Special to the Mirror by Paul Plante.
In the “Caesar, Letter II” political essay 233 years ago on October 17, 1787, the author stated thusly with respect to where it is we again find ourselves in this country, as designing politicians divide us up into “dregs of society,” in the case of Democrat Joseph “Corn Pop” Biden, or a “basket of deplorables,” in the case of Democrat Queen Hillary Rodham Clinton, versus their followers who are not only perfect in every way, but even more so, to wit:
“I am not one of those who gain an influence by cajoling the unthinking mass (tho’ I pity their delusions), and ringing in their ears the gracious sound of their absolute Sovereignty.”
“I despise the trick of such dirty policy.”
“I know there are Citizens, who, to gain their own private ends, enflame the minds of the well-meaning, tho’ less intelligent parts of the community, by sating their vanity with that cordial and unfailing specific, that all power is seated in the people.”
“There are always men in society of some talents, but more ambition, in quest of that which it would be impossible for them to obtain in any other way than by working on the passions and prejudices of the less discerning classes of citizens and yeomanry.”
“It is the plan of men of this stamp to frighten the people with ideal bugbears, in order to mould them to their own purposes.”
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And what a segue that gives us, especially the last sentence about “ideal bugbears,” to a recent article in the Des Moines Register by Brianne Pfannenstiel on 18 October 2020 entitled “Iowa Democrats’ 2020 virtual Liberty and Justice dinner is more subdued than spectacle,” where we were treated to the following concerning the demagogue Queen Empress Kamala Harris, the first of her name, to wit:
A year after U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris brought Iowa Democrats to their feet with an impassioned speech at the state party’s Liberty and Justice dinner, the now-vice presidential candidate delivered a far more subdued message Sunday at this year’s event.
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Now, let me say here that I heard Queen Empress Kamala speaking on the radio news at that event, and what I heard was hardly subdued, which is what brought to my mind the words of Caesar above here about citizens, who, to gain their own private ends, enflame the minds of the well-meaning, tho’ less intelligent parts of the community, as Queen Empress Kamala was clearly doing at the Iowa State Democrats’ recent Liberty and Justice dinner, along with there always being men, and now women like Hillary Clinton and Queen Empress Kamala Harris, in society of some talents, but more ambition, in quest of that which it would be impossible for them to obtain in any other way than by working on the passions and prejudices of the less discerning classes of citizens and yeomanry, which takes us back to the Des Moines Register article as follows:.
“All at the same time, we’re experiencing the worst public health crisis in a century, the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, a reckoning on racial justice, a changing climate that is battering our coastlines setting the west on fire and devastating farmers in Iowa,” she said in virtual remarks streamed at Sunday’s Liberty and Justice dinner.
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But are we really facing the worst public health crisis in a century?
As of the time of this writing (20 October 2020), there are 1.12 million COVID deaths across the world, and 220,000 COVID deaths here in the USA.
One hundred years ago, President Woodrow Wilson had to face the influenza pandemic of 1918-19 that killed 20 million to 50 million people around the world while it killed 675,000 Americans, so there is the benchmark COVID must be measured by in terms of public health crises.
And then, in my lifetime, we had during the Eisenhower administration the H2N2 virus which was first reported in Singapore in February 1957 and reached the United States that summer.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimated the number of deaths from H2N2 at 1.1 million worldwide and 116,000 in the United States.
And then during the Gerald Ford administration, we had the Swine Flu to deal with.
During the Ronald Reagan administration, of course, we had AIDS, which Reagan called the “gay plague.”
By the end of Reagan’s presidency in 1989, the United States had suffered 89,343 AIDS-related deaths.
George W. Bush had AIDS and SARS to deal with, and Hussein Obama had a trifecta of H1N1, Zika and Ebola and the CDC estimated that from April 2009 to April 2010, there were 60.8 million cases of swine flu and 12,469 deaths from it in the United States.
So what exact point was Queen Empress Kamala trying to make here with her shrill screeching about “we’re experiencing the worst public health crisis in a century?”
Doesn’t she realize from our own history (Democrat Franklyn Roosevelt had polio) that we are facing public health issues all the time, and have been all through my lifetime, which is longer than hers?
So what is she getting all hysterical about, other than the fact that she is scared ******** of the immensity of reality and her obvious inadequacy to deal with it, which raises the question of why on earth we would want her in the White House, where the rubber has to meet the road without spinning off into a ditch somewhere?
More to the point, if this is in fact the worst public health crisis in a century that we are now facing, what is it that she plans on doing about it, other than panicking and getting all shrill and hysterical?
And then we come to her shrieking about “the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.”
Oh, really, Queen Empress Kamala!
Since the Great Depression, we have had recessions in 1945, 1949, 1953, 1957, 1960, 1970, 1973-1975, 1980-82, 1990-91, 2001, and the Great Recession, which was a severe financial crisis combined with a deep recession and while the recession officially lasted from December 2007 to June 2009, it took many years for the economy to recover to pre-crisis levels of employment and output.
As the the Great Recession, and you would think someone running for vice president of America would be as familiar with this history as I am, although obviously if you thought that about Queen Empress Kamala, you would be dead wrong, the U.S. Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission reported its findings in January 2011 and it concluded that “the crisis was avoidable and was caused by: Widespread failures in financial regulation, including the Federal Reserve’s failure to stem the tide of toxic mortgages; Dramatic breakdowns in corporate governance including too many financial firms acting recklessly and taking on too much risk; An explosive mix of excessive borrowing and risk by households and Wall Street that put the financial system on a collision course with crisis; Key policy makers ill prepared for the crisis, lacking a full understanding of the financial system they oversaw; and systemic breaches in accountability and ethics at all levels.”
According to the Department of Labor, roughly 8.7 million jobs (about 7%) were shed from February 2008 to February 2010, and real GDP contracted by 4.2% between Q4 2007 and Q2 2009, making the Great Recession the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression.
So again, people, why the hysteria-mongering?
What message is Queen Empress Kamala trying to send here, other than that she is ignorant of our history, which doesn’t surprise me, and she is too emotionally unstable to be trusted with a position of responsibility in the executive branch of OUR national government?
Paul Plante says
Going back in time to our nation’s political beginnings, in the political essay “An Old Whig II” on October 17, 1787, the author began the essay to the public as follows:
Mr. PRINTER, Since writing my last, in which I stated some doubts respecting the new federal constitution and expressed a wish that those doubts might be removed, I have met with the printed speech of James Wilson, Esquire.
This speech I find was made for the express purpose of removing objections from the minds of those who doubted, like myself, and wished to be satisfied; and except one or two hard names that have escaped the speaker, it bears the marks of more candor than is to be found in most of the productions, which have been ushered into the world in support of the same measure.
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For those unfamiliar with the name, James Wilson (September 14, 1742 – August 21, 1798) was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States and a signatory of the United States Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution, and was twice elected to the Continental Congress, where he represented Pennsylvania, and was a major force in drafting the United States Constitution.
A leading legal theorist, he was one of the six original justices appointed by George Washington to the Supreme Court of the United States, and in his capacity as first Professor of Law at University of Pennsylvania taught the first course on the new Constitution to President Washington and his cabinet in 1789 and 1790.
Wilson was a delegate to the 1787 Philadelphia Convention, and served on the Committee of Detail, which produced the first draft of the United States Constitution and he also proposed the Electoral College.
After the convention, he campaigned for the ratification of the document, and his “speech in the statehouse yard” was reprinted in newspapers throughout the country.
In publishing Wilson’s “Speech in the State House Yard” in Philadelphia on 6 October 1787, 11 days prior to “The Old Whig” essay, one newspaper of the times started their reportage of the event as follow:
“Mr. Wilson then rose, and delivered a long and eloquent speech upon the principles of the Federal Constitution proposed by the late Convention.”
“The outlines of this speech we shall endeavor to lay before the public, as tending to reflect great light upon the interesting subject now in general discussion.”
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That, of course, was back before corporate control of the media in this country and its attendant thought control and censorship that we witness today from the likes of BIG BROTHER FACEBOOK and its ilk in this country who are protecting democracy in America by making it their possession while denying it to the rest of us because BIG BROTHER FACEBOOK considers us too stupid to be able tho think for ourselves, nor should we be allowed to, if democracy is going to work the way they want it to in their corporate plutocracy (an elite or ruling class of people whose power derives from their wealth) in support of the Democrat oligarchy (a small group of people having control of a country, organization, or institution) they are working to create.
Getting back to the Wilson speech, which serves as a benchmark, as we shall see, as to exactly how degraded and ignorant our “political discourse” in this highly divided and troubled nation has become since that time, and here I am specifically referencing Queen Empress Kamala’s spew of mindless and ignorant hobble-gobble at the Iowa State Democrats’ recent Liberty and Justice dinner, it started as follows, to wit:
“Mr. Chairman and Fellow Citizens: Having received the honor of an appointment to represent you in the late Convention, it is perhaps my duty to comply with the request of many gentlemen whose characters and judgments I sincerely respect, and who have urged that this would be a proper occasion to lay before you any information which will serve to explain and elucidate the principles and arrangements of the Constitution, that has been submitted to the consideration of the United States.”
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Now, notice two things in there, to wit: first of all, unlike Queen Empress Kamala at the Iowa State Democrats’ recent Liberty and Justice dinner where she was addressing her fellow Democrats who comprise around 33% of the American people, a minority faction in America that rightly could be called the lunatic fringe (an extreme or eccentric minority within society or a group) of the American body politic (the people of a nation, state, or society considered collectively as an organized group of citizens, as in “individual dissent was considered necessary to the health of the body politic”), James Wilson was addressing “Fellow Citizens,” which would be all of us, at least before we became a nation of consumers, instead, and notice the lack of shrill, hysterical fear-mongering we were getting from Queen Empress Kamala at the Iowa State Democrats’ recent Liberty and Justice dinner, as well, which takes us back to his speech as follows:
“I confess that I am unprepared for so extensive and so important a disquisition; but the insidious attempts which are clandestinely and industriously made to pervert and destroy the new plan, induce me the more readily to engage in its defense; and the impressions of four months constant attention to the subject have not been so easily effaced as to leave me without an answer to the objections which have been raised.”
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Now, there we have statesmanship (a wise, skillful, and respected political leader) as it existed at the time of this nation’s political beginnings where James Wilson, incidentally an immigrant to this country from Scotland, was addressing the people at large.
Compare that with Queen Empress Kamala skulking around as she was doing at the Iowa State Democrats’ recent Liberty and Justice dinner, addressing a handful of people in America, as follows with this undignified shrill shrieking, to wit:
“While this president of course didn’t bring the virus to our shores, his reckless disregard for the well-being of the American people has claimed more than 215,000 lives,” Harris said.
“This is the greatest failure of any American presidency.”
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To which I can only reply, oh BULL****, Queen Empress Kamala!
In the light of operative reality, much of which exists here in previous episodes of the Cape Charles Mirror such as “42 percent of all COVID deaths come from three states” on July 12, 2020 http://www.capecharlesmirror.com/news/42-percent-of-all-covid-deaths-come-from-three-states/ and especially “Nursing Homes and residential care facilities account for substantial coronavirus deaths” on May 10, 2020 http://www.capecharlesmirror.com/news/nursing-homes-and-residential-care-facilities-account-for-substantial-coronavirus-death/ , which operative reality Queen Empress Kamala is obviously not in touch with, being a part of the lunatic fringe herself as well as a symbol of it, all that can be said of Queen Empress Kamala is that she is full of **** when she claims that Trump is personally responsible for the deaths of more than 215,000 people in America.
Democrat Andy Cuomo, the governor of New York, and his health commissioner Howie Zucker, known as “Doctor Death” here in America themselves own a goodly share of those deaths as their personal body count, which is certainly the greatest failure of any American governorship, which takes us to an Albany, New York Times Union article by Chris Churchill on Oct. 16, 2020 entitled “Churchill: Failings of Cuomo’s new book outweigh its charms – ‘American Crisis,’ released Tuesday, purports to offer leadership lessons but falls short on honesty,” where we were treated to the following with regard to COVID, to wit:
ALBANY — Since you are all good and earnest citizens, I know you’re making your way through “American Crisis,” the new book by Andrew Cuomo.
What page are you on?
Me, I’ve read all the …
What’s that?
You’re not reading it?
Oh.
Well, then I’ll tell you the memoir released Tuesday is a meandering, day-by-day account from the darkest days of New York’s battle with the coronavirus crisis.
The mythic hero of the book is … you can guess it … Andrew Cuomo!
By the governor’s telling, he’s the brave truth-teller who fought an inept president, reassured a fearful public, put partisan politics aside, tamed a novel virus and is now available to offer “leadership lessons.”
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And that is the horse**** Queen Empress Kamala was channeling at the recent Iowa State Democrats’ recent Liberty and Justice dinner with her undignified shrill shrieking that “(W)hile this president of course didn’t bring the virus to our shores, his reckless disregard for the well-being of the American people has claimed more than 215,000 lives.”
Getting back to Chris Churchill, we have:
The fatal flaw with “American Crisis,” though, is that Cuomo remains largely unwilling to admit policy mistakes, particularly those involving the coronavirus.
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And the fatal flaw of Queen Empress Kamala is that she too remains totally unwilling to admit those policy mistakes, because if she did, that would blunt her attacks on Trump, as if it were he who bears responsibility for Democrat Andy Cuomo’s flawed judgments as opposed to Democrat Andy Cuomo bearing that responsibility himself, because Democrats don’t talk smack about other Democrats; rather, they cover over for them and cast the blame elsewhere as Queen Empress Kamala is clearly doing here, which of course is dishonest, but hey, Queen Empress Kamala is a Democrat, so that is what we are stuck with in her case – shrill shrieking, hysteria-mongering and outright lies, which takes us back to Chris Churchill, as follows:
Or maybe the politician in Cuomo remains too arrogant or ambitious to acknowledge errors.
The most outrageous example is the book’s relatively short segment on nursing homes.
Of course, Cuomo has come under hot criticism, here and elsewhere, for a state order requiring that nursing homes admit COVID-19 patients.
It was an awful policy, and the governor would do well to admit it was flawed.
Instead, he uses “American Crisis” to duck responsibility and gaslight, claiming that the March 25 order wasn’t what it clearly was, that it didn’t do any actual harm and that only right-wing media cares.
It is all, to use a favorite Cuomo word, baloney.
In the book, Cuomo cites a discredited state report blaming employees for introducing the virus to nursing homes.
He suggests nursing homes didn’t actually take in COVID patients, though his own health department says more than 6,300 were transferred to them.
Worse, he uses a bogus number to falsely claim, once again, that New York ranks low in the percentage of overall deaths tied to nursing homes.
As many of you know, the state’s official nursing home tally of more than 6,600 fatalities is a significant undercount that excludes residents who ultimately died in hospitals.
Other states don’t count nursing home deaths that way, and, despite numerous requests and even a lawsuit, Cuomo has refused to release the honest number.
And you won’t find it in his book.
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So, what’s the bottom line here?
Simple, if you want the person one heartbeat away from the oval office to be somebody chock full of **** who can be depended on to lie to you as if you were stupid, get out and vote early and often for Queen Empress Kamala Harris, and your wish will be fulfilled!
MJM says
Hmmmm………I look at K. Harris like I look at Pocahontas Warren. Ms. Warren thought she was an American Indian because mommy liked to tell her that story, and she could use it to scam her way into and through school. Harris sells that she is black because she could get into Willie’s pants by playing that card, among others, and by saying so to ultimately run as a minority for office.
I don’t think K. Harris does it because she thinks we’re stupid. I think she does it because the heads of the democrat party believe she’s their best actor to play the role of the giddy bobble head rep of their social destruction of this country as molded by N. Pelosi, AOC and George Soros. Kamala just wants the fame. She thinks she’s a famous housewife of Orange County and wants the paycheck from Biden Inc. while she demonstrates she has no respect for Americans or the political process.
Paul Plante says
Given that We, the American people, regardless of skin color, still have some time before the November presidential election to ponder whither will this nation go if Joseph “Corn Pop” Biden and his running mate Kamala Harris, Queen Empress Kamala gain the White House, this in light of the fact that Queen Empress Kamala is on the ballot because a Marxist-inspired racist movement bent on ending white supremacy in this country forever and disrupting our stable, law-abiding and caring nuclear families because Marxism demands it, we need to ask ourselves this very serious question, to wit: What are the ramifications and implications of putting someone into the office of vice president who is backed by a Marxist-inspired racist movement known as BLACK LIVES MATTER?
Should we be concerned about the position of Queen Empress Kamala with regard to disrupting our stable, law-abiding and caring nuclear families – where she stands on that, and does she plan on using the powers of her office through executive orders to make that BLACK LIVES MATTER goal happen under her administration?
As to BLACK LIVES MATTER, Alicia Garza, the BLACK LIVES MATTER founder who demanded that “Corn Pop” Biden make a woman of color his vice president, as if our government has now been divvied up into territories owned and controlled by race, so that the office of vice president now belongs to the Black folks, she is famously quoted as saying, “(T)he reality is that race in the United States operates on a spectrum from black to white.”
“Doesn’t mean that people who are in between don’t experience racism, but it means that the closer you are to white on that spectrum, the better off you are.”
“And the closer to black that you are on that spectrum, the worse off your are.”
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Which is ignorant, whiny horse****.
But what does Queen Empress Kamala have to say about it, given that on that spectrum, she is closer to Black than white, and so, because of that, she shouldn’t even be in politics, let alone a vice presidential candidate?
As to Patrice Cullors, another founder of BLACK LIVES MATTER, is quoted as saying “(T)he black radical agenda, which pushes us closer to freedom and the agenda to which I subscribe, calls for an eradication of white supremacy and an adoption of values and traditions endowed from the black experience.”
Does Queen Empress Kamala also subscribe to that same black radical agenda which calls for an eradication of white supremacy and an adoption of values and traditions endowed from the black experience?
Is that something we should perhaps know before election day, before it is too late, and not after?
Think about it, and here’s the thing – we can choose a better future.
So why shouldn’t we?
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So, as yet more race riots break out here in America in this age of BLACK LIVES MATTER, have we any evidence that connects Queen Empress Kamala to the Marxist-inspired movement?
And for that answer, let’s go over to the Daily Mail to see what the Brits have to say about it, so that I am not accused in here of posting Republican-biased reportage, and the article “Kamala Harris is branded ‘ignorant’ for praising BLM protests and calling them ‘essential’ just three days after two cops were shot during Louisville riots” by James Gordon for Dailymail.com updated 26 September 2020, where we have as follows:
Vice Presidential nominee Kamala Harris has come in for criticism after saying that protests against racial injustice, including those by the Black Lives Matter group are ‘essential for the evolution of our country’ – with some online branding her ‘ignorant’.
Senator Harris D-Calif. made the comments during the NAACP’s national convention in which she was interviewed for more than one hour and come just three days after two police officers were shot and injured during rioting in Louisville.
‘Nothing that we have achieved that has been about progress, in particular around civil rights, has come without a fight, and so I always am going to interpret these protests as an essential component of evolution in our country – as an essential component or mark of a real democracy.’
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So when we see lawless Black mobs looting and burning down our cities, to Queen Empress Kamala, who is running for vice president because BLACK LIVES MATTER demanded that “Corn Pop” Biden have a Black woman as his running mate, that is an essential component or mark of a real democracy in her view of things.
This is the same Queen Empress Kamala who was heard in a soundbite on 10/15/20 saying “(O)ur democracy is as strong as the American people’s willingness to fight for it,” which is both ridiculous and meaningless, pure gibberish, because obviously, if democracy is something you have to continuously fight for to have, then it never really can exist.
It will always be a possession of one faction or another, which takes us back to the Daily Mail as follows:
Harris went on to praise the ‘brilliance’ and ‘impact’ of the Black Lives Matter movement.
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The “brilliance” of the BLACK LIVES MATTER movement?
What “brilliance,” Queen Empress Kamala?
Where the BLACK LIVES MATTER movement is based on Marxist horse**** and stale slogans and contrived history, where, pray tell, is there any “brilliance” (exceptional talent or intelligence) associated with the movement?
Paul Plante says
And while we ponder the implications and ramifications to our futures as a free people of Queen Empress Kamala calling “brilliant” the Marxist-inspired BLACK LIVES MATTER movement’s goals of disrupting our stable, law-abiding nuclear families and ending white supremacy in the United States of America forever, let’s review some history here to see how it is that we have come to this juncture with Queen Empress Kamala being forced on us by BLACK LIVES MATTER after the American people rejected her as a presidential candidate by going back to a Politico article entitled “‘One of the hardest decisions of my life’: Kamala Harris ends once-promising campaign – The California senator took a deep look at the campaign’s resources over the holiday and decided she did not have a path to the nomination” by Christopher Cadelago and Caitlin Oprsko on 12/03/2019 where we have as follows concerning Queen Empress Kamala being rejected by the American people, to wit:
Kamala Harris is ending her presidential campaign after months of failing to lift her candidacy from the bottom of the field — a premature departure for a California senator once heralded as a top-tier contender for the nomination.
Harris told aides of her intentions in an all-staff call on Tuesday, and a person familiar with the conversation said she sounded distraught.
While Harris had qualified for the December debate in her home state later this month, she was running dangerously low on cash — lacking the resources to air TV ads in Iowa — and her staff was gripped by long-running internal turmoil.
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Long-running internal turmoil, people – seriously, is that what we want one heart-beat away from the Oval Office?
With all of the many problems we have in this country, do we really need more turmoil?
Getting back to Politico, we have:
Still, the news came as a shock to some of her biggest supporters.
Just as Harris was announcing the news internally, a super PAC had cleared more than $1 million in TV ads in Iowa to boost her struggling campaign.
The ad, which argued she was the best-equipped candidate to take on President Donald Trump, was canceled.
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The ad was canceled because it is clear from the record that Queen Empress Kamala was not the best-equipped candidate to take on Trump, far from it, in fact, her having no presidential qualities of her own, so now BLACK LIVES MATTER is using “Corn Pop” Biden as a vehicle to get Queen Empress Kamala into office, instead, which takes us back to the story, as follows:
The senator did not bow out without taking a parting shot at her billionaire and self-funding rivals who made late entrances into the race this summer and fall.
“I’m not a billionaire.”
“I can’t fund my own campaign,” Harris said in a video explaining her decision to drop out.
“And as the campaign has gone on, it has become harder and harder to raise the money we need to compete.”
“In good faith, I can’t tell you, my supporters and volunteers, that I have a path forward if I don’t believe I do.”
Once dubbed the “female Obama” by former Today Show anchor Matt Lauer, Harris’ campaign began on a promising note: Her kickoff rally in her hometown of Oakland drew more than 20,000 supporters who cheered wildly as she cast herself as the kind of fighter fit to take on a president like Trump.
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So, a lot of bluster, but in the end, no substance.
As Obama was an empty suit, so too Queen Empress Kamala, which takes us to this essential question from the Politico article, to wit:
Why did Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign fail?
Why indeed, so let’s see what Politico has to say about it:
Her candidacy got one of its first major breaks in the first Democratic debate in June, when Harris pulled off a blistering ambush of former Vice President Joe Biden over his previous stance on busing, which prompted another review of his record on race issues.
Harris’ performance sent her soaring in the polls, and the campaign raised $2 million in the 24 hours following the debate.
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So, right out of the blocks, and not surprisingly, Queen Empress Kamala pulled the race card on “Corn Pop” Biden, who in one of those very weird twists of fate associated with the Democrats, is now the presidential candidate Queen Empress Kamala is running with as his vice president, which has to make us wonder if Queen Kamala is now comfortable with “Corn Pop” Biden being a racist, and since she is running with him, we must presume that she is, which again takes is back to Politico, to wit:
But the attack ultimately blew back on Harris when her own stance on busing came under scrutiny in the days after.
Her sharp rise in the polls did not last long, with Harris skidding into fifth place and registering in the single digits by September.
When she dropped out Tuesday, her RealClearPolitics national polling average was hovering just above 3 percent.
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So Queen Empress Kamala’s attack on “Corn Pop” backfired on her because she too is as racist as is “Corn Pop,” which is why they are so comfortable in each other’s company – a marriage made in heaven, so to speak.
Getting back to Politico, there is more yet to come:
Throughout the campaign, Harris had never been steady on health care, many voters’ stated key issue.
Harris spent months backtracking following an ill-fated moment in a CNN town hall in which she said, “let’s eliminate all that,” when asked whether she supported a health care plan that got rid of private insurance.
Her stumbles on the issue continued into the fall, as Harris waffled on whether she backed the kind of single-payer, “Medicare for All” plan championed by Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, or more incremental change, an opening her opponents seized on.
In addition to health care, voters complained that they were unable to pin Harris down on a host of other issues.
And Harris shied away some from what could have been one of her greatest strengths — her time spent as a prosecutor and attorney general in California — as her prosecutorial record became a liability with a Democratic base that has turned sharply left on issues of criminal justice.
Hawaii Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, a low-polling Democratic wildcard, weaponized Harris’ prosecutorial record against her in a later debate, lambasting Harris with a set of somewhat misleading and out-of-context accusations.
But Harris did not mount a full-throated defense in the moment, only reiterating that she was proud of her time as a prosecutor.
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Which takes us back to a Vox.com article entitled “Analysis: Kamala Harris’s controversial record on criminal justice, explained” by German Lopez on 26 January 2019, to wit:
Is Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) a progressive hero — or a relic of a “tough on crime” era going back to the 1990s and 2000s?
The answer to that question could determine the fate of her presidential campaign, which she announced on Monday.
A generation after Democrats embraced “tough on crime” policies that swelled prison populations, progressive activists are pushing to make the criminal justice system less punitive and racist — and polls show a majority of Democrats support such efforts.
Harris argues that her views align with the new progressive movement.
But her record in California, where she was a prosecutor, district attorney, and state attorney general before representing the state in the US Senate, is likely to come in for harsh scrutiny and debate in the coming months.
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Which takes us back to the Daily Mail article “Kamala Harris is branded ‘ignorant’ for praising BLM protests and calling them ‘essential’ just three days after two cops were shot during Louisville riots” by James Gordon for Dailymail.com updated 26 September 2020, where we have Queen Empress Kamala saying as follows about BLACK LIVES MATTER:
‘I actually believe that Black Lives Matter has been the most significant agent for change within the criminal justice system,’ she said.
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Which statement in a very surreal and bizarre manner brings us to an Albany, New York Times Union article entitled “Albany Common Council seeks outside help to deal with violence – Police arrest three in connection with Monday drive-by” by Steve Hughes on Oct. 21, 2020 where we have the results of what happens when “progressive” Democrats like Kathy Sheehan of Albany cripple their police departments to appease BLACK LIVES MATTER, to wit:
ALBANY – Common Council members all but demanded the city bring in outside law enforcement agencies to help deal with a historically violent year in its borders.
Councilors spoke in favor of the move, with one going as far as to call on the city to declare a state of emergency after two men were wounded in a drive-by shooting in the city’s South End while the Council was meeting Monday evening.
The shooting on Mount Hope Drive was the fifth shooting in 48 hours and at least the third time this year six or more people had been shot within a two-day span in the city.
At least 116 people have been shot in the city so far this year, with 16 homicides.
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Yes, people, that’s what happens when people like Kathy Sheehan of Albany punish their police officers for not being “sensitive” enough to the howlers and rioters and lawless savages that roam freely in their sanctuary cities when the police attempt to enforce the law against Black people, which is considered racial injustice – you get lawlessness, and that is exactly what it looks like in real life, because to these savages, no lives matter, whatsoever.
The city needs to realize it has a gang problem and to rely on outside law enforcement, such as the Albany County Sheriff’s Department, to help deal with it, said Council President Corey Ellis.
Councilman Owusu Anane went further.
“As a result of these unprecedented shootings, I think we need to look at calling a state of emergency to address the frequent violence that is occurring in our streets,” he said.
Other councilmembers noted that for months they had been talking about rising violence in their neighborhoods and welcomed conversations about further resources.
“We need resources out there,” said Councilwoman Sonia Frederick, who represents part of the South End.
“We need to address this issue because this continues to happen.”
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When Queen Empress Kamala talks about her actually believeing that BLACK LIVES MATTER has been the most significant agent for change within the criminal justice system, that is what it looks like in real life, people, because the change BLACK LIVES MATTER is bringing to the criminal justice system is the crippling of it, so that it no longer works, as is clearly the case in Albany, New York, a BLACK LIVES MATTER sanctuary city with a large intimidating BLACK LIVES MATTER banner flying over the entrance to Albany City Hall like a gang symbol letting all the candid world know whose turf that is.
So is that the future we want for America, people – a future filled with more and more violence as BLACK LIVES MATTER and Queen Empress Kamala dismantle our criminal justice system?
Think about it, anyway.
The future you pick will be the future you own!
Paul Plante says
Now, like so many Democrats today who truckle to BLACK LIVES MATTER and take the knee before them in submission, which social grouping includes Bill Clinton, his wife Hillary Rodham Clinton, and Nancy Pelosi, who recently had more than a bit of trouble getting back off her knees, before she was against law and order and rule of law as opposed to law of the jungle, Queen Empress Kamala was very much for law and order, and rule of law and not law of the jungle, that being back in the days of Hillary Clinton stepping up to the plate to call out by name the super predators who the Democrats now tell us are “good people, good people.”
But then Hillary and Bill got called out by BLACK LIVES MATTER for truth-telling, and so Hillary caved and when she did, so too did Queen Empress Kamala.
As to Hillary caving and taking Queen Empress Kamala with her, check out the following record, to wit:
Hillary Clinton Apologizes for ‘Superpredator’ Remark | Time
time.com › hillary-clinton-black-lives-matter-superpred…
Feb 25, 2016 — Hillary Clinton apologized on Thursday for using the word “superpredators” to describe kids who committed crimes in a 1996 speech.
Opinion | Hillary Clinton on ‘superpredator’ remarks: ‘I shouldn …
http://www.washingtonpost.com › post-partisan › 2016/02/25
Feb 25, 2016 — Looking back, I shouldn’t have used those words, and I wouldn’t use them today.”
Clinton regrets 1996 remark on ‘super-predators’ after …
http://www.washingtonpost.com › post-politics › 2016/02/25
Feb 25, 2016 — A 23-year-old activist from Charlotte interrupted Clinton during a private fundraiser. The next day, Clinton apologized for a 1996 remark …
Clinton apologizes for 1996 remark on ‘super-predators’ after …
http://www.chicagotribune.com › nation-world › ct-clinton-a…
Feb 25, 2016 — At an event on Wednesday night, Hillary Clinton was vocally confronted by an activist questioning her past support for policies that had a …
Hillary Clinton Apologizes for ‘Superpredator’ Remark – video …
http://www.dailymotion.com › video
Hillary Clinton apologized on Thursday for remarks she made in a 1996 speech, in which she used the word ‘superpredators’ to describe kids with “no …
Hillary Clinton Apologizes for ‘Superpredator’ Remark | Fortune
fortune.com › 2016/02/25 › hillary-clinton-apologizes-…
Feb 25, 2016 — Hillary Clinton apologized for remarks she made in 1996, in which she used the word ‘superpredators’ to describe kids who committed crimes.
Hillary Clinton Still Haunted by Rhetoric on “Superpredators”
theintercept.com › 2016/02/25 › activists-want-hillary-c…
Feb 25, 2016 — Hillary Clinton is relying on support from black voters in South Carolina, but at a fundraiser in Charleston, she found herself confronted by a …
#WhichHillary? #BlackLivesMatter Activist Demands Apology …
http://www.youtube.com › watch
Feb 26, 2016 — http://democracynow.org – Ahead of Saturday’s South Carolina Democratic primary, a Black Lives Matter activist interrupted Democratic …
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“READ ALL ABOUT IT: BLACK LIVES MATTER DEMANDS, HILLARY CAVES, HILLARY GROVELS, HILLARY SNIVELS, DEMOCRAT PARTY TO FOLLOW HER LEAD; DETAILS AT ELEVEN!”
So now chastened by Hillary’s humiliation and humbling by BLACK LIVES MATTER, and knowing who holds the whip hand, which is BLACK LIVES MATTER, Queen Empress Kamala is no longer for law and order and rule of law, and is now for law of the jungle, and given that she will be one heart beat away from a high position in our national government that requires the incumbent to take care that OUR laws be faithfully executed, something Queen Empress Kamala cannot do, why on earth would we want her in office as vice-president?
Paul Plante says
Today is a very sad day in the history of the United States of America because we now have an anti-law and order racist named Queen Empress Kamala as not only the vice president, one heart beat, or faltering mental state on the part of “Corn Pop” Biden, away from the oval office, but also as the tie breaking vote in the divided Senate.
Paul Plante says
And getting back to this thread after a brief hiatus to allow Queen Empress Kamala to gain her office, which has now happened, let’s go to a Fox News article entitled “Vice President Kamala Harris under fire for ‘disrespectful’ tweet” by Caitlin McFall on 30 May 2021, where we have the latest on the Queen Empress, as follows:
Vice President Kamala Harris came under fire Saturday for tweeting about Memorial Day, but without mentioning the significance of the weekend.
“Enjoy the long weekend,” Harris wrote, above a candid photo of herself smiling.
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The significance of memorial Day weekend to the Queen Empress is that it is the first long holiday of the summer season, which means get out there and party hardy because it is good for the American economy, which needs all the help it can get, plus it is good for the GDP, which in turn makes the Harris-Biden presidency look good, and when the Harris-Biden presidency looks good, that makes the Democrat party that put them there look good, which means all is well with the world and we can all drink beer and get hammered this weekend knowing that Queen Empress Kamala has our backs and is keeping us safe, which takes us back to Fox as follows:
Social media users condemned Harris’ lack of tact reminding the vice president of the sacrifices the “long weekend” is meant to honor.
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And my goodness, people, that is so unfair, is it not?
Queen Empress Kamala doesn’t know anything about those sacrifices, nor does she really care, because they happened to “other people,” so shouldn’t she be cut some slack?
Getting back to Fox, the attacks on poor Queen Empress Kamala for not knowing anything about Memorial Day other than it is a long weekend continue as follows:
“Don’t forget why we have a long weekend,” Tony Lederer wrote in a tweet paired with a picture of the Vietnam Memorial.
“It is Memorial Day weekend – [not] for enjoying – but for memorializing our fallen,” wrote another.
“Our brothers and sisters, who ‘gave the last full measure of devotion.”
“Please try to respect that.”
The tweet was shared with an image of a woman lying on a blanket in front of a tombstone at the Arlington National Cemetery with an infant.
“While we get the long weekend to ‘enjoy,’ let us all please take a solemn moment to remember those courageous men and women who sacrificed everything,” Peter Francis wrote.
Memorial Day is celebrated the last Monday of May each year to honor the men and women who have died while serving in the U.S. military.
The tradition began as Decoration Day during the spring in the years following the end of the Civil War, eventually becoming a federal holiday in 1971.
Fox News could not reach the White House for comment regarding the vice president’s tweet.
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Because it is a long weekend, so of course they aren’t there to comment!
And why would anyone expect Queen Empress Kamala Harris to know anything about Memorial Day, anyway?
Has anyone ever heard her thank a veteran for anything, starting with her freedom to be vice president?
I haven’t, anyway.
Paul Plante says
And going back to a Daily Mail article entitled “Kamala Harris is branded ‘ignorant’ for praising BLM protests and calling them ‘essential’ just three days after two cops were shot during Louisville riots” by James Gordon for Dailymail.com updated 26 September 2020, we had Queen Empress Kamala telling us as follows about BLACK LIVES MATTER:
‘I actually believe that Black Lives Matter has been the most significant agent for change within the criminal justice system,’ she said.
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Which brings us to a Fox News article entitled “Black mothers of police shooting victims accuse BLM of profiting from their ‘loved ones’” by Caitlin McFall on 30 May 2021, where we have the other side of that story, which makes Queen Empress Kamala look like an ignorant pandering fool, to wit:
Some mothers of Black sons and daughters killed by police officers are criticizing the Black Lives Matter national organization amid controversy over co-founder Patrisse Cullors’ lavish lifestyle.
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By way of review, Patrisse was the star of a New York Post story entitled “Marxist BLM leader buys $1.4 million home in ritzy LA enclave” by Isabel Vincent on April 10, 2021, where we learned as follows:
Patrisse Khan-Cullors, the leader of Black Lives Matter and a self-described Marxist, recently purchased a $1.4 million home in an exclusive Los Angeles neighborhood where the vast majority of residents are white, according to reports.
The home, which features three bedrooms and three bathrooms, is nestled in Topanga Canyon and has a separate guesthouse on the property, according to a celebrity real estate blog which reported the transaction last week.
The property, which is about a 15 minute drive from Malibu beaches, features bamboo floors and vaulted ceilings, according to the listing.
Once a hippie enclave in the 1960s, Topanga Canyon is now home to sprawling homes where 88 percent of the residents are white.
After the sale of the property was made public, critics took to social media to blast Khan-Cullors.
Black Lives Matter, which began as hashtag in response to the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the 2012 shooting of Trayvon Martin, took in more than $90 million last year and was at the forefront of protests across the country last year after the death of George Floyd in May.
Khan-Cullors, 37, signed a multi-platform deal with Warner Bros in October, although it is not clear how much she is paid by BLM since their finances flow through a complex web of for-profit and nonprofit corporate entities.
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And then there was the New York Post story entitled “Inside BLM co-founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors’ million-dollar real-estate buying binge” by Isabel Vincent on April 10, 2021, to wit:
As protests broke out across the country in the name of Black Lives Matter, the group’s co-founder went on a real estate-buying binge, snagging four high-end homes for $3.2 million in the US alone, according to property records.
Patrisse Khan-Cullors, 37, also eyed property in the Bahamas at an ultra-exclusive resort where Justin Timberlake and Tiger Woods both have homes, The Post has learned.
Luxury apartments and townhouses at the beachfront Albany resort outside Nassau are priced between $5 million and $20 million, according to a local agent.
The self-described Marxist last month purchased a $1.4 million home on a secluded road a short drive from Malibu in Los Angeles, according to a report.
The 2,370 square-foot property features “soaring ceilings, skylights and plenty of windows” with canyon views.
The Topanga Canyon homestead, which includes two houses on a quarter acre, is just one of three homes Khan-Cullors owns in the Los Angeles area, public records show.
Some fellow activists were taken aback by the real estate revelations.
Hawk Newsome, the head of Black Lives Matter Greater New York City, called for “an independent investigation” to find out how the global network spends its money.
“If you go around calling yourself a socialist, you have to ask how much of her own personal money is going to charitable causes,” he said.
“It’s really sad because it makes people doubt the validity of the movement and overlook the fact that it’s the people that carry this movement.”
Last year, Khan-Cullors and spouse Janaya Khan ventured to Georgia to acquire a fourth home — a “custom ranch” on 3.2 rural acres in Conyers featuring a private airplane hangar with a studio apartment above it, and the use of a 2,500-foot “paved/grass” community runway that can accommodate small airplanes.
The three-bedroom, two-bath house, about 30 minutes from Atlanta, has an indoor swimming pool and a separate “RV shop” that can accommodate the repair of a mobile home or small aircraft, according to the real estate listing.
The Peach State retreat was purchased in January 2020 for $415,000, two years after the publication of Khan-Cullors’ best-selling memoir, “When They Call You a Terrorist.”
In October, the activist signed “a multi-platform” deal with Warner Bros. Television Group to help produce content for “black voices who have been historically marginalized,” she said in a statement.
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Being a Marxist terrorist in America pays quite well, it seems!
And can we forget the thread in the venerable Cape Charles Mirror entitled “Black Lives Matter Founder Moves to Whitest Place in America” on April 11, 2021 http://www.capecharlesmirror.com/news/black-lives-matter-founder-moves-to-whitest-place-in-america/ where we learned that Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors had chosen to live in one of the whitest areas of California after purchasing a $1.4 million dollar home in an area that has a black population of just 1.6 per cent.
Which takes us back to the Fox News article as follows:
“It’s all a facade,” Samaria Rice, the mother of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, who was killed by a White police officer in Cleveland in 2014, told the New York Post on Saturday.
Rice said she requested Cullors’ help in re-launching a federal investigation into her son’s death.
But short of exchanging a few emails, her pleas never garnered face time with the Black Lives Matter executive director.
“They are benefiting off the blood of our loved ones, and they won’t even talk to us,” Rice said.
Cullors announced her departure after a five-year reign earlier this week following reports she had purchased four homes for $3.2 million.
Hawk Newsome, the head of Black Lives Matter Greater New York City — a separate group — called for an “independent investigation” into the national organization’s finances.
Cullors said her decision to step down was not tied to the controversy, but to instead focus on her second book and a television deal with Warner Bros.
But some frustrated Black mothers have accused the organization of profiting off their “dead loved ones.”
In a March statement, Rice joined Lisa Simpson — the mother of 18-year old Richard Risher, who was fatally shot in 2016 in Los Angeles – in condemning the Black Lives Matter movement for “monopolizing and capitalizing our fight for justice.”
“We never hired them to be the representatives in the fight for justice for our loved ones murdered by police,” the mothers wrote.
The mother of Breonna Taylor, a Kentucky Black woman shot and killed by police during a raid on her home, said the group’s national standing has yet to help her following her daughter’s death.
“I have never personally dealt with BLM Louisville and personally have found them to be fraud,” Tamika Palmer wrote in an April Facebook post, The Post reported.
Fox News could not immediately reach the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation for comment.
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Which takes us back to September 26, 2020 and Queen Empress Kamala telling us “I actually believe that Black Lives Matter has been the most significant agent for change within the criminal justice system.”
Yeah, right, Queen Empress Kamala, just as Michael Brown was murdered by the police!
What a moron!
And she is going to be our next president!
Bad times ahead for the nation if that sad day should ever arrive.
Paul Plante says
Poor Queen Empress Kamala Harris, herself a victim of the rampant systemic racism in this country that relegates Black people like herself to menial jobs like picking cotton and scraping bubble gum off of the floors of Greyhound bus stations with a single-edge razer blade, simply cannot seem to catch a break, at all, and here I am referring to a Washington Examiner story entitled “Kamala Harris is in over her head and embarrassing herself” by Eddie Scarry on 2 June 2021, to wit:
Next to tending a parking lot, the vice presidency can be the easiest job in the world, yet, somehow, Kamala Harris is making it look like a monumental undertaking.
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And my goodness, people, of course it is – for her, anyway.
And that thought takes us back to an ABC News story entitled “Obama Calls Californian Kamala Harris ‘Best Looking’ Attorney General” by Arlette Saenz on April 4, 2013, where we see that Obama, himself Black, looked at the Queen Empress as nothing more than a sex object and just another pretty face, to wit:
President Obama assessed the beauty of California’s attorney general Kamala Harris, calling her “the best looking attorney general,” during remarks at a fundraiser in Atherton, California.
“You have to be careful to, first of all, say she is brilliant and she is dedicated and she is tough, and she is exactly what you’d want in anybody who is administering the law, and making sure that everybody is getting a fair shake.”
“She also happens to be by far the best-looking attorney general in the country – Kamala Harris is here.”
“It’s true!”
“C’mon,” he said as the crowd laughed, according to a report provided by a print reporter at the home of John Goldman, an heir to the Levi-Strauss fortune.
“And she is a great friend and has just been a great supporter for many, many years.”
“She’s brilliant and she’s dedicated,” Obama said at a luncheon fundraiser benefiting the DNC.
Harris has served as California’s attorney general since 2011 and is a rising star for Democrats. S
She is often mentioned as a potential candidate for governor.
The president came under some fire back in 2008 when he referred to a female reporter as ” sweetie ” and told her to hold a question for a press availability.
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So, did Joe Biden pick her for her looks then, based on Hussein Obama’s recommendation about her looks, because it seems she is seriously lacking in brains and common sense, which takes us back to the Washington Examiner article, to wit:
Four months into the role, it couldn’t be more clear that Harris is so far in over her head that she’ll need dynamite to blast her way out.
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But here we have to be compassionate and realize that by being Black, which makes her a victim of the systemic racism which is rampant in America and keeps every Black person down, there simply was no possible way for the Queen Empress to get the right kind of experience that would enable her to be able to be an American vice president, because with systemic racism so rampant, it is not expected that a Black person ever could be vice president, so they get no formal training while growing up as how to actually be one, which takes us back to that article as follows:
Admittedly, Harris hasn’t been done any favors by her boss.
President Joe Biden keeps saddling her with work she either doesn’t want or doesn’t know how to do.
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And that is because Joe Biden himself has no real clue as to what a vice president is supposed to do, because Joe is none too bright himself, which takes us back to the Washington Examiner for more about the failing Queen Empress, who thinks Michael Brown was murdered by the police and BLACK LIVES MATTER are just the greatest, to wit:
He (“Corn Pop” Biden) said on Tuesday he was making Harris the lead person in his administration on efforts to dismantle all the ways that states organize their elections.
(This is often referred to by Democrats and the media as “expanding voter rights.”)
The New York Times expressed its deep confidence in the decision, stating in a news article that Biden had “added another politically thorny problem to the vice president’s policy portfolio.”
Translation: Does Biden know what he’s doing?
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And that answer is no, Joe don’t have a clue, and never ever actually did, which takes us back to the Washington Examiner, as follows:
Biden’s other big gift to Harris in recent weeks was a splashy announcement that she would be the one to oversee the obscene crush of destitute migrants dumping themselves into the care of U.S. taxpayers at the southern border.
The numbers have climbed to new, astronomical heights under Biden, and there’s no sign that they’re dropping or even plateauing.
In response, Harris and her team so far have done nothing but try to work the media into believing the vice president isn’t really expected to do anything, so you can’t blame her for failing.
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And because she is Black, we would be unfeeling racists if we actually did blame her for failing, well, because that is what systemic racism forces Black people like the Queen Empress to do, which is to fail, because white people want to keep them from getting ahead, which again takes us back to the story, to wit:
In the same New York Times report about Harris taking on “voter rights,” the paper noted that “the vice president … and her staff have worked to reframe expectations around her role, stressing that she will examine the root causes of migration, not single-handedly stop the flow of migrants to the United States.”
Ah, yes, “reframe.”
So Harris will “examine” the border crisis, not actually produce any tangible, weighable result.
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But, people, be fair here – the poor dear can’t actually produce any tangible, weighable result, because systemic racism never prepared her to be able to do so, and that is really Joe Biden’s fault because of busing which forced her to have to go to a substandard school for Black people instead of a superior school reserved only for white people, which again takes us back to the story of the life of Queen Empress Kamala, as follows:
Apparently, however, the belief that Harris might actually have been given a responsibility wasn’t inherent in Biden explicitly stating he was appointing her to help in “stemming the migration to our southern border,” as he said at the White House on March 24.
But it was a political trick pulled off by — ah, ha! — Republicans!
CNN reporter Natasha Bertrand said Monday that there had been “confusion” over what Harris was actually supposed to do at the border and that Republicans “kind of seized on that confusion” and “made it seem” that Harris was expected to do something real.
Darn those clever Republicans.
Sorry, Bertrand, but I’m not so naive.
The truth is that Harris doesn’t know what she’s doing.
Even at the simplest part of her job, public appearances, she is falling embarrassingly flat.
She says ridiculous things in interviews with friendly journalists, as when she said in February that she was taken aback at the lack of a vaccine “stockpile” when she came into office.
(Why would there be a stockpile of vaccines that had been rush-produced and were immediately distributed in order to stop a pandemic?)
She laughs when it’s inappropriate, such as that time when a reporter asked if she had any plans to visit the southern border, and her answer, “not today,” was followed by a forced and self-conscious cackle.
Addressing a graduating class at the Naval Academy last week, she crammed in a gender-inclusive line about male soldiers wanting to carry lighter equipment the same way women do.
She pushed out an uncomfortable giggle for that one, too.
Harris has fast become our cringiest vice president.
Maybe Biden should help her out and take back some of those fake responsibilities.
Paul Plante says
And while we ponder what could possibly be going on in the mind of “Corn Po9p” Biden with respect to him detailing Queen Empress Kamala to solve the problems with Guatemala that are driving people from that country to our southern border, where the Biden administration is welcoming them in as new members of the Democrat party, for some essential background, because with respect to Guatemala, people, yes, we have been here before, many times, actually, the U.S. having a long history of relations with Guatemala, as “Corn Pop” himself should know, if any part of his mind remains intact, which is doubtful, let’s go back to 2016 when Hussein Obama was in the white house, and “Corn Pop” was his vice president, as follows:
The White House
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
January 14, 2016
FACT SHEET: The United States and Central America: Honoring Our Commitments
On the occasion of the Vice President’s attendance at the inauguration of President Jimmy Morales in Guatemala City, the Obama administration reaffirms its commitment to a multiyear effort to assist the governments of Central America to build a safer and more prosperous future for their citizens, including through supporting governments to become more transparent, accountable, and capable of providing basic services and upholding the rule of law.
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And as we can see today, that was another failure of the Hussein Obama administration.
As to Jimmy Morales, a former cabinet minister accused Jimmy Morales of having sexually abused young female public workers with complicity of other government officials, on January 14, 2020, Guatemalan civil society groups began pressuring Guatemalan authorities to arrest President Jimmy Morales for corruption after he left office, and eight of his allies, including some who were not in his administration, were charged with corruption, including two former FCN legislators and 2019 FCN presidential candidate Estuardo Galdámez.
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Quite the dude, alright.
Getting back to Obama:
For Fiscal Year 2016, the Administration plans to provide up to $750 million to implement its Strategy in support of the Northern Triangle’s Alliance for Prosperity Plan, and other regional priorities.
This figure more than doubles U.S. assistance to Central America of $305 million in Fiscal Year 2014 and represents a thirty-four percent increase over the $560 million allocated to the region in Fiscal Year 2015.
Under the $750 million approved by the U.S. Congress, the Administration is able to provide the region up to $299 million in Development Assistance, $222 million in International Narcotics Control and Law Enforcement funding towards the Central America Regional Security Initiative (CARSI), $184 million in Economic Support Funds for CARSI and regional prosperity, economic opportunity, and governance programs, $26 million in Foreign Military Financing, and $4 million in International Military Education and Training, in addition to funds for global health, demining, and other programs, including the Overseas Private Investment Corporation.
The new assistance from the United States to Central America will also place significant responsibility on the Northern Triangle governments to undertake needed reforms to receive U.S. funds in support of the Alliance for Prosperity Plan.
To this end, the United States Congress required that 25 percent of assistance to the national governments of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras be withheld until the U.S. Secretary of State certifies and reports to Congress that each government is taking effective steps to:
* Inform its citizens of the dangers of the journey to the southwest border of the United States.
* Combat human smuggling and trafficking
* Improve border security, and
* Facilitate the safe return, repatriation, and reintegration of undocumented migrants
The Obama administration also notes that an additional 50 percent of U.S. assistance to the national governments of the Northern Triangle countries may only be obligated after the U.S. Secretary of State certifies that each government is taking effective steps to meet criteria such as:
* Combat corruption and strengthen public institutions
* Improve civilian jurisdiction and counter activities of criminal organizations
* Protect human rights
* Support programs to promote equitable growth
* Implement effective civil society consultations, and
* Increase government revenues.
The Obama Administration recognizes that the enabling environment for sustained growth, stability and prosperity for the region will require good governance, including support for democratic values, strengthening criminal justice systems and other legal institutions to combat impunity and promote the rule of law, and advancing rights and protections for civil society and journalists, as well as for vulnerable and marginalized groups.
Only through measurable progress towards those objectives will the private sector, small business owners, and international investors have the necessary confidence in the security of their investment and assurances that business dealings are fair and legal.
The United States is also partnering with Central American and Caribbean countries to identify concrete steps to advance energy sector reform, regional integration, and clean energy development.
Bolstering Cooperation to Protect Vulnerable Migrants Consistent with U.S. Law
The Obama Administration is deepening cooperation between the United States and Central America to ensure that fewer migrants embark on the dangerous journey to the United States.
Those who do not qualify for refugee status will be returned consistent with U.S. law and values.
The numbers of unaccompanied children and family units apprehended at the United States’ southwest border have continued to increase through the fall and winter, a time when the numbers have historically decreased.
Unaccompanied children and family unit apprehensions in November and December were significantly above the previous highest apprehension totals for these months, which occurred in 2014.
As the President and Vice President have made clear, recently arrived undocumented migrants who have been through the immigration court process, have been determined by a U.S. immigration judge to not qualify for asylum or other relief, and have received final orders of removal, are immigration enforcement priorities and should be removed.
As part of the civil immigration enforcement priorities announced by Secretary Johnson in November 2014, the Department of Homeland Security is focused on removing individuals who, whether alone or with family members, have been apprehended while attempting to unlawfully enter the United States and individuals who have received a final order of removal on or after January 1, 2014.
While securing our Southwest border and enforcing our immigration laws are top priorities for the U.S. government, the Administration understands that these actions alone will not address the underlying conditions that currently exist in Central America. Current push factors driving the recent migration spike include criminal violence, domestic and sexual violence, a debilitating drought, and a lack of economic opportunity.
The U.S. Strategy for Engagement in Central America is intended to address many of underlying conditions driving migration.
The Administration is working diligently to establish additional avenues for safe, legal, and orderly migration.
Broadening access to protection for refugees from the Northern Triangle must be a shared responsibility of the United States, Central American governments, and the other countries of the hemisphere and around the world.
The United States plans to expand access to the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program for vulnerable individuals and families from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras.
This will:
* Expanding access to resettlement for asylum seekers from the Northern Triangle.
* Offer a legal alternative to the dangerous and unlawful journey many are currently taking in the hands of human smugglers.
* Enable the United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees and its nongovernmental partners in the region to identify persons in need of refugee protection
* Better address the needs of those threatened by criminal gang violence and domestic violence, human rights defenders who have been targeted, and others.
A Comprehensive Approach
The Obama Administration is dedicated to pursuing a comprehensive approach in Central America.
This includes partnering with the region to advance good governance, prosperity, and citizen security, enforcing our domestic immigration laws, and working to provide services and assistance to migrants or intending migrants who may be at imminent risk of harm.
The Obama administration believes that a safe, stable, and prosperous Central America is vital in order to achieve a future where the Western Hemisphere is middle class, democratic, and secure.
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Yeah, right, Hussein!
Stuart Bell says
TRUMP WON!
FAUCI LIED!