'We'll all be dead by June!': Jared Kushner screamed at a health official ...

[CousinIT]

... after hearing about delayed mask shipments, according to new book

Jared Kushner lashed out at a public health official when he learned in late March 2020 that millions of masks wouldn't arrive in the US until June, according to an excerpt of a forthcoming book reported by The Washington Post on Monday.

"You f---ing moron," Kushner reportedly yelled at then-assistant secretary of the Health and Human Services Department, Robert Kadlec, who purchased 600 million masks as coronavirus infections had spiked across the country. "We'll all be dead by June!"

The scene was revealed in the new book, "Nightmare Scenario: Inside the Trump Administration's Response to the Pandemic That Changed History," by Washington Post reporters Yasmeen Abutaleb and Damian Paletta.

Kushner grew so frustrated that he threw his pen at the wall, the book reports. At the time, he had taken on greater responsibilities as senior advisor to former President Donald Trump, playing an influential role in the White House's COVID-19 response.

https://www.businessinsider.com/jared-kushner-moron-health-official-dead-by-june-book-2021-6

(meanwhile, his father-in-law was busy telling Americans that the virus was a hoax, no worse than the flu, and would be gone by Easter)

[Me.]

1. Such A Diplomat!

[CrispyQ]

2. The same Jared that early in the pandemic, told the Con not to worry,

cuz the virus was only in the blue states? Too bad the Covid didn't get him.

[Freethinker65]

3. Was this before or after Jared began confiscating PPE bought by Blue States?

[brush]

4. Kushner had a portfolio to fix everything from covid to the Middle East/

Did he get anything done?

Nope. Nada, Zilch. Nil.

[Captain Zero]

19. Jared couldn't find his ass with both hands.

Nt.

[kirkuchiyo]

22. And a flashlight... nt

[AZLD4Candidate]

26. While using Google Earth

[Mike Nelson]

5. Yikes!

... I hope the wall survived Jared's sketchy pen.

[dweller]

6. Gads ! He threw his pen at the wall !1!

It fell short, falling limply to the floor before his desk …


✌🏻

[SaintLouisBlues]

10. He throws as if he is using his non-dominant arm, some people say.

men throwing rocks with the other hand

[brush]

47. Those can't be Americans. Here most kids have at the least a passing aquiantance with baseball...

and how to throw with your dominate arm...whether it be in Little League or sandlot or just in the backyard with family and friends.

[SaintLouisBlues]

52. They are throwing with their non-dominant arms.

[brush]

53. Oh, that's what it was about? I missed seeing that.

[Casady1]

7. This is not possible

dear leader said Covid was a hoax.

[11 Bravo]

8. Jared just looks like a hissy-fit waiting to happen.

[smirkymonkey]

42. I am laughing my ass off right now just picturing him getting all nellied-out

over this. Can you imagine that voice when it starts screaming at someone?

[FSogol]

43. Did everyone bust out laughing? I know i would have.

[Diamond_Dog]

9. Anytime I read about him

referred to as “senior advisor“ it’s just a laugh.

That inept moron couldn’t advise a junior high school yearbook staff.

[monkeyman1]

17. the three stooges running the pandemics ----- I hire only the best- TFG,

[AZLD4Candidate]

29. Now come on. . .The Three Stooges were not stupid, only acted it on camera

Kushner is stupid everywhere.

Please give respect to one of the greatest comedy acts of all time.

[monkeyman1]

32. OOOOP'S------ point well taken' on this end

[greenjar_01]

11. The President's idiot son-in-law was in charge of pandemic response

He believed the virus would wipe out the country while the President insisted to the public that everything was fine. He also called people "fucking morons" in meetings, and threw shit around the room.

The whole thing would be comical if hundreds of thousands of people weren't dead because of these incompetent shitheels.

[brush]

48. Shitheels is right...and running the country. Unbelievable what the republicans did...

to the nation for four years. Just total inpeptness, 500,000 dead, and thought trump deserved another term.

Off-the-charts bumbling with no idea how to govern.

[Walleye]

12. In public he said, the country will really be rockin again by July

[AZLD4Candidate]

30. It may be. . .but Jared the Wastrel was off by one year and one president.

[Walleye]

34. Exactly. I thought the same thing

[lame54]

13. What does that even sound like? Do dogs howl?

[Pepsidog]

14. He was upset until he learned that Blue states would be hardest hit. Jar Jar was placated

by the thought of millions of dead Blue State voters. Purge the voters like they purge the voter registration rolls.

[panader0]

15. Jared is worried about masks while his fil refuses to wear one. Might smear his make-up.

[3Hotdogs]

16. Hey. Lay off the guy.

He’s the one who brought peace to the Middle East.

[monkeyman1]

18. and bibi got his ass pitched out!! what a peace keeper he was !!

[pwb]

20. Jarod looks like he has been embalmed.

A privileged freak throws a tantrum , what a surprise.

[AZLD4Candidate]

36. He has the dead eyes of a sociopath. My mother said that all the time.

[Hekate]

44. Your mother is right. He's a very creepy guy. nt

[Tommy Carcetti]

21. Jared then realized that he had not been sent to the same Safe Room as Ivanka and his father-in-law

And commenced to freak out.

[Hekate]

23. KnR

[AZLD4Candidate]

38. Can you send me your US county by county gif in your sig line?

It is something I can use on the campaign trail when someone says the US is a Republican country. Soil and trees don't vote.

[Hekate]

39. I love that map a whole lot, myself. I swiped it from another DUer, but maybe the credits...

…at the bottom will help with your research.

[AZLD4Candidate]

40. Saved. Thank you

[Hekate]

41. On edit: what this map reminds me of is an insightful essay on the demographics of the Boy Scout

…fight over whether or not they should have gay boys or gay men openly involved. Seems quaint, at this point, but it was not so long ago, and it got vicious.

The essayist painted a skillful word-picture that looked very like that map: in essence, the greater the population density, the more tolerant people were of differences of all kinds. In a city of any size, it’s a rare person who can manage to associate only with “their own kind” in work, school, neighborhoods, and public transportation.

The lower the population density, the more likely it is that people had never (or seldom) encountered anyone not of the same ethnic stock — think Lake Woebegone, where it was noteworthy whether your family was Lutheran or Catholic, and whether their forebears were Danish or Norwegian. Difference is anomalous and it “feels” wrong. People who are too different …. move away to big cities.

That was it. Once I grasped that, all political maps clicked into place.

[AZLD4Candidate]

45. Homogeneity breeds intolerance

[brush]

49. And in-breeding of a sort.

[Hekate]

54. I had the good fortune to neither live in an enormous city nor live in a homogeneous population...

Just the luck of the draw, I guess, but between my home state of Hawai’i and the rest of my life being on the coast of California, I’ve had lots of experience being with people who don’t share my ethnic background etc etc.

Everything I’ve read about the prototypical small town life leads me to believe it shares something with being born a Mormon: it’s great and cozy, warm and wonderful, everybody knows your name, and all your quirks, and they love you … unless you somehow end up thinking outside the box. You end up thinking too divergently, and you end up with no one to talk to. You end up isolated in the midst of all those people. It can break your heart.

Being a divergent thinker myself, I’m glad I ended up where I did.

[2naSalit]

24. Sounds just like I pictured it.

[wnylib]

25. It amazes me that Jared would get worked up over

a lack of masks. Hard to imagine him actually giving a damn about whether or not they were available.

Wasn't he among the family members who showed up at a presidential debate without being tested and without masks?

[LakeArenal]

27. Who?

[SCantiGOP]

28. So trump could have been correct

If we were all dead, the virus would have miraculously disappeared.
Good job, Donnie

[aggiesal]

31. Kushner was mad, because he wanted to maximize profits ...

If he had to wait until June, the mask market could be cornered by someone else.
So what did he do instead? He started stealing the PPE from the states.

That's why he got mad.

[NewJeffCT]

33. In regards to the lack of masks, a lot of people forget

that in January of 2020, a Texas manufacturer offered to make millions of N95 masks at his factory in Texas. Imagine if Trump - the America First guy - was able to save hundreds & thousands of frontline workers with American Made N95 Masks?

Donny Dollhands turned them down.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/in-the-early-days-of-the-pandemic-the-us-government-turned-down-an-offer-to-manufacture-millions-of-n95-masks-in-america/2020/05/09/f76a821e-908a-11ea-a9c0-73b93422d691_story.html

[brush]

50. The idiot would still be president. But he had to not be an idiot to know to...

authorize the manufacture of the masks for everyone.

[tanyev]

51. And we sent (literally) tons of PPE to China.

Concerns about a dwindling supply of PPE are not new. Back on February 7, the World Health Organization sounded alarm bells about "the limited stock of PPE," noting demand was 100 times higher than normal for this equipment.

Yet the same day as the WHO warning, the Trump administration announced that it was transporting to China nearly 17.8 tons (more than 35,000 pounds) of "masks, gowns, gauze, respirators, and other vital materials." As Secretary of State Mike Pompeo noted in the press release announcing this shipment, "These donations are a testament to the generosity of the American people."

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/29/opinions/coronavirus-personal-protective-equipment-obeidallah/index.html

If the moron in the White House had activated the Defense Production Act and gotten the manufacturer in Texas and others cranking out PPE to replace what was sent to China, it might have been OK. But he didn’t, and it was disastrous.

[IronLionZion]

35. His team of bros wanted to kill us in the cities

when quite the opposite happened since their rural conservative supporters believed their lies.

[NoMoreRepugs]

37. He might have thrown a pen but my guess is it DID NOT REACH THE WALL.

That's called a weenie arm.

[msfiddlestix]

46. yeah, right. you were the "good guy" in this shit show. uh huh.

i swear I'd like to grab a hold of his ear and drag him by the heels to some shack and torture him with the truth and then force him to publish that instead.