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The many, nasty faces of Kamala Harris: VP only reinforced the fatal inauthenticity of her debate performance
New York Post ^ | September 11, 2024 | Miranda Devine

Posted on 09/12/2024 10:22:36 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom

The smart analysis of the first — and maybe only — debate of the Trump-Harris presidential cycle is that Don­ald Trump blew it.

The former president, winging it as usual, missed numerous “kill shots,” was frustratingly imprecise and allowed himself to be baited by Kamala Harris.

But on the optics, Harris committed far worse self-harm.

If you switched off the sound for the ABC debate Tuesday night and just watched the images, you would come away feeling deep distaste for the haughty flibbertigibbet who kept making faces while Trump was speaking.

Harris’ split-screen pantomime made her seem unserious and unlikable and was clearly designed for the sort of viral “Brat Girl” moments on social media her juvenile campaign staff imagines are vote winners. Kween!

In reality, the novelty value is short-lived and even the Taylor Swift demographic will come to see it as unbecoming.

Cool aunt, sure, but president?

Nope.

Margaret Thatcher she is not.

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


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: flibbertigibbet; harris; haughty
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I have to agree with Devine -- her facial expressions were a horrid turn-off.

You have to LOVE this descriptor by Devine: the haughty flibbertigibbet

LOL...when was the last time you read "flibbertigibbet"? I'm not even sure what "flibbertigibbet" means, but that is onomatopoeia at its finest!

1 posted on 09/12/2024 10:22:36 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
Harris’ split-screen pantomime made her seem unserious and unlikable

Seem?! She IS unserious and unlikable.

2 posted on 09/12/2024 10:24:08 AM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell>)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
LOL...when was the last time you read "flibbertigibbet"?

The term was used in Sound of Music, in the song, "How do you solve a problem like Maria?"

3 posted on 09/12/2024 10:25:47 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Great Googly Moogly; did he just say flibbertigibbet


4 posted on 09/12/2024 10:26:07 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Leaving Abortion up to the States is like Leaving Slavery up to the States.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Not only that, she’s ugly.


5 posted on 09/12/2024 10:28:55 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

I listened to part of it while busy with something else and she sounded terrible too. That voice and her patronizing inflections were almost unbearable.


6 posted on 09/12/2024 10:30:21 AM PDT by Yogafist
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

I heard Granny say “Oh, flibbertygibbet!” once in an old Warner Brothers cartoon.


7 posted on 09/12/2024 10:31:02 AM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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Kamala could care less. She knows Democrat voter fraud is in high gear.


Case in point.

Pres Reagan signed into law the 1986 Uniformed and
Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act (UOCAVA):
<><>to protect a time-honored tradition of overseas voting
<><>to enhance US citizens abroad and U.S. military members’ right to vote
<><>yet, federal law doesn’t provide clear, commonsense rules
<><>for how overseas voters register to vote
<><>or how their votes are compiled and counted.
<><>ergo, states can make their own laws — even bad ones.

But in August, we learned that Democrats have gone global, committing $300,000 to register and influence 9 million overseas voters — even though the federal government says only 2.4 million legal voters live in other countries. That’s 6.4 million votes that Democrats want to find...that don’t exist. The group financing the efforts——Democrats Abroad—— told CBS News that the ballots are likely to favor Kamala Harris.

Contact the RNC
310 1st St SE
Washington, DC 20003
(202) 863-8500


8 posted on 09/12/2024 10:31:10 AM PDT by Liz (Faith is believing what you cannot see; its reward is to see what you believe. St Augustine)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Yes, Harris is a flibbertigibbet, a twiddler, a sillyheart!


9 posted on 09/12/2024 10:32:32 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: Yogafist

yes - patronizing condescending mean supercilious mocking - what VDH called “Preen pose, proffered platitudes” which i would change to preen, pose, pontificate.


10 posted on 09/12/2024 10:35:31 AM PDT by avital2
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
LOL...when was the last time you read "flibbertigibbet"? I'm not even sure what "flibbertigibbet" means, but that is onomatopoeia at its finest!

I call my cat a flibbertigibbet sometimes, when he’s going around, poking into things, trying to antagonize me to get my attention if I’m busy as feeding time is approaching. I tell him to “stop flibbertigibbing around.”

11 posted on 09/12/2024 10:39:36 AM PDT by Allegra
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I always saw it to mean a silly, scatterbrained woman; wiki has it a little different:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flibbertigibbet


12 posted on 09/12/2024 10:41:40 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
"As a prosecutor I can charge you with anything I want. Your innocence or guilt isn't even relevant. I will charge you, ruin your career and family, break you with your own defense costs, and never even have to bring you to trial! Giggle...giggle....giggle....."

-Kamala Harris, 2019

How people are lining up to defend the indefensible is beyond scary. This is one very dangerous person that should be behind bars, not controlling them.

13 posted on 09/12/2024 10:41:44 AM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
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To: blackdog

Where did she say this?


14 posted on 09/12/2024 10:49:06 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Liz

Very informative and truthful comment.


15 posted on 09/12/2024 10:53:17 AM PDT by TurkeyLurkey
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To: TurkeyLurkey

t/y


16 posted on 09/12/2024 10:59:39 AM PDT by Liz (Faith is believing what you cannot see; its reward is to see what you believe. St Augustine)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

The “Taylor Swift demographic” (or a portion of it anyway) may (Lord willing) become her only supporters!

But then there are Swifties for Trump!


17 posted on 09/12/2024 11:05:00 AM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: Jamestown1630
That’s a good analysis on wiki. I like the Sound of Music description…
The nuns describe free-spirited Sister Maria as, A flibbertigibbet! A will-o’-the wisp! A clown! in the show tune “Maria” from the 1959 Broadway musical The Sound of Music by Rodgers and Hammerstein, and in the subsequent 1965 movie.
Of course, that’s what I thought about Obama in 2008, too (and still do).
18 posted on 09/12/2024 11:10:35 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowd)
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To: Jamestown1630

It was an interview replayed on Scripps News Network fed thru Haystacks News Stream on Wednesday. I heard and saw the whole thing. It gets as much attention as Joe Bidens Ukraine loan guarantees shakedown on live television (well, son of a bitch). It’s like they never said it. You know... like “ we select these facts over truths” -Biden. And “We’ve got the largest and most efficient vote fraud organization in modern history” -Biden. Both in 2020. “Gasoline needs to cost at least $5 a gallon in order for us to meet our energy goals” -Biden, 2008.


19 posted on 09/12/2024 11:12:09 AM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
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To: blackdog

I can’t find any reference to it. Did no one post about it on FR at the time? It seems that the people here would have jumped all over that. (It would be useful to hear the context, too.)


20 posted on 09/12/2024 11:20:37 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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