GAWD, this is such weak sauce, even out of Harris.

But what did I expect, right?

And she's playing to a friendly audience - GO FIGURE - when she called in to be "interviewed" on The Rickey Smiley Morning Show, a top-rated podcast. The guy has a lot of X followers - over a million - and while I don't know anything about him, he does seem to have quite a substantial listener base and has declared himself to be a huge Kamala fan.

All things considered, that's just the friendly, cozy, and unthreatening environment that might persuade our gunshy Vice President to peep her head out from under the covers and open her mouth.

Which she did, unburdening herself to the encouraging and gushing Smiley.

The drivel response to the leading question with the answer built in.

Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris is bracing for her Republican rival Donald Trump to mislead and misinform in their first face-to-face debate, she said in an interview that aired Monday.

“I think he’s gonna lie,” the vice president said on “The Rickey Smiley Morning Show.”

And, after Smiley asked the candidate for president how she planned to handle Trump's "attacks" and "temperament," she said it - oh, yes, she did.

...“We should be prepared for the fact that he is not burdened by telling the truth [Beege adds: AND DRINK!], and we should be prepared for the fact that he is probably going to speak a lot of untruth,” she replied.

Harris’ remarks to Smiley followed a New Hampshire campaign rally, where she focused on her policies to help small businesses. She told Smiley she plans to point out how Trump “tends to fight for himself, not for the American people.”

“I think that’s going to come out during the debate,” Harris said.

“I expect that he’s gonna, you know, I think he’s gonna lie.”

OMG break out the Wishbone word salad dressing.

VURT DA FURK

And, again - this WAS NOT A LIVE CALL-IN INTERVIEW. VP Chicken Little taped it last Wednesday.

You have got to be kidding me.

She had nothing but time to prepare for this little chit-chat, they had time to clean it up, and this is the best they got?

NEW: @VP was asked how she plans on handling Trump on the debate stage, during an interview with The Rickey Smiley Show. Here’s what she said:

• “He’s played through this really old entire playbook where there's no floor for him in terms of how low he would go.”

• “He is not… pic.twitter.com/vxIdzSVu0P

— Nidia (@NidiaCavazosTV) September 9, 2024

"...There's no floor for him with how low he will go..."

Is anyone in the country falling for the Kamala in the tailpipe trick?

I’ve now done as many sit down interviews as Kamala Harris has this entire presidential cycle - and I didn’t need a baby sitter.

It’s no wonder she’s locked in a hotel room doing debate prep. pic.twitter.com/BlwVCj7uIM

— Sarah Huckabee Sanders (@SarahHuckabee) September 8, 2024

CNBC's Joe Kernan lit off today when interviewing campaign surrogate, Biden Commerce Secretary, and acknowledged bear of little brain Gina Raimondo today. The women tried desperately to defend Harris's hiding strategy by insisting the VP was always out, talking to people all the time. 

Why look, Raimondo told him, she talks to ME all the time!

And Kernan was having none of it. The dismissive disgust oozing out of his voice would make Simon Cowell blush.

GEDOUDDAHEEYAHWITDAT

COMMERCE SEC. RAIMONDO: "She's been crystal clear on her values...She talks to people!"

CNBC: "She hasn't talked to the press, Gina...She sat down for one interview that was taped...It has been a masterclass in avoiding any questions!" pic.twitter.com/sD9keyG2l9

— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) September 9, 2024

Of course, in this instance, Raimondo is the perfect campaign dupe - or dope - to send out the message that Kamala's everywhere speaking to everyone; the press must just have missed her. Rainmondo's the moron Secretary of Commerce who called the massive jobs revision last month "Trump misinformation" because - campaign theme here - he "never says anything truthful."

The awkward part came when they pointed out to the *checks notes* Secretary of Commerce that those figures weren't Trmp's but from their own Bureau of Labor.

I'M NOT FAMILIAR WITH THAT

...The reporter played a clip of former President Donald Trump talking about the report at his rally in North Carolina on Wednesday. “The administration padded the numbers with an extra — listen to this one — 818,000 jobs that don’t exist. So they said they existed and they never did exist. They built ‘em up so they could say what a wonderful job they’re doing,” Trump said. 

Raimondo appeared to dismiss the news as Trump spreading misinformation, and when asked if the revision could be a liability for Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Harris, she said no. 

“No. When I hear that, first of all, I don’t believe it because I’ve never heard Donald Trump say anything truthful,” Raimondo said. 

“It is from the Bureau of Labor,” Whitworth responded.

“I’m not familiar with that,” Raimondo said, despite the report having been released several hours earlier.

How did we get where we are?

Harris, Raimondo, a geriatric, dementia-riddled vegetable, etc., ad nauseum is how.

Nary one with a clue inhabiting the cabinet or elected positions, and the ones behind the scenes are malevolent, anti-American subversives.

But for all her pursed mouth concern, Harris pitches divisiveness with the best of them.

Harris & her advance lead knew Penzeys was not a place where the page would be turned on divisiveness. By going there she showed every reporter covering her who she is & not a single person in that press pool, local or national, told the rest of the story. https://t.co/aZsX6eqLOV

— ZitoSalena (@ZitoSalena) September 9, 2024

You just can't ask her about it.