Can They Really Reinvent Kamala Harris In 70 Days?

TUESDAY, SEP 03, 2024 - 11:05 AM Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness,1/4

An Opportunistic Mediocrity (picture MH) (VDH is always spot on)

In theory, it should be hard for Kamala Harris to win the presidency of the United States.

Under pressure, Harris just completed her first “live interview”—a disastrous performance that was mysteriously taped, edited, and emotionally supported by her co-interviewed running mate. During the interview, she claimed that her values remain the same even though her manifestations of them have admittedly changed. Translated, that means for the next 70 days, she will advocate for popular policies antithetical to her own values, which will inevitably resurface after the election once the current façade fades away.

She is a Berkelyite who, as attorney general of California, had a proud far-left tenure. The lifelong large corpus of Harris’s left-wing enthusiasm and causes are only now being unearthed. But they are singular in that her riffs of embracing wokism, being a radical, erasing ICE, doing away with private health insurance, or being the last person in the room when Joe Biden made his disastrous decisions were all given to sympathetic media or pandered to crowds.

As a result, she often doubled down. Her emphatic statements were intended to stun audiences. Unlike other leftists, she really was a proud woke, radical and wanted everyone else to be one as well—broadcasting her leftism as openly as she is now cloaking it.

In one respected survey, Harris’s voting record was rated as the most left-leaning in the United States Senate. If she voted to the left of the admitted hardcore socialist Bernie Sanders, what exactly does that make her?

Otherwise, Harris was undistinguished, and often overtly so, as she was exposed as inane in Senate hearings. Her envisioned 2019-2020 primary bid proved an utter disaster. When liberal Democrat voters nationwide were first made aware of her radical record, her left-wing agendas, and her weird wash/rinse/spin word-salad chats, they ran.

Harris’s well-funded 2019 campaign quickly blew up early. Indeed, she never entered much less won a single primary–and captured no delegates through voting.

In the frenzy following George Floyd’s death, and the mayhem and nationwide rioting and violence of late spring and summer, panicked 2020 nominee Joe Biden announced in advance he would select a diversity candidate as a running mate. And in no time, and under increasing pressure to trump his braggadocious promise, he boxed himself in by assuring his handlers that his running mate would be preselected as a black woman.

Given there were then no black female governors and only two black women in the Senate, Kamala Harris was a choice of last resort—even though, as a candidate and competitor of Joe Biden, she had condemned him before a nationwide audience as a veritable racist who had habitually cozied up to segregationists. When she labels her own running mate a racist it becomes hard to take her charges of racism against Trump seriously.

As vice president, Harris predictably proved inept. In a variety of tasks as “border czar” and point woman on space exploration, she proved not merely clueless but embarrassingly so—sappy, cackling, and variously labeled by ex-staff and Democratic insiders as “out of her league” and “way over her head.”

Her chief role was to break a sometimes 50/50 deadlocked Senate and therefore, in every one of those votes, owns the passage of hard-left legislation that often turned disastrous.

As Biden’s cognitive decline accelerated at a geometric rate, a widely derided Harris was seen by the Bidens as Joe’s Spiro Agnew insurance policy: a vice president so bumbling and unimaginable as a future president that if Biden only breathed, he would be still judged preferable to the travesty of a Harris succession.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/can-they-really-reinvent-kamala-harris-70-days

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Biden utterly imploded on June 13 during a stress-test national debate. His collapse ended the 42-month-long charade that he was “fit as a fiddle.” In 24 hours, Biden was transmogrified by his handlers from an Arnold Schwarzenegger-like health nut to physically and mentally unable to continue as the Democratic nominee.

Left unsaid was that his diving polls, not his debility, doomed Biden. Otherwise, he would have survived his latest public humiliation had his approval ratings been respectable.

Harris’s race, gender, and status as vice president made it impossible not to anoint her as the new Democratic candidate.

Her machinations to preempt any challengers were achieved almost instantaneously in the same anti-democratic fashion as the removal of Biden himself from the ticket. In the way of the current Democrats, whatever the billionaire donor class and the DEI apparat decide is reified almost instantly by fiat.

We now suffer a zombie presidency for the next five months. Biden’s own party insists that he is too enfeebled to campaign as a nominee but not too demented to serve as president. Weirder still, a presidential candidate, who has never in her life won a primary and just days ago was written off by her own party as linguistically challenged, is being reinvented in 70 days as the second coming of Barack Obama.

Harris 2.0, 3.0, 4.0…

So, the Democratic political establishment of Nancy Pelosi, Hakeem Jeffries, and Chuck Schumer, the Obama consortia, and the Hollywood, Wall Street, and tech billionaire insiders quickly devised strategies to get Harris elected. And that too was not easy.

Given what they had to work with, their efforts centered around avoiding all press conferences, interviews, and unscripted talks.

She is to stay wide of anything that might expose her inanity to the public or remind the nation of her dismal record as vice president and the disastrous Biden tenure that she co-owns and loudly, emphatically, and proudly so.

Winston Churchill once said of Admiral Jellicoe, who commanded the Home Fleet at the gigantic sea-battle of Jutland, that he was the only man who could lose Britain the war in an afternoon; so too Democrat elites know ten minutes of an unscripted, unedited, and televised Harris could sink the entire left-wing cause.

So here we are, witnessing the most anti-democratic effort in modern electoral history—a full-fledged, tripartite effort to:

a) keep Harris silent and out of the public eye, and outsource her persona and views to a corrupt fusion media, to billionaire-funded ad campaigns, and to political surrogates;

b) superimpose pseudo-conservative views upon her lifelong record of leftist advocacies and policies—a brief 70-day transformation designed to fool a voting public for which Democratic grandees harbor utter contempt;

c) reinvent the campaign from Harris versus Trump to fixations on Donald Trump as a Satanic figure that justifies any means necessary to defeat and destroy him.

Will the ruse work?

That’s an open question. There are formidable hurdles that beset and many advantages that aid Harris. In her favor, the campaign cycle has been aborted from one traditionally lasting nine to ten months to a mere three, given her last-minute coronation.

Her first co-interview was mostly a story of dissimulation, soft-ball questions, and no follow-ups to her non-answers—with plenty of stonewalling about what was edited and why. And that may well be as close as the public ever gets to fathoming the ‘Being There’ Harris candidacy.

Biden proved in 2020 that he could avoid the press for almost a year by using COVID as a pretext, all while reinventing himself in absentia as a moderate and unifier.

Moreover, Harris will be inundated with two to three billion dollars, most of it globalized wealth from left-wing billionaires in Hollywood, Silicon Valley, Wall Street, and the idle, drone elite who inherited late 20th century fortunes.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/can-they-really-reinvent-kamala-harris-70-days

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Insulting the American people

Harris enjoys two other advantages besides a run-out-the-clock campaign and big money. She can count on hundreds of millions of dollars in free media publicity as network anchors spar with Trump, Vance, and Republican senators nonstop. They no longer make any pretense about objectivity but openly distort and prevaricate, again on the reasoning that the orange prince of darkness justifies becoming Pravda.

No one seems to care that for the second time in four years, the Democrats have sought to nullify and warp their own primary process, mask the nature and true condition of their anointed but challenged candidate, and then enlist the media to get elected a phantom president.

But “reimaging” Harris in 2004 also has its challenges.

First, can Harris like Biden really hide for two more months?

In 2020, Biden sought to mask his cognitive decline by claiming he had to stay in his basement due to COVID lockdowns. Harris is just as tongue-tied, but she lacks the COVID lockdown excuse to avoid the public and media.

And whereas Biden ran in Democratic primaries and was a candidate for two years, Harris again neither entered a single primary nor won a single delegate in an election. She cannot claim any experience campaigning, given she may be the first modern president never to have entered a single primary election.

In theory, a normal candidate with such a dismal and abbreviated past would be demanding interviews. Instead, Harris’s compulsive-obsessive fixation on avoiding the media becomes a doom loop: the more she knows a presidential candidate must at least occasionally speak off the cuff, the more she knows, given her limitations, that to do so endangers the entire progressive project. As a result, Harris haggles over proposed interviews demanding notes, the reassuring presence at her side of Tim Walz, no live transmissions, and a final edited and truncated version released to the public.

So, her paralysis may annoy and then anger the electorate. The more she calls Trump a “coward,” the more she is seen as a craven projectionist.

In 2008, the blank-slate Obama did the hopey/change schtickas an antithesis to the unpopular Iraq War, the 2008 financial meltdown, and eight years of Republican rule. In 2020, Joe Biden reinvented himself as good ol’ Joe the centrist healer as a supposed antidote to four years of the “disrupter’ Trump and the purported “armed insurrection” of January 6.

But Harris is the current vice president. She has five months left on her term. Joe Biden is either on vacation, asleep, or suspended in a zombie state.

Theoretically, she is in control and could implement right now all of the bromides of her equity campaign agendas. And when she trashes high prices, open borders, the national debt, or high interest rates, she is indicting her boss who lifted her out of obscurity and herself as the proverbial and self-acclaimed “last person in the room” who co-owned those decisions.

Note that in her first and likely last (co-) interview, Harris, like a medieval palimpsest, imprints her pseudo-MAGA agendas on top of her real leftist history and policies.

That is, she never quite disowns her prior and innate positions on banning fracking, abolishing ICE, the disastrous Afghanistan humiliation, or any of her unpopular leftist positions.

Instead, Harris simply pastes their antitheses onto them and then has aides contextualize the jumbled mess of discrepancies so as to not alienate her extremist base.Harris is not so much a flip-flopper as a padder, who supports anything, without any worry about framing each new position by renouncing her original and opposite one.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/can-they-really-reinvent-kamala-harris-70-days

>>21526928

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Her politics are now like an overgrown sandwich, with too many trimmings squashed on top of each other that eventually cause the entire jumble to fall apart.

Her sudden pivot to support Israel and stop illegal immigration exists simultaneously with siding with Hamas and destroying the border. But as political reality pulls her to the right and her innate leftist pulls to the left, she is beginning to split down the middle. When one is for everything, one is for nothing.

So, it will be hard to convince the American people that Harris is not an incumbent but another Obama-like newcomer here to save us from old white guys in their seventies. And even harder will be her task to fuse socialism with MAGA if even for only 70 days.

Rawness Beats Dishonesty

Finally, Trump is running for a third time and better so than he did in 2016 or 2020. His team is more experienced and so is Trump himself. He has a record of four years that polls on the economy and foreign policy far better than Harris’s tenure with Biden.

The five civic and criminal court trials are increasingly seen as Biden-inspired vindictive abuse of the law and illegitimate. For all the Biden-Harris caustic slurs of “convicted felon” more than half the country sees Biden and Harris as more culpable for discrediting our judiciary in their efforts to do in court what they fear they cannot at the ballot box.

Experts insist the race is even or in favor of Harris. But aside from the polls’ history ofunderestimating Trump’s real support, the current deadlock, and the right/left politics of the race, Trump is running authentically, transparently, and bluntly, Harris disingenuously, covertly, and duplicitously.

Trump’s challenge is to expose Harris for the radical she is; Harris’s is to mask the radicalism that she once proudly asserted and will do so again immediately upon election.

Ultimately, the American people should choose in-your-face honesty and competence over smiley-face dissimulation and incompetence.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/can-they-really-reinvent-kamala-harris-70-days

>>21526918

the interesting thing is Kamabla is actually telling us exactly who she is when she answers, she denounces the funny policies she stole. So if people are unhappy if she is elected, she'll quote "The Snake Poem" You knew who I was before you took me in. That Poem should be dedicated to her.

These Are The 50 Most Valuable Companies In The World

TYLER DURDEN TUESDAY, SEP 03, 2024 - 09:50 AM

Market capitalization, or market cap, is a widely used metric to determine a company’s value as determined by the stock market.It is easily calculated by multiplying a company’s outstanding shares by its current stock price, providing a snapshot of its worth.

In the latest ranking of the world’s 50 most valuable companies by market cap, based on August 26, 2024, data from Companiesmarketcap.com, the dominance of the technology sector is evident.This list, color-coded by industry, reveals the significant presence and influence of tech giants in global stock markets.

At the top, we see familiar names: Apple leads with a market cap of $3.45 trillion, followed by Nvidia at $3.11 trillion, and Microsoft at $3.07 trillion. Alphabet and Amazon complete the top five, highlighting the sheer scale and impact of American tech companies.

However, it is not just the tech sector that commands attention. Saudi Aramco, a leader in the energy sector, ranks sixth with a market cap of $1.8 trillion. Meanwhile, Berkshire Hathaway, Warren Buffett’s conglomerate, just hit the trillion-dollar club, after having risen by nearly 130% over the past five years.

The world’s 50 largest companies collectively represent $34 trillion in market cap, with Technology leading the way at $19.3 trillion, followed by Healthcare at $3.8 trillion. Conglomerates like Berkshire Hathaway are not far behind, accounting for $1.5 trillion of the total market cap.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) also makes a notable appearance, reflecting the global reach of the technology sector. Listed on the New York Stock Exchange, TSMC’s shares have surged over 60% year-to-date in 2024, positioning it as a key player in Asia’s tech landscape.

China's Tencent, once valued at a peak of $916 billion in February 2021, now holds a market cap of approximately $450 billion. Although it remains China’s most valuable company, it is clear that its valuation has faced significant adjustments.

As the data shows, technology continues to dominate, but sectors like energy, healthcare, and conglomerates also hold substantial weight in the global market.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/these-are-50-most-valuable-companies-world

Kamala is brutally roasted after bringing back this catcthphrase

By STEPHEN M. LEPORE FOR DAILYMAIL.COM UPDATED: 02:46 EDT, 3 September 2024

Social media was ready to pounce asKamala Harrisbrought backone of her most famous phrasesat a campaign speech on Monday.

The vice president has often won both praise and derision forher quirky manner of speech, often dumbing down her answers to the point they become more confusing to the general public and often throwing in an awkward laugh.

On Monday in Pittsburgh, Harris repeated a famous line of hers when she said:'We have dreams. We can see what is possible, unburdened by what has been.'Harris initially uttered the odd line when she spoke about what the word innovation meant to her during a March 2023 speech during a trip to Ghana.

Speaking to young people back then, she explained that innovation was 'one's ability not only to see, but to do things differently' and 'challenging the premise, questioning the status quo, and bold thinking,' but also her personal catchphrase, 'the pursuit of what can be unburdened by what has been.'

People online - both in favor of and against Harris - made memes out of the speech, acting as if Harris had played one of her greatest hits again.

Multiple people referenced a famous episode of The Simpsons in which

Bart Simpson becomes a celebrity for repeating an inane catchphraseand is begged by onlookers to 'say the line'.

Another used the famous Leonardo DiCaprio pointing at the televisionmeme in the Quentin Tarantino film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

One poster hoped she would bring back other famous flubs from her years in public office, including her infamous 'you think you fell out of a coconut tree?' remark and 'We did it, Joe!'

ATrump-affiliated campaign accountwas much more blunt in its assessment of the speech. 'Kamala gets flustered, defaults to her favorite cringe, recycled line: 'We can see what is possible, unburdened by what has been!'' The origins of the line are from a speech in Ghana nearly a year and a half ago.

Harris has a unique style of dumbing down her answersto the point they become moreconfusing to the general publicand often throwing in anawkward laugh.

Other times, Harris skirts a question by defining the topic under discussion in plain terms but offering no clear answer, leaving audiences and hosts bewildered.

And she does it inher signature 'word salad' stylethat often convolutes her answers even more.

One of Harris' most confusing outbursts was to burst into laughter after uttering the phrase 'you think you just fell out of a coconut tree?', while giving a speech on equality and advancement for Hispanic people.

She appeared to be trying to explain the need to focus on the wider community, adding that 'nothing exists in a silo'.

After a clip of the speech went viral earlier this year, it became a popular internet meme that was widely circulated by her supporters, who are informally known as the 'K-hive'.

One 'K-hive' member wrote: 'To anybody who thinks it shouldn't be Kamala Harris: you do know a new candidate can't just fall out of a coconut tree, right?'

Earlier Monday,Harris was slammed by those who claim the vice president nominee used a 'fake accent' when speaking to a teachers union during a swing state campaign push in Michigan on Monday. Social media erupted with accusations the Democratic presidential candidate altered her voice during the remarks praising teachers union members at a Detroit high school.

Harris has faced allegations and mockery of allegedly using different accents before, and the claims, and they are now emerging with just two months until election day.'New Kamala accent just dropped,' one X user wrote in response to a clip of Harris speaking to a teacher's union at a high school in Detroit, Michigan on Monday.

In her remarks,social media users claim that Harris adopted an urban accent to relate to the working class crowd. Harris is traversing the country while she prepares for her first debate with Donald Trump on September 10 in Philadelphia.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13806427/Kamala-Harris-brutally-roasted-bringing-classic-catchphrase.html