Posted on 08/20/2024 10:44:40 AM PDT by george76
There is a lot of chatter on Twitter/X regarding Kamala Harris' bizarre word salads.
For a long time, people have just assumed she is a moron, and I admit that this has been my working theory. She rose through the ranks of Democratic politics on the back of relationships with powerful people, implying that intelligence was not the driving force in her rise to power.
She certainly is not charismatic, regardless of what the current propaganda keeps trying to sell to us. Until the media decided that they had no choice but to back her with all their firepower, they were actually quite disgusted by her, probably because of her collapse in the Democratic race in 2019. They had been 100% behind her and she collapsed into a heap of dung in that campaign.
Now there is an alternate theory about why she is so incoherent, and once you look, you can't unsee the likelihood that it is true.
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A lot of rumors out there about Kamala having a serious drinking problem…apparently coming into focus as campaign heats up.
⏳Stay Tuned
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Is Kamala drunk most of the time? If you watch her talk with that possibility in mind, so much makes sense all of a sudden. All those word salads, the occasional slurring, the inappropriate laughs... These are all tells that her brain is fogged by something, and it may not be stupidity.
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Anyone familiar with alcoholism has to see that Kamala Harris has a drinking problem, right? 🧵
1. She's drunk in public and on video. She's not *stupid* or *awkward* or *joyful* She's drunk. Day drunk. On the job. In front of cameras. In front of kids. She's drunk.
Watch the videos and see for yourself.
2. Her campaign team and the Biden Admin manage her the way families attempt to manage alcoholic parents:
The campaign is hyper-controlling, keeping her from any situation that might expose her secret - hence not allowing her to speak off-script, and refusing press conferences.
The Biden Admin was unhappy with Kamala and reluctant to give her responsibility. Though the administration did not admit it publicly, aides and staff reported it to the press with enough regularity that it was considered basic fact.
3. The ENTIRE *JOY* CAMPAIGN IS AN ELABORATE COVER FOR HER PUBLIC DRUNKENNESS. It's the classic "Mom's not drunk, she's just really happy!" on a national scale.
It's like being gaslit by dysfunctional parents into pretending our alcoholic mom/aunt/grandma/whatever is just fine, thank you, keep smiling, the world is watching and if we pretend hard enough maybe we can fool ourselves into being happy, too
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Don't get me wrong; she is not the sharpest tool in the shed, not playing with a full deck or knocking it out of the park when she takes an IQ test. But is she as stupid as she seems, or is she drunk?
I vote drunk.
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Obviously, I don't know; it could be a Xanax addiction, and if that is the case, that would be potentially worse. Addiction to benzodiazepines would be easier to hide but harder to actually kick during a campaign. The withdrawal symptoms are famously harsh, and the period of time it takes to get better is famously long. It is a remarkably unpleasant and debilitation process and there is no way to do it while traveling the country and speaking regularly to large crowds.
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I totally missed this until it was pointed out to me, but I think that was confirmation bias on my part. I have been seeing her up on the national stage for five years, and you assume that nobody could rise to her position without being at the very least sober when in public.
But then again, she didn't exactly rise to where she is by being especially good at politics. She was carried there by others who were pushing her up the mountain, not hiking up it by herself. Since it didn't take skill to get there, maybe even sobriety wasn't required.
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And it would seem odd that this has been successfully covered up for so long. But then again, Tim Walz's drunk driving lies were covered up for decades, as have his serial lies about his service record.
If the media doesn't want to see it and the people who are tied to her professionally don't want to say it, it will not be said or reported. It really could be that simple. Lots of things get swept under the rug all the time.
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Watch clips of Kamala's bizarre moments over the years and see for yourself.
“... it could be a Xanax addiction, and if... [or]... to benzodiazepines...”
There are tells from different substances. For example if she were on amphetamines or coke each would tend to create different unusual jaw movements that tell the aware person which has been ingested. Amphetamines causes the user to slowly open their jaw and then suddenly snap their teeth together with a force and speed that doesnt seem humanly possible shattering teeth. Coke often has the user holding their mouth open, jaw muscles somewhat tight and sliding the jaw back and forth left to right.
We need to look for other behaviors that tend to come with other substances.
Cackling and babbling can come from various things, that in and of itself isnt enough.
Ive noticed with her that occasionally she slows down and reboots then comes back. That is a very liquor like symptom.
What else has a tendency to reboot the user? Some of the med professionals like paramedics or from ERs will know once its been pointed out. Cops from areas with a lot of citizens in altered states should know right away also when the symptoms are presented to them.
Shes too active and excitable to be a burnout.
Might be pot in there but not stuck on the other side.
Not if its white liquor and shes doing chilly willies.
80s hardcore rocker types did that to catch up drinking when they got to a party late.
Im told that this is recently the preferred method of “drinking” by those high school girls that use liquor at school.
“If it were booze you would smell it on her breath.”
There are other ways to introduce alcohol into a system without drinking it. A movie a few years ago (can’t recall the name) started a discussion about this here on FR.
Snorting is surprisingly common.
Vodka goes right up to the brain. Just a little goes a long way and does so quickly.
I wonder if she has historically been known to engage in non-coke type nose play. Snuffling, snorts, nasal sprays...alcohol in the nasal membranes tends to do damage if often/regular enough.
Ive just been notified that the chillie willie of old had nothing to do with what people are calling a chilly willy now.
An additional shot glass is put on the bar upside down. If you are a girl sneaking it into school you could use a thimble or bottle cap or something. The liquor is poured into there and snorted up. Its quick and would be hard for others to catch.
Thats all there is to it. It didnt cost much and bartenders generally gave one for free knowing you would likely start spending big once you got greased up to go.
Right through the nasal membranes into the blood stream and to the brain. Unlike drinking it one doesnt need to consume enough to effect the whole bodies motor control and there isnt enough in the system to ooze out and smell. White liquors so that you dont have anything colored potentially running back out.
In the old days that was followed by shooting your bourbon and pounding down that first beer.
She got the munchies and had to stop at Sheetz to buy a bag of Doritos.
Kamala always sounds like she needs to blow her nose. Not sure if it’s mucous or something else. Disgusting skank.
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I agree. She sounds like she has a blocked nasil passage and needs to blow her nose. I can’t stand listening to her talk.
Hello Madam. Madam I’m a recovering alcoholic. 34 years out from the days of wine and roses.
I know drunks. Nothing hides the smell of it.
Alcohol when ingested immediately enters the blood stream and is exhaled through the lungs for hours.
Ain't a thing I don't know about drunks.
This chick is on Xanax or Aderall and, in my layman's opinion has some sort of life long neurological condition.
Probably pseudo BulBar Affect. It's inappropriate laughing or crying at often inappropriate times. Either way this incredibly mawkish and ignorant woman ain't playing with a full deck.
“34 years out from the days of wine and roses.”
Just seeing that phrase, “the days of wine and roses”, gives me shivers. That has to be the saddest movie I ever saw. And when I saw it, I had never had any experience with alcohol or alcoholics (Baptist preacher’s kid, just out of seminary). The movie may be part of the reason that I rarely drink; it scared the crap out of me. Congrats on your 34 years!!
The Days of Wino 🍸 and Roses
Wrecked the greenhouse.
Jack Alberstson.
Good actor.
Jack Lemon?
Correct! Wrong Jack.
Could be some of that involved, I havent been around a lot of people abusing either but even if she were laughing uncontrollably due to something like that then there generally would be other symptoms.
One minute shes rebooting like a depressant and the next shes at 100 miles a minute. If she were on something then she certainly wouldnt be the first person to abuse more than one thing simultaneously or to alternate to turn different states on and off.
PBA might sound something like that but doesnt look quite like that. If a person were abusing a substance heavily or in combination with others that certainly could cause some sort of emotional dysregulation but the person experiencing it generally couldnt control all that well which emotion is being seen at any given time. That is to say, she couldnt always act goofy and silly on stage and then become Hitler when she walks off, sometimes someone other than Cacklebeast would show up on stage.
Irritating laughing, even if somewhat inappropriate at times, just isnt enough to even make guesses on. It just makes her weird, and even at that, her personality is only entirely weird to those of us in the other regions of the US.
You're right, if I understand what you're saying, it seems to indicate side effects. These are often more pronounced than the condition is and affect a person's behavior. Years ago I was in love with a woman who had been sexually abused as a child and suffered terrible bouts of depression, rage, relative happiness and then terrible lows and of course drugs and alcohol. Something is going on with this really bizarre and incredibly ignorant woman. Some sort of social anxiety and some more of medication. I'm still going with the Xanax Theory.
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