The Magical Media Makeover of Kamala Harris ｜ 8⧸15⧸24
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Summary
Kamala Harris is an embarrassing human being. After running an abysmal presidential campaign where she failed to win a single primary, the California senator was placed on the Biden ticket to fulfill the demographic requirements set forth by progressive ideology. Originally, Harris was meant to be an heir to which an elderly Biden could pass the torch. But once in office, it became clear that she had lost in the primary for a reason.
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After running an abysmal presidential campaign where she failed to win a single primary,
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the California senator was placed on the Biden ticket to fulfill the demographic requirements
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Originally, Harris was meant to be an heir to which an elderly Biden could pass the torch.
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But once in office, it became clear that she had lost in the primary for a reason.
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The vice president was quickly relegated to the background,
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and largely became an afterthought until a disastrous debate performance by Biden made
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it clear that the press could no longer run cover for their senile figurehead.
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The media has now relaunched Harris as a charismatic social media icon,
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and the bizarre thing is that many conservatives seem to have fallen for the propaganda blitz.
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During the 2020 election, as the media paired with the managerial state to manufacture the
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appearance of a world-ending plague, Joe Biden was offered as an inoffensive placeholder who could
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The election of Donald Trump sent the establishment of both parties into a psychological tailspin,
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and the ruling class decided to visit that mental anguish onto the public.
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President Trump proved mostly capable of avoiding foreign conflicts, reducing the flow of illegal
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immigration, and overseeing a successful economy, but the media's obsession with the Russiagate
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conspiracy made every moment feel like a pitch to battle.
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The successive blows of the pandemic and BLM riots gave the left the narrative momentum and
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electoral irregularities necessary to unseat Trump, but they needed a bland alternative that
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the terrorized electorate could safely turn to.
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At the time, even leftist media commentators recognized that while old, doddering Joe was
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inoffensive enough to get the job done, he was too male and too white to represent the future
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Harris wasn't great on the campaign trail, but she was a woman of Jamaican and Indian heritage
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who was just as much an empty vessel as Joe Biden.
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She also had the advantage of not being plagued by dementia.
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Biden described himself as a transitional president, and it was clear that the plan was to hand
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Harris the keys to the kingdom after serving one term.
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But every time the vice president opened her mouth, it became clear that she was an unlikable
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dullard who often had difficulty attending minor events without making an embarrassing gaffe.
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The establishment slowly realized that they had made a mistake in elevating her, decided to
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After Biden made it clear that he intended to run for a second term, rumblings of displeasure
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Journalists who had shamelessly covered for a man in obvious mental decline started to express
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concern about the very ailments they had worked to obfuscate.
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Some sectors of the press corps continued their defense of Biden's cognitive capabilities,
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but when the president all but collapsed in his first debate with Trump, it became clear
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that all the media bias in the world would still prove insufficient to push him over the
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Harris was still a disaster of a candidate, of course, which is why some party leaders like
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But the very identity politics that progressives worship also tied their hands.
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The left simply couldn't justify skipping over a black woman to put Gavin Newsom on the
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ticket while lecturing the country about the importance of DEI.
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So the Democrats bit the bullet and coronated a nominee who had never received a single vote
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Inflation is out of control, the border is wide open, and people are tired of sending
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billions of dollars to fight proxy wars while the infrastructure of their own country rots
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How do you sell a DEI candidate with the charisma of a wooden block who's functionally the incumbent?
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The media facilitated a strategy where Joe Biden could basically run from his basement in 2020
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to hide his deficiencies, and a similar game plan seems to be in place for Harris in 2024.
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The upshot of Harris being relegated to the kids' table for most of Biden's term is that
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she fell out of view, allowing journalists to rewrite her public persona once she was
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When it comes to policy, Harris is a blank slate.
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Like Biden, the vice president is basically a proxy for the prevailing elite opinion, with
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This is exactly the kind of candidate that our managerial elites prefer, a puppet that
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they can parade in front of the public, but is unlikely to disrupt the larger plan with
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The real campaign was never Trump vs. Biden, just like it won't be Trump vs. Harris.
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The real campaign was always Trump vs. the regime.
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And that's why it felt like there was a shift in momentum once Harris became the de facto
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The anti-Trump energy of the entire progressive media complex suddenly transferred to its new,
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In any normal universe, surviving an assassination attempt with an iconic display of courage would
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Only the most comically biased media would attempt to memory hole Trump's incredible moment
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while selling Kamala Harris as a social media sensation.
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But that is unfortunately the reality in the United States.
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Harris is still dull, unlikable, and inept, so her campaign strategy has been to hide whenever
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possible and only expose the candidate in the most controlled environments when absolutely
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There have been plenty of awkward stage video calls and free concerts masquerading as political
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rallies, but little to no questioning from the press.
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Mainstream journalists have more or less pledged their lives to getting Harris elected, but
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even with that incredible bias, unscripted public exposure is still considered too dangerous.
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Whenever she does speak, Harris seems to be intent on running against her own record.
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The media has made a very awkward attempt to lie about the fact that the only real piece of
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administration policy that Harris was given authority over was the southern border.
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In 2021, after Lester Holt of NBC pointed out that Harris had never been to the border, which
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she was in charge of, she famously replied, quote,
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Progressive journalists have been working to wipe this moment from the nation's collective
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memory, even as the vice president campaigns on taming a border she couldn't be bothered
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Harris also promised to tackle inflation and housing costs, even though these problems were
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critical issues that were left entirely unaddressed during Biden's term.
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This strategy of running as a reform candidate from the position of incumbency can only be
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deployed by a politician who expects slavish devotion from the entire mainstream press.
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The mainstream media is shamelessly committed to defeating Trump and installing whoever the
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If you state this fact to most conservatives, they'll agree.
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But that truth doesn't appear to stop demoralization among many on the right.
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There's no reason to buy into the narrative of a media who has lied to the public at every
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opportunity in a cynical attempt to expand the power of the left.
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This doesn't mean that the election should be taken lightly.
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The regime will do anything it can to defeat Trump and install Harris.
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But no one should buy into the media-manufactured hype.
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The Harris makeover is an entirely artificial construct, and the facade will crack in short
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