There is no there there.

How else can you describe Kamala Harris? At least Dementia Joe has an excuse for his permanent non compos mentis condition. He has a disease.

What’s Kamala’s excuse?

The more you see of the vice president, the more you realize that the lights may be on, but there’s nobody home.

There’s only way she can possibly win this election — if low-info voters decide that showing Donald J. Trump how much they despise him is a more important issue than their own self-interest and future.

We always knew Kamala wasn’t the sharpest knife in the drawer but…

Even in her infrequent public appearances, she comes across as a complete buffoon.

Consider her comment last week:

“I grew up understanding the children of the community are the children of the community.”

May we quote you on that, Madame Vice President?

But it turns out, that’s one of her standard lines. At an event in Washington in 2022, she observed, “When we talk about the children of the community, they are the children of the community.”

In 2023, Kamala again returned to her recurring theme of the other c-word:

“We invested an additional $12 billion into community banks, because we know community banks are in the community, and understand all the needs and desires of that community, as well as the talent and capacity of community.”

Every four years, Democrats seem to nominate a presidential candidate ever more ridiculous than the last one — from Dukakis to Clinton to Gore to Kerry to Obama to Hillary to Biden to…. Kamala.

Just when you think they can’t nominate anybody any worse, they do.

This was Kamala last week with Oprah answering how she planned to lower the cost of living:

“In terms of both rightly having the right to have aspirations and dreams and ambitions for your family and working hard and finding that the American Dream is, for this generation and so many recently, far more elusive than it’s been, and we need to deal with that.”

You don’t say!

Maybe, though, Kamala didn’t feel she had to answer the question because a few days earlier, she had bragged that once she becomes president, “We will continue to lower the cost of groceries, for example.”

Continue to lower the cost of groceries — did she actually say that? Can I get me a fact checker in Aisle 5?

She flips and she flops and her surrogates say, hey, it’s just a campaign. Fracking, the border, defunding the police, mandatory confiscation of firearms, voting rights for terrorists, taxpayer-funded sex-change operations for imprisoned illegal aliens etc. etc.

The other night, with Oprah in Michigan, she again claimed to be a gun owner and said with her trademark cackle, “If anybody breaks in my house they’re getting shot.”

Yet during her first campaign for president she had denounced “stand-your-ground laws” that allowed just what she is now laughing about.

Kamala said that such self-defense laws have “often and frequently been used as an excuse… to kill black and brown people and in particular black and brown young men.”

Well, which is it? Of course, state-run media will never push back. At the black journalists’ convention, the very first question she got was, “Why is joy important to you to insert into this election?”

By the way, has Kamala ever told us what kind of firearm she owns? Where did she register it? Did she buy it before or after she worked at McDonald’s?

“Let’s come together,” she says to her bussed-in non-working class crowds, “with the character that we are so proud of about who we are.”

And the comrades and apparatchiks of state-run media swoon. How profound!

But Kamala, could you be a little more specific?

“My approach is about new ideas, new policies that are directed at the current moment and also, to be very honest with you, my focus is very much on what we need to know over the next 10, 20 years to catch up to the 21st century around, again, capacity but also challenges.”

It’s all gibberish, nonsense, and it’s the only way she ever speaks — “often and frequently,” as she puts it.

Bill Clinton felt your pain. Kamala wouldn’t go quite that far, but she’s heard the rumors. Democrats used to claim to represent “working people,” but since none of their voters work, they’ve traded in the working class whopper for a different one.

“Um, I grew up a middle-class kid…. I try to explain this to some people who may not have had the same experience, you know? But a lot of people will relate to this — you know, I grew up in a neighborhood of folks who were very proud of their lawn. You know?”

Yikes. Such profundity. Sounds like something a teenager getting high for the first time and driving through his parents’ neighborhood would say while in a marijuana haze. But she’s 59 years old. You know?

The scariest thing of all is, she’s running neck and neck in the polls with Trump. Whatever else you may think of him, Trump is at least an adult human being whose presidency was a lot more successful than the macro-catastrophe Kamala has been involved in, however slightly.

Remember the old SNL skit from 1988, when the George H.W. Bush character is be-clowning himself on stage and the Michael Dukakis character turns to the camera and says sadly:

“I can’t believe I’m losing to this guy.”

Now, even in the drugged, welfare-addled, dumbed-down U.S. electorate of 2024, it’s hard to imagine someone as below average as Kamala Harris could prevail.

Adam Smith once said, “There is a great deal of ruin in a nation.”

Yes there is. What Smith meant was, it takes a lot to destroy a successful, functioning society. Dementia Joe’s handlers have done their damnedest since his installation in 2021, and we’re still hanging in there, a little groggy perhaps, but no TKO yet.

How much ruin is there left in this nation?

We may find out Nov. 5, God help us.

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