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Kamala wants top billing — 41 Comments

1. Somewhat OT: Neo, you might want to correct the misspelling of “public” in “American public” above.

2. That some (including herself) seem to stress Harris more than Biden comes as no surprise to me because identity politics is the prime thing they have going. And Biden is, just going by identity politics, nothing but an “old white guy.” That counts for nothing under the left’s ideology. But, Harris, on the other hand, is a woman AND a person of color. Bingo – with Harris they got a “two for one”!

   P.S. PA Cat – I didn’t catch the misspelling. But, given how some people vote maybe it is the correct spelling! They are public with the “L”!

3. What is every bit as frightening as a win in less than two months for Harris/Biden is the possibility of the lack of a clear victor, with week upon week of squabbling and fighting amongst legions of lawyers (in this area the Democrats have a clear advantage) over ballots missing, ballots incorrectly tabulated, ballots illegible etc. In the worst-case scenario, with no binding vote by the Electoral College in December, and no official declaration by Congress in January 2021, our republic would truly be in chaos.

4. PA Cat:

   Thanks! Good catch. 🙂

5. That, my dear people, is what is called a “Freudian Slip”.

6. “Honestly, I think she’s giving Joe a lot of credit to include his name at all.”

   https://notthebee.com/article/a-harris-administration-together-with-joe-biden

   Check out the Bee’s new parallel-universe site, where the news is too strange to even parody.

   I’m not even sure THIS is a parody anymore.
   https://babylonbee.com/news/democrats-reveal-they-have-planted-dynamite-all-around-nation-and-will-blow-it-up-if-biden-isnt-elected

   I just scanned the headlines, and, if we hadn’t gone through the last 8 months, would accuse JTN of plagiarizing stories from the Bee.

   https://justthenews.com/

7. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbbNHyjgjw4

   She explains herself at 3:18

8. A slip of the tongue, to be sure. But she’s only stating what nearly everyone knows to be true: Joe Biden is an empty shell with little actual authority. If, God forbid, this absurd ticket wins, he will be a figurehead. They’ll trot him out for official events and formalities and, with enough preparation, a fail safe teleprompter and a lot of luck, he might even be able to deliver the state of the union in person (if not, they’ll revert to the pre-Wilson format of delivering a paper copy for the clerk of the House to read).

   Beyond that, Harris and the Obami will be running the show. Even most ardent Democrats know this; they don’t care, indeed, they probably prefer it.

9. It’s not a slip of the tongue, it’s a signal. Nearly everyone knows Biden is a dead end street. Harris is the POTUS nominee, and they choose poorly.

10. She was on top during the Harris-Brown administration.

11. But Joe backs her up. Today in Tampa he refers to a Harris-Biden administration.

12. Somewhere on the internet I saw a comment that the Secret Service must be interviewing food tasters.

13. She’ll be a house maid in the Jarrett-Ciaramella administration.

14. I’d be stunned if Kamala Harris were really in charge in a Biden administration. They’d might let her think she is. But Marshall wasn’t in charge when Wilson was incapacitated…

    But it’s a good question who thinks they are really running things, and who really might be.

15. Frederick:

    I think she’d be more in charge than Biden would be. But I agree that she wouldn’t really be in charge. There would be a bunch of leftist operators calling the shots, and we might or might not learn who all of them are. One would probably be the AG, the other the Secretary of State, but there would be a lot of others.

16. But Marshall wasn’t in charge when Wilson was incapacitated…

    They have a legal architecture to put her in charge which was not available in 1919. The wild card would be Biden and his wife.

17. neo writes, “to anyone who thinks the MSM is not still influential, the fact that a Harris/Biden ticket (that’s the order in which I put it) is getting any more than 5 percent support should prove that the MSM still has a lot of power to shape opinion.”

    neo, I’ll cut you slack for rhetorical flourish (“5 percent”), but I’ll make my point anyway. It’s considerably larger than 5 percent, sez M J R, when taking into account

    – X percent of the electorate are committed leftists;
    – Y percent of the electorate are knee-jerk Democrats;
    – Z percent of the electorate cannot stomach Trump.

    I contend that X + Y + (a portion of Z) are not that influenced by the MSM, but would be very pro- Harris/Biden in any event, and that

    X + Y + (a portion of Z) is substantially greater than 5.

    How much greater, not much of clue, I’m afraid. Any one else out there?

18. M J R:

    Yes, but how do you think those committed leftists, knee-jerk Democrats, and Trump-haters got that way? The MSM has been pushing the first two for many many decades, and the last one from the time Trump became a candidate, unceasingly. For people who have not abandoned the MSM it is highly influential, now and in the past.

    The 5% was hyperbole, but not exactly. What I mean is that if the MSM had been reporting the truth for the last 100 years, the number might really be 5% or even less.

19. “She was on top during the Harris-Brown administration.”
    How do you know? Are there videos of them on the internet?

20. It’s going to be a tech-Obama fusion gang running the show, the “smartest” people in the room who know what’s good for you.

21. neo writes, “what I mean is that if the MSM had been reporting the truth for the last 100 years, the number might really be 5% or even less.”

    neo, I can meet you half way if you can cut the 100 years to 50 years or so. As I recall the 1950s, right up until the mid-1960s — before that, I was too young to recall anything first hand — the MSM was pretty patriotic and even pro-USA (Walter Duranty types notwithstanding), save for leftist newspapers in urban areas.

    But in those urban areas, there were genuinely competing news sources. Multi-newspaper cities were the rule (as I recall and have learned). The lefties weren’t reading the competing news sources, but the alternate view could at least seep into the leftists’ bubble by osmosis, and these lefties would at least be aware that there was indeed another way of looking at the world . . . unlike now.

    But yes, were on our way. A young-ish William F. Buckley Jr. was moved to observe, “though liberals do a great deal of talking about hearing other points of view, it sometimes shocks them to learn that there are other points of view.” [“Up from Liberalism”, 1959.] Even by 1959, many of them had developed a sort of herd immunity to the MSM.

    Thanks for the response!

22. Biden AGREES WITH HARRIS that it will be a Harris/Biden administration.
    He says it himself! See him say it here:

    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/09/15/joe-biden-pitches-harris-biden-administration-to-florida-veterans/

23. I wouldn’t want to be Joe Biden’s food taster. But aside from that, Freudian slip or not, what makes anyone think that Kamala Harris is going to be making any decisions or policy choices?

    She’ll only be making those if Joe Biden steps down, if she’s lucky. What I want to know is, who’s going to be making the decisions and policy choices while he’s still there in the Oval Office, Weekend-at-Bernie’s style? Whomever it is, won’t have been elected, won’t have made promises to keep, and won’t be facing re-election.

24. Harris/Biden administration = Obama’s third term.

25. I wouldn’t underestimate Harris’ lust for power. She’s already demonstrated that she’ll do almost anything for it and has plenty of the requisite ruthlessness. And Biden is incapable of faking even a minimal amount of competence. He’ll be gone in less than 90 days and Harris will pretend to be manipulable.

    Yes, once sworn in as President they’ll try to pull her strings but I can easily see her firing anyone who tries to manipulate her. IMO, she’s easily capable of pulling off a political “night of the long knives”… it’s her specialty.

26. “Harris/Biden administration = Obama’s third term.” – MollyG

    Very lilely, and with his own handlers in charge.
    He will be the unofficial ceremonial figurehead, but really will read about e ents in the papers, and really won’t be “responsible” for anything.
    Since “It’s not my fault” was his primary refrain for 8 years, I’m sure he is looking forward to it.
    IF Harris lets him (Geoffrey has sound arguments).

    I wonder what the betting odds are?

27. In case any of you still harbored illusions that Scientific American was about either science or America, sorry to bust your bubble.

    https://www.breitbart.com/science/2020/09/15/scientific-american-endorses-joe-biden-president/

    The magazine Scientific American backed 2020 Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden in its first-ever presidential endorsement in the magazine’s 175-year history.

    The editors wrote that they felt “compelled” to support Biden in his effort to defeat President Donald Trump, citing Trump’s handling of the coronavirus crisis and his skepticism on issues such as climate change.

    “The evidence and the science show that Donald Trump has badly damaged the U.S. and its people — because he rejects evidence and science,” the editors wrote in the magazine’s October issue.

    “That is why we urge you to vote for Joe Biden, who is offering fact-based plans to protect our health, our economy and the environment. These and other proposals he has put forth can set the country back on course for a safer, more prosperous, and more equitable future,” the magazine’s endorsement continued.

    The editorial focuses primarily on Trump’s response to the pandemic and his attempts to downplay the situation. At least 194,700 Americans have died of the coronavirus as of Tuesday afternoon, according to a New York Times database.

    The endorsement comes with fewer than 50 days until the presidential election and the country dealing with multiple crises other than the coronavirus pandemic, including deadly wildfires on the West Coast and a heavy hurricane season in the Atlantic — especially around the Gulf of Mexico.

    That was the entire news story.
    So, I went to the record.
    https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientific-american-endorses-joe-biden/

    The longer article is an interesting example of the news format where everything they say is true (or mostly so), but what they don’t say would change the story completely.

    Another example is this post, along the same lines.
    The irony of the headline is probably lost on most of SA’s remaining readers (we dropped our subscription in the late nineties because of their increasingly obvious political slant — and decreasing number of interesting scientific articles — and that was back before I became a Right Wing blog addict!).

    https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/we-cant-allow-the-cdc-to-be-tainted-by-politics/

    One of the Breitbart commenters mentioned that SA is owned by a German company, which is is, as shown in this other very interesting post.
    Forget the military-industrial complex; it’s the financial-industrial network that’s running the global circus.

    https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/ownership-ties-among-global-corporations-strangely-resemble-a-bow-tie/

28. Just to counter some of what SA said about President Trump, I will let him speak for himself.

    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/09/15/trump-getting-things-done-more-important/

    President Donald Trump defended his abrasive style of leadership at an ABC News town hall on Tuesday, arguing that it is more important to get things done.

    “I’m fighting a lot of forces,” Trump said. Sometimes you don’t have time to be totally, as you would say, ‘presidential.’ You have to get things done.”

    The president commented during an ABC News town hall on Tuesday night in Philadelphia where one voter asked whether he would act differently to inspire a more unified country if he won a second term.

    “I’m fighting a battle. It’s a big battlefield, and I have a lot of forces against me,” Trump replied. “I have the media, which I call the fake news because a lot of it is fake.”

    The president argued that the results of his first term spoke for themselves — passing tax cuts, improving care for veterans, rebuilding the military, creating Space Force, and appointing hundreds of federal judges as well as two Supreme Court justices.

    “Honestly, we move very fast, and I have to get rid of people fast because they’re not doing their job,” Trump said, defending the number of officials who have resigned or been fired from his administration.

    The president said that he could be more presidential but pointed to the results.

    “The fact is, being presidential is easier than what I have to do, but I get things done,” Trump said.

29. AesopFan:

    Like you I gave up on SA more than 20 years ago. Don’t miss it. Same disease had metastasized in the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS – Science magazine) and the Geological Society of America . With Science and the GSA publications it was “Climate Change Science” and “Sustainability” that were the political dogmas that caused me to leave after 25+ years. Who knowns what toll “racism” has now wrought on these scientific bodies?

30. BTW – slightly off-topic, but it’s important to remember what the Left is going to push onto the country if Biden/Harris/Biden/Obama wins in November: all trans, all the time.

    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/09/15/study-corrected-transgender-hormones-and-surgeries-offer-no-mental-health-benefits/

    The American Journal of Psychiatry (AJP) has released a correction to a 2019 Swedish study which drew as its primary conclusion that individuals who claim to be transgender experience mental health benefits following gender-affirming surgeries.

    An article at the Public Discourse by family physician Dr. Andre Van Mol of the American College of Pediatricians, endocrinologist Dr. Michael Laidlaw, and psychiatrists Dr. Miriam Grossman and Dr. Paul McHugh noted the authors of the original study retracted its conclusion after numerous requests for a reanalysis of the data led to the corrected findings.

    I wonder if the Magazine and Party of Science will correct any of their agendas in line with the revised findings.

31. Another small reminder of where the Harris/Biden administration wants to take America.
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/09/15/jerry-brown-mocks-people-who-want-to-leave-california-where-are-you-going-to-go/

    Former California Governor Jerry Brown mocked the idea of leaving California in an interview published by the New York Times on Monday, saying that the problems of climate change were global and could not be avoided.

    Brown, 82, left office in 2019 after his fourth term. He made climate change his focus throughout his last two terms, often making alarmist claims — such as falsely claiming the ocean would flood LAX, or blaming climate change for wildfires.
    …
    As governor, Brown also mocked those who left California to find more favorable economic conditions in states with lower taxes and fewer regulations. “We’ve got a few problems, we have lots of little burdens and regulations and taxes,” he said in 2014. “But smart people figure out how to make it.”

    The stupid is strong in this one.
    Since he said that 6 years ago, he loses any sympathy for being too old to know what he’s saying.

32. Kate: Steven Hayward was the originator of the line you remembered.

    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/09/the-harris-administration.php
    “I’m betting the Secret Service is taking resumes of food tasters right about now.”

    Hayward also addressed the unScientific unAmerican endorsement, with his usual meticulous research.
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/09/science-they-say.php

    Flashback 1: Harvard geneticist Richard Lewontin, writing in 2004 in the New York Review of Books: “Most scientists are, at a minimum, liberals, although it is by no means obvious why this should be so. Despite the fact that all of the molecular biologists of my acquaintance are shareholders in or advisers to biotechnology firms, the chief political controversy in the scientific community seems to be whether it is wise to vote for Ralph Nader this time.”

    Flashback 2: MIT climate scientist Kerry Emanuel, as mainstream as they come in this politicized field (Al Gore references his work, and in one of his books Emanuel refers to Sen. James Inhofe as a “scientific illiterate” and climate skeptics as les refusards), offered this warning to his field in 2010: “Scientists are most effective when they provide sound, impartial advice, but their reputation for impartiality is severely compromised by the shocking lack of political diversity among American academics, who suffer from the kind of group-think that develops in cloistered cultures. Until this profound and well-documented intellectual homogeneity changes, scientists will be suspected of constituting a leftist think tank.”

    Ten years later, his prediction is unimpeachably true.

33. Not only Scientific American…
    National Geographic also.
    I joined in 1956, and stopped renewing my subscription in 2000.
    It had gone too left for me, and that was when I last voted as a democrat.

34. Hitching a ride on Joe the Mule… haha.

35. Scientific American, National Geographic… we’ve all heard Iowahawk’s “skin suit” comment by now so I won’t repeat it here, Tom said, apophatically.

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37. Conquest’s Second Law:

    “Any organization not explicitly right-wing sooner or later becomes left-wing.”

38. Into the 1980s, National Geographic‘s editorial policy was such that the framing of the stories therein was what you might expect of someone whose take-for-granteds what that of a business Republican. The Grosvenor family ran the Society; they were patrician people quite at home with the salient features of the social and political order (though I bet they weren’t too thrilled with the sort of marginal income tax rates which prevailed prior to 1981). Somebody’s gotta be on top and we’re doing a satisfactory job, thank you very much.

    I miss those kind of people myself.

39. You are all wrong. Sorry.

    Like Bond villains, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were telling us exactly their intentions. Hoho Harris clearly referred to “Harris administration, together with Joe Biden, as President of the United States.” Later, Plugs Biden spoke about the “Harris-Biden administration.” These were not gaffes or mistakes.

    Harris was telling Democrats there is no need to fear the diminishing mental capacity of Joe Biden. She will be the real power behind the throne in league with the Democrat aristocracy. The Bidens just want the US Presidency on the family resume.

    After the two year waiting period, and serving half a term, Harris can run for a full four year presidential term of her own. At the end of that, she can run for reelection for another four year term. Having been the regent president for two years, the completion president for two years, a first and second term of her own, Socialist Kamala Harris could conceivably be President of the United States for twelve years.

    With that much time in the Oval Office, the Socialists will have had a chance to completely eliminate the United States as we have known it for 230 years. All opposition will have been eliminated or re-educated as all Socialist regimes have done everywhere.

    That is, I believe, their plan. Unless interrupted by a Donald Trump second term followed by two terms for Mike Pence. Unfortunately, either scenario plays out into civil strife or civil war for a long time. Neither side will compromise. Neither side can compromise. One side will not accept individual liberty and one side will not accept enthrallment. We have come to an impasse, a chasm too far. It’s a time for choosing.

40. Indigo Red:

    I’m not sure why you’re saying “you are all wrong.”

    I actually think that is the agreement, and that the people really running the show will be others, even further left than both of them put together. Note that I had a question mark after “Freudian slip.”

    Nor do I see a lot of people here arguing that it was a slip up. It has been the contention of the vast majority of people here that Biden is a shadow figurehead, Harris will be more involved, but a group of committed leftists would be pulling all the strings.

41. I think what Charles said in the second comment needs to be considered. Is this a conscious effort to put Harris on top for LIVs?

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