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Rhiannon12866

(205,195 posts)
Wed Jul 22, 2020, 12:35 AM Jul 2020

Feds in Unmarked Van Looking for Suspicious Characters Pick Up Jared Kushner

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—In what the Department of Homeland Security is calling “an unfortunate incident,” federal agents in an unmarked van who were looking for suspicious characters snatched Jared Kushner off the street.

According to the agents, the van was patrolling the vicinity of the White House when they spotted a “shifty-eyed male” who “didn’t look right.”

“He checked all the boxes for suspicious,” one of the agents said. “He definitely didn’t look like someone who should be anywhere near the White House.”

Despite the protests of a screaming Kushner, the agents loaded him into the van and sped away to an undisclosed location.

According to White House sources, Kushner was missing for several hours before anyone in the West Wing realized he was gone.

His disappearance was finally noticed late in the afternoon, when members of the White House coronavirus task force observed that their daily meeting had gone “more smoothly than usual.”

Speaking to reporters about the Kushner incident, the acting head of the Department of Homeland Security, Chad Wolf, said that the practice of picking up random people on the street and putting them in unmarked vans is a “terrific idea,” but acknowledged that it might need to be “tweaked.”

“Our agents need to be given much more explicit guidance about who qualifies as a suspicious character, or Stephen Miller could be next,” he said.


Short article, no more at link: https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/feds-in-unmarked-van-looking-for-suspicious-characters-pick-up-jared-kushner






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Feds in Unmarked Van Looking for Suspicious Characters Pick Up Jared Kushner (Original Post) Rhiannon12866 Jul 2020 OP
*snort* Nevilledog Jul 2020 #1
too bad it is just satire chillfactor Jul 2020 #2
I agree, though you never know... Rhiannon12866 Jul 2020 #5
oh man....hahaha.... dhill926 Jul 2020 #3
Borowitz stikes again! Brother Mythos Jul 2020 #4
You knew it was satire right away DFW Jul 2020 #6
Nonetheless, Andy Borowitz's entries are getting closer and closer to believable news stories... Rhiannon12866 Jul 2020 #11
I think that's the funniest Borowitz I've ever read. Vinca Jul 2020 #7
I think this one's my favorite, too! Rhiannon12866 Jul 2020 #8
Hilarious! smirkymonkey Jul 2020 #9
That's what happens when NotANeocon Jul 2020 #10

DFW

(54,341 posts)
6. You knew it was satire right away
Wed Jul 22, 2020, 07:19 AM
Jul 2020

It called the unauthorized arrest of Kushner an „unfortunate incident.“

No serious news story would have referred to Kushner‘s arrest in such pejorative language.

Rhiannon12866

(205,195 posts)
11. Nonetheless, Andy Borowitz's entries are getting closer and closer to believable news stories...
Wed Jul 22, 2020, 11:29 PM
Jul 2020
 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
9. Hilarious!
Wed Jul 22, 2020, 05:30 PM
Jul 2020

I suppose everyone does this, but when I read something like this, I play it in my mind like a video that is actually happening where Jared is being accosted and thrown into an unmarked van screaming like a banshee and it totally cracks me up!

Someone should start taking his ideas and putting them into skit form, it would be priceless!

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