Kamala Harris was a ‘diversity’ pick for Vice President. It was her skin pigmentation and the type of reproductive organs she had that got her the job. Call it identity politics. Call it affirmative action. Call it the disregard for, or despising of, the old-fashioned notion of merit. Her own accomplishments, especially in the political and electoral realm, were thin gruel. Biden wanted a black woman. He made that clear. He was going to choose from that 6% of the U.S. population. And he did. He opted for Ms. Harris.
Now Kamala Harris had run for the Democratic Party presidential nomination back in 2020. But she dropped out before a single state had voted, before the Iowa primary. She was polling just over 1% when she quit. That’s 1% of committed Democrat primary voters. And she was particularly unpopular with black male Democrat primary voters. So in 2020 not a single Democrat primary voter actually cast a vote for Kamala. Not one.
That said, Kamala Harris does have one political victory. It’s the only democratically chosen office that saw her run, required actual voters to pick the winner, and she won. That was back in 2010 when Ms. Harris ran for the office of Attorney-General of California. In that election Jerry Brown won the governorship against the Republican by 13 points. Barbara Boxer defeated her Republican opponent for the California Senate seat race that year by 10 points. And Kamala Harris defeated the Republican candidate in 2010 by – wait for it – 0.8% of the votes. And that’s in California, let me remind you.
Yet ‘Diversity, Equity and Inclusion’ came to her rescue and was the core reason that Joe Biden picked her as his running mate. Skin colour and female reproductive organs. That, after all, is what identity politics and ‘diversity’ policies are all about. Forget individual talents. Forget merit and hard work. Look at some desirable job (never undesirable ones) and then check to see what percentage of the overall population is made up by group X. If the job doesn’t have that percentage of group Xers then the only allowed explanation is ‘discrimination’. And the identity politics brigade pushes for a group X person.
But back to Sleepy Joe. As all readers will know, last weekend President Biden gave in to the pressure from the Democrat donors and bigwigs after his disastrous June debate performance and said he would not be running in this November’s election. He endorsed Kamala Harris. At the time of writing this piece so had both Bill and Hillary Clinton, some key Democrat Governors and some important Congressional Democrats. It is not certain but it sure looks as though our D.E.I. candidate, Kamala Harris, will be the Democrat’s presidential candidate. What can I say about this?
Firstly, whatever you might say about his mental state Joe Biden took 87% of the primary vote. By contrast, not a single Democrat primary voter actually voted for Harris. Not in 2024. Not in 2020. Not ever. If she gets the nod it would be the sort of elitist-driven decision-making procedure that would make the European Union Commission green with envy. No input at all from any voters, not even those in their own party. Kamala won’t just be Madame D.E.I., she’ll be the candidate of the DC elites, of the overtly Left-wing legacy media, and of the donor and Hollywood classes. Joe Biden had 14 million primary voters. Kamala had zero, nada, none. Kamala prevailed. The two questions now for her are whether any other Democrat will challenge her at the August Convention (it won’t be easy but it’s possible) and whether she can pry Joe Biden out of the presidency before the election. I think she’d prefer to run as the incumbent in November although I’m not certain that would in fact help her with the voters (such will be the obviousness of the stitch-up).
Next there is the question of whether Kamala Harris will do better in November against former President Trump than Joe Biden. Biden was down in all the polls. The day he announced he wouldn’t run a poll out of the key swing state of Michigan had Biden down seven points. My view for some time was that Trump would defeat Biden. And after the assassination attempt I figured it could be a big win, maybe a landslide. So in one sense, to use a bit of sporting terminology, you can see Kamala as the Hail Mary play. She’s a long shot, but at least she has a chance. Biden had no chance. The legacy media will go all in for her. The Dems and media will play the race card. The woman card. It will be D.E.I. talking points all day, every day. If she’s smart she’ll pick a Vice Presidential candidate from the Midwest because her only plausible path to victory is to sweep every single Midwest swing state. (Look for her to pick a white, male, Midwest Democrat Governor.)
All that said I think Kamala loses and loses by more than Biden would have. (That’s the downside of a Hail Mary play – the ceiling is high enough to allow for the slight chance of actually winning, but the floor is lower, possibly much lower, than what you’d have seen with Biden.) Kamala Harris was part of the Biden administration. In fact, she was the ‘border czar’ and has to wear that entire fiasco and the 11 million odd illegal immigrants his policies (deliberately or incompetently) let in. She has to wear the massive Biden inflation – a dollar on the day Biden became President is today barely worth 80 cents today. Wages have not remotely kept pace with that sort of inflation. Oh, and Kamala was an insider. She knew full well Joe Biden’s dilapidated, senile state. (Spoiler alert: So did all the lefty journalists who pretended for years Joe was just great. She lied. They lied.) She has to wear that too.
I want Donald Trump to win in November. I think it may be the most important election for the West in decades. To my mind, Joe Biden was the worst U.S. President in at least a century. I’ve had money on The Don to win now for well over a year – there are some nice bottles of wine that will come my way if he does. Nothing about the shift to Kamala Harris makes me think she’ll do better than Joe. But only time will tell. The Democrat Party has opted to Live or D.I.E. with D.E.I.
James Allan is the Garrick Professor of Law at Queensland University. This article first appeared in Spectator Australia.
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“‘Nothing has done more damage to Coutts’ reputation than this decision!’”
The left never were very good at 2nd and 3rd order problems. I suppose if every decision you make is perfect, then you never have to worry about consequences.
Exactly. To the left, the rules are the rules and if only people just followed them everything would be fine!
Befehl ist Befehl!
“Experts call for investigation as excess deaths spark ‘dangerous’ theories”
There are no ‘wild’, or ‘conspiracy’ theories. There are hypotheses based on comprehensive data observations. I suspect the real ‘danger’ is getting found out about what they’ve done.
I doubt that any theory could be more dangerous than a massive excess death rate that is not being investigated.
Individual?
Is he having a laugh? This isn’t the work of an individual.
It’s more like a corporate policy established by a group of executives, along the lines of being selective about certain groups of customers.
Re ‘This is not the apocalypse’. I notice how quiet the media is about Britian’s current appalling summer weather. We had two decent weeks in June and other than that it has either been cold and dry or very cool and wet all year, in my amateur observations. Of course, it is just weather, as is the summer sunshine in southern Europe. They can’t have it both ways – how can hot weather be climate change, yet 600 to 700 hundred miles away, it isn’t, but just a quirk of the jet stream? I think I’d place my bets on hot weather round the Med. being just weather as well, and also a happy hunting ground for arsonists who have found the perfect conditions for their hobby.
Saw a good ‘meme’ yesterday..
It said …..
….Global Warming Starter Kit…and underneath was a picture of a box of matches and a petrol can……LOL!
The weather in southern Spain right now is absolutely fabulous. Fresh mornings, warm tending to hot days and cool evenings
No heatwave.now, just perfect summer weather.
I don’t expect the BBC will be sending their global warming hunters down here to investigate and report any time soon, though.
Sounds wonderful! This damp is playing hell with my arthritis.
“Environmentalists ‘ignore the winter’ while ‘hyping up’ summers to maintain climate narrative, expert claims”
I was unable to open this article but nonetheless right on cue a group has fired off with with predictions of desolation as a result of our climate crimes;
https://www.worldweatherattribution.org/extreme-heat-in-north-america-europe-and-china-in-july-2023-made-much-more-likely-by-climate-change/
This article makes the statement;
What I find so weird is that these ‘experts’ have no doubt whatsoever that whatever is happening to the climate (if anything) it is all our fault. It does seem like some sort of religious cult idea of original sin and that we are all sinners and must don sackcloth and ashes and immiserate ourselves. It seems to be a whole cult of misery and guilt. I remember student holidays in Greece many years ago, it was ludicrously hot, but people were too busy doing other things to talk about heat-waves and nobody seemed to have thought about setting fire to the forests.
It seems to me that if we do as this article suggests and rapidly stop burning fossil fuels, the misery and suffering that will create will be immense.
How much co2 do you think comes out of an erupting volcano? I suspect it dwarfs anything we can do….
Mexico’s Popocatépetl volcano erupted on May 23, 2023. (L.A. Times)
The eruptions have grown bigger and more frequent in recent weeks — rattling homes with wheezing exhalations that residents compare to steam escaping from a pressure cooker…
Each spring, residents of this village tucked at the base of one of the world’s most dangerous volcanoes trek up to a cave near its crater to make a peace offering..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNHpIMmxnN8
Maybe they need to ’up’ the offerings? I’m thinking a few of those gobshite environmentalist’s for a start?
Not to mention the 19,000 new submarine volcanoes recently discovered and mapped…
https://www.science.org/content/article/it-s-just-mind-boggling-more-19-000-undersea-volcanoes-discovered
When is Farage going to wake up to the fact that he´s missing a political opportunity even greater than Brexit? His infatuation with the Media is blinding him to the fact that the media is transient froth. Real political power comes from parliament.
There is no prospect of relief from the Tory/Labour UniParty in 2025 unless there is a credible alternative. There is only one Party that offers a credible alternative, simply because its name has traction, and that is UKIP. All the others (Reform, Heritage, Respect, etc., etc.) have absolutely zero traction.
It is all the more regrettable therefore that Farage´s Reform Party rebuffed an approach from the current UKIP for debate to find common ground or even union. This hesitation by Farage sentences us to another five years of corporate banksterdom – which is why UKIP 2.0 is so urgently needed as a chance for escape from the current nightmare.
Wildfires “like a biblical catastrophe” spouts that paragon of truth, the BBC. Who knows what “biblical catastrophes” were like, if they even happened? Are there any living witnesses?
It appears that at the moment most people are ignoring the BBC.
https://news.sky.com/story/ryanair-operating-full-schedule-to-wildfire-hit-greece-as-europe-heatwave-hits-summer-holiday-peak-12926376
…yes, I noticed that myself..if you look at any articles about Covid/jab/excess deaths…..Zero green stuff…LGBTQ+ ..and migrants…..the comments are at complete odds with the articles…and they are not buying it…
Maybe the tide is finally thinking, at least, about turning?
I don’t think the Just Stop Oil counter group are in fact a counter group. They’re on the same side of the argument and I suspect funded by the same people. I watched the video until I heard this ‘You have to be a top tier tit to deny that climate change is the greatest problem we face and that something has to done’.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-66297001
Ashington teacher who tricked teens into sex acts banned
Still ‘Love is Love’, right?
The latest round of Pfizer documents released has unveiled a very disturbing fact which no doubt accounts for all the health harms, miscarriages, heart attacks, birth defects being reported around the globe.
https://jeffprager.substack.com/p/a-sickening-horrid-post
From Dr Mike Yeadon
Brown Car Guy (Shazad) is well known in car circles. Recently he’s been investigating ULEZ.
He used the device that officials use to monitor air quality around London. Same supplier, who knew what he intended to do with it.
Bottom line, in no location around London, even on the busiest roads, right down at exhaust levels, did the air quality reach even medium risk on the scale (which scale is absurdly drawn so that your kitchen would be rated at “health emergency”).
ULEZ is all lies, just like climate change and the “pandemic”.
Same people, same methods, same objectives: removal of all of your freedoms, ostensibly for a greater cause.
You must share what’s happening with everyone you encounter, or we will lose.
There are far too few of us publicly speaking out.
All of us are horribly censored.
The media will only lie.
So you’re the only chance we have. Your children & grandchildren depend on YOU taking action, every day in this relentless war.
Best wishes
Mike
Ps: I have actual published research credentials in this field, adjacent issues like ozone and impact on respiratory function, so I became familiar with NOx and particulates in the late 1980s/early 1990s.
There really was arguably a problem but only up to the mandated fitting of catalytic converters. Ever since that event, air quality in London has been excellent, with few exceptions.
One is the London Underground!
There’s so much metallic dust from wheels and tracks wearing each other away.
Also, brake lining derived particulates, nasty stuff.
Organic vapours from oils, lubricants and hydraulic fluids etc.
I recommend you minimise your time there. Masks don’t work because the particles in question are smaller than the pore size even in a well fitting mask. Paper “masks” are a psychological crutch.
If we say nothing about ULEZ, they will remove all powered personal transport. If we allow that, it’ll be a permanent end to personal transport beyond your legs and a bicycle.
If you think I’m exaggerating, this is explicitly among the UN2030 so-called sustainable development goals.
Best wishes
Mike
https://youtu.be/uKVbtPoEdjc
You want the skinny on pm2.5, then hi thee to Steve Molloy’s blog, Junk Science
https://junkscience.com/2011/08/air-pollution-scare-debunked/
https://junkscience.com/?s=PM2.5
A Nigel Farage (Reform) Andrew Bridgen (Reclaim) alliance as UKIP 2.0 would be very attractive to many voters.
Very many are fed up with the UniParty of bankster Sunak & kneeler Starmer.