See ya!
The egregious Jen Ruben has left the Washington Post. Who cares if she fell or she was pushed; the woman has been insufferable for years. This is taken from the Donald Trump portion of her Wikipedia article:
Rubin denounced Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the 2015 Paris Agreement as “a dog whistle to the far right”, and designed to please his “climate change denial, right-wing base that revels in scientific illiteracy.” Previously, after Barack Obama had approved the agreement, Rubin characterized it as “nonsense” and argued that it would not achieve anything.
Rubin described Trump’s 2017 decision to not implement parts of the Iran nuclear deal as the “emotional temper tantrum of an unhinged president.” She had previously said that “if you examine the Iran deal in any detail, you will be horrified as to what is in there.”
Rubin strongly supported the United States officially recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and moving its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Early in his presidency, she criticized Trump for not doing so, saying that it was indicative of his tendency to “never keep his word.” She concluded that Trump “looks buffoonish in his hasty retreat”. In December 2017, after Trump announced that he would move the embassy, she said it was “a foreign policy move without purpose.”
See, it’s one thing to have a policy opinion, it’s another to have a different opinion because you don’t like the guy who said it. Jen and the Never Trumpers are so screwed. They convinced the left they were useful. Now it turns out they were a tiny, feeble constituency that appeals to no-one, right or left. Where will they go?
Jen’s new gig is a substack called The Contrarian. It will feature news, opinions, podcasts, recipes, pets. No, I didn’t make those last two up. They really think they’re going to make a brand.
Go watch the introductory video, if you can bear the cringe. Seriously, go watch it – Jen is looking absolutely ghastly. I poked around Google to see if she’s been ill, but it would seem not. I looked her up to see how old she was – thinking mid to high seventies – and folks she’s two years younger than me!
I went straight out and learned a skin care routine.
Posted: January 14th, 2025 under personal.
Comments: 12
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Comment from S. Weasel
Time: January 14, 2025, 5:41 pm
I’m 64, I should add. Jen is a very wrinkly 62.
Comment from QuasiModo
Time: January 14, 2025, 7:59 pm
Meth really takes it out of a body.
Oh, S. Weasel is only 4 years older than me 😁
Comment from Uncle Al
Time: January 14, 2025, 8:58 pm
Isn’t it remarkable how such a strong ideological conformist can, with a straight face, call herself a contrarian?
Comment from ExpressoBold Pureblood
Time: January 14, 2025, 9:56 pm
The video looks like it was made in an old age home by residents….
Comment from Rich Rostrom
Time: January 15, 2025, 1:58 am
So Wikipedia is useful in this case?
I use Wikipedia almost constantly. It has vast amounts of useful, accurate information, even though some areas have been polluted by leftist activism (censorship, etc). I would have expected this to be one such area – but apparently not.
I may look at that article, see what editor posted that content, and then look at that editor’s other work.
Comment from Veeshir
Time: January 15, 2025, 2:22 am
She looks like how Ruth Bader Ginsburg looks these days.
Comment from durnedyankee
Time: January 15, 2025, 2:56 am
Oh, 6 years younger than me then. Good, I don’t need to show any respect at all.
Trump decided to pull out of an agreement that wasn’t ratified by the US government.
Gee, how sad that makes me, he got out of an agreement we were never officially in.
Oh, and then he refused to agree to a “statesman like agreement” that would allow Iran to build some nukes while pretending very hard that they were not.
Jenny girl, you should….nevermind, that’s too rude, even for disrespect.
I can say this though sweetie, harkening back to my college days, you’re one of the Lee twins – sister to Home.
Comment from Uncle Al
Time: January 15, 2025, 3:00 am
@Rich Rostrom — Is once or twice a day “almost constantly”? I agree with you re: Wikipedia. You just have to know what not to rely on it for, and that’s pretty easy to figure out. For factual/technical stuff it is without peer, and I do throw it a couple of bucks from time to time despite the rough edges.
edit addition: @durnedyankee, I’ll sort of say it for you. She should engage in autocoitus.
Comment from Durnedyankee
Time: January 15, 2025, 4:16 am
@UncleAl 🙄
How right you are!
A flying one, at a rolling donut.
Comment from p2
Time: January 15, 2025, 1:51 pm
Don’t sweat it, Swease….only liberal lefty spinsters look ghastly. Probably because the ugly in them comes from the inside. (We’re the same age, you and I. I believe we may even share a birthday)
Comment from S. Weasel
Time: January 15, 2025, 10:40 pm
Gosh, P2.
Comment from p2
Time: January 16, 2025, 1:30 pm
Hope I wasn’t unclear… I get the impression you’re anything but a liberal lefty, much less a spinster, therefore there’s no ugly within you. So don’t sweat the skin care. You look Maaaaaaaaaahvelous!
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