Some news media are calling attention to this other awkwardness: "Kamala Harris Heads to Capitol to Swear-In Senators Who Won’t Even Say Her Name Right" (Time), "Kamala Harris will give oath of office to GOP senators who couldn’t get her name right" (Independent).
It seems to me that this was a formal, required ritual, and everyone went through the motions with dignity and collegiality.
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I expected that the ritual would be performed without incident. (I realize that the press and others wanted more wailing and gnashing.)
Harris fucked up the Pledge of Allegiance at the beginning of the event. God damn she's stupid.
Why is it so hard to be gracious in winning (and in losing)?
"[S]ay her name right"? Why would an incoming senator have to swear an oath to her personally?
In 17 days, none need be concerned with wossname.
…because mainstream media exists only to create and distribute propaganda and their product is failing in its mission. They are trying harder…
Nixon in 1961 and Gore in 2001 did this - Harris is in better company than she deserves.
It's a lost art.
…I just saw you’re expecting the Republicans to be more gracious??? After all these Democrats have done they deserve to be told to eat a bag of dicks by the Republicans on the floor and have it entered into the Congressional record.
"I just saw you’re expecting the Republicans to be more gracious?"
I was speaking to Curious George, specifically.
What is the "right" pronunciation that her media lackeys expect to hear? Her campaign was pushing "comma-luh" but supposedly that differs from the traditional Tamil pronunciation. Unless someone is acting out of obvious malice, attempts at pronouncing her name should be met with tolerance and grace.
I read she messed up the pledge of allegiance. She skipped "to the flag."
Looked fine to me. I'll add that Kamala looked better physically than she has in a very long time
Two shampeachments, countless bouts of lawfare, a no knock raid on a President’s home (the correct term is President and not ex-President) and only now a call for graciousness…that is not grace, that is something despicable…
…he has every right to be angry and/or point out her flaws. She ran for President of the United States, you know…and she’s stupid.
Gracious such a tricky word for many to comprehend.
Graciousness Bullshit, first cousin to Civility Bullshit.
Who ? JD something? Isnt Musk the co president or the president/Vice president..I thought they fired this fella? Back to your room son,,your loyalty is over..
That "President Musk" nonsense? Dude (or dudette, I suppose)- that is so played. Nobody cares. Move on.
Reaaly, you didn't reply to my post, you creared a new one. And give me a break Althouse. 4 years of the left cramming it up our ass in every area of their governing and you want gracious? Sorry, no.
BTW, I stated two facts. She did fuck up the PofA, and she is dumb.
VP swearing in Senator Sanders "graciously" said; "Stand right here. Although that is not your nature to just stand where you're told to stand, but give it a try,"
Sanders, after being sworn in; "I am impressed you memorized that."
Seems like some commenters are still drunk from New Years Eve.
I don’t use the reply function. It doesn’t show up on my desktop computer, which is what I usually use. It doesn’t show up on my iPad when I’m just reading. I see it when I hit the button to comment, but I just don’t think it’s reliable as a way to display who you’re talking to. If I could turn it off, I would, but don’t count on me using it as a way of showing who I’m replying to because I’m never going to do that.
"People who are using. The reply function should be aware that some people who are reading the comments are not seeing it as a reply and can’t tell what you’re replying to."
They can tell if you copy/paste the comment you're replying to. :)
JD is laughing because he knows that Kamala-lala-ding-dong is a freaking idiot. One either laughs or cries at the fact that this idiot was almost POTUS.
"They can tell if you copy/paste the comment you're replying to. :)"
^^^THIS^^^. I really wish people hadn't stop doing this.
BTW, just as a point of information. The "unclosed italic" phenomenon does not appear in "REPLY" mode. It's why it often runs for many comments before somebody fixes it. Most people aren't seeing it.
How many of these pronunciation savants get Ramaswamy’s first name right?
Swanson, you're ill. Please get help.
It doesn't reflect well on me that when I encounter this kind of mental disorder, I feel disgust rather than pity. But I'm trying to act better than my feelings would dictate.
"They can tell if you copy/paste the comment you're replying to. :)"
^^^THIS^^^. I really wish people hadn't stop doing this.
I totally get it. But are you using a phone or a computer? I can say that I'm virtually always using my phone and it's a giant pain thanks to the new and improved Blogger format, the purpose of which I still fail to see. (Not that I fail to see why our host would adopt this format - I just don't know why Blogger created it.) I get 5 1/2 lines of text that I can read as I type; thereafter I have to type blind. I get font that, on a standard computer screen, would be maybe 5pt? 4pt? and yes, I know I can adjust my display to enlarge it (or at least I THINK that using my phone settings would affect the Blogger display too, but I haven't tried it), but if I do so, it'll make every other blog, website, email, everything I read on my phone gigantic and cumbersome. So I have to manually enlarge the font on-screen and then scroll back and forth in order to proofread everything I can't see in those 5 1/2 lines.
And of course, everything I quote from a prior post takes up those 5 1/2 lines. So, I can see why one might choose not to quote the prior comment, in hopes that others might choose to read the comment thread in its nested form.
"I totally get it. But are you using a phone or a computer?"
iPad. I get the tiny box too, but it scrolls as I type (except when it doesn't).
BTW, has anyone else noticed that the "unclosed italic" phenomenon doesn't happen in "Reply mode"? I think it's why it may run for many comments before someone closes it. Anybody viewing in Reply mode (which is perhaps the majority?) doesn't see it.
The Left doesn't care that Harris is dumb (for a VP) or a dumb POTUS. They know it doesn't matter. Its all about what she Does. I'm not interested in bashing her because she's just an instrument. She's like a news presenter who says whatever the producer and the News Division Exec tells her to say.
I'd love to live in fantasy land where we could look at all the powerful senators taking the oath, and see the changing of power, and gosh darn isn't it all comfy and wonderful. But Harris/Biden would've loved nothing more than putting Trump in jail and winning by vote fraud. And then making sure no Republican ever became POTUS again. Ever.
That's reality. That's what we're up against. I can't believe the "Gosh, we're all Americans, and we believe in Democracy, and don't act like those horrible people in Country X". The Left and the Democrats killed that dream.
"I get the tiny box too, but it scrolls as I type"
What I can't do in the tiny box is scroll it with my finger. So once text scrolls off the top I can't review it, which is unfortunate.
Something I noticed was that the new Senators gave the Support and Defend oath, which is required for 14th Amdt Insurrection disability from office. Trump has never taken that oath, but rather only the President’s Execute, Defend, and Protect oath.
Just reading stuff on my phone is a pain in the ass, I can't imagine trying to post comments with it.
“Why is it so hard to be gracious in winning (and in losing)?”
Right up there with Rodney Dangerfield! Funny stuff!
Pronouncing her name "correctly" didn't become a thing until she was the nominee. There was a plethora of examples of members of her own party butchering the pronunciation but no one was alleging they were racists or being disrespectful. To do it deliberately is one thing, but to pronounce it wrongly in good faith is another. And if I were in the public eye and my pronunciation didn't change but the reaction to it did accompanied by a shit storm of bad faith accusations I think I might have dug my feet in as well. At least when Nancy Mace did she got some flirty tweets from the "professor" who insinuating her mispronunciation was a recapitulation of the history of race relations in America. Fortunately he was the forgiving kind who seemed to be suggesting they ameliorate the condition of such relations with some horizontal negotiations.
My God, those are some long sentences!!!
Not Gracious.
Not gracious.
"They can tell if you copy/paste the comment you're replying to. :):
You can tell it's replying to a previous comment ll because the comment is listed in chronoligical order and indented.
Leftist whine press:
"They can't get her name right!"
Someone call a whaaaaaambulance
"You can tell it's replying to a previous comment ll because the comment is listed in chronoligical order and indented."
You're apparently not aware that there is another mode where that's not true.
"Just reading stuff on my phone is a pain in the ass, I can't imagine trying to post comments with it."
Me neither. I find the format intolerable.
Agreed. Can't wait for somewhat-soon to be prez, JD Vance. He may be a tool of plutocracy, but he is educated and not insane.
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