My latest in PJ Media:
Vice President Kamala Harris keeps finding new ways to perform badly in the easiest job in the world, and now she has hit yet another new low, uttering the word that every politician in the United States has known not to say since July 1979: that’s right, our national “malaise” is back.
Harris was on PBS Newshour Thursday when anchor Judy Woodruff asked her about the failure of Old Joe Biden’s socialist agenda. Harris had a ready explanation: Biden’s catastrophic failure was all Americans’ fault. “I fully appreciate that there is a level of malaise,” Harris said. Americans are so tired of the COVID crisis, she explained, that they couldn’t summon up the requisite enthusiasm for Biden’s vision of a workers’ paradise.
Inflation? Skyrocketing gas prices? Americans only cared about such things because they’re seeing everything through their COVID malaise. “We’re two years into this thing, you know,” Harris explained. “People – we want to get back to normal, we all do.” She added some platitudes about “pushing through with solutions” and declared: “Let’s meet the challenges where they are.”
See, the problem is not Joe Biden’s faux presidency, his scripted press conferences, his obvious mental deterioration, or the vacuum at the top it creates. The problem is not that Harris has avoided responsibility throughout her tenure as vice president, avoiding the border after she was put in charge of solving the problem there. The problem is not that she has demonstrated mind-blowing ignorance; when asked about skyrocketing inflation rates, she answered sagely: “Prices have gone up. And families and individuals are dealing with the realities of that bread costs more, that gas costs more.” Yes, and water is wet, and birds fly. The problem is not the attention she has devoted to non-issues that shovel red meat to the blue rubes, such as the all-consuming problem of racist trees.
No, the real problem, as far as Kamala Harris is concerned, is that Americans are not in a good enough frame of mind to appreciate what Old Joe and his handlers want to do for us. The most famous example in relatively recent history of a politician blaming Americans for the nation’s troubles instead of working to solve them was Jimmy Carter, the worst president in American history until Barack Obama and Joe Biden came along.
Jimmy Carter was as sanctimonious as he was inept, and even forty years after he left the Oval Office, America is still paying the price for the damage he wrought during his presidency. He effectively lost his bid for reelection on July 15, 1979, when he commandeered the nation’s television screens in order to scold and hector Americans in what came to be known as his “malaise” speech, although he did not use that word.
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WPM says
Comparing these two to Jimmy Carter is an insult to Carter this cheap act the demented old man and the aging escort girl. At least I think Carter had the country interest at heart even though he was in way over his head, these two seem to hate America and the American people ,the whole democratic party seems to be hell bend on killing western cultural, law, values and replacing it with a progressive hell.
mortimer says
KamaSutra Harris blames the victims of her globalist cabal of incompetents. She blames the very Americans who opposed them seizing power in a rigged election. She blames them for the incompetence of the cognitively declining Bribed-man and his puppeteers. Meanwhile, KamaSutra maintains the mirage that the Bribed-man is directing the debacle against the express will of the people who are calumniated whenever they protest those arrogant, power-hungry opportunists.
Keith O says
Hey Mortimer, Don’t sully the name of the Kama Sutra by attaching it to Camel toe.
Unlike her, the Kama Sutra is full of great ideas and workable problem solving as well as displaying concepts of working together to achieve mutually beneficial out comes.
Also, unlike her, the Kama Sutra is viewed with a certain level of fondness by countless people worldwide.
mortimer says
Robert Spencer makes a superb point, namely, that Carter’s ineptitude left the legacy of a super-charged Islamist dictatorship in Iran which threatens world peace. The Beijing Bribed-man meanwhile has made the Taliban another Islamist terrorist power in the wings. When Afghastlistan orgunizes its terrorist operations under the Taliban dictatorship, it will have the ability to threaten world peace for many decades unless it is crushed when it is small and tottering.
Ray Jarman says
Mortimer,
Excellent point but if one looks at the aftermath of Carter’s pulling the carpet from under the Shah, the results have been catastrophic. I believe that every American soldier killed in the Middle East has had a direct link to that one action. Had not Carter aided in the Mullahs effort to usurp power, Sadam would not have dared to attack Iran since he knew it would have been a failure and he would not have felt the necessity to steal oil from Quate which caused the first American intervention and obviously there would have been no second entry.
There would have been no Muslim Brotherhood Arab Spring as well as Christians being killed throughout Africa. I believe that the Iran catastrophe has led to where the world is today.
tim gallagher says
Harris seems like a fool from a couple of video clips I have seen of her out here in Australia. In one, she was sounding like a total clown when talking to a bunch of children at some type of space exploration camp. maybe it was NASA. It was pretty cringe worthy. I guess that she was chosen to be Vice President because she was a woman and has dark skin, but also, maybe, because she is so bad, well, so mediocre, that she could even make senile Joe Biden look not all that bad. It is worrying to have Biden and Harris in such powerful positions. At least they can be voted out in the next election unlike the fate of people in countries like China or Russia, where Putin looks set to stay in power forever.
WPM says
That random group of ” school kids” she was talking to about NASA were paid actors it came out a couple of days after it aired .Even when the handlers have it scripted she looks like an idiot.
tim gallagher says
Thanks for that information, WPM. Harris seemed way over the top in the way she was talking to those children and I think that is why the presenters showed it on Sky News here in Australia on the “Outsiders” program. To me, Harris mainly seemed phony in that video clip and, as you say, a bit of an idiot. I didn’t know that the kids were paid actors. It wasn’t mentioned when they showed it out here. I suppose they didn’t know that at the time they showed it. Biden and Harris are a definite worry.
gravenimage says
Here’s the story:
“Children in NASA space video with Kamala Harris are ACTORS: Kids in clip produced by Canada-based Sinking Ship Entertainment had to audition for the part – despite being presented as normal”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10081977/Kamala-Harris-hired-child-actors-widely-mocked-NASA-space-video.html
She also used a Canadian company–Canada *is* our ally, at least she didn’t use one based in an enemy nation–but it isn’t as though there are no good production companies here in the US. Also, the company is called–no joke–“Sinking Ship Productions”. The name itself might have been a clue that this was a bad idea…
tim gallagher says
Thanks for the information, gravenimage. It was quite a while back when I saw an excerpt from Harris talking to those children on “Outsiders” so I can only vaguely remember it. I think the presenters on the program had a bit of a laugh at her cringe worthy, over the top, gushing way of talking to the children. They said something like, she doesn’t seem to have a clue about how to talk to children. I am amazed that the whole thing was a set up using actors. The only other thing I can recall about Harris is where she was being asked whether she was going to visit the southern border and she went on with some garbage and tried to avoid the issue. As I said up above, at least you’ll be able to vote Biden and Harris and their hopeless mob out next election, although maybe not, if the election really was stolen last time, which is something I am not at all sure about.
gravenimage says
Kamala Harris Presents Her Own Jimmy Carter Moment
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So the only problem with run-away inflation is that we don’t more of the samd–and worse?
Biden himself sneered at concerns over inflation yesterday.
OLD GUY says
I’am having a problem deciding if AOC is dumb or VP. Harris is dumber? Surly of all the women in America we could have found better, Nancy no not her either. Come on man my wife has more common sense in her little finger than these three put together and she’s smarter also.
To keep from being called a sexist I have to say that we have a whole lot of men in Washington who are idiots also. We could start at the top.