Says Tim Dillon, a third of the way into his podcast that began with a description of his visit to The Sphere in Las Vegas.
"Do you see? The people come in. They herd them in. Come in, fatty, sit in your seat and look: It's pretty colors. It's things that are flying by a mile a minute.... Yes, play this, play this.... [Plays clip of women twerking at a Harris rally]... That's right, this is the campaign. These are the policies.... This is what you're going to get. These are the policies. This is what you're voting for... and by the way this is brilliant.... If Kamala Harris did not exist, billionaires would have to invent her.... She is hollow in in the best way...."
Dillon takes the position that the candidate that throws the best party will win, and he weaves that into a critique of the inane Sphere and the awful Darren Aronofsky movie — "Postcard from Earth" — he paid $300 to see there.
Dillon's comic rant merged with my own thinking on the subject — about why Kamala Harris avoids any substantive interactions with anyone. The lack of substance is her substance, and it is exactly what will work. America wants a show about nothing — to use the old "Seinfeld" phrase. Or... as I've said a few times around here: Better than nothing is a high standard.
Nothing is a good bet. Stick to nothing. Trump has a lot of baggage. Kamala is unburdened by what has been.
People think they're attacking her when they put up a montage like that, but it is a testament to genius.
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The Obama team is working that 2008 magic. But that magic wouldn't even work for 2016 Obama, and Kamala Harris is- to put it politely, not smart. Less politely, she's a barren Jez who's currently below Madonna on the "aging gracefully" axis. Imagine a 60 year old trying to be brat!
No its lame like the sprockets parody
If such a campaign strategy works, then there is no hope for The United States- we are truly and well fucked. Harris is a moron and the campaign embracing that should be a mistake, but with mail-in-voting who knows- I guess we will find out a week after the election when Pennsylvania finishes counting the late votes.
that sound like Mantra for Sociopaths similar to Serenity for AA
The megan atallion goers left when kamala got up to speak
Our country deserves Harris, the intellectual equal of the voters.
If Harris wins, it will be the movie “Idiocracy.”
Harris herself has no particular beliefs or principles. Is she a law and order prosecutor who tosses potheads into jail? Is she a social justice politician who believes police are too zealous? Neither -- she just goes with whatever she thinks the flow is. She's not a communist, but if everyone around her was, hey, she would be too. But that just means her staff are what will determine the direction of her administration. And unlike Biden, who in his periods of lucidity generally retains enough wherewithall to push back on the loonier stuff his staff has tried to pull -- in his first year, while they still let him out occasionally, he sometimes pooh-poohed his administration's barmier activities as "fake news," e.g. the enormous payouts to illegal immigrants -- Harris has no such grounding. So she'll be a lot further to the loony left, if she gets in office.
Brawndo with electro lytes
Yancey Ward said...
Harris is a moron and the campaign embracing that should be a mistake, but with mail-in-voting who knows-
8/4/24, 7:56 AM
Yeah, with the US about to enter full scale war with Iran, Russia resurgent in Ukraine, and bread prices spiking, President Sperm Dumpster is less of a selling point than one would think. I don't actually think the votes matter, but if even Zuckerberg is betraying the oligarch compact they can't be very confident.
On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
H. L. Mencken
Kamala is an affront to literally everything America has built up and created in its existence. Nothing less.
She represents the hollowed out intellect, the stomped out fire that used to burn in the bellies of Americans, to move, to produce, to make great things. Now we celebrate getting free things. We celebrate her nothingness. Her vapidity. With twerking dancers and urban 'poets' rhyming awful phrases as they jump around her on stage.
I'm sure the world looks on with wonder at who's driving the globe these days, if not the US? It's a good question. Apparently it's up for grabs. But we won't be involved with the choice. We're too busy dancing, celebrating that Kamala has no questions to answer, nothing to do but show up, and offer up banal phrases that leave people scrunching up their faces trying to decipher it, then realizing nothing was said.
She's been appointed. Obama gave her the final blessing. And so, if Obama said 'Yes', the dancers must dance. The twerkers must twerk. The rappers must spout bad rhymes. And Democrats must obey and celebrate their wise choice, then pull the lever...er...hand over their mailed ballot to that nice person collecting them door to door.
"A Republic, if you can keep it."
“Testament to genius”?
God help us…
Well you know I don't get off on workin' day after day
I want to have some fun while I'm here
I play the game when it's goin' my way
And there's nothin' like a party when it's kickin' into gear
I'm gettin' ready for a party tonight
Yes I'm gettin' ready to cruise
And if you've got somethin' for me
I've got somethin' for you
Baby
It's a party and nobody cares
What we're doin' there
Baby, it's a party as long as you're there
It's a party, party, party!
Unburdened... all's fair in lust and abortion. So it was in ancient times. So it is with progress. One step forward, two steps backward.
The genius of the ability to put a vapid hack into power? I suppose you could look at it that way.
There was a study done recently that shows our national debt, the real one, the one that includes everything that the US government owes, not just in treasuries, but pensions, etc, etc, amounts to the summed up GDP of the United States, each year added on to the previous, from our founding until today.
Biden tried to prevent a wider war in the Middle East by trying to force Israel to negotiate, so Israel simply killed the head negotiator, and Iran can simply cut off the Strait of Hormuz, you should look at it on a map, almost all of the oil from the ME comes through it, and we can't even stop the Houthis from cutting off the Red Sea. So when Israel, and Lindsay Graham, and BTW, Joe Biden (who wanted the war *after* being safely re-elected) get their war, wait til you see gas prices.
And right now nothing is stopping Russia from arming Iran with the prerequisites to sink our carriers, so WW3 is now on the table, because the blow to our prestige of having a carrier sunk will be more than we can accept. But they won't have to sink any carriers, they will simply kick the last decrepit support holding up our economy, and it will collapse of our own doing.
Oh, and we are slipping into a recession right now, and even though the media will lie about it, I am not sure that they can make it stick after lying about inflation for so long. And if the Fed cuts interest rates due to the recession, it's "Katy bar the door!" on the inflation front.
So bring on President Harris, we deserve her.
If the candidate throwing the best party wins, then Harris and Trump would be a real contest, but the candidate throwing the best party didn’t win in 2020.
It's always history, year zero, somewhere.
The lack of substance is her substance, and it is exactly what will work. America wants a show about nothing…
Maybe it’s me but I’m not really following the logic or understanding the gist of this line of thinking. America has not, in my experience, been enjoying the current straw man administration and would like to see someone who also recognizes we’re on the wrong track in many, many ways. Harris is a status quo candidate regardless of what party she’s twerking at and replacing one clueless fool with another seems like a bad idea.
"In war, prepare for a party; in a party, prepare for war"
— Sun Tzu
It's pretty easy to imagine Tim Dillon wearing baggy cargo shorts under the desktop.
Kamala is a hologram.
I've been hoping for a light touch against Hamala to prevent Democrats from switching her out before they lock her in. If she now has the delegates and confirmation, then I suspect to hear more about her abysmal record and that she is radically far left, as in no one in the Senate voted more to the left than Harris. Until she's locked, make fun of her and be playful.
The genius of the ability to put a vapid hack into power?
Who was the Roman emperor who made his horse a senator?
And what's the phrase... Are you not entertained?
Status Quo-mala
It looks like the standard stuff to me. It's for feelings. Women vote.
Not a trace of structure anywhere. Structure is what interferes with feelings.
Maybe we should try ranked-choice voting for the Presidency? This system will favor centrist candidates and discourages negative campaigning and will encourage more people to get in. My choice? Trump 1, RFK Jr. 2, anybody else (except Harris) 3...
Remember the 2008 Obama rally estrogen clouds.
Chance Gardner's brilliance.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jOTeqjbWoC0
So if she campaigns in NY without disclosing that her husband has an NDA with the nanny he got pregnant is that a crime or a campaign finance violation?
"Who was the Roman emperor who made his horse a senator?"
This is after they abandoned the "El Cid" strategy of lashing the corpse of a dead man to his horse and following him into battle.
Kamala is a new shiny vapid object.
Trump is old and broken down - they almost killed him... they trash him ever day.
His policies are far superior - and will act to aid all Americans. But the corrupt left trashed him. Maddow made millions trashing him. ( Maddow - go rot, lying bitch)
Kamala will get us into many wars - she will do nothing to stop China from invading Taiwan.
Kamala hates Israel and will make it illegal to say "Radical Islamist Terror"
Kamala is a economic idiot... and will bow to her Soros masters.
what Temujin said.. worth a good hearty repeat:
"Kamala is an affront to literally everything America has built up and created in its existence. Nothing less.
She represents the hollowed out intellect, the stomped out fire that used to burn in the bellies of Americans, to move, to produce, to make great things. Now we celebrate getting free things. We celebrate her nothingness. Her vapidity. With twerking dancers and urban 'poets' rhyming awful phrases as they jump around her on stage."
Unburdened is a wicked solution.
Media outlets are actually scrubbing and deleting their files/articles regarding their comments about her - interviews where she was asked hard questions.
In America.
"If such a campaign strategy works, then there is no hope for The United States- we are truly and well fucked...."
Yes, that is the point.
"Our country deserves Harris, the intellectual equal of the voters."
Yes, that is Tim Dillon's point.
The best of the Obama machine 2008 was American Prayer, music with classical validity. Distinguish good fluff from standard fluff. Only the chorus is in the home key, the rest on a fourth, making it slightly unstable.
"“Testament to genius”?/God help us…"
That's right. You need to face up to it, not fantasize that her emptiness — her chameleon character — will be uncovered and ruin her. It's a workable approach. It has worked before, and it will work again, and we've been pretty empty ourselves for a long time. Throwing up your hands in dismay is not going to save us.
You think 11.5 million illegal entrants is a lot. You ain't seen nothing yet. and They will all get Amnesty.
The "genius" is realizing that nothingness can work and presenting it with a happy face, out and proud, and marching forward avoiding all substance, smiling and laughing the whole way.
Trump has his own form of campaigning genius, and Obama had it to. Less showily, Biden's "basement" campaign was, we can see in retrospect, genius.
The lack of substance is her substance, and it is exactly what will work.
We shall see.
Given her support of rioting, open borders, letting criminals go, green new deal, getting rid of private insurance, no one eating red meat, gun buybacks, trans women in sports, etc., I’m coming to the conclusion that Harris is an anarchist at heart. Her head is devoid of the ability to reason about causes and effects, and does not give an hoot about how everyone, let alone anyone, would be so negatively impacted by her whims. The revolution is all that matters to her. That is what she means by unburdening. She thinks everything should be remade to some new way of doing things. She means everything. It’s quite something to behold, especially so in tandem with that famous cackle.
It’s not genius, it’s sociopathy.
The corrupt Maduro Soviet left will not left Trump win. There's that too.
Agreed that with a vapid population we get vapid Kamala. Shiny smiley vapidity will win the day. The media have her back. No tough questions.
I think Ann - you are correct.
"You think 11.5 million illegal entrants is a lot. You ain't seen nothing yet. and They will all get Amnesty."
I was going to deem you off topic, but I see how you are on topic: You are saying that there is an important substantive issue and it will beat the "nothing" that is offered by the Kamala Harris side. That's what I'm seeing anyway. Is that true -- substance beats emptiness? The trouble with substance is that it's burdensome and worrisome. Who knows what will actually work in the real world and are we willing to hurt other people? Nothing doesn't have that problem.
Maybe you don't need to be a weatherman to know which way the wind is blowing.
But you have to be a weather vane to know Kamala's current position on any subject.
Please note, a conservative's position is eternal. A bad sound bite from 1996? Horrors.
For a Democrat? A 180 after just a year or two, with no special reason to change (except polling), all is well. Just evolution.
We will get exactly what we deserve.
Happy Hour!!
It's still early. Things could get worse or better. For either side, or for everybody at large. Fast.
Events, dear friends, events. Attention is being laser focused on the vibe. We were focused on shark attacks and then a thing happened. Remember that? We needed to hug our Chinese neighbors and eschew masks until we weren't when another thing happened. A staggering number of people have the ability to not notice any of it.
They vote. Are we (the smart ones, you know, like you and me) outnumbered? *gulp*
Let's all meet up here in January and talk about it. Until then, enjoy every day unless you can't.
As I wrote recently, she is a candidate that can be sold. SOB Joe was an extinct brand. We are fucked.
Less showily, Biden's "basement" campaign was, we can see in retrospect, genius.
Oh, I thought it was genius at the time. Infuriating, and it could only work because of the enormous multifaceted machine already in place dedicated (at least in an election year) to supporting Democrats, but it was certainly genius.
Also the only available strategy once They decided Biden was the nominee, because it was already clear that he had - what's the kind way of saying it? Lost a step?
As the year 2024 began, America was at a turning point. The Democrat Presidential Primary, the process by which the strongest, the most clever leftwing candidate is selected… a process which, though imperfect, had once favored the politician with the strongest connection to voters, now went in a different direction.
Most political pundits of the day had predicted a campaign that would mirror the campaign of 2020… where the kingmakers would do their best to hide or, at worst, provide cover for their favored demented grifter. But as the year went on, things seemed to be heading in the opposite direction. An unprecedented dumbing down of every Democrat demographic. How did this happen? Evolution does not necessarily reward intelligence. With no natural predators to thin the herd save for the Democrat abortion fanatics, and inner-city gunslinger brigades, it began to simply reward those who produced the most gawdawful, X-rated, unfit for family viewing spectacles the wet ass pussy nation had ever been subjected to.
For a Democrat? A 180 after just a year or two, with no special reason to change (except polling)
A year or two? We just watched it happen in a week. Ka-mentum, baby!
Until Harris comes out and in her own words states what she is for, then her most recent past statements on given topics stand. Those stands are not “nothing”. It’ll be up to Trump et al to fill in any blanks that people may be seeing falsely at this point.
Biden had a basement strategy coupled with an insecure ballot strategy, don’t forget. The latter is what actually gave him the win.
Re: Mike (MJB Wolf):
Maybe it’s me but I’m not really following the logic or understanding the gist of this line of thinking. America has not, in my experience, been enjoying the current straw man administration and would like to see someone who also recognizes we’re on the wrong track in many, many ways. Harris is a status quo candidate regardless of what party she’s twerking at and replacing one clueless fool with another seems like a bad idea.
She's trying the Obama 2008 strategy -- people can project whatever they like onto her. It won't work for people who are politically engaged, like most commenters here left or right. But the median voter probably doesn't recall the positions she took in 2019 (that her campaign is now repudiating with minimal skepticism or pushback from media), and probably doesn't have much recollection of her as VP because (a) she's been practically invisible in that role and (b) the media have enthusiastically supported her effort to disclaim any role or responsibility in the handful of issues the administration gave her (e.g. illegal immigration). So she's trying, with some success, to shed any responsibility for the comprehensive failure of the Biden administration. To be nothing more than what she is on paper, i.e. younger than Biden or Trump, female, Black but not too Black (like Obama), ex-prosecutor, seems friendly enough.
Would a Harris administration be Biden II? Eh, probably, just more left wing. Has that case been made in a way that will penetrate to the median "gettable" voter in the election? Not yet, I think, and the media are actively running interference to prevent that message from sinking in.
Ann- Thanks for not deleting my comment.
People are worried about illegal border crossings & illegal immigration, but the media wave it away as if it is a figment of our collective imaginations.
"Maybe we should try ranked-choice voting for the Presidency? This system will favor centrist candidates..."
That is a mainstay of California elections. I fail to see the vast number of centrists coming out of the process.
Some would argue the Gipper might have been like Kamala, but I strongly disagree. The Gipper had strong core values - lower taxes, government inefficiency, strong anticommunist, pro Christian values.
I, for one, think I'll go to Costco and look for a time machine to get away from all this, because that now seems a plausible plan.
Bread and circuses. Well it was a good run.
Kamala's World! Kamala's World!
Party time! Excellent!!
People think they're attacking her when they put up a montage like that, but it is a testament to genius.
Or what passes for genius, to a hard core feminist. FWIW, I personally object to any word implying cognition — much less exceptional levels of cognition — being applied to Kamala Harris.
“You need to face up to it, not fantasize that her emptiness — her chameleon character — will be uncovered and ruin her. It's a workable approach. It has worked before, and it will work again, and we've been pretty empty ourselves for a long time.”
I’m not a Democrat. I’m retired after a half century of steady, rewarding employment and have a wonderful wife who’s also my best friend, children who live honest, productive lives and grandchildren, as well.
I feel blessed, grateful and hopeful. Pretty fucking far from empty, and there are plenty who feel the same way about their situation.
Kamala plus the disordered obsession with female athletes at the Olympics is putting me in a misogynistic temperament. —has anyone else noticed the nonstop parade of Olympic backstories and hype centers almost exclusively on female athletes?
My white liberal female acquaintances could care less about Kamala’s policies or record. She is warm, attractive, and, to quote one, “a much needed counterpoint to the ugliness of the other side.” You cannot reason with these people. They are disciples of the religion of “nice.” That is the sole criteria. For some time now I have regretted that women won the right to vote. I am beyond depressed and disgusted.
And yet…and yet… sometimes history intervenes with an unexpected event that requires the mettle of strong and courageous men to come to the fore. I don’t hope for such an event, but I can see one coming.
Ann - I always like it when you comment on one of the threads. A double dose of AA.
Ann - This caught my eye, "It's a workable approach. It has worked before, and it will work again, and we've been pretty empty ourselves for a long time." Ourselves...is that a breach of cruel neutrality? Can you elaborate on the "ourselves"?
Thanks as always, and again, happy 15th anniversary you and Meade. My wife and I are approaching 13.
Have faith in America. Where there is faith, there is hope.
Some may choose to twerk and act the fool. I choose hope.
The Corrupt American media wave our illegal border crisis away as a figment of our collective imagination.
My highly educated neighbor called Kalala "hope".. This is the power of the leftist collective.
yeah - Hope. The only Hope the left care about is = Trump hate cult and Trump's destruction.
That Kamala would usher in total ruin to our nation is of ZERO concern to the hope and change hivemind.
She's definitely the perfect figurehead for the prow of the Democrat's Inga-ocracy.
Due to the war on energy - energy prices ar necessarily higher.
Go Kamala!
"She's trying the Obama 2008 strategy...."
She and the New Soviet Demmocratical Party are trying the 1996 & 2012 strategy where they and their legacy Pravda media allies pretend they haven't been in charge at all and all the "things" and "stuff" that have happened negatively under their watch was just sort of out there in the ether and caused by the republican candidate who was usually not even a candidate at the time.
Example: Russia invades Ukraine in 2014? Democraticals on this very blog claim it was because private citizen Trump somehow gave them a "green light" in 2014!
The first large wave of Kamala's commercials, quick hitters with her faux "serious & earnest face", would have you believe she just got here and can't believe the mess she has encountered!
--- The lack of substance is her substance, and it is exactly what will work.
The first half of that idea may be true, but the second is doubtful. Maybe a couple years ago. Maybe even one year ago. But you can only run on nothing, or "party," for so long. Actual economic life -- as in business and jobs -- has been slowing and the pace of that slowing, if you will, seems to be picking up, as data this week showed. When Warren Buffett sells half his biggest stockholding, and it is Apple, he and his staff have made a loud statement.
I do think Kamala is a pretty good representative of mindless leftism. So her results will give a good reading on the American public and their patience with wacko. (Assuming the choice is between Harris and Trump.)
Harris gets huge crowds due to musicians and celebrities…that is certainly a powerful tactic.
Trump gets huge crowds all because of him. That is also very powerful.
Listen to the Georgia Trump Rally speech by Michaelah Montgomery. It’s got some sass in it but its primary message is to illustrate the real policy differences between Trump and Harris and relates them to regular people.
Kamala’s bread and circus act won’t answer any questions for people at Harris rallies whose rent is too damn high and inflation is crushing them.
Hope and Change has become Hate and Conform
Was Karma-la ever burdened h/t Obama?
Btw, as we see with The New Soviet Democraticals in the US, the buffoons in Brussels and Keir Starmers threats of a nationwide lockdown against non-islamic native "Britishers", what the Althouse lefties have been screaming about in denial, the Full Open Alliance Between The Democraticals And The Islamic Supremacists, is quite irrefutable.
Lots of pessimism here and I can see why. The economy is heading for collapse and I have worrying about the election being a poisoned chalice. Maybe it's time to think about Kamala as a perfect fall guy.
She wants to pull an Obama, but she isn't Obama. Obama understood that he needed to be the Ideal Black Friend for liberals and moderates: the black guy who gave them "not racist" credibility, without ever challenging their liberal views on anything, or going into woke activist mode. Instead, he regurgitated white progressive talking points, all while presenting himself as an intellectual.
Harris does neither. Her personality and presentation are that of a vicious, ladder-climbing middle manager, and she tends to veer hard left when given an opportunity.
“ Hope and Change has become Hate and Conform”
That is 100 percent on the mark. You win the internet today.
If Trump can discipline himself to attack the substance of Harris there is no way in hell she can hide her radical views and incompetence - or her own use of sex to get ahead. It's a big ask for Trump and I don't hold out much hope.
I do agree that Harris is in a "honeymoon" period and that if Trump runs a half way decent campaign he should be a shoo-in what with the border issue, Israel/Ukraine and the economy going into a tail spin. It's early days and I suspect Chicago is going to be a nightmare so we just have to wait and see.
"Nothing is a good bet. Stick to nothing. Trump has a lot of baggage. Kamala is unburdened by what has been."
If Barack Obama was an empty suit, Kamala Harris is an empty suitcase. In what way is that better than nothing?
See folks, to Party members, only republicans have baggage. Harris has a long public record, but Party members are pretending not to see it... Wow, who is this beautiful black blank slate that I can project all the goody-goody things I feel about myself and the Party?
Meanwhile, Trump has an actual performance record as a president and it was a better record than any seen in living memory, but libs claim it was the worst of times and call it baggage.
The insubstantial substance of Kamala has familiar smell: doesn't Althouse have a bullshit meme?
A couple of structural points related to using the 2008, 2016, and 2020 elections as references for what Harris might or might not be able to do.
There has been only one period in the last 100 years where two men of the same party combined for three terms in the White House without the ascension of the VP to the Oval Office first - RR and GWHB, 1980-1992. Clinton couldn't do it for Gore in 2000, Bush couldn't do it for McCain in 2008, and Obama couldn't do it for Hillary in 2016.
2020 was only the fourth time in all US Presidental elections that the party winning the White House lost seats in the House, and it was the second biggest loss of House seats behind the losses in 1960 when JFK was elected.
“ I do agree that Harris is in a "honeymoon" period and that if Trump runs a half way decent campaign he should be a shoo-in what with the border issue, Israel/Ukraine and the economy going into a tail spin.”
The Harris VP pick may be illuminating. There are Dems who want to run for President in 2028 but can’t do that if Harris wins. None of those people will attach themselves to her if they foresee a train wreck. If the choice is someone like bland lightweight Tim Walz (who has no political future outside of this happenstance long shot), who would exist only to fill space, then that may show the true strength of the campaign.
I agree that the following might win:
1. Cheerful non-commitment, putting the gerontocratic shouting match behind us.
2. Abortion on demand and probably the trans movement. Surely KH is hard and fast on these. "Women and trans people want to control their bodies."
3. Trump just won't do.
Intellectuals always exaggerate the extent to which elections are decided by ideas. Still, I would think there are big issues has to address.
The Idiocracy had it backwards. In that movie all the lower-class people outbred the smart people and took over.
In real life, it has been the elites who've had the time and resources and connections to take over and they have created a world where everyone is just watching "Ow, My Balls!" equivalents on their screens.
Biden’s basement campaign was genius? Nope, it’s all they had.
"I do agree that Harris is in a "honeymoon" period..."
To be followed by the "tongue-bath" period, then the "obsequious worship" period, then...
"The lack of substance is her substance"
Jean Baudrillard, call your office.
"America wants a show about nothing"
Actually, what most of America wants is access to other people's money and the right to kill babies at will.
People understand that nothing means something: crafty obfuscation to push the vacuous airhead into a position of power so that she can pursue the progressive policies eveyone knows she prefers. For progs, much better than nothing.
“I ain’t nothing” is her campaign slogan.
But she HAS positions. She supported everything Biden did. And she's to the LEFT of Biden.
She's not "flip-flopping", she's lying. Look, we're in a position where we'll have to count on the intelligence of the American voters, the thinest of thin reeds. The election choice is quite simple: If you like open borders, increased crime, massive inflation, massive legal and illegal immigration, support for genocide in Gaza and War in Ukraine, and out of control spending, then vote for Kamala.
If you're better off in 2024 then you were in 2020 vote for Kamala. Because she'll give you 4 more years of what Biden gave you. We're about to run off a fiscal cliff, but y'know lets party on with Kamala!
Kamala supports lawfare against her opponents, and schumer's war on the SCOTUS. The J6 prosecutions. Throwing abortion protesters in jail for 5 years. She doesn't believe in free speech anymore than Biden does. She's support an "election reform" bill which will make it impossible for the R's to ever gain back control of the Federal Government.
But does anyone care anymore? The American Boobwazee think everythings Jake as long as they personally are doing OK RIGHT NOW. WHen we go off the cliff, they'll change their mind, but not till then.
The world is going to crash President Prom Queen's party.
It won't work. Kamala is part the Biden regime. We are in the eary years of ww3 because if their foreign policy mismanagement. People would rather go back to the 4 years of peace and prosperity under trump to chaos and worldwide instability, inflation of the Biden regime.
If Kamala Harris did not exist, billionaires would have to invent her.
I think the 2024 model Kamala IS an invention of the billionaires. It supplants the 2020 model, which is not fit for the purpose.
https://youtu.be/wg3RYvALbIo?si=8TNgHpMSGnzSh7hM
Kamala is an empty suit. Her supporters are empty heads. They are perfect together and they might win.
Trump needs to stop being cute and hammer the issues.
Hombre: "Trump needs to stop being cute and hammer the issues."
Trump spent 30 minutes in Atlanta "hammer(ing) the issues".
But you're right. It wasnt 31, so "fail" I guess.
"People think they're attacking her when they put up a montage like that, but it is a testament to genius."
I am bumfuzzled to the max.
That didn't take long.
“ Ann - This caught my eye, "It's a workable approach. It has worked before, and it will work again, and we've been pretty empty ourselves for a long time." Ourselves...is that a breach of cruel neutrality? Can you elaborate on the "ourselves"?”
I meant the whole electorate.
It was especially cruel neutrality.
Thanks for giving me the chance to make that clear.
Blogger RCOCEAN II said... "Look, we're in a position where we'll have to count on the intelligence of the American voters, the thinest of thin reeds."
Sigh...that is true, and that is what is worrisome.
Nobody ever won an election by questioning the intelligence of voters. That's how losers talk.
Obama and the Democrats are trying that old 2008 trick of making Harris a "composite character", an empty shell upon whom people can project their hopes and dreams. This will work, unless Trump and the Republicans can coax her out to actually campaign like a normal candidate, upon which people will realize what a fraud she is. If the Donks are smart, they won't let her interact with anyone until November. Fortunately, that will be impossible.
"...we've been pretty empty ourselves for a long time."
These cycles happen. It seems to be human nature that prosperous people eventually get silly and reckless, and eventually really bad things happen.
Yeats captured this idea, after WWI:
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
In our day, the passionate intensity is flamed by the media, in order to generate revenue. The passionate intensity is flamed by candidates and parties to get votes. It is also a decision - a choice - by people of the electorate, who are driven to excel above their neighbors and feel superior, by diminishing others as "the villainous scum in the other party."
Or put differently, it isn't the policies what's done us in. It is the contention born of pride and enmity that has taken root and is fostered in the hearts of the electorate.
We apparently don't love the law, so we are destined to suffer without law.
I am confident that a federation of strong principled people will stand up and lead out in a better way, but it might not happen - it might be that nobody listens - until a lot of needless suffering happens to get us off our present silliness.
So democrats win by making each campaign rally the Jerry Springer show. Oprah shows the way.
I was just talking to my older brother about politics. That's what I said about Kamala Harris that she's done a really good job of doing nothing and saying nothing since the announcement. Yeah she is just pure ambition there is no there there. Tim Dillons right if she can stick to this she can win
Kamala Harris is "Chauncey Gardener." People said that about Biden too, in reference to the empty image of the "kindly," "good" man that Biden created for himself, but Kamala Harris, like Jerzy Kosinski's fictional character, actually does rise in the world while speaking simplistic nonsense.
So is Harris going to be a blank slate that people can project their fantasies onto, as Obama was? It's going to be harder now because she's not an unknown. People actually are familiar with her, and she has a record. It's hard to think seriously that she'll be anything more than what she's shown herself to be. But the Trump era is unprecedented. Half the country would vote for a dead dog if it ran against Trump, so there's little doubt that tens of millions will be able to talk themselves into admiring and worshipping Kamala Harris.
I thought the WSJ writer who followed Kamala down the "Brat" (some Brit electro music album) rathole put it well:
"I’m convinced that Candidate Harris has now locked up the young, insecure, overeducated and underemployed who doom scroll all day vote."
My highly educated neighbor called Kalala "hope
To date she's been more like "change".
The selling of Kamala gives the Anns something to do before the steal. It’s a good strategy. As good as any other…
If what you assert is true, then we can expect an absolute, relentless deluge of polls telling us how popular Kamala is. There will be high satisfaction numbers attributed to her, from now until November.
The polls have been practicing their ability to completely spin the questions to bring the data that they can scrub into the answer they've been paid to produce. Get ready for Daily Poll Tracking with incredibly high visibility, any time, all the time !
Someone just pointed out for me that her official website doesn’t contain a single platform or policy position. She says nothing about what she believes or stands for.
The electorate that exists today is pretty much the same one that gave us 8 years of Obama. Trump's brief reign may have just been an aberration, a slight clog in the drain, as we continue down into it.
Imagine this place after 4 years of Biden and 8 of Harris.
"Imagine this place after 4 years of Biden and 8 of Harris."
The way things are in Portland, Minneapolis, Seattle, Chicago today... you mean like that?
...testament to genius
Sorry, have to disagree on that. It's beyond inane, and the hand gestures make it doubly so. Especially when she's holding a mike and has to try and do it one-handed. She looks like she's having a convulsion.
But the very worst part is the smugness with which she delivers it, as though she's just imparted the wisdom of the ages.
Let Kamala be Kamala. It's cool.
The same people who were running the Biden presidency for 3 or 4 years will just continue. They're experienced. Kamala will be told to SD & SU.
Why is the Sphere "inane"? If you've actually watched one of the concerts there, even just on the internet (which I know Anne has not) you would not say that ... it's actually incredible
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