From "Kamala Harris reemerges to condemn Trump as she weighs a run for governor" (WaPo)(free-access link).
The original meaning of the word "emerge" was "To come up out of a liquid in which (the subject) has been immersed" (OED). Then, liquid wasn't crucial, and it meant: "To come forth into view; to pass out, issue, from an enclosed space, area of obscuration." One could emerge from the darkness or from a crowd or a building. Figuratively, it came to mean "To rise into notice, come forth from obscurity; also, to issue from a state of subjection, suffering, embarrassment" or even "by such a process as evolution."
So why do you think "Emerge" was chosen as the name for an organization to help female candidates? I get the feeling there's an idea that women are naturally buoyant and will float to the surface if they're not held under. This chimes with the traditionalist idea that women are part of nature and lacking individual will and reason.
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"The original meaning of the word "emerge" was "To come up out of a liquid in which (the subject) has been immersed" (OED)."
So, like Creature from the Black Lagoon?
I thought we were over Kam. But I welcome her "Reemergence" - run her in 2028 Democrats. America loves her. Really.
"Emerge and the group’s mission to create a support system for women running for office."
Wouldn't their cause be better served by sticking to good candidates? Seriously, I'm not being snarky.
They listened to too many Tremfya commercials.
Re-emerge in teh Public Space?!?!
She’d better dry out before she surfaces.
So why do you think "Emerge" was chosen as the name for an organization to help female candidates?
I think this gets to the (wrong-headed) idea that the reason Kamala lost was because the voters weren't able to get to know her. Her candidacy lacked the time necessary for her to emerge as a formidable and well-qualified Presidential candidate in her own right.
Extrapolating these thoughts: Many female Democrat candidates (AOC, Klobuchar, Whitmer, Clinton and others) are wonderful, super-awesome, exceptionally groovy people, who would make great Presidents if only their intrisically-female characteristics were allowed to emerge within the collective consciousness of the electorate.
If she had any political skill she never would have submerged after the election. She would have grabbed the reigns as chief resistance leader.
The very place where she took a knee to massa Brown's Willie. #MeToo #HerToo #Progress
Ka-catastrophe
The other way to think about this is that Kamala needs an entity ready for when the Dems retake power and funds begin to reemerge from a reconstituted USAID...
"Emerge" is probably an echo "Rise" or "Uprising" in left-leaning politics. "Emerge" doesn't imply "from below" like "Rise" does, but they all mean *movement from a place you should no longer be to a place where you should be.*
Interestingly, in local politics it's assumed a female candidate gets an automatic 2% boost compared to males. At least where I practiced it.
Or...the women should be seen as butterflies.
Can barely contain my excitement! Happy days again!
We have all emerged from a woman...a buoyant woman in many cases...some were sinkers...lean, bony sinkers...
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I get the feeling there's an idea that women are naturally buoyant and will float to the surface if they're not held under.
In a cesspool, the big chunks float to the top
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Kamala Harris and major speech don't go together.
Emerge like giving birth
Word Salad incoming
If Kamala's going to reemerge, it must have to do with blow jobs somehow. Repeat of what.
This chimes with the traditionalist idea that women are part of nature and lacking individual will and reason.
And what "tradition" might that be? This sentence may describe the witless Harris, but absolutely has nothing to do with my wife.
Well...I don't need to say this, but we all know how Kamala overcame the obstacles she faced in her early campaigns to be noticed.
I don't know where she's giving her much anticipated speech....(sound of crickets)....
But I hope it's in Oakland. It would be an ironic background for California policies that want to go nationwide.
Is there any hope it will be 17 years before Harris reemerges again after this?
Well Kamala floats either on a sea of words (most of which don't signify anything) or a a sea of vodka. I report. You decide.
I get the feeling there's an idea that women are naturally buoyant and will float to the surface if they're not held under
In Harris' case, it's because she's being supported by invisible Democratic Operatives who are preventing her from sinking, as she would, given her (lack of) merit.
Makes sense.......Harris is often seen with a "liquid".
"Kevin said...
So why do you think "Emerge" was chosen as the name for an organization to help female candidates?
I think this gets to the (wrong-headed) idea that the reason Kamala lost was because the voters weren't able to get to know her. Her candidacy lacked the time necessary for her to emerge as a formidable and well-qualified Presidential candidate in her own right."
I might be wrong, but from what I read Emerge was formed back in 2002, and not last year when she became the Dem candidate for POTUS.
Kammy spent about a BILLION dollars in a 100 days last time;
right?
what is her projected budget for this 3 year campaign?
some moron earlier today was claiming that President Trump wants to be the first Trillionaire..
Can we assume, that Kammy wants to be the 1st Presidential candidate to burn through a Trillion dollars in a loss?
Another Handmaid's Tale analogy (I am caught up now, so just wait for each week's new episode):
The Commanders ostensibly take over to solve a fertility crisis. In reality, they take over because they want all the pussy, and they don't want to have to put up with women's shit. They violate their stated goals whenever those doctrines endanger their quiet enjoyment of a pussy oligopoly.
Never underestimate the electorate's (of both sexes) unwillingness to put up with women's shit.
Not saying this like I approve it - just noting a reality. Even the D's own "Not enough people will vote for a woman!" translates into "Not enough people will put up with our shit!"
JSM
The first letter "e" appears in a lot of these words like "e-trade" or that crossword puzzle atrocity "e-tail." So "emerge" can feel like a merging that takes place on line. It could be what happens when the machines take over: humanity e-merges.
"Republicans are the scum off the top of business; Democrats are the scum off the top of politics." --P.J. O'Rourke
"So why do you think "Emerge" was chosen as the name for an organization to help female candidates?"
The passive voice is doing a lot of work in that question. Before I could answer it, I would need to know who did the choosing. I am going to guess that it was one or more wealthy men.
I get the feeling there's an idea that women are naturally buoyant and will float to the surface if they're not held under.
That's an interesting theory. Let's test it on Kamala and see if she comes back to the surface after being held under for three or four minutes.
I wonder if Harris still focused on what can be, unburdened by what has been?
"...women are part of nature and lacking individual will and reason."
That sounds really sexist, but yea, I see it... a lot.
So why do you think "Emerge" was chosen as the name for an organization to help female candidates?
In reference to rising above the glass ceiling that perpetually exists despite being broken again and again.
"This chimes with the traditionalist idea that women are part of nature and lacking individual will and reason."
You've taken a generic term -- traditionalist -- and given it specific characteristics. I'm not sure from what version of traditionalist you pulled this, but it's not mine.
She emerged, and there's a pony down there, somewhere.
"Kamala Harris will reemerge in California on Wednesday night...
Reminds me of the emergence in California of the...
Invasion of the Grunions!
Granny, not sure that's the official (California) state flag.
Jed, this is southern California.
So, even after wasting 1 Billion Dollars, the Democrats have not unburdened themselves of that has-been? She's become their Great (Not completely) White Whale: "Thar she blows!"
"I get the feeling there's an idea that women are naturally buoyant and will float to the surface if they're not held under."
We could just see if she weighs the same as a duck!
JSM
When they recycle their suckiest people they pretend they are re-introducing them to the voters, as if the old, unpopular figure is ‘under new management’ or something…
I get the underlying metaphor, and may have been useful several decades ago, but this continuing use of the 'women are oppressed' cudgel has gotten very old. like 'beating a dead horse' old.
Be careful not to Lean In once you've Emerged, or you risk falling back in.
Kamala's unburdened noggin is useful as a flotation device, not much else.
California is suffering. The humane thing is to put it out of its misery. So vote Kamala for governor; she's a bullet to the brain. (Should the Harris campaign seek to license She's a Bullet to the Brain, I hereby appoint Anne Althouse as my agent.)
Lean in, fall over. Ka-catastrophic. LOL
The Unburdened Brain. A cult classic.
"to pass out, issue"
She can do the first three words. Too late for all four.
Who knows why they come up with names. Probably the first ten options were taken and this was the first of their options that was available.
I'm struck more by the levels of distance she is from the group. She herself (per the article) did not found Emerge. She did not even "inspire" its founding. So she was apparently, merely one of a number of people who "helped inspire the formation of Emerge"?
So seemingly, she can't even do THAT little of her own agency? Seems accurate.
A wood plank also floats. Abort, sequester? It's a Planned progression. A climate pledge.
I had a professor who often referred to someone, i.e. a less clever student, as wearing lead shoes. In other words, if one can't follow the proof of Euler's Totient function theorem, for instance, there must be lead shoes holding that person firmly to the floor. I think he looked my way a few times the lead shoes meme arose. Drat those coprime integers.
How can we miss you if you won’t go away for good?
Questions about branding only matter when the project isn't inherently self-defeating. Are women generally stupid and gullible enough to accept political advice from Kamala Harris? If so, that's probably why they fail at politics without a massive crutch. A billion dollar advantage, full lawfare press, and two sponsored assassination attempts weren't enough for Harris to defeat Trump, though.
It might help her if she emerged from the barrels full of whatever alcoholic beverage she prefers.
She re-connected with her political roots, and emerges covered with a mysterious liquid substance
"The original meaning of the word 'emerge' was 'To come up out of a liquid in which (the subject) has been immersed'"
I'm visualizing the Uruk-Hai emerging from the pits of Saruman's underworld.
Kamala? Emerge you say?
I envision the alien bursting out of John Hurt's chest in that movie. That kind of Emerge.
Harris is deeply incompetent. She has no business holding any public office.
I think she will run for governor of California and, if she wins, she might, after 2 full terms, be qualified to run a lemonade stand in the middle of Bumfuck, Kansas.
So why do you think "Emerge" was chosen as the name for an organization to help female candidates?
Because they were thinking about that scene from the movie Alien?
This is gonna be good.
I live here. 96pt OY
As I recall, the Democrat election post-mortems largely assigned Harris' loss to misogyny and racism on the part of the electorate.
I trust that Harris will directly address these matters in her speech.
When a billion is inadequate, the trillion dollar feminine gender... woman.
Emerge from the political w... tomb is a viability metaphor with empathetic appeal. Out, out damned "burden" of PoO.
'Emerge' as a metaphor makes me think of cicadas, digging under ground and drinking saps from the roots of trees for up to 17 years, depending on species, then emerging into the light to sing and mate for a few weeks before they die.
Even an ugly caterpillar emerges from a chrysalis and becomes a beautiful butterfly. So say the spin marketers, so it must be true of Kamala too.
When G.H.W. Bush was President, this degree of malleability was considered negative by the left.
Criticizing Trump will not distinguish her from every other Democratic politician. Will she use profanity? That won't help either.
The dems' eagerness for the "Historic achievement of a woman president" overwhelmed their common sense. For instance, I would support any number of women for president, like Pam Bondi or Condoleezza Rice. Just not THAT woman. or Hillary.
“I get the feeling there's an idea that women are naturally buoyant and will float to the surface if they're not held under.”
Back in the good old days this was used as a test for witches. Toss a woman in the water, and if she drowns she’s innocent; if she floats she’s a witch. Kamala’s in no danger.
I get the feeling there's an idea that women are naturally buoyant and will float to the surface if they're not held under. This chimes with the traditionalist idea that women are part of nature and lacking individual will and reason.
That doesn't follow. Human beings are part of nature, are they not? The idea is that they will be able to rise if they aren't held down forcibly. They will be able to rise when they are able to use their abilities freely without constraint.
Stanley "emerged" from the jungle and found Livingstone. That doesn't mean that he was lacking individual will or reason.
"Emerge" has echos for me of "Womansurge" (or was in "Womensurge"?) a short-lived group founded by Betty Friedan when she was feuding with the NOW leadership. You could say that flood waters surge in. You could also say that invading armies surge in. It's common for revolutionary movements to liken themselves to forces of nature. They aren't saying that they are powerless, but rather that they are extremely powerful.
Q at 11:39 =lol
we all emerge from someone.
good grief, why doesn't she set up her think tank and leave us alone
Tommy Duncan said...
I get the feeling there's an idea that women are naturally buoyant and will float to the surface if they're not held under.
That's an interesting theory. Let's test it on Kamala and see if she comes back to the surface after being held under for three or four minutes
We don’t need to go to all that trouble. We could just see if she weighs less than a duck.
Democrats seem blind to the concept of a loser.
"Kamala Harris will reemerge in California on Wednesday night for her first major speech since her departure from the White House..."
Her campaign was based on "I'm not Trump! Vote for me! You have to elect me to see what I actually stand for!"
Kinda like "we have to pass the bill to see what's in it "
She could use Bob Seger's Beautiful Loser as her walk on music.
JSM
"Emerge" Like a Mayfly or a particularly urgent poop.
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