Jared Kushner has failed upward his entire life -- now he's applied that to a viral pandemic
Published 1 min ago on April 30, 2020
By Amanda Marcotte, Salon- Commentary
There’s a lot of sport made on social media over the fact that Donald Trump Jr., in his desperation to be more like his sociopathic father, is dating his stepmother’s doppelganger, in both age and looks. But spare some palace-intrigue armchair psychoanalysis for the fact that Trump’s daughter Ivanka grew up to marry a man who is startlingly like her daddy.
Jared Kushner’s softer voice and ability to dress himself fooled many political observers into thinking he would be a moderating presence on his father-in-law in the early days. But by now even the most appearance-bamboozled pundits must accept that in all ways that matter, Jared is virtually identical to Papa Trump: He’s as arrogant as he is incompetent, he’s assured of his own expertise on matters he has barely paid attention to, he’s shameless in his lying, and he’s fully confident he can bulldoze his way past his myriad failures simply by declaring himself successful.
“This is a great success story, and I think that’s really what needs to be told,” Kushner said on Fox News Wednesday, struggling to hold back a smile. And yes, he really was talking about the Trump administration’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. Seriously.
Kushner bragged about how the ” federal government rose to the challenge” and “achieved all the different milestones that are needed” and then, to make the whole thing even more of a rhetorical nightmare, predicted that by July “the country’s really rocking again.”
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/04/jared-kushner-has-failed-upward-his-entire-life-now-hes-applied-that-to-a-viral-pandemic/
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But even talking about this alternate universe where we have sufficient testing is a joke. Trump, with Kushner at his side, made damn sure that the testing was slowed down because he wanted to artificially deflate the official coronavirus caseload. The president clearly continues to believe that we don’t actually need mass testing, and that simply lying to the public and claiming we have tests when we don’t will suffice.
All the White House gift-shop commemorative coins in the world — surreal and delusional as they are — can’t hide the dead bodies and the lost jobs. Jared Kushner may have failed upward his entire life, no amount of self-congratulation will fool people into seeing this coronavirus disaster as anything but the epic fuck-up it truly is.
LOCK HIM and everyone else up...............that are tied to this shit..........
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