June 28, 2018: Pay to Play, Barbie's Ken, Aping Disgustus

There is was, photographed on the tarmac as he prepared to board Air Force One. Dapper with attache in hand, all slicked-up in his Brooks Brother's attire, looking for all the world like Barbie's Ken.

But that is where the comparison ends. Ken, you may recall, was a straight-arrow, clean cut guy playing the foil to the insatiably materialistic slut Barbie. Indeed, I understand that girls used to also get their hands on G.I. Joe dolls and taunt Kenny as Joe had his way with the object of his dreams. No one can say for certain what goes on behind the scenes but it is clear, as Mick Jagger once droned “There's one thing that I don't understand/some of the sick things that a girl does to a man”. Indeed.

Nevertheless, it is clear that to keep the affection of Ivanka, Jared must continually cast about in desperate search of ever greater tokens of his affection, finding himself upon a relentless treadmill in which no amount of wealth, no affectations of culture, can seemingly satisfy the insatiable materialism of his spouse. Nothing poor Jared can do will ever, in the eyes of his dreams, equal the stature in which his wife holds his father-in-law.

So, aping Disgustus, Jared too had to cross the river and enter the Manhattan real estate market, doing so just as it was about to tank. Buying 666 Fifth Avenue for about twice what it was worth, Kushner has since been struggling to keep his empire afloat. This has led, upon his elevation to the right hand of Caesar, to questionable behavior and more than the appearance of conflicts of interest. Much has been written about the shake-down of the Qatar government when it first refused to come to the aid of the ailing enterprise. Now reports surface that an outfit called Brookfield Asset Management, which includes undisclosed Qatari investors, is about to invest 700 million into the Kushner tower while at the same time attempting to acquire Westinghouse Electric. Brookfield is a Canadian company and, since Westinghouse is deeply immersed in not only defense contracts but the nuclear power industry, several agencies of the federal government must sign off on any such acquisition. Kushner, of course, maintains his innocence telling the press that he has disassociated himself with the business operations of Kushner enterprises but he still holds his investments. In any case, everyone knows who he is and what he can deliver. The Qatari's have said as much, so have the Chinese.

All that glitters is not gold, sometimes it is cheap paint.

“'An Br'er Putin, he jus' laugh and laugh”

Impeach and Imprison.

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(1). Drucker, Jesse and Kate Kelly. “A Convergence of Business and Politics”. The New York Times. Thursday, July 12, 2018. Page B1-2