When Kamala Harris first announced her presidential run after shivving Joe Biden in the back, her campaign wrapped her in bubble wrap and stuck her behind a teleprompter. That hasn’t led to her running away with the race as expected, which means something had to change. What’s changed is the Harris campaign unleashing the vice president in a variety of “un-scripted” interviews with friendly faces.
On Tuesday, she was on “The View,” a setting that should have been impossible to screw up. Harris found a way, though. Her appearance with noted degenerate Howard Stern, who once put on blackface and repeatedly shouted a racial epithet, wasn’t much better.
Then there was “The Late Show” with Stephen Colbert. That was supposed to be the crescendo. It ended up being one of the most inauthentic, cringe interviews she’s ever done. Whatever precautions the campaign had taken to that point to hide the true Kamala Harris, it all went out the window with a cackle and some bad jokes.
HARRIS: Sure, well, I’m obviously not Joe Biden, and so, that would be one thing, but also, I think it’s important to say with 28 days to go, I’m not Donald Trump. And so when we think about the significance of what this next generation of leadership looks like were I to be elected president, it is about, frankly, I love the American people and I believe in our country. I love that it is our character and nature to be an ambitious people. We have aspirations. We have dreams. We are, we have incredible work ethic, and I just believe we can create and build upon the success we’ve achieved in a way that would continue to grow opportunity and in that way grow the strength of our nation.
Excuse me for one second…HOW IS SHE STILL NOT READY FOR THIS QUESTION?
I don’t get it. She has been asked this question repeatedly, and she has yet to provide a decent answer with at least one solid policy difference. It wouldn’t even have to be a huge one. All these back-slapping interviewers are doing is throwing her a softball to prove her bonafide as the supposed “change” candidate, and she can’t even get that right.
Have her handlers not told her to stop with the “aspirations and dreams” stuff? Have they not urged her to lay off the talking in circles about the “character” of our nation? This was vintage Harris, and it’s not even the worst clip from the interview. Oh, it gets worse. Believe that.
HARRIS: You remember what those days were like? You remember how many people did not have tests and were trying to scramble to get them? You remember how rare it was to have one? You remember people by the hundreds were dying every day? We would watch the number every day being reported of people who were dying?
The simple critique here is that she’s being incredibly dishonest about this subject. Far more people died under her administration than the Trump administration despite being handed vaccines and the structure to distribute them upon taking office. So what’s her excuse? But the more interesting observation here is her mannerisms. When you are on Colbert, you aren’t supposed to stare at the audience and lecture them. Harris can’t help herself, though. She is so over-rehearsed and inauthentic, and it comes out in every answer she gives.
HARRIS: Have you no empathy, man? You know, for the suffering of other people. Have you no sense of purpose?
It’s like she was grown in a lab. I’d ask which handlers are telling her to act this way, but we all know that’s not the issue. This is who Harris has always been. She is nakedly ambitious and wraps that in an imitative shell in which she fakes being empathetic and knowledgable. She’s the epitome of a “dog ate homework” politician.
HARRIS: The American dream right now is really elusive for far too many people in terms of even aspiring to own a home. It’s too expensive. We don’t have enough housing. We have a housing shortage. So part of my plan is to work with the private sector, with builders and developers, to build three million more homes by the end of my first term, and to give first-time homebuyers a $25,000 down payment assistance so they can just get their foot in the door to homeownership which is the fastest and most efficient way for people to build inter-generational wealth.
These are the ways I think about how we build up our country in a way that is about supporting the middle class. I come from the middle class. I’m never going to forget where I come from.
Do people actually buy this? I guess some do, given the applause at the end of this exchange, but they really shouldn’t. For one, a goal of building “three million homes” by the end of her first term would be a reduction in the number of homes currently being built. Secondly, how is the federal government going to get builders and developers to just randomly start building houses they otherwise weren’t going to build because they wouldn’t be profitable?
Most importantly, though, the reason people can’t afford a home is not just because of a shortage of housing in certain parts of the country. It’s interest rates. They have sky-rocketed under Harris’ tenure, causing mortgages to double in some cases. What was affordable two years ago is now unattainable, and the biggest thing the government could do to fix that is to stop screwing up the economy and causing inflation, which has led to interest rates being hiked.
But guess what handing out $25,000 checks to “first-time homebuyers” would be? It would be inflationary. Not to mention, that amount of money would be a drop in the bucket to the total cost of a mortgage at current interest rates. In short, her entire plan is moronic and counter-productive. Never mind that she’s been in office for four years. Why didn’t she work with Joe Biden to fix this stuff already? That’s the question she should be asked.
Lastly, I promised you the cringe would get worse, and I’m here to deliver. You really have to watch this one to get the full effect, though the transcript isn’t exactly good, either.
COLBERT: One of the old saws is, “They just want somebody they can have a beer with.” So would you like to have a beer with me so I can tell people what that’s like? Okay, this was, now, we asked ahead of time because I can’t just be giving a drink to the Vice President of the United States without asking. You asked for Miller High Life, you like the High Life. I’m just curious.
HARRIS: Okay, the last time I had beer was at a baseball game with Doug. So, okay, cheers.
COLBERT: So cheers. There you go.
HARRIS: Yep.
COLBERT: It’s like the beautiful city of Milwaukee
HARRIS: The champagne of beers!
That was clearly scripted ahead of time. The big tell is Colbert saying, “I’m curious,” about to ask her when the last time she had a beer was, but she pre-empts him and answers the question before he can get it out. Let’s assume that was organic, though. It’s as if Harris has never had an interaction with a real human being. I’d say that’s as bad as it gets, but there’s still almost a month left before election day.
