If Kamala Harris wanted to be more active, she could.
Really now, who would stop her from visiting the border or becoming involved in causes that she believes she could contribute to.
After all, she is not incarcerated wearing leg and wrist shackles.
She can go against the wishes of her “advisors,” and do what she believes she must do.
But she does not.

The bottom line is she is a moron, she is just plain stupid.

She believes in nothing other than advancing her own image. She is an empty suit.
She is a person of zero accomplishment, having slept her way to the top and by virtue of her gender and skin color, she was selected to be VP.

A VP, if the VP chooses, can be like being 15th in line to the British throne; you are royalty by birth, but you are so far removed from the “inner circle” or having any real responsibility you can enjoy the benefits of a royal title and have zero responsibilities.
Or you can make yourself generally useful and use your title to do good or be productive.

Kamala has never made herself useful; that is who she is. She is an archetype political parasite who never in her adult life had a job that was not funded by the taxpayers.
And the beauty of a public “service” job is that you can rise all the way to the top of the heap without having accomplished one F’n thing.
Think Joke Bidet.

And speaking of Joke Bidet; how anyone could have voted for an individual having a 1000% record over 45 years in politics having accomplished ZERO totally escapes me.

You can hate Trump, fine.
After his first term on office, it was real easy to see that the average American citizen was better off, as was the US economy. You saw that he actually accomplished things that benefited the USA.

But, half of the electorate decided a man with an an amyloid plaque laden brain and a perfect record of zero accomplishment should receive their vote.

Truly unbelievable.

She’s VPOTUS but she’s doing absolutely nothing. (Actually, she’s doing less than nothing.)
She’s frustrated. She’s wondering why they chose her to be VPOTUS if they didn’t want her to do anything. (She obviously wasn’t listening to the reasons why she was selected; those who WERE listening know exactly WHY she was chosen.)
Willie Brown tried to warn her, but why should SHE listen to HIM. After all, she’s been selected to be the candidate for VPOTUS! Which means she has all these terrific qualities—and she does, she really does (just ask her.)…

So she’s mega-frustrated and she’s going to show them what a frustrated, super-intelligent, super ambitious woman can do. Yes she will.

And they are terrified. They are terrified that she’ll actually do it—i.e., try to do it.

Whereas they need her exactly where she is now (just like they need Joe Biden to be exactly where he is now). And there she is…threatening to go rogue.

She sure had better cooperate. For the team. For the Transformed USA (TUSA). For the arc of history….

They will warn her she really doesn’t have any options here. She had better play the game the way it was meant to be played.

She really has no choice.

And so she’s trapped.

One can almost feel sorry for her. Almost.

Britain waves hands.

o arguably, while the interest would be there,

You made no argument.

There is, in other words, only “Biden”.

File under: Build Big Brother!

Sure, that modifies the political calculus, but not the succession mechanism.

Everybody uses the lazy description of “and then X becomes President” when that isn’t true at all, except in the singular case of a sitting VP ascending to a vacant Presidency.

Except for the fact that I twice stipulated that the non-impeachment scenario is contingent upon the Republicans taking at least the House.

That potentiality changes everything and makes a game of musical chairs with no one but corrupt Demonicrats participating, into something more hopeful.

Obviously the point is that in such a case Pelosi is no longer Speaker.

Therefore whoever it may be that becomes acting president as Speaker in those parliamentary maneuver circumstances it would not be Pelosi.

A little research on the 25th and the Presidential Succession Act of 1947 clarifies some things for me.

Specifically, the only time anybody can actually become the President is the VP, and only if the office of the President is vacant (dead, resigned, or impeached/convicted, but not including unable or incapacitated).

Anybody else in the succession merely “acts as” President without actually becoming the President.

So:

1. Harris resigns
2. Biden nominates her replacement
3. Congress dithers
4. Biden drops dead
5. Nancy Pelosi resigns as Speaker (required) and becomes Acting President

And then I think if then

6. Congress confirms Biden’s nominee
7. That nominee becomes VP
8. The office of the President is vacant (remember, Nancy is only “Acting” President)
9. So that nominee ascends to President (and Nancy does not resume her Speakership)
10. The VP slot is vacant
11. New President nominates a VP, and we’re off again

Except section (c)(1) of the Act specifies that the Acting President shall continue in that office until the next regular election, so maybe:

7. That nominee becomes VP
8. And stays that way serving under Acting President Pelosi until 2024

Although I would argue that a Constitutional Amendment supercedes an Act of Congress, especially when the Amendment was added after the Act, so clause 1 of the 25th would apply and my first scenario would be operative.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/11/wont_life_be_so_pristine_and_wonderful_with_net_zero_landfills_will_thrive.html

By Jack Hellner
Besides not giving any scientific evidence that coal and oil use control the climate and temperature, the presenters at the COP 26 climate change conference in Glasgow did not address the massive environmental and economic damage the goal of net zero would cause.

If we move completely away from oil and other fossil fuels, with the unrealistic goal to get rid of carbon, the amount of economic and environmental damage to the U.S. and the rest of the world will be massive.

The Biden administration and other Democrats, including most of the media, have the goal of bankrupting coal and oil companies. As they cripple those companies, raise prices, and decimate supplies, the cascading effect will be rapid.

Where will all the planes, trucks, cars, military equipment, ships, farm equipment, road equipment, fire engines be put once they are junk? How much land will that take? How much environmental damage will that cause?

Think of all the other entities that will go broke: Boeing, Lockheed, all the airlines, trucking companies, UPS, Federal Express, the travel and leisure companies, cruise companies, ship manufacturers, the space industry, tire manufacturers, truck stops, convenience stores, etc. The damage is unfathomable.

And so forth – it’s quite a long list of negative consequences.

Why are we going to spend so much of the so-called infrastructure bill on ports and airports when we won’t have many planes or ships?

Won’t life be pristine in Hawaii, Jamaica, and Puerto Rico when they have few visitors? Australia won’t have to worry so much about visitors spreading diseases.

It has been clear for a long time that Democrats have craved government power and making as many people dependent on the government as possible. Their destruction of reasonably priced energy and tens of millions of jobs related to oil will go a long way toward achieving that goal.

How much will Lithium batteries or other batteries cost when everyone must replace their worthless gas-powered vehicles and equipment? Does anyone believe we have that much lithium or manufacturing capabilities?

For over 100 years we were told, without scientific evidence, that we had to get alternative energy sources because we were running out of oil.

As more oil and natural gas were found, the talking points changed, without scientific evidence, that we had to stop using oil and coal because they were destroying the planet and causing an existential threat of climate change.

We’ve Been Incorrectly Predicting Peak Oil For Over a Century
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John Kerry said it is out of his purview to worry about China’s mistreatment of people. It appears to me that most things are out of Kerry’s lane, including providing scientific evidence to justify the destruction of the U.S economy.

A few degrees’ temperature rise will cause much less harm than China and other tyrants.

So how much will the carbon footprint from his mansions, yacht, fleet of vehicles, and private jet go down if he purchases carbon credits?

The answer is zero. A carbon credit is essentially a fictional piece of paper so wealthy people and corporations can pretend they care. Carbon credits have made the richest man in the world very wealthy.

China, Russia, Iran, terrorists, and drug cartels are a much greater long-term and short-term existential threat to humanity than oil, coal, natural gas, CO2, and methane. The world leaders had better get their priorities straight before humanity is destroyed.

It would be nice if world leaders recognized how fossil fuels have greatly improved the quality and length of life in the last 150 years instead of blaming them for the Earth’s ills.

It is amazing how little foresight or intelligence these supposedly intelligent people have as they indoctrinate us and destroy our way of life.

How many times will the U.N., Kerry, and others falsely yell “fire!” — that we have only a few years left to save the planet before journalists do research and analysis? Shouldn’t journalists do their job instead of falsely yelling fire themselves?

Journalists are too busy chasing Pulitzer Prizes for Fake News.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/11/something_very_peculiar_is_happening_with_our_strategic_petroleum_reserve.html

November 18, 2021
Something very peculiar is happening with our Strategic Petroleum Reserve
By Andrea Widburg
It’s no secret that Americans are paying record prices at the gas pumps. Rapidly ascending prices also affect the cost of all the goods and services that are an integral part of the American economy. Farmers, manufacturers, delivery companies, repair people…you name it: they’re paying more to do their jobs, and they’re passing those costs to consumers. So why now, of all times, is the Biden administration selling off America’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) to Asia?

She details all the things the Brandon Administration has done to tank America’s energy supply.

Practically overnight, America went from oil independence and being a net oil exporter to suffering shortages and, as noted, rising prices. When asked about the problem, Biden risibly blamed OPEC and Russia. Meanwhile, Jennifer Granholm, the energy secretary, simply cackled maniacally and claimed that the administration was helpless.

Biden is now under pressure to tap the SPR to relieve some of the pressure on fuel prices. (Again, remember that Biden birthed this problem by squashing American fuel production, thereby creating the shortage. There’s also the little matter of his administration working with Congress to print money like rolls of toilet paper — except that toilet paper is more useful than inflationary dollars.) Even Chuckie Schumer wants to lower prices by chipping away at our SPR emergency supply, despite our having vast, untapped resources beneath American land.

It turns out that Biden is already tapping into the SPR; he’s just not doing it to help Americans. A report in investment circles is finally trickling down into the mainstream news: Biden is selling massive amounts of SPR oil…to Asia!
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As far as I can tell, the administration has not explained why, with Americans struggling to keep up with rising fuel prices, it’s shipping our SPR to Asia. During the virtual meeting between Biden and Xi Jinping, the two men allegedly discussed releasing oil from both countries’ petroleum reserves but made no mention of the sales to Asia that already took place.

It’s becoming clearer daily that there is a clown in the White House, but it’s not a cute, loving clown like Bozo (although I always found him kind of creepy). Instead, we’re being led by the political equivalent of the Joker from the D.C. Comics, a mad man who wants to burn it all down.

Whether he’s studied them or not, President Trump is a master at cutting leftists down using the Rules for Radicals that Saul Alinsky drafted to help further a leftist agenda. At a press conference at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey, Trump showed his mastery of Rule 4 (“Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules”), Rule 5 (“Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon”), and Rule 6 (“A good tactic is one your people enjoy”).
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When Trump was at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, he did what he so often does — he gave an impromptu press conference. Before it began, either Trump or his team told a crowd of people who were at the club that they were welcome to stick around to listen to him take the reporters’ questions.

One of the reporters opened not with a question, but with an accusation. “You said that the pandemic is disappearing, but we lost 6,000 Americans this week. And just in this room, you have dozens of people that are not following guidelines in New Jersey, which say we should not have more than 25 people …”

Trump answered, “No, they don’t have to. It’s a political activity …”

At that point, the people assembled booed the reporter so loudly that the president fell silent. When the room was quiet again, he resumed.

“You’re wrong about that, because it’s a political activity. They have exceptions. Political activity. And it’s also a peaceful protest.”
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A president with that kind of quick wit — “I would call it peaceful protests” — is a strong president. Americans recognize that he has the mental acuity and toughness to take on whatever the world throws at him.

Trump provides a marked contrast to Joe Biden, whose mental acuity visibly deteriorates on a day-by-day basis. One candidate, funnily and quickly, puts his opponents in their place; the other candidate, when not drowning in word soup, makes racist statements and insults the voters. I know which one I’d rather have seated across the table from Presidents Xi and Putin.