{"id":7723,"date":"2020-08-31T23:00:59","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T06:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=7723"},"modified":"2020-09-01T17:58:23","modified_gmt":"2020-09-02T00:58:23","slug":"the-grim-reaper-of-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=7723","title":{"rendered":"The Grim Reaper Of &#8216;Success&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Trump administration's response to the coronavirus pandemic has received universal criticism from just everybody on planet Earth (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2020\/may\/15\/donald-trump-coronavirus-response-world-leaders\" target=\"_blank\">Trump administration&#8217;s response to the coronavirus pandemic has received universal criticism from just everybody on planet Earth<\/a> with the exception of Trump supporters and the GOP. In an odd and disturbing recent poll, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"a majority of Republicans are fine with the 180,000+ deaths from COVID-19 (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/republican-support-trumps-handling-coronavirus-plummets-12-points-poll-1516906\" target=\"_blank\">a majority of Republicans are fine with the 180,000+ deaths from COVID-19<\/a>. Just to recap for sane Americans: these people are the same Republicans who<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" thought the 4 deaths from Benghazi  (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2014\/05\/the-selective-outrage-committee-on-benghazi\/361760\/\" target=\"_blank\"> thought the 4 deaths from Benghazi in 2012 <\/a>and the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"2 deaths from the Ebola breakout in 2014 (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-health-ebola-hearing\/republicans-take-aim-at-u-s-ebola-response-after-fourth-case-emerges-idUSKCN0ID1V320141024\" target=\"_blank\">2 deaths from the Ebola breakout in 2014<\/a> were cause for Obama to resign from office for gross negligence, but the 180,000+ deaths from COVID-19 under Trump are peachy keen and thus the Impeached CEO\/Dictator and petulant man child is deserving of four more years in the White House.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As to further illuminate the insanity of this line of reasoning, Presidential adviser and modern day grim reaper Jared Kushner gave an absolutely chilling and aggravating interview where <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"he crowed that the 180,000 deaths  are an absolute success and that President Trump should be lauded for all he's done (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/kushner-coronavirus-deaths-measure-success-cnn-wolf-blitzer-2020-8\" target=\"_blank\">he crowed that the 180,000 deaths  are an absolute success and that President Trump should be lauded for all he&#8217;s done<\/a>. <strong>Folks, this is fascism and gaslighting that Joseph Goebbels would be proud of. <\/strong> We&#8217;re all hoping to wipe that perpetual, arrogant, smug smirk off of Kushner&#8217;s face on election day. He&#8217;s not only repulsive to look at, he&#8217;s repulsive to listen to. And if you&#8217;ve been brave enough to watch any clips of the insane RNC this past week, Kushner is as repulsive as everyone else in the Trump family circus. <strong>November 3rd can&#8217;t come quickly enough for us to vote these assholes out of office and hopefully into jail for their many ethical, criminal and moral violations.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"675\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/jaredkushnergrimreapercovid19deaths.jpg\" alt=\"Presidential adviser and grim reaper Jared Kushner proclaims that the 180,000+ deaths in America from COVID-19 are a resounding success story of the Trump administration.\" class=\"wp-image-7721\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/jaredkushnergrimreapercovid19deaths.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/jaredkushnergrimreapercovid19deaths-222x300.jpg 222w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption>Presidential adviser and grim reaper Jared Kushner proclaims that the 180,000+ deaths in America from COVID-19 are a resounding success story of the Trump administration.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration&#8217;s response to the coronavirus pandemic has received universal criticism from just everybody on planet Earth with the exception of Trump supporters and the GOP. In an odd and disturbing recent poll, a majority of Republicans are fine with the 180,000+ deaths from COVID-19. Just to recap for sane Americans: these people are &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=7723\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Grim Reaper Of &#8216;Success&#8217;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,60,8,68,85,963,3,198],"tags":[1745,2244,1575,22,2086,2243,1058,517,1018,914,915,1538,1038,9,518,2136,1600,98,296,19,47,48,694],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7723"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7723"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7732,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7723\/revisions\/7732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}