Once again, Ivanka Trump shows off her cluelessness - By Jennifer Rubin

[DonViejo]

December 21 at 2:21 PM

She’s a walking advertisement for the danger of nepotism, an exemplar of class privilege and a perfect representative for Republican know-nothingism. She was supposed to be the brains of the family and the moral ballast; instead, she’s a self-righteous enabler.

We’re speaking of Ivanka Trump, as you might have divined. She was out talking nonsense again on Thursday: “I’m really looking forward to doing a lot of traveling in April when people realize the effect that this has … The vast majority will be [doing their taxes] on a single postcard.” Thunk. There’s no postcard. That was a prop. And the filing for the first year under the new tax code will be in 2019.

She also declared of Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), who decided to vote for the final tax bill after voting no on the Senate version: “He really believes that tax relief, coupled with the administration’s deregulatory actions, will create the growth that will start to erode and ultimately eliminate the national debt that has been accrued over the last several decades.” I’m confident Corker believes no such thing because that would be preposterous, unsupported by any reputable economic analysis. (Corker voted for the final bill upon concluding it was flawed but helpful in promoting economic growth.) As Business Insider put it:

This theory — that the bill will pay for itself and even erode existing debt through increased economic growth — is unsubstantiated. Virtually no nonpartisan studies or experts have found that the GOP bill, which slashes the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21%, will be deficit-neutral or decrease the debt-to-GDP ratio.

In fairness to Trump, Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) also advanced this hooey, but you would think that she would at least have witnessed the pummeling Collins took for her phony assertion and learned from that. When one is not used to be being contradicted, one is perhaps less concerned with accuracy.

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[Scarsdale]

1. Someone should let the

air out of Ivanka the blow up sex toy, pack her back to NY. In April when she plans all this travelling and speechifying, who will be visiting her husband in prison? Maybe, if we are lucky, her daddy will be behind bars, too. The nannies take care of the kids, so they will not notice the absence of mommy and daddy. Her mother looks like a gin soaked harpy, and THAT is what she will look like in a few short years.

[underpants]

4. Betty Bowers

Link to tweet

?s=17

[madaboutharry]

2. The Princess Royal.

She inherited all of her father's worst qualities. She is a fraud. Everything about her is for affect. Even the way she talks, with her breathy voice and mid-sentence smile, is fake. It is striking that anyone can take her seriously, even herself.

[mercuryblues]

5. Czarina

[underpants]

3. Between her and Wyatt Koch the golden children are exposing the horrible truth

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1017&pid=471842

[Solly Mack]

6. Paltrow gave us Goop. Ivanka gives us Poop. Either way...

It's all shit.

[The_Casual_Observer]

7. This genius is on tour talking up STEM. She wouldn't know which end of a telescope to look in.

[handmade34]

8. first 2 minutes...

[lunatica]

9. I'll say one thing in favor of Ivanka

When she gets a pummeling from the public she stays out of sight for a few weeks. The rest of her family just double down and prove their initial stupidity wasn't just accidental.

[TheBlackAdder]

10. I wonder if Sen. Susan Colins wasn't just holding out for a more vicious tax plan to vote on.