What fire? There’s no evidence this kid has ever been mistreated. She seems to have grown up with every possible advantage. What’s more, both parents just quit their day jobs to try to attend to her cries for help. She’s hardly been neglected. I mean, maybe she’s been a latch key kid with her parents working too many hours. Who hasn’t?
A piece of evidence that she is trying to get away from monstrous parents as self preservation rather than attention seeking is that she was raised by monsters.
We don’t know what her actual home life is like. She may just be a brat, but seeking legal emancipation is a pretty serious indicator that it’s not just a temper tantrum.
Depends on your definition of “mistreated.” Has she been physically or sexually abused? Hopefully not. But it is plausible to speculate she’s not been raised in a healthy environment - emotional neglect is very possible. (We don’t know for sure, of course. But all signs point to family dysfunction, don’t they?)
And yet here you both are: blaming the victim.
Hell no. Show me where I am blaming Claudia? Because if you can quote text where I do that, I will disavow what I wrote and eat a large helping of crow, and will do it gladly.
To be clear, I don’t blame Claudia if she’s acting out due to the distorted, dysfunctional way she has almost certainly been raised.
I’ve said that she’s a product of her environment. I’d be surprised if she didn’t act out in some public and provocative way. Look at her parents.
Again, though, I don’t see what she’s doing as “acting out,” especially. If she’s being raised in a toxic environment, and she wants to speak out against the toxic environment and wants to get out of it, that doesn’t count as “acting out.”
If she were taking meth, or shoplifting, or running away with the lead singer of Danzig, or engaging in dangerous sexual practices, or joining the Federalist society, okay, she’d be acting out. But here? I’m not seeing it.
Right. This is what I am trying to say. It could be that her parents treat her fine, they don’t fight at home about politics, it’s all very normal. I would still be sympathetic to her desire to get away. Her mom is one of the major reasons we have Trump. I couldn’t live with her. I’d be filled with horror. Politics is not some abstract thing that shouldn’t ever be an issue between family. Her mom is the architect and enabler of evil. Claudia is not “acting out” by calling that how she sees it.
Well, she’s acting like a 15 year old, which is understandable. But I’m surprised that many posters seem to take it as a given that a healthy, rational response to a bad home life is to take advantage of one’s parents’ notoriety by tweeting dirty laundry.
It’s a normal response for a pissed-off 15-year-old, sure. But I made plenty of choices when I was 15 that I wouldn’t make now, because I lacked the maturity and life experience to do better. It mystifies me that suggesting Claudia may fall prey to those weaknesses (particularly because, as we all agree, the poor kid was raised by monsters) is apparently an objectionable point of view.
I don’t think she’s “taking advantage of” her parents’ notoriety: rather, she’s using social media like a teen, and her parents’ notoriety makes it newsworthy. And “dirty laundry”? What I’ve seen is already public stuff, just giving her own take on it.
And I’m not suggesting she’s acting like a healthy adult. I’m suggesting no signs that her behaviors are unhealthy adolescent behaviors.
So you are saying her plan to file for emancipation wasn’t first shared via Tweet?
I object just because it seems like it is minimizing what could be a brave and principled stance. She’s not irritated by her parents not letting her date, or make her do the dishes. She’s mad because her mom supports a man who puts children in cages. Who failed to take the most rudimentary steps to check the worst natural disaster to ever befall this country. Taking a stand against that is really fundamentally different.
Hey, it’s morning in Hawaii, if not in America, and sadly I must get to work so I’m going to bow out of this fascinating discussion. I have to say, though, that it makes me happy to see the interest in the topic. Carry on!
Come on. I’m saying that’s not dirty laundry.
One monstrous parent. George Conway seems okay, for a conservative.
I think the daughter is just trying to capitalize on the same game her parents have played for the last 4 years, the game that made them famous.
I know most people will disagree with me, but I always thought KellyAnne might have been a double agent, playing both sides of the fence.
I read one of those inside the Trump Administration tell all books, Team of Vipers by Cliff Sims. He told a story about how he was working with KellyAnne in her office and she gave him permission to use her laptop, which was linked to her phone. She didn’t realize he could see her texting in real time, and he claims she was sending a constant stream of texts to reporters at NYT and WaPo, not press releases and talking points but negative insider gossip. He claimed she leaked like a sieve.
And there was reporting that she had privately copped to personally disliking Trump. And, every now and then she fell so far into self-parody it was like she was trolling her own party. “Alternative Facts” “The Bowling Green Massacre” “Covid 1 thru 18”. I think she was trying to force the administration into tying themselves in knots to defend her and laughing about it when she got home.
I may be wrong though, there’s slim evidence. But I wonder if her and George will co-write a book of some sort. Or if they already have. If they manage to release a an anti-Trump tell-all before the election I’ll know I was right.
I’m pretty sure that’s just wishful thinking on my part, but I can dream.
Weird that you describe a win-win outcome for her after stating that she is going to regret the outcome.
FWIW I agree except for the part about gaining any new regrets. Sounds like a righteously angry child sharpened her claws on Twitter and is in a mood to draw blood.
I don’t think she anticipated the fact that they’d both quit their jobs to focus their attentions on her. Therein making this much harder for herself. What’s she going to tweet now? My parents are suffocating me with their love, attention and willingness to stop publicly embarrassing me and ruining my life!
I mean, there is certainly be more going on than any of us know but I think a divorce is still a possible outcome. Or there me be a genuine reconciliation and re-prioritization on their family. We won’t know until we know.
She’s tweeted that she’s leaving social media for a mental health break. Whether that’s because she’s getting positive attention from her parents, or because the death threats from 4chan and Proud Boys have become too much, or because her parents have threatened to take away her phone if she doesn’t stop harming their careers, I’m not sure.
Ack, why am I here…must…write…grant…
I’ll just make one observation that is a question for all to consider, if it interests you:
Are you viewing her emancipation filing (and more broadly, her tweets in general) through a POLITICAL lens, or a PERSONAL one?
I’ve been looking at it as strictly the latter. My take on the matter would not be the same if I were viewing this strictly as a political statement.
Okay, now I really must get to work. Send me energetic thoughts, people…I need them.