ironmayb wrote:
chriskal wrote:
The Guardian wrote:
ironmayb wrote:
treimink wrote:
ironmayb wrote:
treimink wrote:
Nepotism should be the least of your worries - he (Kushner) is an idiot. And i say that as someone that was "less disgusted" with Trump than i would have been with Hillary.https://www.google.com/...k3FUsmopNkiZt6Qdss1g
care to post your qualifications for this discussion.
Glad you asked. My wife went to high school with him at Frisch. He was widely known as a spoiled brat and, as i stated, an idiot. The entire school was shocked when he got into Harvard until the news came out regarding how exactly that came to be.
"It might arouse the ire of many that someone like Jared C. Kushner ’03, despite what could politely be described as modest academic credentials according to the book, gained admission in the wake of a $2.5 million donation from his billionaire father."
so that's a "no" you don't want to put your credentials up against his.
So he gained admission to Harvard because of a donation; and was the first and last to do so......... Are you suggesting he also got grades good enough to graduate (cum laude) and go on to earn an MBA and a JD because his father paid for those too.
Is the standard for someone's qualifications (about being an idiot or not) now simply how they behaved/performed during their high school years? As reported by another during that same period? Do you think I can't find someone from "Frisch" who thinks your wife was a spoiled brat and an idiot during the same period.
And her current qualifications are??? Still a spoiled brat and idiot or has she had opportunity to grow and mature?
What is your point here? The choice of senior advisor is not between Kushner and Treimink, or Treimink's wife, so your questions about their qualifications are not relevant, and you are just being a dick about his wife.
Not only that, but I'll bet that you, and ironmayb for that matter, can remember who were the smart kids, and who were the idiots, that you went to HS with. I certainly can.
Yep. Here's what else I bet you remember. The smart kids weren't always the ones with the best grades. Sometimes they skated through and then matured at a later date. And sometimes those that called people spoiled brats and idiots were the ones who didn't get invited to the "in crowd" stuff and were jealous.
Figured I'd jump into the crossfire with my useless 2 cents. I've audited the endowment of an Ivy League school - not Harvard. Yes, I wholeheartedly believe you can get yourself the fanciest titles from the fanciest schools with the fanciest grades if you have a rich parent. I pretty much read it on paper. There were kids with the whole apparatus of the "development office" behind them before they ever set foot on campus. When reviewing the donation records I read correspondence that went almost literally like this:
Dev Officer to Admissions: "I've got so and so coming whose father is so and so and they're contemplating a $5M gift to the school. This Ivy League school is not her top choice but she is on the waiting list for the other Ivy League School she likes better. I want you to get the chair of the department of the subject she wants to study to give her a private tour. Academically, I think she'll do alright here." Admissions: "OK, we'll arrange that".
Fuck me was that ever disgusting. But on the flip side - I saw personal checks from some of the wealthiest people on the planet.
Regarding Kushner - I know nothing about him but in light of first hand experience with how the wealthy acquire fancy credentials, I sure as shit don't believe that his resume means anything whatsoever. Just like Trump, he inherited his money and managed not to lose it all. That's good...but it doesn't necessarily require genius level anything.