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Kamalisms Are Back!
“They” have kept Kamala away from microphones for a while, but she has started speaking again. Here she explores the nature of being undefeated for a high school football team:
Kamala "Cringe" Harris tells a Pennsylvania football team: "You will be undefeated even if you don't win every game" pic.twitter.com/tmBlsBW660
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) August 18, 2024
And what would a Kamala appearance be without musings on the nature of democracy:
Kamala word salads are so back: "Our election is about understanding the importance of this beautiful country of ours in terms of what we stand for around the globe as a democracy. As a democracy, we know there's a duality to the nature of democracy. On the one hand, incredible… pic.twitter.com/GeMmgVESFk
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) August 18, 2024
And even Trump approves of her insights on grocery prices:
Shortest political ad I've ever seen 🤣 pic.twitter.com/l8T2pHU4Cz
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) August 16, 2024
Finally, did you know that Kamala is not a black name but means “lotus” in Hindi? It’s also the name of the Hindu goddess Lakshmi. Who said Kamala was black?
Published in Election 2024
Kamala does.
I mean, recently anyway.
Kamala the Ugandan Giant would like a word with you.
But Trump is the dangerous fool…
I bet one of her handlers gave her the line about “even if you lose a game your spirit is still undefeated.” She just mangled it, because she is drunk (allegedly).
This is kind of sweet. It’s like the message of Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea, that a person can be ruined and yet remain spiritually undefeated. It’s almost (dare I write it) Reaganesque.
Fascinating report out this morning on NBC News, not a Republican-friendly news source by any means. This is pretty objective reporting on what life is like on “the other side”:
It’s an interesting glimpse of the disheveled state of the party right now.
This party platform writing-publishing timeline does add some interesting data to the question of whether Biden was forced out or not. Obviously, for some reason the party needed him to resign from the race. They had to talk him into it. They couldn’t force him in any way. I think that’s a good thing. But it’s also a bit of information in our putting together a picture of Biden’s campaign ending and Harris’s campaign starting. No one could move in terms of adjusting the campaign until he resigned from the campaign officially.
But more importantly, I know MS Word inside and out, and I know that all modern word processors work the same way. I cannot think of a single reason why the party platform could not have been edited and updated in the roughly thirty days since Biden withdrew from the race. It’s only ninety pages long.
To me, it looks like there is a lot of incompetence at the top of the party. The party’s leaders don’t even know they lack expertise in some areas, and where they realize they do need it, they don’t know where to get it.
We’ve all been wondering who is running the show in Washington these past four years. Looking at her campaign, I would bet it has not been Kamala Harris. She is just a camera-ready candidate. She is neither a leader nor an executive.
Thank you for this short compendium of Kamalaisms. I needed a laugh this morning.
Why are we talking about the difficulty a candidate has in forming coherent sentences? Why not emphasize the many ways in which Trump is a better candidate than Harris?
Agree…go for it The.
She’s either drunk most times or the dumbest Indian ever.
I always assumed it was humor, but maybe the notice was serious. I was working in the administrative branch of the court system when I saw a poster that said: “From the date below, your lunchtime martinis will be made with gin and not vodka. We would rather have our customers know you are drunk than think you are stupid.”
The sweet spot: Too drunk to drive, but still sober enough to walk.
Why not do both? I’d love to see your analysis of why Trump is better than Kamala.
Oh no, she positioned herself very well to succeed. She assumed whatever position was necessary to succeed.
I am from Western PA – that High School (Aliquippa) is one of the best (and toughest) teams in the state. They have produced lots of NFL players (Mike Dikta, Darrelle Revis, Ty Law…). I can image the eye-rolling when listening to this dribble.
And she has that grating, kindergarten-teacher tone and mannerisms. And that “coach” is standing beside her.
You almost convinced me to do that, but I decided instead that people here should do as I say, not as I do. I’m going to instead talk about the many ways in which Kamala is worse than Trump or in which Trump is at times almost as bad as Kamala. I prefer negativity. I’m not going to do as much of it here, where there is not much point, as on Twitter and at the WSJ (where I’ve been doing it for a while) where there are more Trump haters and Kamala fans. It’s much more fun that way.
Yes, but can she walk AND chew gum at the same time?
Or just to su…. well, you know.
I really think Kamala lives in a different world, a world where her word salads make sense.
Definitely. Someone other than Joe has been making policy decisions for the last 3+ years.
Who would Slow Joe listen to, if anyone? Or is he so in the dark that he doesn’t know what is being done in his name?
We have no way of knowing who the first woman president of the U.S. was. DNA is no help.
And even if he’s told, how quickly does he forget?