The Defense of Kamala Harris is Just Plain Batty

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Watching either regime media or Border Czar Kamala Harris' surrogates defend her indefensible record on any number of subjects has been pretty entertaining, were it not for the fact that we're this close to having an actual Marxist run the United States for the next four years, if the continued tightening of polling is accurate. 

A PAC called Future Forward has been running pro-Kamala ads during the Olympics almost non-stop, the most recent with the tagline, "The Future Begins Now." It's almost as if no one realizes that serving as Vice President in the existing White House makes this claim objectively fake news. The future doesn't begin now. At best, they can say, "The Present Continues Today." But people don't like the present situation, because in short, it sucks. 

On CNN over the weekend, Maryland's third Senator, Laphonza Butler, appointed to the Senate as a replacement for the late Dianne Feinstein by California Governor Gavin Newsom, was asked to comment on the flood of flip-flops coming out of the Harris campaign in lieu of interviews and/or press conferences by the presumptive Democratic nominee. Her response sounded like the chorus of an 80's Human League song. 



Other pro-Kamala ads are claiming she's the "Rule of law" candidate - except, of course, for the whole 'illegal border crossings aren't a crime, 'you don't have to pay your student loans back', 'rioting and looting should be bailed out as long as it was during a racial protest', and 'Title IX no longer means anything if that pesky Y-chromosome has been holding you back' thing. 

Oppo research cloud storage is virtually limitless in the amount of video clips from Border Czar Harris, including her thoughts on what cloud storage actually is. In case you missed this one and are counting on Harris to be someone at least competent to run the country instead of failing, addled, cognitive-declining Joe Biden, you might want to reconsider hitching your wagon to this soon-to-be-falling star. 



But in last Thursday's op-ed section of the New York Times, Belle Boggs penned a personal narrative that turned into a defense of Kamala Harris that is literally and figuratively batty

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One night a few weeks ago I went to bed early, bothered by the oppressive heat and dismayed by that week’s political news — President Biden’s lackluster ABC News interview and Donald Trump’s claim earlier that day that he knew “nothing” about Project 2025. I was tired, too, from explaining the recent daily news broadcasts to my two daughters — one 6 and the other one 10 — including what the phrases “hush money” and “porn star” meant. My husband stayed up working, and very early the next morning a bat flew into our bedroom, through a screen door left open by accident. What happened over the next few days restored my faith in the systems in our country that keep us safe. 

“Bat!” I told my husband, sleeping beside me. Though it was still dark, the thick flapping was unmistakably the sound of Earth’s only flying mammal. 

“It’s one thing after another,” my husband said, clambering out of bed to grab something to catch it with.

From what I can make out, there's really only two salient facts to this entire story that matter. 1) A bat flew into her house, and 2) the same bat flew out of their house. There was no physical contact with the bat of any kind. The bat didn't hang around long enough to become the main ingredient for bat soup. This was not a reenactment of the Wuhan Lab experiments, nor was it anything resembling the wet market down the road. In fact, Batman: Mask Of The Phantasm hung around the box office longer than this bat lasted in Boggs' belfry, and that movie only grossed $5 million at the box office.

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But over the course of the narrative of trauma following the bat attack, we were treated to: 

  • Boggs and her husband felt it necessary to consult with the CDC's website for advice after the bat didn't bite or touch them.

  • They called their health care providers' after-hours care line for bat near-miss advice.

  • Initiated a call to the county animal control office to report a bat that was no longer there. 

  • Escalated the incident after the responding animal control officer confirmed that, in fact, there was no bat currently present, and also reported there was no apparent bat damage.

  • They took a trip to the Emergency Room of their local hospital to be diagnosed and triaged for bat exposure. 

  • They received one rabies shot to treat the non-bite and/or non-scratch of a bat.

  • Not satisfied with a single dose to prevent contracting rabies from a bat that didn't bite them, they doubled down, receiving a second rabies shot in the other arm that also wasn't bit by the bat. 

  • We are then regaled about the onslaught of medical bills, including $600 for the E.R. visit.

She was so traumatized, she felt it necessary to write a letter to the New York Times, and they in turn felt it important to publish it. 

Boggs' conclusion? Border Czar Kamala Harris would be so much better, because of the increase nanny state she represents. In a land of bats, among other things, it's always best to have a system of bureaucracy with which to overtax whenever someone's hypochondria becomes overwhelming. 

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I want to believe Kamala Harris is right when she says “we are not going back” to a time when every calamity leaves us on our own. I don’t want to live in a country that doesn’t hold the health and safety of its citizens in high regard, and I don’t want to be left to make important decisions without guidance from qualified professionals. But for now and for at least the next six months, I don’t. I live in the United States of America — land of bats, land of doctors, land of public health — and that’s worth fighting for.

This is, in fact, one of the exact reasons why Harris would be such a disaster for the country. Harris has opened the border about as wide as one can, with violent crime taking place as a result all across the nation. We read and see stories nearly every day of people dying at the hands of illegal criminals. The body count continued to mount, but regime media is not running a counter like they did with COVID deaths on Donald Trump's watch. 

Health and safety isn't exactly being demonstrated by the Biden-Harris administration. And in particular, when it comes to the arena of public health, who exactly, besides this poor lunatic, relies on the CDC or any other governmental health care agency with any credibility after their collective COVID management debacle? I'd bet not too many.

Notice how her final paragraph begins. "I want to believe Kamala Harris is right..." That's the entire problem with the Harris campaign. She wants to believe Harris, but she's not convinced. She's only convinced that she doesn't like Donald Trump, and is hoping for the best with Harris. 

Border Czar Kamala Harris has hundreds of clips on issues from as recent as this year going back to her time running for public office in California. Her views on policy are out there and on display for anyone who wishes to figure out for themselves whether it's wishcasting to believe Harris now or not. Her campaign has been issuing a blizzard of press releases reversing her previous positions without the candidate sitting down for a single serious one-on-one interview or taking questions in a press conference to discuss why all of her controversial views from the past have gone through a 180-degree pivot in the last two weeks. 

This stiff-arm strategy of avoiding questions isn't going to work all the way to November. Like the overvalued tech sector that is facing a correction this week in the stock market volatility we're experiencing, the Harris campaign is facing its own reckoning. It's a campaign without substance. In previous cycles, that has been enough, but it won't be this time in a world this turbulent and dangerous. 

With the cost of food, rent, and utilities higher than last year, which itself was a lot higher than the year before, combined with rising crime, a softening job market, and the Middle East poised to escalate into a major war with Iran, Harris' record on the present she has to stand behind is frightening enough for Americans. They certainly are not about to let her dream about an unburdened future for four years.  

But if you need more video evidence to seal the deal, and Lord knows there's a metric excrement ton of it out there in reserve, here's Border Czar Kamala Harris talking economics. 

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I could make the claim that I know a lot about archaeology, because I dig up a lot of unearthed video clips. Yes, Harris is that vapid. 

And her foreign policy chops? This is from Friday at Andrews Air Force Base after the American hostages held in Russia returned home. This is classic Harris when neither a teleprompter nor a briefing binder from which to read verbatim is available. 

The air is already leaking out of the Kamala Harris tires. At some point after the Democratic Convention, the dashboard light will come on. By November, the campaign is going to be on the side of the road on a jack. 

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Ed Morrissey 10:00 PM | November 22, 2024
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