President Trump: Making America Great Again...

[Jeff Lebowski]

Yup. Flood the zone with so much contradictory noise that as many as possible get confused.

Tough to argue with the results. It seems to be working.

[Jeff Lebowski]

If you haven't seen it yet, this NYT review of Jared Kushner's book is amazing.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/17/b...e=articleShare

“Breaking History” is an earnest and soulless — Kushner looks like a mannequin, and he writes like one — and peculiarly selective appraisal of Donald J. Trump’s term in office. Kushner almost entirely ignores the chaos, the alienation of allies, the breaking of laws and norms, the flirtations with dictators, the comprehensive loss of America’s moral leadership, and so on, ad infinitum, to speak about his boyish tinkering (the “mechanic”) with issues he was interested in.

This book is like a tour of a once majestic 18th-century wooden house, now burned to its foundations, that focuses solely on, and rejoices in, what’s left amid the ashes: the two singed bathtubs, the gravel driveway and the mailbox. Kushner’s fealty to Trump remains absolute. Reading this book reminded me of watching a cat lick a dog’s eye goo.

The tone is college admissions essay. Typical sentence: “In an environment of maximum pressure, I learned to ignore the noise and distractions and instead to push for results that would improve lives.”

Every political cliché gets a fresh shampooing. “Even in a starkly divided country, there are always opportunities to build bridges,” Kushner writes. And, quoting the former White House deputy chief of staff Chris Liddell: “Every day here is sand through an hourglass, and we have to make it count.” So true, for these are the days of our lives.

Kushner, poignantly, repeatedly beats his own drum. He recalls every drop of praise he’s ever received; he brings these home and he leaves them on the doorstep. You turn the pages and find, almost at random, colleagues, some of them famous, trying to be kind, uttering things like:

It’s really not fair how the press is beating you up. You made a very positive contribution.

I don’t know how you do this every day on so many topics. That was really hard! You deserve an award for all you’ve done.

I’ve said before, and I’ll say again. This agreement would not have happened if it wasn’t for Jared.

Jared did an amazing job working with Bob Lighthizer on the incredible USMCA trade deal we signed yesterday.

Jared’s a genius. People complain about nepotism — I’m the one who got the steal here.

I’ve been in Washington a long time, and I must say, Jared is one of the best lobbyists I’ve ever seen.

A therapist might call these cries for help.

[Maximus]

If you haven't seen it yet, this NYT review of Jared Kushner's book is amazing.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/17/b...e=articleShare

Amazing

[Eddie]

That book review is hilarious. "Watching a cat lick a dog's eye goo"? Oh my.

I'm sure it's deserved, but it isn't surprising. In fact, I'll bet they were licking their chops waiting for the book to come out to shred it.

I haven't read a ton of them, but I don't know that I've ever read a NYT book review for a book written by a "conservative" that doesn't get similar treatment. Not quite this bitting - but certainly not kind or even remotely objective.

This isn't to say that Kushner's book is good. I'm not really commenting on his book at all - I'm more commenting on the NYT book review folks and their biases, which means that most books they review won't be all that objective.

[Jeff Lebowski]

That book review is hilarious. "Watching a cat lick a dog's eye goo"? Oh my.

I'm sure it's deserved, but it isn't surprising. In fact, I'll bet they were licking their chops waiting for the book to come out to shred it.

I haven't read a ton of them, but I don't know that I've ever read a NYT book review for a book written by a "conservative" that doesn't get similar treatment. Not quite this bitting - but certainly not kind or even remotely objective.

This isn't to say that Kushner's book is good. I'm not really commenting on his book at all - I'm more commenting on the NYT book review folks and their biases, which means that most books they review won't be all that objective.

The NYT has a bias? Wow, who knew?

I couldn’t care less. That review is a work of art. Put it in a frame.

[Commando]

If you haven't seen it yet, this NYT review of Jared Kushner's book is amazing.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/17/b...e=articleShare

Love it. I'm tired of Trump and company being taken seriously. Every single critical observation about them needs to be exactly like this until they are vanquished.

[myboynoah]

So Trump endorsed this guy?

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[falafel]

Is that a workout t-shirt tucked in to dress pants?

[Clark Addison]

Does he have anyone advising him at all on his little videos?

[Northwestcoug]

Does he have anyone advising him at all on his little videos?

sure. John Fetterman.

[Uncle Ted]

So Trump endorsed this guy?

Why does anyone endorse this guy?...

But when it comes to bringing costs down for working Pennsylvanians, we can’t end there. It’s time we crack down on the big, price gouging corporations that are making record profits while jacking up prices for all of us.

Take the massive oil companies, for example. Chevron, Exxon, and Shell have seen their profits increase 200% since last year, but they’re still charging us sky-high prices for gas. Companies like Tyson posted over a billion dollars in profits last quarter, while raising prices on meat products our families depend on.

It’s gross, and deeply unpatriotic, for the big corporations to be rolling around in cash while charging us record high prices for gas and groceries.

https://www.timesleader.com/opinion/...on-accountable

He wants to bring down prices by "cracking down" oil and grocery CEOs? He is obviously one of those "democratic socialists" idiots... but it will work this time, right?

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[Northwestcoug]

What a very weird family:

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[Jeff Lebowski]

Ann Coulter again makes a case that Trump is done and that Republicans should stop sucking up to him. She cites several pieces of evidence that Trump support is waning and Republicans need to dump him before it is too late.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...thb?li=BBnbfcL

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[Northwestcoug]

Ann Coulter again makes a case that Trump is done and that Republicans should stop sucking up to him. She cites several pieces of evidence that Trump support is waning and Republicans need to dump him before it is too late.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...thb?li=BBnbfcL

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Of course, these will be the first people to come running back if Trump wins the nomination.

[Commando]

If Trump's dead- good. He has caused quite a bit of damage to our country, though. You have people like DeSantis who got the green light to be a total POS from Trump and are just running w the baton at this point. I imagine like a Xerox, the copy of the copies will fade through the election cycles, but who knows how long it will take the GOP to get back to being pro-America.