1) Ask her why it is, that ALL the politicos - who are pushing hard for wars and saying nothing about suing for peace - are not saying "this war/action/involvement is so critical, I have told my son/daughter that they need to join our military today and go fight".
Ask the larger question, "why is it, that the children of the warmongers/MIIC profiteers never step foot on the battlefields, but they tell you, that it's your duty? So, what does that tell you, about where they feel OK about hang their "expendable" labels - or future toe tags?"
1a) Ask, "why do those same warmongers, push for war in one conflict and then demand peace/cease fires in another?" That's like a parent spanking one child for misbehaving and then refusing to spank the other, in the same situation.
2) If available where you are, have her speak to vets who've been in wars.
3) Have her read MG Smedley Butler's book "War is a Racket". It's a short easy read and straight from the mouth, of a man who did the bidding of the war mongers/profiteers, his entire military career.
Your daughter's generation really should understand their fight is at home (where ever that is). Their battlefields (whether they realize it or not) will be ideological ones; the thing they will be fighting for is their personal freedoms/liberties and by extension that of their futures. Their enemy is the globalists juggernaut, that now inhabits ALL their respective governments.
If she wants to fight the injustice, oppression and tyranny of the world, have her muster the courage and conviction to jump into the fray and fight, for a seat in government and change the world from there.
BTW, you previously alluded to feeling like a failure over this. It's unfounded. How many of us, as teens, veered hard off the great paths our parents worked hard to lay out for us - because we knew best and had to find ourselves?? If you know you did your best, take solace in that. Those lessons will surface and resonate for her, somewhere down the road.
Yeah, I liked Ike. Did you get to see Clarabell the mime Clown say “Goodbye kids” when the show ended? I was 8 years old in 1960. I just looked it up and do you know who the first person to play Clarabell was? Captain Kangaroo (Bob Keeshan). Then it was off to swooning over Annette Funicello. Dem were the days
I was eleven in 1960. Clarabell, Captain Kangaroo, Mr. Green Jeans are all fixed in memory along with Howdy Doody and that annoying Peanut Gallery. Don’t remember the Goodbye Kids but my brother loved Captain Jack. Dad liked Ike so I did. Ike was right. Ah, yes, Annette. Remember, I was eleven so...
🎵M - I - C - K - E - Y Mouse🎶. (You know many here likely have little if any idea of what we’re talking about. Kind of fun in a devilish sort of way 😈).
I caught that clear contradiction too. Jasmine read the letter and clarified her position: she is not okay with killing but surely they need cooks and doctors and pilots and other things. I doubt she would get a choice and many a drone pilot has done some bombing and many a doctor has done some lethal injections. I don't think the cooks knowingly poison the food...and the AI is taking over. She says most of her friends have done the economic calculus that starting wages are unworkable without government assistance to cover the difference and the good jobs are increasingly getting automated to AI while the military pays you and provides room and board to boot. To me it's a killing machine
This made me cry. We have seriously screwed it up for the children. I just hope most of the young people will learn to do something hands on. The last of the old guys who fixed everything will be going away in the coming decade. A young woman from the energy company fixed my ancient refrigerator recently. A young guy showed up as apprentice to the plumber. I pay premium prices at the ridiculous hipster farmer's market to help support a couple of young farm families. I hope your daughter can find her way to skip the military. But mostly I hope she feels your priceless love.
Well done, Madam Sukwan, very well done! I literally think that I couldn’t have done any better especially since it that our views seem to be so similar. I tend to launch into a long dissertation about this time in such conversations but I shall spare you and the other substackers the instinct of an old man to do that for now.
LOL amusing. I have talked to Jasmine regarding international things but she is getting bogged down on some sort of prelim thing she'd have to do...she's applying at a lot of places
On the weird, outside chance that she might consider Ukraine, Oksana and I would be glad to do what we can. Arizona State has a campus here in Kyiv. I expect tuition is at a level locals can afford.
I’m not surprised that sounds like you’re doing what the very best parents do. They love unconditionally, they sincerely compliment and encourage strengths and best efforts, they share their best advice without preaching, they admit they don’t know everything, they listen, they laugh together (which I’m certain you do!), and they try their very best to understand. It’s a long list, so I add one more thing, perhaps the most important of all: keep pointing the way to our Higher Power, our source of inner strength, wisdom, character, and peace. Here’s to endless blessings on your daughter, you, and the family, and congratulations to the graduate!
Four suggestions:
1) Ask her why it is, that ALL the politicos - who are pushing hard for wars and saying nothing about suing for peace - are not saying "this war/action/involvement is so critical, I have told my son/daughter that they need to join our military today and go fight".
Ask the larger question, "why is it, that the children of the warmongers/MIIC profiteers never step foot on the battlefields, but they tell you, that it's your duty? So, what does that tell you, about where they feel OK about hang their "expendable" labels - or future toe tags?"
1a) Ask, "why do those same warmongers, push for war in one conflict and then demand peace/cease fires in another?" That's like a parent spanking one child for misbehaving and then refusing to spank the other, in the same situation.
2) If available where you are, have her speak to vets who've been in wars.
3) Have her read MG Smedley Butler's book "War is a Racket". It's a short easy read and straight from the mouth, of a man who did the bidding of the war mongers/profiteers, his entire military career.
Your daughter's generation really should understand their fight is at home (where ever that is). Their battlefields (whether they realize it or not) will be ideological ones; the thing they will be fighting for is their personal freedoms/liberties and by extension that of their futures. Their enemy is the globalists juggernaut, that now inhabits ALL their respective governments.
If she wants to fight the injustice, oppression and tyranny of the world, have her muster the courage and conviction to jump into the fray and fight, for a seat in government and change the world from there.
BTW, you previously alluded to feeling like a failure over this. It's unfounded. How many of us, as teens, veered hard off the great paths our parents worked hard to lay out for us - because we knew best and had to find ourselves?? If you know you did your best, take solace in that. Those lessons will surface and resonate for her, somewhere down the road.
Best of luck Amy.
War is definitely a Rockette. Beautiful.
Damned "Hooked on Phoenix" tapes from Dollar Tree.
Thank Jacquelyn, fixed it.
Amen!
You are an excellent mother! Your speech is from your heart and soul. God Bless you and your family 🙏🏻💯♥️
Beautifully said Amy! One more quip from the pnut gallery: If you feel like you are being manipulated, you probably are.
Peanut gallery eh? Boy, are you giving away your age.
PS. I think I saw old Howdy D. in the Smithsonian once.
Yeah, I liked Ike. Did you get to see Clarabell the mime Clown say “Goodbye kids” when the show ended? I was 8 years old in 1960. I just looked it up and do you know who the first person to play Clarabell was? Captain Kangaroo (Bob Keeshan). Then it was off to swooning over Annette Funicello. Dem were the days
I was eleven in 1960. Clarabell, Captain Kangaroo, Mr. Green Jeans are all fixed in memory along with Howdy Doody and that annoying Peanut Gallery. Don’t remember the Goodbye Kids but my brother loved Captain Jack. Dad liked Ike so I did. Ike was right. Ah, yes, Annette. Remember, I was eleven so...
🎵M - I - C - K - E - Y Mouse🎶. (You know many here likely have little if any idea of what we’re talking about. Kind of fun in a devilish sort of way 😈).
Well done! Some sage advice for anyone but especially for those about to spread their wings and leave the nest. May she soar!!
I.loved. This. Keeping
she is a vegetarian because she doesn't want to kill animals, but she is ok to kill humans?
I caught that clear contradiction too. Jasmine read the letter and clarified her position: she is not okay with killing but surely they need cooks and doctors and pilots and other things. I doubt she would get a choice and many a drone pilot has done some bombing and many a doctor has done some lethal injections. I don't think the cooks knowingly poison the food...and the AI is taking over. She says most of her friends have done the economic calculus that starting wages are unworkable without government assistance to cover the difference and the good jobs are increasingly getting automated to AI while the military pays you and provides room and board to boot. To me it's a killing machine
This made me cry. We have seriously screwed it up for the children. I just hope most of the young people will learn to do something hands on. The last of the old guys who fixed everything will be going away in the coming decade. A young woman from the energy company fixed my ancient refrigerator recently. A young guy showed up as apprentice to the plumber. I pay premium prices at the ridiculous hipster farmer's market to help support a couple of young farm families. I hope your daughter can find her way to skip the military. But mostly I hope she feels your priceless love.
Fuck the sunscreen. But that was a nice letter you wrote
Sent this to my youngest Son!!
Now we ruined 4 years of yours and everyone’s life
Just forget about all the dark trauma bc we 3 is about to start
Things could get worse
Especially for anyone taking shots.
Of course there is the long sleek ride in a Hearst
And forget your clocks
In school why don’t they teach money since it influences every minute of the day!
2. Why not relationship’s since they impact
Everything
3. Self understanding your talents and interest are:
Such and such
4. Good luck kids when I was your age I was
Hopelessly lost in a emotional storms that sent
Me looking for answers.
Ask the right questions bc us old folks are going to be someday needing your help!
5. Learn to trust your instincts and play less video games.
And btw learn some manners
A Please Thank you go along way!!
And please don’t text and drive
Good luck punk kids the world has become a
Circus of evil fuckers attempting to kill everyone,
Including trans, he she me they we her him.
That was really good!
Well done, Madam Sukwan, very well done! I literally think that I couldn’t have done any better especially since it that our views seem to be so similar. I tend to launch into a long dissertation about this time in such conversations but I shall spare you and the other substackers the instinct of an old man to do that for now.
maybe this can help them!
How to Successfully Fend Off the Global Attack on Your Mental Freedom
https://michael-nehls.com/the-indoctrinated-brain/
Thanks. I had lost the name of the book. Just pre-ordered it.
Why, why is this discussion confined to the United States? Thailand should certainly be an option.
Let me tout a video I just posted of advice to Ukrainians considering going to university in the US. It should apply equally to Jasmine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gc5k4WfYu0
LOL amusing. I have talked to Jasmine regarding international things but she is getting bogged down on some sort of prelim thing she'd have to do...she's applying at a lot of places
el gato malo had this excellent piece on higher education. Longer, and a bit more serious than my video. Which I'm glad you liked.
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/how-higher-education-became-a-cargo
On the weird, outside chance that she might consider Ukraine, Oksana and I would be glad to do what we can. Arizona State has a campus here in Kyiv. I expect tuition is at a level locals can afford.
I’m not surprised that sounds like you’re doing what the very best parents do. They love unconditionally, they sincerely compliment and encourage strengths and best efforts, they share their best advice without preaching, they admit they don’t know everything, they listen, they laugh together (which I’m certain you do!), and they try their very best to understand. It’s a long list, so I add one more thing, perhaps the most important of all: keep pointing the way to our Higher Power, our source of inner strength, wisdom, character, and peace. Here’s to endless blessings on your daughter, you, and the family, and congratulations to the graduate!