As lame as the efforts by Sen. Cory Booker and Gov. Tim Walz (not to mention the ghost of Bernie Sanders) have been to get a 2028 campaign going, Kamala Harris is still out there reminding everyone she’s even worse.
In yet another appearance, Kamala served up word salads and more of the ‘joy’ brand that suggests she had learned nothing whatsoever from 2024.
“We can’t go out there and do battle if we don’t take care of ourselves and each other,” she said at a national conference of black women. “Our commitment to lifting each other up, lifting up our community, lifting up our country has not changed.”
Mostly this is just sad. It’s self-care babyisms from a 60-year-old woman who in some ways never seems to have grown up and keeps trying to talk like a millennial Oprah to an audience of presumed victims who are encouraged to see themselves as courageous for just getting up and flipping through the MSNBC feed. As terrible as Hillary Clinton (and she was terrible) she could at least sound like an adult Ivy League grad (albeit a nasty, embittered and not especially bright one) whereas Kamala sounds like an aspiring influencer insincerely trying to be everyone’s best friend.
Unable to produce a single thought, she settles for repeating everything in word salad spirals.
“These are the things that we are witnessing each day in these last few months in our country, and it understandably creates a great sense of fear. Because, you know, there were many things that we knew would happen, many things.”
The LA Times in writing this puff piece had to pick and choose from an entire Kamala speech. This is the best it could do.
“Now what has changed since 2016: We are in the midst of seeing progress being rolled back. Policies that we birthed being rolled back.”
I know repetition of short phrases with “we” in them is supposed to be a big part of the fake preacher cadence innovated by Obama for political speeches, but it doesn’t work for Kamala. We are in the midst of seeing that it never did. And in the midst of seeing that it never will.
“I’ll see you out there. I’m not going anywhere.”
That seems more like a threat than a promise.
