As you are painfully aware, the Era of Trump served to erode quite a few of the foundational norms of American life which we had previously taken for granted, rather like a plague of termites overrunning a beautiful house on the hill. For instance, the cover of TIME Magazine occupied a sacred and honored place in American journalism, a place graced by the best of our best — until Donald Trump decided to fake a few covers and decorate his golf clubhouse.
Likewise, the Nobel Peace Prize, of all of the Nobel prizes, had a special cache, a certain nobility to it. It was the creme de la creme of an already elite group of prizes, the capstone as it were on a very classy pyramid — until just now, that is. Sunday it was reported that Jared Kushner had been nominated by none other than Alan Dershowitz to receive the prize, which goes to prove the old adage, it’s not what you know, or what you can do, it’s who you know, and what they can do for you.
Bess Levin at Vanity Fair has an analysis which is both accurate and comical.
“Jared Kushner nominated for Nobel Peace Prize.” Even saying it is almost impossible, with the tongue naturally rejecting the formation of such sounds. Kushner, after all, cut his teeth working as a slumlord whose properties are reportedly filled with vermin, maggots, and mold. During his tenure at the White House, he told his father-in-law that the coronavirus wasn’t a “health reality,” reportedly bragged about cutting doctors out of the government’s response, and dismissed the staggering death toll in his hometown as someone else’s problem. One time, he went on TV and declared 58,000 people in the U.S. dead a “great success story.” Another time, he suggested Black people were lazy and unambitious. While trying to broker peace in the Middle East, he called Palestinians “hysterical and stupid.”
Imagine that? And his father-in-law is such a charmer and negotiator. You would think some of it would have rubbed off, right?
Though he and Ivanka may be planning a celebratory dinner to toast the news, the reality is that there are basically no barriers to entry for receiving a nod, which would explain why his father-in-law has received two, from far-right Norwegian politician Christian Tybring-Gjedde. As for the “Abraham Accords,” in typical Trump-Kushner fashion, they’re significantly less impressive than the former first son-in-law and his hype woman would have people believe. Per the Guardian:
The deals established formal relations between Israel, the United Arab Emirates, and Bahrain, but they fell short of full peace deals as the three countries already maintain significant informal ties and have not been at war.
The agreements also made little mention of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which had been the obstacle to diplomatic progress. The committed parties only to “continuing the efforts to achieve a just, comprehensive, and enduring resolution.”
Ah, yes, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which Kushner spent most of his first two years in the White House trying to figure out only to come up with the breakthrough idea that people should just stop “doing terrorism.” Of the economic plan for peace Kushner unveiled, the reviews from actual Middle East experts included: “the authors of the plan clearly understand nothing” and “leaving aside that this reads like an investment prospectus for a project that an intern conceived of a week ago, literally none of it is actionable…it is the Monty Python sketch of Israeli-Palestinian peace initiatives.”
In a statement, Kushner said he was honored to be nominated for the prize, which will be awarded in October, and though he clearly has no shot, Ivanka will presumably make him press his tux and have a speech prepared just in case.
I still say it’s Obama envy. Here’s how to tell if I’m right: wait a year or two and see if any of the Trumps magically get nominated for an Oscar, Emmy, or Grammy. They just can’t handle that the black dude is so totally cool and they’re such total flakes and losers.
Not only totally cool, but 100 times smarter and has more class and character than the whole family (except Mary and DJT’s sister the judge).
The sister judge isn’t all that great either. She, too, was a slum lord who fiddled with numbers for tax breaks.
The judge that resigned rather than deal with being investigated for her part in f*cking with the family’s wealth distribution after Donnie’s father died?
Ummm Cherl, this sister who’s a judge — would she be the one who had to resign from the bench in order to avoid unsettling investigations into her possibly-corrupt conduct whilst on said bench?
How lame, lazy and unoriginal is Kushner? His “stop doing terrorism” is nothing but a plagiarized version of the heart of Chief Justice John Roberts’ gutting of the Voting Rights Act using the phrase the way to end discrimination is to stop discriminating! Wow! Soooooo insightful. THAT certainly did the trick didn’t it? Need I say Kushner’s “solution” will prove equally useless and in fact make things worse? My point however remains which is that Jared couldn’t even be bothered to come up with something original. I guess those infamous twenty-five books he read that he claims made him an expert on the middle east weren’t all about the middle east and its long, long history of conflict.
“Everything Trump touches dies” or gets covered in sh**. He forever sullied and ruined the honor of the Medal of Freedom when he gave them to Limbaugh and Jordan. If he were in control of the Nobel he’d give five to himself and one each to Putin, Rudy, Bannon, Jared, his 3 oldest kids, Mike Flynn, and a dozen other dirt bags who are still licking his boots.