Posted on 08/21/2024 6:53:53 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Conservatives were making hay about Kamala Harris’ latest “word salad” at a campaign event in Pennsylvania, where, in an attempt to sound intelligent, she went on about the “duality of democracy.”
“They took Kamala off the teleprompter today in Pennsylvania,” Outkick.com founder Clay Travis posted on X. “It didn’t go well.”
But conservatives have it wrong. It’s actually much worse than that.
Harris has been uttering this particular word salad for years – robotically, using almost the exact same phraseology, and at almost any public event where she was allowed to speak, whether or not it was relevant.
Here’s what Harris said in Pennsylvania over the weekend.
We know there’s a duality to the nature of democracy. On the one hand, incredible strength when it is intact; what it does for its people to protect and defend their rights, their liberty, and their freedom — incredibly strong. And incredibly fragile. It is only as strong as our willingness to fight for it.
Here’s what Harris said at a security conference in Munich back in February 2022.
And — and then, when we think about the election and in the context of that, we must understand the duality of the nature of democracy.
On the one hand, it’s very strong in its nature, in terms of what it does to protect individual rights and freedoms. And there’s great strength in that.
And on the other hand, it’s very fragile. It will only be as strong as our willingness to fight for it. And this is one of those moments in time.
And what Harris said DNC Winter Meeting in April 2022:
And we must always remember the duality of a democracy in that, yes, there is strength. But a democracy by its nature is also fragile, meaning it will only be intact if we fight for it and never take it for granted and be vigilant with a sense of clarity every day.
And a “moderated conversation on reproductive rights” in April 2023:
And we must always remember the duality of a democracy in that, yes, there is strength. But a democracy by its nature is also fragile, meaning it will only be intact if we fight for it and never take it for granted and be vigilant with a sense of clarity every day.
And in an interview with the New York Times last November:
And — and then, when we think about the election and in the context of that, we must understand the duality of the nature of democracy.
On the one hand, it’s very strong in its nature, in terms of what it does to protect individual rights and freedoms. And there’s great strength in that.
And on the other hand, it’s very fragile. It will only be as strong as our willingness to fight for it. And this is one of those moments in time
There are many, many, many other examples.
Harris was widely mocked for another attempt to sound insightful, which she repeated ad nauseam, a line about about “What can be, unburdened by what has been.”
The RNC was able to put together a four-minute long video of Harris saying this phrase over and over and over again.
RNC Research
@RNCResearch Here are four straight minutes of Kamala Harris being "unburdened"
What can be unburdened by what has been
Just this past July, she trotted it out again, prompting the liberal Mediaite site to lament that [s]he “just won’t stop using widely mocked and memed trademark phrase.”
And when asked this week about her economic plan by a reporter, Harris found a new phrase to make herself sound smart: “return on investment.” She repeated it four times in a rare, brief answer to a reporter’s question about how she planned to pay for her new programs.
In other words, these aren’t examples of Harris going off script.
This is her script. Which suggests that she’s even dumber than we thought.
I can’t believe a presidential candidate can be this stupid.
I would be interested in seeing her SAT scores,
I have this feeling her “word salads” are well understood by the ignorant masses comprising the useful idiot league.
In other words, she does not have to make sense. The idiots pick out a few words from their beloved one’s talk and just love how it sounds.
“Duality”? OK,sounds like a Rat Party trait to me. Didn’t The Former Twelfth Lady once state that she has private positions and public positions?
When Heels Up enters a room she lowers it by 30 points.
I recall an old saying, or motto that was popular in Detroit back in the 70s: “Everything is everything!”.
It sounds sort of vacuous now, but it was kind of a Zen take on existence, “All is as it is meant to be, so don’t worry”.
The phrase was popular in a couple of Motown songs.
Like all good politicians she can speak for thirty minutes without saying anything.
Folks,
You think this duality thing is nonsense. It is in reference to communism. The elites and the rest of us.
Repetition has been elemental to conditioning since before World War I. Think Bernays, Goebels, and George Creel.
No honest, open speech. No genuine reach of the real person inside.
I can.
Clearly, Kamala Harris is not the sort to come up with “profound” ideas. An important part of defining her is figuring out the sources of what she shapes her “mind” and values.
WHO/WHAT ARE THE SOURCES of Kamala’s favorite constructs? College courses/professors? Book she read? Some socialist/communist theorist? Speechwriter? Other politician? She needs to be linked to whoever inspires her.
Harris pulls these chestnuts out of a memory box whenever she is foundering for something to say. We have two examples before us. WHAT OTHER little fillers are in her repertoire?
Not sure how someone can underestimate Kamala's stupidity.
https://x.com/i/status/1806867772988625316
It's explained as a marxist incantation
https://twitter.com/i/status/1819201391337799708
Those two short videos and a more specific explanation are found at https://vladtepesblog.com/2024/08/02/kamala-harris-and-marxist-chants-misunderstood-as-toxic-word-salad/
“We know there’s a duality to the nature of democracy. On the one hand, incredible strength when it is intact; what it does for its people to protect and defend their rights, their liberty, and their freedom “
She’s describing a constitutional republic, but calling it a democracy. Constitutional republic is set in law democracy as whatever they voted that day.
That’s the problem with our two party system and how totally entrenched both sides have become. Democrats could nominate a delusional, Alzheimer’s patient or a potted plant and the majority will support and vote for it.
That must be a fake quote - it makes sense.
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