Kamala’s nightmare
I tend to avoid watching either Biden or Harris speak, but sometimes they’re nearly impossible to avoid. The other day I heard part of an interview with Harris, and I was appalled.
I expected very little, but it was worse than I expected. She was nearly incoherent, every bit as bad as Biden, and worse because what’s her excuse? I’d seen her talk before she became VP and in the early days of the Biden administration, and although she wasn’t great at expressing herself nor was she “likeable,” her thoughts weren’t especially difficult to follow. They are now, at least when I’ve seen her.
Here an article that references the interview I saw:
Last Thursday’s interview with Craig Melvin of Democrat-friendly NBC sealed her fate. The Zen koan-like statement, “It is time for us to do what we have been doing. And that time is every day,” closes the case, a brilliantly meaningless platitude that seems to demand meditation, as if there must be some enlightenment lurking in the vast mental emptiness…
In the wake of the Melvin interview, the Washington Free Beacon has put together a video resembling the old Saturday Night Live segments of “deep thoughts” with genuine Kamala quotes of notable vacuity…
Here it is, although I don’t think it really captures what I mean:
Thomas Lifson, the author of the article I linked, thinks Harris is stupid. I disagree, although I acknowledge that she’s not the brightest bulb. What I think she is, is scared. Really really scared.
Based on watching her facial expressions, speech patterns, and body language, my gut feeling is that Harris is under so much pressure that she’s cracking somewhat. I don’t mean it’s nervous breakdown time; I just mean major jitters. I think Kamala senses how badly things are going. She knows she has to defend the indefensible and lacks the nimble snarkiness of Jen Psaki, the ability to lie without showing a “tell.”
I believe that Harris suspects – or fears – that, having fulfilled her ambitions and become VP, it’s an example of the Peter Principle and she’s unqualified or at least unready. Her day-to-day existence has become a bit like the actor’s dream or the student anxiety dream come to life, in which everyone is watching you and you’ve forgotten your lines or forgotten to study the subject.
For Harris, it may be some of both. I think it generally takes an extraordinary person to prepare for the job of president or vice-president. Some people are quick studies and have nerves of steel, or they’ve been major politicos for so long that they’re functioning more or less on automatic. I don’t see that with Harris, who looks and sounds frightened to me.
She remains personally ambitious, power-hungry, dedicated to whatever leftist beliefs animate her. But she’s winging it and she knows it. And it’s not turning out anything like she expected.
I know the rumors are that Harris doesn’t even try to read the position papers and briefings her aides give her. Maybe so. But anyone who passed the bar exam has to at least have the ability to study really hard. Has that skill deserted her? Perhaps. But I think part of the problem is that when a person is cramming for an exam, even if a lot is riding on the result in the individual sense, that person isn’t constantly on stage at the same time being scrutinized by the entire world and dealing with huge consequences that affect millions of people. But that’s Kamala’s situation right now, and I believe that she fears she’s flunking the test (cognitive and real-life) and will flunk it even if she crams for it.
And her supposed tutor and mentor and experienced example, Joe Biden? Completely and utterly unhelpful, except as an example of what not to do.
Yer being far too kind….
Maybe she didn’t “pass” the Bar Exam using the usual techniques.
In fact it puts me in mind of this episode of Mad TVs “Lowered Expectations”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4O535ORbgI
You don’t take the bar exam orally on TV in front of the whole country.
She didn’t get the easy ride that most VPs get since she has to face every day that she may have to pick up the ball. This is much more in front of her than it is for most VPs.
She is also not gaining the popularity that I think she expected to come by default.
Nothing is going according to plan. I would guess that many of her insider supporters are abandoning her. She is out in front, unprepared, and unsupported.
And while we analyze the Unbearable Atrociousness of Being Kamala Harris, here’s another psychotic joker—a pal of hers:
Schumer Unbound—
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/schumer-election-bills-filibuster-senate-senators-record
Yep, he’s going to “save” democracy by ripping it to shreds.
By shredding its Constitution.
By alienating its citizens one from the next.
By rendering it unrecognizable.
By fundamentally transforming it to the Stasi utopia he and his fellow miserable miscreants have been fantasizing about for years now.
It’s the Democratic Party M.O. on steroids. (No, make that Fentanyl.)
The box has been opened and the Furies are about to fly forth…
I think I’m going to go with “and.”
Stupid AND scared AND vindictive AND grossly incompetent AND progressed this far only on the strength of the men she attached herself to AND her relative (like Obama) blackness.
If GV is suggesting her bar exam “pass” was an AA thing or a Willie-Brown-esque thing…I’d go there too.
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She is indeed ambitious and power-hungry, but also supremely narcissistic and indolent, with at least as strong a sense of entitlement as Hillary (not simply destined to be the first female president, but the first female of color to attain such a position). She must have been anticipating that, despite her total incompetence and her inability to utter any word which is neither a platitude nor some leftist boilerplate, she would escape harsh scrutiny from the lickspittles in the MSM, but the sheer ghastliness of the dystopian duo (senile buffoon and cackling hyena) is increasingly difficult to ignore, as there exists, quite literally, not a single accomplishment to show for the last year of either comical mismanagement or (more likely) deliberate destruction of the republic.
This isn’t really the “Peter Pricipal” exactly, since that would imply that she’s been elevated just out of reach of her level of competency. My sense is that she’s actually been elevated far, far beyond her abilities. This is like if you made a horse the CEO of a huge mega corporation, so instead of leadership you get a warm pile of meadow muffins and ignoble whinnies and snorts.
This delusional cabal, these architects of national destruction—of which Harris would appear to be a fully qualified member—is pressing all the buttons now.
“Psaki Says Biden Stands By ‘Powerful Speech’ Comparing Republicans to Segregationists: ‘Not a Partisan Speech’ ”
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/psaki-says-biden-stands-by-powerful-speech-comparing-republicans-to-segregationists-not-a-partisan-speech/
So the very definition of a “partisan speech”—of a fallacious and dishonest, hateful and incitement-soaked partisan speech in fact, is labeled precisely NOT a partisan speech.
(Not that one would expect Psaki to veer anywhere toward the vicinity of Truth, but still…)
And so, the glove has been thrown (in case anyone hasn’t yet noticed).
If we’re in an analyzing mood, then analyze this: This psychopathic administration, in the throes of bitter desperation, has concluded that there is nothing to lose—and everything to gain—by going going full throttle toward national armageddon.
Barry Meislin:
Nothing new there. I think they decided that quite some time ago.
I agree that she is cracking. She can’t take the pressure.
One of the things that I so admired with Trump was his mental toughness. Every single day of his presidency he was under attack by the media. And he just powered through.
In college basketball, they talk about mental toughness all the time. If you know the game, you can spot the tough players and tough teams. Last year at Creighton, we had a tough point guard (Marcus Zigerauski) and he made a huge difference.
Cornhead:
Agree about Trump.
John Guilfoyle; Gerard vanderleun:
Kamala didn’t know Brown when she passed the bar exam. And unless things have a changed an awful lot since I was in law school, the exam is graded without anyone knowing the race of the person involved.
Of course, if you’re cynical enough, you can say there are ways to know. I can’t disprove that, but there are plenty of black people who take the bar and fail. At the time she took the test, Kamala had no special clout.
I don’t know if stupid or scared. She just doesn’t seem to be honest and frank. Kamala’s superpower seems to be to deflect the discussion from anything substantive. It’s not really a powerful superpower nor is it subtle, but it apparently worked well for her in the past that she uses it over and over (as the video suggests to me). As I tend to judge people on action, her words and thus her power of them, are meaningless to me. But I can’t deny her ability, because she is where she aimed to be. She is VPOTUS, the first female to reach this level, and she’s in the White House. Good for her, but the question is how did she get there and what does it say about the people that helped to get her there?
I really have no idea who picked her, did Sundowner himself? Barky’s cabal?
Either way think she was picked as another puppet, she probably has no idea that’s her role to be soon and knows she is way over her head.
Tucker Carlson just commented on his observation that the mass media is turning on Biden. Since they all read from the same page, I cannot help but conclude that the powers that be have directed the media to begin the process of canceling Biden.
His approval ratings are now so low that there has to be real fear among the democrat leadership that, if not jettisoned, he’ll drag down even further their candidates.
If so, Harris may be our next pResident. Of course, she may be ‘persuaded’ to resign… for reasons of health. In which case, pResident Pelosi? Congressional confirmation of her unelected V.P. nominee? Moochelle or the Hildabeast?
“never let a serious crisis go to waste.” Rahm Emanuel
Here’s my nightmare.
KH resigns for personal reasons. Biden installs Hillary as VP. Biden resigns under secret 25th Amendment pressure. Hillary becomes POTUS. Hillary appoints Mayor Pete as VP.
Welcome to my nightmare. The thing of it is, it could happen
Cornhead:
I thought you were going to say that Biden and Harris resigned and Pelosi became president.
I’m not sure why you think Hillary and Pete would be worse than our present situation, though.
Geoffrey Britain:
I don’t think they’ll be ready to get rid of Biden till they have a better solution than any of those. It’ll take a while, in my opinion.
I originally thought he’d stay in there as a figurehead for four years, although I think most people were saying he’d be out by June 2021 or not long after that. Now I think they may get rid of him, but not real soon. They don’t have a replacement who isn’t at least as bad – but more importantly, they are instituting the policies they want to institute. The fact that they’re backfiring isn’t Joe’s fault (although I believe Afghanistan WAS his fault, but that can’t be undone now). They would like a better frontman (or frontwoman), but who would that be?
Perhaps they could appoint Obama – but he might be ineligible according to some interpretations of the 12th Amendment. I have never thought Michelle would accept a draft, either.
The thing about Hillary and Pete is that they are not senile and stupid like Joe and Kamala are. The Fake News would go gaga over the dream couple. Hillary could run for re-election after 2024. Pete, of course, is young enough that he could serve for 8 years after Hillary’s reign.
Welcome to my nightmare.
In Kamala’s California leftist circles, her sex and skin color make her entitled to high office. I suppose she expected that entitlement would continue on the national stage. It isn’t working.
The odd thing about failing as VP is that it isn’t really a job. She’s just there to fill in if the president dies or is otherwise incapacitated. So she’s not failing at any identifiable set of objectives; it’s just that nobody thinks she can take on the presidency if called upon to do so.
I find Cornhead’s scenario plausible but with two caveats. Hillary’s health and I can’t see Mayor Pete as Hillary’s VP. Perhaps Whitmer instead.
neo,
I agree that a good replacement is a strong consideration. However, in the minds of the leadership is it a bigger factor than the certainty of a hugely disastrous midterm electoral loss under Biden?
If they keep Biden, how bad will it be by November?
Neo, I think you nailed it about Kamala. She is unqualified and way over her head. Old joe is a terrible example to follow. She is afraid and needs to resign. Needs to spend more time with her family? For the first time I actually think Palin was a better VP candidate.
But the issue still remains that if you acquire power through (to be polite) dating powerful men, you lack real power and qualifications. A General’s girlfriend is not a General.
I agree with neo’s post, including the “scared” part, but I don’t think that’s her most significant problem. Many, many talented people get thrust into circumstances they haven’t properly prepared for, or that turn out different than what they anticipated, but they adjust and adapt. Look at “W” and 9/11. He changed almost overnight and much to the better. In any major task we undertake for the first time the task turns out to be markedly different than what we expected.
And, as pointed out by neo, Kamala has adjusted and adapted to educational and career plateaus before. Watching her and listening to her now it seems like Kamala’s biggest issue is she has grown complacent, even privileged. She expects the Press to not press her and she expects her staff to do her work and protect her. When I see her on television addressing a negative she projects an attitude that it is our fault. My fault.
I think she understands a trip to the Presidency is slipping away, and that makes her scared, but she does not appear to have any perception that it is her own behavior and lack of improvement that is lowering the public’s opinion of her.
If she does fail, I am sure, like Hillary’s lectures, we’ll be subjected to years of hearing how much we failed her, and not vice versa.
@Martin:
“You don’t take the bar exam orally on TV in front of the whole country.”
Indeed. Best done on OnlyFans to make some side hustle coin. Besides, Think of the Children! ™
But well-phrased, Sir. Well put indeed.
Remember when Kremlinology was a Thing?
🙂
I am sure KH ( nicer than my usual moniker) will be President some day, getting her to step down won’t be easy and doing it without the population going berserk might be impossible. Yet that’s what I have wanted from day 1 to show the couple million who actually voted for this pair they were had.
I’ve written this elsewhere before, but I still believe Harris will very quietly be offered, by the major Dem players, full Dem backing for another plum political job that she would covet and not consider too much of a downgrade. My guess is the CA governorship. She can step down for “ethical” reasons. I thought it would be over Biden’s moral and political debacle in Afghanistan (I got that one wrong, but it still could be resurrected). If she’s made an offer “she can’t refuse” but does so anyway, expect the media to get the memo, and then watch her be savaged by the eunuch mouthpieces in the Dem media. Either scenario should mean she’s getting the ax by the folks who are actually running the show for the Dems, and they will then pick the next VP (and thus the next POTUS).
If either of this scenarios materialize then I believe that will signal the start of the removal of Biden by the Dems.
I’m looking at the person I was. I’m dancing with this man because he shows off my dress so nicely and it’s like walking in the mountains, whistling and [kicking] a little pebble that’s in front of you because you’re so joyful. And then the pebble goes down the mountain and starts an avalanche and you find yourself descending with that avalanche and you say, ‘“I was only walking in the mountains. I didn’t mean for that whole thing to happen.”
Those words belong to Elzbieta Czyzewska, a Polish actress; who, at the top of her fame, married David Halberstam, came to the US and essentially ruined her career.
The sentiment may very well be shared by Kamala Harris.
I think I’ve found a better replacement for Old Kneepads:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVUpKIFHqZk
This “thing” going on in the Ukraine could be the cause of an absolute destruction of Biden, and Harris. He won’t get away with doing nothing like Obama did. And then things will get very ugly indeed.
‘Learning the Masterful CHARM of Kamala Harris’ by JP Sears
The part at about 1:30 in is a very good breakdown of her nonsensical answer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TuBMileBzQ
I think she’s heavily medicated.
She was never stellar, but way back when, she used to come across somewhat competent-ish when she spoke. She was still an idiot, but she hid it better.
The drugs may be prescription, it may be medication…
Here’s hoping for a hot shot or an overdose.
@ShireHome:
“This “thing” going on in the Ukraine could be the cause of an absolute destruction of Biden, and Harris. He won’t get away with doing nothing like Obama did. And then things will get very ugly indeed.”
But what business of the USA is it?
A half-decent US President would do precisely Nothing.
A US President who *could* do a big fat nothing about goings on half a world away between alien peoples and stare down the War Mongers and Carpet Baggers would be an actual President, like it says on the box, holding actual real Executive Authority.
You should be so lucky.
But Kamla’s a nice looking, clean, black woman. (And I hear she’s good in bed.) That’s a dream. C’mon man. She also can be well spoken when she’s using her bully pulpit to attack a conservative (Kavanaugh) or a primary opponent (Biden). 🙂
But I agree with Neo, she’s scared because the Biden policies aren’t working, and the media isn’t able to conceal that fact. It also appears she’s too lazy to do the work to master the knowledge to sound coherent on policy issues. Perhaps she expected the VP job to be ceremonial and her main duty would be to look attractive and wave at the plebes. If so, things are not working out.
I wonder if she really understands how unqualified for the job she is. Her narcissism and lack of willingness to see herself realistically may stand in her way.
I’m gob smacked by how incompetent Biden has been. I expected mediocrity, not utter failure. And I quake in my boots at the prospect of KH becoming POTUS. Bad times, folks, bad times.
Neo is correct, it is fear.
It only gets worse from here.
Z, isolationism didn’t work before and it won’t work now. We are or were a World Power, that means responsibilities.
@ShireHome:
I’m a bit of a dim bulb. Please explain to me how you are responsible for the situation in the Donbass, for example.
Saying that the USA is a World Power is just hand waving. Responsibilities? You mean you’re an acolyte of that noted humanitarian, Victoria Nuland?
It’s just Words.
If you want to exert Power because you *can* or because it makes you feel good, or because you think it’s profitable, or because a bunch of people in media told you to think these thoughts… then maybe… but … World Power! Responsibilities! sounds like some Irish Lunkhead at some cartoon police academy mumbling about ‘To Protect and Serve’.
That bit from the Untouchables:
https://youtu.be/nI67dSs3dXU?t=86
Sounds like the girl you wish you hadn’t started a conversation with at a party.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpbWuYcdqD8
I’m a bit of a dim bulb. Please explain to me how you are responsible for the situation in the Donbass, for example.
After the fall of the Soviet Union, the Ukraine was left with a sizable number of nuclear weapons. In exchange for giving those weapons up — the only weapons that they could use to defend themselves against Russian invasion — the United States agreed to guarantee their territorial integrity. Since they kept to their end of the agreement at great risk to themselves, we have a moral if not a legal obligation to keep to our end of it.
@MKent:
The United States ALSO agreed as part of the broader deal not to encroach on Russian border states and not to interfere in their sphere of interest. All lies and broken promises.
I guess you’re one of those people who never glommed onto the irony of the USA putting nuclear missiles in Turkey and then going ape shit when the Russians as quid pro quo had the temerity to do the same in Cuba back when.
USGov is as venal and dirty and lying as any other government. In fact rather more so than most in recent years. It’s unpredictable and treacherous in its dealings with both allies and foes. It should be put down for the good of us all.
Again for the ninety-billionth time, no aspersions cast upon the good citizenry of the USA and all lovers of fifes and drums and choppers downers of cherry trees and wearers of stove pipe hats… No.. can that…. I hate Lincoln… OK whatever.. You all cool… M’Kay. But the vile stinking apparatus of your State is not OK.
The notion that you’re doing any Good by interfering in whatever the Ukrainians and the Russians have lined up for each other is ludicrous.
The Cognitive Dissonance… Everyone in this blog gets that US Gov is utterly dysfunctional domestically regardless of which branch of the decorative UniParty is in power… and yet as soon as it comes to the same dysfunctional shit show going off and bombing foreigners, it’s all great and righteous suddenly.
Z apologizes for Vlad and Xi, a double hitter. It is after all America’s fault, whatever it is or will be. Keeping that rice bowl full is what counts.
@om:
‘Keeping that rice bowl full is what counts.’
Ever been hungry?
“Kamala’s superpower seems to be to deflect the discussion from anything substantive.” She could have learned that from her years as a prosecutor lol.
There are lawyers out there who are geniuses, of course, but a lot are masters at saying the same formulaic things over and over and watching the judges lap it up.
Zaphod,
I’m virtually certain that the democrats shaking their spears at Putin is motivated by a desire to distract American voters from the domestic sphere. They’re not going to risk the potential for an escalation into nuclear war.
As mkent points out, we do have a moral obligation to the Ukraine, that despite however much we may have encroached on Russian border states and interfered in their sphere of interest. As for that, Putin has stated his desire to expand the Russian ‘Federation’ to regain the Soviet Union’s former territories. He can only do that by invading those lost territories. As the world’s still foremost world power, it is in our national interest to interfere in efforts by despots to invade other countries. Peace cannot be retained, if when necessary, the willingness to make war is absent.
As for the “USGov is as venal and dirty and lying as any other government. In fact rather more so than most in recent years. It’s unpredictable and treacherous in its dealings with both allies and foes. It should be put down for the good of us all.”
Really? Do you really want to defend the proposition that the USGov mistreats its citizens even remotely as bad as China, Cuba, North Korea, and Venezuela?
There’s no disputing that democrat administrations especially have occasionally behaved treacherously. But not unpredictably, in that they have either followed Lord Palmerston’s dictum, “Nations have no permanent friends or allies. They only have permanent interests.” or… our ‘leadership’ has placed personal interest before national interest.
As for putting down the Federal government, given that 48% of democrats favor fines and forced isolation of the unvaccinated… currently that could only be done through the deaths of perhaps millions.
The investment bunker (?) and bon vivant asks the proles about their life. How quaint, someone bless his little heart.
Zaphod; om; and everyone else:
At 8:31 PM commenter om writes to Zaphod, sarcastically: “Keeping that rice bowl full is all that counts.”
At 8:46 PM Zaphod writes to om: “Ever been hungry?”
The Grand Inquisitor knows all about what Zaphod suggests.
Back to the original point. Is Kamille, oops Kamala, stupid or in way over her head and scared of a terribly difficult job?
I don’t think she is particularly stupid. I agree with Kate’s point too. Traditionally, the Veep doesn’t do anything. How hard is that? However, those expectations have changed a fair bit over the last 2 or 3 decades. Al Gore reinventing government is an early example. Not that said reinvention accomplished anything of value.
I do suspect that she is fearful of the intense media spotlight. If anything, I take that as an indication that she is not medicated. That she is avoiding the half a Xanax or Valium dose that Barack Obama probably imbibed prior to camera appearances.
My impression is that nearly all of these so-called gov. leaders, Biden, Harris, Buttigieg, Walensky, etc. are front people. Harris doesn’t have a difficult job to do because she is not allowed to do anything. The trick is to pretend to be doing a competent job without actually doing anything. And she sucks at that. She was probably actually doing some attorney general tasks when she was AG, so this is new to her.
If she were really a team player she would do all the time-consuming homework purely so she could plausibly bluff her way through interviews. I’m not quite sure why she isn’t doing the homework other than the obvious “lazy” argument.
I do think that both Biden and Harris are probably uniquely unprincipled politicians and leaders. I use the word “unprincipled” partly in its traditional usage but also in the sense that they are politicians who are without any substantial political principles. Talking points are a means to an end, and the graft is all. So she has to bluff her way through any attempt at principled arguments too.
I do like those video compilations. “It is time for us to do what we have been doing. And that time is every day,” is a gem.
neo,
A people fed through their own industriousness are not susceptible to the Grand Inquisitor’s schema.
A truly hungry people will do whatever it takes to feed themselves. Even submit to evil when offered enough crumbs.
@Neo:
Beautiful Sentiments… and yet you all inhabit a poorly-maintained overflowing fixing for a methane explosion cesspit (Well not your idyllic corner of New England. Yet.)
It’s all very fine to moralise about flowers growing on dung heaps cf. the Dead Hand of Tyranny until such time as you have buried up to your eyeballs in one.
There are far worse things under the sun than dictatorships and priesthoods.
And everyone, I mean everyone is 6 or 7 meals away from throwing their beautiful ideals. It’s a sorry symphony of the same repetitious shit over and over again throughout our miserable human history. Da Kapo.
@GeoffreyBritain:
“A people fed through their own industriousness are not susceptible to the Grand Inquisitor’s schema.
A truly hungry people will do whatever it takes to feed themselves. Even submit to evil when offered enough crumbs.”
Most of Western Man alive today is congenitally incapable of feeding himself or being industrious enough to survive without the present kind of State. And there’s no hope of him being able to pull himself together and do so.
Would you cull them? I would not. Would you allow them to have any say in how they are governed? I would not. Would you allow them to have any say in how *you* are governed?
I will say, though, that I’ll take a hard pass on being governed by the Faculty of Harvard. I may be into Boots, but I’m not a pervert.
But you see Z’s jackboots are new and shiney; what did Orwell say about boots and faces? That’s the way of Z.
Zaphod:
Your profound ignorance of America is on display again.
And also – did you even read the Dostoevsky quote at the link? If you did, you certainly don’t understand it. And I assure you, he understood hunger.
Eva Marie, thanks much for the link to Elzbieta Czyzewska.
Looks like there’s quite a few films out there to be seen…
“student anxiety dream come to life, in which everyone is watching you and you’ve forgotten your lines or forgotten to study the subject.”
Pants. For me it was forgotten pants.
But as to Kamala, I noticed this months ago that the only person more afraid than me of Kamala Harris becoming POTUS is Kamala Harris. I am inclined to agree with those who suspect there were some shenanigans in her passing the bar but there is also something more uncomfortable than that thought…our “educated” and credentialed legal class along with many, many similarly educated administrators and managers and such are simply spoiled children with no experience at objective life. What do we do with sooo many dysfunctional and poisonous people holding considerable political power?
“I’m not sure why you think Hillary and Pete would be worse than our present situation, though.”
Because H&P would be marginally competent enough and palatable enough to finish what Biden has started. It would at the very least give them breathing room and “reassure” the broader Democratic party that the current idiocy was just a blip on the sunny road to Progress.
“But you see Z’s jackboots are new and shiney; what did Orwell say about boots and faces? That’s the way of Z.”
Just reading through all of the comments now. While I wouldn’t agree with everything Zaphod has said here, which would be creepy itself, a good bit of it is spot on and grounded in reality to a significant degree. This comment about jackboots and faces is exceptionally weak.
Here’s something semi related… Was watching Joe Rogan with Jim Gaffigan. Gaffigan is funny as hell, but lives in NYC and works for CBS doing humorous commentary for CBS Sunday Morning. He’s so deeply embedded in the liberal echo chamber that he can’t help himself.
So they start talking a bit about politics and Gaffigan literally says “Say what you want about Kamala Harris… but Mike Pence thinks you can convert people from being gay using therapy”
Stunning. Say what you want about Kamala Harris ? She’s demonstrably incompetent, slept her way to the top in CA politics shacking up with Willie Brown when he was married, and then was horrendous on civil rights as CA AG earning the moniker “Kamala the Cop”. Incarcerated people for marijuana at staggering rates, and suppressing evidence that would exonerate wrongfully convicted and imprisoned CA residents.
BUT…. Mike Pence is guilty of wrong think.
Why on Earth does anyone think Mayor Pete is any more pragmatically competent than Kamala Harris ?
Where is Mayor Pete, Secretary of Transportation, on fixing supply chain issues or massive container ship backups ? MIA, that’s where.
But he could be more competent as the VP ? Doubtful, to say the least. Maybe he can polish a turd like Psaki better than Harris, but I couldn’t give a crap about that. His ability to be a “leader” any more than Biden or Harris is seriously in doubt.
Beyond which, I have no idea why people are talking matter-of-factly about how they can just remove Biden / Harris and install Hillary and Mayor Pete. The f#ck they can. I get that just blockading their actions by not acquiescing to rubber stamping whoever their selection is arguably damages the country, but to say that Hillary and Mayor Pete don’t damage it as much, or more given the potential for Hillary’s incumbency in 2024 ??
I don’t know who I would support as their replacement, but it isn’t Hillary, it isn’t Mayor Pete, and it sure as HELL isn’t Michelle Obama, let alone the SCOAMF. The selection(s) would have to be demonstrably moderate and not captured by the progressive left. I’m not even sure there is anyone in a position of any kind of leadership in the Democrat party that meets that definition. I’m open to suggestions
Nobody expects The Spanish Inquisition, or the soft shoe salesman peddling tyrany. Some things lead to
others.
You’re missing the point. It’s not that either P or H are competent in so far as the good of the country is concerned, it’s that B&H are incapable of holding the trust of even the media. The media is tired of covering up for their particular brand of incompetency. The media has plenty of experience covering up for Hillary. And even Petey isn’t as incompetent as Harris from a PR/image perspective. He’s at least more likely to do what he is told.
As for “the f#ck they can”, the f#ck they can’t. If the last two years of BS hasn’t shown you that enough republicans and #NeverTrump conservatives…”conservatives” would not cheer such a change on “for the good of the country”, you haven’t been paying attention.
I think Hillary-Pete is simply brilliant.
Assuming that Mayor/Sec Pete can bear to leave the side of his darling child to tiptoe through the hustings (though I suppose they can always do the tried-and true: hunker down in the basement), they can run on a wildly popular platform, highlighting their respective genius and areas of expertise—replete with saucy slogan (something along the lines of “Deplorables need supply chains? What the Hell for? H-P in 2024!!”)…
…and let “election magic” do the rest….
(As I said, “tried and true”…)
Whether or not some squish Republicans CAN acquiesce to anyone the Democrats pick, including obviously bad choices like Hillary and Mayor Pete, the issue is WILL they ? We can at least hold out hope that they would put up some resistance to FAILED candidates for POTUS, especially ones as toxic as Hillary and moronic as Mayor Pete.
In my ideal world, this would engender actual debate in Congress as to how to legitimately unite the country with new choices, rather than just ram through someone like Hillary that is proven to have did her level best to undermine a duly elected President and called have the country “deplorable”. She’s no better than Biden, regardless of his relative dementia.
At some point, Republicans need to actually stand up and say no to the ongoing clown show, regardless of the fact that they themselves, are only slightly less of a clown show, themselves.
Here’s what I mean – How about Al Gore (with the caveat that it be made clear he isn’t the selection with a mandate to fix “gLoBaL wArMiNg”) with VP Mitt Romney ?
See what I did there ? Two former POTUS candidates sufficiently removed from contention AND give Utah an opportunity to fix their god awful mistake of sending Romney to the Senate.
You screw up SO bad that both of your POTUS and VP have to be removed ? You forfeit your claim to just unilaterally pick their replacement.
“In my ideal world, this would engender actual debate in Congress as to how to legitimately unite the country with new choices”
Again, we’re not living in your (nor certainly not my) ideal world. The republicans we have now are squishes. The only way they will get any sort of backbone is that we first acknowledge this and second use whatever pressure available to get them to do the right thing. Enough of them were already willing to accept Hillary five years ago and were/are actively opposed to Trump and anyone who supports him. There are even Trump supporting republicans who waver, especially in regard to Jan. 6. Though the more likely scenario that I see is they replace Harris with Liz Cheney then Biden goes bye-bye. Possibly starting this process after the SOTU.
Though if your ideal world puts Gore and Romney anywhere near the White House, we have very different ideals. Also, no way in hell you caveat is even remotely realistic.
To quote Bugs Bunny, Kamala Harris is a maroon.
Psaki: you know when she is lying, her lips are moving.
Quadroon Maroon.
Perhaps not pedantically 100% correct. But History supposedly Rhymes.
As for when her lips are moving…
neo @ 9:23pm,
Game, set, match.
I’m not very good at psychoanalysis, but maybe one of the things that terrifies Kamala Harris is that she has discovered that not only are her own people incompetent, the people behind Biden are also incompetent. She presumed that she could be the pretty, appropriately colored face of the First Woman President, and the highly competent Presidential Advisers would essentially run things so that all she has to do is smile and make the appropriate platitudinous utterings while the Media pumped out the necessary propaganda (hell, it worked for Obama).
Now she knows that isn’t going to work, because Biden’s people are as incompetent as they seem to be.
It’s fairly terrifying to me–and I don’t have to be the spokesperson for it.
}}} it’s an example of the Peter Principle and she’s unqualified or at least unready.
She was unqualified and never ever ready as a DA. Why did she seek higher office?
BJs can only get you so far in life.
}}} Now she knows that isn’t going to work, because Biden’s people are as incompetent as they seem to be.
The Obama people were exceptionally incompetent, too, but the merdia glossed over shit all the time.
Remember when the Brit PM visited, with the ceremonial “exchange of gifts”… the PM brought a desk set which came from the timbers of a sister ship of the Resolute, which was the base timbers used for the desk in the Oval Office. For the last 100+ years.
The “gift” from Obama was… 200 movies on DVD, with a DVD player.
Not only is that “gift” lame by comparison, the truly clueless part was that the DVDs and the DVD player were American — meaning that they were neither compatible with Brit power, but American TV is NTSC, not the PAL used in the UK.
My own PERSONAL guess is that they told one or both of their daughters to do it, without grasping that there are protocol experts who routinely do this kind of thing. You could have involved the daughters in it, after having the protocol experts propose a number of suitable options, let them pick it, which would also teach them about a subtle but moderately complex aspect of international relations. But instead they embarrassed the USA.
They did it again when they visited the Queen.
1 — forget what gift she brought, but the gift for HER was an iPod loaded with Obama’s speeches… (insert painful eye-roll, here)
2 — Michelle, like the moron she is, touched the queen in a palsy, we’re all friends kinda way. One of the FIRST things any protocol expert would tell you is really really simple: NEVER TOUCH THE QUEEN unless she asks you to, or at least has tripped and is about to fall and hurt herself.
The third example of incompetence is when Teh One BOWED to foreign leaders. How effin’ CLUELESS do you have to be to grasp that, not only are YOU, the PotUS, not some random bozo off the street who needs to not upset “Der Leader” of whatever Insignifistan you’re visiting, you are the President of the richest, most powerful nation in the entire world. You do not “bow” to any other human on Earth…. Bowing is a sign of SUBMISSION. You are not submitting to these assholes. The only reason they’re not bowing to YOU is because Americans are not complete dicks and forcing everyone to knuckle under 24/7/52
Having heard KH speak in person and watched her mingle after her speech, with a friendly crowd…… This woman is dumber than a bag of hammers. Period.
As to being scared, darn straight she is. KH is terrified because she KNOWS her reasoning, logic and interpersonal skills are on par of a mid-level manager at the California DMV.
I’m sure Kamala isn’t dumb, in the literal sense. But she is not verbally nimble, and that more than anything, IMO, is the basic qualification for politics. She seems to have had enough practice in the public eye, so I can only conclude that she just doesn’t have the ability. She got away with it because she was the appointed candidate in ultra-blue California, and she couldn’t lose. But on the national stage, you can’t fake it. I feel bad for her, in a way, because she is out of her depth and there’s just no way to feel good about realizing that you have just fulfilled the Peter Principle.
What taco Lizard said and somewhat to Cornfed (BTW, how’s Duckman?), she’s only “not dumb” in the sense that she once passed the bar exam. I’ve never taken the bar exam but my understanding is it’s mostly a memorization and basic logic kind of thing. Many, many idiots have passed the bar exam. I’ve been unfortunate to know a couple. Many people I know got good, even great grades in school and still failed to launch or can’t hold a significant job. I understand many Harvard and Yale grads are useless. She’s probably not even at that level. Thus her side work smoking sausages for Willie Brown and God knows who else to get anywhere.
This woman is scared as hell because she, deep down inside, more than anyone else, knows she’s incompetent.
Kamala graduated from UC Hastings School of Law in San Francisco sometime in say the late 80s. Hastings isn’t in the first tier of California law schools–but it’s close. Stanford, Boalt (that’s UC Berkeley) and UCLA are first tier–Hastings is close.
Kamala did pass the California Bar exam–on her second try. Now the overall pass rate for first time California Bar exam takers is in the low 50’s–the 2021 summer bar exam had a 53% pass rate. California is the home of a lot of 2d tier, 3rd tier and even 4th tier law schools–and those schools graduates get slaughtered.
But the first time Bar exam pass rate for graduates of Stanford Law, UCLA Law and Boalt is usually in the 93 to 96% range. The first time Bar exam pass rate for Hastings Law graduates is typically in the mid 80’s–a lot better than some schools–but worse than the top 3.
Law graduates have been taking Bar exam review courses before the exam for at least 50 years now—I took the review course before taking the Bar exam in 68. (I passed–but I finished reading the review outlines the night before the Bar exam). If you are somewhere in the middle or towards the bottom of your class–as I suspect Kamala was at Hastings, being lackadaisical (not to mention lazy) during your Bar exam review prep is a good way to fail on your first try. You dig harder the second time and maybe you pass–as Kamala did.
I’m writing to Dictionaries to suggest that they put a picture of Harris next to the entry on the Peter Principle.
I listened to the montage. She just sounds like a typical Californian to me.
She’s just not likeable & comes across as insincere. It pains me to say it but the NY Times post mortem (Nov. 30,2019) on the “unraveling” of the Harris presidential campaign was excellent, even her supporters grew to dislike her.
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