I have not read this piece yet. I'm just trying to observe my understanding as it dawns on me. My first thought was: What kind of fawning bullshit is this? I was just complaining that the mainstream media hasn't subjected Kamala Harris to any serious testing, and now here's this ludicrous headline ascribing special powers of knowing to her.
I see it's in the "Style" pages, which is what we have in the newspaper today instead of what used to be called the "Women's" pages. So now I'm thinking of the old concept "Women's Ways of Knowing." Have you heard of these 5 "ways of knowing" — something about "women's cognitive development, dependent on conceptions of self (self), relationship with others (voice) and understanding of the origins and identity of authority, truth and knowledge (mind)"?
Is that what this WaPo thing is onto? Harris "knows things no vice president has ever known" because no vice president has ever been a woman? And extend that to no vice president has ever been black.
The piece is by Monica Hesse.
I keep thinking about how, at some point in Kamala Harris’s life, she has painstakingly reviewed her office wardrobe with the understanding that the difference between “slut” and “feminazi” is a few inches of worsted-wool hemline. At some point, she has approached a stranger in a public bathroom because the Tampax machine is broken again, and she has said, I’m so sorry, but do you have — and then she didn’t have to finish the question because women in bathrooms know that there is only one end to that question.
You know, I went through an entire life's worth of menstruating and never once asked as stranger in a public bathroom for a tampon. It's not something that just has to happen to every woman. Nor did I ever even consider whether clothes I wore to the office needed to get between “slut” and “feminazi.” I don't even know now which one is shorter, but why would it matter, since neither message is office-appropriate? Wouldn't you just be picking your length and deciding how much you cared about being appropriate?
I'm not buying Hesse's portrayal of the necessary experience of a woman, but in any case, who cares whether vice presidents know these things, and didn't Hesse already go through this collection of thoughts when she contemplated a first woman president 4 years ago?
There is something profoundly moving about the fact that Kamala Harris has walked through the world as a woman. That she has thought, talked, purchased, exercised, sought medical care, sought justice, laughed and bitten her tongue as a woman.
Oh, I'm profoundly moved. I'll tell you that. Profoundly moved to scoff at this sententiousness. And I won't bite my tongue — as a woman — bite my womanly woman's tongue as a woman — at the anger I feel that a Washington Post column is frittered away on generic woman's material when this person — Kamala Harris — is on the verge of becoming not merely vice president but President and she has not been seriously questioned and raked over the coals like a real candidate.
We the people are treated like morons. Some of us treated-like-morons people are happy enough with their predicament because they are not openly called "deplorables" like those treated-like-morons people on the other side. Click on the comments over there if you'd like to listen to these happy folk burble.
Magnificent piece on so many levels Ms. Hesse. I'll be sharing this far and wide...Thank you.
ADDED: On a less political note, did "burble" — like "chortle" and "galumph" — originate in the 1871 Lewis Carroll poem "Jabberwocky"?And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!
One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.
“And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!”
He chortled in his joy.
The OED tells us that "burble" was an English word going all the way back to c1300, but it only meant bubble or gurgle. Carroll got a new meaning started: "To speak murmurously."
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Beyond sententiousness and crash landing at fatuousness.
"Sluts rule." Butthead.
Why are you calling this Caribbean/Subcontinental Indian woman "black"?
Is this like Elizabeth Warren is "Indian" or not?
Girrrl Power!
Sort of like a "wise Latina", no?
There is something profoundly moving about the fact that Kamala Harris has walked through the world as a woman. That she has thought, talked, purchased, exercised, sought medical care, sought justice, laughed and bitten her tongue as a woman.
Why isn't this considered to be anti-trans rhetoric?
From the same media who brought us 4 years of Russian conspiracy BS. Even tho is was the Clinton family who benefited from Russian mega bucks.
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Trump was never "compromised" by Russian intelligence as the Hillary campaign+ Obama-Biden regime +MSM conspired to frame him. On the other hand, Joe Biden & his family crawled into bed with Chinese intelligence through CEFC & other intelligence fronts. #ManchurianCandidateBiden
"Kamala Harris knows things no vice president has ever known."
True! Also true of everyone else on the planet.
Three cheers to you for even getting through that mountain of stupidity ... I guess years of reading law student papers trained you to tolerate that better than I could? LOL.
The media is beyond parody, SO far beyond parody ... no industry deserves death more.
Strong take AA. I like it.
"...the difference between “slut” and “feminazi”"
Speaking of which, if you happen to be into role playing costumes are steeply discounted this time of year. Nazis, nurses, cops, pilgrims - they got it all.
Kamala Harris knows things no vice president has ever known
The first thing I thought of was 'the giving end of fellatio' but we've had a few cocksuckers as veep...
It is impossible to exaggerate the self-absorption of today's media scribblers.
I too have gone from puberty to menopause and beyond without ever asking or having been asked "that question".
Nor have I ever contemplated slut vs feminazi as I surveyed my wardrobe.
And, frankly, it's stories like these that feed the women are too stupid and emotional to vote narrative.
Embarrassing.
Kamala knows so much that just isn't true.
Yikes.
Perhaps they're referring to Willie Brown....
I thought the most important thing for a Veep to know is the protocol for funerals of various foreign dignitaries.
What Willie Brown's balls smell like?
This feminist myth making. You make your target imagine certain things as having happened to them, and they react as though they had happened to them. Women who were never raped will think of themselves as rape victims if rape stories are pounded into their heads.
It's not just women, either. White men who have never been subject to discrimination will think of themselves as being discriminated against if they listen to the stories of men who say that they have experienced discrimination.
How many black people think of themselves as having suffered from slavery and discrimination? Even black millionaires who were born to wealthy families imagine themselves as having suffered the ill effects of two hundred years of slavery.
So if voting for a woman for Vice President is good, is voting one for President is even better? Was the fawning article about Jo Jorgensen twice as long?
"the understanding that the difference between “slut” and “feminazi” is a few inches of worsted-wool hemline."
I don't think that K.Harris has ever been dumped on as a "feminazi" in her career. She hasn't really had that reputation. She definitely has been a Nazi collaborator in the sense that her Justice Department has persecuted people like David Daleiden, but that was not just her, or her at all, and its quite difficult to think that a professional puppet like her has the free will to deserve it. Whatever she says, no matter the venue, one has to look for the fellows feeding her her lines.
As for the other charge, well, I don't think the few inches in question were about her hemline.
At some point, she has approached a stranger in a public bathroom because the Tampax machine is broken again
Perhaps the writer is poor and has had to do this. Harris has grown up wealthy enough that she can afford feminine products, I suspect. Way to project your life onto Harris, though, Monica Hesse.
I don’t understand what the Professor is upset about. This is how the left wants the coronation to go. No questions asked. It’s way of the modern campus. It’s not like it is a new phenomenon. There is no examination, no debate. And now, as a result, the most unqualified, annoying person to get this close to the Presidency is a woman. We’re not talking about Margaret Thatcher here. If she does get in because Biden’s corruption forces him out, she’ll be a disaster, and Feminists will own it. Why not just go vote for Trump, and get on the Nikki Haley bandwagon in 2024? Or maybe a little enthusiasm toward Tulsi Gabbard would have helped. But when the queen bee HRC calls someone a Russian asset, you’re now allowed to say anything.
I figured it was onomatopoetic.
This piece is aimed at women to vote for the woman because they are all part of the woman tribe.
Ann, you've got to get on board. You are not a true and authentic woman if you don't vote for the Harris-Biden ticket.
"Kamala Harris knows things no vice president has ever known."
1) what her bosses semen tastes like?
2) what it's like to Provide sexual favors for career advancement?
3) what it's like to be an Indian/Jamaican married to a Jew?
4) what it's like to be Openly Socialist?
And extend that to no vice president has ever been black.
Neither has Camel A.
She definitely knows a few things about Willie Brown that nobody else knows, except his other sex partners.
Probably not enough room in the article for that kind of gossip though. Just this other boring kind.
These people must be fun at parties!
WaPo publishes a load of codswallop. Dog bites man.
Is the flipside of this is that she doesn't know things that every other VP has known?
Hunter Laptop Story Portends a Dark Winter for Free Speech
If Joe Biden is elected, he will owe the tech companies a favor.
On July 7, 2019, Joe Biden signed an amended tax return for 2017, the last year during which he earned a salary as a vice president. Biden reported an adjusted gross income of $11,031,309—much of which involved routing his speaking fees and book royalties through a corporation named Celticcapri Corp.
Conspicuously missing from this tax return was any mention of his newly acquired 10 percent stake in Sinohawk Holdings, the company the Bidens formed in connection with their deal with the Chinese energy company CEFC. A Biden family business partner, Tony Bobulinski, who helped form and run Sinohawk Holdings, recently gave an interview with Tucker Carlson during which he confirmed speaking directly to Vice President Biden about the deal.
She doesn't know how annoying she is. Even I know that.
more...
On the final day before the election, the core facts of the Biden-China scandal remain murky.
Bobulinski said he expected two payments of $5 million each from the Chinese partner to Sinohawk but the payments did not arrive as expected. He implied—but did not definitively show —the Bidens took the money directly from the Chinese, cutting out the other non-Biden partners.
Bobulinski said he believed the Bidens were compromised by China. But at the time the money changed hands, Joe Biden was a private citizen. If Bobulinski is correct that the Bidens took substantial money out of the deal, then the former vice president appears to have been untruthful in public statements claiming he never took any money from the foreign deals or even discussed the deals directly with his son Hunter.
also - Bobulinski did not kill himself.
I missed last night's cafe, so this and maybe any other election thread will have to do.
Who else saw Lester Holt break in near the end of last night's football game to announce that Biden had a ten point lead in their latest national poll? No other "breaking news," just that. When all the other polls are tightening, NBC doubles down to reach sports fans at the last minute. Pure propaganda.
Kamala Harris = Cackles
Hillary Clinton = Cankles.
The Democrats sure know how to pick female POTUS candidates that represent America, don't they?
I was once asked for a tampon in a restroom.
The rest of it is bullshit, of course.
I have been asked for feminine products in a bathroom, but if someone said "Excuse me do you have..." to me in a restroom, I wouldn't automatically know that's what she wanted. A Kleenex? A phone charger? A pony tail holder? The time? Hand sanitizer?
Now men. Has a man asked you for a tampon in the men's bathroom yet? Because not everyone who bleeds is a woman. Get ready.
>> There is something profoundly moving about the fact that Kamala Harris has walked through the world as a woman. That she has thought, talked, purchased, exercised, sought medical care, sought justice, laughed and bitten her tongue as a woman.
> Why isn't this considered to be anti-trans rhetoric?
Because it sounds like something only a transwoman would write. Women tell men that they put their pants on one leg at at time just like guys, that being a woman is just being a person, but the guys who are transwomen are still taken in by the mystique of womanhood.
You MUST understand her SUFFERING.
She is one with all of you living in food deserts, driving with no license plates, and your brother just got his third DUI.
She is DOWN WITH YOU.
Rehajm wins.
Given that Dem bigwigs get invited to inaugurations, what are the odds that Willie Brown will go?
"At some point, she has approached a stranger in a public bathroom because the Tampax machine is broken again,"
Self-sufficiency is a foreign concept to these people.
I'm not buying Hesse's portrayal of the necessary experience of a woman, but in any case, who cares whether vice presidents know these things, and didn't Hesse already go through this collection of thoughts when she contemplated a first woman president 4 years ago?
Another good question would be whether she went through this collection of thoughts when she contemplated a woman VP 12 years ago.
This is why we point and laugh at them.
This is mostly cover for the fact that Kamala Harris suffers from one serious defect as a woman, which is that she has never given birth. I remember when her predecessor in the Senate, Barbara Boxer, tried to embarrass Condoleeza Rice during questioning one time at a hearing about the Iraq War, how as a single woman who'd never had children, Rice could never comprehend the personal price that "real" women pay when their children are killed in combat.
It's odd how, with all this special insight and perception vouchsafed only to the female of the species, most women seem never to connect the dots and figure out that statism sucks ("not healthy for children and other human beings," as a big peacenik slogan used to put it) and socialism leads to scarcity not prosperity.
Kamala Harris is NOT an eligible natural born Citizen "law prof". She was born of NON US Citizen parents, one of which was NEVER a US Citizen (mother- who took Kamala to Canada from age 7-18 after divorce from father. SEE 88 US 162, 167 (1875), that natural born Citizens are born in US of US Citizen parents (Cited 24 years later in 160 US 649, 655, 679, 680 (1898).
SEE also NA 1802 S. 4, that the children of aliens would be NATURALIZED if parents naturalized before the child reached 21. SEE also Federalist 68, that Harris has an "improper ascendant" (improper influence of a foreign parent) and is NOT a "creature of their own".
Political parties are attempting to amend A2S1C5 by placing "citizens at birth" (naturalized by 8 USC 1401 on the ballot, so that they will have been "considered eligible" in the future. The politicians are being helped by academia, who doesn't alert the public.
Curious George nailed it at 7:44. LOL!
Amazing. The left does not want to know anything about policy from her.
Willie Brown is a pretty smart guy. He wasn't about to leave his wife for her.
Don't worry, Hesse will apologize for this and retract it when the TRA cancel culture learns of it. She has defined woman by biological means, which can no longer be allowed. Although, she's done a fawning job of it, and she included some gender stereotypes, so she might be given a pass.
Couldn’t the end of that question also have been “a square to spare”?
"Weird WaPo headline catches my eye: "Kamala Harris knows things no vice president has ever known."
And so it begins.
The "Lightbringer" "reporting", placing the potential New Dear Leader's capabilities above mere mortals, (recall "obama is sort of a god") accelerates in earnest in the hope of a Harris/Biden win.
Kamala also openly called for "equality of outcome" just yesterday, full blown communism, just in time to claim she campaigned for it in the event of a win.
All the masks are off now and there is no going back.
The thing she knows that no other VP candidate knew is that she is certain to be President shortly.
On a less political note, did "burble" — like "chortle" and "galumph" — originate in the 1871 Lewis Carroll poem "Jabberwocky"?.
Yes, I did, because I read The Annotated Alice. I highly recommend it. It gives insight into the culture and politics of Victorian England.
My favorite word of the ones listed is chortle.
Harris WILL be president? Now do Pence.
I’m sure Monica Hesse was enthusiastic about the candidacy of Sarah Palin for many of these same reasons.
""Kamala Harris knows things no vice president has ever known." True! Also true of everyone else on the planet."
Is it not true of Mike Pence, Joe Biden, Al Gore, Dick Cheney, Dan Quayle, and Walter Mondale? All are on the planet. And yet you could say that they all in the present tense know things that they did not know while VP... except Mike Pence whose every shred of knowledge is known by him as a vice president.
I think the article is a long winded way to suggest Kamala Harris dresses more appropriately than Hillary Clinton, which I would agree. But I don't judge either's fitness to be President based on their clothing.
I've never asked a stranger for supplies. I always assumed it was my responsibility to prepare for myself. On the rare occasions I was caught unprepared, I figured out ways to fashion a solution to get me through the next hour or so until I could hunt down supplies. Its called being resourceful.
Do you think its a leftist mindset to be careless with your preparations and expect others to 'bail you out'?
Any honest person who is paying attention has to recognize that the Democrat party leadership is corrupt and has sold out or is being blackmailed by various foreign governments. Otherwise, how can you explain the nomination of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Of course, you can say the same thing about the Republican party.
In a sane world Trump would not be president of the US because he would not have needed to, one of the political parties would have taken up his positions on free trade, illegal immigration, supporting Israel, deregulation, tax relief, etc. because they were popular and good for the middle and lower classes, but neither party did. Instead both parties supported policies that impoverished large swaths of the US populace. There has to be a reason for that. Why didn't anyone arise from within the political leadership who advocated for the "deplorables" and actually fought for them?
You know, I went through an entire life's worth of menstruating and never once asked as stranger in a public bathroom for a tampon.
Me, too. Also, no other woman has ever approached me in a public bathroom and asked me if I had one.
Not to rag on, but you know, if I were in a dire need of a tampon at some diverse public political event, I would gravitate to the social conservative women because they are so much more normal and sane . . . I was in college when the fad of reusable environmentally thoughtful natural sea sponge tampons quickly came and went. The rinsing part was a public health problem on many levels, yet this is a true first world story.
I will leave the little of the rest to the imagination. Not really something I expect from my vice-president, but actually I imagine Trump would have better solutions to the problem than would Biden or Harris. Another reason to vote for him?
Even if we grant her that no other Vice President has known that, what does any of those things known have to do with the constitutional responsibilities of the federal government of the United States?
And speaking of constitutional responsibilities, what are those of the Vice President again? He or she is the tie breaker in Senate votes. Aaand... what else again?
Men with wives, daughters, a girlfriend or sisters know nothing about sanitary napkins. Now do toilet paper.
The "style pages" - that's all there is in the WaPo or the NYT anymore. The entire paper is a style section devoted to reassuring affluent, urban, educated women that their world view is secure. After all, that's mostly who still reads newspapers.
If Biden does win, the WaPo, NYT and most broadcast media will do an about-face into cheerleader mode and Fox will then flip. It'll be like the Obama years again. You'll see at least five heroic Time covers before the inauguration.
Should we be encouraging more young women to go into Tampax machine maintenance and repair?
Kamala Harris has not been raked over the coals? You’re just not counting the people who have been doing the raking.
Have you got two fives for a ten?
@AA
How can you continue to take these 'news' outlets seriously?
They are fantasists and propagandists.
Anything published by the NYT, WaPo, etc. is garbage as soon as it hits the page.
This is not difficult to understand if you are a critical reader.
There is garbage on the right too...but it is literal a 95-5 left-right ratio.
Why should I care whether Harris has ever asked another woman for a tampon? I don't know if I ever have or not - it's pretty insignificant. I've been practicing law for 30 years and I've never worried about looking like either a slut or a feminazi. It's really not that hard to figure out how to dress appropriately in a professional setting. It's called common sense. What a drama queen!
"Monica Hesse is a national bestselling author from Normal, Illinois. She is the recipient of the Edgar Award for Best Young Adult Mystery for her book Girl in the Blue Coat and the meatball, ..."
Heh. Apparently the book is called Girl in the Blue Coat, but some helpful editor at Wikipedia decided a meatball couldn't hurt any.
Kamala knows things about Willie Brown that no other VP candidate has ever known.
Kamala knows things about incarceration of young black men that no VP candidate, other than Joe Biden, has ever known.
Kamala knows how to cackle like no VP candidate ever has known. (OK, one POTUS candidate knows too.)
The WaPoo is weird.
It's odd how, with all this special insight and perception vouchsafed only to the female of the species...
You never hear, "It's a white guy thing. You wouldn't understand".
I suppose that's because all the mind readers are POC and/or women.
"Kamala Harris knows things no vice president has ever known."
That there's a powerful group of people working to put her in the Oval Office?
Well, LBJ might have known that too.
Maybe she knows what "trunalimunumaprzure” means.
So, we have a Supreme Court Justice who has a unique and implied "better" perspective because of her Latina heritage. So now its 2-0. What will we do?
Yes, Que Mala knows.
"There is something profoundly moving about the fact that Kamala Harris has walked through the world as a woman. That she has thought, talked, purchased, exercised, sought medical care, sought justice, laughed and bitten her tongue as a woman."
That is the most empty-headed thought expressed in the bits you excerpted. Hasn't every woman every where throughout all of human history done the same things listed? What is unique among Harris' experience that makes it "something profoundly moving"? According to my limited research Harris grew up in a good, middle class environment without significant hardship. If there was any hardship it was first world caliber, so not too difficult to bear. And, yet, she is in a position to become the Vice President of the United States of America. Seems like there is a good bit of privilege that has been afforded her.
Althouse is setting down some righteous anger but is she angry enough to vote for POTUS?
I think Kamala and Joe will be relieved if they lose; they don't seem type A at all.
Tina Trent said...
Rehajm wins.
Given that Dem bigwigs get invited to inaugurations, what are the odds that Willie Brown will go?
Not nearly as high as the odds that he will come.
(I am deeply ashamed of this comment)
Everyone knows that Harris is the next President if Biden is elected. They've said as much and all the wheels are on the bus Biden will be thrown under. Everyone knows the story. Pelosi's test for mental competence, 'Harris/Biden "gaffes". The choice of a 2%er from a blue state for VP. The very selection of a mental incompetent as the Dem pick. I wouldn't be that suprised if the Hunter laptops were plants by the Dems to start the engine on the bus.
The powers that be are running Harris for POTUS. Biden's just the front man. How bad is that?
MickV said...
Kamala Harris is NOT an eligible natural born Citizen "law prof". She was born of NON US Citizen parents, one of which was NEVER a US Citizen (mother- who took Kamala to Canada from age 7-18 after divorce from father. SEE 88 US 162, 167 (1875), that natural born Citizens are born in US of US Citizen parents (Cited 24 years later in 160 US 649, 655, 679, 680 (1898).
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Anyone who goes to law school is taught during the first week the difference between a court holding and obiter dicta.
You can cite Minor v. Happersett all you want, but every lawyer will point out that the case did not HOLD what you claim it did. Nor did subsequent cases citing it do so for the purpose you claim.
"Minor v. Happersett, 88 U.S. 162, is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court **held** that the Constitution did not grant anyone, and in this case specifically a female citizen of the state of Missouri, a right to vote even when a state law granted rights to vote to a certain class of citizens." Wikipedia
Yea, she's probably the first VP to know for certain she will be President soon, if she can just get her boss elected, but that ain't happening.
It would be a national embarrassment if that woman became President in the fashion she got there. What an insult to all the women who play it straight, kept their honor, and who live with honest true feminists values. Nice role model for our girls.
Not to mention that she couldn't even win a single state in the primaries and had almost zero support from Americans.
"Most Humans Only Use 10% of Their Brains; Kamala Harris Can Use 100% of Her Brain; What Does This Mean for Abortion Rights?"
For Halloween, I dressed up as Mike Pence and everyone thought I was a tampon.
We'll, that could have happened.
I don't think sluts and feminazis are mutually exclusive categories. A true feminazi would be the first person to tell you this. A woman can wear cheap perfume and hit on strangers in public bathrooms and still be a vigorous proponent of woman's rights....Also, I don't think privilege and Black are mutually exclusive categories. I don't begrudge Kamala her perky life, but I wish she'd lay off that poor and wretched of the earth who overcame tremendous obstacles horseshit.
I thought it was that she 'knows' things that are relevant to the Vice Presidency. The disappointment is profound.
"The Drudge Report posted a 45 percent decline in web traffic in September as the site alienated its core readers by turning against President Trump ahead of the 2020 presidential election."
"September’s eye-popping decline marks the ninth month in a row that the political news aggregation website run by reclusive founder Matt Drudge has seen traffic fall."
What an idiot.
Blogger Lurker21 said...
Women tell men that they put their pants on one leg at at time just like guys
Not if they work in a Class 100/ISO5 cleanroom, they don't.
They will learn how to put their pants on both legs at the same time without touching the outside of the fabric.
(I can still do it but it takes longer as I get older and occasionally takes 2 tries.)
John Henry
There have been female prime ministers/presidents/leaders, etc. the world over for decades. There's nothing inherently worse or better than male counterparts.
Like Beetlejuice I mentioned Mick the other day in regard to Harris citizenship and here he is!
Mick and I disagree about whether she is a natural born citizen. She is, having been born in Oakland and subject to US jurisdiction as per 14A.
What I find amazing is that we have gone all this way and nobody has pointed out that she was also born with Jamaican citizenship and, as far as I know, has never renounced it.
Do we really want a president who is a dual citizen?
When it comes to it, do we really want a senator who is a dual citizen?
Unless she has renounced her Jamaican citizenship, in which case, never mind.
John Henry
Blogger MickV said...
Political parties are attempting to amend A2S1C5 by placing "citizens at birth" (naturalized by 8 USC 1401
I think you and I agree that this would be highly undesirable. Even if it would exclude a Ted Cruz.
On the bright side, not permitting people born outside the US would have prevented a McCain too.
So there is that.
John Henry
Blogger Kevin said...
And speaking of constitutional responsibilities, what are those of the Vice President again? He or she is the tie breaker in Senate votes. Aaand... what else again?
The VP is the president of the Senate. They have quite a few powers. They can't vote but do have control over agendas, speaking, discussion and some other things.
Sadly all these powers have been let to lapse, ceded to party leaders by custom.
I looked into back in 2008 when Sarah Palin was running for VP and talked about how she would exercise the powers of President of the Senate.
It is kind of like the Queen of England. Everyone talks about her being powerless and she is. But she is only powerless because she chooses not to exercise her powers. In reality, she has more powers than Stalin had.
VPs seem to think they should be thought of as potential presidents and they will not do anything to upset the party and thus their chances at the oval.
We think of them as "Working for the president" and they do. But only by custom, not by law. The president has no legal power over them.
An activist Senate President, as Sarah Palin planned to be would be fun to watch.
It was kind of cool to watch Palin explain to Joe, in the 08 debate, that the VP is NOT a member of the executive branch and Joe, with 40 years in the Senate, not realizing it.
John Henry
Someone mentioned that Kamala has never given birth and that got me wondering.
Have we ever had a childless VP before?
Or a childless president, other than Buchanan.
Nothing against stepchildren. Kamala does have stepchildren though she never met them until they were in their late 20s.
I mean biological children.
John Henry
madAsHell said...
Yes, Que Mala knows."
Brilliant!
NCMoss said...
Althouse is setting down some righteous anger but is she angry enough to vote for POTUS?"
No. Since she can't bring herself to vote for Biden and since Trump isn't Abraham Lincoln and she won't vote by absentee ballot she has the perfect out for not voting.
Apparently, the thing she DOESN'T know that everyone else does is how to keep her purse stocked with appropriate and necessary items.
That is what we are looking for in a vice president?
I also have never had the two life experiences this columnist says are what it means to inhabit a woman's skin. There might be a way of wearing apparel that ranges between slut and feminazi. I never came close. My range was "you should have left that back in your dorm room" to "something I got at Target" to "wow this actually cost real money" to "no matter what I wear I still look like a housewife". It's possible that quite a few American women can relate to the points on my scale but I wouldn't presume to know.
"September’s eye-popping decline marks the ninth month in a row that the political news aggregation website run by reclusive founder Matt Drudge has seen traffic fall."
once a month, or so, i go to the Drudge Report; 'cause i wonder
"What are the Left saying today?"
a quick peek, a laugh, and i'm GONE
The last time i went there; they were saying
Scott Rasmussen FINAL: Biden 51% Trump 44%...
[meanwhile, Rasmussen ACTUALLY had Biden edging the president 48% to 47%.]
"I'm not buying Hesse's portrayal of the necessary experience of a woman"
You are not, and that's very nice of you, but actually existing feminists are. Women, as women, have certain necessary experiences. It makes them special and superior. Harris is a heroine.
"who cares whether vice presidents know these things"
Actually existing feminists, and the women who they would like to recruit to prog causes on the basis of feelings of sisterhood.
When Harris wore a leather skirt at my wife's citizenship swearing in ceremony several years ago, was that slut or was it feminazi? I guess it's a fine line, and it was fine.
Kamala Harris knows things no vice president has ever known.
For example, what it's like sucking a cock.
Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall. Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. Humpy Dumpty no loner resides on the wall.
Political parties are attempting to amend A2S1C5 by placing "citizens at birth" (naturalized by 8 USC 1401
At birth, at conception. The latter is a threat to the Progressive Church's human rites or wicked solution. The former is also a threat, but the obstacles to deny life at birth are greater for its advocates, activists, and well wishers. That said, American jurisdiction is defined in a legal jurisdiction, and coincidentally geographical. The Constitutional is a social compact with two parties: "the People" and "our Posterity". That is to say citizens (mom and dad) and their children, and babies (e.g. "Fetal-Americans").
“ I've been practicing law for 30 years and I've never worried about looking like either a slut or a feminazi. It's really not that hard to figure out how to dress appropriately in a professional setting. It's called common sense. What a drama queen!”
Let me suggest that a lot of young lawyers don’t instinctively know this, but figure it out very quickly when they enter the practice. We would get summer associates, a year into LS, and some of them didn’t dress appropriately when they first showed up. If they wanted to be hired when they graduated (most did, of course), they figured out the dress thing very quickly. We had both boys and girls showing up the first day not dressing properly, and it wasn’t just the difference between dressing like a lawyer or dressing like staff, but between working in a law office and maybe the local Starbucks.
Mostly, if you work for anyone else, or started out that way, the female lawyers dress appropriately. Some solos don’t seem to, but their male compatriots are showing up in court in jeans and sport coats. Personal expression is fine, but not at the cost of alienating judges and juries. My father, nearing 70, would still put on suits when he went downtown to court (though he had worn sport coats out west where he usually practiced). You do it to respect the judge, if nothing else. And indeed, it is amazing the effect clothing has on them. I remember going to county court one time out west of Denver, showing up in a serious lawyer suit, while everyone else in court was in jeans and tank tops. When my turn came up, the judge recessed for a half an hour, and retired to chambers with opposing counsel, where we BS’ed, as he showed off his new digs. Only at the end did he ask about whether I was an attorney. Turns out that he did know my father... And then we all went back to his courtroom still filled what were probably to him the dregs of society.
Sex and gender in politics.
Someone above commented (I think) about how Kamala differed fro Crooked Hillary in how she dressed. Both are equally frumpy, I my mind, and seem to be hiding some of the same pudginess, except that Harris never had kids, so doesn’t have the elephant leg problem that Clinton apparently got from her one success in that area. Clinton dressed more expensively but didn’t start wearing ridiculously expensive frumpy clothes until she and her husband moved out of the WH, supposedly dead broke. A hundred million dollars plus in graft will do that to a woman like her. Neither dresses well though Clinton rarely descends to Harris’ level.
finding it "profoundly moving" that Harris has been through all the womanly activities of life as a woman is transphobic bigotry.
If she walked through the world as a woman for any lesser ammunt of time, would it be as profound? What if she missed some "woman" activities like asking for tampon in a restroom?
"What if she missed some "woman" activities like asking for tampon in a restroom?
Or giving birth.
"Style" has to make a lot out of an awfully small issue. Must be tough to be a style writer. Well, obviously, it is.
Through some catastrophic coincidence, I was reading Robin Givhan--back issue--this summer. No idea how that happened.
She was going on about the iconic picture of the three young Thalys train heroes getting their medals from Hollande. Decked out in Polos and Dockers.
Lots about clothes, but the line that struck me was that Polos and Dockers are what young guys wear when they know they're supposed to dress up but don't know what the fuss is. So their outfits were appropriate.
Read that to my twelve-year-old granddaughter who shrugged and grinned. "We're Americans. It's what we do."
Wonder how Givhan got that past the editor.
"Style" has to make a lot out of an awfully small issue. Must be tough to be a style writer. Well, obviously, it is.
Through some catastrophic coincidence, I was reading Robin Givhan--back issue--this summer. No idea how that happened.
She was going on about the iconic picture of the three young Thalys train heroes getting their medals from Hollande. Decked out in Polos and Dockers.
Lots about clothes, but the line that struck me was that Polos and Dockers are what young guys wear when they know they're supposed to dress up but don't know what the fuss is. So their outfits were appropriate.
Read that to my twelve-year-old granddaughter who shrugged and grinned. "We're Americans. It's what we do."
Wonder how Givhan got that past the editor.
When I started out, it was the dress for success look. Now it's business casual, unless you have a client meeting or you are going to court. I even get dressed up for the current Zoom court hearings.
Does she really know that Walter Mondale or Dan Quayle never had to ask a stranger for a tampon? Not even because his wife needed one? Maybe Dick Cheney grabbed some woman's purse and stole one, just because he could get away with it. And maybe a male veep had to ask a stranger for a condom. Has Kamala had that experience? Lyndon Johnson probably never asked anyone for a tampon, but I'm sure he had other experiences that Kamala may not have had.
My immediate thought was that Harris is missing the most transformative experience that most women have *as distinct from men* because she has never had a child. So she's menstruated and worn skirts---yawn.
"Kamala Harris knows things no vice president has ever known."
How to give a good blow job?
I'm pretty sure the other vice presidents don't.
"What if she missed some "woman" activities like asking for tampon in a restroom?
Or giving birth.
Menstruation and conception. While the former will typically last days, the latter can persist for 3 trimesters and then baby is born (over hours), a uniquely female experience. But, lest the male feels neglected, that's three trimesters of unselfieshly [sic] supporting mother and child. Pregnancy is not a time for the father to kneel.
madAsHell said...
Yes, Que Mala knows."
Brilliant!
Aye ..pilfering will ensue
How to give a good blow job?
I'm pretty sure the other vice presidents don't.
Don't be so sure.
Is it not true of Mike Pence, Joe Biden, Al Gore, Dick Cheney, Dan Quayle, and Walter Mondale?
Good catch!
Elizabeth Dole and Geraldine Ferraro might well have know even more.
I suppose it's too late for Harris/Biden to change their campaign slogan to "A tampon in every cvnt"
Would Sarah Palin have known these things?
D.D. Driver,
Does that mean Harris' brain is only 1/10 the average size? That would explain a e.
wholelottasplainin' said.
"Anyone who goes to law school is taught during the first week the difference between a court holding and obiter dicta.
You can cite Minor v. Happersett all you want, but every lawyer will point out that the case did not HOLD what you claim it did. Nor did subsequent cases citing it do so for the purpose you claim.
"Minor v. Happersett, 88 U.S. 162, is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court **held** that the Constitution did not grant anyone, and in this case specifically a female citizen of the state of Missouri, a right to vote even when a state law granted rights to vote to a certain class of citizens." Wikipedia"
Yeah well first yr. law students know not to cite "wikipedia" either. Clearly you have never read the case. Minor was claiming that she was only "half a citizen" because she couldn't vote, and that that prohibition violated her "14A privileges and immunities". The court said that she did not need the 14A to determine her citizenship, and specifically construed A2S1C5 to determine that she was a nbC, and that nbC never had the "right to vote" even before the 14A, which granted no new rights. The court also said that her Citizenship had to be determined prior to making the decision--- Judicial determination in support of the holding of the case is PRECEDEDANT.(See Ogilvie Et Al., Minors v. United States, 519 U.S. 79 at 84 (1996)). Establishing her citizenship was part of the holding of the case
Black’s Law Dictionary defines “precedent” as a “rule of law established for the first time by a court for a particular type of case and thereafter referred to in deciding similar cases“
Minor v Happersett held for the first time that women, if born of US Citizen parents in the US are citizens, by construing A2S1C5= PRECEDENT.
Then of course 88 US 162, 167 was cited as definition of nbC in Wong Kim Ark, 169, US 649, 655, 679, 680 (1898) 24 years later.
John henry said...
"Blogger MickV said...
Political parties are attempting to amend A2S1C5 by placing "citizens at birth" (naturalized by 8 USC 1401
I think you and I agree that this would be highly undesirable. Even if it would exclude a Ted Cruz.
On the bright side, not permitting people born outside the US would have prevented a McCain too.
So there is that."
McCain wasn't eligible either. He was naturalized by 8 USC 1403.
John henry said...
"Like Beetlejuice I mentioned Mick the other day in regard to Harris citizenship and here he is!
Mick and I disagree about whether she is a natural born citizen. She is, having been born in Oakland and subject to US jurisdiction as per 14A."
Wrong, She was born "subject to the jurisdiction of the US w/in the meaning of the 14A" because she was born to legal US residents (the holding of Wong Kim Ark, 169 US 649, 693 (1898)) and was thus a "citizen at birth" (8 USC 1401(a))
If Born in the US + subject to the jurisdiction of the US, then the 14A would read: "those born in the United States or naturalized, and BORN IN THE UNITED STATES.
Natural born Citizen appears no where in the 14A, and defining nbC by the 14A would make A2S1C5 inoperable. By the laws of statutory construction that is a false argument-- see Marbury v. Madison.
I just assumed the punch line was Grey Poupon! I know, I'm dating myself.
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