Kamala Harris gave her first unscripted remarks Thursday since ascending to the position of POTUS-in-waiting.
She and Joe Biden had been standing on the tarmac of Joint Base Andrews simply earlier than midnight ready to greet 4 American hostages free of Russia when a reporter managed to fireplace a query on the often inaccessible pair.
For some purpose, Harris answered — however in her trademark incomprehensible phrase salad.
“That is simply a rare testomony to the significance of getting a president who understands the facility of diplomacy and understands the energy that rests in understanding the importance of diplomacy,” she mentioned.
The sound chew went viral, as they are saying, topping up the huge treasure trove of idiotic public pronouncements she has amassed over the previous 4 years.
No marvel her handlers gained’t let her out with no teleprompter.
Biden at the very least had the excuse of age-related cognitive impairment for his verbal imbecility, however what’s hers?
She’s both sub-moronic or she’s hiding one thing.
Powerful discuss, however . . .
We all know that she is a phoney, so my guess is the latter. She’s not known as “Shamala Flip Flop” for nothing.
She would quite be thought a idiot than permit her true ideas to leak out, and she or he has wound herself so tight all through her vice presidency that each one we’ve got on the general public file are these verbose, flaky nonstatements with a number of hand-waving.
She may sound ridiculous, nevertheless it takes a number of self-discipline to not crack the facade and communicate her thoughts.
Until she has had a secret traumatic mind damage previously 4 years, we all know that she is able to talking correctly. She was completely clear about her positions when she was competing within the Democratic primaries in 2019, as an illustration.
“There’s no query I’m in favor of banning fracking,” she informed CNN. No phrase salad there.
“I’m ready to eliminate the filibuster to cross a inexperienced new deal,” she mentioned.
On unlawful migrants, she was unequivocal: “We aren’t going to deal with people who find themselves undocumented and cross the border as criminals, that’s appropriate. . . . I’m against any coverage that will deny any human being public well being, interval.”
On defunding police: “It’s wrong-headed pondering to assume that the one manner you will get communities to be secure is to place extra cops on the road.”
On proscribing gun possession: “I assist a compulsory buyback program.”
However since her 2020 presidential marketing campaign resulted in ruins, she’s discovered to maintain her mouth shut lest she be pinned down.
Within the final week, her spokespeople have issued statements disavowing the onerous left positions she took in 2019.
When she completely has to talk, it’s gobbledygook as a result of her true beliefs are electoral poison in a common election.
As an illustration, her marketing campaign is attempting to painting the presidential contest towards Trump as The Prosecutor vs. The Felon, as if Harris is on the aspect of regulation and order, harder even on the border than the previous president.
But the other is the case.
She praised the “Defund Police” motion on the top of the George Floyd riots. She fundraised bail for BLM-Antifa rioters. She favored decriminalizing unlawful border crossings and changing ICE.
As California’s lawyer common, Harris supported the notorious 2014 regulation, Proposition 47, which successfully decriminalized narcotics possession and downgraded felonies, akin to theft of products price as much as $950, as misdemeanors.
Prop 47 is ready to be overturned by way of a poll initiative in November that’s supported by liberals fed up with the rampant crime and dysfunction that has wracked California in its wake.
Simply as Harris, the pretend “Powerful Cop,” was weak on crime, she is weak on nationwide safety, as a result of the identical mentality prevails during which wrongdoers are handled like victims and victims are handled as nuisances.
Worldwide relations
With Biden sidelined, and Harris performing as proxy president, she could be held at the very least equally answerable for final week’s inexplicable sweetheart plea deal (since rescinded after public outcry) for 9/11 terrorist mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and for the discharge on bail of the unlawful Jordanian migrants who allegedly tried to breach Marine Corps Base Quantico in Might.
Harris’ aggressive scolding of Israel because it tries to defend itself towards an existential risk is a chunk along with her lax angle in direction of crime and the appeasement mentality that has prevailed within the administration, punctuated by the odd belligerent declaration.
Who might neglect Biden’s name for “regime change” in Russia, rapidly cleaned up by his employees. Or Harris’ inept dealing with of the 2022 Munich Safety Convention during which she voiced phrase salad admiration for Ukraine’s need to affix NATO — and the next week Russia invaded.
Now that Harris is within the entrance seat, it’s clearer than ever that the US now not instructions the respect of international leaders.
Days after Harris and Biden lectured Benjamin Netanyahu to train restraint, Israel went forward and took out a prime Hezbollah commander who, by the best way, had murdered 241 American service members within the 1983 bombing of a Marine barracks in Beirut.
However there was no thanks from Biden and Harris, who reportedly berated Netanyahu in a joint “robust” cellphone name final week for the opposite strategic assassinations Israel has performed since a Hezbollah rocket assault killed 12 kids within the Golan Heights.
Would that be the identical Biden who vowed bloody retribution after 13 US service members had been killed by an ISIS-Okay bomber throughout his botched withdrawal from Afghanistan? “We won’t forgive. We won’t neglect. We’ll hunt you down and make you pay,” he mentioned.
In contrast to Netanyahu, Biden botched the retaliation, ordering a strike which killed an harmless Afghan help employee and his kids, after which quietly abandoning discuss of avenging the 13 lifeless People.
Biden has presided over two worldwide crises in his presidency, in Europe and within the Center East. If Harris had been to turn into president, she would seemingly face a 3rd disaster in Asia.
Which Shamala Flip Flop would we see then? It’s a daunting thought, both manner.
Hey Janet, cease Yellen about veep
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is behaving an increasing number of like a partisan political hack.
There she was within the battleground state of Pennsylvania final week at an IRS perform, shamelessly making the case for Kamala Harris.
“Vice President Harris has indicated her assist for avoiding tax will increase for middle-income households,” mentioned Yellen, standing alongside Gov. Josh Shapiro, considered one of Harris’ prime veep picks.
A couple of days earlier, Yellen praised her as somebody who appreciates American international management, saying Harris “clearly, deeply understands what’s wanted to ensure that households in America can thrive and may get forward.”
The issue is that Yellen is forbidden by a 1939 regulation known as the Hatch Act from partaking in celebration politics and utilizing federal sources for political functions.
Yellen’s distinguished predecessor James Baker resigned in 1988 so he might marketing campaign for then-Vice President George H.W. Bush.
That manner is open to Yellen. In any other case she ought to keep on with her day job.
