But he's real. "Did a 9-year-old called ‘Pickle’ really write that letter to Trump? Yep, he’s real." (WaPo).
July 28, 2017
#PickleTruther.
Twitter gangs up on a 9-year-old boy who wrote a too-sweet-to-be-true letter to Trump.
But he's real. "Did a 9-year-old called ‘Pickle’ really write that letter to Trump? Yep, he’s real." (WaPo).
But he's real. "Did a 9-year-old called ‘Pickle’ really write that letter to Trump? Yep, he’s real." (WaPo).
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I was hoping it was Fr Guido Sarducci.
He can't be real. We know all the kids sing songs about how much they like democrats.
That's a Lazlo Letter.
Lazlo Letter second try at amazon link.
"How big is the white hose?"
A Trump kid!
I was hoping it was Fr Guido Sarducci.
LOL! Find the pope in the pizza?
Dox him at once. I want names! I want addresses!
Milkshake duck his elementary school butt, pronto.
You better believe a kid like this has pulled a few ponytails in his time. That's assault, brotha.
More media idiocy exposed.
From the article:
she made [a Trump Hat cake] herself, because she couldn’t find a bakery willing and able to do it.
Should she sue the bakers out of business? Would WaPo approve?
"Your friend, Dylan"
What -- Althouse couldn't have found a Dylan song lyric for this?
I am Laslo.
Billy Madison: That's assault brotha!
Oh, also, I found that Trent Reznor sketch; it's from the group The Whitest Kids You Know:
WKUK: Trent Reznor
Fuck you media assholes.
I didn't know kids got nicknames anymore. Next thing you know Bing's crooning will be all the rage.
God bless Pickle.
Thank God all these people abort their children.
Jesus Christ, is the Washington Post scouring the parent's social media for anything inflammatory or "racist" or "xenophobic" or homophobic or whatever? Seems like a bad idea...
'Pickle' nickname reminded me of Clerks II
To the people who are saying nasty things to/about this child on Twitter; how proud you must be to have thought up a zinger making fun of a child. How is an adult picking on a 9-year-old not considered bullying?
You know who else likes to pick on young boys?
I think kids esp boys would naturally gravitate to Trump. He is an avatar of American animal spirits. An action figure!
He could totally do a Trump Youth thing. Hyypotize them. Kinda scary.
I wonder how long it took Donald to compose the note? All 9-year-olds wonder about Trump and how much money he has and, of course, about why people don't like him. The sentence length is about right for Donnie's writing capability, complete with misspellings.
I never wrote to a president as a kid. I regret that.
To the people who are saying nasty things to/about this child on Twitter; how proud you must be to have thought up a zinger making fun of a child.
Maybe the Whitehouse should have thought a little harder about exploiting a child in this way.
Every White House has posted or talked about letters from children. This is the first time I've seen a coordinated hate party.
Maybe the Whitehouse should have thought a little harder about exploiting a child in this way.
Mmmmm mmmmm mmmmm.
Here ya go, antiphone!
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/01/kids-write-letters-to-obama-on-gun-control/
Every White House has posted or talked about letters from children.
So, "that's politics", how refreshing.
WAPO investigating the most important issues of our times. Bag of dicks!
I'd like to know the m/f gender ratio of Twitter pickle haters. I'll bet females vastly outnumber the males. And this from the sex which allegedly cares more about children. Ditto for Barron haters.
I'd like to know the m/f gender ratio of Twitter pickle haters. I'll bet females vastly outnumber the males. And this from the sex which allegedly cares more about children. Ditto for Barron haters.
Bitter childless pink hatters hate children.
Nothing says "Resistance" more than bullying a 9 y.o.
I wrote a letter to Nixon at that age. We'd taken a playground poll of the presidential race and I wanted him to know he won.
Thank God Twitter wasn't around.
Such a proud moment.
I was hoping it was Fr Guido Sarducci.
When the history of the internet is written, Father Guido Sarducci will finally be given his rightful place as the creator of trolling.
It's okay to have children be forced to sing praises to Barack Obama, the LightBringer and Healer of Worlds; Master of the Oceans though.
Correct leftists?
mmmmm, mmmmm, mmmmm.
--Vance
Where is Woodward and Bernstein when you really need them?
I worry about Dylan's developmental arch. A letter like that from a 7-year-old would lie pretty close to the curve — not precocious, but certainly not grossly sub-normal. Or maybe he's just the typical product of modern education. Most schools don't even attempt to teach cursive. My friend has a 6-year-old enrolled in a private kindergarten who could manage about as well as Pickles.
Leave it to the Post to think doxxing a 9 year old is great journalism.
It's okay to have children be forced to sing praises to Barack Obama, the LightBringer and Healer of Worlds; Master of the Oceans though.
Correct leftists?
Always gotta use the same tired "both sides do it" line. You don't seem to get that your just equating Trump supporters and Obama supporters, saying they're just the same. If the left and the right are the same why are you complaining so much?
Antiphone:
Uh, no, pointing out that Obama had choirs of children singing for him is NOT saying its the "same" as Dylan's letter. Or that "both sides do it". What tye Obama supporters did to those kids is infinitely worse.
@Quaestor, you can't expect Dylan to write better than his teachers, can you?
Sure, antiphone -- Trump releases a funny letter from a kid and Obama uses kids to shill for gun control. Same thing!
antiphone said...
"Maybe the Whitehouse should have thought a little harder about exploiting a child in this way."
Yes, and maybe your parents should have thought a little harder about a woman's right to choose.
I'm so glad I never got involved with Twitter. I understand their stock is going down like the you know what.
"Always gotta use the same tired "both sides do it" line."
-- Both sides didn't single out a kid for a five-minute hate.
Big Mike said...
"Leave it to the Post to think doxxing a 9 year old is great journalism."
Interesting point. Not so long ago, "doxxing" a child would have required you to talk to some adults.
Always gotta use the same tired "both sides do it" line. You don't seem to get that your just equating Trump supporters and Obama supporters, saying they're just the same. If the left and the right are the same why are you complaining so much?
Your hypocrisy is showing, antiphone. But that's not news, is it?
We are teaching kids to write "how much money do you have," and teaching them it's a sweet question.
Sad!
Both sides didn't single out a kid for a five-minute hate.
Ok, so who did? How about some evidence as long as you're pointing fingers.
As to my original comment, it's Obama did it first, Obama did it worse. As for whether using children like this is a good idea... crickets.
Big Mike said...Leave it to the Post to think doxxing a 9 year old is great journalism.
Note the female (or possibly trans-gendered male) byline.
Just sayin'
Maybe the Whitehouse should have thought a little harder about exploiting a child in this way.
(As if this is the first president to ever show a letter written to him by a child.)
When a child writes to someone famous and they show off the letter, is that exploitation or one of the coolest things every to happen in their young life? The answer is, it's cool, at least until some "adults" step in and try to ruin it just to score some internet points.
I hope all of the snarkers step in someone's recently chewed and spit out bubble gum the next time they go for a walk.
I don't know, looks kinda wierdly fake to me. But even if it is real don't get kids in politics! Like this kid has any idea what he's talking about?
If real, that is absolutely adorable. Not political.
What a gift from heaven he is here at Althouse! Finally a writer with spellin and gramer that could make people forget how bad mine is. It shirly must be a product of our yooth and promise. We have so much life ahead of us both. I have the mind and heart of a nine year old, but one well into puberty and it's FRIDAAAAYYY!... nite. Watch out mamacitas.
chickelit said...
I'd like to know the m/f gender ratio of Twitter pickle haters. I'll bet females vastly outnumber the males. And this from the sex which allegedly cares more about children. Ditto for Barron haters.
You don't know. You speculate. In this day and age it could just as well be twitter bots.
Note the female (or possibly trans-gendered male) byline.
Just sayin'
You're saying very little about the author of the article but plenty about yourself.
" You don't seem to get that your just equating Trump supporters and Obama supporters, saying they're just the same."
On the contrary, the evidence suggests one is far worse, even downright creepy, more in line with the style of a North Korean elementary school, with the biggest difference being the height and hairstyle of the cult leader.
@antiphone: You're pretending that Trump didn't/doesn't have a gender gap problem. Hillary did to for that matter, but it was the mirror image.
I have yet to read a thoughtful analysis of both candidate's gender gaps in the 2016 election and aftermath. It's too painful and real, I suppose. Perhaps someone can point to a good read.
When a child writes to someone famous and they show off the letter, is that exploitation or one of the coolest things every to happen in their young life? The answer is, it's cool, at least until some "adults" step in and try to ruin it just to score some internet points.
The "adults" in the White House were aware of the likely controversy that would result from reading the letter out loud and naming the author at a press conference. It was clearly a tactical move in their war with the press, but hey that's politics folks!
"But even if it is real don't get kids in politics! Like this kid has any idea what he's talking about?"
Boys make men.
And politics is not made by knowing so much as by feeling.
The difference between a conservative and a liberal, in any definition of either, is not a question of positions on issues, but of personality.
This was quite frustrating, for instance, to Russell Kirk. But he made lemons out of lemonade. Go buy "The Conservative Mind".
The "adults" in the White House were aware of the likely controversy that would result from reading the letter out loud and naming the author at a press conference. It was clearly a tactical move in their war with the press, but hey that's politics folks!
Nah, they thought better of the folks who vote Democrat. Or they used to.
"The "adults" in the White House were aware of the likely controversy that would result from reading the letter out loud and naming the author at a press conference."
They were? Are you a mind reader or do have a source inside the White House?
Bless that little guy!
How many pickled pricks will be pricking Pickle's peck?
The media are truly a bunch of fucking douche bags.
If the left were unrestrained, it doesn't take much imagination as to what they would do to this country, let alone their fellow man.
Best I can tell Antiphone is going for some kind of chicken fucking record here tonight. Good luck, Antiphone, though from the look of things you'll have that record secured in no time. Keep fucking that chicken!
"My pitcher is here so if you see me you can say hi."
You are now in the database, kid. Part of your Permanent Record.
I never wrote to a president as a kid. I regret that.
Mine would have been.
Dear President Eisione...Eihowe....Ike.
Why are you bald?
Blogger antiphone said...
"The "adults" in the White House were aware of the likely controversy that would result from reading the letter out loud and naming the author at a press conference. It was clearly a tactical move in their war with the press, but hey that's politics folks!"
Politics is reading letters from kids.
Stalinism is the WAPO doxxing that kid and having a bunch of absolutely disgusting shitheads bash him on Twitter.
Damn vulture democrat media.
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The "adults" in the White House were aware of the likely controversy that would result from reading the letter out loud and naming the author at a press conference.
Sure, they read it for political reasons, but were the Twitter attacks making fun of the White House or the kid? The ones I saw were about Pickles, not Trump.
A child who is a fan of Trump wrote a letter. The reading of the letter was a totally "notice me senpai" moment. He got recognition. That's exciting. Why do the snarkers have to pick on him for it?
There are plenty of jokes to be made about this administration without ruining a big moment for a child. (Of course, there were plenty of jokes to be made about the last administration too.)
Chelsea Clinton was only four when she wrote to Nixon and her handwriting and structure were far better than that.
(OK I know, I know.)
Sure, they read it for political reasons, but were the Twitter attacks making fun of the White House or the kid? The ones I saw were about Pickles, not Trump.
I questioned the use of a child --for political reasons-- by the White House. Does that automatically mean I'm defending any of the predictable attacks on the kid? of course not. Does it mean I'm endorsing the use of children's letters by previous administrations? No.
Does it make me a contestant in a chicken fucking contest? According to Rocketeer, yes.
The thing is,fame is not inherently kind.Nobody asked if he wanted to be a poster child. It looks to me like kid was used as troll bait by Sarah Huckabee Sanders subject to approval by the White House (I think it's fair to assume). I also think it's reasonable to assume that they understood there would be jokes and the usual fact checking --which could then be spun (#PickleTruther)-- and used as ammunition against Trump critics and the press in general. Modern Day Presidential!
The left is psychotic.
It would make me proud if the Trump White House if they were so evil and so smart that, at their cold calculated brilliance, they could, at will make the left do such insanely stupid things like doxing a kid.
Letters to the President, written by kids have been publicized, since George Washington. It has taken President Trump with his super powers, to get the media to lose their mind, when something as common as breathing happens, and turns them into bullying children.
I questioned the use of a child --for political reasons-- by the White House.
As usual, this sort of thing is only acceptable when the Good Guys do it. (And we, the Good Guys, get to decide who can join our ranks and who can't. Certainly not you, little Trumpster.)
antiphone said...
"Both sides didn't single out a kid for a five-minute hate.
Ok, so who did? How about some evidence as long as you're pointing fingers.
As to my original comment, it's Obama did it first, Obama did it worse. As for whether using children like this is a good idea... crickets."
Of course it's OK. Your side lowered the bar to just inches off the ground and you want to complain that what your opponents do is somehow different?
Here is what adults do.
"Oh. Little pickles wrote a letter to the president. How adorable. Good for him." Then get on with the important shit life gives us to do. It's why I view your moral outrage as childish. You have no morals.
antiphone: Always gotta use the same tired "both sides do it" line.
Always gotta try the same tired "how dare you note my rancid hypocrisy" ploy.
But I agree with you, it is tiresome and pointless. Not because there's anything wrong with noting your rancid hypocrisy, but because everybody is already well aware of it, and it's not as if shameless people with no integrity are going to straighten up because somebody points out their character flaws.
"Pickles" as a nickname permanently belongs to Hillary for her jar-opening stunt on Jimmy Kimmel. "Mooch" permanently belongs to Michelle Obama for her ease at spending taxpayers' Dollars. Do you think it's a coincidence that the Left tried to attach these same names onto Republicans in the last week?
When I was younger, oh SO much younger than Today,
Every Bright Idea was met with the same retort from Friends, Family, and NE Liberals,
Well
If You're So Smart,
WHY AIN'T YOU RICH?!
I think Dylan's question is right on and it is the obvious premise on which it rests:
Trump is TRULY SMART because he is TRULY RICH!
If a nine year old kid with a modicum of school yard experience can see this Obvious Relation, WHY is it so difficult for NE Liberal types to grok this!
I wish the Washington Post could re-direct a reporter to investigate the Awan family to the same depth.
We are teaching kids to write "how much money do you have," and teaching them it's a sweet question.
Sad!
Boxers or briefs?
"If the left were unrestrained, it doesn't take much imagination as to what they would do to this country, let alone their fellow man."
Yep.
Conversely, if the right were to ever reach the level of hate and lack of restraint of the left? There would be no more left.
The left has no idea of what seeds they're sowing. None.
Boxers or briefs?
Depends.
"You better believe a kid like this has pulled a few ponytails in his time. That's assault, brotha."
When you're a star they let you do it,
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