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Why Kamala Harris is suddenly under the microscope

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Why Kamala Harris is suddenly under the microscope

After spending last week on a diplomatic trip to France, Vice President Kamala Harris returned home to a series of news reports that painted a worrying picture of her role in President Biden’s administration and raised questions about her potential to lead the Democratic Party in the future.

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It's nothing more than a Repeat of Republican Long Game... They did the same game plan in setting up their smear narratives as they did with Hillary, they start 2-3-4 yrs ahead, and sucker the public into "spinning within their narratives'

People should by now be smart enough to recognize the game and not be so gullible to play into it, over and over again. STOP... buying into allowing Republican Narratives to dominate public conversation, and when people learn that fact, then Republican won't be able to control the narrative to feed and fuel "controversy"... They get people spinning in their narrative and before people know it, they can't think straight for trying to refute and defend, subject narrative that should not even be entertained.

Anyone with any Civics Literacy... should know what the role of a Vice President is... and if one knows that... then be wise and stop being led into bullshit spins. As to the Media, none of this stuff should even be "media spin"... but they latch on to anything that sucker play people in to the "drama antics".

We have a generally "ignorant citizen population" who continually get suckered into stupidity of spinning in Republican Narrative. STOP spinning in the narrative, then you don't give power to foolishness.

Information For the Intelligent People :

THE BIDEN-HARRIS ADMINISTRATION

THE VICE PRESIDENT​

quote
Role of Vice President
Aside from breaking tie votes in the Senate and stepping in when the president can’t fulfill his responsibilities, vice presidents have developed these new responsibilities:
  • They lead commissions and other efforts on particular topics as a way for the president to show focus on that area.
  • They travel abroad, especially when the president isn’t ready to commit to some sort of deal with another country but wants to send a high-level emissary.
  • They serve as advisers whose loyalties are clearly to the president and not other groups.
“If used properly they can be a strong ally — someone who doesn’t have a piece of bureaucratic turf to defend
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_________________________________
THE CONSTITUTION
Article I
Section 2

The Vice President of the United States shall be President of the Senate, but shall have no Vote, unless they be equally divided.

Article 3
Section 1

In Case of the Removal of the President from Office, or of his Death, Resignation, or Inability to discharge the Powers and Duties of the said Office, the Same shall devolve on the Vice President,
_______________________________________

Beyond those statements in The Constitution, there is nothing else that is demanded of the Vice President. So, all these conjectures of bullshit and smear spins try and smear the Vice President is just bullshit !!!
  • The Vice President serves The President with any task that the President chooses to request the Vice President to perform. "PERIOD" !!!!
  • Vice President DON'T set policy, they DON'T create legislation, They DON'T craft bills or measures. They don't take independent action that are not assigned to them by the President.
  • Vice President can direct their staff to perform any task and duties that are necessary to facilitate any role the President assigns to the Vice President.
  • Vice President responsibility it to work with and through The Cabinet, to facilitate the necessary task which have been assigned to them, they do that by the authority given to them by the President to do so.
  • IF and When the President choose for a Vice President to meet with other International Heads of State, they do so, and they do that as a Representative Voice of The President.
__________________________________________

When people understand the Civics of the Executive Branch.. they don't allow themselves to get caught up in Republican Spin and Smear Narratives.
 
When she was the first to drop out during the 2020 primaries for President, and had single digit support from her constituents -- it should be very easy to see she's incapable to lead. Unfortunately for her, she has a nervous tick - her laughter - that identifies when she doesn't know enough about the topic at hand. She laughs a lot.

I support her Democrat constituency in 2020 during the primaries ... lackluster .. not qualified and unable to lead.
 
...Unfortunately for her, she has a nervous tick - her laughter - that identifies when she doesn't know enough about the topic at hand. She laughs a lot...
A sense of humour is a foreign and curious thing to conservatives...
 
When she was the first to drop out during the 2020 primaries for President, and had single digit support from her constituents -- it should be very easy to see she's incapable to lead. Unfortunately for her, she has a nervous tick - her laughter - that identifies when she doesn't know enough about the topic at hand. She laughs a lot.

I support her Democrat constituency in 2020 during the primaries ... lackluster .. not qualified and unable to lead.

Those traits obviously didn't stop you from supporting Trump, did they?
 
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Why Kamala Harris is suddenly under the microscope

After spending last week on a diplomatic trip to France, Vice President Kamala Harris returned home to a series of news reports that painted a worrying picture of her role in President Biden’s administration and raised questions about her potential to lead the Democratic Party in the future.

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ple :

THE VICE PRESIDENT​

quote
Role of Vice President
Aside from breaking tie votes in the Senate and stepping in when the president can’t fulfill his responsibilities, vice presidents have developed these new responsibilities:
  • They lead commissions and other efforts on particular topics as a way for the president to show focus on that area.
  • They travel abroad, especially when the president isn’t ready to commit to some sort of deal with another country but wants to send a high-level emissary.
  • They serve as advisers whose loyalties are clearly to the president and not other groups.
“If used properly they can be a strong ally — someone who doesn’t have a piece of bureaucratic turf to defend
end quote

_________________________________
THE CONSTITUTION
Article I
Section 2

The Vice President of the United States shall be President of the Senate, but shall have no Vote, unless they be equally divided.

Article 3
Section 1

In Case of the Removal of the President from Office, or of his Death, Resignation, or Inability to discharge the Powers and Duties of the said Office, the Same shall devolve on the Vice President,
_______________________________________

Beyond those statements in The Constitution, there is nothing else that is demanded of the Vice President. So, all these conjectures of bullshit and smear spins try and smear the Vice President is just bullshit !!!
  • The Vice President serves The President with any task that the President chooses to request the Vice President to perform. "PERIOD" !!!!
  • Vice President DON'T set policy, they DON'T create legislation, They DON'T craft bills or measures. They don't take independent action that are not assigned to them by the President.
  • Vice President can direct their staff to perform any task and duties that are necessary to facilitate any role the President assigns to the Vice President.
  • Vice President responsibility it to work with and through The Cabinet, to facilitate the necessary task which have been assigned to them, they do that by the authority given to them by the President to do so.
  • IF and When the President choose for a Vice President to meet with other International Heads of State, they do so, and they do that as a Representative Voice of The President.
__________________________________________

When people understand the Civics of the Executive Branch.. they don't allow themselves to get caught up in Republican Spin and Smear Narratives.
She's just weak.
 
A sense of humour is a foreign and curious thing to conservatives...
Why are you pretending that Harris doesn't laugh inappropriately?
 
She got 2% of her party's support and that's it. She has no support because she is unlikable and is not a leader. Not any accomplishments as a Senator, and has accomplished nothing as VP. So what does the left do to cover? Cry race and misogyny. Place the race card that's the ticket. It's like the little boy who cries wolf, after a while nobody listens. The democrats always claim victim status. It's BS and only their clones believe it.
 
She's just weak.
when you don't understand what you read... silence would have benefitted you. but since you care to continue to demonstrate your lack of understanding, by all means continue ....
 
A sense of humour is a foreign and curious thing to conservatives...
Sense of humor vs. not knowing what the **** she's talking about is two different things. Harris is not known for having a sense of humor. She is known for her laughing tick when asked about topics she doesnt know / understand or feel comfortable with.
 
To be fair, Harris' laughter might be a stall tactic. Nearly all presidents have them. It gives them a few extra seconds to think on an answer. JFK used to say, "Let me say this about that." Nixon used to say, "I'm glad you asked me that question." Clinton's was, "I'll say this." Reagan's was, "Well . . ."

I'm not impressed by Harris. But anything can happen between now and 2024. If anything bad were to happen (God forbid!) and she is put to the test, then she might come through with flying colors. Or she might fall flat on her face. But I'm willing to wait it out and see. (But that laughter does get on my nerves sometimes. :) )
 
A sense of humour is a foreign and curious thing to conservatives...

Yeah, she certainly has a foreign and curious sense of humor.
 
Those traits obviously didn't stop you from supporting Trump, did they?
Trumps in the past .. like .. he's been out of office for nearly a year now; Regardless .. just like Biden supporters, Trump was much better than Clinton, and the reason he won because Democrats brought a weak candidate to the table.
 
Why Kamala Harris is suddenly under the microscope
After spending last week on a diplomatic trip to France, Vice President Kamala Harris returned home to a series of news reports that painted a worrying picture of her role in President Biden’s administration and raised questions about her potential to lead the Democratic Party in the future.

It's nothing more than a Repeat of Republican Long Game... They did the same game plan in setting up their smear narratives as they did with Hillary, they start 2-3-4 yrs ahead, and sucker the public into "spinning within their narratives'

People should by now be smart enough to recognize the game and not be so gullible to play into it, over and over again. STOP... buying into allowing Republican Narratives to dominate public conversation, and when people learn that fact, then Republican won't be able to control the narrative to feed and fuel "controversy"... They get people spinning in their narrative and before people know it, they can't think straight for trying to refute and defend, subject narrative that should not even be entertained.

Anyone with any Civics Literacy... should know what the role of a Vice President is... and if one knows that... then be wise and stop being led into bullshit spins. As to the Media, none of this stuff should even be "media spin"... but they latch on to anything that sucker play people in to the "drama antics".

We have a generally "ignorant citizen population" who continually get suckered into stupidity of spinning in Republican Narrative. STOP spinning in the narrative, then you don't give power to foolishness.

Information For the Intelligent People :

THE BIDEN-HARRIS ADMINISTRATION
Kamala Harris
THE VICE PRESIDENT​

Role of Vice President
Aside from breaking tie votes in the Senate and stepping in when the president can’t fulfill his responsibilities, vice presidents have developed these new responsibilities:
  • They lead commissions and other efforts on particular topics as a way for the president to show focus on that area.
  • They travel abroad, especially when the president isn’t ready to commit to some sort of deal with another country but wants to send a high-level emissary.
  • They serve as advisers whose loyalties are clearly to the president and not other groups.
“If used properly they can be a strong ally — someone who doesn’t have a piece of bureaucratic turf to defend
end quote

Beyond those statements in The Constitution, there is nothing else that is demanded of the Vice President. So, all these conjectures of bullshit and smear spins try and smear the Vice President is just bullshit !!!
  • The Vice President serves The President with any task that the President chooses to request the Vice President to perform. "PERIOD" !!!!
  • Vice President DON'T set policy, they DON'T create legislation, They DON'T craft bills or measures. They don't take independent action that are not assigned to them by the President.
  • Vice President can direct their staff to perform any task and duties that are necessary to facilitate any role the President assigns to the Vice President.
  • Vice President responsibility it to work with and through The Cabinet, to facilitate the necessary task which have been assigned to them, they do that by the authority given to them by the President to do so.
  • IF and When the President choose for a Vice President to meet with other International Heads of State, they do so, and they do that as a Representative Voice of The President.
When people understand the Civics of the Executive Branch.. they don't allow themselves to get caught up in Republican Spin and Smear Narratives.
Biden isn't under a microscope. She's just getting noticed after being in the shadows for a long while. The commentary is not going to be flattering. She's not Dan Quayle, and we sincerely hope she's not Joe Biden, but she's looking up to Mike Pence and al Gore.

A sense of humour is a foreign and curious thing to conservatives...
You too it appears.
 
I actually want to live long enough to see a female president, but I hope it's not Kamala Harris. I live in California, watched her for years, and believe she is motivated strictly by ambition, and not the people she served.

Now give me Amy Klobuchar and I'm getting out my checkbook! (I presume she'll accept campaign donations from registered republicans, lol)
 
She's just weak.
Couldn't agree more .. she's doing as well as she was when she dropped out first in her run for president ... because Democrats didn't support her or have trust in her.

Pretty simple .. not sure why people are surprised.
 
I don’t understand how anyone can look at the job Harris is doing and question the criticism she receives
 
"Why Kamala Harris is suddenly under the microscope"

Because she stands five feet, two inches and, professionally speaking, is standing in six feet of water.
 
Trumps in the past .. like .. he's been out of office for nearly a year now; Regardless .. just like Biden supporters, Trump was much better than Clinton, and the reason he won because Democrats brought a weak candidate to the table.

Well, the majority of voters obviously disagreed with that assertion... Clinton may have been a weak candidate - but she was head and shoulders over Trump.
 
Well, the majority of voters obviously disagreed with that assertion... Clinton may have been a weak candidate - but she was head and shoulders over Trump.
By what measure, the marvelous campaign she ran in the weeks leading up to the election?
 
Civics Illiteracy is such a tragedy in America, and now the entire world of nations know just how Civics Illiterate Average American's are. The older among the American society will not gain any knowledge of Civics to become truly literate, because they are too entrenched in their groomed in partisan cultism's. They are make the saying true, "Old dogs don't learn new tricks'.

As the older generation of civics illiterate get into their more elder years, it will be the younger people who will carry America forward and they will do so as people who have learned Civics Literacy.
  • Already, we see young kids in grade school who are today, more aware of Civics Matters than ever before in the general society of America's history. Many young people don't spend their time, dealing with "spin drama of old people who function with a political mindset that is stuck in a fixed cycle, like a hamsters spinning in a wheel".
  • Ocasio-Cortez, Kinzinger, Buttigieg, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley, Rashida Tlaib are prime example of "young people's ability to stay focused", they do not get down in the dirt with those who attack them, they stay focused to address what they need to address and they do so by being prepared, with intellectual integrity; and then they moves on to focus on their responsibilities. The Right Wing types do all they can to try and lure them into their spin drama, and they side steps it and the right wingers and right wing media get pissed off because they can't find an angle to drag them down into the right wing gutter level spin games.
They are symbolic of the younger generations. So, Republican are upset at Kinzinger, because he does not allow Republicanism spin games to distract him and he does not submit himself to become they puppet they want and expect him to be. He too, simply moves along working on the things that need to be changed. Its young people as these who will continue moving American away from the madness of Republicanisms Gutter Games. .

Today, young people in High Schools have come to understand the diversity and the respect for multi-ethnic participation, they revel in the achievements of each other and the unique talents of each other and they build bonds that break down the trends of the old system of fixed frame stereotypes about others who don't look like them.
Very young kids are already well advanced in appreciating diversity and respecting peoples humanity as individuals.
Young women are making it known, they will not submit to any format of the old ideology of being possession of men, they now know they can earn, and they can learn and they can make their own choices to engage any career choice they desire. We saw women stand up and claim they would not wear the bikini in beach volley ball if they don't want to, they will wear shorts if they want to. They are demanding equilibrium in pay in every area of the workforce. They will have kids and raise them on their own rather than submit to the old 'Stepford wives roles of being second class, subservient clones for men's whims", they will not allow men to issue out rights and privilege's to them.

Everything about the Old System of White Nationalism of Wealthy White Male Dominance will continue to be brought down from every element and angle that it has held a strangle hold upon society. Poor whites are everyday awakening to how they have been harmed by the old system of wealthy white male dominance and they are no longer accepting being pushed back based on judging them by monetary measure. We saw it in during the BLM protest, when young white people realized they were also victims of the same type of brutality and murders and abuses by police that black people have been subjected to. They became aware to look at the high number of poor whites who have been beat down, and killed by police, they became aware of the incarceration time that poor whites are given, where as well to do and wealthy whites get off with a slap on the wrist.
Trumpism... led a lot of white people to review themselves and they chose not to continue following that type of abuse of power, office and attacks upon the governing systems of this nation. they don't go about voicing their abandoning of that that madness, they did their talking at the ballot box in 2018. 2020 and they will do so in 2022.
 
I actually want to live long enough to see a female president, but I hope it's not Kamala Harris. I live in California, watched her for years, and believe she is motivated strictly by ambition, and not the people she served.

Now give me Amy Klobuchar and I'm getting out my checkbook! (I presume she'll accept campaign donations from registered republicans, lol)

Do you think it's possible you feel the way you do about Harris because of the "Bobby Kennedy problem"? It's hard to be a hard-nosed DA or Attorney General and still come across as caring and compassionate. Like Bobby Kennedy when he was on the anti-racketeering committee in the 50's and then Attorney General in his brother's administration. People perceived him as ruthless and ambitious simply because he was effective at his assigned role. It was only after his brother's assassination that he was able to come into his own and let his true nature shine through.
 
By what measure, the marvelous campaign she ran in the weeks leading up to the election?
Her knowledge of policy. I read McCains book in which he said he had tremendous respect for her grasp of even detailed policy. If she could impress McCain
that's good enough for me. She wasn't a great campaigner, and lacking in personal charm, but she would have been 10 times the president trump was.
 
By what measure, the marvelous campaign she ran in the weeks leading up to the election?

I already said she ran a weak campaign. But piled on top of that was Comey's incompetence and the Russian interference. Also 20+ years of baseless right-wing conspiracy theories directed against her. Those were factors that Trump was able to play on. But I still say despite that, if she was a man, she would have won. That's not a mark against her - that's a mark against us.
 
People don't know what strength is... many people think its "bully talk, and swinging a big stick' while talking belligerence'...

We live in "The Age of information", where "information and knowledge dominates and the exercise of it in a responsible manner is what power is, in a society where "information is power. The old days of "shit talking, belligerence bully stomping', and 'denigrating anything and everything" is now exposed as a weakness that only feeds the likes of savagery. That old type of shit talking, led us into 20 yrs of War...

We saw it during the Reagan Era 'trickle down deception game" that destroyed the economic stature of the working class and pandered and gave everything to the wealthy and the result of that is, we saw the wealth gap widen and wages stagnate, worker rights and workers conditions deteriorate.
We've seen repeated 'economic calamity with every Republican led administration for the past 50+ yrs, and now people are becoming more aware, that each time there is a Republican led administration, everything they had achieved during a Democratic Administration was stripped away under Republican Administration.

People called Carter weak, because they were still hung up on the Savagery belligerence of Nixon's Conduct, and they could not fathom the integrity that Carter brought to the Administration, Carters integrity continues to show even still to this day. Those who think strength is about "contention and confrontational bully stomping" will never learn to see beyond that concept. But that concept belongs to the older generations. The Society of Today... showed people, they don't care for that Old Style Belligerence, when they stood up in 2018 and they stood up in 2020 and voted it out. Now, people are well aware that after repeatedly seeing Republicans block and attack any and every bill, that there is no progress and no future benefit to society within Republicanism. They watched people like Lindsey Graham lie to the world, and flip and flop like a puppet. They now watch Republican try and take credit for Infrastructure benefits that will serve their districts, which republican voted against. It's quite simple: Once people know what a snake looks like, no one can convince them that a snake is not a snake.

Today, technology is moving forward... people seek it, they are embracing it, and they are appreciating the benefit they gain in their lives. People will appreciate what the Infrastructure bill brings, and they will appreciate what the Build Back Better brings, and already poor family are finding their lives get some improvement with the child benefits they are receiving which helps them with child care and basics they need to make better lives for their children and themselves.
Young people are thankful for the work being done with trying to forgive the debt for the poor quality of education they received and the way they had been abused and trapped by debt, simply because they want to learn so they can be contributors in society. They will support returning Community College to the ways it was before Ronald Reagan screwed it up, by his intent to curtail women, poor whites and minorities from gaining the education they need to build middle class living standards within their lives. We can expect to see State University System to return back to how they were before Reagan screwed them up.

These changes will also bring improvement in K-12, where the programming will change, to teach kids what is beneficial for the paradigm changes of the 21st Century.

If people step back out of the drama spins, they would see and know these things. Those who don't awaken to acknowledge will only find themselves behind, and lost in chasing the past.
 
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