The rejection of Kamala Harris is a resounding repudiation of the worst elements of the DEI cult, says Annabel Denham in the Telegraph. The American people threw out Biden’s diversity hire and sent her packing. Here’s an excerpt.
Any objective observer could see Kamala was unqualified for the job. Even Kamala at times, behind the cackle laugh and the word salads and the baffling array of accents, seemed to know she wasn’t up to it.
But they pressed ahead with her anyway. In the end, it didn’t seem to matter to the virtue-signalling Left that Kamala’s position had been achieved by chance to a greater extent than anyone since Lyndon Johnson. That, a diversity hire for VP, she was able to fall into the presidency slot because Joe Biden needed to be put out to pasture with no time for a contest.
They sneered at Republicans who claimed Kamala was a DEI-hire candidate, but they surely had to know they had a point. The Left see the world through the prism of identity politics. In their human hierarchy, merit and grit come below race, gender and ethnicity. “Whomever I pick [for Vice President],” proclaimed Joe Biden in an embarrassing display of performative allyship, “preferably it will be someone who was of a colour and/or different gender”. That was in 2019. Five years later, the American people have roundly rejected this progressive creed.
Most voters, it turns out, still believe that people should be hired and promoted on the strength of their character, ability and experience. And there was simply too little evidence of this in Kamala: she appeared to have no intellectual resources, no managerial ability and a simplistic view on any topic on which she has spoken.
Kamala is the lawyer who can barely get to the end of a sentence, much less string together a coherent thought. She was utterly ineffectual when confronted with the crisis on the Southern Border. Her economic plans were downright bonkers, and exhibited a fundamental misunderstanding of the causes behind the recent spike in inflation. Her approach to foreign affairs was even worse, in that she didn’t appear to have one. Her talent for fundraising was remarkable and her campaign was disciplined, but it was also schizophrenic: she was the “change” candidate unable to point to a single policy she’d have done differently to Biden.
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“We don’t save a lot relative to oil and gas, but I would still recommend any house with a heat pump also gets solar panels,” he says.
The cognitive dissonance is strong with this one.
I wonder if they save anything at all relative to gas?
Of course not! It’s interesting they didn’t factor in anything to do with long term maintenance and ultimately asset replacement – clearly they believed a mechanical device would simply work ‘forever’ which is naive at best. It shouldn’t be too much work to drop an oil fired boiler back in there, or gas with a propane tank setup.
Solar panels are a revenue stream “thanks” to feed-in tariffs whereby as mandated by Government, electricity retailers must pay more per kWh by a substantial margin for electricity fed-in than electricity supplied.
That’s why the economics are favourable.
We other lucky consumers pay for this by higher charges in our bills.
Mr and Mrs Watts will need megawatts if they want to keep warm.
I guess the government is already preparing a solution for them in the form of “voluntary” euthanasia.
The Inuit would use ice flows. Environmentally friendly.
Fewer ice floes in Buckinghamshire…
Mr and Mrs Watts – another fine piece of nominative determinism!
But yes an absolute unfolding nightmare.
Harsh fact of life – Conning yourself into installing a cheat pump is worse than being conned onto installing a cheat pump by state-sponsored scammers.
No substitute for a hydro-carbon powered boiler, when you take into account purchase price, cost of house-upgrading and the state-sponsored highest unit electricity price in the world.
Whilst they might not be on the gas grid, many have lpg tanks as an alternative to oil.
Still that’d be admitting you made a mistake with the heat pump in the first place…
Cause: “they did enjoy an advantageous scheme of selling the power they generated from solar panels back to the grid”
and
Effect: “the cost of electricity has soared”
The power from solar panels was of no use to the power companies, but they were forced to pay for it anyway.
Sunken cost fallacy ( trademark of government’s COVID and Nut Zero policies, to name but just two ) … Invested so much in this [scheme, technology, policy, emotive virtue ], can’t pull out now.
Solar panels will save us. And a vegan diet.
Sigh …. I am an emphatic person, but it’s being stretched awfully thinly recently … Awfully …
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We just upgraded our oil boiler for less than £5k. Add a tank.
Sorted.
One day there may be millions of pensioners living in houses with failing or failed heat pumps that they cannot possibly afford either to run or replace or obtain loans to do either
I won’t be one of them. They can keep their heat pumps.
Me neither…they can shove them along with the electric vehicles!
I don’t want to see any old person struggling due to affordability to heat their home. That said, it’s hard to have sympathy with anyone who falls for this ‘saving the planet’ bo11ocks. Anyone who installs a heat pump, or solar panels, or buys an electric car because they think they’re being ‘green’ is buying one for completely false and non-existent reasons, which is where my sympathy ends.
“We had a reporter up from the local paper asking us about our solar panels and our heat pump,” recalls Mr Watts.
So since 2008 I and others have had money taken out of our pockets via taxes and via hidden charges on our energy bills to line the pockets of Mr and Mrs Watts so they can have reduced costs whilst mine and others’ go up and up.
Sympathy for them? I should co-co.