She’s Back!

She’s Back!

Did all of a sudden we missed Joe Biden and Kamala Harris? First they lead Biden on to a stage to talk to the disabled. Then Harris shows up to talk to a bunch of leftists in San Francisco – is there any other kind? Somewhere I read that Biden wants a fee of $300,000 to slur – er to speak. Who would pay that? Harris is “only” charging $50,000. But she needs to do something about her persona. She left me shaking my head saying “and this person could have been president of the United States?” One report described the speech as lurching from “cacophonous shouting to saccharine sing-song.” I don’t know if she did one of her famous word salads but in her speech was a rather powerful message that had to appeal to both the Trump haters and the rest of us.

“We all know President Trump and his administration and their allies are counting on the notion that fear can be contagious. But what they’re overlooking, what they have overlooked, is that fear is not the only thing that is contagious. Courage is contagious.” She then referenced a video of a herd of African elephants instinctively formed an “alert circle,” intended to protect the younger elephants at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park this morning, as a 5.2 magnitude earthquake shook southern California. Harris said:

“In the video, for those who haven’t seen it, those elephants were there, and as soon as they felt the earth shaking beneath their feet, they got in a circle and stood next to each other to protect the most vulnerable. 

Think about it. What a powerful metaphor. Because we know those who try to incite fear are most effective when they divide and conquer, when they separate the herd, when they try to make everyone think they are alone. But in the face of crisis, the lesson is: don’t scatter. The instinct has to be to immediately find and connect with each other and to know that the circle will be strong.”

Isn’t it interesting that she picked a video featuring elephants? But this is a message that should be heeded by all. It applies to all of those who the left tried to intimidate under the yoke of the Biden Administration. Remember the FBI raiding the homes of abortion protestors? Remember the raid on Mar-a-Lago? Remember the FBI raiding 35 MAGA allies of Trump? Recall the terrorist activities of the CFPB? The debanking of conservative organizations? Recall Biden’s abuse of power? And don’t forget the persecution of the South Dakota ranchers who were grazing their cattle on some national land.

Harris may have meant her illustration as a cautionary tale against the abuses of Donald Trump but it applies to the abuse of power, period. Her silence during the Biden years speaks volumes.

Harris needs to ditch the cackles. She needs to quit all the gesturing. She needs to hire speech consultants to try to turn her into a serious person free from ridicule. Right now she is a sad caricature. But can she be saved?

Just never forget the words of T. S. Elliot

Half of the harm that is done in this world

Is due to people who want to feel important.

They don’t mean to do harm – but the harm does not interest them.

Or they do not see it, or they justify it

Because they are absorbed in the endless struggle

To think well of themselves.

– T. S. Eliot, The Cocktail Party (1949)