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Bio1590
04/02/20 11:41:20 PM
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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/02/opinion/jared-kushner-coronavirus.html

Reporting on the White Houses herky-jerky coronavirus response, Vanity Fairs Gabriel Sherman has a quotation from Jared Kushner that should make all Americans, and particularly all New Yorkers, dizzy with terror.

According to Sherman, when New Yorks governor, Andrew Cuomo, said that the state would need 30,000 ventilators at the apex of the coronavirus outbreak, Kushner decided that Cuomo was being alarmist. I have all this data about I.C.U. capacity, Kushner reportedly said. Im doing my own projections, and Ive gotten a lot smarter about this. New York doesnt need all the ventilators. (Dr. Anthony Fauci, the countrys top expert on infectious diseases, has said he trusts Cuomos estimate.)

Even now, its hard to believe that someone with as little expertise as Kushner could be so arrogant, but he said something similar on Thursday, when he made his debut at the White Houses daily coronavirus briefing: People who have requests for different products and supplies, a lot of them are doing it based on projections which are not the realistic projections.

Kushner has succeeded at exactly three things in his life. He was born to the right parents, married well and learned how to influence his father-in-law. Most of his other endeavors his biggest real estate deal, his foray into newspaper ownership, his attempt to broker a peace deal between the Israelis and the Palestinians have been failures.

Undeterred, he has now arrogated to himself a major role in fighting the epochal health crisis thats brought America to its knees. Behind the scenes, Kushner takes charge of coronavirus response, said a Politico headline on Wednesday. This is dilettantism raised to the level of sociopathy.

The journalist Andrea Bernstein looked closely at Kushners business record for her recent book American Oligarchs: The Kushners, the Trumps, and the Marriage of Money and Power, speaking to people on all sides of his real estate deals as well as those who worked with him at The New York Observer, the weekly newspaper he bought in 2006.

Kushner, Bernstein told me, really sees himself as a disrupter. Again and again, she said, people whod dealt with Kushner told her that whatever he did, he believed he could do it better than anybody else, and he had supreme confidence in his own abilities and his own judgment even when he didnt know what he was talking about.

Its hard to overstate the extent to which this confidence is unearned. Kushner was a reportedly mediocre student whose billionaire father appears to have bought him a place at Harvard. Taking over the family real estate company after his father was sent to prison, Kushner paid $1.8 billion a record, at the time for a Manhattan skyscraper at the very top of the real estate market in 2007. The debt from that project became a crushing burden for the family business. (Kushner was able to restructure the debt in 2011, and in 2018 the project was bailed out by a Canadian asset management company with links to the government of Qatar.) He gutted the once-great New York Observer, then made a failed attempt to create a national network of local politics websites.

His forays into the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for which he boasted of reading a whole 25 books have left the dream of a two-state solution on life support. Michael Koplow of the centrist Israel Policy Forum described Kushners plan for the Palestinian economy as the Monty Python version of Israeli-Palestinian peace.

Now, in our hour of existential horror, Kushner is making life-or-death decisions for all Americans, showing all the wisdom weve come to expect from him.

Mr. Kushners early involvement with dealing with the virus was in advising the president that the medias coverage exaggerated the threat, reported The Times. It was apparently at Kushners urging that Trump announced, falsely, that Google was about to launch a website that would link Americans with coronavirus testing. (As The Atlantic reported, a health insurance company co-founded by Kushners brother which Kushner once owned a stake in tried to build such a site, before the project was suddenly and mysteriously scrapped.)

The president was reportedly furious over the website debacle, but Kushners authority hasnt been curbed. Politico reported that Kushner, alongside a kitchen cabinet of outside experts including his former roommate and a suite of McKinsey consultants, has taken charge of the most important challenges facing the federal government, including the production and distribution of medical supplies and the expansion of testing. Kushner has embedded his own people in the Federal Emergency Management Agency; a senior official described them to The Times as a frat party that descended from a U.F.O. and invaded the federal government.

Disaster response requires discipline and adherence to a clear chain of command, not the move-fast-and-break-things approach of start-up culture. Even if Kushner were the most competent person in the world, which he clearly isnt, introducing these kind of competing power centers into a crisis response structure is a guaranteed problem, Jeremy Konyndyk, a former U.S.A.I.D. official who helped manage the response to the Ebola crisis during Barack Obamas administration, told me. So you could have Trump and Kushner and Pence and the governors all be the smartest people in the room, but if there are multiple competing power centers trying to drive this response, its still going to be chaos.

Competing power centers are a motif of this administration, and its approach to the pandemic is no exception. As The Washington Post reported, Kushners team added another layer of confusion and conflicting signals within the White Houses disjointed response to the crisis. Nor does his operation appear to be internally coherent. Projects are so decentralized that one team often has little idea what others are doing outside of that they all report up to Kushner, reported Politico.

On Thursday, Governor Cuomo said that New York would run out of ventilators in six days. Perhaps Kushners projections were incorrect. I dont think the federal government is in a position to provide ventilators to the extent the nation may need them, Cuomo said. Assume you are on your own in life. If not in life, certainly in this administration.

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DirkDiggles
04/02/20 11:43:46 PM
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Imagine giving your daughters fuckwit of a husband a job were he is in charge of peoples lives.

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LadyVyxx
04/02/20 11:44:47 PM
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I wish we just had Biden as our president. I bet hed challenge covid 19 to a pushup contest, then punch its daughter straight in the mouth. We need a leader like that right now in these troublesome times.
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monkmith
04/02/20 11:45:36 PM
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DirkDiggles posted...
Imagine giving your daughters fuckwit of a husband a job were he is in charge of peoples lives.
while he's off doing jared things trump is likely porking his wife...

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monkmith
04/02/20 11:46:30 PM
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LadyVyxx posted...
I wish we just had Biden as our president. I bet hed challenge covid 19 to a pushup contest, then punch its daughter straight in the mouth. We need a leader like that right now in these troublesome times.
one that would sit on his hands quietly and let the people that actually have the education and command ability handle the situation?

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Bio1590
04/02/20 11:46:37 PM
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DirkDiggles posted...
Imagine giving your daughters fuckwit of a husband a job were he is in charge of peoples lives.

Sounds like the perfect way to figure out how to make money off the whole thing
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muchdran
04/02/20 11:46:45 PM
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According to
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TheTrueAmerican
04/02/20 11:47:49 PM
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DirkDiggles posted...
Imagine giving your daughters fuckwit of a husband a job were he is in charge of peoples lives.
He has powers for another reason.

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UnholyMudcrab
04/02/20 11:47:58 PM
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Jared will negotiate an end to the virus just like how he negotiated eternal peace in the Middle East
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muchdran
04/02/20 11:48:35 PM
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Take the source , has to be true! The skys falling
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Axiom
04/02/20 11:49:17 PM
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The US is doomed isn't it
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DirkDiggles
04/02/20 11:52:22 PM
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TheTrueAmerican posted...
He has powers for another reason.

You mean he wasn't hired just because he is boning Trump's daughter?

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Bio1590
04/02/20 11:53:37 PM
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Axiom posted...
The US is doomed isn't it

Well the South for sure is.
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EverDownward
04/02/20 11:59:41 PM
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Didn't Trump throw out the tests Europe was using for Covid-19 and only started testing here once Kushner's company had been set up to produce them? This, putting more money in Trump's pockets at the expense of American lives?

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Smashingpmkns
04/03/20 12:08:16 AM
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Bio1590 posted...
Im doing my own projections, and Ive gotten a lot smarter about this.


Mhm
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LadyVyxx
04/03/20 12:09:08 AM
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Smashingpmkns posted...
Mhm

Lol
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DrizztLink
04/03/20 12:11:40 AM
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LadyVyxx posted...
I wish we just had Biden as our president. I bet hed challenge covid 19 to a pushup contest, then punch its daughter straight in the mouth. We need a leader like that right now in these troublesome times.
"Oh god, valid criticism of this shit-tornado of an administration. What do I do?"

"A flimsy whatabout! Of course! I'm a genius."

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KINDERFELD
04/03/20 12:13:26 AM
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Bio1590 posted...
Well the South for sure is.

I'm truly concerned about Florida.
That state has such a high concentration of people over 65.
Its going to be crazy.

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coolboy11
04/03/20 12:13:48 AM
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what a republic to live in.

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Bio1590
04/03/20 12:20:00 AM
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KINDERFELD posted...


I'm truly concerned about Florida.
That state has such a high concentration of people over 65.
Its going to be crazy.

Not even just old age, but shit like diabetes and obesity is rampant in that area of the US.
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Resaix
04/03/20 12:59:16 AM
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LadyVyxx posted...
I wish we just had Biden as our president.
Me too
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Wii_Shaker
04/03/20 1:02:12 AM
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Didn't Trump assign those responsibilities to Mike Pence initially?

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Zeeak4444
04/03/20 1:45:03 AM
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@muchdran posted...
Take the source , has to be true! The skys falling

the source whos only input is commentary?

Because all the actual slights against Jared Kushner and his past endeavors arent the opinion of some source. They are available to anyone who wants to see them.

So because of this, I can only contend that you are aware of all of Jareds failings and yet still believe hes a capable person for some odd reason. Is it infatuation? Do you actually have a reason, or are you one of those people who know nothing about the facts and instead rely on your feelings?

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Resaix
04/03/20 1:46:23 AM
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Zeeak4444 posted...
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the source whos only input is commentary?

Because all the actual slights against Jared Kushner and his past endeavors arent the opinion of some source. They are available to anyone who wants to see them.

So because of this, I can only contend that you are aware of all of Jareds failings and yet still believe hes a capable person for some odd reason. Is it infatuation? Do you actually have a reason, or are you one of those people who know nothing about the facts and instead rely on your feelings?
Muchdran is a Trumper who has been in constant meltdown mode for the past week or so. Reality itself is against his narrative, and it kills him.
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ninjarobot_22
04/03/20 1:53:47 AM
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God's punishment to the U.S.

Remember God made the Egyptian pharaoh stubborn and stupid, so he could punish the Egyptians while also showing off his miracles.

It was bound to happen to the U.S.

A stubborn fool of a president.

The U.S. is being punished with all the greed, lust, and killing happening in the country.
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SiO4
04/03/20 1:59:42 AM
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ClunkerSlim posted...
Wait a minute, Jared was the one fighting back against the 30,000 respirators? Fucking Jared? I thought maybe Trump was using a different CDC model or something. But nope, its just Jared and his Excel spreadsheet I guess. Were doomed.


Not to mention make sure oil prices stay high during a time of crisis.

This is some fucked up shit, tbh.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1245720677660925952
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KINDERFELD
04/03/20 2:12:47 AM
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ninjarobot_22 posted...
God's punishment to the U.S.

Remember God made the Egyptian pharaoh stubborn and stupid, so he could punish the Egyptians while also showing off his miracles.

It was bound to happen to the U.S.

A stubborn fool of a president.

The U.S. is being punished with all the greed, lust, and killing happening in the country.

^^
Daily reminder that the not too informed are also among us and susceptible as well to the pandemic(global prevalence) of coronavirus.

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Ranlom
04/03/20 2:57:32 AM
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This sucks, but have you seen Trump's ratings?

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