How do you Solve a Problem like Kamala?
Democrats made identity politics a laughing matter
How in the world did Kamala Harris get to be the highest-ranking female in the United States? She claims to be first Black vice president but that was after years of claiming to be the first Asian-American Senator.
Her mother was from India; her father was half-Black and half-Irish. She is not what most of us would call African-American—she didn’t even call herself that when she reached the Senate. She’s more like Black-adjacent but she’ll go Indian if that is more advantageous to her. She’s a multiracial person which did not use to annoy me at all until it’s become a privilege card that allows you to switch identities based on the most-favored status is any given room.
Yesterday, Senator Chuck Schumer gave Harris a golden gavel. This little metal hammer reminded me of another unrelated story involving Paul Pelosi. But Schumer said the prize (which no doubt we taxpayers purchased) was because Harris had set the record of casting the tie-breaking vote in the Senate. It is heartbreaking that the Republicans failed to gain a majority in the Senate, but then again, neither did the Democrats. Harris, as Vice President, is often called to break partisan ties and she always goes left. Speaking of Nancy Pelosi, Nancy would be so proud of Kamala’s rigid partisanship. However, being put in the position of needing to cast tie-breaking votes is hardly an accomplishment. But it’s all Harris has going for her at the moment.
Harris has been put in charge of numerous things—artificial intelligence and the Southern border to name a few, but she has done next to nothing on either score. With regard to the border, she lied outright to Lester Holt in a TV interview about having been there when she had not yet gone anywhere remotely near the border. She then laughed maniacally and said she didn’t understand the question, adding as a rebuttal, “And I haven’t been to Europe!” Lester Holt could only sit there befuddled and Kamala continued to laugh.
And that is problem number one. What is with that laugh? Harris laughs at everything. When asked about the tragic consequences of the withdrawal from Afghanistan, Harris laughed and laughed. I think the only reason Biden has not asked her to look into issues like crime or child trafficking is that Harris would roll around on the floor laughing about those issues. Everything strikes this woman funny. I don’t know if laughter is her defense mechanism—she may figure that she’s cute as a duck in a hat when she laughs. Or maybe she thinks that laughing will prevent her interviewers from asking further questions. Or perhaps, as some people on right-wing message boards suggest—she’s just high out of her mind.
The ability to laugh at oneself is a great gift, but Kamala Harris is never laughing at herself. She’s laughing at the person talking to her, usually in the form of, “You are the stupidest person on earth, I can’t believe you asked me that question, am I on Candid Camera or something?”
I love the expressions of the people she is with when she starts a five-minute laughing fit. They half-smile and are unsure if they should join her (maybe they really are too stupid and don’t get the joke why death in Afghanistan is so freaking funny) or call the people with the straitjackets. Sometimes they just back off a bit and wait for Harris to stop heaving with laughter—but she almost never does!
Among other things, Kamala Harris is very interested in the issue of abortion, a subject that despite her law degree she calls “abortion rights.” Regardless of your position on abortion, there is no right to abortion, it is not in the Constitution at all (nothing medical is). Laws can be passed to make abortion legal, illegal, or something in between, but it is not a right. That may seem like splitting hairs, but that is something a lawyer should know.
Not that Harris is or was a very good lawyer. She was the Attorney General of San Francisco and later for the whole state of California, where her work was so abysmal that it stood out even in the train wreck that is the Newsom Administration. In fact, Harris repeatedly did things there that should have landed her in prison instead of putting her in the position where she controlled the fates of others going to prison.
Harris was accused of withholding exculpatory evidence in a death-penalty case involving Kevin Cooper, a man accused of killing a father and his 10-year-old daughter in a home invasion. Harris would not allow DNA testing of evidence which Cooper said would prove he was not the killer. Harris stonewalled and let Cooper languish on death row for 15 years until the New York Times got on her case. She then relented and, sure enough, when DNA testing was carried out, Cooper was proven innocent. No doubt Kamala laughed about that.
There’s more to the list. There’s George Gage who is still in prison. When he appealed his conviction, it was shown in court that Harris had withheld exculpatory evidence. He’s still in prison on a technicality, but Harris didn’t help the case. Gage was accused of sexually abusing the daughter of his ex-wife.
Then when Harris was Attorney General of San Francisco, a guy named Jamal Trulove was convicted of killing Seu Kuka. Trulove, an aspiring hip-hop artist, was convicted on the testimony of one single person. Harris praised this “eyewitness” as being a brave individual. She couldn’t have exalted this lone witness more. What Harris failed to mention is that this brave eyewitness got $60,000 in cash from Harris’s office plus new housing as part of a witness protection deal. Trulove appealed the 50-year murder sentence and the guilty verdict was overturned. The reason? Attorney General Harris had misrepresented the brave “eyewitness” to the jurors. The case cost the city $13 million when Trulove sued. His lawsuit said there was manipulation of the witness and evidence was fabricated. Kamala Harris probably took the news with a five-minute laughing fit.
How about Rafael Madrigal? He got a 25-year sentence for a drive-by shooting in Los Angeles in which he attempted to murder another man. He served seven years when a federal court vacated his sentence because Madrigal’s lawyer withheld exculpatory evidence that gave him an ironclad alibi. Following his release, Madrigal approached the California Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board to get $282,000 for his wrongful conviction and seven years of wrongful incarceration. Harris blocked the petition and said that Madrigal had not sufficiently “proven his innocence.” Note that an attorney general who went to an actual law school demands that innocence be proven rather than presumed. The federal court vacated his sentence, but Harris refused to give the man any compensation for wrongful imprisonment. No doubt she giggled her way through the meetings with the California Victim Compensation Board.
The last one is really alarming. A man named Daniel Larsen was convicted in 1998 of the “carrying a concealed weapon,” in this case a knife. Larsen was a member of a neo-Nazi gang. The case against him was that one single police officer saw Larsen throw a knife under a vehicle outside a bar. Larsen was arrested, convicted, and given a 27-year sentence. (He got that sentence not for using the knife or committing a violent act, but for tossing a knife away.) The conviction was overturned—Kamala was not involved at this point. The conviction faltered because nine eyewitnesses came forward to refute the police officer’s version of the story and Larsen’s lawyer had been deemed to not have given him adequate representation. The case was thrown out, but Harris blocked his release for a full two years on the grounds that Larsen’s team had missed a paperwork filing deadline. He eventually got out, no thanks to Harris. I’m sure Harris found this extremely funny.
Tulsi Gabbard brought many of these cases to light in the 2020 Democrat Presidential debates. Of course, Harris had her moment in those debates, too, when she called Joe Biden a racist. Later on, when Stephen Colbert asked Kamala Harris why she took a Vice Presidential job with a man she attacked so passionately as being a racist, Harris laughed very loudly and kept saying, “It was a debate!” She did not elaborate, but she did keep laughing and repeating that statement. It is my assumption that she meant people are allowed to lie in debates.
So how on earth did we get Kamala Harris in a position of political power and influence?
Who is this laughing disaster?
Harris was born in Oakland, California, the first child of a couple of immigrants in America on student visas. In other words, she was an anchor baby. Her father was Donald Harris who hailed from Jamaica and is half Irish and half Black. (It is funny but Kamala has yet to claim to be Irish, yet she’s got as much Irish ancestry as Black.) Donald Harris was going to U.C. Berkeley at the time and he identified as Black. He attended an African-American club where he met Kamala’s mother, Shyamala Gopalan, a Tamil Indian and biology student. The family moved around a bit but came back to live in a Black neighborhood in West Berkeley where Kamala experienced the busing that she discussed in the Presidential debate when she insinuated Biden was a racist.
Shyamala introduced her children (she had another daughter after Kamala) to Hinduism and they visited India several times. Kamala’s father was Christian and introduced the girls to the Black Baptist Church. The parents divorced when Kamala was 7; later, Kamala and sister Maya traveled with the mother to Montreal where the mother had a prestigious position at McMaster University. Kamala attended a tony prep school in Montreal where French was the main language, and later Kamala went on to Howard University.
Kamala talks more about her mother than her father, but Donald Harris is an interesting character, too. He came to the United States to study economics at the University of California-Berkeley and eventually went on to become a naturalized citizen. He moved around a bit after earning his PhD, finally settling at Stanford, where he taught economics until his retirement in the 1990s. Apparently, Donald Harris was as embarrassed by his daughter as we are. He got annoyed at her laughing hyena impression when she commented that she supported legalization of marijuana—which she used herself—because half of her family was from Jamaica. Her father issued a statement to a Jamaican newspaper saying that his family’s name, reputation, and Jamaican identity were being connected to a “fraudulent stereotype of a pot-smoking joy seeker and in the pursuit of identity politics.”
Ouch.
The problem with Kamala Harris is that she was a terrible Attorney General who has been promoted to where she has distinguished herself as a terrible vice president. A national poll published in the Los Angeles Times shows Kamala has a 55% unfavorable and 39% favorable rating. She actually started out her term with a more favorable than unfavorable rating (but they were close) and the rates switched to mostly unfavorable after June 2021 when she was trying to “sort out” the border issues. She is the most disliked vice president since polling started. She polls worse than Biden, who is sinking like a rock tied to another rock.
There are jokes that she is Biden’s impeachment insurance.
One problem is that Harris does not get better. Her unfavorable scores are increasing like the number of fentanyl deaths—a strong, steady, upward trajectory.
But what is with that laugh? Even the mainstream media has run articles titled, “Kamala Harris has deranged laughing fit again.” The Daily Telegraph said that her laugh is the “biggest, destructive, negative force in American politics ever…” Some have stated that the laughter is her nervous response to being under pressure. But she laughs even when just presenting very innocuous material, like the time she collapsed into laughter when stating that she loved Venn diagrams. That makes her sound insane. When she laughed uproariously when asked about the tragedy in Afghanistan, that made her sound heartless and sadistic.
I have observed that Kamala Harris rarely laughs except when speaking. She can stand behind Joe Biden as he gives a speech and maintain a straight face. She can be in a group and if she’s not asked a question, she seems almost normal. But as soon as she has to speak, she collapses into idiotic laughter that goes on and on.
The only time she says something and does not laugh is when she scolds people who try to overtalk her by saying, “I am speaking.” She usually wags a finger in their face.
The other problem is that despite being an attorney, even an attorney general for a very large state, Harris is unable to speak clearly on anything. Her word salad discourses are the stuff of memes. Here are a few to jog your memory. This is the second most powerful person in the world speaking:
“It is time for us to do what we have been doing, and that time is every day.”
“We will assist Jamaica in COVID recovery by assisting in terms of the recovery efforts in Jamaica.”
“I think that, to be very honest with you, I do believe that we should have rightly believed, but we certainly believe, that certain issues are just settled.”
“The significance of the passage of time. So when you think about it, there is great significance to passage of time. There is such great significance to the passage of time when you think of a day in the life of our children.”
“Ukraine is a country in Europe. It exists next to another country called Russia. Russia is a bigger country. Russia is a powerful country. Russia decided to invade a smaller country called Ukraine, so, basically, that’s wrong.”
There are hundreds more of these, just listen whenever she is near a microphone. And remember, she is always cackling and generally dissolves into unmitigated laughter for a few minutes after every remark.
Excessive and inappropriate laughter can be a sign of a mental health disorder, such as schizophrenia. In fact, people with schizophrenia report disorganized thoughts, hallucinations, delusions, and laugh uncontrollably even in situations other people do not find funny. It’s considered a classic sign of schizophrenia. Of course, this is no diagnosis. I am just reporting what the medical literature says.
Perhaps the funniest thing about Kamala Harris is not her affection for Venn diagrams—it is that she is the Democrat’s problem. They created her, they nominated her (thanks, identity politics), and now they have to figure out how to get this wad of gum off their shoe. It’s election year coming up. When eligible, the incumbent often makes a run for a second term and that option is certainly open to Biden. However, most incumbents run on their original ticket which means Biden would have to run with Harris, the only person on earth who polls lower than he does. She’s like tying an anchor around the old man’s neck before throwing him into the shark-infested campaign waters.
He almost cannot run with her. But like the old adage about women, he can’t run without her. If he ditches Kamala, it will be seen in the identity politics ecosystem of Democrat politics as the unforgivable sin—ditching a multiracial, part-Black, part-Indian, female candidate! Unthinkable! Kamala Harris is in the uppermost stratospheric caste of American identity politics—the multiracial woman—and she is therefore a victim. Any act or even hint of an action against Harris will be viewed racism and misogyny.
So Biden has to run with her. Of course, Biden’s run is questionable in itself. He is increasingly frail and cognitively challenged. He is also neck-deep in legal troubles and Congress keeps rumbling about impeachment investigations. Biden may be physically unable to run in 2024, or he may decide he does not want to subject himself to four more years in the White House. In normal times, a President who decides not to run for a second term would throw his support behind his vice president. It is doubtful that Biden or any Democrat would be caught dead endorsing Kamala Harris. She’s more radioactive than Chernobyl.
But if Biden opts not to run and fails to endorse Harris, that will also send shock waves through the identity politics crowd. Harris is from the victim class which means she must be supported even if she is incompetent, possibly mentally ill, and nobody likes her.
So what do the Democrats do? Some say Biden will bow out and Newsom will run and make Kamala his VP. This sounds good until you realize that the President and Vice President cannot be from the same state. So it’s a nonstarter. Plus it’s not clear if Kamala would take a second-fiddle position to Newsom. After all, she outranks him. Plus Newsom is politically savvy enough to know that even being seen in the same photo as Harris is poison. Politically it would be safer to pardon Ghislaine Maxwell than to be seen with Harris.
A nice neat solution for Newsom is to replace Harris with another identity pick, such as Stacey Abrams or maybe Donna Brazile. That solution works out well for everyone except Harris and, well, the voters.
There has been speculation the Democrats could buy off Harris by giving her a spot on the Supreme Court. This means she would agree not to squawk about being elbowed out of the Democratic 2024 ticket. After all, they bought Bernie off, and all it cost them was a couple of houses. Harris is going to more of a barnacle.
She could go back to the Senate but in the world of politics, that would be a demotion and it’s not clear she could even win her old Senate seat back. She could be given a high-value cabinet slot in Newsom’s cabinet or a Supreme Court seat. This is how Barack Obama got Hillary to bow out of her 2008 Presidential run—he made her his Secretary of State—to disastrous results, I might add. I am not sure Harris is that interested in a house or a bribe or a Cabinet job. After all, Cabinet positions require actual work and Harris has made it very clear she does not do that sort of thing.
So they pretty much have to clear room for Harris on the Supreme Court. The trouble is that there are nine justices and all of them are still alive and kicking. Unless they are able to orchestrate the demise of one of the justices, the only way to get Harris on the court is to pack the Supreme Court. But they’d have to add that additional judge now, while Democrats are still in power, since it is doubtful they could get her approved if Republicans controlled Congress. And even if all of the stars aligned, it is doubtful it would work, particularly since Harris would have to resign as Vice President to even be vetted. So, even if they could find her a place on the Supreme Court now … that by no means improves their election chances. In fact, it might scuttle them entirely.
It's funny when identity politics blows up in their faces.
No prognostications, but if I were to guess… Biden will not run, Harris will not be included on Newsom’s ticket or offered any consolation prizes. Pretty soon, Harris will stop laughing… and start screaming racism and sexism like AOC with menstrual cramps.