What an excellent comeback.
In election Hail Mary, Jared Kushner tells black people they're lazy and unambitious
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What an excellent comeback.
What are you talking about? What is this hyperbole you speak of? I dont recall ever claiming something was out of context. Maybe I dont remember claiming it, but it is not something I usually do. Since we have established that my memory is much better than yours, I highly doubt you have a concrete example.
What are you talking about? What is this hyperbole you speak of? I dont recall ever claiming something was out of context. Maybe I dont remember claiming it, but it is not something I usually do. Since we have established that my memory is much better than yours, I highly doubt you have a concrete example.
Perhaps you should start first with learning what hyperbole actually means. It isn't something taken out of context.
I know, post more gifs. That always shows people that you know what you're talking about.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/10/jared-kushner-black-community-success
He said this while trying to argue that Black people should vote for Donald Trump.
For anyone who’s not entirely up to speed on first son-in-law Jared Kushner’s backstory, a brief primer: the son of a wealthy real estate developer who went to prison, in part for retaliating against his brother-in-law for cooperating with federal investigators by hiring a prostitute to seduce the guy, filming the encounter, and sending it to his sister, Kushner attended Harvard to which his dad had reportedly conveniently pledged $2.5 million shortly before he was accepted. In Cambridge, Massachusetts, he drove a Range Rover around campus, and according to a classmate, “He didn’t do it with a sense of humor. He did it, like, ‘I’m fucking rich.’” At 27, he became CEO of his family’s business while his father was in prison and was known for, among other things, buying an aging skyscraper on the eve of the financial crisis for a then record price of $1.8 billion—a deal that subsequently blew up in his face. In 2006, he purchased the New York Observer for $10 million with what he said was his own money earned doing real estate deals during his time at Harvard, not mentioning that the backing for those investments reportedly came from his family. You may have also heard that he has zero government experience but got his current gig because his father-in-law is the president, which is also the only reason he was able to obtain his security clearance.
All of which is to say, when people think of hard-working, boot-strapping individuals who’ve succeeded purely on their own merits, they don’t think of the Boy Prince of New Jersey, who has effectively earned nothing in his life and has had everything handed to him by either his rich father or rich father-in-law, while nevertheless thinking he’s found himself on third base because he hit a triple. And yet, strangely, here’s what he had to say about Black people on Monday morning while—we think??— trying to convince said Black people to vote for Donald Trump:
So, just to recap, that’s adviser to the president Jared Kushner not just saying that Black Americans only have themselves to blame if they’re not successful—and not, say, centuries of systemic racism—but that they should quit bitching about their circumstances. And this was supposed to persuade the people he’s referring to to give his boss a second term in the White House and, by extension, keep him employed for another four years. (For the Kushnerphiles, this will likely be reminiscent of the time Jared tried to get Palestinians to sign onto his Middle East peace deal by calling them “hysterical and stupid”.)
Anyway, because the interview was going so well, and Kushner was presumably thinking to himself, You are nailing this Big J, fingers crossed Ivanka remembered to hit record on the DVR so we can toast how great it went tonight, he continued:
As for Kushner’s wife’s father’s relationship with the Black community, the apple obviously does not fall far from the rich-daddy-fuckup-son tree. Here are just a sampling of the things that Trump, who last week claimed “Nobody has done more for the Black community than Donald Trump” with the “possible exception” of Abraham Lincoln, has done to show his love for Black people:
Trump has also, according to the Washington Post, “maintained that Black Americans have mainly themselves to blame in their struggle for equality, hindered more by lack of initiative than societal impediments,” so maybe he and Kushner crafted this morning’s can’t-lose talking point together.
- Condemned Black Lives Matter and called it a “symbol of hate” while simultaneously defending armed white militants
- Allegedly said “Tell me one country run by a Black person that isn’t a s---hole”
- Reportedly only agreed to sign the First Step Act, which released or reduced sentences for thousands of inmates, many of whom were Black men who’d been convicted of nonviolent drug crimes, after being told it might help his poll numbers with Black people, and then “went s---house crazy” and asked “why the hell did I do that?” after it did not
- Presided over a pandemic in which unemployment for Black people has disproportionately surged
They heard ya Jared
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/11/03/us/elections/results-michigan-president.html
Biden’s narrow win in Michigan was the product of extremely high turnout in Detroit, where an underwhelming performance with Black voters in 2016 helped doom Hillary Clinton.
Ah, who let Tony Stark out of his cage?
The purpose of farm subsidies is to keep production high and prices low. But you being a democrat, I know you like it when people are hungry and starving because not enough food means the poor people will vote for socialism.
What is so great about people with no knowledge is that it takes 30 seconds on google to destroy an argument.
Read below.... subsidies pick and choose which crops the government wants to support and deincentivizes the rest. Sounds like communism to me.
Tell me again how the subsidies are feeding America?????
Subsidies keep prices down because it encourages farmers to grow corn and soy at huge levels. They are basically feed crops and export products.
All the fruits and vegetables you should be eating barely get subsidies.....
Put yourself in the farmer’s shoes: When your subsidy check is calculated in terms of acres of corn or soy planted, it’s hard to rationalize planting anything else. About 90 million acres of each are planted annually in America, accounting for more than half of all cropland. Of the corn, 90 percent of the crop will either be fed to livestock, converted to ethanol fuel or exported. Most of the corn that does make its way into the gaping American maw isn’t on the cob, or even in the form of corn chips, but pours in as high-fructose corn syrup and other corn-derived products found in processed foods.
Meanwhile, fruits, nuts and vegetables — known as “specialty crops” in industry jargon — account for only 10 million acres, or about three percent of cropland. We all know they’re supposed to account for more than that on our plates. Yet, specialty crops aren’t eligible for Farm Bill subsidies.
oh yes, Americans love soy beans and shitty corn for ethanol and cattle feed.
Subsidies are fine but dont pretend it is not socialism/communism in its intent...