Wait a Second--Ivanka F***ing Trump Says Americans 'Prefer to Earn Their Own Money'?!

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Wait a Second—Ivanka F***ing Trump Says Americans ‘Prefer to Earn Their Own Money’?!

Erin Gloria Ryan at the Daily Beast

https://www.thedailybeast.com/wait-a-secondivanka-fing-trump-says-americans-prefer-to-own-their-own-money?ref=home

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Ivanka Trump says she opposes the Alexandria Ocasio Cortez-spearheaded Green New Deal because she feels, deep down, that people prefer to earn money rather than having it given to them. At a certain point, one has to wonder if she’s doing this on purpose, or if she’s really so far up her own ass that she’s tasting her Skinny Vanilla Lattes twice.

The First Daughter’s comments came during an interview with Fox News’ Steve Hilton, which will air in its entirety on Sunday. Trump believes that the Green New Deal will fail because people don’t want a higher minimum wage or a jobs guarantee. “I don’t think Americans, in their heart, want to be given something,” she whisper-sang at Hilton.  

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Ivanka Trump hasn’t earned a thing in her life except a permanent ban from the Vanity Fair Oscar Party, and maybe by the end of her father’s term, lifetime VIP status at Cracker Barrel.

If I had to venture a guess, I’d say Ivanka’s targeting of AOC and the Green New Deal is part of a broader Republican strategy to seize upon the “socialist” part of the New York representative’s democratic socialist ties. Socialist policies—universal healthcare, a higher minimum wage, universal childcare, subsidized green infrastructure projects—work just fine in plenty of other places and are more popular stateside now than they’ve been in decades, but if we try anything that even hints at wealth redistribution, the reasoning goes, we’re proposing that old ladies stand in a line to wait for bread and children eat rats. We so much as agree that we are collectively responsible for each other’s well-being and we’re basically Venezuela. It’s kindergarten-level political apples-and-oranges, but right now, it’s all they’ve got.



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[Initech]

1. People can't make money on their own if they have nothing to invest.

Finance 101, yo! Ivanka probably failed that class.

[onecaliberal]

2. I can't even say what I'm thinking. I would get banned for three lifetimes.

[smirkymonkey]

9. Then we are probably thinking the same thing.

[struggle4progress]

3. "My hard work made me into a wealthy Presidential advisor!"

[Doreen]

4. If Ivanka said all true Americans want to earn

money themselves then she just admitted she is not a true American.

[Siwsan]

5. Nobody in that family has the slightest idea of what it means to WORK for a living!!

To call them 'tone deaf' is almost a compliment.

[jcgoldie]

6. When I read that quote this morning by Princess Ivanka

I admit my brain exploded.

[world wide wally]

7. She can come be our cleaning lady for minimum wage if she is desperate to work

[Gothmog]

8. Irony is a concept that trumps are incapable of understanding

[quaker bill]

10. People prefer to get paid what they are worth

a living wage is just a minimum standard for that.