[American Thinker] As Joe Biden's public approval tanks in the polls, his sidekick Kamala Harris is also looking pretty wretched.
She underwent 'repackaging' from swamp consultants who specialize in "crisis messaging," to very miserable results as she posed for videos with kids, coming off phonier than ever.
And more important, she may have been frozen out of all serious decision-making as an obviously giggling lightweight.
There's this item, reported by Fox News:
Several top members of the Biden administration were in Mexico City on Friday for a meeting with Mexican officials regarding security along the U.S.-Mexico border. But Vice President Kamala Harris wasn't among them.
Harris, whom President Biden appointed in March to manage the U.S. response to the migrant crisis along the border, went to New Jersey instead.
Attending Friday's high-level talks in Mexico's capital were Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland.
Ken Salazar, a former U.S. senator from Colorado who now serves as the U.S. ambassador to Mexico, also attended.
"Today's High-Level Security Dialogue marks an important new phase in the US-Mexico security partnership," Mayorkas tweeted Friday. "We will work together under a new framework to guide our joint efforts, and work toward our shared goals of security and prosperity for our two nations."
Those are heavy hitters, and they have a multipronged agenda with Mexico. They'll be talking about extradition treaties, migrant arrangements, gun-running, and how to fix up Central America so its citizens will want to live there. CNN has a report on the agenda to be discussed in these high-level talks. Harris is Biden's border czar, and somehow, she's not important enough to be there.
PJMedia columnist Rick Moran argues that Harris may be skipping out of this heavy-hitter meeting basically because she's so lazy, which is one possibility.
But the other one is that she was disinvited. The big boys have moved in and pushed Instagram-obsessed Kamala aside as a nuisance who'll get underfoot.
I lean to 'disinvited' at this point, given various circumstances.
One, on Sept. 9, according to an Associated Press report, Harris actually was the one who announced the high-level talks, surely implying she would be in them.
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10/11/2021 7:07 Comments ||
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Besoeker... Here is a possible why?
What if she has a drug use issue and she is seeking a private/quiet treatment solution?
I say this given her documented erratic behavior cited by several Media outlets, which suggested she appears spaced out or High.
eg.... Is Kamala Harris, er, high? Harris was speaking to the children as part of her role as Chair of the National Space Council. She certainly sounds spaced.Example story here.
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Maybe she picked up the wrong glass while meeting with Joe and got some of his dementia meds by accident. Some of 'em are not benign for someone who isn't supposed to be taking them.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
10/11/2021 9:13 Comments ||
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This isn't surprising - her uselessness is almost unique amongst modern politicians, and she's the lead argument / proof for keeping broads out of politics altogether.
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The VPs job is to look worse than the President. They picked a good candidate for that but the task was impossible. They are screwed in 2024 election if they don't have illegal assistance.
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#5 What if she has a drug use issue and she is seeking a private/quiet treatment solution? ... she appears spaced out or High. She certainly sounds spaced.
Yes, definitely a chemical imbalance with this one. Not sure if it's an ingested, or synthesized, or naturally-produced-by-an-illness chemical, but a chemical imbalance nonetheless.
That bizarre cackle gives it away.
She laughs maniacally and inappropriately at awkward moments, when there's nothing remotely funny about the situation.
[WAPO via PJ] Joe Biden’s massive $4 trillion spending bills are in mortal danger of collapsing under their own weight as the gap between what the radicals want and what less-radical Democrats will vote for widens.
To make matters worse for ordinary Americans, Biden has come down decisively on the side of the radicals, leaving party moderates to wonder where the sanity went.
The $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill, already passed by the Senate, is languishing in political purgatory with radical Democrats in the House threatening to kill it unless their $3.5 trillion social safety net bill is approved first. Resentful moderates feel they’ve been lied to by the president and Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who promised an up-or-down vote on the bipartisan bill before the end of September.
Here we are a third of the way through October and the House still isn’t ready to consider infrastructure legislation or the safety net bill. Why is that?
Part of the problem is that radicals will be radicals and despite sweet-talking and compromising from Biden, Bernie Sanders and his radical allies have announced they have "compromised enough" and have declared all-out war to get what they want.
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...The B-2 is - at the bottom line - late 70s and early 80s tech. All things considered it did very well, but its tech was steadily challenged from the start (especially its finicky coatings) and the USAF, to its credit, understood that. The B-21 is - so far (emphasis added) - doing very, very well because it is, and should possibly be called, a B-2 derivative with upgraded tech and capabilities.
I think the real challenges will be:
(A) Are we going to get the couple hundred aircraft we need, or will Congress in its never ending quest to cut money where it shouldn't instead cut the order to a tactically useless handful?
(B) If we get all the aircraft, where are we going to put them? When USAF killed SAC at the end of the Cold War, it also got rid of most of the bases and infrastructure that could have supported them. The remaining bases probably can't be expanded enough to support 2-3 squadrons at 17-20 aircraft each, not to mention the literal thousands of personnel needed to maintain and fly them. And don't forget the political pressure there's going to be to base them in someone's district/home state that's far, far away from where they should be.
Stay tuned...
Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski ||
10/11/2021 6:17 Comments ||
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Who the hell needs stealth bombers? Their only purpose is to start wars. Do we really need another war?
Here's a crazy idea: let's defend America's borders. Insane, I know, but I bet you if we try it, it'll work.
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literal thousands of personnel needed to maintain and fly them.
My hope is that the B-21 is easier to maintain than the B-2 - especially the coatings! The B-2 have a reputation as a hanger queen with dozens of airmen assigned to visually inspect the outside aafter each flight.
If we can avoid that the aircraft will have a much smaller footprint.
Delivering mega-death by the kiloton through hostile airspace? Yes, it could do that -- but so could a cruise missile or ICBM.
Fly world wide (with enough tanker aircraft, but that begs the question of where those will fly from.) and deliver conventional weapons? Yes, but as Mike put it: will we build enough to be "Tactically useful"?
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My hope is that the B-21 is easier to maintain than the B-2
The coating problem was solved with the F-35. See "F-35 fibre mat".
The B-21 is designed to fight China. None of the fighters have the range after the initial exchange and loss of airbases like in Okinawa. A B-21 can get close to the coast with long range missiles and destroy military and infrastructure assets throughout the populated parts of China. A thousand stealthy cruise missiles per week will reduce even a country as large as China to a pre-industrial level pretty quick.
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