Comments on: So, now it’s time to get serious about Biden’s brain?

By: FOAF

FOAF — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 18:33:49 +0000

My theory on Harris is that after the George Floyd riots Dems felt they had to put not just a woman but a black woman on the ticket. Without that I think they would have picked Amy Klobuchar who is no Winston Churchill either but at least did better in the primaries and made more sense from an EC standpoint, the Midwest being more of a battleground than CA which was in the bag.

By: Rufus T. Firefly

Rufus T. Firefly — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 14:45:30 +0000

“But he was already – what? Stupid? Mendacious? Suffering from mild dementia? All of the above?”

All of the above.

By: miguel cervantes

miguel cervantes — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 13:43:20 +0000

https://twitter.com/paulsperry_/status/1675921254816030734

By: Mac Siccar

Mac Siccar — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 13:42:18 +0000

Joe is a distraction from the machinations of the real powers that be. They want us to focus on him.

By: miguel cervantes

miguel cervantes — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 13:14:02 +0000

yes kamalas staff, has to chose whether to stab themselves with a pen, or continue working for her, funny thing she still gets applications, like scylla and charybdis,

By: Kate

Kate — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 12:09:18 +0000

I agree with Abraxas (8:10 pm). Biden has always been a liar, and he was never terribly bright, but he used to be able to speak in complete sentences. The dementia is new, and is progressing rapidly.

By: neo

neo — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 04:24:11 +0000

huxley: Harris isn't wounded by her stupidity. She's wounded by the combination of stupidity and unlikeability, and it's the latter that matters most. I wrote about this in August of 2019; see this.

By: BigD

BigD — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 03:51:12 +0000

I have to wonder what the Democrat power-brokers were thinking when they allowed or encouraged Harris’s nomination. Did they just not know what an airhead she is?

I figure they thought that she’s playing a roll, she’s an actress, and a lot of them are airheads so she can do this. They had to just set up the situation and she just had to recite her lines they gave her. Kind of like how when Obama did that interview at Google they had a plant ask him that computer science 102 question about sorting and he was given the joke about bubble sort. (There is no way he came up with that on the fly, somebody wrote that bit and gave Obama his lines.) Anyway unfortunately she’s too much of an airhead to even be an actress.

By: huxley

huxley — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 02:25:30 +0000

To answer my question with a guess — I believe this reflects internal politics between Harris’s team and the rest of the Dem forces.

It’s not how stupid Harris sounds in appearances, it’s how stupid she is as a general leading her pro-Kamala faction. There is no good news coming out of the Kamala camp.

Say what you will about Obama, but he really was the “I got this” guy in Dem politics of his time.

Maybe he still is.

By: huxley

huxley — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 02:15:16 +0000

It’s curious. The Dems don’t lack for prominent leaders doing, saying or being stupid.

Yet Kamala Harris seems to be the only one truly wounded by stupidity.

I wonder why.

I don’t think the answer is racism or sexism.