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.
Lower the price I pay for gasoline.
I use to think she just talked down to us idiots, like a 2nd grade school teacher, but now I think.... she is just drunk.
That is a good approach in some cases. For example, if some folks were to not feel held back by the 'legacy of slavery' and were to learn to look towards the future and do what needs to be done to be qualified and worthy of the positions they aspire to, they might be much more successful in life!
If you were to touch the real person inside Kamala, you might be inclined to sever the hand that had touched her!
Word Salad Kammie, the gator’s got your granny....
IIRC-—THERE were WIND UP dolls that talked-—
But always had the same speech
FAFO, I wish we had a sober and intelligent President in office.
To a democrat, return on investment means the votes they get for the tax dollars they spend. I wonder what the ROI is for all the student loans they wiped out.
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