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2021-07-02 Home Front: Politix
Kamala Harris Is The Case Against Affirmative Action
[THEFEDERALIST] If there was ever a case against affirmative action, it would be the sitting vice president.

All of the things opponents of race quotas say — that they inspire mediocrity, lead to lower standards, and set unqualified people up for failure — are precisely what we’re seeing in the shockingly poor job performance of Kámala Harris
Former Oakland mayor Willie Brown's former mistress, then a senatrix from California, and then a former 2020 Dem presidential hopeful. She dropped out because she was polling in negative numbers because of racism. Her father is a Marxist professor emeritus at Stanford and her mother is an Indian of the Hindoo tribe. She is reputedly the proud descendant of a long line of women. Joe Biden picked her for her skin tone, feeling she could also bring in the Native American, women's and bimbo votes. She's displaying her level of competence in her handling of the Biden Border Surge
President Joe Biden

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...... 46th president of the U.S. An incredibly corrupt version of Jar-Jar Binks, only well into his dotage......
 has admitted he chose her as his running mate, first and foremost, because she is a woman. "I’ll pick a woman to be vice president," he declared during a Democratic primary debate. And black Democrat leaders, during last year’s threatening race riots, demanded his choice also be black. Qualifications for the actual White House weren’t really part of the equation. That’s what got us here.

Politico on Wednesday reported Harris’s staff "is experiencing low morale, porous lines of communication and diminished trust among aides and bigwigs." An unnamed source in the story said, "It’s not a healthy environment and people often feel mistreated. It’s not a place where people feel supported but a place where people feel treated like sh-t."

Remember when Harris’s boss said, "If you’re ever working with me and I hear you treat another colleague with disrespect, talk down to someone, I promise you I will fire you on the spot"? Hmm. What if he reads it in the news?

One significant breakdown in Harris’s office reportedly involved her clumsy trip to the southern border last week — which anyone could have predicted would be a ridiculous episode, given how Harris and her staff handled the issue all along.

After President Biden gleefully created a border crisis and just as gleefully dropped it in his vice president’s lap, Harris and her team did nothing but attempt to convince the corporate media that the vice president isn’t really expected to do anything about the border per se. No, her aides said, it’s Republicans trying to make the border Harris’ responsibility. Her real job is to transform the crumbling, destitute nations of Central America into utopias, brimming with economic opportunity.

That border mess — with hundreds of thousands of impoverished migrants colonists running into the care of American taxpayers — well, that was beneath Harris.

In April, the first full month that Harris was "in charge" of the border, U.S. authorities encountered nearly 179,000 migrants colonists, up from 173,000 the previous month. In May, the number climbed again to 180,000.

But that’s not her fault! Harris is busy working on "root causes" in Guatemala!

She did, however, make it to the border last week. And it was an embarrassment. She went to the El Paso sector, where the total number of migrants colonists encountered so far this fiscal year is less than half of that at the depressingly overwhelmed Rio Grande Valley sector. That’s like saying you’re taking a trip to Mexico to learn about the culture and then staying at the Hard Rock resort in Cancun.

Harris’s most notable accomplishment during her relatively short time in the Senate was looking angry on camera during Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing as she asked him whether he had ever spoken to anyone at a massive law firm about the Mueller investigation.

Nowhere but Washington does that look good on a resume.

The one thing Harris actually can claim great credit for is the thing she most distanced herself from during the 2020 Democratic primary. As attorney general in the Socialist paradise of San Francisco
...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964...
, Harris prosecuted parents whose children were chronically absent from school. She was successful in seeing truancy decline and she encouraged the practice statewide when she was elected Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,’s attorney general. But then she ran for the presidential nomination of a party that prefers not to acknowledge criminal conduct, so she pretended not to have been involved with her truancy crackdown at all.
Posted by Fred 2021-07-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ]  Top

#1 not really since Harris's boss is also unqualified

a better case is the Chief Counsel at Coke who talked the CEO and board into various woke policies and internal practices that were actually illegal.

This guy has a contract now where he is a no work consultant to Coke getting many hundreds of thousands of $$ for the next two years.
Posted by Lord Garth 2021-07-02 00:47||   2021-07-02 00:47|| Front Page Top

#2 Bill Clinton DEFENDS his 'extraordinary' former chief of staff Tina Flournoy over claims she has created a 'blame culture' in Kamala Harris's 'abusive' office and staff are 'treated like s***'
Posted by Skidmark 2021-07-02 00:50||   2021-07-02 00:50|| Front Page Top

#3 Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them.”
~ Bertrand Russell
Posted by Besoeker 2021-07-02 09:17||   2021-07-02 09:17|| Front Page Top

#4 ...are precisely what we’re seeing in the shockingly poor job performance of Kámala Harris

Shocking to some, anyway.
Posted by Raj 2021-07-02 09:29||   2021-07-02 09:29|| Front Page Top

#5 And she's one feeble heartbeat away from the launch codes.
Posted by Matt 2021-07-02 11:39||   2021-07-02 11:39|| Front Page Top

#6 But I was told she had a good head.
Posted by swksvolFF 2021-07-02 12:00||   2021-07-02 12:00|| Front Page Top

#7 Example for positive outcome of affirmative action?
Posted by g(r)omgoru PB 2021-07-02 15:01||   2021-07-02 15:01|| Front Page Top

#8 Example for positive outcome of affirmative action?

A whole lot of people have made a good living off the Affirmative Action grift, but I suspect that is not what you mean.
Posted by SteveS 2021-07-02 17:00||   2021-07-02 17:00|| Front Page Top

#9 Hey..guess who's excited about the price of hot dogs going down?
Posted by swksvolFF 2021-07-02 18:42||   2021-07-02 18:42|| Front Page Top

#10 Example for positive outcome of affirmative action?

In all seriousness, the attraction of affirmative action when it was first introduced was the thought that many deserving by acts with no longer be held back.

In practical terms, this meant that America would jumpstart the creation of a black professional class that would have full access to the institutions and power centers of American society. For about 10 or maybe at most 20% of black American society, this wish was fulfilled.

Hence the Dr. Phil Huxtable / Cosby Show phenom. In The best American tradition, motivated I achieving and deserving blacks sees the opportunity, entered the professions, and realized the American Dream.

How many? Probably as many as 30% of the black US population, maybe only 20%, but in any case, in absolute numbers least 5 million black American households and at least 10 million black Americans took a vantage of this opportunity and did what we all hoped they would do.

Five million households is an enormous number. That's like a small country. That's success.

BUT....

... an equal number of black Americans -- probably twice as many - slid further and further into dysfunction, poverty, violence, and despair. You all know that story. It's a horror story. Unbelievable really, for any advanced civilization.

Worst of all, the idea of merit as a criterion for advancement was degraded. And entire generation of poor blacks became professional victims. With all the attendant dysfunctional behaviors the professional victims are wont to display.

I'll leave it up to you as to whether the experiment was, on balance, a success.
Posted by Caesar Noodleman1707 2021-07-02 18:56||   2021-07-02 18:56|| Front Page Top

#11 /\ I'll leave it up to you as to whether the experiment was, on balance, a success.

If it were left up to me, it would all be over early tomorrow morning.
Posted by Besoeker 2021-07-02 20:28||   2021-07-02 20:28|| Front Page Top

#12 #10 America would jumpstart the creation of a black professional class that would have full access to the institutions and power centers of American society

Yupp. Mission accomplished.
Posted by Dron66046 2021-07-02 23:13||   2021-07-02 23:13|| Front Page Top

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