Kamala Harris returning to the political landscape – Latest News
I suppose I ought to admit it. I miss Kamala Harris. Life on this nation has not been the identical with out her.
We’ve missed her musings on yellow buses, all that discuss coconut trees, and of course her meditations on the nature of time.
Since Kamala has gone silent I typically discover myself going back to her best hits, to remind myself as an example that time, when you consider it, has great significance.
Most of all I’ve missed the great, seemingly wine-fueled, stand-up moments, when she talks about one thing that she appears to discover virtually endlessly amusing.
For causes that no one else can both clarify or share.
So I’m relieved to uncover that Kamala is back. Bigly.
On Thursday the former vice president did a 30-second promo video by which she will get requested the query that’s on the lips of all Americans.
“What’s going on with Kamala HQ?”
This is requested by an offstage voice whereas Kamala grins like a maniac.
“Well I’m so glad you asked” our hero replies. “I have good news. So Kamala HQ is turning into Headquarters.”
If the significance of this has handed you by then let me clarify that Kamala HQ is an X-address which has been sadly dormant since Kamala failed to win over any voters in the November 2024 election.
‘Um, I’m actually excited’
In case anybody thinks I’m exaggerating right here, let me simply remind you that Kamala not solely failed to increase Joe Biden’s share of the vote, she did worse than him amongst teams — like younger girls voters — who Kamala had anticipated to have in the bag.
So the newly renamed “Headquarters” is outwardly “where you can go online to get basically the latest of what’s going on.”
I’m not completely sure what market the former vice president is talking to right here.
After all, there are fairly a lot of locations online and off the place we will already get mainly the newest of what’s occurring.
There are newspapers and information websites, as an example.
Even blogs, social media and more.
Did Madam Vice President have her cellphone and different gadgets taken away from her since her 2024 trouncing and so stays unaware of this complete subculture we call “news”?
Finally, we get a little readability from our star.
Still grinning from ear to ear and gesticulating in that unforgettable means that means she’s down with the children, she informs us that at “Headquarters” we may also give you the chance “to meet and revisit with some of our great courageous leaders. Be they elected leaders, community leaders, civic leaders, faith leaders, young leaders. Um, I’m really excited about it, so stay engaged and I’ll see you out there.”
I’m not sure why we need to “revisit” any of these nameless people.
Did we go to them a lot earlier than and have forgotten to drop by for a whereas? And who’re these thrilling group, religion and civic leaders who’ve been silent since Kamala HQ stopped pumping out content material?
Behind the occasions
If you´re nonetheless not clear what’s going on, effectively a minimum of Kamala and her crew have given us a couple of clues. One is that they’ve determined to undertake the X-label of “@headquarters_67.”
This is a reference to an online meme briefly in style with some youths some whereas in the past.
The meme — which like a lot of online memes is simply too difficult and unimportant to go into right here — indicators a want to be down with the children.
Unfortunately the meme was already long lifeless and buried even earlier than Kamala and her social media geniuses determined to dig it up and batter its corpse one remaining time.
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Even CNN has admitted that this attempt to look cool is nearly the epitome of what the children would possibly call “cringe.”
Kamala couldn’t have appeared more out of sync if she’d began speaking about Pepe the Frog.
But the different clue as to what Kamala is hoping to do is the revelation that this new, hip, down-with-the-kids web site is meant to be “the new Gen Z led progressive content hub.”
In partnership with the “progressive” nonprofit group “People for the American Way” we’re advised that this partnership goals to “mobilize pro-justice, pro-fairness, pro-democracy young people against far-right extremism.”
Perhaps that is a good time to remind people of Murray’s law. Which is that it is best to by no means use a time period in politics the reverse of which might solely be mentioned by a maniac.
So can anybody at HQ or People for the American Way please discover me the younger people in America who declare themselves to be “anti-justice, anti-fairness and anti-democracy”?
Perhaps they’re on the market someplace, together with different right-wing bogeymen of the radical left’s creativeness.
But I haven’t but met an American who declares their politics to be any of this stuff.
“Yes, my own politics is based on opposition to justice and fairness,” mentioned no one in America ever.
Pining for Gen Z
But it doesn’t matter, as a result of in the radical left’s desperation to discover its means back from electoral catastrophe, they need to muster each American Gen Z individual they’ll to start the struggle in opposition to “far-right extremism.”
But simply bear in mind how that time period has been abused by these people over latest years.
From being a time period that was helpful and mandatory occasionally, the far-left has determined that just about every little thing is far-right whether it is one thing they don’t agree with.
Police? Far-right. ICE? Fascist far-right. President Trump? Literally Hitler.
And how did that sport work out for them?
Remember that in 2024 Kamala Harris underperformed Joe Biden’s 2020 race by virtually 7 million votes. And Biden 2020 was the election when the Democrat nominee hardly left his basement.
Perhaps Kamala and her “progressive” allies actually do imagine that Gen Z and others might be received over by historical memes, “revisiting young leaders” and having a web site “where you can go online to get basically the latest of what’s going on.” I wouldn’t be so sure.
But a minimum of there’s nonetheless the excellent news for us Kamala watchers. She’s back.
