The root of our frustrations today is...

[Tommy_Carcetti]

....that because of circumstances beyond our control, we are forced to take seriously someone who has absolutely no right or business to be taken seriously, ever.

It’s infuriating, like something out of Kafka.

It’s as if someone has proclaimed the President of the United States is now a baked potato, and we’re somehow forced to deal with the reality that the President is a baked potato.

[TheRealNorth]

1. I think what's most infuriating

Is that our media treat him like he isn't the lying POS that he is. At what point does a person not lose all credibility because of the lies he tells.

[uponit7771]

5. +1, if it were their children he was kidnapping and putting in concentration camps the news coverage

... would 100% be different.

They would treat him as the threat to humanity he is to the rest of us.

[smirkymonkey]

2. That is it, exactly! The word "Kafkaesque" is often inappropriately and over-used, but it really

applies in this instance. It's like we have been removed from the reality we had always known and have been plopped down into a new, bizarre reality that our minds aren't able to adjust to, so we end up feeling like we are the ones who are insane.

Like we woke up and found out that our president was a giant cockroach. But only a few of us could see that he was a giant cockroach and huge crowds of people loved and adored the cockroach and wore cockroach hats and shirts and would believe everything the cockroach said, no matter how false or stupid it was.

And the rest of us just stood there and watched, because we couldn't believe what we were seeing was really true.

[PatrickforO]

3. The president IS a baked potato. Or perhaps 'half-baked.' n/t

[Collimator]

4. Excellent analogy.

I might substitute yam for potato, though. Just to get the color right.