The takeaway of any honest viewer of Kamala Harris\u2019 much-lambasted interview with CNN\u2019s Dana Bash this past week is that of someone overwhelmed \u2013 burdened, one might say \u2013 by the stresses of campaigning, and for that reason, wholly unsuited to the office that she seeks.\u00a0 Even though the Left would beg to differ, one can still level a criticism against a so-called \u201cperson of color\u201d that is not based on race or gender, but rather, stands alone as an objective assessment of the candidate\u2019s performance.<\/p>\n
In terms of conviction, Harris cut the opposite of the image of a confident leader.\u00a0 The fact that she needed Tim Walz with her in tow, who has been needled by the press as \u201cKamala\u2019s comfort dog\u201d \u2013 someone who is supposed to provide assurance for a candidate palpably in over her head, is hardly the look of a strong, independent woman.\u00a0 Rather than be the change candidate, the impression was a candidate ill-equipped in every possible way to take on the solemn and sober duties of the highest political office in the land.\u00a0 Not a good look for a president.<\/p>\n
Kamala\u2019s uncertainty began with her non-responses, which invariably devolved into \u201cword salads\u201d of jumbled and confused thoughts, decoupled from specifics on policy or anything resembling a novel or coherent line of reasoning.\u00a0 This was immediately on display when Bash pressed Harris on her pivot on several policies, especially fracking.\u00a0 In 2020, as a Democratic candidate for president, Harris ran on a platform of banning the practice unilaterally.\u00a0 Her change now is obviously born of political expediency, plain and simple.\u00a0 Everyone knows this gambit: she is desperately trying to pander to crucial voters in Pennsylvania and other rustbelt states, whose economies so heavily depend on the oil and gas industries.\u00a0 Only a fool would deny that incontestable fact.\u00a0 So too would a fool believe Kamala at her word, and think she has come to a genuine change of heart on that issue.<\/p>\n
Luckily, most people aren\u2019t fools. This was evident by the downward trends in prediction markets and major pollsters, which had Kamala Harris riding the wave of a manufactured \u201choneymoon period\u201d narrative in the weeks after Joe Biden was forced out of the race. The fallout of the CNN debacle was swift and unforgiving: Polymarkets, a betting platform, which had Kamala leading Donald Trump before the CNN interview, immediately reverted to having the 45th President ahead once again.<\/p>\n
After Kamala Harris\u2019 disastrous interview performance, Polymarket, a prediction market platform, put Donald Trump in the lead over Kamala Harris.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Nate Silver, a left-leaning pollster who created FiveThirtyEight<\/em>, also yielded a forecast model<\/a> that gave Donald Trump a five point advantage over his opponent in taking the electoral college. These polls and prediction markets indicate that Americans can detect a choke and bullshit artist when they see one, and Kamala Harris, whose acted out the Art of the Choke in realtime on CNN, came across in the worst possible way: an unapologetic liar, willing to say anything \u2014 including adopting President Trump\u2019s own policies, and rhetoric \u2014 to get herself elected.<\/p>\n This is especially true given her previous, well-documented devotion to the Cult of Climate Science, which was zealous and extreme. In 2020, if it were up to her, she would have wiped the oil and gas producers off the face of a planet.\u00a0 Now, of course, her handlers tell her to speak out of both sides of her mouth to pander to what they hope are gullible voters.\u00a0 This explains Kamala\u2019s garbled answer to Bash, professing that her \u201cvalues have not changed,\u201d even though she now, apparently, supports fracking \u2013 at least until November 5th.<\/p>\n Will Pennsylvania voters buy this?\u00a0 They certainly should not.\u00a0 Her explanations \u2013 paired with her off-putting, holier-than-thou attitude \u2013 simply do not make sense to anyone with an IQ above room temperature (and probably even to those below the mendoza line).\u00a0 That apparently wasn\u2019t enough. Incredulously from there, Kamala doubled down. She went on to actually describe Joe Biden as an \u201cintelligent man,\u201d multiple times.\u00a0 This is where, of course, Kamala\u2019s dishonesty was most illuminating: here she revealed her cards as a classic case of the lady doth protest too much.\u00a0 Kamala\u2019s lies are so brazen as to be unbelievable.<\/p>\n Unlike Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama before her, and to a lesser extent, Joe Biden (at least when he was still semi-sentient), Kamala is a very poor student in the art of duplicity.\u00a0 She wouldn\u2019t even likely register as an amateur by most counts.\u00a0 For these reasons, her falsehoods became immediately apparent, so much so that you could almost \u2013 almost<\/em> \u2013 forgive the scandalously biased Bash, representing her scandalously biased network, for not interrogating the Democratic candidate further on the nonsense.\u00a0 Anyone with a pulse could detect it.<\/p>\n And if her lies somehow weren\u2019t already obvious by the shiftiness of her responses, they should have been discerned by her repeated self-contradictions that riddled virtually every answer she mouthed, eroding the last of her credibility.\u00a0\u00a0 The clearest case of this being her insistence that Joe Biden was \u2013 and remains \u2013 an intelligent(!) man, implying that he is still capable of remaining in office as president while she campaigns, even though he was ousted in a coup \u2013 of which dear Kamala dutifully played a significant part as co-conspirator \u2013 because of his lack of mental marbles.\u00a0 But heaven forbid Kamala be asked to campaign and<\/em> govern as president at the same time. Don\u2019t black (Indian<\/a>? Who knows!) womXn already bear enough of the world\u2019s burdens! Heck, in her \u201cwarped\u201d worldview, such an ask would be tantamount to a hate crime!<\/p>\n If not that, what other explanation does Kamala Harris have for why she, and not ol\u2019 Joe, was sitting before Dana Bash for an interview about hers \u2013 not his \u2014presidential campaign? Alas, Dana Bash conveniently forgot to ask! Maybe Joe\u2019s amnesia is contagious and infected every mainstream network!<\/p>\n Democrats naturally love to dress up the July coup resulting in Biden\u2019s ouster in language to the effect of \u201cJoe stepped down for the good of the country,\u201d characterizing it as a noble act of sacrifice and heroism, which the press, in turn, seems to always accept as an incontrovertible article of faith.\u00a0 They never fail to overlook the most natural follow-up, namely: what on earth caused Joe to step down, a little over three and a half months out from the most consequential election in modern American history, after being adamant about not doing so for months on end, in the first place?<\/p>\n Intelligence and terminal dementia normally do not go hand-in-hand.\u00a0 But Kamala\u2019s repeated insistence that Joe Biden is \u201cintelligent,\u201d \u201cso smart\u201d and \u201cvery strong\u201d transmits the obvious truth that he\u2019s in fact not any of those things. He is utterly incapable of handling the duties of his post because he does not have the mental capabilities to do so.<\/p>\n It\u2019s a dead giveaway that a politician is lying when they must repeatedly describe an elderly man riven by dementia \u2014 now recognized universally \u2014 as \u201csmart\u201d and \u201cintelligent,\u201d both descriptions standing as attacks on reason and observable reality itself.\u00a0 The truth is that Kamala aided and abetted the fraud of the century: Joe Biden\u2019s senility. This fraud gravely endangers the entire national security of the country, all done to avoid a connection to that fraud \u2013 which, of course, is still ongoing.<\/p>\n That Kamala then had the audacity to say Biden, who unleashed hordes of illegal aliens into our country, helped restore our \u201csovereignty\u201d and \u201cterritorial integrity\u201d \u2013 and, on top of that, claim that the number of immigrants \u201chas actually reduced\u201d \u2013 takes the art of lying to a whole new, absurd level.\u00a0 Adding insult to injury, she meshed her lies in an exceedingly dismissive and shamelessly condescending tone throughout.<\/p>\n Acting like CNN was an adversarial outlet \u2013 and the mere act of asking questions to her, as coddled up as they were, somehow crossed the line of professionalism, indicates a deeply insecure person who is easily rattled, even in a forum as cloyingly friendly as CNN\u2019s no doubt is. In the past, this would disqualify a person\u2019s candidacy, no questions asked, because an inability to handle a painstakingly easy, softball interview demarcates the bare minimum of what a president is expected to do.<\/p>\n Could you imagine a person with Kamala\u2019s exceptionally weak character and disposition dealing with Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, Bashar al-Assad or Kim Jong-un?\u00a0 Of course not!\u00a0 Her dismissive tone betrays a fundamental ignorance about the high responsibilities of the presidency, or \u2013 maybe even worse \u2013 showcases a callous indifference to its importance, an importance which includes its venerable history and the lofty standards, imposed by tradition, upon each and every one of its officeholders.<\/p>\n While it\u2019s true that it\u2019s been a long time coming, with the exception of Donald Trump\u2019s four year stint, in which the presidential incumbent truly lived up to the majesty of the office, it is indisputable that if, God forbid, someone like Kamala Harris were to ever occupy that position, for all intents and purposes the United States of America would be over.\u00a0 She harbors nothing but scorn, disdain, and resentment for the office, and callous disregard \u2014 in the form of her odious sense of entitlement \u2014 for the institutions enshrined by our Constitutional form of government.<\/p>\n It\u2019s one thing to be ignorant of history, but it\u2019s another thing entirely to be apathetic of our cultural traditions and customs \u2013 not even pretending to care to learn more or so much as try to relate to your constituents in a meaningful, indeed human, way.\u00a0 Wisdom is found in admitting one\u2019s ignorance; Kamala Harris strikes the portrait of a cutthroat politician, full of pride and hubris and complete disregard for the well-being of those over whom she seeks \u2014 intends<\/em> \u2014 to rule.<\/p>\n Her election would be a national disgrace and unmitigated disaster on so many fronts. Kamala\u2019s interview with CNN reaffirms this fact \u2013 and again, not that it was needed, but underscores the extremely high stakes of this presidential election, the most important in generations. One that will determine whether the United States of America will go on, or succumb to pride and ignorance, the perennial sins that have brought mightier civilizations than ours to ruin. With candidates like Kamala Harris, who are we to believe we will not escape a similar fate?<\/p>\n The post INGRASSIA: The Art Of The Choke: How Kamala Harris\u2019 Dumpster Fire Of A CNN Interview Indicates That She\u2019s Not Presidential Material<\/a> appeared first on The Gateway Pundit<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The takeaway of any honest viewer of Kamala Harris\u2019 much-lambasted interview with CNN\u2019s Dana Bash this past week<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n