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To: Lakeside Granny

Not sure what Kristi was saying here.

Harris gave a commencement speech at the Naval Academy last week and it bombed. That was covered.


5,491 posted on 05/31/2021 7:57:02 AM PDT by exit82 (Democrats are unfit to govern--they hate America, the Constitution and those they don't agree with.)
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The Associated Press

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President Joe Biden honored America’s war dead at Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial Day by laying a wreath at the hallowed burial ground. Biden was joined by first lady Jill Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and second gentleman Doug Emhoff.


5,492 posted on 05/31/2021 7:58:40 AM PDT by exit82 (Democrats are unfit to govern--they hate America, the Constitution and those they don't agree with.)
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Byron York

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VP Kamala Harris’ Naval Academy commencement speech revealed a strikingly different vision for America’s armed forces than Academy speeches by her two VP predecessors, Mike Pence and Joe Biden. Link: Kamala Harris’ Navy.

https://twitter.com/ByronYork/status/1399323669210480647

Kamala Harris’s Navy

Vice President Kamala Harris delivered the commencement address at the U.S. Naval Academy on Friday. Few in the press paid much attention to what she said. If they had, they would have heard Harris give voice to a vision for America’s armed forces that is strikingly different from previous administrations, both Republican and Democratic.

Harris told the graduating class that the COVID pandemic has changed the world, much as Pearl Harbor, and the Civil Rights Act, and the fall of the Berlin Wall changed the world in the past. Today’s situation presents new threats, Harris explained. “A deadly pandemic can spread throughout the globe in just a matter of months. A gang of hackers can disrupt the fuel supply of a whole seaboard. One country’s carbon emissions can threaten the sustainability of the whole earth.”

“The challenge before us now,” Harris said, “is how to mount a modern defense to these modern threats.”

Harris told the graduates they should excel at pursuits like developing artificial intelligence, robotics, and other technologies. Military expertise proved quite valuable during the pandemic, she said, noting, for example, that “naval researchers figured out how to use 3D knitting machines to make masks.”

But Harris paid particular attention to “a very real threat to our national security” — climate change. “You are ocean engineers who will help navigate ships through thinning ice,” Harris said, in her only acknowledgment that the Navy has any sort of relationship with the world’s oceans. “You are mechanical engineers who will help reinforce sinking bases. You are electrical engineers who will soon help convert solar and wind energy into power, convert solar and wind energy into combat power. And just ask any Marine today, would she rather carry 20 pounds of batteries or a rolled-up solar panel? And I am positive she will tell you a solar panel, and so would he.”

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/kamala-harris-navy


5,497 posted on 05/31/2021 8:20:08 AM PDT by Lakeside Granny (Vote RED~R.emove E.very D.emocrat~D&S)
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