Harris Isn’t Retarded, Just Useless

Ukraine goes nuts, should not prevent Trump from engaging Russia to prioritize real U.S. interests

Benny Stulwicz (right), the developmentally disabled clerk played by the late Larry Drake on “L.A. Law” from 1986-1994.

Former President Donald Trump, now likely the narrow frontrunner to beat Vice President Kamala Harris and regain the White House, reportedly pondered in jest at a Republican fundraiser whether Harris was retarded.

Trump, the master of simplification and over-simplification that is essential for American politics, can be forgiven his hyperbole, to which voters are now accustomed. But he raises a good question about how Harris has in such short order managed to lose the lead she held after the Democrat leadership’s putsch against Joe Biden, whom Democrat primary voters had chosen as their candidate.

Harris is not retarded, so what is the best way to sum up her rapidly revealing deficiencies?

After all, amid uniform, forced adulation from the mainstream media, combined with untold hundreds of millions of dollars from Big Tech, Wall Street, and other establishment donors, Harris at one point led in crucial swing states like Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, and had a slim but passable lead in the national popular vote. All of that is apparently mostly gone or all gone—at the precise moment that early voting accelerates ahead the of day the election ends on November 5.

The big question now is whether Trump’s popularity exceeds the margin of fraud that will continue to mar U.S. elections until new federal civil rights legislation restores their integrity.

Harris and her running mate, Tim Walz, were given mighty assists by biased newsreaders and journalists in debates hosted respectively by ABC and CBS—outlets that benefit unfairly from the era of three-channel broadcast supremacy. CBS also helped Harris with creative editing in a “60 Minutes” interview, and the media that produced thousands of other segments and stories that have been hostile to Trump and partial to the former prosecutor from Berkley.

But the blitz hasn’t worked and “Tampon Tim,” as Walz is known, has not helped the ticket. His creepy demeanor, theft of valor, placement of tampons in male fourth graders’ bathrooms, and other radical positions in favor of taxpayer-financed late-term abortion and pushing sex changes on kids without parental consent have cost Kamala support. Put Walz in a tight scoutmaster uniform and he’d be the guy central casting sends over for the part of a child molester in a movie.

"I used to think Democrats were crazy for saying that men have periods. But then I met Tim Walz." - Donald Trump via X

The Democrats’ New Deal Coalition created by Franklin Roosevelt that dominated much of 20^th century politics began to disintegrate over the issue of racial forced busing—the government conducting social experiments with other people’s kids. Walz personifies the contemporary version of this government intrusion by magnifying the Democrats’ embrace of transgender radicalism—itself a relative of unaccountable government schools. Your kids are pawns to progressives’ plans for society and insistence that you pretend their lies are the truth. Walz was Harris’s first big choice as a notional chief executive and a very bad one. He is useless and amplifies her uselessness.

Harris is also useless at running a campaign. This reality could have been predicted since she did an unacceptable job of running the small Office of the Vice President. Virtually all of her senior staff departed rapidly in her term. These were committed activists—many of them super radical progressive mega lesbians—who had to know they were as close to power as they ever would be in their careers. And still they left. If someone cannot run the vice president’s office or a campaign, how can she be Chief Executive of the free world’s largest organization, the federal government?

Now even Politico, a leftwing outlet facing oblivion in a Trump II administration in which it would have very few sources, has conceded that Harris’s campaign in must-win Pennsylvania is in disarray. One Democrat insider told the garbage outfit that, “I don’t think she understands Philadelphia.” That is unfortunate since that is the city where votes must be earned in mass numbers from the living and the dead for Harris to win the state.

Harris can’t even excite black voters, which is one thing Democrat leaders expected at a minimum that she could do as her father is from Jamaica. U.S. government media that exclusively employs woke activists (NPR, also known as “Nicaraguan Public Radio”) concedes that a quarter of black men support Trump. The real number of those considering Trump in this group that typically votes overwhelmingly Democrat is probably higher, which will have a big impact in turning Georgia back into a reliable Republican state and winning blue-leaning swing states like Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, which have significant black populations respectively in Detroit, Philadelphia, and Milwaukee. (The media is focused on the whiter and more Asian suburbs but the real action may be downtown.)

The origins of Harris’s uselessness aren’t hard to trace. After support from California’s then-Speaker of the House raised her to the middle of California politics, she caught an unimaginable boost to the vice presidency as Democrats needed a DEI hire in 2020 amid their selection of Biden, a white male in a party that increasingly defines itself by opposition to white males. The party’s inability to replace an unfit Biden until a disastrous debate with Trump after primary voting had ended left her as the only option for the Democrat presidential nominee.

Despite months of preparation, Harris has done a poor job at the small number of friendly media interviews her handlers have allowed. This week, she finally did a hostile interview of the sort that Trump and his vice-presidential nominee, JD Vance, do throughout any given week. Up against persistent questions from Fox News’s Bret Baier about inflation, the open border, and covering up Biden’s mental decline, Harris performed horribly. According to Baier, her handlers frantically cut the interview short.

Does anything about this record of experience say “winner?” Is this the person who will command the armed forces, control the border, prevent another surge of inflation as federal fiscal crisis arrives, or do any of the other things that will be required of the next president? Or is it increasingly apparent that she will lose at every one of these tasks?

No, Kamala Harris is not retarded. She is able to memorize talking points and Trump this week graciously complimented her “ability to survive” and observed that “she has a nice way about her” and clearly has some “long-term friends.”

Harris’s real problem is that she is a useless loser.

Captain Undershirt goes nuts

Ukraine is slowly losing its war of attrition with Russia, and this predictable battlefield reality (at least predictable to a minority of us who defied the conventional wisdom on conservative and liberal networks and among the DC monoparty experts and congressmen who gleefully sent Kiev $200 billion and predicted easy victory) is leading to more outlandish demands from its authoritarian leader, Volodymyr Zelensky. Last month, as part of a failed pitch of a “peace plan” in Washington, Zelensky demanded more money and the authority to use U.S. weapons to strike deeper into Russia, further risking direct war between NATO and Russia.

Now, he has reportedly told Trump that Ukraine must either have nuclear weapons or become a member of NATO. Anything else?

I have previously written about risks for Trump in Ukraine, but as time goes by, the globalist project in Ukraine, which has also proven NATO to be a paper tiger, seems more and more untenable for the United States. Trump should avoid the mistake Richard Nixon made of effectively taking political ownership of a losing position (in South Vietnam) that Democrats had bequeathed. Hopefully it’s also not lost on Trump that pro-Ukraine forces tried to end his presidency through a phony impeachment and then tried to end his life through assassination.

Presidential-level talks with Russia and a lessening of tensions are useful. But, if elected, Trump should hold unrestricted talks with no preconditions, expectations or set red lines on Ukraine. America’s overwhelming national interests with Russia have nothing to do with what is basically a civil war between Russia and Russia junior. Instead, those national interests are lessening tensions to reduce the chance of general war, ceasing to push Moscow into Beijing’s arms, and deenergizing efforts led by Russia and China to undermine the U.S. dollar-dominated global financial system.

An agreement for the United States and Russia to drop all sanctions on each other would also cut the price of energy for American consumers while Trump deregulates American energy production and ends the Biden-Harris capital strike that has impeded investment in U.S. energy production.

In engaging Russia, Trump should put America first, and let the Friends of Kamala in Kiev losing slowly but inexorably to Russia try out the Europeans for help.

North Korea: “Great to See You Again Hans”

According to U.K. government media, there is “intelligence information” that 1,500 North Korean soldiers are now fighting alongside Russians in Ukraine. The number reportedly could grow to 12,000. If true, the deployment marks are stark improvement in North Korea’s conventional capabilities during the Biden-Harris administration. North Korea has gone from a country that was on the ropes militarily and financially when Trump was president—and a government with a path open to normalization and maybe even a dash of liberalization thanks to Trump’s personal diplomacy with Kim Jong Un—to one that is a valuable partner to Russia.

North Korea used to go through a predictable cycle. It would start by acting out with aggression such as restarting its plutonium-breeding reactor at Yongbyon or testing a ballistic missile or nuclear weapon. It would then express a willingness to talk to South Korea or the United States, but with the expectation of funds either in cash (e.g., energy assistance) or aid that could be turned into cash on the black market. After it pocketed the aid, it would renege on any deal and begin the cycle anew.

Now the cycle is no longer necessary. Private sources estimated that North Korea stole more than $3 billion in crypto currency since Biden and Harris took office. The total amount of Pyongyang’s cyber scams is probably much larger. The work is easier and the money is better than the old scam.

When not impersonating the warden from “Cool Hand Luke,” North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un has been supplying Russia with munitions and men.

Not that North Korea will cease its aggression: it can now just put it to more lucrative use. As a result, the last year saw a summit between Kim and Russian President Vladimir Putin, the sale of large numbers of artillery shells to Russia, and now the deployment of troops—no doubt also for a handsome fee—that will give elite North Korean forces their first real combat experience since the 1950-1953 Korean War. It seems a lot different than when elite members of Pyongyang’s military, some of whom guard the southern border, were eyeballing defection and arriving in South Korea in extremely poor physical condition.

The failures of Biden-Harris foreign policy are severe and numerous. Voters focus most on the chaotic fall of Kabul at the hands of the Taliban, Iran’s rampage across the Middle East, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and the unrequited romancing of Beijing by Biden and his cabinet. But history will also have a spot for North Korea on the Biden-Harris failure list—and hold out an opportunity for Trump again to use the presidency at least to talk seriously with a nuclear-armed adversary.

Yates Urges Return to Different Structure in Middle East After Biden-Harris Failures

Steve Yates, who has returned to the Heritage Foundation as a senior research fellow for China and National Security Policy, outlined options for a different security structure amid the failures of the Biden-Harris administration and in the wake of the killing of Hamas terrorist kingpin Yahya Sinwar.

Yates on “Mornings With Maria” on Fox Business. Video: https://www.foxbusiness.com/video/6363419651112

Mark Simon on How Harris Is Viewed in Asia

Below is a brief excerpt of a talk that Mark Simon, co-host of the Domino Theory podcast, gave in Taipei to public relations professionals. A good summary of what the media isn’t telling you.

EXCERPT: It's very much taken for granted in Asia that Harris is going to win. It's just the nature of the beast out here that most of the U.S. State Department, the vast majority of academics, and of course, the American journalists, are lefties. Unless a freak, like me, shows up, what people hear most days is Harris is on a path to win.

This brings up the one question that I think most U.S. friends, and enemies, are asking. Can Vice President Harris govern?

Since the Democratic Convention I've spoken with diplomats and military officials from four different countries. It's nearly the exact same situation we had with Trump in 2016.

Nobody knows her. Nobody they know knows Harris. Nobody knows any of her advisors, or knows who those advisors would be. I think Donald Rumsfeld had something to say about "known unknowns"...

But this isn't about advisors or this isn't about who her kitchen cabinet would be. It has to do with an image of Harris that has formed for four years and is not helped by the last three months. An image of a weak leader that has been her avoiding the press, not putting out clear foreign policy directions, and not revealing any convictions on the role of the U.S. in the world. Does anyone know anything about the formation of her foreign policy views?

Asia's leaders are watching her on TV. They are watching what happens in interviews, watching past tapes of her. There are real questions here in Asia if she can lead. Will she be able to communicate to the American people why the U.S. must have a strong presence in Asia? Will she be able to give our allies in Asia the confidence they have a competent friend in Washington?

Biden faded away, but in his first two-and-a-half years in Asia, there was a U.S. president who could at least be looked upon for leadership. They knew Biden, knew his team from Obama. They don't know Harris, and no one knows who her team will be.

Maybe not much of a problem for our allies, until our adversaries such as China and North Korea, along with the Russians up north across from Japan, make it a problem. There is a growing belief that the "Axis of Misogynistic Tyrants"—Kim, Putin, and Xi, are going to test Harris. Here in Taipei, that test may well involve the island where we live.

I don't have an answer for you on the current vice president's abilities as a leader. The evidence is thin for a favorable outcome. We are in a new world when it comes to the public diplomacy it takes from a world leader to communicate to the world and his own people his policy directions. I have not seen that ability from the current vice president.

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