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Demovictory9

(32,457 posts)
Fri Oct 30, 2020, 03:54 AM Oct 2020

The dead eyes and cold heart of Jared Kushner The poster boy for presidential nepotism

https://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/tony-norman/2020/10/30/Jared-Kushner-Trump-nepotism-rappers-COVID-19-dead-eyes/stories/202010300048

Tony Norman: The dead eyes and cold heart of Jared Kushner
The poster boy for presidential nepotism shows his true colors.

The dead eyes of Jared Kushner always give up the game. His voice, a nasally trill from the depths of inherited privilege, cracks slightly under the weight of racist cliche-mongering. His usual verbal nervous tick — a recurring “right?” — is missing from the word salad of projected Black victimization that flows like sewage from his razor-thin lips:

“One thing we’ve seen in a lot of the Black community, which is mostly Democrat, is that President Trump’s policies are the policies that can help people break out of the problems that they’re complaining about,” the dead-eyed son-in-law of the would-be Sun King said. “But he [Donald Trump] can’t want them to be successful more than they want to be successful.”

Yes, you heard that right, folks. Little Lord Fauntleroy in the skinny suit actually said on the biggest morning cable news show in America that his father-in-law is more eager for Black success than the majority of Blacks who vote Democratic.

His audience, the dim-witted Kewpie Dolls of “FOX & Friends,” received Mr. Kushner’s sociological insight without blinking. After all, what Mr. Kushner said so blithely was in tune with right-wing orthodoxy. There’s nothing controversial in their vanilla-dipped world about insinuating that Black people generally lack the je ne sais quoi that comes naturally to those born on third base.

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But as bad as Mr. Kushner is on the racial politics of this era, it is his performance as Mr. Trump’s “brain” during a pandemic that is disproportionately killing Black people that will forever etch his name in the annals of infamy and Washington incompetence.
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The dead eyes and cold heart of Jared Kushner The poster boy for presidential nepotism (Original Post) Demovictory9 Oct 2020 OP
he is as plastic and creepy as his wife Skittles Oct 2020 #1
I want to see him jailed. This ignoring the pandemic was admittedly his idea. Dump is an empty... kysrsoze Oct 2020 #2
Agreed Sherman A1 Oct 2020 #3
He actively impeded the governors by having FEMA and other... 2naSalit Oct 2020 #8
The more I know of Kushner, the more I despise him. smirkymonkey Oct 2020 #4
Time to end our "let bygones be bygone" apathy. KY_EnviroGuy Oct 2020 #7
The entire family is sickening, including the in-laws and significant others. madaboutharry Oct 2020 #5
"Our Cartoon President" got it right... Fyrefox Oct 2020 #6

kysrsoze

(6,021 posts)
2. I want to see him jailed. This ignoring the pandemic was admittedly his idea. Dump is an empty...
Fri Oct 30, 2020, 04:31 AM
Oct 2020

husk. It's been Kushner and others feeding all this to him. The only brain impulse in him that's truly original in Dump is what drives his pulse and respiration.

2naSalit

(86,643 posts)
8. He actively impeded the governors by having FEMA and other...
Fri Oct 30, 2020, 09:03 AM
Oct 2020

Authorities confiscate supplies that were being delivered AND claimed that the stockpile of supplies was not for anyone other the folks at the top of the WH crew.

Never forget. He made certain that the pandemic would devastate the country.

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
4. The more I know of Kushner, the more I despise him.
Fri Oct 30, 2020, 06:16 AM
Oct 2020

He is an evil little Nazi who has let power go to his head, but he doesn't have the intelligence to manage it wisely. I hope he ends up with a lengthy prison sentence along with the rest of the Trump mafia, and just like his crooked father.

KY_EnviroGuy

(14,492 posts)
7. Time to end our "let bygones be bygone" apathy.
Fri Oct 30, 2020, 07:35 AM
Oct 2020

If I had my way, W and Chaney would be in prison too.......

madaboutharry

(40,212 posts)
5. The entire family is sickening, including the in-laws and significant others.
Fri Oct 30, 2020, 06:46 AM
Oct 2020

What a mob!

The family is horrible. But, the two major mouth piece in-laws, Kushner and Eric's wife Lara are two of the most disgusting people I have ever had the misfortune of listening to.

Fyrefox

(300 posts)
6. "Our Cartoon President" got it right...
Fri Oct 30, 2020, 07:01 AM
Oct 2020

The series noted that when Trump's lackeys, enablers, and representatives make statements and policy pronouncements, they "put their dead faces on." The eyes are the mirror of the soul, and there is no warmth, no empathy, no humanity present. It's terrifying, really, worthy of a Stephen King horror novel...

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