Jared Kushner Really Did Make the Pandemic Worse

[LetMyPeopleVote]

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Jared Kushner is the epitome of the fuckup trope in every movie ever.

He tries to help, but doesn’t. In most cases, he actually makes things worse, and that was the case during the pandemic last year according to Yasmeen Abutaleb, health policy reporter at the Washington Post, and Damian Paletta, its economics editor.,,,,

As we know, the government response wasn’t great, but things were worse than we thought. Like Jared Kushner, and his idea to divert testing to drive-thrus in the private sector, like at CVS’ and Walgreens’.

“When he came in and wanted to launch that initiative, he actually caused a two-week shortage of testing because all the swabs and a lot of the personal protective equipment had been diverted to this drive-thru site,” said Abutaleb.

They also walk host Molly Jong-Fast through Dr. Deborah Birx’s semi-private confrontation with Mike Pence and the pivotal moment Trump officials made fun of former HHS Secretary Alex Azar’s “underwear” mask.

[Hekate]

1. The artificial construct that is his face always intrigues & repels me. He has moved from immobility

… with a faint smile, to an expression that indicates he smelled something awful, to this sneer. If he doesn’t watch it he’ll end up like Dick Cheney: a formerly sort-of attractive guy who morphed into someone with a grotesque and permanent sneer.

I saw some early photos of Jared, before he met Ivanka’s surgeon. He was a cute Jewish boy with dimples in his cheeks. What a pair those two are — a bit like Michael Jackson, demanding that plastic surgeons excise some tragically sick inner part of themselves in the guise of perfecting their outer selves.

Oh, sorry, that was probably way off topic. And yet Jared and Ivanka, two supremely unqualified spawn, have been the beneficiaries of nepotism their entire lives.

[BigmanPigman]

4. Reminds me of The Picture of Dorain Gray.

The main character even resembles the Botoxed Jared.

[Thtwudbeme]

8. That's an interesting perspective

I have looked at photos of Ivanka and Jared, pre-plastic surgery and wondered why they are doing that to themselves. It's horrific to see two fairly attractive people do that to themselves. I wonder how they feel when they look at old photos.

[Hekate]

11. I know that Ivanka started very young, as her father began to mold her to his ideal...

But I don’t know Jared’s impetus for going to who I presume was Ivanka’s surgeon with a picture of a Ken Doll and saying: “That’s what I want to be. Erase my identity.”

[flying rabbit]

31. Off topic

yet satisfyingly observant.

[dchill]

2. "He tries to help, but doesn't."

Bullshit. He has never tried to help ANYONE but himself.

[Duppers]

3. Zactly!

Just like his f.i.l. Both grifters.

[IronLionZion]

15. He tried to get rich off this tragedy

he and his bros were fine with killing off people in cities while they jack up prices and slow down delivery of supplies

[dchill]

18. Which is decidedly not helping.

[certainot]

25. his 'value' was in helping trumo org profit in a disaster like covid

not only did they see it as a money maker, when the intel briefings gave former guy worst case scenarios they saw opportunities and dollar signs.

in their greed and stupidity they they wanted it to get worse and kill millions - the emergency powers, delaying elections, and so on

Putin used talk radio similarly in Brazil and India

dems need to investigate and not be naive - trump is insane with sex on the wrong brain and sees everything as a game of golf - one hole after the other. consequences, complications, collateral damage are not considered. only how can money be made.

[SheltieLover]

5. Like this

https://www.propublica.org/article/taxpayers-paid-millions-to-design-a-low-cost-ventilator-for-a-pandemic-instead-the-company-is-selling-versions-of-it-overseas-

[crickets]

12. The ventilator idiocy that went on back then still sends me into a fury if

I think about too long, so I'll be brief: Kushner's "it's our stockpile" and "that’s their problem" comments set the situation in stark relief for anyone who hadn't been paying enough attention up to that point. Good riddance to to such grasping, sociopathic trash.

[certainot]

26. they saw a moneymaker while killing peoplewho couldn't afford vents

[nuxvomica]

6. Dunning-Kreuger or selfish distraction?

I think it's both. I think he has an inflated view of his own competence that prevents the kind of self-criticism smart people employ to achieve goals, AND he is always looking for an angle that feathers his own nest. Corrupt and incompetent, he straddles the dividing line in Cipolla's chart between the "bandit" and "stupid" quadrants, a perfect specimen of the double-threat who belongs in some sort of museum of the dangerous, which we commonly call prison. No wonder TFG seems to admire him as he must remind TFG of himself.

[certainot]

28. amazing but true! from the first intel briefings on COVID in December 2019 they saw dollar signs

and ways to delay elections and subvert democracy with emergency powers

doing the right things and actually having to think and wait and try so save people was not as profitable as making things worse

[no_hypocrisy]

7. Jared Kushner has had no qualifications -- ever

When the administrators of the Frisch Yeshiva (his high school) heard that Kushner was going to attend Harvard, they were amazed as he was a solid-C student. (His father's "donation" of millions helped the Admissions decide.) All for naught as Kushner had the advantage and opportunity to learn to make up for his academic deficiencies but either couldn't or wouldn't. Again, unqualified, he enrolled and graduated with a joint JD/MBA from New York University. He reminds me of the Dorothy Park quip: Asked to create a sentence with the word, horticulture, Parker remarked "You can lead a whore to culture, but you can't make her think."

And that, my friends, is how a famously unqualified, inept, incompetent being such as Kushner failed with the Covid relief (and Mid-East peace).

[malaise]

9. He should be in prison with the rest of the

Kakistocracy

[Captain Stern]

10. Now, let's be fair.

The poor bastard was put in charge of the covid response while he was still working on solving the problems in the middle east.

That's a lot to put on one plate.

[Blue Owl]

13. Jared always looks so... punchable

[11 Bravo]

14. Little Jared has the Feces Touch.

[FakeNoose]

16. His only job was bagman for collecting bribes from international tyrants

[IronLionZion]

17. Biden won't put Hunter or Ashley in charge of anything

Obama and Clinton didn't do that with their kids. Saddam Hussein did of course. Hmm...

[maddiemom]

23. Consider Chelsea's academic background....and then imagine the uproar

if Hillary had been in office and gave her a position such as TFG gave the immensely unqualified Ivanka. I believe only Tiffany has gone beyond a Bachelors degree among the Trump kids.

[wiggs]

19. Wasn't he and a bunch of interns given the task of distributing PPE? Like...young,

inexperienced interns

[Leghorn21]

21. I believe so, wiggs, it was either interns or some college buddies of his

Either way, a complete waste of time and money at such a crucial moment

Good god but I hate this smarmy little fkr

[IronLionZion]

24. His team of bros exemplified the efficiencies of the private sector

by making it outrageously slow and prohibitively expensive.

Compare the dumpster fire last year with this year's vaccine distribution under Biden

[Initech]

20. This is one time where you don't go to Jared.

[bucolic_frolic]

22. Republican ranks are filled with people with more money than brains

It gives them power and control, but their decisions are stupid and self-serving.

This is what runs America. In every locale there are these people. Only when they're outnumbered in a big way are they tamed.

[joetheman]

27. We only need to enforce the nepotism laws already on the books AT EVERY LEVEL IN GOVERNMENT.

That will do it.

[budkin]

29. "It's our stockpile."

That about summed it up.

[smirkymonkey]

30. K&R