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In case you missed the exciting announcement back on July 31, failed presidential candidate Kamala Harris revealed in an Instagram post that Simon & Schuster will publish her behind-the-scenes account of her 2024 campaign debacle. The memoir, titled 107 Days in reference to the mercifully shortest presidential campaign in modern history, will be released on Sept. 23, so mark your calendars.
For those keeping score, she had previously published two books under her name: 2009’s Smart on Crime: A Career Prosecutor’s Plan to Make Us Safer and 2019’s The Truths We Hold: An American Journey. The former book faced accusations of plagiarism of a degree that sank Harvard’s Claudine Gay’s career, but which were shrugged off by the Left-dominated media as a “conservatives pounce” non-controversy. The latter book was panned even by NPR as full of campaign platitudes and awkward prose (Kamala’s prose is awkward? Imagine that).
Mainstream media announcements about her forthcoming book have been muted in tone, reflecting the Democrat Party’s general lack of enthusiasm about the catastrophic choice for presidential candidate who shows every sign of intending a comeback run at the White House. Everyone knows that Harris will never win a presidential election; if she couldn’t beat Trump the first time around, she certainly won’t beat JD Vance in 2028; Vance will wipe the floor with her in debates, and he will be riding a wave of four years of epic Trump successes. It’s hard to imagine a conservative opponent that she could beat. She won’t even win her own Party’s nomination over a white male, Gavin Newsom, whose lust for the Oval Office is white-hot. Kamala is out of her league at the level of national politics, and unlikeable.
About 107 Days, Kamala states in the Instagram video, “Since leaving office, I’ve spent a lot of time reflecting on those days. I believe there’s value in sharing what I saw, what I learned, and what I know it will take to move forward.” I’m skeptical about the value and the lessons, but what it will take for the Democrat Party, which has sunk to its lowest popularity ever, to move forward is to jettison Kamala – but she’s not going to accept that.
So what can readers, if there will be any, expect from this “candid and personal account of my journey”? “Writing ‘107 Days’ felt like living the campaign in reverse — rewinding each moment and experiencing it all over again,” she says. “Behind every speech I gave, hand I shook, and story I told on the road, there were deeper layers, quiet reflections, and lessons learned.”
Anyone who has seen Kamala attempt to speak off the cuff knows full well that there are no deeper layers to her, and it’s impossible to believe that she learned the right lessons from her loss. In fact, it is pretty clear from her promotional appearance on outgoing host Stephen Colbert’s The Late Show, the same night she announced the book, that she did not learn the most obvious lesson of all: that she is not now, and never has been, presidential material.
A creepily fawning Colbert observed that this was the eighth time Kamala had made an appearance on the show (by contrast, JD Vance has made a total of zero appearances both before and after becoming Vice President, although Colbert has mocked him many times in monologues and skits). The full interview was replete with Kamala’s usual cackling, her blather about “our fragile democracy,” and her faux-selfless claim that she’s never going to stop “fighting for the people.” Asked about running for president again, she stated that “for now, I don’t want to go back into the system,” adding, “I think it’s broken.”
Translation: I didn’t lose the presidential election because I was eminently incompetent, unqualified, and unlikeable; I lost because the system doesn’t work. When election-denier Democrats lose elections, it’s because the system is “broken,” or Republicans suppressed votes of color, or Russia colluded, etc. It’s never because the American people managed to overcome massive Democrat voter fraud to assert their democratic will.
This preview on the failed talk show host Colbert’s moribund show, before a seal-clapping audience, tells you everything you could want to know about her forthcoming book: that it is going to gloss over her ineptitude, her dearth of achievements as Vice President, her shockingly incoherent remarks in public appearances, and her unearned privilege within the Party as a “woman of color,” and it is going to lay the blame for 2024 on Republican cheating and lay the groundwork for a 2028 run.
Simon & Schuster, which has published memoirs by prominent politicians ranging from Hillary Clinton to Mike Pence, has not disclosed how much money Harris was advanced for the memoir, although one source suggests the amount was $20 million. If true, that would utterly dwarf the $8 million Hillary received for her 2003 Simon & Schuster memoir Living History, which was considered a near-record advance at the time (adjusted for Biden’s inflation, that would still be less than $14 million today).
“Kamala Harris is a singular American leader,” said Simon & Schuster CEO Jonathan Karp in a statement. He’s correct that she is singular, but not in the complimentary way he intended. “‘107 DAYS’ captures the drama of running for president better than just about anything I’ve read… It’s an eyewitness contribution to history and an extraordinary story.” He added hyperbolically, “It’s one of the best works of political nonfiction Simon & Schuster has ever published.”
Not only will it not be one of the best works of political nonfiction, it won’t even be nonfiction. Karp has said Harris’ memoir “is not a typical political tome. It’s closer in spirit to The West Wing or Rocky. It reads like a suspense novel.” To give the “tome” a novelistic feel, the publisher hooked Kamala up with a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, Geraldine Brooks. That’s an unusual choice for a collaborator on a political book, because a skilled ghostwriter or co-writer of memoirs wouldn’t cut it this time. 107 Days is going to read as close to fiction as it can possibly get, because the facts about her campaign debacle are too brutal.
On August 21, Kamala announced on X that over the next few months she would be undertaking a nationwide tour to promote the book. “I’ll see you out there,” she threatened. One social media user bluntly summed up what the country’s response will be to both her book and her 2028 campaign attempt: “go away. it’s over.”
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Bill Clinton should have titled his book My Lies instead of My Life Obamas book Schemes of My Father
How did the DNC become so twisted and out of touch with original values ? is it a plan to destroy America with candidates so out of line with American values, The qualification is to have corrupt background / back Party line agendas for empowerment and the subjugation of the citizenry of this nation. Blatant evil deviant pattern thought.
give the book a week and it will appear on the three for a dollar table at walmart , along with crone hillary s last book and jake tappers account of feckless joe and him being sharp as a bowling ball . cheap combustion stove fire starters .
I almost spit out my coffee I was laughing so hard.
Me too. I expect nothing from it and won’t be buying it.
Mike Pence wrote a book?
If it was written after 2020, I don’t know how I could’ve missed all the fawning media hype. If it was written before 2020, the media would’ve either attacked it or ignored it.
Some free advice to turncoat Pence . . .
Avoid the leather clad biker clothing, as it makes you look like Robert Halford of Judas Priest.
To paraphrase an often mangled Hollywood quote: “When you have to choose between history and legend, print the legend.”
I can’t wait to get my copy — bwaaa haaaa haaaa haaaa –
There is pathos humor of the positive emotional kind reading this article.
JD Vance mopping the floor while Cackling Kamalalala is cackling to deflect her stupidity – since when does a laughable clown win a debate by laughing – can you imagine this ding bat on the world stage laughing with world leaders? It’s the DNA of a Steven King and George Orwell story.
I can only imagine the diatribe of lies in the book that no doubt had a ghost writer.
There are desperate TDS sufferers that will draw at any straw from Gruesome NewScum and ride the falling star all the way down.
Cackling Kamalala and Gruesome NewScum are losers. Look at what they touch.
We have seen and are experiencing the difference where a non-politician enters the fracas and wins and what he touches we all win – that is President Trump. VP Vance has the advantage of being mentored and emboldened by Trump 47. When VP Vance talks, it’s laser focus.
The more experienced politician crooked decrepit demonic Tampon Tim Walz was a mumbling wavering throw me a life preserver I’m drowning. Now JD has his footing and voice and in 2028, look out.
That Communist, Kamala Harris, does in a very disingenuous way, likes and approves of and even enjoys horrible destructive riots in the different cities across the USA, with all the violence, looting arson, by the Marxist domestic terrorist groups, Antifa and BLM, that would terribly wreck the infrastructure of this once great nation.
As Karl Marx had written “If we can but weld our souls together, then with contempt shall I fling my glove in the world’s face, then shall I strive through the wreckage a creator ! “
Harris will be glad, to have a use those rioting hooligans as her stooges, tools and “useful idiots” to achieve her Marxist agenda for America. Americans should be relieved and glad that this very evil woman lost the Presidential election to Donald Trump.
Donald Trump won the November 5th election because of the clear important and magnificent difference between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris.
In contrast is clear and obvious during the Presidential election of 2024 . For it was between the strong and patriotic Donald Trump and that weak ,feeble and un- American Marxist subversive, Kamala Harris with her comrades of the Red/Green alliance.
The difference between those two is vast and outstanding.
That Communist Kamala Harris with her “Red/Green alliance” is all for and very supportive of having arms embargo against the State of Israel , which would lessen the capacity of military of Israel to protect the lives and safety the people who are her citizens from those malicious and murderous jihad terror entity as Hamas from Gaza and Hezbollah from Lebanon.
It should be remembered that VP Harris didn’t have any objections ,all , when Joe Biden strived as hard as he could to have sanctions lifted from that hostile Islamic regime of Iran , so that it could obtain much money , which it ,no doubt, used to funds to support Hamas and Hezbollah and supply those jihad organizations death infecting weapons .
If , “by hook or by crook” Kamala Harris had become the next United States President, it would a disaster for the US , Israel and the Iranian people who are struggling for freedom against that Islamic tyranny of Iran and for all the other civilized nations of the world.
That Communist, Kamala Harris, would and will, in a very disingenuous way, likes and approves of and even enjoys horrible destructive riots in the different cities across the USA, with all the violence, looting arson, by the Marxist domestic terrorist groups, Antifa and BLM, that would terribly wreck the infrastructure of this once great nation.
As Karl Marx had written “If we can but weld our souls together, then with contempt shall I fling my glove in the world’s face, then shall I strive through the wreckage a creator ! “
Harris will be glad, to have a use those rioting hooligans as her stooges, tools and “useful idiots” to achieve her Marxist agenda for America. It’s was a literal blessing of God that evil woman didn’t This US “President.
Kamala Harris with her chronic inappropriate laughing reveals an irrational mentally.
Furthermore , all those different pictures of Kamala Harris smiling is a very strong reminder that, a few years back, some stores have did have a sticker that read “Smile, Smile Smile , the whole world loves an idiot.”
Sometimes when Kamala Harris spoke, she does show that she doesn’t know much. Other times when she spoke she had exposed herself to be an outright chronic liar. For example, she actually in an interview that the US /Mexican borders are safe and secure.”
All those pictures of Kamala Harris with her chronic inappropriate laughing reveals an unstable emotional mentality. The United States definitely didn’t need anyone with such an irrational mindset as the President of the US.
One thing is for certain was that when Kamala saw the results of the November 5rh 2024 Presidential election, that was one specific time that she wasn’t laughing.
One of the things that really irks me about Dem. Politicians is whenever they fail miserably at something they produce a book about it, as if failure was an accomplishment.
No Kammy. This book won’t earn you the nomination in 3 years. It will hardly sell, even when it enters the remainder bins.
She’ll need a warehouse for all the remainders.
Why read the book? We know how it ends. She (fortunately) loses bigly.
107 days.
A book by a loser
about a loser
written for losers
purchased by losers.