I am actually reading it. I'm nearly done. I had to force myself to take a break from my endless war doomscrolling.
I had zero expectations about the article but it actually was a bit better than I expected. It's not a puff piece at all. In fact - I bet it will make Kamala and her hive angry. What strikes me about the text is that it's just like every single thing I've read about her. It's devoid of details about what she actually believes and how she wants to get stuff accomplished. Her entire focus seems to be herself.
Like other articles it's full of drama and it covers her unyielding, abrasive attitude which in person I assume must like Hillary's "It's my turn" mindset. Here's a typical example in the writer's careful, politic phrasing. He doesn't say she got angry and stormed out of the room but it certainly seems that way to me.
In Chicago, I directly placed in front of her the question others had only insinuated.
"When someone asks, 'What does Vice President Kamala Harris bring to the ticket?' what is that clear answer?" I asked. Her team made clear it would be my final question.
"Were you in this room of 2,000 people?" she asked. I nodded.
"Did you see them cheering and standing?"
"Yes."
"That's what I say."
She stood up and walked out of the room.
I assume Kamala is no joy to be around. Because not only does she go through staff like a hot knife like butter after they leave they never seem to go on the record and talk about her. I assume that at best they don't like her but I think many of them actually hate her. I wonder what Symone Sanders-Townsend thinks of Kamala. It can't be anything good or even neutral.
The New York Post published a tally of Harris's staff departures — 13 within 13 months. They included members of the advance team, her longtime policy adviser, her first chief of staff and her high-profile press secretary, Symone Sanders-Townsend, who now hosts a show on MSNBC. (Harris has yet to appear.)
If you squint your eyes you can see that impulse to say it's empowering. Like when a musician is brought to an interview for an industry show and they ask about her love life. The thing is that people are asking about someone to represent them. To, as a sovereign, grant this person power. Yes, I do want to know how you intend to use this power that labor creates. You're auditioning to be a public servant, not a public celebrity.
one of them goes on record in the article. it's presented a little cryptically but how is this not a bit of a sideswipe
Jamal Simmons, who served as Harris’s communications director before leaving the role at the beginning of this year, suggested that her identity lies elsewhere. “She’s a Christian, but strength is her religion.”
EDIT: maybe I'm reading it wrong? he's quoted a few times later on making excuses for her, so maybe he thinks he's saying something good. doesn't land for me
You made me curious about him so I went right to his Twitter account to see what he had to say. I should have predicted it. This is his most recent tweet.
There is no defense for the intentional murder and kidnapping of innocent civilians — especially the elderly and children — ever. Put yourself in the room with gunmen threatening your family. There will be time for political debate later. This is not complicated.
"This is not complicated," - it's so simple to be a lib. I wish somebody would ask him "Put yourself in the room with gunmen threatening your family. You're Gazan and the gunmen are Israeli. Now what?"
Over and over they scream at you "Where are the tunnels!" in badly broken Arabic. And what do you say? Do you say "I don't know," or "My young son goes looking around without asking me so maybe he knows," or "I know but I'll only tell you if you let us live?" or "Please don't murder us?" Or...?
I am actually reading it. I'm nearly done. I had to force myself to take a break from my endless war doomscrolling.
I had zero expectations about the article but it actually was a bit better than I expected. It's not a puff piece at all. In fact - I bet it will make Kamala and her hive angry. What strikes me about the text is that it's just like every single thing I've read about her. It's devoid of details about what she actually believes and how she wants to get stuff accomplished. Her entire focus seems to be herself.
Like other articles it's full of drama and it covers her unyielding, abrasive attitude which in person I assume must like Hillary's "It's my turn" mindset. Here's a typical example in the writer's careful, politic phrasing. He doesn't say she got angry and stormed out of the room but it certainly seems that way to me.
I assume Kamala is no joy to be around. Because not only does she go through staff like a hot knife like butter after they leave they never seem to go on the record and talk about her. I assume that at best they don't like her but I think many of them actually hate her. I wonder what Symone Sanders-Townsend thinks of Kamala. It can't be anything good or even neutral.
"What do you bring to the team?"
"A self-selected group of 2000 fans clapped and cheered for me."
what a deranged asshole.
She made the "...and everybody cheered" meme real.
"Why should voters support you?"
"Well, have you noticed that there are some voters who support me? That's why."
Just totally vapid shit.
If you squint your eyes you can see that impulse to say it's empowering. Like when a musician is brought to an interview for an industry show and they ask about her love life. The thing is that people are asking about someone to represent them. To, as a sovereign, grant this person power. Yes, I do want to know how you intend to use this power that labor creates. You're auditioning to be a public servant, not a public celebrity.
Every dems wistfully wishes they could be like Obama.
one of them goes on record in the article. it's presented a little cryptically but how is this not a bit of a sideswipe
EDIT: maybe I'm reading it wrong? he's quoted a few times later on making excuses for her, so maybe he thinks he's saying something good. doesn't land for me
EDIT2: christ this is a long article
Okay. Fair enough.
no I think I was misreading it, I think he's trying to say something good. just a weird way to say it
You made me curious about him so I went right to his Twitter account to see what he had to say. I should have predicted it. This is his most recent tweet.
"This is not complicated," - it's so simple to be a lib. I wish somebody would ask him "Put yourself in the room with gunmen threatening your family. You're Gazan and the gunmen are Israeli. Now what?"
Also the israeli gunman have been systematically executing your family and there's no way to tell who will be next
Over and over they scream at you "Where are the tunnels!" in badly broken Arabic. And what do you say? Do you say "I don't know," or "My young son goes looking around without asking me so maybe he knows," or "I know but I'll only tell you if you let us live?" or "Please don't murder us?" Or...?
If the scariest person you know, someone you're a little afraid of, promises to go after their family to show them what its like; what do you say?