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As a tactic, it just might work. Kamala Harris has become famous for her word salads, some of which are more incomprehensible than others, but all share one common characteristic: they’re all presented as if they were portentous words of wisdom, offered for the enlightenment of the masses. Will the public buy the vacuous Harris as the sage she evidently aspires to appear to be? Given the state of American education since the left took it over, why not?
Fox News reported that Harris “on Wednesday addressed the Economic Club of Pittsburgh, where she outlined her economic agenda as the Democratic presidential nominee.” So far, so good. After all, after three and a half years of the Biden-Harris regime, the economy is in a shambles, and it is only reasonable that Harris would address how she plans to repair it.
Instead, however, we got a fresh load of rubbish about the American spirit or something: “We need to guard that spirit. We have to guard that spirit. Let it always inspire us. Let it always be the source of our optimism, which is that spirit that is uniquely American. Let that then inspire us by helping us to be inspired to solve the problems that so many face, including our small business owners.”
It sounds as if she’s saying something, and something weighty, too, but the more you look at it, the less there is to see. This sort of blather from Harris comes from the same wellsprings as such classics as Harris’ famous 2021 statement that “it is time for us to do what we have been doing. And that time is every day.” It is a blood brother to her pseudo-wisdom of another notorious Harris saying: “The significance of the passage of time, right? The significance of the passage of time. So when you think about it, there is great significance to the passage of time … there is such great significance to the passage of time.”
Hey, if this president thing doesn’t pan out, Harris could have a profitable future writing Hallmark cards — actually, that would be unlikely to work out, for Hallmark would at very least expect her pompous utterances to make some kind of sense.
So what does it say about the political and societal health of the United States of America that the presidential candidate of the nation’s majority party so frequently indulges in nonsensical but profound-seeming statements? Clearly the Democrats are worried about this, as they’ve kept Harris under wraps as much as possible, generally allowing her to go before the American people only in highly scripted, carefully controlled situations in which her ability to say something off the cuff that could damage her campaign is kept to an absolute minimum.
In this sense, nothing changed with the Democrats’ coup against Old Joe Biden and his replacement with Harris. Both before and after the coup, the face of the Democrat party and of the United States government was a media creation whose reality was carefully kept hidden from the American people. As president, Old Joe was essentially a figurehead, while others made the decisions for him, as he himself acknowledged indirectly on more than one occasion when he worried publicly that he was going to “get in trouble” with unnamed people if he departed too far from the script they had prepared for him.
It is increasingly clear that all the Democrats have done was change mouthpieces. Kamala Harris would be no more of a genuine president than Biden has been. Both would be the public face of the regime while the real decision-making lay with other people. Will Americans vote in large numbers for four more years of this shadowy proxy government, in which the putative chief executive is just a front man (or front woman)? One thing is certain: those who do vote for Kamala Harris are those who think that her ridiculous tautologies such as “Let that then inspire us by helping us to be inspired” represent actual wisdom. The left’s long march through the institutions has given us a generation of Americans who were miseducated to the extent that they cannot distinguish such twaddle from actual insight. They will vote accordingly.
john blackman says
will they vote for the vacuous cackler ? the answer is yes . if they voted [ and the question is did they ] for the imbecile in chief bumbling biden , then they will vote for anyone as long as its not orange man bad . gormless democrats would vote for hitler if he was on the ticket . considering both harris and hitler both have holocausts as their platform , abortion and gassing jews . over 6 mill. for the jews and 50 mill. for children and counting . america is condemned .
Allan Goldstein says
We want to defeat Kamala’s ass by helping her to drag her ass out.
Rob A says
She can keep her ass. I just want her gone off the national stage. She’s an imbecile. Walking and chewing gum at the same is a stressful and headache inducing experience for her.
Spurwing Plover says
Claims she supports our 2nd Amendment Rights Supports Gun Control/Confiscation Just what we get from deciteful Demo-Rats
Rob A says
You’d be surprised at just how many politicians have never actually read the US Constitution. I strongly suspect that Kamala one of them.
Rob A says
Kamala Harris is what happens when a person with sh*t for brains fails upwards. It never ceases to amaze me when demonstrably incompetent people always seems to get promoted upwards. And now such a person is running for president.
If she’s duly elected then America will deserve the consequences of electing a dimwitted fool/tool as president. Tool because Kamala Harris is an abject moron who will say and do what her handlers tell her to say and do and not deviate from the script.
We’ve all seen and heard what happens when she attempts to go off script and tries to speak extemporaneously. For example: inane gibberish (aka word salad), an embarrassing display of ignorance and stupidity and her 2-digit IQ, etc..
David Ray says
One major caveat . . .
It incontrovertible that leftists rig & steal elections. Molly Ball even bragged about it in Time magazine.
As Dinesh D’Souza demonstrated in “2000 Mules”, it’s mail-in ballots that win elections; not legitimate votes.
And with 3rd world invaders seeking public assistance, they reliably vote accordingly (whether they do illegally doesn’t concern Democrats).
So they might get the government they want, and we’ll be denied the government that was voted for.
Hopefully, we can overcome the DNC machine, and Trump can win his 3rd election. (Don’t tell Dickwad Cheney that Democrats cheat. He thinks it’s “cowardly” to fight it – just like he and Bush did in 2000.)
emelbee says
Another much needed, astute and brilliant analysis and exposition by unparalleled Robert Spencer. Thank you
Kamala Harris = Chauncey Gardiner 2.0
internalexile says
“Life is like a garden.”
Spirit of TJ says
Watching American history unfold in our time is amusing as well as insightful, and of course, worrisome. The Bolsheviks changed Imperial Russia with a simple yet powerful slogan: “Land. Peace. Bread.” even though the actual sine qua non was World War I followed by a coup d’etat.
In today’s America, such a revolutionary concept as ” Land. Peace. Bread.” is probably too intellectually deep for many to grasp, given that so many are now dubious beneficiaries of what has been called an illiberal education.
Besides, many among us enjoy being entertained by solving word puzzles, like what have been called Kamalaisms.
Hey, you know it’s good when it is good, because good is good, and that is always a good thing.
Intrepid says
“Good News: Kamala Wants to ‘Inspire Us by Helping Us to Be Inspired’ ”
There is significance to the passage of time! — Heels Up Harris.
MuggsSpongedice says
vacuous and vapid are a compliment to Cackling Kamalalalala a witch whore of Babylon.- this witch whore is like a junior high school girl standing up before the class to give a speech – and that’s just because a junior high school girl is in the learning mode along with her male peers – by my G-D, Kamalalalala is the VPOTUS for YHVH’S SAKE!!!
Surrounded by DEI in the administration – (DEI = Didn’t Earn It) – senility and DEI – and the nation and world burns where it’s not flooded without White House response – The fact is, USA’s public school system makes stupid slaves – few crawl out from under it’s diabolical influence indoctrination for all of childhood – and remain stupid adults their entire lives – blind to disaster around them – they vote for more disaster – Remember Abbot and Costello where Abbot asks Costello: “Didn’t you go to school stupid?” Costello: “Yeah. And I came out the same way.” https://youtu.be/oN2_NarcM8c?si=ZoCCqj9La-f0wh68&t=25
TRex says
Remember that woman in the Miss Universe/America(?) pageant from years back, the “such as, the Iraq…” one? It’s no stretch to say she is Mommala’s intellectual superior.
Justin Swingle says
like how can a lobotomized walking moron insprire anyone…. OTHER THAN ALEX SOROS????
internalexile says
Maybe she needs more fiber in her diet. Then she could unload and be unburdened by what has been.
Alex says
More of her word salad…..😂
I used to think that Hillary was the Queen of the LIe…She has been deposed….and replaced by this one.
🤡
Seekers says
Vacuous verbosity is a hallmark of those wish to be revered but lack the capacity for tangible achievement.
Ron Kelmell says
Platitude, cliche’, and vacuous metaphor are pizza and beer for millions of voters that sill not or are unable to live a responsible, self reliant life. That lot dreams of winning a lottery, game show prize, or personal injury law suit as that is the core of their American dream.
Education, an honest career, holding family together, giving to the poor, being a present parent, and saving/investing patiently are beyond their vision for a better life.
TRex says
Is it any wonder given how many people tune in to politics at election time to find out what the govt is going to give them? They are a large portion of the Democrat Party base. They are communists, at heart, but don’t have the intelligence to recognize it. To put a twist on a famous JFK line: ‘ask not what you can do for your country…’. That’s where we are now. Farther down the road to a “total state” than we think.
David Elstrom says
The only inspiring thing about Harris would be her complete elimination from politics so we would never again have to suffer her meaningless word salads nor hear her bizarre cackle.
Andrew Blackadder says
The idea that Prick Cheney and his daughter embrace Kackling Kamala should tell everybody just how far from reality the DemocRAT Party has gone today during the passage of time which is passing.
Condor says
Consider for a moment what foreign leaders (particularly those who should be our allies) are seeing and thinking right now: The most powerful nation on Earth and the presumed leader of the free world is currently “run” by a brain-dead pretender and an airhead fraud, with a Marxist manipulator calling the shots for the shadow government. They have created a sh!tstorm at home and abroad, and people wonder what happened to “deterrence”? Or the “economy”? Or our “national borders”? Or the “foundations of the American Republic”? It’s the “fall of the Roman Republic 2.0.”
Condor says
Anyone remember “Professor” Irwin Corey who used to appear on the Johnny Carson show? Kamala must have used his monologues as training for her public speaking. [Rest in peace, Professor. Life is imitating comedy at the highest levels of government now.]