That's Politico, where they seem to have lost their mind.
Democratic operatives, including some of Kamala Harris’ own staffers, are growing increasingly concerned about her relatively light campaign schedule, which has her holding fewer events than Donald Trump and avoiding unscripted interactions with voters and the press almost entirely....
Speaking of unscripted, today, everyone seems to be talking about her incredibly awkward inability to ad lib when her teleprompter malfunctioned yesterday:
Kamala's teleprompter briefly went out at the beginning of her speech — you can tell the exact moment it happened.
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) October 4, 2024
She had absolutely no idea what to do or say.
Humiliating. pic.twitter.com/287bSswwgS
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This is the playbook for the third-string candidate. The Dems had a better chance with Sleepy Joe
Marijuana Cookies vs Vanilla Ice Cream
they seem to have lost their mind
I wonder where that expression came from?
Old Frankenstein movies?
Politico wants to be a worker bee and part of the hive mind but the queen is gone, baby, gone gone, where is our fucking queen? I don't know what to do! I don't know what to say!
Maybe while Kamala is on the Call Me Daddy blog she can sing this Violent Femmes song...
Gone Daddy Gone
Beautiful girl, lovely dress
High school smiles, oh yes
Beautiful girl, lovely dress
Where she is now I can only guess
'Cause it's gone, daddy, gone -- your love is gone
Yeah, it's gone, daddy, gone -- your love is gone
Yeah, it's gone, daddy, gone -- your love is gone
Yeah, it's gone, daddy, gone -- your love is gone away
When I see you, eyes will turn blue
When I see you, thousand eyes turnin' blue
'Cause it's gone, daddy, gone -- your love is gone
Yeah, it's gone, daddy, gone -- your love is gone
Yeah, it's gone, daddy, gone -- your love is gone
Yeah, it's gone, daddy, gone -- your love is gone away
Tell by the way that you switch and walk
I can see by the way that you baby-talk
I can know by the way you treat your man
I can love you, baby, 'til it's a-cryin...
'Cause it's gone, daddy, gone -- your love is gone
Yeah, it's gone, daddy, gone -- your love is gone
Yeah, it's gone, daddy, gone -- your love is gone
Yeah, it's gone, daddy, gone -- your love is gone away
Beautiful girl, lovely dress
Fifteen smiles, oh, yes
Beautiful girl, lovely dress
Where she is now, I can only guess 'cause it's...
She's tipsy
Not full on drunk but she obviously knocked back a few.
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That video has me convinced that no one cares WHO is sitting is a president,. Had this person bee running for dog catcher I would have voted against her simply based on her performance at the stage. No way this is leader of the free world caliber.
I thought that the Democrats would have pulled her before now.
They had an opportunity to have an open convention.
They chose poorly.
And the really stupid people like Inga and Rich that supported this as if Kamala would somehow become someone other than the first democrat out in 2019 are just going to have to live with their shame. You should never have gone along with this and you are just really dumb.
Hey vote her in. You just replace the figurehead on the door knocker. The real work will be done by those unseen and unelected. Same as it was when Joe was the figurehead. The fingers of the Obama cabal are all over this.
"Remember his number: 32!"
O.J. Simpson?
"avoiding unscripted interactions with voters and the press almost entirely" And why would that be? Smarter Dems explicitly recommended the strategy, knowing full well the liabilities of the candidate.
"her incredibly awkward inability to ad lib" But once in the White House, devising policy with staff, negotiating with Congress, dealing with foreign adversaries, she'll do fine, just fine.
Anyway, outside the political arena, would anyone hire Harris to run anything important? Of course, it doesn't matter: Dems prefer the figurehead, the better to push prog policy.
Call Her Daddy
Freudian slipper
It’s not too late to Bring Back Biden.
How Dare we speak Merry Christmas... two patties special sauce on a sesame seed bun
Not found on SNL(D)
But WaPo told us Harris is everywhere:
Here's the headline at The Washington Post for you to read between the lines: "Harris is running a much bigger campaign than Trump. Will it matter? She spends three times as much, employs hundreds more staff and dominates the ad war. But the race is effectively tied."
Politico (with apologies to The Shining):
All work and no play makes Kamala a dull person.
All work and no play makes Kamala a dull person.
All work and no play makes Kamala a dull person.
All work and no play makes Kamala a dull person…
It really is shocking how badly the people running the Democrat party have messed this up.
They didn't choose anything; Biden did. His endorsement of Harris killed any chance of an open primary, which was likely the goal. The Dems likely wanted an open primary to put in a better candidate, but neither Biden nor Harris could stand that.
I wonder if that audience was paid ?
No reason to worry. Kamala has a much bigger staff and more money.
That video was hilarious.
The race this time is meaningless. The polls don't matter. The candidates don't matter. The primary factor determining the outcome of this election is, as it was in 2020, the mail in ballot harvesting operations of the Dems versus the Republicans in a few key precincts in a few key states. Georgia, Wisocnsin, Michigan, and most importantly Pennsylvania, will have their election outcomes determined by unauditable, unverifiable, but perfectly legal mail in ballots. Harris can only lose this election by stopping her party's hired operatives from sending and collecting those mail in ballots.
Still, she does look pretty bad in the posted video. Could be an entertaining disaster for 4 years of having her repeat this on the world stage, again and again and again.
Hillary would have far more competent in this situation - and that's what made her so scary as a candidate.
Wake up, Puppet Girl !
Elvis was everywhere too!
She is rendered speechless thinking of the January 6 insurrection when thousands of armed rebels stormed the capitol, causing hundreds of deaths and almost overthrowing not only the government but the order of the Universe. Oh, the humanity!
Today is the first day of the rest of the day.
"Trump’s campaign, are betting that voters will see Vance's facial hair as a sign of Vance as the rugged everyman — 'a young Abraham Lincoln,' as Trump said earlier this month — rather than giving off undertones of an untrustworthy aggressor."
Politico published that sentence. Yes, they have lost their fuckign minds.
Underdog, huh? I guess with the teleprompter on the fritz Kamala accidentally let slip what their internals are saying.
Plus Dominion voting machines and lots of cardboard to cover up the windows to the counting rooms.
I think Althouse had it right a couple of weeks ago. Harris' heart is not in this. She just does not want it badly enough.
My thoughts: Harris knows she is not up to the job, knows she is only there as a tool; has observed the incompetent Biden sustained and supported then cast aside like dog shit, fears the same in her future if she wins.
And well she might.
"32, yep, 32 days. 30+2 or 22+10 or 35-3. It's all 32 days which will soon just be part of the passage of time. The significance of the passage of time, right? The significance of the passage of time. So when you think about it, there 32 days that have to pass until we experience the passing of this election. That's serious."
when the marionette strings take a cigarette break... the puppet doesn't know what to do/say.
Actually, the first 7sec are the worst. WTF exactly is wrong with her - and her freakish face?
With water buffalo man leading the charge
Obama: If you like your administration you can keep your administration.
Seems like only yesterday I read "where's Trump? He's given up!" on X or wherever
Harris and Walz are the least capable due running for a major party in our lifetimes. The idea that Althouse has not decided how to vote in this election is astonishing. How could she possible vote for this duo, or waste a chance to vote for the only viable alternatives.
The media's commercial interests override their alleged journalistic interests. They want a close race, and as much spectacle as possible — viewers, clicks, engagement and ultimately oodles of campaign, PAC and issue group advertising. It’s nauseating for sure. And not at all *news*
Painful. I couldn't watch beyond past second 18.
Kamala is the poster child for, "Vote Blue -- No Matter Who!"
Jim Brown. If you're serious, it's got to be Jim Brown.
What Tank said. Inconceivable that Althouse would vote for Harris/Walz
BriBaBi?
Trump has placed Cory Comperatore’s Fire Fighter uniform in the stands where Cory laid down his life protecting his family from the assassin bullets.
Imagine if a sniper took out a Kamala supporter. The Media would be screaming non-stop.
She says "This is going to be a very tight race until the very end". Yes indeed, it is at "the very end" that I expect the tide of votes will become a flood in her favor. It's not as if they have failed to give notice of their intentions.
What a waste it is to lose one’s mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.
--Dan Quayle in a speech to the United Negro College Fund, May, 1989, slightly remembering the slogan "A mind is a terrible thing to waste" promoting black education.
Co-worker commented that a strong back is a terrible thing to waste.
So many ways she could have recovered from this.
She coukd have just matter of factly said “My teleprompter’s out. You guys are so important to me that I dont want to leave out anything that I wanted to say to you, so let’s see if we can bring this thing back up.”
Also on the staff side, did no one give her a paper copy of her speech, either in her pocket, TR style, or on the lectern?
She could have had a nice George Washington moment putting on her reading glasses.
Surely her Senate career alone prepared her for things to go wrong in public speaking.
JSM
I can't watch Walz speak without thinking of those Temptations pet food ads with the cats with giant cartoon eyes.
I can't think of anything weird enough to compare to Kamala, except more Kamala. Turtles all the way down.
You'd look like that too if you'd been passed around at Democrat Party freak offs.
Democrats need to take a look at this video and honestly ask themselves what would happen with Kamala as POTUS in a national emergency.
My guess is that they know the Deep State would assert their authority as they have done for the entire Biden administration.
Their campaign slogan should be "Trust the bureaucrats because they will always be in charge".
"...unburdened by the 32 days which have been..."
I did watch it to the end, and I’m wondering exactly how she’s able to say “we are the underdogs” she’s supported by literally 100% of the mainstream media, meanwhile Trump is vilified by the same.
Democracy indeed.
I don't wonder at all if the audience is paid. Harris has to punt out normal people and bus in paid actors/supporters for all her events. Which only works if you're trying to paint an aura of universal popularity AND control all speech in America. Any normal politician, even David Hogg, could take an independent crowd as a fun challenge. But Kamala is a recovering alky tramp. She can't do it, and never could.
I really feel sorry for the women who have hitched their wagons to her as some kind of historic figure. If Kamala is the first woman President of the United States, it will deal a fatal blow to female candidacies in the future. There will be a competency backlash.
You all thinking the choice is Binary for Althouse need to think harder. There are third party candidates and no vote as well. It is more likely that she is clear on not voting for Harris, the question is sitting out, third party, and Trump. That is probably more like her undecided state. Pulling the lever for Trump may just be a bridge too far.
Pulling the lever for Trump may just be a bridge too far.
That is what I thought in 2016.
I did not need to be red pilled. Reagan did that for me in 1984. I needed to be convinced that Trump really wanted to be POTUS.
I will be voting for him again, not just because the Dem candidate is a moron, but because he is the best of the bunch in both parties.
How many attempts on her life?
Inauthentic doesn't quite cover it. To think she might be the President. Harris-Walz is easily the worst ticket ever.
look at those diatribes against the knights of columbus and Kavanaugh, and ICE, and get back to me,
Biden made the endorsement as a final FU to the party for forcing him out. He was always a mean, petty and vindictive little excuse for a human being.
I keep telling my friends that Harris is dumb as a post. I obviously have been insulting the post.
Interesting take.
She's a marionette for the puppeteers. If nobody was pulling her strings, she'd collapse into a heap. The teleprompter mishap was a perfect example.
Kamala-la-la-la-la is smarter than every single Althouse blog lefty/LLR-democratical lefty moron / DeSantis-or-bust accounts who now shill for Harris (thougj this is a small group)
Let that sink in.
She's running through airports.
The dogs won't eat the dog food, no matter what the ad men try.
We won't have electricity to watch her failures.
Facial hair is masculine. Lots of (sane) women like that sort of thing.
Harris is in no way qualified to be President and Tim sure as hell is unqualified for any post. If Harris is elected we are, in the immortal words, of GHW Bush in "deep do-do".
I saw a "rally" photo from an event Kamala is speaking at today. It appeared there were about 50 people in the audience and 50 staff and media members.
Meanwhile, Trump is back in Butler, PA with about 60,000 attendees. I believe Elon Musk is speaking there today as well. The line to get into Trump's rally was backed up as far as the camera eye could see.
Wait, is that why it's called the Washington Post?!? Nothing to do with the post office or any other meaning of the word 'post', it's the Washington (Dumb As a) Post? That would make a lot of sense!
Look up "ninny".
That's her picture.
Politico is all excited at the thought that Trump voters in NC/TN/SC/GA will not be able to vote next month. Their comment included the statement that Trump voters were not intelligent enough (as smart as Democrats) to get the polls in spite of the Helene destruction.
Not really. Democrat state officials complained about the 2016 Hillary campaign not going to their state. Hillary didn't even visit Wisconsin once.
I loves it when she calls me Big Poppa!
I noticed that when Joe spoke that Jill wasn't at his elbow. She must be royally ticked to have let him off the child-leash to say anything he wished the way she did.
[dog] comes, sniffs your crotch > isitunderdog?
I am unburdened by their desperation as I grew up in a middle class home and actually did work during high school and the first years of college at a McDonald’s.
I would like to know exactly what the administration is doing for the storm victims though, because it seems that they’ve been spending a lot of money in wars we don’t belong in and moving people that came to our county in violation of immigration policy inland.
This is intolerable acts stuff.
Dems are Dems and they will vote for her. All the so called intellectuals in my neigborhood, the colllege professors and lawyers, all have Harris signs in their yards. I thought they were smarter than that.
the fact that their homes, their belongings have been destroyed doesn't concern axelrod, son of Communists btw,
Kamala would make a good talk show host. Not on substance, but on her enthusiasm and constant happiness. Honestly, when she is keeping a straight face or trying to be serious, it seems like a strain and an uncomfortable act.
Always wonder if,as a prosecutor, she actually did any real trials, or was simply involved in plea bargains. Any administrator can seem competent with qualified subordinates
I agree. Chasing the fantasy of becoming president is one thing, that can motivate a political career. The dream required having good looks, a strong ego and a lot of family emotional support; but doing the actual job requires a much greater skill set and mental fortitude she knows she doesn't possess.
That's why she's avoided the press, imo. She was never the underdog, she's the VP of the US. She could have had wall to wall press conferences to discuss her vision for the country, if she had a vision.
Robert Reich on X:
If Trump is reelected, Justice Alito may retire. Justice Thomas too.
Trump would then be the first president in more than 50 years to appoint a
majority of the Supreme Court.
I never thought I’d see the day when Reich would come up with a big reason to vote for Donald Trump, but there it is.
Harris is the Michael Scott of politics. Cringe worthy every time.
there is no evidence to this,
Hillary Clinton goes full Soviet.
It's this simple, really.
Althouse asks…
Why are the headline and subheadline nearly identical?
Well, like Kamala when she repeated “32 days” over and over again, maybe Politico’s teleprompter malfunctioned?
New BOMBSHELL allegations from FEMA whistleblowers help explain why the federal government's response to Hurricane Helene has been so horrendous.
Do you ever wonder who is writing Kamala's teleprompter?
What I really liked was the other day when she needed to defend walx as not being g a horrible choice. She needed to explain how he really is much better than he seemed in the debate.
Instead, she admitted her horrible judgemet and blamed it on being drunk on cooking wine. "Marinating a roast" she euphemistically called it.
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"Their comment included the statement that Trump voters were not intelligent enough (as smart as Democrats) to get the polls in spite of the Helene destruction."
Don't Democrats regularly claim their voters are too stupid to be able to figure out how to get an ID to vote?
Kamala wants to be President in the same way that a 7-year-old wants to be President. It would be really cool to hold the highest job in the land, but the work and stress that it requires to win the job and then the work and stress that is required to do the job properly are massive. Kamala is lazy and, for that matter, not all that bright.
If the mainstream media was not overtly supporting her campaign, the Dems would be looking to push her out as well.
"Trump would then be the first president in more than 50 years to appoint a
majority of the Supreme Court."
As the saying goes, you don't have to sell me- I'm already voting for the guy.
It’s a miracle that this woman can even read a teleprompter.
I wondered how long before Clooney takes out the full page ad to bring Joe back..
The Dems were rightly worried that large numbers of Dem voters would refuse to vote at all if Joe was at the top of the ticket.
I think they were right to dump Joe. But I think I was right when I pointed out before they did it that they didn't have any good options with which to replace Joe, so they were still going to lose
Wibble and jam are right. But it doesn't matter, because they couldn't have dumped "black female" Harris even if Joe didn't shiv them with the Harris endorsement.
When they chose last year not to have a Primary, they sealed their doom. They bet everything on "we'll be able to hide Joe's dementia."
Once they lost that, they were out of luck
After reading this post, I just looked at NYT. Summarizing: Economy is doing okay; Hamas and Mid E is doing not okay, Kamala has issues w/ her dad, then a bunch of jabber about both candidates re doing day to day stuff.
So how about WaPo?: Rs ditch banning abortion; the minority lady is running a much bigger operation than the orange man, but does that matter; the orange man wants us to remember that he had to put a bandaid on his ear.
That doesn't seem super panicky. But, I would expect the lame stream media to start the big amp-up. People are starting to early vote so now is the time to start the pressure time. But, it's important to build the pressure. Seems like NYT and WaPo are at the beginning of the ramp up. As makes sense.
IMHO.
BTW, this is a great Althouse post.
When she get into the brains of other people and tell us what they're up to, she is awesome.
Her work here sussing out the thirteen second mark is some of her best blogging. But when she was reading the hidden message of an HRC ad that was spreading the N-word, that was peak Althouse.
She's so cool. And hilarious.
IMHO.
It’s not astonishing at all, she voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016. She didnt vote at all in 2020. She’s full of surprises.
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