Such unoriginal, fawning, unfunny, drivel

Kamala Harris’ appearance on Saturday Night Live instantly drew comparisons to Hillary Clinton‘s ill-fated performances on the show in previous elections.

 

The vice president laughed throughout her skit with Maya Rudolph on Saturday’s episode, putting on a similarly giggle-filled performance to Clinton in 2008 and 2016.

 

At one point, Harris even repeated a joke from Clinton’s sketch opposite Amy Poehler, as she asked Rudolph: ‘I don’t really laugh like that do I?’

 

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Harris’ appearance on SNL was a surprise last-minute move from her campaign as the election enters its final days.

 

Some viewers noticed the repeated line from Clinton’s previous performance, with one saying on X that the show ‘need new writers.’

 

‘SNL writers must be as lazy as everyone thinks they are,’ said another.

She is laying the rhetorical groundwork for quashing any pushback or scrutiny when her side tries to cheat their way to victory.

Vice President Kamala Harris believes former President Donald Trump “is capable of anything” when it comes to challenging the result of this year’s presidential election, telling ABC News Chief White House Correspondent Mary Bruce her legal team is “ready” for whatever Trump may do after next Tuesday’s vote.

 

“We are, sadly, ready” if Trump challenges the election results, as he did four years ago, Harris told Bruce in an exclusive interview after her rally in North Carolina on Wednesday.

 

“And if we know that he is manipulating the press and attempting to manipulate the consensus of the American people based on fiction instead of facts, we’re prepared to respond,” she said.

Harris’ CNN Townhall confirmed what we have come to more fully understand as we hear more from an unscripted Kamala Harris – she is not intellectually, socially, or temperamentally equipped to be POTUS. She is imperious, kind of dumb, and incapable of articulating, and apparently understanding, complex topics. These are critical skills for a POTUS to have. I encourage everyone to go watch the CNN Townhall in full and judge for yourself.

The vice president’s uneasy performance on Wednesday night was immediately panned by Democratic strategist David Axelrod who claimed she went ‘word salad city’ on several answers.

 

Harris stood before undecided voters in the swing district of Delaware County, Pennsylvania as new polling showed Trump taking a slight edge over the VP nationally.

 

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She also dodged when Cooper asked her if she’d be stronger than Trump on Israel.

 

That answer, particularly, got under Axelrod’s skin.

 

‘When she doesn’t want to answer a question her habit is to kind of go to word salad city and she did that in a couple of questions,’ he said.

 

‘One was on Israel. Anderson asked a direct question on would you be stronger on Israel than Trump and there was a seven-minute answer, but none of it related to the question,’ the Obama adviser complained.

 

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Van Jones, a prominent talking head on CNN who worked in the Obama administration, echoed Axelrod’s key point.

 

‘The word salad stuff gets on my nerves,’ he said on-air after the town hall wrapped. ‘I think some of the evasions are not necessary.’

 

CNN’s Dana Bash said afterward that ‘if her goal was to close the deal, they’re not sure she did that.’

Color me shocked. This is my shocked face.

Kamala Harris has been rocked by a plagiarism scandal as potentially damning allegations surfaced about testimony she delivered when she was a U.S. senator.

 

Harris is accused of lifting text ‘verbatim’ from a former colleague for use in written congressional testimony she gave in 2007, in an analysis by the Washington Free Beacon.

 

The latest allegations about Harris come hot on the heels of another scandal – over whether she actually worked at McDonald’s in college, as she has claimed.

 

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The latest plagiarism allegations arise from testimony Harris gave as a senator in support of the John R. Justice Prosecutors and Defenders Incentive Act of 2007.

 

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But her written statement in support of the bill, sent to the House Judiciary Committee, was not about her own experience.

Instead, it reflected nearly verbatim text sent by District Attorney Paul Logli of Winnebago County, Illinois, a Republican, in support of the bill.

 

Of the 1,500 words in the testimony, 80 percent were exactly the same as Logli’s submission, according to the Free Beacon analysis.

Heh.

McDonald’s reportedly said it could not confirm claims made by either camps because its records do not extend back to when the vice-president would have served french fries to customers.

 

“We and our franchisees don’t have records for all positions dating back to the early 80s,” it said in an internal memo circulated to staff, as reported by the Wall Street Journal.

 

Ms Harris has also failed to provide anything more than a vague account of her time at the golden arches.

 

When The Telegraph visited branches in the area where she claimed to have worked, we found staff had been told they were not to talk about whether she had ever worked at McDonald’s.

It’s hilarious that the inept Harris campaign has fumbled this so badly. Trump did a very routine retail campaign stunt at McDonald’s. It was a “whatever” with some funny moments. The Harris campaign’s reaction was so ridiculously over the top that they look like humorless, bitter weirdos. The result is that we are entering our third day of free media coverage of Trump and now media organizations are digging into Harris’ claim to have worked at McDonald’s. This whole thing would have gone away in hours if Harris had responded with a simple, “good for Trump for seeing what it’s like for people who weren’t born a millionaire” or something and the world would have moved on. Instead, we get this.

On the claim itself, it is totally understandable that there aren’t any records. I had a couple of jobs in high school for which I doubt there is any record. And I can think of a couple jobs where I have no memory of my coworkers names. I couldn’t dig up a contemporary witness. But I could produce friends from that era who remember me working there, or, at least, remember me mentioning it in conversation for the last 30 years.

What’s odd with the Harris claim is that nobody seems to remember her mentioning her alleged McDonald’s experience before 2019 despite several political campaigns before then. It seems that she made the claim off the cuff at an event and has stuck to it ever since. Is it true? I don’t know, but it’s her burden to prove. Personally, I don’t think she did ever work at McDonald’s. She has a history of being a bullshitter and this looks like a little BS that got out and she can’t back it out.

She wants to take money from people who never owned slaves and give it to people who never were slaves while there is slavery happening right now in America fed by her open border policies. You can’t make this up.

The vice president also recommitted to the idea of reparations for descendants of slavery.

 

‘It has to be studied, there’s no question about that,’ she said. ‘And I’ve been very clear about that position.’

Desperate.

Part of the proposal includes providing one million loans that are fully forgivable up to $20,000 to Black entrepreneurs and others to start a business.

In other words, she wants to give one million Black men $20k of your money. What’s $20 Billion to her if it buys her some votes?

Harris is also calling for creating and investing in programs that help expand pathways for job opportunities for Black men, including promoting apprenticeships, strengthening the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program and investing in more Black male teachers. On the campaign trail, Harris has said she will cut college degree requirements for certain federal jobs if elected president.

Yikes. How racist is that? She wants to lower standards so she can give jobs to Black men? Talk about the bigotry of low expectations.

Another component includes legalizing recreational marijuana and creating opportunities for Black Americans to succeed in the industry. The vice president has often reiterated that she believes marijuana should legalized in the US.

Again, how racist that she is positioning legalizing pot as a policy to appeal to Black men. Really?

And, of course, the question Harris should always be asked when she proposes stuff… you’re the incumbent. Why haven’t you already done this?

Admittedly, the Al Smith dinner is kind of hokey, but it is one of the few remaining political touchstones that builds and emphasizes collegiality at humility in our political process. This tells us that Harris is not allowed to speak unscripted to people who aren’t completely in the bag for her already. Notice that every (and they are very few) interview she has done is with an ally and she still screws that up. Why does she screw it up? Because she is an unlikable communist.

Donald Trump confirmed Monday that he would be the sole featured speaker at this year’s Al Smith charity dinner in New York, typically a good-humored and bipartisan political event that Vice President Kamala Harris said she is skipping in favor of battleground state campaigning.

 

The former president and current Republican presidential nominee confirmed in a Truth Social post on Monday that he would speak at the Oct. 17 dinner, calling it “sad, but not surprising” that Harris had opted not to attend.

 

The gala benefiting Catholic Charities traditionally has been used to promote collegiality, with presidential candidates from both parties appearing on the same night and trading barbs. But on Saturday, Harris’ campaign said the Democratic nominee would not go to the event, breaking with presidential tradition so she could campaign instead in a battleground state less than three weeks before Election Day.

Let’s be honest… this is not the job she was really given. These are just the cushy no-show jobs that powerful Democrats gave to their political and personal “friends.” She was never expected to actually work at them. What was she really doing with her time when you were working hard at your career?

Harris was absent from more than 20 percent of the meetings according to a Daily Mail review of the committee minutes. On other occasions the minutes reveal that Harris arrived after commissioners started the meetings and already conducted some of their business.

 

Of the 111 CMAC meetings, Harris was absent from 23 of them, making her the most absent commissioner on the board.

 

The job required that board members meet twice a month, as it was not a full-time position. The Commission was responsible for negotiating contracts with hospitals to limit costs paid by government funded health care.

 

But it still paid Harris a great deal of money, $99,000 annually, according to a report from SF Weekly. All told, Harris made more than $400,000 over the five year period she was appointed by Brown to the state positions.

The thing that strikes me about Kamala Harris’ CNN interview is not really the content. Sure, there were the usual word salads, incomprehensible answers, and outright lies. We expect that. What strikes me is that the media is making a big deal of it. Why? The are making a big deal of it because it’s the only one.

She is a candidate for the highest office in the land and has been on the ticket for about a month. If she were competent, forceful, and confident that her worldview is what the people want, she should be trying to talk to MORE people, not less. She should be doing two or three interviews a week, holding press conferences, chatting with reporters after events, pressing palms with actual citizens and talking to them, etc. The fact that after over a month on the campaign trail and the media is trying to decipher her positions from a half-ass 18-minute interview like some sort of ancient riddle is insane.

If she wants the job, she should be interviewing for it like every other candidate in the history of our country.

Uh huh.

For the most part, Ms Harris has shied away from describing in detail what her presidency would look like.

 

There’s talk of unity and a way beyond America’s divisive partisanship; a focus on strengthening the economy and reducing consumer prices; and a heavy emphasis on reproductive rights and abortion – an area of particular strength for Democrats.

 

But it is vague. And this vagueness may suit the Harris campaign just fine.

 

By largely being an empty policy vessel, Ms Harris has allowed various constituencies within the Democratic Party to project their hopes and priorities onto her.

 

If she can keep all those pieces together for the next few months, she might just win.

The media and Harris campaign, but I repeat myself, seems intent on pretending that Harris doesn’t have clear policy goals. She does. She is the SITIING VICE PRESIDENT. She also has a long and consistent history of policy action and stated positions as AG, Senator, and when she ran for president herself. We know her policy goals. She’s a Marxist.

Even recently, she has come out to support a command economy, increasing welfare, open borders, and a gigantic forced transfer of wealth. That is just the stuff she let slip out in the last few weeks that we’re supposed to ignore because they realized that Americans are still not down with the revolution. That’s on top of the fact that she is the SITTING VICE PRESIDENT of an administration with disastrous policies that she supported, advocated, and helped implement.

We know what a Harris Administration would look like. It would look like Biden’s administration but less competent.

They’re kidding, right?

WASHINGTON — A mad scramble is underway to introduce Vice President Kamala Harris to Americans who know little about her, with both campaigns vying to leave a vivid impression that sinks in before voters start casting ballots this fall.

 

In the 11-week sprint to the election, Harris’ campaign is pouring tens of millions of dollars into an ad blitz meant to humanize a candidate whom the electorate may know only as the understudy to Joe Biden.

She is the former AG of one of our largest states. She is a former U.S. Senator. And she is the sitting Vice President. The American people know who Kamala Harris is.

The real problem is that the American people know who Kamala Harris is. Get it? So the effort here is really to introduce a different, electable version of Kamala who isn’t a dim-witted, mean, condescending Communist. It’s a con.

Goodness… Let’s take it in pieces.

The campaign’s proposals include a “first-ever” tax credit for builders of homes sold to first-time buyers, as well as up to $25,000 in down-payment assistance for “eligible” first time buyers, a move that her campaign estimated could reach four million households over four years.

So…. welfare for “eligible” (a.k.a. “people from whom the politicians want to buy support”) home buyers. Much like government spending in education, healthcare, etc., the effect will be for the price of every home to go up by $25k. Meanwhile, it will drive prices further up by increasing demand.

She has also called for capping the monthly price of diabetes-drug insulin at $35 for everyone

Price controls from the government never work. Never. Ever. In the history of economies. What happens is that the incentive to create whatever the product is is removed, so people stop making the product. Why make a product that you can’t make money on? Then the government has to step in to become the means of production too. Then you have… communism. All of this must, of course, be enforced with the violent power of government.

, finding ways to cancel medical debt,

Just like with student loans, there is no such thing as “canceling debt.” The government does not have the power to make debt disappear. The government does have the power to pay that debt or force a private enterprise to write off the debt, but in both cases, all that is doing is transferring the debt from one person to another person. It is the forced transfer of wealth. Again… communism.

and giving families a $6,000 tax credit the year they have a new child.

They made fun of JD Vance for suggesting an increase to the child tax credit, but here we are. Even as it is, the child tax credit is a form of welfare by shifting the expense of government to people without children. We can debate whether or not it is good for the general welfare for the general public to subsidize families in this way, but it is what it is.

Two stories. One.

Harris, the U.S. vice president, plans to lay out some details of her economic plan in a speech in North Carolina on Friday that will touch on lowering costs and “price gouging,” a sign of how important consumer prices are to voters in the Nov. 5 election.

Two.

Until last year, Janet Albrecht could afford to eat roast beef sandwiches or tuna salad for lunch. But the widowed 78-year-old now has to skimp on her meals because her Social Security benefits haven’t kept up with the rising costs for food, housing and health care in recent years.

“Recent years” = “during the Biden/Harris administration.”

A retired graphic designer, Albrecht estimates she’s paying $100 more a month at the supermarket than she was before inflation started skyrocketing in 2021. Her landlord increased the monthly rent by a total of $65 over the past two years, her utility bills are larger and some of the seven medications she takes daily after suffering a heart attack have gotten more expensive. She hasn’t had a haircut in more than a year, though she doesn’t like to wear her hair so long.

But wait… I thought she WASN’T in charge of the border. Which is it?

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden, watching tens of thousands of migrants from Central America reach the U.S.-Mexico border just a few months into his administration, tapped his second-in-command to help address the influx — a decision that has exposed Vice President Kamala Harris to one of her biggest political liabilities.

 

In grappling with migration, Harris proceeded cautiously. She focused her time and prestige on boosting private investment in El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala, the so-called Northern Triangle; her goal was to help create jobs to bolster economies and dissuade migrants from making the perilous journey to the United States.