Trumps son in law getting work from him is outrageous. Utterly indefensible
Sadly I think this is their best.
Trump did say he likes his team to be made up of losers
They’re not sending their best.
Actually they are 😅
When the US sends its people, we’re not sending our best. We’re not sending you. We’re not sending you. We’re sending people that have lots of problems, and we’re bringing those problems with us. We’re bringing drugs. We’re bringing crime. We’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.
Original Trump quote:
When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. They’re not sending you. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.
Seems fitting here
No names?
It’s not a PhD but the Centcom commander “is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and earned a master’s degree in Strategic Intelligence from the National Intelligence University. He studied international relations at Harvard and Tufts Universities,” so while I’m not a fan of him or anything, on paper at least he’s not as totally unqualified as the the other three morons.
Look, nobody’s perfect. I’m sure once Hegseth finds out he’ll quickly rectify his mistake and kick him out in favor of a less qualified sycophant.
Well they need to take back his degree. He and his bosses royally fucked this.
On the way over, Vance compared this negotiation to the time he told Usha she was not allowed to go skydiving.
That did not give me confidence in the outcome.
Did Usha go skydiving?
No. JD Vance told her not to do it, so she didn’t.
This is how negotiations are supposed to work.
No, that’s how agreements work. Negotiations come before that.
Why use word when me have bigger stick?
I hope she is right now
A long while ago, I was considering taking an MBA, until I talked to my friend’s dad of Iranian ancestry.
I did not bring it up, in the middle of an unrelated conversation he just dropped that he was disappointed that his kid(bordering 40s) was not a PhD, and how MBAs are ruining the world.
Every single people of Persian ancestry I met in my life takes education very seriously, maybe not so much the younger ones as they only aim for a master’s degree and hurt their parents feelings. :P
High level education is a form of social reproduction, the world over. We have moved away from strictly family-oriented hereditary management and adopted a broader ideological basis for transferring political authority and private ownership.
Case in point, Kushner, graduated with a JD/MBA dual degree program at the New York University School of Law and New York University Stern School of Business in 2007. He interned at Manhattan district attorney Robert Morgenthau’s office, and with the New York law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. He’s a New York Business Deals Guy, which is why he ran in Trump’s circle and ultimately married his daughter.
Similarly, Vance earned his JD from Yale in 2013, then spent his early career working for perennial Texas Senator John Cornyn and chief justice of the Eastern District of Kentucky circuit court system. To say he’s uneducated would be absurd. He is in a direct pedigree with a long line of far-right apparatchiks.
All these Iranian diplomats went through a similar matriculation in their younger days. They’ve been promoted as much due to their loyalty to the project of Iranian independence as their raw educational background and attainment of certification.
What do people think someone with a PhD did to earn the degree? What do people think someone promoted to a C-level position at a major corporation or partnership at a ranking law firm did to earn the post? You might be surprised to discover the degree of overlap. Much of it boils down to standing up in front of a board of your professional peers and proving you’re able to discourse with them at an equivalent level.
Business degree is worse than nothing imo. All the debt, all the indoctrination, very little exposure to anything potentially educational or enlightening. Come out of a program like that as a certified yes-man with bills to pay, the shame it brings to your family is just the tip of the iceberg
Business degree is worse than nothing imo. All the debt, all the indoctrination, very little exposure to anything potentially educational or enlightening.
The indoctrination is the enlightenment. You’re gaining the ability to recognize what your senior peers in business consider valuable and reflect those values back to them.
What do you think the PhD board is screening for in Iran? You are as much learning the cultural touchstones and taboos as the specifics of the field. Academic institutions all have their own orthodoxy, their own dogma, and their own heresy. Some of this is the product of accrued trial and error. Some of it is purely ideological - a matter of personal persuasion handed down from master to student, which must be adhered to if one wishes to be recognized as a full member of the institution.
Come out of a program like that as a certified yes-man with bills to pay
It isn’t that simple. Yes-Manning works if you can find a billionaire (or an Ayatollah) with an ass that needs licking. But eventually people have to actually do shit.
What Trump’s team has mastered is the art of the grift. They aren’t merely yes-men, they’re confidence men. They’ve all become exceedingly wealthy based off their ability to rook their peers.
What the Guardian Council of Iran’s team has mastered is navigating the space between religious orthodoxy and practical politics as an upstart surrounded by wealthier rival states. They have been dancing through a mine-field for 47 years and now they can’t dance any further.
So it is still very much an open question of who comes out ahead, even if the US has proven disastrously inept at getting the short-term high-profile domestic media wins that the current president demands.
I took a few MBA graduate level courses because a job was paying for them. The professors really didn’t like it when you trash the entire premise they are trying to teach.
Now the economics professor was fun. He had a better understanding of statistics and the inherent data integrity issues, biases, and heavy reliance on correlation that plagues the field.
MBA programs aren’t about the classes or any kind of academic rigor. They’re almost entirely networking plays: go get an MBA from a high ranking program, where you will drink with new friends you’ve made at different events, and then learn socially how to fit in with these MBA types, and then everyone gets their first post-MBA jobs at a big 3 consulting firm where they’ll do a bunch of stuff with executives of Fortune 500 companies, get to know execs who will vouch for them when the next VP position opens up. Then, 20 years after getting their degree, they still have an address book and text message threads with a lot of people who just happen to be the who’s who of senior management in different industries. All made possible by the MBA program, none of it coming from the coursework itself.
Your spelling almost blew a vein in my forehead
Well played!
“You’re spelling almost blue a vane in my fourhead”
FTFY
If you don’t know the difference between their, there, and they’re, your dumb……😜
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we’re
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Lol unfortunately that is their best
Jared Kushner reminds me of a fencepost.
Just another
swampbabynepobaby:Netanyahu has long been a friend of the Kushners, and particularly Jared’s dad, Charles Kushner, a major donor to pro-Israel and Jewish causes. One time, Kantor reports – she doesn’t specify when – Jared gave up his bed and moved to the basement so Netanyahu could spend the night at their home in Livingston, New Jersey.
He’s a thrift store mannequin, complete with a little bulge where his junk should be.
A fencepost is actually useful.
Jared Kushner would be useful enough as a fencepost you would just need a whole lot of them to make a fence obviously.
The only real “DEI” hire we should be worried about.
Maybe, just maybe, the US Administration shouldn’t be discriminating in favour of the Empathy Impaired.
Selected for loyalty, not for their performance.
How does one become a failed author? Is that even possible?
Right a book that no one reads?
That better be a purposefully ironic spelling mistake.
Happy typo 😁
Lmao right?
Write.
Don’t get published.
Does Amazon publishing count?
You know it doesn’t.
