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Unwanted Ivanka: Daddy Will You Buy Me A Pony or Country?[/b]
by Abby Zimet, Monday, July 01, 2019
[image deleted][i]This is real, not photo-shopped. Honest. Check out the faces. Photo by Brendan Smialowski[/i]
Because it's not bad enough the G-20 summit in Osaka gave us Trump's own mortifying blunders, North Korean photo-ops and gleeful "jokes" about killing journalists, we also got the "take-your-even-more-narcissistic-than-you-daughter-to-work" farce of [b]Nepotism Barbie[/b] inexplicably turning up in flouncy pink at every event. The collective consternation of real-life leaders - AOC helpfully noted being someone's daughter isn't an actual qualification - was highlighted in a now-viral video released by the office of France's Emmanuel Macron. It shows Ivanka excruciatingly struggling to join a conversation of grownups - Macron, Theresa May, Justin Trudeau, the IMF's Christine Lagarde: They discuss social justice; she babbles male-dominated-lookit-this-purse-I-sell-non-sequiturs; they offer varying expressions of "tortured politeness" clearly revealing the subtext of the scene and the video release, as in, [b]"WTF is this blonde moron doing here, and will someone please make her go away?"[/b], with the visibly irritated Lagarde, in particular, looking like most of us. Confronted by such absurd kleptocracy, Twitter, as is its wont, got sweet revenge. Meet #Unwanted Ivanka, wherein the Princess of Clueless Complicity primps and prances, Zelig-like, through history. Because these days you gotta laugh or cry, though actually some of us do both.
[image deleted]Ivanka at Yalta
[image deleted]Ivanka discovers the polio vaccine
[image deleted]We'll always have Ivanka. Not really, hopefully
by Abby Zimet, Monday, July 01, 2019
[image deleted][i]This is real, not photo-shopped. Honest. Check out the faces. Photo by Brendan Smialowski[/i]
Because it's not bad enough the G-20 summit in Osaka gave us Trump's own mortifying blunders, North Korean photo-ops and gleeful "jokes" about killing journalists, we also got the "take-your-even-more-narcissistic-than-you-daughter-to-work" farce of [b]Nepotism Barbie[/b] inexplicably turning up in flouncy pink at every event. The collective consternation of real-life leaders - AOC helpfully noted being someone's daughter isn't an actual qualification - was highlighted in a now-viral video released by the office of France's Emmanuel Macron. It shows Ivanka excruciatingly struggling to join a conversation of grownups - Macron, Theresa May, Justin Trudeau, the IMF's Christine Lagarde: They discuss social justice; she babbles male-dominated-lookit-this-purse-I-sell-non-sequiturs; they offer varying expressions of "tortured politeness" clearly revealing the subtext of the scene and the video release, as in, [b]"WTF is this blonde moron doing here, and will someone please make her go away?"[/b], with the visibly irritated Lagarde, in particular, looking like most of us. Confronted by such absurd kleptocracy, Twitter, as is its wont, got sweet revenge. Meet #Unwanted Ivanka, wherein the Princess of Clueless Complicity primps and prances, Zelig-like, through history. Because these days you gotta laugh or cry, though actually some of us do both.
[image deleted]Ivanka at Yalta
[image deleted]Ivanka discovers the polio vaccine
[image deleted]We'll always have Ivanka. Not really, hopefully
