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Burned Out on Reality or Who Cares How Kamala Harris Spends $500?
A restlessness is pervading my soul. I’m tired of the horrid news, the insolubility of the issues, the repetitiveness of the ideas and my own inability to do something productive, when hopelessness seems impossible to shake off.
And this morning, I heard all the outrage about Kamala’s disgusting behavior in France when she bought a bowl and a pot at the insane price of $500—how dare she? When our own televisions and refrigerators are stalled indefinitely in storage containers in the ports of our great country.
Actually, and quite honestly, the only thing I found appalling about the Kamala story was that the conservatives were making a big deal out of her decision. Seriously?
Who cares?
We are on the brink of watching serious inflation rise and a gas shortage, dealing with the reality of 82,000 people brought from Afghanistan who were barely, or not vetted, at all, falling into the abyss of Marxism and Socialism, watching the President continue to descend into dementia, anticipating the winter surge of Covid and a new variant—can we please get serious?
Conservatives and Republicans are not well-served by our seizing on every petty action or statement made by the Left. Yes, I know they do it to us. But we are not them. It’s not like we don’t already have enough issues threatening the stability and traditions of our country.
Could we please focus?
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I soooooo agree with you. It’s just the petty press at work as usual.
It might not be. It might be one of those “Obama Tan Suit” things where the media insists that conservatives are outraged over some petty thing, when in fact it’s probably a couple Twitter eggs.
It might be like those stories where the perpetrator of anti-black graffiti on churches turns out to be black himself.
There you go. It’s as I said above. No conservatives actually care. The leftist press insists we do.
It’s the Starbucks “satanic coffee cup” thing. It’s the Star Wars fans supposedly upset about a black stormtrooper. It’s the 2A supporters supposedly becoming gun control freaks the moment they see a black man at the rifle range.
There’s little evidence that anyone actually cares or thinks this is a scandal. But the press insists conservatives must all be really angry about it.
The press does this all the time, guys.
The press really does not understand conservatives except through caricature. Susan, rest easy knowing that conservatives really don’t care about $500 in France.
Exactly.
I’ll bet the chicken was impressed. How did the egg turn out? There’s a lot of overrated stuff out there. I wonder if Harris ever cooks anything herself. I hadn’t heard this story yet. Now that I have, I feel as though I have gained nothing.
In my day, we didn’t need fancy-schmancy steel-toed boots when we went out cojones-kickin’. Plain old leather boots were good enough for us common folk.
OSHA doesn’t allow that anymore.
Ah. It looks like the Washington Free Beacon is the source, and therefore I suspect it was intended to be a satire that didn’t land. Other outlets source it back to the Washington Free Beacon and apparently think it’s newsworthy.
Hints from the writers’ Tweets.
The “BreakingExclusiveMustCreditFreeBeacon” bit suggests they’re intending to go way over the top.
“Haughty Parisian Shop” and “Lovely $375 Oval Dish” suggest this is not to be taken seriously.
I suppose if it’s good enough, pot might be worth $375/ounce.
They are trying to gaslight the independents. They are failing.
Well, four years from now the press will dutifully report that the only scandal of the Harris/Biden administration was her $500 cookware from a “haughty” Parisian shop (which, if you’ve seen photos of the interior, looks like a cluttered garage, complete with cheap pegboard on the walls, and stuff just lying everywhere). (But it’s 200 years old, so I’ll give ’em a pass.)
It was okay.
Wait a second . . . someone did a “news” story of her shopping? Could it be that the Free Beacon piece was intended to make fun of “journalists” following Harris around like adoring puppies while she shopped, and so they latched on to the $500 pan thing for kicks?
In other words “You’re going to heap adulation on her — for shopping for pans? Okay, we’ll fake-criticize her for shopping for pans.”
And it spun out from there.
Anyway, . . . so much for my speculation on how this became Kamala’s Tan Suit. I think it wasn’t supposed to be taken seriously, and now everyone thinks it was serious.
EDIT: Yup: C-Span has it all! (https://www.c-span.org/video/?516085-101/vice-president-visits-cookware-shop-paris)
I’m quite conservative, and I could not care less about how she spends her money. She should spend it any way she wishes.
Now, when she gets around to spending my money, (anytime the government spends anything) then I care.
Hamburger Helper, leave it to KC to subtly show off his arrogance.
As I said…overrated!
I don’t really care about her shopping for a pan any more than I was when Oprah was looking at purses. Now if she was purchasing toilet seats for Air Force Two, that would be different.
But you were really really supposed to care about that one! Why didn’t you, you . . . white person!?
You replied before I made an edit. My bad.
“White person”? Don’t tell HR, I am trying to get a promotion.
as did Court TV….
Kamala is a copper.
Yeah, but I don’t particularly like fried eggs, either.
Some people are already so outraged that the target doesn’t matter all that much. It’s a response looking for a stimulus and it probably has a lot to do with Lileks’ post. All-purpose ‘grr’ is the hamburger helper of news and opinion pieces, but did you know it can even be used as a humor substitute?
When Republicans try the Democrat trick of making an issue out of something like Kamala Harris’s purchase, the Democrats always make them look picayune and worse. Does anyone remember the way the Democrats made the Republicans look during Obama’s first campaign when one of his relatives, living in public housing, gave a donation ?
This has been a rather long discussion and the only place I have ever heard about Harris’ shopping trip is this article.
some pundit on the other side of your political spectrum said something outrageous
But conservatives were outraged, too! Focus!!
Drew, READ MY LIPS: Fox News shared their outrage, and probably other Conservative media!
Are you sure they were “outraged” over her buying expensive cookware, or was it because she’s swanning about Europe but has never been to the southern border, etc.
Harris’ pan shopping may be motivated by the social circles she runs in.
Oh Lord, won’t you buy me
A Mercedes Benz?
My friends all drive Porsches
I must make amends.
My husband’s favorite Janis Joplin song.