With Tim Walz spotting, Kamala Harris fielded queries from feared CNN interrogator Dana Bash for 18 minutes. Join Walter Kirn and me in watching postgame wraps
For some reason I can only imagine was an oversight, Kamala was seated about 9 inches lower than Walz, who spent most of the time glowering at her from above, his flabby jowls rarely conforming to a thin smile. She looked like an adolescent being interrogated by a school principal in the presence of her disapproving father, trying to bullshit her way out of detention. And that's pretty much how the whole thing came off.
So that's all ya got at this stage of the game? Two months to go? Might as well throw in the towel and find something else to occupy yourtime...and mind.
could it be that Harris has simply never has to discuss nuanced policy issues in-depth? It was telling that, when asked if the U.S. should restrict the types of arms it supplies to Israel, Harris responded that (1) we support Israel, (2) we want no more innocent Palestinians to die, and (3) we have to get a peace deal done. When pressed by Bash, Harris merely repeated point (3) several more times. We need to get a peace deal done. Nothing Harris said demonstrated an ability for nuanced policy discussion, an ability to go below the surface. Maybe she has simply never had to go there, and so today lacks that ability. In other words, she has reached this point in her career simply skating by on surface discussions of complex issues, like what she said about the Israel-Hamas conflict today. And she realizes that the kind of discussion required of her now is beyond her ken.
There’s definitely something missing that would make all these issues of hers make sense. Alcohol would fit although it wouldn’t explain everything.
I think she’s just succeeded by dumb luck (among other techniques) and was never that smart to begin with. Fell into her profession rather than choosing it due to an aptitude. Or had success above what her talent would explain … somehow.
But she’s also obviously lazy. Doesn’t read her speeches before she has to deliver them. Doesn’t do background research. Just sort of stumbles through. Midwit.
Now she’s in a hyper competitive field and she’s horribly unsuited for it. Politics at the highest level is a profession where you can’t just hide and be a nonentity (unless you have an infamously unimportant job, like VP of the USA).
But she can’t get away with not doing the work anymore.
So she drinks and cackles away the anxiety and, like a large proportion of mid level professionals, tries to hide her anxiety that she’s just faking it and will be exposed any day now.
Global peace doesn’t appear to be a top Dem priority.
The Financial Times did an article earlier this week describing how defense contractors around the globe have had record cash flows this past year with the ongoing conflicts and with Taiwan heating up.
There's a defense contractor stock fund (FSDAX- inception 1984) that has a chart that clearly depicts defense contractors' stock prices soar during Dem administrations and stagnate under GOP administrations.
It appears the stocks go up about 18% annually under Dems and just over 2% with the GOP in the WH.
I wish people would stop using the accepted terminology of “ defense” contractors. They are war contractors. Are so called Defense Department should go back to the original name in the 40s or 50s which was the War Department, but they changed it for the reasons you would expect. Create the illusion of defense, like the falsified story of the so-called missile gap.
The answer absolutely needed to include Iran, who is funding its proxys in the Middle East. Sanctions on those who do business with IRAN? Misunderstanding Geopolitical is two dimensional thinking which we can’t afford in a Presidential.
Over in Germany I see something similiar: Female politicians who smoothly made their way up into the high ranks of politics, without the need to build alliance; who had never to negotiate with determined opponents; and whose view on real and deadly power is untainted with doubt or self reflection.
Yeah, Walz was the emotional support "animal" as others have noted. The iconic picture looks like Big Sister is Watching to me. If it was black and white, I would have thought it a still from a Twilight Zone episode. Look bottom line is they (Harris, the D party, Media, Permanent Washington) lied to us about Biden and they are trying to lie to us about Harris/Walz.
Wasn’t Dana’s husband one of the 51 “intelligence” officers that signed the letter claiming Hunter’s laptop was Russian disinformation? No bias in that family.
You do know this was pre-taped, right? What we are seeing is the best of Pres.
-Elect Kamala. Not, P-E Harris. Using a last name? Racist, right? Using a women's first name to identify her, not sexist at all, right? Having her CCP friend hold her hand during the celebrity interview, not sexist, right?
The one clip already circulating is absolutely terrifying. When asked about her policy changes Harris said to be clear her values are the same which one can only interpret as her policies haven’t changed. The rambling is the sign of someone who is high, stupid or both. Or she has been trained in the art of speaking but saying nothing. God help us all if she is elected.
God's not afraid of evil. I have heard some on the rt saying they are looking. However. We. The US. Are the last free space on earth. Thinking short of a worldwide violent reset. Moving not a viable option.
That’s like the actual time of action in the old half hour TV Westerners or sitcoms with time out for commercials ; I wonder if they will have commercials and whether the DNC or Pfizer or Planned Parenthood will provide them (& which will be more entertaining.)
When I first heard she was bringing her ESA. I thought it was a dog. Lol. I So confused. Being disabled with SD it's where ny mind went. THIS was Very apt description.
Paul Harper…… Walter hasn’t had a drink of booze for decades( so he might know) SO KH displays often someone who has a “ drinking problem “ or micro doses on shrooms. May have been hung over or on benzos for the PRErecorded chat. This country cannot get any lower. Oh, yes it can!
That a Presidential Candidate is doing her first interview taped, with a biased network & interviewer added to the fact that she apparently needs male support writes her DEI Credentials in large fluorescent letters across the sky for anyone with eyes to see. Margaret Thatcher, Golda Meir, Giorgia Meloni and other competent female leaders and role models have left the room and I suspect that one of the Kardashians might be able to do a better job of public speaking. 🤔
All of us women would do a better job. KH is the vessel for the next Obama basement sweat suit regime.
That someone can be in that important of a platform and really be that sadly inarticulate and shallow is, well --- at the least, sad and disappointing, and on the other side, very curious.
Expect leading questions crafted by CNN to 'explain' flip-flops, later repackaged as "hard-hitting" questions which "forced" Harris to defend her "evolving" adaptions while remaining "true" to her core values, which can be summarized as "banging her way to the top" while using her imbecilic front to mask the core values of a political snake - just ask Jill and Joe.
Plaudits from the choir - while voters become increasingly impatient with the charade - I'm still leaning towards a convincing Trump victory - this is about voters' money - "Would you buy a used presidency from this woman?"
Honestly, does any of this criticizing & cutting up over Kamala & Walz really matter since all the people joyfully poised to pull that Kamala/Walz lever in November were so fastidiously persnickety over their last presidential choice that they voted for the senile guy?
I'm thinking that Kamala could do the whole interview riding around the room on an imaginary pony while Tim quacks like an oversized duck and it wouldn't deter one loyal Kamala loving voter one fucking iota.
"Kamala Harris bringing Walz to her first interview is like the young job candidates who bring their parents to their first interview."- @caroljsroth
It's extra awkward when you realize Walz and Harris are roughly the same age.
Give her another 6 weeks. She's looking rather worn in short order.
For some reason I can only imagine was an oversight, Kamala was seated about 9 inches lower than Walz, who spent most of the time glowering at her from above, his flabby jowls rarely conforming to a thin smile. She looked like an adolescent being interrogated by a school principal in the presence of her disapproving father, trying to bullshit her way out of detention. And that's pretty much how the whole thing came off.
So that's all ya got at this stage of the game? Two months to go? Might as well throw in the towel and find something else to occupy yourtime...and mind.
Yeah, they should have gone with Harris being a knee pad wearing cum dumpster.
That would have sufficed.
Yes, she slumped her shoulders & acted like a shy school girl..Not someone that would be commanding the most powerful military in the world.
could it be that Harris has simply never has to discuss nuanced policy issues in-depth? It was telling that, when asked if the U.S. should restrict the types of arms it supplies to Israel, Harris responded that (1) we support Israel, (2) we want no more innocent Palestinians to die, and (3) we have to get a peace deal done. When pressed by Bash, Harris merely repeated point (3) several more times. We need to get a peace deal done. Nothing Harris said demonstrated an ability for nuanced policy discussion, an ability to go below the surface. Maybe she has simply never had to go there, and so today lacks that ability. In other words, she has reached this point in her career simply skating by on surface discussions of complex issues, like what she said about the Israel-Hamas conflict today. And she realizes that the kind of discussion required of her now is beyond her ken.
There’s definitely something missing that would make all these issues of hers make sense. Alcohol would fit although it wouldn’t explain everything.
I think she’s just succeeded by dumb luck (among other techniques) and was never that smart to begin with. Fell into her profession rather than choosing it due to an aptitude. Or had success above what her talent would explain … somehow.
But she’s also obviously lazy. Doesn’t read her speeches before she has to deliver them. Doesn’t do background research. Just sort of stumbles through. Midwit.
Now she’s in a hyper competitive field and she’s horribly unsuited for it. Politics at the highest level is a profession where you can’t just hide and be a nonentity (unless you have an infamously unimportant job, like VP of the USA).
But she can’t get away with not doing the work anymore.
So she drinks and cackles away the anxiety and, like a large proportion of mid level professionals, tries to hide her anxiety that she’s just faking it and will be exposed any day now.
We should be so lucky…..
Global peace doesn’t appear to be a top Dem priority.
The Financial Times did an article earlier this week describing how defense contractors around the globe have had record cash flows this past year with the ongoing conflicts and with Taiwan heating up.
There's a defense contractor stock fund (FSDAX- inception 1984) that has a chart that clearly depicts defense contractors' stock prices soar during Dem administrations and stagnate under GOP administrations.
It appears the stocks go up about 18% annually under Dems and just over 2% with the GOP in the WH.
I wish people would stop using the accepted terminology of “ defense” contractors. They are war contractors. Are so called Defense Department should go back to the original name in the 40s or 50s which was the War Department, but they changed it for the reasons you would expect. Create the illusion of defense, like the falsified story of the so-called missile gap.
Better yet, it should be renamed Department of Offense.
The answer absolutely needed to include Iran, who is funding its proxys in the Middle East. Sanctions on those who do business with IRAN? Misunderstanding Geopolitical is two dimensional thinking which we can’t afford in a Presidential.
She had been schooled in a simpleton manner. I don't think she is capable of much more.
Over in Germany I see something similiar: Female politicians who smoothly made their way up into the high ranks of politics, without the need to build alliance; who had never to negotiate with determined opponents; and whose view on real and deadly power is untainted with doubt or self reflection.
Yeah, Walz was the emotional support "animal" as others have noted. The iconic picture looks like Big Sister is Watching to me. If it was black and white, I would have thought it a still from a Twilight Zone episode. Look bottom line is they (Harris, the D party, Media, Permanent Washington) lied to us about Biden and they are trying to lie to us about Harris/Walz.
"radiating supportive masculinity" lolol
I like how Walz is being referred to as an "emotional support VP candidate."
Emotional Support Office Husband... to bail her out when she flubs an answer..
What does the Second Gentleman think of that?
The cuck likey bigly.
The small horse 🐴?
Prepared to do rescue mansplaining if needed.
With a side of Tater Tots please!!
How old does one have to be to sport a man bun?
Made me Horse Laugh..
Wasn’t Dana’s husband one of the 51 “intelligence” officers that signed the letter claiming Hunter’s laptop was Russian disinformation? No bias in that family.
Her x-husband maybe? She divorced him after 9 years and then married reporter John King whom she divorced after 4 years….
No resting bitch face either…..
Matt. Anyway you and Walt can come on and make this into an 18 minute drinking game, like the days of yore?
Like:
1: drink if she cackles
2: drink when Tim walz interrupts her to avoid the oncoming train wreck
3: drink when one of them says joy
4: drink when they completely avoid “the coup”
5: …
uses the word democracy.... mentions trump.. I am drunk already
.."let me be perfectly clear"
You do know this was pre-taped, right? What we are seeing is the best of Pres.
-Elect Kamala. Not, P-E Harris. Using a last name? Racist, right? Using a women's first name to identify her, not sexist at all, right? Having her CCP friend hold her hand during the celebrity interview, not sexist, right?
Use her title with last name to show respect. VP Harris. (Too many ways to pronounce Kamala so you avoid that trap.
The coup- It was a Sunday -
The one clip already circulating is absolutely terrifying. When asked about her policy changes Harris said to be clear her values are the same which one can only interpret as her policies haven’t changed. The rambling is the sign of someone who is high, stupid or both. Or she has been trained in the art of speaking but saying nothing. God help us all if she is elected.
Selected, you mean.
Installed. Is my favorite.
I heard that if she’s elected God is leaving the country.
God's not afraid of evil. I have heard some on the rt saying they are looking. However. We. The US. Are the last free space on earth. Thinking short of a worldwide violent reset. Moving not a viable option.
That is unfair to the speakers on our car radio. They say everything clearly.
IT'S PRERECORDED AND EDITED. Who gives a sh*t?
Exactly!! Although I’m not sure many people realize that. I’m sure Matt does but the general public? Not so sure…
The general public barely knows movies are edited. Half the people in the theater think Marvel comics heroes are real and that Superman can fly.
LOL😆
I met Yoda once.
Wait, what? Superman can’t fly? Please don’t tell me that he’s not faster than a speeding bullet either, I don’t think that I could handle that.
Needs to be advertised.
18 minutes? Are you kidding me? What a joke. She needed a protector for an 18-minute interview?
Rose Mary Woods was no longer available, or she could have done it in nothing flat.
I hear she has a plan to fix the economy, restore world peace, and secure the border. Eighteen minutes should be enough.
That’s like the actual time of action in the old half hour TV Westerners or sitcoms with time out for commercials ; I wonder if they will have commercials and whether the DNC or Pfizer or Planned Parenthood will provide them (& which will be more entertaining.)
Don’t forget Raytheon
True dat.
Eighteen minutes. Or what Willie Brown referred to as her warm up routine.
I'm sure Kamala got asked some hard hitting questions like how does she radiate so much joy and positivity and what is her favorite restaurant in DC
Megyn Kelly has been hilariously referring to Waltz as “Kamala’s emotional support governor” and “fluffy white security blanket.” They are both puds.
When I first heard she was bringing her ESA. I thought it was a dog. Lol. I So confused. Being disabled with SD it's where ny mind went. THIS was Very apt description.
There assuredly is no more dogged and ruthless interrogator of Dem pols than Dana Bash.
A legend. The Sonny Liston of cable
Trump and Tulsi just blew up the IVF story - same night as Harris and Walz flopped.
Forward to 2:10 - https://www.youtube.com/live/qTjhJ6tcn2A
We need clues at least re: your post-interview chat with Walter.
Paul Harper…… Walter hasn’t had a drink of booze for decades( so he might know) SO KH displays often someone who has a “ drinking problem “ or micro doses on shrooms. May have been hung over or on benzos for the PRErecorded chat. This country cannot get any lower. Oh, yes it can!
More like Reggie Strickland. Google him.
You’re closing in on hero territory.
I watched that Tarantino interview and almost threw up when he said that. What a disappointing tool
That mirrors the feeling I've had at the end of many (but not all) of his movies, many of which are overhyped
I really like most of his movies, but they almost all go on around a half hour longer than they should
Most tools built by communists are disappointing. Wait to you see how Walz works out.
Walz is a disgusting piece of shit. I’m not only hoping he loses, I’m hoping he loses in a landslide
you wouldn't know a 'communist' if it bit you in the ass
so sick of the ignorant chanting of "OMG COMMUNIST" when they don't even know what it is
GAH
That a Presidential Candidate is doing her first interview taped, with a biased network & interviewer added to the fact that she apparently needs male support writes her DEI Credentials in large fluorescent letters across the sky for anyone with eyes to see. Margaret Thatcher, Golda Meir, Giorgia Meloni and other competent female leaders and role models have left the room and I suspect that one of the Kardashians might be able to do a better job of public speaking. 🤔
All of us women would do a better job. KH is the vessel for the next Obama basement sweat suit regime.
That someone can be in that important of a platform and really be that sadly inarticulate and shallow is, well --- at the least, sad and disappointing, and on the other side, very curious.
The Vessel is Empty....
More curious DarkSkyBest is supposedly & dangerously half of americans
Jala here rest of comment below
I swear when I read Tim Walz "spotting" I thought it was a period reference...as the alleged current President of the US would say, "No Joke!"
there are tampons for that
Where's the nearest boys' bathroom?
Expect leading questions crafted by CNN to 'explain' flip-flops, later repackaged as "hard-hitting" questions which "forced" Harris to defend her "evolving" adaptions while remaining "true" to her core values, which can be summarized as "banging her way to the top" while using her imbecilic front to mask the core values of a political snake - just ask Jill and Joe.
Plaudits from the choir - while voters become increasingly impatient with the charade - I'm still leaning towards a convincing Trump victory - this is about voters' money - "Would you buy a used presidency from this woman?"
Honestly, does any of this criticizing & cutting up over Kamala & Walz really matter since all the people joyfully poised to pull that Kamala/Walz lever in November were so fastidiously persnickety over their last presidential choice that they voted for the senile guy?
I'm thinking that Kamala could do the whole interview riding around the room on an imaginary pony while Tim quacks like an oversized duck and it wouldn't deter one loyal Kamala loving voter one fucking iota.
🤣