Tom Paine 1949
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I usually avoid all gossip and even discussion of major party presidential personalities, but this is an election year, and one like few others in U.S. history. I came across this in The New Republic, not my favorite periodical, but it caught my eye because of its notable title. Worth a quick glance!
âIf one could bracket out the immediately obvious evils of manipulating a man in a mental health crisis for maximum political gain, using Kanye to halfheartedly rig an election would be the perfect Kushner tasking. He has grand ideas about his abilities, as weâve seen. But this is probably closest to his sweet spot: chumming with celebrities and concocting the stupidest scheme imaginable to keep his extended familyâs grift going just a bit longer.
âAnd stupid it is. West clearly canât file in enough states to be president: He canât even muster the energy or the organization to appear as serious as joke presidential candidates ... His campaign reportedly missed Wisconsinâs deadline for signatures by 14 seconds and is now arguing that the 59 seconds after 5 p.m. do not, in fact, occur after 5 p.m....
âOn the other hand, this is Jared Kushner weâre talking about, the heir to a vast fortune amassed by his father, Charles, who went to federal prison for trying and failing to blackmail his own family, utilizing a video of his brother-in-law in flagrante delicto with a prostitute that Kushner had providedâa crime that even Chris Christie, himself a corruption-filled New Jersey delicacy, called âone of the most loathsome, disgusting crimesâ he had ever prosecuted....
âNevertheless, the Kushners and Trumps have won unlikely victories before in spite of their self-sabotaging greed and stupidity. âI have to say it would be perfectly dystopian if 2020 ended with Trump as president thanks to Kanye,â my editor said to me as we discussed this topic. Of course it feels dystopian now; this time next year, though, it may feel like the inexorable march of history towards glorious Trumpism-Kushnerism.â
Jared Kushner, Deputy Assistant Ratfucker
âIf one could bracket out the immediately obvious evils of manipulating a man in a mental health crisis for maximum political gain, using Kanye to halfheartedly rig an election would be the perfect Kushner tasking. He has grand ideas about his abilities, as weâve seen. But this is probably closest to his sweet spot: chumming with celebrities and concocting the stupidest scheme imaginable to keep his extended familyâs grift going just a bit longer.
âAnd stupid it is. West clearly canât file in enough states to be president: He canât even muster the energy or the organization to appear as serious as joke presidential candidates ... His campaign reportedly missed Wisconsinâs deadline for signatures by 14 seconds and is now arguing that the 59 seconds after 5 p.m. do not, in fact, occur after 5 p.m....
âOn the other hand, this is Jared Kushner weâre talking about, the heir to a vast fortune amassed by his father, Charles, who went to federal prison for trying and failing to blackmail his own family, utilizing a video of his brother-in-law in flagrante delicto with a prostitute that Kushner had providedâa crime that even Chris Christie, himself a corruption-filled New Jersey delicacy, called âone of the most loathsome, disgusting crimesâ he had ever prosecuted....
âNevertheless, the Kushners and Trumps have won unlikely victories before in spite of their self-sabotaging greed and stupidity. âI have to say it would be perfectly dystopian if 2020 ended with Trump as president thanks to Kanye,â my editor said to me as we discussed this topic. Of course it feels dystopian now; this time next year, though, it may feel like the inexorable march of history towards glorious Trumpism-Kushnerism.â
Jared Kushner, Deputy Assistant Ratfucker