Curling kandidaten

“It’s an unprecedented disinformation campaign to rapidly prop up Kamala. They are faking polls, rewriting history, gaslighting relentlessly, and outright lying to our faces.

It’s an endless barrage. No matter how many times we catch them in a lie, they just double down, continue to lie, and their brainwashed sheep willfully fall right in line.”

Således skrev X-profilen Clandestine og tilføjede at det var overvældende og udmattende. Men også sjovt. Et meme sagde “Kamala is getting the same type of hype Star Wars shows get right before the audience gives them a 38% on Roeen Tomatoes”. Kamala Harris, “a cultural phenomenon”, er ikke for lige muligheder, men for at “everybody ends up in the same place” – undtagen hende selv, der har arbejdet ihærdigt på at kravle op ad karrierestigen, om hun så skulle ligge i med mænd dobbelt så gamle som hende selv, og nu vil være præsident og således mere lige end andre. Byron York skriver

How happy are Democrats and their allies in the press? Consider this, from a longtime contributor to MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Wednesday: “Watching the VP, it was mesmerizing in the sense I’ve never seen a rally like that, either on TV or in person. And watching it, you could just sense the power in the all — and it was the power of joy, the power of laughter, the power of hope for the future.” That’s happy.

“Joy” er ordet for tiden

Indtil videre er det eneste hun har sagt uden manuskript følgende: “This is just an extraordinary testament to the importance of having a president who understands the power of diplomacy and understands the strength that rests in understanding the significance of diplomacy.” Internettets hukommelse er god, og det huskede at Kamala Harris tog æren for flugten fra Afghanistan.

Selv Demokraternes mest psykofantiske propagandister betragtede Kamala som en klods om benet

@jimmykimmel: “Americans really aren’t happy with Vice President Kamala Harris… Her approval rating of 28% is even lower than the 30%, who approved of Dick Cheney in 2008 after he shot a guy in the face.”

@colbertlateshow: “Kamala’s approval rating dipped to 28%. To put that into perspective, the movie Batman vs. Superman has an approval rating of 29%. So Kamala Harris is 1% less popular than watching two and a half hours of Batman and Superman wrestling each other.”

@TuckerCarlson: “Kamala Harris’s approval number is at 28%, which is right around Jeffrey Dahmer’s level.”

I april dette år ledte Chris Wallace, der plejede at arbejde for Fox, men siden flagede rent og gik til CNN, en rundbordsdiskussion om Kamala Harris popularitet blandt vælgerne. En fokusgruppe havde i tråd med diverse meningsmålinger, udtrykt deres klare forbehold og never-Trumperen Jonah Goldberg sagde om Kamala “She’s a pretty big drag, I think she was arguably Bidens worst political decision” og uddybede, at vælgerne allerede var bekymrede for Bidens alder og dermed bekymrede for om Kamala kunne blive præsident.

Det er ikke mere end nogle uger siden, at Joe Biden, som ikke ligefrem er den mest tilgængelige præsident, ringede ind til MSNBCs Morning Joe og skældte ud på eliten i det Demokratiske parti fordi de pressede ham, grundet de ringe meningsmålinger, til at trække sig som kandidat. Det gjorde han som bekendt alligevel, men hvorledes blev Kamala Harris Demokraternes nye kandidat, spurgte Michael Shellenberger

New York Post recently reported that Biden endorsed Harris as a “big f–- you” to former President Barack Obama, who had endorsed an open Democratic primary process at the DNC convention next month.

Whatever exactly happened behind the scenes, at the crucial level of the media, which legitimizes the decisions that politicians make, particularly the undemocratic ones, Harris had the support of the same team that demanded that Biden pick a black woman as president in 2020.

On July 9, the New York Times published a long article about support from black women for Biden-Harris. Naturally, these were the same black women who had demanded Biden choose a black VP in 2020.

“Mr. Biden has repeatedly insisted that he would not be pushed out of the race and reiterated his commitment to running again in a letter to congressional Democratson Monday,” wrote the Times. “But in recent days, Ms. Harris, who has not wavered in her backing of Mr. Biden, has garnered more attention as an alternative presidential candidate.”

The article was clever because Harris and her allies could show it to Biden and his allies as proof of Harris’ loyalty. At the same time, it made the case for Biden to anoint Harris and not allow an open convention like the kind Obama, Pelosi, and Schumer wanted. And the article was in The Times, which is the most influential news media source for Democratic elites.

“Should Mr. Biden step aside and Democrats select a candidate other than the vice president,” reported the Times, “it would all but assure a monumental loss of Black support, many suggested.”

Fourteen million people voted for me to be the nominee in the Democratic party. I listen to them.” sagde Joe Biden til NBCs Lester Holt. Kamala er en “diversity hire” så man kan ikke slippe af med hende, men må magtesløst se hende klatre op af palads-intrigernes stige. 

Joy Reid spurgte i 2020 Joe Biden om han var “committed to naming a black woman as your vicepresidential running mate?”. Nu siger hun om den virkelighed, at “it reveals the truth that it’s clearly broadly held within Republican circles, that white men by definition, when they have a job, earned it and deserve it, and any body but a white man is a DEI hire”: Obamas tidligere sikkerhedsrådgiver, Susan Rice, gentager samme opfattelse “They’re basically trying to dehumanize her and all of us…if you’re not a white Christian male, then any success you’ve had, you’ve got, without merit, because of some unfair preference.

Så de hænger på hende og sluges skal noget. “Michelle and Barack Obama call Kamala Harris to endorse her campaign for President.” lød det efter nogle dage med pinlig tavshed fra de to Kongelige Demokrater. Og den anbefaling var ikke bare cheesy, skrev Piers Morgan, den var “full-on Gorgonzola

Internettet husker selvfølgelig dengang kandidaterne Biden og Harris blev spurgt om, hvad der ville ske, hvis det kom til en fundamental uenighed mellem dem og Biden huskede tilbage til sin tid som vicepræsident og sagde “I’ll develop some disease and say I have to resign”. Harris smil lagde ved til de dele af internettets konspirationsfantasier. Matt Little skrev i The Federalist

Corporate media outlets wagged their collective finger at Republicans for audaciously claiming that Biden, who created the open border debacle currently devouring America, put his feckless VP in charge of finding solutions to the mess of the administration’s making. The Wall Street Journal led the charge in painting Harris a “convenient scapegoat” of Republican rancor, not only insisting that the vice president’s role was much narrower than had been routinely reported, but that she has acquitted herself nicely by announcing that Pepsi and Nestle would make investments in Central America. 

WT actual F! Talk about your Hollywood makeover. 

But Axios took the cake, asserting in an X post that Harris never actually had the job. 

“The outlet’s complaints that the Trump campaign and Republicans like House GOP Chair Elise Stefanik have unfairly labeled Harris’ role, however, fall short in the face of its own reporting, which repeatedly referred to Harris as Biden’s border czar,” Boyd writes. Caught in its own crap, Axios added an editor’s note to the original reporting, offering a late mea culpa that it “was among the news outlets that incorrectly labeled Harris a ‘border czar.’” 

Why, pray tell, did Axios make this quick change this week of all weeks? We ask the cross-examining attorney’s question, of course, an answer clear to any mind still capable of reason. 

Det er ikke en ‘organisk’ kampagne, men hvide kvinder kan lide det.