Kamala to wildfire victims: "It's critically important that, to the extent you can find anything that gives you an ability to be patient in this extremely dangerous and unprecedented crisis, that you do."

I'm Speaking Kamalese, yes I'm Speaking Kamalese

I really think so.

"The significance of the passage of time, right? The significance of the passage of time. When you think about it, there is a great significance to the passage of time." 

I'm Speaking Kamalese, yes I'm Speaking Kamalese

I really think so.

“So 32 days… 32 days… Okay."

I'm Speaking Kamalese, yes I'm Speaking Kamalese

I really think so.

Credit to The Vapors

So. One more weekend and we will be done with this inarticulate mess. I guess when they said Anyone Can Be President! they didn't mean for it to be a derogatory slam. Sure, she was only vice president, but as we all know, that was just one more bike wreck away from the Resolute Desk. Of course, Kamala Harris was only suited for running the deep fryer at Mcdonald's, but apparently, even they would not have her. 

When I was growing up, we had politicians who made bad choices. We had Nixon, we had Kennedy, we had Wallace....there was never any shortage of them. However, with most of these people, you could at least salvage something from their portfolio. Nixon meeting with college students at the Lincoln Memorial in the middle of the night to hear their voices about the war. Kennedy for dealing with the missile crisis and inspiring the country to become better. George Wallace for...for... (oh, never mind.) But with Kamala Harris, you have something that is sort of unprecedented. 

Biden is a caricature of a politician: baby-kisser, hair sniffer, liar, and cheat. You expect that from a public servant who, though steeped in mediocrity his entire career, still managed to keep getting reelected for over 50 years. I guess you could say there's some skillful ability to navigate the swamp in that. But Kamala Harris? To say that she almost bordered on average would be high praise. Absent any political skills whatsoever, bereft of sincerity, and marinating in ignorance and laziness for decades, her only steps to power were the company she kept, the color of her skin, and the gender she was assigned at birth.

That's all there was. As the saying has always gone, It's better to be a quiet fool than to speak up and remove all doubt. And she was never a quiet fool. Her Kamalaisms have already become the stuff of legend. I understand that songs have been written about them over on the Democratic Underground. Still, I guess what amazes me is that just a few months ago, this woman received almost 75 million votes. 75 million. Does that mean we have 75 million complete dupes in America? Maybe. Or, more likely, we have that many hard-core partisans. 75 million people who care more about being wrong than they do about the welfare of the country they live in. In other words, "I know Kamala is a fool and an idiot, but if I vote for somebody else, then it's like repudiating my liberal/progressive pedigree. Can't have that, so Kamala gets my vote, and I hope she doesn't screw up the country more than Biden." Deep down, you know she is quite capable of doing that, but you don't care. And you don't care because, in these divisive and tribal times, you don't want to be wrong. You don't want to be a social media outcast.

I think it's more likely something like that, but what differs about this from what I remember growing up is that the press and the public had the ability to look at empirical evidence (run-on sentence word salads) and make the determination Hey, I'm a liberal but even I can see this woman is a fool. Ain't votin' for her. Back in the BeforeTime when people could smoke on airplanes, and most everyone still believed in the maxim "I don't agree with you, but I will defend your right to say it," your Harry Reasoners, John Chancellors, and Chet Huntleys could be counted on to give you the news every night. And anything else would have a big OPINION sign behind the guy. Today, these news anchors would take one look at the current state of journalism in America, barf, and then go back to interment as a preferred place to be. How we've changed in the last decade.

So, 75 million votes.That's more than Trump got last time around. And only two million votes behind Donald Trump this time around. Shudder. Kamala Harris... a completely ridiculous candidate. A candidate who could not operate without teleprompters, and neither think nor speak extemporaneously. 75 million votes. My God, how close we came.

How close we all came to speaking Kamalese.