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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums'We'll all be dead by June!': Jared Kushner screamed at a health official ...
... after hearing about delayed mask shipments, according to new book
"You f---ing moron," Kushner reportedly yelled at then-assistant secretary of the Health and Human Services Department, Robert Kadlec, who purchased 600 million masks as coronavirus infections had spiked across the country. "We'll all be dead by June!"
The scene was revealed in the new book, "Nightmare Scenario: Inside the Trump Administration's Response to the Pandemic That Changed History," by Washington Post reporters Yasmeen Abutaleb and Damian Paletta.
Kushner grew so frustrated that he threw his pen at the wall, the book reports. At the time, he had taken on greater responsibilities as senior advisor to former President Donald Trump, playing an influential role in the White House's COVID-19 response.
https://www.businessinsider.com/jared-kushner-moron-health-official-dead-by-june-book-2021-6
(meanwhile, his father-in-law was busy telling Americans that the virus was a hoax, no worse than the flu, and would be gone by Easter)
Me.
(35,454 posts)CrispyQ
(36,527 posts)cuz the virus was only in the blue states? Too bad the Covid didn't get him.
Freethinker65
(10,061 posts)brush
(53,887 posts)Did he get anything done?
Nope. Nada, Zilch. Nil.
Captain Zero
(6,827 posts)Nt.
kirkuchiyo
(402 posts)AZLD4Candidate
(5,774 posts)Mike Nelson
(9,969 posts)... I hope the wall survived Jared's sketchy pen.
dweller
(23,665 posts)It fell short, falling limply to the floor before his desk
✌🏻
SaintLouisBlues
(1,244 posts)men throwing rocks with the other hand
brush
(53,887 posts)and how to throw with your dominate arm...whether it be in Little League or sandlot or just in the backyard with family and friends.
SaintLouisBlues
(1,244 posts)brush
(53,887 posts)Casady1
(2,133 posts)dear leader said Covid was a hoax.
11 Bravo
(23,926 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)over this. Can you imagine that voice when it starts screaming at someone?
FSogol
(45,529 posts)Diamond_Dog
(32,091 posts)referred to as senior advisor its just a laugh.
That inept moron couldnt advise a junior high school yearbook staff.
monkeyman1
(5,109 posts)AZLD4Candidate
(5,774 posts)Kushner is stupid everywhere.
Please give respect to one of the greatest comedy acts of all time.
monkeyman1
(5,109 posts)greenjar_01
(6,477 posts)He believed the virus would wipe out the country while the President insisted to the public that everything was fine. He also called people "fucking morons" in meetings, and threw shit around the room.
The whole thing would be comical if hundreds of thousands of people weren't dead because of these incompetent shitheels.
brush
(53,887 posts)to the nation for four years. Just total inpeptness, 500,000 dead, and thought trump deserved another term.
Off-the-charts bumbling with no idea how to govern.
Walleye
(31,062 posts)AZLD4Candidate
(5,774 posts)Walleye
(31,062 posts)lame54
(35,326 posts)Pepsidog
(6,254 posts)by the thought of millions of dead Blue State voters. Purge the voters like they purge the voter registration rolls.
panader0
(25,816 posts)3Hotdogs
(12,417 posts)Hes the one who brought peace to the Middle East.
monkeyman1
(5,109 posts)pwb
(11,292 posts)A privileged freak throws a tantrum , what a surprise.
AZLD4Candidate
(5,774 posts)Hekate
(90,837 posts)Tommy Carcetti
(43,199 posts)And commenced to freak out.
AZLD4Candidate
(5,774 posts)It is something I can use on the campaign trail when someone says the US is a Republican country. Soil and trees don't vote.
Hekate
(90,837 posts)
at the bottom will help with your research.
AZLD4Candidate
(5,774 posts)Hekate
(90,837 posts)
fight over whether or not they should have gay boys or gay men openly involved. Seems quaint, at this point, but it was not so long ago, and it got vicious.
The essayist painted a skillful word-picture that looked very like that map: in essence, the greater the population density, the more tolerant people were of differences of all kinds. In a city of any size, its a rare person who can manage to associate only with their own kind in work, school, neighborhoods, and public transportation.
The lower the population density, the more likely it is that people had never (or seldom) encountered anyone not of the same ethnic stock think Lake Woebegone, where it was noteworthy whether your family was Lutheran or Catholic, and whether their forebears were Danish or Norwegian. Difference is anomalous and it feels wrong. People who are too different
. move away to big cities.
That was it. Once I grasped that, all political maps clicked into place.
AZLD4Candidate
(5,774 posts)brush
(53,887 posts)Hekate
(90,837 posts)Just the luck of the draw, I guess, but between my home state of Hawaii and the rest of my life being on the coast of California, Ive had lots of experience being with people who dont share my ethnic background etc etc.
Everything Ive read about the prototypical small town life leads me to believe it shares something with being born a Mormon: its great and cozy, warm and wonderful, everybody knows your name, and all your quirks, and they love you
unless you somehow end up thinking outside the box. You end up thinking too divergently, and you end up with no one to talk to. You end up isolated in the midst of all those people. It can break your heart.
Being a divergent thinker myself, Im glad I ended up where I did.
2naSalit
(86,804 posts)wnylib
(21,621 posts)a lack of masks. Hard to imagine him actually giving a damn about whether or not they were available.
Wasn't he among the family members who showed up at a presidential debate without being tested and without masks?
LakeArenal
(28,847 posts)SCantiGOP
(13,874 posts)If we were all dead, the virus would have miraculously disappeared.
Good job, Donnie
aggiesal
(8,929 posts)If he had to wait until June, the mask market could be cornered by someone else.
So what did he do instead? He started stealing the PPE from the states.
That's why he got mad.
NewJeffCT
(56,829 posts)that in January of 2020, a Texas manufacturer offered to make millions of N95 masks at his factory in Texas. Imagine if Trump - the America First guy - was able to save hundreds & thousands of frontline workers with American Made N95 Masks?
Donny Dollhands turned them down.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/in-the-early-days-of-the-pandemic-the-us-government-turned-down-an-offer-to-manufacture-millions-of-n95-masks-in-america/2020/05/09/f76a821e-908a-11ea-a9c0-73b93422d691_story.html
brush
(53,887 posts)authorize the manufacture of the masks for everyone.
tanyev
(42,623 posts)Concerns about a dwindling supply of PPE are not new. Back on February 7, the World Health Organization sounded alarm bells about "the limited stock of PPE," noting demand was 100 times higher than normal for this equipment.
Yet the same day as the WHO warning, the Trump administration announced that it was transporting to China nearly 17.8 tons (more than 35,000 pounds) of "masks, gowns, gauze, respirators, and other vital materials." As Secretary of State Mike Pompeo noted in the press release announcing this shipment, "These donations are a testament to the generosity of the American people."
https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/29/opinions/coronavirus-personal-protective-equipment-obeidallah/index.html
If the moron in the White House had activated the Defense Production Act and gotten the manufacturer in Texas and others cranking out PPE to replace what was sent to China, it might have been OK. But he didnt, and it was disastrous.
IronLionZion
(45,541 posts)when quite the opposite happened since their rural conservative supporters believed their lies.
NoMoreRepugs
(9,472 posts)That's called a weenie arm.
msfiddlestix
(7,286 posts)i swear I'd like to grab a hold of his ear and drag him by the heels to some shack and torture him with the truth and then force him to publish that instead.