Finally it makes sense. He's not a child. He's a bear.

[hedda_foil]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/compost/wp/2017/05/17/the-president-is-not-a-child-hes-something-worse/?tid=pm_opinions_pop&utm_term=.a63f0eb9f19d

The Trump presidency is the discovery that what you thought was a man in a bear suit is just a bear. Suddenly the fact that he wouldn’t play by the rules makes total sense. It wasn’t that he refused to, that he was playing a long game. It was that he was a wild animal who eats fish and climbs trees, and English words were totally unintelligible to him. In retrospect, you should have suspected that after he just straight-up ate a guy. But at the time everyone cheered. It was good TV. Also, he was your bear.

Okay. So you have spent 200 years building a fragile snow globe, and now you have given it to a bear. The animal doesn’t care. You cannot even explain to him what the thing is. To him, all your words are just sounds. He looks at you when you are making them and he looks away when you are finished. You can only hope the bear becomes bored and sets the snow globe down and wanders off looking for food. (Again, this is an insult to bears, who have fewer places to live than Trump and do not do so at the taxpayer’s expense.)


Who can help? The people in there with him are the people who did not realize that what they had on their hands was an animal. Now they are trying to whisper him, like a horse. Do horses understand whispering? Horses probably think that people are just conspiring against them all the time. Horses are probably quite paranoid and delusional. But at least a horse would not fire the FBI director.

Merely watching this, you are now 600 years old. (Have you written this before? Hundreds of years have passed since Tuesday. You have no memory of the Time Before.) It is as though all of your involuntary muscle functions now require conscious effort. Everything you assumed would take care of itself so that you could go about your life now requires you to watch it and hold your breath. You are holding your breath all the time.

[yuiyoshida]

1. Lets not GIVE bears a bad name....

[countryjake]

2. This is reminding me of Dueling Banjos now!

I'm assuming that this piece is an echo of the NY Times article from Monday:

When the World Is Led by a Child
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/15/opinion/trump-classified-data.html?_r=0

Ha! All I could think when I read the first one, comparing this mean-ass buffoon to a child, was that my kid never, thru her entire childhood, could have behaved in the manner that Trump does. I never cared for any other little ones (and I often found myself responsible for some real imps) who acted-out with as little conscience as our current prez does. And now, I doubt there's any bear who has ever roamed this earth who would, either.
(do bears get rabies?)

Thanks for sharing that, hedda_foil...very interesting read!

Everything we care about is in that egg.

[NJCher]

3. That was an excellent piece

That it was written by David Brooks was a shock.


Cher