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The universe of shitty things I can endure without completely losing my fucking mind keeps expanding, but I don’t know, guys — this might be the limit:

“We have achieved all the different milestones that are needed. So, the government, federal government rose to the challenge and this is a great success story and I think that that’s really what needs to be told.” — Jared Kushner

Not content to hide out in the West Wing after mismanaging a pandemic in such a way that tens of thousands of Americans are dead, and more than a million are infected, and there aren’t enough tests, and the economy is collapsing, and 30% of renters didn’t pay their rent because they got no money, and food banks are overrun and and and — these Trump administration motherfuckers want to be PRAISED for their performance. It’s not just Trump; it’s all of them.

Don’t know about y’all, but just as soon as it’s safe to participate in an angry mob, I intend to join one. Voting these grifting ghouls out won’t be nearly enough. I want them to have to flee the goddamned country, change their names and undergo reconstructive surgery.

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  2. 2.

    Nicole

    This is what comes of attending ritzy private schools that depend on tuition money to keep the doors open- these assholes are never told they suck at anything, and so they grow up to suck at everything, but refuse to believe it.

  4. 4.

    Hope

    I’m in

  5. 5.

    JoyceH

    My physical fitness is pretty poor, but I’m working on it. Now I have motivation – to get strong enough to join the angry mob. Can’t decide whether to bring the pitchfork or the Lysol.

  6. 6.

    MomSense

    I want them all to hang from lampposts – like Mussolini.  They are handling this like some sort of corporate brand crisis. They are fucking evil.

     

    @Baud: I heard the news – sending healing to you!

  8. 8.

    Baud

    @MomSense:

    Thanks, MomSense.  Apart for slight discomfort, I’ve been about as asymptomatic as one could hope for.

  10. 10.

    laura

    He is a ghoul without a soul and nobody voted to elect his sorry ass to anything and he’s cool with his friend bonesawing a journalist. So anyone expecting this skidmark to do anything in the public’s interest is just wasting their time. I hope he dies from repeated kicks to the nutsack or a burning tire necklace.  All he cares about is money and privilege. He’s a shite-bag of the highest order and deserves to be spat upon every time he sets foot out in public.

  11. 11.

    EthylEster

    @Baud: Apart for slight discomfort, I’ve been about as asymptomatic as one could hope for.

    I thought you had symptoms.

  13. 13.

    moops

    The groveling access journalism media will give them their stage and not push back on that narrative.

  14. 14.

    opiejeanne

    @Baud: She means “cue”, related to “cue the orchestra”.

    I don’t think she means queue, which means to form a line

    That made me laugh. I needed a laugh.

  18. 18.

    geg6

    @Baud:

    Oh no! Stay well, my friend!  Hope you get the best of care.

    And now that this has happened, have you considered the best possible running mate?
    BAUD/FAUCI 2020!

  20. 20.

    sdhays

    I just lament that we probably aren’t fortunate enough for Mike “You MUST see me looking vacantly serious” Dense to have brought the coronavirus back to the White House from his trip to the Mayo Clinic. Every last person working there deserves the BoJo treatment.

  22. 22.

    Baud

    @opiejeanne:

    I have a foot issue that’s been associated with Covid.  I don’t know for sure whether I have or had it.  I haven’t had any other worrisome symptoms.

  23. 23.

    sdhays

    @Baud: Since everything’s virtual now, maybe he could…

    I hope it’s a false alarm, or at least one of those extremely mild cases, as it currently seems to be.

  24. 24.

    Achrachno

    @laura:  I don’t understand how you can remain so calm and considerate in the face of the Trumpies. I should study your methods and become a better person.

  25. 25.

    Mr. Longform

    Kushner is the DunningestKrugerest person in the world – how someone with so little ability can be so confident in his own capacity to fix almost impossibly difficult things (for example, the Middle East) is unfathomable to anyone even slightly not an idiot; which explains why his father-in-law is all on board with him. i’m with Betty on this – can’t keep sane in this kind of world.

  26. 26.

    Barbara

    @Baud: I have had a hacking cough and chills for 10 days but nothing else.  I wouldn’t even try to get tested and I assume that I don’t have it, especially since at my age, ahem, I should apparently expect worse symptoms.  What a confounding virus.

    @Mr. Longform: The next effort in the string of magical thinking is to just assert that things are looking up and that we have gotten through the worst of it.  No amount of evidence seems to matter.

  27. 27.

    Nelle

    Betty, you are much too kind.  Signed, a formerly Mennonite pacifist.

    But seriously, I still can’t convince myself that Kushner is human, the kind of being with a heart and blood in the veins, with facial expressions and sometimes constipation.

  28. 28.

    John Revolta

    A New York business executive recalled a meeting with Kushner at the White House last fall. “I told Jared that if Trump won a second term, he wouldn’t have to worry about running again and you can really help people. Jared just looked at me and said, ‘I don’t care about any of that.’” The executive came away shaken. “I wanted to tell Jared you don’t say that part out loud, even in private,” he later said.

    -Vanity Fair

  29. 29.

    Bex

    Remember when Pence touched something at a photo op somewhere? It was marked Do Not Touch. Wonder what he touched yesterday and didn’t remember to wash his hands.

  30. 30.

    waspuppet

    Like all substance/domestic abusers, the Trump crime family never, ever says “Well, let me just put my head down and get through this as best I can.” They never, ever let the fact that they are in the middle of a fuckup of their own making stop them from saying “How can I come out of this with MORE (fill in the blank) than I had before?”

    And I hope Trump lives long enough to see his grandchildren take his name off their buildings because they can’t stay in business any other way.

  31. 31.

    Bill Arnold

    They pissed away several weeks[1] of exponential “pandemic time”. Several doublings worth of time. 10s of thousands of deaths on their hands. Ten Thousand[2] Benghazis!  (etc).
    I am appalled, and frankly, surprised, by the proven incompetence of my country at the national level.

    As a (not so minor) side effect, the delay and lack of testing meant that the only remaining measure was destruction of the economy. So they (f-in!) own that too.

    [1] That’s generous; more like 2 months wasted.
    [2] That’ll end up being much higher but 10K is a dramatic number.

  32. 32.

    opiejeanne

    @Baud: frostbite toes? a rash on your feet?

    I just read about that this morning. What a strange marker for this terrible disease

    I running at constant RAGE right now, the Rage-O-Meter is pegged, and will probably be very sick from it if anything happens to you, or anyone else on this site.

  33. 33.

    Poe Larity

    Hey, it could be worse, amirite? How long until the Theodore Roosevelt can be back and leader can give a rally on the flight deck?

  35. 35.

    CaseyL

    From that waste-of-air’s perspective, the Administration’s response HAS been excellent:  hundreds of millions of dollars, possibly billions of dollars, stolen via PPE shipments and PPP programs into his own and his friends’ pockets.

    That’s all they care about:  how much money they can skim.

  36. 36.

    Miss Bianca

    I keep hearkening back to what Kay said about the self-styled MOTU crowd – both Trumps and Trumpites. It’s not just that they feel entitled to lie, cheat and steal their way to grabbing everything that isn’t nailed down or locked up – it’s not just that they’re so stunningly *bad* at everything, and that everything they touch turns to shit – it’s that on *top* of all that, they expect us to to love and praise them for the screwing they’re giving us, and they whine incessantly when we don’t. It’s nauseating.

  37. 37.

    James E Powell

    It’s infuriating, but this tactic works. The press/media are not going to call him a liar. At most, they will give it the “some say” treatment. Republicans not only never admit error, they always brag about their fictional success. It works

    And sorry, John Cole, Democrats don’t do angry mobs. The only angry mobs on the left are the ones attacking Democrats.

  40. 40.

    thebewilderness

    60,000 dead in only two months? The Trump crime family must be so effing proud.

  41. 41.

    West of the Rockies

    It’s the younger ones who I hope are tainted for life because of the damage they could yet cause:  the Kushner, Miller, etc.  I hope they are ruined come 1/21.

  42. 42.

    The Thin Black Duke

    Although these motherfuckers will do their best to spin this narrative, it’s impossible for over sixty thousand deaths (and counting) to fall under the radar. Before this is over, everybody in the United States will know at least one person who lost their job or evicted from their home or died because of this, and they will know the reason why.

  43. 43.

    Mike in NC

    It might strike most of us as a sick joke, but I just read that Fat Bastard has approved a new commemorative coin for his 2nd inauguration in 2021.

  44. 44.

    Penn

    Meanwhile up here in Canadaland I had a brief fever on the weekend, so I went to my local testing center (no lines, no waiting) and got tested yesterday. I should have results in a couple days, online.
    I think that’s closer to what success looks like.

  45. 45.

    dmsilev

    The correct punishment for Jared is to be stripped of all of his assets and be forced to make his way through the world on nothing but his innate abilities.

  46. 46.

    Nelle

    Iowa had a prescreen thingamajob and I just lied and said that I had no symptoms.  Because, whoohoo, if I have symptoms, someone will jam something up my nose.  I’ve been hacking away since December so I assume the cough is just chronic and not symptomatic, but then there was that fever in February.

    Anyway, they should be testing asymptomatic people anyway.  Bah.  I’m just staying away from people.  I yell at my neighbor on his porch, he yells back.  I tell tales to the little boys across the street while we yell across the street.  We are old people but then they look at my old husband differently when I tell them about the time he helped some Fish and Wildlife guys pull a bad tooth out of a wild grizzly.  Who was, of course, tranquilized at the time.  I’m getting a story ready for next week’s session of “we weren’t always ancient.”

  47. 47.

    sdhays

    @Bex: I think it was at NASA. I assume he licked the toilets and doorknobs because Mother wasn’t around to stop him.

  48. 48.

    Barbara

    @Baud: I keep thinking seasonal allergies and I feel fine otherwise.  I did get a pulse oximeter and take my temperature twice a day and measure oxygen levels, but no fever at all, and my sense of taste and smell are unaffected.

    Apparently what you have is called “frostbite toes.”  Weird, but most likely associated with vascular issues so you take care as well.

  49. 49.

    Citizen_X

    They’re just going to try proclaiming that it’s all over, and you get back to work right now, aren’t they?

  51. 51.

    MoCA Ace

    @Nelle: But seriously, I still can’t convince myself that Kushner is human, the kind of being with a heart and blood in the veins, with facial expressions and sometimes constipation.

    I always thought his facial expression was caused by constipation.

  52. 52.

    FelonyGovt

    Angry Mob 2020! (OUR righteous angry mob).

    And Jared Kushner still looks like the little boy who died in the house and his ghost keeps showing up and making the maid drop the tray full of glasses…

  53. 53.

    Skepticat

    This is what comes of attending ritzy private schools that depend on tuition money to keep the doors open- these assholes are never told they suck at anything, and so they grow up to suck at everything, but refuse to believe it.

    This. The arrogance and self-entitlement is breath-taking, so much I wish he’s stop breathing.

     

     

    @Nicole:

  54. 54.

    Mike in NC

    Jared Fucking Kushner spent about $1.8B to purchase 666 Fifth Avenue in NYC. Given how stupid and superstitious millions of American are, did he really think this was a wise move? Dumber than his father-in-law, maybe? Taxpayer bailout coming in 3 – 2 -1 …

  55. 55.

    Nelle

    @CaseyL: They aren’t skimming money.  They are in whole hog, stuffing it into every orifice they have, under every couch and mattress, stashing it behind fake walls.  They likely have commandeered C-130’s to ferry it off-shore by the pallet load.  Skimming is for little guys and they are Rulers of Us All. Bow Down.

  57. 57.

    opiejeanne

    @The Thin Black Duke: The friend of a distant cousin took his mother off life support yesterday. She was 62. That’s as close as it has come to us, so far, and it’s still shattering.

  58. 58.

    Baud

    @Barbara:

    So I’m less worried because I’ve had this symptom for a little while but didn’t realize it was associated with Covid until my doctor told me.  Chances are, I’m past the incubation period.

  59. 59.

    jc

    The sign of a true douche-bag: we’re doing a fantastic job (of conning the public).

    At the very beginning of this crisis I wrote: If there was a major bank crash, or economic meltdown like 2008, do you think Trump & Co. would tell the public the truth? If there was a power grid failure or sabotage, would you trust the Federal government to tell the public the straight story? If there was an incident along the lines of Chernobyl or Fukushima, would you trust Trump to level with the public about the danger? I know I wouldn’t.

    We need someone who can competently do the job of being the president, not just host a stupid reality show.

  60. 60.

    cain

    So one of my tweets got discussed on some “progressive” show – slamming the senate for passing a bad stimulus bill. My objection was not really that it was good or bad, but our side typically use framing that elicits strong reactions before we get all the pieces of information. .eg we are already losing before everyone has weighed in. I’ve been caught many times passing along information without critically looking at it.  I got a lot of likes on that one hehe.

    enjoy – https://youtu.be/ZkDjt4a_FYg?t=464

    Hey does this mean I’m good enough to be a front pager? I got some internet hate! :D

    It’s interesting how you get attacked when trying to focus on disinformation within our own ranks.

  61. 61.

    Frankensteinbeck

    @Mr. Longform:

    how someone with so little ability can be so confident in his own capacity to fix almost impossibly difficult things

    Wealth.  Like Trump, he inherited so much money that it’s hard to lose it, no matter how hard he tries.  According to the stories I’ve read, born out by watching him speak, his management style is to breeze in, spout some buzzwords as if they’re divine wisdom, breeze out to be outwitted by other rich people at a party, and leave his subordinates to try and turn his gibberish into something real.

    which explains why his father-in-law is all on board with him.

    I really think Jared is Trump’s best friend.  They’re exactly the level of stupid to see eye to eye, and it is a breathtaking level of stupid.  I bet that when Jared declares they’ll solve the Middle East crisis by selling real estate or suggests stealing PPE from the states for resale by third parties, Trump goes “That’s brilliant!  If I had a son, I would want him to be like you.”

  62. 62.

    Miss Bianca

    @FelonyGovt:

    And Jared Kushner still looks like the little boy who died in the house and his ghost keeps showing up and making the maid drop the tray full of glasses…

    OK, I am laughing way too hard at that image…AAAAAAGGGH!

  64. 64.

    opiejeanne

    @MoCA Ace: Whenever I see a picture of him, the word “homunculus” springs to mind.

    I’m not sure that’s really the right word, though. He’s more of a larval stage.  Of something.

  66. 66.

    Elizabelle

    @waspuppet:

    And I hope Trump lives long enough to see his grandchildren take his name off their buildings because they can’t stay in business any other way.

    If he’s living in federal prison, life sentence, no pension, I am good with that.  And with a prison photo that is worse than Phil Spector’s.

    He deserves prison.  Jared deserves prison (the diversion of life-saving supplies, etc.).  McConnell deserves prison, although he deserves hanging more.

  68. 68.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Miss Bianca: Right now people that support the President are especially desperate as they are constantly confronted with news of his incompetence. As you’ve seen me write repeatedly they are the sorest winners ever. They are always angry no matter what happens. They’re angrier now after 3 and 1/2 years of getting everything they claimed to want. And they’re even more angry right now because COVID-19 is being mean to them and the President.

  69. 69.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    Here’s something I read over at LGM that really pissed me off:

    pianomover40 minutes agoedited

    “Trump is seizing the courts – only a Democratic win in November can stop him“

    The Guardian is doing a series on the takeover of the judiciary by the right.
    It’s all here and it’s free.

    https://www.theguardian.com…

    LOL a Democratic win in November will do anything except stem the bleeding in an already dead patient.

    It would take concerted court-packing over a very short period of time, and even assuming that a Democratic majority in the Senate with the median vote being Manchin or Bullock or Synema would be OK with it, President Biden won’t be.

    The courts are lost for two generations

    pianomover Denverite36 minutes ago

    Dude you’re bumming my high.

    pianomover Denverite36 minutes agoedited

    At the least.

    NonyNony Denverite29 minutes ago

    It’s true that only a Democratic win in November can stop him.

    But it was a Democratic win in November of 2016 that we needed.

    Denverite NonyNony27 minutes ago

    It’s too far gone to be stopped.

    But yes

    “It’s too far gone to be stopped”

    Well, then what’s the goddamn point of any of this then? Why bother if the GOP are unbeatable? Why piss and moan at a politics blog, then?

    Oh my god I can’t stand this shit! The cynical fatalism is disheartening over there and I have no idea why anybody would want to stew in that all the time.

    I actually recognize those names as former regular BJ commenters, too

  70. 70.

    jc

    Jared is a fu*king coward. He wouldn’t dare go on say, Chris Hayes’ show, All In, and make that claim. He’d be chewed up and spit out in 30 seconds flat.

  72. 72.

    Poe Larity

    Moar great news

    A Florida county task force on Wednesday proposed that Walt Disney World and Universal Studios reopen their theme parks at “their own discretion.”

    We could have Covid Freedom Fighter charter flights.

  73. 73.

    scav

    @Baud: No, I think it’s cue the queue for quartering and hanging them (very much prefer this order under these circs).

  75. 75.

    Elizabelle

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):   Better to stay away from them.  They’ll all be eating the same Marie Callender frozen dinner before long.  (The Hale Bopp crew, that suicided.)

    Life is too short to wallow in that kind of shit.

  76. 76.

    Mnemosyne

    Will shouting through a torch kill the coronavirus as it comes out of my lungs? Asking for a friend. 🔥

  78. 78.

    Calouste

    @Poe Larity: Prediction:

    Universal will open, Disney won’t. People will catch Covid-19 at Universal. Universal will close again, permanently.

  80. 80.

    hueyplong

    This is a pretty good time for self-respecting scientists to speak up about premature re-openings (which most and maybe all of them are based on the guidelines shoved down the memory hole after the post-Lysol PR pivot).

    Apparently the only voices we’ll hear are from actual ER and ICU workers.

  81. 81.

    piratedan

    part of me wants to see each of these folks get a fair trial and hearing in front of someone like Merrick Garland, but with the same representation that they afforded those kids seeking asylum with their families.

     

    Then, if found not guilty, they can be spared being assigned to the United States reclamation corps, which will begin cleaning the oceans, armed with trash bags and salad tongs.

  82. 82.

    Miss Bianca

    @Adam L Silverman: Why, it’s almost as if an ethos that is based on nothing but negation of what they think liberals want just isn’t a good way to go through life, son!//

  83. 83.

    cope

    “…I wanna see blood and gore and guts and veins in my teeth.”  Is that the note you are trying to hit, Betty?

  86. 86.

    Searcher

    Don’t know about y’all, but just as soon as it’s safe to participate in an angry mob, I intend to join one.

    Remember to stay one pitchfork-length away from fellow members of your angry mob.  Social distancing!

  87. 87.

    Bill Arnold

    UK too, though not emboddied in a living test of willpower to suppress thoughts of … cleansing.
    Chatty but OK piece (The Guardian) about how the UK also wasted several weeks of exponential “pandemic time”.
    Revealed: the inside story of the UK’s Covid-19 crisis – How herd immunity and delayed lockdown hampered efforts to contain the spread of coronavirus (29 Apr 2020, David Conn, Felicity Lawrence, Paul Lewis, Severin Carrell, David Pegg, Harry Davies and Rob Evans)

    In a response to questions about the government’s handling of the Covid-19 pandemic, and whether Johnson regrets any elements of it, Downing Street did not accept any criticisms. A spokesperson replied in a statement:
    “This is an unprecedented global pandemic and we have taken the right steps at the right time to combat it, guided by the best scientific advice. …

    (That is politely described as lying.)

  88. 88.

    Shalimar

    My first thought was we only have 60,000 dead so far, Kushner has barely begun fucking this up.

  89. 89.

    Bill Arnold

    @Searcher:

    Remember to stay one pitchfork-length away from fellow members of your angry mob. Social distancing!

    Easy. Lash a chainsaw (a little chainsaw) to the end of 2-meter pole. (The triggering is a little complicated but do-able.)

  90. 90.

    Sure Lurkalot

    I stole this from a comment on NMMNB.

    Washington (DC) – In an interview with FOX and Friends this morning Jared Kushner expressed pleasure at the Trump administration’s handling of the Coronavirus pandemic, and said we should all take pride in the federal response to the crisis.

    “Experts said we would have 60,000 dead by late August, and we’ve hit that target here in late April,” said Kushner. “This is just one more example of this Trump administration exceeding its goals, getting the job done ahead of schedule, ahead of budget, and ahead of expectations.”

    I have worked with many Jared Kushners over a long career financing commercial real estate. The arrogance and entitlement are exponentially greater than any semblance of intelligence.

    Yea, I’m retired!

  93. 93.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    @Elizabelle:

    You’re probably right. Sometimes the gallows humor in the comments at LGM can be really funny, but this “LOL nothing is going to change” shit isn’t

    @Adam L Silverman:

    “Alright, now that I’ve learned how to single-handedly solve the coronavirus pandemic, time to read up on how to become a real boy.”

  94. 94.

    Bill Arnold

    (Recycled from a comment a while ago):
    Let me put it this way; if there were a trolley problem where one was offered an anonymous choice between saving Jared. Kushner and saving an innocent wolf spider with an egg sack, my choice might[1] be Life for the spider-mom and her unborn children. And I would not kill the philosopher.

    [1] with high probability

  98. 98.

    trollhattan

    Don’t know about y’all, but just as soon as it’s safe to participate in an angry mob, I intend to join one. Voting these grifting ghouls out won’t be nearly enough. I want them to have to flee the goddamned country, change their names and undergo reconstructive surgery.

    So say we all. I could add outcomes to the final list, but I’m too predictable so these will do just fine.

    Ghouls, and damn proud of it.

  100. 100.

    Elizabelle

    @Baud: Sorry to hear, and hope you are much better and shake the virus, soonest.

    More on Baud Toes.  WaPost.  Should be a free click. It’s a good article.

    ‘Frostbite’ toes and other peculiar rashes may be signs of hidden coronavirus infection, especially in the young

    As a dermatologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Esther Freeman was prepared for things to be a bit quieter during the pandemic lockdown. But not too long after it began, she started getting urgent calls about odd frostbite-like patches showing up on people’s toes.

    The rash itself was rather harmless. While some complained of a burning sensation, the inflammation usually disappeared on its own in two to three weeks without treatment. What was striking is that many of those patients had tested positive for covid-19.

    “My inbox and my telemedicine clinic are full of just toes. It’s all about toes. I have never seen so many toes,” Freeman said. [Shades of Quentin Tarantino.]

    The curious phenomenon has also caught the interest of researchers in hot zones such as France, Italy and China. But the reports had been mostly limited to individual case studies and first-person observations, making it difficult to determine what these rashes mean, why they are occurring and how they are linked to the virus.
    ….

    And in the same way the first sign of infection for some may be loss of smell and taste — those are among the six new covid-19 symptoms the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention added to its list Monday — the toe rashes may be an early marker of disease, or possibly one that it has resolved and passed.

    One of the clearest findings of the new paper is that most patients with “covid toes” were asymptomatic or had only mild symptoms. Another is their age. Nearly all were children or adults in their 20s and 30s — a group that as a whole tends to have a less severe bodily response to the disease than their older counterparts.

    Freeman, a Harvard Medical School researcher who led the analysis in collaboration with the American Academy of Dermatology, said the information should be comforting to those who have seen the lesions on themselves or loved ones.
    …

    “Most of the patients were young, healthy and had a benign clinical course,” she said.

    “The message to the public is not to panic,” she added. “I don’t want people to think if they are having purple spots on their toes that they are going to end up on a ventilator in the ICU. That is not what we are seeing in the data.”

    …. This type of rash, called pernio or chilblains, usually occurs in the dead of winter because of exposure to cold, such as when a person is slogging in freezing rain in wet socks. But covid-19 patients are getting it in springtime. Doctors also typically see the rash in people who work as florists or in warehouses that are not temperature-controlled — not in children, as is happening now.

    “The truth is nobody knows why this is happening and why it’s happening in the toes and fingers,” said Ebbing Lautenbach, chief of the division of infectious diseases at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine.

    One theory is that it may be related to inflammation and blood-clotting complications, he said, which more and more doctors suspect are a cause of some covid-19 deaths.

    “As you get away from the core of the body out to the periphery, the blood vessels get smaller, so they are more susceptible to inflammation and clotting,” Lautenbach explained.

  102. 102.

    Mnemosyne

    @Poe Larity:

    Yeah. Disney ain’t re-opening until they’re 1000% sure that no one is going to catch Covid-19 while they’re visiting there. That would be a frickin’ PR disaster worse than the time a toddler got eaten by an alligator at a Disney hotel.

  103. 103.

    Juju

    @Frankensteinbeck: Isn’t there a saying about how women tend to marry men like their fathers?  From what I’ve read of Jared, he seems to be cut from the same cloth as his father in law. It makes sense that Ivanka married a man like that, she is a textbook case of a woman  marrying a man like daddy.

  105. 105.

    Elizabelle

    @Baud:   Your experience is the first I’ve heard of that symptom.

    I hope your case has resolved.  Hope you never catch it again.

  107. 107.

    Mnemosyne

    @Poe Larity:

    Also, too, I suspect that the Florida county task force called Disney to ask them to re-open and the two Bobs laughed in their faces. And then asked when their furloughed employees were going to receive their unemployment checks.

  112. 112.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Frankensteinbeck: @Juju: The marriage was arranged by Wendy Deng whose assignment at the time was to be married to Rupert Murdoch. Deng is PRC security/intel asset. She is currently assigned to be Putin’s mistress.

    When Jared and Ivanka broke off their relationship, Deng went out of her way to get them back together and ensure they got married. The marriage was not an accident. It was not true love. It was part of a larger influence op.

  113. 113.

    Sm*t Cl*de

    They have reached the “Declare victory and evacuate by helicopter from the roof of the embassy” stage of losing the War on COVID.

  115. 115.

    Another Scott

    @cain: Congratulations??

    Hehe.

    You can’t win when it comes to people (mis)interpreting tweets – it’s the nature of the beast, so you might as well enjoy your “fame”!

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  116. 116.

    jayjaybear

    @Sure Lurkalot: I had to read that three times before I recognized the satire. It’s just too plausible. This whole family and administration is a walking, talking Poe.

  117. 117.

    Mnemosyne

    @Adam L Silverman:

    I have not yet read Bob Iger’s autobiography, but apparently in the very first chapter he talks about how the opening of the Shanghai Park, the toddler’s death, and the Orlando mass murder all happened in the same 24 hours. The guy who did the Orlando shooting at Pulse went to Disney Springs first but was run off by security, which is why he went to the club instead.

  118. 118.

    JMG

    @Mnemosyne: Disney does everything it does in Florida at its own discretion. They give its officials orders, not the other way around.

    True story about the Mouse. Part of my sportswriting career took me to Super Bowl XXV in 1991 during the first Gulf War. Wound up one night having a drink with two Disney execs who were in charge of the halftime show. One of them said, dead serious, “if the White House had given us a little advance notice when they were going to attack, we REALLY could have done a patriotic show!”

    After pretending to choke on an ice cube, I told them they’d do just fine. They did. But that’s the Disney mentality. War on the horizon? Make sure to call us first.

  120. 120.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Mnemosyne: The thing with the toddler was just tragic. The Pulse nightclub massacre was tragic in a different way and I’m not surprised the guy wanted a bigger venue, so to speak. But knowing what I know about Disney security, I’m not surprised he got run off.

  122. 122.

    cain

    @Another Scott:

    But the guy was no worse than some right winger shows. Yeah he can make fun of me if he wants. Whatever.

    But yeah that is the nature of social media and there is a mob mentality involved .. certainly not a place for erudite discourse!

  123. 123.

    Mnemosyne

    @JMG:

    It’s all about showbiz. Fortunately for all of us, having guests and cast members spread a potentially deadly virus during a global pandemic is Bad For Business, so they’re not going to re-open until they feel like they can assure paying customers that they won’t get sick on property.

  124. 124.

    Greenergood

    @Barbara: jeezo! Your symptoms sound scarey, and you need look after yrself , phone yr doc and isolate from anyone near you ! Please!!

  129. 129.

    Ohio Mom

    Adam L. Silverman @112: Putin has to know Deng is a PRC asset, which must make it a very weird relationship.

  132. 132.

    Kattails

    @Elizabelle: Paywall. Whose old nose? Deng’s or Ivanka’s? That’s really all I wanted to see…

    The bit about Jared and Ivanka doesn’t really surprise me; all the same, one of the last places on the planet I want to be, psychically or imaginatively, is inside either of those two heads. (shudders)

  133. 133.

    Elizabelle

    @Kattails:   Ivanka’s.  Will see if I can find you an unpaywalled photo …. (and I still have not read the article, but it might make a great blogpost topic) …

  137. 137.

    Spadizzly

    @Juju: Not my daughter.  Last time we spoke, which was last year, he showed his ass to all present as an avid Brexiteer and trumpite.  So, I’d have to say no to that.

    Isn’t there a saying about how women tend to marry men like their fathers?

  138. 138.

    LongHairedWeirdo

    I’m not a violent person, but I must confess, imagining Jared’s smarmy face saying the federal government did *great* gives me a deep, visceral understanding of – I’ve heard there’s a word, in another language, meaning “a face that needs a fist” (DuckDuckGo suggests “Backpfeifengesicht”). This is an aesthetic comment, mind you, not a suggestion for action!

  139. 139.

    JustRuss

    My nurse sister-in-law, who’s been working 12 hour shifts for over a month with chronic shortages of PPE has just tested positive, and is praying she doesn’t give it to her daughter who’s recovering from a severe infection that resulted from a car crash. I’m so tired of this Put America Back to Work BS.  We’re not even close to being ready.   Sign me up for Team Angry Mob.

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