Mr. President, if you insist on acting like a spoiled child, we will treat you like one.
“Mr. President, if you insist on acting like a spoiled child, we’ll treat you like one. If you’re not responsible enough to clean up the messes you make, if you think it’s okay to just leave crap like this for someone else to handle, then you are nothing more than a spoiled brat who deserves a spanking. And with god as my witness, if you really were my child, I’d bend you over my knee and then make you go stand in the corner. I mean really, this is completely ridiculous. Let’s just think about this for a second. Would any other grown man, let alone elected official, be able to get away with what you’ve done? Would any small child get away with it for that matter?”
“N-n-no,” he says with his chin touching his chest, unable to look me in the eye.
“That’s right, no. Would you make your mother clean up the sort of stuff you’ve done in here?”
“N-n-n-no.”
“That’s right, no. So what makes you think it’s okay to make me do it, huh? You think because I’m just a cleaning lady that it’s okay to pee on the carpet and scribble on the wall with crayons?”
“No Ms. Alba-Lucia,” he says as he wipes his sniffles on his suit sleeve.
“Oh, it’s okay sweetie don’t cry. Just try to be more responsible okay? You’re a grown man. Act like it!”
“I will,” he says.
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But then of course the day dream ends and he walks in the room for real. He asks me the usual polite questions, I never bother to tell him about how hellish it is to clean up after him. What a pig. On my way out he asks me where his new issue of Mad Magazine is. I tell him it’s under the report on foreign intelligence filed by the joint chiefs. What a simpleton. I can’t believe they posted this job as requiring a four year degree.
Perhaps I will take up those Iranians on their offer to turn spy.
it is hard not to infantalize this president - and it is really making us face ourselves by having him in office - perhaps the only positive we can take from this is that we may learn something for ever.
i think mr. president’s pancakes are on fire.
Give the President a break will you! He is the decider and as such it takes time for the decider to decide what has to be decided. Once the decider decides I am sure the decider will take the correct course of action, if the decider decides right that is and if the decider actually does the deciding.
What kind of spank? Not voting for him next time? Not gonna work. The decisions are not his. There are bigger heads behind.