libs have graduated from "most qualified" to "justify myself to you? I don't even justify myself to myself"
I'll admit that I skipped out 3/4 through but the thing i kept thinking was "ok well...she could clearly DO THINGS if she didn't wanna be seen this way"
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.)
"What do you bring to the team?"
"A self-selected group of 2000 fans clapped and cheered for me."what a deranged asshole.
"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.
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
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
EDIT2: christ this is a long article
no I think I was misreading it, I think he's trying to say something good. just a weird way to say it
Jamal Simmons
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?"
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?
Imagine being at work and demanding your boss to take you seriously and promote you to a more important position and when he asks why you just say “I shouldn’t need to justify myself.”
Many people are asking questions already answered by my “I shouldn’t need to justify myself," t-shirt.
now i'm reading this. good lord.
in a discussion about how the blackhole of her messaging strategy has created a scenario where her supporters claim she represents whatever they want and her detractors say something similar:
Brown, of Black Voters Matter, said Harris is “absolutely a progressive.” Maria Teresa Kumar, president and chief executive of Voto Latino and a longtime political ally in California, said Harris is neither a moderate nor a progressive, but “ideologically pragmatic.” 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.”
good god. imagine thinking that is a compliment.
in the Kamala Bible, there is only one commandment: "Thou Shalt Be Strong"
She's Schrödinger's Neoliberal. She's progressive. But of course she's moderate too. Her word salad is proof of her efforts to explain things clearly.
“She’s a Christian, but strength is her religion.”
It reminds me of Trump's silly and clumsy but very American phrase "strong and powerful". And - of course - the more somebody's proxies go on and on about how strong somebody is - the less it can be true.
Strength is her religion? Is she a gymbro or something? Maybe I was wrong about her.
in the Kamala Bible, there is only one commandment: "Thou Shalt Be Strong"
Except she doesn't come off as strong at all. She's just a chameleon, adapting her appearance to whatever is trending. Since she's never in the limelight for any extended period of time and she's too unimportant for even the far right to take seriously, people don't really keep tabs on what she says or does. Whenever she's engaged on any particular issue, she hems and haws out of a fear of displeasing anyone.
That's anything from strong.
excuse me. that will be your last comment. 2000 people just clapped and cheered for her.
leaves room
She's just a chameleon.
That's exactly it. I don't know why I never thought of her that way. It's why I detest her. I hate weathervanes but a chameleon is even worse. They are a weathervane who lies about it.
She's a cop, if she wants my vote she has some explaining to do
That picture does not match the title of the article. Her smile makes it look like a literal missing persons piece.
