Троечники
Выпустив "Времетрясение" (Timequake) в 1997, Курт Воннегут заявил, что это будет его последний роман. После этого он прожил ещё 10 лет и за два года до смерти выпустил публицистическую книгу A Man Without A Country (с подзаголовком A Memoir Of Life In George W. Bush's America).
Воннегут не дожил до финансового кризиса 2008, главного наследия Буша младшего, но правительство Буша и без того вызывало у него оторопь, побудившую написать книжку. Он говорил, что нами теперь правят троечники (C-students) и психопаты (PP), лишенные совести.
I was once asked if I had any ideas for a really scary reality TV show. I have one reality show that would really make your hair stand on end: "C-Students from Yale".
George W Bush has gathered around him upper-crust C-students who know no history or geography, plus not-so-closeted white supremacists, aka Christians, and plus, most frighteningly, psychopathic personalities, or PPs, the medical term for smart, personable people who have no consciences.
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So many of these heartless PPs now hold big jobs in our federal government, as though they were leaders instead of sick. They have taken charge of communications and the schools, so we might as well be Poland under occupation.
They might have felt that taking our country into an endless war was simply something decisive to do. What has allowed so many PPs to rise so high in corporations, and now in government, is that they are so decisive. They are going to do something every fuckin' day and they are not afraid. Unlike normal people, they are never filled with doubts, for the simple reasons that they don't give a fuck what happens next. Simply can't. Do this! Do that! Mobilize the reserves! Privatize the public schools! Attack Iraq! Cut health care! Tap everybody's telephone! Cut taxes on the rich! Build a trillion-dollar missile shield! Fuck habeas corpus and the Sierra Club and In These Times, and kiss my ass!
Теперь мы можем утешаться тем, что на смену троечникам из Йеля пришли троечники из других университетов. Один из них - серый кардинал Трампа, по совместительству - его зять, троечник из Гарварда Джаред Кушнер. Подобно своему тестю, Джаред поступил в университет не благодаря своей академической успеваемости, а благодаря своему жуликоватому папе.
“There was no way anybody in the administrative office of the school thought he would on the merits get into Harvard,” a former official at The Frisch School in Paramus, New Jersey, told me. “His GPA did not warrant it, his SAT scores did not warrant it. We thought for sure, there was no way this was going to happen. Then, lo and behold, Jared was accepted. It was a little bit disappointing because there were at the time other kids we thought should really get in on the merits, and they did not.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/the-story-behind-jared-kushners-curious-acceptance-into-harvard
Остального Джаред Кушнер, можно сказать, добился сам. В том числе собственноручно написал статью, которая начиналась словами "My father-in-law is not an anti-Semite", и опубликовал ее в принадлежащей ему газете. Он же нанял для избирательной кампании Трампа психометристов Cambridge Analytica.
"I assume he'll be in the White House throughout the entire presidency," says News Corp. billionaire Rupert Murdoch. "For the next four or eight years he'll be a strong voice, maybe even the strongest after the vice president."
http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevenbertoni/2016/11/22/exclusive-interview-how-jared-kushner-won-trump-the-white-house/
Воннегут не дожил до финансового кризиса 2008, главного наследия Буша младшего, но правительство Буша и без того вызывало у него оторопь, побудившую написать книжку. Он говорил, что нами теперь правят троечники (C-students) и психопаты (PP), лишенные совести.
I was once asked if I had any ideas for a really scary reality TV show. I have one reality show that would really make your hair stand on end: "C-Students from Yale".
George W Bush has gathered around him upper-crust C-students who know no history or geography, plus not-so-closeted white supremacists, aka Christians, and plus, most frighteningly, psychopathic personalities, or PPs, the medical term for smart, personable people who have no consciences.
[...]
So many of these heartless PPs now hold big jobs in our federal government, as though they were leaders instead of sick. They have taken charge of communications and the schools, so we might as well be Poland under occupation.
They might have felt that taking our country into an endless war was simply something decisive to do. What has allowed so many PPs to rise so high in corporations, and now in government, is that they are so decisive. They are going to do something every fuckin' day and they are not afraid. Unlike normal people, they are never filled with doubts, for the simple reasons that they don't give a fuck what happens next. Simply can't. Do this! Do that! Mobilize the reserves! Privatize the public schools! Attack Iraq! Cut health care! Tap everybody's telephone! Cut taxes on the rich! Build a trillion-dollar missile shield! Fuck habeas corpus and the Sierra Club and In These Times, and kiss my ass!
Теперь мы можем утешаться тем, что на смену троечникам из Йеля пришли троечники из других университетов. Один из них - серый кардинал Трампа, по совместительству - его зять, троечник из Гарварда Джаред Кушнер. Подобно своему тестю, Джаред поступил в университет не благодаря своей академической успеваемости, а благодаря своему жуликоватому папе.
“There was no way anybody in the administrative office of the school thought he would on the merits get into Harvard,” a former official at The Frisch School in Paramus, New Jersey, told me. “His GPA did not warrant it, his SAT scores did not warrant it. We thought for sure, there was no way this was going to happen. Then, lo and behold, Jared was accepted. It was a little bit disappointing because there were at the time other kids we thought should really get in on the merits, and they did not.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/the-story-behind-jared-kushners-curious-acceptance-into-harvard
Остального Джаред Кушнер, можно сказать, добился сам. В том числе собственноручно написал статью, которая начиналась словами "My father-in-law is not an anti-Semite", и опубликовал ее в принадлежащей ему газете. Он же нанял для избирательной кампании Трампа психометристов Cambridge Analytica.
"I assume he'll be in the White House throughout the entire presidency," says News Corp. billionaire Rupert Murdoch. "For the next four or eight years he'll be a strong voice, maybe even the strongest after the vice president."
http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevenbertoni/2016/11/22/exclusive-interview-how-jared-kushner-won-trump-the-white-house/