Kamala Chameleon: America’s First Instagram Candidate
by Andy Caldwell
A comedian told the story of going into a Denny’s restaurant for a meal. After looking the menu over, he pointed to a picture of a dish and told the waiter that is what he wanted for dinner. After finishing the meal, the waiter asked him how he liked it, to which he replied, “My compliments to the photographer!” That story is the best illustration of what I refer to as the “Instagram generation.” Young people swapping photos with one another to impress their friends with images that don’t convey the truth about much of anything. Unfortunately, we now have our country’s first Instagram-age candidate in the form of Kamala Harris.
Ms. Harris can’t point to a single thing she has done that qualifies her to become president of the United States. Moreover, she can’t give us any reason to believe the next four years won’t be worse than the last four years of her and Joe’s administration. In fact, she had the lowest net negative approval rating in history for a Vice-President at -17%! Nevertheless, the media and the party faithful are now promoting her simply based on images alone. No press conferences. No policy statements, except her insane plan to tax unrealized capital gains. No integrity with regard to her contradicting the positions she previously held on gun control, fracking, border security, and the like. Moreover, no accountability for her famous word salads which are nothing less than her vain attempt to scramble, regurgitate, and repeat questions she can’t answer because she is entirely vapid.
What bothers me most about Kamala’s candidacy is that it relies on two very troubling attributes of younger Americans. The first has to do with the concept that truth is a feeling rather than something based on fact. One famous example involves one of the most popular topics among the young, namely climate change. Washington’s Governor Jay Inslee suggested that students engaging a climate curriculum should rely on their emotions rather than rational thinking to understand the topic matter. Hence, Harris’s campaign’s emphasis on joy. Joy is an emotion. She can’t appeal to a person’s rational thought because she can’t defend her contradictory positions on any number of policies in a manner that will appeal to voters.
The Real Kamala On Display
That brings us straight to the second troubling aspect of Kamala’s campaign. What does it say about America that so many people are okay with the fact that she is lying about her positions to get elected? That is unfortunately the only explanation having to do with all the glaring contradictions contrasting her former statements and votes to her nebulous campaign rhetoric.
Don’t take my word for it.
Senator Bernie Sanders, when asked if Kamala has abandoned her previous progressive positions, answered, “No, she is just being ‘pragmatic’ to win the election.”
We all know what he means.
Fortunately, Harris has a voting record as a U.S. Senator representing California, and as Vice-President, she serves in the Senate as a tiebreaker. According to govtrack.us, which analyzes the voting records of our representatives, while in the Senate, Harris distinguished herself by being the farthest left politician in the Senate. She was also the second most absent senator when it came time to vote on bills and she was the senator least often to cross the aisle to back bills by Republican senators. As vice-president, she cast the deciding vote to approve the so-called “Inflation Reduction Act,” which steered over half of the money dedicated to bolstering manufacturing to just seven states which happen to be the swing states in the upcoming election, including Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
Coincidence?
I don’t think so.
Meanwhile, NumbersUSA gave Senator Harris an “F-” lifetime rating on immigration.
What Politico wrote in 2020, when Harris dropped out of the presidential campaign, is still true today, “Kamala the campaigner couldn’t live up to Kamala the idea.” Or, as Maya Angelou rightly stated, “When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.”
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Thanks, Andy. Terrific column as always.
I don't think the young people in this country buy the Kamala image lies. The young people I've talked to in the last year are in general much smarter about what's really going on than the older generations - by older I mean those 40 and up. I don't know any young people who trust the media. I don't know any young people who even read the NYT or watch either CNN or Fox, unless they work for it. There are those, the graduates of elite journalism institutes and I know one, the son of a friend. But this is a tiny percentage of our population, soon to be replaced by AI.
That doesn't mean the young don't have their youthful stupidities. I do hear some young people blathering the kind of pretentious nihilistic pseudo-idealistic nonsense the young have always gone for. What difference does this election make, both sides are awful, as though they are the first to ever say this, not eternal cliches of youthful stupidity. But mostly I'm impressed by how much smarter they are in general than any other generation I've seen.
Very good, using the word chameleon. Speaking of chameleon, once when I was a kid the family returned from a circus in Boston where I purchased a chameleon. I put the chameleon in a cage and one day our cat Muffy managed to "cut" the chameleon in half with its teeth. That night for dinner my mother made green lime Jello inside a bundt pan and added carrot pieces and fruit, reminding me of chameleon guts. The word "chameleon" now reminds me of my chameleon chopped in half by my cat and a green lime Jello concoction and now Harris. I wonder if this is an omen for Harris ... she better stay away from sawmills. By the way, when is FOX going to talk about Harris's husband's background of violence towards women?