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Miles Archer

(21,837 posts)
Wed Feb 28, 2018, 08:39 AM Feb 2018

I find the ceaseless, cruel, sarcastic mocking of Jared Kushner to be...

...GREAT!





“It means he can’t access any of the intelligence community’s products or analysis, and that effectively means he cannot do his job as the top diplomat overseeing the Israeli, Palestinian peace process,” said Jeremy Bash, a former chief of staff for Leon Panetta when he served as CIA director and secretary of defense.

Bash said there were few roles of importance available in the White House for a staffer who lacked security clearance.

“None of us can even remember a West Wing staffer working on national security affairs who stayed in that job with a secret clearance,” he said. “I mean, maybe in the West Wing you could, you know, deliver the mail or mow the White House lawn or serve navy bean soup as an enlisted sailor, but you cannot be involved in policy making.”

“You can’t go into the White House situation room, have conversations, you can’t prepare the president for engagements with foreign leaders,” Bash added. “Part of that is reading those reports and working on very sensitive matters. I can’t see a single way that Jared can engage with relationships with China, with Mexico, with any of these sophisticated players, without access to top-secret, sensitive information. I think this is fatal for him.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/02/maybe-serve-navy-bean-soup-ex-cia-official-says-jared-kushner-cant-advise-trump-anymore/


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I find the ceaseless, cruel, sarcastic mocking of Jared Kushner to be... (Original Post) Miles Archer Feb 2018 OP
The guy was basically as useful as a screen door on a submarine anyway...at least to the USA! Moostache Feb 2018 #1
Exactly, as Trump was feeding all our national secrets to Putin Farmer-Rick Feb 2018 #2
It's being lifted up as "proof" of an "anti-Trump agenda" Miles Archer Feb 2018 #3
Manafort was not paid either UpInArms Feb 2018 #11
He can make coffee vlyons Feb 2018 #4
Lol GMTA world wide wally Feb 2018 #6
and if he can't make coffee FM123 Feb 2018 #26
Don't they need a new coffee boy? world wide wally Feb 2018 #5
I couldn't disagree more! I find it to be absolutely.... Tommy_Carcetti Feb 2018 #7
... betsuni Feb 2018 #8
Oh my... Lucinda Feb 2018 #10
"I want to use it too..." Miles Archer Feb 2018 #12
LOCK HIM UP! MoonRiver Feb 2018 #9
Until he is in jail... Ferrets are Cool Feb 2018 #13
As posted in a reply on DU yesterday... Miles Archer Feb 2018 #14
Bingo! Ferrets are Cool Feb 2018 #15
This? panader0 Feb 2018 #22
Yes, thank you, like I said, credit where credit is due. Miles Archer Feb 2018 #31
I find the comments to be completely appropriate..... Heartstrings Feb 2018 #16
Wow an entire dress made of tin-foil ChubbyStar Feb 2018 #17
Yeah, and showing shirt under the coat button of an evening suit is tacky. Aristus Feb 2018 #18
The sleeves are too short as well ChubbyStar Feb 2018 #19
Yeah. Aristus Feb 2018 #21
Why do these "rich" bastards all look like they get their suits off the rack... Wounded Bear Feb 2018 #20
At least it looks like Reynolds Heavy Duty marked50 Feb 2018 #25
LOL! Kaleva Feb 2018 #23
gets me though the day. n/t librechik Feb 2018 #24
He looks like the perfect evil villain out of central casting. nt jrthin Feb 2018 #27
But Hillary's emails, Oh my God! njhoneybadger Feb 2018 #28
Agreed Gothmog Feb 2018 #29
Uh---Jared---when you're posing in front of a mirror, maybe keep you hand off her ass? nt Atticus Feb 2018 #30
Class act, that guy. SammyWinstonJack Feb 2018 #34
Uh, yeah, I hate to just repeat what others have said grumpyduck Feb 2018 #32
Nice! blake2012 Feb 2018 #33

Moostache

(10,996 posts)
1. The guy was basically as useful as a screen door on a submarine anyway...at least to the USA!
Wed Feb 28, 2018, 08:42 AM
Feb 2018

The people who are saddened by this are not the Shithole-billies and their ilk....its the foreign governments that were getting a steady diet of secret information from the tool.

Farmer-Rick

(12,493 posts)
2. Exactly, as Trump was feeding all our national secrets to Putin
Wed Feb 28, 2018, 08:46 AM
Feb 2018

Jared was selling our national secrets to China and the Middle East.

Miles Archer

(21,837 posts)
3. It's being lifted up as "proof" of an "anti-Trump agenda"
Wed Feb 28, 2018, 08:47 AM
Feb 2018

"Oh, Jared is so hard working, he's a quality person, he works so hard and he's not even getting PAID!"

Yeah.

That sure tells the whole story, doesn't it?



Ferrets are Cool

(22,539 posts)
13. Until he is in jail...
Wed Feb 28, 2018, 09:21 AM
Feb 2018

he will still get ANY information he wants from the White House. It will just need to be done a bit more discretely.

Miles Archer

(21,837 posts)
14. As posted in a reply on DU yesterday...
Wed Feb 28, 2018, 09:23 AM
Feb 2018

...would give credit if I remembered who posted it, but the comment was "Trump will hand him a document and say "read this for me and then explain it to me"

Trump considers rules to be an annoyance that applies to everyone but Trump.

If he wants Kushner in the loop, he'll be in the loop.

Aristus

(71,700 posts)
18. Yeah, and showing shirt under the coat button of an evening suit is tacky.
Wed Feb 28, 2018, 10:05 AM
Feb 2018

Really tacky.

On a business suit, it's no problem. But for evening wear, seriously dude; find another fashion advisor.

Just because the cummerbund is currently out of fashion doesn't mean you can get lazy.

ChubbyStar

(3,191 posts)
19. The sleeves are too short as well
Wed Feb 28, 2018, 10:08 AM
Feb 2018

Jar-Jar Finks needs a new tailor! For the jumpsuit.......

Wounded Bear

(63,870 posts)
20. Why do these "rich" bastards all look like they get their suits off the rack...
Wed Feb 28, 2018, 10:15 AM
Feb 2018

at Marshall's?

grumpyduck

(6,672 posts)
32. Uh, yeah, I hate to just repeat what others have said
Wed Feb 28, 2018, 12:31 PM
Feb 2018

but this looks like a very bad prom photo -- and the guy is in his thirties, not his teens.

That looks like a traditional single-breasted tux. That type of tux is not worn buttoned.

Shirt sleeves are supposed to show below the jacket sleeve.

And this is being ultra nit-picky, but that looks like a clip-on tie, and not a very good one. Queen Elizabeth is supposed to be able to recognize those a mile away.

Geez, you'd think a guy with so much money and so much ambition would at least dress correctly.

And that pose is awkward as hell. Plus yeah, his hand on her butt. Yikes.

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