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I’m not sure there was anyone who ever spoke from the podium in the press briefing room at the White House during the Trump administration who didn’t have someone complain about them violating the Hatch Act – the prohibition on federal employees engaging in political activity while on the job or using federal resources to do so. Even the press complained about administration officials “getting political” while answering questions back when we had an administration that would answer questions. Now we have an entire White House being mobilized for the electoral benefit of the sitting Vice President, and no one cares. And the saddest and funniest part of it all is, with everything laid out to her advantage, Kamala Harris is already terrible at pretending to do the job.
I bet you’ve never seen a video of a Vice President getting on and off a plane, have you? Probably not, but if you have, I bet it’s only been once or twice in your whole life – you’ve seen lots of footage of a President “deplaning,” as they say, but local news crews aren’t really dispatched to watch a Vice President walk down some stairs, even for b-roll purposes. Kamala Harris is the exception.
Since the Democratic Party establishment shoved Grandpa Joe Biden down the proverbial flight of stairs, Kamala Harris has played the President in public more frequently. With that came footage of her walking up and down the stairs for Air Force Two.
Something struck me as odd the other day while watching her pretending to be on a phone call as she ran away from the press: She’s saluting and being saluted by the military members at the bottom of the stairs. She’s not President. Whoever the President is at any given moment is the Commander-in-Chief of the US military, but a vice president has no military rank whatsoever; they’re not in the chain of command.
I don’t know if former VPs were routinely saluted or not, as there isn’t a trove of footage of them leaving planes, but I couldn’t help but wonder if the military has been ordered to salute Harris as part of the campaign to make her come off as presidential?
I only had that thought because Kamala Harris has often played President in public lately. She sat at the table in place of President Biden at FEMA after Hurricane Helene, which, were it not political, would be humiliating for an egomaniac like Biden. After fundraising and before campaigning in Wisconsin, she even went to North Carolina for a photo-op and to announce a $750 “grant” for people who have no stores left standing to spend it.
Playing President, hoping that the public gets used to the idea, is a good strategy, but only for someone up to the job. Kamala Harris is not up to the job. Very few people in politics are as uniquely horrible off-script as she is.
Recently, her teleprompter malfunctioned, and she couldn’t remember enough of her stump speech, one she’s likely delivered a dozen times, to say anything other than repeating the number of days until the election.
In another interview with local media in the Pittsburgh area, she was asked a basic question about US Steel being sold to Nippon Steel, a Japanese company, and her answer was singularly awful. It’s THE issue in the area, as the livelihoods of thousands of families hang in the balance. Even though she’s weighed in on it in the past, her answer sounded like a kid writing everything they can remember on a topic hoping to get partial credit on an essay test they didn’t study for.
Asked about how she’d keep the jobs in Pittsburgh, something the company says is unlikely to happen without the influx of cash from the sale, Kamala said, “I feel very strongly that U.S. Steel needs to remain a U.S. company and that the people working there need to be American workers. I think that is also why I’m proud, and I do have the support of the Steelworkers Union. Because, I just think when you think about it in term of a historic American industry, not to mention what it means to the workforce and the economy of Pittsburgh, of Pennsylvania, but also from a national security perspective, it is important that we have US manufacturing of US steel. And, listen, I’ve been Vice President now for four years, I’ve traveled around the world, and I start my day every day being briefed on hotspots worldwide and threats to our national security. When I think about the importance of supporting US workers and US steel, it is through the lens of not only what we should do to protect that workforce, but what we should do to protect the US and American interests.”
I hope you were hungry for a salad because Kamala just tossed you a big one made out of words.
The reporter wasn’t hungry, apparently, and asked more specifically how she could guarantee protecting the jobs without the infusion of cash Nippon was offering. Her response to that was even more empty calories than the first go-round. “It is my priority to keep the jobs in Pittsburgh, understanding again that the folks doing that work are doing hard work, good work,” she said. “It is part of not only a tradition of American industry to do that work but also part of what we need to invest in the future.”
What does that even mean? How could she be so unprepared for what is an obvious question? The possible closing or collapse of US Steel is THE ISSUE in the Pittsburgh area, and the “acting” President can’t give a coherent answer to a softball question in a softball interview. The choice is pretty simple: allow the sale to a company from an ally country – where, by the way, the physical production facilities will remain where they are (Japan isn’t going to dismantle them and move them to the other side of the planet) and functioning, or risk them closing and decaying because there are no other viable suitors. You go to the prom with the only person who asked you, or you don’t.
Maybe there’s something in the water Democrats drink in Pennsylvania that causes them to become feckless blobs unable to offer anything other than non-answer platitudes on essential issues, as hopefully-soon-to-lose Senator Bob Casey did when he fired off a letter to a Pennsylvania glass-making company that just announced 300 job cuts. Many of those jobs just so happened to be represented by the United Steel Workers Union, the same union that opposes the Nippon sale (which is why Kamala opposes it) and does not seem to care about the 3,000 jobs lost if that sale is blocked. It is always a little shocking just how oblivious politicians and unions are when their anti-capitalist policies end up hurting businesses and, ultimately, the very people they claim to care about most.
To add to the absolute absurdity of the entire Democratic presidential campaign, while running from serious interviews where someone might ask her an important question, and as millions upon millions of Americans are suffering without water, electricity, and homes, Acting President Harris carved out time to sit down with the “Call Her Daddy” podcast. This sexually explicit show is basically what a drunken 19-year-old boy would come up with if they’d been tasked with putting together what they hoped hot twenty-something women talked about and like when they weren’t around, only dumber.
Kamala Harris is not ready for prime time. Even when everything is laid out for her and choreographed more meticulously than the Lee Harvey Oswald prison transfer (apologies to Dennis Miller for butchering his joke), she can’t even convincingly play Pretend President. God help us if she actually gets the job.
God help us.
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God damn her.
God can’t help us if we don’t and won’t help ourselves. The onus is on us, not God, to see to it that Kamala Harris is sent packing. And if the dems cheat, what are WE going to do about it?
Past being prologue, likely nothing of any real or meaningful consequences. The ruling class knows it and thus the reason why they do what they do with confidence.
Divine providence gave us the freest country/nation the civilized world has ever known. With that came a Constitution and a Bill of Rights. Among those rights is the to vote. Thus the onus is on us to solve the problems we can, should and must solves for ourselves. Not sit around praying and expecting God to do it all for us.
If you’re standing is the middle of a river where the water is quickly rising and a boat comes along, what do you do? Climb into the boat or pray and wait for God to save you? (Is not the boat the answer to your prayer?)
Your post is built around one of the funniest God jokes ever. Each time the God sent someone to save the man he said God would save him. When the guy finally meets God after he is swept away he asks God why did he not save him.
Of course God answers him saying “what is wrong with you? I sent three boats” Very rich irony.
EXACTLY!! I heard that maxim eons ago when I was a teenager. and never forgot it. (There are many things I wish I could forget but can’t. A photographic memory is as much a blessing as it is a curse!)
“God helps those who help themselves” is a time tested maxim. It’s meant to remind us that God gave us free will and we need to exercise that privilege because we’re human beings with souls, not automatons. Of course God could help us, and he’s done so in the past, but yes, we have to exert our will against our tyrannical and extremely corrupt government, particularly this currently illegitimate administration, the Dirtbagocrat party and their extensive vote cheat machine.
Goldstein didn’t cry out to God for succor, he just wrote two common phrases. One which expressed a dilemma so extreme that a person may feel that only God could handle it, or more accurately, that we need to get off our buts and help ourselves against our persecutors, and the second phrase expressed a desire for the guilty to face judgement and be punished. You’ll notice he didn’t write a prayer to God.
Far too often in my life, I’ve seen people pray to God to do for them what they can and should do for themselves while exerting little effort on their own behalf. That has always been off putting to me because I view it as mental weakness and laziness.
There are four kinds of people in this world: Those that make things happen, those that watch things happen, those that wonder what happened and last but least, those who wish it never happened. In my experience, it’s the latter three that pray the most.
I think it’s because they lack the courage to do what they can, should and must do for themselves. Praying is a way to assuage their guilt over not being responsible for their actions and inactions.
As for me, I am the master of my own destiny. I live my life, life doesn’t live me. I reserve prayer for those moments of quiet introspection where the power of prayer does the most good.
My Dad used to say there are three types of people. Those who do things, those who don’t do anything, and those who try to keep the people who do things from doing them.
In my experience, most people work to pay for their cost of living and strive in their daily lives. for the things they need and want Welfare cases and criminals tend to be lazy. No surprise from those who want handouts and to take things from others rather than earn them. The first type of people pray much more than the second.
Many people do ask God for this and that but I try not to because he obviously isn’t Santa Claus. Only America’s enemies get hundreds of billions of free dollars, and they get it from Alzheimer Joe’s handlers, not God. That includes foreign enemies who use the money to kill us and attack us economically, and domestic enemies (the moneyed interests) who collude with this illegitimate administration to rob us blind and rack up 33 trillion in debt for our descendants to deal with.
I’m a member of a Church congregation and we never pray for personal gain. We pray for God’s blessing and those in need. I’ve been to a lot of Churches and they’ve all been that way.
When normal people express “God help us” it isn’t a literal expression, it expresses the realization that something is beyond their control.
There’s nothing any patriot can do to get Heels Up Harris off the ballot or stop this anti-American “presidential” administration from rewarding our enemies and punishing us citizens, particularly whites and MAGA supporters. All we can do is vote in great enough numbers that the election of Trump is “too big to rig” this time around. There’s no guarantee that legitimate votes will beat the illegitimate ones. They didn’t in 2020. Cheating, lying and aiding our enemies are the only things Dirtbagocrats excel at, while weak submission to the D-Bags and betrayal of their constituents are the only things RINOs are good at.
Up to 30% of both Christians and gun owners reportedly don’t vote. You can bet most islamopithecines and gun grabber wannabes do. Why go to Church or own firearms if they don’t vote? Those people need to get off their asses. Hell, here in California I sat on my ass to fill out my mail in ballot and the walk to my mailbox wasn’t exactly a hardship.
God help us.
The dumbbitch displays her jaw-dropping stupidity every time she speaks. That’s been firmly established.
The scheming bitch lies as casually as she breathes. The press aid & abet her dishonesty & traffic in their own dishonesty. Also a fact long ago firmly established.
But a clumsily botched photo-op with her phone earbuds not plugged in while she’s going over info on her notepad – without a SINGLE note or word written on the paper, borders on comedy.
That also speaks to her handlers who also missed those obvious details.
(Imagine if Bush43 had pulled that idiotic stunt during Katrina.)
…the Harris Presidential Administration will (if elected) open the southern border and finish the job of diluting the white majority in the USA…then once executive orders will follow making these ‘new comers’ 100% full American citizens will enact the Interior Dept (HUD) i.e. to ‘make available’ free housing, transportation allowances, special financing at -0- interest backed by the U.S.Government…free college…food assistance…free health care (incl dental/eye)…and if ANY WHITE PERSON complains…a White free trip to the many re-educational facilities that will pop-up all over the country…oh, did I forget…the intensification of demanding that white people MUST turn in their firearms and ammo under penalty of arrest… Welcome to the New Marxist-Socialist-Progressive-One-Party Rule…The Democratic States Of America… ( better smile or you will not get any soup tonight )…
…I do not expect my comment will be posted…the truth hurts too much…and the Socialists own the media…
It got posted. While it’s particularly true of whites, it also applies to Latins and blacks who are US citizens and even the illegals who’ve been here since before the Borderless Bidumb administration illegally occupied the White House.
It also applies to Asians and Jews, but I think Asians and Jews are both white now on the intersectionality charts..
Stop with the blatantly racist bullsh*t and you wouldn’t have that concern. I strongly suggest that you read the US Constitution and the amendments to the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
An American citizen is not determined by skin color or ethnic background. An American citizen is determined by their loyalty to the US Constitution, fidelity to our flag and most important of all, and Americancentric point of view. Aka, America first and always. Anyone who disagrees can get the f***k outta my country.!
It’s the ant-whites who are racist, not whites who object to being the victims of that racism. And there are even more racists on the anti-white left than black ones, although proportionately, blacks are far and away the worst racists. A large proportion of them are anti-white and anti every race except their own Supremacists, even though most of them don’t realize that. Few people are good at introspection and racists are among the worst at it, along with Dirtbagocrats and trannies.
The Bible says a man should not be under the authority of a woman. “But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.” 1 Timothy 2:12 KJV. The POTUS makes the FINAL decision to kick, or not, the Nuclear Football! Give THAT a thought when you turn out the lights tonight! (Sleep well, America, and don’t forget to say your prayers!)
She reminds me of Chauncey Gardner from the Peter Sellers movie “Being There”.
To quote Senator Lloyd Bentsen….sort of, when talking about JFK… “You are no Peter Sellers”
Watching her campaign is like watching the dumbest, cheesiest B movie with the worst script ever written.
“Plan Nein from Empty Space.”