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The Fox interview: how do you solve a problem like Kamala? — 56 Comments

1. More to the point, of course, is what that tiny but oh-so-important group of undecideds in the middle might think, if they’re even paying attention.

   What got my attention were all the headlines from ABC, NBC, NPR, CNN etc, all lined up in a row declaring how well Kamala did confronting that awful FOX dude. If those ‘undecideds’ just read those headlines, there’ll be no change in the counts.

2. I become more worried about what kind of president she actually would be if, heaven forbid, she won the election.

   I’m pretty sure she’d be a figurehead, like the current one is. The people who get paid to work in the government, that none of us voted for and who can’t be fired, think they are more than qualified to run things for us than we are to run things for ourselves. A President who actually did things would just be in their way.

   For the no doubt several weeks it will take to “count” the votes in this year’s Presidential election, I plan to use some of that time to rewatch “Yes, Minister”. The refresher will be useful even if through some miracle they allow Trump to take office. Bureaucracy makes a science out of neutralizing their democratically elected superiors. Harris of course would just be a rubber stamp.

3. Insufficiently Sensitive:

   That’s why I added the bit about if they’re paying attention. Reading headlines in the MSM is not paying attention. I don’t think most people who are still undecided at this point make their decisions quite that way, or they already would have decided some time ago to vote for Harris.

4. It was only last night that I realized that Kamala learned how to “discuss” politics from Obama. Really. The one enormous difference is that he’s got a very good and mellifluous voice, while hers grates. (Imagine the same words coming James Earl Jones and from Fran Drescher.)

   There’s really no there there. Just a mass of words, never actually saying anything. But people find it uplifting, if they’re into that BS. I do note that Baier had said he “filibustered” back in the day. Now, the word is used by our side about Kamala.

   And it’s why I cannot stand either of them. There’s nothing to think about.

   There is one difference, which is poise. Obama’s ego borders on solipsism. (Remember the first Romney debate. He clearly thought he’d won. Michelle’s face showed that she knew better.) So Obama in not at all lacking in self assurance. Kamala, OTOH, screams insecurity.

5. One thing does trouble me about conservative coverage of the interview. It’s far too optimistic. We don’t know how it will go down with normies. I’m uneasy about how a small creep in the polls is being take as “WE WON!”

6. Eeyore:

   Small creep is all that’s possible.

7. I don’t think the interview will have much effect on the race. The number of truly undecided voters who might have their opinions changed by this interview is exceedingly small. Millions of people have already voted and most will have voted before November 5th. I think the smart people in both campaigns are pretty sure who has already won based on the returns so far. Based on the available data I think that person is Trump but given our corrupt election system, I could be wrong.

   I think Kamala would very much like to have been president but I think she has zero interest in actually carrying out the duties of the president. I think she is too insecure to make bold decisions that go against what her advisors tell her. If she wins, I think she will be a figurehead much like Biden but with perhaps even less actual input.

8. OK…sounds like Baier got better after the first 4-5 minutes.

   One thing I can say for Harris, however: she had a game plan and she stuck with it.

   I don’t think that this is her game plan (which is probably neo’s meaning)—more like she has the ‘Professionals‘ handling her now, and she is following it.

   More to the point, of course, is what that tiny but oh-so-important group of undecideds in the middle might think, if they’re even paying attention.

   Yeah, I found it difficult to follow the first 4-5 minutes even, but thought Baier did a terrible job during that time – which made Harris look good, IMHO. I can’t say where the “undecideds” are at—at this point in the race, but suspect they are also burned out on it.

   Internals must show she is behind or else her handlers wouldn’t subject her to such. I still think this is Trump’s race to lose…

9. he did a gentleman’s C. unlike almost every other interviewer which have plumbed the depths of inanity and malice, from tapper to brennan

10. If people are tired of the Trump era, one thing they’re tired of is all the anti-Trump rhetoric. Biden had over 3 years to “turn the page” to something new, and change the national discussion. His team couldn’t make it happen. Wanting to undo things Trump did only made things worse. Now Harris offers nothing definite, nothing significant, nothing workable, and nothing really new. If people really want to “turn the page” voting for Trump offers more than voting for Harris.

    Harris has never had to deal with a journalist who wasn’t already favorable towards her and already on her side. At least not in the last ten years or so. She thinks journalists are there to help her get her message out: “You and I both know what I’m talking about.” It’s also clear that she didn’t do much (or any preparation) for the interview, apparently thinking she could b.s. her way through the event. But what does she really have? What could she promise that would make anything better?

    Ben Shapiro does look a little older with his beard. He looks like one of NPR’s car guys looked when young, but somehow I don’t think he rebuilds carburetors, let along has them for breakfast.

11. Maria was a nanny.
    Who (well, eventually, licitly) got schtupped (thrice!, at least) by the Pops of the house.

    But apart from the “pinning clouds”, like “eating jello with chopsticks”, it’s hard to find another resemblance.

12. Wanted to see the interview but watched on YouTube Megyn Kelly review, Winston Marshall review and now the Body Language Guy review. Don’t think missed much from her

13. If you recall, Obama also tried to distance himself from what was happening. He would tell you he didn’t know anything about that until he read about it in the WAPO or the NYT.

14. Well, first of all, turning the page from the last decade in which we have been burdened with the kind of rhetoric coming from Donald Trump that has been designed and implemented to divide our country and have Americans literally point fingers at each other. — Kamala

    Wow. That makes my blood boil. The Dems from Hillary through Obama and Biden have spewed THE most divisive rhetoric in their wedge politics drive. Black men don’t like Kamala because they are misogynists? What is that, and who said it?

    I must say, Kamala is the emptiest of empty suits. She must be one of the most synthetically, media manufactured politicians ever.

    I watched a documentary recently about Lou Pearlman and the rise of the boy bands like NSync and the Back Street Boys. Lots of grist in there, and yes those bands were manufactured after a fashion, but they actually worked pretty hard to bring their musical talents up to some decent level.

    Has Kamala ever worked hard at her vocations? I am doubtful.

15. When she answered that Joe was still fine he should have followed with “Then why are you the candidate even though he was chosen democratically? I thought it was Trump who was a danger to democracy.”

16. Democrats say Kamala did just fine, standing up to the big bad conservative Fox guy. She’s proved her mettle.

    Republicans say her interview was a trainwreck, and I objectively agree, though it wasn’t enough to sink her.

    But the main takeaway IMO was that Harris didn’t do well enough to regain any momentum and she probably lost some undecideds.

    That was Job One for Harris. Her campaign has lost steam, Trump’s whistlestop tour of the swing states is working, and barring the unforeseen, he will continue to pick up votes past the margin of fraud.

    We can be sure that Kamala Harris will never do a Fox interview again.

17. I know the Boss disagrees with me when I say this, but now that the plagiarism business with Kamala’s book is bubbling to the surface and the interview went completely toes up and she never answers a question understandably…
    I’m more convinced than ever that she’s just dumb and has never bothered to learn how to learn. She’s dumber than a bag of rocks and I have yet to see evidence otherwise.

18. Today, the Israelis killed Yahya Sinwar — in Rafah. Last March, Kamala Harris warned the Israelis against going into Rafah.

    https://x.com/Doranimated/status/1847017884025082153

    Video clip of her 45 second statement at link. This woman is . . . well, y’know, kinda dimwitted.

19. She’s dumber than a bag of rocks and I have yet to see evidence otherwise.

    John+Guilfoyle:

    She got through law school and passed the CA Bar is evidence. Real bags of rocks don’t manage that.

    Laziness and some psychological weirdness that I don’t quite grasp explain the rest.
    _________________________

    Never attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by laziness.

    –huxley’s Razor

20. When she was saying Trump was going to jail people protesters Brett could have pointed out 2,000 Americans have been arrested for protesting tje election in 2020.

21. She likes being powerful, but isn’t willing to do the work required.

22. If there are any “undecided” voters at this point in time, it is because they are either psychologically damaged, chronic procrastinators, akin to the passenger on the Titanic who drowned because she couldn’t decide which lifeboat to board as the ship was foundering or they are simply paying no attention whatsoever. Either way, I doubt that this “interview” is going to make an impression. In fact, if such a hypothetical “undecided voter” exists, I suspect it would actually be more accurate to describe them as simply “undecided” because the likelihood of such person voting is nil. And to have expected Harris to respond specifically to any questions of substance is a triumph of hope over experience, as has been said. Democrats get elected on the “wink, wink; nudge, nudge” platform. They lie and pander to conservatives by pretending to stand with them on issues, but all their democrat voters know it’s a con and that, once elected, they will return to their leftist/communist/debauched roots and push forward all the agenda items they truly want, like taxpayer funded abortion on demand without constraints of any kind; elimination of police protection for citizens and establishment of a security state; open borders and unrestrained immigration (but only from third world hellholes); suppression of speech of which they disaprove; confiscation of all firearms in private hands (except for criminals); dismantlement of free enterprise and institution of collectivization of all production; confiscatory taxation; elimination of energy sources other than wind and solar; elimination of single family residences in favor of collectivized central housing and on and on and on. Obama was the first politician of national concern to implement this “bait and switch” style of campaigning, and with the complicity of a lapdog, lickspittle media, he was successful. His has become the template for all subsequent democrat candidates for public office. And until people awaken from their somnabulance, they will continue to be elected.

23. You know hux… you and the boss keep trotting out that old law school & bar exam business…but there’s part of me believes someone faked that for her too.
    Lazy doesn’t get you very far. And she’s progressed pretty far on not much.
    I’ll stick with “she’s stupid.” No offence.

24. https://x.com/kellytx2/status/1846897813948416376

25. I suppose Kamala Harris is smart enough to pass an IQ test at the midwit level. So let’s stipulate that she is not stupid. But she is dangerously ignorant, particularly of foreign policy.

    I know how this person came to be the 2024 Democratic nominee (though we don’t have the back story on how and why FJB, or possibly “Dr.” Jill, or possibly some faceless flunky, endorsed Harris on X/Twitter, seemingly as an afterthought).

    I understand the DEI of how this person came to be vice president.

    What I cannot fathom is why, in 2019, it occurred to her in the first place that she should be president. Did she really think so? Is that much ambition really coupled with so much incompetence? Or has she been a puppet (and whose?) for much longer than we may have considered?

26. Judging by the summer of scandal, prudence would suggest that minority women’s academic records be viewed with suspicion to weed out the fakers.

27. We talk (write) as if there is some bit of normalcy somewhere (the notion of the impact of independents, e.g.). The DNC completely quashed any kind of primary election ( I would think this is illegal, but what the hell), including screwing over RFKJ (a telling action that few seem to understand). They said Biden and then they said Harris. A very large group of folks just went along and dutifully stuck the signs in their front lawns.

    My town, Harrisville, NH is fulll of these folks. These are not dumb folks but they have abandoned all discussion and any acceptance of differing ideas. They just dutifully line up for Harris and plant their signs, some of which say how important voting is to democracy even though they were not able to vote for anyone in their primaries.

    Trying to understand this lemming behavior is beyond me. Are they convinced that they will be better off? That they will be on the winning side for whatever that might be worth to them? That Vlad won’t push the button?

    This is deeply troubling and very antithetical to all the notions of how things worked that i grew up with.

    A stunning bunch of preprogrammed robots…

    And the printing presses are already humming just in case…

    And the DOD just approved the killing of American Citizens by military entities just in case…

28. What I cannot fathom is why, in 2019, it occurred to her in the first place that she should be president. Did she really think so? Is that much ambition really coupled with so much incompetence? Or has she been a puppet (and whose?) for much longer than we may have considered?

    MollyG:

    I understand what you’re saying. I agree she’s not all that ambitious — otherwise she wouldn’t have gone to Howard and UC-Hastings Law, given her elite academic parents.

    But she was young, biracial and pretty, then Democrats like Willie Brown kept handing her opportunities. Now here we are.

    As the philosopher Mick Jagger once sang:
    _______________________________

    Well now, what can a poor boy do?
    ‘Cept to sing for a rock-n-roll band

    –“The Rolling Stones – Street Fighting Man (Official Lyric Video)”
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUt0dZXPFoU
    _______________________________

    Well now, what can a poor girl do?
    ‘Cept to run for President in a Democrat Machine.

    Kamala Harris is a testament to the Amazing Possibilities of the American Dream!

29. Democrats and leftists try to think ahead and they aren’t half-bad — witness their blatant, long-range effort, i.e. illegal immigration, to change US demographics in their favor — but in the short term they are dancing as fast as they can.

    Senile Joe Biden and Lazy Kamala Harris weren’t The Plan, but the best Democrats could come up with in recent tight squeezes.

30. You need a little humor with this sham enterprise

31. Harris wants to be president — like most senators. To be so close to power and not at the top of the pyramid gives senators the presidential bug. I don’t think Harris wants to put in much effort to becoming president, or into being president. It’s more that when one is the ladder one wants to go up a step. That’s ambition, I suppose, but it’s a strange kind of ambition that expects to be handed the job, rather than to work for it.

    If somebody has to call the shots, Harris wants to be that person, but it doesn’t seem like she has any plan or vision. That’s “hunger for power” in a small way — the wish to be the decider — but is that power hunger in any larger sense of the word?

    I don’t think Trump is power hungry either. He likes the attention. He likes being #1. He has some things that he wants to get done, a few specific things and some general things, like “making America great again,” but I don’t see a hunger for power as such in the man. His opponents see him as a political insider grasping for power, rather than the outsider and the stranger who doesn’t play the DC games that he really is.

32. All of this matters not. It could be Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot rolled into one and the answer is: At least he or she is not Trump. It could be a cardboard tube. Same answer.

33. In another ring of the circus

    https://x.com/atensnut/status/1847054604585914857

34. she’s not all that ambitious — otherwise she wouldn’t have gone to Howard and UC-Hastings Law, given her elite academic parents

    Huxley, her parents evidently were bright, elite academics, but maybe she (and her sister) reverted to the mean. I’ve seen that happen.

35. C’mon people: she studied the maps!

36. …but maybe she (and her sister) reverted to the mean

    MollyG:

    I think that’s what did happen.

    I once read a description of a smart mother teaching her subnormal child. They were both trying so hard, especially the child.

    Heartbreaking.

    But the child can’t will itself to be smarter and for the most part, that’s the way it is.

    I’m not saying Harris is subnormal, but I’d guess she’s a standard deviation or two below her parents. She tried to live up to them, but couldn’t.

    Passing the bar on her second try was her peak.

    But now shé’s got a shot to become President of the United States.

    Wouldn’t that be sweet!

37. “Testy” was the descriptor of the day for near-all of the legacy media. The memo went out.

38. WTAF.

    Did somebody tell her the Angry Black Woman schtick is the bomb?

    https://x.com/i/status/1847088323875295274

39. Perfect title reference, Neo!

    How do you find a word that means Kamala
    A flibbertijibbet, a will o-the wisp, a clown?
    Many a thing you know you like to tell her
    Many a thing she ought to understand
    But how do you make her stay
    And listen to all you say
    How do you keep a wave upon the sand
    Oh how do you solve a problem like Kamala?

40. Near the top, huxley weighs in on, or against others, Kamala. “She got through law school and passed the CA Bar is evidence. Real bags of rocks don’t manage that.“

    True. But she failed the Bar exam the first time.

    Dave Collum is a well-connected organic chem prof at Cornell, turned podcasting controversialist. On a recent podcast, I think “Coffee and a Mike”, the subject of Kamala’s intelligence came up.

    Collum said he has a friend who knows Kamala. And Collum put his opinion of her the same way it was above — she’s “dumber than a bag of rocks.”

    The same locution. Apparently, some of us think alike. But this tale puts it more personally.

41. She’s reasonably smart but knows little. More significant is that normal people don’t want her agenda, she doesn’t have anything to sell but hate.

42. sdferr (8:44 pm) said: “C’mon people: she studied the /maps/!”
    . . . as in, “Ukraine is a teentsy-weentsy widdle country, and Russia right next door to it is a big, bad, nasty, ugly, masculinity-toxic country”? I get it.

43. Eeyore worries “One thing does trouble me about conservative coverage of the interview. It’s far too optimistic.”

    I have, too. Yet, the tenor of the campaign has shifted, and that first came from Democrats. Why?

    Last weekend, political scientist Steve Hayward dished on what’s really going on. The polls publicly reported are not the most detailed or particular. Contributors and the DNC have managed to accumulate $1 billion for Kamala Harris campaign. That’s Big Money.

    What can it buy? Steve relates inside campaign opinion sampling science from a California campaign he was privy to.

    The biggest tool used in placing campaign advertisements is the tracking poll. These are more sensitive and more accurate.

    Thus, when the noise about Kamala’s slipping campaign emerged, it is clearly coming from these privately commissioned polling efforts.

    While we are not privy to the internal tabulations, only the Net or gross assessments, the reality they create on their side if fearful — and thus, deteriorating prospects are coming out.

    One relevant public polling fact ought to be mentioned here. Not many weeks ago, one mentioned that among the undecided voters, three-fourths hold negative views on Kamala’s “like ability.” Much worse than Trump. The gas lighting patina for her has warn-off.

    My betting is that this skew away from Kamala has emerged or solidified among the undecided voters. And this is therefore moving private polling “internals” ahead of the public news-maker polls.

    And finally, pace Eeyore, this interview seems less important than the gauge generated by private campaign polling. The chick isn’t coming home to roost.

44. Let me add a note on the issue of the reluctant Trump voter. People here speculate about it, since we know ever since 2016, Trump out performs polling expectations.

    How much this time? The Trafalgar Group has used indirect methods. How does this work? The subject is interviewed but will not be forthcoming.

    The well-designed survey will peak behind this reluctance by asking about friends, family or neighbours — who are they voting for?

    A Principal with the Trafalgar Group of pollsters was interviewed by John Solomon on his podcast last month.

    He explained that these “submerged” Trump voters are a big problem for polling accurately. And last month he averred that this group ranges from 0.5% to 5% of the vote. That’s a wide margin

    Will the Trafalgar Group come up with more before election day? And will where the answer really counts? The 6-7 swing states? We will wait and see.

    The Trafalgar principal did add that the “submerged” Trump voter feels personally under attack — they take the hate and threats against Trump personally. And that’s why they are submerged and in hiding — because their safety requires it.

    I could not concur more. The meme over a black and white photo over Trump goes “In reality, they aren’t after me. They’re after you. I’m just in their way.”

45. An interesting point:
    https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2024/10/17/team-harris-knows-the-fox-news-interview-was-a-disaster-n4933418

    As we reported last night, Bret Baier revealed that the Harris campaign conspicuously showed up late for the interview and then desperately tried to end it early.

    Naturally, Harris allies in the media have been trying hard to spin the interview as a positive for her, but the real reason you can tell that Kamala’s supporters know the interview was a disaster is how they’re complaining about it.
    …
    The CNN panel also moaned about the fact that the first questions of the interview were about immigration and not the economy.

    And then they complained that there were no questions about abortion.
    …
    Well, as we know, Kamala Harris arrived late and cut the interview short, and between that and Kamala’s blatant filibustering, Bret Baier said he had a lot more questions to ask.

    There’s standard every-day chutzpah, and then there’s Democrats.

46. Professor Turley points out some interesting features of the interview.
    https://jonathanturley.org/2024/10/17/i-will-follow-the-law-harris-adopts-a-purely-pedestrian-view-of-the-presidency-in-fox-interview/

    Last night, millions tuned in to watch Fox’s Bret Baier interview Vice President Kamala Harris in a brief but substantive exchange. One of the most interesting aspects of the interview was the purely pedestrian view of the presidency that Harris presented in the interview. Harris repeatedly responded with “I will follow the law” while refusing to say where she personally stands on immigration, transgender athletes, and other issues.
    …
    Baier noted that she has previously campaigned on some of these issues and publicly declared that she worked for such things as gender transitioning operations for undocumented persons. Harris now refuses to state her position on such issues and says “I will follow the law.”

    Yet, Harris is not adopting that pedestrian model in other areas like abortion rights where she is pledging to use executive powers to resist pro-life laws. The Biden-Harris Administration has used such orders to negate both constitutional and statutory authority. That includes orders that were declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court on issues like the national eviction moratorium.
    …
    Baier did a heroic job in trying to prevent the filibustering of the interview and push for answers on these questions. It was the first such interview where Harris faced a dogged interviewer. Given the frantic effort of the staff to end the interview (after showing up late), it is likely to be the last.

    The mantra of “I will follow the law” ignores that a president plays a major role in the legislative process and has considerable executive powers in determining how such laws are enforced. The presidency is more than a promise of “joy” and compliance. It is about leadership on issues that matter to voters.

    The interview had a seasonal feel with Halloween approaching like a political reading of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven where every question is answered by “Nevermore.”

    That could well be the theme of the Harris campaign. When pressed on contradictions or controversies, Harris seemed to declare “Nevermore Trump” over and over again. We will see if that is enough in a matter of a few weeks.

    In the meantime, real journalists will be left seeking answers that never come, exclaiming like Poe’s protagonist “tell me—tell me, I implore!”
    However, “Quoth the [Harris] ‘Nevermore.’”

    He does not note, as J.D. Vance did in at least one interview, that the Biden-Harris administration repeatedly declares their own version of “the law” and then follows THAT instead of the actual legislation.

47. From the Pixels of Record:
    https://babylonbee.com/news/harris-complains-she-was-not-informed-the-interview-would-include-questions

48. “She got through law school and passed the CA Bar is evidence. Real bags of rocks don’t manage that.“
    ______
    Why do people assume we can rule out corruption in that process? Or that law school and the Bar are INFALLIBLE barriers to idiots in the practice?

    I think people are treating general indications of intelligence for actual proof of it. In a word, credentialism. I simply do not believe any human system is foolproof.

49. It seems to me that Harris admitted that Trump is more powerful and influential out of office than she and her addlepated boss are _in_ office.

    That’s quite an admission.

50. As to Kamala’s intelligence – @Eeyore and @TJ – It doesn’t really take corruption and I agree that passing the bar exam isn’t an infallible indicator of intelligence. I think we’re talking about the difference between average intelligence and high intelligence. I doubt very seriously that Kamala is dumber than a box of rocks (i.e., of below average intelligence). But you can absolutely pass the bar and practice law with roughly average intelligence. On the other hand, I believe it is difficult to fully command the issues in a US presidential campaign with merely average intelligence. It is even more difficult when you have to disavow your long-held beliefs, pretend that you actually intend to govern from the center when you don’t, and come off as sincere while doing so.

    There are also factors at play here other than pure intelligence. Work ethic and inclination are relevant. You can accomplish quite a bit with a high average or even average processor if you use it well. The personality that the good Lord gave you is also relevant. I get the sense that Kamala is lacking in both of those categories. Take her intelligence and package it in an individual with a stellar work ethic and who has been gifted with a compelling personality and that individual would be a far better politician than Kamala.

    To Eeyore’s point about the interview – I learned from cold, hard experience during the Obama years that I am not a very good judge of political performances. I believed that Obama was awful during numerous debates and interviews only to watch his poll numbers go up afterwards. I thought Kamala was a trainwreck with Baier, but I would not be surprised at all if swing voters believed otherwise. That interview wasn’t directed at me.

51. My guess is that KH’s foundational intelligence was adequate, but she herself has no interest in anything which tests her intellect, so it has atrophied. By some accounts, she doesn’t even read her briefing papers. BO I’m guessing is a similar type, but he reads his briefing papers and is more articulate.
    ==
    The smart money says the real bag-o’-hammers is Tim Walz. Teacher-training programs do not select for intelligence, he’s never had any subject training even though he was an academic high school teacher, and by the look of him he has a history with the bottle.
    ==
    Please note the culture of the Democratic Party: actual accomplishment is not admired. Have a gander at the Democratic presidential candidates in 2020. They actually fielded a deep bench. Their voters took a glance at Michael Bloomberg and ignored every other person who ran who’d had a career in business and / or experience as a public executive. (The last person out of the military who ran for President in the Democratic primaries was Wesley Clark in 2004). They favored Elizabeth Warren (an academic whose career was advanced through affirmative action fraud), Amy Klobuchar (a corporate lawyer turned prosecutor with a history of abusing subordinates), Pete Buttigieg (a resume with a simulacrum of a human being attached), Bernie Sanders (a complete no-account until he was elected Burlington’s 1st Trotskyist mayor), and Joseph Biden (a Capitol Hill tapeworm at the center of a disgusting pay-to-play operation). The worst of this crew was the man who was nominated.

52. The “Cackler” was chosen by the demokrat big-wigs as their chosen-one because they are seeking someone who has a good chance of prevailing in the election and when in the WH will do what she is instructed and not ask any questions.
    She will be told “sign here,” “say this and nothing more,” “read this,” etc.
    The Cackler will not even be required to think (which for her, is a god given talent ).

    The media will be instructed to provide all questions in advance for any press conference and they will be forbidden to ask questions not approved in advance.
    The media will go along with this – for they too are merely puppets of the demokrat/ Obama party elites.
    The media will most likely whisper under their breath that they are being hog tied, but they realize if they step out of bounds, they will be denied admittance into any press conference or presidential affair.
    So they will go along to get along.
    But they really will not be too bothered about this set up because they know that it is really their God, their Leader, their Fuhrer, Obama, running the show.

    The Cackler is too stupid and dumb to formulate any of her own polices and frankly she has no need to formulate any policies.
    All will be done for her by Obama and his handlers and like the brainless puppet she is, she will be just fine with this set up.

    It will be a sweet deal for her.
    She literally will have to do nothing – all will be done for her- and she can jet around the world in Air Force 1 cackling her brains out (assuming she has any brains).

    Unlike Joke Bidet who at times can be defiant, cantankerous and probably difficult (are these traits typical of senile or near senile people??) , the Cackler will be totally compliant. She will be the 5 year old child in the WH.

    Anyway, there is nothing on earth that will cause Cackler supporters to reconsider who they vote for. Her incompetence and ignorance she displayed (s) as VP or as a candidate for president will have zero effect on her standing amongst her supporters.

    Once again, the bottom line: it is the voters of this nation that will be the vanguard in destroying our Constitutional Republic.

    As I have said ad nauseam; the greatest threat a Constitutional Republic can face, is the voters, willingly and freely, voting for a national suicide.

53. Full Trump, Harris (vid) and MC speeches from Al Smith Dinner on CC:

    https://www.commoncts.blogspot.com

54. I think she went on Fox to energize her current base by angrily denouncing Trump in the home field of conservatives. It was the equivalent of dancing on the home team’s logo at midfield. She had no intention of answering any questions or persuading any undecideds. Baier did a nice job.

55. I did a quick look at the top search results for Trump’s speech at the Al Smith dinner. The Regime Media is shocked — shocked I tell you! — that he insulted his opponents at the famed dinner.

    As Trump himself remarked when he started, the Left is going to deliver fact-checks for his jokes.

    They are clearly counting on their readers’ ignorance of the traditional format of the gala, where the leading candidates are not only expected but instructed to roast their counterparts.

56. NEW RANT: Am I the only one who totally hates the fonts that make a small “L” look identical to a capital “I” — so that the name “Al” above looks indistinguishable from the acronym for Artificial Intelligence “AI”?

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