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Kamala Harris is in theory the front runner in 2028. At least if you believe the polls. But somehow every time that Kamala appears in public, she somehow manages to embarrass herself. It’s a dubious achievement, but it’s all hers.
Former Vice President Harris made her debut at the Met Gala this year. Harris’s Met Gala look selection was custom-made by the clothing brand Off-White. A photo featured in Vogue’s reporting on Harris’s attendance at the event shows the former vice president in a floor-length dress split between black and white at her right shoulder.
Is this making some dubious point about race? Of course it is.
Harris’s selection of Off-White, a brand founded by legendary Black designer Virgil Alboh, is notable given this year’s Met Gala theme of exploring Black style through “Tailored for You.” This year’s gala is the first to specifically focus on Black designers.
Vogue has said that this year’s Met Gala theme looks through the tailoring of clothing when it comes to shaping Black identities, featuring a focus on the “emergence, significance, and proliferation of the Black dandy.”
Ibrahim Kamara, Off-White’s art and creative director, told Vogue in a statement that for him, “the true core of dandyism is rooted in confidence and strength.”
“There is no person who exemplifies these characteristics more than Kamala D. Harris, someone who has overcome adversity and continues to be a beacon for so many,” Kamara added.
Kamara, not to be confused with Kamala, claims that Kamala represents the true core of dandyism. Kamala doesn’t have much in the way of achievements (I doubt Kamara does either) but loving fashion is definitely one of them. I’m not too sure that a love of high fashion is a huge selling point to today’s voters, but no one can take if away from Kamala who began dressing in high end fashion during her dubious career as a prosecutor back in San Francisco. The clothes were reported funded by her boyfriend, Willie Brown.
Now that’s overcoming adversity.
The Kinks were good. I prefer “A dedicated follower of Fashion,” though.
As do I. …… But Dandy is called for here.
Ray Davies had a wonderfully sarcastic mouth. Dedicated Follower can be seen as a swipe at the thirty-something AOR men who used to blow smoke up musicians’ asses, back in the swingin’ sixties.
By the way, Ray Davies wrote a song about the concerns we discuss today on this site back in 2002, and while I don’t know his views about Israel today or the Russia/Crimea War, he certainly is on OUR SIDE in his lyrics……which take the form of a letter to the editor from a regular punter in North London. …
https://www.kindakinks.net/discography/showsong.php?song=472
Copy and paste that for the lyrics.
The best youTube video of it is the one recorded with the Jools Holland Ensemble.
I saw the Kinks in the 1970’s at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium
There were boys dressed as Lola in the audience just having fun
A few of them were picked up by other boys and couples
I asked my girl friend if she wanted to take one home with us and she said: “too kinky” to which I replied ; “Yeah, baby.”
But that’s off topic.
Oh fleeting youth, where have you gone?
Not really off topic.
Does a young man grow up? is an important question. …… and the complicating factor of a young man’s playing a major role of cultural or political significance messes things up even further.
The members of the Kinks who wish to remain in London have now a HUGE tax burden and HUGE valuations of even what was humble housing (when they were young). London is now one of the most expensive cities in the world. This places a need for them to sell from their back catalogue, and to continue to seem cool enough to today’s film and television and cable producers to place snippits of their catalogue in new programming.
Listening to “Yours Truly, Confused N10” gives me the impression that Ray would have regrets over any role “Lola” may have had in inspiring today’s crop of transgender brown-shirts. Hence, his silence…..and he never wAs much for giving interviews anyway.
His silence allows him to dine out on “Lola” in London whenever he wants. …..although I imagine he avoids establishments where he would be likely to rub shoulders with eager and ambitious young fools of note.
I personally am two degrees of separation from an aging AMERIAN rock star, who keeps many of his or her (secret, that) second thoughts and aged wisdom which would screw up sales from the back catalogue……and there are surviving bandmates who only get performance royalties who pretty much depend on this.
So no, it is NOT off topic in the least.
Even rock stars grow up.
Cause my hair is curly
Just because my teeth are pearly
Just because I always wear a smile
Like to dress up in the latest style
Cause I’m glad I’m livin’
I take these troubles all with a smile
Just because my color’s shady
That’s the difference, maybe, why they call me
Shine, sway your blues’ies
Why don’t you shine?
Start with your shoes’ies
Shine each place up, make it look like new
Shine your face up, I want to see you wear a smile or two.
Why don’t you shine your these and thoseies?
You’ll find everything gonna turn out right fine
Folks will shine up to ya’
Everybody’s gonna howdy doody do-ya’
You’ll make the whole world shine
Oh chocolate drop, that’s me…
Cause my hair is curly, (man’s got curly hair)
Now just because my teeth are pearly, (also got pearly teeth)
Just because I always wear a smile, (oh keep on smiling)
Like to dress us, babe, in the latest style
Cause I’m glad I’m livin’
I take these troubles all with a smile
Now just because my color’s shady (you’s a shady baby)
That’s the difference, maybe, why they call me…
Shine away your blues’ies
Shine, start with your shoes’ies
You’ll make the whole world shine.
I was always under the impression that calling someone “a dandy” was an insult. Like “ain’t she a dandy “ as in annoying, arrogant, rude and ignorant. I guess it does work in this case.
It is an insult. It means a fop. A guy overly concerned with his clothes and appearance. A prissy miss.
An un-self-aware fop. Some fops know they are fops. Dandies don’t.
Think Hillary Clinton attempting blackspeak. She thinks she nailed it.
It IS an insult for a man who is too concerned with his appearance and dresses a bit showy or a lot showy. Implies insincerity and shallowness. I think it pertains to only men.
The word “dandy” means happy or good but is often used sarcastically.
Leave it to the left to take negative terms and wear them proudly. Pun intended.
Why do lefties always claim privileged lefties suffer from “adversity?” What is it with those people?
It’s the “adversity” of having a free ride through life. She did manage to figure out that servicing the right person will get you ahead. But only so far. When competence becomes necessary to go further, that’s where Kamela hits the adversity wall.
They are looking to find authenticity to claim as their own, but are doin’ it on the cheap.
She was the daughter of two college professors, if I recall. What’s the adversity. Sounds like a pretty privileged life compared to many.
Neither of whom were African-American.
Her mother was from the Brahmin upper caste in India and very much the child of privilege herself.
She grew up in a wealthy family in upper class neighborhoods. The only adversity she’s suffered is being ugly.
Was Harris found under a a rock or in a cave then adopted?!
She was found attached to Willie Brown’s “Johnson.” Willie Brown is now as old as mummy farts but he’s still a rain maker in California politics.
“Kamala doesn’t have much in the way of achievements.”
True. She was only the Attorney General of California, a United States Senator, and Vice-President of the country. Your achievements are so much more impressive, Daniel!
Quite the electoral accomplishment record. All of her election victories were in a hard left state. Then of course there was the fraud of being VP and they had to massively cheat to get Biden in. Such a bang up job as our Border Czar too. But she performed so badly she had to deny she was ever named to that position. After all what’s 10-12 million illegals in 4 years?
But Mickey Mickey Mickey, you, being from NotSoGreat Britain, wouldn’t know or understand the background of this below average IQ Cali clown, or the extreme leftism in California. Then, of course, she finally got the chance to do something on her own. So what happens? She picks Tampon Timmy of the House of Stolen Valor to be her running mate, and gets blown out in the General Election.
You sure can pick ’em. Glad you can’t vote. You are a perfect leftist commie scumbag.
How much did Fox pay Dominion Voting Systems? How much did Giuliani end up paying? Tell us what the producer of “2000 Mules,” Dinesh D’Souza apologized for. (I was instrumental in getting D’Souza to speak at the college where I teach. Tell readers again that I’m a liberal.”) Were all the elections that gave us a Dem House and Senate also fraudulent?
We’re still waiting for you to share your accomplishments with us. Too embarrassed to let readers judge? Or are you just not….intrepid enough? We know the name-calling and gay jokes are forthcoming but c’mon, allow us to compare your achievements with Kamala’s.
Meh. I just think of Kammie Harris as a dumb ass who’s been promoted way past her ability and level of competence. That’s why she always comes across as a stultified stupid dimwit whenever the bright lights are on her and a microphone is shoved in her face.
I’ll bet anyone dollars to donuts that her first instinct is to have a panic attack and run and hide whenever that happens.
Harris is a dumbass, and she is a Marxist like Obama and that goofball Walz.. That dress she wore was crap!
And don’t forget the pre-American Revolutionary song Yankee Doodle. The British made fun of the American soldiers, insulting them variously, not the least being calling them dandies. The Americans turned the insult around and sang with pride and defiance that they were indeed a Yankee Doodle Dandy.