President Biden picking up a kids toy

[irisblue]

Link to tweet

from the
Esquire article

snip..."he has a deep and abiding empathy. He carries his personal tragedies with great dignity, and employs them only when it is absolutely called for. On Tuesday, as they conducted a memorial service for Capitol Police Officer Billy Evans in the Rotunda, he deployed it in the gentlest way possible.

One of Evans’s daughters was fidgety, playing with a small replica of the Capitol dome. Fidgety kids are one of those extraneous details that great undertakers discreetly handle for The Family. The little girl dropped the toy on the floor. It bounced a little ways away from where she was sitting. The president instantly popped out of his chair, picked up the child’s toy, and handed it back to her, stopping to talk to her, too,

To compare this moment of humble humanity to anything having to do with the president’s predecessor is to cheapen it unforgivably. These are different species of homo sapiens, as different from each other as swans are from vultures. Kindness towards a child would seem to be a baseline indicator of civility and grace but, nonetheless, there it was, in front of god and the world. That it seemed so powerful is not just because of what it was, but because of all that it was not."

more at article

[FalloutShelter]

1. Here's the link

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a36110787/joe-biden-pick-up-child-toy-capitol-police-memorial-service/

[CurtEastPoint]

2. Dump wouldn't even put away his own GD umbrella.

[True Blue American]

3. Looked like a replica

Of the Capitol.

[Hekate]

4. I love Charlie Pierce's take on things, and this was especially lovely. nt

[LetMyPeopleVote]

5. This made me smile

Link to tweet

[calimary]

28. Made me get choked up.

I made a note of it.

Every week, our Indivisible group issues a Call to Action email, with five weekday asks and events for the next two to three weeks. It always starts with the “Inspirational Opening.” Instead of the usual stirring or relevant quotes for next week, I’m gonna use this link. With the title and Charlie Pierce’s intro.

[gratuitous]

6. Multiple choice

Trump would have

A Ignored it
B Kicked it, ostensibly back to the kid, but skittering way across the floor, disrupting everything
C Picked it up and kept it
D Picked it up and forced the kid to come after it; wouldn't give it back until he extracted a promise from the kid to do something for him
E Wouldn't have been there in the first place for a sucker and a loser like Evans

[Dustlawyer]

14. He would have demanded a thank you from her.

Not really, he would never pick it up.

[LiberalFighter]

18. He would had kicked it away from her.

[DENVERPOPS]

22. Or

crushed it under her foot, while watching her face and smiling..........

People are forgetting that when you talk about Trump, you are talking about a VERY SICK INDIVIDUAL....most likely sub-human....

[11 Bravo]

7. Trump would have demanded the kid's lunch money as ransom.

[Paladin]

8. So good to have a grown-up, decent person in the White House.

Thanks be to God.

[stillcool]

9. love that last sentence..

"That it seemed so powerful is not just because of what it was, but because of all that it was not."

[Wahyee]

10. the former guy would have viciously kicked it out of the way /eom

[lame54]

11. Or sold it back to her

[Neema]

29. Nah, he wouldn't be there. He only shows up when he can take over and air his many

grievances to his adoring fans.

[Cozmo]

12. Love, love, love

[Jilly_in_VA]

13. It's a grandad thing

Joe is not only President, he's the nation's grandad. Nothing wrong with that at all.

[BobTheSubgenius]

15. I really do admire Charles Pierce's writing.

Of course, I admire President Biden a whole lot more...but I admire it quite a bit, all the same.

[rickyhall]

16. Actually, I could imagine any of the presidents in my lifetime doing something similar.

Except the last one. He was more for stealing lollipops. (Red October)

[paranoid floyd]

17. This got me thinking

So many possibilities.

She might not have dropped the toy.

It might have fallen but was a stuffed animal so it just stayed where it fell.

It might have rolled any number of ways but it didn’t.

It rolled right towards the man who is one of the sweetest, empathetic humans around. Who also happens to be the President. It rolled his way so he could have a moment to let that little girl know her Dad was loved, respected, and will be missed. I don’t know what was said but knowing what I do know of Joe Biden it was something that will mean something to the family.

Sometimes wonderful things happen when something terrible has happened. A little light on the darkness.

[mcar]

19. He is such a good, kind man

I bet he didn't even think about picking up that child's toy and handing it to her. It's the instinctive act of a parent, or one who is just instrinsically kind.

[Midnight Writer]

20. I recall Trump telling the mother of a fidgety child to "get that kid out of here!"

Then he lightened that to "I'm kidding".

Then he went back to "No, really, get that kid out of here!"

[Grokenstein]

24. Always testing the waters to see just how awful he can be at any moment.

...Meanwhile, I'm waiting for Dim Don's servile media barking-dogs to start baying about how this moment was "rehearsed" to "make Biden look good." You know they're gonna do it.

[calimary]

21. Looks like he's still a dad first, a grandpa second, and THEN the President.

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You know, the job he gets to - AFTER the important stuff is taken care of: after he’s tucked the kids in bed, read them their favorite stories complete with funny character voices, and then checking UNDER the bed to make sure all the goblins and beasties were cleared outta there.

Can’t help loving this guy.

What a difference from the last selfish vainglorious putz!

A dad would do that. A grandpa would do that. Always looking out for the kids to make sure everything’s okay.

And now, he‘a looking out for ALL of us to at least try to make everything okay (or, at least, better than it had been).

Lucky we are.

[Treefrog]

23. This sentence stood out to me:

“To compare this moment of humble humanity to anything having to do with the president’s predecessor is to cheapen it unforgivably.“

Yet that’s all some people chose to do.

[Aussie105]

25. Joe is a human being who cares.

The other guy?

Neither of those.

[kimbutgar]

26. It will interesting to see how Fox attacks him tonight for doing this !

But I doubt they will report or show this video. President Biden is a demented feeble old man !

And I doubt the orange maggot would have even attended the service in the first place.

[Ferrets are Cool]

27. This touches me so deeply

Fark, it's so wonderful to have a honest to goodness human in the WH again.

[Cha]

30. Rt TY! Sweet!