Is the mindblowing lack of self-awareness in these dolts genetic or acquired? pic.twitter.com/oTS7rhoTwz
— shauna (@goldengateblond) February 26, 2019
No, SRSLY:
Ivanka debuts as admin spokesperson for rugged individualism: "I don't think most Americans want to be given something. People want to work for what they get." pic.twitter.com/RerMUQ7aIj
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) February 26, 2019
Whoa Ivanka comes out in favour of 100% inheritance tax. https://t.co/YOC8ey6Ciq
— Robin Wigglesworth (@RobinWigg) February 26, 2019
Jia Tolentino, in the New Yorker, on Ivanka’s own memoir:
… When Ivanka was a kid, she got frustrated because she couldn’t set up a lemonade stand in Trump Tower. “We had no such advantages,” she writes, meaning, in this case, an ordinary home on an ordinary street. She and her brothers finally tried to sell lemonade at their summer place in Connecticut, but their neighborhood was so ritzy that there was no foot traffic. “As good fortune would have it, we had a bodyguard that summer,” she writes. They persuaded their bodyguard to buy lemonade, and then their driver, and then the maids, who “dug deep for their spare change.” The lesson, she says, is that the kids “made the best of a bad situation.” In another early business story, she and her brothers made fake Native American arrowheads, buried them in the woods, dug them up while playing with their friends, and sold the arrowheads to their friends for five dollars each…
Family values: Bully the help into paying for your luxuries, and scam your ‘friends’ with fake goods. I’ll bet her old man was genuinely proud of her when she told him about it, too.
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