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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAnderson Cooper to trump apologist trying to defend the kids' security clearances just now:
Cooper: What expertise does Jared Kushner have in international relations and what expertise does Ivanka have in (pauses) in anything?
spinbaby
(15,090 posts)Purses, for instance. And shoes.
JI7
(89,276 posts)mobeau69
(11,156 posts)LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,595 posts)She has expertise in stuff like getting her way by smiling and wiggling her fanny at her father, for example.
Seriously, at least when JFK was accused of nepotism for appointing his brother as AG, RFK was qualified to hold that position.
ChazInAz
(2,572 posts)More than qualified...he was outstanding!
Pepsidog
(6,254 posts)LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,595 posts)Codifer
(548 posts)in a way.
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,595 posts)I was too young to understand it, however, since I was just a Tenderfoot and the joke was being told by the Explorers.
I was a freshman in college before someone explained it to me.
Codifer
(548 posts)More than just a tongue-in-cheek observation.... had some depth.
I grew up in Banning, just up the road from Palm Springs. Just out of curiosity, is Banning still there or did it get swallowed whole by LA?
Cheers
LiberalLovinLug
(14,176 posts)kag
(4,079 posts)Polly Hennessey
(6,807 posts)shanti
(21,675 posts)Makes me want to rip my ears off!
BigmanPigman
(51,636 posts)mobeau69
(11,156 posts)Cooper is hilarious with his faint little smile as he "innocently" asks questions that we all know the real answers to.
BigmanPigman
(51,636 posts)forgotmylogin
(7,533 posts)I mean, if you have no idea how to decorate your Thanksgiving table... "ocean trash driven recklessly through a pumpkin patch in the back of a pickup truck" is certainly an original theme.
✔
@WFKARS
Because nothing says "holiday of gratitude" like Festive Driftwood Gourd Mollusk
Even better.
Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)NOT!
Traildogbob
(8,827 posts)Looks like she made every effort to make it as white as possible. I though fall meant incredible diversity in colors.
Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)That's so much the beauty of Thanksgiving...the richness of the autumn colors. Does she use yellow for Valentine's Day and black for Independence Day?
SunSeeker
(51,728 posts)cstanleytech
(26,322 posts)hedda_foil
(16,375 posts)Princess Ivanka wouldn't risk her nail polish messing with gourds and crap herownself
AdamGG
(1,295 posts)forgotmylogin
(7,533 posts)"Treeeees of bloooood all groooow there stiiillll (everybody!)
Round First Laaaay-hay-dee's visage of dread
Eeeee-ver watchful for Pyr-a-mid heeeeeeead
Glad you're not Sunderland's wiiiii-HIIIIIIFE!
Because he ended her liiiiiiife..."
<cue air raid siren>
lunatica
(53,410 posts)Wawannabe
(5,680 posts)👍
JDC
(10,135 posts)it's not even a table! wtf
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,451 posts)I'm blind. Dog thinks I've gone crazy. LMAO!
forgotmylogin
(7,533 posts)Light green and white albino mini pumpkins! Under the Sea!
"Mom, I think a giant clam just fell out of the sky and crashed through the roof and there's insulation and broken wood all over the table!"
"No, sweetie, Mommy's personal assistant did that. Get yourself some potato and white cranberry sushi!"
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,451 posts)Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)area51
(11,924 posts)LisaM
(27,840 posts)It'll scare the kiddies!
Yavin4
(35,446 posts)KY_EnviroGuy
(14,494 posts)THAT is one of our core problems with this entire administration......
It's a serious cancer on public service at all levels of government throughout many areas of the U.S.A. ......
pangaia
(24,324 posts)Ferrets are Cool
(21,110 posts)malaise
(269,191 posts)pangaia
(24,324 posts)Seedersandleechers
(3,044 posts)like an ice cream cone.
Poiuyt
(18,130 posts)It makes me think of Stormy's Daniels' description
lunatica
(53,410 posts)er, never mind.
cstanleytech
(26,322 posts)rurallib
(62,453 posts)that's her expertise!
11 Bravo
(23,926 posts)Because nothing says "I love you, sweetie" like two parrots fucking.
iscooterliberally
(2,863 posts)She has to be the most vague person to ever get in front of a TV camera. All she has to do is appear and you know you're getting the runaround.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)Plastic through and through.
whathehell
(29,095 posts)Considering that Jared'e "expertise" as a real estate developer is no greater or more pertinent to politics than businesswoman Ivanka's, I can't think of another reason she was singled out.
Neither one has the requisite experience for positions in government, but making Jared a middle east peace "negotiator"
was a particularly stupid and dangerous move, given the responsibility entailed by that job.
ProfessorGAC
(65,213 posts)I don't know how dangerous it is to have Jar-Jar in the ME, because it's likely everyone over there just ignores him.
whathehell
(29,095 posts)might be the best case scenario. Hearing MSB claim that he has him "in my pocket", however, makes me doubt that possibility.
ProfessorGAC
(65,213 posts)I forgot about that!
Chemisse
(30,817 posts)I am confident that Jared is equally unqualified as Ivanka, so should not be afforded that base level of competence presumed of males.
whathehell
(29,095 posts)It seems a lot of people on DU "don't notice" sexism anymore -- It's going back to being a "joke".
mobeau69
(11,156 posts)mobeau69
(11,156 posts)The trumper (sorry, I don't know his name) said something along the lines that Jared needed his security clearance for his work in the middle east. He didn't offer a reason for Ivanka needing hers.
Hence, Anderson referenced international expertise vis a vis Jared but he couldn't do that for Ivanka because no area of expertise was mentioned by the trumper for her.
If he would have asked what expertise does Jared and Ivanka have in anything I guess it may not have sounded sexist in my quote. It didn't sound sexist, because it wasn't, when heard in the context of the complete interview and exchange.
In other words, the reason he didn't ask "in anything" for Jared is because the trumper offered up the area he was claiming Jared had expertise in. Not so for Ivanka.
Chemisse
(30,817 posts)Hassler
(3,390 posts)whathehell
(29,095 posts)should understand that very well.
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)Freethinker65
(10,061 posts)Gothmog
(145,622 posts)central scrutinizer
(11,662 posts)Trustworthiness, loyalty, absence of entanglements and skeletons in the closet are more important in granting security clearances. It's possible Jarvanka could learn enough to have some expertise but can he/she/it be trusted not to sell information to an enemy? No.