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saidsimplesimon

(7,888 posts)
Mon May 4, 2020, 10:20 AM May 2020

Thank you for your service, Jared Kushner

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/thank-you-for-your-service-jared-kushner/ar-BB13qBDb

CNN

Thank you for your service, Jared Kushner

Opinion by Peter Bergen, CNN National Security Analyst
5/2/20

What is most galling as the nation faces its worse crisis since World War II is how the Trump family keeps demanding recognition for their brilliant work and also our thanks for the catastrophic mess they have helped land us all in.

Case in point is Jared Kushner, who has fallen upwards throughout his life, inheriting a vast real estate empire and then making one of the worst purchases in the history of Manhattan, which was buying the office building at 666 Fifth Avenue for a then-record $1.8 billion in 2007, a lemon which was only finally taken off his hands after his father-in-law became president.
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This is the kind of thing we expect in a banana republic: the nepotistic incompetence and the demands from the public to lavish praise on the brilliant ruling family.

It would be laughable if there weren't so many lives lost already and so many more in our future.
So, Jared Kushner, we, the American public, want to thank you for your service.
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Thank you for your service, Jared Kushner (Original Post) saidsimplesimon May 2020 OP
We need a sequel to The Peter Principle. CaptYossarian May 2020 #1
The Dunning-Kushner Effect Blue Owl May 2020 #2

CaptYossarian

(6,448 posts)
1. We need a sequel to The Peter Principle.
Mon May 4, 2020, 02:36 PM
May 2020

The Peter Principle is the idea that one rises to their first level of incompetence.

But what is it called when one is incompetent at ALL levels?

Many in the Trump circle (dope ring?) were overachievers when they learned to tie their shoes. Even when Eric was 25 and did it.

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