpose so they could hold on to their positions in society.

The reverence we give for these mere mortal men, who were as corruptible as any, is fucking absurd. Stop placing these dickweeds on a pedestal.

[-] jwiggler@sh.itjust.works 48 points 6 months ago

Not that I don't agree with the general sentiment, or want to condone slave-owning in any way, but Thomas Jefferson only had children with one of his slaves, and from the historical record it appears to have been a consensual romantic relationship, insofar as one can have one with such a vast power difference (you cannot, really). He did oppose slavery privately, however he owned slaves, himself. Although, again from the record, it appears that they were more a part of his household, and treated (relatively) well, rather than how we typically imagine slaves in the South. Again, still not right, but compared to his contemporaries, you would call Jefferson a good owner. Still fucked up to say. A further disappointing fact is that, despite the fact that he deemed slavery reprehensible, he also deemed it to be political suicide to try to change the status quo. He brought the issue up a few times during his very long political career, but quickly abandoned the efforts. Additionally troubling is that, like many other in opposition to slavery at the time, he thought the solution was to ship black people to an island in the Caribbean so that they could form their own nation. This was not an uncommon opinion during that era -- I believe even Lincoln bought into this "solution," at one point. Also fucked up, but somehow better than the at-the-time alternative of continuing slavery.

Anyways, I don't mean to undermine your point that many of the individuals who established this country did so with the idea that black and brown people, women, and the lower-class, were less-than, and established it in such a way that made it difficult or impossible for them to participate. However, I think your specific examples aren't super accurate, and since I just read a pretty fair biography of Jefferson recently called Jefferson: Architect of American Liberty by John B Boles, I figured I would chime in. Really interesting and very much puts a great (in terms of historical stature) and flawed (in terms of our modern sense of morals) man in the context of his time and place.

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[-] PugJesus@kbin.social 34 points 6 months ago

Many of them owned slaves and had zero issues with slave ownership.

Three of the seven Founding Fathers were slave-owners.

One was restricted by law from freeing them due to the massive debts he ran up funding the Revolution (Washington) but came to believe that slavery was an unambiguous evil by the end of his life, making plans to free his slaves lawfully (which is a bit of a dick move considering the state of the law at the time, but 'we are creatures of habit, not originality').

One was a dickhead, but one who thought slavery was bad and should die out (Jefferson).

Only one was an unrepentant slaver (Madison).

The other four were staunch abolitionists.

This land was populated by people who “escaped” Europe because of “religious persecution” which actually meant Europe was getting all progressive and deeply philosophical so you couldn’t just shove your bullshit religion down other people’s throats anymore with impunity.

That was true for the Puritans who founded Mass and Connecticut. But for most of what would become the US, the exact opposite was the truth. Europe quite explicitly was NOT progressive and deeply philosophical about religion at the time - the Puritans on the Mayflower were fleeing, specifically, the Netherlands, which was a rare bastion of religious tolerance in Europe. Maryland was founded as a refuge for Catholics where all Trinitarians would have equal rights - far more radical than most of Europe. Pennsylvania was explicitly founded on religious tolerance by a Quaker. Rhode Island instituted freedom for non-Trinitarian Christians in the 17th century. European Jews fled to New York (after it was no longer New Amsterdam) specifically BECAUSE it was more tolerant than Europe. New Jersey, North Carolina, and South Carolina were religiously diverse from the outset.

Most of the Founding Fathers were deists or highly deist influenced, and all believed in freedom of religion.

Hagiography of the early days of America is dumb. But demonization doesn't provide a clear view simply by being the reverse.

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago
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[-] foggy@lemmy.world 31 points 6 months ago

They designed it to be amended constantly. And it used to be.

[-] HoustonHenry@lemmy.world 25 points 6 months ago

While I agree, I also see the other guys POV...the Founding Fathers wanting to break from kings and royal lines, while Trump&Fam look like their doing their best to start a royal family of America (I'll be damned before that ever happens)

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[-] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago

I think another important consideration is that the founding fathers were no more unified than today's political leaders. We talk about how divisive the tone of discourse has become, but those old guys knew how to sling mud. They had intense disagreements about how to build the country, and no single design or designer had enough influence to get exactly what he wanted. When people start a sentence like "The founding fathers never wanted..." some probably did. They imagined all kinds of scenarios and eventualities. Some of them were fascists, some of them were abolitionists, some of them were hedonists, some of them were religious zealots. There weren't many issues where all of the founders were of one mind, if any existed.

[-] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

They had intense disagreements about how to build the country, and no single design or designer had enough influence to get exactly what he wanted.

The difference is they were willing to give-and-take to eventually come to a mutually tolerable compromise solution.

Contrast that with today's "if you are from the other party, I will thwart you even if it is a good idea"

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[-] manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml 14 points 6 months ago

Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1852/18th-brumaire/ch01.htm

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[-] ramble81@lemm.ee 75 points 6 months ago

He had the chance to be left alone and most everyone out there was honoring that because he was a kid and wasn’t involved in politics…. Hope he realizes what he’s about to open himself up to.

[-] Glytch@lemmy.world 25 points 6 months ago

Yeah, he's fair game now. He could have been like that one Trump daughter whose name I forget because she's entirely out of the spotlight, but no, he wants to join the family grift.

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[-] btaf45@lemmy.world 20 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Hope he realizes what he’s about to open himself up to.

He has set himself up for ridicule for the rest of his life now. Historians have ranked Convicted Sex Offender Treason Trump as the worst president in US history. And they will still rank him as worst president 50 years from now when Barron is 68, and the first thing any student learns about Trump is that he tried to overthrow democracy.

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2024/02/19/presidential-greatness-survey-2024-trump-biden/9601708357197/

[Historians rank Trump worst president in history]

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[-] uberdroog@lemmy.world 64 points 6 months ago

Gross. We need to reject all aristocracy. Stop this shit show in its tracks.

[-] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 35 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Conservatism literally began as an attempt to "conserve" aristocracy in the face of democracy.

So you stop conservatism, you stop aristocracy.

[-] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 9 points 6 months ago

The Adams, Roosevelts, and Bushes: "Are we a joke to you?"

[-] Zannsolo@lemmy.world 57 points 6 months ago

He looks like a guess who card.

[-] OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee 50 points 6 months ago

I'm not going to make fun of him or his father for wearing makeup, men are allowed to wear makeup.

But I will make fun of him and his father for wearing makeup so poorly.

[-] drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago

You can when he runs on a platform of hatred of men who wear makeup.

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[-] zcd@lemmy.ca 50 points 6 months ago

The shit apple doesn't fall from the shit tree

[-] gregorum@lemm.ee 21 points 6 months ago

The turd doesn’t fall far from the asshole

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[-] extremeboredom@lemmy.world 41 points 6 months ago

Why does he appear embalmed in the thumbnail?

[-] todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee 29 points 6 months ago

That's just how Trump boys look.

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[-] ripcord@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

Because he looks embalmed in the larger photo, too.

It's...pretty creepy.

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[-] Carrolade@lemmy.world 38 points 6 months ago

I wonder how often they think "Man, I could've just been a normal rich snobby person doing whatever I want, and instead I get this..."

[-] ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 14 points 6 months ago

They probably see the actual value of assets, and realize that unless they start in the grift they won't have anything when the head inevitably kicks the bucket.

[-] Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 36 points 6 months ago

Like I said recently, he's 18 now. I'm sure he's well on his way to becoming just like the rest of the men in his family

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[-] fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de 31 points 6 months ago

Just gonna point out the obvious here and say... that this kid has no skills or experience with which to do whatever "at-large delegates" do.

[-] birthday_attack@lemm.ee 21 points 6 months ago

To be fair, my understanding of delegates is that they are basically a political "cookie" that the party hands out as a reward to certain people. Their job is just to cast the official elector votes for the presidential election, and their hands are usually tied into voting to reflect the popular state vote tallies (ignoring Trump's recent fake electors scheme, of course). So their duties are really symbolic more than anything.

Accepting this position does insert himself into politics, though. No one can say "leave Baron out of it" after this

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[-] drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 29 points 6 months ago

Now we can make fun of him.

[-] Theprogressivist@lemmy.world 22 points 6 months ago

The monarchy finally has an heir to the throne.

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 17 points 6 months ago

Ah yes, I can see the resemblance.

[-] iAmTheTot@kbin.social 21 points 6 months ago

Getting really tired of this nepo shit.

[-] GiddyGap@lemm.ee 16 points 6 months ago
[-] drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago

It occurs to me that he is of the age that republicans think should not be allowed to vote.

[-] scytale@lemm.ee 13 points 6 months ago

Damn, he resembles his father more than any of his siblings.

[-] MrVilliam@lemmy.world 14 points 6 months ago

That's just because of all the surgery Ivanka has had. She looked like him like 30 years ago. Barron looks like if you uploaded pictures of Melania and Donald to one of those programs that would tell you what your child together would look like. I have hope yet that Barron is capable of not being a piece of shit. He'll get no hate from me until he deserves it, and honestly with parents like his I feel like I can give him a few passes while he's maybe too young to know better than to just do what he's been taught. I want so badly for him to be decent against all odds.

[-] neoman4426@fedia.io 23 points 6 months ago

Like zero percent chance of this happening, but imagine the hilarity if he used this platform to just absolutely wreck the proven pieces of shit that make up the rest of his family

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[-] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago

It's so worrying to see that our kids and their kids will have to deal with that little piece of shit. My only hope is the belief that every man is different as I was from my father. So as much as he looks like a concerned asshole in this photo, it could be just a facial expression fixed there for us. I've got photos of my family looking dumb, with one eye open or both closed, fixing the kids clothing, etc. And then finally the actual photo with a fake smile that is only there when I photo is coming. If you chase emotional facial expressions with a photo, you can get asshole looking expressions I'm sure.

[-] Olhonestjim@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Kid should just join the military or something.

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[-] squirrelwithnut@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago

Jesus, he even looks like an insufferable asshat.

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