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Don’t kid yourself: Kamala Harris does not want to be President of the United States. She doesn’t even want the ceremonial stuff, the incessant shuffling from one photo op to the next, the tedious Easter egg rolls, the prayer meetings, the turkey pardonings, the tiresome state banquets for men in strange headgear who are unfamiliar with using the fork and knife, and forbidden to sip chardonnay. . . .

It’s obvious she has been played for a chump, that she was sandbagged into play-acting “the candidate” by an odd coalition of the distraught and the desperate — that is, the many agency blobsters who fear prison and the perfidious politicians such as Pelosi, Schumer, Mitch the Turtle, the Clintons, and Obama, paid to cover for the blob, often doing it badly, who fear the judgment of history, as well as the loss of their fortunes. Distraught and desperate characters make foolish decisions.

About thirty seconds after “Joe Biden” vowed to stay in the 2024 race, a delegation of these panicked pols paid him a call and passed him the black spot, knowing he could not credibly front for the massive election cheat underway. He was barely able to front for the previous one in 2020, when every lever of power got pulled to-the-max to conceal the truth about the steal, and to severely punish those who dared to murmur doubts about the election’s freeness and fairness. ...

The outstanding question: will the Democratic Party actually go ahead and attempt to execute an election steal despite growing evidence of a developing Trump landslide that might obviate it? The works are already in motion. The mail-in ballots went out long ago and early votes are getting cast by the day. The overseas ballots that require no US address or voter verification are flooding in by the millions and four years of open borders has 10-million illegal aliens (at a minimum) dispersed around the nation, great gobs of them planted in swing states, processed through the DMVs and social services — with the requisite automatic voter registration — their ballots already pre-bundled for harvest.

It could go a few ways. One is, just let’er rip, harvest all those fake votes, stuff the drop-boxes, flood the zone, and do it all right in America’s face as if to say: we can do whatever we want. . . to get whatever we want. . . and you can’t stop us. That is probably the point where blue America finds out exactly what the Second Amendment was designed for. You might also expect a whole lot of state-organized resistance, especially in the populous red ones, Texas, Florida, real court cases over fraud this time, contested certification.

Or, the election could come out a hopeless unresolvable muddle. There’s no precedent for this and no provision in the Constitution, but you can imagine the Supreme Court having to decide a necessary do-over minus all recent gimmicks, paper ballots only, voters with proof of citizenship only, all voting on one re-scheduled election day before January 1. This novelty would be something apart from the clunky Congressional machinery established for settling electoral college disputes, since it is predicated on various states’ inability to determine their electoral college vote in the first place, based on patent irregularity and fraud. ...

Long ago, she was a pretty girl with a law degree and an infectious laugh on the fringes of local politics in San Francisco. The winds of fortune blew her this way and that way until she ended up way over her head, used by the reprobates around her as a mere device to stay out of jail. She ends as an historical prank on her own country. It must be deeply demoralizing to be used like that in front of the whole world.

The New York Times ran an obscene story yesterday headlined, “Porn Industry Jumps Into the Presidential Campaign, Targeting Project 2025.” Smut-peddlers for Harris! What else do you need to know?

On Monday, seventeen pornographic film actors announced that they had launched a $100,000 ad campaign on their websites called “Hands Off My Porn.” They’re terrified at the Heritage Foundation’s excellent Project 2025 plan, which calls for age verification and is very critical of the so-called “adult” industry. Thus, vote for Kamala, who will make sure kids can see online smut.

Apparently, young men are big Trump supporters, and this totally organic plan aims to convince them otherwise. But it may have misfired, since the sales pitch vote Harris to save porn isn’t resonating with wider audiences.

Victor Davis Hanson
@VDHanson
The Scent of a Harris Panic in the Air

The 2024 race is still close.

But then so was the 1980 Carter-Reagan race at this same juncture.

Indeed, incumbent president Carter was then comfortably up in the last two October Gallup polls—before utterly and suddenly evaporating on Election Day.

But in the last seven days, there seems a sense of panic in the Harris campaign.

How do we know that?

Why are Democratic pundits—from Axelrod to Carville—blasting the Harris campaign and otherwise warning of bad things to come?

Why are some of the once Democrat sure-thing senate races—e.g., in Ohio, Wisconsin, and even Michigan—tightening up?

Pundit poll-watchers are suggesting that Trump is close, even, or slightly ahead in the swing-state polls, suggesting that he is nearing a margin that could cancel out anticipated “ballot irregularities”.

The expected October Harris-Biden surprises—the opportune Fed interest rate cut, the transparently desperate Jack Smith beefed-up re-indictment, the current new Hollywood Trump-hit movie, the desperate Zelensky fly-in to Pennsylvania, the election-cycle customary Bob Woodward unsourced gossip book—seemed so far to have had no effect.

Why would any campaign send out the bumbling Tim Walz to a Fox Sunday interview after his disastrous debate?

Why is a suddenly smiling Biden so eager to claim candidate and VP Harris as a co-conspirator to his disastrous four years?

Why would Harris pivot and now agree to (admittedly mostly softball) interviews, thus confirming to the voting public why she wisely had previously avoided all press conferences, interviews, and town halls?

Why—after the last two moderator-rigged ABC and CBS debates—would Harris desperately want another and possibly believe that Trump would ever agree to any such warped forum?

The last 4-5 Harris scripted interviews, but especially on CBS’s 60 Minutes, have been train wrecks.

Everyone expected (and was not disappointed) the on-spec word salads, predictable sappy retreats to her misleading bio, the now accustomed deer-in-the-headlights confusion about her prior three years with Biden, and the general mush in lieu of any policy prescriptions.

Why would CBS think it worth ruining its already debased reputation by doctoring the transcript of the Harris disastrous interview in a vain attempt at Orwellian repair?

Why is a rusty but still narcissistic Barack Obama at last hitting the campaign trail?

And is he still effective—or reduced to becoming an Oprah-like caricature?

After all, is it wise for the elite Obama (in his now accustomed snarky “clingers” style) to venture out of his mansions (Kalorama? the Hawaii beachfront? or the Martha Vineyard estate?) to talk down to black males struggling under years of a hyperinflationary economy, a flood of illegal immigrants from an open border, and a four-year-spiking crime rate?

Does the Netflix grandee berating black men as victims of false consciousness, misled, and brainwashed into voting for the Trump agenda really win them over to Harris?

Does the hundred-million-dollar-plus man Obama persuade anyone by reverting for a few moments to his old community-organizing, fake black patois and his pseudo-racial intimacy of “brothers”?

And does it work for Obama (remember “when they go low, we go high”) to blast Trump as racist and crude, when Obama jokes that Trump wears diapers— this after previously suggesting at the Democratic convention that Trump suffered from small genitalia?

If this should continue, soon the July 21st coup that removed Biden, along with the Harris pick of Tim Walz, will go down as days of Democrat infamy.

Anything can happen in the next three weeks. But so far, the cures for the Harris slide are far worse than the malady itself.

Harmeet Dhillon is a San Francisco lawyer who’s known Kamala Harris for more than 20 years. Her verdict: Kamala Harris is a criminal. Here are the details.

Huh, Kamala has never had a private sector job, but has lived off on taxpayers her whole career.

Kamala Harris proposes forgivable loans of up to $20,000 for black entrepreneurs.
Oct 14, 2024

A story in three headlines! First, anti-DEI warrior Chris Rufo, who took down Harvard’s gay black president for plagiarism, published this Substack article two short days ago:

Kamala Harris's Plagiarism Problem
The vice president appears to have airlifted sections of her book, Smart on Crime.
CHRISTOPHER F. RUFO
OCT 14, 2024

On the same day, the New York Times, leaping to the plagiarizing vice president’s defense, ran a classic “Republicans pounce!” story. Admitting that Kamala cut-and-pasted parts of her 2009 book, ironically titled “Smart on Crime,” the Times framed the scandal as conservatives taking advantage of a poor, misunderstood — but joyful — Vice President who merely lapsed.

Conservative Activist Seizes on
Passages From Harris Book
A report by Christopher Rufo says the Democratic presidential
nominee copied five short passages for her 2009 book on crime.
A plagiarism expert said the lapses were not serious.

It was just a lapse. It can happen to the best of us! Kamala lapsed into something all right. Amusingly, the increasingly poorly written New York Times overlooked the fact that “lapse” means something someone did before but stopped.

So ironically, the Times accidentally accused Kamala of being a serial plagiarist. In other words, friendly fire.

Finally and third, this morning’s (not paywalled!) Washington Post headline:

Harris campaign rejects claims of plagiarism
Some experts say the incidents cited by a conservative critic are modest and may not reflect an intentional effort to take
credit.

In other words, Kamala might have done it on accident. The Washington Post’s attempt to cover for Kamala was even more accidentally destructive than the Times’ “lapses” argument. According to WaPo, Kamala’s not a plagiarist, she’s just stupid:

Accusations of plagiarism can become politically damaging they
helped derail President Joe Biden's presidential campaign in 1987
and potentially invite questions about a candidate's honesty. But in this
instance, according to several experts, the passages appear the result of
sloppy work rather than a malicious attempt to steal someone's ideas.

More friendly fire! The WaPo’s quoted “plagiarism experts” did their best to soft-pedal the scandal — it’s nuanced — but were forced to admit that, technically speaking, Kamala did in fact plagiarize several parts of her awful book:

"It's nuanced," said Jonathan Bailey, a copyright and plagiarism
consultant who has examined the claims about Harris's work. "It's not
nearly as serious as accusers want it to be and it's not the
nothingburger that the Harris campaign wants it to be, either."

All in all, with all that friendly fire, Kamala probably felt like she was being attacked by a swarm of indignant bees. And this is how desperate the Kamala campaign is getting: behold yesterday’s headline from Bloomberg:

Kamala Harris Says Reparations for Black Americans Deserve Review
Vice president touts agenda in Charlamagne tha God interview
Harris seeking to ramp up outreach to Black male voters

Reviewing Reparations! So.

Apparently this comes from the 'hope springs eternal' that his Rockefeller cousin IHLlary can still be maneuvered by sleight of hand into the bankrupt office and complete the task of starting WWIII.

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