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Moostache

(10,532 posts)
Tue May 27, 2025, 11:59 AM Yesterday

The similarlities between Trump and children's books has always been annoying...

BUT...the "big beautiful bill" horseshit is particularly insidious and hateful to me because of the place in my heart and memory that the "The Berenstains' B Book" holds for my wife, myself and our family...

Every night during our first prgnancy (and subsequent ones later), my wife would read The Berenstains' B Book aloud to the baby in utereo. She would calm the baby and rub her belly while I watched and absorbed the memories...

Big...
Big Blue...
Big Blue Bull...

We would get to the end and I would always say the ending was terrible (because the chain of events lead to baby bird's balloon being broken) and we would share a laugh about it between myself and my wife even to today...but Trump's lack of adult vocabulary, and his horrifying insistane on being the undigestable popcorn seed in the teeth and gums of society at large, has wounded these priceless memories for us.

I need no additional reasons to hate that man and actively root for his death hourly, but this latest indiginity hits close to my heart and it hurts. Bigly.

The Berenstains' B Book :


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