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Published 1 min ago on April 30, 2020
By Amanda Marcotte, Salon- Commentary
Theres 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 stepmothers doppelganger, in both age and looks. But spare some palace-intrigue armchair psychoanalysis for the fact that Trumps daughter Ivanka grew up to marry a man who is startlingly like her daddy.
Jared Kushners 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: Hes as arrogant as he is incompetent, hes assured of his own expertise on matters he has barely paid attention to, hes shameless in his lying, and hes 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 thats 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 administrations 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 countrys 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 dont actually need mass testing, and that simply lying to the public and claiming we have tests when we dont will suffice.
All the White House gift-shop commemorative coins in the world surreal and delusional as they are cant 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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(182,904 posts)tulipsandroses
(5,127 posts)Why would anyone think that? He did not get to be his favorite son by going against him. Trump even seems to favor him over his own bio sons. He trusts Jared. Why oh why did anyone think that Jared was some kind of Trump Svengali that would steer him right?
Trump does not keep anyone around that does not align with his thinking.
Wishful thinking and trying to normalize these abnormal folks. This is a crime family.