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Tanuki

(14,893 posts)
Thu Aug 13, 2020, 08:48 AM Aug 2020

Jared Kushner, Deputy Assistant Ratfucker

https://newrepublic.com/article/158898/jared-kushner-kanye-west-meeting-presidential-race

"After donning a flak jacket and working vainly for nearly four years on Mideast peace, the opioid crisis, the federal bureaucracy, the criminal justice system, the second Great Depression, the novel coronavirus pandemic, and the United States’s relations with leaders of China, Russia, and Apple, it has come to this: Jared Kushner has been put in charge of This Kanye Thing.

The American death toll from Covid-19 had just topped 160,000 souls last weekend when these two precious sons—a man who once proclaimed himself to be Yeezus and a man who once owned a skyscraper with a giant red “666” emblazoned on its side—hunkered down together in Telluride, Colorado, to discuss “Black empowerment” and also possibly how to rig the reelection of Donald Trump.

We are by now familiar with these two phenomena separately: noted idiosyncratic rapper Kanye West’s “incredibly complicated and painful” struggle with bipolar disorder—as his wife, Kim Kardashian, put it—and noted nepotism hire Jared Kushner’s comically incompetent evil plans. American culture, in which we are content-consumers rather than citizens, now shows us these phenomena colliding in a horrifying fashion.

One month and several lifetimes ago, West announced he would no longer shock people by supporting Donald Trump, opting instead to shock people by running for president himself. In virtually no time, reporters were able to establish which pro-Trump Republican politicos were attempting to get West on the presidential ballot in Wisconsin, Ohio, Arkansas, Vermont, and Montana—Montana!—among other states.
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Into this maelstrom of racial animus and nihilism strides Kushner, a bloodless man possessed of a singular genius for locating new petards with which he can hoist himself. Last Thursday, Kanye got on Colorado’s ballot; within 48 hours, he’d gotten a private audience in the state with the permanently wincing White House senior adviser, who started his political career by trying to establish backchannel Trump communications with Russia and who most recently was excoriated for completely fucking up the U.S. coronavirus response—possibly, it was reported by Vanity Fair, because he reasoned the virus “was going to be relegated to Democratic states” and Trump “could blame those governors” for the resulting mass deaths."...(more)

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Jared Kushner, Deputy Assistant Ratfucker (Original Post) Tanuki Aug 2020 OP
I hope karma gives that greedy evil fucker an appropriate end dalton99a Aug 2020 #1
"Every so often, you get to pick the headline to go with your story. And let me tell you, it feels muriel_volestrangler Aug 2020 #2
There's a tragedy somewhere in there canetoad Aug 2020 #3

canetoad

(17,088 posts)
3. There's a tragedy somewhere in there
Sun Aug 16, 2020, 04:41 AM
Aug 2020

But I'm having a hard time sympathising.

Trump, Kushner and his ratfucking campaign crew, in their desperation to avoid prosecution by seizing control of the US, obviously have a many-pronged strategy.

Virus? Shut down the UPS. Just in case this and the lies and insults don't work, why don't we USE a rich, black and obviously mentally fragile rap icon, ya know it might come in handy.

When the accounting is done of the forged signatures on the ballot petitions, it will be Kanye who is accountable. Even less sympathy for the USERS who put him in this position.

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