Grateful you did wade through this morass so that we don't have to. Imagine reading the entire thing??? get me to the vomitorium! Thanks also for the link to the article in The Intercept about his visit to MBS and the fallout that seems to coincide too much to be coincidental. How these people can sleep at night is beyond me.
Always swing at the easy pitches. Jared Kushner is the definition of “sniveling,” so we agree completely. As the Russians and the Saudis have both said somewhere, he’s totally transactional: he’s only in it for what he can get out of it, just like his family felon and his felonious traitor of a father-in-law. What amazes me is how tolerant half of America is for these thugs. (“Thugs” from a Hindi word “thugee” meaning gang of random murderers, a cult of the goddess Kali, the divinity worshipped with offerings of sugar).
Let’s not impugn the reputation of Kali just because of some losers that happen to admire her. Remember, Trump and Kushner and MAGA and Company trumpet themselves as patriots and worshippers of the US Constitution when they are actually just devotees of whites-on-top, hetero only and males-first society.
Absolutely. No disparagement of the divine intended. After all, Christ has “followers” who do much the same thing, esp DiSantis and the legal refugees, but he is only a current example of a bloody history of so-called Christian murders and wars.
Thanks, John. I think people liked dealing with him because he IS so transactional, compared to the rest of the lot. He's not tricky. He's just venal. I didn't know that about the word "thug!"
Greg’s review of Kushner’s obviously fatuous, vain autobiography confirms what we already surmised:
…that Kushner is as vacuous as the family he married into and the people they surround themselves with.
When retweeting and reposting this brief comment on channels where MAGA-ts abide, for the sake of clarity, let’s substitute the following for ‘vacuous’:
Good call. "Vacuous" would confuse them in that Jared couldn't possibly be cleaning his own floors, he has Ivanka for that, and she's got a Mexican for that.
Jared and Ivanka come from the same heritage, the cut-throat NYC real estate jungle (speaking of thugs and Thuggee).
NYC has a vile and vicious tone / aspect. I have been to a number of other very large cities: London, Paris, Munich, other not-as-populous European cities, Cairo, Jakarta, Lagos, Istanbul. The vilest-feeling city on the planet, imo only and based only on my limited experience, is NYC. It is the cut-throat center of finance, I believe, which gives it that gruesome vibe I pick up when I’m there. Not a fan. (also spent significant time in most major cities on the east coast + Chicago + everything west of the Mississippi, none of them feel to me anything like NYC either)
If living through this Trump nightmare is not bad enough, with endless congress people, hacks, and former "advisors" making millions off of sharing secrets too late, and seeking acclaim, because of their absurd involvement; a book by Kushner, lands here to literally brag about how he is once again, since Harvard, placed in a position for which he had no credentials, nor talent, nor passion, NOR intention to do correctly (whatever that would be) He would do better to call it "Grifting at the Highest Levels" Somehow, every lowlife in the world has surfaced to be involved with the Trump administration, for which they can write books, and show off their grifting rewards. This insanity has to stop.It looks indeed like it will have to be stopped, if and when we have a DOJ, who can just go "hold everything", this has to be stopped. (that simple) Perhaps by then we will not have to suffer one more of these catastrophic literary failures.
"Breaking History" only exists for Jared's own self-aggrandizement. He does NOT need the money, but I'm sure that has never stopped rich, pampered, undeserving people from trying to get more. The book is out there so he can say that he wrote a WHOLE book. I would assume he spends a lot of time feeling inadequate and a WHOLE book helps with that. His wife continuously overshadows him, his father-in-law would be "dating" his wife if she wasn't his daughter, and Jared's nickname in most circles of reasonable, thinking people is Slenderman.
Yeah, I'd probably write a book too, if all I REALLY had to show for my time in the White House was the murder of a journalist, a friendship with the murderer (who also said that Jared is "in his pocket"), a ridiculously named "peace treaty" that isn't worth the papyrus it's written on, an out-of-control, traitorous father-in-law, when Jared was supposed to be part of the team that kept him in line, and the author of the idea to kill people in blue states because it would be good politically for Trump. I'd write a book too, and cherry-pick exactly what I wanted people to read about "what I did in Washington." As our friends the Brits would say, Jared is a c*nt.
I think you hit the nail on the (empty) head, Steve. He wrote a book to say he wrote a book. I fail to understand how this unelected ghoul has escaped indictment, or even serious investigation, for his many crimes.
I remember seeing Time Magazine from January 2020 with Jared on the cover. I was in an office waiting for an appointment and I laughed out loud when I saw it…and I couldn’t stop laughing! I’m sure people thought I was nuts. My first thought was, “He looks like he’s made out of plastic”. My second thought was, “What kind of person would approve of THAT picture to be on the cover of a magazine that everyone/anyone can see?” To me he seems like an empty vessel waiting to be sold to the highest bidder. “He may as well be a vampire staring into the mirror: there’s nothing there.” You do know that their endgame is for Ivanka to be the first female President, don’t you? I can just see them scheming different ways to make that happen. I would say “It will NEVER happen!” But then…
I wish there was video of you laughing! That would be funny.
There is, alas, a tradition of the daughter of fallen strongmen or wannabe strongmen picking up the torch. Marine Le Pen is but one example. Not sure Ivanka has much of a constituency, though. Even Junior has more actual fans than she does at this point.
Greg, as I read this, I wondered why on earth anyone would spend a nickel on such a POS. I was thankful to see you had only perused what Amazon put out for free. I for one, will not be reading this. Your description of him looking into the mirror and seeing nothing is exactly how I see him. He's like a plastic version of a Stepford person (I will not use the word "man" because I don't think it applies to him.)
There's actually quite a bit available for free, so it worked out fine. There's no way it got better. When one of these White House assholes writes a book, there's usually a handful of news stories from revelations therein. Not so here. It came and went, empty and devoid of any useful information.
Fortunately, we weren’t overly subjected to Kushner’s “genius” while he was drifting--stupid spell checker--grifting through Trump’s 4 years in the White House. (Hopefully, Trump will be spending a lot of time in another house--the big house.)
Kushner’s condescending attitude was on full display during his recorded interview with the January 6 Committee. He, the “princeling,” was too far too busy arranging pardons for some of Trump’s criminal accomplices to pay attention to mere mortals. Thus, White House counsel Pat Cipollone’s repeated warnings of rampant criminality were chalked it up to “whining.”
I would add a second positive outcome of Kushner’s book. It’s hardcopy prima facie evidence that it’s quite possible to go through Harvard without collecting any wisdom along the way.
He was SUCH a dick in that interview. Good lord. He was in the shower. He was busy monetizing...err, arranging pardons. I hope they feature him more in the hearings later this month. And I'd like hearings on the covid sabotage, too. If we can't charge him, at least make damn sure the world knows he is responsible for many people dying.
Harvard has not benefited much from the Trump years. Not at all.
That statement "Humbled by the complexity of the task, I orchestrated some of the most significant breakthroughs in diplomacy in the last fifty years" has to be one of the all-time humblebrags ever written by any empty suit. I'm surprised he didn't follow up with "After discovering the cure for cancer over the 2019 Labor Day weekend, I followed up with resolving both the COVID-19 and HIV pandemics by the end of the following week." What a jackass.....
I'm so sorry you had to wade through this drivel inorder to break it down for the rest of us. What a parasite! Great writing as always. Cheers.
Thanks, Helen. Drivel is what it is.
I was gonna say, "You BOUGHT that book?" Glad you cleared that up. Jeezus these people.
No effin' way I give that asshole a dime. Although he probably won't recoup his advance, is what it's looking like. Publisher lost money on it.
Grateful you did wade through this morass so that we don't have to. Imagine reading the entire thing??? get me to the vomitorium! Thanks also for the link to the article in The Intercept about his visit to MBS and the fallout that seems to coincide too much to be coincidental. How these people can sleep at night is beyond me.
"get me to the vomitorium!" 🤣🤣🤣
Thanks, Gabriele. They sleep in a satin-lined coffin, in a castle in Transylvania, protected by wolves and bats and familiars. ; )
Always swing at the easy pitches. Jared Kushner is the definition of “sniveling,” so we agree completely. As the Russians and the Saudis have both said somewhere, he’s totally transactional: he’s only in it for what he can get out of it, just like his family felon and his felonious traitor of a father-in-law. What amazes me is how tolerant half of America is for these thugs. (“Thugs” from a Hindi word “thugee” meaning gang of random murderers, a cult of the goddess Kali, the divinity worshipped with offerings of sugar).
Let’s not impugn the reputation of Kali just because of some losers that happen to admire her. Remember, Trump and Kushner and MAGA and Company trumpet themselves as patriots and worshippers of the US Constitution when they are actually just devotees of whites-on-top, hetero only and males-first society.
Absolutely. No disparagement of the divine intended. After all, Christ has “followers” who do much the same thing, esp DiSantis and the legal refugees, but he is only a current example of a bloody history of so-called Christian murders and wars.
Precisely
Yes, absolutely agree with all of what you say.
Thanks, John. I think people liked dealing with him because he IS so transactional, compared to the rest of the lot. He's not tricky. He's just venal. I didn't know that about the word "thug!"
Greg’s review of Kushner’s obviously fatuous, vain autobiography confirms what we already surmised:
…that Kushner is as vacuous as the family he married into and the people they surround themselves with.
When retweeting and reposting this brief comment on channels where MAGA-ts abide, for the sake of clarity, let’s substitute the following for ‘vacuous’:
Bubblehead. Airhead. Bimbo. Clueless moron. Shit-for-brains.
Good call. "Vacuous" would confuse them in that Jared couldn't possibly be cleaning his own floors, he has Ivanka for that, and she's got a Mexican for that.
It's the utter lack of self-awareness that really stands out for me. I don't think he realizes that everyone hates his guts.
Jared's latest move to the top.
Snitches off his Father in Law?
Years ago, I suggested that this would end with Ivanka having to choose between her father and her husband. We'll see...
Jared and Ivanka come from the same heritage, the cut-throat NYC real estate jungle (speaking of thugs and Thuggee).
NYC has a vile and vicious tone / aspect. I have been to a number of other very large cities: London, Paris, Munich, other not-as-populous European cities, Cairo, Jakarta, Lagos, Istanbul. The vilest-feeling city on the planet, imo only and based only on my limited experience, is NYC. It is the cut-throat center of finance, I believe, which gives it that gruesome vibe I pick up when I’m there. Not a fan. (also spent significant time in most major cities on the east coast + Chicago + everything west of the Mississippi, none of them feel to me anything like NYC either)
If living through this Trump nightmare is not bad enough, with endless congress people, hacks, and former "advisors" making millions off of sharing secrets too late, and seeking acclaim, because of their absurd involvement; a book by Kushner, lands here to literally brag about how he is once again, since Harvard, placed in a position for which he had no credentials, nor talent, nor passion, NOR intention to do correctly (whatever that would be) He would do better to call it "Grifting at the Highest Levels" Somehow, every lowlife in the world has surfaced to be involved with the Trump administration, for which they can write books, and show off their grifting rewards. This insanity has to stop.It looks indeed like it will have to be stopped, if and when we have a DOJ, who can just go "hold everything", this has to be stopped. (that simple) Perhaps by then we will not have to suffer one more of these catastrophic literary failures.
Wonderfully put, Marc. All of this really is a madness. So much of America is madness right now.
"Breaking History" only exists for Jared's own self-aggrandizement. He does NOT need the money, but I'm sure that has never stopped rich, pampered, undeserving people from trying to get more. The book is out there so he can say that he wrote a WHOLE book. I would assume he spends a lot of time feeling inadequate and a WHOLE book helps with that. His wife continuously overshadows him, his father-in-law would be "dating" his wife if she wasn't his daughter, and Jared's nickname in most circles of reasonable, thinking people is Slenderman.
Yeah, I'd probably write a book too, if all I REALLY had to show for my time in the White House was the murder of a journalist, a friendship with the murderer (who also said that Jared is "in his pocket"), a ridiculously named "peace treaty" that isn't worth the papyrus it's written on, an out-of-control, traitorous father-in-law, when Jared was supposed to be part of the team that kept him in line, and the author of the idea to kill people in blue states because it would be good politically for Trump. I'd write a book too, and cherry-pick exactly what I wanted people to read about "what I did in Washington." As our friends the Brits would say, Jared is a c*nt.
I think you hit the nail on the (empty) head, Steve. He wrote a book to say he wrote a book. I fail to understand how this unelected ghoul has escaped indictment, or even serious investigation, for his many crimes.
I remember seeing Time Magazine from January 2020 with Jared on the cover. I was in an office waiting for an appointment and I laughed out loud when I saw it…and I couldn’t stop laughing! I’m sure people thought I was nuts. My first thought was, “He looks like he’s made out of plastic”. My second thought was, “What kind of person would approve of THAT picture to be on the cover of a magazine that everyone/anyone can see?” To me he seems like an empty vessel waiting to be sold to the highest bidder. “He may as well be a vampire staring into the mirror: there’s nothing there.” You do know that their endgame is for Ivanka to be the first female President, don’t you? I can just see them scheming different ways to make that happen. I would say “It will NEVER happen!” But then…
I wish there was video of you laughing! That would be funny.
There is, alas, a tradition of the daughter of fallen strongmen or wannabe strongmen picking up the torch. Marine Le Pen is but one example. Not sure Ivanka has much of a constituency, though. Even Junior has more actual fans than she does at this point.
Greg, as I read this, I wondered why on earth anyone would spend a nickel on such a POS. I was thankful to see you had only perused what Amazon put out for free. I for one, will not be reading this. Your description of him looking into the mirror and seeing nothing is exactly how I see him. He's like a plastic version of a Stepford person (I will not use the word "man" because I don't think it applies to him.)
There's actually quite a bit available for free, so it worked out fine. There's no way it got better. When one of these White House assholes writes a book, there's usually a handful of news stories from revelations therein. Not so here. It came and went, empty and devoid of any useful information.
Your last sentence could have been said about the author as well!
Fortunately, we weren’t overly subjected to Kushner’s “genius” while he was drifting--stupid spell checker--grifting through Trump’s 4 years in the White House. (Hopefully, Trump will be spending a lot of time in another house--the big house.)
Kushner’s condescending attitude was on full display during his recorded interview with the January 6 Committee. He, the “princeling,” was too far too busy arranging pardons for some of Trump’s criminal accomplices to pay attention to mere mortals. Thus, White House counsel Pat Cipollone’s repeated warnings of rampant criminality were chalked it up to “whining.”
I would add a second positive outcome of Kushner’s book. It’s hardcopy prima facie evidence that it’s quite possible to go through Harvard without collecting any wisdom along the way.
He was SUCH a dick in that interview. Good lord. He was in the shower. He was busy monetizing...err, arranging pardons. I hope they feature him more in the hearings later this month. And I'd like hearings on the covid sabotage, too. If we can't charge him, at least make damn sure the world knows he is responsible for many people dying.
Harvard has not benefited much from the Trump years. Not at all.
Thanks, but no thanks, Greg. I've already ordered another book, "Empress..." which will take up most of my reading time. I hear it's really good!
Thanks, Lynell! I'm sure you will enjoy it more. : )
Thanks for the breakdown. Sorry you had to read that bs! No surprises in it but wasn't expecting any. And yes he IS a vampire.
Thanks, Nancy!
Greg, You wrote
"Jared Kushner Breaks History "
Did you mean to say
JARED KUSHNER BREAKS WIND
[cue Bronx cheer]
I've been "breaking wind"
since grade school
That statement "Humbled by the complexity of the task, I orchestrated some of the most significant breakthroughs in diplomacy in the last fifty years" has to be one of the all-time humblebrags ever written by any empty suit. I'm surprised he didn't follow up with "After discovering the cure for cancer over the 2019 Labor Day weekend, I followed up with resolving both the COVID-19 and HIV pandemics by the end of the following week." What a jackass.....
Books penned by either half of the Jarvanka cipher aren't of much interest. Surely, ghostwriters do better