SERIOUSLY!? What The ACTUAL F-KC Is Pee-Wee Kushner Doing On The COVID-19 Briefings?

[TrollBuster9090]

It's a pretty low bar, but I'm glad to see one or two people with actual medical degrees at the daily COVID-19 briefings.

I'm NOT happy that there's a snorting, grunting, addle-brained orange troll there, who insists on interrupting them every few minutes with an incoherent word salad. But he, at least, is granted some right to be there by the fact that 62 million Americans voted for him. (A minority, yes. But, hey...baby steps.) Fair enough.

I'm NOT happy that the orange troll has to bring a sanctimonious hypocrite, with a smug, pious, fake-preacher look on his face named Mike Pence with him, because Pence can, at least, step in and actually form a COMPLETE SENTENCE when Trump can't Fair enough.

I'm NOT happy that the orange troll often has to bring A.G. William 'Droopy Dog' Barr with him sometimes for emotional support. Bar can stand there, and whisper "Don't worry, Mr. President. No matter how badly you f--ck this up, I'll keep you out of jail." Fair enough.

But since when is THIS bilious, spoiled, trust fund brat; whose only qualification for ANY job is that he's f--king Trump's daughter, included on the task force? I don't care if Trump lets him play in the "middle east Peace process" sandbox. It never goes anywhere when there is a Republican in the White House anyway, so who cares? But THIS is actually SERIOUS. You let Pee-Wee Herman mess around with the National response to a deadly pandemic, and you're going to get people killed!

[msongs]

1. his job is maximize profits to the trump family off the deaths of americans nt

[cilla4progress]

4. exactly

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[sop]

2. Why is Kushner at the briefings? Because Ivanka was busy personally sewing face masks?

[Anon-C]

3. Good grief!

[Haggis for Breakfast]

5. Make no mistake . . .

kushner is running a parallel track shadow effort, composed of private CORPORATE interests, to squeeze as much money out of this as possible. WHY does anyone think that trumpie is now in a COMPETITIVE bidding war with the states to appropriate as many medical supplies as possible ? Additionally, there has been a 15% mark-up from these profiteering bastards to states, counties and cities trying to scrape by with the funds they have to purchase necessary PPE and other gear.

His presence there is for one reason and one reason only -- to assure the corporate parasites that he will have their backs and make sure that any government effort does not affect their bottom line.

Remember, it was KUSHNER who convinced trumpie to sit on this for two months so as not to hurt BUSINESS America.

[customerserviceguy]

6. "Pee-Wee Kushner"

I love that!

[TrollBuster9090]

7. Thanks! I hope it catches on. "Ritchie-Rich" would be another. nt

[customerserviceguy]

8. When he came on TV today

I referred to him as "The Boy Blunder" who serves "BattyMan"!

[TrollBuster9090]

12. Hah! Good one. nt

[msongs]

10. ritchie had socially redeeming values nt

[FailureToCommunicate]

9. Jared was explaining how the national stockpile is THEIRS not ours. He's been sending

boatloads to his business pals in China in March. No wonder the stockpile is nearly empty.

But we can buy stuff back from his pals...IF we can match their price point.

[TrollBuster9090]

11. I tell you, Adam Schiff is going to be busy investigating all this stuff, come January 2021.

He can investigate now, of course. But Trump and Barr will, no doubt, stonewall all the subpoenas. But after a Democrat takes over in January, there'll be a REAL Attorney General to enforce the subpoenas.

[42bambi]

13. My hubby calls Pence a corpse, from the looks of things Jared was the embalmer.

[central scrutinizer]

14. Scathing editorial in the NYTimes

Opinion
Jared Kushner Is Going to Get Us All Killed
Trump’s son-in-law has no business running the coronavirus response.

Michelle Goldberg

Reporting on the White House’s herky-jerky coronavirus response, Vanity Fair’s Gabriel Sherman has a quotation from Jared Kushner that should make all Americans, and particularly all New Yorkers, dizzy with terror.

According to Sherman, when New York’s governor, Andrew Cuomo, said that the state would need 30,000 ventilators at the apex of the coronavirus outbreak, Kushner decided that Cuomo was being alarmist. “I have all this data about I.C.U. capacity,” Kushner reportedly said. “I’m doing my own projections, and I’ve gotten a lot smarter about this. New York doesn’t need all the ventilators.” (Dr. Anthony Fauci, the country’s top expert on infectious diseases, has said he trusts Cuomo’s estimate.)

Even now, it’s hard to believe that someone with as little expertise as Kushner could be so arrogant, but he said something similar on Thursday, when he made his debut at the White House’s daily coronavirus briefing: “People who have requests for different products and supplies, a lot of them are doing it based on projections which are not the realistic projections.”

[dalton99a]

21. Kushner has succeeded at exactly three things in his life

Kushner has succeeded at exactly three things in his life. He was born to the right parents, married well and learned how to influence his father-in-law. Most of his other endeavors — his biggest real estate deal, his foray into newspaper ownership, his attempt to broker a peace deal between the Israelis and the Palestinians — have been failures.

Undeterred, he has now arrogated to himself a major role in fighting the epochal health crisis that’s brought America to its knees. “Behind the scenes, Kushner takes charge of coronavirus response,” said a Politico headline Wednesday. This is dilettantism raised to the level of sociopathy.

Journalist Andrea Bernstein looked closely at Kushner’s business record for her recent book “American Oligarchs: The Kushners, the Trumps, and the Marriage of Money and Power,” speaking to people on all sides of his real estate deals as well as those who worked with him at The New York Observer, the weekly newspaper he bought in 2006.

Kushner, Bernstein told me, “really sees himself as a disrupter.” Again and again, she said, people who’d dealt with Kushner told her that whatever he did, he “believed he could do it better than anybody else, and he had supreme confidence in his own abilities and his own judgment even when he didn’t know what he was talking about.”

It’s hard to overstate the extent to which this confidence is unearned. Kushner was a reportedly mediocre student whose billionaire father appears to have bought him a place at Harvard. Taking over the family real estate company after his father was sent to prison, Kushner paid $1.8 billion — a record, at the time — for a Manhattan skyscraper at the very top of the real estate market in 2007. The debt from that project became a crushing burden for the family business. (Kushner was able to restructure the debt in 2011, and in 2018 the project was bailed out by a Canadian asset management company with links to the government of Qatar.) He gutted the once-great New York Observer, then made a failed attempt to create a national network of local politics websites.

His forays into the Israeli-Palestinian conflict — for which he boasted of reading a whole 25 books — have left the dream of a two-state solution on life support. Michael Koplow of the centrist Israel Policy Forum described Kushner’s plan for the Palestinian economy as “the Monty Python version of Israeli-Palestinian peace.”

Now, in our hour of existential horror, Kushner is making life-or-death decisions for all Americans, showing all the wisdom we’ve come to expect from him.

“Mr. Kushner’s early involvement with dealing with the virus was in advising the president that the media’s coverage exaggerated the threat,” reported The New York Times. It was apparently at Kushner’s urging that Trump announced, falsely, that Google was about to launch a website that would link Americans with coronavirus testing. (As The Atlantic reported, a health insurance company co-founded by Kushner’s brother — which Kushner once owned a stake in — tried to build such a site, before the project was “suddenly and mysteriously scrapped.”)

[MidasAmputee]

15. RE: President Death and the Red Hat plaque

...sniff sniff..I think that is coming sooooooon.

Be well friends and have plenty of can soup (corned beef hash), bread, eggs, and prayers

Buy tamales from your fav taquerias

[SheltieLover]

16. Grifting on ventilators!

https://www.propublica.org/article/taxpayers-paid-millions-to-design-a-low-cost-ventilator-for-a-pandemic-instead-the-company-is-selling-versions-of-it-overseas-

[smirkymonkey]

17. +1000

[yuiyoshida]

18. This must be Trump's idea of

"Thinking outside the box."

[joanbarnes]

19. Correction: Pee Wee Herman would be an improvemet.

[ck4829]

20. Good question