Greg Olear's 23 villains of '23

[Tanuki]

https://gregolear.substack.com/p/23-villains-for-23

"This is now the third indictmentless day of 2023. As we wait for Jack Smith to make his first move, I wanted to throw out the names of 23 bad guys to monitor in the New Year.

A few notes on my methodology: While there are plenty of worthy foreign nationals who are as evil as they come—Vladimir the Puny comes to mind—I’ve confined myself to U.S. citizens. Also, I’d like to apologize for the lack of diversity. Incredibly, the list of horrible Americans is populated in the main by white men.

While the order is subjective, I tried to rank these miscreants according to how awful they are. For that, my primary metric is body count: how many people have suffered and/or died because of their actions. (I’m sure Elon Musk and his disciples will be disappointed to not find Dr. Fauci on the list, but in his long career, Fauci saved hundreds of thousands of lives. Only assholes find people like that villainous.)
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Jared Kushner
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Functionally, Kushner oversaw Trump’s pandemic response policy. He chose to ignore the recommendations of his own shadow advisory board because he thought letting covid-19 run amok in New York, New Jersey, and California would help his father-in-law’s re-election prospects. He hoarded supplies and watched the states fight over them. And, as we found out this week, he made sure during the transition that the incoming Biden people would be denied critical information regarding the pandemic response. Think for a moment, please, about what that means and what sort of abominable human would do such a thing.

Jared Kushner is a fucking monster who engineered a Blue State Genocide. A million Americans are dead now because of him. Yet our broadcast media allowed him his ridiculous book tour, going along with his statesman cosplay, as if he were Talleyrand and not a Genghis Khan-level mass killer. And we all saw him with Elon Musk at the World Cup in Qatar, feeding at the trough of fossil fuel money. Where is the fucking outrage?

Let the ball, and the indictments, drop.