The unofficial campaign for Kamala Harris has started. Credit Harris for the hoot of the day. She says “Everyone fully aware of my capacity to lead.”
Ready to Serve
In the wake of a disastrous week for Biden, Kamala Harris is forced to present a case for herself because it’s clear Biden is senile to last another term.
The Wall Street Journal notes Kamala Harris Says She Is Ready to Serve as Biden Faces Age Scrutiny
Vice President Kamala Harris was detailing her priorities for the campaign during a flight on Air Force Two early last week when she was asked a delicate question hanging over the Democratic ticket: Do voters’ concerns about President Biden’s age mean she must convince them she is ready to serve?
“I am ready to serve. There’s no question about that,” Harris responded bluntly. Everyone who sees her on the job, Harris said, “walks away fully aware of my capacity to lead.”
There is no serious talk of replacing Biden on this year’s presidential ticket, Democratic officials say, pointing to the filing deadlines for primary ballot access that have already closed. In the unlikely circumstance that Biden withdraws as the Democratic nominee, Harris would still have to earn the required delegates to take his place at the party’s convention in August. If it were to happen after the convention, a special meeting of the Democratic National Committee would decide the party’s presidential ticket, according to the DNC’s rules.
Harris recently visited a Milwaukee suburb for the first stop of her abortion-rights campaign tour. After the Dobbs decision, Wisconsin’s 1849 state law banning abortion was reactivated.
Harris said in the interview her upbringing prepared her to not shy away from talking about abortion openly. She was raised by a mother who worked as a breast-cancer researcher and made women’s reproductive health a frequent topic of conversation. “She was talking about hormones at the dinner table all the time,” she said with a laugh.
Turning more serious, Harris added: “This stuff should not exist in the shadows. We don’t talk about it and then people suffer, because women aren’t supposed to talk about these things.”
Abortion Won’t Decide This Election
Most of the rest of the article was about abortion rights except for a couple of paragraphs about Palestinian rights and the Mideast.
Harris is now an an abortion tour. But abortion was a midterm issue. The issues now are the border, inflation, the Mideast, and China.
The idea that everyone is aware of her capacity to lead is more than a bit of a joke.
Biden appointed her the border czar and Harris immediately went into hiding. Biden may have thought the border issue would blow over. Then again, he may have been delusional about her ability to do anything.
Harris will soon be forced out into the open because it’s increasingly likely Biden won’t make it to November. And even if Biden can last until the election, everyone does know what’s next.
Biden Too Senile to Stand Trial
On February 9, I commented Special Council Concludes President Biden Is Too Senile to Stand Trial
Some questioned my use of the word “senile”. But look up the definition: “having or showing the weaknesses or diseases of old age, especially a loss of mental faculties.”
Does that definition fit or not?
Damage Control Does More Damage
The damage control soon began. But it backfired with a disastrous Biden interview when he discussed red and green states, and confused the president of Mexico with Egypt and events in Gaza.
For details, please see Let’s Do a Fact Check on Biden’s Laughable Damage Control
And on the border, Biden Proposes Ankle Bracelets and Commands Will Solve the Immigration Problem
Is Harris capable of talking about anything but abortion?
We are going to find out. It will be impossible to keep Harris and Biden in hiding until the election.
Expect a Supreme Court Ruling 9-0 or 8-1 in Favor of Trump, Then What?
On the other side of the coin, there’s a strong chance Trump loses at least one felony case in D.C. or Georgia.
For discussion, please see Expect a Supreme Court Ruling 9-0 or 8-1 in Favor of Trump, Then What?
I expect good news for Trump next week, likely a unanimous ruling, on narrow grounds. Then what? That’s a very different subject.
On February 6, a federal appeals court ruled that Donald Trump is not immune from prosecution for alleged crimes he committed during his presidency.
Is Trump Guilty?
Here’s the problem: The issue is not whether you think Trump is guilty. Rather, the issue is whether the prosecution can convince a D.C. jury that Trump is guilty.
D.C. is not the friendliest of places for Trump to face trial.
Can the prosecution convince a D.C. jury that Trump tried to remain in power despite losing the election?
The Real Question
Would a majority of Americans, not just Republicans, look past two criminal convictions? One?
What a disastrous set of choices for independents and swing voters to decide
President Cackle.
‘Look out, Batman! Its The Cackler!!’
She’s right—but she’d “lead” us further down the sinkhole FJB has us in.
Mish, Why wasn’t this filed under hoot of the day?
So we are finally going to rid America, of arguably the worst President in our Country’s history, and we’re going to replace him, with arguably the worst Vice President in our Countries history…
This is what is called “Progressive” by these lunatics? Seems more like how low are we actually willing to take ourselves. I understand the Dems can’t stand the Republicans slogan “Make America Great” but replacing that slogan with the Democrats slogan “Make America a Cesspool” isn’t doing it for
Me…
Short of just making them up, It baffles me to no end, how Biden isn’t at 2% approval and Harris at 1% and that’s being generous!
Kamala couldn’t lead a gaggle of girl scouts to a candy store.
She COULD lead them there but then would have to make a speech about the benefits of eating candy.
Stalag 17 1953 movie:
Sgt. Schultz – “How do you expect to win the war with an army of clowns?”
Lt. Dunbar: “We sort of hope you’d laugh yourselves to death.”
Must be the plan.
I rented and rewatched 5 months ago. Holden is fantastic.
She says “Everyone fully aware of my capacity to lead.”
Well, two days before Putin invaded Ukraine, she did provoke him by saying Ukraine should join NATO.
Seems to me it reads more like this:
> Everyone fully aware of my capacity to lead?
Of course the answer would be No!
“Everyone “Is” fully aware of my capacity to lead”
Of course that would be a pipe dream of make believe.
She may have meant to say it that way, but who knows what’s in that head of hers, besides gravy?
If we drilled a hole in her head, it would match the other 10. ALL OF THEM OOZE OUT ACID, which etches steel.
“Biden appointed her the border czar and Harris immediately went into hiding. Biden may have thought the border issue would blow over. Then again, he may have been delusional about her ability to do anything.”
Seems Harris had Myorkas as a mentor, as he was pretending there was no border crisis and now pretends he inherited the crisis from the previous administration.
I’ll go ahead and write something here that I wrote to a group of (Republican) friends recently. It’s my silly wild-ass prediction for 2024. And I’ll stick by it unless Biden actually makes it to the finish line in November.
There was more to my predictions, but that will suffice for now. Of course, it all hinges on number 1, and if that doesn’t come to pass, then all bets are off.
The 4, not 3, major problems for USA are the 3 mentioned, plus Ukraine; the later will get ugly because the USA Military Industrial Complex want to spend as much as they can there, and the Europeans can careless
Funny when you mentioned her “Capacity to Lead” I defaulted to “Capacity to BE Lead” (the metal) and be a dead weight on the Democratic Party’s hopes and dreams this year.
Just as with the 2020 election, this is an Anybody But Trump (ABT) election. Trump continues to shoot himself in the legs. His latest comments about NATO and Nicki Haley’s husband show that he must be trying to lose the election. If he gets even one conviction and a possible sentence, then it is all over.
A dying potted plant beats Trump!
That comment about NATO is a lie of omission from major media. The quote was tightly edited.and out of context. Here’s the full segment…it was Trump bragging about making NATO members pay a greater share of the $ load. (Sorry this is long)
“They want to give like almost a hundred billion dollars to a few countries. 100 billion! And I said, and I’m telling you this.
This is breaking news. We have breaking news.
I said, “Why do we do this? If you do, you give them, not a hundred billion. You give it to them as a loan. It’s called a loan: give them the money, and if they can pay it back, they pay it back. If they can’t pay it back, they don’t have to pay it back because you know they’ve got some problems.
But if they go to another Nation, they drop us like a dog, like a female drops a mail after a date because he doesn’t like her… Right, if that happens to our country, then very simply, we call the loan, and we say we want our money because we give money, and then they go to another side as an example
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Let’s say we give all this money. We were already into Ukraine for over $200 billion, and they could make a deal with Russia in the next three weeks, and all of a sudden, they don’t want to deal with us anymore.
We’ve given hundreds of billions of dollars, and why are we at over $200 billion and the European nations are if you add them up. It’s a very similar size economy. They’re $25 billion. So we’re at 200 plus, and it affects them much more. We have a thing called an ocean between us, right? Affects them much more, but we’re at 200. They’re 250.
I did the same thing with NATO; I got them to pay up. NATO was busted until I came along.
I said everybody’s going to pay. They said, “Well, if we don’t pay, are you still going to protect us?”
I said absolutely not.
They couldn’t believe the answer and everybody… you never saw more money pour in. The Secretary-General, Stoltenberg, was – I don’t know if he is anymore – but he was my biggest fan. He said all these presidents came in, they’d make a speech, they’d leave, and that was a bit, and they all owed money, and they wouldn’t pay it.
I came in, made a speech, and said you got to pay up. They asked me that question.
(Following is what the networks ran with )
One of the presidents of a big country stood up, and said, “Well sir, uh, if we don’t pay and we’re attacked by Russia, will you protect us?”
I said, “You didn’t pay? You’re delinquent?”
He said, “Yes, let’s say that happened.”
“No, I would not protect you. In fact I would encourage them to do whatever the hell they want. You got to pay you got to pay your bills… And the money came flowing in… and Henry would know this… If I said yes, I will, you don’t have to pay yes, I will, most politicians have said to that [question], “Yes, we will protect you under any circumstances,” well, then they’re never paying up. I said, “No, no, you have to understand. You don’t pay your bills. You get no protection.”
It’s very simple. Hundreds of billions of dollars came into NATO, and that’s why they have money today because of what I did.
And then I hear that they like Obama better. They should like Obama better. You know why? Because he didn’t ask for anything.
We were like the stupid country of the world, and we’re not going to be the stupid country of the world any longer. We’re not going to be. Got bad under this guy, so he now wants to send him 50 to 60 billion dollars. I have to say one thing.
I think the greatest salesman ever in history is Zalensky, and I like Zalensky because, during the hoax… you know the impeachment hoax? They said I made a threatening phone call to him. And when they asked him, he said, “No, it wasn’t threatening.” It was a very nice call. He could have played to the bandwagon. He didn’t do that. He told the truth, so I like Zalensky. But that war’s got to end. We can make a deal on that war… one of the things we’re going to do.
Today on ZH: “Only A Third Of NATO Countries Are ‘Paying Their Fair Share’”https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/only-third-nato-countries-are-paying-their-fair-share
I’ve never seen any Estonians helping to defend the US from being invaded across our southern border. We should defend them exactly as much as they defend us.
Ha! I switch the channel whenever I see trump or anything Trump is mentioned. I certainly don’t want to drive myself crazy trying to parse his streams of consciousness replies.
The only Trump I enjoy hearing is the comic who imitates Trump so well on SNL. Like this:
Trump Courthouse Cold Open
01/20/24
Donald Trump (James Austin Johnson) speaks to the media after appearing in court for his E. Jean Carroll defamation trial.
link to nbc.com
Why does ANYONE care so much about the nincompoops. Just live independently and look after yourself and your precious friends and family. Grow stuff. Eat well. WATCH NO TV.
Agree 100%. Biden is going to put every stupid thing Trump did and said for 4 years on an endless reel of commercials for the last 3 months of the election. Making fun of disabled people, drinking cleaning fluids, BLM marches, beating cops on Jan. 6, all will be repeated ad nauseum along with 50 other things I can’t remember.
And why does Mish think abortion won’t be a big issue?
Cuz it ain’t. How’s that?
To you? Or to tens of millions of female voters?
This court actually read the constitution. The Founders didn’t even know medical abortion exist. The 10th amendment gives it to the States. Roe vs. Wade was decided on politics, not the constitution. What if the Roe court had been decided that abortion was murder? This cuts both ways
Dobson decided June of 2022. At time, Dems controlled both houses of Congress and POTUS, yet no legislation to enshrine Roe into federal law? More important to use issue to fundraiser and drive the vote in 2018.
Au pardon, it does matter if the electorate thinks Trump is not-guilty.
He may get elected as a F-off to the DC swamp. He can then pardon himself.
Possibly banning the day after pill at a Fed level can make abortion a serious obstacle. I pray that they draft Gretchen Whitmer. She has cojones and gets stuff done. Far from perfect but look at the alternatives
Yeah she really excelled at instituting covid policy that turned out to be illegal. We definitely need more of that.
Gretchen Whitmer? What are you smoking?
Some good shit and I want me summa dat!
Is Gretchen borrowing Hillary’s used broom?
How many people in nursing homes did she kill by moving Communist Chinese virus patients there? 10,000? And her husband tried to rent a boat when Michiganers were prevented from doing so, along with gardening, by his wife? Another nightmare of hate, intolerance and stupidity.
The A students go into science and math, and the B students go into business. The C students go into politics.
Hillary is getting ready to pounce.
9 dead NYPD officers can vouch for that.
Hilary’s face reminds me to lift the lid before I piss at it.
Obviously the president matters very little. Whatever is running this government isn’t the president.
NOTHING is AS IT SEEMS. NOTHING.
Kamila with Newsome as VP. It’s logical and the best the Democrats can do.
Good, that will guarantee the Demoncrats will lose the election.
Yep but they don’t have a choice.
Cumala could lead us alright, straight off a cliff, 😂 but no need, her boss is doing a fine job doing just that. What a joke, we have to choose between a narcissist, or a demented. Looks like I won’t be voting this year.
Biden would rather lose to Trump, setting a trap, bc Obama knows what to do with him.
“Would a majority of Americans, not just Republicans, look past two criminal convictions? One?”
Depends on who Trump’s opponent will be. If it’s Biden, then I’d say absolutely a majority would look past convictions. If it’s someone else, let’s say Gavin Newsome or Michelle Obama, then I think Trump would be in some trouble. Especially if it’s the latter of those two, and she comes out with a decent border security policy. I’m not seeing a whole lot of panic yet from the Democrats. That leads me to believe they already have a replacement selected and ready. They are just waiting for the right time to reveal.
Biden can’t stop winning despite being a senile. If Biden quits Gamala and her Jewish husband might face Barack and Michelle. Yesterday halftime George Floyd ntional
anthem showed how divided we are. If the mag7 plunge we might be on the cusp of a civil war
I agree that having a “Black” National Anthem is more divisive. White/Black relations were better a decade ago. We are going backwards now with identity politics.
At this point it should be obvious progressives are more interested in retaining power than sharing with moderate Democrats to prevent Republicans winning the White House. An all or nothing approach eventually ends with nothing.
If I were American, I would support a candidacy of Tulsi Gabbard
You made the smartest comment this week!!!!
“She was talking about hormones at the dinner table all the time,” she said with a laugh.
The last part is repetitive, she says everything with a laugh.
How exactly will Joe be able to spin not being able to debate when it comes to October? Because Orange Man bad? That’s not gonna cut it.
If natural causes happens before the Dem Natl Convention, does that convert Biden into a bonus for Kamala?
Just say no.
“Harris is now an an abortion tour. But abortion was a midterm issue. The issues now are the border, inflation, the Mideast, and China.”
Not if you’re a woman who keeps getting their rights trampled. But just wait for the GOP attack dogs to launch attacks on Harris and have their misogyny shine through at some point between now and election time. Don’t underestimate the GOP’s ability to act and do stupid.
On that point, I wonder why the GOP is terrified of Taylor Swift and her sleeper cell agents of angry female voters.
Ultimately, I think this election will demonstrate the start of the changing of the guard from boomers to millenials. We’ll just have to wait and see.
You didn’t read the Supreme Court decision closely enough. No one trampled anyone’s rights. It was decided incorrectly from the beginning because it’s always been a state’s rights issue. No different than Plessy V Ferguson being wrong from the start. Incorrect decisions get overturned. As they should.
So Republicans at the state level are trampling on women’s rights. oh well that fixes that then.
No again. States get to decide things. It is up to the state. You have 50 choices. Choose wisely.
The same holds true for illegal immigration, if you don’t like immigrants, just move states (or countries).
We voted with our feet. We moved out of IL last week.
To Alabama?
Welcome to the club!!!
If states were allowed to set their own immigration policies this would be valid
It’s pretty straightforward to fix.
1) Generate a grass roots campaign at the State level to change the laws.
2) Move to another state.
If it’s really the issue you think it is, #1 should be accomplish-able since women outnumber men.
We’ll see in November won’t we?
the surf sux in Alabama
Anyone needing an abortion should report to Crook County, Illinois. The governor will waive the tollway fees and comp a 3 day stay at the Hyatt.
Ding, ding.ding…..Winner. The original Rove v. Wade opinion penned by Justice Blackmun, asserted that abortion was a fundamental right under the 14th Amendment. The ‘Dobbs’ reversal, stated that no such right to abortion is afforded under the US Constitution. It is a decision for the states.
“angry female voters” Are they ever not angry? Leftist woman, are without a doubt, the Achilles heal of western civilization.
Womens rights weren’t trampled. Woman can still get an abortion. You can get an abortion in another state if your state isn’t allowing abortions. It’s ridiculous to think the majority of people vote based on celebrity endorsements. Elections have consequences. You get what you vote for.
UFOs aren’t real and neither is the Psyop…bwahahaha.
link to politico.com
Did you watch the amazing end at the remaining 2 seconds of the SuperBowl to make sure Taylor is seen down by the celebration?
I hear people worked overtime to make that happen…..and make it look natural.
Other than the right to destroy their child in the womb (and even that wasn’t trampled, it was just sent to the states so that legislators create the legislation instead of jurists) … please enumerate the rights taken from women?
Having abortion limited in some states to the first trimester is limiting fat ugly lesbians’ ability to fantasize about being raped.
Maybe the Democrats will nominate Joe Manchin at the last minute, that way the can just print a bunch of posters “Vote for Joe”. He is more conservative than I am but I would gladly take him over either Biden or Trump. He doesn’t seem to be such a culture warrior that we have in either the Democrats or the Republicans.
I just want to be able to walk down the street and be seen as an American and not judged by how I vote. We aren’t given much of a choice these days.
How about that RFK ad last night? Hoo boy
Lol….I had no idea what the heck I was watching until the end. Then I just sat there dumbfounded……that ad shit the bed.
And it only cost $7 million.
Didn’t see the ad (have heard not-so-great things about it) … but I believe RFK is very possibly the best candidate of the 3 (although a quick shift of DNC to Manchin might change that). If DeSantis or Vivek was there, my choice would be easy
She thinks she is Prince Hal and will vanquish Hotspur in single combat.