Reflections From a Murky Pond

Kamala’s stances on her promises and policies are like that, nothing but word salad from a rhetorical vegan who’s spent her entire – albeit short and late-started through no fault of her own – campaign dodging or waltzing around even softball questions about them.

But, of course, that’s probably a wise course of action. She doesn’t exactly have a good policy record. Also, the only reasons anyone – a smallish minority – is going to actually for Kamala are: she’s currently, most often claiming to be a Black, and she’s a woman. Everything else – the vast majority of those who will check Kamala’s name in November – will be doing so to vote against President Donald Trump. Actually defining her intended policies and making actual promises is, hence, unneeded and actually detrimental to her 2024 election prospects.

Honestly, I’m actually expecting it to happen… assuming, of course, that it hasn’t already happened. 😉 Given the current economic crisis, the Dems’ pandering to their current and future voters, and the horrific state of elder care in America, it just makes sense that some old people would try to game the system this way. And, more power to them if they do!

Some, mostly deluded Democrats and cowardly RINOs, think that President Trump didn’t perform well in the recent debate with Kamala Harris. Personally, I think President Trump did quite well in the debate. I’ll even go so far as to say he did incredibly well in it, given the it was a 1v3 PVP match. It was President Trump against Kamala Harris and David Muir and Linsey Davis, the ABC’s supposed moderators for the event.

Essentially, ABC through Muir and Davis said, “Never Again” after the Trump-Biden debate. They weren’t going to be impartial, honest, or nonpartisan when it had been proven how high the stakes were. That’s why the engaged in that I call Malicious Fact-Checking of everything President Trump said while both never fact-checking Kamala’s statements and throwing her carefully curated, softball questions that were literally campaign points for her.

So far in what passes for Kamala’s campaign it’s been like that. She’s spent the majority of it dodging the press. She’s made it clear that she’s going to do whatever it takes to not give interviews or hold press conferences, with a couple of carefully curated and prerecorded ones with allied media outlets being as close to an exception as it’s likely to get. It’s so overt and extreme that even staunchly Democrat outlets are complaining about it, albeit with very soft and almost apologetic voices.

And yes, her and her staff have shown that they’re more than willing to take extreme measures to make sure that the press keeps their distance from her. She even pulled out – or was pulled out by her handlers – of giving the commencement address at the most Left-wing, Democrat college, UC Berkeley, giving the excuse that they were currently in a labor dispute with the local chapter of the AFSCME union, which had called for a speaker boycott.

Babylon Bee or not, the fact that Kamala’s only interview – and a carefully scripted and curated on at that – was held jointly with Tim Walz didn’t go over very well with some feminists and some Blacks, especially Black women. They were offended by the appearance of her needing to have a White man there to lean on if needed.

So yeah; where’s Kamala? The answer is wherever the press isn’t. And, as certain sorts in the Lamestream Media claim, that’s a good thing for her campaign. Read whatever you like into that statement.

There’s no doubt that America, like all nations, cultures, and peoples, is a land partially built upon myths. Just listen to a Liberal rant when they hear about making America great again, or an American when Liberals try to rewrite – normally to a more Black and White – parts of history. In both cases, there will be an immediate acknowledgment that this is so. Simply put, America is Americana as much as anything else.

But now, 23 years – approximately an entire generation – since the Muslims enacted the greatest act of terrorism in modern history, we seem to have a new American myth, that of widespread unity in the aftermath of 9/11. And, that is what and all it is – a myth, a wondrous but false bit of exceptionalism to be added to Americana.

The truth is that by 9/12 various Democrats were already online, proudly proclaiming that the attack was America’s fault and we deserved it and worse. The truth is that by 9/12 the were many Muslims celebrating the attack, and others whose only concern over it was their fear of Americans’ response. The truth is that 9/12 literally was when Democrats brought the term “Islamophobia” to the forefront of sociopolitical discourse, and it was the inception of what has become #Wokeness.

No. Our nation coming together as one on 9/12 is just a new American myth. Many of us did, but far too many within our borders chose to side with the Muslim terrorists instead, and many more than that chose to politically profiteer off of it.