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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAnderson Cooper to trump apologist trying to defend the kids' security clearances just now:
Cooper: What expertise does Jared Kushner have in international relations and what expertise does Ivanka have in (pauses) in anything?
spinbaby
(15,088 posts)Purses, for instance. And shoes.
JI7
(89,246 posts)mobeau69
(11,140 posts)LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,581 posts)She has expertise in stuff like getting her way by smiling and wiggling her fanny at her father, for example.
Seriously, at least when JFK was accused of nepotism for appointing his brother as AG, RFK was qualified to hold that position.
ChazInAz
(2,564 posts)More than qualified...he was outstanding!
Pepsidog
(6,254 posts)LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,581 posts)Codifer
(545 posts)in a way.
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,581 posts)I was too young to understand it, however, since I was just a Tenderfoot and the joke was being told by the Explorers.
I was a freshman in college before someone explained it to me.
Codifer
(545 posts)More than just a tongue-in-cheek observation.... had some depth.
I grew up in Banning, just up the road from Palm Springs. Just out of curiosity, is Banning still there or did it get swallowed whole by LA?
Cheers
LiberalLovinLug
(14,169 posts)kag
(4,079 posts)Polly Hennessey
(6,793 posts)shanti
(21,675 posts)Makes me want to rip my ears off!
BigmanPigman
(51,584 posts)mobeau69
(11,140 posts)Cooper is hilarious with his faint little smile as he "innocently" asks questions that we all know the real answers to.
BigmanPigman
(51,584 posts)forgotmylogin
(7,524 posts)I mean, if you have no idea how to decorate your Thanksgiving table... "ocean trash driven recklessly through a pumpkin patch in the back of a pickup truck" is certainly an original theme.
✔
@WFKARS
Because nothing says "holiday of gratitude" like Festive Driftwood Gourd Mollusk
Even better.
Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)NOT!
Traildogbob
(8,711 posts)Looks like she made every effort to make it as white as possible. I though fall meant incredible diversity in colors.
Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)That's so much the beauty of Thanksgiving...the richness of the autumn colors. Does she use yellow for Valentine's Day and black for Independence Day?
SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)cstanleytech
(26,280 posts)hedda_foil
(16,372 posts)Princess Ivanka wouldn't risk her nail polish messing with gourds and crap herownself
AdamGG
(1,288 posts)forgotmylogin
(7,524 posts)"Treeeees of bloooood all groooow there stiiillll (everybody!)
Round First Laaaay-hay-dee's visage of dread
Eeeee-ver watchful for Pyr-a-mid heeeeeeead
Glad you're not Sunderland's wiiiii-HIIIIIIFE!
Because he ended her liiiiiiife..."
<cue air raid siren>
lunatica
(53,410 posts)Wawannabe
(5,641 posts)👍
JDC
(10,125 posts)it's not even a table! wtf
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,320 posts)I'm blind. Dog thinks I've gone crazy. LMAO!
forgotmylogin
(7,524 posts)Light green and white albino mini pumpkins! Under the Sea!
"Mom, I think a giant clam just fell out of the sky and crashed through the roof and there's insulation and broken wood all over the table!"
"No, sweetie, Mommy's personal assistant did that. Get yourself some potato and white cranberry sushi!"
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,320 posts)Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)area51
(11,905 posts)LisaM
(27,801 posts)It'll scare the kiddies!
Yavin4
(35,433 posts)KY_EnviroGuy
(14,489 posts)THAT is one of our core problems with this entire administration......
It's a serious cancer on public service at all levels of government throughout many areas of the U.S.A. ......
pangaia
(24,324 posts)Ferrets are Cool
(21,105 posts)malaise
(268,904 posts)pangaia
(24,324 posts)Seedersandleechers
(3,044 posts)like an ice cream cone.
Poiuyt
(18,122 posts)It makes me think of Stormy's Daniels' description
lunatica
(53,410 posts)er, never mind.
cstanleytech
(26,280 posts)rurallib
(62,406 posts)that's her expertise!
11 Bravo
(23,926 posts)Because nothing says "I love you, sweetie" like two parrots fucking.
iscooterliberally
(2,860 posts)She has to be the most vague person to ever get in front of a TV camera. All she has to do is appear and you know you're getting the runaround.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)Plastic through and through.
whathehell
(29,065 posts)Considering that Jared'e "expertise" as a real estate developer is no greater or more pertinent to politics than businesswoman Ivanka's, I can't think of another reason she was singled out.
Neither one has the requisite experience for positions in government, but making Jared a middle east peace "negotiator"
was a particularly stupid and dangerous move, given the responsibility entailed by that job.
ProfessorGAC
(64,990 posts)I don't know how dangerous it is to have Jar-Jar in the ME, because it's likely everyone over there just ignores him.
whathehell
(29,065 posts)might be the best case scenario. Hearing MSB claim that he has him "in my pocket", however, makes me doubt that possibility.
ProfessorGAC
(64,990 posts)I forgot about that!
Chemisse
(30,807 posts)I am confident that Jared is equally unqualified as Ivanka, so should not be afforded that base level of competence presumed of males.
whathehell
(29,065 posts)It seems a lot of people on DU "don't notice" sexism anymore -- It's going back to being a "joke".
mobeau69
(11,140 posts)mobeau69
(11,140 posts)The trumper (sorry, I don't know his name) said something along the lines that Jared needed his security clearance for his work in the middle east. He didn't offer a reason for Ivanka needing hers.
Hence, Anderson referenced international expertise vis a vis Jared but he couldn't do that for Ivanka because no area of expertise was mentioned by the trumper for her.
If he would have asked what expertise does Jared and Ivanka have in anything I guess it may not have sounded sexist in my quote. It didn't sound sexist, because it wasn't, when heard in the context of the complete interview and exchange.
In other words, the reason he didn't ask "in anything" for Jared is because the trumper offered up the area he was claiming Jared had expertise in. Not so for Ivanka.
Chemisse
(30,807 posts)Hassler
(3,370 posts)whathehell
(29,065 posts)should understand that very well.
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)Freethinker65
(10,009 posts)Gothmog
(145,107 posts)central scrutinizer
(11,646 posts)Trustworthiness, loyalty, absence of entanglements and skeletons in the closet are more important in granting security clearances. It's possible Jarvanka could learn enough to have some expertise but can he/she/it be trusted not to sell information to an enemy? No.