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kentuck

(111,094 posts)
Fri Apr 3, 2020, 06:31 AM Apr 2020

Still working the "us" vs "them" strategy.

Jared Kushner, the Jack of all trades and Master of none, was put in charge of "something else" yesterday. It seems that everytime a huge problem develops, Donald Trump calls on his son-in-law to take charge?

Jared just wanted everyone to know that the equipment bought or created for the coronavirus virus belonged to "them". It was to go into the "Federal stockpile". It was straight from Donald Trump's playbook. It was there for "them" to dole out to their friends, it was not there for all of "us".

That is the way it has been since day one of this presidency. Our country has been divided into "us" vs "them". Now, in the middle of epidemic, they continue to play politics with the lives of the American people.

It is very sad.

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Still working the "us" vs "them" strategy. (Original Post) kentuck Apr 2020 OP
Amazes me Kushner can't even give lip service to the idea Federal stuff belongs to all Americans. Girard442 Apr 2020 #1
As if he owned True Blue American Apr 2020 #2
What scares me is the trump thugs are forcing the states to compete. rickyhall Apr 2020 #3
Source of federal tax Python boot Apr 2020 #4
Czar-Tsar Jar-Jar is so ignorant & self-inflated that he is sociopathic. Tzar-Csar of everything. nt Bernardo de La Paz Apr 2020 #5
Taxpayers paid for that equipment, neither Trump nor Kushner own it bucolic_frolic Apr 2020 #6
+1 n/t Laelth Apr 2020 #8
Hey Jared, bluescribbler Apr 2020 #7
EXACTLY what I said vapor2 Apr 2020 #19
Great minds think alike. bluescribbler Apr 2020 #20
Not ONE of those fuckers even wears a face mask. Sugar Smack Apr 2020 #9
Ultimate reality show. Stay tuned to see who WE give the Apprenticeship, I mean a ventilator to. Laura PourMeADrink Apr 2020 #10
Fucking damn, proof positive drumpf wants us dead. lark Apr 2020 #11
You Got that One Right! McKim Apr 2020 #12
Damn, I'd so love to immigrate, but I'd miss my family too much. lark Apr 2020 #13
Very criminal. ...nt 2naSalit Apr 2020 #14
Everything fifty8bar Apr 2020 #15
So he changed the website explaining the purpose of the stockpile SharonAnn Apr 2020 #16
Umm OldBaldy1701E Apr 2020 #17
True canetoad Apr 2020 #18
I am so sick of this family of wealthy (?) trash. Codifer Apr 2020 #21
Jared Kushner, the Jackass of all trades. patphil Apr 2020 #22

Girard442

(6,070 posts)
1. Amazes me Kushner can't even give lip service to the idea Federal stuff belongs to all Americans.
Fri Apr 3, 2020, 07:16 AM
Apr 2020

It's all "We got it. Ours. Not yours, Neener neener."

True Blue American

(17,984 posts)
2. As if he owned
Fri Apr 3, 2020, 07:27 AM
Apr 2020

The Fed!

That sleazy little grifter said the states should have their own.

Corrupt so and so on the verge of losing his property, 666 until he went to Saudi and they bailed him out! That number is appropriate because if there is such a thing he will not be one of the 666!

Note here, I do not believe that man made number.

Python boot

(74 posts)
4. Source of federal tax
Fri Apr 3, 2020, 07:51 AM
Apr 2020

Blue states contribute more in tax dollars from personal income than poor red states do.

bucolic_frolic

(43,161 posts)
6. Taxpayers paid for that equipment, neither Trump nor Kushner own it
Fri Apr 3, 2020, 08:10 AM
Apr 2020

And by the way, taxpayers pay for Congress too, MoscowMitch doesn't own it

It's the social contract, the very foundation of democracy since the Enlightenment, the common good. Stealing the common good is thievery, fraud, embezzlement, grand larceny every bit as much as Bernie Madoff and insider trading Congressional-style

lark

(23,099 posts)
11. Fucking damn, proof positive drumpf wants us dead.
Fri Apr 3, 2020, 09:02 AM
Apr 2020

Jared is only brought in as window dressing when things are horrible - like his pretense of a Middle East peace plan that basically gave all the land and all the rights to Israel and created a permanent serf class of the Arabs. There was no peace involved in plan, only servitude and near slavery for Palestinians and the people of Gaza. There will be no supplies for us, no coordination among states, just abject failure and death and that is exactly what he intends. That's why he appointed him, he knows for sure he will fail because he has failed at everything his entire life. Couldn't risk appointing someone else because they would probably end the pandemic and he won't have his excuse to declare martial law and stop the elections - forever.

McKim

(2,412 posts)
12. You Got that One Right!
Fri Apr 3, 2020, 09:32 AM
Apr 2020

You got that one right! This angry mother of an only child doctor MD MPH Family Medicine Specialist and Professor of Medicine is calling the only republican representative in her state to give them what for. Our family has had enough and we are talking immigration finally!!!!

lark

(23,099 posts)
13. Damn, I'd so love to immigrate, but I'd miss my family too much.
Fri Apr 3, 2020, 09:54 AM
Apr 2020

We have good friends in NZ and they have told us to come there and we could live with them until we can get our own place. My husband could even work there - bonus. I'd just miss my son and daughter too much. My sister would come with us, she's a CPA so has great job skills. Son and daughter are both talking about moving, and if they didn't live here I'd be much more inclined to move far away.

OldBaldy1701E

(5,128 posts)
17. Umm
Sat Apr 4, 2020, 06:58 AM
Apr 2020

That is the way it has been for over 60 years, as the rethugs realized that playing us against each other keeps them in power. It has just become inescapably obvious with this administration. And, that obviousness has done little to help correct the situation. Typical behavior actually, as it usually takes being slammed in the face before an American will realize he should duck... which is the problem...

canetoad

(17,157 posts)
18. True
Sat Apr 4, 2020, 07:50 AM
Apr 2020

It's time the press started hammering all the jobs Jared took on and his miserable success rate in all of them.

Codifer

(546 posts)
21. I am so sick of this family of wealthy (?) trash.
Sat Apr 4, 2020, 08:55 PM
Apr 2020

Jared is actually the jerk of all trades. Total fucking fraud.

May gawd damn them all.

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