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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOh Thank God: Trump Appoints Ivanka and Jared to Council to Reopen America
Oh Thank God: Trump Appoints Ivanka and Jared to Council to Reopen AmericaPop quiz time! An unprecedented pandemic has killed more than 118,000 people worldwide and infected more than 1.9 million. The U.S. just surpassed Italy as the country with the highest number of deaths. As a result of people necessarily being told to stay home, i.e. the only way at this point to slow the spread, the economy is in shambles. Almost 17 million Americans have filed for unemployment, with some predicting that 20 million will be out of work by the end of the month. Economists believe the chance of a recession within the next twelve months is 100%, with many saying the country is already in one. You, as president, are in charge of said country. What do you do? If youre Donald J. Trump, you (1) resist mass testing or really any semblance of a plan for developing virus-tracking measures that could, in theory, help some parts of the population safely return to work, and (2) appoint your idiot daughter and son-in-law to your economic task force, because scarily, in a family of certifiable morons, theyre considered the smart ones.
Yes, the latest disturbing development in our national (and global) nightmare is the news that Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner will be on the White Houses council to reopen America. While the duo needs no introduction at this point, for those not entirely clear what their qualifications are to sit on this council, they include, in the case of Ivanka: a failed clothing line, a knack for not knowing how words work, the inability to obtain a top secret security clearance without President Daddy demanding it, and a grasp of the current situation so strong that she thinks quarantined parents have time to take up new instruments and brush up on Greek and Roman mythology. And what does the Boy Prince of New Jersey bring to the table? With a CV as long as his, its hard to hit on all of his accomplishments, but some of the highlights include: paying more than $1 billion for an aging skyscraper on the eve of the financial crisis, a career as a slumlord, convincing his father-in-law to keep the 2019 shutdown going based on a delusional bet that he could convince Nancy Pelosi to pay for the border wall, and, of course, telling the president the coronavirus was not a health reality.
NB, not a single health expert on this panel.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/04/ivanka-trump-jared-kushner-council-to-reopen-america
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Oh Thank God: Trump Appoints Ivanka and Jared to Council to Reopen America (Original Post)
Alex4Martinez
Apr 2020
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lunasun
(21,646 posts)1. Not one
cynatnite
(31,011 posts)2. I was worried that a physician would be appointed. n/t
spanone
(135,830 posts)3. Jared, just back from solving that pesky Israeli thingy, is now poised to ⭐️⭐️OPEN AMERICA⭐️⭐️
John Fante
(3,479 posts)4. Clown Show
bdamomma
(63,845 posts)5. Barbie and
Ken to the rescue WTF!
Buns_of_Fire
(17,175 posts)8. Wonder Twin powers -- ACTIVATE!
dalton99a
(81,475 posts)6. Grifters Inc.
Corgigal
(9,291 posts)7. Well,
we will have names to blame for our dead grandma.
They are too stupid to pass on this job.