Pretty Stupid
"Jared, they stole your luggage! They stole your watch! They stole your shoes! Your children are already DEAD!"
Jared Kushner screamed "Nana!" and woke up, nearly giving himself a hernia when the seat belt restrained him from jumping up from his airplane seat.
"Was it the--"
"Gaaaa!" hollered Jared, startled by the sight of his bleach-blond wife. (Dream Nana hated Ivanka Trump.)
"Honey!" said Ivanka, stroking his wrist. "Did you have that dream again?" (She never said "Holocaust survivor" out loud.)
He shook his head. "This one was different," Jared whispered. He could still see Sebastian Gorka lighting the oven, and Steve Bannon laughing as his grandmother was pushed towards it by Stephen Miller.
"Everything alright sir?" asked a looming Secret Service agent, taking advantage of the opportunity to look down Ivanka's shirt and examine her cleavage. "Your children heard screaming."
Jared and Ivanka glanced over to the cluster of seats where their nanny was trying to distract the Kushner children with "Make America Great Again!" coloring books (made in China).
"Daddy had a dream about the recalcitrance of Qatar in not accepting the wisdom of Saudi hegemony in the Middle East as the only possible road to lasting peace," Ivanka called out to her children, with the same fake smile she employed for people like Angela Merkel and that black gardener who always smelled sweaty when he delivered her daily bouquet of White House roses.
The nanny was accustomed to her employers' insistence on talking to their toddlers as adults, but she was not accustomed to hearing a reply like the one Arabella issued, a Chinese folk saying she uttered in Mandarin: "A bear chasing skunks will have no honey in the winter cave."
"We'll be home soon!" Ivanka said, blowing kisses to her children.
Back in DC, the Jordanian embassy was already buzzing about Jared Kushner's return visit to the Middle East--which had already been planned as a quiet working trip, but which was completely overlooked by a media consumed with the tragedy in Charlottesville and its epic fallout. King Abdullah II bin Al-Hussein had tried to do with Kushner what had completely failed in two prior meetings with Donald Trump: explain that it was a very small minority of takfiri jihadists (approximately two percent of Sunni Muslims) who were driving the violent extremism, while most Muslims believe in peaceful respect for the two earlier Biblical faiths: Judaism and Christianity.
"I have spoken at length with the king," said the Jordanian ambassador, drumming his fingers on the conference table around which sat his top deputies. "Mr. Kushner judges the countries in the region by two things: their historic response to American investors and their posture towards the Trump Administration."
"By 'American investors' you mean?"
"This is interpreted primarily as where have Kushner and Trump family members been allowed to do deals," replied the ambassador.
"Were they blocked in Qatar?"
"Not precisely, but they are sorely compromised by a juggernaut of Saudi cronyism. Israel is now turning a blind eye to Saudi human rights violations and the continued degradation of women to have an ally against Iran."
"So is Israel guiding the Trump Administration now? Because Kushner is Jewish?"
"Jewish?!" laughed the Jordanian ambassador. "Kosher, maybe, but I have never known a Jew like him. His grandparents survived a Nazi concentration camp, and he has no problem with Nazis marching in American cities! In any case, it is clearly Saudi Arabia who is guiding the Trump Administration in the Middle East now."
"So what is Kushner's plan for the Middle East?"
The ambassador shook his head. "The total capitulation of Qatar."
"The Saudis want their massive oil reserve: even a child can see this!"
"That child cannot see it!" cried the ambassador, his voice rising. "There are American troops in Qatar, and also in Turkey--which is flying food into Qatar. It is all madness! It is conceivable that Iran and Jordan will actually be the only legitimately functioning Middle East democracies within a year. The 'war on terror'--as defined by the Saudis, the Israelis, and Trump--will lead to increased bloodshed, more curtailing of journalists and dissidents, isolated zones of heavily guarded wealth interspersing vast swaths of turbulent slums and deserts."
"And Syria?"
"A de-populated country already, mostly bombed into ruins, propped up by Russian aid."
"What is Kushner's plan for Syria? Kushner was sent to the Middle East to--"
"There is no plan to change anything. Soon the Trump Administration will declare Isis defeated, but the jihad has already expanded outside of the original Isis territory."
"And Jordan?"
The ambassador looked at the ceiling for a moment. "Jordan will pray."
Prayers (silent) were also underway a few miles south, at the Camelot Society meeting in the library of the Federal Reserve Board.
"Nobody's seen a successful Nazi economy since 1940!" said Obi Wan woman.
"Don't you dare say it!" cried Italian economist Luciano Talaverdi Yellen (whose marriage to Helen Yellen had only caused confusion for him at work, not career advancement).
"We have to be prepared for this!" declared Janet Yellen's deputy. "The Trump Administration has signaled its support for white supremacist fascists, the debt ceiling is about to be breached, emergency measures--"
"NO!" declared Luciano, jumping to his feet. "If we become a fascist state, it will only invite invasion!"
"That's what you're going with?" asked Obi Wan woman.
"It's not a joke!" insisted Luciano. "It doesn't matter if the trains run on time and industrial production increases if we are only going to have a coalition of allies invade us through Mexico to close the Mexican and Muslim concentration camps! It will not be a sustainable economy, whatever Carl Icahn says!"
"Wow," said Janet Yellen's deputy. "Nobody's going to invade the U.S.: let's not get ahead of ourselves."
"No, we do need to get ahead of ourselves!" retorted Obi Wan woman. "Where are the grown-ups right now? The charities are pulling their galas out of Mar-a-Lago, the business leaders are pulling out of Trump's advisory councils, Steve Bannon has gone from the National Security Council to working again for Breitbart--whose biggest story this week--THIS WEEK!!--was about arresting Floridians for public sex on the beach--"
"Could we get back on point?" interrupted Janet Yellen's deputy.
"I am on point!" insisted Obi Wan woman. "Opinion polls show historic levels of distrust and disdain for every branch of government AND the media. We need to step up as the responsible party to shape the economic path forward."
"That is not the way the Fed works!" replied Luciano, slumping back down in his chair.
"Well, who else?" asked Obi Wan woman.
"But people don't trust banks, either," said Janet Yellen's deputy. "That's why we avoid fanfare about our quarterly meetings--the less the average American knows about the Federal Reserve Board's involvement in their lives, the better."
"I think we should do what everybody else does to anonymously advance their socioeconomic agenda," said Obi Wan woman. "I think we should set up a SuperPAC!"
Over at the White House, private bodyguard Randy (Bubba) Blaylock had turned down an offer to follow Steve Bannon to Los Angeles and was now assigned to adviser Sebastian Gorka--a Nazi whose death threats had increased 5,000 percent since Charlottesville. Now Bubba's grandfather had fought Nazis in World War II, but that was a long time ago, and he was pretty sure Gorka had just gotten a bad rep. That's why Bubba was surprised at what Gorka said when he stopped by to welcome new Georgetown Law student Tiffany Trump to the East Wing: "What a beautiful white specimen you are! We must find you an excellent husband, and I hope you have at least ten children!" Tiffany laughed nervously, and looked at the Secret Service woman stationed nearby, who abruptly stepped in front of Tiffany and suggested Gorka probably had something more important to be doing. Bubba burst out laughing, Gorka glared at him, and the two headed back to the West Wing.
She is pretty, said Ghost Regina.
Pretty stupid! retorted her twin brother, Ghost Ferguson.
"Reggie, Fergie!" cried the gardener, Bridge. "Don't you mess with her!"
But the spectral pre-schoolers had not found Barron very amusing, so they were very interested in this one.
****************************************************************
COMING UP:
What's happening with the Ghost CIA!?
Jared Kushner screamed "Nana!" and woke up, nearly giving himself a hernia when the seat belt restrained him from jumping up from his airplane seat.
"Was it the--"
"Gaaaa!" hollered Jared, startled by the sight of his bleach-blond wife. (Dream Nana hated Ivanka Trump.)
"Honey!" said Ivanka, stroking his wrist. "Did you have that dream again?" (She never said "Holocaust survivor" out loud.)
He shook his head. "This one was different," Jared whispered. He could still see Sebastian Gorka lighting the oven, and Steve Bannon laughing as his grandmother was pushed towards it by Stephen Miller.
"Everything alright sir?" asked a looming Secret Service agent, taking advantage of the opportunity to look down Ivanka's shirt and examine her cleavage. "Your children heard screaming."
Jared and Ivanka glanced over to the cluster of seats where their nanny was trying to distract the Kushner children with "Make America Great Again!" coloring books (made in China).
"Daddy had a dream about the recalcitrance of Qatar in not accepting the wisdom of Saudi hegemony in the Middle East as the only possible road to lasting peace," Ivanka called out to her children, with the same fake smile she employed for people like Angela Merkel and that black gardener who always smelled sweaty when he delivered her daily bouquet of White House roses.
The nanny was accustomed to her employers' insistence on talking to their toddlers as adults, but she was not accustomed to hearing a reply like the one Arabella issued, a Chinese folk saying she uttered in Mandarin: "A bear chasing skunks will have no honey in the winter cave."
"We'll be home soon!" Ivanka said, blowing kisses to her children.
Back in DC, the Jordanian embassy was already buzzing about Jared Kushner's return visit to the Middle East--which had already been planned as a quiet working trip, but which was completely overlooked by a media consumed with the tragedy in Charlottesville and its epic fallout. King Abdullah II bin Al-Hussein had tried to do with Kushner what had completely failed in two prior meetings with Donald Trump: explain that it was a very small minority of takfiri jihadists (approximately two percent of Sunni Muslims) who were driving the violent extremism, while most Muslims believe in peaceful respect for the two earlier Biblical faiths: Judaism and Christianity.
"I have spoken at length with the king," said the Jordanian ambassador, drumming his fingers on the conference table around which sat his top deputies. "Mr. Kushner judges the countries in the region by two things: their historic response to American investors and their posture towards the Trump Administration."
"By 'American investors' you mean?"
"This is interpreted primarily as where have Kushner and Trump family members been allowed to do deals," replied the ambassador.
"Were they blocked in Qatar?"
"Not precisely, but they are sorely compromised by a juggernaut of Saudi cronyism. Israel is now turning a blind eye to Saudi human rights violations and the continued degradation of women to have an ally against Iran."
"So is Israel guiding the Trump Administration now? Because Kushner is Jewish?"
"Jewish?!" laughed the Jordanian ambassador. "Kosher, maybe, but I have never known a Jew like him. His grandparents survived a Nazi concentration camp, and he has no problem with Nazis marching in American cities! In any case, it is clearly Saudi Arabia who is guiding the Trump Administration in the Middle East now."
"So what is Kushner's plan for the Middle East?"
The ambassador shook his head. "The total capitulation of Qatar."
"The Saudis want their massive oil reserve: even a child can see this!"
"That child cannot see it!" cried the ambassador, his voice rising. "There are American troops in Qatar, and also in Turkey--which is flying food into Qatar. It is all madness! It is conceivable that Iran and Jordan will actually be the only legitimately functioning Middle East democracies within a year. The 'war on terror'--as defined by the Saudis, the Israelis, and Trump--will lead to increased bloodshed, more curtailing of journalists and dissidents, isolated zones of heavily guarded wealth interspersing vast swaths of turbulent slums and deserts."
"And Syria?"
"A de-populated country already, mostly bombed into ruins, propped up by Russian aid."
"What is Kushner's plan for Syria? Kushner was sent to the Middle East to--"
"There is no plan to change anything. Soon the Trump Administration will declare Isis defeated, but the jihad has already expanded outside of the original Isis territory."
"And Jordan?"
The ambassador looked at the ceiling for a moment. "Jordan will pray."
Prayers (silent) were also underway a few miles south, at the Camelot Society meeting in the library of the Federal Reserve Board.
"Nobody's seen a successful Nazi economy since 1940!" said Obi Wan woman.
"Don't you dare say it!" cried Italian economist Luciano Talaverdi Yellen (whose marriage to Helen Yellen had only caused confusion for him at work, not career advancement).
"We have to be prepared for this!" declared Janet Yellen's deputy. "The Trump Administration has signaled its support for white supremacist fascists, the debt ceiling is about to be breached, emergency measures--"
"NO!" declared Luciano, jumping to his feet. "If we become a fascist state, it will only invite invasion!"
"That's what you're going with?" asked Obi Wan woman.
"It's not a joke!" insisted Luciano. "It doesn't matter if the trains run on time and industrial production increases if we are only going to have a coalition of allies invade us through Mexico to close the Mexican and Muslim concentration camps! It will not be a sustainable economy, whatever Carl Icahn says!"
"Wow," said Janet Yellen's deputy. "Nobody's going to invade the U.S.: let's not get ahead of ourselves."
"No, we do need to get ahead of ourselves!" retorted Obi Wan woman. "Where are the grown-ups right now? The charities are pulling their galas out of Mar-a-Lago, the business leaders are pulling out of Trump's advisory councils, Steve Bannon has gone from the National Security Council to working again for Breitbart--whose biggest story this week--THIS WEEK!!--was about arresting Floridians for public sex on the beach--"
"Could we get back on point?" interrupted Janet Yellen's deputy.
"I am on point!" insisted Obi Wan woman. "Opinion polls show historic levels of distrust and disdain for every branch of government AND the media. We need to step up as the responsible party to shape the economic path forward."
"That is not the way the Fed works!" replied Luciano, slumping back down in his chair.
"Well, who else?" asked Obi Wan woman.
"But people don't trust banks, either," said Janet Yellen's deputy. "That's why we avoid fanfare about our quarterly meetings--the less the average American knows about the Federal Reserve Board's involvement in their lives, the better."
"I think we should do what everybody else does to anonymously advance their socioeconomic agenda," said Obi Wan woman. "I think we should set up a SuperPAC!"
Over at the White House, private bodyguard Randy (Bubba) Blaylock had turned down an offer to follow Steve Bannon to Los Angeles and was now assigned to adviser Sebastian Gorka--a Nazi whose death threats had increased 5,000 percent since Charlottesville. Now Bubba's grandfather had fought Nazis in World War II, but that was a long time ago, and he was pretty sure Gorka had just gotten a bad rep. That's why Bubba was surprised at what Gorka said when he stopped by to welcome new Georgetown Law student Tiffany Trump to the East Wing: "What a beautiful white specimen you are! We must find you an excellent husband, and I hope you have at least ten children!" Tiffany laughed nervously, and looked at the Secret Service woman stationed nearby, who abruptly stepped in front of Tiffany and suggested Gorka probably had something more important to be doing. Bubba burst out laughing, Gorka glared at him, and the two headed back to the West Wing.
She is pretty, said Ghost Regina.
Pretty stupid! retorted her twin brother, Ghost Ferguson.
"Reggie, Fergie!" cried the gardener, Bridge. "Don't you mess with her!"
But the spectral pre-schoolers had not found Barron very amusing, so they were very interested in this one.
****************************************************************
COMING UP:
What's happening with the Ghost CIA!?
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