Kamala Harris is on a ridiculous 15-city “worldwide” e-book tour, throughout which she tells the gullible ladies who line up for hours to see her that she solely missed out on being president by a whisker.
She claims that 2024 was the “closest presidential election within the twenty first century.”
Everybody is aware of it is a “lie,” as Donald Trump mentioned in a heated Fact Social publish, itemizing the small print of his “LANDSLIDE!” victory. He gained the Electoral Faculty by 312 to 226, gained counties nationwide by 2,600 to 525, gained all seven swing states and gained the favored vote by tens of millions.
Harris’ declare that she virtually gained is Biden-level delusion. It’s an inexpensive assumption that she is utilizing her self-justifying “107 Days” and e-book tour with cameo appearances by the likes of Hillary Clinton as a springboard for one more kamikaze run for the White Home.
However final week, when requested level clean onstage in Washington, DC, whether or not she can be a presidential candidate in 2028, she was coy: “Possibly, possibly not.”
Possibly not, methinks.
Harris’ flaws as a candidate have been on full show in her e-book tour — the inappropriate laughing like a hyena, the painfully inarticulate phrase salad, the continuously shifting accents and impacts. It’s clear it is a particular person with no concrete sense of self, a girl who has been gifted large jobs and flubbed each one.
Dem ladies a large number
And, but, the best way the Democratic Social gathering is heading, these impediments might not imply a factor. Blunders and character flaws that will have disabled a candidate simply 10 years in the past are shrugged off and excused, particularly relating to entitled liberal ladies with low vanity who seemingly can do no fallacious.
When the repellent Katie Porter, Democrat front-runner within the 2026 California gubernatorial race, was uncovered final week as an unhinged bully with anger-management points in a viral on-air meltdown throughout a CBS Sacramento interview, the sisterhood rushed to excuse the inexcusable.
Liberal and union luminaries praised the 51-year-old three-time congresswoman as “sturdy” and “robust” and “the gutsy chief California must go toe to toe with Donald Trump.”
Porter was simply “having a menopausal second,” mentioned Pleasure Behar on “The View,” earlier than turning the criticism to Trump. Possibly she’s “having a foul day,” mentioned her co-host Whoopi Goldberg.
Gee, Porter should have numerous dangerous days, judging from leaked movies exhibiting her swearing at employees and abusing them for minor transgressions.
She needed to have anger-management lessons after dumping a bowl of steaming scorching potatoes on her ex-husband’s head. The daddy of her three youngsters subsequently claimed of their divorce that she was liable to “excessive anger,” was “unpredictable and unstable [with] a historical past of snapping and screaming at [him] and the youngsters.”
Not the type of particular person to whom you need to give huge energy as governor of our richest state, however Porter clearly appeals to the AWFL cohort of Democrat voters: Prosperous White Feminine Liberals.
One other star of the post-Hillary era of aspiring AWFL leaders is Abigail Spanberger, a former CIA operative who’s front-runner to be Virginia’s subsequent governor.
Disqualifying throughout
Whereas she is extra polished than Porter, her refusal to disavow or withdraw her endorsement for Democrat ally Jay Jones counsel an ethical callousness that belies her rigorously cultivated picture as an empathetic lady and mom.
On this assassination period, it ought to have taken each Democrat precisely one millisecond to denounce Jones — who’s working for AG on the Democratic ticket with Spanberger — and drive him out of the race after textual content messages had been revealed during which he expressed violent threats to homicide a Republican rival and his youngsters.
As a substitute, Dems suppose they will experience out the scandal.
In a earlier period, older ladies used to uphold primary ethical requirements for youthful generations to observe.
However liberals have disbursed with such female relics, priding themselves on being even harder and extra ruthless than males of their pursuit of energy.
Harris’ sins are extra mundane. She was merely a woefully insufficient candidate whose each vapid utterance reminds us that she has been elevated nicely past her talents, for causes that aren’t instantly evident.
However that doesn’t cease her from having an enthusiastic fan base of liberal ladies, dubbed the “Okay-Hive,” who flock to her each public engagement and hold off her each vacuous phrase, even supposing she has set again the reason for feminine candidates half a century. Even the VIP “meet and greet” tickets on her e-book tour are bought out at $350 a pop, such is the starvation for feminine management on the left.
The ladies who lined up outdoors DC’s Warner Theatre to listen to Harris converse final week had been a “collage of brat nostalgia and MSNBC #Resistance [folk, wearing] the blazer-jeans-Converse combo,” shopping for marketing campaign buttons that learn, “No Kings in America” and “Anti Trump Grandmas Membership,” in keeping with The Washington Put up.
Whereas her e-book has been panned for what Invoice Maher dubbed its “Everybody Sucks However Me” self-indulgence, it does faucet into the reigning girl-boss narrative of liberal ladies: that they’re terribly essential and really burdened and the world is there to serve them — particularly males, who should at all times be romantic and supportive and cater to their each whim.
Dastardly to Doug
One scene sums up the angle.
It’s Harris’ birthday on the marketing campaign path, and he or she is trying ahead to a “particular night” together with her husband, Doug Emhoff, in a fancy resort in Philadelphia.
“I used to be questioning what he’d deliberate for the night. The easy reply: nothing. Not a factor.” It was her employees who ordered a cake and her girlfriends who despatched flowers.
Poor Doug at the very least gave her a gift: an costly designer pearl necklace. However Harris observed the necklace was engraved with the date of their wedding ceremony anniversary, not her birthday.
She was very upset that he had “repurposed” the present as a substitute of shopping for her a brand new one and flounced off to soak within the tub.
However when she known as out for a towel, Doug didn’t reply.
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He was watching baseball in one other room and presumably didn’t hear her. So she known as his telephone.
“His reply: an informal ‘What’s up?’ Actually?! It was a bridge too far,” she writes. “After which we obtained into it . . . It was a kind of fights each couple has.”
Ummm, no.
Later, Harris had her staffer, Storm, hand Doug a set of word playing cards and instruct him to jot down apologetic notes “telling me how a lot he beloved me” that will be positioned on the pillow of her resort beds for the rest of the marketing campaign.
Inflated opinions of self-worth are usually not a recipe for concord, in life or in politics.
