Kamala Harris is one of the worst people ever to attain national office, and since this seems to be the week that the mainstream press is turning on her, it seems like a great time to start a megathread.
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Kamala Harris Megathread - Let's hear it for our lovely and gracious Vice President!
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Kamala Harris is one of the worst people ever to attain national office, and since this seems to be the week that the mainstream press is turning on her, it seems like a great time to start a megathread.
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It could be worse, he could have picked Susan Rice, who is just as much of a swamp monster as Harris, has most of her skeletons closeted in a field voters don't care about (foreign policy), and, unlike Harris, is actually pretty competent/effective at pushing her agenda.
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Look guys, just remember that there would be ZERO black women working in DC if not for the queen and her chief of staff.
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Kamala has significantly less baggage than Hillary but I feel like that's more to do with her not having as many opportunities to fuck up on such a grand scale as Hillary.
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The Veep From ‘Veep’
Column: Kamala Harris can’t fix her office, much less the border
President Joe Biden has a problem, and her name is Kamala Harris. The vice president has become a comic figure in today’s Washington—a politician given to missteps and unforced errors who inspires neither loyalty nor trust within her inner circle. She might have been Biden’s safest pick for running mate. But now she’s a liability for both the president and the Democratic Party.
It’s not just that Harris is unpopular. Her unique combination of falsity and incompetence generates negative press and endangers her dreams of succeeding Biden. For Harris, the month of June has been an extended replay of highlights from Veep, the HBO comedy starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus as a clueless and floundering politician on the make. Only Harris isn’t laughing.
Her favorability among registered voters is 7 points underwater in the latest Economist/YouGov survey. Biden’s approval, by contrast, is split even: 48 percent approve, and 48 percent disapprove. More worrisome for Harris is her "very unfavorable" rating. It’s at 40 percent. That’s 3 points higher than Biden’s number—and just 3 points short of Nancy Pelosi’s.
The reason for Harris’s unpopularity is no mystery. It’s her performance. She has a problem following through. She’s fine when working from a script, but she stumbles whenever she must improvise. The classic example came early in the 2020 campaign. Harris attacked Biden during a primary debate for opposing school busing in the 1970s. The moment went viral—and then evaporated. Harris couldn’t rebut Biden’s arguments against Medicare for All. She couldn’t withstand Tulsi Gabbard’s criticism of her record as California’s state attorney general. She didn’t make it past the first week of December 2019.
Last August, when Biden asked her to join the Democratic ticket, Harris took the Hippocratic Oath of running mates: first, do no harm. She lived up to the pledge. She followed the Biden strategy of letting President Donald Trump hog the stage and self-destruct. She made no great mistakes during her debate with Vice President Mike Pence. And she barely made a sound during the presidential transition. The biggest flap concerning Harris was over a Vogue cover shoot that annoyed her Very Online fan base.
It was Biden who set Harris up for a fall. By May, the surge in illegal crossings at the southern border had become impossible to ignore. Biden said the vice president would lead the administration’s response. This was a gargantuan and impossible task. After all, Biden’s reversal of Trump’s immigration policies is behind the increase in illegal immigration. And there’s no way Harris would contradict her boss, even if she wanted to.
Harris immediately distanced herself from her assignment. She recast her mandate as a diplomatic effort to address the "root causes" of migration. (The root cause is simple: America is a better place to live than the Northern Triangle of Central America.) Her evasion was transparent—and Republicans began criticizing her for refusing to visit the border. But the Harris team doubled down, scheduling a trip to Guatemala and Mexico in early June. It was a disaster.
Harris meant to strike a tough tone during her visit to Guatemala City. "Do not come," she told potential migrants. But her message was undercut: first by Guatemalan president Alejandro Giammattei, who blamed Biden’s "lukewarm" rhetoric for the rise in migration, and then by NBC News anchor Lester Holt, who asked Harris why she was several thousand miles away from the border. A flustered Harris laughed awkwardly and tried to dodge before blurting out, "And I haven’t been to Europe!" Louis-Dreyfus couldn’t have delivered the line any better.
Harris’s inane reply amplified Republican charges that she was avoiding the real issue. By the time she returned from her trip, it was obvious that Harris would visit the border sooner rather than later. The question was when. On June 25, less than a week before Trump was scheduled to visit Texas, Harris hurriedly went to El Paso. The Democratic bastion is far from the Rio Grande valley that has been the busiest site of illegal activity. But Harris managed to get through her day trip without incident. The fallout didn’t arrive until later.
The voyage to El Paso illustrated another Harris vulnerability: She’s a terrible manager. Leaks and infighting bedeviled her short-lived presidential campaign. Working for her is hazardous to your health. Or at least that’s what an anonymous source told Politico on June 30. The blockbuster story, carrying three bylines and based on interviews with 22 "current and former vice-presidential aides, administration officials, and associates of Harris and Biden," left no doubt that Harris runs a dysfunctional operation. "It’s not a place where people feel supported but a place where people feel treated like s—," said a "person with direct knowledge of how Harris’s office is run." Imagine what they say on the office Slack channel.
Biden adviser Anita Dunn told Politico that the situation was "not anywhere near what you are describing." Perhaps it’s worse. One of Harris’s former Senate aides said, "The boss’s expectations won’t always be predictable." Not exactly what you want in a leader. Politico says Harris "excels when those around her project calm and order, creating a sense of confidence and certainty." Unfortunately, confidence and certainty are precisely those qualities that go missing in the ad hoc, improvisational, contingent, and situational world of global politics.
More interviews and stories like these and Harris will soon be living the politician’s worst nightmare: becoming a punchline. A cynic might say that Biden purposely handed Harris the toughest assignments to redirect negative public sentiment away from the Oval Office and to displace the frustrations and embarrassments he experienced during eight years as Barack Obama’s vice president. Democratic strategists worry that Harris exhibits none of Biden’s strengths, such as they are, while shouldering all his weaknesses. That doesn’t bode well if Biden opts not to run in 2024.
Then again, in the third season of Veep, the fictional president steps down. Louis-Dreyfus’s character becomes president. Think Harris is funny now? The joke might be on us.
The Veep From ‘Veep’
President Joe Biden has a problem, and her name is Kamala Harris. The vice president has become a comic figure in today’s Washington—a politician given to missteps and unforced errors who inspires neither loyalty nor trust within her inner circle. She might have been Biden’s safest pick for...
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Face it Last Stand, if Kamala was a dead white woman from the 50s you would be simping for her.
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Hillary's problem is that she's constantly got a finger in the wind. If gay marriage polls at 49%, marriage is between a man and a woman; if gay marriage is at 51%, love is love. Bill managed to ride this wire fence, but he has natural charisma and a smooth speaking style. Watching Bill speak, I don't feel like he thinks the American people are morons. Hillary is surprisingly okay when she's speaking in a situation where she feels free to be smart, but for some reason, these situations rarely happen when she's speaking to the public. Watching her talk to Rachel Maddow, for example, it's obvious that her "real" personality is closer to Lisa Simpson than she would like to admit, but in any kind of a stump speech situation, it's all platitudes and pandering. You want to know whether she's full of shit at any given minute, look at how fast she talks. There's also the problem that the Clinton family is kind of like Meghan Markle's impression of the royal family, where it's a business and everything is managed, but unlike the royals, everyone around them has a finger in the pie. Nominating her was a generational self-own on the part of the dems in 2016.
Kamala is a pure sociopath. She's going to run in 2024 and she's gonna get blown out of the water for the same reasons Hillary was blown out of the water twice, and the dems will learn nothing from it.
I'd love to see a woman president, but Kamala is the devil and I hope people wake up to it.
Kamala is a pure sociopath. She's going to run in 2024 and she's gonna get blown out of the water for the same reasons Hillary was blown out of the water twice, and the dems will learn nothing from it.
I'd love to see a woman president, but Kamala is the devil and I hope people wake up to it.
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Nooooooooo. really?
Between "Pokemon GO to the polls", "Basket of Deplorables" and turning Pepe into a terrorist symbol, I would have NEVER EVER guessed she was 99.9% retarded
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Here's how she was greeted on her border arrival. What'd I tell you guys... ¡Que Mala!
If someone wants to archive the video I'd appreciate it - my usual archival program isn't working for some reason.
lol based on what?
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to think we'll have a non-third-world style election in 2024, but I guess it's possible in theory.
This brings up something else I've been wondering about, though. Who do you guys think they will try and select as her Vice President once Joetato finally reaches his expiration date? Going by the book, they shouldn't exactly have carte blanche to pick anyone they want. That's because upon inaugurating the KKK they will lose their Senate majority and they "need" a majority in both houses of Congress to approve any new VP.
If someone wants to archive the video I'd appreciate it - my usual archival program isn't working for some reason.
lol based on what?
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to think we'll have a non-third-world style election in 2024, but I guess it's possible in theory.This brings up something else I've been wondering about, though. Who do you guys think they will try and select as her Vice President once Joetato finally reaches his expiration date? Going by the book, they shouldn't exactly have carte blanche to pick anyone they want. That's because upon inaugurating the KKK they will lose their Senate majority and they "need" a majority in both houses of Congress to approve any new VP.
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Thanks! What tool did you use? I had been using Video DownloadHelper Firefox addon for the longest time on everything without issue, but lately it NEVER works for some reason.
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it works on Twitter videos as well.
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There is nothing more satisfying than these elitist fucks going out of their Urban comfort zones.
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Democrats concerned Harris couldn't beat a GOP nominee, even if Trump: report
Democrats concerned Harris couldn't beat a GOP nominee, even if Trump: report
Democrats, including some Biden administration officials, are reportedly so concerned about Vice President Kamala Harris’ missteps that they don’t believe she could beat a Republican in 2024 if she were to be the nominee — even if her opponent was former President Trump.
Democrats, including some Biden administration officials, are reportedly so concerned about Vice President Kamala Harris’ missteps that they don’t believe she could beat a Republican in 2024 if she were to be the nominee — even if her opponent was former President Trump. Democrats close to the White House told Axios they’re concerned about Harris’ mishandling of politically sensitive issues and "political tone deafness," the outlet reported Friday. The vice president was widely panned by the right for her months-long refusal to visit the southern border after she was designated to run point on the migrant surge.
One liberal operative told Axios that most Democrats aren’t saying, "'Oh, no, our heir apparent is f---ing up, what are we gonna do?" but instead think "Oh, she’s f---ing up, maybe she shouldn't be the heir apparent.'" Biden aides still believe the he will be the nominee in 2024 but realize the president would be 81 when seeking reelection. Harris, the first Black and Asian woman to hold the vice presidency, would be a shoo-in for the nomination if Biden stepped aside.
Several recent reports have detailed tensions between the West Wing and the vice president's office and communication issues and distrust between aides and senior officials on Harris’ team. White House chief of staff Ron Klain said the commander in chief and the vice president are in lockstep. "The president's trust and confidence in her is obvious when you see them in the Oval Office together," he told Axios.
Biden senior adviser Cedric Richmond described reports of tensions and mistrust as "a whisper campaign designed to sabotage [Harris]." The vice president's office could not immediately be reached by Fox News for further comment. Some Biden officials feel Harris is getting bad advice from her press shop and think it's telling that she's lost two senior aides and a digital director.
Much of the criticism was directed at Harris' chief of staff Tina Flournoy, who aides claimed has limited access to Harris and contributed to a culture "where ideas are ignored or met with harsh dismissals and decisions are dragged out," according to a Politico report, citing interviews with 22 current and former aides. Apparent concerns over Flournoy’s leadership were echoed in a report from CNBC. The outlet reported Harris’ chief of staff had "effectively shut out" some of the vice president’s allies in politics and business, including top donors.
Axios reported that Flournoy months ago had sat on a request from Forbes to feature Harris in its first "50 over 50" issue, what was sure to be glowing coverage, and the West Wing had to intervene to get an answer for Forbes, according to a source familiar. An aide said that Flournoy was simply nailing down the details. The publication ultimately did feature the VP.
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Take this with a massive grain of salt, since the sources are "anonymous officials", but even so, it makes you wonder.....
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What matters is not whether it's true. What matters is why SOMEONE wants to plant the stories. It means Dems themselves are getting nervous and are planting the seeds in case they have to cut her loose in the future.Democrats concerned Harris couldn't beat a GOP nominee, even if Trump: report
Democrats concerned Harris couldn't beat a GOP nominee, even if Trump: report
Democrats, including some Biden administration officials, are reportedly so concerned about Vice President Kamala Harris’ missteps that they don’t believe she could beat a Republican in 2024 if she were to be the nominee — even if her opponent was former President Trump.www.foxnews.com
Democrats, including some Biden administration officials, are reportedly so concerned about Vice President Kamala Harris’ missteps that they don’t believe she could beat a Republican in 2024 if she were to be the nominee — even if her opponent was former President Trump. Democrats close to the White House told Axios they’re concerned about Harris’ mishandling of politically sensitive issues and "political tone deafness," the outlet reported Friday. The vice president was widely panned by the right for her months-long refusal to visit the southern border after she was designated to run point on the migrant surge.
One liberal operative told Axios that most Democrats aren’t saying, "'Oh, no, our heir apparent is f---ing up, what are we gonna do?" but instead think "Oh, she’s f---ing up, maybe she shouldn't be the heir apparent.'" Biden aides still believe the he will be the nominee in 2024 but realize the president would be 81 when seeking reelection. Harris, the first Black and Asian woman to hold the vice presidency, would be a shoo-in for the nomination if Biden stepped aside.
Several recent reports have detailed tensions between the West Wing and the vice president's office and communication issues and distrust between aides and senior officials on Harris’ team. White House chief of staff Ron Klain said the commander in chief and the vice president are in lockstep. "The president's trust and confidence in her is obvious when you see them in the Oval Office together," he told Axios.
Biden senior adviser Cedric Richmond described reports of tensions and mistrust as "a whisper campaign designed to sabotage [Harris]." The vice president's office could not immediately be reached by Fox News for further comment. Some Biden officials feel Harris is getting bad advice from her press shop and think it's telling that she's lost two senior aides and a digital director.
Much of the criticism was directed at Harris' chief of staff Tina Flournoy, who aides claimed has limited access to Harris and contributed to a culture "where ideas are ignored or met with harsh dismissals and decisions are dragged out," according to a Politico report, citing interviews with 22 current and former aides. Apparent concerns over Flournoy’s leadership were echoed in a report from CNBC. The outlet reported Harris’ chief of staff had "effectively shut out" some of the vice president’s allies in politics and business, including top donors.
Axios reported that Flournoy months ago had sat on a request from Forbes to feature Harris in its first "50 over 50" issue, what was sure to be glowing coverage, and the West Wing had to intervene to get an answer for Forbes, according to a source familiar. An aide said that Flournoy was simply nailing down the details. The publication ultimately did feature the VP.
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Take this with a massive grain of salt, since the sources are "anonymous officials", but even so, it makes you wonder.....
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She looks black and it was either her or that psycho fat bitch Stacey Abrams. Way I figure, you Americans got off easy having Kamala over her.
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TRUMP 2024!
If they keep this shit up, that's an inevitably.
If they keep this shit up, that's an inevitably.
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Looks like they're going to have to cheat extra extra hard in 2024! I bet they have people working on that 24/7 as we speak.Democrats concerned Harris couldn't beat a GOP nominee, even if Trump: report
Democrats concerned Harris couldn't beat a GOP nominee, even if Trump: report
Democrats, including some Biden administration officials, are reportedly so concerned about Vice President Kamala Harris’ missteps that they don’t believe she could beat a Republican in 2024 if she were to be the nominee — even if her opponent was former President Trump.
Democrats, including some Biden administration officials, are reportedly so concerned about Vice President Kamala Harris’ missteps that they don’t believe she could beat a Republican in 2024 if she were to be the nominee — even if her opponent was former President Trump. Democrats close to the White House told Axios they’re concerned about Harris’ mishandling of politically sensitive issues and "political tone deafness," the outlet reported Friday. The vice president was widely panned by the right for her months-long refusal to visit the southern border after she was designated to run point on the migrant surge.
One liberal operative told Axios that most Democrats aren’t saying, "'Oh, no, our heir apparent is f---ing up, what are we gonna do?" but instead think "Oh, she’s f---ing up, maybe she shouldn't be the heir apparent.'" Biden aides still believe the he will be the nominee in 2024 but realize the president would be 81 when seeking reelection. Harris, the first Black and Asian woman to hold the vice presidency, would be a shoo-in for the nomination if Biden stepped aside.
Several recent reports have detailed tensions between the West Wing and the vice president's office and communication issues and distrust between aides and senior officials on Harris’ team. White House chief of staff Ron Klain said the commander in chief and the vice president are in lockstep. "The president's trust and confidence in her is obvious when you see them in the Oval Office together," he told Axios.
Biden senior adviser Cedric Richmond described reports of tensions and mistrust as "a whisper campaign designed to sabotage [Harris]." The vice president's office could not immediately be reached by Fox News for further comment. Some Biden officials feel Harris is getting bad advice from her press shop and think it's telling that she's lost two senior aides and a digital director.
Much of the criticism was directed at Harris' chief of staff Tina Flournoy, who aides claimed has limited access to Harris and contributed to a culture "where ideas are ignored or met with harsh dismissals and decisions are dragged out," according to a Politico report, citing interviews with 22 current and former aides. Apparent concerns over Flournoy’s leadership were echoed in a report from CNBC. The outlet reported Harris’ chief of staff had "effectively shut out" some of the vice president’s allies in politics and business, including top donors.
Axios reported that Flournoy months ago had sat on a request from Forbes to feature Harris in its first "50 over 50" issue, what was sure to be glowing coverage, and the West Wing had to intervene to get an answer for Forbes, according to a source familiar. An aide said that Flournoy was simply nailing down the details. The publication ultimately did feature the VP.
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Take this with a massive grain of salt, since the sources are "anonymous officials", but even so, it makes you wonder.....
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They never point out the 75 million votes for Trump, more than Obama. Funny that.
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