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Levitation 101
American Greatness ^ | 22 Sep 2024 | Roger Kimball

Posted on 09/22/2024 6:51:02 AM PDT by Rummyfan

Victory for the Democrats will depend on the perpetuation of the illusion that Kamala Harris is in any way a plausible candidate for the presidency of the United States.

Every honest commentator, and even some dishonest ones, acknowledges the supreme oddity of Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign.

As has been oft remarked, the oddity begins with the campaign’s origin. Exactly how is it that Kamala Harris even became the candidate? By what process was Joe Biden, the undisputed winner of the Democratic primary, ousted, eliminated and defenestrated from contention? The rumors and stories are plentiful, but the actual facts—to say nothing of the dramatis personae behind the facts—remain obscure.

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Mindful of Harris’s, er, challenges in public speaking and responding ex tempore to questions from interviewers, her handlers have been assiduous about keeping her out of such dangerous situations. The more she vocalizes (I almost said “talks”), the more damage she does to her candidacy. Her embarrassing performance on a ninety-minute livestream exchange with Oprah Winfrey in Detroit a few days ago underscored the problem.

Even Winfrey, a prominent anti-Trump Harris supporter, seemed taken aback by her guest’s incoherent flights of flaccid, cringe-making glossolalia. Harris supporters just winced and bit their tongues while critics pounced upon and ridiculed the seeping, leaking emission of empty saccharine vocables.

(Excerpt) Read more at amgreatness.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Miscellaneous; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: kamalaharris; progressivekamala; rogerkimball; wordsaladkamala
...victory for the Democrats will depend not only, or perhaps even principally, on cheating. It will depend on the perpetuation of an illusion: the illusion that Kamala Harris is in any way a plausible candidate for the presidency of the United States. And that illusion, in turn, can only be perpetuated if she is kept far from the klieg lights of public scrutiny.
1 posted on 09/22/2024 6:51:02 AM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan

You can see how laws are not followed, and how tiers of justice are determined by whether or not someone is either favored by the State or else an Enemy of the State. We are no longer a republic.

You can see that the voters do not have a role in choosing a candidate, and that the election itself is a flawed process, basically a black box from which a winner is mysteriously announced. We are not even a democracy.

We are an Oligarchy of powerful people — but the most powerful of those people remain in the shadows. We don’t know who they are. Who is running the country today? No one knows and no one is really asking the question.

I see this as an absolute dystopia. Here. Right now.


2 posted on 09/22/2024 7:02:28 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (My decisions about people are based almost entirely on skin color. I learned this from Democrats.)
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To: Rummyfan

Kamala Harris and Tim Walz are BOTH post turtles. Seen crawling across the paved road to get to the left side, some motorist with prank in mind scooped them up and carried then to the side of the road, and set them on the top of separate fence posts. Anyone who comes by later sees those two turtles upon the top of the fence posts, and several things are immediately apparent. First, it is certain that neither of them got up on top of their respective posts by their own efforts. Secondly, they have absolutely no idea of what they are supposed to do there, and churn their legs fruitlessly. Thirdly, they may only be removed by somebody else setting them back down, or failing that, only by some catastrophic event at great peril to themselves.


3 posted on 09/22/2024 7:05:45 AM PDT by alloysteel (I've told people a million times, "Don't exaggerate.")
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To: ClearCase_guy

It is a sacrificial move supported by the notion an election can be won by the media simply manipulating the minds of the voting public. I am even seeing corporate ads pushing “joy” to align with her message.

The problem with this country is the media. I really appreciate what Israel has done to combat their media problem. It should be done here as well.

https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-al-jazeera-gaza-war-hamas-4abdb2969e39e7ad99dfbf9caa7bb32c


4 posted on 09/22/2024 7:10:14 AM PDT by Racketeer
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To: ClearCase_guy

That’s precisely where we are.


5 posted on 09/22/2024 7:50:18 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus”)
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To: ClearCase_guy
”I see this as an absolute dystopia. Here. Right now.”

I really wish I could disagree with anything you said.

6 posted on 09/22/2024 7:56:10 AM PDT by Flag_This (They're lying.)
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To: Rummyfan

It’s as though the general public has become emotional and irrational, totally losing the use of logic. Side effect of the Covid vaccination....


7 posted on 09/22/2024 8:15:11 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings )
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To: ClearCase_guy

Red Pilled right with you


8 posted on 09/22/2024 12:34:11 PM PDT by griswold3 ( Robespierre and Pol Pot were “unburdened by what has been” Harris the "Year Zero" candidate)
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To: griswold3

Only through total public confusion could you get two post turtles in the running for Prez & VP in our land. Yet many are not confused about this. We would have most of the answers except for how they were able to get away with this. The only answer I can think of is that there has been nobody responsible who was in power at the time. That is assuming there even may have been someone in power.


9 posted on 09/22/2024 1:20:26 PM PDT by oldtech
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